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Have I completely broken it?

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Kingleds

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So I have a Galaxy Tab E running a old version of the OS. I figured I'd try to upgrade to a later OS because it was pretty much useless.

So I don't know what I've done along the way, but I tried to follow this guys You Tube video and got myself into a right mess. I think I put the already unipped version of the OS on instead of the zipped one and everything looked different to his explanations after that. So I tried to back out and then it all went wrong.

Now. the tablet is stuck on the load screen. There's that little red exclamation mark in the top left corner. I can't get it to be recognised as a drive on my laptop to put the right version of the OS file on.

I can get to the install mode etc by pressing the power, home, volume down button. But I can't actually do anything once I'm there because I've nothing to install

I can get Odin to recognise it and it put the TWRP file on and is apparently successful but without being able to add the correct os on this is not that much of victory!

Is there anyway I can use Odin to load the OS on? I tried but I don't see the file as an option to add - guessing tis the wrong file type.

Or, do I just throw it in the bin?
 
Kingleds said:
Thank you! That got me back to v4.4v so I can try again and if it doesn't work, I can get it back again. You're a legend!
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are you rooting the device and then flashing a custom rom with a newer android version? do you have a link to what you tried previously?
 
Yes. I used the instructions on this video
The 1st time I had already unzipped the Dotos file so i had transferred the wrong file, then managed to somehow completely wipe the whole thing.

After I restored it back to V4.4 I went a watched the video again, wrote all the instructions down and managed to upgrade it to 7.1.2. Working fine now.
 
Kingleds said:
Yes. I used the instructions on this video
The 1st time I had already unzipped the Dotos file so i had transferred the wrong file, then managed to somehow completely wipe the whole thing.

After I restored it back to V4.4 I went a watched the video again, wrote all the instructions down and managed to upgrade it to 7.1.2. Working fine now.
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Nice!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanx for posting your solution.
 
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