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[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Dexter I do not like thread jacking. Do you think you will be trying to port the xoom now that we know we can use custom roms? :D None of this would be possible without the first few of you, Vache Sc2k and you.
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
yes i think so..

i found a "hidden" HDCP option in Settings.. im look into this.. seems Asus works a little different..
[Acer Iconia A500] lighthammerhh:
Dexter, can you please check the link to patch 3 on the first page. It is still pointing to patch 2.... Or did you just not change the name? :p

Thank you!!!! :cool:
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
Added full stock recovery image with boot.img included

I have added the full stock recovery to post #1..

Acer_A500_1.141.01_EMEA_GEN3 root'd and including full root.img recovery.

thanks, its fixed..
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Just to clairfy running the stock update.zip will replace all blocks and the recovery making it possible to dd the system images to get back to US Stock.
[Acer Iconia A500] gasparzim:
What´s the difference from GEN1 to GEN3? Mine came with GEN1, is it ok to use this GEN3?
[Acer Iconia A500] huxflux2003:
Can someone please try from youtube app "assasins creed revelations".

The first result (HD) causes YouTube to force close.
[Acer Iconia A500] interqd:
hi, sorry but i kinda dont understand what u mean here

what is this for?

if i flash this, do i will have back stock recovery ? or just rooted stock rom ?

thx,,

and i suppose (after looking first page) this update.zip just need to be flashed via cwm and we dont have to do anything else before that?
[Acer Iconia A500] ar444484:
many thanks mr.dexter

Quick Notes

app Mylibrary is not working

failed download from browser

after update PRIMEEv14_patch3 my sdcard works fine
[Acer Iconia A500] mrlonely78:
just to update,

with patch3, my camera and gallery still not working, but after using sd fix patch, all seems to be running fine. youtube also ok, but test play HD file from youtube using assasin creed revelation hd, its force close.

still testing the rest.

tq.
[Acer Iconia A500] jimbobtexas:
Awesome. Tried to revert back to the original, and managed to brick my device. I'll see if Best Buy will swap me out. Crap.
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Ok so to help the community can you post how you bricked your device. Not just say you bricked it.
[Acer Iconia A500] interqd:
i believe u forgot itsmagic somewhere,:D
[Acer Iconia A500] jimbobtexas:
Nope, didn't forget itsmagic. I think the problem was in restoring the backed up recovery image, and the sequence of the files. I had trouble with the restore steps - they're not exactly clear.

The net result remains the same. If I use the Power/Vol- boot, I get the "Secure boot: image SOS checksum fail", and if I just boot normally, I get "Secure boot: image LNX checksum fail!"

I tried getting the stock update.zip and installing on my SDcard and booting that way, but it's the same.
[Acer Iconia A500] Gammelgustav:
yeeees crap

...it is soo nice to have something like odin for my galaxy s to bring it back to like when I doesn´t have the abbilities to nflash something within the recovery.... but I think there isn´t something like this for HC...OR???
[Acer Iconia A500] das7771:
my game controller is working just fine. i had an old saitek p880 controller laying around. i installed fpse and loaded up soul reaver and was able to map all buttons. i played the game with that controller for about an hour last night, so yes it does work. it did not work with my xbox controller, but with my saitek p880 it worked flawlessly.
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1123386

Look at this thread post number 3 sounds promising. :D
[Acer Iconia A500] jimbobtexas:
Yeah, already tried that. He says to just flash one of the update.zip files from Acer. No worky. I'll PM him to see what's up with the UID, though...
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Yea I believe the restore has to do with nv flash and the uid. Should be fun if your within 14 days just bring it back. They may even swap it out under mfg. They do that on a ton of items. Including things like GPS and other small electronics. :D
[Acer Iconia A500] gasparzim:
Did you try to restore your old recovery? Not sure if it will solve, just trying to help.
[Acer Iconia A500] jimbobtexas:
That's what got me into this mess. Irony sucks.
[Acer Iconia A500] dgcxsk:
Hey, I got a problem with copying those files to /data/local ...

