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[Acer Iconia A500] shmax:
problems with new A510

Hi,

Yesterday I received my Acer A510.

Device is working pretty well, however after unpacking I found manufacturing build defects.

- Silver line(side cover), above power button is clicking (can be pressed, and moves about 1 mm).

- Side cover over hdmi port has side backlash. (moves from 1mm side to side)

Is it common problem between Acer A510 devices, or I'm lucky to get badly built device?

Also I have dent on microSD slot cover, which also was there when device left the factory.
[Acer Iconia A500] experto1:
Checked microfone using skype: functioning well, maybe little quiet but usable.

Has anybody noticed bad pixels? I have heard that several devices came with bad pixels and some became more worse after some time.

My device is fine and I am very happy with it but I am afraid that overheating might cause artefacts or bad pixels.
[Acer Iconia A500] californiarailroader:
I have no bad pixels on mine, and overheating isn't an issue, it does get a bit warm when charging or being used for long periods, but so does every other device out there when being charged or intensively used.
[Acer Iconia A500] BENETNATH:
no dead pixels is every tabs from my french board..
[Acer Iconia A500] gaetanolip:
Did your skype listener understand fine your words (while you were using internal microphone)?

Inviato dal mio Transformer TF101 con Tapatalk 2
[Acer Iconia A500] gaetanolip:
Can you play a 1080p youtube video using browser (not youtube app)? Does it srutter?

Inviato dal mio Transformer TF101 con Tapatalk 2
[Acer Iconia A500] burbank:
I too would love to get recovery on my A510. I'll sleep a lot better when I can start doing nandroid backups.

If you tell me how to give you the stock recovery, I"ll be happy to do it.
[Acer Iconia A500] BENETNATH:
This video runs smoothly

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?fmt=37...hl=de&v=4N2YWRJ-ppo&hl=de&v=4N2YWRJ-ppo&gl=DE
[Acer Iconia A500] rushless:
Compared to the TF300, the A510 could be the better device due to better battery, maybe Gorilla glass, better speakers, USB port, faster chip- but Acer made hardly any effort to get review units to the media. There are a LOT of Asus 300 reviews and one media review for the Acer.

Even some media are mentioning no effort from Acer. Makes zero sense.
[Acer Iconia A500] Redah:
I have just received my A510, and just sold my TF201. The A510 is a definite winner tablet. I can't imagine ever going back to ASUS. Screen quality of the Acer (saturation) is much, MUCH better then on the TF201, strange as it may seen.

And, very important for me, the Acer does *not* have the 'dynamic contrast' feature that ASUS claims is embedded in Tegra3. On the ASUS tablets, this makes the screen jump in brightness, even at the lowest settings. It's about 5 small incremental steps, but it's annoying as heck when watching movies. The Acer does not have this, so again ASUS is trying to market their flaws as a 'feature'.

Anyway, happy as can be with my A510, it's a better replacement for the A500 than the TF201 ever was and the TF300 probably could be :)
[Acer Iconia A500] gaetanolip:
Thanks, but your link is from mobile, not real flash nor 1080p.

Can you play this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHsVbptb1RU exclusively in browser at 1080p (pay attention to the fast scenes).

Thank you

Inviato dal mio Transformer TF101 con Tapatalk 2
[Acer Iconia A500] shmax:
Guys, can you check if your tablets has assembly defects I described in previous post?

I'm choosing between keeping tablet and exchanging it.
[Acer Iconia A500] BethyM:
1mm is about right. Just got it and there is some movement. It's really minor in my opinion. I never would have noticed if I didn't specifically look. The door seems like it probably has to be that way to work. I played with it a bit and am letting it get a charge. I would definitely not RMA for these minor issues. I hesitate to even call them defects but I'm not a mechanical engineer.

Things of note so far:

• a510 is useable in sunlight. I took both out and side by side in direct sun I could work them. I wouldn't call either the prime or a510 easy in sun but that's mostly because my reflection was getting in the way. :-)

• a510 does get quite warm. That's just an initial first impression but it was noticeable and will need to be evaluated.

• prime is definitely nice to hold. It clearly has a more premium feel to it.

• the primes notification widget is much better... they did good work with the customization.
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
Thor's 1.7 cwm recovery repacked with A510 stock kernel. itsmagic is disabled. overclocking does not work, since it's a stock kernel.

You MUST unlock your bootloader before flashing this.

