yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Acer Iconia A500] mihnead:
i kept the tab up for a while without recharge, unfortunately I can't screenshot it because those sort of apps don't work. i took a photo with the SLR, since my Samsung Galaxy S+ has a new Cyanogen rom which doesn't have camera yet :D

attached is also what i get when i try to screengrab.
[Acer Iconia A500] morehertz:
Thanks Moscow.

So I tried this and it doesn't appear to work, interesting. I went the whole hog and extracted the build.prop file from the A501_ICS zip, added ro.carrier=wifi-only at the very end (Notepad++ on W7 x64 Ult), saved it, re-compressed the file back and threw it on a Micro SD.

I booted into Acer Recovery (Thor v1.3.4) formatted user-data, cache and Dalvik then installed the ROM.

3G is still completely functional. I looked at the system folder build.prop and ro.carrier=wifi-only is there.

I am also unable to mount the system folder and write to it with either ES, Root Explorer or ADB (but I am a nOOb).

I'm going to try using Thor's touch version 1.7. Is this at all an issue with the ROM you're developing?
[Acer Iconia A500] morehertz:
Thor 1.7 made no difference but I've found a workaround that seems to be doing the job.

Auto Airplane Mode (sorry can't post links yet). It's on the market.

I've installed this and set it to ignore WiFi and only enter 3G on airplane mode. According to battery stats it's completely killing 3G until I wake the device up.

I've instantly noticed the battery savings.
[Acer Iconia A500] BPaul:
Moscow Desire

Wifi work on your tablet?

У тя вифи пашет?
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Ok, that was just a shot in the dark. It appears Acer changed some things since HC.

So, I notice during 1st boot-up, you have a choice of connections. 1. Wifi and 3g.

2. Wifi only

3. No connection.

I have done no connection only, and configured wifi later. This gives wifi only, but am not sure if it will cause drain by the 3g as in the 500 HC (cell standby). But it does give you wifi only. The 3g will remain grey.

As with your root issue (/system R-W). You will have to NVFlash the unlocked ICS bootloader to get it working properly. Unless somebody has put together a CWM flash to do this. At least till we get a patched kernel so people can run on an HC bootloader.
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Yes, never had any issue with Wifi. I read your earlier posts, and can't understand why it doesn't work for you.
[Acer Iconia A500] morehertz:
All good Moscow, I appreciate your assistance greatly. Your shot in the dark is still better than my best educated guess :)

I've tried this start up option (WiFi only) a couple of times (after flashing) and no matter what, according to the battery stats, 3G is still pulling power (makes no sense to me), it shows as a long red line (not grey). The Auto Airplane workaround makes this line stop when the device is asleep, I have breaks in that line now and the battery just made it through the whole night.

Awesome, thanks for the tip, will do.
[Acer Iconia A500] BPaul:
Possible other country I no in Russia.

On ATT vesion (3.0.1) wifi no work too :|

UPD:

New version for A501

http://cdn.acer.futuredial.com/Acer_A501_4.066.29_041.127.01_COM_GEN1_1334888353321_0bc87226.zip

Some told. About fixed 3G crashes when sleep
[Acer Iconia A500] shadow147:
You flash this update??

Inviato dal mio Iconia A500 con Tapatalk 2
[Acer Iconia A500] BPaul:
yes.
[Acer Iconia A500] shadow147:
3g crash risolve? How TO flash this rom? I try with clockwork but i can't flash..

Inviato dal mio Iconia A500 con Tapatalk 2
[Acer Iconia A500] tosomax:
He

I would like to try this leak, can i just flash the zip or do i need to do something to the bootloader?? Thx :-)
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Downloading now. It will probably need to be decrypted. And yes, more than likely, it will install a locked bootloader.
[Acer Iconia A500] morehertz:
Something's not right with this file. I'm downloading it for the second time. According to Windows, 7Zip and Winrar, it's empty. No point even trying to flash it.

Can you advise please Paul?

Thanks Moscow. For nOOb's like myself, what does this mean and how is it overcome?
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
It's a package, but, it looks like part of the original 4 part update in the OP or close to it, as the package #4's are almost identical. So, I wouldn't mess with it unless you really know what you're doing. Actually not sure if you could extract and install the update.zip within it by itself, without generating a ton of errors. Take a look at the install-script and you'll see. Also noticed there's no build.prop, but not so unusual, as it probably gets generated during install.

I'm curious where the other "update" packages are.