It tells me everytime, that the device couldn't be found, but I installed every driver and rooted+backupped my tablet ... -.-

Plz help!
[Acer Iconia A500] jimbobtexas:
I bought it April 26th. I'm about to find out how good my mojo really is...
[Acer Iconia A500] das7771:
just trying doing it manually...put the files on your sd card and just move them using root explorer or something like that ...Thats what i had to do, because I was getting the same message as you.
[Acer Iconia A500] interqd:
just pm s2ck with your uid, i am sure he can unbrick yours :D
[Acer Iconia A500] jimbobtexas:
That's what I've done (fingers crossed). I went to Best Buy, they told me tough sh!t, but they'd send it to Acer for me. I'll see what the community can do for me first, then fall on my sword with Acer.

Thanks, all.
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
if Acer had just as good testers, the stock rom would maybe play this better, but sadly no. (not working on stock either)
[Acer Iconia A500] jimbobtexas:
Okay, here's a little more detail on what transpired as I was attempting to restore the original image.

I was using ADB to restore the backed up partitions to the mmcblk0p1, 2, 3, etc. After restoring 5, I got a Segmentation fault. I looked at the tab, and it had apparently either gone into some sort of sleep mode, or turned itself off. That's when things went bad. IIRC, it booted back up, and I was able to adb to it, then it rebooted spontaneously and never came back.

Boo.
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
sounds like you tried to restore this while you had the tab online with Android running? thats a no go..... always boot into CWM, then everything is disabled and no sleep mode or anything goes bad...

But ok, people learn from this... thats the basics of playing with it.. i ruined tab and a mobile just experimenting to get the devices opened.. and i succeeded, so its worth the trouble when companies replace them.
[Acer Iconia A500] jimbobtexas:
Just learned a new hardware reset sequence from tech support.

From a powered-down system, hold down the Vol/+ (that's the one closest to the lock switch next to the volume control), and press and hold Power until it vibrates. Release power, then toggle the lock switch next to volume back and forth until you see "Erasing Userdata..." It erases userdata and cache and tries to load the bootloader, with predictable results.

The tech guy I talked to was right here in Texas, incidentally. So is the support center where I'll have to ship it provided I don't get resolution here.

He said it was the first time they'd seen this error. Lucky me.
[Acer Iconia A500] jimbobtexas:
Yeah, that's the part of the restore process tripped me up. I must confess I'm not sure how you execute those commands while in CWM, though. Do you USB connect while in CWM, then execute those commands via ADB, or is that supposed to be a script? Some clarity might help others in the future.

Yes, this is how we learn that fire is hot. :rolleyes:
[Acer Iconia A500] huxflux2003:
Yes, CWM has adb enabled.
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
it is ok to do backup "hot" or online if you wish to call it that..

but restoring must be in the "adb" connecting to cwm..

pretty much like you cannot restore files to an running linux or windows machine, sadly you're trying to write a completely new filesystem, so if this was possible in windows, you would see the result as windows definately would crash too, if someone tried that..

but all commands can be executed in cwm..if we talk shell commands..
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Is it just me or is patch 3 not working for sd card. Root explorer and astro and mobo can't find it
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
to clearify..

my setup and the "fix" is pointing to a MicroSD card.. not the internal storage.. we got solve this differently. or CWM backups will fail, as 32GB tab's is hard to backup on sdcard's :-)
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
So the question is how do I access files on the sd card with patch 3 because I cant seem to find them with root explorer
[Acer Iconia A500] lpachuong:
Guys run quadrant XD impressive score. With the stock from, I got laggy animation on 2d test and the 3d test got black shadow. These issues are gone in thiss rom now. Honestly Acer is so bad at software support.

On my final note, thanks Dexter. Will get u some wines instead of red bull XD
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Ok so I flashed between 2 and 3. The microsd is being picked up as internal memory now. So the External_Sd does not work....
[Acer Iconia A500] vache:
Why not using the patch i posted ?

It's working great for internal, external and USB storage.

And have nothing to do with the recovery.
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Question If I flash yours on top of patch 3 will video still work??? I know that was an issue.
[Acer Iconia A500] vache:
It should not since it does not modify anything related to video decoding.

I'm using it right now and video is ok.

It changes only 2 files and the boot.
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Ok so I am at work but when I get home i guess flash patch 3 then your patch and all is good? Now Dexter's Had to do with how CWM communicated with the Mounts. Is yours set to the correct configuration to properly do backups. (Not that I do i just use titanium):D
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
Full image update to patch3

Just a small notice on a file update. no changes in it..

so its primarily for new users.

