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[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] m.zielinski:
The timezone also changed when set to manual. But i could prevent it by comnenting the timezone line in the build.prop.

Thanks for the hint.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] gooberdude:
Great to see the build.prop region entry was the issue, and was resolved by remarking it out.

You also can switch to stock build.prop, if you like... it may not effect operation, but may effect samsung apps on listing more available apps.

One other issue that i stumbled upon... tablet settings ui. If using it as the daily driver of choice, it will not allow automatic install to SD, and any update will install to system. Though, you can manually push to move the app to SD , through app manager. The Phone settings UI is not effected, and will keep all apps installed to SD, even when updating.

A hidden feature in gallery edit mode... if you keep your finger on the image, it will pop up with cut and paste mode for selecting parts of an image, and allow you to place it on the existing image, or to bring up a new image to paste to.

Also gallery allows some ability to pinch zoom in and out.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] DekiSugi:
how can i enable the car mode?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] gooberdude:
Go into the edit function of the quick settings toggles and move the car mode toggle into the active toggles. You may need to scroll beyond the first row to find it if it is placed beyond the first 7 listed.

If you do not have a full list of quick toggles, you may have to edit the settings.db file using the supplied SQLite editor. There is a link in previous replies on how to edit the missing toggles.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] DekiSugi:
thank you very much! i enabled the car mode but, i have an issue. my car mode language is japanese but my device's language is turkish. how can i change? thank yoy very much.

sorry for bad english ?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] gooberdude:
Try toggling your language and location settings from your existing setting to some other, and back. I have noticed some settings may not properly set at times.

You may use SQLite to check settings.db file, and look for language and location being set to JP. It can be manually changed to your country TR, assuming i am correct with the two letter code.

I did not test languages, as i expected US or UK english only testers.

You may have to verify language files are updated as well.... I expect my system update file does not have Turkey language files, but may have some language defaults, like Simplified Chinese and Korean if any.

Check the build.prop and look for UK and change it to TR or EU. It may help as well.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] DekiSugi:
thanks man. but i have an issue too. WI-FI Direct is not working on my tablet when i install the TWRP Backup.

and Radio too not working.

sorry for bad english.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] gooberdude:
I assume you installed my system mod over a stock firmware released for Turkey, other than the USA ARK3 release. If you only updated the system from my backup, and did not update bootloader, the mods to the system's operation may not fully work well with kernels on other than the one supplied in my backup. Also, it would effect region coding as you have experienced, in having different language and possible time zone issues. Mainly because the kernel made for your device will over write default CSC information at every boot. Which will conflict with some features.

Using the phone settings UI, in the WiFi section, WiFi Direct should bring up a list of any near by WiFi direct devices. I have no WiFi direct devices to test with, but able to identify and attempt to connect with my devices from surrounding houses near by.

If you are unable to authenticate, try changing the code on the device effected, and retry the connection with tablet.

If your trying to use WiFi direct to connect to screen mirroring, some Chinese devices do not authenticate with wireless hdmi security, and will error during connection.

There is no WiFi direct feature in the quick settings toggles, there are options for screen mirroring, and quick connect. Only screen mirroring works. I was unable to make quick connect function, and I found that Samsung stripped the feature in framework of the operating system. It's a shame that quick connect is disabled, as I really liked it's features when usedon my older tablet.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] DekiSugi:
so how do I solve the problem of listening to the radio? (thanks for reply)
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] gooberdude:
If your headphones are not compatible, FM radio will not function. Also there maybe an option in CSC editor to set the FM frequency range to European standards, since the backup is from a North American firmware.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] DekiSugi:
my headphones are compatible. but i cannot listen radio. i tried to change csc features but it doesnt work
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] gooberdude:
Well, if the FM radio app doesn't detect stations and list them, then no sound will be available. You can try setting play audio through speakers to verify audio is being produced through the app.

Never had issues with theach app and can't reproduce the issue here. Your the only one using my backup file on non North American device. Until others who have done so, no other assistance can be done.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] fmosegui:
I have restored your backup, on my PHE firmware, from Spain, in the first attempt it was not satisfactory (totally blocked Settings) and a series of other problems. In the second attempt, I previously did cache cleaning, dalvink cache, system and data and the result was satisfactory, it works practically in its entirety, with one exception: Magisk, grants root permissions, but both magisk and Magisksu, remain indefinitely looking for an update, the Install / update buttons are not shown.

Nor does any module show the Downloads section.

