yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Attached is the original market apk and odex file all in one zip file.

;)
[Acer Iconia A500] :
In testing stages with 3.2.1 update to this ROM.

If all goes well it will be out by the first week in January.

;)
[Acer Iconia A500] zimphishmonger:
Thanks a lot! Ill give it a shot. Isnt this ROM deodexed? if so, shouldnt I just need the apk?? I am trying to use this on your ROM, which I thought was completely deodexed so I wouldnt be able to use the attached.

BTW, I was deleting the old vending.apk and setting the correct permissions on the new vending.apk
[Acer Iconia A500] :
No offense intended, but if you messed with the vending.apk already you'd know the answer to that question. Everything you need to correct your mistake is in the zip file. ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] bytemehard:
Reads like your incorporating the patches into your 3.2 rom or will the update patches themselves be separate and flashable in cwm?
[Acer Iconia A500] :
No, I'm cooking from scratch!

I don't do updates on any of my machines or OSes, and I'm not about to start now.

Rom base will be a full 3.2.1 Stock ROM, rooted, busybox, themed, etc. (Just like IcyFaux, but with a 3.2.1 Base Rom). ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Sorry, DBL post :eek:
[Acer Iconia A500] bytemehard:
Im thinking I don't want to do a full data wipe. Do you reckon a fellow can flash your 3.2.1 over stock 3.2 when you release it? I dont see how that would cause problems, but your the one grilling and testing the thing.

When you do release it....Maybe you can also make available- a flashable pure stock 3.2.1 version ...non-themed ... un-modded ...non-iced ...with root only, for guys like me.

Also, did you figure out the .p files or are you using the updates for the LibertyTab which I believe civato mentioned in another thread are p less?
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Hey bro don't you use the backup feature on HC? I format and re-install at least a few times a week, and google reinstalls all my apps in about ten minutes tops.

Nothing personal, I just don't get some peoples aversion to doing a proper wipe and format between installs. It's not like you lose any of your photos, music, or videos even when following the instructions in the OP. ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] TLSS:
Hey guys, kjy2010's nephew here. Helping him put the new 3.2.1 Icy Faux through the paces right now while he's here for Christmas vacation...running slick ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] bytemehard:
Hosing my data and restoring from back-up was fine for a few months while I was learning and playing with the tab. Now I just have way too many app tweaks, widget tweaks, my networking apps are set up perfect , Im running ADWLauncher and have Custom Icons and Icon folders which are all strategically placed.

I would have to take notes and screen shots just to remember whats what and where.

Trust me it would be a half day project to get everything back the way I want it. Thats if I can recall every little customization that Ive done up till now. So its way more than just restoring my apps or syncing bookmarks. I would like to hold out on a full data wipe till ICS with root.

Im the same way with my main PC. Its my work-horse and Formatting and re-installing apps isnt the big deal....its all the tweaks for the apps I use. It takes a couple of hours just to restore Photoshop with all the plug-ins and their serial#, text styles, text actions, custom photo actions, Color management set up, Monitor calibration, etc. You know what I mean.

It took me till about six months ago to Install W7 on that machine coming from XPPro just because I dreaded the time it would take to do it...

On the other hand I have to wipe the kids machines about every 6 months...No tweaks=No big deal.....Just fast and friendly. Install office and a couple games.

That where Im coming from concerning the A500 Tablet....otherwise Im with you. Format and forget it

Wish the A100 had more support. I bought a couple of those on black friday for christmas gifts and am wanting to abuse one of them.
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
Welcome nephew. Don't brick his tablet or you are going to get a your @ss kicked.
[Acer Iconia A500] :
lol Civ, he actually got his tab a few weeks before I got mine, and he was the reason I bought mine!

He was in the "kitchen" with me cooking for the past two days. Thanks again for the help with the camera drivers. She appears to be healthy as a horse! ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] :
I hear ya byte! I'm going to send you a PM in a min, check your messages bro! ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] deboyz1014:
Yup its me, still testing GPS issue.

So I installed honeyvillain 1.2 rom just to see if it will do anything for my gps and lo and behold, gps status now found 4-5 sattelites. Now I'm not saying that anything is wrong with this rom, I'm just reporting my finding so far. I'll do more rom flashing such as lightspeed and one other to see if the results are different.
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Thanks for the update, I'm getting between 7-11 locks in the first few minutes on the first GPS run off a new install. I found it helps to use the wifi on first try, then disable the wifi for location after the initial lock. ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] dman918:
How do I delete the old market once I load the new one you supply? Mine shows two icons once I loaded 3.4.4. Thanks for your help!
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
No problem m8 !

