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Today's Did you know, Ebooks

Ebooks can be easily downloaded directly onto your Tab from many providers :- Amazon kindle, WH Smiths (UK)
KOBO, to name a few. Each can be found in the Android market.

If you have existing books on you pc, a program called PC.Calibre
converts the Pdf file to epub for use on the tablet.

The following protocol was provided be member Roadrage


Convert your books using Calibre ebook coverter (use google it's free and it's easy to use) to epub ... you can do your entire library at once .... make sure to note what folder the converted book will be going too. After you convert your files follow the following instructions;

Instructions on how to put the file in the Galaxy

1. Plug in your galaxy Tab
2. Click Mass Storage
3. Click Mount
4. On your PC (Windows 7 instructions) click on My Computer and find the Removable Disk associated with your Galaxy – For me its Removable Disk (L:)
5. Double Click on (L:)
6. Inside this drive you will see several folders .. find the one that says ‘downloads’ and double click to open that folder
7. Paste your .epub files in that folder
8. Unmount (or eject from your computer) your Galaxy Tab
9. Unplug your Tab from your computer
10. Open your readers Hub (kobo)
11. At the bottom of your Galaxy you will see the house (home page ‘button’ and to the left the rectangle thing with lines it is .. press that ‘button’
12. The menu pops up that says import content … go ahead and click that option … it even has a nice and convenient erase from other location button …
13. Wahalaaa… you can now read on your Galaxy Tablet books that were bought threw Kobo.

Thank you Roadrage

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Today's Did you know, Screen orientation lock

If you find that your Tab screen no longer changes when you rotate from protrait - landscape and vice versa.
It may be that you have accidentally locked it.

You can fix this by pulling down the hidden menu bar at the top of your screen (original 7") and unchecking the "orientation lock" button.

EDIT- Newer models can do this from the control/notifications panal, bottom RHS

When watching movies you can enable this lock by a very quick press of the power button.

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Today's Did you know, Your GTAB Reset Options


if you are able to turn on the Tab

Factory data reset
Use Factory data reset to return your device to its factory defaults. This setting erases all data from your device, including
your Google or other email account settings, system and application data and settings, and downloaded applications. After
a reset, you’ll be prompted to set up your device the next time you turn it on.

1. From the Home screen, Settings, Privacy.
(check the box "Back up my data", Un-check the box "Automatic Restore", this can be checked again after the reset,
but may restore the settings/data that was causing problems)
[best to test before you restore things one at a time & check to see if the problem has returned]
2. Touch Factory data reset, then follow the prompts to perform the reset.
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if you are unable to turn on tab

Hard ReSet
This setting erases all data from your device, including
your Google or other email account settings, system and application data and settings, and downloaded applications. After
a reset, you’ll be prompted to set up your device the next time you turn it on.

1. With the device off, press and hold Volume Down and Power.

2. Release the Power button when you see the Samsung logo, but continue to hold Volume Up until the recovery screen appears.

3. Use the Volume buttons to navigate the menu and select wipe data / factory reset. Press Home to choose the selection.

4. Press Volume Up continue.

The Galaxy Tab should then go through the hard reset process.

Bart (GT-P1000 (The Overcome Experience v4.1.0 Gingerbread 2.3.6), Jabra BT2070)



One we should all write down and keep handy
Thank you Bart

[wizz]

Today's Did you know, Link to a Post


A Forum Tip

If you need to link to a single post in any Topic, in the Forum.....

1. Left click on the post hash number in the top right of the post ie. (#29)
2. A window appears with a highlighted permalink
3. Right click the highlighted link and select copy from the drop down menu
4. You then have the link stored in your clipboard
5. Left click in your new post, and select Paste from the drop down menu
6. You now have a link back to a single earlier post....... to refer to, in your new post

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Today's Did you know, Taking notes on your Tab and sending to your pc.


The stock App "memos" which comes with the GTab7" could not be easily exported to your pc for later printing.

Download TxtPad Lite from the Android market and once you have a memo or notes you can simply send them to your pc via Email and then you are able to print or save.


EDIT - 23/3/12 On more up to date units, Pen memo works perfectly for exporting of notes and memos

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Today's Did you know, PC Browser

A Forum Tip

For those of you who use the Firefox OR IE9 Browser on your PC

There is a paint tin to the left of View New Content.............

that allows you to change the Forum colour theme, to Blue, Green, Red, or Black

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Today's Did you know, Register your Device


One of the first things you should do is to:-

Register your Device with Samsung, on the site below.

http://www.samsung.c...DGT-P7310%2FM32

Then create a GMail account.

