[Galaxy Tab S General] mike0921:
ashyx:

First, I'd like to say thanks to you. I have spent 11 hours over the last two days (it's about 4 am now, on my third day-- :rolleyes:) most of it here, the rest running around hunting. After reading your comments about no-one bothering to thank you on this thread for your time and effort, I'm speechless. It must feel sh*tty and it makes me once more to doubt the future of mankind. Back to the monastery to reflect on the peace and oneness of solitude!

Anyway, I have one of these suckers. About a year ago I rooted (with Kingroot, yes with lollipop 5.0.2) It was running lollipop. If I'd have only known :o ) to deal with the poor battery uptime - after sending it back AT&T, or Samsung, I don't recall.) under warranty to fix the issue. They said that there was nothing wrong with it. It took forever to charge up and it was only good for about 2 1/2 hours. So, I rooted successfully but afterwards got to tinkering with removing bloat-ware and god knows what now, ended up with all kinds of glitches. I threw it in the closet and said to hell with it. Then found it the other day and began looking around here and elsewhere for answers I never found last year with the hope that someone had found and posted a link for the lollipop firmware or some other way to unscrew my screwup along with instructions on how (if) I could repair the thing.

Well, thanks for your interest and perseverance! And here's the BUT.... but now I need help with what to do with it.

So: I have a real glitchy lollipop, 5.0.2, that isn't really functional due to whatever I removed and screwed with last year. I have removed root, with the Kingroot app that rooted it and uninstalled Kingroot. It still is unusable for anything but videos though.. How do, or can I, install the mm firmware you so diligently found and posted about here.? I have rooted and flashed custom recoveries in the past about five or six times. But, that was over 4 years ago, studied CIM and systems analysis in the 80's, built and programmed a bunch of desktops in the 90's, and was once pretty good with all this. What I have forgotten (about everything) I fear :confused::confused: ) I know how to use Google and read other people's know how to find out how to do things. After all, it's what led me here! :D

How and what do I do now? Reading this thread, it looks to me like I can simply install mm. Is that possible? I read the 13 or so pages of the thread which talked about every other variant of this thing, 805's, 807's etc., which left me feeling pretty hopeless. I also read the three or so page thread on the 705 and the 707 and spent five hours last night and found stock images for downloads for kk and lollipop posted by Manfredo over at androidfilehost for the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 for the 707a for Canada an US versions. Eureka!!! For everything but AT&T :crying: which said was usable for the 10.5. Found the same thing here, eventually, and another site somewhere (it's getting late. or early) and said the heck with it and went to bed. Got up a bit ago and started again and found this thread. (Did I say thanks, for me and all who have benefited?)

Am I right in thinking now that I can just install mm and forget about LL?

And right in thinking that I can now restore my Tab back to working order, better even than when it was working a year ago before all this?

If so, what next?

And sir, you are a prince,

Mike

Shout out to mikep(?) for also offering to send the version by pm, which he got from you?) that fixed the first one you posted for LL that didn't work on a couple devices, which I assume was yours also, right? Damn, where do yo(u get the time to be so productive anyway???:highfive: