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[Acer Iconia A500] qhinton:
I had the Acer for 13 days and returned it for the Asus. Now that I have had both I can say the Asus is a way sleeker design which makes it weigh considerably less. It is a joy to hold compared to the Acer. They screen is better on the Asus, however the responsiveness is better on the Acer. I am a power user I edit Excel /Word, email a ton, and media stuff which made me believe I would miss the usb. Well not really I use dropbox for file syncing (on the go I tether to Evo) or download needed files to SD card, or I use some other cloud service with Asus is packaged with one that offers unlimited storage, but only for a year. Acer has better custom programs which makes the experience not so vanilla. Oh free remote desktop software which is better the pocketwyse and logmein. Battery last longer. Speakers are ok Acer wins here. No free games like the Acer either. What sold me is the weight, screen, asus installed apps, and the overall look. When I pulled my Acer out my boy that thing is huge and ugly compared to his iPad 2 yes. The Asus received a better response. Oh Polaris office app is the real deal hands down, it looks kind of similar to ipads software but it works perfect. Don't have the dock but I'm sure it will make it even better. So if you want a keyboard get a bluetooth and some sort of cloud service for docs and you will not be let down.
[Acer Iconia A500] severoprisan:
Received mine today. I'm keeping it. My device info says its Acer a501, SKU 3G. it is possible that i have the 3g model ?
[Acer Iconia A500] Canadoc:
Wait until your tablet creaaks your screen bleeds light and gets dust under it. All within 2 weeks of ownership. Suddenly you might reconsider. Agreed if you get a transformer with no build quality issues,the screen and lighter weight give it the advantage. The sharp edges make it uncomfortable to hold compared to the smooth curves of the Acer. Also, the longer dome.soon on the Asus male it harder to type in landscape if using the screen.
[Acer Iconia A500] rushless:
The Trans only weighs one once less and is actually wider than the already wide A500. At least the A500 has host and micro usb ports on the bezel. I still say Asus made a mistake by not placing one usb host and a micro usb on the tablet itself.
[Acer Iconia A500] godashram:
had it for exactly 1 week and..... it's a keeper!

most people complain about the screen, which is so much better that my archos 101 and the gtab i owned for 1 week... it was the iconia that caused me to return the gtab. i love it, even despite the ONLY issues i have are video codec support and the micro sdcard mounting point.

i like that my archos actually mounted the sdcard within the internal memory, so it was laid out /sdcard/sdcard that was all my apps could see it, and when plugged into a pc, both internal memory and sd card popped up as 2 drives.

other than that, my archos get's demoted to wife duty, which means ebook reader and angry birds playing.

did i mention i love the iconia?
[Acer Iconia A500] GadjetGirl59:
As to the wifi strength, I use my A500 mostly from my office upstairs. My wifi modem is downstairs and I do not have any problems.
[Acer Iconia A500] dm36415:
I have the EVO, Galaxy Tab 7, iPad, Archos 101, Viewsonic G Tablet (Vegan GB), Acer Iconia, and am patiently awaiting my ASUS Transformer.

Each device has something to offer over the others, however at this time, the Iconia is by far the best.

I did receive my Transformer keyboard yesterday, but no Transformer until (expected delivery) the end of the month.
[Acer Iconia A500] 00mred00:
Where did you get it? The 501 is listed to be the 3g model but from my understanding the release date was unknown
[Acer Iconia A500] immortal99:
My device info says the same though it is actually an a500. How many others do? This is the information in the device information screen from about screen.

Do some peoples devices say a500 in this screen?
[Acer Iconia A500] foxmeister:
True, but in reality this is a feature rather than a drawback - the tablet needs to be that wide in order to provide a decent sized keyboard on the dock. Of course, if you don't need or want the dock, you might consider it a disadvantage.

Personally, I don't see this an issue as there will be an accessory to provide a USB port - it's only marginally less convenient than a built in USB port.

One thing that Asus did do right is NTFS support out of the box - I received my keyboard dock today and was pleasantly surprised to see that my NTFS format disks were picked up by the tablet.