I have uploaded a complete full image , updated with patch3.

so new users will not need to patch their full image after install.
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
I am sorry Dexter. But does External SD card work with this image didnt seem to work for me when just doing patch 3
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
its works!!. but its not removing "/data/media" if its not empty, so it fail, when its full of media.. (its for safety)..

so with a fileexplorer empty the folder in /data/media and reboot and you see it working fine..
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
we cannot fix what google cannot play on android 3.x .. so thats just gonna be as is for now.. lets see if 3.2 solves it...
[Acer Iconia A500] huxflux2003:
Ok so you think that it does not work even on a Transformer?
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
So how are things getting into data/media to make it fail will it fail all the time or just the initial delete is ness.
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
someone suggested this in "patch1/2", but i did not see it fully working as backup suddenly were affected as /data was growing too fast..

but when its clean, the directory gets changed to a symbolic link to MicroSD folder, so thats the workaround to limit it.
[Acer Iconia A500] thor2002ro:
please restore it to original... /data/media is not backed up by my recovery(coming soon ^^) so theres no issue... some of us who dont use microsd as main storage is a problem... please leave it as it was on the original fw...
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
So are you saying not to delete things in there. The only thing I use micro sd for really is. CWM files. But if I am at work and I download a file it goes to internal and I cannot switch it to external to be able to flash it via CWM since its not reading internal memory.
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
original point to MicroSD , thats the asus way.. (but done by vold)
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
So what was wrong with the way patch 2 worked? Was it an issue with recovery because it seemed to work great for me then?
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
this is the original acer rom setup.. i have not done anything different..

/mnt/sdcard is still pointing to whatever it should.

on fs

mount ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 /system wait ro

setprop ro.crypto.tmpfs_options size=128m,mode=0771,uid=1000,gid=1000

mount ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p8 /data wait noatime nosuid nodev

mount ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p4 /cache wait noatime nosuid nodev

mkdir /flexrom 0770 root system

symlink /data/Removable/MicroSD /sdcard

mount ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p6 /flexrom

chmod 660 /dev/block/mmcblk0p5

chown root system /dev/block/mmcblk0p5

on post-fs-data

mkdir /data/misc/wifi 0770 wifi wifi

mkdir /data/misc/wifi/sockets 0770 wifi wifi

mkdir /data/misc/dhcp 0770 dhcp dhcp

chown dhcp dhcp /data/misc/dhcp

# we will remap this as /mnt/sdcard with the sdcard fuse tool

mkdir /data/media 0775 media_rw media_rw

chown media_rw media_rw /data/media​
[Acer Iconia A500] hitvan:
i emptied /data/media and restarted

now im not able to use my internal memory at all

when i connect to my pc it recognizes it but is empty

and when i try to transfer anything it says the device has stopped respoding or has been disconnected
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Well im glad I kept patch 2 and didn't empt
[Acer Iconia A500] hitvan:
i tried hard reset to no avail also flashed the rom again still the same problem

any help
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Can you add anything to the media folder with a root explorer?
[Acer Iconia A500] hitvan:
as dexter said earlier

the directory gets changed to a symbolic link to MicroSD folder

i cannot enter that folder
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
if you havent got a SDcard, you havent got a directory , possible to enter ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] hitvan:
no i dont hav a sdcard

and when i try to open sdcard it says open file failed....and the most important thing i cannot access my internal storage from my PC

when i put the sdcard it gets detected an i can enter it from file manager

i cannot enter /sdcard from root explorer

my ext sdcards data is in /data/media

still cant access my internal storage

edit: i deleted the sdcard link and created a new folder named sdcard and connected to my pc...i could see my a folder named MicroSD which had my ext sd card but still i couldnt copy anything onto it
[Acer Iconia A500] jeffw111:
Camera problems

Dexter I just installed the p3 update but I cannot get the camera to function it keeps telling me to mount USB storage before using it. First off I have an external micro-SD along with a USB key and the camera app does not recognize either of them. Any idea what's going on? :confused:
[Acer Iconia A500] bochocinco23:
Use Vache's mount fix... worked for me. Flash it... over patch 3 from Dexter. Camera works fine
[Acer Iconia A500] themono:
Never mind, ignore this post.
[Acer Iconia A500] jeffw111:
Could you point me to the thread with Vache's mount fix?
[Acer Iconia A500] hitvan:
@dexter

your stock acer rom does not have root/recovery right??

so we can just go to cwm and choose zip from sdcard?

i just want to go back to HC3.0 with cwm
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Ok guys having really weird issue. My wifi keeps obtaining IP then disconnecting. I have tried to turn off wifi and the tablet. Also tried 2 different networks???

