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[Acer Iconia A500] FooFooNZ:
Don't forget, you are the one who purchased an Acer product - no one made you do that. I think if you're unhappy with the boot loader issue then you should vote with your wallet and not buy the Iconia in the first place - there are other options out there....remember there is always the iPad...:p

I will be the first to agree that Honeycomb is not as polished as it could be - it's almost there but not quite. But we all know that the wait for updates is an issue that comes up again and again, not just with Acer (Samsung Galaxy, HTC Desire etc).

I think a good lesson is not to believe the hype, especially when any company says "x update is coming and will be ready by y date". More so when Android tablet market is not as mature as it will be in a year.

I am left feeling that a lot of people think the 3.1 update will magically fix everything. I'm sure it won't, but I'm eagerly looking forward to it.

Can those who have installed it let us know how it runs?
[Acer Iconia A500] preynmantis:
As a preface to my comments, I worked as a territory service manager for a major computer manufacturer and I have worked in the customer service/IT management field for over 20 years. BLUF, I know this stuff cold.

You might look up the definition of rights vs. privileges. While you are at it, you might try reading your warranty and identify what your specific "rights" are and what remediation you might seek.

Your absolute "right" is to exercise your right as a consumer and purchase the product you wish, or return it if it does not meet your need (within the return period specified by your specific vendor). However, one you have exercised your consumer "right", your "rights" are strictly limited by the warranty supplied by the manufacturer.

Just to be helpful, I will post it for you:

Regarding Acer-supplied software that accompanies the Product, Acer warrants the “hard copy” media, e.g. diskettes, CD-ROMs, upon which this software is delivered to be “free from defects and workmanship” for a period of 90 days after the date of purchase by the end user. In the event that you receive defective media, Acer will replace the defective media at no charge to you. Media is not covered if abused, neglected or damaged by the user. It is your responsibility to back up all software supplied on the hard drive.

Except for this media warranty, this software is provided “As Is” and Acer disclaims any and all warranties, expressed or implied, including but not limited to any implied warranty of non-infringement of third-party rights, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Acer does not warrant that the operation of this software will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that this software will meet your requirements. You assume both the risk as to the quality and performance of this software and the cost of repair or service to remedy software defects.

The short answer is this, you do NOT have the "right" to ask for a fix or compensation for ANY problem, real or perceived with the OS on your tablet. Your exclusive "right" is to seek repair of the device for hardware faults. Compensation is not within your "rights" (even for hardware faults) and must be sought through civil relief. Now, to be absolutely honest, you are correct in that you can "ask" for "fix or compensation" or anything else you wish, but they are only required to comply with the terms of their warranty. When you purchased the device, you accepted the software (OS) "AS-IS".
[Acer Iconia A500] sjtoomey:
No update yet... It's Wednesday 7/6 9am in New Jersey.

Anybody out their have a clue...?
[Acer Iconia A500] preynmantis:
Given the paucity of official information by Acer, any answers would be pure conjecture.

Stick around, you will get plenty of that, along with second and third hand information.
[Acer Iconia A500] sammyboy405:
Still No update here in Oklahoma. Several of us have them and none of us have gotten the update for 3.1 yet.
[Acer Iconia A500] entropyiv:
No update here in Florida either.
[Acer Iconia A500] neuttrino:
No update in Bulgaria......
[myTouch 4G General] ttibbetts83:
i have tried the settings from other posts with some of the deffirant settings and could not get them to work properly. so i went to simplemobile online an tried using settings just for android 1.6 and higher witch use the data and mms settings in the same apn list. the pics send very fast and clear hopefully will work for others. i think the settings do not work properly on the mytouch 4g because most of us on here are not using stock roms and that is what simple mobile will be setting it up for

From the home screen

Press Menu

Select "Settings"

Select "Wireless & networks"

Check that "Airplane mode" and "Wi-Fi" are unchecked

Select "Mobile networks"

Check that "Data enabled" is checked.

