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[Acer Iconia A500] ibrooks123:
Ok, so I have downloaded almost every G.D. Java exe on the site provided(which is overkill - I know). I cannot get SDK setup past where is checks for Java. I have them ALL!!!!! So wtf? Why wont it see the installed programs? I did not have the device attached to the comp, and I have restarted the computer. How do I make the installer see that the programs it requires are HERE??
[Acer Iconia A500] 4D3:
Hi,

These instructions need some work...

i have recovery installed, mdj rom flashed, but how do you boot into recovery? whats key combo?

thanks

EDIT im guessing power+vol down?
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
can you be more specific (and less explictive) about "almost every G.D. Java exe on the site provided"?

I'm assuming your trying to install the Android SDK and it's failing due to not finding an installation of java. It requires your to install the Java Developers Kit (JDK). A Java Runtime is not enough (JRE). The JDK is available here. you'll need the x86 version, NOT the x64). Once the proper JDK is installed (you might need to reboot afterwards), then the Android SDK install should find it.

PS.. I don't think your post (or this reply) belongs in this thread as it does not pertain to CWM. Sorry if I fed a troll here.
[Acer Iconia A500] ibrooks123:
Sorry about the abreviated referance, but after 34 pages (and half is just bantering crap) I was frustrated. And my post has everything to to with CWM, thats what I'm trying to install. Which from the first page in THIS thread, requires SDK!!!!! Since it mentions nowhere to download the x86 even if you're on 64, I'll go ahead and try that.

Let me ask you this: Why is it that this is the ONLY forum that I've ever come across that the senior people actually get pissed off at people for asking questions or doing something wrong?? Idk if you know this, but a forum IS TO GET QUESTIONS ANSWERED. Im sorry we don't know as much as you; but I'll tell you what, walk into my dealership to buy a car and you'll be the one who knows NOTHING. But I would never get mad at someone for asking questions. You're devs, not gods! LMAO. So please, its just a question, it takes you all of 15 seconds to answer, and NONE of you are making millions of dolloars to where those 15 seconds could actually be computed to a tangible amount of money missed, thus waste. You didn't waste anything, stop getting so mad.
[Acer Iconia A500] ibrooks123:
And btw Euclid's Brother, I was not speaking directly about you. Just something in general I have noticed about this forum only. There's great information here, and XDA comes out with a lot of "firsts" for a lot of devices. But everything you make ends up somewhere else in a matter of hours, so its not like people have to come here to get the software you create. And aren't donations a large portion, if not the majority of your income to do this? You would think a little courtesy would go far with your loyal followers....just sayin....
[Acer Iconia A500] ibrooks123:
Also, thats the link I've been to 20 times. A direct like to the file I need would be 100 times more helpful. Like right click the link, click properties, and copy me the URL...I have DL every JDK file I could find, Ive installed them all, and NOTHING makes the SDK installer see the files.
[Acer Iconia A500] ibrooks123:
Hey man, would you be able to PM me a link to DL CWM??
[Acer Iconia A500] FloatingFatMan:
^ Guys... Just install the Acer Recovery Tool from the market and it will install the CWM for you, as well as let you backup your original Recovery.
[Acer Iconia A500] ibrooks123:
But where do u download CWM?
[Acer Iconia A500] FloatingFatMan:
Acer Recovery takes care of all of that. It's built in.
[Acer Iconia A500] Raphaello:
Can I install stock 1.141.07 recovery via Acer Recovery Installer if I have 4.010.04_COM_GEN1? It is possible to work? I forgot to backup stock recovery:(

Thank you.
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
I understand that for someone that is not familiar with this stuff, it can be rather frustrating.. and there is a lot of stuff to read. But try to view the otherside as well. There's so may people asking the same questions over and over w/o trying to search. If you had gotten to about page 6 (post #109), you would have seen the free app i wrote to make installation of CWM much easier.

Your initial post was not clear on what you were trying to accomplish. There was no mention of CWM at all. Only that you could not get the SDK installed. So how were we to make the leap to know that your only intention is to get CWM installed?

So...

Download Acer Recovery Installer from the market (if you can't find it.. I think I uploaded it here in post#176) and install that (requires root). Run it and select Clockwork mod (3rd option) and click install recovery image. Once it's done, you can click "reboot into recovery" or power off and power on with the vol- pressed.

You should not (edit: now) be in clockwork mod.

