yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
If I ever get time to work on it ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] wornbat:
I second that I would like to see a JB ROM for A501 Please :)
[Acer Iconia A500] rredlin:
So would i mess things up really bad, if i flashed a theme from flex reaper rom?

like this one?

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25931201&postcount=6

Thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Yeah.... you would.

We all use different rom builds, and because of that, the systemUI, Settings, and frameworks are all different.

You wouldn't brick your tab, but, you would get some very strange behavour ;)

I'm really sorry I don;t have a lot of time to do themes. I moderate 5 forums for XDA, have a wife and baby, and a job.

Also really sorry that a lot of 501 users don't wish to get educated on theming the 501. At least 1 or 2 other would be nice.

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] rredlin:
I have some time on my hands, are there any good sites on theming, that you could suggest?

thanks.

Love the rom!
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Civato put out a few threads on basic theming. Basically, you will need to work with SystemUI and possibly Settings. Most are just image swaps, so you don't need to decompile the apk. Usually. If you wish to change xml, then I would suggest looking in the Main Android forums.

Glad the rom works ok for you. Technically, I have retired from Modding for the 501. It's the wife's tab now. I have the 701.

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] blcklab:
Trying out this rom after some stability issue on another rom. In accounts sync I see options for browser, calendar Gmail and photos. I don't see Contacts. Did I miss something?
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Did you try the patch at the bottom of the OP? Might help.

On some revision tablets, there are some issues with GTalk.
[Acer Iconia A500] rredlin:
I have been seeing force close on gapps lately, i haven't changed the rom in anyway, other then normal updates through the play store.

Anyone else seeing this? Any ideas?

Thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Run a logcat and post it as I'll try and see what's causing it.

Honestly I don't do any more development on the 501, but maybe can see what's causing it.

In the meantime, try removing talk.apk (gtalk) and see if it stops. Just move it to Ext Sd card and reboot.

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] rredlin:
I moved gtalk.

If it keeps fc ill post the logcat.

I don't use it anyway.

Thanks

Sorry to hear you don't work on the a501 any more! Yours were the only roms I could use on mine....
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Never say Never. I just have my hands full with the 701 right now.

If we can get CM10 working (GPS) then I might throw something together. But gotta love how Acer decided to use darn different GPS radios!

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] rredlin:
Since I moved the gtalk, I haven't seen any fc's. I wish you the best of luck on the gps thing.

I would love to see more on the 501, lol even red themed!

Thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] gfinockio:
Well - my heart just broke.
[Acer Iconia A500] ultramag69:
You and me both... There is no developement for the A501 anymore unless you go to the darkside....
[Acer Iconia A500] iza:
v6 supercharged

hi md,

i'musing your rom + ez terry's kernel

you said about using v6 supercharged version in your rom? can i install v6 supercharged by myself?

thx.

i like your rom very much!
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Sure you can. You need to goto

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=991276

Zepplinrox forbids devs from including the V6 in their roms. You have to do it through his page. Don't know why, but when he finds a Rom with it being distributed, he raises a scandal. I guess he figures he may miss a donation.

Anyhow, there's the link.

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] zeppelinrox:
That's not true.

I only prohibit repackaging it into other tweak packages and making mirrors.

It's more of a quality control thing.

Dozens if not hundreds of roms have it baked in and some also put the V6 script itself in the xbin folder so users can just type sh *v6

Donations are pretty scarce so I sure ain't in it for that.

I should start baking roms... roms seem to get showered with donations lol
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
HA HA!

Mate, we do this for the heck of it ;)

Like you said, we ain't getting rich off it.

(Although those that have donated, it bought some much needed diapers! And Alex appreciates it!)

However, I will PM you on the baking it into roms part. Seems, there's a lot of confusion surrounding it.

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] iza:
YES !!! update for our ol' lovely a501

We MUST celebrate this for MD..

I think I can't sleep this couple of nights... :)
[Acer Iconia A500] rredlin:
I 2nd that emotion! Would love to see an update for the 501.

Power to the 501.

Thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] soundbass:
hello, i have a little problem

i cant overclocking my a501 ;x in set cpu i have only max 1000000
[Acer Iconia A500] iza:
change your kernel to ez-terry's
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Or use LinuxSociety's kernel. Both are good.

You can't just use a stock kernel, and expect it to Overclock/Undervolt. Don't work that way. It takes a custom kernel.

