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[Acer Iconia Tab A100] samco08:
Nobody to confirm to me ?

with the last version of "acera200simpletool.bat" we still need of Rom_Manager to install CWM ?
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] BrothaJINC:
****ing titz mane........ hella nice work
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] tomlogan1:
I did the install from the newer version and, yes, CWM is there without ROM Manager. You might try Quicboot from the market as an easy way to test out and do your first Nandroid backup.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] samco08:
ok !

thank you for your answer !

so, masterpker2 maybe you should modify your first post to avoid mistakes ?

@+
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] spino1970:
i assume this will make loose to my A100 the swapSD from crossix, uh?
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] brendan802:
Works good can't wait for some real cooked up mods roms and kernel tweaks
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] tomlogan1:
Thank you for your efforts. I have installed clockwork and have successfully done my first Nandroid backup. ROM Manager, however, is not functional on my tablet. I am able to use Quickboot to get into CWM and perform backups from there, but ROM Manager stops and asks if you want to wait, report or OK. Any ideas on why it might behave in such a fashion?

Thanks again.

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Running the swap on mine with no issues. Did change the build prop back to normal with ICS, but no issues with the swap.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] spino1970:
Uhm... but the swap was using a modded install-recovery.sh by crossix...

If this method change that file, may i assume i will loose the swap?

Or i need to:

unlock the bootloader

install CWM

re-install crossix install-recovery.sh again?

'cause swap was not involving build.prop...
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] tomlogan1:
Swap did not involve the build prop, but it did change the device to an a500, so I removed that until after I had unlocked the bootloader and flashed CWM. I have not redone the build prop, but the tablet still registers 29 GB of internal space and 5 GB of SD card space, indicating the swap is still effective.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] spino1970:
Uhm... i suppose my english is very bad... i'll try to explain myself better :P

I have my A100 with leak 002 and crossix mod for swap...

The crossix method was using a custom install-recovery.sh file.

IF installing ClockWorkMod recovery installation is about to change this file (i've read it in manual instruction, where they said you need to change this file), my question is: How is possible the swap will work? Is the crossix mod already included in the new file?

I hope i explained better my toughts :)

PS:

Sorry for dumb questions... i'm just curious, it is not my intention open a flame :P
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] eww245:
After the CWM recovery.img is flashed the original install-recovery.sh must be renamed or deleted, as it will re-install the stock acer recovery. So just make sure crossix's mod is still in place after flashing cwm, this mod will not effect cwm.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] masterpker2:
Thank you eww for all your help on this subject :-) and for everyone else who is working hard to get this new development off the ground :-) It seems I may have jumped the gun in my OP, but I am going to sit down tonight and write up a detailed how to on what I have done so it can be more useful to everyone. The update will be posted in the OP thanks again all :-)
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] pintek:
Dumb question but..... is there a way to make the cwm fit our screens i'm sure there has been a large number of people asking about this :x
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] masterpker2:
I have updated the OP with detailed instructions on how i got it working with full functionality and it fixed the screen resolution of CWM :) enjoy
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] cheeb:
Once you do this process on ICS is there a way to return back to Honeycomb os?
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] masterpker2:
I have not tried yet but I will soon
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] tomlogan1:
I have tried moving back to Honeycomb from CWM as well as from booting update.zip from the card and have not been successful. The tablet acts as if it is updating, and then boots to the green acer logo and move no further. I then move back into CWM and restore the ICS save I made after installing CWM and I am back to where I started.

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Thanks for the update. I had originally installed CWM and ROM Manager and ROM Manager did not work. I redid this with Thor's recovery and then did CWM and it works perfectly. Now I can name the backups, rather than relying on dates.

Still can not return to HC from ICS. Have tried from CWM as well as boot from SD card and for some reason, I can't get back.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] cheeb:
Thanks for the feedback...i use powerpoint alot with my tab among other things for work so I'd prefer to stick to what I know is pretty much compatible with most apps (games in particular) ...someone will break this soon though..dudes here are always on top of things...
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] illego:
Works great. Thank you.

PS. I have not heard it mentioned here but the app Quickboot is great for booting back into bootloader or recover until we get a rom with a boot menu.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] raphsabb:
loox like the thor image link has reached its bandwidth
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] samco08:
??

Hello.

Is anybody who could explain me the difference between the method explained in the first post (specially for the use of rom manager) and the methode of the previous (old) first post with AcerA200SimpleTool.bat ?

I have used AcerA200SimpleTool.bat to install CWM (tool included version).

and every-things work fine !

So i would like to know the différence.

Why doesn't you use the AcerA200SimpleTool.bat to simply install CWM without Rom Manager ?

ciao
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] tirlibibi:
Got the droid with a red sign after installing Rom Manager CWM and reboot into recovery :/
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] oneovakindoldys2:
Hello samco, congrats on getting cwm working! The a200simpletool will work fine as far as recovering your tab, however when using the tool for flashing another rom you won't be able to see what you are doing in cwm because part of the screen will be cut off. If you already have cwm working fine you can leave it as it is or you can [very easily] flash thors cwm through fastboot. If you have sdk setup correctly you can just install thors recovery anywhere on your pc...navigate to the folder where it is located...hold down your shift key and right click your mouse and you will see [open command prompt from this folder]. You can then connect your tablet via usb and type the following: [adb devices]..then type.. [adb reboot-bootloader]. your tab will restart into fastboot mode...you will then need to type the following: [fastboot flash recovery {type thors recovery name here}]. You should then be setup with thors recovery which fits the a100's screen perfectly. good luck!
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] raphsabb:
I think the site with thor's recovery has reached its bandwitdh limit, any other place I can download it?
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] PRBajista:
Cant get it to work

I followed all the steps listed in the op, got the tab rooted, unlocked bootloader (Confirmed via status on the top), and ran the batch to install Clockwork, it comes up initially. But when I boot to the OS, I run rom manager and link it to the clockwork mod that was installed like the instructions state, but when I try to enter recovery via the button and using rom manager to get into recover and I just get the knocked over android with the exclamation point. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] eww245:
Download the Windows version.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Metallica 4 Life:
Is there a way I can go to the old Acer logo, I kind of liked it more since it lined up with the Acer logo on the back, and it doesn't glitch :p.

Anyways, installed and works good, except for a few things, the status feed is out of the screen and installing zips ends up showing an android with an exclamation mark, and saying error 0 installation aborted.

Well that's my 5 cents worth, but thanks for the mod :), keep it up
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] pintek:
having issues left an right trying to get thor recovery installed.... trying on the fastboot method i get cannot load recovery.img an the manuall method it keeps somehow making a update.zip an replacing the thor recovery.img with a factory recovery.img o.O

done this 3 times already tonight fallowing the same steps i did for cwm an when i try the cwm recovery it works so.... wuuuuuuuut o.O the guy pack the wrong recovery image inside the one working mirror?
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] raphsabb:
Seems that one is down as well :eek:

Can anyone in here post one?
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Euclid's Brother:
Can someone with that CWM from the simple root script... If you do a "adb reboot-recovery", do you get a lot of cache errors when CWM boots up? That was a problem on the A200.

Here's another CWM that you can try too. I repacked this (thor1.7 recovery) with the kernel from A200 stock recovery. Also made some tweaks to get rid of cache errors that the A200 was giving and removed itsmagic and messages aboutt overclocking. (Overclock and itsmagic are still in the menus, but they don't do anything.)

** removed link since this didn't work on a100 **

Let me know how it works. If it works, it'll be included in Acer Recovery Installer. If not, I'll repack it with the A100 stock recovery kernel.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] tomlogan1:
I have CWM installed with Thor's recovery, not the one you have redone, installed and when I do a reboot recovery, I get no errors on the pc (Windows 7, 64 bit) and the tablet boots right into Thor's recovery. Flashed your CWM recovery, and the prompt said it flashed, but I could not boot into it. Went back to Thor's and rebooted fine.

