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For those who have bricked their Defys and can't revive it!!

I have a brand new Defy, barely a month old. And since i found it so easy to mess around with my Milestone i went right ahead and tried to flash a new custom rom into my "barely out of the box" Defy.
After flashing the new rom my phone wouldn't start at all!! I freaked!!
Theere it lay, totally dark and blank screen with the white led on and only the comp and RSD Lite being able to detect the phone in the bootloader mode. Volume Up/Down w/ Power didn't do anything! Nor did anything else!
After a whole day of frantic thread searching and googling, i still couldn't find any answer! I could see that people actually returned their phones or just gave up!
Finally, i started to serach for the original rom that came with my phone but even after hours of searching i couldn't find a single copy of it! Just before i gave up, in one last attempt i found the only copy of my original rom and i flashed it and it worked!!
So if all else fails, please keep a note of your exact rom version and flash it back to unbrick your phone.
Hope this helps someone out there who freaked out the same way i did..

hottracks4 said:
I have a brand new Defy, barely a month old. And since i found it so easy to mess around with my Milestone i went right ahead and tried to flash a new custom rom into my "barely out of the box" Defy.
After flashing the new rom my phone wouldn't start at all!! I freaked!!
Theere it lay, totally dark and blank screen with the white led on and only the comp and RSD Lite being able to detect the phone in the bootloader mode. Volume Up/Down w/ Power didn't do anything! Nor did anything else!
After a whole day of frantic thread searching and googling, i still couldn't find any answer! I could see that people actually returned their phones or just gave up!
Finally, i started to serach for the original rom that came with my phone but even after hours of searching i couldn't find a single copy of it! Just before i gave up, in one last attempt i found the only copy of my original rom and i flashed it and it worked!!
So if all else fails, please keep a note of your exact rom version and flash it back to unbrick your phone.
Hope this helps someone out there who freaked out the same way i did..
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hi! what can i do, with my defy, before the phone have 2.3.6defy+ software, i try to downgrade, then i have a phone just like you. now i dont know what rom i must flash the phone.
can you help me with a sugetion, i was tried a lot of thinks(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1618718&page=4), but nothing..... i hope you can help me.
thx in advance!!!
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i dont know the original rom. is a chance to revive the phone:????

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killcrc said:
hi! what can i do, with my defy, before the phone have 2.3.6defy+ software, i try to downgrade, then i have a phone just like you. now i dont know what rom i must flash the phone.
can you help me with a sugetion, i was tried a lot of thinks(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1618718&page=4), but nothing..... i hope you can help me.
thx in advance!!!
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i dont know the original rom. is a chance to revive the phone:????
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Try this thread.. You should be able to solve your problem.. forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1216982

*HELP*Corrupted Galaxy S II Software?!?!?

Hi Guys. I started a new thread about a week ago but no one has answered in a while and i'm really desperate, confused, and fear for the life of my phone. I had BeastMOD ROM II v3.0 for about a month and one night i turned it off for a minute and turned it back on and i had lost network, i checked and i had no IMEI or Baseband version. I tried a method from another user that is supposed to restore to stock and remove root and it did but it didn't fix the network problem and it would reboot my phone constantly. When i try to do a restore of my very first backup before installing any ROM it gives me a "MD5 mismatch!" error and am very confused. i would really appreciate if someone with free time stayed in contact with me to fix this until it is fixed and give some suggestions.

Did you ODIN back to stock? Or cwm back to stock?
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I had the exact same problem with my co-workers phone. Since the unlock/efs files have been stashed away in our phone there is no hope in restoring the backups that the device automagically creates.
Your phone is a pricey media player. You need to explore your replacement options or seek a Samsung repair center to have the baseband fixed.

GBGamer said:
Did you ODIN back to stock? Or cwm back to stock?
Sent From My Herculean Wizard
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ODIN, it was a method i was recommended.

matthenry87 said:
I had the exact same problem with my co-workers phone. Since the unlock/efs files have been stashed away in our phone there is no hope in restoring the backups that the device automagically creates.
Your phone is a pricey media player. You need to explore your replacement options or seek a Samsung repair center to have the baseband fixed.
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so are you saying that "I" can't fix it and that i should just give up or what could i do to fix it?

Isn't there any way to fix the baseband or IMEI problem, is this a problem with my radio?