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] richard.ryan24:
problem

hi.. ive been getting the report

"unortunately the process com.google.process.gapps has stopped"

what could i have done wrong?
[Acer Iconia A500] richard.ryan24:
contacts

plus i dont seem to have "contacts app" installed... i cant save any contacts.. i messed up i think

---------- Post added at 04:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:02 PM ----------

when i install the "contact.apk"

from the patch, it says "cannot be installed"

what seems to be the matter with my acer ? :(
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Try downloading the zip again. More than likely got corrupted in the download. Do it from a PC.

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Ok folks,

I will, over the holidays, put out a new rom.

Note, it will be ICS. Unfortunately, There is no JB GPS for the 501. As much as we tried, it just wouldn't get running.

I'll incorporate the V8 framework mods, and a couple other things. And hopefully get rid of the GTalk errors on some of the devices.

Will do this over the New Years Holidays.

If you wish now, to see something included, then speak now.

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] DPetitme:
Thanks

In the Thor's roms, I found the switch of the status bar very ergonomic.

Maybe can you add this feature in your very good and only 501 rom?

Have a nice holiday break

Denis

Envoyé depuis mon GT-N7100 avec Tapatalk
[Acer Iconia A500] rredlin:
Hey MD, looking forwards to update from you for the 501. Love your rom!!

Wonder if there are any plans to theme this in RED?

Thanks for your hard work.

Happy Holidays
[Acer Iconia A500] richard.ryan24:
still no go

oh thanks!!! :) i also just refasher the rom :) got it fixed :)

THUMBS UP
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Well, red might be doable. Although not my particular taste. ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] rredlin:
I understand.....

I would love you forever, in a dev-user kinda way!

LoL

Happy Holidays

Thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] iza:
acer ring gone..

i forgot... i just clean cache and dalvik when i update my kernel to ez-terry's.

i usually did that when i update kernel on my other phone.

is there anyway to bring acer ring back without reflash the rom? or else i just wait the update from md..

thx.
[Acer Iconia A500] gfinockio:
I am so very very glad you have returned to work on this ROM, even if just for a short while!

Biggest things I'd love to see would be more stability (a few games seem to crash, but not a huge deal) and maybe Google Now integrated.
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Noted!

(Not sure about stability with all games though. )

I've bought and downloaded a couple more games. Nova 3 and some others.

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] gfinockio:
I've had issues with Osmos (takes about 3 tries to get it to start, random crashes) and Uplink (doesn't ever get past intro screen). Fieldrunners also crashes randomly. (All purchased as part of a Humble Bundle). They all list as compatible, so I'm not sure why they'd have issues?

Google Now - not sure how useful it'd actually be, but the option would be nice!
[Acer Iconia A500] yassero:
I am still running Evil Alex test ver 1 cause power performance is great. What is the additions on this ROM & how is the power performance considering 24x7 3G ?
[Acer Iconia A500] players21:
Just finished rooting and installing this rom from stock Rogers HC and what a difference. I highly recommend anyone stuck on HC like I was to take the plunge.
[Acer Iconia A500] rredlin:
Hope your holidays were good.

haven't seen you post about this lately? Hope everything is going as planned?

Thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] blackangel21:
What steps did you take to root and install coming from Roger HC? I am having no luck at all...

Ok, finally decided to take the plunge and all went well.

I was holding off because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to sim unlock. None of the company could give code, so I went ahead anyway.

Very happy!
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Well, I re- deodexed the base rom keeping the Acer signing, added V6 supercharger. Unfortunately, will have to break the Acer signing. Can't do many mods without doing that. So it will be back to messing with Gapp errors when I get to it.

Also blended in some different supercharging, which worked great, but sucked the life outta the battery. Not to mention SOD every night when the tab went to deep sleep.

So still plugging away in between job, family, mod duties, illness.....

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] rredlin:
Sounds like fun.

I am excited to put new life on my beloved a501 !

Hope this goes smoothly for you, I'm sure you will succeeded!

Thanks for your time and expertise.
[Acer Iconia A500] droiduzr2:
I am running the "previous" ROM and it is stable.

I have no issues.

Everything works.

Battery life is good.

Follow the install directions.

I wipe everything 2 times.

I also mount system data and other partitions and format them all 1 at a time.

The version I have is GREAT!

NO complaints.