Regards,

Dave
[Acer Iconia A500] edgie168:
What on earth are you going to do with 6 tablets?
[Acer Iconia A500] rog152:
Well really he only has 3, as the EVO is a phone the Transformer is a "Pad" as is the ipad. not to sure about the Archos, lol
[Acer Iconia A500] lrs421:
I had 3 as well, now 2. (GTablet, Iconia, Xoom). Still going through the process of elimination :D.
[Acer Iconia A500] severoprisan:
From Romania
[Acer Iconia A500] ajarmeh104:
I had the A500 for 10 days. great disappointment, returned it to Best Buy today. It is a piece of crap. within 10 days i encountered many cases where the device sleeps and not wake up (had to reboot). also when it sleeps it keeps waking up for no reason. very bad display quality. many FC. very bad APP support. bad battery life. rapid battery drain for no reason (it happened twice that the device gets very hot and the battery drains in 1 0r 2 hours),,, i understand that this could be because some apps are misbehaving, however it should NOT happen. I imagine many of these problems are related to Honeycomb,,,, and i truly think that honeycomb has good potential but at this time it is full of bugs and needs at least one more year to mature and become usable and reliable.
[Acer Iconia A500] rushless:
1. My A500 has the wake up issues, but the not the stay-asleep issues. The device can be asleep for hours and I will suddenly notice it come on. This is a A500 FW issue and not Honeycomb.

2. Not sure how it can be called very bad quality, since by most users and reviewers, it has great display quality and better touch sensitivity and response than the Transformer. The display appears opposite of very bad by consensus.

3. I have over 200 apps installed on the A500 and have no battery issues or heat problems. The description you articulate seems to be a bad battery, or perhaps rogue (HC unfriendly) apps.

4. I have had two A500's and the battery lasts ten hours on both and eight with heavy use and wifi on (GPS off).

Seems that if you want a tablet, you would be better served getting an iPad 2, since Honeycomb will be an issue unless you only install Honeycomb ready apps.

Still, even a rogue app will not drain a device in one to two hours, so seems about 90% likely a bad battery for that to happen.
[Acer Iconia A500] rushless:
The point is not the perspective of features (both products serve different wants), but people complaining that a one ounce difference is "heavy", yet they are going to use the keyboard, which adds more bulk and a net pound weight.

THOSE folks are the ones contradicting logic, since why complain about an ounce, when the keyboard will add a POUND? See that odd logic?

If one ounce is a problem for people, the keyboard will make it sixteen times worse.

Fit form and function was never an issue for debate, since people like different things. All good.
[Acer Iconia A500] ajarmeh104:
thank you for the input; I agree with you that iPad serves me better, I already placed my order last night (I know that the iPad is less functional and less customizable,,,, but it is more reliable, more stable and it WORKS). I never was against MAC or Android,,,, actually I was one of the first people to use Android: I got the G1 only 1 month after it was first released and had a million bugs.... and guess what??? once Android started to become stable and usable they did not release any versions that work on G1. so,, i thought that buying a Honeycomb device is repeating the same mistake again; at this time honeycomb is far from being stable or even reliable; and i believe that once it becomes stable it will be available on the new devices only;;;; that's how they make us buy more and more devices ... ....

my overheat and rapid battery drain problem could be related to the hardware or battery of A500,,, I do not think it is related to applications.... anyway, it is a great disappointment that the device does this in the first week. I returned it back, and did not even care for a replacement offer.

when i mentioned the display quality, i was comparing to that of iPad;;; yes, the iPad has less resolution but better colors and brightness.

Also I have a Thunderbolt (i like this Android) and honestly i find it much better than the A500 with its Honeycomb. Personally I think that even if the Honeycomb was stable, i still don't see the Android Tablet has much to offer over a good 4.3'' Android Phone...

I had the A500 for like 10 days, and based on my personal experience: this device is not reliable and not stable. i do not recommend it to anyone....
[Acer Iconia A500] kcallis:
Jorte is nice, but I would suggest to anyone Pocket Informant...
[Acer Iconia A500] DaMan:
I wouldn't buy it again since the screen isn't as nice as IPS and HC seems stil to be in beta.

