Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 Tablet

krooton · 17 Jul 2012 at 18:41

Woohoo, just downloading

We can do a straight upgrade and not lose anything, yes?

kona786 · 17 Jul 2012 at 19:10

krooton said:
Woohoo, just downloading

We can do a straight upgrade and not lose anything, yes?

I believe the data should remain - has done on every device I've updated on before.

krooton · 17 Jul 2012 at 19:33

Yep, painless, sweet!

Don't like the little blue line just above the bottom taskbar though, should just be total black up to the wallpaper edge.

Geffen · 17 Jul 2012 at 21:06

It not appearing on my version of Kies.

kona786 · 17 Jul 2012 at 22:45

Geffen said:
It not appearing on my version of Kies.

check again? where did you buys yours from?

Boy this firmware download is slow - 60% after ten minutes - 500KB/s.

kona786 · 17 Jul 2012 at 23:04

The new SGS3 style launcher is very nice - lot of tweaks everywhere - awesome!

haroon · 18 Jul 2012 at 17:00

HI kona i just receive my nexus 7 today and i am quite disappointing in the screen,it looks worse than my 4 year old laptop (in terms of color vibrancy),going to sell it off at maybe a slight profit and go with this tab,seems a good time to get one now that they have updated it with a fairly recent version of android (android 4.0.4 came out in march of this year i believe).

Will update when i get one,which will probably be in a few weeks,if anyone here happens to want to sell me there's at a reasonable price i might be interested

kona786 · 18 Jul 2012 at 17:14

Don't blame you - I try and only go for SAMOLED/+ devices now.

The screen on the 7.7 is just gorgeous - I probably wouldn't even swap a retina spec LCD for this lush 720p SAMOLED+.

Now the 7.7's got ICS - It runs beautifully.

haroon · 18 Jul 2012 at 17:35

kona786 said:
Don't blame you - I try and only go for SAMOLED/+ devices now.

The screen on the 7.7 is just gorgeous - I probably wouldn't even swap a retina spec LCD for this lush 720p SAMOLED+.

Now the 7.7's got ICS - It runs beautifully.

Have you compared it against the ipad 3?

kona786 · 18 Jul 2012 at 17:37

Yup my uncle has the ipad3 - It's nice and sharp - but It doesn't pop like the 7.7 - colours are more vibrant and the blacks are unbeatable.

Geffen · 18 Jul 2012 at 20:19

kona786 said:
check again? where did you buys yours from?

Boy this firmware download is slow - 60% after ten minutes - 500KB/s.

I've now got the latest version of Kies but it still won't update the firmware saying i have the latest version "PDA:LA1/CSC:LA1 (TGY)". I brought the devise from Hong Kong which i guess is the reason why it won't update but does anyone know if there a way round this?

kona786 · 18 Jul 2012 at 20:43

thep02 maybe able to help you - he got his from HK too. Don't think the update is out for yours yet though.

Odin may be the way to do it - I'm no expert at that though.

thep02 · 18 Jul 2012 at 21:12

kona786 said:
thep02 maybe able to help you - he got his from HK too. Don't think the update is out for yours yet though.

Correct in the former meager in the later, I don't think we HK folk have the official UK release, me and the lads are gona look at tabs at the weekend, the tabs are theirs so I haven't rooted them, NO ONE should take any sort of tech advice from me outside of purchasing!!!, We defo want ICS so I'll prob root them install ICS then unroot.

I'll probably read loads of this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1454112 then watch YT vids.

I rooted my Note twice the second time simply by down loading some files to my sd card and rooted it from that with a few v v easy actions.

Reading that thread should answer all your questions.

IanAG · 18 Jul 2012 at 22:14

Geffen said:
I've now got the latest version of Kies but it still won't update the firmware saying i have the latest version "PDA:LA1/CSC:LA1 (TGY)". I brought the devise from Hong Kong which i guess is the reason why it won't update but does anyone know if there a way round this?

Mine is also a HK device. Never really bothered with Kies on the 7.7 or my S3.

I flashed the ICS stock ROM today via ODIN. Had some issues but expect that was due to coming from different ROMs. I had flashed Noob's 2.1 ROM (iirc) from XDA, and then gone onto the CM9 port Locerra created.

When I flashed the Samsung ROM via Odin I got stuck on the Samsung logo after the initial boot animation. I had to go into the Samsung stock recovery where I wiped data/cache, then I went back into download and flashed the new ROM again via Odin. This time all was good.

From a hardware point of view I am pretty sure the HK and UK devices are identical. Software wise obviously not and I wouldn't be holding my breath for Samsung to make the update available via Kies.

IanAG · 18 Jul 2012 at 22:54

thep02 said:
Correct in the former meager in the later, I don't think we HK folk have the official UK release, me and the lads are gona look at tabs at the weekend, the tabs are theirs so I haven't rooted them, NO ONE should take any sort of tech advice from me outside of purchasing!!!, We defo want ICS so I'll prob root them install ICS then unroot.

I'll probably read loads of this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1454112 then watch YT vids.

I rooted my Note twice the second time simply by down loading some files to my sd card and rooted it from that with a few v v easy actions.

Reading that thread should answer all your questions.

You shouldn't need to unroot to flash the official Samsung ICS ROM. You should be able to go into download mode (volume down + power) then flash via Odin.

thep02 · 19 Jul 2012 at 08:38

IanAG said:
You shouldn't need to unroot to flash the official Samsung ICS ROM. You should be able to go into download mode (volume down + power) then flash via Odin.

I'm gona unroot because they're 14/11 year old and I don't want them rooted, far too tempting for them to get naughty.

Richdog · 19 Jul 2012 at 08:52

thep02 said:
I'm gona unroot because they're 14/11 year old and I don't want them rooted, far too tempting for them to get naughty.

Naughty doing what? You can download illegal apps and watch porn on a completely unrooted device... i'm not sure what extra powers for mischief rooting will give them.

krooton · 19 Jul 2012 at 09:04

I flashed from stock HK GB to UK ICS using Odin with no issue.

thep02 · 19 Jul 2012 at 09:16

Richdog said:
Naughty doing what? You can download illegal apps and watch porn on a completely unrooted device... i'm not sure what extra powers for mischief rooting will give them.

Getting effectively proxied up and stealing stuff then subsequently getting caught is my main worry, imho you need root to be effectively hidden when you nick er stuff, I'm not bothered if they wana look at porn but anything that makes it easier to steal stuff on their 3g 7.7s is a no no.

Edit.. If and when they can do it themselves they can get as Stainless Steel Rat as they want, but as a Yank once said Not On My Watch!

Richdog · 19 Jul 2012 at 09:42

thep02 said:
Getting effectively proxied up and stealing stuff then subsequently getting caught is my main worry, imho you need root to be effectively hidden when you nick er stuff, I'm not bothered if they wana look at porn but anything that makes it easier to steal stuff on their 3g 7.7s is a no no.

Edit.. If and when they can do it themselves they can get as Stainless Steel Rat as they want, but as a Yank once said Not On My Watch!

Ok, good luck with that.