yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Acer Iconia A500] d9ny:
GPS Problems Original stock 3.0.1

I've already got my iconia for 2 weeks, and i've been tried the gps for 1 week but there's a problem, the gps won't find any sats or even lock the sats (unstable).of course i also tried the gps mod/fix 4 on http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1068416 but everything useless it still won't work

Someone tell who has the same problem as me then they has tried use custom rom like virtuous rom (asus) then they got the gps works.

But my friend ever try the virtuous stock (acer based), the gps just won't to find any sats (unstable again),so maybe there're solutions by using gps config on the asus based....PLEASE NEED HEELLPP...

my location : Indonesia
[Acer Iconia A500] DDsD:
Same, not while I've been using it actively, but when i put it down for extended periods without turning off it reboots randomly every couple of hours.
[Acer Iconia A500] s7r1k3r:
I want to ask the same question as well
[Acer Iconia A500] :
I had the exact same problems. Do a full wipe install Virtuous Picasso 1.08 Asus (not Acer) Unity V3 kernel. I get 10 -11 satellite locks where before on acer VP 1.08 I had no gps love at all. Guaranteed to fix your gps woes, and everything else in the process!:)
[Acer Iconia A500] henk_j:
Tried another microsdcard?
[Acer Iconia A500] xlkiller:
PLEASE ADD wpa_supplicant for iPhone Hotspot -> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1033314
[Acer Iconia A500] d9ny:
GPS Problem

So the gps driver or config on VP 1.08 Asus would fix gps problem, did you think is there any chance for injecting/push "gps driver/config" from the VP asus based into the acer one??
[Acer Iconia A500] GeneralSmart:
I Rot Thema exact Same Browser erforderlich....weird
[Acer Iconia A500] Icara:
Henk

Try to read and copy sd card (backup, roms ) to another formatted one in a SD card holder directly connected to a pc.
[Acer Iconia A500] Icara:
And M-deejay thxs for this rom..Using 1.8 now with pleasure! Donation is underway... I heard tomorrow in Germany there will be a release for Acer A500 via OTA ... Can we expect updates? :P
[Acer Iconia A500] brutalpanda:
Can anyone confirm if there's mouse support for this ROM? I have tried numerous usb mouse devices and yet I have yet to find one that shows a pointer. :(

Am i missing any steps? oh and by the way, I've been getting terrible battery life the past few days. Even when i put it to sleep, my a500 seems to be sucking up power.
[Acer Iconia A500] hazard99:
while using the asus base I was able to plug in razor usb mouse.
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Supposedly you can, although I haven't tried it.
[Acer Iconia A500] CheopsChefren:
What happened with support for this ROM? It is workable, not bad at all in fact, but as can be read here in many posts, there are still problems with this ROM.

I like the work been done on this ROM, but having to choose between an x number of ROM's. all with their own problems, all by the same author....

Don't get me wrong, I wouldnt be able at all to do what the developers here do, but, leaving users of a certain ROM with an unfinished product, and then jump to another project, it would make me - if i had the same capabilities as M-Deejay -feel a bit uneasy to the users of abandond ROM's.

Anyway, I love this ROM, together with Unity V3, but i hope that one day some of the problems, like screen-freezes, or random reboots, will be worked on......
[Acer Iconia A500] klubmix:
waiting

As I said in the previous post, I hope that m-deejay and the other guys of the crew are not leaving that asus/acer based roms development...tryed the samsung one but you absolutely can't compare with our smooth and responsive 1.08 rom. I really appreciate the job, but GT 10.1 rom is laggy at the moment, there's still not the user agent switch in the browser and has too much bugs. So, as many people here, I'm waiting for something new in this thread. :)
[Acer Iconia A500] jetsetwilly:
Yup, tried the Galaxy rom but it's just not my cup of tea. So now I'm back with picasso 1.0.8asus. Please come back... :)
[Acer Iconia A500] :
I just did the very same thing, and I'm back. This is the most stable ROM out, coupled wiith Unity V3, you can't beat it.
[Acer Iconia A500] shingers5:
Hey mdj please update this asus rom as it was very good even before the galaxy rom was released. It needs some love man and a refresh. The asus rom brings the acer display to life even more so than galaxy rom
[Acer Iconia A500] tomlogan1:
Where did you get the Aurora 2 live wallpaper? Been looking all over for it and can't find it. Could you post a link?

