Android 2.3.3 update for the Samsung Galaxy Tab from Telstra is now available via Kies

Posted by Buzz Moody on September 29th, 2011 3:12 PM | 7 Comments

If you’re the owner of a Samsung Galaxy Tab from Telstra, you’ll be happy to know you can now update your not-quite-outdated device to Android 2.3.3 ‘Gingerbread’. We received word from a few users that the update was available, and then Geoff (our resident Podcast Jedi) sent us a screenshot confirming the update was rolling out via Samsung Kies. And if that isn’t enough evidence for you that the update is available, @SamKiesUpdates even tweeted the update was available a week ago. Clever. So connect your Galaxy Tab to Kies and let us know how you go! Enjoy.

Source(s): Jedi Geoff

2.3.3

7-inch

Galaxy Tab

Gingerbread

Mark85

How did they manage to change the background color in the menus? Is that the default color system wide? The screenshot above looks good, a lot better than generic black background menus found in most Androids.

Anonymous

The background has been that way since the tab was released. Samsung would have made quite a lot of theme changes to make it that way,

Ive applied the update, and the theme has gotten a bit odd. the white and blue is still fine, but in some areas there is a clash between the 2.3.3 default dark items and Samsung’s own changes to the theme, such as in the system tray and popups.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Paolo-Carreon/100001054400222 Paolo Carreon

Just updated mine, skype video calls now work. I had to reinstall and reboot kies a couple of times, it cannot recognise it has the latest version.
http://twitter.com/rtsclement Richard Clement

Holy hell Kies is rubbish. I haven’t used it before so I install it, update to the latest version and then it asks me to update Kies before I can upgrade the firmware – and when I click on the button it tells me I have the latest version… If anyone has any ideas please post here – I’m on my third install attempt and getting frustrated after waiting so damn long for Gingerbread.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Paolo-Carreon/100001054400222 Paolo Carreon

Yes that was my problem. Just uninstall/ reboot/ install KIES a couple of times to get it to work. I also read somewhere that KIES is less buggy with a 32bit version of Win7 or XP.

Dave

I have just gone through the painful experience of in stalling Keis to do this update – on an old XP machine I just keep for doing my Tax. I forgot how time consuming it was keeping a windows PC up to date – about five re-boots later and I had the tablet connected to Keis. Wish they had a linux tool instead.It offered the upgrade OK and it went through the motions to start and at the download to tablet phase it hung there and I got a windows message to say there was a problem with the USB device! I had a yellow “do not turn off” warning and no sign of anything happing. After ten minutes or so I get a device not recognised message from Keis with the helpful suggestion to pull the battery! God knows how!! Thought I would have to do a hard re-set but holding the power button down returned the device to normal.Will try and reinstall Keis and give it another go – anyone else have a similar story??
Wakey74

Has anyone heard whether Optus will pull their finger out and also finally release 2.3.3 as well

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