[Galaxy Tab 3 General] sscsps:
Change your phablet "Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0"(running Android 4.1.2) to tablet [root

Well, I am not good at making flashable zips so I would be writing up the process I used to turn my phablet to tablet,

First of all, I am going to tell you that after this some Samsung's stock apps might not work(including TouchWiz launcher and some other) or might work distorted(including calculator and others) , and play store might not show all apps

In this process, we are going to change LCD density to make the ROM believe that we are using a tablet and it will force tablet ui instead of phablet ui

As I stated above that TouchWiz won't work after this so it is recommended to have other launcher already installed(I use Google experience), so that you might not get stuck on a blank home screen repeatedly giving FC error for TouchWiz,

So after you have got a launcher installed, download any build prop editor(I use ROM toolbox) and open it and search for ro.sf.lcd_density property, you will find 2 with same name, but different values(on 4.1.2),one will have 160 and other will have 240.

Beware, don't change both values, just change 160 value to 140, don't touch 240 one or you will end up having systemUI force close error again and again

When you have done this, just reboot and you will have tabletUI instead of normal phablet ui, you will not have notification bar on top, but will have that on bottom in the side of navigation buttons (you will get them too)

Few changes that will come are:

1. Power+Home key no longer take screenshot, instead you have a soft key for that on navigation bar

2. Settings icon changes a little.

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Problems:

1. Navigation bar is white instead of normal black one, so notifications won't show up easily (you might get use to it, as I got used to it)

2. You can no longer take screen shot of your notifications :(

Any other you found? Just tell me, I will add it here :)

If u got any problem, just reply, I will try to help :)

I will update this for 4.4.2 soon, as I am not at home for now, on vacations at the moment :) will update it as I reach home. [UPDATE: Italian firmware update 4.4.2 do not have tablet ui, we can not change is ui to tablet, I don't know why they removed it]

Just to tell you, there are some xposed modules to do this and you can use them too, but they are temporary, this one is permanent, if you factory reset your tab without making any 3rd party launcher a system app then you won't be able to use your tab for the time you don't flash rom again or install a launcher from adb or any other way you can opt to fix it, you can still access notification area, thus also the settings but not anything that can't be opened from there!

I actually got inspired by thinking that there must be some way to get tabletUI instead of normal phabletUI because I like tabletUI personally

If you think of anything that need to be changed here, or needs to be updated, just reply and I will do what's appropriate :)

Tested on:

1. SM-T211(android v4.1.2), working!

2. SM-T211(android v4.4.2), not working! :(

You can try and tell me if it works on other variants or not and I will update :)

Hit thanks if I helped you :) sent from my SM-T211 using XDA Free mobile app