Select "Access Point Names"

Delete all existing APNs

Select APN

Press Menu

Select "Delete APN"

Create new APN

Press Menu

Select "New APN"

Enter the following information:

Name: SIMPLE Mobile

APN*: simple

Proxy: <Not set>

Port: <Not set>

Username: <Not set>

Password: <Not set>

Server: <Not set>

MMSC: http://smpl.mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com/mms/wapenc

MMS Proxy: <Not set>

MMS Port: <Not set>

MCC: 310

MNC: 260

Authentication Type: <Not set>

APN type: <Not set>

*Case sensitive

Press Menu

Select "Save"

Reboot phone.

Your Internet & MMS is now configured!

good luck hope it works
[myTouch 4G General] conantroutman:
No need to double post information......

Thanks.
[Windows Phone 7 General] The Dogan:
Windows 8 has been shown to be able to run on ARM chipsets as well as running off removable media.

Dockable phones also seem to be an up and coming thing (see the Atrix and padfone), however instead of using a pretty limited linux distro when docked WP7 phones could use Windows 8.

As long as the phone specs were up to it they'd be no real difficultly. Once the phones docked into something like a TV via HDMI you could use the phones screen as a mouse and when text needs to be entered you just click on the field and a keyboard shows up on the phone.

It could do the same as the padfone as well except obviously it'd use Windows 8's tablet interface.

Plugged into a laptop body then it'd just be the standard Windows setup.

What does everyone reckon?
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
I have no doubt that this will happen, probably once Windows Phone moves to the Windows 8 core.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Wyn6:
Yeah. I was actually demonstrating this to a friend of mine last week. He's a cg animator for a mid-size company and we began talking about what type of interface could replace the mouse, gesture, voice, etc.

Gesture wouldn't be as accurate as needed in his line of work but would fit most people's needs. However, it may prove to be a bit of a strain over time. Voice... well you probably would eventually get tired of talking.

Microsoft just patented keyboards with removable/dockable touch interfaces which dock next to the number pad on the right, or alternatively, the left side. This interface could replace the mouse even for work which requires extreme accuracy like my friend's above.

This could also be your phone. It could be docked with the keyboard via bluetooth, wifi, IR, wireless HDMI, a physical dockin outlet or whatever else, as well as a tv with those inputs. This could then be used as an interface, universal remote, or to send an image to a larger screen. It could be used in conjunction with a physical keyboard or as a keyboard itself, as well. A windows 8 pad coud be used in much the same manner.
[Windows Phone 7 General] colossus_r:
Windows Phone 8 will be like that...
[General Questions and Answers] szlghl1:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1048195

My phone is desire z and its rom isThe based on stock HTC 2.6.32 kernels.But after installing the zip and apk,I found it record nothing after phoneing.Is there anyone being like me?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aabbondanza:
Have 3 Gtabs running Calkulin Clemsyn como v6. Two run great, but on one I randomly get blank notifications & when that happens VTL Launcher partially freezes (can switch screen, open some apps but eventally will totally freeae). From the point the blank notification appears I can't get into the VTL menu to restart VTL & while holding Power brings up the power off option, it would let me pick a selection. I have to hold power to turn off.

I notice that the version of VTL is 1.61. but there is a newer version out, 1.6.5. Clemsyn says on his post (in development) that trying to change the default launcher could cause sleep of death. Not sure if that means the process of changing it while the system is running or if he means swithcing to a different launcher!!!

To the question....Can I use ADB to overwrite the vtllauncer.apk in /system/app/ with the newer version, then reboot & it work correctly?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodintentions:
Try it and tell the rest of us if it works. Since the "old" vtl is a system app launcher in v6, there's too much of a chance something will go wrong.

What you can do is this. Install another launcher, something like adw or whatever. Then use system app remover to take out the old vtl. Then install the new vtl. Then voila you have the new vtl.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aabbondanza:
Blank Notificatons

More on the blank notifications. Seems to be two different ones. One points to the time in the Notifcation Bar & the other appear below the home icon on the notifcation bar.

I've also duplicated this on a second gTab.

Seems to do it most when moving icons near the notification bar/trash can
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodintentions:
Oh, I know what you're talking about now. Go into vtl settings, choose none for swiping up and swiping down, and then also choose to never hide task bar. After this, the blank notification will never appear again.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aabbondanza:
Replaced VTL. So far so good!

Downloaded & installed ADW Launcher from freewarelovers.com. Downloaded System App Remover from Marketplace & installed. Switched to ADW Launcher. Ran System App Remover & backuped up original VTL then removed it. Used Rootexplorer to copy new version of VTL to /system/app & changed permissions. Installed the new version. Rebooted & selected new VTL as default, then removed ADW & reboooted. All the things I've tried so far appear to be working normally. I'll do more testing & report back.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aabbondanza:
There isn't a "none" option in Swipe Up/Down Actions. I have Show Previews, Open/close App Drawer, Show/hide statusbar, Open/close notifications, Move to default desktop/Open notification, or Open App!

I'll try the Open/close App Drawer - Up & Open/close Previews - Down & see how that works.

Thanks for the help.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aabbondanza:
OK, had a head up and locked moment...when back scrolled up and found the none option...sorry.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodintentions:
I was gonna take pictures and shoot a video proving that there is such an option :D
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aabbondanza:
For those that are interested. I have sucessfully replaced VTL Laucncer (v1.6.1) in Calkulin Clemsyn combo v6 with VTL Laucher v1.6.5 from gojimi's vegan site http://vegantab.gojimi.com/vt-labs/vtl-launcher/ (see post # 5 if interested) on 2 of my 3 gTabs (granddaugher wouldn't give hers up long enough for me to do hers). I have used both extensively over the last couple of days with no issues. Feel free to test if you feel the need to upgrade. The only thing I did that I didn't mention in post #5 is that I did a backup in CWM before I did any of this...just in case.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] captirwin:
Is an upgrade really necessary

I tried to up grade without success.

Is an upgrade really necessary? :confused: What is better with VTL 1.6.5?:confused:

It sounds like a lot of work?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aabbondanza:
You can,t do a direct upgrade because VTL is included as a system app...that's why you have to do the entire procedure.

Probably no big reason to upgrade...I did it because I thought it was causing the blank notifications that was locking mine up. If you change the settings in your VTL (above), you should be OK. If you want to see the changes between 1.6.1 & 1.6.5 you can go to gojimi's site.

Really didn't take long to do...maybe 15-20 minutes and I've only been using Android/gTab for about 3 weeks.

May be worth keeping in mind for when gojimi releases a version with more features, improvement or bug fixes.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] captirwin:
THANKS...

I appreciate the explaination. :D
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodintentions:
Minor correction.

The reason why you can't just upgrade is because in order to upgrade an app the app has to be closed, uninstalled, and newer version install. You can't do that with a launcher if it's the only launcher available. That's why you have to install another launcher, uninstall vtl, then install the newer version. Otherwise, the system would crash and burn if you ain't got no launcher running.

The whole process should take about 1.5 minute.

(1) Install adw launcher.

(2) Press home button and choose adw launcher.

(3) Using root explorer uninstall vtl.

(4) Install new vtl.

(5) Press home button and choose vtl as your defalt.

How hard can that be?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] captirwin:
Sounds Pretty Simple

I'll give it a shot. :eek:
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodintentions:
Hey Captirwin, are you one of the people who a month ago emailed me asking me if I'd mod the gtab for you for a modest fee? Or was that someone else?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] captirwin:
It was me

I was one of those people.

That said, following the easy to follow instructions on your website, I was able to install a custom ROM, and do the GPS install.

I did make a modest donation. :)

Its people like you that make this hobby enjoyable.