Thank you.
[Acer Iconia A500] jetsetwilly:
Is it not already bundled in this rom? Seems to be on mine...
[Acer Iconia A500] jkrell:
Agreed, I tried Galaxy too and didn't get what all the fuss is about. I'm back on Acer 1.0.8 w/Unity 3.
[Acer Iconia A500] yoda715:
Try this, it worked for me:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1152318
[Acer Iconia A500] shingers5:
The fuss is about that we can lol. Some of the eye candy on display is awesome. However i like the asus rom and now having it running on kernel v4 unity. Took 30 mins to boot but it feels solid
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Keep us updated on that Unity V 4 with VP 1.08 Asus please? Earlier there were reported instability issues that kept me from upgrading to U V4 on the VP 1.08. It runs nice on the Galaxy rom, but the Galaxy Rom wasn't as stable as the Asus VP 1.08 with Unity V3.

Thanks ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] yoda715:
===Removed, wrong thread====
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Are you using the Acer or Asus VP 1.08? All the "bugs" you mentioned are nothing I have found in the Asus VP 1.08 Unity V3 (exception Orientation Hardware switch).
[Acer Iconia A500] yoda715:
Thanks, but just realized I posted in the wrong thread. Meant to be for the galaxy rom.
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Was on Galaxy ROM earlier today. Aside from "eyecandy", I thought it was about as flaky as a valley girl on ectasy (still a bit immature for me).
[Acer Iconia A500] andyle2k:
Hi,

Thanks for the great ROM.

The only problem I seem to have with this version is that it keeps on randomly rebooting. Is there a way to fix this?

The other thing I noticed is that in the ASUS version there is a cool file manager app that actually mounts and shows the SD/USB in the bottom notification bar. I would really like to have this app in the Acer version. Can anybody please let me know what this is and how/where to get it?

Thanks.
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Update your kernel to Unity V3 for random reboot fix (on main page of this forum).
[Acer Iconia A500] patryq:
I've tried unity V3 with both asus and acer base and in both cases wifi stops working :/

sorry, if someone mentioned it before, I couldn't find what's wrong :/
[Acer Iconia A500] shingers5:
Or you can over clock to 1504mhz with cpu master and enable sleep governor at max 1000mhz. That worked with unity v2. Unity v3 and upwards use a diff oc method.
[Acer Iconia A500] shingers5:
Unity v4 with this rom takes 30 mins to boot lol. Thats even after initial flash. However the kernel is solid in every way. Battery life could be better while in standby but i am happy. I love the eye candy of the galaxy rom but this is no slouch either. The weather widget and email widget are spot on. The screen res seem elevated as well and i for one thinks its better looking that on galaxy rom. Had 1 sleep of death so far so had to long press home button to turn on lol
[Acer Iconia A500] :
IINM I haven't seen that issue on this ROM yet. Did you do a full wipe prior to install?
[Acer Iconia A500] korax85:
Same thing happened to me on Asus with v3. Havn't tried acer base yet. The wifi simply sat on enabling for a fair while then displayed as "error". V2 that comes with asus and acer 1.0.8 base works fine

Aussie one here if it makes a difference. Just bought it today
[Acer Iconia A500] elia950:
it actually booted for you? .. i waited over 30 minutes and still the page to start the 'installation' didn't appear.. only a loop of the boot animation..
[Acer Iconia A500] shingers5:
Yea it actually did just as i lost the will to live lol. However the elation was short lived as graphic glitches galore. Web browser graphics crashed and froze up quite a bit. I was tired of waiting over 30 mins between boot ups
[Acer Iconia A500] jessejames44:
I'm using the acer 1.0.8 with thor's v1 kernal and haven't had any reboots yet and its been four days now.Going to try asus 1.0.8 with thor's v1 and we'll see how it goes.
[Acer Iconia A500] :
If that isn't stable enough for you, try VP Asus 1.08 with Unity V3 Kernel. Been rock solid for me since Unity V3 came out.

Just a suggestion ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] Belkiolle:
Mouse support

I've used a Logitech Media Mouse (old one) on the Acer 1.08 with Unity V3 ROM with no issue. Nice blue pointer and scrolling support for the middle button as well. I didn't use any crazy steps. I just plugged in the USB dongle and away it went.
[Acer Iconia A500] jessejames44:
Has there been any reboots with that kernal cause everything else I tried had that problem except for thor's kernal.I always fully wipe before flashing till I have the right mixture of kernal and rom and always backup(very imporant)just incase.
[Acer Iconia A500] FitzysN6:
Hi mate, do you have a link to the V3 kernel for the ASUS 1.08 ROM.

I can't find it after a search, and its not in the kernal topic.

