Step 1: Download and extract the Samsung GT-P7500 stock firmware package on your computer. Step 2: After extracting the package, you will be able to get the Firmware File, Flash Tool, Driver and How-to Flash Guide. Step 3: Install the provided USB Driver on your Computer, and if in case USB Driver is already installed, SKIP this step).

Complete noob here - just wanted to document my journey for resurrecting my daughter's Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet to make it usable again. It had stock rom on it (android 4.0.4) ICS and would not update.

Consequently, none of the apps were working and basically it was ready for the trash. Yes, it's 7 years old, but hey, why throw it in the trash - I thought I'd have a go at rooting and updating. It took me a couple of days but now it's done, it's updated to 7.1 Nougat and working flawlessly.

So here is my Journey - I hope it will help someone. Big thanks to all the Devs out there who have put countless hours into keeping this tablet alive (especially decatf who appears to be very nice person This assumes no prior knowledge - but be warned - I am not responsible for any damage you cause to your device or if you 'brick it'. If that worries you do not proceed! By following the below guide, you will be wiping all data from your device so proceed with caution!!

If you want similar functionality on any device, Evernote (freemium) will probably work better, although obviously with a narrower feature set.

The following worked for me to install Android Nougat on my device - mine is a GT-P7510 but I used the files for the GT-P7500 because when I tried the specific files for the P7510, they didn't work). You might have to get creative here and there to get yours to work! 1) Create folder on your PC / Mac computer desktop to put the required files in; 2) Download the files from here: - - or do a search for it (this will be for 'flashing' twerp onto your device) - - - - - USB drivers if you need them are here: 3. Instal Twerp / Custom Recovery Before you can install custom software (Nougat etc) you will need to root the tablet. Before you root the tablet, you need to install TWERP which will allow you access to things like backup and recovery etc.

To install TWERP follow this guide and ensure you make backup before proceeding to step 4 - that way you can always go back to your stock image if there are any problems. NOTE: in the above, it mentions ClockWorkMod (CWM) - However CWM did not work for me, so after installing CWM - I then installed TWERP (they basically do the same thing). I am not sure if you can simply install TWERP instead of CWM - but I installed TWERP over the top of CWM after I had followed the above guide.

Root the tablet: The following guide was very helpful to me; and / or this one: 5. Now you should be ready to install the custom ROM (Nougat) Follow these guides: and here is the source code and infos; 6. After following the above, I installed Gapps Pico (very small google basic apps needed for tablet boot e.g. Playstore etc) 7. Reboot device and enjoy the setup.

Congrats - if all went well you should now be on 7.1 Nougat and can download all your favourite apps. You can also download and install other software e.g. Chrome browser optimised for your old tablet Best of luck! Note - I am not developer of any of the above. Kudos to all the devs.

I had to experiment with this because some of the files gave me problems. Aside from the aosp-7.1-p4-20171005.zip which does work some the files don't. I ended up using TWRP version 2.8.7.0.