[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ohmster:
Hi Guys,

I have a Samsung Tab 2 GT-P5113, rooted, and love it. I had to install drives and use Odin to get this ROM installed but it worked and it worked really well. Um, this is the one I used:

http://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-tab-2-10-1-root-clockworkmod-recovery-cwm-95536/

It is great, I love it, but it is not Jellybean. I have 4.0.4. Now I have ClockworkMod, love it, it really works well. So I downloaded the Milestone zip from here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1892046

I got the gapps to go with it, and used CWM to install it. CWM works really well, I rebooted to the CWM boot screen and chose the zip file, wiped all caches, and I did pick the make a backup first option and performed the install. The device booted to the little green guy and all the text details appeared. Wiping cache, etc., but when the zip installed, it failed with a Status 7 error, failed to mount /system/ errors such as fonts, device or resource busy, /system/app/ApplicationProvider.apk "Read only file system".

I saved the report log, it is very informative down at the end, last paragraph gives all the juicy details. I should publish this log if I want real help. Let me do it now. Yeah, here ya go:

http://home.comcast.net/~theohmster/text/cwm_fail.txt

Oh, I can attach it! The original CWM recovery.log is attached as a txt file. Duh! :silly:

Look at the last page of the attached log. I understand Linux so I actually know what all these errors mean. Read only files means that the installer does not have root permission. Resource busy means an open file. Can't find /sd-ext in /etc/fstab, now that is a good one, there is no fstab in the /etc/ directory, not even on the phone. But why they are occurring is out of my grasp as I am not a ROM developer and android OS is not Linux, exactly. ...ugh!

Why? I mean, I do not know what to do about this. I tried this several times, first time was a total failure, the MD5 was off by a mile, downloaded it again, got a good copy, could view in Winzip, MD5 matched, but this failure. I did this several times, thank God I had chose the backup first option in CWM and was able to restore the system in short order. The entire process took about ½ hour or less. Am I doing this wrong? I tried to understand cmenard's instructions and I don't quite understand what he is saying to do. The instructions are simple. Here is the URL to the download and instruction page:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1892046

But, it fails by my method, what do these instructions mean in plain English? Flash Rom, what do you mean "flash the Rom"? I got two zip files, gapps and milestone. What is this "Rom" to flash? Wipe I can do in CWM. Flash the zip. You mean install with CWM? Wipe the cache. Again? How? Run CWM again?

Flash Rom in CWM or TWRP

Wipe data/factory reset if you are coming from another ROM

Flash the zip

Wipe cache/dalvik cache

Then flash GApps.

Reboot

So like what am I doing wrong? I really want this Jellybean, especially for my Razr Maxx, but if it will not work on the tablet, I will not mess with my rooted 4.0.4 Razr where I really want JB. The phone was pretty fast 6 months ago, but it seems that all these updates and apps have slowed the thing to a crawl. I use Micro CPU Monitor and love it, two single pixel wide green lines at top screen, one for each core. They are often both pinned all the time so the phone is slow. Use it on the tablet too, same issue but nowhere near as bad on the tablet as it is on the phone. Like who wants to wait 60 seconds every time you touch the screen to make a call or use the maps? Jellybean is said to make things a LOT smoother and really grease the wheels to make ICS really slick and that would help, yes?

I showed the log to a developer on droidxforums, he is really good and made the CD iso files that boot the PC to Linux and rooted the phone. But he really was not sure of the issue and does not have this device.

Somebody help me please. I really want to fix this and am really bummed. Thanks. Happy New Year. :crying: