yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Acer Iconia A500] spoupard:
I see the same behavior.
[Acer Iconia A500] drellisdee:
It was really difficult to get the touch stuff going at all. Basically in recovery for acer you have 5mb to fit it all in including the kernel. Recovery isn't actually android at all its a mini linux enviroment and the normal android api's for touch etc cant be used. You have to use raw events from kernel basically. How the touch input works is on a screen press kernel events for screen is pressed, x cord of press, and y cord of press are generated in that order. Upon press the x & y cords are reset and if x is in range of the touch key panel and if the y is in range of the touch panel upon lifting finger from screen a fake key event is generated. Rapid pressing can mess this up so press SLOWLY. If it does get mixed up a press out of range like center of screen should reset it.

As far as rom manager integration thats a clockwork exclusive feature that encompasses far more than extendedcommands.c. Rom manager can still be used to manually call boot of recovery and to download roms which you can manually install upon booting to recovery. The wipe/backup features of rom manager cannot be supported but you can just wipe or backup yourself in recovery.
[Acer Iconia A500] hatefuel19:
So as I was reading through trying to fix my tab I saw that I had the same problem someone else had which was not being able to get adb working from recovery. Nothing under list of attached devices. If I let the tablet boot and hang at the boot logo adb worked fine (except for shell which makes sense as there was nothing on the system partition). Haven't tried it since I got it working again but will later and report back. Is anyone else having the same?
[Acer Iconia A500] PoorCollegeGuy:
Hello!

Just dropping by to say awesome work and that this thread has been featured on the XDA Portal

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/touch-enabled-amon-ra-recovery-ported-to-acer-iconia-a500/

:)
[Acer Iconia A500] IcedCube:
I think the issue is that the tablet comes up as a MTP device. I know on older android devices, they acted like a USB Drive, which meant you could access ADB on demand, but with MTP, I have to wait until Android core starts up before I can access my ADB, else I get "device not found" or "waiting for device".

EDIT: Tried the recovery, as they say on the McDonalds ad, "I'm lovin' it". Keep on cooking, guys!
[Acer Iconia A500] drellisdee:
Well on linux for me about 1 second after the ui comes up in recovery calling adb shell works. Im not sure if adb devices works for recovery as Ive never tried it. Ill be issuing an update to recovery soon. I had a few bad arguements for iconia in the ext3|ext4 menu and the issues with partition corruption should be fixed in next update. Im also nearly done with an overclocked kernel as well which will supply the correct acer sn & snid so gameloft games work 100% like stock (amongst many other things).
[Acer Iconia A500] 1tontomato:
I hit the thanks button but I just wanted to say thanks again. :-)
[Acer Iconia A500] Json_81:
Possible to install this with Acer recovery tool?
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Couple of guys earlier installed the image with Acer recovery tool. Check the thread.

If you have Thor CWM, there are also a couple of flashable zips by KJY earlier in the thread. Just install it through CWM. If you don't like it, you can always re-flash CWM.
[Acer Iconia A500] drellisdee:
Yes you can.
[Acer Iconia A500] apapousek:
Worked for me.
[Acer Iconia A500] el.quechon:
help

why the cwm 3.14 ends on img but when i download it, it says txt i think thats why im getting errors

never mind i got it
[Acer Iconia A500] drellisdee:
Updated to version 3.15 see changelog
[Acer Iconia A500] 10507:
Do I still need to do all these steps before flashing any new ROM? And do we have to do all these steps when flashing new ROM or?

Thanks,
[Acer Iconia A500] drellisdee:
No. All you need to flash a rom is wipe all/factory reset. Only needs to be done once. The ext3¦ext4 menu is advanced stuff most users should have no need for. The default wipe on wipe all is a quick but full wipe that skips data/media. To actually destroy and fully recreate and format a partition enable full ext wipe in wipe menu.

Again most users should have NO need to muck with the ext3¦4 menu but its now fixed. Wiping normally is again described above.
[Acer Iconia A500] 10507:
Thanks for the quick reply. So default wipe on wipe all is what we need to do before flashing any ROM. This default wipe will wipes everything except what is in data/media. But if we want to fully wipe the data/media we should choose full ext wipe in wipe menu. Will fully wipe the data/media causes any harm, such as messes up the partition, to the tablet.

Thanks,
[Acer Iconia A500] drellisdee:
Wipe all wipes all but boot and system which will be formatted/reflashed during flashing a rom. Data/media is your internal sdcard which normally you wouldnt want wiped.
[Acer Iconia A500] mia89:
i have a major boot issue pls let me know wt to do step by step

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1481350&page=1

can u fix this????
[Acer Iconia A500] drellisdee:
This should fix your enabling rom encryption by destroying the partitions assuming encryption is not at the bootloader level. Make sure you are using version 3.15. Go to wipe menu and enable full ext format. Then do wipe all, then do a wipe /system. Enabling this will have destroyed the current partititons and then recreated & reformatted /data, /cache, /flexrom, and /system. You will have all empty partitions and will need to reflash a full rom (containing /system /boot & /flexrom) to be able to boot after.

Anyone else reading this be warned this will cause loss of all data on device except what's on your external sdcard.
[Acer Iconia A500] 10507:
How do you know which ROM is full rom (containing /system /boot & /flexrom)? Can it be any custom ROM, like {ROM 3.2.1}{The Collective}Epiphany - 1.11.12, Moscow's Alexandra III Rev 1.1, and FLEXTHUNDER?
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Who, did somebody mention my name?

Tell you what I know. Flexrom, is an acer thing. It contains proprietary apps, so to speak. And you can fool the install, into thinking flexrom is there, but it actually isn't.

Should you worry about it? No, I wouldn't. Should you flash a rom that has it? Well, if it makes you feel better, yes. At least in circumstances where people have fubarred their tabs.
[Acer Iconia A500] 10507:
Thanks MD for your reply. So I will assume it is safe(:)) to flash any ROM here after doing a Full wipe.
[Acer Iconia A500] hhairplane:
Any possibility of updating the flashable zip to the latest version?
[Acer Iconia A500] huck_d:
Here it is. I have just replaced an .img in the old zip and re-signed the package.
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Here's a tip

Here's a tip.

In case you haven't noticed, When you select Data/Factory reset in Wipes, you'll notice the formatting of 3 areas. Then you only need to Wipe Dalvik. System, is usually formatted on most rom installs from the install script.

This saves a lot of steps compared to CWM.
[Acer Iconia A500] drellisdee:
Correct. Also to clear up a long running misconception wipe dalvik option is only needed after say flashing a theme etc that changes frameworks but does not require a full data wipe and requires rebuilding of the dex files. The actual path of dalvik-cache is /data/dalvik-cache and when you wipe data via the wipe data or wipe data/factory reset it wipes data and also the dalvik-cache which is inside of /data as well.

Again to flash a rom all that is needed is to do wipe Data/factory reset one time. Using stuff like wipe dalvik after that provides no extra benefit as it is already wiped it just wears your flash memory down more.
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Yeah, I know, but old habits are hard to break! ;)

FYI, I'll send you a PM.
[Acer Iconia A500] internetpilot:
This is not working for me so I can't upgrade to v3.15. I'm running Acer Recovery Installer v2.55 and renamed the .img file to "recovery.img" and it's definitely on the root of the external SD card. Acer Recovery Installer doesn't seem to see it, and there doesn't seem to be an option to even select it. What am I missing?

I can't push it via ADB because I've borked it on my desktop from using it with too many Android devices (HTC Evo, A500, Nook Color x4, Nook Tablet).

Consider this a +1 request for making this a flashable zip.
[Acer Iconia A500] drellisdee:
There is one a few posts up. If using windows to rename check it on phone via a file explorer to make sure you didnt name it recovery.img.img
[Acer Iconia A500] RavenWulf:
I had the same issue with Acer Recovery v2.55, I just unzipped the flashable for 3.14 and replaced the recovery.img and rezipped it and flashed it... worked fine.

by the way there is a flashable zip for 3.15 four posts above your's
[Acer Iconia A500] internetpilot:
@#$%! :mad: Apparently what I was "missing" was seeing that a zip was posted! And after reading through the entire thread twice...? I really don't know how I missed it! Sorry...:o

Good to know about just making my own in the future -- thanks for the tip, and thanks again for this recovery!

Alright...alright...keep the thread moving here, people. Nothing to see in my posts but stupidity...keep going...keep going... :D

Edit: I still can't get Acer Recovery Installer to work, tho. No biggie since there's a zip available and/or the tip about making my own zip, but it would be good to know what I'm doing wrong with ARI (in case Euch visits this thread sometime).
[Acer Iconia A500] Peter Baher:
can't restore !!

