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Russian Samsung tablet ?

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I have just bought from Argos Outlet on eBay a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 - the initial screens seemed to default to English and I did the official upgrade to android 4.2.2 - this mysteriously took an age whereas earlier in the week an upgrade on a cheap clone tablet (4.1 to 4.2) took minutes - this upgrade took hours.

All looked ok, as far as I can tell all regional settings are for the UK, BUT some of the apps on the apps screens were Russian versions (about 6), I uninstalled these, but the ebooks and e talking books apps both list all books in Russian.

I wonder was this tablet originally destined for Russia? It came with no official box or documentation. Everything else seems ok but a bit sluggish, web stuff and with the ebay app.

Anyone else experienced this? Thanks.

Roy

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  • Quiet_Spark
    Quiet_Spark Posts: 1,093 Forumite
    Check the CSC code, set to your region if necessary.
    Understeer is when you hit a wall with the front of your car
    Oversteer is when you hit a wall with the back of your car
    Horsepower is how fast your car hits the wall
    Torque is how far your car sends the wall across the field once you've hit it
  • roytom
    roytom Posts: 354 Forumite
    edited 8 February 2014 at 7:32PM
    Please advise where the CSC code is located. Thanks.

    But I suspect this tablet has been rooted or fiddled with before I took receipt of it. That. could explain why the upgrade took forever to complete.

    Here are the details of the Kernel Version (note the extra 2 lines):-
    3.0.31-1709803
    se.infra@R0504-14#1
    Weds Sep 18 15:07:17 KST 2013

    On my other tablet these extra lines don't appear. Have I got landed with a duff tablet?

    Thanks, Roy
  • stef73
    stef73 Posts: 545 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Combo Breaker
    My wifes tab 2 says
    3.0.31-1249439
    se.infa@R0301-07 #1
    Sat Aug 3 17:01:52 KST 2013

    If that helps?
  • roytom
    roytom Posts: 354 Forumite
    Thanks that's sort of reassuring, I think.

    btw my model # is GT P5110 and is the 10.1 model.

    Its strange that the version on mine is later. But none of this explains all the Russian apps and books etc.

    Roy
  • stef73
    stef73 Posts: 545 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Combo Breaker
    My wifes is a tab 2 7" that might explain it. Mines an old original 10.1 tab 1 so cant compare mine its still on android 4.0.4
  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    stef73 wrote: »
    My wifes tab 2 says
    3.0.31-1249439
    se.infa@R0301-07 #1
    Sat Aug 3 17:01:52 KST 2013

    If that helps?


    Thats the kernel .

    Suggest a factory reset and reset the product in settings to UK .
  • roytom
    roytom Posts: 354 Forumite
    Did factory reset, because I will send it back, and was immediately greeted by choises in Russian. So that I think proves it.
    Roy
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