This is the reason people recommend doing backups because I lost everything that was on there. In light of this, I decided to just wipe the system and start over. E-mail is done using IMAP, research on the Web, etc. Most of my work is in the cloud, so my tablet is pretty much just copies of files I’ve downloaded. I don’t keep any original or single files on my tablet. Normally, when I flash a ROM, it goes through an update process of the current apps and then appears at the lock screen. Now, it could have been doing something in the background but I didn’t think so. I left it alone for about 10 minutes with no change. When I restarted, the Samsung screen disappeared and I saw my custom boot animation. When I applied the ROM and GApps files, they worked without a problem. When I restarted and went back into Recovery, TWRP was updated. tar file I’d just downloaded, and applied it. If you are used to using the PDA button in Odin, it’s now the AP button.

Then I fired up Odin 3.09 and it found my device.

This time, I held Power + Volume Down, which takes you into the bootloader. There is a site () that has a download for Odin packaged as an EXE file that appears to be malware. tar file I could find from the link on TWRP’s site. In my case, I was on TWRP 2.6 and it is now on version 2.8. You should update your recovery module to the latest version possible. It took me a bit to track down what this could be. The install looked more positive until I received this error: I received an error when I used the copies that were on my SD storage, in the /Download folder. I went into the Install menu, selected those two zip files (ROM first, then GApps), and installed. Clockworkmod works the same, I think, based on previous experience.

I happened to be using TWRP, which can be accessed by holding down your Power and Volume Up buttons, then releasing Power. Then I downloaded the 4.4.2 GApps zip file and placed it with the ROM. zip file and placed it on my tablet’s external SD card. Normally, this would have been pretty straightforward! Famous last words! I downloaded the ROM. It went smoothly but I hit a couple of snags that I had to work around. I have been running Android Revolution’s 4.1.2 ROM for the n8000 tablet on it and decided to take the leap forward to KitKat with an unofficial Omnirom 4.4.2 ROM released for the n8013. My Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is getting long in the tooth but is still a good laboratory for fooling around with Android.

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