* I did notice 2 or 3 times in 6 months that upon reboot or turning on it would stick on the Android screen. Just hold the power down for 20 seconds and turn back on.

It's amazing how quickly this things shuts off.

Thanks MD for your efforts.
[Acer Iconia A500] gfinockio:
Moscow,

How is the work coming? I seem to be having an issue with the new NHL Gamecenter app - the live video is very choppy. Now, I normally wouldn't mention it here, but it seems our friends with A500s aren't having any issues. Would this be a video hardware acceleration issue? Like, it can't keep up with live streaming video?

I might take the risk and flash a A500 ROM to test.
[Acer Iconia A500] gfinockio:
Seems to be an issue limited to this ROM, as a ROM from "the other place" works fine with the app.
[Acer Iconia A500] wolverine9827:
MIRROR? Please?

Not sure what's happening but I can't get this file to download past 196M. I've downloaded from DEV-HOST in the past without a problem.

Now I've tried from two separate systems running two different OSs (Linux and W7) with the same results.... Downloads hang at 196M....

Does anyone know of any mirrors? Is anyone having the same problem??

Frustrating since this seems to be one of the few A501 specific roms.....

Thanks

:confused:
[Acer Iconia A500] chipsharpdotcom:
I just downloaded this morning and had no problems.

I am however having the problem of Google Apps crashing at startup and the contacts app being completely absent. I am on the v8 bootloader and the ROM boots, but I'm having this problem.

It all started a few days ago when I decided to take a flyer on a JB ROM I found. That was a bad choice. Since then it's been wonky bootloaders and flaky ROM performance. :crying:
[Acer Iconia A500] wolverine9827:
Thanks. I downloaded fine from home. Must be a work network thing.....

Did you do a complete wipe before loading?

Sent from my Iconia A501
[Acer Iconia A500] chipsharpdotcom:
Yes. I have to believe that it has something to do with my bootloaders. I'm on V8 now, but I was on a source-built version before and had flashed no less than a half dozen times before and never had problems. Once I started screwing around with my bootloaders it all went to hell.
[Acer Iconia A500] rredlin:
Hey MD,

Hows things going with you?

I haven't seen you around for a few!

Hope all is well?

Talk to you soon, I hope.

Robert.
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Hey Robert! You can always hit me on PM (as long as it isn't for "brick support" :laugh::laugh::laugh: Bricking support costs a Pay Pal :laugh::laugh::laugh: (I should be rich now) )

As for any development, I am at a standstill. Little "Evil Alex" turns 1 year old on 4 Feb, and demands way too much attention.:D

And then XDA support as well, As you know, we have only 5 or 6 Moderators for almost all tablet forums.

Heck, I barely have time to do small things on my 701!!!!! Yeah Civato, you warned me :laugh::laugh::laugh:

Oh.... I also have to schedule a little work time in there....

Yes, my 701 still rocks, but turned over to the wife for now.

But my PM is always open.

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] rredlin:
Lol, I hear ya.

No bricks here, just g apps fc.

Its funny how our lil ones grow so fast, right before our eyes! Before you know it, he will want your tablet!

I plan to keep my a501 for a few more years, so I can hold out for your awesome work. But it will eventually get handed down to my son.

Anyways, keep up the good fight.

Talk to you later.

Robert.
[Acer Iconia A500] civato:
And when she gets bigger you wil get your hands full , all them boys knocking on your door.

:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Ah HA HA HA HA!!!!!!

Those "Boys" will be running for the mountains after 1 look at me when I answer the door!

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] verbuyst:
OK got a question about updating, because I'm ready to throw this tablet against the wall.

I want to upgrade from Alexandra_III_Rev_1_1 to Evil-Alex-Unleashed-V2 and I'm stuck. I can get into APX mode manually and through ADB, but for some reason thats as far as I can go.

It doesn't want to format partition 4 and so its stuck at the first part of the upgrade (I tried AfterOTA, APX_v0.4A-flashTool-500Manager1.0.2, V8-UNL-ICS-HC-bootloader-MULTI-cwm same thing)

So what I gattered is that I need to go back to stock Android 3.1 but to do that I need to use an EUUs so I downloaded that and it gets to the point that it sees my current version of android, but I can't click next because it says N/A in the "new image version"

So anybody got an idea about something I can try, I'm at the end of the line (I don't understand why they make it so hard to update a piece of hardware, never gonna buy Acer again).
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
You can try Timmy Deans rollback tool. Will dump you back on an a500 rom, but should reset your partitions. Just make sure you have your UID number.