Acer distributes their roms and updates in Encrypted form. Fortunately for us, Thor2002ro made a "de" cryption tool located in Vache's Full Package and Update Thread. Then you can open the file in 7zip and pull the update.zip.
[Acer Iconia A500] tosomax:
I think i will wait for alexandra ics xD

I hope that this new leak solved the 3g sleep problem :-)
[Acer Iconia A500] morehertz:
Thanks for the info Moscow. I think I'll just wait for your masterpiece.
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
As near as I can tell, there is a small difference. The original package listed as 041.126.01. This new package is 041.127.01. New one is also bigger by 600bytes.

Got a note from a Russian friend, and a link to 2 packages. Will check them later.

Sure would be a pain to cook my current setup, run the updates, NVFlash to the new unlocked bootloader, Run root again (((((( Do a system Dump, build an install, just to find out the 3g problem isn't fixed!!!

However, if anybody is to brick their tab, I would rather it be me... again :eek:

(but if a couple of you lab rats want to do it, and post a dump, I would certainly appreciate it!)
[Acer Iconia A500] |DM|:
Uhm uff, now I think that the 3G bug is driver related

3G stops to work in this leak and in Thor CM9 (that use the same driver I think)...

this is a very big bug for me, I use my A501 for university and I must restart a lot of time my tablet
[Acer Iconia A500] galapogos01:
Yeah. Latest .zip is weird. I patched it to remove bootloader & recovery, but install fails due to asserts. It expects:

acer/a501_ww_gen1/picasso:4.0.3/IML74K/1334819485:user/release-keys

When the a501_ics.zip is

acer/a501_ww_gen1/picasso:4.0.3/IML74K/1334202889:user/release-keys

Can't tell what the #4 zip installs because it patches the build.prop.

If anyone feels like making an CWM .zip please do, i'd like to see 3G fixed.
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Probably because you have to install it using the other first 3 update files in order. 1,2,3,and 4 (this new one)

First time on my 3.2.1 rom, it blew everything away, and I had to NVFlash the new bootloader&recovery. Next attempt at the original 4 files, was successful, but a lot of patch errors as it looks for patch logs. End result was it was successful.

So I suspect the same method is needed. Or maybe I can skip the first two, as I already have ICS bootloader (unlocked).

Well, let's see what happens ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Use WakeLock from the market. Set the top option only. Restart tablet.
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Well, attempt 1 didn't go too well. *&%^$&%#^&*(*%(

But, I saw a new message from Acer;

"Warning, your bootloader is illegal"

:D:D:D:D:D Whooot!
[Acer Iconia A500] wlk0:
Warning only (ignorable), or blocking error ?
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Well, here's the deal.

Running the ICS ver2 bootloader. Figured the update will knock that out.

Update 1 and 2 ran fine. Just the silly offset error.

Update 3 bailed out (error 7). Reattempts wouldn't take. Same thing happened the other day, but replaced #3 from the original update.zip and it all installed well.

Just couldn't get past that point today.

Tried installing my rom, rebooted, got the warning after the hacked boot. Not able to proceed.

Lucky I could boot back to recovery, and wiped, system restore. All normal again.

Soooo... if anybody was lucky enough to get this latest installed, please do a system dump through ADB, and post here please.
[Acer Iconia A500] wlk0:
Hmm, fed up with these incremental upgrades, think I'll skip theses.

Seriously, what's the point except enforcing you having the original version installed ?

All this to merely spare 180MB bandwidth ?

** EDIT **

Ok, did it finally with 041.127.01, no issue actually.

Had nothing related to illegal BL or so.

I'm using stock 3.0.1 BL, flashed ripped 4.066.29 (BL removed) then ripped 041.127.01 (BL removed).

Haven't noticed if 3G/battery issue is fixed yet.

** EDIT **

Battery usage still mediocre IMHO, lost about 8% while being idle for one hour (deep sleep, but wifi stayed active the whole time, regardless of disconnect policy).
[Acer Iconia A500] galapogos01:
Did 3G die? What's the radio log look like?
[Acer Iconia A500] wlk0:
I fear it did...

However, battery is not that bad overnight (used Auto Air Plane service).
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Interesting and thanks!

Any chance you have time to run adb and pull a system dump with the boot.img?

