[jman4690]

redwizard69, on 16 May 2012 - 12:49 PM, said:

Ok the 5-16 nightly has bricked my TAB. Be forewarned! I'm letting it sit on the charger for awhile as the last time this happened I had to do that to get into D/l and start over with Heimdall.

...i don't think there is a nightly 5-16. There is one for P1...but not P1C did you download that by accident?

[tinpanalley]

xz124, on 16 May 2012 - 03:20 PM, said:

You seem to have done that already. These kernel files were designed for a cm7 rom, so they definitely won't work with a stock one.

I think that's exactly the problem. I had flashed the recovery and zImage while flashing the STOCK rom, not the CM9. That's probably why I was getting problems. I was trying to get the new recovery onto the stock ROM. My error was in also flashing the zImage when I should have only flashed recovery.bin.
Anyway, I'm going to flash the CM9 from the 11th now, working great on my other Galaxy tab.

UPDATE: Hmmm... very bizarre. Now I can't get the new recovery onto my tablet. I tried flashing JUST the recovery.bin through Heimdall but it's not taking it. How should I format the SD card? In the ROM?

UPDATE 2: I wasn't flashing the zImage. Only the recovery.bin. Now everythin worked. Had to get the FULL stock root ROM working first, THEN flash the zImage and recovery.bin. All good now. Thanks, xz124. SD card is fine.

Edited by tinpanalley, Yesterday, 11:10 PM.

[bdsmchs]

jt1134, on 15 May 2012 - 02:19 PM, said:

Fwiw if you replace thru insurance and tell them you lost the device, you'll keep the original tab. The kernels mtd layout can be modified to support a data partition on the nand (only around 188mb to spare tho), so you could have 2 devices, one with normal sized data partition and one with a much smaller one. Let me know if youre interested in trying that, its trivial to do, and I used my tab for months that way before getting it replaced.

Heh... so. This has been interesting.

I finally got the insurance to replace the tab. The new tab arrived today and when I opened it up this evening everything worked fine except it wouldn't activate and/or connect to Verizon. No 3G icon. No nothing. Wifi worked totally fine. Called Verizon, they called the insurance, insurance told me I'll have ANOTHER tab tomorrow.

So. My wife dropped her tablet a while back so I'm mailing that one back as my tab. Tomorrow I'll mail back my tab as the "replacement" tab and keep the replacement tab that won't activate as a standalone wifi-only Galaxy Tab 7.

Doing the data partition on the nand sounds fun, and normally I'd be up for it, but I think I'm getting a better deal this way :)

Again, I can't thank you enough for the help.

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Nightly builds are available from get.cm. Look for p1c.

Got it. Bookmarked it. Thanks.