The files that control your baseband/radio have become corrupt. It seems to happen at random. You didn't happen to be messing with heimdial(sp?) were you?
There is no way that you can fix your phone unless you go into a Samsung service center, steal their equipment, and learn how to use it.
Flash back to stock, unroot, and ______________. I work for T-Mobile so I'll let you fill that blank in yourself lolol.
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Even if you ODIN back to stock the files in your efs directory do not get modified (hence why you keep your IMEI between roms.)

matthenry87 said:
The files that control your baseband/radio have become corrupt. It seems to happen at random. You didn't happen to be messing with heimdial(sp?) were you?
There is no way that you can fix your phone unless you go into a Samsung service center, steal their equipment, and learn how to use it.
Flash back to stock, unroot, and ______________. I work for T-Mobile so I'll let you fill that blank in yourself lolol.
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Even if you ODIN back to stock the files in your efs directory do not get modified (hence why you keep your IMEI between roms.)
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at random? so that means it wasn't my fault? bkz i rooted, flashed the ROM all correctly and was perfect for about a month and it just suddenly happened out of nowhere. I'm on a tight budget and just wanna get this nightmare over with. so do you have any method to return to stock and get rid of any evidence and then get it fixed by warranty? or is this good: http://galaxys2root.com/t-mobile-galaxy-s2/how-to-unroot-t-mobile-galaxy-s2-sgh-t989/

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odin to stock from link below and get a warranty replacement. simple as that
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1391174

shehrammajid said:
odin to stock from link below and get a warranty replacement. simple as that
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1391174
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matthenry87 said:
The files that control your baseband/radio have become corrupt. It seems to happen at random. You didn't happen to be messing with heimdial(sp?) were you?
There is no way that you can fix your phone unless you go into a Samsung service center, steal their equipment, and learn how to use it.
Flash back to stock, unroot, and ______________. I work for T-Mobile so I'll let you fill that blank in yourself lolol.
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Even if you ODIN back to stock the files in your efs directory do not get modified (hence why you keep your IMEI between roms.)
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Thank you both

that should be good, but I believe the rom is still deodexed, but they don't really check for that anyways.

Deodexed?? Srry i'm not familiar with that

[Q] GSM Galaxy nexus Bricked -REWARD

I know i have another thread but its changed. My galaxy nexus is gsm and my brother accidentally flashed verizon stock on it. Now my nexus can only go in download mode and fastboot mode. I have tried flashing stock using odin and fastboot however it goes back to the google logo and just stays till it dies. I also cant access recovery mode because it goes to the google logo. 30 dollars reward thanks

Boot to the bootloader (Fastboot/Download) and give us the information on the bottom. Also give us the link to whatever you're trying to flash. I'll dig up the return-to-stock thread and see if I can't walk you through it. Gotta save that Nexus!
Also it'd be easier if you got on IRC. You can find a lot of us (including me) on irc.freenode.net in the channel #gn so stop on by!
Here's a link if you've never been there: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=gn&uio=d4

Wug's Toolkit???
have you tried Wug's Toolkit???
I've bricked mine for the same reason for flashing a GSM rom alpha state on a LTE Nexus.
All I had to do was hit the restore button. And it was fixed in ten minutes. I was able to save my data thanks to dropbox. Cuz I just so happened to back up my data there a lot by saving my recovery back ups
But your case is different. Use wug's toolkit and ATTEMPT to save your data by using the backup feature. MAYBE u can still recover your apps. Maybe you broke your CWMR and damaged the system.res or something. So just flash stock+Unroot. As long as you can fast boot I think you can fix it like me.
Give it a try if you have not done this yet. And let me know how it out. =p
Hope it works for u just as well as it did for me.

DLD511 said:
have you tried Wug's Toolkit???
I've bricked mine for the same reason for flashing a GSM rom alpha state on a LTE Nexus.
All I had to do was hit the restore button. And it was fixed in ten minutes. I was able to save my data thanks to dropbox. Cuz I just so happened to back up my data there a lot by saving my recovery back ups
But your case is different. Use wug's toolkit and ATTEMPT to save your data by using the backup feature. MAYBE u can still recover your apps. Maybe you broke your CWMR and damaged the system.res or something. So just flash stock+Unroot. As long as you can fast boot I think you can fix it like me.
Give it a try if you have not done this yet. And let me know how it out. =p
Hope it works for u just as well as it did for me.
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could you gimmie alink for that toolkit

