yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Acer Iconia A500] _ejb_:
I don't know if this helps, but it seems like the recent update patched the recovery

I was poking around in the update.zip (needed to decrypt it first) and there is a

install-recovery.sh which looks like

#!/system/bin/sh
if ! applypatch -c EMMC:/dev/block/mmcblk0p1:2048:282a0e47e3561a8aa6224c7400faf258c365bf1b; then
log -t recovery "Installing new recovery image"
applypatch EMMC:/dev/block/mmcblk0p2:3043328:23917956b398554dc14fe6c2d86ab3e358bfba5c EMMC:/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 322c4bc7ea63c8879c32afce62956f9140c3c2cc 3291136 23917956b398554dc14fe6c2d86ab3e358bfba5c:/system/recovery-from-boot.p
else
log -t recovery "Recovery image already installed"
fi

Might help???
[Acer Iconia A500] Fumetsu:
UPDATE: I have reached out to the Senior Product Manager of Notebooks, Netbooks, and Tablets at Acer, and also to the VP of Commercial Sales and Marketing and expressed our concerns and requested (very respectfully) the kernel and help with the bootloader. I pointed to the Xoom and the Transformer as being perceived as "developer friendly" and that Acer is perceived as "hostile" to the Android community. I also poitned out the huge backlash against HTC when they announced that the bootloader on the EVO 3D and the Sensation are locked down.

Keep your fingers crossed, guys. I'll let you know if I hear anything back.
[Acer Iconia A500] bonzer2u:
I could only imagine it be in everyone's best interest......:confused:
[Acer Iconia A500] seraphimserapis:
Too bad I can't continue my work as my device got bricked.. (and won't be replaced this time).

I'll be moving on to the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 now.

Good luck to you guys!
[Acer Iconia A500] Fumetsu:
I'm sorry to hear that Seraph, losing you will be a big blow to the Iconia dev community. I hope if we're able to get the kernel/bootloader you'll stick around to loan us any insight you can!
[Acer Iconia A500] goldfingerfif:
That's horrible. You were my last hope for an unlocked bootloader. Wish we could pool some money together and get you a new one.
[Acer Iconia A500] seraphimserapis:
I'm really sorry because I supported development on this device since day 1.

Maybe I'll get a new device someday and continue my work.

Be sure that I'll keep reading the topics here and will add my 2 cents ;)

Regards,

Tim
[Acer Iconia A500] Shigster:
Couldn't you get one from like Best buy...play around with it for 2 weeks then return it....if it bricks they don't check >_>
[Acer Iconia A500] gh123man:
yeah at staples we just returned an iconia. we didnt turn it on. we have it in the office in the box and we are waiting to ship it back to our supplier. so if its within the 14 days your all clear.

EDIT: to see the post saying that you are stopping dev on this device really sucks. i was watching every post you made many times a day looking for updates. preying that it would be the day. good luck with your work. you have done so much already i just wanted to say thank you.
[Acer Iconia A500] seraphimserapis:
no best buy in germany.. and amazon does check devices ;)

maybe i'll have a look again if they (finally) release the kernel source. i did already have contact with gpl-violations.org and they promised me to deal with acer.
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Does anyone have the boot.img from the 1.104.05 US Build?
[Acer Iconia A500] b1urr:
I believe that acer is unbricking devices if you send it to them... I would just hate to lose you on the project as you have been soo involved
[Acer Iconia A500] Fumetsu:
Seraph, someone mentioned they have a device they're willing to loan out for development:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1093975&page=3
[Acer Iconia A500] goldfingerfif:
Not sure on shipping costs but ill pay for shipping both ways and buy a new one and return yours here in the states and ship it to you just to get this going. I really want to see this done or ill sell mine cheap and get a xoom or a toshiba if it has unlocked bootloader. I wish I had more time I would like to learn more and try somethings myself but ill help in anyway I can if not for the development at least for the sake of getting you a working tablet, assumimg european and USA models are identical
[Acer Iconia A500] boumboqc:
!!

Cheers guys! I'm with you !:)
[Acer Iconia A500] vache:
Could someone make a mirror to the recovery ?

The link in the first post in down.
[Acer Iconia A500] richardtrip:
http://xda.richardtrip.org/?dir=./Acer/Recovery
[Acer Iconia A500] vache:
Thx for mirror ;)

It seems to work : http://twitpic.com/59zfkc
[Acer Iconia A500] ibila:
Awsome! :)
[Acer Iconia A500] Sector51:
OMG!! WTF !!! sdfzsdfsdaklfjgklj!?SFD?

lol....do we have a working recovery???
[Acer Iconia A500] sc2k:
So thx @vache and rayman. Iconia is open now :)

Thx seraph for recovery.