If you are going to change anything on Thor's recovery, could you put the soft keys in it like he has for the A500?

Thanks.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Euclid's Brother:
Thanks for checking. The cache errors would have shown on the tab, not the PC. Things like "Cant mount /cache/command" etc.

This one does have the on screen buttons, if i can get it to boot. I don't have an A100 to test with. I might get one, once i've finished adding support to my app for the A200 and return it.

Can you give me the link to the thor recovery you have installed? Was it in this thread?

EDIT: If your using recovery_thor17_403.img per the OP, then that should have the onscreen buttons. I havn't seen that one before. I thought it was the one repacked by fguy, but the md5 is different. I'll try it on my A500 and A200 tonight.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] raphsabb:
@euclid's bro Yea it flashed but my tab juss reboots.

I cant find thors image from this thread anymore, seems its reached the dl limit.

Update: I got it!
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Euclid's Brother:
ahh.. the one from OP, where you have to download a zip from tegra***ers, and extract recovery_thor_403.img, is the exact same recovery that fguy posted in the A500 bootloader thread. I just compared the md5's.

And that one is working for you guys on the A100?

Interesting, since that version would NOT work on the A200 (hence my repack for A200). It would just stop at the Acer logo. So the A100 gets the bootloader from A200 and recovery from A500. Go figure.

I should have Acer_Recovery_Installer support for A200 and A100 sometime this weekend.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] tomlogan1:
Not sure where I got it unless it was from Thor's site. I can stick it in my Dropbox account if you want to see it.

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Sent you a PM with the copy of Thor's recovery, but here is the entire zip from which it was extracted.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/52938668/nvflash-for-a500-with-custom-bl-cwm-kernel-Windows-1.0.1.zip
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Euclid's Brother:
would someone be willing to give this a try?

It's thor17 recovery with the A100 kernel and itsmagic removed. When launching it says Stock A100 kernel and the overclocking messages removed (since stock doesn't do overclocking).

http://www.interphaze.com/ROMs/Recovery/a100/thor_recovery17_A100.img
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] madman_sle:
Works like a treat! Love the battery percentage but the on screen buttons don't seem to function. Performing full backup with it now, seems to be working correctly.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] masterpker2:
Works great and thank you buttons don't work yet though :-)
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Euclid's Brother:
Look like the overlay is centered about half way between where its supposed to be and where it is on a 10.1" screen. But the touch sensitive points are probably still off screen.

Probably the only way to fix is to compile from source.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] SimonHtcDesire:
Hey,

Has anyone managed to brick their Tab with this method?

Because I am a little reluctant to do this because of the chance that I could ruin my Tab.

Thanks
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] raphsabb:
Quick question guys: any reason why installing rom manager deletes my cwm flash? I get cwm on there fine and I can use it as long as I don't try to install rom manager
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] ygthb:
CWM

Does anyone have any idea how long it takes to get an "official" CWM recovery?
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Euclid's Brother:
A500 came out right about 1 year go, and it still doesn't have an official one from koush. I'll keep you posted.

What do you need Rom Manager for?
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] oneovakindoldys2:
As euclids brother stated, the a500 still has no "official" cwm but this version of CWM is just as good if not better than any other. If installed correctly this is as "safe" as any other method of flashing cwm. Honestly, this version is extremely stable compared to some I've used on other devices. It is functioning very well and I have restored at least 50 times with absolutely not one problem. Good Luck!
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] raphsabb:
I don't really need it, it was part of the OP's procedures so I wanted to know if I was the only one with the issue
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] oneovakindoldys2:
Hello friend, are you positive that "Rom Manager" is actually the culprit? It sounds like you possibly still have a copy of [install-recovery.sh] on your tab. If you do, everytime you reboot, cwm will be deleted and replaced .If this is the case, you will need to either rename the [install-recovery.sh] file or delete it. If this doesn't work feel free to let us know and we will do what we can to get it working for you. Good Luck!
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] bizarre.static:
this can be flashed with the same commands as the first post in the thread?