Cheers
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
Try not to blur the lines between Acer Recovery Installer and Clockwork Mod. The install only installs recovery images, not ROMs. it's used primarly for installing Clockwork mod.

To answer what you meant.. yes, you can, if you have the files to flash and know how to do it.

The easiest is to get a clockwork mod backup from someone else with the version you want.

if you have a raw image file of system, you'll have to write a clockwork mod script to flash it, or use the DD command.

I'm currently uploading my ClockworkMod backup of stock 1.141.07_COM_GEN1. You will most likely need to do a data wipe. Once it's restored, you can use Acer Recovery Installer to install the stock recovery (built-in). To restore this, you MUST, at the very least, restore BOOT, SYSTEM, and FLEXROM. Might as well do CACHE too, it's small.

EDIT: Here's the link to my Clockwork Mod backup of stock 1.141.07_COM_GEN1
[Acer Iconia A500] 4D3:
Hi,

is there any way you can mod this recovery to be like this one:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=987531

it removes all of the YES/NO options and saves all the button pressing, the poor volume key gets a hammering!!

Thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] FloatingFatMan:
Very BAD idea IMO. All that button pressing and confirmation options are there for a VERY Good reason, to stop you accidentally doing something you'll regret later.
[Acer Iconia A500] sc2k:
If you are like me and hate using these volume keys, just connect an USB keyboard. Then you can use the arrow keys to select and the return key to confirm :)

Thor did a great job by integrating support for USB keyboards.
[Acer Iconia A500] 4D3:
mmm funny thought. it was done on the HD2 version because peoples volume buttons started to fail

also even having this installed on you tab is a risk, i dont think pressing down 7 times is going to stop anything bad happening. so if you dont know what your doing you shouldnt be playing with this kind of stuff.

I for one an mot stupid enough to accidentally flash a rom, you kinda have to set out to do it!

worse if my volume key stopped working and i have to pay to get it fixed!!

Im still voting got the YES/NO version as i dont think your point is valid....
[Acer Iconia A500] thor2002ro:
so far only you have asked for the choice protection to be removed...

make a thread with pool please, lets see how many feel the same way...
[Acer Iconia A500] daveid:
What it really shoud be is an option, set similar to the "hide.nandroid.progress", defaults to confirmation with the user ability to set an "easy confirm" mode that only has one yes/no. This could be implemented and pushed back to CWM source as a feature for all CWM recoveries. Choices are always better than just going with a majority rules decision.
[Acer Iconia A500] 4D3:
thanks for the reply

maybe you could have 2 versions, one for those that know what they are doing, and one for those who need 7 chances to think about it lol

(or if you could tell me which file to edit to remove it ill do it)

? I have had 3 HD2's mainly due to ware and tear on the volume keys, I would really not like to go through these tablets at the rate of about 1 per year.

Thanks

MG
[Acer Iconia A500] FloatingFatMan:
If you're wearing out volume keys, either you're being REALLY hard on them, or the HD2 has a serious design flaw in it!
[Acer Iconia A500] 4D3:
Not really, simple math will tell you the following:

note: 1 flash requires 16 pressed on the vol down key (to get through MagLRD, then flash the rom)

I flashed between 3 roms for testing, so for ease of calculation, lets say i flashed each rom 3 times a week,

that would mean in 1 week my vol down key gets pressed 3 x 3 x 16 = 144 presses, therefore in 1 year 144 x 52 = 7488 presses

and that is without actually changing the volume.

and that is being conservative, i can remember instances when the roms were failing due to being early releases when i was flashing a rom 2-3 times an hour.
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
[Speculation]

on the confirmation screen that has all the "NO's", if you use volume up instead of volume down, you save 2 clicks and your putting nearly half the load on the volume up key.

3 x 3 x 9 = 81 vol downs per week (4212 per year)

3 x 3 x 5 = 45 vol ups per week (2340 per year)

6552 total.

That's already a ton better w/o any code changes!

If they did take out all the "NO's", you'd be saving 4 additional clicks (yeah.. i'm stuck on using vol-up on that page.. it's just plain quicker).

3 x 3 x 10 = 90 vol downs per week (4680 per year)

(Didn't use vol-up in this scenario, because it would be 1 click down or 2 clicks up).

This way, you'll actually have to use the vol-down MORE!!!

Regardless of either way, the vol-down is going to wear out first. So we can't say saving the hardware is a very good reason for changing it.

