Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 WiFi (samsung-chagallwifi)

Features
Flashing	Broken
USB Networking	Works
Internal storage
SD card
Battery	Broken
Screen	Works
Touchscreen	Partial
Multimedia
3D Acceleration	Broken
Audio	Broken
Camera	Broken
Camera Flash
Connectivity
WiFi	Works
Bluetooth	Broken
GPS	Broken
NFC
Modem
Calls
SMS
Mobile data
Miscellaneous
FDE	Broken
USB OTG
HDMI/DP
Sensors
Accelerometer	Broken
Magnetometer
Ambient Light
Proximity
Hall Effect
Haptics
Barometer

Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 (WiFi)
	; Chagallwifi with the xfce GUI
Manufacturer	Samsung
Name	Galaxy Tab S 10.5 (WiFi)
Codename	samsung-chagallwifi
Released	2014
Type	tablet
Hardware
Chipset	Samsung Exynos 5420
CPU	1.9 Ghz A15 Quad + 1.3 Ghz A7 Quad
GPU	Mali-T628 MP6
Display	2560x1600 AMOLED
Storage	16/32 GB
Memory	3 GB
Architecture	armv7
Software
Original software	Android
Original version	4.4.2
postmarketOS
Category	testing
Pre-built images	no
Mainline	partial

Contributors

Users owning this device

Dwrdj
Grimler
Haeckle
Insomniatic
Manty (Notes: Android development)

How to enter flash mode

Press and hold Power + Volume Down + Home. Press Volume Up when prompted

Installation

WARNING: It is not possible to power off the device from downstream kernel in PostmarketOS. Device fails to poweroff and CPU becomes very hot, causing battery to drain fast. If you install downstream kernel you have to reboot to recovery and shut it off from there.

To install postmarketOS to an sdcard, insert the sdcard to your computer, check the /dev mountpoint with for example fdisk, and run

$ pmbootstrap install --sdcard /dev/sdX

where sdX should be replaced by the mountpoint. After that flash the kernel with

$ pmbootstrap flasher flash_kernel

and the tablet should automatically reboot into postmarketOS.

To install postmarketOS to the internal storage the easiest way is to create a zip to flash from twrp, run

$ pmbootstrap install --android-recovery-zip
$ pmbootstrap export

And then copy or adb push /tmp/postmarketOS-export/pmos-samsung-chagallwifi.zip to your device, reboot to twrp and install the zip and then reboot to system.

Alternatively you can flash the kernel with heimdall from download mode and then install the rootfs with netcat by running:

$ pmbootstrap install
$ pmbootstrap initfs hook_add debug-shell
$ pmbootstrap export --odin
$ heimdall flash --BOOT /tmp/postmarketOS-export/boot.img-samsung-chagallwifi

You can now telnet to the device and netcat the postmarketOS installation:

$ telnet 172.16.42.1
$ nc -v -l -p 60000 > /dev/mmcblk0p18

Open another console

$ pv /tmp/postmarketOS-export/samsung-chagallwifi.img | nc 172.16.42.1 60000

Wifi in downstream kernel

WARNING: Wifi is currently broken in downstream kernel. Something changed in userspace so that instructions below no longer works.

To connect to a wifi the same steps as for the Medion Lifetab S9714 (medion-kai) work:

1. Verify that the wlan0 interface exists

$ ip link

2. Turn on wifi

$ nmcli radio wifi on

3. List available wifis

$ nmcli device wifi list

4. Connect to your wifi

$ nmcli device wifi connect "$SSID" password "$PASSWORD"

5. Verify that you have been given an ip address on the wlan0, or swlan0, interface

$ ip a

Issues in downstream (apart from broken components)

Touchscreen does not work fully after a while (after device sleeps?). Cursor still moves, but it is impossible to click, or double click, things. This has been observed in xfce, happens on klimtlte as well.

Mainline kernel status

A work in progress mainline kernel (linux-postmarketos-exynos5) is available (can be chosen in pmbootstrap init step). You can install postmarketOS to either the internal or external storage and ssh into the tablet over USB. Display, wifi and everything else are not working.

Command Line and serial output

/proc/cmdline when running LineageOS 15.1 contains:

console=ram 
loglevel=4 
sec_debug.level=0 
sec_watchdog.sec_pet=5 
androidboot.debug_level=0x4f4c 
sec_log=0x200000@0x26000000
sec_tima_log=0x200000@0x26202000
sec_avc_log=0x40000@0x26404000
s3cfb.bootloaderfb=0x67000000 
lcdtype=5410823 
consoleblank=0 
lpj=3977216 
vmalloc=512m 
sec_debug.reset_reason=7 
oops=panic 
pmic_info=67 
cordon=e2693b1e8c8724879b6f74b29a0120f3
connie=SM-T800_OPEN_EUR_c7e33ee79c0aa018334d7f72d27d952a
androidboot.emmc_checksum=3 
androidboot.boot_salescode=
androidboot.odin_download=1 
androidboot.bootloader=T800XXU1BOJ1 
androidboot.selinux=enforcing 
androidboot.hardware=universal5420 
androidboot.warranty_bit=1 
androidboot.sec_atd.tty=/dev/ttySAC2
androidboot.serialno=[removed]
snd_soc_core.pmdown_time=1000

Simply attaching a serial debugging cable (use a 619 kOhm resistor) gives output from the bootloader, but not from the kernel. The reason for this is that console=ram is passed on the cmdline from the bootloader. We need to override this to specify console=ttySAC2,115200n8. This is already part of the default cmdline in the kernel config, but this is then ignored due to CONFIG_CMDLINE_FROM_BOOTLOADER=y being set. To instead concatenate the cmdline from the config to the bootloader cmdline, unset CONFIG_CMDLINE_FROM_BOOTLOADER and set CONFIG_CMDLINE_EXTEND=y, i.e. apply:

diff --git a/device/testing/linux-samsung-chagallwifi/config-samsung-chagallwifi.armv7 b/device/testing/linux-samsung-chagallwifi/config-samsung-chagallwifi.armv7
index f45c768c..e6303374 100644
--- a/device/testing/linux-samsung-chagallwifi/config-samsung-chagallwifi.armv7
+++ b/device/testing/linux-samsung-chagallwifi/config-samsung-chagallwifi.armv7
@@ -698,9 +698,9 @@ CONFIG_ALIGNMENT_TRAP=y
 # CONFIG_USE_OF is not set
 CONFIG_ZBOOT_ROM_TEXT=0
 CONFIG_ZBOOT_ROM_BSS=0
 CONFIG_CMDLINE="console=ttySAC2,115200n8 vmalloc=512M androidboot.console=ttySAC2"
-CONFIG_CMDLINE_FROM_BOOTLOADER=y
-# CONFIG_CMDLINE_EXTEND is not set
+# CONFIG_CMDLINE_FROM_BOOTLOADER is not set
+CONFIG_CMDLINE_EXTEND=y
 # CONFIG_CMDLINE_FORCE is not set
 # CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL is not set
 # CONFIG_KEXEC is not set

If there is no traffic when booting after you plug in the cable you might also need to restart/reset the device (hold vol down + home + power) to get it going.