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[Acer Iconia A500] jazzyjames:
Were you rooted at all? If so did you remove any bloat? If so that might have to do with it . My wife had issues after a update with her original motor Droid that was just debloated stock it took rolling her back to the previous version doing a pure stock flash then the upgrade to fix the issue.

Remember most factory resets just remove downloaded apps and user data, it can't restore removed bloat once its gone.
[Acer Iconia A500] veer01_42:
Does anyone have a download for the stock OTA gen2?
[Acer Iconia A500] AfricanTech:
Update - Reset to Factory

1. No more android.process.media issue

2. Still have screen flashes when exiting stock browser

3. No orientation freezes noticed

4. Email FC once but not since

5. WiFi still weaker than before

6. Battery appears to be running down faster
[Acer Iconia A500] MikeSpears:
Ended up loading CM9 on it, now this thing works amazingly well.
[Acer Iconia A500] Colmschenk:
ICS

Netflix wont work or MLB at bat 12 the video just says error but it was working before i upgraded, might just do a factory reset.....
[Acer Iconia A500] AfricanTech:
Update 2:

- Re-calibrated battery - now seems back to pre-ICS update performance.

- occasional screen flashes

- no orientation freezes but have noticed that some apps down auto rotate (eg. Angry Birds Rio

- WiFi still appears to be weaker - may however just be an indicator bug since performance seems okay
[Acer Iconia A500] kiwirj:
some of you need to grow up, seriously. These acer employees are just doing their job, they are not tech people they just have a range of questions they can answer before they have to push you to the next level of support. And in return you post their answers here and ***** about them. Grow up. They are simply doing their job.

As for problems with ICS, I've had none on either of my tablets.

perhaps next time you want to ***** about the support you have had remember it is people just doing a job with a limited amount of knowledge and pre-written answers given to them
[Acer Iconia A500] nasimdejai:
You must be an Acer employee cos you don't seem to understand how frustrating these issues are. It took Acer 7 months to release ICS and yet still buggy update. I'm in UK and I've never rooted or installed custom ROMs yet no update even after installing Enhancement app weeks before Acer announced it. So pls, don't tell ppl to grow up. They expected a level of service from a company like Acer and they are getting below par assistance.
[Acer Iconia A500] kiwirj:
ah so because I prefer to respect the people on the other end of the phone, chat or email I must work for them. No I do not, and I know perfectly well the frustration when a piece of technology has problems, doesn't mean you turn around and attack those who are simply doing their job. If that is the mentality of people to attack people who have no ability to change your situation and are simply doing a job then yes people need to grow up. And I have been very vocal with Acer about their delay in release of ICS from the original Jan 12 release date that Acer gave. Just because people like you ***** and moan wont get a fix for any issues faster, Acer have with previous updates got fixes out quickly as noted when one of the honeycomb updates killed wifi.
[Acer Iconia A500] sRDennyCrane:
Just curious, but you're saying it's buggy, but you haven't gotten it yet?

At least on my end, the update went smoothly, and there have been no issues. I'm very happy with the 4.03 update.
[Acer Iconia A500] ebookof:
I agree with you. Acer was totally irresponsible to release a system update that has so many issues. I believe that the few positive remarks on the forums are written by Acer paid bloggers. Why would people who have a positive experience spend their time bragging about Acer on forums. They have more important things to do. That's what is called damage control. Anyway, this is my first and last acer product.

Sent from my A500 using Xparent ICS Blue Tapatalk 2
[Acer Iconia A500] sRDennyCrane:
Why would people who had negative experiences waste time *****ing on forums? See, that can go both ways.

Damn, I WISH Acer was paying me.
[Acer Iconia A500] stratguy:
Sorry to ask a question that has possibly been asked before but I have not seen this asked here :-) For anyone that had to completely reset their Acer Iconia a500 did you guys only have to update it one time or were you required to reset it more than once?

I ask this because I got the update like many of us have to ICS 4.0.3 but it seemed many things were missing so after reading that a full reset was needed I did it one time and almost everything was looking great, but no Acer Circle or Face recognition and possibly 2 or 3 other things.

So do you guys think I should do a full reset again or have I received everything that Acer is going to give me with 4.0.3 update? Thanks for any replies!

Bob
[Acer Iconia A500] AfricanTech:
+1 - there is nothing wrong with having a measured, mature approach. Tends to yield better results
[Acer Iconia A500] davidsimons:
Update okay, or, 2 weeks later, is it?