You will then be able to access the Android Market on your Tab and purchase Apps

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Today's Did you know, Headphones

Many people come on to this Forum to report that there isn't any sound coming out their headphones.
When inserting your headphones into the jack you need to push a little harder for the last mm to go in.

A little force at the end is all you need

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Today's Did you know, Your TAB WON'T TURN ON.

If your Tab hangs on the start up logo or you have been doing some changes (moving things to SD card, etc)
and everything is not as it seems, there are three levels of CPR you can administer.

The first is the magic - "Turn it off and back on again" this resets your Tab.

The second is the "Hold the power button in for 12-15 secs" especially good if you Tab is hanging at start up.

The third is the "hold the power button and volume up buttons simultaneously" this should only be attempted when you have really done something stupid to your Tab.


After that you may need to follow the factory reset options, detailed further on in this section.... here...

http://www.thegalaxy...dpost__p__28971

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Today's Did you know, Watching movies on your Tab


I was surprised by the fact that so many guys are having problems with movie playback when hanging around the forum and decided to share some tips with green hands. Hope this helps people that are having video playback problems.

The 1st tip, better put Galaxy Tab friendly videos to the device. The Galaxy Tab plays various kinds of videos, but this does not mean it can play everything you throw at it. Let’s see Galaxy Tab supported file types:

Video: 3gp, mp4, avi, wmv, flv, mkv (Codec: MPEG4, H.263, Sorenson H.263, H.264, VC-1, DivX/XviD).
Audio: mp3, m4a, mp4, 3gp, 3ga, wma, ogg, oga, aac, flac.
We don’t see vob or mpg format here, which means the stock player does not play them.

The 2nd tip, with a powerful third-party media player you can play more videos, e.g. the above mentioned vob and mpg videos. There are various android optimized universal video players. Recommended media players:
Rock Player FEEWARE）
MoboPlayer（FEEWARE）
QQ Player（FEEWARE）

The 3rd tip, don’t put copy-protected contents onto the Galaxy Tab. Movies purchased from online video stores (e.g. iTunes, Amazon) are restricted to specific computers and devices only. Unfortunately Samsung Galaxy Tab is not granted to play DRM-protected videos. To have the device play these movie purchases, get yourself a DRM removal tool first (e.g. ChewTune).

The 4th tip, compress/convert your HD videos when necessary. By necessary I mean when the Galaxy Tab pops up an error message saying unsupported file or plays video in slow motion.
Before long I owned Galaxy Tab 7.0, I noticed that some 1080p contents tend to run very slow on the device. Lower resolutions run pretty well. When it comes to some 1080p .mkv and avi videos, the playing speed slows down. I tried several other media players and finally realized it has to do with the hardware itself, seems like the device can not handle very high bitrate properly. After down-scale bitrate to 4mpbs the videos plays just fine.

The 5th and last tip, the best settings for converting videos to Galaxy Tab depends. I’ve seen people asking for the “optimal settings” 3 or 4 times elsewhere, and am trying to answer this question. It is said that H.264 codec gives best quality at smallest file size, but I don’t see much difference between H.264 and MPEG-4. I tried to encoded an HD .mkv video to .mp4 with H.264 and MPEG-4 and find both play fine. DivX .avi videos look great too. I think the image quality is more related to video bitrate. When video bit rate is set higher, the converted video looks sharper. Here I put some test videos with settings for evaluation.

Sample 1- mp4 video
0:05:40 MP4 H.264/AAC 1280x720 1000kbps 53M

Sample 2- mp4 video
0:05:40 MP4 H.264/AAC 1280x720 2000kbps 94M

Sample 3- mp4 video
0:05:40 MP4 H.264/AAC 1920x1080 2000kbps 94M

Sample 4- mp4 video
0:05:40 MP4 H.264/AAC 1920x1080 4000kbps 175M

Sample 5- mkv video
0:05:40 MKV H.264/AAC 1280x720 1000kbps 53M

Sample 6- mkv video
0:05:40 MKV H.264/AAC 1920x1080 2000kbps 94M

Sample 7- wmv video
0:05:40 WMV WMV3/WAV 1280x720 1000kbps 51M

Sample 8- avi video
0:05:40 AVI Xvid/MP3 1280x720 1000kbps 48M

(click the links to play or download the sample videos )

These sample videos source a recent release Blu-ray “Thor”, I created them with a trial version of Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate (SHAREWARE), so there’s a watermark on the screen. Personally I think Sample 2 balance file size and video quality best.


