Honeycomb on single core is probably more like Win7 on single core P4 PC with 512MB RAM, not as smooth as WinXP.

Froyo/Gingerbread on dual core tablet with 1GB RAM (if even possible), is like running Win2K (not as optimized for multicore as Win7) on a new dual core PC with gigs of RAM..

This post has been edited by kmrdeva: Jun 16 2011, 09:56 AM

Me too, buddy. Am looking forward to the upcoming 8.9 model, as I've had to stop reading PDF e-mags after getting the Tab. 1024x600 on 7" is just a teeny bit too small for comfortable reading of e-magazines.

True, on my iPad previously, reading PDF emags was not a pleasure but still possible (a slight bit of pinchzooming and panning needed sometimes). Actually, emags are hard to read on any platform, I think, even on a laptop (due to its landscape screen).

Let me try with my emags.. not sure if the conversion will be ok or not. All my ebooks are in epub format which show up nice on iPad and Tab.

I removed the gallery using titanium backup and am happily using quickpic now. fast!.

Bricked as in totally cannot power on, no la. But bricked in the sense that the device cannot boot to the OS (i.e. bootloop) and cannot enter download (the yellow android construction logo) or recovery mode (the recovery or CWM menu) - yes, I experienced this many times.

Recently, while flashing with ODIN, I had 3 Tabs (mine and 2 belonging to my colleagues) fail and die at the funny looking phone <-> computer logo. Tried different USB ports on my laptop, rebooted the laptop many times, reinstalled drivers for the Tab, all no go.

Finally found the cause - the Momax cable that I was using seemed to be only working for charging and usb data transfers, not flashing firmwares. Had to use my other cable bought locally for RM25. All good now

So your definition of bricked is what, exactly?

Maybe try leaving the device alone for an hour then try again or plug it into the AC charger (not PC USB port) and try powering it on like normal (i.e. just power button) to see what happens?

IMHO, the current single core tab7 already kills ipad1 and ipad2 by virtue of being smaller, lighter, almost as long batt life and being able to make/take calls..

Don't have this issue, gmail notifications working fine for me here (I'm on 3G and wifi all the time). BTW gmail is using true push notification so I don't think there is any place to set mail-check or refresh interval. Maybe try clearing gmail data and cache first?

you mean auto-sync and background-sync need to be enabled, right?

for some reason, I had no issue on my Hermes setup (safe restock v3 then wipe install).

Looking at the last few pages of posts, I always wondered why there is so much fascination with using Kies to update the Tab's firmware. I had thought that ODIN was a simpler tool for this with a higher success rate. Using ODIN, I have flashed European GB (P1000XXJMQ) and Malaysian GB (P1000DXJPC) without problems..

I've never installed or used Kies before, so maybe I will just keep wondering..

Yeah, if I remember correctly, I used Odin 1.7 with PIT to go up to JPC some weeks back. Wasn't too special compared to JQ1 which I also tried before. I've never heard of JPD firmware, though.

Now happily using Overcome 2.0.1 custom ROM.

For which firmware?

I don't remember using dbdata.tar (as advised by chainfire in his JQ1 stock flash thread @ xda-dev).

Anyway, if I am not wrong, I followed the setup as shown at http://samsungbbs.cnmo.com/thread-396707-1-1.html for JPC.