You will notice the market is called phonesky now , if you start it up the first time it is version 3.1.7 but after a few market restarts it will auto updated to 3.4.4.
[Acer Iconia A500] :
You might want to keep it just in case, and just get rid of the icon. We've found some compatibility issues with the new market and 3.2 with some apps (mostly games, but not limited to).

I should have the newest version, HC 3.2.1 Icy Faux up within the next couple of days, which has the new Market incorporated into it.

Just finishing up testing (no bugs so far), and will post it once we're certain. ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] argolfermd:
ad hoc

Does honeylicious support ad hoc wifi networks? Ad hoc is the best I can do right now with my vivid, and would love to be able to make my iconia mobile again.
[Acer Iconia A500] dman918:
Thanks. I will definitely load 3.2.1 when done. Stupid question, but is the ICS theme you have on here accurate to ICS colors? I haven't seen ICS and am just not sure if I am digging all the baby blue...
[Acer Iconia A500] d1dd1y:
Loaded this ROM up on my A500 yesterday, runs very well.
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
if you use the ad-hoc patch ,it will support it.
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Thanks again bro! It seems like most people don't take the time, or are unable to read the English language in the OP. If they did, most, if not all their questions would be answered.

;)
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Thanks for the confirmation, 3.2.1 will be coming out shortly. ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] deboyz1014:
Ok so here is the results of my GPS test.

With every flash, I followed the instruction on the first post to wipe and in that order. I also only install GPS Status and GPS test app (did not restore any of my apps) after flashing the rom.

1. HoneyVillain 1.2 = 4-5 satellites shows up under GPS Status/GPS Test after a min or so.

2. Lightspeed 1.0.7 = 0 satellites shows up under GPS Status/GPS Test after 10 mins of waiting.

3. Signed-IceComb22112011_VillainROMBase_A500 = 4-5 satellites shows up under GPS Status/GPS Test after a min or sho.

4. KJY_2010_Honeylicious_Final_Rev_IC_Faux_F_Busy_FR = 0 satellites shows up under GPS Status/GPS Test after 10mins of waiting.

Not sure what is in the HoneyVillain ROM but whatever it is, it seems to work well with GPS on my unit. Any thoughts on what I can test to find that out?
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
Yes , HoneyVillain uses original europe pool , so maybe this works better on your tablet , look in system/etc , gps.config and put the lines that I posted here.

NTP_SERVER=europe.pool.ntp.org
SUPL_HOST=supl.google.com
SUPL_PORT=7276
[Acer Iconia A500] :
12/14/11 Market 3.3.1 Removed from attachments, and the very latest Market 3.4.4 was added to attachments in OP. ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] :
12/14/11 Added Honeylicious Icy Faux Lock Screen Mods (CWM Flashable) to MODS Post (Second Post) ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] :
12/15/11

Busybox now Pre-Installed in ROM (updated download link)

Time for bed zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] alexrb:
Thank you, dude!
[Acer Iconia A500] cardenaswilly:
thanks for your work.
[Acer Iconia A500] dincdoes.me:
Hey for being a butthead sometimes ;) you make one hella of a beautiful rom thank you for all of your hard work!

When installing I did get a message offset 0/21x I think it was .. but I proceeded with install no problems so far after 24 hrs I did mess with framworkres.apk to give me different icons but that message appeared both my mod and with out..

Anyway thank you!
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Yw! ;)

The install video mentions the random offset message and not to worry about it. ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Yw bro! ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Ty, and enjoy the ROM! ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] BGOM21:
This is by far the smoothest rom I've used period. Thanks for developing it
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Yw BG, glad you're enjoying it!

;)
[Acer Iconia A500] g0t0:
I'm enjoying the rom so far. I've added thors kernel and run it at 1408mhz for a 5600 + score on antutu. I'm getting it ready to sell now that I should be receiving the Prime next week (fingers crossed). Thanks for the clean rom!
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Yw, and ty for the info about Thor's kernel working with it. Good info to have ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] dincdoes.me:
Yo KJY can I use any battery mods on this as in your thread? I'd like to get a stock ics one but I don't wanna break anything my wife will kill me if I get stuck on my tab getting it reinstalled lol
[Acer Iconia A500] :
12/15/11 Added Honeylicious Icy Faux Battery Mods (CWM Flashable) to MODS Post (Second Post) ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Let's see, do I want to flash a file that will alter my frameworkres.apk from another ROM onto this one?

Really?!?

If you're talking about the ugly gray one from the original ICS mod on my other ROM...... I did this just for you bro! (see attached file) ;)

EDIT: I can't believe you just let everyone on XDA know that your wife wears the pants in your family lol ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] :
12/15/11 Added ICS GMail 4.0 to Mods (Second Post) ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] dincdoes.me:
Thank you kind sir.
[Acer Iconia A500] :
12/15/11 Added Dolphin HD Icy Faux Theme to MODS Post (Second Post) ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Well if you're not in the US, all you need to do is add the GPS.conf for your area. The GPS.conf in this ROM is set for the US. If you are in the US, I can't think of a thing for you to do, as I've stated a couple times now, we're having no problems grabbing sats, and you're the first to say so. (Over 6000 downloads to date).

;)
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Ugh you hit it just a few seconds before me :p lol
[Acer Iconia A500] deboyz1014:
Well I'm in California so I'm definitely in the US. So to use this ROM and have working gps, all I need to do is change the gps.conf to point to Europe pool instead?
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
Could be , no hurt in testing it.
[Acer Iconia A500] :
lolol if that's the one that work's for you, that's your fix!

Are you sure you're not a few thousand miles west of Cali? ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
Well it's a simple expaination for it ,

We europeans stole all of your sats so yes you need to use europe pool. :D:D:D:D
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Well cut it out!

How do you expect us to spy on all of your girls at your topless beaches over there?!?! ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] blcklab:
Weird. I don't really use GPS on this, but Thor's and Civato's ROM's with GPS fix 3.1 worked great. This has been pretty much like stock. No satellites even with the fix.

Not sure why, but I thought I'd report. No big deal for me

P.S. I tested with Thor's kernel for stock and it made no difference fwiw. Does anyone have the stock kernel do I can go back lol? I prefer running this stock
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
flash the rom again just wipe cache and dalvik an you are back to normal kernel
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Not sure what the frig you guys are doing, and to be honest only God knows.

First start up on a fresh ROM install. Had 8 of 8 locked inside of 90 seconds. Started up screenshot it to take a screen shot, lost all sats due to closing the program and having to start up screenshot it, and ten seconds later (timed screen shot) had 6 of 6.

I'm going to write it off as pilot error (don't even ask me how, because once again only God knows).

When you buy a new car, they don't give free driving lessons, neither does Android. ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] argolfermd:
sorry about that. I feel like an idiot. I looked at first post, then did a search on the thread for "hoc" and nothing came up. I guess the search still needs some improvements. It didn't even dawn on me to read the second post before searching. Like I said, I feel dumb.
[Acer Iconia A500] :
No reason to feel dumb, just read! lol ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] argolfermd:
By the way, great rom. I have not had a single issue with it after about a week. my iconia has never run better. i should have gotten rid of rooted stock a long time ago.
[Acer Iconia A500] deboyz1014:
1. Reboot into recovery

2. Wipe Cache

3. Wipe Data / Factory Reset

4. Advanced > Wipe Dalvik

5. Wipe Battery

6. Mounts and Storage

7. Mount System

8. Mount Data

9. Mount Cache

10. Mount Flexrom

11. Format System

12. Format Data

13. Format Cache

14. Format Flexrom

15. Install Zip > choose Rom Install

For 7-10 I've tried formatting without mounting also, no luck on GPS. I use root explorer to edit the conf to point to europe but no luck, iconia is running low on battery and no charger is near so can't try anything else out at the moment. If I'm missing a step(s) in the whole installation process, please let me know.
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Other than no need to actually mount System, Data, etc (all you need to do is actually format them in the "Mounts and Storages Menu", you did everything correctly!

By any chance are you trying to get your locks while in your house?

Some buildings are really dense. If you haven't tried already, take the tab outside and try it. Our tabs don't have the best GPS out there for sure lol ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] deboyz1014:
All the tests that I've listed were done sitting at my desk at work...well I should really be working but haha. So enviroment does not play a factor in the results. I'll copy the gps.conf from the honeyvillain rom and placed into your ROM to see if I get a different result later at home. Should have brought charger with me.
[Acer Iconia A500] deboyz1014:
I'm home now so more testing.

1. Changed ntp server to europe = no satellites found

2. Replaced gps.conf with honeyvillain gps.conf = no satellites found

This is all done on honeylicious rom cause I want to use this rom. So I don't think it have anything to do with the conf file but maybe with the gps configuration itself.

Just for S&G, I installed Civato rom just to see if GPS would somehow miraculously worked on my device and well, it did found 3 sats. So I guess now the question is what is the difference between honeylicious gps config and civato gps config.
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Refer to post 9 on page 40 of this thread. I can't duplicate your problem on this ROM.

Screen shot included with 6 of 6 sat lock, after having 8 of 8 before starting screenshot it.

You're a first.

I hate to say it, but you might want to stick withFlexthunder, or the new FlexStriker when it drops?

I can't tell you what to fix when it works perfectly fine here?!?

Sorry. ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
Flexthunder uses 3.1 crypted gpsconfig and the root cert in system/etc but also a custom kernel but I don't think the kernel is doing that because you said honeyvillian work good also and then one got stock kernel.

Don't know if KJY rom got the root cert in system etc? could you check it KJY ?
[Acer Iconia A500] :
The only thing changed from stock with regards to the GPS was a tweaked GPS.conf bro.

Like I stated before, it works fine here on two different tabs, both getting rapid locks.

I think he should stick with your supercharged ROM bro!

I can't fix what's not broken.

;)
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Thanks, glad you're enjoying it! ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] deboyz1014:
I know you can't fix something you can't reproduce, so we'll just leave it at that this rom just doesn't like my A500.

1. Installed Honeylicious 3.2 (not the ICS) one, same result as the ICS one.

2. Installed Thor 14.2, 9 sats found in 10 secs and locked on 8 within 15 secs.

Guess I'll stick with that rom for now until your 3.2.1 and civato flexstriker come out to test some more. Thanks guys for putting up with my rambling/testing.
[Acer Iconia A500] :
If Thor's works for you, stick with it.

Nothing as far as GPS is going to change in 3.2.1 because it works fine (except for you).

I just got a PM from someone in the UK that has been testing 3.2.1 for me and he stated

he got quick locks at the beach today, and one other place he went to. And that's using the US GPS.conf.

Not sure what your deal is, but I'd stick with what works for me if I was you ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Newest Version of HC

12/30/11

Updated ROM to 3.2.1 and updated download link.
[Acer Iconia A500] bytemehard:
Have you tried just flashing crypted 3.1 google specific cwm flashable gps patch?

or the 2.2 google specific cwm flashable Both are found here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1267899

Download one or both and try them out(make sure its the Google Specific CWM Flashable ones) and reboot to cwm and flash.....They both will work on this rom.

I think 3.1 is faster on the draw myself.
[Acer Iconia A500] deboyz1014:
Yeah, I tried both 2.2 and 3.1 method 2 and 3. I even copied the gps.conf and the gps folder which contain the xml from the ROM that work but alas, no luck.
[Acer Iconia A500] blcklab:
+1 but I really don't need GPS on my tablet so it's a minor issue
[Acer Iconia A500] dman918:
Stupid question, but is the ICS theme you have on here accurate to ICS colors? I haven't seen ICS and am just not sure if I am digging all the baby blue...
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Yes, but if you don't like the blue, you can always stay on stock 3.2 ;)

And actually some are mixed white and baby blue, but I like to keep the UI all one color.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/revi...-ice-cream-sandwich-android-40-reviewed-1.ars
[Acer Iconia A500] YeeP:
I demand to know where this background image came from. It is purely for development purposes.....
[Acer Iconia A500] :
If I could remember, I'd tell ya. I cut her out pixel by pixel from the original background. ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] wemxm10:
hi KJY2010,

Many thanks for the ROM and continued support.

I have had my Acer for a day and have rooted, added CWMrecovery and installed your ROM 3.2.

After loading this ROM I experienced issues with severe lag when playing .mkv files.

After a lot of reading it appears that there are issues with 3.2 playing .Mkv files. Can you please advise if your latest ROM 3.2.1 resolves these issues.

With the original stock ROM of 3.1 and using Moboplayer the .mkvfiles played flawlessly.

I'm not sure whether to go back to a 3.1 ROM as most of my downloads are in this format or can you suggest a player that presents the best ability to play these filestypes.