Cheers mate
[Acer Iconia A500] star80:
Thank you m-deejay for great work!

polaris office doesn't show farsi/arabic fonts properly(only tested on asus version)

It shows small squares instead of fonts.

as I know in asus transformer original device, there is no problem with farsi/arabic fonts in polaris.

do you think there is a solution for that? It is very important to me.

thank you again!
[Acer Iconia A500] CheopsChefren:
Would/Could anyone here go on with the development of this Rom? It seems to me that M-Deejay isnt interested in this Rom anymore, and leaves the users who like this rom in the deep.....

I am not capable to develop, but I am sure many people in this topic could, and would, so please M-Deejay, give someone a change to develop further on this great base you created for this Rom.

Thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] shingers5:
Serious mate are you for real? I assure you he has not left this dead in the water. If you seen his previous work on hd2 and desire hd you would know he develops for many devices. He will refresh this rom so try a little patience. If the rom is working great for you what else do you want him to add? Stop all this whining nonsense and when the man sees fit he will update. Maybe consider a donation instead as persuasion. These guys do this for free remember so show a little himility ok. Dont bother flaming me just take on board what i have said
[Acer Iconia A500] jkrell:
Agreed. It's only been 9-10 days since 1.0.8 was released. Granted, that seems like forever after the first 7 versions coming so quickly, but it's really not that long. I assume there hasn't been much to address, since the only problem I know of in 1.0.8 was the random reboots and that's been addressed via kernel updates.

Now, that said, I would like to see an update based on the latest leaked 3.1... if there are benefits to be had from such an update.
[Acer Iconia A500] :
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1140456

It looks like V3 for Asus link was removed from thread here:http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1140456

Not sure why, as the Acer V3 is still up, and V4 link is up (don't use V4 with asus 1.08).

You might want to pm m-dj?

Sorry :(
[Acer Iconia A500] :
I've had absolutely no reboot issues with Asus VP 1.08 Unity V3. :D
[Acer Iconia A500] shingers5:
Due to the issues with booting up v4 was pulled and there was not a v4 for acer base. Unfortunately v3 for asus was pulled when v4 was released.
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Check you messages, just sent one to you.
[Acer Iconia A500] :
A lot of ppl have horror stories when using v4 with asus. The only ROM it worked well for me was with the Galaxy Rom. Not sure of the reasoning behind pulling the asus unity v3 link, because v4 sux with asus vp 1.08.
[Acer Iconia A500] shingers5:
When new kernel is released he pulled the old ones thats all
[Acer Iconia A500] Juzman:
I've just downloaded thor's kernel v1.1-beta2. Can I simply extract the zip and replace the files inside of the Virtous rom, then flash? Instead of flashing Virtous rom then rebooting and updating with thors kernel?
[Acer Iconia A500] thor2002ro:
no you cant files are signed... you can flash one after another you don't need to restart...
[Acer Iconia A500] shingers5:
Flash the galaxy rom then thors kernel then reboot
[Acer Iconia A500] shingers5:
No matter how much i love the galaxy rom i find myself using the asus rom as well lol. I am just gonna try this asus rom with thor asus v1.1 beta2 to see how it handles
[Acer Iconia A500] shingers5:
Now running asus 1.0.8 with thor v1.1 beta2 and all i can say is yeah lol hell yeah
[Acer Iconia A500] jabbermacy:
Gotta say, running ACER+THOR=HAPPY :D I was on Galaxy for awhile, but the speed of this combo is really unmatched so far...
[Acer Iconia A500] OffcerClancy:
@ Thor

Thank you, sir. Tremendous effort.
[Acer Iconia A500] shingers5:
And 1

Eagerly awaiting a 1.09 or 2.0 refresh for all these roms and maybe 1.0.3 for galaxy
[Acer Iconia A500] plemme61:
asus build ,, experiencing a glitch in android market app whenever i try installing I get an error message ... tried clearing cache rebooting worked once but keeps going back to error message ...anyone have any ideas???
[Acer Iconia A500] g0t0:
screen res went down, or is it just my eyes?? ACER with Thor
[Acer Iconia A500] henk_j:
Seen the update frequency before the galaxy rom i think there will be no updates annymore, his kernel on the desire hd is poor compared to leedroid,s keeping a close look at thor`s rom development, don't get me wrong i respect his capabilities,and perhaps envy him in a way, but manny buggy roms isn't good for the comunity, feedback to questions is none. perhaps its to much to handle, a pitty but every door thats shut another one is opend.