Go and buy your iconia NOW ;)

@DEVs: PM vache or me for details.
[Acer Iconia A500] ibila:
Or hè know his way around PaintShop :)
[Acer Iconia A500] Sector51:
can't belive it
[Acer Iconia A500] sc2k:
I can confirm that it is no fake :)
[Acer Iconia A500] byuboy87:
been folowing the thread... lol if u guys are serious, im gona go & buy the iconia now; have been patiently waintin for some recovery... plz be serious... lmao
[Acer Iconia A500] vache:
I'm not that bad at Photoshop =)
[Acer Iconia A500] ibila:
Vache, congratulations on pissing on acers flowergarden and giving this community this Awsome gift.
[Acer Iconia A500] Sector51:
mail acer about this...laugh at them...AHAHAHA
[Acer Iconia A500] vache:
Thanks to sc2k also, he discovered many important things to make this possible.
[Acer Iconia A500] pancoasts:
How do we flash?
[Acer Iconia A500] tholmewood:
whats the current situation guys? Have you totally cracked the bootloader?
[Acer Iconia A500] wesStyle:
Just say: is it possible now to flash unsigned updates?
[Acer Iconia A500] huxflux2003:
Hey guys!!!

Don't keep us in the dark here! What is going on????
[Acer Iconia A500] ardatdat:
Can we use something like below to flash?

dd if=/sdcard/cwm-alpha2.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1

Please advise how we could flash the clockwork recovery. Thanks.
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Have the accidental plan on my device willing to test this out if need be.
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Well I guess since no one is, responded to us I'll just try and flash and get back with my results. Wish me luck.
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Well I did this then did volume - and power just brings me to regular android recovery.... any special way to boot this recovery
[Acer Iconia A500] pancoasts:
Did you try changing it to update.zip?
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Its a recovery.img not a zip
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Well with the lack of responses with something this huge. I may call bull****. Unless someone knows which block to push it to. Maybe 04?
[Acer Iconia A500] FloatingFatMan:
Why not have a bit of patience? Some people actually have a LIFE outside of phones and tablets, y'know? It's Saturday, maybe they're gone out?

The world isn't gonna end for lack of an instant response.
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
I agree with outside of android I have a life to. Just excited been hating the lock down..,....
[Acer Iconia A500] vache:
All infos you need will be here on a dedicated topic when all will be ready.

Just wait a bit.
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Thank you thats great to hear. Just hope this is the real deal def. Support if it is!
[Acer Iconia A500] VandyCWG:
Wow. This is awesome news.

Does this mean we are completely rooted? Custom roms and all?
[Acer Iconia A500] tholmewood:
And they may be playing with this vulnerability to see how far it can go and also give it to us plebs in an easily digestible form!
[Acer Iconia A500] pshaxe:
Wow! great work guys!

Now hopefully this isnt some kind of messed up joke :D
[Acer Iconia A500] gunnyman:
NEVER underestimate the power of the XDA Devs! Way to go y'all!
[Acer Iconia A500] ibila:
If this is a hoax i might have to grab my pitchfork and start a manhunt hahaha..
[Acer Iconia A500] gh123man:
This is amazing news, i published links to it on the facebook page here and will also post once the official topic is made. thank you all for your hard work. sticking with my iconia was the right thing to do. now lets make the best android tablet even better!

(fb page link > https://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_149462058455870&ap=1)
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Hopefully will see something this weekend. A video teaser or maybe even an alpha to try.
[Acer Iconia A500] tazd:
Wow this looks so promising so a big thank you to all the dev's involved in getting it this far, just need to await the return of iconia from acer now.
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
that's why a teaser video would be good or an alpha so we don't get burned like in the apple community when they fake jail breaks because they think it will makes the devs work harder.
[Acer Iconia A500] sergioka:
great news.

patience guys, we waited a long time, the next days are going to be great for all of us!

thx to the devs!!!!
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
you can actually run the "CWM" by hand from a shell, and in a video you will not see the difference, unless a full restor or wipe does clean the device, but that can be faked too..

so im saying.. don't even believe a video, that makes you install an image, which ends up bricking it.
[Acer Iconia A500] sc2k:
You want a video? Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IOayJUvvQI

Have fun!
[Acer Iconia A500] huxflux2003:
Can we have the itsmagic script????
[Acer Iconia A500] eldiablo1982:
It will probably come when its ready...but that can't be soon enough! Good work sc2k :)
[Acer Iconia A500] interqd:
great..

