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[Acer Iconia A500] BethyM:
Thanks for the link! I don't read French, though I was amazed how much I got from the youtube video :-) Fortunately, Google does a decent job of translating.

I guess this isn't unusual for a launch, but if you see something up for order, it'd be nice to have an idea it'd arrive sometime soon. I'm currently tablet-less after passing my NookC onto my son and just weighing my options. I'm between the Asus Prime and this one at the moment.
[Acer Iconia A500] Raspail:
Last news are - from the very source which got this first batch so I guess it's reliable - massive delivery is expected on 4/23 week in France. possibly sooner.

I have been hesitating too between A510 and Prime. I forget Prime, too many issues not yet totally fixed. I don't want to gamble and get a bad unit. Travelling a lot I want a wifi signal as good as I can get especially when it costs 200 euros more than the A510 and A510's wifi is pretty good.

So far feedbacks from A510 are quite good even if it's only few days back so we should be cautious. No repetitive issues emerge yet, showing a serious bug in design or manufacturing.

I may go for it for the next delivery.
[Acer Iconia A500] FloatingFatMan:
I wouldn't trust that AnTuTu benchmark... It's reporting the CPU speed incorrectly as 1400Mhz, A510 is clocked at 1300Mhz.
[Acer Iconia A500] Raspail:
I guess we need a benchmark for benchmarks to know which are the best.:D

I don't pay much attention to them. e.g. I'm sure the tegra 3 underclocked Tf300 is still fine for most applications to the point a user wouldn't see any difference. I imagine optimized use of multi cores is more important than frequency.

The real important point here is tf300 fixes Prime's most issues better than having a slower processor. Too bad it drops the IPS+
[Acer Iconia A500] David Dee:
I copied this off of The Future Shop's A510 Micro-site:

Ports

(1) Micro HDMI™ Port, (1) Micro USB 2.0 Port (1), MicroSD Slot (up to 32GB) , (1) 3.5mm Combo Jack, (1) DC-in Jack for AC Adapter

This sounds to me like the charger is a separate DC-in Jack from the microusb.
[Acer Iconia A500] Raspail:
Yes. The power slot looks like a microusb but is not. Shape is a bit different. Beside that, it has a standard microusb port.
[Acer Iconia A500] BethyM:
Amazon got the champagne prime in stock so I went for it, should arrive Tuesday. I'm going to test the heck out of it and hope it's one of those sweet units that rocks. I opted for knowing the issues going in - though I'll keep an eye on this forum in case my prime is a dud. Glad to know it's on the horizon -- that was one limited pre-release!
[Acer Iconia A500] fastracer:
Has anyone heard updated info? I called Acer Thursday night and they told me they would have them in their warehouse Sunday Apr 15th and would start shipping them Monday Apr 16th. When did this change?:confused:
[Acer Iconia A500] gaetanolip:
from user manual :

6 Multi-function connector :This is a multi-function connector featuring power

charging and hyper USB [host and slave] for data

transferring. See "Connecting devices to your

tablet" on page 24.

NO separate charging connector , it has only a non standard microusb. sigh
[Acer Iconia A500] Raspail:
My bad, you are right. This was unclear from first reports from early owners.

This is not very smart.
[Acer Iconia A500] disflux:
just wanted to quickly chime in:

Acer is shipping US orders today. I just got an e-mail stating my tablet would be out today.
[Acer Iconia A500] BENETNATH:
hey guys,

i got mine yesterday

what do you need as benchmarks and testings ?

i'm also on the french board above mentioned, so glad to help.

waiting now for rooting, to get my a501 backups on it.
[Acer Iconia A500] experto1:
congrats BENETNATH, would appreciate your benchmark results of Antutu, Quadrant, Nenamark 2 and Vellamo, thanx
[Acer Iconia A500] californiarailroader:
I got mine via UPS yesterday from Amazon, I had it on pre order. Now we need a A510 forum on here, I am anxious to get this thing rooted!
[Acer Iconia A500] David Dee:
Nice! How is the wifi / gps reception? Any issues? Smooth?

Sent from my Desire Z using the XDA App
[Acer Iconia A500] BENETNATH:
ok, so first feedback..

- my tab is NOT stable, i had a reboot on the registration form right after google account add.

- i had plenty of reboots in benchmarking apps, quadrant standard can't pass the DNA test, so no results

- i got a 54,7 fps for nenamark 2.2

- Antutu Benchmark 2.7.3 gives me a 7815

Otherwise, it's working well, Acer gave some apps, like polaris, acer ring.. but not really useful.

Viruscan is activated by default, i'll try to kill that crap and see if stability is improved.

for now, i miss my a501's stability but the power is there..
[Acer Iconia A500] David Dee:
Thanks. How about wifi, gps reception?
[Acer Iconia A500] BENETNATH:
wifi was working well, but did not have time to bench it

GPS no time for that now too,

will keep you updated

FYI, an hard reset gave me a better stability ..:confused:
[Acer Iconia A500] grizou:
Delighted to hear that's not a virus ;-). However, as I stated in my post I did not investigate any further and the anti virus software comes with the device. Blame it to Acer.

Btw, where does your information about the false positive comes from? Just bieing curious...

Regards
[Acer Iconia A500] drewlim:
Hi thanks for this. If im on terminal emulator on my device. Do i need to " /system/sbin/bb/busybox mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 /system/" ? Then " dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 of=recovery.img" ?
[Acer Iconia A500] grizou:
In fact, if you followed the previous commands the file recovery.img should be located in the folder /sdcard so it'll be

/system/sbin/bb/busybox mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 /system

to remount the file system read-write. Without that you won't be able to write whatsoever to /dev/block/mmcblk0p1. Even if you have achieved root.

Than you issue the following command to actually copy the recovery image to your recovery partition

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

Good luck

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[Acer Iconia A500] FloatingFatMan:
Simple. Think about what ARI does and you'll realise yourself why it gets a false positive.
[Acer Iconia A500] Jsunn:
Spoke with Acer tech support about the screen issue. They are going to repair my tablet.

I am going to be shipping tonight. 7-10 days to get it back, I did as for a new one and they said they couldn't.

Hopefully I just got a bad one and they can fix it.

-Jason
[Acer Iconia A500] drewlim:
Nvm there should / by the end of the command. Thanks!
[Acer Iconia A500] lom4x:
I only see No internet connection in the status bar, but Gmail, Gmaps are working fine. CM 7.2 from the other side. I also have constant reboot on Bluetooth turn off if some device were connected.
[Acer Iconia A500] lom4x:
Is anyone noticed that power consumption in Airplane mode is significantly better in standby mode, than when wifi just turned off manually or by power scheme.
[Acer Iconia A500] farris:
I think I'm gonne let Acer pick mine up too... we will see if that helps.
[Acer Iconia A500] gimmeyayo:
My device doesn't support my native language(Swedish) so I'm trying to flash a firmware from a different region. I found this Acer_AV041_A510_1.029.00_WW_GEN1.

My current build number is Acer_AV041_A510_1.072.00_EMEA_CUS1. I renamed it to update.zip and put it in sdcard root and did the volume down boot. It seems to start normally but then I just get a triangle with exclamation mark and I have to do a hard reset.

Is it because it's a different region or because it's a older version? I haven't installed a recovery or anything. Can anyone help?
[Acer Iconia A500] BENETNATH:
i think it's because it's different version.

you have to modify the recovery.img with a WW one .

any confirmation in experts here ??
[Acer Iconia A500] gaetanolip:
HI,

I tried an A510 at center shop and i noticed that the charger hooks in the tablet very very loose, so i think about easy and accidental unhook .

How is your charger hook, is it loose??

thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] BENETNATH:
not at all, more than that it's quite hard to plug in and firmly attached then
[Acer Iconia A500] David Dee:
Surprised you found that, one has to really push it to get it in all the way. It is the tightest I have seen.
[Acer Iconia A500] BENETNATH:
FYI,

i managed to push the stock recovery for EMEA and to got to Acer_AV041_A510_1.060.00_EMEA_CUS1 version.

I did not find the latest one 1.072 released through OTA, but this one works.

i don't have OTA currently to go to 1.072, i don't know how it's handled.

but at least, this version is really usable

EDIT : i had trouble to use update.zip files, as i had always a dead bugdroid with red exclamation . Finally, i've unlocked the bootloader, pushed the "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named"-recovery ; then push again the stock recovery.

this was the only way my update.zip file was accepted..
[Acer Iconia A500] gaetanolip:
ok,

maybe i did not force to hook it totally, i worried about crashing it
[Acer Iconia A500] grizou:
That's good news. I suppose you did "Settings > About Tablet > System Update > Check Now". Just checking...
[Acer Iconia A500] BENETNATH:
yep

i'd hope that they would suggest the 1.072 (i would have refuse anyway, seems a bit buggy on sensitivity). but nothing.. i don't know how i can know i'm still in OTA loop..

By the way, thanks a lot grizou :)
[Acer Iconia A500] grizou:
My pleasure! Btw, I am totally happy with 1.072. This being said, I am not a gamer neiter....
[Acer Iconia A500] BENETNATH:
yep, but it's not available on the net..
[Acer Iconia A500] gimmeyayo:
Thanks for your replies. It seems a bit too complicated for me so I think I'll wait for a easy method, but thanks anyway
[Acer Iconia A500] farris:
Factory reset out of the settings menu solved the standby issue. But airport city is still unplayable. I wait for the update otherwise I'm sending it back to Acer
[Acer Iconia A500] Maelow:
please give firmware Acer_AV041_A510_1.029.00_WW_GEN1
[Acer Iconia A500] drewlim:
Hey guys where exactly ota updates gets stored after doing settings->about tablet->system update? Is the anyway to extract it?
[Acer Iconia A500] dangee:
Same pb here. Tried what you said but didn't worked. App like autostarts, lucky patcher, titanium don't seems to have sufficient rights to work properly...but mounting system rw in root explorer works :confused:

Any idea ?
[Acer Iconia A500] drewlim:
Nvm found it in /cache/fota_dn
[Acer Iconia A500] grizou:
A wild guess would be that this is a problem with your busybox installation. However, having it reinstalled by the super user app as suggested should solve these issues. You can also try

./adb shell

su

/system/sbin/bb/busybox mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 /system/

chmod 755 /system/sbin/bb/busybox /system/xbin/busybox /system/sbin/mount

just in case there is a prob with the access rights. Make sure that your prompt changes to # after the su

If it doesn't work I would consider re-rooting.

Good luck
[Acer Iconia A500] gimmeyayo:
tegra3.ru/proshivki/347-proshivka-acer-a510.html
[Acer Iconia A500] dangee:
Thanks (merci ;-)). But still not working. I tried re-rooting with both simple methods but nothing do. Maybe I should consider restoring, just don't know how to do that...

One question : when starting adb shell, I have the following : adb is out of date. Killing. Then daemon starts. Could it be the reason of that mess?

[EDIT] For some reason it finally worked... Titanium had fixed the su permission [\EDIT]
[Acer Iconia A500] jacindc:
Am I crazy? Have I suddenly lost the ability to have the screen auto-rotate? I know it was doing it a few days ago, and now it won't, even after shutting down. And there's no Auto Rotate option in Display Settings.
[Acer Iconia A500] KayvinM:
Have you tried toggling the rotate lock button on the top of the tablet?
[Acer Iconia A500] jacindc:
::moron::

My last tablet didn't have one! It never occurred to me that it existed!
[Acer Iconia A500] KayvinM:
lol. TBH the fact that there is no option for it in the settings menu kinda threw me off too.
[Acer Iconia A500] aamir123:
Is there any way to go back to the before OTA firmware? Not hating the OTA but really don't see much better maybe even a little worse.
[Acer Iconia A500] Ron1967:
widgets ?

Maybe stupid question but where to vind the widgets to place on homescreen ?
[Acer Iconia A500] aamir123:
In the App drawer, thats the new setup with ICS
[Acer Iconia A500] B1ny:
I gave encryption another go yesterday and seems I didn't give it enough time to decrypt. On my Galaxy Nexus it returns back to Cyanogen boot screen so you understand it's still doing something, and decryption is much quicker. On the A510 it just stays on the Android encryption icon until its done, and it takes maybe 10 times longer.
[Acer Iconia A500] marlopainter:
A510 Helper App for PC

Since there isn't a dedicated A510 Forum yet, I will put this here.

I created a program to help people with their new tablet.

You can find it in my sig. I posted it in another forum.

Updated on 5/15/2012
[Acer Iconia A500] Maelow:
Tell me How to install

Acer_AV041_A510_1.060.00_EMEA_CUS1

instead of

Acer_AV041_A510_1.076.00_PA_CUS1

???
[Acer Iconia A500] himmatsj:
Hi guys. Am planning to get an Acer A510 a=having sold my 9 month old Tab 10.1 off. But the biggest (and only) worry is heat. I am going to be using it for a long of games (both Tegra and non-Tegra), so if heat is mighty unbearable, I might have to pass.

For the price, features and what-not, I think this tab has great potential.

Just to confirm for those in the know, does turning off the McAfeee virus scan help in alleviating some of the heat issues. I'd love to get a reply regarding the heat issue from a gaming freak.

Cheers :)
[Acer Iconia A500] BENETNATH:
frankly i do long play sessions without any trouble, it's warm but not hot and never painful at any time..
[Acer Iconia A500] rushless:
Disabling the virus protection reduces lag issues and saves battery life. The main things driving the heat are the gpu and wifi. The combination at the same time can reach 110 degrees, but it's not common.

The positive spin is it's better than the heat building up inside and not dissipating. I am keeping the A510, since no current tablet beats it for battery life and driver support for file management.
[Acer Iconia A500] marlopainter:
I LOVE this tablet! FAAAST!!! Responsive. I have 0 issues. I read about people having issues, not me. I've been using Android since the G1 and this is my best experience yet. I wanted a Transformer Prime badly. Overall, I am supremely happy with my purchase of the A510. The battery life in phenomenal. I play games, stream MOG, wifi and gps are on ALL DAY. If you have it plugged into the wall, put heavy loads on the wifi and gpu, then yes, it is warm in the lower right corner. It is never anything that 'worried' me.
[Acer Iconia A500] rushless:
I started with a G1 too and also got the poorly UI and stock OS designed Viewsonic Gtablet..... It has viewing angles only a mother would love. I still have it as a memory of the bad.
[Acer Iconia A500] DemonRage:
About stability issues with the (my) A510:

After I did a factory reset I didn't do certain app updates (like Google Maps which made my Samsung Galaxy S2 lock up and reboot) and also no shutdown/warm boot.

The tab is up and running for 144 hours without any strange stuff happening. During that time I did change wifi connections, installed and removed apps, inserted and removed the sd card (the safe way), played games, watched some youtube and browsed a lot.

I'm liking this tab more and more. :)
[Acer Iconia A500] B1ny:
Well..... it was OK for 3 days, only 2 times it didn't decrypt on first boot, but it booted right up on second try both times. And most of them quick as well, about the same as my GN, if not quicker.

But now it took around 25 tries before it started up :-(

We really need some custom roms for this tablet, so the "devs" at Acer can go back to do whatever they did before they got hired at Acer.
[Acer Iconia A500] B1ny:
I think I have found out how to get it to boot when it's encrypted. Turn it on, wait until the screen goes black again after it asks for the encryption password, push power button to wake it back up, type password and it shall boot right up.
[Acer Iconia A500] eman01:
Where is the actual firmware?

Can you tell me where on this page the actual firmware is? I tried but couldn't find it among all the Russian (or cyrillic or whatever it is). I did get to a page with the apparent actual file name, but none of the links took me to a download.
[Acer Iconia A500] marlopainter:
Use Chrome and it will auto translate the page for you.
[Acer Iconia A500] jms-xda:
Troubleshooting help greatly appreciated :o

Brand new A510 booted itself during initial setup (according to my friend), after that wifi and bluetooth wont turn on. While trying to turn wifi on message "Turning Wi-Fi on..." is sitting in the middle on the screen but nothing happens. Same for bluetooth. During initial setup wifi connected fine, so it worked once...

We have tried to both restore factory settings and reset the device (using paper clip), no help so far.

Any hints what next?

EDIT: Device returned to dealer and their preliminary verdict is DOA...
[Acer Iconia A500] aamir123:
Anybody know if there are any rooms out there? Anyone working on a Linux distro?
[Acer Iconia A500] sstanescu:
Got one A510 for my wife. So far I had absolutely no reliability problems from the hardware point of view, I've got even out of the box superb battery life. Good build quality.

On the downside, I do not like very much the proprietary connector, which I'm afraid will get us into trouble (get damaged or lost). Also I've got HUGE issues with the android market, with damn "...cannot be installed in your country" message (basically at any application). Something was fishy yesterday, trying her account but also mine which has no problem on other Android toys. In the end, I've got the tablet rooted to try some market fixes. No luck. Then, reading somewhere, I have changed the timezone to a fixed one. Apparently it worked but it was mainly placebo. Then I have uninstalled the Google Play updates (automatically coming) and with the 1st step update of standard Market application it worked. As soon as the 2nd update was coming, again the dreadful message for anything, even if the app was coming from my Google account. In the end, somehow it got stabilized.

And, for all the efforts, I have installed the profile switcher, so now we can use it both without conflicts!

Good tablet anyway, I can only hope firmware is properly maintained by Acer (first Acer product, after a dozen of Samsung toys) and accessories will start to pop up.
[Acer Iconia A500] californiarailroader:
What country are you in? I haven't had any problems like that here in the US. You might want to put your location in your info, it would make posts like this a bit easier to answer. ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] sstanescu:
Sorry, Romania. Due to some old restrictions of the Google ecosystem, usually my devices are setup-ed as US and all devices are using US English language. On the phones, Market Enabler is my friend.

On the page of supported devices of Google Play, I have noticed that A510 is not yet listed as supported, but it shall not be a problem.
[Acer Iconia A500] ThatGeekGuy:
Just picked up an A510 from MicroCenter at lunch today for the $399 special. Running benchmarks against my A500 just blows it away, but need to see how it handles real-world applications.

I've been very happy with my A500 for over a year, and hope the A510 won't disappoint. I already see a few things that I'm not crazy about:

- Proprietary charge port, on the bottom of the tab, that requires a stupid dongle for full size USB devices. That is a major PITA from my standpoint, as I use memory sticks regularly and normally keep my tablet in a folio stand.

- Olympic logo on the back is a distraction form the otherwise good looks of the tablet. As is the 'Acer' and 'Iconia Tab' logos on the front, I really like the lack of anything around the screen on the A500.

Well, I have fourteen days to see if I like it enough to offset those things ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] farris:
I like the rings on the backside, it looks like a 'special' tablet now :P

I don't know why people always mention this; what's the problem?

- it's on the back

- it's small

- you never see it, because it's on the back

- ??? :P
[Acer Iconia A500] sark666:
Well, first I was happy that finally an acer tablet will trickle charge, but I realized wait, I can't have access to usb host, which I want to use while plugged in. I guess for mouse keyboard I can go bluetooth, but thumbdrives, usb drives etc. Also, I read the tf 300 does usb over ethernet, does the 510? I may want it wired for faster access, but again, lose the ability to charge.

I see no one mention fullscreen flash, this crashes for everyone doesn't it?

Also, it's a little warm sometimes but I haven't stressed it with a game. I don't really have any high end games installed. Is there a freeware/demo game that'll push it? I want to see how hot it will get.

Also, I bought this to double as a barebones computer and it drives me nuts that the bottom menu is cut-off over hdmi. The display is 16:9 and this is 16:10. Little did I know both displays have to be the same aspect ratio. I've searched but given up on finding a way to change resolutions. And it's funny that ics native resolution is 16:9, but yet I'm having problems with a 16:9 display. I read the tf 300 and prime have a scale or crop option over hdmi. Can someone tell me what scale does exactly? Does it squish the image including everything but ruining the aspect ratio?

Debating on returning this for a tf 300. I'll lose trickle charge which really bugs me, but at least I can be powered and use usb host. But then again, that usb host adapter is supposedly hard to find for the tf 300. Sigh, just can't find it all in one tablet...
[Acer Iconia A500] pdagal:
sark666, the TF300 USB host adapter plugs into the dock/charge connector, so you're in the same boat: can't use USB host and charge at the same time.
[Acer Iconia A500] sark666:
Thanks good to know and makes sense. Why do they implement all these usb hosting abilities and not give the means of using it while plugged in.

But I assume with the tf 300 and dock I could keep it plugged in and usb the usb host. I believe the host is dedicated on the dock and not also used to plug in the charger but maybe I'm wrong.

I didn't plan on purchasing that but I got the impression it handled hdmi out better than this device (giving the scale/crop option).

I tend to post too much in one post, to confirm, flash fullscreen crashes for everyone right?
[Acer Iconia A500] californiarailroader:
With the A510 though you can use the USB while on the go with the adapter, the Tf300 is going to force you to a dock, that's not a good idea I don't think. As far as Flash crashing on my A510, it doesn't.
[Acer Iconia A500] pdagal:
Yes, the TF300 dock lets you use the USB port and charge at the same time since the dock has a dedicated full size USB port.
[Acer Iconia A500] aamir123:
Full screen flash does NOT crash for me. Thats one of the first things I tested since I stream stuff. Also showed it off to my friend who was very impressed.
[Acer Iconia A500] gaetanolip:
New toshiba excite also lets you use the USB port and charge at the same time