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Restoring Samsung Galaxy Tab to factory firmware

I’ve posted a little lately about playing around with Android. One of the things I had done was installed CyanogenMod on my Samsung Galaxy Tab (P1000) for my wife. She was having problems with it, so I tried to update it to KitKat. The upgrade went fine, but I couldn’t get the Google Play store …

Tweaking a Samsung Galaxy Gio

I recent got a Samsung Galaxy Gio for my wife. It is working great, but the built-in memory is small. I’ve read online that there are options for “tricking” the phone into thinking that an ext2 formatted partition on the SD card is part of the phone memory. I’ve been following instructions at http://androidforums.com/ace-all-things-root/422781-tut-how-install-darktremors-a2sd-froyo.html and http://androidforums.com/gio-all-things-root/404425-internal-memory-full.html but …