am waiting for the release and of course the first custom rom for the iconia :D
[Acer Iconia A500] _motley:
Nice work guys! Is this nice little hack using the leaked bootloader I saw mentioned by vache in the nvflash thread?
[Acer Iconia A500] bobnweaving:
i wanted to say wow, I thought my gadget collection was good, iphone4, ipad 1g, nook color, and acer iconia a500, but 5tablets and an iphone, i bow in jealousy to the master
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
something tells me itsfake..

who would spend time writing a script echo'ing some text. and on top make a video just to show something which could be posted in the forum, and let other confirm or deny? where's the catch?

if it works, it works.. why not post the results as you go along, if it is really correct..
[Acer Iconia A500] interqd:
lets hope its not a fake...

and yes, this seems very sudden, but as vache said he has a leaked bootloader.. this is possible :D
[Acer Iconia A500] manfly9884:
Hoping....hoping.
[Acer Iconia A500] dr1337:
I can confirm this is not fake, however the process is really complex and you probably don't want to be messing around with this hack unless you really know what you're doing.
[Acer Iconia A500] interqd:
OF course not...

i can say i am just a mid experienced user, will just wait till the initial release...meanwhile just try to support devs ..:D
[Acer Iconia A500] blazingwolf:
Good job guys. A little exposure for you and your feat. :)

http://www.mytabletlife.com/2011/06/11/acer-iconia-tab-a500-runs-clockworkmod-video/
[Acer Iconia A500] sifon187:
Glad to see CWM on the acer :D
[Acer Iconia A500] UnicornKaz:
... Iconian(s) ROCKS ! :p

:cool:
[Acer Iconia A500] Gammelgustav:
+1

But ...not only the script ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] huxflux2003:
I can confirm that we are about to see great things happening to the Iconia. Thanks to sc2k and Vache!!!
[Acer Iconia A500] seraphimserapis:
thor2002ro and I already discuss what could be done - there are 2 or 3 really interesting parts which could help us.

perhaps we need soon some testers which can get their tablets easily replaced (if broken).

regards
[Acer Iconia A500] kxs783kms:
Still within my 14 days and Best Buy is 20 mins away from my house. Plus they have plenty backups in stock. What needs to be tested? And how do I do it?
[Acer Iconia A500] thor2002ro:
rename the zip to update.zip put it on a microsd , place it in the tab , power down, hold vol down + power ...

interests : if it flashes... and if you CAN try flash it again to see if we can use it as recovery....
[Acer Iconia A500] seraphimserapis:
if it does we should try to insert my recovery instead of acer's and look if it still flashes :)
[Acer Iconia A500] kxs783kms:
Sad to say, but its a no go. I powered down and booted to the recovery. It says something about an SD recovery(can't remember exact wording) and then it starts like it about to flash (with the little Android guy,box open and the arrow coming out.) Then the exclamation mark pops up inside the triangle. Funny thing is, when I went to try it out by moving the update.zip file to my internal sdcard to see how that works, I found that the file had been deleted from my external sdcard.

P.S.......I think I should mention that I'm far from stock. I removed a lot of .apks (phone and telephony included) ,swapped out wpa-supplicant file sub modded one, etc. So I'm wondering if it has to have all of that installed before it can update.
[Acer Iconia A500] thor2002ro:
maybe it flashes only from a specific version....
[Acer Iconia A500] kxs783kms:
I edited my post to say that my tablet is not at stock condition. I removed a lot of apks from my system. Wonder if that would stop the update process.
[Acer Iconia A500] nycbjr:
ok so it does update! build b4 was

ro.build.id=HRI66

ro.build.display.id=Acer_A500_1.104.02_COM_GEN1

ro.build.system.id=Acer_A500_1.104_COM_GEN1

ro.build.version.incremental=eng.hermit.20110329.214429

new

ro.build.id=HRI66

ro.build.display.id=Acer_A500_1.119.01_AAP_CUS4

ro.build.system.id=Acer_A500_1.119_AAP_CUS4

ro.build.version.incremental=eng.hermit.20110422.233824

and no brick.. I don't see any other indicators of much, I do see a few japanese I think apps, but the one BIG issue, is hte market link doesn't work (home screen)

and in its place I got GoMarketHD. (also looks japanese)...

so chew on that, and because I was a dumb ass (and its b4 9am here) I never ran a TI backup of my new baby, so I don't have a way to restore the market, I do have that system.img I created for you guys, if you could point me in the right directon to restore my Market, that would be great.