THANKS. :D
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] arpruss:
I wrote a little app to resize the button bar on the A43/A70/A101. I've only really tested it on the A43, though I did check that it changes the virtualkeys file for the A101 and the changes looked right.

I recommend that before trying it, you back up your /system/board_properties/virtualkeys.* file.

If someone wants to donate an icon to the project (BSD license) that would be welcome.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] jony7:
For A101 is working flawlessly, many thanks, BTW is it possible to get auto-hide bar? Cheers
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] arpruss:
I have no idea how to do auto-hide. One can edit packages.xml to disable the bar for particular apps, but then one has no way to get out of the apps, unless they were nice enough to provide an exit button.

My suggestion is that if you play a lot of games that the buttons intrude on, you just make the buttons very small.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] arpruss:
I added the ability to change the number, order and contents of the keys in the button bar. Unfortunately, only back/menu/home/search have button bar icons in the framework, so if you select other buttons, they will show up blank. But they should work, despite their blankness. To have fewer keys, just set some to None.

If you want to kill the button bar entirely, just set its width to zero (or else set all its entries to None).

Because of these features, the app is renamed ArchosButtons. But it's still here.

To return to the factory settings, choose "Defaults" and then "Set and reboot".
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] msticninja:
Nice work. I've removed it completely by deleting my init manually, but if I have to do it again, I'll probably use this.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] arpruss:
I'd like to get some more test reports from A70 and A101 users. Anybody? Here's a piece of encouragement: the first two people with each of these tablets to send me a report get a free copy of the paid version of Force2SD (just email me for your copy after posting).
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] lyapa:
On mine A101 doesn't work :(, gives out an error - there Was an unexpected stop of appendix ArchosButtons (process mobi.pruss.archosbuttons). Repeat attempt.

Firmware 2.0.71

P.S. Sorry my bad English.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] jony7:
My A101 its working as described, great job:cool: Added vol. buttons on side bar which is in some cases would be very handy, just shame the buttons are blank but maybe you can do something with it in the future?;)
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] arpruss:
Is the error message when you start the app, or at some later time?

Do you know how to use adb? If so, I can give you some stuff to diagnose this. Email me.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] arpruss:
Filling in these icons would require changing the framework. I don't really want to do that.

A nice mod for those of us who like ebooks would be to remap the hardware volume keys to up/down, and then to add volume buttons--might be nice to extend this app to support that.

Alas, on my A43, the buttons get a little smaller than I like when I add two more. On a tablet, I can see how it might be quite useful to add buttons.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] sibere:
Well done!

Does this app resizes icons when they are moved to the status bar ? (I hate the archos side button bar)

thanks
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] arpruss:
This app resizes the back/menu/home/search buttons, but it does not change the icon size. So if you make bar too thin, the icons will be cut off.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] fisha21:
Thanks for posting this - nice work! Have just tried it on my A101, doesn't seem to resize or reorder the buttonbar icons.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] arpruss:
Does it resize the buttons, but not the icons?
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] fisha21:
No, doesn't resize the buttons either...
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] arpruss:
Do you have an RW root?

If you have adb or a shell, can you check if it changes the /system/board_properties/virtualkeys.A101IT file successfull.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] fisha21:
Am using urukdroid. Will check this and let you know...
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] arpruss:
Ah, I bet urukdroid needs to remount the system partition rw. I can try to add that to the code.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] arpruss:
Does anyone know if

mount -o rw,remount /system

works on urukdroid?
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] arpruss:
Actually, from my reading, it probably should be:

mount -o rw,remount /

Could you actually try that for me? Just start up an adb shell (or a terminal emulator), and do:

su

mount -o rw,remount /

Then immediately run my ButtonsForArchos.apk (current name: I decided ArchosButtons might have trademark issues).
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] sAwNs:
I tried this, but the bar does not resize at all. Reboots to normal size - 41.