Log Says

E/TelephonyManager( 315): Hidden constructor called more than once per Process!

""Original:com.google.android.location, new: com.google.android.gsf

**Solved the hard way** Wipe Data/Factory Reset in CWM fixed my issue just reflashed the new p3 updated rom and vache mount fix.
[Acer Iconia A500] bochocinco23:
Here is the mount fix... also on page 8 of this thread... Flash in CWM wipe cache and dalvik cache to be safe and then install from SD
[Acer Iconia A500] gmelfi:
after applying that fix, where would i see the external sd card as of right now, i dont see it anywhere from file manager hd. how do i get back the link to my external sd card.
[Acer Iconia A500] snickle:
My install with patch 3 see both internal storage as sdcard and sd card as removable.

My issue is sometimes i can not save files from browser. seems random.
[Acer Iconia A500] bochocinco23:
The external SD changed to Removable folder then MicroSD is inside. That's your external SD
[Acer Iconia A500] russell5:
Thanks great rom so far very fast.

2 questions.

Seems i have trouble writing to internal storage and sd card. i had to manually change permisions. They were all set to read only.

Anyone else have this problem?

And is there any way to remove the notification for the external storage in the notification bar?
[Acer Iconia A500] bochocinco23:
No but i usually run ROM manager once after initial boot to fix all permissions....habit from flashing so many different ROMs on my phone. If you want to try it dl ROM Manager from the market.....then open and select fix permissions
[Acer Iconia A500] gh123man:
I dont mean to push anyone off topic but i just wanted to thank you for this. its really amazing. its fast. and its my new daily driver. im never going back to stock now :) i only have one question. is there any planning for ntfs support into this rom? i installed the mount patch and everything is gold but my external hard drive that i keep hd video on :) thanks again.
[Acer Iconia A500] rainman168:
Thanks Dexter. The patch can release me from update the busybox; but it kill the adb, I cannot connect the tablet through adb after the patch. Tried to restart adb on windows but still failed. :confused:

E:\Downloads\x64>adb kill-server

E:\Downloads\x64>adb start-server

* daemon not running. starting it now *

* daemon started successfully *

E:\Downloads\x64>adb shell

- exec '/sbin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -
[Acer Iconia A500] hellcat82:
In terminal emulator

cp /system/bin/sh /sbin/.

or

ln -s /sbin/busybox1 /sbin/sh
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
i see the logic :D your stock rom got NTFS and better video playback..

i would probably do the same with your hard drive...:confused:
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
just a little note, for some people im sure this can make sdcard seem not working.

vache's change is adding mounts and changing mount at boot.. my p3 change, is done after boot ie. at startup.. and the result is,... unknown..

i have done a full 3.1 rom install , wipe'd and sdcard is working when inserted. of course you cannot make it work in this rom, if you have no sdcard inserted for media.
[Acer Iconia A500] gat045:
Hello from Acer against the dock does not work with this update
[Acer Iconia A500] Alejandrissimo:
moboplayer only plays with soft decoding, not hardware accelerated :(

I dont test usb host funcionallity yet, but I think yes, there is supposed to be by default.

Yes there is a lot of languages available
[Acer Iconia A500] huxflux2003:
Can we flash any xoom kernel we want on top of this? OC and stuff?
[Acer Iconia A500] chr0m:
If I follow the steps in the first post will I be up and running? Where does CWM fit into all of this, sorry, I'm an Android noob. The only mention of CWM in the first post is the assumption that it's been tried before.
[Acer Iconia A500] Alejandrissimo:
Yes, if you follow step by step firts post you will be up and running.

CWM is the recovery, which flash the rom in zip format, when you install this CWM (custom recovery) you will be able to flash unsigned update.zip and bypass all annoying checksum and stuff.

If you have some problems don't forget to read other user post, maybe you questions are already answered.

