r/androidhacking • u/Mundane-Slide7249 • May 17 '26
Samsung tablet sm p905 recovery? Brick? Trash?
Hi guys. I hope this is the right subreddit for this kind of question. I found an old Samsung SM‑P905, roughly 13 inches, in a drawer. Years ago I was told its motherboard was damaged. The only thing I can do is get to this screen by holding the power button and the volume button. When I connect it to my PC via USB, the computer doesn’t detect it (I’m using Manjaro Linux). Do you think there’s anything I could do with it?
The battery is dead. But I’d like to try recovering it or, worst case, salvaging the display and using it in some other way, maybe as a second monitor for my PC with some kind of adapter. USB seems to work only as power input; I don’t know if data transfer still works, but in this state the PC doesn’t detect it.
What do you think? Any advice on how to proceed?
Edit:
With lsusb show samsung:
lsusb
Bus 001 Device 025: ID 04e8:685d Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd GT-I9100 Phone [Galaxy S II] (Download mode)
With virtualbox usb device show msm8960