Unbrickable
Also you can't truly brick a Nexus device. ESPECIALLY a GSM variant.
So you can fix this. I'll try to find another way just in case this way fails. but also there is a tool on the right side of the panel do the Wug's Toolkit panel. Never actually used them, but maybe it can make your phone work again without even having to flash stock+Unroot.
But again I'll try to find a another method of how this can be fixed. Hopefully someone has a tool to fix this.
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Sorry. XDA won't let me post a link. =/
Since I just registered and all but don't worry I'm experienced with this stuff.
Just type Wug's toolkit v1.3 Galaxy Nexus and it should be on Android Central
. Hope this saves ur $400-$600 google device. =p
Know how u feel on this.
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This should work because I just read the website and it says that if you flash stock+unroot it should unbrick your device. And maybe an OEM lock is required but your a GSM variant so I dunno since u came out of the factory unlocked.
If you were to fix your Nexus Device u don't have to do your $30 reward.
1. I'm 16. =p
2. Don't have a way of receiving money except by mail, which is a big hassle of nonsense.
3. Just wanted to help since I know how u feel.

Wow lol

exzacklyright said:
Wow lol
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What do u mean by wow???
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I'm now able to post the link.
Here's the link for the toolkit. It's extremely useful and has fixed some problems for me.
http://www.wugfresh.com/dev/gnex-root-toolkit/

Full step-by-step instructions here.

[Q] Telus Note2 Rom,modem,signal SGH-I317M HELP Please..

Hello, well here i have been searching for over a year and reading the forums as well and getting more and more frustrated and need a straight forward answer from some one.
Issue 1 i would like to have a custom rom on my phone BUT and a big but it is, that the signal not be reduced in Any way i would not even settle for 1/2 db loss. from what i have been reading the biggest problem is screwing with roms that change the modem file. (am i right?) basicly what i would like is to have a stock android rom (vanilla) like cleanrom, but have my phone signal absolutely equal to my stock, of course if it got better which i don't expect it to, i wouldn't object to that.
Issue 2 How can i back up my current modem on my phone, i have yet to find any info how to do this step by step, or even find a true stock modem file from telus.
Issue 3 Is there a way that if i screw everything up and get no signal or less signal, a way to truly back up the entire phone so i could revert back to the way i am now 100%? ( an example would be if i had a computer and had made a image and burnt it to a cd if i screwed up the computer i would just reload the image and i would be back with every little crum of data from when i made the image). From what i have been reading it seems like most all backup of the current state of a phone don't include 100% everything, am i right or wrong?
Issue 4 Is there any true stock android (vanilla) rom out there ie. not something that someone other than google has made?
Anyway, accept my appreciation in advance for your help, maby i am just stuck with the stock telus offering but i am hoping for some enlightenment.
Oh and one more thing before i go one of the main things about stock that is really ticking me off is outgoing or incoming mms messages that are just pictures show up as a slide show, from what i have read feature.xml has a setting that i can add to fix this BUT i don't have feature.xml on my phone, do i have to download it somewhere and if so i have seached high and low for it and nothing plus is there a specifically formatted feature.xml for telus I317M?
Once again thanks in advance!

There are numerous custom ROMS that do not touch or include a MODEM, so there is nothing to mess-up as it relates to your signal strength. Your only concern needs to be selecting the correct kernel and ensuring you have your EFS partition (containing your IMEI) backed up.
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fish6107 said:
basicly what i would like is to have a stock android rom (vanilla) like cleanrom, but have my phone signal absolutely equal to my stock
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Cleanrom already does that perfectly well.
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fish6107 said:
Issue 3 Is there a way that if i screw everything up and get no signal or less signal, a way to truly back up the entire phone so i could revert back to the way i am now 100%?
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Using ClockWorkMode to create a NANDroid backup and (if needed) restore using a custom recovery like TWRP or CWM is the process you are asking about. THis will fix a soft-brick.
A hard brick...is another story.
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fish6107 said:
Issue 4 Is there any true stock android (vanilla) rom out there ie. not something that someone other than google has made?
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Vanilla, would be something like the "plain/boring" interface that comes with the Nexus4. This would NOT have TouchWiz. Your S-Pen will no longer work as there are no drivers for it in the Vanilla interface. It was Samsung that wrote the drivers for the S-Pen and implemented the functionality for S-note and the gestures. Also, the integrated Wacom screen would be useless in the Vanilla interface until someone adds something to the Vanilla configuration that Google deployed (didn't you say you only wanted Google's version?).
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fish6107 said:
BUT i don't have feature.xml on my phone
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I believe your i317M has it too. Most of the good stuff is tied into your CSC anyway, so it's not worth the effort to mess with that. I'd spend the time to play around with the build.prop instead.
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Your easiest option is to simply root your Stock ROM and debloat the carrier bloatware. If anything goes wrong, you can always use ODIN to flash the stock firmware (and not lose anything in the process).

