yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
see it thi way.. we got no chance of mounting internal storage to pc, as internal is actually not a separate partition like other tablets or pre-3.0 based solution. and kernel do not support the function at all.

its a workaround from asus/acer, which really sux.

but CWM, uses a sdcard solutio, which you can actually work with, so copying things to the card on the pc, and then insert into the tablet. Thats the way forward.

there is logic behind the choices made, and this one for CWM is correct. there is no alternative..
[Acer Iconia A500] chr0m:
That makes sense, but I still can't get gallery, dropbox and a whole bunch of other apps to see my internal memory. Those apps won't work properly unless i have a microsd in. I have installed p6 patch and tried rom manager permission fix and still no dice. Not sure what else to try :(
[Acer Iconia A500] duongla:
GPS fix is very fast and stable :)
[Acer Iconia A500] richi chen:
I found there are no folders /mnt/external_sd, /mnt/usb_storage.

After i manually add these two folders by RootExploer and re-insert both external sdcard and usb storage, they can be successfully mounted and seen in file manager!
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
i can confirm, the boot.img does not create the folders.

you can add this very small patch to correct it.
[Acer Iconia A500] bonzer2u:
U.B.D.Man Dex...............:D

Question, You indicate that filemanager copies do not open in your bug list (post #1). I use FileManager HD and routinely copy files from my win7 laptop to my external_sd. Is this function still inop? and if so I might have to hold off until its patched???
[Acer Iconia A500] sto88:
Please, can you post some screenshots of this rom in the first page of this topic?

Thanks :)
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
thats ok now in p6 edition.

ill look into this now.. (asus has a nice screen cap feature builtin, so easy task.
[Acer Iconia A500] bonzer2u:
thats ok now in p6 edition.

I'm not worthy.....................
[Acer Iconia A500] kdsmobile:
Can you make module nls_utf8 to support Unicode in CIFS?
[Acer Iconia A500] boumboqc:
CHERR

Ssss cherrrcsss cheeerrsss
[Acer Iconia A500] anstelios:
Can we flash this rom using thor2002ro's and Euclid's Brother's install method of CWM recovery ???
[Acer Iconia A500] bonzer2u:
Dex,

Dunno if its just me, but I downloaded the:

[PRIMEEv14_patch6.zip] Install patch using ClockWorkMod (updated 17:10 CET+2 17-06-2011)

MD5: 3c85c3e580860a6f452a2d2a13849458

and get the following MD5:

c69166af4aa71c6f6d0a27feb408d632

3 times......?????

The full 232MB patch6 checksums fine..... if that indeed is the correct MD5?
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
it does match now
[Acer Iconia A500] anstelios:
Dexter

Can we flash your rom using thor2002ro's and Euclid's Brother's install method of CWM recovery ???
[Acer Iconia A500] :
I made a modified bootanimation with Acer logo and hw info instead of asus....

must be placed in /system/media
[Acer Iconia A500] _motley:
This is a bit disappointing, but this appears to be a HC 3.1 thing from what I am reading on an ASUS forum. Maybe there is a way to turn it back on somehow. Hopefully they haven't turned it off in the code...
[Acer Iconia A500] drkalo:
OK guys, could it be done that way and is it right, because I got a little lost and don't want to ruin my A500:

1. Install recovery by using this utility:

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.interphaze.AcerRecoveryInstaller

It does recovery image backups and includes ClockworkMod Recovery by thor2002ro rev1.2 built-in

2. Copy PRIMEEv14_acerA500-p6.zip on external SD card.

(I gues I could substitude the bootanimation.zip file with boggio95's before that)

3. Boot into Recovery and select install zip from SD card.

4. After ROM installation is finished another reboot into CWM to install the update PRIMEEv14_patch6.zip ???

:confused: :confused: :confused:

EDIT: Did exactly that way and everything went fine :)
[Acer Iconia A500] wesvista:
Found this theme its working great on prime rom

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1117649
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
something i missed or?

if i go into Browser -> Settings -> Advanced -> User Agent String

I can select Android, Desktop, Mobile-phone

What more is needed? (just becausse about:debug is not working, it could be you got the option anyways right?)

At least Hulu works fine this way?

but if you need debugging,

i attached a patch with the Browser.apk changed, so debug is default enabled.
[Acer Iconia A500] triebstahl:
Hi Guys,

finally I get it working.

Thanks to the german translation @android-hilfe.de

I think it's great and thanks to the desktopmode in the new browser version.

