Although it only has a single core CPU, 512MB RAM and 16GB internal storage, it is still capable to handle most of the task as an Android tablet, especially with the newer firmware of Android Kitkat and above.
However, its official firmware by Samsung is stuck at the last generation Android version 2.3.3 (Gingerbread), last updated a few years ago.
Luckily, there are supporters and developers who keep working on its latest unofficial firmware. One of them is Storm31 who makes customized version of Cyanogenmod Android OS for this Samsung Galaxy Tab.
With this unofficial firmware using Android Kitkat, the Samsung Galaxy Tab runs even smoother, more powerful and more feature rich than its latest stock Gingerbread firmware.
I have successfully updated my GT-P1000 from stock Android 2.3.3 to Storm CM11 Android 4.4.4, and I'll share with you how to do it.
First of all, backup all the data in your tab that you want to save to your PC or to its external SD card. Warning: this upgrade will wipe out everything and no user data will left behind in the tab. You better save all the data you want to save now.
Then, remove the external SD card from the tab. If you keep the SD card in the tab, the data in it might be wiped out too.
Download the following files:
- GB-Stock-Safe-v5.zip (287.91 MB)
- Samsung_GT-P1000_CyanogenMod_install_all_in_one.zip (192.24MB)
- cm-10.2-20131104-UNOFFICIAL-p1.zip (185.18 MB)
- cm-11-20150428-UNOFFICIAL-p1.zip (212.4MB)
- pa_gapps-modular-pico-4.4.4-20150308-signed.zip (99.2MB)
Inside it you'll also find Samsung USB driver for Windows which you need to connect your computer to your tab in order to perform the upgrade. If you have already installed the Samsung USB driver in your computer before, then you don't need to install it again.
Inside it you can also find Odin 1.7, the firmware flashing tool to flash the firmware file(s) from your computer to your tab using the USB cable.
Samsung_GT-P1000_CyanogenMod_install_all_in_one.zip contains the ClockworkMod (CwM) Recovery, the CM 9.1 firmware, and a later version of Odin 1.85.
Note that you cannot upgrade your firmware from stock Android 2.3.3 directly to CM 11. You need to replace the stock firmware with CM 9.1 first, then update it to CM 10.2, then only to the latest CM 11 or upcoming CM 12.
You need to replace the stock Recovery in the tab's ROM with ClockworkMod Recovery in order to flash the CM firmware from the SD card (either internal or external) into the tab.
cm-10.2-20131104-UNOFFICIAL-p1.zip is the firmware flash file of CM 10.2.
cm-11-20150428-UNOFFICIAL-p1.zip is the firmware flash file of CM 11. If there is a newer version than this, you can use the newer version instead of this one.
CyanogenMod Android does not come with Google Play Store and Google Play Service, that's why you need pa-gapps-modular-pico-4.4.4-20150308-signed.zip to flash the Google Play Store and Google Play Service into your tab. Once you have the Google Play Store (previously known as Market) in your tab, you can use it to install more Google apps and Android apps into it.
After you have done backup of all the data you want to save from the tab to your PC, removed the SD card from the tab, charged the tab to at least 90% battery level, and installed the Samsung USB driver, you are ready to start this upgrade process.
Step 1: Unzip GB-Stock-Safe-v5.zip in your PC.
Step 2: Power off your tab. Then hold down its Volumn Down button, at the same time, long press the Power button. Your tab will go into Download mode with screen looks like below:
Step 3: Execute Odin3 v1.7.exe inside the Odin3_v1.7 folder.
Step 4: Connect your tab to your computer using its USB cable. You should see the first box in Odin's ID:COM section turns yellow.
Step 5: Click the PIT button and select the file gt-p1000_mr.pit.
Step 6: Click the PDA button and select the file GB_Stock_Safe_v5.tar.
Step 7: Click the PHONE button. If your tab is GSM-based (Asia/Europe/Middle East/Oceania/Africa/Rest of the world...), select modem.bin inside the folder JPZ Modem. If you are an American T-Mobile user, select modem.bin inside the folder T-Mobile Modem. If you are AT&T (USA), TelCel (Mexico) or Telstra (Australia) user, select modem.bin inside JK3 Modem instead.
Step 8: Click the Start button. The flashing process will begin. Let it run until you see a green PASS! box. Do not power off your PC or your tab, or disconnect the USB cable before you see the green PASS!.
In any event you bricked your tab, you can come here and perform Step 2 to Step 8 above to bring your tab to live again.
Step 9: Your tab should reboot. If not, reboot it. The Android initial setup screen will appear, don't bother to fill in any information, just tap on Next or Skip until you reach the home screen.
Step 10: Turn off your tab. Disconnect its USB cable from PC, and put it into Download mode again (Volumn Down + Power).
Step 11: Unzip Samsung_GT-P1000_CyanogenMod_install_all_in_one.zip in your PC.
Step 12: Now you can execute the newer Odin3 v1.85.exe inside the Samsung Odin3 v1.85 folder.
Step 13: Connect your tab to your computer using its USB cable.
Step 14: Click the PDA button and select the file CF-Root-TAB7_XX_OXA_JQ1-v3.3-CWM3RFS.tar inside ClockworkMod Recovery folder.
Step 15: Click the Start button to flash ClockworkMod Recovery into your tab.