fish6107 said:
Hello, well here i have been searching for over a year and reading the forums as well and getting more and more frustrated and need a straight forward answer from some one.
Issue 1 i would like to have a custom rom on my phone BUT and a big but it is, that the signal not be reduced in Any way i would not even settle for 1/2 db loss. from what i have been reading the biggest problem is screwing with roms that change the modem file. (am i right?) basicly what i would like is to have a stock android rom (vanilla) like cleanrom, but have my phone signal absolutely equal to my stock, of course if it got better which i don't expect it to, i wouldn't object to that.
Issue 2 How can i back up my current modem on my phone, i have yet to find any info how to do this step by step, or even find a true stock modem file from telus.
Issue 3 Is there a way that if i screw everything up and get no signal or less signal, a way to truly back up the entire phone so i could revert back to the way i am now 100%? ( an example would be if i had a computer and had made a image and burnt it to a cd if i screwed up the computer i would just reload the image and i would be back with every little crum of data from when i made the image). From what i have been reading it seems like most all backup of the current state of a phone don't include 100% everything, am i right or wrong?
Issue 4 Is there any true stock android (vanilla) rom out there ie. not something that someone other than google has made?
Anyway, accept my appreciation in advance for your help, maby i am just stuck with the stock telus offering but i am hoping for some enlightenment.
Oh and one more thing before i go one of the main things about stock that is really ticking me off is outgoing or incoming mms messages that are just pictures show up as a slide show, from what i have read feature.xml has a setting that i can add to fix this BUT i don't have feature.xml on my phone, do i have to download it somewhere and if so i have seached high and low for it and nothing plus is there a specifically formatted feature.xml for telus I317M?
Once again thanks in advance!
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I use Telus Note 2 so I'll answer your questions based on my experience.
1) I don't notice signal differences. I've used stock roms, modded touchwiz roms, vanilla android, and I don't notice a signal difference. That being said, I don't check my signal because it's not as important as you finding it important. I don't think an issue at all.
2) Just make a nandroid backup after rooting your phone. Rooting won't change your modem. In TWRP recovery, you can nandroid backup with the modem. Also, some custom ROM threads, e.g. JEDI or Cleanrom have TELUS modems in the original post. You can flash that if your modem is changed (and as above poster mentioned, a lot of the ROMs don't even touch the modem anyways)
3) Nandroid (after rooting). You could also download the stock rom that you are on at the moment on www.sammobile.com (whether it's 4.1.1 or 4.1.2)
4) I don't know what you exactly want. CM? SlimBean? Clairfy please.
Also, I don't use MMS so I can't tell you. But you could always try a custom ROM to see if that helps. I use CleanRom 5.0 myself right now and it's been working fine.

Lost my modem
Hi
I flew off half cocked. I flashed something on ODIN that gave me root but it appears I no longer have mobile data. Ok - it's been fun but where might be the original file for my phone?
i317m from bell. I am downloading the firmware from SAMmobile now - will that be all I need? Aw heck I am dangerous.

jimnto said:
Hi
I flew off half cocked. I flashed something on ODIN that gave me root but it appears I no longer have mobile data. Ok - it's been fun but where might be the original file for my phone?
i317m from bell. I am downloading the firmware from SAMmobile now - will that be all I need? Aw heck I am dangerous.
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Yes if you downloaded the .tar for your device put it into the PDA slot in Odin and flash.
Sent from my GT-N7105 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

sorry to say the firmware does not fix the mobile data problem
It seems that no - flashing the firmware doesn't fix my mobile data problem. going to try samsungtools tonight
210euser said:
Yes if you downloaded the .tar for your device put it into the PDA slot in Odin and flash.
Sent from my GT-N7105 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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jimnto said:
It seems that no - flashing the firmware doesn't fix my mobile data problem. going to try samsungtools tonight
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Mobile data? Have you checked you apn settings?
Sent from my phone