I just downloaded this today and flashed and it looks great but the I made a nandroid backup and wiped to flash a custom rom which i'm using now because i'm stuck at it :mad: anyhow i tried to restore and that when problem happened every time it fails it says opss! then sth. that i can't remember (A) :confused: now what to do !!!!! :eek:

btw the nandroid backup i made was successful with no errors but it was on an usb flash memory not an sd !! but it shows up when i choose nand restore but then fails !!

plz help :(

thnx in advance :)
[Acer Iconia A500] drellisdee:
This post has no useable info to look into this error. The error msg you got stated "Oops something went wrong. Please check the recovery log for error" Did you do as instructed? The info on how to do a proper and useful bug report is in the 1st post under troubleshooting. Please retry the restore from usb stick and follow directions on 1st post if you get error again.
[Acer Iconia A500] elborak:
He needed room for the smileys.
[Acer Iconia A500] drellisdee:
Updated 3.16

Changes fixed nandroid restore from usb stick and added ability to restore cwm backup from usb also. Had a error where I left out a space that caused nandroid restore from usb stick to fail.
[Acer Iconia A500] RavenWulf:
thanks for the update man. Since I had a little time while getting loaded I put it in a flashable .zip for those like me that are having adb issues with our tablets.
[Acer Iconia A500] carpenterethan:
Okay I've read and I just want to make sure of one thing.... how do I tell what roms and kernels a specific recovery will work with? :( I have thor's rom and recovery btw... What are the major no-nos associated with recovery flashing? Besides letting your battery run out =D
[Acer Iconia A500] Vintage144:
It actually seems to work pretty good, it start the same way as before upper ;left corner in white , then changes to blue and the bottom left corner uses the touch to move around , I did this at the expense of my rom , but I dont care because its worth it , I can always install another rom! If you do use this its a little different , when you select something you have to enter twice or it wont do anything as if it has to be selected first ,hit enter then in order toi install hit enter again!
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
If you use the "touch" method, then just be more slower and methodical with it.

Can tell you, the same is with CWM's touch recovery. If you go slamming the icons as fast as you can, you will get strange outputs. @Drell told you this earlier on.

You DO NOT have to enter it twice. Just slow down. Give it a second before you go whacking other buttons. Because you don't have a driver to interface with, you have to give the touch screen just a second to compensate.
[Acer Iconia A500] Vintage144:
good point moscow , i did this before I went to work and rushed it , so your right "slow down" it works great , i love it , I wonder if you could explain more about the partitions from the begining thread it says you could do harm by messing with them, I didnt mess with them but it looks a little like Linux partitions ?

BTW keep up the great work
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Well, I'm not a "partition guru", but I can give you a little history. If I'm not mistaken, RA Recovery was originally written to be used on Phones, and not tablets. They use a different Partition format. A little later, CWM came out. Again, for phones (tablets just weren't popular or around at the time)

Thor, modifed CWM to work with the Iconia, and that recovery package is included in AcerRecovery Installer. Ver 3.13 I believe. It was, and is GPL compliant.

Because Thor's CWM recent Recoveries are not GPL compliant, Drellisde took the original RA Recovery, and made it compatible with the Iconia. This required, amongst many other things, to change the EXT formats to ones that the Iconia uses. This has to do with EXT3 and EXT4, and dev blocks. In easy terms.

Generally, the Iconia Roms use EXT4. You can check this, by booting to recovery, going to Formats, and check the status of your partitions (Data, Cache, etc).

Your best bet, is to stay away from the Format section, unless you absolutely have to do something in there. I've messed around a little during troubleshooting my rom installs, but I'm not too worried. You can seriously wipe out some critical data, and make the tab unusable until you do his recovery steps in the first thread.

MOst of the RA defaults, you will never need to change. What I like most,is it requires a lot less steps when you install a rom. Nand backups work well also (although I'd like to see a change in the naming of the files ;) )
[Acer Iconia A500] TFordham:
Confused:

Flashed this recovery, and wanted to do a back up before flashing a ROM. But, when I start, it says:

Performing backup: .....

Ooops....something went wrong!

Please check the recovery log!

Anyone know what may have happened? And before you say "check the recovery log!", I'm not sure where that actually is. :-(

I'm not a noob by any means, just not sure what happened here, and how to get it working correctly.
[Acer Iconia A500] Psichi:
From the OP:
[Acer Iconia A500] TFordham:
Missed that. Have to check on that tomorrow. Thanks.
[Acer Iconia A500] merc669:
So reading thru this thread a few times it sounds like I can download either the .zip or .img file and use the current on the Market Acer Recovery or the CWM that is installed (Timmy's Method) to install this new recovery from my external sd card? I saw an interesting tutorial on another site on this particular recovery method for use with installing ROMs. So want to move to this one it seem for future ROM loads. Will hopefully report back with good results...

Bill....;)
[Acer Iconia A500] TFordham:
Ok, I've included the log for the "oops" error. Can anyone tell me what it means and how to fix it?
[Acer Iconia A500] drellisdee:
you have a corrupted mmcblk0p6 which is flexrom. Nandroid cant mount it. from your sig your are using thor ics which doesn't use flexrom. To fix you will have to use adb shell IN RECOVERY.

adb shell

iconia_repair.sh flexrom

The above line will fix it for you. After that reboot into recovery and make backup.

UPDATE:

Flash this zip I have below to easily fix it.
[Acer Iconia A500] TFordham:
I'm glad you guys are smarter than me. Thanks! I'll let you know how it goes.

---------- Post added at 05:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:40 PM ----------

You are a freakin' genius. I wish I knew how you guys do all this, but I'm just an old man. Brain isn't what it used to be. Seriously, thanks again.
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Video link for flashing using RA Recovery

Here's a video link for flashing using RA Recovery.

Courtesy of AndroidTabletGeeks.com

http://androidtabletgeeks.com/forum/#topic/-TUT-Video-Format-and-Flash-Using-Amen-Ra-Recovery.htm
[Acer Iconia A500] rg1003:
Install question

Thanks for this and sorry about the noob question but if I am coming from CWM do I use CWM or Acer Recovery to install? Do I need to extract or rename anything?
[Acer Iconia A500] ATGAdmin:
If you're using the flashable zip file all you need do is have it on your external SDCard, boot into CWM, and flash it.
[Acer Iconia A500] internetpilot:
[DELETED POST]

Nevermind...after re-reading/thinking about my post, I think it will just generate a lot of flames as it was currently written. :o

Humble request: Can future updates to this recovery be in flashable zip format for easier updating for less techie users or people having problems flashing the img format? :D

Thanks.
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Usually if you look in the threads, you'll find where somebody put it in a flash zip. But would be nice to keep them in 1 place ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] ultramag69:
What would happen if you replaced the boot.img file in the flashable zip file with a later boot.img? Change 3.13 boot.img for the 3.16 boot.img. Would that work at all or kill my tab?

As this works fine for upgrading the CWM zip files to the latest version then people can stop asking for that, it just takes a little work on your part... :p
[Acer Iconia A500] birkoffsjunk:
You'll get this ;) http://i.min.us/ibs3f5HLkyxo96.zip

Just upgraded my mrs's tab with it
[Acer Iconia A500] sirleeofroy:
Recovery/adb shell trouble.

Hi guys, i seem to have a problem, i flashed ics using RA recovery and some of the touch buttons did something i didnt want to and now it cant mount mmcblk0p8, so now when i boot up it says something about failed encryption and askes me to reset...

All very well and good but that does not work so i tried to go the adb shell route but i cant get it working.... i have installed the adb driver, even installed the sdk but the shell opens up, runs a load of script then closes.

I dont suppose anyone made a zip file like the one above to fix this problem?

if not could you? failing that could someone give me a little help with the adb shell side of things?

many thanks.
[Acer Iconia A500] drellisdee:
careful playing in certain menus. Thats why there is warning there and several confirmation prompts. To fix corrupted /data which is mmcblk0p8 btw do this:

adb shell in recovery

iconia_repair.sh data

else you can unzip the flexrom repair zip and change the "flexrom" to "data" in updater-script and rezip and flash.
[Acer Iconia A500] sirleeofroy:
edited the script, worked a treat...

thank you so much, i now have my tab working again!!
[Acer Iconia A500] HarshReality:
One humble request... Can anybody kill the HC Bee? Maybe add something more suitable... like...
[Acer Iconia A500] philosophics:
How could we get this for the A200? What would have to be done for it to be compatible?
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
I don't have an A200, but I thought they had unlockable bootloaders now. I saw another post about it. Are the partitions the same?
[Acer Iconia A500] drellisdee:
Yes it will be easy to do it for a200. I'm a little backed up as I have 3 or so HTC devices I promised to do this month as well.
[Acer Iconia A500] philosophics:
Not sure if they're the same considering I have never touched an A500. Everything works until you go to boot into recovery and the device hangs on the splash screen...