Would be interesting to know if they changed the kernel. Every time I try pulling a system dump, it pulls, but doesn't show up on my PC :confused:
[Acer Iconia A500] wlk0:
Definitly not fixed:

However, I did a nand backup right after flashing, you can get it here when my upload is completed (boot, system and flexrom).
[Acer Iconia A500] galapogos01:
Thanks. Still, sadface on the 3G. I'm curious as to why the leaks are still running 2.6 kernels too.
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Thank you kindly. Quick question. There were 2 system.Ext4 images, both came from the nand?
[Acer Iconia A500] ubutnux:
hmm.. i hope acer can fix that bug when they release the final version
[Acer Iconia A500] ebonikeys:
im getting stuck in "entering acer download mode" after entering SBK

anyone?
[Acer Iconia A500] wlk0:
Yes. Only doubled due to sloppy work before going back to work.
[Acer Iconia A500] galapogos01:
I just installed the new leak (removed recovery/bootloader from all 4 files and applied with CWM). Deep slept for 3 hours. Battery use good (1% or less) and no weird error messages in the radio log.

A little early to call it fixed but seems much better than the first leak.
[Acer Iconia A500] ubutnux:
good to hear that :) so the 3g is still active?
[Acer Iconia A500] galapogos01:
It was after 3 hours. Overnight though, 3g died, same errors in radio log as previous version. Despite it dieing, battery life is better - still 64% charge after 12 hours of 3g errors.
[Acer Iconia A500] HooeyBooey:
Looks like Acer has pulled the last update file. Does this mean they're working on it or they just don't like us getting ahead of them?
[Acer Iconia A500] gfinockio:
Probably both.
[Acer Iconia A500] droiduzr2:
I would wait for the Devs here to get the Official ICS and rework it.

It will be much better and faster than stock ICS.

I like this Acer unit but I find the screen could be a bit more rich in color. It's too bad there is no color adjustment app that we can get. It's still a solid unit with very good options.
[Acer Iconia A500] galapogos01:
Stock ICS is damn fast. A lot faster than HC. I prefer stock-ish roms anyway, less goes wrong with them.

Any more leaks? Come on vache :-)
[Acer Iconia A500] lowsum:
Well it seems your wish has been granted...vache just tweet about this:

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B_bko9M1FTYzY3o4VVU1Y0s5SnM

Looks like a bunch of new leaks...! :D
[Acer Iconia A500] galapogos01:
Link has lots of folders, no files? Guessing they're protected.
[Acer Iconia A500] lowsum:
Downloading fine here, maybe try another browser? Edit: 501 folder is empty, right.
[Acer Iconia A500] galapogos01:
Files are up now. Same two A501 leaks.
[Acer Iconia A500] shadow147:
I try to flash with CWM but could not install.. help me please :(

Inviato dal mio Iconia A501 con Tapatalk 2
[Acer Iconia A500] Timelord83:
Running Fine and as i don't currently ahve a sim in i keep airplane mode on and just turn on wifi.

Flashed the full zip from OP link then V3ICS Bootloader Flawless install on both worked first try damn tablet screams now
[Acer Iconia A500] ubutnux:
how is your battery life?
[Acer Iconia A500] galapogos01:
Yeah. Auto Airplane Mode didn't fix 3G problems for me. I went back to wakelock manager (no deep sleep). Battery life sucks.
[Acer Iconia A500] Timelord83:
perfect as far as i can tell.. i had on full charge with ac power wiped all cache/delivk three times each 2 user data wipes.. cleared the battery stats flashed the rom. flashed the V3 bootloader restarted runs like a charm auto detected my NON-Att sim card and used it without issue. i got about 5 hours of straight usage out of it. and after a recharge its been sleep/light usage over the last two days on the same charge.
[Acer Iconia A500] Timelord83:
so i have an neat issue.... i can't format the internal memory... if i drop into recovery it wont' format /sdcard /mnt/sdcard says it can't mount them.. is this an ICS v3 bootloader thing or is it really a broken recovery?
[Acer Iconia A500] galapogos01:
Looks like thor has made progress with fixing the 3G issues. Anyone tried his kernel on this rom?

Been nothing from Acer for A50x for ages now :-(
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Pretty sure his kernel won't work on anything but his rom. Might work on a CM9 build.

You can try putting a CWM flash with the boot.img and lib/module files.... but 1 bottle of russian vodka says,,,, it will still drop out.;) If it even installs, as mostly his rom is based on CM9. (unless he merged Wakelock in with his kernel to keep it going)
[Acer Iconia A500] kjdoug:
usb support

Anyone know how to get USB drive support to work with this?

