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[Acer Iconia A500] UnicornKaz:
I wondered how you got the OTA when you have

A500_4.010.41

originally ??

I thought North America the latest HC3.1 was version

A500_4.010.13_COM_GEN2

??

anyway...

I am on

A500_4.010.13_COM_GEN2 rooted with CWM

... should I go ahead and flash this ??

I understand that it will keep root... and since I will have root... I guess I can use "Acer Recovery Installer" to re-install CWM ??

and freaking Acer !!!... we were on GEN_1 originally awhile back (HC3.0.1)... then went on to GEN_2 (HC3.1)... now with HC3.2 they are back with GEN_1 ??... freaking confusing idiots !!

and the A501 is keeping this format (4.015.01)...similar to HC3.1 format !

while us A500 is going to this format (7.006.01) :mad::mad: :confused:

Side note:

If we are seeing custom roms for HC3.2 keeping root..etc... why can't dev managed to root stock 3.2 ??

and is the CWM recovery working for 3.2 ??
[Acer Iconia A500] ezterry:
No clue was what the device auto updated to what I had, then I rooted (+ intercepted the OTA last night).. I don't know the regions ACER is using.. butthe tab was purchaced at a local staples.

The update I've provided won't touchrecovery, so you keep your current recovery and thus can restore your backup even if you mess up the rom.

You also will have root so you can re-flash reocvery if something goes wrong. But likely won't need to.

Last I'm not touching the bootloader so that will also remain as is.

Keeping root is diffrent from rooting the new system:

To keep root I pull the update zip from the system without letting it install, then I decrypt it (since acer encodes it) unzip it, then manually add/remove files to the update zip before installing via clockwork.

This way I don't need root to install superuser/su on a locked down system, but just install it via clockwork with the correct permissions.

Also recovery is seperate from the andoid system (seperate linuxkernel/ram disk from the main boot kernel/ramdisk) We need not touch it when installing a rom (even if most stock roms by default like to reflash recovery.)
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
I flashed my Packard bell libertytab with this rom and everything is just fine.

CWM and root.

Thanks.

Edit: I got the Thor 3.4 kernel running on it and it is fast.

24/7 at 1544MHz and even 1680 is no problem with it.

Max cfbench overall score is 9175.
[Acer Iconia A500] v_lestat:
my only problem is that the OP doesnt sound too sure of himself if this rom is even any good

thats just the feeling i got after reading his first post

it almost sounds like you dont have an iconia to test this on.

i do hope i am wrong. i guess i have not seen anyone post a rom and use the words in the manor you have. it just made me feel uneasy about if the rom even works.
[Acer Iconia A500] ezterry:
I have an icona.. and its running the rom.

But the OTA hasn't even been out 24h (rooted or otherwise) so I've not had the time to really put the rom into its paces (nor has anyone else not working at ACER)

The other thing is my position on this rom; That is unless there is (a) a bug in the modifications I did make to provide root and some tools for end users to add their own tweaks; or (b) another official release provided by acer: I do not want to be updating the base rom; it ought to remain nearly as close to the stock OTA as possible (and any exception to this is already defined in my modification list)

Now if you have a interesting addition.. Or I come up with an interesting hack I'm happy to provide/advertise it as an "Add on" that the user may optionally flash on top of the rom to obtain the additional functionality.

(Of course I much rather work on roms with accessible source code.. unfortunately we will not be able to make such a thing until Google releases the source for Ice Cream Sandwich)
[Acer Iconia A500] rbtconsultants:
Rom appears to work fine fine. Cleared cache and dalvik cache and flashed to my Iconia with CWM from stock 3.1 and voila - 3.2

Flashed the modified HoneyVillain Kernel in post 2 and overclocked to 1504. Everything working fine so far. Netflix working with patch (rear videocam FC as usual).

I'm hoping for better battery life than Taboonay. Maybe it was just me, but I had awful battery life with Taboonay compared to stock.

Bob

---------- Post added at 05:12 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:44 PM ----------

I should mention after flashing that kernel I put ro.carrier=wifi-only into /system/build.prop to remove cell standby from battery use.