You can rename it to recovery.img and put it on your microsd card and use Acer Recovery Installer to flash it. Or you can use the following command in a terminal emulator or adb shell.

dd if=thor_recovery17_A510.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1

Give it a try and see if it works.

(link removed by EB)

Cheers!

EDIT: Just discovered that data is in a different partitions than the A500. A510 has data in mmcblk0p10 instead of mmcblk0p8. Don't use this version for anything that try's to manipulates data. I'm not sure of the purpose of mmcblk0p8 is here. I've removed the link for now.
[Acer Iconia A500] BethyM:
It plays in browser, HD... beautifully. No stutter or anything that I could detect.
[Acer Iconia A500] gaetanolip:
did you try 1080P, isn't it?
[Acer Iconia A500] BENETNATH:
thanks, i'll give a try asap

NOTE : to unlock :

Do 'adb reboot bootloader' then 'fastboot oem unlock'
[Acer Iconia A500] gaetanolip:
what is file system format???

in this forum http://forum.hardware.fr/hfr/gsmgpspda/tablette/unique-iconia-a510-sujet_24016_32.htm

i understood ( but my french is very very bad ang google translate is not so fine) that it is impossible to copy a file bigger than 4 GB neither to external sd (ntfs formatted) nor into internal memory ( here it is strange because the format file system should be ext).

Can you check that???
[Acer Iconia A500] BethyM:
It was YouTube HD. I think its the same.
[Acer Iconia A500] BENETNATH:
yes, i did not try by myself, but it seems that the user has trouble putting bigger files than 4GB on the external sdcard through usb cable. but i can put files directly on the sdcard when inserted into his computer, and play them.

he can put big files on the internal sd without troubles.

i've tried it on desktop version of opera, with flash player, and it runs smoothly (as long as you let him buffer a bit)
[Acer Iconia A500] deviouskater:
has anybody tablet when charging over night find there tablet won't wake up. It finally powers on after holding for awhile. I thought I it went away but it hasn't.
[Acer Iconia A500] gaetanolip:
Thanks,

if you can put files bigger than 4gb into internal memory , no problem.

Instead, if you can't put files bigger than 4gb in ntfs formatted sd card , maybe, it could be that writing on ntfs is not supported.

Can You put a >4gb file into external hard disk?

Thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] BENETNATH:
may be, no hdd to test that
[Acer Iconia A500] fastracer:
Mine just did that this morning...I left it on my desk last night...not charging...."sleep" mode and this morning I couldn't turn it on. I had to hold it a long time for it to boot. This is the second time for me. Any thoughts?
[Acer Iconia A500] BENETNATH:
never seen that on mine
[Acer Iconia A500] rushless:
Kind of like the infamous sleep of death the Thrive had for the first half of its life. Anbody else? At this point with the Thrive, there were already a LOT of reports, so maybe not a common issue like that.
[Acer Iconia A500] experto1:
No wake up problems here, not heard of it before and no report in German forum.

**Edit: Encountered the wakeup problem yesterday. After a restart I didn't start any app and left it for about half an hour. When I went back it won't wake up and had to long press power button to restart it. That was the first time that I switched it off after 5 days of continious use.
[Acer Iconia A500] pdagal:
Mine wouldn't wake up with a press of the power button after its first overnight here. I pressed the reset hole button to restart it. But it hasn't done it since in a week of use.
[Acer Iconia A500] BENETNATH:
Ok GOOD NEWS !

I think we really need an appropriate section

Now a510 is root and as a working recovery :-) :-)

GG euclid's brother kudos
[Acer Iconia A500] deviouskater:
I have done the reset button a Couple of times no luck .

Im testing a theory right now. I've noticed with certain apps like the xda premium app and able remote.(not optimized for ics and get the cross hairs on the notification BAR(to zoom and not) and then exit the app.

My clocking speed gets stuck between 1.100 to 1.400 and never lowers down to 102 unless I reboot. You can test with an app in the market. CPU +temp v2 which tell you your clocking speed.

I also checked with setcpu which records how long in each state. Under info (time in state) Once I use these certain apps my clock speeds gets messed up.

I believe since my clock speeds never goes down even when screen is off. My tablets shuts down. Right now I'm testing by not using those apps and see if 1.) my clock speeds gets stuck and 2.) if my tablet will shutdown when sitting with the screen off ( on thecharger and off)

I'm also going to let my battery drain completely tonight and see if it will fix the problem. Basically a battery pull to Restart the whole system like when people with the transformer prime after the camera update which semi bricked it and was only fix by letting the tablet drain by turning on and off till it wouldn't turn on anymore.

