Galaxy Tab 10.1 P7500 Gets Official ICS Update – Manual Installation

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Galaxy Tab 10.1 P7500 Gets Official ICS Update – Manual Installation

For those of you own a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 P7500 and waiting for official Ice Cream Sandwich update, here’s good news, official Ice Cream Sandwich Android 4.0 XWLP5 firmware is now rolling out by Samsung.

Those of you can’t update the tablet via OTA official update or running a custom ROM and now want to update their tablet with official Ice Cream Sandwich update, can install the update manually on their tablet, here’s how to manually install Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, it’s just for Wi-Fi 3G variant model number P7500, so don’t try this update on any other variant.

Please use a Windows PC and USB drivers must be installed on the PC, you can download them from here or here. Disable all system tools such as Samsung KIES, antivirus, firewall program, please make a backup of your device data such as SMS, internet setting, contacts music files etc because the below procedure may wipe data, you can sync your contacts with Gmail account and for messages use SMS apps, lastly use file expert app to backup apps, and turn the USB Debugging on, to do so just tap Menu> Settings> Application> Development.

DISCLAIMER: Please proceed the below guide at your own risk, Android Egis will not be held responsible if your device lost data or get damaged following this guide.

Instructions

Step #1: Download the Ice Cream Sandwich XWLP5 firmware (P7500XWLP5_P7500ODDLP5_INU.zip) from here or here.

Step #2: Unzip the downloaded .zip on your PC, you’ll get P7500XWLP5_P7500ODDLP5_P7500XXLQ8_INU_ONLY_HOME.tar.md5 file.

Step #3: Download the required Odin 1.85.zip  to your PC.

Step #4: Also unzip the Odin 1.85.zip file into a folder on PC.   

Step #5: Open the folder where you’ve unzipped above file and run Odin v1.85.exe.

Step #6: Turn the device off.

Step #7: Reboot the device into download mode by holding down volume down and power buttons, when a warning screen appear on the screen, then leave other buttons and press the volume up button, it will take you to download mode.

Step #8: Once you’re in download mode plug the device to PC using USB cable. Odin will detect the device, ID:COM will turn the colors and a message saying ADDED will appear. (Note: If Odin doesn’t detect the device, make sure that USB drivers are properly installed on your computer).

Step #9: Click on PDA Button and locate P7500XWLP5_P7500ODDLP5_P7500XXLQ8_INU_ONLY_HOME.tar.md5 from the folder where you’ve unzipped above files in the step 2. (Note: Don’t make any change, just make sure that re-partition is unchecked).

Step #10: Click on Start button to start installation, once the installation done, your device will reboot itself and you’ll see message saying PASS (Note: If Odin refuse to install the update and show message FAIL, or get stuck, close the Odin and unplug device, then pull out battery from the device for a few seconds. Then put the battery back to the device and reboot into download mode. Then install the firmware again.

Step #11: If your device reboot into normal mode, you’re done, enjoy! But if you device gets stuck at boot screen, you need to perform wipe, to do so, turn off device, then reboot into recovery mode by holding down volume down and power buttons, when screen turns on, leave power button but not volume down until you enter in recovery mode. In recovery mode, select the wipe data/factory reset, and confirm on the next screen. Once it done, select “Go Back” after that select “Reboot System Now.”

That’s it, Ice Cream Sandwich is now installed on your Galaxy Tab 10.1 P7500. If you faced any issue, do comment below and I’ll help you.

Via: Sam Mobile

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26 comments

  1. Alvaro

    September 19th, 2012

    This update has spanish language??

    Reply
  2. Alvaro

    September 19th, 2012

    I did all proccess and it restarts but still on 3.2….

    Reply
    • Abdur Rehman

      September 20th, 2012

      try again..it should be on 4.0.4…you can also check the latest update from Sam firmware link given at the bottom of the post…..