Running Uruk 1.0
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] msticninja:
The system partition is always mounted r/w in Uruk. The only case it mounts as RO is OnERROR.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] arpruss:
41? That's odd. The button bar's regular size on the 101 is 44.

Can you send me your /system/board_properties/virtualkeys.A101IT file, both as it is before you run Buttons for Archos, and as it is afterward? Thanks!

By the way, still no reports from A70 users.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] leijae:
I have A101it I just installed the app. I have buttons on top, not on the side. This didn't resize my bar. But I like the idea a whole lot, and I'll keep watching for an update that changes the bar size on top.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] solune:
Hello,

I've make tests on A70S, but won't work :(

No change at all, for number of buttons as well as size.

I've put the virtualkeys.A70S with default and with modif made (size at 13).

Change seems to be write but no change after reboot (even soft reboot of app, or full reboot).

Maybe virtualkeys.A70S is not the one use by system ? :confused:
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] arpruss:
Strange. Maybe your device uses the A70H file? Could you try backing up your A70H file, and then copying the modified A70S file on top of it?
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] arpruss:
You have the buttons in the status bar? I think they're controlled in a different way, so Buttons for Archos won't be able to do anything about them.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] msticninja:
I was just wondering about that. Thinking of a way to resize the notification bar without making the notification icons tiny. If it isn't controlled by the virtualkeys files, I wonder where the buttons are defined.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] solune:
Done, don't work either :(
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] arpruss:
Weird. If you want to keep on helping out, maybe you backup all your virtualkeys.* files, and then try renaming them one by one (starting with the *.A70* ones), to see which rename removes your buttonbar completely? You'll need to reboot to make the change happen. I usually reboot with "killall zygote" (unpleasant as that sounds).
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] solune:
I'll try that. I've already try to rename 70* and 101, the button bar still here.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] arpruss:
And the rename survives the reboot?

Have you tried a real reboot (reboot, rather than killall zygote)?
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] solune:
Yes rename survive reboot (real reboot, not only killall zygote).

Even with all files renamed in /system/board_properties I still have the button bar !
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] arpruss:
And it's the standard bottom or right of screen button bar?
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] solune:
It's the four buttons we have right of the screen (search, home, menu, back), the archos softs buttons.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] arpruss:
I have no idea what's going on. Any other 70 owners?
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] diabel44:
Tested on Archos 70S with latest Urukdroid beta with 1,2GHz OC kernel.

Resize ButtonBar works without problem.

Unfortunately when you try to modify button (add or remove or change order), ButtonBar become "empty" without any buttons and even when you use "Default" options, ButtonBar size get original size but is still "empty".

Restoring original files makes it working again.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] arpruss:
Can you send me the virtualbuttons.A70S file before and after using my app?

Also, you can try ButtonsForArchos 0.02. I tried it and it should produce output files that are identical to the original ones.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] diabel44:
v 0.02 didn't work either.

Uploaded files from my tablet.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] arpruss:
Ah! The problem is that Polish locale uses commas, and so when ButtonsForArchos was writing decimal numbers, it had commas, but the OS couldn't understand that. Version 0.03 should fix it. Try it, please. It also has an option to restore the standard settings, in case Default doesn't work.

Z pozdrowieniami!
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] mao_:
great. but don't work on my a70 (urukdroid 1.0)
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] arpruss:
Yeah, I can't get it working on uruk, and I don't want to install uruk myself. If you can send me the *.A70* files from /system/board_properties, that might help. Or not.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] mao_:
ok. i hope you can make it work

and one question: app can resize only side buttons, or buttons located in the notifications too?
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] arpruss:
This only resizes the side/bottom buttons.

The files you sent me are basically identical to the ones I have on my A43 (except for the A35DE file, but that is irrelevant). But I do notice that there is a temporary sed file there, which suggests something went wrong with my invocation of sed -i. I'll see if I can find some way of figuring this out.
[Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Themes and Apps] diabel44:
I've tested version ButtonsForArchos-004.apk	and now is working great. :D

Thx for your work.