This my first day testing it. I LLC get back to you

Its none rooted also
[Acer Iconia A500] rushless:
I think the problem may be the virus app. Perhaps doing more harm than good.
[Acer Iconia A500] deviouskater:
Disabled it. No luck for me
[Acer Iconia A500] Euclid's Brother:
Don't use the CWM i posted above. DATA is in a different partition on the A510.
[Acer Iconia A500] fastracer:
Update: My tablet wouldn't wake from sleep 3 more times today...3rd time it would not start at all. I tried everything...reset hole...holding power button. I would get either the Acer logo and it would freeze there or it would show the logo and after a few seconds shut off. After many attempts of not powering on, I left it alone... came back a few hours later and the bottom right is very warm. It was not powered on. I tried to boot and it finally booted. I already issued a return to Amazon for a replacement. Amazon says they are out of stock :( I'll see what happens with the next one..lol
[Acer Iconia A500] BENETNATH:
It's installed, what's next ?
[Acer Iconia A500] predo:
Could you compare how does it feel in terms of size and weight to prime?

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Acer Iconia A500] quitos:
because i m french i can anwer to you

files bigger than 4 GB can be copy to internal SD (i presume it's Ext4 format)

i also presume ICs "stock" kernel don't support NTFS format, so only external SD card formatted in FAT32 are recognized (and in that case file bigger than 4 GB can't be played)
[Acer Iconia A500] gaetanolip:
ok, usually it is like you are telling,

but we know that users are reading from external hard drives ntfs formatted, then acer a510 already can read ntfs format, but we don't know if it can write on ntfs format
[Acer Iconia A500] Jsunn:
Love the A510!!

I just got mine yesterday and I am loving it. No issues at all, It does get warm when I am charging or playing a graphics intensive game.

I am looking forward to the root and to customer ROMs. My primary imaptience is a functional cloockwork recovery mod so I can backup the tablet. I am so glad that I upgraded.

And when are we going to get a dedicated A510 subforum???

-Jason
[Acer Iconia A500] BethyM:
[Q] I'm new to Acer but not to rooting. I know all manufacturers are a bit different. Before I venture into the rooting of my A510 can someone tell me what the process is to unroot if something comes up and it needs to go in? Thanks!
[Acer Iconia A500] Jesse6749:
I am glad to see it will be covered here, I had my A510 for a week now. I got it from Amazon last week and rooted it using the ICS Rooting for the A500 and A100 listed here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1531646.

I got full root access and all I am waiting for is a bootloader unlock method so I can start flashing some custom roms. :p

---------- Post added at 07:53 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:50 AM ----------

I have a Sandisk 64Gig microSD card formatted as NTFS and my A510 recognizes it and I am able to copy files onto it just fine. So the stock kernel does support NTFS file format, I have proven that with my 64Gig memory card.

---------- Post added at 08:02 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:53 AM ----------

I can answer this as I have both the Prime and the A510. They both feel about the same weight when I hold both on each hand, the Prime screen is slightly bigger(Taller) when held in landscape mode, the A510 is a thicker device but feels like a solid and well built device.

I love my A510 cause everything works (wifi, gps, Bluetooth) which is my main reason for getting the A510 as my Prime suffers from the many problems stated in the Prime Forums. I do like the Prime's Keyboard dock and is the reason I am keeping that as a email reply tool.

---------- Post added at 08:30 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:02 AM ----------

Ha ha ha, I made the same mistake when I got mine last week. :p

---------- Post added at 08:31 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:30 AM ----------

I used this to root mine and it worked!!!: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1531646
[Acer Iconia A500] gaetanolip:
Can you put a >4Gb file into your 64sd card?