I'd probably would go for samsung's tab.
[Acer Iconia A500] cbotd:
Add another return

After trying two separate A500s I decided to abandon the device for a Xoom.

The Pros of the Acer are many;

Price, USB, SD card works, etc are all very big selling points. It is a great device and a better feature set than the Xoom, especially for the price.

Most of my gripes could be fixed through software patches or by rooting but the issue I ran into that was most annoying to me was the screen being 256k colors and being able to see the banding of the screen. Not a fix that software can correct and wasn't worth the extra cost of a Xoom, but when I had the chance to swap out for a Xoom at no additional cost I jumped on it.

The differences I saw straight away were screen quality, better Market and Google account integration, and better retail accessory support (and quality of products).

After a few updates from Acer I would definitely buy another and would not hesitate to recommend the A500 to anyone who enjoys futzing around with technology. Great device.
[Acer Iconia A500] dslcpm:
Keep or return

I was lucky enough to get a 45 day return period with the Best Buy MyRZ silver membership. I'm hoping to be able to get a look at the Toshiba before the end of the 45 days.

I've followed the gingerbreak 1.20 instructions to the letter numerous times but can't get root. Anyone hear of an alternate route?
[Acer Iconia A500] rushless:
1. Activate unknown sources

2. Activate debug

3. Make sure a microsd is in the card slot

4. Lock device into portrait using the switch next to the volume button

5. Run Gingerbreak

6. Chose root device

Everything happens auto after that.
[Acer Iconia A500] cbotd:
Leave it in portrait mode

Locking in portrait is a good idea, but a sure fire way to make sure is just to hold it in portrait mode. The whole process only took a minute or so for me. Very quick and easy once you get to that point.
[Acer Iconia A500] Turbo Brian:
like someone else in the root thread, for some reason this would not work. the fix was to NOT use the lock switch. i just held it in portrait til it was done. dunno why mine was different. US version, mfg in april, bought monday from best buy.
[Acer Iconia A500] rushless:
I think the lock part is simply to make sure the A500 stays in portrait mode.... I wonder if 3.1 shuts the root process out......
[Acer Iconia A500] yogb21:
Of course...keep it :p
[Acer Iconia A500] dslcpm:
The problem was with the lock switch. Rooted now. Thanks to all!
[Acer Iconia A500] qhinton:
I had the Acer and Asus. Both are not ready for prime time. I originally had the Acer but returned it because the Asus arrived. The Asus has better pre installed software, but the Acers overall quality is way better. The main problem is honeycomb its just not stable. I feel cool showing off the features until it crashes. Then its like oh, it does that from time to time. Then today my transformer wouldn't boot up no matter what. Now tabletless. Probably going to check out the Toshiba, iPad, or HP Touchpad. I hate Sammy. But it seems that webos will be most stable with accessories galore, plus easily compatible with Windows.
[Acer Iconia A500] cgpeanut:
I'm keeping mine. I had it for about 10 days now, rooted it within the first hour :) thanks XDA!

Already got the zagg full body sheild, Acer neoprene case and the elago mobile nanoII USBmicroSHDC card reader installed.

Perfect portability IMHO, 48gb on hand without a docking station is nice. Perfect for watching videos, reading pdf books. It picks up my home wireless router automatically without any drops.

Never had any FC issues coz the apps I installed I made sure is compatible with Honeycomb tablets, if not and I need it then it goes to my atrix running froyo.

Touchscreen is responsive and quick. tethers well with my at&t atrix. You can see banding on the screen if the screen is off but if its on, the picture looks great and banding is gone. So I don't understand why this an issue.

My only complain is the locked bootloader hopefully this would change soon.

I did compare the xoom.and a500 side by side and picked the a500 coz it felt more solid and reminded me of my canon 1d mark II pro slr camera it's built like a tank! Sounds like a tank too, good stereo speakers
[Acer Iconia A500] 9646gt:
I returned mine and bought the asus transformer. Couldn't be happier. My acer was terrible.
[Acer Iconia A500] cseegran:
Keeping mine.