In section modules I check figure one (img), I don't know if it should be boot image?

I tried to flash through TWRP version 19.4 and also install apk 7.3.4 and 7.1.0, with no results.

I must confess that I am not an expert at all, I do all the steps with tutorials for fools.

If you have any ideas or solutions I would be grateful, regardless of this solution or not, I should appreciate the great work done on this tablet.

Sorry for my English, it is translated by Google.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] gooberdude:
You need to run the Smanager menu to turn off hosts, then run magisk. Once you have completed magisk updates, turn hosts back on in smanager.

Hosts will effect some apps looking for data connex, mostly to known spam or add hosts sites. Magisk did work without update issues until the dev incorporated ads and donation links in magisk manager.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] fmosegui:
Thank you! All right. A great job, even more so considering the limitations of the device.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] gooberdude:
Thanks for the compliment

I know, believe it or not my A6 replaced my Note 8.0... which was the better in all respecs, but died from a faulty connector short at the battery. Even though it was 4.4.1, I modded it to be like the Tab A with its features. Though very unique and one of a kind. Unfortunately I was unable to share my customized system, like i have with this device.

My effort to find factory firmwares to pull features from was a small task, and was familair from what I had done in the past for my Note 8.0. I tried to make the A6 Android TV compatible, but Samsung killed that option in its build for the A6. My old Note 8.0 easily accepted the Android TV customization, which allowed me to run BBC iPlayer for the Shield TV. The touch screen did not require game pad key entry. Though my TV box requires the game pad key to function properly.

Now I am at another attempt at modding, this time the Moto E5 play phone. It will be a daunting task, as many low cost devices are fragranted and limited to root and firmware upgrades. At least I was able to root and will mod the factory firmware as I dig around and find options with 8.0.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] elliwigy:
so u took ur setup and made a twrp backup?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] gooberdude:
Correct, it was the simplest method and verified to properly install without developer tools to make anew image file for flashing. Plus it's fool proof as long as you follow my instructions to do a full backup in Twrp before starting.

It seems non US devices can use my backups to restore, as long as they do a wipe afterwards. My main concern was the differences in CSC and bootloader change with firmware revision.

I am not a Developer, just a tweaker of sorts with stock firmwares. My motto is if a similar device can do it, why not add it to mine. The only failure is that Samsung stripped the Samsung framework from being full featured. Thus no Samsung air gestures and sensor input for smart scroll, stay, and pause.... among other things. I am learning that the only good budget devices are coming from Motorola. At least they are Project Treble friendly, and Motorola will push security updates within 60 days of release. Just that I will miss some Samsung Experience items, but Android ASOP seems to be catching up with built in features.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] gooberdude:
HEADS UP!

OK, I got around to messing with wee bugs and found more tweaks.

So, when done with my testing with daily driver base on my tablet, I will update my latest twrp image for a Xmas build.

It will include smart switch, gear, new wifi drivers, automatic app ops integration, full featured bluetooth profiles (pan, gatt let & audio le), head set, health.. etc), removed delay when home screen populates SD installed apps (very little delay after booting), USB LAN dongle, and more car connectivity options.

Replaced missing apks in my post initial builds. Google search apk, maps, and tts will need installed on updated, as they are not part of my build. I have them installed to SD. Too large to have the updated versions loaded as system apps.

Corrected some lib and framework file issues, that effected samsung keyboard functionlity with finger hand writing.

Tried once more to make quickconnect work... got as far as being able to enable the toggle button, but gatt is not active (quiet mode) after reboot. Also it is hooked into ip camera, which is part of the camera firmware on some phones. The only other way is to port S5 quickconnect from 4.4 to run on this tablet. It does not require a hook with the camera, though it does work with detecting network printers and bluetooth along with all share, and nearby. It's pretty much a go to for connectivity between devices of all types. We need a device to work on such a port... the souce files are here on xda, as S5 KitKat system dump files. The lib folder has some files required by the two system app quickconnect apks. I had it functional on my 4.4 tablet, which no other dev released on their roms.

Hope to have a good verification on build quality for posting my final-final build for posting as a wee Xmas gift.

Could not test car mode functionality... for some reason my tablet data folder got corrupted for car mode to function. It worked fine for some time, until mid summer. Will not do a factory wipe, unless I have to. I have too much setup for my personal taste, and too lazy to start from scratch.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] gooberdude:
HEADS UP!

OK, I got around to messing with week bugs and found more tweaks.

