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[Miscellaneous Android Development] MadPriest:
more than sure

do i have to wipe any caches after installing it?

In Settings - Storage I see Internal Storage, USB Storage and Erase SD card

In ES File Explorer (with granted root) under /mnt/ i see asec, obb, sdcard (internal storage), secure and usbdisk (empty)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jpisini:
This Rom uses the same method that the original did the sdcard shows up under removable_storage should be in the list. It is not very intuitive.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MadPriest:
I do see removable_sdcard under /sdcard, but AFAIK, it should be available under root/mnt?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] trapt_dew27:
removeable_sdcard folder?

I believe that I have the same structure in my /mnt folder, but /sdcard/removeable_sdcard allows me access to my card. I just assumed this was how the sdcard fix worked. I am also having the issue where the A1 does not respond to the touch controls after it goes to sleep after inactivity. When I manually put it to sleep, it seems to come back just fine though. Occasionally, the screen does go black while the touch controls do not work and I'm forced to long press the power to restart (like others have also mentioned).
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MadPriest:
On other devices with ISC once you have external SD card you have an option to mount/unmount it from the Settitngs - Storage menu

I found that if you close the opened apps before you allow the device to sleep, you have no issues with it being non-responsive to touch
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jpisini:
My external card only shows up under that folder. I don't have any other ICS to compare it too.

I have gotten the unresponsive thing once myself. Not sure what caused it no programs were open when it went to sleep.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] xbdesign:
Lenovo is mounting external card allways on sdcard.

All Stock Versions works that way.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] schnellvin@gmail.com:
i managed the install and i found 2 annoying items. The touchscreen seems to not react/ not working after waking up from standby/ sleep mode. Had to reboot it.

The USB connection no longer being recognized on my PC. Tried to install the driver on my PC but still failed. I have already checked that the USB is in debugging mode.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MadPriest:
you do not have to have debug mode switched on

go to Settings - Storage - press on hardware Menu button (or on the three dots in the upper right corner) - USB computer connection and switch the MPT on
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Magnusmarshall:
Hmmmmmm

Iam guessing my problem may not be merely a software issue.

I can boot into cwm thanks to the bootable sd but flashing anything other then ramdisk always ends in failure.

Beginning to think i am got a dud here.

It should work fine with flashing the stock ramdisk and then corresponding stock firmware but it always errors out.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] xbdesign:
Settings > Storage > Menu(3 Points upper right corner) > USB Computer Conection > check the MTP on.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MadPriest:
try changing the sd card to another one
[Miscellaneous Android Development] xbdesign:
Why dont you just flash a CWM, then take a bootable sd out and do the rest booting normaly to CWM.

If you leave mine bootable SD in it, it will never boot further then CWM because i did not made no other Partition to do that.

It is just emergency boot sd, not the real one.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MadPriest:
But can you install this ICS build from CWM? :eek:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] xbdesign:
No you can not.

Why would you want to do that?

Magnusmarshall have a working install of ICS its just recovery that is broken so he can't flash nothing because no update.zip would be loaded.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Magnusmarshall:
Tried that and different sd cards.

Installing: /sdcard/update.zip

Finding update package...

Opening update package...

Installing update...

1. Extracting fuse...

2.Fusing )flashing) CWM recovery....

Error in /sdcard/update.zip

(status 7)

Installation aborted

Rather odd behavior considering i was able to boot yesterday and now even that failed before i tried anything today.

So possiablely if discovered a way to actually kill it by software without knowing how...lol

Or its got hardware issues.

Also possible i am missing something as doing this with a cast on one hand and a splint on the other is distracting.:(
[Miscellaneous Android Development] xbdesign:
Not shure what you are flashing there but.

Make your Boot-sd-emergency Card like I wrote it here and before you put the card in A1 just copy this CWM on it. Then just start the boot CWM and flash the downloaded CWM.

It works 4 me and other people 2, it schould work 4 U 2
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Magnusmarshall:
It should but the flash always fails.

Looks like my guess about the hardware being a issue was correct.

There is no reason i can see that its failing and yet it does.

Ahh well its under warranty and it would hardly be the first device with bad memory.:eek:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] xbdesign:
I just can't beleave that.

You wrote:

Installing: /sdcard/update.zip <--- here you are trying to flash a update.zip from internal sd

Did you made exactly what i wrote before?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jpisini:
This does not work for me but I am running Linux not Windows. It is not a huge deal I can just write the card from the PC manually so it is not a deal breaker just inconvenient.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Magnusmarshall:
I tried internal /external and every other method.

Its also developed a habit of locking up or crashing in CWM.

There just to many issues for this to be a simple software issues i would think.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jpisini:
Is it possible to revert back to stock?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Magnusmarshall:
Sadly no

Me thinks its possessed.

Any exorcists here?:eek:

Not the end of the world a rma fixes the problem.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jpisini:
Yeah if it is under warranty you may as well send it in. It doesn't seem like anyone can help you with out physical access to the device. We just hate to give up.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Magnusmarshall:
I understand that only too well.

At this point though its looking very likely its not a software problem but the hardware.

Without me doing anything i lost the recover menu yet still had the boot working and then a day later for no good reason that stops working on its own.

Then its lockups and crashes in CWM that's booted off the sd.

I could maybe possible understand it if i was using ics but it was in stock firmware at the time it started channeling Jim Carry.

All mess about it some more before i send it off but its leaning heavily towards a hardware flaw.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Magnusmarshall:
Ok what does flash.

A1_07_stock-mbr flashes normally.

What get farther then anything.

Ics 1.2 actually gets farther then anything else.

all the way up to fuse u-boot.bin before it fails.

Of course it shouldn't work at all.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] myjess:
is there another thread on here for ics on this tablet? i could have sworn i replied already.

Anyway,

tried installing .25 cwm but i dont have it. just still stock recovery. funny thing is, i could swear i have to pres vol + & pwr to get any kind of a recovery menu.

Also, the A1 wouldn't come back from sleep no matter how long i held the pwr button down, but that seems to have fixed itself after charging (no, it wasnt batery flat :) )

All looking good so far except for cwm.

*edit* spoke too son, Opera mini is hanging intermitently and has to be closed when the dialog box asks if i want to wait.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] xbdesign:
Just wipe a battery stats from CWM that you dont have :-)

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You have to specify more if you expect somebody to help you.

Like:

What is flashed?

How did you try to flash CWM?

Which CWM exactly?

What happens after holding Power and then Volume(-) ?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] myjess:
You have to specify more if you expect somebody to help you.

Like:

What is flashed? Latest ICS

How did you try to flash CWM? rename 0.25 version to update.zip and put into external SD card (0.25 seems to have a lot more than the 0.27 version inside it's zip).

Which CWM exactly? (0.25 version)

What happens after holding Power and then Volume(-) (stick recovery)

I'll have another go at installing cwm.

It would be nice if we could boot between CM7 and ics :)

*EDIT* CWM is on the tablet now.

Thanks.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] passy:
root

Did anyone root ICS ? I tried to do this using a1_rooter.zip without success.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] kurek007:
Flash CWM 5.0.2.7 first rename it to update.zip and than root it using a1_rooter
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Magnusmarshall:
Thanks for all the help but its official now its a defective unit.

Left over night untouched it no longer boots and the only sound of life is the vibration when it should be booting.

No lights no screen no battery indicator other then the small light when the usb is plugged in.

Time to rma.:(
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MadPriest:
Regarding the non-responsive touch-screen

I found that when the device wakes from sleep and the Wi-Fi do not works, if you do nothing but use it (without network), and after some time of sleep the Wi-Fi is back, the screen becomes non-responsive
[Miscellaneous Android Development] passy:
I got the same.

Rollback to original rom, wipe everything and install ics again this fixed my probem.

I think that this is problem with some kind of software but I'm not sure. Testing and installing one sftwr per day.

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Doesn't work for me. Message is "rooted" but in real life not rooted :-/
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MadPriest:
Apply the A1_rooter.zip from CWM
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Magnusmarshall:
Mines off to be repaired or replaced.

In the end it was hardware failure to the point in the A1 wouldn't even boot or display the battery level.

Something beyond our control to fix.

Explains why none of the normal recovery methods worked for me.

Plenty tried to help though which says a lot about the forum.:D
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jpisini:
Hopefully it will work when you get it back. Good luck.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bthessel:
Don't know what I am doing wrong

OK, I seem to be stuck. I had cm7 installed. So far I have:

1. flashed stock recovery

2. Installed ICS

I get an error on startup " Unfortunately, the process android.process.media has stopped"

I can't seem to get a1-rooter.zip or cwm to reinstall. I have copied each of them 1 at a time to the root of the device /sdcard (not removable_sdcard) and restarted with holding volume - and power. All it seems to do is wipe the system without installing anything and then powers off. When I power it back on it is wiped but nothing installed.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Magnusmarshall:
Barring it being broken into pieces its got to be a improvement when i get it back.:D

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That error happens when ics is first installed and you tend to only see it the once.

Turn off and hold volume + and then power on tell you see the logo and let got of buttons.

That should get you into to recovery and you can flash those files.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bthessel:
Still doesn't seem to work, I copied CWM to the sd card as update.zip, booted with power volume+ it started up, progress bar took a while, green check, and powered off. powered it back on and then off. Tried powering on using either volume+ and then powered off and tried volume- and both times it just ran through the standard recovery unpacking and powered off.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] xbdesign:
be sure you have removed a update.zip from ICS and copy the CWM as update.zip there (external removable sd).

Power and Volume(-) schould do the trick.

First Power and then Volume(-)

To get rid of that message and have external sd card mounted you need to install this update from CWM.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bthessel:
Should power and Volume (-) be causing the it to wipe every time? That is what seems odd, I never get a menu just the installation progress and then it powers off. When I power it up it is wiped and the update.zip is gone.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] xbdesign:
Thats why i told you : be sure you have removed a update.zip from ICS and copy the CWM as update.zip there (external removable sd).

So let me guess what is hapening:

1. You have put a ICS install as update.zip at your external sd-card

2. You started device with Power and Volume (-) and you installed ICS

3. Because ICS dont bind/mount external sd-card you copied your CWM update zip on your internal sd-card

4. You started your device with Power and Volume(-) and this cause to install ICS that is still on your external sd-card

5. ICS install wipe your device and CWM update zip that was on your internal sd-card
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bthessel:
Ahh, got it. the /external_sd-card directory looks empty but I am guessing maybe it is not?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] xbdesign:
Offcourse it is not, it is just not mounted.

Where did you copy your ICS update.zip before you installed it.

Offcourse on external sd-card because only from there it can be installed.

And if you did not deleted it, it will just keep flashing ics everytime you starts with Power and Volume(-)

So you have 2 Options to go forward:

1. Copy your CWM update.zip on internal sd card but please remove your external sd card from device.

or

2. Put your external sd card in your pc and replace that ICS update.zip with CWM update.zip
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jpisini:
That is the easiest method if you have a card reader no muss no fuss no wondering where it is mounted. Just plug in and write to it. :D
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bizzy0410:
hey everyone,

ics rocks for me, but if have a problem, after i turned the display off for a few minutes it won't wake up again! is there a possibilty to fix this problem?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] leejairo:
Rom ICS Working 100%

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1639330
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bthessel:
Thanks for your help, that was my problem. Another question. Should we flash the stock Ramdisk file to use with ICS or should we keep whatever we have on it?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Tint Ag Khaing:
is this ics official ??

SO .. So... i am now very enjoyed of this ICS on my cute A1 now and i saw some lenovo app shop apps and wanna know is this builds are officail by lenovo??

The A1 's really looks great with ICS and though it has some bugs but it's still better than the stock .

The accelerometer is working well but i'm feeling like it's taking a more time to switch. :) And some apps can't be installed ( i'm not sure is this a bug or not ) like aldiko, fieldrunners,etc. And the touch screen's responding very well in home screen, scrolling etc , but in browser , it's not responding well .. :)

So .. do u guys know something about another ICS build tending to out again ??
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MadPriest:
That thread says to use update.zip, not ICS_1.2

What's the difference?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dawkon13:
It's possible port cm9 from galaxy tab 7.0/7.7/...??? (replace libraries, all drivers and kernel from Lenovo ICS)?????
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bthessel:
I flashed back to stock and now the touchscreen doesn't work. I then flashed the ICS rom and still no touchscreen. If I try to do touch calibration in CWM it says it failed with error 65280 and the tab reboots.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] passy:
Got the same. Did you try to boot from boot sd?

In my scenario I bricked a1 and tried to run from boot sf (created in windows). I didn't finish flashing touchscreen and reboot device. I had to use once again boot sd and finish touch flashing. Now is everything ok. Try this
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bthessel:
I just figured out the same thing. Mine is fixed now also.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jpisini:
Do a search someone had packaged up the stock kernel in a flashable zip( can't find it right now from tablet) flash that then stock ram disk then stock rom.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dawkon13:
Today i try port cm9 from Galaxy Tab( success= upload :D,failed= nothing :p )
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Stolz:
That sounds great. Good luck and thanks for the try
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dawkon13:
I try port this:

official cm9 20120606 NIGHTLY for p1 (Galaxy Tab)

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I install this via stock recovery without any errors

Bootanimation it's reversed 180°

System not booting :(
[Miscellaneous Android Development] xbdesign:
To port one cm9 means to rewrite sources and not just flash some other cm9.

Just try to read how much effort gmarkall and milaq have done to run cm6 on A1.