Thank

Inviato dal mio Transformer TF101 con Tapatalk 2
[Acer Iconia A500] aznmode:
I'm thinking about going from my Asus prime to this. Have you guys had any other issues besides what's mentioned here. My primes I/O speed is pretty bad so it affects performance during any downloads or when transferring files. Also the browsing freezing for a few seconds which also seen in other apps so I really believe its due to bad I/O implementation. Do you see any of this or other things on the acer? It seems to have the least issue out of the Tegra 3 devices. TIA
[Acer Iconia A500] aamir123:
see this is the problem with the Android tablet industry! Ipad comes out and is widely available and able to sell over a million in the first week easily due to its availability. This tab and the new Asus tab both came out less than a week ago, Best Buy is already sold out and it has yet to show up in stores. If a million tablets aren't available then how are you gonna sell that many? Most sales during the first week cuz of hype and lack of reviews and problems. By the time an android tablet is available all of its problems are known and the hype is gone. By the time Ipad problems come to light its already sold over a million. btw not an apple fanboy, love android but google needs to step its game up
[Acer Iconia A500] aznmode:
It may be also due to apple having more financial back end that they can afford to produce more tablets. And they know it will sell so they can risk producing more. Acer and Asus I think are playing it safe so theyre not left with overstock or they simply can't financially afford to produce too many.
[Acer Iconia A500] drewlim:
Can any a510 users confirm if the game order and chaos from gameloft works with this tablet? Already ordered mine but i wont have it till this coming tuesday.
[Acer Iconia A500] aamir123:
Yes but even with low demand expectation wouldn't you expect them to at least make the release date at stores as well as enough to supply a "low" demand? I mean the a510 has been oos since like Monday and the tf300 isn't even showing up in all popular retailers. This coming from someone that wants to buy and can't. Others may not wait, I am but maybe I'll just decide against a tablet since I have no need for one.
[Acer Iconia A500] BethyM:
Posted a request thread for our own forum (couldn't find one)... Can't wait to have a place to discuss!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1624821
[Acer Iconia A500] aznmode:
I think fry's.com still has them in stock.
[Acer Iconia A500] aamir123:
Thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] rushless:
I ordered the 510 as soon as available from Best Buy and still no sign of it.

Seems BB is only getting the 16GB version of the 300, so will not bother getting that one to try.

Update:

Now says available for pick up, so will get today.
[Acer Iconia A500] seven2099:
FYI this is all over Bestbuy and Futureshop already however they are NOT publically letting people know this tab is available. I had to physically go and search one. They had no pricing, no display model, nothing...

Sheer luck I ran into it

BTW

All 510 owners, please go to this thread and reply with a "+1 for A510"

so we can get our own sub forum.

Link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=25445118#post25445118

Thank you
[Acer Iconia A500] Dexter_nlb:
NOTE : bootloader unlock :

1. adb reboot bootloader

2. fastboot oem unlock
[Acer Iconia A500] mearoth:
I can't say for this game, but most if not all Gameloft games that I tried reported that they are 'not compatible' with the device (can't remember if one worked :eek: ). I nevertheless don't doubt that this is only a matter of time, since an update will solve this.

hth
[Acer Iconia A500] deviouskater:
update. So far I think I fixed the stuck clock speeds running only at 1.1-1.4 when using non tablet apps causing my tablet to reboot when sleeping. I drain the battery completely seems to restart the whole system and everything is running great not one reboot. I'll update in a few days. So people with sleep of death. Try drain your battery till its dead. Charge again for at least 20 mins and turn on.
[Acer Iconia A500] deviouskater:
Update. After I used those apps my tablet shutdown when sleeping. I wont nlbe using any apps that are not tablet optimized
[Acer Iconia A500] BethyM:
I'm not a big gamer, so haven't tried but if you look in the a200 forum I saw some people modified build prop to say a500 to get game access... perhaps it'd be a temp fix until GL updates us in the system.
[Acer Iconia A500] BethyM:
I've had some random reboots, haven't pinpointed it yet but the last one was when I tried to turn wifi on after it'd been asleep a couple hours. Have you tried a hard reset? I've disabled virus scan. What app are you monitoring the stuck clock speeds with?
[Acer Iconia A500] drewlim:
Hi tnx for pointing this out. Is it required to root the device to be able to modify the build prop?
[Acer Iconia A500] deviouskater:
Temp+ CPU v2 itva widget.

I made a typo on my last post.my tablet would shutdown when sleeping not reboot. Im trying to figure why I'm getting the sleep of death. I haven't had a reboot while I was actually using the tablet.

I did a reset then i let the battery drain till it shut it self off . Then charged and then tested without using apps that werent optimized for tablets ( the ones you get the cross hairs in the notification bar).

