yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Acer Iconia A500] blackthund3r:
Sorry I meant recovery. Fixed the post now :L

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I rooted somebody's Advent Vega for them not so long ago. Fresh install of Honeycomb booted about 2 seconds after the Acer logo disappeared on my A500. Therefore the bootloader and kernel take longer to initialise on an A500 / ICS than a Vega with half as much RAM on 3.2.2.

/me is confuzzled

I would expect ~10 secs more for the new OS, new features etc but the difference was about a minute. I wish I could have removed /all/ of Acer's cr@pware just to see the difference (or tested against VegaICS)

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Although it's a very strange decision by Acer to shrink the image when there isn't a necessity to do so. I'd understand if it was like 5.1MB and they needed to fit it in but at 3.4MB they could almost write it raw / no compression.
[Acer Iconia A500] ale.landra91:
Same question, is the biggest problem for me. No way to advice acer about it?
[Acer Iconia A500] wlk0:
The touchscreen issues I had on Jelly Defender using the earlier ICS leaks are now fixed with this 1.031.
[Acer Iconia A500] ale.landra91:
Really? Ill try later
[Acer Iconia A500] ale.landra91:
Yeah! I can confirm! Touch works correctly in all games! Gta shadowgun ecc ecc
[Acer Iconia A500] ale.landra91:
Also hdmi tv out is now working very well, is also the external tv recognized in notification (not in the previous leaks)
[Acer Iconia A500] Ritesh:
1. Touch worked fine on all games I tried. Sentinel, nfs, osmos, sparta, etc.

Are you referring to some specific issue?

2. After removing all acer crapware possible, poweron to logon screen time improved to 45 seconds or so. I really hope this improves in future release.

3. 0-100% battery charge takes longer now. I see almost 4 hrs of charging time.

4. Battery drain has certainly improved.

5. Dock_detect_daemon is draining the most. Was this the case earlier also? Nearest to that is gtalk, which i use nonstop.

6. Usb connection appears slower, Two 240mb files took almost 7 minutes to transfer. Not sure if this is an issue with writing to sd card.
[Acer Iconia A500] pyuas:
Hey, is the mic issue fixed using skype? Thx in advance.
[Acer Iconia A500] Ritesh:
I never faced any issue with mic on skype in any ics leak. Same now, works fine, just tested. I faced issues when I was on HC 3.1, but that was apk install rather than android market.

Specifc scenario? Whats your set up?
[Acer Iconia A500] ckarrow2:
Running the 1.031 leak with tweaked kernel and CWM.. all is running great except the screen won't rotate at all after using an app (like Glowpuzzle) that requires portrait view. Have to reboot to get normal rotating back.
[Acer Iconia A500] Atticustrd:
Same here bag it works now but gets stuck in vertical position. Have to open camera to get horizontal back.

Is temple run optimize for tablets? Doesn't work for me.
[Acer Iconia A500] elborak:
Running an app that requires landscape view (e.g. Robotek) doesn't fix it?
[Acer Iconia A500] ckarrow2:
It switches it back to landscape, but auto-rotation doesn't work any more after that. Have to reboot..

Update: Now after reboot auto-rotation doesn't work at all.. Gyro problem??

I'm using the tweaked kernel... I used the .a500apx file and flashed using the APX Flash Tool...

Would love to try the stock kernel for the 1.031 leak.. where do i get that?
[Acer Iconia A500] ckarrow2:
Fixed Screen Rotation Problem ( I hope)

Restored to Stock

Flashed the new ICS Leak

Installed the tweaked kernel and CWM

restored /data from a nandroid from the previous ICS leak

now screen rotation is working normally!
[Acer Iconia A500] blackthund3r:
All working then? I can't think what the rotation issues could have been
[Acer Iconia A500] erickwill:
Hi fellas,

I wondering which tool are you guys using to deodex app and framework files..

Also, what kitchen are you guys using to cook?

Appreciate your nice work and collaboration.

Best Regards

Erick
[Acer Iconia A500] ckarrow2:
Yep.. been two days now and it's working like a charm.. It did seem to be a smoother install during all that flashing :)
[Acer Iconia A500] blackthund3r:
I'm using Android Kitchen from https://github.com/dsixda/Android-Kitchen/

Make sure you install cygwin with linux-utils, wget, zip, unzip and ncurses selected and it should work :) Once running, drop the ROM zip into the original-update folder then tell the kitchen to make a working folder. Then run the deodex function. On rebuilding it'll then zipalign all the deodex'd APKs and if you want, sign the zip :)

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That's fantastic I'm glad :)
[Acer Iconia A500] raydm:
ignore my noobness but I have stock latest 3.2.1 so can I just put this on root of my SD card rename it update.zip and n install? Will I be able to update future updates or no
[Acer Iconia A500] blackthund3r:
Yes that's right. Or root the 3.2.1 (downgrade, gingerbreak) and install a custom 4.0.3-based ROM. We don't know if the stock leak will be able to update to the final version of ICS or not - you may, at that point, have to downgrade back to stock 3.2.1 to update (or the community will create an upgrade path).

To root the device, you can use my ICS Root tool or any of the other root scripts floating around. To get read/write on the /system partition you can use my APX Flash Tool (or, again, any of the scripts floating round XDA).

Hope this helps! Let me know if you need a hand with anything but remember - it's a leak. It's not final yet. If you have issues, you may loose everything on your tablet so BACK UP FIRST. I can't stress this enough. Using titanium backup and copying everything in /sdcard off the device should be sufficient for this
[Acer Iconia A500] raydm:
thanks i just have it updated using update.zip method. so far running smooth.
[Acer Iconia A500] blackthund3r:
Awesome let me know if you have any issues :)
[Acer Iconia A500] castafiore:
Un tout grand merci, Vache :)

Have you noticed an improvement when recording voice and sounds or is it just my personal impression?
[Acer Iconia A500] themikeg:
has anyone had issues with SOD on this latest build?
[Acer Iconia A500] blackthund3r:
None for me :)
[Acer Iconia A500] castafiore:
Yes, I did, twice or three times, when using the stock browser.

Maybe linked to a lack of RAM?
[Acer Iconia A500] elborak:
I don't see how SoD can be dependent on what browser you use. That makes no sense.
[Acer Iconia A500] blackthund3r:
bootloader.blob

Question to you all: the bootloader.blob, during the installation of the ROM, gets flashed to /dev/block/mmcblk0p4. However, this block device represents the cache. Is there a double use for this block device? Could we theoretically flash bootloaders from within CWM?

Many thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] castafiore:
Maybe linked to a lack of RAM?

Is there another clear explanation for this sleep of death?

It never happened before to my a500, anyway.
[Acer Iconia A500] themikeg:
I am not sure what causes it I just know that in a meeting it is awful and I get peeved what I have to reboot a few times. So I just installed "Taboonay-3.0.0_full + 3.0.1 update + SOD_fix" and could not be happier, so far.
[Acer Iconia A500] drellisdee:
Its temporarily written to cache as all firmware updates are and then the bootloader command is issued to have bootloader update it. It requires since ~ android 2.0 (when recovery code for it was depreciated) to have the stock recovery binary with the vendor's proprietary code and vendor's proprietary updater-binary to do this.

For reference look here @ line 238+ & here in my recovery code on how it was done on older devices.

Acer actually writes "msm-update" as its bootloader command to trigger the install of a bootloader.
[Acer Iconia A500] blackthund3r:
Thanks for your thorough reply! I'll take a closer look at the code when I'm next on the PC
[Acer Iconia A500] Jigodie:
I got this as well! Why?
[Acer Iconia A500] blackthund3r:
Is the file called update.zip or update.zip.zip? Enable showing file extensions for know file type on windows then check the name of the update. Also it has to be in the root folder of a MicroSD
[Acer Iconia A500] castafiore:
Jigodie,

check the size of your "update.zip" too.

It must be around 400 MB
[Acer Iconia A500] niko123456:
Thanks vache. Flashed this through cwm, forgetting to wipe my data and actually it is working just fine.
[Acer Iconia A500] lowsum:
Vache just tweeted this: Leaks https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B_bko9M1FTYzY3o4VVU1Y0s5SnM
[Acer Iconia A500] Bloodflame:
Looks like the A500 has a leak for 1.041, complete with bootloader and recovery, so be careful flashing.

Here's the build.prop

# begin build properties
# autogenerated by buildinfo.sh
ro.build.id=IML74K
ro.build.display.id=Acer_AV041_A500_1.041.00_WW_CUS1
ro.build.version.incremental=1334916863
ro.build.version.sdk=15
ro.build.version.codename=REL
ro.build.version.release=4.0.3
ro.build.date=Fri Apr 20 18:15:22 CST 2012
ro.build.date.utc=1334916922
ro.build.type=user
ro.build.user=pandora
ro.build.host=pandora01
ro.build.tags=release-keys
ro.build.sku=WW_CUS1
ro.product.model=A500
ro.product.brand=acer
ro.product.name=a500_ww_cus1
ro.product.device=picasso
ro.product.board=picasso
ro.product.cpu.abi=armeabi-v7a
ro.product.cpu.abi2=armeabi
ro.product.manufacturer=Acer
ro.product.locale.language=en
ro.product.locale.region=US
ro.wifi.channels=
ro.board.platform=tegra
# ro.build.product is obsolete; use ro.product.device
ro.build.product=picasso
# Do not try to parse ro.build.description or .fingerprint
ro.build.description=a500_ww_cus1-user 4.0.3 IML74K 1334916863 release-keys
ro.build.fingerprint=acer/a500_ww_cus1/picasso:4.0.3/IML74K/1334916863:user/release-keys
ro.build.characteristics=tablet
# end build properties
ro.opengles.version=131072
wifi.interface=wlan0
keyguard.no_require_sim=1

ro.dinfo.version=1.0
ro.cpu.vendor=nVidia
ro.cpu.speed=1.0 GHz
ro.cpu.version=T20

ro.sf.lcd_density=160

#
# ADDITIONAL_BUILD_PROPERTIES
#
ro.config.notification_sound=OnTheHunt.ogg
ro.config.alarm_alert=Alarm_Classic.ogg
ro.error.receiver.system.apps=com.acer.android.nidus
acer.sync.adb.mode=ENABLED
ro.setupwizard.mode=DISABLED
dalvik.vm.heapstartsize=5m
dalvik.vm.heapgrowthlimit=48m
dalvik.vm.heapsize=256m
ro.com.google.clientidbase=android-acer
drm.service.enabled=true
ro.product.modelalias=A500
ro.tether.denied=true
ro.com.google.gmsversion=4.0_r1
dalvik.vm.dexopt-flags=m=y
net.bt.name=Android
dalvik.vm.stack-trace-file=/data/anr/traces.txt
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
Look here for bootloader and recovery removed version and some more info
[Acer Iconia A500] AZKJS:
you dont know it yet but you saved my iconia... :good:
[Acer Iconia A500] yaworski:
Thank you. Could you also prepare at least generic boot.img without cmdline for stock bl? I don't know how to make a boot.img from this :). Or if you could point me in the right direction I'm a quick lerner :).
[Acer Iconia A500] themikeg:
It must be just me, I download like i did the previous leak and boot pw+vol and andy is on his back with a red triangle... what gives?
[Acer Iconia A500] t-dkp:
I'm like you, and I can not find :confused:

​

François
[Acer Iconia A500] almostthere:
Did you rename the file to update.zip?
[Acer Iconia A500] blackthund3r:
Rooting it ;)

Hi all!

I have found a way to sidestep the new /system rw issues once again (it has changed since 00.009.00 :P) and I have prepared an update to my ICS Root tool which now fully supports this new leak. It turns out mempodroid hasn't been patched! Yay! The link to the forum topic over at General is here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1520469

It's a one-click even-a-noob-could-do-it tool which requires only the enabling of USB Debugging first :)

On a side note - if a mod could move this over to the dev section it'd be much appreciated (I was a new user when I posted it so I found General to be the best forum for it). I don't mind doing a full write-up on it like at TegraOwners if that would help?

Thanks!

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That's very strange! Installed straight away for me!
[Acer Iconia A500] castafiore:
Thanks for your hard work, blackthund3r

Unfortunately, the website that hosts your ICSRoot3.1.zip seems to encounter a problem...:confused:
[Acer Iconia A500] t-dkp:
Hi blackthund3r,

Thank you for your work, I'm not able to recover your file, the link is dead, or does not work yet!

I thank you downloaded, Here

Edit: Very very good job 3 minutes on one clic :D for noobs :D

François
[Acer Iconia A500] themikeg:
i had update..zip not update.zip, I feel so stupid.

But one other thing i have noticed is when my tab sleeps i have to reboot it, it's like it is crashing .
[Acer Iconia A500] bthefirst:
That is probably Sleep Of Death (SOD). Which kernel are you using?
[Acer Iconia A500] themikeg:
the one from the image
[Acer Iconia A500] almostthere:
Strange, worked fine for me after flashing yesterday but still takes a few reboots before gps, compass (likewise screen rotation) and wifi ap login to work perfectly
[Acer Iconia A500] blackthund3r:
You're welcome and I'm mirroring it on box.com now (see tegraowners post)

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Especially the Wi-Fi ;P I found it needs a few reboots to automatically connect. When tampering with the software or if it crashes and I need to force reboot it, it needs a manual Wi-Fi connection.
[Acer Iconia A500] almostthere:
Possibly dalvik related?
[Acer Iconia A500] blackthund3r:
The dalvik is rebuilt on the first boot from scratch. Shouldn't pose any sort of issue afaik
[Acer Iconia A500] almostthere:
Not a dev so I'd have to take your word on it based on own past experience instabilities such as these was more to dalvik/cache hasn't fully filled up. The wifi issue happens whenever I boot up for the first few times where it can't seem to get a lock on the DHCP assigned IP. But after a few reboots and use it'll it properly and I use a pretty crappy DLink AP actually (ISP provided)
[Acer Iconia A500] blackthund3r:
I meant that clearing it would fix things but actually thinking about it your explanation would seem logical. Perhaps one of the kernel devs could explain it to us? :P
[Acer Iconia A500] themikeg:
So how do I fix this S.O.D. it's starting to get to be a regular thing now, if it sleeps it's locked up... I love my tab and want to play with it.

I have done: Hardware reset; Factory reset; Reflashed the 0.014 rom.

any help will do

-- thx mike
[Acer Iconia A500] rdnkchevy:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=23070364&postcount=2265
[Acer Iconia A500] themikeg:
sadly i am unrooted :( I will re-flash the 009 thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] rdnkchevy:
you are stock unrooted and have stock bootlooder? Strange you should be having sod.
[Acer Iconia A500] themikeg:
My thoughts too, Might have to send it back in just got it back a month ago...

thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
There's something definitely buggy with SU on the leak roms, or at least the custom roms based on the leaks. I've experienced it on icilicious, based on the 09 rom and on flexreaper based on the 14 rom.

I've been doing a lot in adb shell lately and notice that it hangs randomly, but frequently when entering a command (ie ls command). While debuging changes to Acer Recovery Installer, I've also noticed that it does the same when it tries to send commands via the shell su. Not always on the same command. Again, random but frequent. The cmd just hangs and never returns. So if the calling code uses process.waitFor() while waiting for the shell command to return, then that process is deadlocked.

I believe this is why so many people are experiencing random hangs in Titanium Backup, as well.

I tried downgrading su to 3.0.3 (instead of the latest 3.0.3.2), but still experienced the same, so I don't believe it to be an su binary issue.

I wonder if there is a boobytrap in the kernel like there was for mounting /system as rw. maybe something that will cause random hangs when entereing commands via su... no idea on that.. just speculating.
[Acer Iconia A500] drellisdee:
No its the shell change on ics to mksh (korn shell) and incompatibility with superuser su binary I noticed civato used a bash shell in his :( . It an issue with the superuser su binary. Here is an unguarded aosp su I modified to allow root to all apps not just uid 0 and 2000. This can be used along side the superuser su or in replacement of.

http://db.tt/ZsLLvG5e

perfect example call package manager on mksh shell

$

pm

it works

$

su

#

pm

segfault

$

su -c pm

it works
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
Ok so what do you want me to change in the rom , the su bin?

or remove the bash bin file ?

EDIT

I removed bash and nano in R6

Titanium backup problem are solved don't know if it is releated to that .

And I will ad the suhack in bin
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
oh! thank you!

Edit: But why does it seem so random to me. I can enter a few benign commands, then suddenly it'll freeze. Like entering "ls" a few times in a row, then it'll freeze. And occasionally, my app will run fine, but most of the time it gets hung up on different commands.
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
Unfortunately, that didn't solve the problem I was seeing. Currently on light speed 4.1 and replaced su with suhack (still called su) but still seeing the random hangups in my app. I'm not at home, so can't do more extensive tests right now.
[Acer Iconia A500] blackthund3r:
Have you tried this? http://forum.tegraowners.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=350 <-- Root on 00.014.00
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
Okay, I have to backpedel a little on this.. I found a bug in my app that was causing intermittant hangs and thought it was releated to the SU. It turned out that a subthread, if it finished too soon, was trying to update the UI before the UI was drawn. :rolleyes:

lol
[Acer Iconia A500] vache:
First post updated.

New version added.
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
Are you joking , just finished the 0014 :D , thanks m8.
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
Thanks vache :)

Between this and the leaks for epic 4g touch, I'm staying Pretty busy.
[Acer Iconia A500] kasim1:
I just flashed with Acer_A500_0.014.00_WW_GEN1.zip

and now i don't know how to root it.

Help please.

Thanx
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
Lol. Well I guess you got the new bootloader now. Unless vache already pulled it out of the zip.
[Acer Iconia A500] kasim1:
Got root app from here Tegraowners

Now i'll try to update with Lightspeed

Fyi,

i don't get SOd with stock rom 014

not sure if i should update with 019????

Update:

NOW i BROKE IT,

Can't get to bootloader with POWER+Vol-Up, shows broken android image.

Not sure whats now.
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
Dont' confuse bootloader with CWM recovery. You don't have CWM anymore because you flashed the leak version with it's stock recovery and locked bootloader.

Follow the instructions (a couple different threads in dev) for isntalling the the patched bootloader and recovery.

Then you can flash one of the CUSTOM roms, but you'll probably get SoD again unless you flash a compatible kernel. FlexReaper R6 should work with either bootloader. It flashes the correct kernel based on the bootloader installed.

Edit: try this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1522384
[Acer Iconia A500] gersma:
You only get SoD if you still have honeycombs bootloader and flashed a custom rom based leaked ics through cwm.

People who renamed vache's releases to update.zip get the new official ics bootloader installed and DO NOT have any errors whatsoever, but they lose clockworkmod !

To get a taste of both, there is a workaround described in the dev forum which installs a patched bootloader + cwm recovery again so you can flash ics leaks through cwm again, without having the Sod errors. (consider it as having cwm and a stock rom at the same time)

This patched bootloader also allows you to boot any cwm based honeycomb rom.

You cannot use vaches leaked rom if you do not want to lose your cwm. For that purpose you would have to remove the bootloader manually and edit its installscript accordingly.

All other ics based roms here on xda should have patched kernels by now to get around Sod and root problems, so you would not have to flash a patched bootloader.
[Acer Iconia A500] kasim1:
Just installed bootloader, but i can't delete recovery-from-boot.p

Tried with Root Explorer and no luck

how else i can delete it?
[Acer Iconia A500] paugustin:
kasim1 you need to be root to delete this file. Are you sure your A500 is rooted ?
[Acer Iconia A500] blackthund3r:
Root with my ICS root tool then use the A500 remount app to mount /system rw. The recovery-from-boot.p deletion will be an automated option in v5 (coming tomorrow)
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
So you installed the patched bootloader? There's also instructions for flashing CWM thor_1.7_403.img using nvflash. Once you do that, you can immediatly boot into recovery.

Connect via adb and 'mount /system'. Then you can delete the recovery-from-boot.p file.
[Acer Iconia A500] paugustin:
Yes ICS Root works perfectly with this new leak (0.019.00), thanks blackthund3r.
[Acer Iconia A500] rdnkchevy:
has anyone flashed the newest leak the vash uploaded today? The .019.
[Acer Iconia A500] paugustin:
Sure works fine and root is ok using blackthund3r's app.

There semms to ba an issue with the /system remount though as the content of the vendor directory disappears when you mount /system.
[Acer Iconia A500] rdnkchevy:
any thing different then the other leaks. Should have asked the the first time.. my bad
[Acer Iconia A500] kasim1:
I did root it before, but i guess it didn't remount "system r/w"

when i did second time, i was able to remove recovery....p file.

I did install cwm using nvflash, but now i don't know which rom to install

Lightspeed still has an issues with Sod.

I guess i'll stick with 019 for now.
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
Try Civato's FlexReaper, but jump down to post 576 and use that ZIP instead of OP (for now until civato can update OP). It will auto-detect the bootloader and flash the correct kernel.
[Acer Iconia A500] mohanindia:
installing the latest leak

i am on the initial 4.03 leak, but rooted... how to install the latest update?
[Acer Iconia A500] lowsum:
The same way you first installed the leak, rename the file to update.zip and flash with stock recovery, you will keep your data & apps, but probably loose root.
[Acer Iconia A500] Skrilax_CZ:
In attachment boot.img from the latest update. It's for patched ICS bootloader only.

Changes:

- ro.secure = 0, ro.debuggable = 1

- remount rw for system partition works (that assumes you don't mount it as /****er :p)
[Acer Iconia A500] t-dkp:
It is geting good ;-).....
[Acer Iconia A500] kasim1:
Thanx for reply,

Just looked and FlexReaper got new R6.1 rom with booloader auto-detect.

I may try that.
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
I'm definitely interested in the outcome! Try to save the recovery log. Once you reboot, it should be in /cache/recovery/last_log.

PM it to me. If you have trouble, don't hesitate to ask me.
[Acer Iconia A500] blackthund3r:
Very welcome ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] kasim1:
Now,

i'm not sure if i should do it, looking at comments, new one R7 coming up, based on 019.

I think i should wait.:rolleyes:
[Acer Iconia A500] t-dkp:
I love :p
[Acer Iconia A500] AtariDroid:
My main question is has anyone noticed if the camera focus issue is fixed in .019? That is the only issue I have so far. I'm running Civato's R6.1 based on .014 atm.
[Acer Iconia A500] OldGaf:
I have the original stock leak not rooted.

What has changed in this latest stock leak?

I have no issues... tho I think battery does not last as long.... worth flashing the new one?

If I do, I assume I do it the same way.