Greetings
[Acer Iconia A500] umanko:
does it mean acer unlocked the bootloader ??

thanks for your effort buddy .
[Acer Iconia A500] Alejandrissimo:
No, this not means unlocked BL, it just a way to load a custom recovery via itsmagic and of course flash an unsigned update.zip

But its just the begining
[Acer Iconia A500] mikefromcz:
This ROM

Hi, thanks a lot for great news. Donation has been sent...
[Acer Iconia A500] Gammelgustav:
yes I would like to know about the included languages too...

BTW (the silliest question ever!) sdcard....maens internal or external (where I have to place your ROM .zip?)
[Acer Iconia A500] chr0m:
I assume if I install this that I will lose all my apps and settings, etc?
[Acer Iconia A500] Alejandrissimo:
Languages:

Cestina

Danks

Deutsch (Deutschland)

Deutsch (Schweiz)

English (Cnada)

English (UK)

English (USA)

Español (España)

Español (USA)

Français (France)

Français (Suisse)

Italiano (Italia)

Italiano (Svizzera)

Magyar

Nederlands (België)

Nederlands (Nederland)

Polski

Portugues (Brasil)

Portugues (Portugal)

Slovencina

Suomi

Svenska

Türkçe

Japanese

Korean

Chinese

Russian

and others languages that I dont know how to write on my keyboard :D

And sdcard means external sdcard (microSD) even with USB Connection :D
[Acer Iconia A500] Gammelgustav:
THX :D

Another silly question i find recovery.img but not the itsmagic file....
[Acer Iconia A500] Gammelgustav:
yep

so do a backup...(I did it with titanium backup for apps and a simple copy of internal storage to ext-sd and then back to internal...(which is not nedded, i think, coz the data will get wiped but not the memoryy...)
[Acer Iconia A500] Alejandrissimo:
You need to follow this guide to backup security stuff in order to use itsmagic safetly

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1121543
[Acer Iconia A500] Gammelgustav:
sure :D

the itsmagic.zip or the file in it? :p (itsmagic)
[Acer Iconia A500] Alejandrissimo:
itsmagic (without extension) its inside itsmagic.zip, so you need to uncompress.

the backup tools its for backup all partitions and security stuff, so do all backups before play with all this beta software

greetigs
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
@Alejandrissimo

Thanks for all the helping out :)
[Acer Iconia A500] xlkiller:
After reboot ho many time Android Logo is displayed ?

I wait since 5 minutes and still nothing....
[Acer Iconia A500] QuadLight:
Where is a @internal storage@ in 3.1 ??? ,.. only sdcard :(
[Acer Iconia A500] vache:
Did you "wipe data/factory reset" before flashing the ROM ?
[Acer Iconia A500] hellcat82:
I was wondering exactly the same thing.
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
what? "hello from acer against the dock"????

Google translate?

anyways if its Dock you simply mean, correct.. i think i got it fixed for another update later on.
[Acer Iconia A500] FloatingFatMan:
Repeating gibberish doesn't make it any more understandable...
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
Small Patch4 available

So i added some small fixes to patch4.. (not much left to fix)

/sdcard fixes is now finally back to "acer normal standards". so you can find your media in /data/media as they intended.

I also included some fixes for acer docking station, i cannot test, but that should allow this software to detect you insert your tablet into a docking station.. Please someone test it (i am afraid that it might disable virtual keyboard) as asus got a keyboard in their "docking station" setup.

i also completely removed my recovery images, as the new recovery available, is much better and should be safe to use. see post #1 for more details..
[Acer Iconia A500] CityKiller:
What about locking lever orientation. Or should we wait for the source from Acer
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
am i missing something or? its right there in settings and in menu when you press clock?

or please explain asus versus acer difference?
[Acer Iconia A500] interqd:
what about hdmi out ?

is it fixed iin patch 4 ?

and one more issue is battery usage in setting - about cant show any data.. is it fixed??

thx..
[Acer Iconia A500] jimbobtexas:
And I am back on the air!!! sc2k saved my ass, and for that I would like to publicly thank him/her. Before you do anything else, make sure you have your UID and mmcblk0_start saved safely somewhere. I'm in the process of restoring my system from Titanium backups, etc.

Some very talented people here. :)
[Acer Iconia A500] cloud79:
i think he means the physical lock on top of the tablet next to the volume rocker
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
thanks,

only had the tab for some days, that one i did not read about, but it explains why its there..

ok,

ill see what can be done..
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Not getting the look at post 1 for recovery image. What is the updated recovery is it click here? What is different from the recovery you posted the other day?