Sent from me CM7 Nightly HTC Vision using XDA App that needs to show signatures
[Acer Iconia A500] drellisdee:
Similar but different enough to need a seperate recovery. I'll need a stock recovery dump from BOTH honeycomb and ics.

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 of=/sdcard/recovery-dump.img

Get a md5sum and label as HC and ICS and upload.
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
Would you also need the cmdline that's passed to the kernel?

When I get a bit a free time, I'm going to get one of these for a couple of weeks to play with. See if I can get Acer Recovery Installer working on it.
[Acer Iconia A500] philosophics:
I can provide the partition you're requesting but only for ICS. Just pm me so I know where to provide it...

Sent from me CM7 Nightly HTC Vision using XDA App that needs to show signatures
[Acer Iconia A500] drellisdee:
Upload it here I need a HC one too also as its much easier to get adb functions in recovery with HC vs ICS.
[Acer Iconia A500] philosophics:
Can't upload for HC due to not having HC, only ICS.

http://db.tt/QF2y3ba5

Maybe someone who still has HC on their A200 can provide the recovery partition. I would but without a recovery capable to nandroid my current, reverting to HC is just not something I want to do...
[Acer Iconia A500] drellisdee:
Can someone provide a boot.img and a /system/build.prop for HC then for a200?

Also need partition mapping. System is mmcblk0p3 etc for a200 incase different from a500. Need misc, boot, recovery, data, cache, system, flexrom partition numbers.
[Acer Iconia A500] philosophics:
Is that all you need from me then to get this working on my ICS A200 or could you use additional things from my ICS A200?

If so, please give me the commands needed to provide this information to you...
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Hey Drellisdee. Good work.

Throwing some "bones" your way.

Confirmation Code 0AT89043DS6366438
[Acer Iconia A500] HarshReality:
Stupid question.. Im loving this recovery but is there a tutorial on how to compile assemble it yourself?
[Acer Iconia A500] drellisdee:
It requires building inside of full android sources. Just wondering what were you wanting to add/remove by recompiling it? Im always open to feature suggestions/enhancements.
[Acer Iconia A500] apapousek:
Personally, I like compiling just because i can. Same with the linux kernel
[Acer Iconia A500] HarshReality:
The images associated in the recovery altered to not reflect HC but rather those of ICS.. nothing functional but more cosmetic.
[Acer Iconia A500] drellisdee:
No recompiling of recovery binary is needed for that. Just split the recovery.img same as a boot.img and the icons etc. are in the /res directory. Replace then repack recovery.img and reflash.

This one is the first time Ive used a OS version theme for it. Recovery binary is actually like a mini linux environment with a gui and is android OS version agnostic and fully independant of the version of android installed on the device.
[Acer Iconia A500] Vintage144:
no doubt the best , thanks, I couldnt get the nand backup to actually backup yesterday , it did backup a few days ago backing civatos r6 rom, but when I tried yesterday with the r9 it aborted , I will send you the log later today when I get back
[Acer Iconia A500] Vintage144:
ok dumb ****, I had the wrong card in , back up is fine!
[Acer Iconia A500] philosophics:
What was that about? Were you just speaking to yourself? Lol

Sent from me CM7 Nightly HTC Vision using XDA App that needs to show signatures
[Acer Iconia A500] Vintage144:
yes , I was , Im sorry I hope I didnt sound like I was speaking to the devs!!!
[Acer Iconia A500] philosophics:
That's why I asked cause I didn't know what you were doing.

How's this coming along for the A200? Any luck yet?
[Acer Iconia A500] coder_for_life22:
I have been sooo fustrated trying to get my iconia rollback from the ics leak.

I tried SEVERAL methods including this one http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=23850482#post23850482 in a thread i just posted.

But still no luck =( Every time i try to boot into recovery mode i get "Recovery verified failed" in read text and it just sits there and wont boot into recovery.

Can someone PLEASE tell me how to fix this or a way to get rid of this error. I dont care if i have to go back to stock i will.

Thanks guys
[Acer Iconia A500] tomlogan1:
Is there a chance that this type of recovery could be ported to the Iconia A100?

Thanks.
[Acer Iconia A500] FloatingFatMan:
Not until the bootloader is cracked.