I live in the sticks, haven't touched my modem files at all (running ProBam) but I recently noticed that while I can send pix as attachments to texts, I cannot receive them. If someone tries to send me a pic, nothing happens. I have tried probably a hundred different APN name settings, nothing seems to make a difference one way or another. There are approximately seven trillion results if you do a Google search on the subject, with just under seven trillion different 'answers'.
As for the modem files themselves, I have never touched mine (other than to back them up) and I am running the MA3 modem on my Telus phone. One thing I have noticed is that I never get LTE, not even when I go to the city where it is, but... Otherwise, I can't complain about the speed. I would be more curious about battery life and wi-fi speeds when it came to modem files, there is a chance that the older modem would work better for people in the sticks.

[Q] Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 SM-T210R flickering screen

I apologize, because I don't know much about this kind of stuff. And I don't mean to post this in the wrong place, but, I have an issue and i have been looking around for a few hours for a solution, but I haven't found anything that really even describes what my problem is.
I was trying to root my Samsung Galaxy Tab 3, SM-T2109, I set it into Download mode, and opened up Odin. I had Auto Reboot and F. Reset time checked. I checked the PDA box and loaded a ROM called "prerooted.tar.md5". I then clicked start and waited for it to work. Odin reported no errors and my tablet rebooted, the samsung galaxy tab 3 logo looked completely normal. But as soon as it reached the screen with the animation, before the tablet boots up, i knew something was wrong, because the animation never came up, only the booting up noise. Then, when the tablet was supposed to be started up, it never displayed anything on the screen. In order to get it to work I push the lock button once, then the screen shuts off, then i push it again and the display comes up. When i do this, i notice that the screen flashes, notably especially on blue colors, between random colors. Constantly flickering. The touch screen works fine, and everything else seems to be completely normal. I fiddled around with the settings for a bit and decided i wanted to try to factory reset.
I shut down the tablet and did a factory reset, but that didn't work. Still the same thing, I researched some more and found a video that said to flash something using odin, that would apparantly unroot the device. I tried this, the thing is called "KIES_HOME_T210RUEAMG4_T210RXACAMG4_1304… user_low_ship.tar" I did it, and once again, when i booted up the device it did the same exact thing.
I do not believe that there is anything physically wrong with the display, because when i set it to download mode, the screen returns to normal, and does not have this problem, but when i am in recovery mode, or using the regular tablet, it has this problem.
I'm wondering how i can fix this, because it is quite the annoyance, though the tablet is still theoretically useable, it's very very annoying to have to watch the screen flicker like this.
This situation has now brought me to the point of having an anxiety attack.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
p.s I just found out that if i take a screenshot, and look at it on a different device, such as this laptop, it looks completely normal.

I think ive read this more 3 times here at gerneral and question section.
Flash the stockversion Rom with odin
Flash cwm with odin
and root your tab

bierma32 said:
I think ive read this more 3 times here at gerneral and question section.
Flash the stockversion Rom with odin
Flash cwm with odin
and root your tab
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Thanks I'll try it now

bierma32 said:
I think ive read this more 3 times here at gerneral and question section.
Flash the stockversion Rom with odin
Flash cwm with odin
and root your tab
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It does not work, what should i do?

sammyzeus said:
It does not work, what should i do?
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Flash the Blackhawk Kernel 1.8 , have you also the prob try the kernel from the rocketab lite thread.

bierma32 said:
Flash the Blackhawk Kernel 1.8 , have you also the prob try the kernel from the rocketab lite thread.
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I'm having the same problem too and can't seem to have a solution. Can anyone help?

Having same problem. Blackhawk kernal helps but still get kernal panic with it. Tried every Rom. Rockettab works best but will start to crash and freeze alot after the tab is used for more than 5 mins.

Is that right your Tab is one of the newest generation ?
Normaly the Blackhawk Kernel solved your prob.
Try the Mk1 Kernel from Rockettab lite thread,this one ob newest Stock Kernels.
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Is that right your Tab is one of the newest generation ?
Normaly the Blackhawk Kernel solved your prob.
Try the Mk1 Kernel from Rockettab lite thread,this one ob newest Stock Kernels.
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Is that right your Tab is one of the newest generation ?
Normaly the Blackhawk Kernel solved your prob.
Try the Mk1 Kernel from Rockettab lite thread,this one ob newest Stock Kernels.