Many thanks

Mark
[Acer Iconia A500] YeeP:
Too bad my kids now consider the tablet their personal gaming console. Otherwise I would be rockin that.
[Acer Iconia A500] :
If you want to upload a small. mkv for me to try, I'd be more than happy to give it a go for you. I only use mp4 for my BRRips.

;)

K
[Acer Iconia A500] bytemehard:
MX Video Player is the best of the free players in the market.

DicePlayer is a great paid app and there is a trial version you can take for a spin first.
[Acer Iconia A500] shingers5:
Got thrive media player working well with this rom too. Mx video player does tick all the boxes. Also have Asus weather widget working well.
[Acer Iconia A500] wemxm10:
sample .mkv

Hi All,

I have downloaded all available video players and they all suffer with lag and constant picture breakup on ROM 3.2.

Due to the file size i'm struggling to find a small enough .mkv file that would be worth the upload. 8mb would probably amount to a couple of seconds.

Has anyone tried playing actual .mkv files on their respective players, using ROM 3.2.1 and do they suffer with picture distortion, lag and audio break-up?

Many thanks with this

Mark
[Acer Iconia A500] YeeP:
kjy: I do not see these download links in the 2nd post. Am I missing something?
[Acer Iconia A500] :
They were with Rev 3.2. Some of those MODs will be coming back shortly. I'm still on Christmas vacation out of town, and away from my files.

The latest Market is already preinstalled. ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] erica_renee:
GPS LOCK

i To am having with gps lock.. Its very strange.. i think tomorrow i will ripe the files out of my old backed up rom and see if they will help .I took them from thors rom and would lock instantly in the house with 10 or more sats..
[Acer Iconia A500] bytemehard:
I have quite a few 720P mkv....most run smooth, but some are choppy and out of sync with stock rom and kernel

The only way around it, that I have found, is to overclock.....it fixes the stutters. The only kernel with the least amount of issues is richardtrips Villain_iconia_kernel_3.4 found here.

http://xda.richardtrip.org/Acer/a500/kernel/

If your trying to play 1080P, forget it.

You will have to re-encode the movie or video.

to get back to the stock kernel ....just wipe dalvik and reflash the rom.

And of course the OP recommends the stock kernel with his rom.
[Acer Iconia A500] wemxm10:
cheers bytemehard.

I think I will stick with this ROM for the mo as most things work just perfectly.

Will use handbrake and recode. Mkv to. Mp4 files instead.

Thanks to all for your help.
[Acer Iconia A500] kasim1:
Any1 know how come my a500 with Honeylicious Rom, doesn't see my Linksys E3000 updated with DD-Wrt.

I can see 2.4 GHz Network, but i don't see 5 GHz

Thanx for yr help
[Acer Iconia A500] :
It's come to my attention through PMs that more than a few of you have been using MODs from the previous version 3.2. Please STOP using the MODs from the previous version, as you're flashing apks from a totally different base ROM which seriously screws things up. That's why those MODs were pulled.

When I get back home from vacation, I'll post more MODs for this version, thank you!

;)
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Once again, if another ROM is working your GPS and this isn't, stick with that ROM please.

It's been working fine all through beta, and still works great on the two tabs here, and everyone else that participated in the beta. I'm CAN'T fix what's NOT broken.

Look at the time of the "last fix" and the time on the tab's clock

;)
[Acer Iconia A500] CuriousTech:
The GPS was dead for me too on 3.2.1 but I think it was just a bad flash. Ran a diff and nothing has changed in gps files.

So.. I installed ICY 3.2 over it, no wipe, just install the zip. It started working again. So I installed 3.2.1 again (no wipe) and it still works. No need to setup either. I'm so used to the full wipe ROMs, so this is a breeze. SU updated itself and busybox said there were multiple versions but I like 1.19.3 (for voltage control) so it's updated. Yeah, I put that villian kernel back on too. :)

I keep needing AudioManager to turn up system sound though. Otherwise keyboard clicks go away after setup.

Other those things and no themes, oh and no init.d support I'm loving it! Great work.
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Using villian kernel couldn't possibly have anything to do with your sound issues.

:rolleyes:
[Acer Iconia A500] dincdoes.me:
All right time 2 flash now that tab is fully charged will be testing her out soon anyone test the dreaded mic did Acer fix this yet?
[Acer Iconia A500] arhetip:
Hello,

I wonder if it would work on the A501, without loosing the 3G capabilities?

thanks.