Samsung galaxy n8000 copy. How to distinguish a fake tablet from the original? Programs required for firmware

While counterfeit tablets are becoming more common, we offer several ways to tell the counterfeit from the original.

Recently, counterfeits for Samsung tablets have become more frequent. How to distinguish a fake from an original? During tablet tests, we examined two counterfeit Samsung Galaxy Note and discovered many differences, knowledge of which will help not to fall for the scammers.

So, two fakes came to us through third hands: the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 SM-P600, better known as the Galaxy Note 2014 Edition. The history of acquiring fake tablets from many is about the same: a market, a train station or a street, a bustling atmosphere, a certain person who needs money and does not need a tablet generously offers to buy a tablet from his hands and at a very low price. The purchase is accompanied by a check from Euroset (or another "network") and a warranty card. Moreover, in our case, in addition to charging and a USB adapter, the kit already included a cover with a keyboard in it.

How to distinguish a fake check?

The first thing we noticed is, of course, the checks. At first glance, real checks, upon detailed examination, turn out to be fake. By the way, Euroset checks are most often forged.

We turned to Euroset-Retail LLC for a comment, but they could not tell us anything by phone and advised us to contact the law enforcement agencies. But in Euroset stores, experienced sellers immediately found many differences between a fake check and the original. According to them, cashier's receipts may differ from region to region and from city to city, but regardless of this, each receipt of the network must contain certain information, which was not found on fake receipts:

- The real check should say Euroset-Retail LLC, not Euroset LLC. Check true name legal entity a retailer, as a rule, you can either on the official websites of these retailers, or in sales outlets.

- Also on the real receipt must be the full name of the product. In this case, the full name of the product did not appear on the fake receipt (in our case, Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 N8000 should have been written on the cash register receipt)

- The check must have the serial number of the product (in our case it was not there).

- Seller's full name must be present. The seller's name was not on the fake check.

How to distinguish a fake by the appearance of a device?

- Appearance of the front panel.

Typically, a counterfeit tablet looks different from the original. In our case, both fakes from the front look almost the same: only the fake for the SM-P600 has the logo moved up, like the original, and is applied crookedly, which is even visible to the eye. The fake N8000 has a logo at the bottom, as befits a real Galaxy Note N8000. In our case, it was easy to distinguish a fake by the size of the tablet. The diagonal of the displays of both fakes does not exceed 9 inches, instead of 10.1 inches!

- The presence and location of ports and connectors.

Paradoxically, the fake almost always differs from the original in the set of ports. So this time, they were absolutely nothing like what Samsung tablets should have.

The most noteworthy, perhaps, is a separate “back” button on the top edge and a separate DC jack for power supply on the right (the charger in the kit had a specific plug, not a Micro-USB plug). Actually, this charger is one of the important indicators of a fake. Many people then go to stores for the same charger from "Samsung tablets" and are sincerely surprised that Samsung does not have and did not have such chargers.

- Rear panel view.

As for the rear panels, the scammers have "confused" something. For some reason, the fake Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 N8000 has a very cheap leather-like back panel, while the fake Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 SM-P600 has a smooth back, when the originals should have the opposite: the real Samsung Galaxy Tab N8000 is smooth at the back, and the Galaxy Note 2014 Edition has a leather-like back. In addition, in both cases, the camera lenses are off-center rather than centered.

How to distinguish a craft by its filling and functionality?

The third thing that you should also pay attention to is the filling and functionality of the device. Fakes differ from real ones in every possible way. Some things you can easily check:

- Displays. The easiest way to "see" a fake is to turn on the display. Most often, they show pixels, and the colors do not look quite natural. Counterfeit displays are terrible - with a resolution of 800 × 480 pixels, instead of the promised 1280 × 800 on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 N8000 and 2560 × 1600 for the Note 10.1 SM-P600. Not to mention the color rendition and the matrix.

- Battery. If during the 5-minute presentation of the tablet the battery charge sits down by more than 1-2%, then this is most likely not the original. The fake battery runs out pretty quickly, literally in half an hour. In our test of two fake Samsungs, the batteries lost 10% charge in 5-7 minutes! Moreover, when charging from the mains, the charger from the kit began to whistle and crack.

- Processor. The counterfeits use ultra-cheap processors from Allwinner (the AnTuTu benchmark identified our tablets as Allwinner-Tablet N8000 and Allwinner-Tablet SM-P600). Processors from this company are very cheap: for example, the "more expensive" Allwinner A33 processor can be bought for $ 4 - you can imagine how much the Allwinner A23 used in these tablets costs.

Benchmarks showed that both devices are weaker than Samsung's flagship smartphone from two years ago - Samsung Galaxy S3: one was rated twice as weak, the other about a quarter. Allwinner SM-P600 has almost half a gigabyte random access memory, which is why it turned out to be stronger, but the Allwinner N8000 has only a quarter of GB! Basically, the first Apple iPad had the same amount of RAM, and it sold well, only it was already 4 years ago.