Personally, if I were flashing that much, I'd use a keyboard and use the arrow keys.. would be MUCH MUCH faster to get through the menus and wouldn't wear out my vol button.

PS.. did I mention my brother is a math genius.
[Acer Iconia A500] 4D3:
This is a good idea, kills 2 birds with 1 stone!!
[Acer Iconia A500] -=Ghostface=-:
Acer a500 Hangs on android schttp://xdaforums.com/newreply.php?do=newrreen

Hello,

ik installed the clockworkmod and after that

installed : Virtuous_Galaxy_v.1.0.4_Update_1

but the only screen now is android after the acer screen nothing happens

i still can get in recovery with volume down and power

what too do ??

please help me ?
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
You probably need to wipe data to get it to boot properly. And it takes longer to boot the first time after installing a ROM.
[Acer Iconia A500] robitron929:
help!

I can't mount sdcard in recovery I just get an error, ANYBODY PLEASE HELP.
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
To thor (Bug report?),

running "rom_restore()" via extendedcommand method

If it restores "/data", it's followed by the error below trying to restore /sdcard/.android_secure then instead of rebooting normally, your left at the main menu of cwm.

I'm assuming it's the error that's causing it to go to the main menu instead of rebooting normally. If I pass "nodata" to the function, the restore runs perfectly and reboots normally (minus data obviously).

Additionally, cache and flexrom does not get restored if this error is thrown, because they come later in the restore process. As soon as an error is throw, your kicked out of the nandroid_restore function.

Restoring .android_secure...
I:Formatting unknown device.
Starting recovery on Wed Jul 13 03:22:23 2011
can't open /dev/tty0: No such file or directory
framebuffer: fd 3 (1280 x 800)
ClockworkMod Recovery v5.0.0.0(thor2002ro rev1.3.4)
...

I haven't tested, but I'm assuming if the .android_secure.img didn't exist in the backup, then the error would not be presented.

The "/mnt/external_sd/.android_secure" folder was empty during the backup.

Any ideas on what the issue is and how it can be fixed?

Thanks.
[Acer Iconia A500] UnicornKaz:
DO NOT let go of the buttons until you see 4 lines of text !!!

a lot of users make this mistake & I am surprised the info isn't included in the 1st post...etc

2nd thing is...

did you by chance only flash Virtuous_Galaxy_v.1.0.4_update1 without flashing the Virtuous_Galaxy_v.1.0.4_FULL rom 1st ?? :eek:

the update1 is a patch to the full rom and it's only 22MB !
[Acer Iconia A500] robitron929:
found it

So I changed out my sd and WAHLA! no SD error,

I got an error using an 8g SD from Walmart (scandisk).fyi- it would mount while using tablet but not in cwm

Changed to a 1G SD and it mounted easy while in cwm

Thanks y'all
[Acer Iconia A500] _motley:
Maybe this will help you and some others. I had an 8GB SD that would only work in Android but not in CWM. So, I formatted it to use a partition type of 0x0b (FAT32 without LBA) instead of the 0x0c partition that was on it (LBA). Now it works in CWM and Android without issues. Perhaps there is something thor can do (kernel module, config etc.) to support LBA...it seems weird that it wouldn't work, but I don't know squat about recovery kernels. Not sure if my conclusion is 100% correct, but this was my experience. It's not a big deal, but it's a pain for folks that wouldn't know how to get around it without buying another card.
[Acer Iconia A500] xdachrisandroid:
THX 4 the nice recovery tool.

No need of waiting weeks for german 3.1
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
Lose root when restoring nandroid system.img

I discovered a small issue with restoring a nandroid system.img. You lose root.

I was messing around with backup/restore options in CWM and the next day I discovered I no longer had root. So I used adb and did "chmod 6755 /system/bin/su" and that fixed my root access.

So today I did a test.

1. Confirmed I had root access with rootcheck (and su in terminal emulator gave a # prompt)

2. Did a Nandroid backup of /system from the Advanced Backup menu.

3. Rebooted normal and confirmed I still had root access.

4. Did a Nandroid restore of /system from the Advanced Restore menu.

5. Rebooted normal and now rootcheck shows no root access.

the permissions on /system/bin/su before the backup was 6755 (-rwsr-sr-x)

the permissions on /system/bin/su after the retore was 0755 (-rwxr-xr-x)

I did "chmod 6755 /system/bin/su" again and now I have root access again verified by rootcheck.

