[Q] Need help with Galaxy Tab 10.1 LE looping woes

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I updated the tablet to 3.1 OTA. A few weeks later I ran into the same looping problem reported by others with this model. I have tried to gather the intell from this forum but it's not solving my issue yet. Here's what I got:

I can work either through Windows XP or Mac.

• adb fails to recognize device on either platform. adb_usb.ini file contains vendor id 0x04e8
• Samsung Kies fails to connect to device on either platform.
• fastboot fails to recognize device on either platform. For Windows I added
  

  ;Galaxy Tab 10.1v
  %SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_04E8&PID_6860&REV_9999&MI_01
  %CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_04E8&PID_6860&MI_01
  %SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_04E8&PID_6601
  %SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0955&PID_7000

  to the android_winusb.inf but to no avail.
  
  
• For Windows I was able to connect using odin3 v1.85. It runs through in seconds and I get
  

  <ID:0/008> Added!!
  <OSM> Enter CS for MD5..
  <OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..
  <OSM> Please wait..
  <OSM> stockretail.tar.md5 is valid.
  <OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..
  <OSM> Leave CS..
  <ID:0/008> Odin v.3 engine (ID:8)..
  <ID:0/008> File analysis..
  <ID:0/008> SetupConnection..
  <ID:0/008> Initialzation..
  <ID:0/008> Get PIT for mapping..
  <ID:0/008> Firmware update start..
  <ID:0/008> recovery.img
  <ID:0/008> NAND Write Start!!
  <ID:0/008> RQT_CLOSE !!
  <ID:0/008> RES OK !!
  <ID:0/008> Completed..
  <OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 1 / failed 0)
  <ID:0/008> Removed!!

  but it just continues to loop through the reboot.

I would truly appreciate some step-by-step instructions here to help solve this issue. Thanks.

Any advice?

Re: [Q] Need help with Galaxy Tab 10.1 LE looping woes

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Originally Posted by Domenic

Any advice?

Since you can get Odin to work you may try to upgrade to stock ICS. Will likely clear the bootlooping.

Sent from my GT-P7500 using xda app-developers app

Can you be more specific with the odin instructions and files? Thx.

I got fastboot to work but where do i go from here? Here's some output from fastboot. Bootloader product indicates GT-P7100!?

C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>fastboot getvar system
getvar:system FAILED (remote: (00000002))
finished. total time: -0.000s

C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>fastboot getvar all
(bootloader) version_hardware: 0x0000000b
(bootloader) product: GT-P7100
(bootloader) serialno: C329030xxxxxxxxx
(bootloader) version-baseband: %s
(bootloader) version-bootloader: Unknown
(bootloader) unlocked: yes
all:
finished. total time: -0.000s

Apart from getting the fastboot to work, all that was needed was a simple fastboot -w. Reboot device (fastboot reboot) and you're back to original state.