How to install CM9 Nightly on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 Wi-Fi

I posted over the weekend that the CyanogenMod team has added the Galaxy Tab 10.1 to the nightly build list for CyanogenMod 9. That means that it is now officially supported by CyanogenMod and we no longer have to rely on KANG ROMs to suit our CM9 needs. Unfortunately, I left you high and dry without any explanation on how to install it on your Galaxy Tab 10.1.

Update: As many have pointed out in the comments, the camera does not work. I forgot to mention it but I find it hard to believe that many of you ever use the camera.

Installing it is a piece of cake if you already have ClockWorkMod installed. (If you don’t then click here for a tutorial on how to install it on your Galaxy Tab 10.1.)

1. First you must download the CWM-flashable version of the nightly build onto your tablet.
2. Download the Gapps.zip on your tablet.
3. Next turn off your device and boot into recovery by holding down volume down while the tablet boots. (Note: The volume down button is the left button when the tablet is in landscape mode with the buttons on top.)
4. Let go of the volume button when you see it change from Galaxy Tab 10.1.
5. Press the volume down button again to toggle the selection and press the power button to launch into ClockworkMod.
6. ClockworkMod responds to the volume rocker to change the selection and the power button to execute.
7. Backup your current ROM and data by backup and restore. Don’t skip this step!
8. Select wipe data/factory reset.
9. Select wipe cache partition.
10. Select advanced and then select clear dalvik cache.
11. You are now ready to install the two .zips. Select install zip from sdcard.
12. Find where the .zips were saved. They were probably saved in the Download folder.
13. Select the .zip containing CM9 first. It should be called update-cm-9-20120302-SNAPSHOT-p4wifi-signed.zip.
14. After ClockworkMod is finished extracting and installing CM9 you need to do the same with the Gapps.zip.
15. Select reboot system now when ClockworkMod finishes.
16. Wait until it boots and do not attempt to turn off the tablet. It may take a long time to boot. If after say half an hour it has not booted, then simply go into ClockworkMod again and restore from the backup you just created and you will be back from where you started.

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Tolur33

Thanks, very helpful
Carvin Brown

Will this work on the 8.9 Galaxy Tab?
Peter Randazzo

Since I’m on the KANG version right now, I get the “assert failed: getprop(“ro.product.device”) error because the product name is no longer named p4wifi. Is there a fix for this?
- Alex
  
  Unpack the zip file and edit meta-inf/com/google/android/updater-script. Remove the first assert line. Repack the folder and install the zip as described above.
Fla3D

Great tip, now I suggest a new post telling how is the ICS running now.
Ricardo Roldán Castro

Hi, I did this on a Galaxy Tab 10.1 WiFi and I cannot make the camera work, it says “Camera Error: Connection with the camera cannot be established” (translation from Spanish). Also I lost the “built-in” apps from Samsung: Polaris Office and eBooks. Any idea how can I solve this problems?
Thanks!
- http://www.galaxytabs.com Kyle Dornblaser
  
  I probably should have mentioned the fact that the camera is broken in all of the current Ice Cream Sandwich ROMs and the fact that the apps Samsung put on the tablet on stock firmware are not available.
  
  You can always restore from the backup if you need them.
http://twitter.com/l00nd Øivind

will this work on the 3G version as well?
Ron Soderlund

Dear friends

I might be on the wrong forum but I do not know where to go so I’ll take a chance to start here.

I am a totally novice on things like this, as I am not 16 years old anymore I am a little slow in thought and action so please forgive me.

I purchase recently a used Galaxy Tab 10.1 with 16GB and 3G. It is the European/Swedish version but I am sure it is the same stuff everywhere.

I had no icon for shopping service, nor WiFi

I tried to make a SS Kies update of the software which was Gingerbread. By some reason it stopped installing after some 50%. By going through the “update” tab in the pad itself didn’t work either.

I went to a shop and they suggested either to leave it for tech guys to look it over, or if I feel I can handle, try to root it and install for example the new ROM ICS.

Well so I did and struggled a full night through the installation procedures.

I used the root installation provided by QBKing77 (ClockWorkMod) in this link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYeQ1ndwyM4

and thanks to the very professional presentation I managed to do it. (Thanks very much for this)

Then the new ICS operating system was posted/guided by Mr. Dornblaser (By CyanogenMod) on this link:

http://www.galaxytabs.com/2012/03/how-to-install-cm9-nightly-on-the-galaxy-tab-10-1-wi-fi/

And many thanks to you as well. I didn’t brick the pad.

Now to my questions:

1. The WiFi on my home router is still not working. Later after browsing numerous forums it seems like I must remove a file in the root called “DHCP_list”. I have downloaded a dozen applications designed to manipulate the root, but as it was said in the instructions, – You must have the machine rooted. Despite giving my apps permission to access the root, I could not get into it.

Now I wonder, is the rooting a universal rooting, I mean either rooted or not rooted? Or does a every manipulation stand or fall with a specially designed rooting procedure/software?

Also, soon there will probably come out a ROM version of ICS by someone else but CyanogenMod team with working camera, and 3G. Can I forget the rooting and just install it or must I reroot it with a rooting procedure connected to this particular software?

If I find another ICS, how far back in deinstallation do I have to go?

It is difficult to find good questions for a subject you do not master, but hopefully you understand the bottom line in it.

Thanks and best regards

Ron

scandimarine@gmail.com
- Tobi Fp
  
  Hi Ron.
  I dont know much about the dhcp_list, but if you want to remove the file, i suggest you instal anttek explorer, which will ask for superuser permissions when you start it. Then it should be pretty simple to find the, and if you struggle, anttek has the possibility of searching through your device. Then just delete the file.
  
  The root is not universal, but luckily when ever people build a new rom, they make sure that there is root access, so you dont have to worry. This is also the case with kangs (im on it as well, just upgraded the tab 10 minutes ago)
  
  Now im not completely sure on this, but i do believe that:
  If you want to update your tab to a different version you just need to follow the instructions given, and since right before you flash a new rom, you wipe your entire device rom, it doesnt matter what version you had before.
  
  Cheers from Toby..
  ps. dont leave your email in posts like this, it will result in a lot of spam mails, since webscanner will sniff it up and use it for advertising..
Petera

How can we BUILD CM9 from source and install it?
Nas

hi everyone, I installed this CFW but I got to tell you that it’s no so good. The camera doesn’t work and it’s lokks like that this version it’s an adaptation from the cellphone version.
korneol

I had done as your advice, but i found my camera didnt worked, than I back to Honeycomb…..
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