Note: I have Taboonay installed with insecure adb, so I was able to fix the permissions via adb. Without insecure root, you would have to run the iconiaroot.apk from sc2k. (or fix it within cwm with fix permissions? I'm not sure what that does exactly).
[Acer Iconia A500] sanaell:
same issues from above post SU lost after restore...

but now new problem

hummm I got a little problem

checksum md5 failed...

I never got any fail before

here the things I did

I had an USB thumb plug in..

- backup my system

- wipe all content etc..

- install from zip (xoom unity v6)

- open xoom... get not amazed (I read that was something fixing the lag on any position... didn't see the fix)

- return in recovery mode

- restore.... and get the checksum md5 error

check on my computer... MD5 failed (I use terracopy)

all the files are there and they are not empty...

How I can rebuild the nandroid.md5 ?
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
Wow.. never heard of the md5 getting messed up.. either one or more img got currupted AFTER the .md5 file was created, or the md5 file itself is messed up.

To recreate the nandroid.md5, use terminal emulator or adb and CD to the directory containing the backup image files.

then do:

md5sum *.img >nandroid.md5

Rename the original first, so you can compare them and see which one is off. It might help to resolve any problems that creep up later if one of the backups is currupted.
[Acer Iconia A500] sanaell:
thanks

the worst is both of the recovery save have their md5 check failed...

weird weird... (as I said they are on a usb thumb)

before I use to do it on my external sdcard... hummm

I will do tomorrow... I go sleep
[Acer Iconia A500] vince1979:
Does anybody know if I can replace the USA 1.141.07 recovery image that comes as default with Acer Recovery Image with my own recovery image?
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
If its just recovery.img that's off, just delete it and remove it from the md5 file. You never restore recovery from cwm anyway.
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
You mean replace it in the app? So that choosing that option will install your custom instead? Sure, you can just replace the file. But it may get overwritten every time I release an update.

Instead. Just keep keep your image named recovery.img in the root of your ext sdcard. There's an option to install it from there.
[Acer Iconia A500] vince1979:
Thanks! Will it pick it up if I have it installed on a USB drive? Or does it just work with SD card?
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
Just the sdcard..
[Acer Iconia A500] 4D3:
Hi

any chance of getting all of the "No" removed?

I dont like breaking my vol buttons

thanks

MG
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
Probably not. If you're concerned with volume buttons, use a keyboard instead.
[Acer Iconia A500] cloud79:
shouldn't itsmagic be runned after dd of recovery?
[Acer Iconia A500] thor2002ro:
doesnt mater as long as you dont restart... itsmagic just makes bootloader recalculate checksums so the recalculation will take place after reboot...

i modified it for confusions sake...
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Dexter's Recovery is working good Right now I think I will wait to see what people say about this as far as safe. Before pushing do not like the warning about the data/media folder. Some guy had quite the headache yesterday after deleting the contents in that folder. Good work though like the fact that itsmagic is now part of the recovery incase any dev forgets it in their update packages. :D
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
DD can be run through ADB shell. Within Windows.....
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
this recovery is pretty much close to the one i made.. he just forgot to thank me for the help ;)

so i think its a safe bet to upgrade if you wish..
[Acer Iconia A500] Glebaka:
little quetion, after il do everything mentioned in 1st post tutorial i can flash Prime firmware and use it without any problems right?

and whats doing this command in step 7 " /data/local/itsmagic"
[Acer Iconia A500] kimycai:
does itsmagic run automaticly every time after reboot or power off without our manual calling in your modified recovery environment？
[Acer Iconia A500] thor2002ro:
yes pressing restart or power off runs itsmagic...

making now a version that runs itsmagic on startup so we can avoid bricks if someone decides to power down from the physical power button
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Like force shutdown in recovery or with the tablet booted

Because I have force shutdown with the tablet on and its fine?
[Acer Iconia A500] interqd:
i think as long u dont change recovery / boot / kernel u will be safe whatever you do .. CMIIW
[Acer Iconia A500] kimycai:
but i was confused that if we push itsmagic to another place like /data/temp，could itsmagic be called after reboot or power off all the same？

and another question: in our stock recovery ,we can apply different of update.zips of full package with vol - and power on normally.

but once when we r in your modified recovery environment，how do we apply update.zip？

should we call itsmagic again manually after we apply update.zip？

does itsmagic be called again when reboot or power off after we apply update.zip？
[Acer Iconia A500] Crsdr37:
Which adb shell are you guys using. I have the android sdk installed and the acer driver. I can dd from windows but I cannot push. :(
[Acer Iconia A500] thor2002ro:
it doesn't mater where you put stuff when you install... the recovery is self sufficient doesn't need specific files like itsmagic on another partition...
[Acer Iconia A500] kimycai:
can u tell me what function your modifed recovery include，can u list some function like command that i can know more clearly before we do something.
[Acer Iconia A500] nycbjr:
mucho thanks!