Its not just easy as that.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jpisini:
http://www.android-hilfe.de/lenovo-ideapad-a1-forum/250004-p-ics-1-2-kommt.html

3rd post on page 24 there is a guy who has made some changes to the original. I haven't tried it myself yet but I am downloading it.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dawkon13:
New version download (!!!!!)

ftp://lenovo.download.akamai.com/slates/a1/ICS_OTA/

login: slatesftp

pass: sprt!42tes
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jpisini:
Can this be flashed through CWM or should we use the update.zip method?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dawkon13:
Via stock recovery
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Magnusmarshall:
It seems lenovo has it on its ota site now.

http://download.lenovo.com/slates/a1/ICS_OTA/

And here i am with mine in for repair :(

Test it people so i can know how good it is and drool with envy as i wait...lol.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jpisini:
They have already pulled it.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MadPriest:
but we got it downloaded :D
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dawkon13:
New version it's HERE!!!

ftp://lenovo.download.akamai.com/slates/a1/ICS_OTA/

login: slatesftp

pass: sprt!42tes
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jpisini:
Yes we do! Now I am going to have to find time to try it out. :D
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Magnusmarshall:
Its still there but i have noticed its popping up and off.

Regardless as mentioned by MadPriest its downloaded and there also the other download provided.

hopefully this version fixes the few remaining bugs.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MadPriest:
in case it's pulled again

https://www.dropbox.com/s/84sga120wt1yy25/A107I0_A404_001_007_0091_US.zip
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MadPriest:
trying to upgrade with no luck

installed stock recovery as update.zip (hope so)

got the update from Lenovo FTP, copied to the sdcard and renamed to update.zip

no luck. android with the box and arrow for couple of seconds - and shut down

after some point couldn't boot my tablet, so i got the recovery boot iso and made a boot sdcard, now i'm able to get to the previous ICS version but not update the tablet

o_0
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Bewahn:
I had exactly the same issue. In fact I wasn't able to flash anything anymore. Maybe the (old) stock recovery isn't compatible with the ICS kernel. Don't know...

I created a bootable SD with gmarkall's script and explanation here but with the files out of the new ICS zip (MLO, u-boot.bin, uImage, recovery.img on first partition and content of ramdisk on second). The new ICS update.zip was lying on internal SD.

With that SD card I could boot into a working stock recovery and ICS could be flashed.

Hope it helps :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MadPriest:
can you elaborate?

did you do it on Linux? if yes - can you please share the iso/img of that sdcard?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Bewahn:
Yes, I did it on Linux. An image would be 2GB so I'll try to explain in more detail what I did:

Get omap3-mkcard.sh from here

In line 15 and 16 change "p1" to "1" and "p2" to "2"

As root execute (change sdb to the correct name of your SD card)

bash omap3-mkcard.sh /dev/sdb

mount /dev/sdb1 and copy the following files out of the new ICS update.zip:

MLO

u-boot.bin

uImage

recovery_mmc.img (rename to recovery.img)

mount /dev/sdb2 and go into that directory

extract ramdisk.img out of the new ICS update.zip and to the following:

dd if=ramdisk.img of=ramdisk.img.gz bs=64 skip=1
rm ramdisk.img
gunzip ramdisk.img.gz
sudo cpio -idmv < ramdisk.img

place the new ICS update.zip on your internal SD card

umount everything, insert the SD card into your tablet and reboot into recovery

Don't know if you need all of that but that's what I did to get it working. Good luck :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MadPriest:
thanks, but since i'm on windows... it won't help me :(
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Bewahn:
I'm trying to reuse the image from here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=26961316

I will post the result in a moment...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] xbdesign:
If you want to reuse mine iso you would only have a boot partition and then it makes no difference if you have a bootloader and kernel from ICS because you would anyway start just a CWM.

If you want to make iso from both partitions then it makes sense to take a stuff from ics but i did not made it because it would be too big to upload.

But you schould update a ICS Version that this time comes from Lenovos OTA Server:

ftp://lenovo.download.akamai.com/slates/a1/ICS_OTA/

login: slatesftp

pass: sprt!42tes

Very Stable , no crashes 4 me, external card mounted right and recognised in ICS ...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dresdner353:
I had installed the previous ICS release, done the rooting and fixed the SD issue. The problems I experienced were wifi wakeup and installing of larger apps.. e.g the Lego App4+.. my son is not too happy he can't play this any longer :)

I just did an OTA update of the device.. it downloaded the new image from the Lenovo servers and rebooted to apply, but only launched into CWM.

So I did a backup of what I had and then rebooted.

The downloaded update.zip was on the internal sd card.. so I moved it to the external, rebooted into CWM, did a wipe and flashed the new update.zip.. rebooted into ICS no probs.

>> Probably could have flashed this from the internal /sdcard originally from CWM.

So for me I was able to flash the OTA update from CWM.. didn't have to go back to stock recovery first.

SD card working fine on boot. Not sure if the wifi wakeup is fixed yet but I do know that the large apps are still not installing from the market.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Bewahn:
You're right. Didn't have a look into your image before ;)

MadPriest, I built a new image including both partitions. I can't test it because I haven't got windows and anyway I wouldn't see a difference between booting from internal or external storage. But you can try to flash that on SD and boot from it.

Here is the link: A1_ICS_recovery.img