Hello,
I would be so grateful for any help with the following.
I bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 LTE SM-T325. However, when turning it on for the first time I found the entire interface in Chinese and thus unusable.
I've found the UK English ROM for this device and want to flash it. Can I go ahead and do so given that I'm unable to do anything with the tablet until such time as it's flashed to English? This also means I can't change any settings on the device beforehand.
I am registered blind without access to any sighted assistance at the moment so it is vital that I resolve this issue so I can use the tablet with the TalkBack screen reader in English.
All the best for now and take care and thank you very much in advance for your time and patience.
hspatwa said:
Hello,
I would be so grateful for any help with the following.
I bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 LTE SM-T325. However, when turning it on for the first time I found the entire interface in Chinese and thus unusable.
I've found the UK English ROM for this device and want to flash it. Can I go ahead and do so given that I'm unable to do anything with the tablet until such time as it's flashed to English? This also means I can't change any settings on the device beforehand.
I am registered blind without access to any sighted assistance at the moment so it is vital that I resolve this issue so I can use the tablet with the TalkBack screen reader in English.
All the best for now and take care and thank you very much in advance for your time and patience.
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I also purchased a Hong Kong version of the SM-T325. When you first power up the device you will be presented with a Samsung screen all in Chinese with 2 popup menus. The top menu (located about center screen) is the language selection. From that menu, you can select whichever language you want including UK or US English. You may have to enlist the services of a sighted individual for this 5 second task, but then you would be good to go. Does TalkBack do translation? How about Google Translate in combination with TalkBack? Those might be options.
As far as flashing, I did flash the German ROM, but it caused random reboots of the device. I ended up flashing back to the updated Hong Kong ROM and it's working very well. I have been tempted to flash the UK ROM but I use my device for work and I won't have the opportunity until next week.
If flashing is your only option, what method do you plan on using? I downloaded the German ROM from sammobile.com and flashed it with Odin. When I decided to flash back to the Hong Kong version I just repeated the process with the updated Hong Kong version. I am sure you can do it with the UK ROM. If it causes problems, flash it back.
Also, if you flash using Odin, it flashes everything...ROM, recovery, modem and bootloader. On the German ROM, I had regional issues with the Google Play Store. I would not let me download all of my apps, but for some reason the original Hong Kong ROM did.
It's a lot to consider and I hope you are able to come up with a solution that works for you because the T325 is a very useful device.
Good Luck
Steve
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Could anyone shed a little light on this subject for me. I bought my N2 N7100 online about a few months ago, I'm in the US. Took screen shots of all the settings before I decided to root/flash anything. I decided to go back to factory, everything is fine.
My question is; from what I had gathered from the info about my phone was that the factory build was from Argentina looking at the numbers. So when I flashed it, there was a ton of Spanish apps and stuff on it. When I originally got the phone it wasn't like that at all, it even has a Spanish boot animation. I'd like to go back to the build that should be on in the first place. My phone was made in Vietnam, and I have a picture of the phone settings before I did anything. If anyone could let me know the proper build I would appreciate it, or suggest a better one. I'm using this phone in the United States. Thanks
At kies you can put the serial number and download the latest version of the firmware which was your phone when you bought it.
Look this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WaAMwMk1i0
but better don't trust kies for flashing see the exact firmware version csc etc from the firmware that kies downloaded at kies download folder and download the firmware from sammobile and flash it via odin
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Hi folks!
Looking for a little help here with my brand new Tab Pro 8.4. Bought it from Expansys and it arrived this morning - powered it up and booted into Polish.. 'Ok, that's wierd' I thought, but reconfigured it for UK and carried on happily setting it up - only to find that some of the apps included were in Polish. So, I check the box (front's in English, along with the security seals, back is in Polish) and sure enough it's a Polish model Tab Pro. 'No worries, I'll download and flash an official UK firmware' I thought. Which I did - only to find on restarting it that once again I'm back into Polish. On checking, I found that the device's CSC is automatically set to Poland, not UK. Even a firmware flash doesn't seem to reset this (dammit) so I was wondering if there was any way I COULD set it to either flash as UK (using Odin) or preconfig the device so Multi-CSC would see it as a UK device? I understand there is a Play Store app that can do this for me, but I'm unsure if Rooting the device (which the app needs) will break Knox or not...
Thanks for your advice and help!
Charles.
UPDATE: Sorted it - had to use Odin to flash to the BND3 firmware first in order to get TowelRoot to work (it wouldn't for some reason with the ANAG firmware...) and then it was a simple matter of using a CSC changer from the Play Store to set the device from XEO to BTU. By using TowelRoot I haven't tripped Knox
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I recently bought a Tab S 8.4, the 16GB variant with WiFi only (T700). I have come to realise that this is an imported model from Hong Kong. It has a "Samsung Chinese IME" input method that I cannot deselect, which I believe may be interfering with External Keyboard Helper Pro when I try to use a UK layout Bluetooth keyboard.