Step 16: Power off your tab. Now you can plug back the external SD card to the tab if you want.
Step 17: Reboot your tab until you get back the Android home screen.
Step 18: Set your tab USB connection to Mass Storage Mode.
Step 19: Transfer the file cm-9.1.0-p1.zip inside CyanogenMod v9.1 for Galaxy Tab GT-P1000 folder to the tab's SD card (internal/external).
Step 20: Turn off your tab. Go into Recovery mode by holding Volumn Up button and at the same time long press the Power button.
Step 21: From the Recovery menu, select Install ZIP then Choose ZIP from SD Card. Locate and select the cm-9.1.0-p1.zip file, then confirm the selection. CM 9.1 will be flashed into your tab and replace the stock firmware. Wait for the process to finish. If there is any error, repeat this step again to reflash CM 9.1.
Step 22: Reboot your tab. The Android initial setup screen will appear, don't bother to fill in any information, just tap on Next or Skip until you reach the home screen.
Step 23: Repeat Step 18 until Step 21 for CM 10.2. The file to flash this round is cm-10.2-20131104-UNOFFICIAL-p1.zip. Note that updating from CM 9.1 to CM 10.2 might not be so smooth and might need to repeat Step 21 a few times before a final success.
Step 24: Reboot your tab. The Android initial setup screen will appear. This time, you can fill in your information, and connect to your local WiFi, until you reach the home screen.
Step 25: Repeat Step 18 until Step 21 again for CM 11. The file to flash this round is cm-11-20150428-UNOFFICIAL-p1.zip.
Step 26: Finally, flash the minimal Google apps. Repeat Step 18 until Step 21 again. The file to flash this round is pa-gapps-modular-pico-4.4.4-20150308-signed.zip.
Step 27: Reboot your tab. You will find the Google Play Store appears in your home screen.
Step 28: The keyboard that comes with CyanogenMod might be too basic and primitive. I replaced it with iFlytek Voice Input for Pad which you can install from Google Play Store.
Now, you can enjoy your GT-P1000 tab with new generation of Android and the CyanogenMod experience.
Well done,bro.... Any problem after u update version?
ReplyDelete@約翰之道
ReplyDeleteIt works well with default setup.
If you want to hack around, below is my experience about some problems found:
Do not enable Google Now inside the Trebuchet launcher setting. It will crash the Trebuchet launcher. This can be fixed by clearing the data of Trebuchet inside Apps setting.
Also, be careful to tweak the Performance settings. The Performance setting screen is hidden by default, and will appear after you enable the Developer Options.
I have made change that cause the tab to go into endless loop of crashing systemui.
Make sure you do a Nandroid backup in Recovery before making any performance tweaking in the Performance Setting screen. If anything goes wrong, you can boot to Recovery and restore from your Nandroid backup.
If there is no Nandroid backup, the problem can also be fixed with factory reset, which will wipe out all the user data.
@Voyager8
ReplyDeleteI see...ok, will try to upgrade it,thanks for the advise=)
I Have tested all custom roms for gt-p1000.but the only rom that worked well for me is LiquidSmouth Nightly version :
ReplyDeletehttps://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95784891001604712
-Battery drain fix (Deep Sleep Mode 100%Working) :
1-Setting/Liquidsmooth/Advance/Battery Saver.
2-check the 3 first boxes.
3-Don't check (when battery low).
4-Move battery level to 95%.
5-Disable (Bluetooth/GPS/Sync).
-This is the only omni rom that has usb mass storage sharing with pc (because I got problems with mtp on winxp sp3).
-This rom is based on TWRP recovery .so we can flash it from cm roms (if you got error in cwm , just reflash it).
-For Gapps ,I used GApps_Core_4.4.2_signed.zip.
Hello,
ReplyDeleteGreat thanks! Worked for me.
One thing. After flashing CM 9.1 I did not have access to the setting USB mass storage anymore. So I could not copy CM 10.2 to the device anymore. Fortunately I used an external SD card. If you want to use an internal SD card you might want to copy al the files at once. In CM 10.2 I had access to the afore mentioned settings again.
Hello voyager8, thanks for the posts, pls I'd like to ask if I can update directly from version 2.2 to 4.4.4?
ReplyDelete@samuel Olujobi
ReplyDeleteYou need to follow the steps as explained.
@voyager8
ReplyDeleteThanks, my tab runs on 2.2, do I have to first take it 2.3.3 before I start following the tutorial or I can start right away?
can i get the official CM13 for GT-P1000 ?
ReplyDeleteHey bud,i'm now on the stockrom of p1000 2.3.3. But when i had installed cm11 ics rom,it installed successfully.But after a few days,it got stuck in the bootloader.I thought,it was a simple error.But i restock the tab and done in the same way again.But same prob exist again.I think first i have to install cm7 on p1000 then install the rest series. There is something related with framework issue i think.
ReplyDeletenot easy to download the uploaded zip file. Any idea why?
ReplyDeleteExcellent work. Thanks
ReplyDeleteAfter installing cm-9.1.0-p1.zip got a message "Encryption Unsuccessful" and couldn't continue to home page. any ideas?
Another thing, the link to cm-10.2-20131104-UNOFFICIAL-p1.zip is not warking.
Help will be appreciated.