[Q] P601 & P605 mix ?!?

[KpttpK]

Hi guys,

I just opened my P601 (it called P602 in Turkey where i bought and it is WIFI+3G, not LTE model) inside to check about battery problem and i discovered something else that its sim card slot / board is written P605 on it !!!
You can see the attached pics, that i indicated P602 and P605 writings.

So what do you think ? Is my tablet P601 or P605 ?

(INFO: In Turkey there is no LTE connection yet, but it is on the way.So i thought that it can be actually P605 and they downgrade it by some software or something else to block LTE or keep it around 3G.If it is like that, is it possible to turn it back to P605 again ?

Need your knowledges,infos,opinions, anything you got Thanks

 

[blindmanpb]

So i thought that it can be actually P605 and they downgrade it by some software or something else to block LTE or keep it around 3G.If it is like that, is it possible to turn it back to P605 again ?

In short, no.

SM-P600 - wifi only
SM-P601 - 3G
SM-P602 - 3G
SM-P605 - 4G
SM-P607 - 4G

The P600/P601/P602 all share the same processor (Samsung's Exynos 5420), while the P605/P607 uses a different processor (Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800). The 4G LTE modem is actually a part of the Snapdragon processor. If your device doesn't have a Snapdragon processor (and you can use some sort of hardware information app to verify), then you don't have 4G LTE capability. Period.

Certain pieces of hardware/connectors relating to sim cards/network connectivity in general might be shared between the 601/602/605/607. But one of the circuit boards in your device is clearly labelled as for the SM-P601 (which I believe is identical to the 602 in terms of hardware, so Samsung probably doesn't even bother differentiating).

 

[KpttpK]

Thanks a lot

I downloaded a program from google play and find out that it is actually Exynos.Well my hopes fell into the water but, it's better than ignorance :good: