The best way to enhance the performance of any Android device is to keep its firmware updated. So, if you have Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 in your hands, then why dont you update its firmware.
Here is the complete step by step guide to update Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 to Honeycomb 3.2 firmware. Although you are happy with the previous version of Honeycomb, but it is highly recommended to upgrade it, because it would surely fix number of issues that did not come under your notice.
Before we go ahead with this mission to upgrade Galaxy tab 7, below are the few things that you need to take care of:
- Get your tablet PC fully charged, as this process would consume good amount of the battery
- Take the backup of your data sitting on the tablet PC memory
- Switch ON the USB debugging mode by navigating as Menu> Settings> Application> Development, and tapping on the check box across USB debugging option
Steps To Upgrade / Update Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 To Honeycomb 3.2 Firmware
- First you need to download, Honeycomb 3.2 Firmware and Odin Tool which would let you work on your computer in order to upgrade your Galaxy tab
- Now unzip all the downloaded files, and run the file named as Odin3_v1.0, which would actually run the Odin tool
- Its time to put your Galaxy tab in download mode. If you are not sure about the way to do it, then just hold the Volume Down button and turn the device ON
- Once we have the tablet PC in download mode, we are good to connect it to the computer
- Now once the Odin tool recognizes the device, its field named as ID : COM would turn yellow, which actually indicates that drivers for the device have been successfully installed by the Odin tool
- Click on the PDA button, and then enter P6200DDKL2_P6200ODDKL1_P6200DDKK5_HOME.tar.md5 in the provided field which would actually search this file
- Once you find the file, click on the Start button as this start the rooting process
- As soon as this whole processing is done, Odin tool would automatically reboot your tablet PC. If it doesn’t, just go ahead and restart it manually
That is it! This is how you can easily upgrade / update Galaxy Tab 7 to Honeycomb 3.2 without any hassle.
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