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I've had much success with Kies and Win10 Pro. On reddit, there are people still using these 13 year old table Tab 3 devices today like myself. The XDA for these old tablets is very inactive for postings. I was just on the Samsung community form and see far more posts there with...

Recently, I was told by staff on this site Kies is no longer used by Samsung for connecting to my tablet, instead use Samsung Smart Switch. I tried using it and got errors. Next, I reached out to Samsung Support. Was told Smart Switch was not compatible with anything below Android 5...

After 1 year of using the Tab 3 in 2025, near the end-of-the-year Youtube decides to tight down how it streams videos and music. So the prior working solutions no longer work. It got so bad, I uninstalled the Youtube app completely. Using the browser at times can make things work. It...

Run Kies 2.6.4.xxxxx Win10 be sure to allow devices access. Connect a IoT snyc cable from the Tab 3 to the USB on the computer. Kies will sync and transfer files. or you can use Win10 to browse the Tab 3 and drag and drop or copy-n-paste files either direction. (y)

Its been a year and the Tab 3 P5210 is still going strong. I added a 32Gb SDmicro card to it too. I added a tablet stand to sit next to the bed end table. I can check the weather instantly, have an alarm, get email notifications, and more. A nice large screen vs a tiny phone. I have...

There are tablets out there with mouse, keyboard, tablet dock and a mini USB OTG smart box to make it into a mini computer. The Tab 3 has Polaris Office. It's a pain to use with the on screen keyboard. And doing email on the tablet is quirky in the same way. Out on ThingVerse for 3D...

I found the Samsung mini-USB OTG cable to PC yesterday. Hooked it up to the PC. Then launched Kies. Immediately Kies came back and stated there is an OS update to KitKat. Wow, who would of thought a 10 year old device would still have this available. Reading on the XDA site, it is best to...

WOW, the person talking is like an auctioneer! Can't make out anything he is saying in super fast talk.

I'm just amazed at this 10 year old device with nearly no support, no upgrades and silly pre-loaded apps that are orphaned from reaching the Samsung site or their provider site. It would be great to delete several of them like, - Businessweek+ - ChatOn - Flipboard - Hangouts - Music Hub -...

Did you do the upgrade?

The Tab 3 has 1Gb of RAM . As YT streams larger packs of data to your device, the space gets used up quickly. People have found this solution to work, making the old Tab 3 at 2Gb of memory use. It's called virtual swap space. Read this posted thread carefully first before just jumping to...

The entire 128+ pages was started by member "nels83". Rather than reading all those postings, could take a year! I opted to see where he posted in all those pages. This was fast and rewarding to understand how all this worked. His postings from the start to his last posting shows his...

There is a very very very very long 128-ish pages of posting on the XDA site for the upgrade of the Tab 3 10.1 https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-gt-p52xx-unofficial-7-1-2-lineageos-14-1.3587761 The link starts off saying it makes the Tab 3 10.1 work in Android 7.0, 7.1 or 7.1.2 I've not dug far...

I moved all the info out of the Tab S3 to the Tab 3 10.1 on the site. My mistake of not knowing there was another device with a close name. https://forums.androidcentral.com/threads/got-a-new-tab-3-out-of-the-box-last-october.1075528/#post-7247485

Per the Samsung site, both Jelly Bean 4.2.2 and Kitkat 4.4.2 were both used on the Tab 3 devices. Depends on the early production vs the last year production. Android Jelly Bean, (my device is weird. It has the English language, but the Panama firmware, even though this never left the...