Thanks worked perfectly for me!

outperforms perfect jelly bean

Odin link is dead.

I just went back to 4.0.4 after finding a lot of things in Jelly Bean I really didn’t like:

Screen dimmer than before at any setting
Colors very washed out
Needless & illogical changes to the settings menus
Changes to the pop-up keyboard including deleting the ‘next’ and ‘prev’ buttons
Moving the time/status bar to the top of screen and making it narrower
Reducing the number of command buttons in the status bar and moving them to the center

I’m sure there’s more but after 2 days, I couldn’t take JB any longer. Not to say that JB isn’t very good on other makes of devices but it certainly isn’t in its present form on P3113′s.

Many thanks to the author(s) of this article. I realize it was written almost 4 months ago so I thought it worth mentioning a few experiences I had to put others who may use this at ease. In my case I had to use different sources for Odin and the firmware package than those listed but they were easy to find and use. And regarding point 10 about the re-boot getting stuck at the SAMSUNG logo, even after following the advice of going through the recovery mode, my unit still seemed to hang for the longest time on the SAMSUNG logo. At least a minute or more, especially painful when you’re already holding your breath in the hope you haven’t killed your tablet. But it did finally reach the lock screen after at least one screen showing some further processing bars and all now seems to be well.

One last item that is different is that even though I have auto rotation turned off so as to retain everything in ‘landscape’ mode, the lock screen which used to appear in landscape mode before going to JB and now back to 4.0.4 UEBLH2 always opens in ‘portrait’ mode with nothing changing until I swipe to unlock.

In any event, thanks again!

As a new user of the galaxy tab 2 7.0 I found the upgrade to jelly bean on this device to be lacking. the screan shot icon is missing which made it easier to execute than to try a combination of buttons in order to take a screen shot. the screen colour and resolution is very pour, the responsiveness of the touch is “irritating”. Jelly-Bean offers much on other devices but the developers will need to go back to the drawing and release to all markets once the kinks have been worked out in India.

My honest opinion of the new update to Jelly Bean 4.1.1 is that someone from Apple must have infiltrated Samsung to destroy our ability to enjoy our tablets. That is the only logic I can make of the updates and what they do to this device. It has horrid quirks. The keyboard sticks, and you must use ‘back’ to get it to go down, if it will. After a couple of times it decides to obey. The update completely erased my organized pages, everything I did to make this useful is gone. Screenshot now does not work, and saying to hold volume and power is a joke, no matter what I try it just beeps at me and then shuts the tablet off. The volume key is now a beepy ‘notifications’ bar, which must be a glitch because its not even logical. The clock and menu is in an incredibly distracting place and the attached settings menu now is activated if i try to read an ebook, because it is in the same place as ereader settings. I just want my tablet back. I can’t even email Samsung tech support because they have removed the ability to add the model #, which is required to tell them all of this. I chatted with a tech support person who simply said, in broken English, that there is nothing in the manual on any of these issues or how to fix them. By the response i got i know that i am not alone in having issues with the update. I am not sure if I should try this fix, but since my tablet is now useless, what is there to lose? right? Other than a couple of days restoring what should have never been destroyed in the first place.

I totally agree with those who left comments about the new Jelly Bean 4.1.1 update destroying the look, feel, and function of their Samsung product. I was given a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 GT-P3113 for Xmas which had the stock Ice Cream Sandwish 4.0.4 OS. Being a mother and not very technically-savvy, I found the UI very user-friendly. I was even able to overcome issues like not being able to watch movies using my Amazon Prime account and Skyping with friends. I was in love with my new gadget! However, that all changed when the JB update was “forced” on my tablet on January 16th. I was appalled. The movies on Amazon Prime were now warped with continuous interruptions of “connecting” pauses and the screen saver would pop up every few minutes no matter if I had removed the feature or turned it off. I also do not like the amount of real estate the the menu buttons took up at the bottom and also being moved to the middle of the screen. The notification features were great originally where they were on the bottom-right of the screen with the clock and indicators. Why were they moved? At any rate, I searched and searched and actually did was able to revert my Galaxy Tab back to its original ICS OS by following the above directions. Mind you it did take me close to 3 hours trying to do it since I’m not very “techy” and I did have to do a Google search on the “Odin3..” zip file mentioned in the instructions since the link didn’t work. I was able to find the 3.04 version off of the XDA-Developers site. And like SINC below said, I did have to do the added steps on #10 because the screen did hang on the lone “Samsung” logo for the longest time (it’s the 2nd logo after the initial one showing the product name pops up). But I did the reboot and waited for about 2-3 minutes after trying the instructions again for the 2nd time and it worked like a charm! Thank you very much Alvin for putting together great instructions for a non-techie person like me and for allowing me to enjoy my tablet again! Hope this also helps those trying to revert back to ICS :)