Ignore this.....simple reboot
[Acer Iconia A500] paugustin:
Hello,

I got a new dump for the A501. New version that looks like final !

Build 1.014.00_WW_GEN1

See screenshot and link below !

LINK

Have fun Devs :D
[Acer Iconia A500] kjdoug:
How can we install this?
[Acer Iconia A500] paugustin:
You can't, it's not meant to be installed. It's for devs who will know what to do with it.

Be patient.
[Acer Iconia A500] galapogos01:
No Acer update.zip?

Most importantly, does it fix 3G?
[Acer Iconia A500] kjdoug:
Ok ty!
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Thanks Mate!! Any chance you can pull the boot.img also?

Then we can get to work.

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] paugustin:
Damn I forgot the boot!

I'll try to get it ASAP.

For the people wondering, this update works 100%, 3G, quick GPS fix, everything seems okay and the version number indicate that it's final or close to final release.
[Acer Iconia A500] fguy:
For full working need copy of folder /vendor and kernel (/dev/block/mmcblk0p2)
[Acer Iconia A500] morehertz:
Bring it Moscow, hoorah!
[Acer Iconia A500] galapogos01:
Someone please post a stock update.zip... not interested in any fancy roms!
[Acer Iconia A500] paugustin:
OK and do I get that with a company backup or do I need to to do something else?
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
If I'm not mistaken, it's something like

ADB PULL /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 boot.img

Not at home so I can't test this. But pretty sure it's right.
[Acer Iconia A500] fguy:
Copy folder /vendor by means of Root Explorer, archive and suppose on an exchanger.
[Acer Iconia A500] paugustin:
OK I may have time to do that later today. I'll keep you posted.

PS: Damn auto correct, I meant CWM backup in my previous post :-D
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Boot image should be in CWM. Not sure how your version compiles the backup.

Thanks for posting your stuff. Hope it takes care of the current issues.

"boot boot boot, gimmie the boot boot boot" (from the film "Hook")
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Just checked, and if you use CWM 1.7+, the boot.img is indeed in the clockworkmod/backup folder. So no need for adb.
[Acer Iconia A500] paugustin:
Yes I use CWM 1.7.X. Strange thing is that the recovery can only boot once. After the tablet has boot once you have to flash recovery again even if you deleted the file that flashes back the stock reco.
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Once you delete that boot recovery file, it shouldn't cook your cwm. Not supposed to anyhow. When you get a chance for the boot.img, would appreciate it. :)
[Acer Iconia A500] vache:
That's because of the update script in stock ROMs, it patch the recovery on each reboot.

The best way is to remove "install-recovery.sh" in /system/etc or recovery-from-boot.p in /system.

You can use this one (custom with OC / UV...) : http://bit.ly/KMrFxG
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Thanks. Does it have the 3g fix? Am curious where it came from.
[HTC One X] The Jones:
I have noticed sometimes that when I use the multitasking button and switch tasks, the apps seem to restart. I am not sure this is normal. Can anyone help with this or is it just me?
[HTC One X] davotoula:
Same here. I suspect that is how android works.
[HTC One X] The Jones:
I have had other Android phones and I am sure thats not how it works. I could be wrong though, I went to Windows Phone for 6 months or so and forgot how Android works. Just getting re-acquainted.
[HTC One X] 131313:
Maybe you check this out.

A setting is not read correctly

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1599214

Keep me informed if it helped

Cheers
[HTC One X] The Jones:
Thanks for the answer but it made no difference :(

I wonder if it is something to do with either the number of background activities or the time they are in the background as sometimes muti tasking works as I would expect and sometimes apps get reloaded. Odd.
[HTC One X] matt07930:
I'm pretty sure that this is how Android has been since the Gingerbread update.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lazi punk:
Hi everyone

so today my tmobile galaxy s2 decides to not receive any signal from my carrier. In addition, the flight mode cannot be turned off.

Did some research and turns out my phone could be locked due to 3 reasons and the only possible explanation i can think of it is blacklisted due to "lost or stolen"

I bought this phone off craiglist.

When I thought all hope is lost and time to buy another phone.. i did a factory reset and wipe cache, and now my phone has signal again. So to all the experts out there.. what does my case mean??

My phone just wanted me to suffer today or this is a temp fix and tmobile will soon catch on and block my signal again??

THANK YOU everyonee
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
Based on your past posts (in the Vibrant section), it seems you are a T-Mobile USA user. In which case, your Galaxy SII is actually the SGH-T989, not the GT-I9100. You're in the wrong section.