edit: forget it, i installed now making a backup hehe so, now i can flash some roms with it? or i need to do something more
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] oneovakindoldys2:
If it flashed correctly and the backup is succesful, it should be a working cwm, therefore you are free to flash normally. Just be sure and make a full nandroid backup before flashing, because this is experimental at the moment, however the some a500 roms do run very well on the a100. good luck!
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] raphsabb:
Yea maybe it was the recovery file fuxin with it. I don't have it on the flexreaper from so it its allowing me to run rom manager fine
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] bizarre.static:
for some reason, when i reboot the tab, the clockwork recovery is not there, instead is the default recovery, what am i doing wrong?

i flash the thor recovery through fastboot
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] pintek:
did you remove the install recovery file from the rom before flashing the thor recovery?
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] mdowns989:
Okay... when I did this originally I did without Thor's .img and just used the A200 simple tool and it worked.. rez was jacked up but it worked... I just realized I was on a different ICS leak.. (I think)... so I went back to complete stock with current leak .12.... ran through instructions here in the OP and cannot get this to work.. right after I flash thor.img it opens the familliar CWM screen.. I reboot and install rom manager and when I go to flash recovery it tells me something about rom manager being set up to work with installed recovery... when I boot INTO recovery Andy falls on his ass and has a big red triangle coming out of his chest...I tried to DD it according to a post here and it errors saying (Unknown parameter 'IF') or some such thing... any idea what I am missing here? I am sure I will eventually figure it out but want a working tab NOW haha... HELP!!
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] toyface:
Can you boot into Android? If so, try navigating (using root explorer) as r/w to /etc and see if there is a file called "install-recovery.sh", if so you need to either rename it to "install-recovery.sh.bak" or delete it, otherwise this is what will cause your tab to load the stock recovery you're seeing as this installs a stock recovery image every time you reboot.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] mdowns989:
I can boot into android and after some sifting I thought this may be the issue...(Ill have to check after work) so I would delete this then reflash CWM from ROM manager or would I have to reflash thors .img?
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] toyface:
AFAIK ROM Manager only flashes official CWMs, something our tab doesn't have so the thor.img from the first post is the one to go for, I have no problems with it, nandroids etc work fine.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] mdowns989:
Thats what I thought but in the OP it runs through flashing thors img then installing and using ROM Manager.. not needed? ill tinker when I get home a bit... thanks for all the info man..
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] tomlogan1:
ROM manger is not needed, but very convenient to allow you to name your backups, rather than just have the date of the backup. Very convenient.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] mdowns989:
Yeah but you can just rename them using Root Explorer... do it all the time..
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] mdowns989:
Of course that was the problem... all is well now.. you try any of these customer recovery images? I used one from tegra owners... any reason to use one of the others?
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] gertjanad:
Install worked great! I only have one question, schould the bootloader.blob.a200 file be kept at /sdcard? Or can i delete it after the install?

grtz,

Gertjan
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Euclid's Brother:
Acer recovery installer will be available very soon. Planning on releasing a beta version within a couple off days.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Jesse6749:
Many Thanks!!!!

Hey man!! many thanks for posting the recovery image and the instructions, cause after unlocking my bootloader I was having trouble downloading the file from the other website and thankfully I found your post and folowed it by the letter and now I am doing my first nand backup on my Acer A100 :D.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] ptesmoke:
thanks man :-D now if only this a100 could get an official aokp build :-D
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] dacaz:
Thank you very much for my A100 Unlocked Rooted.

Simple clear and precise. even with my basic English.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] ghost_141:
Could you tell me which button makes the menu selection within the Clockworkmod? The movement is done with the volume keys (+/-), but not as a selection. :confused:

Edit: After rebooting into recovery mode again, I could make the selection with the button on/off. Thanks anyway. :D
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Theonew:
The power button ;).
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Raul77:
I used this method and can boot to recovery but when i hit backup i see the android logo for less than a second and back to CWM, can anyone please help?