Just add my 2 cents worth... Once the news was out that the ICS update OTA was available, I checked daily to see if I could get it; finally, yesterday I could. Having read through the posts on this forum, I was not perturbed that it took a few days for the update to reach my tab, and I wondered if I would update when it became available as some of the issues seemed quite major. I though HC 3.2.1 worked fine and I didn't really care that much if I got the ICS update or not. I trust Acer as I have had a number of their products in the past and had no problems with them and the pricing was always very competitive. Anyway, I decided to take the OTA update, it took a long time to download (4 hours) but it completed eventually and I installed. So far, no problems at all and it looks like I might get a slightly better battery life - I normally get 6 hours of continuous wifi use, screen on before the indicator hits 15% and I recharge. Today, I am getting approx 10% more. Many owners might read this forum and wonder if they should take the OTA update, so my whole point here is just to let you know I did, no problems at all with the tab, minimal changes when you are using it but it does seem slightly snappier with a little better battery life.

UPDATE: May 19th, week or two into the update and it seems there's some change out of my original two cents.... gmail app doesn't work, if I send an email it just sits in the inbox with the status stuck on "sending". I discovered if I uninstall the gmail app update from settings, then I don't get the problem for a few days but then the app just crashes. Another major problem; if you download an app or even just add/delete an app icon from the homescreen, then turn the tablet off and power up again, those homescreen changes have disappeared! And, your gmail app won't send mail again. The battery life is definitely better, I get at least one more hour of screen on/wifi on time which makes the battery life very acceptable compared to HC 3.2.1, but what's the point if your android tablet doesn't let you send email via the official gmail app from the Google play store?! Google Reader, the official app, doesn't let you log in either, you just get a no connection, retry message.

For Sale, Acer A500 tablet; I'm going back to a netbook.

UPDATE: JUNE 7th. Still have my a500, still have the problems as mentioned in last update. Guess what, I bought an ipad2, it is excellent. Forget these android tablets, just buy an ipad because it works, period.
[Acer Iconia A500] chismay:
mm no ones probably intrested in my 2-cents but anyways :D

i thank acer for my tab,

i love it, my friends love it,

i-colleagues at work run away when i bring it out from its polyurethane cover and flip open its hardback portfolio case to display my wide-screened beacon of joy :D

but i have to say from as a consumer i do feel a little ..... heckled by the service for this particular update , we were told so many dates and then told equal amount of times that "yes,,its coming...but not for a while longer."

testing, de-bugging and such was the culprit we were told. many members with a sterner mind would say

"they are making sure its ready and the best it can be"

"good things to those who wait"

so wait we did, in fact we waiting a near 5months from the first apparent release date....

and then bang a total 3 days before the last update eta people in london uk got ics! yes its being pushed, its being sent yaaaay!.

.....so i waited. i waited and i clicked that damn "check for updates" button about a trillion times, re-installed the update enhancement a billion times,....and nothing,

i then began to see a new wave of threads popping up all over the a500 xda / androidforums pages,

faults with ics

tab wont start at all

stuck at acer logo

no wifi

screen flickering

camera issues.

get back to honeycomb

dont get ics

maaaaan, was the prophecy wrong? was we all condemed?:eek:

thank fully not i managed to sidestep the stock ics and went with flexreaper., and i have the acer ring....in different colours even with a little pic in the middle lol

my point is this :

all those months held back?, all the time it had previously installed on the a100? (or was it a200?)

and for the peeps goin about the customer service staff.....your damn well right to be in a way.

id say not angry at the initial staff member but the way i see it is this , if theres people on these forums who have pretty much mastered every aspect of this tablet in they're spare time and built they're own roms and apps (there's thousands and thousands of such people here) why would acer hire 5 staff who dont have a clue to do the job of just one that knows his shizzle?

maybe instead of hiring 5000 peeps who know nothing, u get 2500 peeps who know what they're talking about and get it done properly .

damn thats a huge 2-cents :D

im happy with flexreaper now anyways does "everything" i want it to and more .
[Acer Iconia A500] evelbug:
Since there is so much negativity, I thought I should chime in. I downloaded the OTA as soon as it was available and I have not had any problem. My screen rotates, there is no flicker, I can take screen shots. My only gripe is on the stock browser, when you slide your finger from the side to bring up the controls, I think they swapped the position of the close tab (x) and add new tab (+). That took a little relearning, but not a bug.
[Acer Iconia A500] razorj:
I used to have the screen flickering issue and popping noise issue that many have posted. I reset the tablet twice and it is running fine now.
[Acer Iconia A500] bungaboy:
Mine works great since the upgrade. Not having any issues. All stock before and after.
[Acer Iconia A500] godaro:
when watching video content via HDMI, subtitles are not displayed on the TV, only on the tablet.