I was running just fine when I didn't use apps that werent optimized for 2 days. Then I tried apps like xda premium and able remote which aren't optimized and charge right after when I came back it shut it self off when sleeping. Ill test again .I deleted those apps and i will see if it will shut it self off again.
[Acer Iconia A500] aznmode:
Root required
[Acer Iconia A500] drag2422:
Hello,

ich tryed to root my A510 to get full root acess but it dosent work. I also unlock my Bootloader but when i try to flash the CWM it only shows "read only filesystem".

I used the Method form the A100 but it seems it dosent work well superuser is installed laso adfree but im not able to change the Hosts file.

can somebody help me or explain what i do worng?

Sorry for my bad english i try my best :)

Regards

drag2422
[Acer Iconia A500] grizou:
Modify /etc/hosts for AdAway

Hi,

I had a similar problem getting AdAway on my a510 to work and the following worked for me.

1) Remount /system partition rw

./adb shell

shell@android:/ $ su

shell@android:/ #/system/sbin/bb/busybox mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 /system/

2) create a symlink: /etc/hosts --> /data/data/hosts

shell@android:/ # cd /data/data

shell@android:/ # ln -s /etc/hosts .

Even if after reboot the /system partition is read only again the /data/data/hosts file remains writable.

3) In AdAway you change the target hosts file to /data/data/hosts and voila your tablet should be ad free.

I don't know adfree but the approach should be similar.

BTW your English is fine.

Regards
[Acer Iconia A500] f.cn:
Who can help me?

I'm a Chinese and also a junior high school student so my English is very poor,hope you can understand what I say. .

I got this tablet from the Acer's factory,and I found the way of root from XDA,I was very happpy at that time,after rooted my tablet I just deleted the official Launcher apk,at the next time I found the music player could't work,so I restore the system

It was normal until the Acer's 'forms'(the forms with your credit card number) disappeared but when I closed this window there was a pitch dark on the screen! and it was without change when I pressed the home icon,so I reboot the device

I did not expect what would happen

The device could't boot!!!!! It was just stay the interface with 'iconia tab'

In the next 3days I have try the every way to wake up it

but....

As you can guess:I failed...

It cost the pin money of two my months，I feel very unhappy now,does it have

a chance to wake up it?

Who can help me?
[Acer Iconia A500] rushless:
A510 compared with 300, Prime and Thrive

I got the A510 yesterday and here is my feedback based on using a Thrive and trying out a few Primes (weak wifi returns) and trying out the 300 (perhaps for too long) at Best Buy. I also have an iPad "3", but not really apples to apples.

Build: 510 feels best to hold and a more solid feel compared to all but the Prime.

Display: The iPad 3 ruined me for lower res, so I am biased there. None the less, I think they are all good displays. Perhaps the definition is better on the 510 and the colors seem more natural, but too subjective to say for sure.

Speaker sound: 510 blows them all away.

System speed: 510 seems just as fast as the 300, but the Prime seemed to have a lag sometimes that neither of these have. All three smoke the Thrive, none the less.

Touch response: All seem fine to me.

Video results: 1080p plays fine on all but the Thrive (yikes).

Game emulators: Though FPSe and N64oid plays good on the Thrive and Tegra 2, there is a profound performance increase on Tegra 3. MAME Reloaded has a slight speed increase, but nowhere near the change with FPSe and N64oid.

Wifi range: Was not able to test the 300 out and about, but the 510 is far better than the Prime and slightly better than the already good wifi Thrive.

Things that are not so good:

As others have mentioned, the 510 can get fairly warm on the right side. The 300 and Prime did not seem to do this. Since the Prime is aluminum, the heat should be pretty obvious compared to the plastic back 510, but the result is opposite. Playing CPU hungry games like N64 and PSX do not get it real warm, but the combo of charging and using wifi does seem to cause this.

I do not like the charge and data function on the bottom, nor do I like both functions through one port (I already have an iPad- one is enough). The design of this for the 300 and Prime makes sense, due to the KB dock, but does NOT on the 510. Seems poor ergonimics, IMO.

Not sure if I am keeping the 510, due in part to already having a iPad 3 64gb and a Thrive. Frankly, I wish I could have the Thrive with its big ports and ICS plus Tegra 3 in it and NOT be made by Toshiba. Ironic.

I can say that after using them all, my bad experience with wifi on the Prime places both the 300 and 510 as better (and cheaper) options. Seems a tie between the 300 and 510. Either device should make folks happy :)
[Acer Iconia A500] aamir123:
Just wanted everyone to know that the A510 is on sale at Microcenter for $399.99 today. I just bought one and will be picking it up later.