I think you have some serious data corruption. Not sure which partition 4 is (data, cache, system, etc)

I take it you "don't" have the V8 bootloader running?

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] verbuyst:
Thanks for the reply, but it still doesn't do anything.

When I unzipped his v4 of "Timmy Deans rollback tool" and I do whats in the readme.doc I get the same problem

on the screen after it says that you have to turn on you usb debugging I get current image version "alexandra III rev 1.01_emea_tmpl" but with new image version it says N/A

So I don't know what that means other then it doens't know the new image version or it doesn't find the new image file (but I haven't touched any files or folder structure.

So why can't I just force to flash image file X to my tablet?

Edit: Got it working, redownloaded all the files, roms, drivers for this Acer tablet. And then I uninstalled all the drivers rebooted my PC and installed everything again (but also used another usb port on my pc) redid the tool "APX_v0.4A-flashTool-500Manager1.0.2" and now I saw PASS on my tablet and I'm Happy and your Awesome for providing this ROM.
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
USB port. Seems I have advised that many times in other posts ;)

Glad you are up and running! I don't do anything with the 501 anymore. For most users, it runs good. Yeah, my own still runs the EA rom!

Added Zepplin's die hard launcher patch, but anybody can do that. Wife has the 501 now. So no more dev on it!

Besides, why mess with something that works?

Cheers!

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] verbuyst:
Well I find it strange that the USB wouldn't work right on this A501 because I flashed a handfull of phones with it without any problems. But yeah if it works I'm not complaining (don't try to fix something that isn't broken)

Ps: Your wife doesn't want JB on her A501 ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] droidxxxxx:
Does this rom work on the a500?
[Acer Iconia A500] wolverine9827:
Fantastic ROM

UPDATE: DAMN!! I can receive carrier SMS messages (Welcome to blah blah blah...) but I can't send or receive SMS messages. The APNs don't show anything.... a little lost.....

Data works ok - read here that I should expect drops..... on AT&T... rest of the ROM works great... just no SMS/MMS.... weird..... currently using the "broadband" APN

***********End of Update**************

I've installed just about every ROM available for my A501 and quickly realized that there aren't many choices if you really want to use the SIM in the A501.... Besides that, I still kept coming back to Evil Alex... nice and snappy with plenty of memory! OC'd to 1504 and loving life!

No issues found so far. This thing just plain rocks. Thank you SO much! My Iconia runs circles around my wife's GTAB2 10 stock....

I wish dev would continue on this A501... maybe to get JB support for the A501 specific.... none of the current JB roms support the A501 except to make it act as the A500 WiFi only....

Anyway... putting this bad boy on my Mobile Share plan right now :D

Just wanted to show my appreciation for a great rom that allows me to really use my A501 to its fullest potential! THANKS!!
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Ehhhh, SMS issues can be intermittent. I have the same issue with the 701 after I changed providers. It comes and goes which is frustrating.

Sent from the Troll Kings Throne using XDA Premium HD
[Acer Iconia A500] droidxxxxx:
Bimp
[Acer Iconia A500] droidxxxxx:
So I'm guessing this will not work on the a500? Anybody?
[Acer Iconia A500] Raptor.X:
Hi MD,

As promised I'm dropping back. :D

Although the question must have been asked a thousand times, can your ROM Alex 2 be flashed with TWRP 2.5.0.0 instead of CWM?

Thank you in advance.

Missed you, man!
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Hey Mate,

Still around, but in a different position.

Have no idea about TWRP. Never tried it. Shouldn't hurt anything though. This one doesn't have aroma installer, so am pretty sure it's straight forward wipes.

You should probably use the raptor x rom though If I remember.

Maybe I'll rebase the rom and get that darn gtalk issue fixed this weekend. So might want to wait a few days.

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] Raptor.X:
Thank you for your answer, so here's what I did: I flashed the RaptorX ROM with TWRP and everthing went right. :)

But I needed to root 'y tablet so I went back into recovery to see which one was installed and I had the dead droid with a red triangle recovery!

