[klown07]

Well, I was over at xda last night and 2 people flashed their U.S. Tmobile Galaxy Tabs with a european base rom, then an update one. They relayed back that they can now make phone calls. I decided to jump the gun and try it myself. After flashing only the first Rom, I'd get a black screen after booting up. I panicked for a bit there lol. I then flashed the update rom, and all worked perfectly. I can confirm myself that with a SIM card with the right plan can make and receive phone calls. Awesome. We can also get the Reader Hub and it works. The Music Hub makes a guest appearance but so far doesn't work in the U.S. Sadly, Media Hub is missing. Overall, the Euro firmware seems to work a bit better, and smooth. BUT....there IS a downside. It seems that this somehow takes away your 3g capabilities and you only get EDGE. No browsing the web or Market with Edge. Only WiFi browsing and Market will work. It's a bummer but I initially only got it to use as a play device over WiFi anyhow. I'm sure someone over at XDA, or maybe even here, can find what the problem is exactly, and fix it. Either way this is a really cool development. It is now confirmed the hardware IS there.Let's see if we can get phone capabilities without having to flash another country's firmware If anyone is interested in trying this, after you're all done flashing everything, do a factory reset and a cache wipe.

[scott.mcmasters]

klown07;91625][B]Well, on I was over at xda last night and 2 people flashed their U.S. Tmobile Galaxy Tabs with a european base rom, then an update one. They relayed back that they can now make phone calls. I decided to jump the gun and try it myself. After flashing only the first Rom, I, said:

It pisses me off how they cripple the Tab in the US. Even on mine I can't change the UAString on the default browser. Dolphin is better anyway, even if it crashes a lot, but will the average Joe know to install it to avoid the shitty mobile sites?Sent from my GT-P1000 using Tapatalk

[klown07]

I agree, I've been using Dolphin as well. And indeed there are folks out there who aren't so tech savvy

[ewinkley]

anyone know how to disable the sprint activation/3g all-together? I don't subscribe to this service and don't want the pop up / interruptions all the time.

[klown07]

I'm on tmobile sorry bud

[FreeSCV]

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/mobile/

I wasn't a fan of Dolphin myself. I found Firefox works great on my Samsung Galaxy tablet.

[Jkurl]

Yep you can make calls on the us version. I have the T-Mobile tab a.d have a euro rom. They have gingerbread going on now.

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[Waxwrong]

The statement about Edge is definately wrong. I am living in Thailand and have no troble with using the web or market. Youtube doesn't go too well though. I am using an Edge connection right now. BTW - youtube goes ok on telephones using Edge. We don't have 3G here where I live so rely on wifi or 2G(Edge). From limited travel I can say I see little improvement in areas with 3G over Edge - just the cost and a slight speed improvement.