Honestly, I had nothing to complain about HC. for me, this issue is a major drawback of ICS
[Acer Iconia A500] mikerowes69:
I have noticed the 'wifi issue' turn wifi off & on and the 'screen flickering issue' dim the screen or it comes back normal. Just minor inconveniences. I am sure there will be an update in a couple months. This is what worked for me. I did a backup first, then downgraded to Acer_A500_7.006.01_COM_GEN2. Then did the next 2 HC updates that came along. Then did the ics update. I am not rooted, but I did ics root leak to back up my images. There was a delroot.sh in /data/local/tools. It worked just fine to unroot me. This is what works for me and what I wanted. Just waiting on proven cwm recovery so I can root again.
[Acer Iconia A500] wwelles:
* BUMP *

Please reference the original case so hopefully enough people together will generate some action.
[Acer Iconia A500] al2052:
After updating to ICS it would seem to be a major non event for me possibly a retrograde step, have not found any major steps forward, what i have found is that i am inadvertanly pressing some of the on screen commands are swapped over i.e. shutting down the OK is now on the right although i am sure it was on the right on honecomb,this happens on other on screen commands, also took me a while to figure out that you now have to hold app to place on menu screen, a lot of changes seem to be just for changes sake,

admittedly screen seems slightly better but thats about the improvement i can see, hardly worthwhile.

Forgot to add now have to switch on Wifi every time turn on whereas it used to be on always when switched on before.
[Acer Iconia A500] chismay:
lol long shot but are you "thee" mike rowe from dirty jobs? :D
[Acer Iconia A500] sRDennyCrane:
And, I'm THE Denny Crane from Boston Legal.

Lock and load.
[Acer Iconia A500] ryryrocco:
definitely had some browser issues the last few days.

I uninstalled a bunch of apps my kids had installed (a lot)

I then uninstalled flash player and reinstalled it. then I opened it up and cleared all the flash player settings in the browser after opening the app.

Seems to work fine now.

All the browsers would crash when ever i would play a flash video and then switch to full screen. Seems ok for now so far.

---------- Post added at 07:16 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:11 AM ----------

also I had a few random screen flicker issues but only noticed them after I changed my display settings to auto brightness.

I noticed my display setting were set to FULL brightness when i showed my wife a webpage and she said - that's totally blinding me, turn it down. never had any flickering issues. Changed setting to auto brightness had flickering issues. changed back to 75% brightness and haven't had any ficker issues. Hmmm.

---------- Post added at 07:20 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:16 AM ----------

so to recap...

uninstall and re install flash player and clear setting after you open the app. Also turn off auto brightness to see if that fixes any issues with the screen flicker and browser problems. Seems to have worked for me so far.
[Acer Iconia A500] chismay:
lol :D

you never know, he would have that casio android thats military grade lmao :D
[Acer Iconia A500] the_cryptonym:
I also have the rotation problem on my A500 with stock ICS.

I posted a new thread to ask some of the guru's here to look at a post I found that supposedly fixes what appears to be the same issue on another device. To fix it, that guy had to replace the drivers with those from a working, but similar, device I think.

I have a safety pin clipped to my case now to deal with this issue until someone patches it. For now the hard reset is all I can do to fix it for a while.
[Acer Iconia A500] chapinrico:
updated last night to ics official upgrade here in Canada. All seems to work well but camera will not focus now when taking a pic? what the hell pics are all blurry.:mad:
[Acer Iconia A500] fblasot:
Hi, for me no rotation problem and no WiFi issue...

It's annoying the low screen rate refresh and that if you need to set VPN you cannot have slide to unlock screen, with HC the security of VPN was just a password for access VPN and certificate...
[Acer Iconia A500] shaun298:
Have the bootloader and still have the flickering.
[Acer Iconia A500] Neoprimal:
I try to stay positive as well, that doesn't mean I'm employed by Acer. I also believe in respecting folks on the other end of the phone/chat support.

Patience

Patience

Patience

Android has many pros and cons, one big con is that we generally have no guarantee on device updates unless said device has been given the official Google treatment. I never, ever care when a device maker says "it will get so and so" because sometimes it doesn't turn out true. I'm from back in the day when Android was just seeing the light of day and phones back then were promised an upgrade to 2.0...1/2 of them never got it.

Mind you, I started getting rattled too at the wait for ICS seeing that the Xoom and Asus got theirs but guess what? It's really no use to do that. It doesn't help anybody or anything. Every vendor is different and we should be grateful that we even have the opportunity, there are so many similarly speced devices out there that will never officially get ICS through their manufacturers. I'm not telling you not to be upset, by all means go ahead and vent, I'm telling you (not YOU specifically, but folks of the general frame of thought) to simply try to temper it. And if you feel the need to make Acer feel some sort of pain, don't give them your business when you decide to buy something new....that's really the only thing you can do.

