Pre Requisites:
- In the due course of this application of update on your Samsung Galaxy Tab 750, you will be losing all the data which is present in your Galaxy tab 750, so it’s recommended to back up the contents before proceeding to the update. So, in short you will have to back up the text messages, Contacts, Songs, Images and Videos which are present in your tab. All the data which is present in the internal SD Card will stay intact as it is.
- You can back up all your SMS as well as Contacts by referring to the below links and alternatively you can back up all other data like Images, Files, Videos and Songs by just copying them in your internal SD memory.
Procedure to Backup and Restore Text Messages
Procedure to Backup and Restore Contacts
- Along with the above data, you will also have to note down the APN Settings which are there in your tab so that the same can be re configured as soon as the update is finished. These APN Settings are responsible for the 3G / Internet access on your Galaxy Tab. You can note down from the path of “Applications > Settings > Wireless and Network > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names”.
- You will have to ensure that all the Antivirus suites as well as the other Firewall solutions are completely closed in your PC as these softwares tend to block the Odin flash tool which we will be using the same in the due course of the article to update the Galaxy tab 750. Apart from that, you will have to have a minimum of USB 2.0 enabled USB ports in your computer with a minimum operating system of Windows XP / Windows Vista or Windows 7.
- You should also have the ADMIN privileges before you proceed to update your phone and also the USB port needs to be open which means that it should have the read / write access so that the firmware can be applied successfully. Ensure that the USB chord which you are using is the one which you got at the time of purchase.
- Just in case the process is interrupted then you need to again follow the procedure right from the start. Make use of the Odin only which is supplied in the firmware package zip file.
- Just in case if you are using the Voodoo products or apps in your phone then its utmost important to disable the same before proceeding to apply any sorts of update as Voodoo products converts the file system from the RFS to EXT4, so disabling this will allow the new firmware tool to convert the file system accordingly by default to the RFS which is the file system in the Honeycomb 3.1.