Also, since I didn't do full wipe, this truly came out as an upgrade, since everything on my tablet stayed the sam ein terms of apps and configuration
[Acer Iconia A500] superbar:
Scrolling thu home screen is smooth now but scrolling thru apps still lags, not as smooth as 3.1, I wipe my dalvik cache and clean wipe, should I wipe my partition?
[Acer Iconia A500] HarshReality:
As I just got the update notice today (US) for 3.2 I suppose the only question I would have is... can you tell me exactly how you did this so I can do it and only have su installed. Dont misunderstand as I appreciate the dev aspect of things but I have yet to see a stock rooted ROM or direction on how to that anybody hasnt 'tweaked'.
[Acer Iconia A500] suomaf:
He already explained a few posts before. He took the update, dismantled it and took out the bit that will upgrade your recovery and wipe out the root. Repackaged it and viola! instant magic!
[Acer Iconia A500] ezterry:
Most of the "tweaks" in here are you find not as optional as you may think.. Particularly for a distributed product.

However I've not modified any binary files; this means all the changes are either text files or removal/addition of binary blobs thus to see what I've done:

You need the official OTA image and to decrypt it/unzip it information is here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1113878

(As well on two 3.2 update related threads happening in the a500 dev section)

Once you have unziped the zipfile and update.zip will be visible and is the base of the update.zip for this install.

In that file is system files, recovery flasher files a boot.img (this contains the ramdisk where I have modifications so adb shell works as root look into extracting the ramdisk with cpio) and scripts to help in the installation of the rom.. the updater-script (a few dirs under META-INI) is the script recovery runs.

From here you can compare the files in the official archive with mine, or ignore mine and modify the install to your own liking.

For best results knowing the structure of the files in system and how linux/android boots is important. Otherwise this is a hands on exercise, there is only so much advice I can give,thus looking at the original and seeing what I touched will likely provide insight particularly if your are stuck.

In the case of su/superuser I just pulled from the official zip on rom manager provided by ChainsDD (links at https://github.com/ChainsDD/Superuser/blob/gh-pages/manifest.js ) and placed them into system making sure to add the suid perm on su in the updater-script. This however will not allow adb shell as root or prevent clockwork recovery from being over written.

There is a bit of a learning curve.. even if to me this type of hack is trivial and I only bothered doing it so I could have the 3.2 OTA without loosing root, and without what I think are silly tweaks some other devs add.

Not very technical.. but once you decide to use the rom yes is about how its supposed to act.. And how I hope most of those that have downloaded the image think of it.
[Acer Iconia A500] ZeroAlphawolf:
When i flash this, and reboot, i hang on the Acer bootup logo. No changes. I can go back into recovery and restore, but i can seem to get this to flash properly. I'd like to have a nice clean minimal 3.2.

I even wiped and did a clean instal, one note it did say

Offset:0x180

Before it said installation complete, it also 'installed' the file far to quickly in my opinion.
[Acer Iconia A500] joe9002:
Will this Rom recive ota? If so can use back door.

Sent from my Desire HD
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
thanks ezterry, gonna use this for my personal rom.

edit:

quick question ,ez , I noticed that the finsky and vending app is still in there + the new phonesky app (all market versions where phonesky is the latest , 3.17 and updates automaticly to 3.4.4 after a few times you use the market) in the PB 3.2.1 rom acer lifted the finsky and vending app and only left the phonesky app.

it works fine with only phonsky , if not you are running 3 market apps if you go and look in running apps.

Just to let you know , strange that acer didn't do the same it did on the PackardBell G100W 3.2.1 release (and it is exactly the same tablet just different cover)
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
I think not , not sure
[Acer Iconia A500] ezterry:
A mistake on my merging, (I forgot to remove the files from my local image) I need to look some more but I think the old apps are not actually installed since the odex is broken [the old version] (meaning removing them will free some space on the readonly system partition but will not impact the runtime of the system.)

No rom OTAs from Acer, and I'm not setup to push my updates as an ota.

Market updates (including some from Acer) may be set to automatic..
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
I did remove them without problem , running fine on only phonesky.
[Acer Iconia A500] joe9002:
Well as long as we have some one like you pushing updated ROMs who needs acer :) thank you for your time.

So you no ive flashed this over the top of CWM-A500_7.014.02_com_gen2 only wiping Dalvik cache and all is smooths running fine.
[Acer Iconia A500] ezterry:
Yes... and better than with them there on a no wipe update anyway.. guess v4 will be published soon.