Thank you to member Earvin
for taking the time to post this for us.

[Bart Laroc]

Today's Did you know, Applications on more than one Device

Log on to Google Play Store (Android Market) on your PC (pc, Google Play Store (Android Market), scroll to bottom of page, my Orders & Devices)

Settings, My Devices, do you see two devices ? (Device 01 & Device 02) if not sign in to the same Gmail account on the device that is not shown goto market & download a free app (you can uninstall later)

When you see the two devices in your PC Play Store (Android Market) Settings,
Click “orders”, scroll down to the Application you want on both devices, click the application, when you get the market page with the application showing “Installed”, click on the “Installed”

You should get a pop-up showing the app is installed on your Device 01, to the left “Send to another device”, click the blue drop-down arrow, you should see your Device 01 greyed out & Device 02 below,
Click the Device 02, now that device should appear in the one box showing,
Then click “Install” (bottom right)

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Today's Did you know, Deleting unwanted empty HOME PAGES


Place a finger tip in one corner of the screen and your thumb in the diagonally opposite corner. Drag your two fingers to the centre of your Tab. You will now have your screens displayed and minimised, press on and drag any ones you don't need to the trash bin at the bottom. Tap the return key to take you back to the maximised view.

You can also add screens at this stage too.


EDIT 23/3/2012

For the newer models of tab (honeycomb OS) you have 5 home screens which cannot be added to or deleted.
For ICS models, see 7" original instructions as above

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Today's Did you know, Taking a Screenshot on your Tab 10.1 or 7 Plus

ON the bottom left of the screen there is a square icon with four little angles at each corner, this icon takes a screenshot.
Now post them up in the Home screen thread, we would all love to see them

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Today's Did you know, Market Movies ( Google Play Store )

I must be the last person in the community to know this fact
BUT just in case I'm not..........

Market Movies ( Google Play Store )

Do you know that movies rented or downloaded from the Android market ( Google Play Store )
can also be watched on you pc as well as on your TV through the HDMI cable.

Arn't we lucky

Movies are only available to play in the UK, USA, CANADA and JAPAN.

If you are in another country, the site will unfortunately allow you to purchase movies but you will then receive a notification when you try to play them.

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Today's Did you know, Creating Group Folders on your Tab 7.0.... ( May work for other models )

You can create New Folders on any of your Home Screens, and then drop Apps Shortcuts into them, from the Applications pages.

You can create folders on the home screen of your Samsung Galaxy Tab by tapping and holding an empty spot on the home screen and selecting Folders.
The folder is given a default name......guess what ... Folder !

If you want to rename it to something different, use these steps.

1. From the home screen, tap the folder to open it.

2. Tap and hold the top bar of the window that appears.

3. Type the folder name you wish to use.

4. Tap OK, and you have successfully renamed a home screen folder on your Samsung Galaxy Tab.

From the home screen that now contains your renamed Folder...... hit the Applications Icon
Select your App Icon you want to put in the Folder ...Hold it down until the home screen appears, and drop it in your Folder.

Job Done !

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Today's Did you know, How to keep a record of your Apps for back up, on your pc (apart from an emailed screen shot)


If you just want a list of the Apps that you have Installed (plus having a backup if you need them)
download & Install "ES File Explorer" from the Android Market :- https://market.andro...mRyb2lkLnBvcCJd

open ES File Explorer, Menu, Manager, App Manager .... tap the "Select" top of screen, tap each app (they will change colour)
when all are selected, Menu, Backup
go back to first screen, browse to folder "backups" / "apps" ........ there will be your backup copy of apps you downloaded
copy the "backups" folder to PC & you will see the list of apps (view as details)
plus you now have a backup of the apps on PC


(not applicable to the 7 plus GT-P6200L )

Thanks to Bart Laroc for this information

[Bart Laroc]