Greetings
[Acer Iconia A500] RagePX:
Okay finally managed to get some time and flash your image now :-)

First I have to say thank you for bringing us 3.1 and a really great first custom image for the A500 ! :-)

Sadly I've noticed a few things i'd like to mention here to see if others may have the same Problems as i do.

- The Sound sounds really cracky and choppy compared with the original image. I have some really good quality mp3 files which sounded amazing playing them with the acer stock image, now with the prime one they sound like played with a 5 year old nokia polyphone :-( Is this because of the missing dolby support?

- Video files still wont open. I didn't wanted to flash the image because of the missing support for playing video files with the stock player. Now I haven't read about them not working anymore so I decided to give it a shot. But if I want to open an avi file of mine, it says it can't be opened.

Oh and I got a major problem installing the permissions fix, as I really have no clue if i should install it with clockwork mod (whilst booting) or how else :-/

Greets
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
Sorry, I'm no miracle man here.. if Nvidia cannot do what they did in 2.2 version, i assume you're not expecting me to do better, than the creators of the chipset?

if asus/moto/acer cannot deliver, please don't expect this custom rom to do so.. its a matter of Google having it implemented..

you have too high expectations of your tablets and Nvidia for now, wait for 4.0 at least..
[Acer Iconia A500] RagePX:
Please don't get me wrong on that... :-) I only want them to be played, it's just normal SD avi material and the stock rom played them well :( Now I get an error and can't even open them anymore.

Just ment to give a quick shot at that, no offense :-) I didn't ment you to implement support for videos the stock rom isn't able to play :-D Sorry I'm not a native english speaker, so I might be misunderstood!
[Acer Iconia A500] anstelios:
People reported that video and audio is fine in p6.

Do you have p6 installed ?

I havent installed Prime myself, just want to make sure what works and what doesnt first.
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
I'm not sure we talk the same? you say you could play AVI files with stock Acer rom, when others could not? are you sure, you did not download a mediaplayer from market and played those AVI? because stock rom do not play avi's with hardware decoding..

you need Rockplayer or similar to do so..

Android3.x.x only support mp4 files playback with hardware decoding..
[Acer Iconia A500] RagePX:
Oh my you're right I had moboplayer installed... I'm sorry :-(

And about the sound issue, yeah I have p6 installed and I'm sure that the sound is way worse now. A friend of mine who spent the flashing process with me confirmed that. It's loud yes, but cracky. Sounds like speakers turned "too loud" I hope you get what I mean.
[Acer Iconia A500] _motley:
Thanks Dexter, glad to hear it is working. I am not on 3.1 yet, so I was just reading what he said and then I searched and found another user also claiming this on a transformer forum after they updated to 3.1. Obviously they are mistaken. This is what I get for putting 2 and 2 together from people who don't really understand what they are looking at. I think they are confused because UASetting is now titled with the more friendly name "User Agent Setting" in 3.1.

I will be taking the plunge soon, maybe even this weekend. I might even try to flash a kernel I have built from the ASUS source, but with only the Acer drivers compiled in (they all seem to be available in the ASUS source from what I can tell). All the 3.0 and 3.1 devices that I have seen, seem to run on the same kernel version, so it's only the kernel configuration/driver support that matters. Most likely Google is mentoring them on this and everyone is getting the same base source code and then tweaking it. I will wait a few days though to see if Acer delivers their kernel source as someone posted. I have been waiting and watching patiently since I haven't had much time to play, plus I have everything working that I need on my rooted 3.01. Now that everything appears to be working (thx to you and the others), I think it's time to start playing around a bit. Didn't you try to flash another kernel? Was it from the transformer or from the one posted in the hardware thread? Thx again for all the hard work.
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Hey dexter does the latest full image contain the storage fix or is that still needed.
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
@Crsdr37

latest full in post #1 is updated and includes the small storage fix as well.
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
i havent checked the config.gz, but if you say it seems to be included in the asus kernel, thats great, so maybe i should check it out this weekend too.

i got the environment in place, since we tried to make folio100 run with 2.6.36.3 but it did ended before the kernel developer got to a booting image.. and then someone else made a patched version, which works pretty well now (almost) on folio100. anyways, i might just check the kernel source of asus, if it helps us too.
[Acer Iconia A500] jkrell:
Does this have OpenVPN?

Hi all! I read through most of the pages but have to run now... I saw no mention of OpenVPN... does this have it? I am not familiar with the ASUS features/functionality so I don't know if ASUS 3.1 has OpenVPN. I do not want to load a custom ROM until I find one with OpenVPN support.