Man as always you are a gOD!

Process works beautifully! Now if only my roommate hadn't stolen my 16gb microsd card, grr.. I'd like to try a backup, and maybe that 3.1 rom.

oh and I love the watermark image touches.. very cute!
[Acer Iconia A500] kimycai:
my understanding is that we dd a new recovery img to mmcblk0p1 is why we call itsmagic manually first at last command,but when we flashed your recovery and called itsmagic, after reboot, recovery can work well,right?

but when we flash a new kernel or an update.zip we dont need to call itsmagic again because your recovery is integrated "itsmagic" ，and it will call itsmagic automaticly reboot or power off， am my understanding right？
[Acer Iconia A500] thor2002ro:
yes that's right when you press reboot or power off in recovery triggers itsmagic automatically ...

rev1.2 will call itsmagic on startup too ;) its in testing... once its been tested will post it... everything in the todo list has been done in this version too...
[Acer Iconia A500] kimycai:
whats the difference between startup and reboot?

i feel that the same.
[Acer Iconia A500] kimycai:
what can we do with the UID when we brick our A500?do U know?
[Acer Iconia A500] kimycai:
do U mean that reboot and power off is a command in your recovery environment？
[Acer Iconia A500] 4D3:
ok ill just do it myself....

I cant believe that people at that stupid as to "Accidentally not know that they are flashing a rom"

how can you accidentally press and hold power and vol to get to CWM, then accidentally flash the device....

must be some total morons here!!

MG
[Acer Iconia A500] shin lucifer:
Is it possible that CWM is messing up my OTA update installation. I used Acer Recovery app to install CWM. (if that makes any difference)

Every time i download and try to install, few second later it restarts the tablet. As progress bar reaches 25%, i get RED Exclamation (!).

That is OTA update i am trying to install System update 4.010.10 (47.69 MB)
[Acer Iconia A500] Nico_FR:
Did you use decrypted zip files or stock acer ones ?
[Acer Iconia A500] shin lucifer:
I just let the Acer download the update, then it ask me to install and i click install. Few seconds later it reboots, and then it show installing progress bar over a black screen. Quarter way on the bar i get Red !. I reboot manually and i get message installation failed...
[Acer Iconia A500] FloatingFatMan:
Restore your original recovery.
[Acer Iconia A500] shin lucifer:
Can i use Acer Recovery. Which has a option of Stock USA 1.147.07_COM_GEN1 recovery...

EDIT NVM lol

all i had to do is flash recovery from Acer recovery and OTA update worked.

Thanks for the help.
[Acer Iconia A500] flyinghighaero:
which option did you use? the stock usa?
[Acer Iconia A500] shin lucifer:
Yup. OTA update went fine after that.
[Acer Iconia A500] Jake06:
I couldn't sift through the 39 pages on here, but I have cwm on my tablet but what cwm do I flash?

Sent from my HTC Inspire 4G
[Acer Iconia A500] WhatMeWorry:
Acer Recovery Installer - MIA

Hey I just went to download Acer Recovery Installer from the Market and it seems to be gone.
[Acer Iconia A500] sanaell:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.interphaze.AcerRecoveryInstaller&feature=search_result

gone where?
[Acer Iconia A500] kongming:
i have a serious problem ... when i power my a500, it show :"Secure Boot: image LNX checksum fail. what am i suppose to do?

my a500 is stock rom, never unroot. and im now wanted to flash the recovery, and flash other ROM and see if is works, however, when i press "power on" + "vol +", it show an android icon with triangle logo.

whats wrong with it? do i brick it?

thanks for help ... and sorry for my bad english.
[Acer Iconia A500] phone.ds:
Had problems using an usb stick and found this tool http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/. I reformated the stick with it and now i can use CWM with my usb stick.
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
You flashed the boot partition without running its magic.

Hope you made a backup of your original rom.

Download a full system update and flash it. That will get your tablet bootable again. Then install Acer recovery installer and use it to install cwm.

The you can restore your original babckup or a custom rom.