1. No wake on sleep issue.

2. Working micro sd card reader

3. USB port..the best,

4. Long battery usage.

5. Cheaper than xoom which micro sd not working...
[Acer Iconia A500] gunnyman:
The only thing tempting me right now is the HTC Flyer. Yes I know it's 7 inch and running Gingerbread, but HTC is just damned sexy.

I love my Acer, don't get me wrong, but I'm a bit of an HTC slut :D
[Acer Iconia A500] ajarmeh104:
returned mine and got an iPad2. the Iconia was the WORST purchase I have ever made in my whole life ... ever.... ever .... I am extremely happy with my iPad2,.... honestly, the difference between iPad and other "copycats" is the same different between something that works and something else that does not work,,,,
[Acer Iconia A500] eliteone:
Lol! Is there no safe place from apple fanboys? I sold my I pad to get this and I love it........

/rant

Its nice to have the choice to do what I want with the product I bought. I can choose whether or not I want to use flash, what peripherals I want to attach, and weather or not I want to access my file system. The alternative stuck me with what steve jobs wanted me to do with the product I spent my hard earned money on. NO THANKS, never again will I be stuck in iTunes hell. Oh and the first commercially viable tablet was created by palm. So um wrong on that one :-) Though I understand steve jobs has a way of making apple out to be the ones to "reinvent" the tablet, cellphone, yadda yadda. Just a pile of hooey that the fanboys spew out to try and justify there over priced under featured pile of slag:-)

/rant

Edit: Sorry for feeding the troll..... had to be done though
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] adamlayzell69:
Hi Guys.

I have been reading on the forums how to make more room on the HD2, seen as mine is bugging me all the time that space is low. I have noticed that lots of people have said that Apps2sd only moves 90% of apps. I did come across this site

http://www.androidblog.it/site/2010...p2sd-con-tutte-le-applicazioni-semplice-tool/

which says that this patch will let you move ALL apps. So i risked it for a biscuit and installed it. It works fine and im glad to say that all those annoying apps that i could not move to SD i have been able to move. :) Im sorry if this has been found or covered before but coming from WM6.5+WP7 about 8 weeks ago and getting MASSIVELY addicted to Android, i found this really helpful.

P.S. I don't know if i posted this in the right thread so if any mod doesn't think so please move it.

Thanks Adam.

I hope it helps some of you guys out too!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] criszz:
thx. working. english version.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mrgelmer:
Gonna give it a try. :)

Tnx.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Aproxi:
You should know that not all apps is supported on the sd-card
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] invisiblebm:
it is working . I have moved everything on Sd.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bmar08:
how do you run this exe?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] adamlayzell69:
Download the patch to your desktop, Run as administrator, make sure your phone is plugged in. When the white box appears press number 1 to patch. Simple as that!!

Hope that helps.

Adam.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] adamlayzell69:
I know that but this patch will let you move ALL your apps to SD card. I have been using this for the last week and i have had no problems so far. :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bmar08:
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So i take it that i have to be using Windows 7 to run the patch? When i select RUN AS on Windows XP it doesnt give the option for run as admin... or am i missing something i should know about ...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] huggs:
Just run it normally on xp.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bmar08:
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thanks everyone for putting up with blonde moment.. it wasnt just running because i still had Active Sync from my old days with WinMo blocking it from running..
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bmar08:
so i ran it and selected number one.. after connecting it gave this message << *daemon started sucessfully * >> and it didnt do anything else.. i rebooted and it is still showing no other moveable apps to the sd card.. should i re-run the patch?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] AngelDeath:
You have to run app2sd on your phone, its assuming you have it, if you do run it and you will see the apps you can move, if you dont have it, then you need to install it.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] huggs:
Kinda off-topic, but I use DarkTremor's A2SD script, and can run 99.9% of my apps from my 1gb ext4 partition. I have probly a couple hundred apps at least, and maybe 2 or 3 have to be on internal memory. I still have like 650 mb internal storage free and my phone runs smooth like a freshly installed rom with no apps installed. Wish I could drop a link to DT's A2SD thread, but I'm away from my computer right now sorry
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] adamlayzell69:
As Huggs said just run normally on XP. I just take for granted that everyone is using Windows 7 sorry. ;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] zolom:
works great.

