when you are at that screen and plug into the usb port the box on odin should turn yellow with means its seing your device if it does not turn yellow then the computer is not reading your tab you then have to install the usb drivers...
I have re-written Ayenn13's instructions, which he re-wrote from machx0r.
Give them the credit for the origin of these, I just made them easier to understand (and a little more accurate ).
I also attached the three files you need to this post, just in case the links stop working . (You just have to unzip them using 7-Zip, WinRAR or WinZip, both attachments include the SAME files, I added both .zip and .7z as some people prefer one over the other.)
Instructions for installing Clockwork Recovery and Rooting your Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7"
- Download recovery.tar.md5.
- Copy cwm-root-gtab2.zip to your ext SDCard ("Card" in Windows Explorer).
- Download Odin for windows.
- Make sure your device is not plugged in via USB.
- Make sure your device is in “USB debugging” mode.
- Navigate through Menu>Settings>Developer Options and check the “USB debugging” option.
- Connect your device to your PC using the USB cable.
- Reboot your tablet into download mode. By either one of these options:
- Power off the tablet. Hold the Volume Down button and Power button. Volume up to confirm download mode.
- If you have adb installed run 'adb reboot download' from a command prompt.
- Launch Odin, click PDA and browse to the recovery.tar.md5 file (unless you moved it, it will be in your user downloads folder).
- Hit start, when completed your tablet will reboot.
- Reboot your tablet into recovery mode. By either one of these options:
- Power off the tablet. Hold down the Volume Up button and Power button. When you see the "Galaxy Tab" logo release Power but continue holding Volume Up.
- If you have adb installed run 'adb reboot recovery' from a command prompt.
- In the CWM menu (the menu will be in the upper left corner of the now landscape mode screen) navigate to "install zip from sdcard" (volume keys navigate) and press power to select.
- Select "choose zip from sdcard".
- Navigate to the "cmw-root-gtab2.zip" you saved to your sd card earlier (it should be the only option if you have not used any other root methods).
- Wait for the install to complete, shouldn't take long.
- Select "go back" from the menu at the top, back out two menus then select the reboot device option.
- Your device will restart. On the first restart you will see it "Update Android".
- ??????????
- Profit!
Sweetness!
For 1 and 2, in my process both of those programs engaged at one point but were not worth mentioning because they were pretty much what I would call a "delivery shell". Some of the processes were carried out through them. That might be why #17 confused Diablo2424. IDK.
As far as #17 is concerned, what I described in my directions is exactly what happened for me.
Thanks for the rewrite
About
“PROFIT” is used in numbered lists to explain how to reach a goal. The basic template is:
1. Step one
2. Step two
3. ????
4. PROFIT!!!
Origin
This meme comes directly from South Park‘s season 2, episode 17 (30th in total) which aired on December 16th, 1998. In this particular episode, the children’s underwear are being stolen from them by gnomes for the purpose of “profit.”
The process, as explained by thee gnomes goes something like this.
Step 1. Collect underpants.
Step 2. ?
Step 3. PROFIT
The gnomes lack of a business plan is used as a foil to the other main theme of the episode, a focus on large corporations. While the character Tweek’s parents are busy trying to figure out how their small coffee shop will compete with the giant Harbuck’s corporation (Starbucks Parody) the Gnomes illustrate a satire on crazy, unfounded money-making schemes.
Almost as soon as the episodes had aired, journalists were already using the South Park reference to describe the shortcomings of companies that failed in the big dot com collapse. In short, those who failed to develop a coherent strategy for collecting profit were behaving like Underpants Gnomes.
Today, the meme is typically used in forums or comments sections as a response that implies sarcastic disregard for the utility or purpose of a post.
Can someone do me a huge favor I copied over my wpa_supplicant and wpa_supplicant.cof files can anyone post the originals cuz I lost mine my wifi doesn't work at all :-( I would greatly appreciate it
Sent from my VS910 4G using XDA
Tell me where to get these files and I'll upload mine for you (my tab is rooted, but stock)
I use nova launcher looks like stock ics and is smooth so far no lagGive that Go Launcher HD for tablets a shot. That is what I use and I friken love it! It is rather bare-bones ATM but it is still technically an alpha build. There are no themes for it yet (not theme SDK yet either... I cannot wait to get my hands on that when they release one)
The one thing I do advise is to make the app draw and home screen icon grid 6x6 IMMEDIATELY. otherwise it it feels really bottom heavy/lopsided.
Guys, after following the rooting guide a little above, I'm having a really serious issue.
So I went through the process (not the first time I rooted an Android device) and it was easy and simple. After the root I made sure by downloading root checker basic for the Play store. I was indeed rooted. But then something weird started happening. The screen goes into standy by itself after a few seconds like normal, but I can't get it to wake up from standy. I have to shut off the device by holding the power button and then turning it back on again. When I do that it works normally again until the screen shuts off either by me pressing the power button to do it manually, or until the screen dims out into standby. I've tried wiping the cache, I've tried a factory reset, and I've even ran the process again all over using heimdall. I'm guessing it's probably the kernel that gets flashed using heimdall? Please help me out here because I only got this decive today and It really sucks that it's not working
Wpa_supplicant is located /system/bin and the wpa_supplicant.cof is located in /etc/wifi
I greatly appreciate it sorry if you saw wrong location first of the .cof
Sent from my VS910 4G using XDA
I was able to fix it easily. I found someone online who had an identical Galaxy Tab 2 and had them make a nandroid backup (after they did a factory reset so that I wouldn't have any of their private data) and send me the backup files over dropbox. I got an md5 mismatch error when I tried restoring but it was simple to fix after some googling and then the restore went fine. Now I have no problems with the galaxy tab 2. Also now the kernel is (@SEP-66 #1) instead of (@SEP-103 #1 which was causing the problem.)
Thank you for all that helped.
I was able to fix it easily. I found someone online who had an identical Galaxy Tab 2 and had them make a nandroid backup (after they did a factory reset so that I wouldn't have any of their private data) and send me the backup files over dropbox. I got an md5 mismatch error when I tried restoring but it was simple to fix after some googling and then the restore went fine. Now I have no problems with the galaxy tab 2. Also now the kernel is (@SEP-66 #1) instead of (@SEP-103 #1 which was causing the problem.)
Thank you for all that helped.
Please share with the rest of the class Did you just change density and then install or something more to it?
adb shell
./su
./gtab2-root.sh
I think the only method is to use odin to flash either a system.img that is rooted or flash a rooted kernel.