Only diffrence if you don't want to wait or download another 400M file:

adb remount
adb shell rm /system/app/Finsky.* /system/app/Vending.*
adb shell reboot

Checking the edify on the updates again that ought to correct the system image, what I'm not sure what to do with is the EC update in the 7.014.14 update zip (not in the rom, firmwares such as that I don't usually want as part of the android distrobution)

Well as this is mostly the acer rom... we are still here looking to acer for the updates.

(Hopefully one of these open source ICS initiatives will work, or I will manage a working ICS build myself.. my personal attempts have been non-booting) then we will have less reliance on acer and official updates.

However if you are rooted there will always be roms such as this one, that are mostly stock just with super user and optinally some other small corrections to help rooted users run smoothly without loosing root.

You just have to give people like a moment of time (before your unroot) to pull the files together, and maybe 24-36h after the first major push to find and iron out any goofs such as the extra files.. This is more cooking however and not the more true development I do elsewhere.
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
I removed them before flashing zip , removed some more stuff.

EC update is only for if you com from HC3.1 or 3.01 and never used a official 3.2 before is what I heard.

I've seen people bricking there tablet flashing that EC update.

So I'm not sure we need it , I'm not having problems.

EC update has some thing to do with power managment I think.

gonna try to find it out
[Acer Iconia A500] ezterry:
Ok, As you can see in the OP, I just pushed a small update out;

Only change in v4 was the removal of the Vending/Finsky app, leaving phonesky for market (The correct version)

You can of course download the new version, however if you already installed v3 you can save yourself time and me bandwidth by either:

A) From ADB:

adb remount
adb shell rm /system/app/Finsky.* /system/app/Vending.*
adb shell reboot

or B) From a shell

su
mount -o remount,rw /system
rm /system/app/Finsky.* /system/app/Vending.*
sync
reboot

both methods will result in the same changes as the new v4 zip file
[Acer Iconia A500] joe9002:
as I have no idea of the importance of these apps dose this change need to be done?
[Acer Iconia A500] ezterry:
Those apps are not part of the new version from Acer 3.2.1, but were from the original 3.2, I didn't notice they were removed thus accidentally left them.

In theory I didn't think it mattered much, but looking closer with the files included the system ran the old version of market!! (at least on my own no wipe install) Thus leaving the files may mean you are missing out on some of the new features.

In short, I'd have not made a new huge file if it was not important, a simple patchfile works then and saves me much bandwidth. However even a patch like the Skype patch for v2 that I put in the op as recommended for all users was only actually installed by ~30% of the users.. so the full install with patch is needed if we are not to hear of market complaints for the life of the rom.
[Acer Iconia A500] jimbobtexas:
Nevermind. I got the ICS Gmail apk from the apps forum. Works GREAT!
[Acer Iconia A500] niko123456:
installed new version today. Lovely and snappy.

In other news.. turns out a problem I had with my account failing to sync was not because of two step verification.. but a lack of available storage space. No error message.., just a refusal to sync and not even maxed out on storage. Naughty Google.

Although since then I have had process.gapps force close a few times... but seem to be running OK.
[Acer Iconia A500] Nucleotide:
Just installed this ROM. Everything is working great. Thank you very much! :)
[Acer Iconia A500] Tegen:
Hi,

flashed this over my acer7.006.01_CUST_ROOT_BBv2_S yesterday.

Everything works like a charm, I'm still using my A500-after-buy-config though. :)

So BIG THANKS for your effort!
[Acer Iconia A500] schlemil:
Updated to v4. Works great so far... :D

Thank you ezterry!
[Acer Iconia A500] jerry43812:
Hi, OP, unfortunately this post has to be a bug report. I'm not exactly sure if it's the Kernel's fault or the ROM's fault, but I am suffering Wifi drops that are worse than ever after flashing this ROM and the kernel I am currently using, which is:

A500/A501 KERNEL 3.9R3 - ANDROID 3.2+

Link: http://www.tegraowners.com/?p=1253

So, I'd like to know if there's a way I can fix the bad wifi drop problem that I have?

I have my Router set to a 1 hour lease time, and I've tested the wifi issue on both my router and my Evo 4G's wifi tethering. Once I drop my wifi connection, I have to go into the settings menu and disable, then re-enable wifi, to get a new Wifi connection.
[Acer Iconia A500] ezterry:
I do not support kernels without source code..