EDIT : worked like a charm on the 4th try !!!

Thanks everyone.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] ygthb:
CWM

Any chance of an "official" cwm so that we can deploy and update from the app?
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Icewyng:
So, was anyone ever able to find a way to get around the "Boot Verified Failed" error?
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Trumpex:
Sorry if this was already posted, I admit to not reading the entire thread. I wanted to share my experience and how I fixed it. I followed all the instructions on the OP's post and used the recovery_thor17_403.img boot image and flashed to recovery. Recovery didn't work, just a dead Android with and ! in a triangle :(

I then again booted into download mode using the same instructions but instead of the recovery_thor17_403.img I downloaded the recoverycwma100.zip on the 2nd page by leclasheur22 (THANK YOU) and extracted the recovery.img from zip and reflashed with that one. Recovery now works. I kept reading a bit further on but seemed like everyone was just using dd in linux to write to the recovery partition. I just used adb to do the same thing, just wanted to share with any other people scared of the dd command :p
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Theonew:
That's because you didn't rename the "install-recovey.sh" file.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Trumpex:
Ok, I didn't see that anywhere in the instructions? Just for my own curiosity then, why did the 2nd recovery work without renaming the file?
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Theonew:
Assuming that the custom recovery is there every time you boot into recovery, then probably it renamed it or deleted.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Trumpex:
I don't think it can because I'm specifying which partition to write the image to through adb. I never touched the system partition where the file is kept that you are referring to. I will check if that file exists when I'm back in front of the tab.

Thanks.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Land Master:
Iv'e done all my reading and I'm getting ready to perform the steps in the OP. I have already decided to SKIP the Rom Manager steps as it appears as if others have been doing just fine with the "thor" Recovery. Agree?

The question I have before I start relates to the "install-recovey.sh" file. I assume that if the OP is followed word for word, that the installation of ROM manger and the subsequent flashing of the latest CWM through ROM manager alleviates the requirement to delete or rename this file? If not, then the OP would have included steps on how to do so or has he simply missed the extra step?

Bottom line .... I appear to be a user that WILL need to delete or rename this file. This said, please confirm that as long as I don't attempt to Initialize Recovery before doing so that I am fine? In other words my plan is to flash Thor, Reboot to the system and then rename the file using Root Explorer. Once this is done I should be able to download Quick Boot and enter Thor Recovery anytime I want. Can someone please confirm these steps?

Thanks.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Theonew:
The Rom Manager step does not replace the recovery. It just links the thor recovery to Rom Manager so you are able to boot into recovery via rom manager, download things via rom manager, etc.

The OP left out that step. You will have to rename it. It is located in the /etc/ and /system/etc/ directory. Renaming one, renames the other.

It flashes the stock recovery on boot. So you have to reflash the thor recovery after you rename the file. Basically, rename the file before flashing the thor recovery.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] Trumpex:
Well I can confirm I do have install-recovery.sh in /system/etc/ and has a MD5 checksum of 0e35ad644dd80394a855647ae842f438.

The modified date says 2008-08-01 but I don't think that's accurate so I'm not relying on that. If you haven't done the instructions yet, check if your MD5 matches, if so, then it is untouched. It was only the other recovery flash I listed earlier that gave me working CWM. Anyways, if install-recovery.sh needs to be renamed or deleted prior to the thor recovery, the instructions are missing for that. I don't have any desire to go back and try again, I'm moving on to some A500 Roms now.

Good luck

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Oh nevermind, you are 100% right, that does need to be renamed. I just booted into recovery, same problem. That file reflashes overtop which causes the error. I just attempted to reboot into recovery to flash my first rom, problem is back. Time to fix with the permenant rename of that file.

Thanks Theonew, much appreciated!!