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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nero17:
1. take the app rom manager, the free version from the play store, grant su when asked and install the CWM recovery..

2. never heard of??

3. i think there is already a customer kernel installed, if not, just download one from youre devices xda side and for overclocking you can use the Rom Toolbox or the normal cyanogenmod settings

have fun and dont forget to thank :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlwaysDroid:
Thanks alot! So I do not need a special Version of clockwork recovery? Like the one from this thread? (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1421650). Sorry for the dumb questions, I just dont want to brick it! And i also looked at the rom manager desciption and it says i need a clockwork compatible kernel first?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nero17:
http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager

link for the official clockwockmod recovery.. just go down the list until you find samsung galaxy gio and yes i think if you install the recovery via rom manager their shouldnt be any problem

.. the link you wrote is another recovery.. which one is better, id dont know got a nexus no gio :D
[Acer Iconia A500] GuenChan:
I ordered my Acer A510 (tegra 3, android 4)

Will this forum also cover the A510?
[Acer Iconia A500] naira1:
Where did u order from and at what price. Am also looking at getting this Tablet....
[Acer Iconia A500] FloatingFatMan:
Wrong thread, sorry.
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Yo, @FFM, you in the right forum? Or did i miss something?

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In answer, yes, we cover the 510 also. ;) Also cover it at my home site as well. (as soon as a person actually gets one) ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] FloatingFatMan:
Oops! Totally the wrong thread! Sorry guys!
[Acer Iconia A500] J_M_H:
You can preorder on Amazon for $449.
[Acer Iconia A500] ATGAdmin:
Actually the A510 forum is already up on our site bro!

Alex is gobbling up not only your time, but your mind as well lol ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] e.mote:
Acer Iconia A510 manual

http://global-download.acer.com/GDF...A TAB&Step3=A510&OS=a09&LC=en&BC=Acer&SC=PA_6
[Acer Iconia A500] David Dee:
April 25th launch Date

Future Shop in Canada has updated with estimated release date of April 25 for the A510:

http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/product/acer-10-1-32gb-iconia-tablet-with-android-4-0-wi-fi-a510-10k32c-black/10195719.aspx?path=4f6e73a054195167edf3391f5f8d257fen02
[Acer Iconia A500] BethyM:
From the Acer online store:

http://us-store.acer.com/product.aspx?prodid=175&catid=87

Acer pre-sale promotion is available until Acer.com product availability of the Iconia Tab A510 tablet. Acer estimates that this product will be in-stock by April 15, 2012.
[Acer Iconia A500] Raspail:
First ones out in France today.
[Acer Iconia A500] nortuc:
In Electronics Outlets?

You mean to actually buy off store shelves, or just preorder on line?
[Acer Iconia A500] Raspail:
Few in stores, first owners (not me yet) are testing it.

One chain got a stock, but spread among the stores doesn't make many. They should be out of stock by to-morrow if not already so I guess more to come soon un a next delivery. At least the commercial version is really out.
[Acer Iconia A500] naira1:
The first unboxing of Acer tab A510 hier

Edit.

It´s in french.
[Acer Iconia A500] Raspail:
According to first feedback from users:

wifi is fine, on par with any other wifi device even far from the router.

GPS fine. Video HD fluid. No serious issue from what was expected so far.
[Acer Iconia A500] BethyM:
Good to hear! Have we heard of release anywhere outside of France yet?
[Acer Iconia A500] David Dee:
Someone in Western Canada had posted one yesterday for sale online. When I emailed inquiring, he said he received his pre-order from The Futureshop. It is showing April 25th delivery online at the Futureshop website. I cannot confirm he legitimately received it, but given the recent French launch, I am hopeful.
[Acer Iconia A500] Raspail:
Few in Luxembourg too at the same time (that is now a couple of days ago) in store chain Saturn. As this is a german chain I can't imagine some germans didn't get it, but I have not heard of it.

Surprisingly other stores in France can't get a precise info on when they'll get it. Dates vary but it's expected next week or the other.

This must have been some limited pre-launch.
[Acer Iconia A500] BethyM:
This info has been removed from the Acer online shop. I chatted with an agent and was told the release has been delayed. Unfortunately, I closed the window before copying exactly what he said, needless to say I'm disappointed. Ugh! BTW: I specifically asked for the US release info.
[Acer Iconia A500] Raspail:
Rats!

Actually, apart from this batch which was sold (200 units, it has been said) as if it was coming from nowhere, info we get for more are about as erratic as yours. One date, canceled, another.

Was it some IRL testing? Like, if there are some big issues you only get 200 complaints? :D

Would you read french or not you'll get at least results from some benchmark here:

http://forum.hardware.fr/hfr/gsmgpspda/tablette/unique-iconia-a510-sujet_24016_32.htm
[Acer Iconia A500] David Dee:
Just picked up this beast today, so far so good except for gps. On GPS test it sees 12 satellites but does not lock. Anyone else have this issue? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
[Acer Iconia A500] KayvinM:
Try to give it some more time, the first time booting gps sometimes takes a bit to get a lock.
[Acer Iconia A500] David Dee:
Followed your advice and now gps lock is good thanks.

Has anyone tried Dark Meadow on this device? When I played it the screen flickered and it kept crashing, wouldn't work.
[Acer Iconia A500] BethyM:
My battery today... watched a couple hulu shows, streamed music, downloaded a bunch of stuff, did some church work.. yeah, its still got juice. Wow.
[Acer Iconia A500] pdagal:
Dark Meadow works fine for me, too well in fact: can't stop playing when I should be working!
[Acer Iconia A500] aznmode:
Some prime owners have experienced the same. After several reboots game has played fine.
[Acer Iconia A500] plitshec:
Liking everything about the a510...except the heat

Got mine Sunday and am currently testing everything...MTR review by Lisa was very helpful and accurate...

Pros - definitely the speed, very fast, WIFI & GPS work awesome, like the size and grippy back, love all the ports for flexibility.. Everything just works, so far...

Cons - display is quite good, but fairly reflective IMHO, and just not as crisp, contrast is lower than my Samsung galaxy phone...i guess I've been spoiled by AMOLED..., tablet is a bit heavy but worth it for the extra battery..., oh, and here's the kicker: this thing gets SMOKIN hot when gaming :o

I noticed the heat the first night and remember someone else in one of the forums mentioning that the heat was so bad it made their fingers tingle...now I understand! heat was bad enough while watching an HD movie (~40 C), but the gaming really lights a fire...

I used two separate temp gauges at work to measure temp after playing 'shine runner' for about 30 min...measured 54-57 C (129-134 F) on that 'sweet spot' on the back, right...at this point I was reading > 40 C on the FRONT of the tab...granted this was before disabling virus scan... But I measured 50 C on the back today with virus off..

My hand is literally sore from the heat of holding this thing for a few days. I had read mixed reports of heating issues...some suggest these are bad units..

Has anyone else taken an actual temp reading after running shine runner or similar? I'm seriously considering a return unfortunately :(
[Acer Iconia A500] Randomwalker:
Try rebooting after d/l the game.

I had the same problem, rebooting solved it for me.
[Acer Iconia A500] David Dee:
Did a reboot and working perfectly, thanks.

Sent from my Desire Z using the XDA App
[Acer Iconia A500] David Dee:
Unfortunately I must agree on this point, I don't need to measure the temperature to know this device gets uncomfortably hot while playing shine runner, riptide and dark meadow. I really like the device but don't know if I will be able to handle the heat for the long term. After the Prime, I was hoping to not have to return my device again, but the heat issue is serious as I have younger kids who like to play 3d games. The tf300 has too little battery life so it will be a waiting game for the infinity or new galaxy tab :(.

Sent from my Desire Z using the XDA App
[Acer Iconia A500] BENETNATH:
for all temp issue,

did you try to desactivate the virusscan bloat/crapware ??
[Acer Iconia A500] David Dee:
Deactivated as soon as I saw it open on my screen, still pretty damn hot.
[Acer Iconia A500] plitshec:
In my case, I had 'disabled' the virus app, but not rebooted the tab.

At some point I noted that the option to 'force close' the app was available so I suspected the app was still running in the background, and rebooted the tab. While this may have made a small difference, I still measured 50 C yesterday and I know virus scan was off.
[Acer Iconia A500] BENETNATH:
ok.

TMSC seems really bad currently providing good chips, so maybe there are some that go through the validation pipeline, but with high temperature..

mine is hot but not so much and never burning as hell

but first one was faulty, unstable and was return to acer.
[Acer Iconia A500] rushless:
I have not had 50, but have had it at 45 on the right side. Seems the heat displacement is not spread out like the 300 and Prime and more concentrated.

This along with the dumb location of the USB port seem to be the big design goofs.

On the software side, the inability for a desktop ua string to work for web browser apps is the goof on that side.

If I want a device always seen as a mobile device, my iPad 3 already does this. Bad OS move, Acer.

UPDATE: Opera does work with as desktop agent. Why not any other? I tried all usual suspects, including the ICS browsers.
[Acer Iconia A500] BethyM:
I'm using flash browser with hulu with no problem. Its not buttery smooth like I'd hope, but its watchable. No idea if hulu plus would be better, not willing to subscribe.
[Acer Iconia A500] rushless:
I retried Flash Browser and it is working. The only thing I did was reboot and that was for something else. The device is still seen as mobile by all browser apps, but at least Hulu works.

BTW, Hulu is smooth on the 510, but is also smooth on the Razr and Thrive. I am tethering the 510 with my Razr right now. Smooth. Looks standard def, but smooth.

I need to edit my OP since Hulo DOES work.
[Acer Iconia A500] BethyM:
Good to hear. I think the issues I've had in flash browser is it doesn't resume well. If I play without stopping I'm fine, but if I pause, or switch to another app and back it has a hard time resuming. The little bar at bottom of hulu is small too if I want to fast forward. Does this describe flash browser behavior on your other devices? I haven't tried it on my epic touch.
[Acer Iconia A500] rushless:
Depends on the connection. If 3g, yes on the resume issues. If 4g or wifi, all seems good with FB and Hulu.

BTW, the only browser out of every browser tested to be seen as desktop agent is Opera. It works, but stock, FB, Dolphin, Xscope, Skyfire, ICS+, etc do not. Not sure what Opera does right, but it does work.
[Acer Iconia A500] aznmode:
So the sites are showing their mobile versions?

Can you try this

ICS + should have the option in the settings> Advanced check box that says "Always request desktop site". The stock one depends. If you hit the menu (3dots on top right) there should be an option to request desktop site (ICS+ has this also). On the Prime the Stock browser was updated so it's also in the settings. Dolphin HD its in the settings just uncheck "mobile view".
[Acer Iconia A500] rushless:
As per my original no, I am checking desktop agent in the options of the browsers, buy that still does not work. The one exception being Opera. When you choose desktop Opera works.
[Acer Iconia A500] aamir123:
I was wondering if anyone who has shadowgun and riptide gp installed is having a problem with it running and showing up in the battery use details even when they havent been used? I am consistently noticing that they use up battery even when I haven't opened them after closing them before charging.
[Acer Iconia A500] BENETNATH:
in addition, any trouble in running shadowgun THD ? mine does not work well, the left pad detects me rarely and when i've got it, i can't move the view with my other hand.

sometimes, the pad remains stuck.

any idea ?

last version updated from Gplay
[Acer Iconia A500] gaetanolip:
BENETNATH

I worry about disk performance ( read \write)

can you run https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.cfbench&hl=it and post results?

Also, can you check to download-install apps from market while surfing internet , and copyng big files from an external source ( even from external sd car, better from external usb drive) into internal memory, all at the same time. Does The system slowdown?

Thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] farris:
I've got mine for a week now and I've found these problems:

- random reboots (5times now)

- browser crash (closes so I have to restart it again)

- Gmail app 'reset' (when I searched for my xda password mail the Gmail screen went white every time)

- touch screen unresponsive for 2 seconds sometimes

- some games don't work (temple run for example, doesn't respond to some slideds, character jumps instead of going left or right, etc)

Anyone who got this too?

Except for this it's a very nice tablet, plays every movie smoothly, all games are perfect, superb tablet!
[Acer Iconia A500] FloatingFatMan:
None of this happens to me...
[Acer Iconia A500] jacindc:
I've only had mine 24 hours, but so far have seen no reboots. Chrome Beta is crash-y, but it is a beta. The only real bug I've seen is a few icons I put on the desktop then became impossible to long-press on to move--they'd just open, no matter what. I ended up dragging other icons onto them to make folders, and then the folder was moveable.

It definitely runs a mite warm, but not hot. Though I'm not a gamer, so that might make a difference.

The screen and tab size and weight and responsiveness are all fabulous to me, but that's probably because I'm coming from an old Viewsonic gTab, which had a really bad display and wasn't yet running ICS with a lot of speed. :-)
[Acer Iconia A500] farris:
Mine gets hot too even when browsing. I thought tegra 3 had a companion core for browsing etc? I find the battery use a little bit disappointing, I used it for 6-7 hours today to show off my tablet but after that the battery was empty.

Maybe an update will help...

Edit: oh, and sometimes play market freezes for some seconds and launcher freezes for some seconds. Maybe (lol, when typing this the tablet freezes 6 times) I've got a Monday morning model :-( or a virus from a downloaded apk but McAfee doesn't give any alarm...
[Acer Iconia A500] BENETNATH:
no lags when copying

i've added benchmarks to my bench folder :

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wghs360juqglwxo/u5q_JuaS_T
[Acer Iconia A500] BethyM:
I had these issues, similar to what you describe. When I initially installed I allowed google to sync from the 'backed up' device which happened to be a Transformer Prime. I was concerned this was causing some of the problem so I did a complete hard reset and restore to factory. I did *not* restore things the next time and have greatly reduced/eliminated the reboots and such I was having.

Disable McAfee. I was able to use mine 13 hrs one day heavily and still wasn't out of juice... what I've learned with Android is that it takes a few charge cycles and time for the battery to calibrate. (I posted my battery screen a couple pages back)
[Acer Iconia A500] farris:
Hmm I didn't use the restore function, it maybe I can still try the factory reset option

Can try that :-)

Edit: Its getting worse and worse. Sometimes I can't turn the tablet on....this happened already when it just came out the box. Just happened again and now it restarts when I use the android keyboard (thats why I use the XT9 keyboard now) ... I try factory reset now :( too bad I have these problems...
[Acer Iconia A500] gaetanolip:
Thanks

Can share your bench?

Inviato dal mio Transformer TF101 con Tapatalk 2
[Acer Iconia A500] Maelow:
Is it possible to connect an external 3G?
[Acer Iconia A500] aamir123:
you may have a bad device, mine is amazing, it gets a little warm but nothing serious. I also have great battery life, I was just trying to make it better by eliminating battery usage of unopen apps
[Acer Iconia A500] plitshec:
Well I crossed my fingers and exchanged my A510 for another unit today. After rushing home to see if the second unit would run cooler, I have to report that within 20 minutes of running Zen Pinball and shine runner, this A510 is over 52C on the back right side as well.

To top it off, I was trying to type this reply on the tab and the unit just froze up and rebooted. I didn't have any freezing issues with my first unit over 4 days of use. I really liked what this device had to offer but have to throw in the towel on account of the heat...good luck to the rest of you...:o
[Acer Iconia A500] drewlim:
Hi im having problem with mine from waking up from sleep. Hitting the power button while the unit is sleeping takes around 3-5 secs before showing the lockscreen. Is anyone having the same issue? I have my antivirus disabled.
[Acer Iconia A500] farris:
Look a couple of post above ;-)
[Acer Iconia A500] BENETNATH:
yes,

just mention the source ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] grizou:
Hello,

I have my a510 encrypted and after shutting it completely down I restarted it, entered the password and all I got is a green outlined Android right in the center of the display. After an hour or so I turned it off and tried again - with the same result. What happened or what did I do wrong? After the successful encryption I was still able to use it as normal. Any help or idea on this is highly appreciated. Many thanks in advance.

Regards
[Acer Iconia A500] rushless:
Have you tried resetting with the little hole next to the usb port?

Added:

I am really liking the A510. It really does make my Thrive seem like a budget tablet due to the MUCH better speed, file managment and battery life. I miss the ports though :(

The issues I have had are no different from any other ICS tablet and seem more ICS, rather than hardware or stock rom. ICS still has some bugs. Must admit that my iPad "3" works with zero issues. If I forget my inner geekness, I can easily

see why most consumers go to the iPad, besides the great ecosystem. It simply works well, since very little fragmentation for the OS to manage around.
[Acer Iconia A500] BENETNATH:
or you can try the full reset with the same protocol as A500

http://www.hard-reset.com/acer-iconia-tab-a500-hard-reset.html
[Acer Iconia A500] grizou:
Hello,

Yes, I did that reset a couple of times. After the reboot and entering the password I still get the outlined Android. If I hold the volume down and turn the device on it starts erasing the cache and loads the kernel image from update.zip. A minute later I've got the dead android. The one with the read triangle and an exclamation mark on it.

Unfortunately I have generated a file update.zip with titanium backup that might have overwritten the original one..... stupid me!

Need some help.

Best regards
[Acer Iconia A500] BENETNATH:
you may try to rename that as a update.zip, and put it on a µsd, then reboot with volume down pressed

http://vache-android.com/v1/index.php?site=files&file=134
[Acer Iconia A500] grizou:
This procedure for the A500 worked indeed. It erases all userdata though and now I have pleasure to start it all over ;)

Don't know yet whether I've lost root too but guess so...

I don't think I will encrypt it ever again. Might not be a very good idea. I wonder if someone else has either good or bad experience with encrypting an android device?

Many thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] BENETNATH:
great to see that it worked :D
[Acer Iconia A500] David Dee:
I am really liking this tablet. No re-boot issues, super smooth, sound is awesome, display is more than adequate and everything works. My only issue is also the heat. I have disabled virus checker, but the thing gets so hot during 3d gaming / wifi downloads. I am crossing my fingers someone will find a fix for this before my 2 week refund deadline as I would really like to keep this device.

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Sorry for the tangent but I have to comment here: My wife has the iPad2 and I can't bear using it. It is an uncustomizable grid of apps that is locked in the itunes ecosystem. It is not perfect either, wifi is having constant issues and up until recently if I had to make any changes, I had to plug into the computer and use that bulky piece of crap iTunes program. Unfortunately the huge apple investment in marketing / branding keeps the herd at the pasture.
[Acer Iconia A500] grizou:
I've just received an OTA update. Changes the boot animation but I don't know what else it does. Android version still 4.0.3.

Regards
[Acer Iconia A500] BethyM:
Downloading it now, thanks for the heads up.

Question: Did you have root? Do you still have root?
[Acer Iconia A500] drewlim:
Guys I have notification for system update. Is it OK to update even if I have custom boot loader and rooted?
[Acer Iconia A500] KnukLHead:
Mines downloading the update now too. I haven't rooted yet cause Im sending it in due too a bad GPS unit so couldn't give any incite as to if it breaks root. Or works period on a rooted device. Hopefully Ill get it back soon so I can root it a d start playing. Its the only android device I have not rooted. Lol
[Acer Iconia A500] mearoth:
I just had a look at the manifest of the update. It seems to contain some Olympic pics as well as updates to some apps and a new bootloader . (And this is what scares me a bit since I am a burnt kid there with Motorola and locked bootloader) I don't know the policies of Acer so do you think they would make the bootloader locked? Could anyone with applied update try if you could still unlock?

Edit:

I just updated.. root is gone of course. I will try if root can still be established.

I will update.

Edit2:

Root can be reactivated just the same as before.

Edit3:

Boot loader also still unlockable
[Acer Iconia A500] cheifkeiff:
Thanks a lot for testing! I haven't received notification yet but when I first saw your post I got nervous.
[Acer Iconia A500] BethyM:
Confirmed that root is lost and re-achieved by regular one-step method.

To add to the discussion: I tried voodoo root keeper before applying the update, but I was not able to restore root with it. I don't know if that's a product of the file system on the Acer or something I didn't do correctly. To be fair, I've never used rootkeeper before.

USB Debugging was unchecked by default. If I recall correctly, the default when the tablet shipped was for it to be turned on. Just interesting to note in case you assume, as I did, that the default was still the same :-) It must be checked for the root app to work.

Does anyone know if Acer posts change logs anywhere? I saw the logo change and the default of the USB Debugging but haven't seen any other specific changes.
[Acer Iconia A500] bigezvol:
OTA Update failing (rooted and unlocked)

Guys,

I am rooted and unlocked bootloader with a custom bootloader. I have tried the OTA update twice and it has failed both times.

Do we have to re-lock the bootloader for the update to work or put the stock bootloader back?

Any help is much appreciated.

Jeff
[Acer Iconia A500] AcerGamer:
For those of you wondering if the newest update fixed anything.

After updating. My a510 is able to run siegecraft and shadowgun without lag now. I'm pretty sure some of you know what I'm talking about.
[Acer Iconia A500] bigezvol:
UPDATE... put the stock bootloader back on and the OTA update worked without any issues. Re-rooted and unlocked without any problem.

Hope this helps if anyone else is having the same issue.
[Acer Iconia A500] bakihanna:
I didn't lose my root at all after update , weird as hell cause I was looking forward to losing it