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[Acer Iconia A500] Falkner09:
I believe it's been around for about a week now, and I already see posts about a new wi-fi issue and the stock browser freezing. I'm well aware of the issues that were caused by the 3.1 update since ive had this tablet since 3.0, so I figured i'd come here to see what to expect if I take the plunge.

i'd love to know anything yall can tell me, but did they at least fix the old wifi glitch? and what's the story on the new one?
[Acer Iconia A500] Falkner09:
anyone? bueller?
[Acer Iconia A500] frankws:
After I updated a couple weird things.

I play Live holdem poker on it and the poker game keeps refreshing.

When it does it makes me fold the hand.

Had some great hands that got folded.

I also keep getting a "server timed out," or similar while on the net when it did not.

update; internet not timing out now.

The game is still folding my hands.

No problem with the game on my other tablet.

Otherwise everything is working good.
[Acer Iconia A500] TFordham:
Been doing 3.2 for a while now, and no problems come to mind for me.
[Acer Iconia A500] kjy2010:
None here either. ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] shaun298:
Sounds like you got the wifi drop out.
[Acer Iconia A500] bungaboy:
Not having any issues either.

Just waiting patiently for the root fix for stock 3.2
[Acer Iconia A500] frankws:
I guess that's why every so often I see service started or similar in the notification bar.

I do not notice any problem with it while on the net.

Just that one game keeps refreshing.

I have another poker game that does not do it at all.

I wouldn't mind it except that it has folded my hand at times when they were sure winners.
[Acer Iconia A500] D_Steve595:
Videos occasionally stutter and jump frames, while audio remains fine. Happens a lot in YouTube.

Speaking of YouTube, it crashes a lot. Not force closes, but hangs for a bit and then goes back to the main YouTube screen.
[Acer Iconia A500] proxonic:
rooted, HV 1.2

- less smooth than honeycomb 3.1

- battery drain (in my case only a couple of hours and the tablet is dead)

- exchange accounts issue if mails are bigger than 10 MB (my assumption)
[Acer Iconia A500] kjy2010:
You can blame that on a "cooked" ROM, I "believe" the OP was asking about stock 3.2, but I could be mistaken. ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] proxonic:
those issues were observed with cooked roms and with stock

see other topics in this forum

proxonic
[Acer Iconia A500] kjy2010:
Link please? :rolleyes:
[Acer Iconia A500] bhalbower:
If you already upgraded to 3.2 and lost your root, you can rollback to stock 3.0, then install one of the custom 3.2 ROMS in the developer’s thread that are rooted. They use a different boot loader and if you prefer stock, there are some ROMs that are very near stock. It might be a while before the devs crack the new boot loader.
[Acer Iconia A500] orbix:
I'm still seeing the stock music player not advancing to the next track if the screen is off... I know, there are other player options that don't have this issue, but it's still crap that the standard player is effectively useless and behaves differently than most music players on most phones/tablets.
[Acer Iconia A500] tkolev:
Now that we have a way to install rooted 3.2 regardless of the bootloader there is little sense to continue trying to crack the new bootloader. The same happened with the Desire HD - once there was a way to downgrade, rooting was abandoned. I too prefer to have a way of rooting instead of downgrading, but it seems that downgrading is the easier path.

On topic: I have no issues whatsoever with the rooted near-stock 3.2 ROM. No wifi dropouts (not that I had any with 3.0 or 3.1) or anything like that.
[Acer Iconia A500] hardslog:
I have had issues with 3.1 WIFI but it seems to be gone with 3.2
[Acer Iconia A500] rueben68:
just loaded the 3.2 update and noticed that when I plug it in via USB to my laptop it sees both cads but it won't open the SD card. It registers the space used but won't display the content. Any thoughts?

Not rooted.
[Acer Iconia A500] klaus9000:
I got tired of waiting for the 3.2 update and decided to install a custom 3.2 ROM. Everything works great and I did have the short battery life issue mentioned in this thread..... I found it was all due to Wifi being set to always on. After I fixed that my battery life is excellent.

I get dropped hands in poker too but it's usually when I am in a weak wifi area of my house.
[Acer Iconia A500] proxonic:
kjy2010 - use search.

klaus9000 - could you please tell me what do you have fixed regarding the wifi always on issue?
[Acer Iconia A500] vari9:
The clock on the lockscreen is positioned in the extreme right(in potrait mode)......everything else feels smooth....apart from youtube...it feels a bit laggy..
[Acer Iconia A500] mandel4026:
HC 3.2 Looks Good!