Please fully wipe your device and re-install the rom without a custom kernel and try again.

If this is not acceptable you may of course instal another rom after the wipe.

Please note XDA rules do not allow links to the kernel you mentioned and thus the URL ought to be removed..

If after you wipe and re install you are having problems try a log cat for information on the phone. This from has no issue with dhcp lease length so any issue is probably ether your actual network or caching. (And usually deleting the lease file corrects this)
[Acer Iconia A500] :
You need to remove the link to that site. XDA does not allow links to that site! ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
Try this patch I made with help from ezterry for the wifi dhcp lease problems , before you flash do a full nandroid backup , flash with cwm. It's build in all my roms and no one complained any more about wifi dropouts.

http://dev-host.org/cdfg599d3bwe/WIFI-FLEXTHUNDER-OPTIMA.zip
[Acer Iconia A500] ezterry:
Um, don't use that:

1) the framework patch is already in this rom and I've tested unlimited dhcp leases

2) The framework changed with the update from 3.2 to 3.2.1 thus I needed to re-apply it and fix the odex since this is still using the original odexes for the rest of the image

User may need to delete the dhcp state file but that is another matter.. I still can't support someone with a kernel I won't install.
[Acer Iconia A500] Nucleotide:
Has anyone had issues with this ROM and the screen turning itself on automatically and remaining on until the battery is completely flat?
[Acer Iconia A500] ezterry:
I have never seen my tablets screen turn on randomly since I purchased it.

If you are seeing this on any stock or near stock rom with a stock kernel however don't expect this rom to magically solve it however. It is either your hardware or some specific application you installed keeping the tab awake..
[Acer Iconia A500] internetpilot:
Never had it occur with this ROM, but I have seen the power button glowing white when it's not even plugged in/charging.

If you're running a stock kernel, then like ezterry said I suspect it's an app. Fyi, a couple of different popular 3rd party weather widgets can supposedly cause this problem. I've never had this happen with Beautiful Widgets and HD Widgets, but I've seen others claim it does. I would try running it without widgets for a while, and if it still happens you're going to have to start more difficult troubleshooting of each app you have installed. Running Alogcat and seeing what shows up wouldn't hurt.
[Acer Iconia A500] schlemil:
I see this behavior since I have my tab. I have flashed it with different roms and kernels in the meantime. Therefore I agree that it is caused by an app. But my tab turns the screen off after some minutes.

With the old version 2 of the rom and the Villain Iconia kernel I noticed many reboots of the tab in stand-by. I noticed this behavior only once since I have the new version of the rom and standard kernel flashed.
[Acer Iconia A500] jm77:
Seeing tons of FC on gapps. Replaced the Gmail apk with the one from ICS and I stopped seeing FCs for a short while, but they're back.

Tried wiping dalvik and fixing permissions through recovery, but no go.

Anyone else having this issue?
[Acer Iconia A500] schlemil:
A short question.

Does the kernel support Cifs?

I have problems to mount a network share with the CifsManager.

A prerequisite is that the kernel support cifs.

Thanks!
[Acer Iconia A500] ezterry:
Its the stock kernel cifs is not built in..

Of course you can download the module in the 2nd post, remount system and place it in /system/modules/cifs.ko and it ought to work at least it your application has an option to load a module and/or you make an init script for it.

Its not that bad to set up.. but personally I just use es file explorer that just used user space libraries to upload/download files rather than mounting the network drive.. good if you are only using cifs to exchange files and not to exist locally for multiple applications. (Since no module or kernel changes are needed)
[Acer Iconia A500] schlemil:
I copied the file to /system/lib/modules/cifs.ko and the cifsmanager works fine. :D

Thank you ezterry!
[Acer Iconia A500] -vpa:
There is any news about ICS for us?
[Acer Iconia A500] ezterry:
When I get the verified official update from HC-7.014.14 to ICS I will look at it and decide how I want to update my own tablet.. will let you know then (if its just an update to this rom or a seperate rom)
[Acer Iconia A500] sxm2:
Thanks for keeping us up to date. I would like to upgrade to ICS instead of formatting and losing all my game progress.

I'm currently on 7.014.02_COM_GEN2. Would I need to update to .14 first in order to use any updates to ICS?

Thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] ezterry:
This rom the thread is talking about it a particular rooted rom based off of 7.014.14_GEN1 .. I will attempt to make sure my ICS rom thus is based off the image sent to people with this version.

7.014.02_GEN2 is distributed by ACER in a diffrent region, its up to date, just a slightly diffrent distribution (almost all the roms are nearly identical so hard to say what the diffrences are, perhapse just some localization cleanups)

Actually I did see the update file to 7.014.14 and 7.014.02 floating around the various acer forms, if you are not rooted they can be manually downloaded and flashed.

-------------------------------------

All:

Regarding the update to this rom, I'm unsure when I'll be ready (still havnt recived an actual push from acer and forgot where I found the link mentioned above). That said it ought to be noted its linkly my ICS rom will require the new unlocked bootloader to install, thus if you are hoping to avoid the new bootloader you may wish to look at Flexreaper.

Obviously if you don't want to wait for me, you are welcome to try someone elses work, I will however eventually make an ICS update since that will be the version I'll be running. Also hope once I start working on it to look into making the current (v4) version of this rom bootable on the new bootloader.. I'm unsure how well that will work (its unlikely I will spend too much time since its unlikely once I'm ready to upgrade that I'll ever look back at HC, but if its fairly trivial I'll work on it.)
[Acer Iconia A500] ezterry:
Just a quick note, in my experiments with the patched v3 ICS bootloader, I've noticed this rom works with the Stock Kernel on the new bootloader without and modifications.

Thus if you do upgrade your bootloader and install ICS and wish to return to this rom, all you need do is either restore your backup (excluding recovery if it was included) *OR* reinstall with the update.zip as usual.

Update

The ICS update (for no wipe from this rom) is here

While no wipe is required, this does require the new unlocked bootloader. thus make sure you have some time allocated to read up on the bootloader and install the rom. (if you have not already used nvflash tools anyway)

(note if you do need to return to this rom it can be also installed with the new bootloader so you do not need to re-install the HC bootloader to run backups of this rom)
[Acer Iconia A500] cliefan:
Just have to say...I'm loving this rom...

I ran taboonay for a week or so, but had wifi issues very frequently. No issues here yet.

Actually have much better success with apps that wouldn't run on 3.1...Monkey Preschool Lunchbox specifically, it used to lock up my a500. Works great now. :-)

I did not flash the modded kernel. Also did not wipe data coming from 3.1 stock.
[Acer Iconia A500] cliefan:
Took a good 10-ish mins at least to get past the Acer logo after flashing for me.

Also saw the offset message, can't remember if it referenced the same code or not.
[Acer Iconia A500] ezterry:
If you wipedor anything else in recovery before flashing its possible (not likely inthecurrent version I don't think.. but possible) that something got confused and system was not cleanly wiped before flashing the update.zip files.. Easy fix here is just to start/reboot into recoveryand just flash the rom.

Otherwise logs will be needed running 'adb shell tail -f /tmp/recovery.log' from your computer will provide details and errors of the install and other recovery actions. Then in boot 'adb logcat' will give youa system log to show what is happening on boot.. If you need help reviewing them paste them to pastebin and not inline in the thread as its too much data.
[Acer Iconia A500] ZeroAlphawolf:
Well before i was running Lightspeed's rom 3.2, so i went back and pulled up a restore of my stock 3.1.

The install seems to be taking a lot longer, and i got a different random offset : 0x1fc this time, but still not long enough it seems.

BUT, i just finished, and it came through, so huzzah, now just to bring back my apps and data
[Acer Iconia A500] cliefan:
Oh yeah, I'm also very interested in a netflix fix. I can test if needed.
[Acer Iconia A500] suomaf:
Fantastic work! I was lazy and slapped this on top of my existing stock 3.1 with root. Everything went over quite well. Quick question tho, does your superuser app force close? Mine does, but all existing apps that have already acquired root prior to 3.2 retained root. Not sure about new apps that need root, considering that superuser app force closes for me?

Would I be able to adb in and replace the app? I tried uninstalling but no go, i think its because you left superuser as a system app? ooh also are you getting a insert sim card message? I seem to be getting that on the lock screen.

Thanks again for this, stock 3.2 for those of us who do want the "silly" additions and tweak :D