To root or not!.

[jonrud]

Hi I am sure I am not alone on this the wait for jelly bean so is it worth the hassle to root your tablet?. Yes you get to use the new os but is it worth losing everything you have setup since owning the tablet and are the Roms you see around any good, apart from the os what else do you gain?.
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[james_uk]

you can install the release of jb without the need of rooting

 

[pwatkins]

Hi I am sure I am not alone on this the wait for jelly bean so is it worth the hassle to root your tablet?. Yes you get to use the new os but is it worth losing everything you have setup since owning the tablet and are the Roms you see around any good, apart from the os what else do you gain?.
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If you use an Odin flash then you loose nothing. Maintains all apps, settings, contact lists, data - everything! As james says you dont even need to root. Simple, quick and trivial, if you follow detailed instructions. Search in the GN10.1 forum on xda-developers for lots of hrlp.

And, YES, it is absolutely worth doing! Brings many extra capabilities and performance improvements to the GN10.1.

Just do it!

 

[jonrud]

If you use an Odin flash then you loose nothing. Maintains all apps, settings, contact lists, data - everything! As james says you dont even need to root. Simple, quick and trivial, if you follow detailed instructions. Search in the GN10.1 forum on xda-developers for lots of hrlp.

And, YES, it is absolutely worth doing! Brings many extra capabilities and performance improvements to the GN10.1.

Just do it!

Yes I understand that the question was is it worth changing the Rom completely when you will lose all your settings.

 

[james_uk]

you don't lose your settings

 

[jonrud]

you don't lose your settings

I was under the impression that you had to wipe the drive before you could install a Rom.

 

[jonrud]

If you use an Odin flash then you loose nothing. Maintains all apps, settings, contact lists, data - everything! As james says you dont even need to root. Simple, quick and trivial, if you follow detailed instructions. Search in the GN10.1 forum on xda-developers for lots of hrlp.

And, YES, it is absolutely worth doing! Brings many extra capabilities and performance improvements to the GN10.1.

Just do it!

What and where do I get the files needed?

 

[james_uk]

not if its the proper release of android, if you are talking about custom roms then you would need to be rooted and yes it probably would be a good idea to wipe, if you want to just put the normal version of 4.1.1 on your tab then you would not have to wipe

 

[Szadzik]

What and where do I get the files needed?

XDA and sammobile.com

 

[pwatkins]

As Szadzik says, if you want information and help on how to flash official firmware on to your SGN10.1 then go to xda-developers forum for this devjce :

http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1736

This forum is good for general chit-chat about the device , but xda is much better for serious stuff.
Confirm what I said earlier. If you do an Odin flash of official firmware you keep everything - data, apps, settings, contacts - everything. Still good to have backups though - in case you make a boob!!

 

[jonrud]

As Szadzik says, if you want information and help on how to flash official firmware on to your SGN10.1 then go to xda-developers forum for this devjce :

http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1736

This forum is good for general chit-chat about the device , but xda is much better for serious stuff.
Confirm what I said earlier. If you do an Odin flash of official firmware you keep everything - data, apps, settings, contacts - everything. Still good to have backups though - in case you make a boob!!

I have been a member of xda site for about 6 years but they only seem to have the German version not the UK version and from what I have read not everybody have used it without problem! ? When you say it's an "official firmware" that not strictly true is it.

 

[james_uk]

yes, its the official german version, when updated via odin on the uk version it installs as english.

 

[jonrud]

yes, its the official german version, when updated via odin on the uk version it installs as english.

So you only have to install that one file you don't have to install the German ice cream version first?.

 

[james_uk]

i installed the file Samsung-Updates.com-GT-N8010-DBT-KIES-1354341369.zip via odin, once installed my tablet retained all settings / apps and started with 4.1.1 in english,

kies does not recognise the fw though because its the german one i not have, but i am happy to install via odin when 4.1.2 comes out again, will be faster than through kies anyway.

 

[jonrud]

i installed the file Samsung-Updates.com-GT-N8010-DBT-KIES-1354341369.zip via odin, once installed my tablet retained all settings / apps and started with 4.1.1 in english,

kies does not recognise the fw though because its the german one i not have, but i am happy to install via odin when 4.1.2 comes out again, will be faster than through kies anyway.

Any chance of a link please.

 

[james_uk]

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2048213

link to the download are at the top of the above link with info on how to install.

 

[Szadzik]

yes, its the official german version, when updated via odin on the uk version it installs as english.

He speaketh the truth

 

[jonrud]

Well got it done today it was as easy as you guys said and well worth it, its like owning a new tablet so slick many thanks for all your help

 

[james_uk]

 

[jonrud]

Hi all ok apart from snote there seems to be bits still in german any ideas how to change it back to english?.

 

[james_uk]

which parts, not of mine are in german that i have noticed.

 

[jonrud]

All the templates.

 

[james_uk]

i honestly don't know, are your settings all set to english etc?

ive just checked my templates and they are all in english.

 

[jonrud]

Which settings?

 

[james_uk]

How to change language on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 - YouTube