moving on
[Acer Iconia A500] amtzone:
nice ROM so far....loving it....:D:D:D
[Acer Iconia A500] shingers5:
Wipe data/factory reset, then wipe cache and dalvik cache as well. Just wiping cache after flash wont do it. Dalvik needs clearing too. I recommend do clean flash doing steps mentioned as i have never had an issue with market. Google restored 23 apps on 1st boot no problem everytime lol
[Acer Iconia A500] shingers5:
Is brightness set to auto? I notice that the light sensors dont quite work in auto brightness. Use manual settings if it is that bad.
[Acer Iconia A500] shingers5:
Man useless post! Geez. Where would the acer community be without this guy! We all have a choice not to flash if we feel like you so its up to the individual. The roms on offer here offer better options than the acer original hence i am very happy. Thats why its a dev community and bugs are present. I hate people who knock others but dont contribute. If you have a better option then provide it but keep such bias opinions to yourself. People like you are the reason the devs are all stopping cooking and some leave xda. Some may agree with you others may differ but recognise the mans contribution to this community! Does leedroif have and iconia? Is he a dev in this community? The nerve of some people astounds me.
[Acer Iconia A500] g0t0:
Its not that. you know when you have a great Comp screen with high res, but you put it on 800x600 and everything looks slightly blurred or just not clean? kind of what I'm seeing on mine. I'll reboot and see where that gets me.

EDIT: cleared Cache, Delvik and that seemed to help........Or my eyes were getting readjusted after following directions to root :-)
[Acer Iconia A500] hazard99:
Can we please provide feedback that could be useful to mdj. Constructive is best. He is not required to update anything futher more he probably has a family to attend to. Rely on acer not somone just trying to have fun.
[Acer Iconia A500] mdeejay:
update will be in weekend
[Acer Iconia A500] shingers5:
Thanks man as i for one am appreciative of what we have here. Dont see much wrong with asus 1.0.8 and thor kernel. Maybe update your unity kernel with his sources for v5. Some of these guys have flash disease so need updates to be constantly flashing. I actually dont like flashing every few hrs like most. I only flash to find a working combination of rom+kernel. Thanks again mate as if wasnt for you my iconia would have been returned for a refund
[Acer Iconia A500] KnutM:
Working 3g on A500

Hi Guys,

i bought today an hauwei 1550 stick to use data (3G) connection.

The stick is unlocked and working on my win 7 machine, but how do i get this little thing to work on the Virtous Picasso 1.0.8 Mod with my tablet?

I started the whole tablet with plugged in 3g Stick to be sure that all drivers are loaded. Sim card is inserted and stick is flashing blue. but it seem's that i can't setup an APN to connect to my provider. there is no save button or anthing else where i can save my settings. PLS can anyone explain me step by step how to setup an working 3G connection.

P.S. its for my wife (what else) when she is on tour in city or elsewhere.

Thanks Guys for help
[Acer Iconia A500] g0t0:
Went back to the ASUS ROM from the ACER. I love the Asus keyboard and the Micro SD path thru USB. AWESOME! So far so Good!:D
[Acer Iconia A500] shingers5:
Top right to save apn settings. Same place you tapped to add
[Acer Iconia A500] KnutM:
nothing happend when pressing the button top right. everything else is is working but not this button if i'm done. :confused:
[Acer Iconia A500] VitaZora:
How exciting!

Even though I am running 1.0.8 and all is great I am always looking forward to the next version.:D

Thanks so much!
[Acer Iconia A500] s7r1k3r:
Cant wait for the weekend. I still have hope for picasso
[Acer Iconia A500] P-Ray:
Just wanted to thank for that ROM.

I am using this ROM for about two weeks now and there is not much i can complain about. The only thing that had hit me once was a screenactivation that sucked my battery dry (screenlock is activ but screens stays on till battery is empty).

wbr

P-Ray
[Acer Iconia A500] mdeejay:
updated. now only acer based
[Acer Iconia A500] shin9999:
do i still need to do full wipe if my pad was virtuous picasso 1.08 acer base
[Acer Iconia A500] Glebaka:
i think no
[Acer Iconia A500] bbubelis:
Great ROM! But, waiting for the ASUS flavor of Picasso v.1.1.0. I much prefer the ASUS keyboard and the access to the external SD card.

How about a UNITY V5 kernal for v.1.08?
[Acer Iconia A500] jetsetwilly:
YeeeHaaa! I knew you'd be back.

Any flavour of Picasso tastes good to me :)
[Acer Iconia A500] wannaback:
Font code problem

Everthing is good and smooth except 1 thing. I can't read my language (Vietnamese) in the browser (also in others apps) although i changed the code to unicode UTF-8.

Any help will be appreciated !