Exciting to see this developing now! Congrats and good work!
[Acer Iconia A500] johnw230873:
Hi Dexter_nlb I have read a LOT of pages but still unsure what the status of the Audio and video, from the last patch I see software decording is working but I read no audio for hardware decording. Would it possibly to post this status in the first post.

My device is shared between me and my young girl, if she can't get her Micky Mouse fix it makes the day long :)

Thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Hey Dexter a few pages back you mentioned something about hulu working in the browser how would I go about doing that. Do i need a hacked flash?
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
Honestly , status is that Android 3.x lacks the support, and you get no MKV,AVI or similar hardware decoding support, except MP4 media...

I personally also wonder how that was even possible, when the older 2.2 tablets worked fine with avi, and now the support is gone, we never achieved mkv with good audio, as nvidia do not support AC3, but some mvk's played on 2.2 platforms.. but right now its worse..

lets say it like this.

the stock 3.0.1 rom from Acer i included in post #1, cannot hardware decode mkv,avi or AC3 audio.. so if you are waiting for this, you are probably going to wait some more... since 3.1 didnt move mountains on that topic.

Please follow the other acer threads on getting hulu patched. i saw a few in the asus section as well.. but do remember on top, you need to have something like a vpn or unblockus.com working too..
[Acer Iconia A500] thunderkiss65:
Dexter i am used to flashing on phones, Tablets are new to me. When i do flash the prime 6 do i wipe cache or disable. or just go to zip and flash ?
[Acer Iconia A500] chr0m:
Is this supposed to allow me to see internal sd from gallery, etc?

Because I applied it and I still can't :(

Surely someone else is having the same issue as me.
[Acer Iconia A500] johnw230873:
So would it be fare to say that what ever formats worked on 3.0.1 now work on 3.1 ?
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
yes..... no difference for now
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Hey dex. In p7 are you going to include the boot animation from page 51 or 52 cant remember which page. I tried it looks great
[Acer Iconia A500] grandiosa:
thanks Dexter_nlb good job
[Acer Iconia A500] _motley:
Yeah, if you grab the /proc/config.gz from the Iconia and then use it to make the kernel using the Asus source, it will ask you for some newer kernel options not specified in the Inconia config file (I just say no to all). Eventually, with some tweaks to several files, I was able to build fine minus some compiler warnings. That is where I stopped. The Iconia tree on git has most of these edits as well.
[Acer Iconia A500] duongla:
I have the same issue, music or gallery sees nothing.

I see that the internal sd is mapped to /mnt/sdcard

/sdcard is external sdcard.

PRIMEE v1.4 p6 with storage fix.
[Acer Iconia A500] mburke178:
ok i got the clockwork and everything installed fine, i flashed the primee p6 and have been sitting on the blue bee for about 15 minutes. I've flashed plenty of phones before, but this is my first tablet. should it take this long to boot the first time?
[Acer Iconia A500] duongla:
Try to wipe your tablet
[Acer Iconia A500] mburke178:
yeah i just realized that and all is good. been on cm7 too long without wiping. beer and flashing not always the best idea. anyways thank you for that
[Acer Iconia A500] interqd:
dexter, just my 2cents,

u should post the instruction in to use acer recovery installer by euclids brother in page 1, its much much easier :D, especially for noobs

with that, i am sure more are going to use this great rom...
[Acer Iconia A500] flipper2006:
I might be having a problem. I install itsmagic, got to clockwork, no big issues there.. did all the backup stuff mentioned to be safe..

I installed p6 then did a wipe cache, then rebooted... it goes to the start up screen with the PC, then to the honeycomb bee with android (looks like lightbright), but just stops there..for 20+ mins..

What do i do? After 30 mins, i rebooted again but still does the same thing.. Iwill wait for info before trying to figure it out, im sure i can get back to CW but i dont really know what is wrong, if anything.

Edit: I went back to CW cleared the cache 1st, then reloaded p6, trying it again, not sure what is going on/wrong.