Today's Did you know, Organising Gallery Photos (Including Instant Uploads), Videos & Album Groups "MY FILES"

the Gallery shows all images on the Tab or held in a cache from online sources (such as Picasa)
(cached files can be cleared by going to settings, applications, manage applications, All, Gallery ... Clear Data
files stored on your Tab, will create a fresh Cache on opening Gallery)

organise your images in Folders, pics & videos taken by the Tab go to DCIM/Camera, they can remain there or moved to another Folder

for example "Photos Folder" with sub folders, Home, Work, Holiday, Sallys Wedding ( your choices)
the same with "Videos Folder"

any files you do not want to appear in Gallery place in a Folder "Not Gallery" & add a file to that folder .nomedia ( Google .nomedia for explanation)
any files placed in that folder will not show in Gallery but can be viewed by going to the folder & tapping the file

Instant Uploads

Firstly, sign into your Google Account

Gallery stores pics in a cache, these are not cleared for "Instant uploads" & any pics you view from, DropBox, Picasa G+ etc
these have to be cleared from "Instant uploads" at source on, DropBox, Picasa G+ etc
goto dropbox, Picas or G+, open the 'Instant Upload' Folder & clear Pictures in there

once cleared from source, on Tab try, Settings, Applications, Manage Applications, All, .... scroll to "Gallery" & tap, tap "force stop", tap "Clear Data"

return to HomeScreen & open Gallery to see if pics are gone
(Gallery should make a fresh cache of pics that are just on your Tab)


EDIT 23/3/12 Download the Quick pic App for better control/organisation of your photos.

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Today's Did you know, SAMSUNG KIES - repeated by popular demand.

Tab Stock Launcher required for Kies connection

Kies is a Free PC Program & available from Samsung Support :- http://www.samsung.c...ftware/KIES/JSP

Kies is a pc software that when your Tab is connected to it, allows you to see what is on your Tab and transfer things to your tab from other sources e.g. pictures from pc albums, music , contacts.
It is also the way you can back up the data on your Tab.
Should your Tab ever run into problems, a back up copy of your contacts etc will be available to access from Kies and transfer back onto your tab when your machine is restored.
If you purchase a new Tab, you can easily transfer all the data from your old machine to your new using Kies.
Kies also allows your Firmware to be updated when Samsung release a new version. Regular connection to kies will allow you to see if these updates have come through for your model.

Kies is a very simple, no frills software, which I find very easy to use and I have never had a problem with it. Others preferr more advanced methods of data back up and transfer but it works for me.

Kies tutorial http://www.samsung.c...IESTUTORIAL/JSP
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to transfer files to & from Tab & PC with Kies
with Tab & PC connected by Kies, on your PC, open 'Basic Information', you will see 'Internal Memory' (& External Memory if present),
click on 'View in Explorer' & you will see the contents of the Tab Internal Memory (or External Memory)

now you can drag & drop, files & folders, to & from your PC & Tab



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Kies connection problems (Tab Stock Launcher required for Kies connection)

1. Ensure your Tab is not in USB debugging mode:
Go to Settings, Applications, Development and make sure USB debugging is switched off/unchecked.
2. Press the Home Key on your Galaxy Tab and make sure it is not locked. If it is, unlock it.
3. Go to Settings, Display, Screen timeout, set to Maximum to ensure you Tab remains active throughout.
4. Plug the USB cable into the PC.
5. Plug the other end into the Galaxy Tab.
6a. Older versions of Kies: You will now see a picture of a USB connector entitled MTP Application, with a message on the bottom saying Connected Press home key to quit Samsung Kies.
6b. Newer versions of Kies: You will see an MTP-Initialization message in the notification bar. If successful you will shortly see that message change to MTP Connected.
7. Wait for Windows to pop up an Auto Play window.
8. Select Open Device to view files using Windows Explorer
9. In the window that this opens, double click Phone/Tab.
10. Keep this window open, minimize it if you want to. If it remains open for any length of time (10+ seconds) then you have a great chance.
11. Open Kies. As long as Windows Explorer's Phone/Tab window is still open then you will probably find Kies detects the Galaxy Tab.
12. Kies should now be attempting to connect to your Galaxy Tab (this can take about 15-30 secs)
13. Once connected you will see your phone/Tab appear in the top left of Kies
14. Begin using Kies.

(On Honeycomb tabs everything should be automatic, USB debugging is normally unchecked and you don't need to press home to come out of Kies it's done for you.
Any time you have moved data around, after the function is complete, it immediately returns to the homescreen.
Uncoupling, ie set pc to "safely remove hard drive before disconnecting".)