Just installed the 3.2 OTA update (San Diego, CA). I am not rooted and was running the stock 3.1 ROM.

Everything went very smoothly. No issue with WiFi at all. Scrolling seems to be faster and smoother. Have not noticed any drawbacks to the update.

In the App drawer, there are a few new apps installed: Acer Media, a video, music and photo player; Aupeo, an internet radio player; Media Server, which seems to be a media streamer for media on the Tab; Nook reader; Open Office Document reader; and, Movie Studio, which seems to be a video editor.
[Acer Iconia A500] Falkner09:
whoa wait, they installed Nook? is it uninstallable? I used to have that installed on my tab, and it kept crashing at random times, especially when I wasn't even using it. I would be in the middle of something else, never having turned Nook on, and I would get a force close pop up. fail.
[Acer Iconia A500] MAXL3ON:
No problems so far. I just updated to HC 3.2, kernel version 2.6.36.3+, build number A500_7_006.01_COM-GEN2. Smoother response to gestures. Slightly better battery time. Faster browsing in Internet. I did the update with rooted HC3.1 with stock kernel and no problems so far.
[Acer Iconia A500] mippippippi:
I have no problem at all with the upgrade. I've been always on stock rom. Wifi connected right away.The screen is a lot more responsive, as i use Sketchbook a lot with a stylus , now the screen is behaving significantly better. No problem with Youtube so far. And micro SD showing all it's contents ( files and folders) when connected to PC.

The only thing i notice is the MX Player no longer support Hardware decoding. It's software problem but kinda annoying, cause the new version was doing great for MKV files and i didn't have re-encode anything.
[Acer Iconia A500] elsuirad:
New updates here.

I have problem hwen I updated to v3.2 from 3.0.1 via OTA. My root privilege was lost so I have to downgrade back to 3.0.1 and installed ROM. And now...

My A500 Rocks!

Thor Transformer Revolver 3.5 Port v4.1
[Acer Iconia A500] xendrome:
That link is from May.... so nothing new there...
[Acer Iconia A500] orbix:
Nope, you can't uninstall nook. At least for me, I ended up with it installed after the 3.1 update. Also, Acer Media is just a rebranded version of Nemo Player, which has been preinstalled from the beginning.
[Acer Iconia A500] ThatGeekGuy:
Whenever I see that, it's because the built in Media Server is starting up, probably scanning to update any new content. I don't use it, I may just freeze it with Titanium....
[Acer Iconia A500] frankws:
No I don't think so. I believe it is the internet wireless dropout some have experienced.

It happens to me all the time in Live Holdem Poker and it will make my hand fold, go all in or whatever. Very frustrating since it has folded some unbeatable hands like a full house with 3 aces.

While that is my only problem it makes me wish I had not updated.
[Acer Iconia A500] Carokann:
WiFi problem 3.2

OTA 3.2 update, not rooted and now after the update I have wifi connection drop-out problems. I have reset multiple times the Acer and it continued. If I turn of the d-Link 815 Dual band router the A500 will connect for about 40 seconds and then drop out and not be able to connect again. All other computer are connecter to the network without a problem. The network Analyzer tool show a strong signal from the router. But the A500 show a negative -1 db or not signal un able to connect.

The A500 was connecting without a problem before with 3.1 and after 3.2 it just stop, as discribe above. The distance from the router is less the 20 feets. I contated Acer Support and they told me that "Unfortunately, you are first person reporting this issue" I got a ticke #, just in case. But I'm not sure they are doing anything about it. Even it is a know issue.

Here are other topics with similar issues.

Please if you have WiFi problems, please report them to Acer support if we want them to resolve it.

http://androidforums.com/acer-iconia-tab-a500/418231-losing-wifi-connection-since-update.html

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1191792

http://www.acertabletforum.com/foru...tablet-keeps-dropping-wi-fi-connection-2.html

If you know how to resolve it please let me know. I also try the market app wifi fix but it does not work.

