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[Dinesh]

Pretty nice. That's 4.0.1 ?

No. That's 4.0.4.

So it's not found?

A Guy

LOL. Good one Bill.

 

[Dinesh]

Does anybody know when the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (p3113) is going to get Android 4.1 from Samsung? I heard that the Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note 10.1 are going to get Jellybean soon, but I have heard nothing about the Galaxy Tabs.

EXCLUSIVE: First Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 Jelly Bean OTA leak | SamMobile

 

[windude99]

Does anybody know when the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (p3113) is going to get Android 4.1 from Samsung? I heard that the Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note 10.1 are going to get Jellybean soon, but I have heard nothing about the Galaxy Tabs.

EXCLUSIVE: First Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 Jelly Bean OTA leak | SamMobile

I heard about that on XDA. I have the US model P3113 and that is P3110. Hopefully the US version will be leaked soon.

 

[noobvious]

I got my former tablet back....no more Honeycomb!

 

[windude99]

I got my former tablet back....no more Honeycomb!

Nice! What Android version does it run?

 

[noobvious]

I got my former tablet back....no more Honeycomb!

Nice! What Android version does it run?

It got an update to ICS...4.04. It's a Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus, wifi 16GB version.

Of course, Samsung's Touchwiz is still there, and months went by between the time I traded the tablet away, and then got it back, so I can't be sure just how different the overall experience is from Honeycomb.

One big difference is that now I have the option of the Chrome browser, so all my bookmarks from the desktop and laptop are available to me. And thanks to the Podkicker app, I almost never need to start up iTunes anymore.

 

[smarteyeball]

I'm still yet to root my G3 - but I can find enough things to amuse me as is

I quite like Jelly bean, but some of the settings have been moved to god knows where

 

[cytherian]

I rooted and loaded CM7 on my HTC Hero this summer, then realized I should have done it long ago. Really opened up the phone. Android is so much more flexible than iOS. While the iPhone is a beautiful device, very sleek and still the leader in graphical smoothness, it's way over priced and infuriating with the memory scam (Apple charging as much as $100 for just 16Gb of RAM).

Apple fans say "oh, but it's so BEAUTIFUL!" Yes, it is... and fragile. That's why over 80% of iPhone users have them wrapped in silicone. Kind of defeats the beauty thing, doesn't it?

 

[Pedroc1999]

Has any one every rooted a Samsung Galaxy Ace 2

 

[Airbot]

and infuriating with the memory scam (Apple charging as much as $100 for just 16Gb of RAM).

Google does the same thing there on certain devices though. Look at the Nexus 10 tablet for instance - $399 for 16GB, $499 for 32GB.

 

[whs]

For the Nexus 7 they are more reasonable. Only $50 extra from 16GB to 32GB. But all of that would not be necessary if they only put a micro SD card slot in. Attaching a stick or anything via OTG apparently does not work.

 

[noobvious]

For the Nexus 7 they are more reasonable. Only $50 extra from 16GB to 32GB. But all of that would not be necessary if they only put a micro SD card slot in. Attaching a stick or anything via OTG apparently does not work.

I suspect that they want users to rely on the cloud (or iCloud if you have an iPad). So I'll stick with my Samsung tablet with microsdhc slot....and maybe at tax time upgrade my 32GB card to a 64GB.

 

[whs]

Which Samsung do you have - is that the one similar to the Nexus 7 and costs around $350 ??

 

[noobvious]

Which Samsung do you have - is that the one similar to the Nexus 7 and costs around $350 ??

It's the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus, 16GB wifi-only version. It was originally released about a year ago.

 

[whs]

Yeah, that's the one I was thinking of. It was a bit pricey at the time. And it seems to have the Qualcom duo core and not the Tegra 3 CPU. But it has the advantage of the card slot. Did they ever upgrade it to 4.1 or 4.2 ??

 

[noobvious]

Yeah, that's the one I was thinking of. It was a bit pricey at the time. And it seems to have the Qualcom duo core and not the Tegra 3 CPU. But it has the advantage of the card slot. Did they ever upgrade it to 4.1 or 4.2 ??

I originally bought it in the spring of this year, and paid $350 for it. Then about a month later, I was bored with it, and traded it away for an imported 64GB Sony mp3 player that cost my buddy about the same amount of money.

Fast forward up to about a month ago, same buddy is in trouble with the wife for spending too much (which I'm sure a few of the members here can relate to) so he PM'd me one day and I ended up getting it back from him for $200, with two protective cases for it, still in immaculate condition, and having receives an over-the-air update to 4.04 at long last (it originally came with 3.2 Honeycomb).

You are correct, it has a dual-core chip running at 1.2Mhz. The ICS upgrade, from what I have read, made a noticeable difference in responsiveness. I certainly have no complaints with its performance. The card slot is handy....at the moment, mine is filled with movies and concert videos, and I have about 5GB of the essential music on the internal memory.

I don't know at this point if it will be upgraded to a newer Android than the current 4.04, but even if it stays as is, it still runs well enough to satisfy me.

 

[whs]

That was a long Odyssey for the device. I am glad your happy with it.

 

[cytherian]

Apple tech aficionados say that Apple embeds the memory because it works faster than a docked micro SDHC. There's also no overhead to deal with add/removal of the storage, and possible system faults if its removed while being depended upon (e.g. app installed on it or file I/O taking place). But I've seen performance shoot outs between the iPhone and Android phones, which included file I/O... and there wasn't an appreciable difference.

 

[whs]

Apple tech aficionados say that Apple embeds the memory because it works faster than a docked micro SDHC. There's also no overhead to deal with add/removal of the storage, and possible system faults if its removed while being depended upon (e.g. app installed on it or file I/O taking place). But I've seen performance shoot outs between the iPhone and Android phones, which included file I/O... and there wasn't an appreciable difference.

That can be a problem for system files, but does not matter for user files.

In Windows you have a similar case when you use a USB stick for ready boost. The system writes the pages on the stick but also on the HDD as backup - just in case you pull the stick in the middle of the operation.

 

[Everlong]

Apple tech aficionados say that Apple embeds the memory because it works faster than a docked micro SDHC. There's also no overhead to deal with add/removal of the storage, and possible system faults if its removed while being depended upon (e.g. app installed on it or file I/O taking place). But I've seen performance shoot outs between the iPhone and Android phones, which included file I/O... and there wasn't an appreciable difference.

Google's mentality behind leaving out a removeable SD slot in the Nexus devices (not sure about the likes of HTC etc) is because it can confuse users as to where their files are when the phone has multiple storage locations i.e. there will be the internal storage for all system, data, some user files, and then the SD card has user files, some app files, and from Android 2.2, data files.

Maybe it's just me taking knowledge for granted, but I'm not sure why a user would get confused. Unless the user roots their phone, they can't see any of the storage past the SD card, and everything a user would use is on the sd card anyway (photos, music, videos).