If unsuccessful along any of these step then give it a few attempts. Don't just give up after the first connection failure to do something more drastic. I have had the Auto Play window (point 8 ) not popping up at all after connection, or it pops up, stays open only for a few seconds, and it closes itself. If this happens, unplug the USB from the Galaxy Tab and repeat from step 4.
If reconnecting the cable at the Galaxy Tab end keeps failing after several attempts, unplug both ends of the USB cable and repeat from step 2.
If this again keeps failing, unplug both ends of the USB cable and try a few more times in another USB port, repeating from step 2. If it still continues to fail each time then more drastic action is required:
(try an alternative PC if possible)

If you can NEVER get your PC to see your Galaxy Tab
You need to wipe all existence of Kies from your PC and try again. To do this follow these steps:

Open up your PC's Device Manager (right click Computer, Properties, Device Manager) then plug in the USB cable and connect cable to Galaxy Tab. You may find that the device list refreshes every second or two and the device does not get added. If the Auto Play window pops up, then device manager will stop refreshing and you will see your Galaxy Tab appear under the Portable Devices section (as Galaxy Tab or new drives). If Auto Play does not pop up, Device Manager will continually refresh. This indicates a problem:
1. Uninstall Kies (use Windows Control Panel Uninstall if possible)
2. If not run program files\Samsung\Kies\uninstall.exe & program files\Samsung\usb drivers\uninstall.exe (This is important! This does not get done on a Kies uninstall if you are on a version of Kies prior to 2.3.1.12044_18 10)
3. Reboot
4. Delete the Samsung folder from Program Files.
5. If you want to be even more thorough, run a free utility called "CCleaner" on the files and registry, and if your confident, remove anything that references program files\samsung\Kies & Samsung\USB Drivers in the registry using "regedit". (You have to know what your doing with "regedit", as it is possible to "break" your PC if you do something wrong).
6. Reboot then reinstall Kies.
7. Plug in your Galaxy Tab.


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SAMSUNG KIES NOT ALLOWING UPDATES TO ICS from 3.2


The following is what I did to update from HC 3.2 to ICS when Kies initially told me I couldn't.

DO a Reset on your tab.
After doing a reset on your tab, you should be able to connect to Kies. It seems that the problem with
Kies on HC 3.2 happens after updates to pre-installed apps, and/or installing additional apps.
Make sure you have the latest version of Kies on your PC.
After the reset, don't update anything or install any apps. Just set up the tab enough to get it going.
When you connect to Kies, you should get the update available message box. From there, follow on screen info to update.
Once you're running ICS ok, you should be able to connect to and use Kies without having to do a reset.
That's one of the issues that seems to have been fixed with ICS.
If you're already running ICS and still having a problem with Kies, unfortunately I can't help with that.
My tab works ok with Kies.
I should add that the only time I ever used Kies was to update to ICS. I don't store anything on my tab that's important.
I keep a dozen or so photos on it to use with Photoshop Touch and a few other apps, just for fun. They're on my PC, so
getting them back on to the tab only takes a minute or two.

Reference member Jacksmyname 10.1 user help
http://www.thegalaxy...dpost__p__48023
THIS HAS NOT BEEN TESTED BY ANY FORUM MODERATOR.

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Today's Did you know, Receiving notifications when your Tab is in sleep mode. ( 7 PLUS users and possibly HC others.)


If you still want to hear notifications of Email, txts, Talk, etc when your screen is asleep, do the following.

SETTINGS - SCREEN - MODE - switch from Standard to DYNAMIC.

You can now save battery and stay in touch with your friends

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Today's Did you know, 2 WIDGETS I have just discovered

For those of you who do a lot with MUSIC this will not come as a surprise but I have just discovered these and I think they are brilliant.


If you have TuneIn installed you may be using the App short cut on your homescreen, I was.

However this WIDGET allows you to see what is playing and control the App while doing other things, browsing etc.
It takes you straight to the radio station you have playing and gives you a live display of what you are listening to.



Likewise- I find this Amazon MP3 WIDGET so much better than the music App installed.
My Amazon downloads and my albums pasted from media player are all easily controlled using this Widget, again without going into the App.


You see what is playing, can skip tracks, pause the song and get very easy access to your music or go into the full App.




I think both these widgets really make for better multi tasking while listening to your music.
Hopes this helps the more simple users amongest us, like me