Thanks,

Rick
[Acer Iconia A500] orbix:
Huh... I have MX Player running on my Iconia and am able to use hardware mode, at least with the stuff I re-encoded per the stickied Handbrake thread. YMMV, though, since I just installed MX Player today, *after* the 3.2 update. I guess you might try reinstalling it and/or the codec pack? Not sure that'd do anything, but it might be closer to what my working install looks like. :confused:
[Acer Iconia A500] mippippippi:
I was talking that MX doesn't support H/W decoding for the files i never re-encoded and they use to play like charm on 3.1 with H/W . I connected the developer and he said "A500 media framework seems to be degraded after 3.2 upgrade. actually h/w mode of mx video player is just using system media framework. if it cannot play a video, mx video player also can't. "

And if that's true i consider it a big minus.
[Acer Iconia A500] Djaz69:
3.2 Update

I've run the 3.2 Update for a very short while, about 1 day, and immediately began searching to downgrade. Reason being, is with 3.1 I had the ability to read/write ANY USB MASS Storage Device and had root. With 3.2 I lost ROOT and I also lost the ability to READ/WRITE to USB MASS Storage Devices, primarily READ, cause without READ there is no WRTE. I would plug the device, 4GB SANDISK USB Thumb Drive, in goto Docs2Go and Nothing, goto Explorer(ANY Of them) and Would not see the USB
[Acer Iconia A500] Potatoofdoom:
No problems here

I know this thread is about problems, but I've only seen improvements. My tab is more responsive and I'm not constantly buffering while watching HD YouTube videos like I used to.
[Acer Iconia A500] :
"so, what are the problems with 3.2 so far?"

It doesn't do my dishes! :(
[Acer Iconia A500] AcerA501-User:
3.2 Works fine for me. :)
[Acer Iconia A500] fox.not.fire:
I have wifi disconnecting problem... :(
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Strange stuff, and not indicative of 3.2. I've got two tabs here, one running the ROM in my sig, and the other on OTA 3.2. Both of them read every USB drive in the house without problems.

:confused:
[Acer Iconia A500] frankws:
I did the online chat with acer and was told to install the wifi patch.

I said, that's not for Android 3.2.

"Oh. did you update?"

Da, I told you 3 times already I did the update.

Where do these people come from?

Then they told me to call.

I got the voice messaging and it hung up on me.

Rodney Dangerfield isn't the only one who gets no respect.

I called again and somehow managed to get someone.

I went round and round with the woman telling her this and that does not work.

Finally I gave in and did a factory reset.

No not a reset but a factory reset.

For a factory reset you hold the volume up and continue to hold it while pushing the power button. As soon as it vibrates you continue to hold the volume up while switching the lock screen switch back and forth several times till it says clearing drive or something like that.

The wifi cutout is still happening.

I was told if it continued I would have to send them the tablet so they could work on a solution.
[Acer Iconia A500] dasudevil:
The only issues I have had is the browser will suddnly close. Also have had issues with the net free sing the whole tablet when watching TV via the websites, USA network, CBS, ABC, fox ec... onl way to fix is completely turn off and reboot

Other then the problems I honestly have not noticed a difference
[Acer Iconia A500] monkey10120:
I have been using it for 4 days now and I have not seen any issues except when i boot sometimes by the clock it says searching for gps. Just go in setting and turn gps off then on and it stops. No big deal.

But 3.2 feels stable to me. Seems to flow better.
[Acer Iconia A500] erica_renee:
I have a great new dishwasher. The 2.3 did not change the exterior color of my tablet to pink is my biggest gripe. OK I know im asking for too much.

2.3 seems to be great im on the near stock rooted us version.Every chic needs a rooted tab.

Giggles
[Acer Iconia A500] AlwaysLimey:
Also having wifi problems since 3.2. Everything stock, never rooted. I used to be able to watch live streams of shows like Tekzilla and podcasts from the TWIT network, but since the update the live streams keep cutting out and having to reconnect over and over, about every 30 seconds. Most frustrating.

Everything else is fine, however I enjoy my live podcasts and this is most bothersome. :(

Edit. Seems I MAY have jumped the gun, and it was an issue with flash 11. Reverted back to 10.3 and seems to be ok.

Never mind...problem persists. Honeycomb 3.0, while buggy gave me a better experience than 3.1, or 3.2.
[Acer Iconia A500] bigdogshark62:
My wifi seems to be okay, no cut outs as far as I can see. Although I'm noticing that streaming content and web-dependent content is running more slowly. If I'm trying to watch a video or something, I get a lot of stutters and buffering.

