I almost forgot about this highly overpriced ($349), very underpowered (single core 4-year old TI OMAP3630), but otherwise nice tablet called Samsung Galaxy Tab GT-P1010. As you might have noticed, "GT" in its name is not your "Gran Turismo" moniker. P1010 is on the opposite end of your Ferrari. Sammy-Mommy itself didn't like its child right from the start: the trend of not giving it even a Gingerbread update continues up to this day. The device stays with Froyo everywhere except (probably) Ireland and its dependencies (?). Irish were possibly more persuasive in talking Samsung into giving them Gingerbread ahead of the rest of unhappy crowd of P1010. Or more loud.
Anyway, they have got it for Irish as the Christmas present, and a good guy taney from XDA-Developers has adapted it for non-Irish P1010s. You can find his procedure here. My humble addition to it stems from my own experiences, so if you're fine working with Kies/quirky Samsung USB drivers/Odin, go ahead and disregard all below. However, teaching your P1010 an Irish accent can soft-brick your tablet in no time.
So here we go:
Step 0. Install the latest Samsung USB drivers (this January's version will be fine). That is, if you didn't do it for your other countless Samsung devices already. It goes with that huge bloat called Kies, so what? Install Odin version 1.61, the link is at taney's post.
Steps are essentially the same as taney's, what's rewritten by me is in blue.
Step 1. Put your P1010 into download mode (by holding POWER and VOL-DOWN) (POWER OFF your P1010 if it's in ON; make sure your tablet is fully charged before that; an important note from yanbingyu: P1010 shouldn't be connected to your PC at the moment).
Step 2. Start Odin, connect your USB cable to your PC, make sure you have your ID:COM correctly determined and yellowed with that. Put marks on Re-Partition, Auto-Reboot and F. Reset Time. Put the Odin's "wifi" file in the PIT, put marks on PDA and CSC and put the correct files of Irish Froyo (P1010XWKC1_OXX) first. Start your flashing, and hold your breath.
Step 3. Chances are, you're not real Irish, just like me. So you end up boot-looping. Don't be scared though: you flash an Irish kernel (P1010ZHKF1-kernel) on top of this mess, and everything should end up fine. Éire go deo! You don't need Re-Partition and CSC this time. I would recommend Step 3 as obligatory, but it's just me.
Step 4. Get the Gingerbread update from here P1010XEUKPG, and flash it just like the kernel above. You might need a password to unlock the archive. Don't fret, it has nothing to do with IRA though. Find it at the original XDA-Devs thread where it's divulged by someone who isn't scared by IRA. You should be golden this time. Or green all over. Email taney (and me) some Guinness.
After all is done and you and your P1010 have started to talk with distinct Irish/Gaelic accent, you might get a special versions of root and ClockworkMod recovery for it. After that, putting up custom ROMs and apps and tweaks will become a breeze, just like it was made with CM7 for NOOK Color. Talking about NOOK Color with CM7, it didn't show much of better performance than this Gingerbread on my P1010 that still isn't overclocked and has tons of Samsung's bloatware present.
Road to ICS for P1010 is quite open now.
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