The counterfeit has Allwinner Tech A23 processor instead of the original Exynos 4412

- Cameras. They are very easy to check. To do this, you need to go to the camera settings and see the maximum photo resolution. If you see that the resolution is small, then this is definitely a fake. Both fakes in the Product-test had two cameras each, and both were 0.3 MP!

- GPS receiver. Go to settings and see if GPS can be turned on and if there are any settings for it. Alternatively, try to download any GPS test app such as GPS test. If there is no GPS, then it will be impossible to download applications and a corresponding message will appear stating that GPS is not supported.

Both "our" fake tablets did not have a GPS receiver. It is theoretically possible that there is GPS, but there is no such function in the settings, and it cannot be detected by any navigation software. True, this is almost unbelievable and tantamount to their absence for most users.

- If the seller (or documentation) claims that the tablet is equipped with a modem, then it must also have an IMEI number. If you can't find it, then ask your salesperson to do it for you. If a tablet equipped with an IMEI modem does not have a number, then most likely you have a fake in your hands.

- Interface. Original Samsung tablets use the proprietary TouchWiz interface. You can tell by eye if you have ever seen a "naked" Android and once held a real Samsung tablet in your hands.

Fake interface Samsung Galaxy Note N8000 Original interface Samsung Galaxy Note N8000

- Instructions for the tablet. You just need to look at it and read a little. In our case, the instructions of both tablets were full of typos (!), The same screenshots from "pure" Android, black and white pictures, an unpresentable font, which is simply incredible for the instructions for a real device from Samsung, in the check of which there are numbers in the range 17- 20 thousand rubles.

- Stylus. The "trick" of the Galaxy Note series tablets is the included stylus, which was not found in the fakes. It's easy to check - you just need to look at the case.

- Counterfeits cannot be recognized by original programs such as Samsung Kies 3, which is not surprising at all. Unfortunately, in the field it will be problematic to check in this way.

- Display diagonal. If there is a ruler or a good eye, the deception can be recognized in this way. The diagonal of both fakes does not exceed 9 inches, instead of the required 10.1 inches.

- Built-in memory. The memory can be checked in the tablet settings, but it is safer to connect to a computer and see how much memory is available. Instead of the promised 64 GB of internal memory, one tablet turned out to be 16 GB, on the other 4 GB of memory.

Distinguish a fake with manufacturer support

We contacted the Samsung support chat, but there we were "sent" to law enforcement agencies. Then we called Samsung support at 8-800-555-55-55. There we were told that when buying goods from hands, a person can turn to them and they will instruct him on how to distinguish an original tablet from a fake one in terms of settings. We were also told that fakes differ from the originals in almost everything: from the interface to the types of SIM-cards (the latter is not relevant in our case, since there was simply no SIM-card slot on the fakes). Typically, each major manufacturer has its own support hotline, which you can turn to for help in such cases.

The considered forgeries are, of course, two special cases and do not pretend to be general. Counterfeits can be different, improve, like counterfeit checks, become more like real ones. In this case, the easiest way would be to recognize a fake by an incorrect cash register receipt (without the full name of the product and its serial number), low display resolution, presence of a DC power socket, incorrect positioning of cameras and low resolution of photos, and finally, simply by the small size of the tablets. Well, the most important advice that will allow you to avoid problems - do not buy tablets from your hands, no matter how positive and honest the "seller" may seem! Remember: free cheese is only in a mousetrap.

Product-test continues to test tablets in the field. You can find the results of comparative tests of tablets in our tablet rating , where all popular models are compared with each other in the most important parameters.

Fakes for popular tablet models appear on sale not much later than the official start of sales. Big brands suffer the most from the actions of such “craftsmen”. Buyers who have received a fake under the guise of the original Samsung GelaxiNout N8000 tablet may forever be disappointed in the brand. What can you do to avoid getting caught by scammers?

The level and quality of counterfeiting is constantly being improved. The first versions of fakes are so crude that even an inexperienced buyer can determine it. All of the following tips are general and will certainly help identify a fake. But do not forget that you may end up with a fake tablet of the highest quality, and to determine its authenticity, you will need to show more attention to detail and characteristics.

The photo below is an example of an original tablet and a fake. In our case, it is very easy to identify a fake, even in appearance. The tablet size does not correspond to reality, the Samsung logo is smaller in size. The diagonal of the counterfeit tablet's display is about 9 inches. In this case, the diagonal of the original Samsung tablet is 10.1 inches.

The fake, which ended up in our hands, is radically different from the original in the arrangement of ports and connectors. This is clearly visible in the photo below. Any comments are unnecessary here.

The charger for this Samsung tablet has a Micro-USB connector. Our fake is equipped with a connector of unknown origin, and this is perfectly visible in the photo of the plug from the charger. When you try to buy such a charger in a store, you will fail, which once again confirms the fake of the tablet as a whole.