Other than that, though, things seem to be fine.
[Acer Iconia A500] henk_j:
here with the 7 version stock no probs at all, tried a couple custom ones all had dirrerent problems.
[Acer Iconia A500] frankws:
The buffering could be the wifi dropout.

I notice the dropout because an online game keeps refreshing, something caused by the dropout.

It says refreshing while another game sometimes comes up with a reconnect button.

It's something many probably have and don't realize it because they can't see it in the browser and do not use any apps where it does become obvious.
[Acer Iconia A500] qwertylesh:
I notice it a lot running a custom 3.2

hoping that ICS update will fix some of our problems.

to list some of the problems mine has shown:

power led on the power button will light up white when the screen is turned off/locked for about a minute every 5 or 10 minutes.

occasionally the display will wake up on its own

headphone jack detection and simultaneous speaker output issues

wifi drop out issues

browser randomly closing (no FC window) when used (only on a500 3.2 based roms)

intermittent video playback lockups (black screen on software decoding when scrolling too much)

I still love my tablet very much, and know the majority of the issues will be correctable in the future when we have ICS, theyre not hardware problems, even though some of them do occur on the stock rom, they're all caused by kernel and os level bugs. poorly utilised stacks and not having the HC source is holding our devs back from making some wonderful polished fast stable roms imho.

i look foward to seeing the issues squashed out with ICS in the future :D
[Acer Iconia A500] vari9:
Same issues here!....
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XboxOmac:
What does having an unbranded Samsung Focus do? I got it from AT&T and I did the registry hack and I was told that it should get you other updates: 7392 for example when I couldn't before the unbranding.

Is that all it does?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XboxOmac:
Anyone any help?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XboxOmac:
I tried to unlock my Samsung Focus with ChevronWP7 and it works. The thing is though, it's like only a temporary unlock and it fast loses its unlock and re-locked again. Now that I'm on NoDo, I have to go back to the stock rom to unlock it again...

Anyway to unlock from NoDo or how to at least keep the unlock intact?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fatihsm:
When unlocked install deploy the app "Samsung Tools" and than activate "prevent Re-Lock" than apply.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XboxOmac:
Ok, Thank You!
[Atrix 4G General] Smittyzz:
cm7 started screwing up, com.android.phone fc so reflashed and then the touchscreen is out of wack. bottom buttons dont work and its like i can use the bottom black part of the screen to scroll. ive tried flashing and wiping everything, ive tried new roms and everything but nothing is working :(
[Atrix 4G General] Gandalf:
im pretty sure that's what happens when your pds partition ( /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 ) get's screwed up.

where you messing around with partitions or anything in the root folder of your device?
[Atrix 4G General] Smittyzz:
no i was just flashing a backup then decided to wipe and start from scratch then bam :( is it fixable?
[Atrix 4G General] Smittyzz:
ive tried formatting that too, i just formatted it again to try

its like the screen is shifted down or something, and formatting it ddid nothing :(
[Atrix 4G General] FtaWolf:
Try a advanced restore & restore your pds.img from with in cwm backup.

Also u might have use fastboot to

Clean things up.. For doing a restore.
[Atrix 4G General] Smittyzz:
where do i get a pds.img? and im on a mac, but i can boot into windows, its formatting the sd card right now, after i will try the advanced restore and see how that goes, i hope i didnt screw it up :C
[Atrix 4G General] Smittyzz:
alright so ive read up, and i guess i shouldnt have formatted that partition in the first place.. lesson learned, now i just need to find that file and push it back to my phone, is anyone willing to help me out here?

i got the file but im having trouble flashing it with fstboot :(
[Atrix 4G General] Smittyzz:
im stuck

Smith-Strattons-MacBook:~ Smitty$ cd ~/ moto-fastboot-osx/moto-fastbootSmith-Strattons-MacBook:~ Smitty$ cd ~/downloads/moto-fastboot-osxSmith-Strattons-MacBook:moto-fastboot-osx Smitty$ moto-fastboot-osx32 flash pdsfix pdsfix.img

-bash: moto-fastboot-osx32: command not found

Smith-Strattons-MacBook:moto-fastboot-osx Smitty$
[Atrix 4G General] Gandalf:
I use a MacBook Pro and I use fastboot, apkmanager, and the Android SDK all fine.