As far as problems and issue - I have none. Many other folks have none. So the folks who are spewing venom because of orientation and wifi issues, apps crashing etc. may not be alone, but it's obviously not just the update to blame, they must have either done (rooted? some other mod? restored broken apps?) or not done something (factory reset?) to their systems for them to not be working right (unless it's hardware?). In my case, I did what I always do and factory reset the device after installing ICS and my tablet works splendidly.
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[HTC One S] nickmv:
So, I flashed Black Dragon 4.0 last night, and I gotta say, the battery life is pretty incredible. I've used it a good bit this morning for texting, a call, and a music app, and I've barely gone 15%. The idle life is what's truly impressive. I think it dropped only 1% overnight (8 hrs).

Even WITH sense, it's still pretty good. But it's nice to have all those useless HTC and T-Mobile services/apps gone. It definitely makes a bit of difference on performance and batt life.
[HTC One S] Mr Mufakka:
Is there anything broken on that ROM or is everything up and running? GPS, Camera, gallery, etc etc.
[HTC One S] marty22877:
i'm on the stock batter, it's 3 here, i've used it regularly, texts, calls, internet, maps, and i'm at 76%. it's so nice having a battery that lasts
[HTC One S] nickmv:
One of the advantages of having a non-user-replaceable battery is the fact that they can make them bigger and in different shapes. Apple's laptops are this way, and when they made the switch, the increase in batt life was pretty drastic.

It'll be interesting to see this thing taken apart on iFixIt or somewhere else.
[HTC One S] cyberchuck9000:
Is there a way to know if the battery is done charging with the phone off? The orange LED just seems to stay on forever...
[HTC One S] SFP:
I would suggest it hasn't fully charged or there is a fault :confused: - I charge mine overnight and it's always green in the morning :)

Mitigation - I never switch it off: screen off, phone on.
[HTC One S] cyberchuck9000:
Literally 5 minutes after I posted that, it went green. First time it's had a proper full charge, when I tried to charge it while on the battery meter just fluctuated up and down all over the place! Gonna let it run down and charge it again before I get worried that there's something wrong. :)
[HTC One S] NYC1992:
I got mine from T-Mo yesterday on my way to school and i must say the battery life on this phone is crazy good. After my second charge cycle, i really think this phone was design for raw power and most of all great battery life. I'm also enjoying the beauty this piece of equipment. :). Right now i have the screen on auto-brightness, gmail, yahooo, hotmail, facebook, dropbox and weather on auto sync. I'll say no more results in the pictures below.
[HTC One S] Adamkopo:
yup, def turns green after its full
[HTC One S] viper_79:
Not sure which phone you've been using but the stats that you've posted aren't impressive in the least... pretty bad if u ask me.
[HTC One S] nickmv:
I'd tend to agree with this. I'm sure you meant well with the pictures, but my Nexus S beats this and the battery in it is old. I don't think that was a great metric right there. My real world use has been drastically different.

I was going to post a pic, but my ROM crashed or something (no biggie, it's expected with new ROMs) and my battery usage got reset. I took it off the charger ~10 hrs ago and have used it for quite a bit of twitter, text, calls, web, and fiddling around, and I'm just down to 73%. The stand-by life is what will truly impress you, at least from what I've seen.
[HTC One S] isaster1:
The screenshots seem very impressive to me. I have an HTC Amaze with the 1900 mah Anker battery and I'll get around 2 hours of on screen time. And the One S is getting almost four!? If anyone is getting better then that I would love to see screenies of it. Only screen on time though as I could get very high numbers as well by not using my phone. Can't wait till my One S gets here!
[HTC One S] Bxrxyxaxn:
Love this phone...S4 ftw
[HTC One S] wilcoholic:
Yesterday I got.

12 hours and 50 min with 2 hours and 40 minutes screen time and I still had 41% left.
[HTC One S] intel007:
Off topic: didn't want to make a new thread, and I've searched but nothing found.

I'm really considering this phone but when the battery reaches the end of its life how much will a replacement battery be likely to cost fitted?

I know I'll probably have a new phone by this time but I keep all my electronic devices well looked after and don't sell them so just curious as it seems like a pretty deep task.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] TBarb169:
Any one aware of a work around to get this app to work on our 7.7?
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] burhanistan:
Has anyone got that to work on Honeycomb?
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] maysider:
.....wrong forum :)
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Magickly:
you can run in your browser @ hbogo.com

Properly saves login info now too

Just need to use hidebar or gesture hide to get full screen

HBO dev team emailed that they will have great app for tablet users in early summer for honeycomb & ics