My questions are these, can I flash it with the latest available UK firmware? If I were to do so, would it eliminate that annoying "Samsung Chinese IME" input method? Finally, would having the UK firmware, cause any future OTA downloads to be UK ones too, or would I have to manually update it myself?
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
You could download and flash the latest UK firmware here. It should eliminate the Chinese IME (or you could just root and freeze/uninstall it)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-s/general/firmware-update-samsung-galaxy-tab-s-8-t2823929
would having the UK firmware, cause any future OTA downloads to be UK ones too, or would I have to manually update it myself?
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Not sure, but given that the UK hasn't had a OTA firmware update for nearly five months now (last release was on 30th June) I don't think it will be a major problem. You can just reflash any new versions using ODIN.
Flashed!!!
I have done the deed. I've flashed my Tab-S 8.4 with the latest UK firmware using Odin.
Because the tablet was new and I didn't really have anything on it that I couldn't reconfigure from scratch, I didn't bother with a Nandroid backup or anything. NOTE to anyone reading this: Skipping backing up is NOT something you should do. I had a good reason to do so. That said, I'd also downloaded a copy of the Hong Kong firmware I already had on the tablet, so that I had it on hand, just in case.
I expected to have to reconfigure the tablet from scratch, but this has proven to not be the case. It's remembered all my apps and settings and accounts and things. So all in all it's gone very smoothly.
The "Samsung Chinese IME" input method is now history. Now I have to go check out whether that has cured my problem with EKH Pro.
I also installed Kies3 to see what it would make of my firmware configuration, and to see if it would try suggesting that I should go back to the Hong Kong one. It didn't. It said my current UK firmware was the latest available. Of course, this isn't a concrete indication that I will get OTA updates of UK firmware in the future by any stretch of the imagination. That will only be proved once the next update comes down from Samsung. Needless to say I won't be letting it update itself until I've made sure it's a UK firmware.
Thanks for your help.
Reflashing my firmware to get rid of the "Samsung Chinese IME" input method has not helped me get EKH Pro working. I am, however, still happy that I'm on the right firmware for my country.
I now have another line of enquiry about EKH Pro, and I think this time it is correct one for the problem I'm having. But I won't go into it here.
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Hey guys, just picked up an ATT Tab S 8.4. Loved my bronze 8.4" and thought having LTE would be cool. I was wondering if it's possible to flash an official stock firmware for the T705 to remove the ATT bloat and enable the dialer. I recall doing this on the original Galaxy Tabs with UK firmware but cannot find much info on the S. Thanks in advance for the assistance.
Hi everyone, I decided to post here this question after searching quite a lot on this forum and on google without finding the answer
I'm from Croatia. I rooted my n7100 half a year ago. Now I want to sell my device and put the stock touchwiz back on it. However, when searching for the stock rom I only find the stock roms that are locked on a carrier. So I have found 5-6 of them, for all of the croatian carriers. But can't seem to find the one that is unolocked and without bloatware that comes when you get the one with the carrier apps preinstalled. I actually bought my note2 unlocked. So where do I find this unlocked stock ROM without carriers bloatwear? Can anybody help me?
Thanks
Jure
Even tried Sammobile (GT-N700)?
Ok, I just went there and I did see a firmware that does not seem to be with a carrier (with a weird TRA abreviation that I cant seem to understand what it stands for). But even if this was it, the newest is 4.1. so Im not happy with it.
Another question: what would happen if I installed an UK unlocked firmware? Would it work for my croatian Sim card? I cant see why not? Since the phone asks me to select my language the first time I boot it. It wouldnt have croatian as an option? I couldnt care less, since I always use english as my language
I dont understand much about how all of this works. I could really use some help.
Thanks
Jure
I recently bought a used SM-G960N. Sine getting it I have perfomed factory reset, as well as changed location and languages options but for some reasons some items still come up korean.
For example, the weather app is in korean, and can only add korean cities.
Or when I press the microphone key on the keyboard I get a korean keyboard.
Please help me, all i want is english.
Thanks
Magickz81
Thank you for raising this question, Magickz81
I have the same issue, but with a SM-G965N
Is there a way to get rid of the Korean thing? Maybe we have to use a Factory Firmware from another country?
And the Camera does not have option to remove the shutter noise. I believe that that is another Korean feature.
You can flash firmware from another country using Odin. There are many ways of obtaining such firmware, you can use SamFirm which I think still works.
Then you'll need a modified version of Odin that skips the model check, there are various versions on XDA and elsewhere. Then flash the firmware using Odin, there are many tutorials.