Edit2 - Still nothing, wriped Dalvik and cache again... waiting to see what happens.. about 3 mins so far, i dont want to kill data if i dont have to. (didnt work after 15 mins again)... going to bed, hopefully a good answer in the monring from one of you pro's.
[Acer Iconia A500] dr1337:
Yep, recently tried PRIMEE and the sdcard isn't working for gallery and music.
[Acer Iconia A500] gongzhiger:
when i using ClockworkMod Recovery v5.0.0.0 it appear "E:Can't mount /sdcard"..how to solve this problem???? thanks everyone who help me...:confused:
[Acer Iconia A500] thunderkiss65:
followed instructions and flashed primee 6, everything went through fine got the transformer screen then it changed to the bee with android under it, It hung there for more than 5 minutes so i went back into recovery and restored my back up, any reason you think i got hung up on that screen ?
[Acer Iconia A500] themono:
You do. Sorry.
[Acer Iconia A500] thunderkiss65:
wipe

Do i have to wipe anything when flashing this rom, everything looked fine all the way, but it hung at bee and android logo.
[Acer Iconia A500] chr0m:
I got it working by downloading and installing the p6 update again. I think I must have installed a non-working p6 the first time. Not sure.
[Acer Iconia A500] chr0m:
Well that doesn't sound fine to me :)

Wipe everything and try again, it's the best way.
[Acer Iconia A500] interqd:
WIPE is a must
[Acer Iconia A500] thunderkiss65:
Ty wiped all user data and primee loaded fine
[Acer Iconia A500] xlkiller:
It's possible to add REBOOT/RECOVERY option in Shutdown Menu ?
[Acer Iconia A500] kdsmobile:
Can not install a program from within Eclipse.

Because the main shell - BusyBox, it became impossible to run "am" on the device:

/ # sh --help
BusyBox v1.15.2 (2009-12-12 21:02:34 CST) multi-call binary

No help available.

/ # am
/sbin/sh: am: not found
/ # which am
/system/bin/am
/ # /system/bin/am
/sbin/sh: /system/bin/am: not found
/ # /system/bin/sh
# am
usage: am [subcommand] [options]
...

I looked how it implement BuzyBox on HTC Desire under CyanogenMod7 - there runs its own shell (in the /sbin no symlink "sh" to buzybox).

Maybe should remove the symlink to buzybox from the /sbin?

Otherwise everything is fine! Thank you!
[Acer Iconia A500] interqd:
waiting answer for this too ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] Glebaka:
Thanks Dexter for great work

Is it possible to make default music app 3.0.1 detect music? it can't locate any music on sdcard(internal) and external sd. Anyone have this problem? I just like to switch tracks from notification tray, any other players don't have this option

EDIT No it can detect music from internal SD but it can't do it from external( can it be corrected?

EDIT same thing with Fedes Music app(Ubermusic) from LauncherPro developer its win7 style player
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
i got music on my sdcard, but none internally? weird...

íll do some tests later today.

ill check up on it

can you post a link? im not sure which part you reference here..

EDIT: updated post #1 with the new installer, it should make life easier for all the self aclaimed "noob" users :)

Thanks, interqd.
[Acer Iconia A500] interqd:
This Is the app i meant..

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.interphaze.AcerRecoveryInstaller

Very easy to use recovery installer noobs...

It included thor2002 recovery with instegrated itsmagic...
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Havent had time to try this yet. I am not sure if it will work because this is honeycomb but here is a link I found that might be useful for the reboot power menu.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=811532
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
i think those instruction limit the number of people actually doing it? :)

ill see if it works with 3.0, i never tried adding power control options, but as i did apk add-on's and so on, it should come natural..
[Acer Iconia A500] interqd:
HI, maybe u can try looking to this thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1122710
[Acer Iconia A500] ben.marks:
I installed CWM app, to install CWM and itsmagic recovery, however when booting into CWM and choosing "install zip from sd card" the PRIME.zip file did not show up, i only got DCIM/ and LOST.DIR/

PRIME.zip was placed on the ex sdcard
[Acer Iconia A500] aerichards1977:
ROM

Great job on the rom. Works great and fixed my wifi problem. I did need to do a full data wipe to get out of a boot loop. Donation coming - thanks for all of your hard work!
[Acer Iconia A500] dm5363b:
Hi, I have installed the CWR , i created a backup, however after I wipe the data/cache and navigate to install from SD card, the only viewable folder is the Clockwork recovery folder, is that normal, do i just need to move my zip files to that folder to be able to install???

Kris O
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
1. try and do a manual mount in "mount and storage" menu

1a. maybe manually unmount /sdcard first?

I think there is a bug in it, if you do not see your sdcard?
[Acer Iconia A500] RagePX:
I did a Peacekeeper Benchmark with a brand new stock 3.0 Icona 500 vs. Iconia 500 with 3.1 and this Rom P6 I will add screens later for everyone interested :-)

OK Here we go!