Thanks

(I checked on this tech website : tinhte.vn)

Update : I fixed it. Perfect Now !
[Acer Iconia A500] zgigi666999:
how come cifs manager aint working for me ??? i did a full wipe /cache
[Acer Iconia A500] michaelh99:
Thanks for your work on this rom. I'm just now restoring my apps and data but I already like the fact that the light sensor works! It's a small thing but I missed it while using PRIME.
[Acer Iconia A500] fogozito:
i am currently on Virtuous_Galaxy_v.1.0.3 do i need to do a full wipe before upgrading?

if so how can i save my system settings? like email and stuff.
[Acer Iconia A500] themono:
Yes, and Titanium Backup.
[Acer Iconia A500] kaiso:
You'll go back to Galaxy so be sure you backup well.
[Acer Iconia A500] andyle2k:
Hi,

How come I can't get the auto correct feature of the Android Keyboard to work?

Doesn't seem to work on any custom ROM is there something that I need to do?

Thanks a lot.
[Acer Iconia A500] fogozito:
i dun think so exchange works in this rom. but i have mixing feelings and market has a someissues i have to restart the tablet so it can download the apps. so cool rom
[Acer Iconia A500] snyph3r:
Weird, stucked to the Acer logo after flashing, wiped everything and coming from Picasso 1.08, tried twice and always get stuck to the Acer logo...re-flashing Galaxy Rom so I can copy the file directly to the SD card and try again....

****no luck still stuck to the Acer logo....downloadin again, this time fro Rapid share instead of Megaupload..one thing I noticed they have different file size. Rapid share is bigger (289 M) but Megaupload only have 269... also noticed that installing the zip files seems to be really fast, normally you see the progress bark ove slowly, this time it just went through pretty fast, galaxy took 5X slower to flash....

****just the website showing different size the actual file being downloaded seems to be the same, will try again

****finally got it working, re-downloaded the rom using rapidshare, flashed galaxy rom so i can copy the zip file directly to the external SD card (used to copy to the internal first (fromPC ) then copy to external using the tablet), my PC can see the external sd card with the Galaxy rom....there must be a betterway but this will work for now..(and no I dont have a card reader right row :) )
[Acer Iconia A500] gus2020i:
Hi! Its my firt Cooked ROM and I lost :o

My sd_ext where is it? Fix permission, wipe all but I not see my ext_sd?

I have a craked huawei k3765 but I dont know how run. ?

Thanks a lot, with this ROM I have a new tablet GREAT!
[Acer Iconia A500] echelon1087:
sd_ext is in sdcard-->storages :)
[Acer Iconia A500] 4D3:
Got this rom installed withing 10 mins of the tablet coming out of the box!

it is really nice, although i have a few questions:

1: I have an external 16Gb class 10 Micro SD inserted with a 2Gb EXT 4 partition, but i cannot see this in titanium backup...am i partitioning the wrong thing?

2:can i restore apps from my HD2 to this tablet?

THanks in advance

MG
[Acer Iconia A500] THE CRIME:
hi , can you please upload it to mediafire because my connection is bad and I cant download it from multiupload ether

please please please please help
[Acer Iconia A500] xda-dev2k:
hi everyone...

third day with this last release, everything works flawlessly (at least everything I've tried)

I was wondering if and how would be possible to port some apks from galaxy to picasso, expecially email.apk (containing a select all function and a wipe bin also), and the convenient accuweather widget (providing good interface and forecasts)

I like those very much, I didn't want to disturb, but I hadn't understood yet how to sign apks and if it's really possible to install them in a cross-platform way.

TIA:)
[Acer Iconia A500] burkpe:
Everything is working as expected with the latest release great work!
[Acer Iconia A500] jcrabapple:
This ROM is almost perfect. Runs great and battery life is good. However I can't seem to find a ROM and kernel combo that doesn't have the problem with songs not advancing when the screen is off. This is really annoying for me as I use my tab to listen to music all the time and don't want the screen to have to be on all the time. I had it working at one point with Thor's kernel but I don't remember which ROM. I've changed ROMs so much it's hard to keep track. Has anyone else found a way to solve this problem without creating 10 others?
[Acer Iconia A500] jcrabapple:
Ok so i just tried the newest version of Taboonay which has Thor's kernel and the problem doesn't exist.
[Acer Iconia A500] jetsetwilly:
apple movie trailers...

Anyone know of any way of playing apple movie trailers? My browser keeps opening Moboplayer but won't play 'em...any ideas?:o
[Acer Iconia A500] AWTrost:
Its funny you say this because I was just about to say that this is the only rom that I've been able to use the auto correct feature on the standard keyboard. If you still can't get it to work try downloading hackers keyboard, or even swype, from the market. The auto correct features on those have always worked for me.