So I flashed TWRP again using fastboot from Skrilax's bootloader and fkashed Alexandra II to get a rooted tablet. :)

Finally, I installed CWM using Acer Recovery Installer.
[Acer Iconia A500] droidxxxxx:
Will this rom work on a500?
[Acer Iconia A500] droidxxxxx:
Anybody?
[Acer Iconia A500] yassero:
How can I unroot ?
[Acer Iconia A500] slayinu:
:beer: i believe so.
[Acer Iconia A500] droidxxxxx:
Talking about it working on the a500?
[Acer Iconia A500] slayinu:
Yes, ive used this rom. I have an a500
[Acer Iconia A500] droidxxxxx:
Runs pretty dang smooth on the a500..
[Acer Iconia A500] droidxxxxx:
Was there ever any work done on getting Bluetooth to work? Both devices I use..a jabra sp700 and a blue parrot b250 don't want to connect..I would really like to be able to stream music through my tablet in my vehicle..instead of my galaxy s3..as I use it for the hotspot..and I would like to use the blue parrot with Skype..the only rom I've found that will connect to both is a 4.2.2 rom for the a500..it works for streaming music..but with Skype it makes everything sound in slow motion..lol. I'd really like to use it on this rom...is the Bluetooth problem just an ICS/ software thing on these tablets or is it a hardware thing?
[Acer Iconia A500] splatoid:
Nice Rom I thought I would try something else. Been happily using Civato's Roms for over a year now. And thought I would try something else. Real Smooth.

Thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] blloewy:
My bootloader version is ICS v 0.03.14

Can I flash directly this rom?

Or I must make my bootloader to v3??

I'mq using CWM 1.7 thor
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
From the OP Mate
[Acer Iconia A500] v11lemans:
Hi Moscow

after a long period on 4.2.2 ROM i decided to come back to my old favorite ROM due to some SOD issue. So i re-instaleld Alexandria III and then i decided to upgrade booloader and try your Evile Alex. The ROM is really excelelnt, no SOD at all.

I have only a problem with wifi. If i have wifi enabled with 3G data, when the ROM is in standby mode, after some hours a loose data connection. The wifi and signal icons becomes grey and i am not able to get data access. i have to switch wifi off to have 3G connection again and to switch wifi on to have then wifi connection.

Do you have any suggestion. I have checked the thread without success (May be the solution is already here but i was not able to find it).

Thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Well, i'm on vacation now. But can tell you it plagues 501's from time to time. You can try a couple of the kernels and maybe will help. Typically I had mine set to 3g only. But this 3g loss even effects my 701 from time to time.
[Acer Iconia A500] v11lemans:
Thanks Moscow

I tried the Etz kernrel, same issue.

Any other kernel i can try?

PS. Enjoy your vacation

Inviato dal mio A501 con Tapatalk 2
[Acer Iconia A500] wolverine9827:
File timesout at 196.75M :(

Great.... I wanted to go back to this ROM from experimenting on JB but I lost the source zip.... So I go back to the forum to attempt to download again but can't download more that 196.75M before the download times out from devhost.... anybody have a mirror link to the rom zip please?

Not sure what's going on but just can't break the 200M barrier from devhost on this file for some reason... it's weird.... it screams along at 650KBps but as soon as it hits 196.75MB (64% complete) the transfer stalls at 0bps and sits there.... harrumph..... or at least can someone attempt to download and let me know if they are able to download the full 309.37M file?

Thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Well, back from Amsterdam....

I'll check the download and make sure it's ok. Where you located? If I see an issue, I'll upload to probably Mega.

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Thanks Mate. Amsterdam was the bomb! Was XDA meeting there.

I've tried stock, EzT's and LinuxSociety's kernels. The issue, is they are all based on Acer kernel source. But the problem probably isn't so much in the kernel, as it is in associated files, like RIL. Acer doesn't release source for their proprietary files unfortunately.

If you haven't seen, Acer has recently released a small update for the 500 bout a month ago. Still ICS, but has some updated files. My guess, is that in some time, they will release something for the 501. Usually happens after about 6 months or so. So maybe (a small maybe) they've updated some 3g files. We'll see.
[Acer Iconia A500] wolverine9827:
Hey MD,

I'm in the US - Florida....

Thanks for checking!
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
No prob mate. I checked and downloaded fine for me. About 15 minutes on a 54mb Home Wifi. Still having issues?

Uploaded to Mega;

DOWNLOAD

Not sure if you have to sign up or not, so let me know. Never used them before.

MD