Your Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 received 5.1 firmware update recently the Android lollipop but is now making trouble? Then you are right here.
It often happens that after a Android version jump, in the case of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 of Android 4.4.2, problems occur on Android 5.1. These can be of different types. The substance may cause overheating of the tablets, sudden fault in system applications or apps, an increased battery consumption and so the cause is usually not completely override of the new system files in the firmware update old data. Temporary files are therefore still in the memory of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 and are now incompatible with the new system data. This leads to the problems described above.
The rule is actually that you should perform after a firmware update with version jump a complete factory reset. Since this is often but a lot of work, there is also the possibility of only the temporary data that have been created from the old system to remove on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4. This works with the "Wipe Cache partition" so-called.
Wipe cache partition If this old system files are deleted. Your private data will all receive. Although this method is not quite as good as a factory reset but should help already in many cases. And your soführt a Wipe Cache partition on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 by:
Wipe cache partition on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4
Turns your Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 completely. Then you have to press the following keys and keep the smartphone on again:
Power On / Off
Volume +
Home button
When the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 vibrates once, the power on / off button let go, but keep the other two keys from the key combination depressed until a small menu appears on the screen.
Now marked the entry "Wipe Cache partition" means the volume down key. With the Power On / Off button, the entry is selected and the process is started. This usually takes only a few seconds. Then reappears the previously displayed menu. Now choose the first entry from with "Reboot system now" and executes the command again with a press of the power button. Your Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 will now reboot.
Congratulations, you have now successfully Wipe Cache partition on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 executed. This deletes all the old system files that have been created by the Android 4.4.2.
You know now what you can do if the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 after a firmware update to Android 5.1 Lollipop no longer functioning properly and produced errors or problems.