Move the fastboot file to /Users/Smitty

Then go into the terminal and do

# fastboot wipe system

# fastboot wipe userdata

# fastboot wipe cache

# fastboot wipe webtop

# fastboot wipe preinstall

# fastboot wipe boot

Then load directly into recovery. Wipe Data/System Reset, Wipe Cache and Dalvik Cache, then install whatever ROM you wwant and let me know
[Atrix 4G General] FtaWolf:
There is fastboot for mac & Linux. In 32 bit & 64 bit version.

Also if you was using romracers cwm you find pds.img in cwm backup folder..

Which you can restore from the Advanced Restore Option..

Here link for fastboot all OS options.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1138092

Erase System with Fastboot

./moto-fastboot-osx64 erase system
./moto-fastboot-osx64 -w
./moto-fastboot-osx64 erase webtop
./moto-fastboot-osx64 erase preinstall
./moto-fastboot-osx64 erase boot
[Atrix 4G General] Smittyzz:
YOU ARE MY HERO!!!!!!!!!

i was trying to type moto-fastboot-osx32 flash pds pdsfix.img

i needed the ****** ./ ****** in the front!! im soo happpy now that my phones working again, you guys are my heros :) so happy now :D
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JAMIE1000UK:
Is there a tutorial to flash the xperia play r800i to generic 2.3.4?? im currently on a stock play using firmware 4.0.A.2.368 and looking to upgrade to the new 2.3.4 02 uk firmware but it says use flashtool.. which flashtool.. do i need unlocked bootloader? root?? im lost and search everwhere all day long to figure it out lol.. probably looking in the wrong places but it is now getting irritating!

Thanks in advance to any of you willing to answer :D
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dousan:
You do not need neither root nor an unlocked bootloader to use flashtool.

Get flashtool from here (make sure to use 0.2.9.1 beta):

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10738287&postcount=1

Get newest FW here (4.0.1.A.0.283):

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=17708233&postcount=1

When flashtool is downloaded just extract it to your desktop on your pc. Then extract your downloaded FW and put it in the folder named 'firmware' that came with the flashtool download. Then install ggsetup.exe that also comes with the flashtool download (it's a driver package).

Then hit the x10FlashTool.exe. A window will open. Press flash. Another window will open. Choose your firmware. Here you can choose to tick the 'wipe data' box. If you do you'll loose al apps and data stored on your phone. If you don't the apps and data will stay. In the latter case you might run into issues as FC'ing of apps and such, but not sure as people has done this without issues. It's recomended to wipe data but not a must, it's up to you. I would do it but then again I'm also rooted and can restore easily after every flash.

Anyway either way you choose you then press ok and just follow instructions shown on screen.

Remember after flashing and booting (wich can take some time) to enable debugging and unknown sources.

Regards Dousan...
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tommoose:
dousan, will flashing this new fw remove the root on 2.3.3?

tom
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cat_On_Droid:
yep it will.

Retain root by reading this post carefully

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1130639
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tommoose:
cheers cat, just had a quick look and i think thats gonna be something that i tackle when i havent had a 200 mile trip home. never flashed anything through recovery so a bit nervous

tom
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cat_On_Droid:
not to worry ,there is a good backup from the CWM :)
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jessepow:
i keep getting this error........... i cannot find what i am doing wrong. :(

3/059/2011 20:59:49 - INFO - Flashing adsp.sin

23/059/2011 20:59:51 - INFO - Flashing kernel.sin

23/059/2011 20:59:54 - INFO - Flashing amss_fs.sin

23/059/2011 20:59:54 - INFO - Flashing fota1.sin

23/059/2011 20:59:55 - INFO - Flashing fota0.sin

23/059/2011 20:59:55 - INFO - Flashing amss.sin

23/000/2011 21:00:09 - ERROR - Error flashing. Aborted
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cat_On_Droid:
It could've being disconnected...
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hardmaninc:
I don't get that far it just says aborted :(
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SirArt89:
So i got 2.3.2v 3.0.A.2.184, with bootloader unlocked and rooted. Can i normally flash?

Better if i make backup (dont know how :P), or i can find files on forum if i brick play?

BTW. Is that latest version?
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gunawan-1:
Can "Flash v 3.0" used to flash xplay? Thanks

GN Multimedia - Xperia Arc
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arpit85:
Can I flash 4.0 firmware on my play I hav 3.0.1.A.145 firmware and thereafter flash 2.3.4
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dousan:
The answer is yes, but you can skip flashing 4.0.A.2.368 and go straight to 4.0.1.A.0.283 - 2.3.4 :)

Regards Dousan...