So, when done with my testing with daily driver base on my tablet, I will update my latest twrp image for a Xmas build.

It will include smart switch, gear, new wifi drivers, automatic app ops integration, full featured bluetooth profiles (pan, gatt let & audio le, head set, health.. etc), removed delay when home screen populates SD installed apps (very little delay after booting), USB LAN dongle, and more car connectivity options.

Replaced missing apks in my post initial builds. Google search apk, maps, and tts will need installed on updated, as they are not part of my build. I have them installed to SD. Too large to have the updated versions loaded as system apps.

Corrected some lib and framework file issues, that effected samsung keyboard functionlity with finger hand writing.

Tried once more to make quickconnect work... got as far as being able to enable the toggle button, but gatt is not active (quiet mode) after reboot. Also it is hooked into ip camera, which is part of the camera firmware on some phones. The only other way is to port S5 quickconnect from 4.4 to run on this tablet. It does not require a hook with the camera, though it does work with detecting network printers and bluetooth along with all share, and nearby. It's pretty much a go to for connectivity between devices of all types. We need a device to work on such a port... the souce files are here on xda, as S5 KitKat system dump files. The lib folder has some files required by the two system app quickconnect apks. I had it functional on my 4.4 tablet, which no other dev released on their roms.

Hope to have a good verification on build quality for posting my final-final build for posting as a wee Xmas gift.

Could not test car mode functionality... for some reason my tablet data folder got corrupted for car mode to function. It worked fine for some time, until mid summer. Will not do a factory wipe, unless I have to. I have too much setup for my personal taste, and too lazy to start from scratch.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] gooberdude:
Good news... I corrected drive link (car mode) issues and it functions without phone abilities on wifi only tablets. Added some bin files to enable more internal features.

Set the initial update to set all enhancements to enabled. So expect a speedy boot animation and installs to default to

SD.

Updated to the most recent Magisk build, both the manager and boot partition. Newer drive link remote and stub. Mirror link and Drive Link are both stock builds.

Tested Ultra Power Savings, Touch Handwriting (Samsung Keyboard), S-Voice, and Nearby are all fully functional without any noticable bugs.

New wifi drivers provide better spends, especially through my router's media / file server. Speed tests have shown 33mbps down / 12mbps up, which is best ever since my finalized tweaks.

Tried setting up Samsung's Edge to function, with 75% functionality. Unfortunately the edge display overlay does not work on this device. There are mods or apps that allow Edge functionality, just have to search them out, if interested.

Edge has been removed, to allow most all critical apps to be installed into rom.

Google search with assistant and tts is loaded into rom, all other stuff from Google must be installedited from play store.

Should have my latest bug free build posted in mid December.

Here are some attached images of the running mods...
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] gooberdude:
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I have restored the factory settings UI as default. Before I had used the J3 version, which helped with accessing themes.

I found ano updated theme store, which works on the Touchwiz launcher. It has the theme settings as part of its build.

Also I made a work around to correct Drive Link issues. Samsung made drive link invisible to user control, when notifications are set to do not disturb, and will not show the app within any launcher. My fix is to install a later version which cannot display 720 x1280 and is missing some hooks. The end user must create a shortcut on the home screen or folder to save the drive link short cut. Once it is placed on the home screen, the end user must select the drive link fix within smanager. Once the fix is completed the device will reboot, and remove the app from the launcher. Only the home screen or folder will have the drive link shortcut. This way you can have do not disturb set as active, and still launch drive link. If one does not care about do not disturb usage, the fix can be applied without creating a shortcut. You will only be able to launch drive link via quick toggles button, when do not disturb is not active. I prefer the shortcut method, as having 18 toggles to scroll through, and gets a bit time consuming.

As for using Svoice wakeup and manual commands... the version I use does not allow launching of Drive link. Have not discovered a way to allow it, as it could be in hidden xml file or build prop entry.

With the updated features, the stock settings UI will show a themes link listed. Unfortunately samsung broke the hook and linked it to mirror link. Don't select themes from within the tablet settings UI.

I kept the phonext UI for additional features, which can be set and used when switching back to tablet UI, or when using features that can only be done within the phone settings UI.

All in all the addition of smart switch, app opps (application permissions), a fully working tablet settings UI, faster Wifi, more Bluetooth car profiles, updated apps, fixed missing fonts, and cleaned up unresolved issues from my modding... will make this version my best and last for anyone tempted in using the update.

