{"id":3328,"date":"2011-12-22T20:33:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T09:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=3328"},"modified":"2011-12-22T20:33:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T09:33:49","slug":"restart-a-stuck-samsung-galaxy-tab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/restart-a-stuck-samsung-galaxy-tab\/","title":{"rendered":"Restart a Stuck Samsung Galaxy Tab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was helping someone officially upgrade the firmware on a couple of devices (specifically a Samsung Galaxy S and the original Samsung Galaxy Tab) and unfortunately the Galaxy Tab had seized up and would not respond to any inputs. Even holding in the power button wouldn&#8217;t wake the device up from its seemingly infinite slumber.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, when all else fails with a device, you can pull the battery out of a device and put it back in but unfortunately that&#8217;s not readily\u00a0achievable with this device.<\/p>\n<p>So what should you do?<\/p>\n<p>I found that holding the &#8220;volume up&#8221; button and the power button did the trick. Eventually, you&#8217;ll see some text come up on the screen at which point you can let go of the buttons. To get the device back into its graphical interface\u00a0simply hold down the power button until it restarts again and you should be right from there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was helping someone officially upgrade the firmware on a couple of devices (specifically a Samsung Galaxy S and the original Samsung Galaxy Tab) and unfortunately the Galaxy Tab had seized up and would not respond to any inputs. Even holding in the power button wouldn&#8217;t wake the device up from its seemingly infinite &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/restart-a-stuck-samsung-galaxy-tab\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[511,151,18],"tags":[355,1366,882],"class_list":["post-3328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-operating-systems-technology","category-operating-systems","category-technology","tag-android","tag-galaxy-tab","tag-samsung","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}