The Pic that outs the Browser as Safari is with Acer 3.0 Stock Rom, the Chrome one is Prime p6 3.1 Rom.
[Acer Iconia A500] _motley:
Dexter, here's an update: I did some more research and found that there are some things that won't be provided by the ASUS kernel source, so it's definitely best to wait for the Acer kernel source (if they don't release the kernel source this month, we should all start getting vocal as a group:)).

Here are the mismatches in the kernel config options for the A500 that are missing or different from ASUS source:

CONFIG_AL3000A_LIGHT_SENSOR=y

(AL3000 support, not AL3000A, may work, but not an exact match)

CONFIG_VIDEO_YUV=y and CONFIG_VIDEO_YUV5=y

(color space, can't find YUV5 in asus source, only YUV). Both are enabled for Acer and only YUV for Asus, not sure why this would be different, perhaps because of the different cameras and their output format)

CONFIG_VIDEO_AD5820=y

(auto-focus driver, may have found source @

http://meego.gitorious.org/maemo-mu...a37cf0f7678fbb3e95d1ae8d0f7cedd6361f1e0/diffs)

CONFIG_MACH_ACER_PICASSO=y

(tegra board type, not available)

CONFIG_BATTERY_ECBAT=y

(can only find MACH_ECBAT91, this is some sort of secondary microchip controller)

CONFIG_LSC_FROM_EC=y

(not found, don't know what this is, but think it is camera related)

CONFIG_VIDEO_LTC3216=y

(not found. LED flash. This is a fractional charge pump, high current white LED driver that delivers up to 1A of LED current.)

CONFIG_DOCK=y

(not found, custom by Acer)

CONFIG_ROTATELOCK=y

(not found, custom by Acer)

Edit: P.S. I took the plunge and am now on prime V6 and thor's latest recovery....loving it thx again :)
[Acer Iconia A500] flipper2006:
Thanks everyone for the "you do need to wipe/factory reset" that was where i was going wrong and I do see it in the OP now, so no one else does this.

Also, TB pretty much loaded everything back. For some reason Google's own "holding space" only restored 10 items..

I have a Vibrant, Nook Color, and this so maybe marketplace got a bit confused. i Dunno..
[Acer Iconia A500] bochocinco23:
Are you coming from stock? Appears not to be a mount issue but that the stock ROM downloads to internal storage and you need to manually move the downloaded file to your external SD. Once you do that you will see it. Since you see clockworkmod you don't have a mount issue
[Acer Iconia A500] trothmaster:
Awesome job dex and thank you!!!!!
[Acer Iconia A500] ben.marks:
I rebooted the device and managed to boot it into CWM, however when i go to "install zip from sd card" PRIME does not appear in the list, i get DCIM/ and LOST.DIR/

PRIME zip IS on the root of the SDcard and before I tried to install I did do the factory wipe/reset and cleared the cache.... am i still missing a step, or done it wrong?
[Acer Iconia A500] thunderkiss65:
lost directory

I had the same problem. You need to make sure it is in mount then external sd through explorer or astro file manager. I just put the prime to my internal system first then moved it.
[Acer Iconia A500] BrianDigital:
Is it on the external SD card I would double check that
[Acer Iconia A500] thunderkiss65:
Dexter great job for taking the time to make this Tablet customizable, I have noticed a big difference. And being beta sure a few bugs are here but ill take it over the stock 3.0.1 any day. Also a big thanks to thor for recovery !:D... And for anybody that wants to go back stock 3.0.1 and stock recovery i have done it twice just to test and it works.
[Acer Iconia A500] bochocinco23:
Great job Dex on p6 patch....downloads work again!!! :)
[Acer Iconia A500] ben.marks:
bochocinco23 did you just edit your post? you post was the one that helped me the most!! i had PRME.zip in /sdcard instead of /mnt/external_sd

its appeared on CWM and ive now just installed and its all working.....

except as my tab is an Asian import it boots up in chinese, its not a prob as i know where the language setting is; but im thinking that whenever i put a new rom on it, it'll always boot up in chinese. is this fixable does anyone know?

EDIT: All working.... what is the bloatware that it is safe to remove on here? :D
[Acer Iconia A500] yka:
Works great, Prime+3G(e169):

Thx for hard work:37378784JR366922C
[Acer Iconia A500] bochocinco23:
@Ben.Marks LOL yes i did edit my post and i apologize. After posting i noticed that someone else had responded with somewhat similar response.... I had that same problem initially but noticed that internal sd is mounted as default however CWM reads external sd by default so we have to copy files over. Maybe Thor2002ro can point his recovery to internal sd....