I will post a completely new thread which will have all the details and download links... it will be called the Table A6 7.0 X-mas edition.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] cvsolidx17:
Thanks for the diligence in keeping this up to date. Just got this tablet for $15 bucks and this thread is exactly what I was looking for!
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] gooberdude:
Great deal... though it's been fine with my 1st release, but I never did a full wipe after posting it originally. Everything else after was based on dirty flashes. Some reported the need to do a full wipe, and that is why I thought about cleaning up some details.

There is no fix for HDMI, MIDI, and audio out through USB, until someone decides to build a kernel, which should allow the audio portion to be be allowed. As HDMI, no hardware support.

I did not realize Samsung default to disable drive link when do not disturb is set, was a issue for me, since I had created a shortcut long ago, in playing around with tweaks. Had to rethink how to make everyone have the ability to run drive link without do not disturb effecting operation. To me it's less of a distraction, but any active hand held device is one when driving.

Even though drive link is only 50% operational with the Wifi A6, it's a smart Garmin, so to speak. SVoice ties into it, and Samsung music will play in back ground, which also can be voice commanded to do anything within the music app, while using the Google maps. The only other option was to use an old drive app that used yahoo but allowed any default music player to be the head unit, with maps. Just prefer the clean operation of Drive link.

So anyway, because of the active interest in my thread, I continued to pack more Samsung Experience into the wee device. It now has health services built in. Also, I tested putting the Samsung Manager back on... it was too annoying for my extensive use, and did not do much for any performance and battery life gains. So I was right inow removing it.

At least bluetooth can be of proper use. And finger writing input if needed.

Making sure no bad things pop up, as this build is pretty much done... will break it in for the next week or so.

Only one issue that is giving me trouble... for some reason tvplayer.apk does not work or fails to load. Tried to push as a system app, and it worked. Just don't trust it, and dumped the idea... until I find a good playstore package to side load.

Most all other apps install and work fine, even when moving them to SD. Some can't be installed to SD, but once installed they will function when moved to SD. Kind of 50/50 when forcing some apps. I prefer to install then enable SD installations, then move. Once done disable install to SD.

The only other thing that may trouble peeps... is op apps, if installing multiple restores from ti backup, any thing more than 3 will be a slow process. Op apps will expect user input to verify allowed or disabled processes. Like it defaults no run at start for all installs. Which makes the tablet boot faster with apps installed to SD. Some apps you may want to run at start. Like vpn, launchers, and controls.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] juanysara:
Hi thanks for the work

I'm testing

Where is the car mode and how does the theme shop work?

Is it possible to change the CSC to start in Spanish?

Very thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] gooberdude:
With the 3 available versions that you can try... I recommend the 1st which has links in the beginning of the thread, but the 3rd release near the end of this thread, has the scripts fixed. To get to themes if no app is in the launcher, you must switch to tablet settings UI. You may find some functions of the settings UI broken, mostly because the two different settings UI are from other devices, which have a different frame work. Switching between the two UI will allow making changes and adding features that are not functional on the original settings UI. Making a change is global to the android system, enabling a feature should be globall as well. The only thing that does not stay active globally, are car mode being active and nearby scanning. Nearby is only accessed by the phone UI, also there are some other phone features that are available that are not on the tablet version, as well as tablet features not available on phone. Thus the two different UI. On the tablet UI, you have daydream, phone UI has no option for daydream. I added the latest backdrop for daydream, which functions globally. It is a Google screen saver for android TV. When charging you can allow screen saver to function or turn off screen saver by pressing the power key. If screen saver is off, it will enable once the tablet is fully charged. A quick way to tell if your charging is completed. Also when screen saver is active you can touch the screen to resume activity. Less work and saves power button.

Though it seems that my first two builds have not populated the scripts and smanager settings the way I intended. The 3rd release should have the scripts fixed, but you still need to download the smanager data file to restore with ti backup. To run drive link (car mode), you must add missing toggles, by using SQlite app to access car mode from the quick toggles, and make sure do not disturb is not active, with in sounds and notifications.

The firmware is universal, with english default. Once the boot screen is done, the page will allow changing of language. Once you setup the tablet profile and such, you can use SQlite to change country code, and edit the build.prop with an editor using a file explorer app that uses root of your choice.

All languages for voice and text can be set and downloaded via the language settings.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series ROMs, Kernels, Recover] EliteeSword:
I know use said you won't be updating this and sorry for the late feedback, the Samsung themes don't work. It says invalid device.