I should add I had to re-gingerbreak
[Acer Iconia A500] thor2002ro:
nice so it works.... can you try flashing it again to see if it flashes over this please....

and try to add vending to /system/app
[Acer Iconia A500] kxs783kms:
How did you get it to flash?
[Acer Iconia A500] nycbjr:
I put the update.zip on my microsd card (and also in hte root of the internal flah just in case)

Then powered off the device and while pressing and holding power to power up I pressed vol + down

you can also do adb reboot recovery if you have the sdk installed

thor I'm TI backing up my apps now lol nothing like after the fact hehe!

I'll be trying to re-flash again in about 5 minutes, I'll give you hte update.. and I will add vendor.apk as suggested.. stay tuned!
[Acer Iconia A500] nycbjr:
OK flashing is going, I'm even recording a video using my iPhone lol

appears to work, the reboot does take a lil bit, after it comes up I'll put the vendor in..

hey not sure how much I acn chat, but if you are in an IRC room I could probably join for a spell
[Acer Iconia A500] thor2002ro:
ok i'll try to make you a custom update.zip with the wifi us apks...
[Acer Iconia A500] seraphimserapis:
first boot always takes a bit.

if we can verify that we can flash the file again we should try to replace the recovery.

i hope that there is no signature check - we'll see that later.

regards
[Acer Iconia A500] kxs783kms:
Going to put my phone.apk and telephony.apk back in the system and see how things go.
[Acer Iconia A500] nycbjr:
OK I'm backup and running, re-rooted (have to fix my busybox install stil, I like the cp command hehe)

I put the Vending.apk under /system/app

I still get app not installed when I click Market.

Looking forward to the update.. I'm still within the best buy 30 days (I think its 30) so if I brick I can return lol...

any other ideas on market?
[Acer Iconia A500] nycbjr:
also can you remove all those "additional apps" lol.. I just spent 10 minutes removing them in TI

there was like 10!
[Acer Iconia A500] thor2002ro:
here it is try this http://db.tt/FS7pnVP
[Acer Iconia A500] nycbjr:
Thanks, downloading it now, strangely it also removed my grindr (wich I installed using Ti from my phone and I can't get it back on, I'll work on that tonight when I have the phone in front of me.

I also tried to "insatll" that vending.apk. it installs and I can open it (post install) but its just a blank "my apps" window.

anyhow about ready to give this a go, what should I expect? lol
[Acer Iconia A500] thor2002ro:
hopefully standard wifi only us apps :) or fail if it fails i got another ideea... so 1 more shot at this if this fails :)
[Acer Iconia A500] zoubidou:
la vache, that's excellent, hopefully it will still work with 3.1, because beforehand, it makes no sense to do much about the iconia tab.
[Acer Iconia A500] tholmewood:
Ok, im a beliver. Fantastic work guys! Can someone nplease tell me if we could now run a native Linux distro with X11 in a multiboot enviroment???
[Acer Iconia A500] ibila:
Call me sceptic..but I will believe its real when i see a dev like dexter run the recovery....
[Acer Iconia A500] sc2k:
Dexter got the tool yesterday. Waiting for his confirmation.

To clarify :

1. Some people already got this tool for testing.

2. While CWR boots it is not yet functional and needs some work. Someone wants to help us with that?

3. All I needed to write this tool was already there on Iconia.

4. I will write some instructions how to backup your system and how to use this tool.

5. I will publish the tool as soon as I wrote the instructions, probably today (GMT+2)

6. This tool may really brick your device.
[Acer Iconia A500] seraphimserapis:
I'll fix the bugs if you tell me which ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
i confirm received,

and sc2k's idea could be valid... i will consider testing, and i take my initial statement back (call me clinton)...

anyways the idea can work, and ill report back to sc2k..
[Acer Iconia A500] thor2002ro:
why do i have a feeling it has something to do with p7 :)
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
You might just be right. ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
it works..

but i would say, that yes, a more userfriendly way is needed.. it can be easily done wrong, if you're not a shell-nerd..

so i will personally try and get the asus/xoom 3.1 port up and running on a500..

Wait for sc2k to make the final edition..its worth the wait.
[Acer Iconia A500] byuboy87:
:) :) eager to try, & thus, donate... :)
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
more testing shows, that our "recovery" does another checksum calculation and seems to corrupt the recovery at second boot, if its using the original recovery partition with a modifed default.prop (so i get adb enabled)..

it also its very stupid and reboot/timeout after some time..

so in my boot.img i need to run sc2k tool to recalulate checksums or find out how to remove this in the original recovery.. or simply , we need get cwm to work..