SGH-T989 forum here.

EDIT: actually, since you got the thing off craigslist, maybe you DO have an i9100. Either way, check for your model number on the label under the battery.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v1rtu4l:
perhaps re-insert the sim-card :p

even though carriers are able to deactivate the phone service for you i never heard of any carrier being remotely interested of offering that service to customers who lost their phone or even the police. the police would not even bother to take action for such a low value object
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d@m3:
Recently I stumbled upon an article for US legislating a law that will force the carrier to deactivate signal reception for phone (like the one in EU) if the one is reported stolen by the police (I had a friend who bought a stolen phone and the police came knocking on his door). I know for a fact that "blacklisting" is done based on the IMEI number of the phone (which you can not alter with) so to be honest I don't have a clue what could be the problem/solution in your case.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tfn:
I once had a loss of signal for a full day and tried all the bloody things I could think off only to find the next day the carrier had a problem / updating they bandwidth or something :/

So unless it happens again ..my guess is you should be just fine
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] helppme:
unless it was blacklisted blocked based on IMEI and by fluke, when he updated the rom he corrupted his EFS folder.. Go into 'about phone' in settings. if the IMEI is listed and correct for the handset, and you have data and phone signal then your phone is not blocked for lost or stolen... More likely the phone has an intermitent fault hence why it was on sale on craigslist.... Use it, if the problem resurfaces come back on here...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lazi punk:
you will be surprised how well the carriers are informed and trying to stop thievery. Orange and Tmobile are teaming up to share their database

that cant be my issue because my girlfriends signal was working fine and when i plug my sim in her 4g phone. It works..

You are probably right.. Something slightly wrong with the phoen thats why the owner was tryign to get rid of it! :mad:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
I noted you quoted everyone else's reply but mine. ARE YOU SURE IT IS AN I9100 AND NOT AN SGH-T989?

EDIT to add: I should also note: if you are, indeed, a T-mobile USA user, and if it IS, in fact an I9100, then you will not ever get T-mobile's "4g" speeds with the phone. The I9100 doesn't have the required hardware antenna to receive one of the two necessary bands to get high speed mobile data on that network.

If it is an SGH-T989, on the other hand, then you are

in the wrong forum

. The T-mobile USA Galaxy SII has completely different hardware from the GT-I9100, and thus has a separate forum.
[Android Themes] crazyfool_1:
Hi,

I am writing an lockscreen theme and was wondering how I can display an image based on whether or not a string equals a specific value.

I know how to do it based on numbers or a string not being null, but I'm not sure how to do it based on matching a string value.. or if its even possible..

Any ideas?
[Android Themes] picard666:
miui? if so, you can use this: got this directly from pomenx back then:

eqs is the operator. if you want to enter text directly use quotation marks ('...'), if string, use the @ as usual

<Image src="partly_cloudy.png" visibility="eqs('your string1 here', "string 2 in here')" x="" y=""/>
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] lojak29:
As normaly seen in every other samsung device when flashing through odin you normally see the thin BLUE line loading bar go across phone.

When i did my first odin flash it did not appear..but succesfully flashed bsck to.stock...Is this device just diff from others with the ODIN. Not like a big deal but has anyone else seen this
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] renegaderon:
I have no line when I flash with Odin..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] elliwigy:
I live in phoenix arizona with no 4g coverage. We had to get rid of our home internet so no ponger able to use our airrave. I have roam control which works on every ics rom ive used but of course 3g speed isnt fast at all.. is there a way to 4g roam whether it be changing my prl or anything?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Product F(RED):
4G is WiMax, which is a completely separate radio. What you're asking is like saying, "Is there a way to enable Bluetooth roaming". Clearwire is the only WiMax provider anyways, so even if there was a way, there's no where else to run to.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Success100:
there isnt anything else to roam off of....

short answer, not doable in any way shape form or fashion
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] elliwigy:
thanks.. wasnt aware of the technology but that makes sense.. looks like ill be using slow 3g speeds lol, i can finally put my unltd data to use.. whats a good prl to use for 3g roaming since my house is a complete DEAD zone for sprint service lol.. i need to be able to download new roms or im screwed.. luckily i downloaded the cm9alpha3 this morning and right now on nocturnal venum v1.0 lol.. and i can now test my tethering :-)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Product F(RED):
If you roam onto Verizon too much, Sprint will terminate your contract. Just a head's up.