      Reply
      • Abdur Rehman

        September 20th, 2012

        since it’s available in Spain, it should has Spanish too…

        Reply
  3. Wole

    September 20th, 2012

    I hope i can use any window operating systems, whether window xp , window vista or window 7?

    Reply
    • Abdur Rehman

      September 21st, 2012

      yup..since you just need to use .exe file of Odin to install firmware, you can use any Windows OS

      Reply
      • Wole

        September 21st, 2012

        Do I need to root my tablet before applying this update?

        Reply
  4. kamel

    September 23rd, 2012

    hi, after upgrading every thing was great but my sim card not working !!
    i make factory rest but stay the same, any idea ?

    Reply
  5. Wole

    September 24th, 2012

    Does this update limited to a country or is universal?

    Reply
    • Abdur Rehman

      September 25th, 2012

      the update is limited currently but can be installed manually on any Galaxy Tab 10.1P7500

      Reply
  6. wole

    September 29th, 2012

    some folks said we need to perform wipe/reset after the whole operation? pls is this wipe/reset true? pls reply sir because i want to follow your method to upgrade my tab today. thanks

    Reply
    • Abdur Rehman

      September 29th, 2012

      No it’s no necessary, however if your tablet can’t boot up after installation, must perform wipe data/factory reset that can be done in recovery mode as I explained in last step.

      Reply
  7. wole

    September 29th, 2012

    I’ll send bunch of thanks to you when i’m done in the next three hours, in the meantime, pray for me and my tablet for success. thanks.

    Reply
  8. wole

    September 29th, 2012

    this afternoon i wanted to update my galaxy tab 10.1 and i have downloaded all the required softwares but i wanted to test if my tablet could connect to my computer after running the driver that you recomended in the above link. I found that my tablet could not be be able to connect to my pc because i couldn’t see it under my computer

    Reply
    • Abdur Rehman

      October 1st, 2012

      but your computer should connect the tablet if drivers are installed properly

      Reply
  9. Wole

    October 1st, 2012

    I love you sir. My update was successfull, no problem at all. A million thanks to you sir. I’ll your update on howto root galaxy tab 10.1 running ICS. Thanks so much.

    Reply
    • Abdur Rehman

      October 1st, 2012

      welcome dear…i love u too…i love my all readers and love to help them

      Reply
  10. Tona

    October 22nd, 2012

    Which languages are in this update?
    Thanks

    Reply
    • Abdur Rehman

      October 23rd, 2012

      Samsung doesn’t post change log, however it support many languages

      Reply
  11. sriabhi

    January 24th, 2013

    Hei,
    plz provide a link for kernel wit loop support for this galaxy tab.
    Name the os for wich tat kernal can b flashed.

    Reply
  12. Delex

    February 4th, 2013

    I updated my samsung galaxy tab1 10.1 P7500 bt when I went to check the Andriod system recovery I find only dis dere
    Reboot syystem now
    Apply update from external storage
    Wipe date /Factory reset
    Wipe cache partition
    Apply update from cache
    But I can’t access the files in my fone folder pls what will I do cos whenever I click on. Apply update from external storage he said unknown source am really confuse someone pls help me

    Reply
    • Abdur Rehman

      February 4th, 2013

      simply apply update using Odin instead of recovery mode as i gave Odin guide…..

      Reply
  13. Delex

    February 5th, 2013

    I did dat already but is not still working,..I want 2 make it call so I need to download 2 Zip files inside it but I can’t do that Via Odin mode that’s why I wanna install d files from Recovery Mode. Is there a Way to install the files without going through Recovery Mode? Pls help

    Reply
    • Abdur Rehman

      February 5th, 2013

      dear it seems that you’re trying to install something other that is not firmware zip file…you need ClockworkMod recovery to install other zip files, so install ClockworkMod first…..

      Reply
  14. Delex

    February 5th, 2013

    Pls can u help me with the Link to download n install the clockworkmod recovery? Pls help thanks so much for the reply

    Reply

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