EDIT: seems only to happen if you boot with POWER + VOL- to get into recovery.. if i do a "reboot recovery" it does not happen.

EDIT2:

Disabled recovery binary in init.rc , and device does not automatically reboot.. which makes it alot more fun now..

it was also little annoying to get around the windows MTP device, but forcing it to use the android adb device and adding the dev id into the winusb.inf did the job, and it works fine now.

EDIT3:

Rebooted multiple times now, and no problem with checksum being corrupted, must have been my mistake without sync'ing before i rebooted, so the partition change was lost..

i will now move forward and corrupt system and boot, writing 3.1 update. (wish me luck!)
[Acer Iconia A500] thor2002ro:
can you send the hack to me too i wana take a look i'm a "shell-nerd" :P
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
@thor2002ro

ask sc2k, he needs more testers.. and note.. it does seem to twist checksum checks.. so be carefull .
[Acer Iconia A500] thor2002ro:
dont forget you need to patch recovery for internal storage or your going to loose all the data...
[Acer Iconia A500] vache:
An updated recovery :

-Working adb

-Fixed external sdcard mounting

-Internal media ignored when wiping data

-Recovery binary updated.

Based on the Xoom recovery.

Download : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14055980/recoverya3.img
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
does not work? binary runs, but no picture on screen?

edit: after doing a kill recovery , it works

tested mounting all partitions correctly mounts!

you cannot share internal storage to pc, no "lun0" exists.
[Acer Iconia A500] gunnyman:
I'm loving reading about the progress! I have a question though, does this mean the boot loader is unlockable or is this some other trick? I know the RSA key for the Transformer has been "found" but they're being very secretive about whether it was a leak or a vulnerability. I just like knowing how this stuff works.

:)
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
@gunnyman

another method for now.. you can thank sc2k for the work done so far.
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
do you know "koush" method of compiling the new recovery?

i finally got my ubuntu 10 ready, but cannot "prep" the image..

i remember koush made a howto on how compiling a custom new recovery would work if needed..
[Acer Iconia A500] vache:
Nop, i don't know this method.

Any link ?
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
@vache

thats the problem, i seem to have lost the link for compiling cwm and its recovery.
[Acer Iconia A500] digitalyz:
http://www.koushikdutta.com/2010/10/porting-clockwork-recovery-to-new.html

This it?
[Acer Iconia A500] sc2k:
Thank vache, too. Without him itsmagic would not work :-)
[Acer Iconia A500] das7771:
Thanks to all of you guys, for working on this..I am starting to get excited as it seems some real progress has finally started to be made. You all need donate links so I can send each of you a little money for your hard work. I aint no dev but I can help on the other end as i know i will be benefiting from all the hard work in the future.
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
Asus Prime 1.4 installed and running

So its works great..

i got Prime 1.4 installed and running now.. had to tweak some places, but its going forward..

so lets hope sc2k/vache get it more easily fixed, so we can start using custom images..

(just saw sc2k's last post)
[Acer Iconia A500] sergioka:
love you guys!

(no homo)

:)
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
so.. i got my Prime 1.4 (honeycomb 3.1) running.. how do "we" get this out to the crowd?

should i just upload the prime1.4 with changes, and it can be installed with cwm when you guys decide to make it public?
[Acer Iconia A500] vache:
Do you have camera/camcorder working ?
[Acer Iconia A500] stumpy_002:
This sounds like some exciting stuff would love to help in any way I can, have some programming background and not afraid to test stuff out. Let me know. And you definitely need to get some donate links up thanks are much deserved for your work guys! :D
[Acer Iconia A500] das7771:
Is mouse support working along with the game peripherals as well?
[Acer Iconia A500] Nuggets4you:
Great work! Please get donate links up. :-)
[Acer Iconia A500] smaiitm:
Amazing guys!

+1 to the suggestion for the Dev's to get the Donate links up.
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
just checked and no.. says cannot connect to camera :(
[Acer Iconia A500] mapaz04:
OMG

you guys are awesome. holy crap! my mouth is salivating at the thought!
[Acer Iconia A500] themono:
I have no idea how you people did this, but know that you have my eternal gratitude.

With regard to the exploit that is being used - is it a hardware exploit, or is it something that Acer could conceivably patch out in their 3.1 update?
[Acer Iconia A500] smaury:
I really can't wait to see the script to know how it works...

sc2k script looks really MAGIC! :D

"Thk @Acer for making it so easy... why did you say the BL is locked if it isn't :D"