Some apps moved to SD, become very slow while loading (like iGo), others run and load the same.

Thanks
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] adamlayzell69:
Have you tried moving the apps anyway. I have found that when i go to APP2SD and select the "phone only" tab, the APPS i cant move are in the list but the move to SD tab is highlighted when i select them.

Let me know what happens.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] adamlayzell69:
It might be a stupid question but have you tried Aura instead of Igo. Works perfect for me from SD card. (fast GPS fix too)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chargerdude70:
This question is for the Dev's. As we all know, we have been conditioned to FTS(although I rarely did)before going from ROM to ROM. Now with GB out, there is allot of flashing not only from one dev's rev. to another, but to other dev’s altogether. Yet I haven’t heard of anyone specifically telling me to FTS. Is there something with GB that has made that practice obsolete? Also, if it should become practice again, is there going to be a new or updated one click Odin created so that everyone starts from the same square one?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
That practice has been obsolete for MONTHS now, way before gingerbread. The roms wipe before they flash, no need to fts, unless there is a HUGE problem and thats your only out.

Flashed continuum 5 from firefly.

flashed perception 2 over that, flashed mosaic over that. Never once back to stock.

If you want to be careful before you flash wipe data/factory reset. Wipe cache partition, and wipe dalvik cache all from recovery then flash the rom...
[Acer Iconia A500] jaya500:
What do I freeze on titanium backup so that i disable cell standby?
[Acer Iconia A500] thor2002ro:
look here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1063097

stop freezing,renaming,removing the cell parts it bricks the device....

AND STOP POSTING IN DEVELOPMENT....
[Acer Iconia A500] jmecherul:
hai salut thor2002ro
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dissent27:
Hello XDA, is anyone getting the "Wifi Error" message when trying to turn on wifi on the fascinate? I am currently on the Evil Fascination Rom and this was also occurring when I had the Superclean 2.9.2 rom on my phone. Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same problem or is it a froyo bug?

Thanks
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mzrdisi:
I have always had this issue using the notification window to turn on wifi. This is even when stock. So I'm thinking Sammy has fuxed something up. (Like they did the stock browser)
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dissent27:
Oh ok, it is a bug then. I'll just start turning on wifi through settings. Thanks.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markdbailey01:
I rooted my xoom wifi and now when I go to settings to set up my wifi, it says error instead of scanning. any fixes?
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cam30era:
I would try reflashing the kernel.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Prod1702:
who sounds like the kernel didn't flash right. try the post above me said chances are you just need to re push the kernel files.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bossjeeves:
how did you flash? if you used adb, you most likely did not push all the modules.... if you used cwr you may of had an error and should reflash.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] truliving:
lostttttt

Hello fellow xoomers, im having a problem hope some one can help me. first off i'm a noob to rooting. I have a xoom wifi running android 3.0 , kernel version is 2.6.36.3 build HRI39. I was adventurous and tried to root my xoom and needless to say it didn't go well. I honestly thought I bricked the damn thing, to my shock and welcomed surprised I was able to do a wipe and erase all the data on my device and return to factory settings. but when it went to connect to the wifi all it's saying is wifi error every thing else seems to work fine. so i was wondering should i try to re root my xoom again??? will this correct the issue i'm having with my wifi?? and can some one point me to a guide that's made for the version i'm currently running seems likes there's a million and one different types of software and you have to have the right one for the version your running or every thing goes from sugar to well you know the rest. Any help would be greatly appreciated if you need any more info please let me know. thank you all in advance.....
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ewhac:
Last night I finally got the NC running a rooted 1.2.0 via ManualNooter 4.5.2. Android Marketplace has some weird force-close issues when installing stuff, but it seems reasonably well behaved so far.

It seems that ManualNooter pre-installs the Facebook app for you. I trust Facebook about as far as I can throw a cheesecake underwater, and I will not have the thing in my NC. Yet when I try to drag the app to the trash (like every other app I've downloaded and decided not to keep), it says, "Uninstall failed."

How do I remove all traces of Facebook from my NC?