The back panel of the branded tablet Samsung GalaxyNoteN8000 with a diagonal of 10.1 inches is smooth. Our fake has it styled like cheap leather. Here we see the shift of the camera lens to the corner, while on the original tablet it is located in the center.

After turning on the planet, a fake will allow you to calculate the low quality of the matrix and color rendition, including pixels visible on cheap copies. The display resolution of the original Samsung GelaxiNout tablet is 1280x800 pixels, while the fake has only 800x480.

The counterfeit tablet runs on the cheapest Chinese Allwinner processor. For example, the most expensive processor from this company costs no more than $ 4. It's not hard to guess what quality our processor has. The original tablet uses Exynos 4412 processors.

The camera is another weak point of any fake. In our case, the tablet manufacturer installed a 0.3 megapixel camera in his "work of art".

Also, a fake can be detected by a small amount of built-in memory, the appearance of icons, a desktop, installed applications and similar little things.

When you turn on the tablet, after the Samsung screensaver, the Android sign appears on a green background and nothing else happens, or vice versa - first the Android icon, followed by the "eternal" Samsung.

We enter the firmware mode

To flash N8000 you need to use LiveSuit. The sequence of actions is as follows:

1. Turn off the device. If enabled - press the power button and hold for about 10 seconds;
2. Launch LiveSuit and point her desired file firmware - Select Image button. Wait for the file to be processed;
3. Press "Sound +" on the tablet and while holding the button connect to the USB connector;
4. A window will appear with the following suggestion: "Click Yes if you want the firmware to happen with memory formatting. Click No if you need to update the firmware without formatting (Recommended)";
5. Wait for the flashing process to finish - about 3 minutes. The device will automatically reboot.
6. Select Russian in the settings. The default is usually English.

Programs required for firmware

The program for the firmware itself is LiveSuitPack 1.11.

An error occurs in the firmware when using the Play Market "a and you will not be able to download anything. The fact is that the firmware contains an old version of the program. Whatever you search on the Internet, download Google play Market from our site: Download Google Play Market 8.1.29.

N8000 tablet: ZX-913A v1.3 motherboard

N8000 tablet: FOR FUN Q3-MAIN-V1.4 motherboard

Before flashing, please pay attention to the complete coincidence of the device you have and the characteristics we specified!

All sorts of people walk around the train stations and offer expensive tablets for cheap.

The owner of this tablet was exactly "vparil" it. There is Internet, written by Samsung Samsung Galaxy note N8000, but in fact, far from samsung samsung.

Looking ahead, I will say that it is better to take normal and working well a tablet on the Internet than to suffer with the restoration of the performance of this fake. For example, this one. Stopudovo will work without any glitches.

So, to the question of fake - this is how it looks from the outside, in a case, and there is even a keyboard :)

When turned on, they assure that it is Samsung. But we don't believe.

Even the back cover says Samsung, but we still have doubts :)

Just because the Galaxy note N8000 model looks different in the original, Samsung has a front camera in the center at least, and you can find five more significant differences. Here's another option for you with the Samsung Galaxy Note N7000.

And upon opening we see the now quite popular Allwinner A13 chip

The actual malfunction was that it could not boot. The Samsung logo appears, then Android, with a spinning arrow and at one point the arrow freezes and the download stops, the tablet freezes.

Thanks to the forum w3bsit3-dns.com, the firmware for this device was found from Jelly_Bean in this forum thread, it was sewn without problems, it works in full functionality. If you have the same model as mine in the photos - you need the firmware MaPan_MX913_DC_Jelly_Bean_4.2_Os_Root_Firmware_J20131101.img

Everything works, both cameras, wi-fi, volume buttons, everything is as it should.

We saved on the battery. The battery capacity is too small for a long-term operation of the device, only 2300 mAh (8.55 W)

The keyboard, by the way, also works, is fully functional, only for Russian letters it will be necessary to install a third-party application.

Due to the large number of people asking what kind of third-party application we are talking about, I answer. Russian Keyboard.

So, in the market we download the program "Russian keyboard". We go to "settings", then "language and input". Click "Default" and in the window that opens, select "Russian keyboard". Below the "Default" window, we also put a checkmark in front of the "Russian keyboard", and on the right we see a small icon (like a mixer, a regulator). Click on it. We go to the "hardware keyboard". Click "Layout selection", select "External Keyboard RU". We go to the "switch layout" and there we select the appropriate language switching mode on the keyboard (space is a space). All is ready! Exit the settings menu and go to any search engine. Click on the small keyboard icon on the panel and select "Russian keyboard". Trying to print - everything should work. If the keyboard still prints in Latin letters, restart the tablet.

The keyboard shortcut is the same as in Windows - Alt + tab :)

After the firmware, we should see such a picture in the settings.