[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vickstix:
Yea, I looked for that folder right off the bat, before I even contacted samsung support, BUT I was looking in my data folder on my sdcard. I only found it, because you told me about the device/data folder. For some ODD reason, I had just been spacing out the fact that the tablet also has internal storage, as well, as the internal sdcard. DUH huh? LOL So, you taught me a lot more then you'll ever realize, and I really appreciate it. Nice to see your face, TOO! :) What really gets me, is that I would expect a Samsung tech to know that. He didn't even do ANY troubleshooting. Just told me he was going to go investigate the problem, came back after about 5 minutes, and told me that the only fix was a RESET! He should know about that folder, and at least had me try that, before suggesting a reset.

SO GOOD to have my copy/paste back, though! :D You don't realize how much you use that UNTIL it's gone! LOL

So yea, I tried to put twrp as my rec when I first downloaded rom manager, but it wouldn't work. That was the ONLY way I could figure out HOW to get ANY custom recovery onto my tablet, btw. BUT, I'm pretty sure that rm was never working correctly, until it upgraded yesterday, because when I first installed it, (in June) I was getting an error, and I even paid to upgrade something (not even sure what now) to see if that would help. It didn't. And I had tried cwm and twrp, and it NEVER rebooted to either of them. Not from within RM or doing a recovery boot, with the tablet. So I just assumed I was doing something wrong with it, and finally just gave up. When I went in there yesterday, it had an update, and it also said there was a new cwm, so I updated both, and it finally worked. I tried putting twrp in there again, but it still wont work. So next... I need to learn how to do that manually. Believe it or not, I've been reading up on custom roms and recoveries for days, and I STILL haven't been able to find HOW to get them downloaded and onto my system yet, to even TRY them. LOL Where to find the files etc. In all the reading I've been doing, it seems that most people agree with you though, that twrp is better then cwm. But where do I get the infamous twrp? Is what I haven't been able to figure out, YET! :rolleyes: LOL

So, before I go begging you for all kinds of help again, let me just let you know if I THINK I might have a clue on how this works now. So if I can find the file for the infamous twrp, I just download it, and save it in the root folder, then I wipe out cache, dalvik cache, and then do a recovery reboot, and then I SHOULD have the custom recovery come up? Is that it? Then if I want to flash a custom rom, I do the SAME thing, but also do a factory reset first. Or do I have to do something to flash it, as well? Guess I don't really have a clue WHAT flash, means, really. LOL Also, if I do flash a custom rom, that means the back-up I made on the 4.04 rom won't work on the new rom, right? BUT... Let me ask you this, if I don't like the new ROM, can I do a recovery, erase everything, and then go back to the old ROM and THEN recover the backup that I made from the old ROM? Or is it impossible to go back and recover any backup once you have flashed a new one? Even if you go back and flash the old one you had before? Does all that make any sense to you? Lol