yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DroidZombie:
Wipe back to stock and try again?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DroidZombie:
Confirmed. I lost root too. Wiped cache and data of superuser and superuser elite - no effect. Disabled superuser elite - no effect.

Edit: I installed SuperSU from the market and it said no su binary is installed.

A1-07 rooter and the 4.0 rooter did nothing.

The 4.0--- root-b.zip gives the following error

assert failed: run_program("/tmp/fuse", "system", "/tmp/system.zip")

E:Error in /sdcard/4.0--- root-b.zip

(Status 7)

Installation aborted

redownloaded it and it still gives the error.

EDIT2: FIXED ROOT PROBLEM

The 8.1 ROM does not set up root properly. To get it back download Chainfire's SuperSu zip and flash it in CWM (I reflashed v6 of CWM as v5 can cause brick problems with ICS on some devices and I didn't want to risk it)

http://download.chainfire.eu/315/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.25.zip

for the thread on SuperSU

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1538053
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DroidZombie:
The new ROM works well now that I fixed the root problem (see post above). The sound problem I was having is still present. I'll log it and post it tonight or tomorrow.

Haven't tried GPS yet, but I will tomorrow.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] marathan76:
what is the procedure to make otg support actually work?!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] domi650:
I´ve got a new issue on SlimDroid 8.1.

On every start it runs "Android is upgraded" and Apps are optimized.

I tried to clean all caches, factor reset and reinstalled ROM and Kernel.

I found a lot of similar problems on other devices (their solutions didn´t work for me) but not for the A1 and this ROM.

I´d be glad to find a solution for this.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DroidZombie:
I've had that happen before. Drop back to 8.0 and see if it goes away. If not then something may be wrong with your gapps. Try to run the ROM without gapps and see if the problem persists.

Out of curiosity, what is your gapps source and version?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] domi650:
On 8.0 it starts without the actualisation and also on 8.1 without gapps.

I installed the "gapps-ics-20120429-signed.zip", I don´t remeber where I took from.

Which gapps version runs with this ROM without issues?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DroidZombie:
Well it's not your gapps if it happens before you install them. It's either your kernel file or ROM file. Download a fresh copy of each and see if that helps. Other than that just make sure you wipe everything (user, cache, dalvik, battery) and move the flash files out of the root directory after you're done. Oh and use cwm6 to flash from.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] domi650:
Without gapps I don´t get this issue, not on ROM 8.0 or on 8.1.

So I think it is a matter of gapps.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DroidZombie:
Sorry I misread your post. Try downloading Goo manager from the market. They have reliable gapps you can download directly to your device and then flash. Get the latest ICS file they have.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Jpe230:
Solved problem with Sd

Hey guys i can finally used my tablet with a Sd card i used the .zip bellow, only install the zip with CWM :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tinybeetle:
Will this work on a 16GB A1?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Jpe230:
Try it :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tinybeetle:
Bad idea... It eliminated my 12.01GB internal space and saw only the removable SD after this was applied. I guess it is a good idea to get more space if your A1 only has 2gb, but losing 12GB is not a good idea. Once I reapplied Slimdroid 8.1 the internal SD came back, and my external SD is now also visible.

---------- Post added at 04:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:31 PM ----------

I have the same problem with 8.1 as with stock ICS for A1, apps will not move to SD. Is there a solution for this?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tinybeetle:
Co-Pilot Live will not function with SlimDroid until you install an SVOX of some type. It requires voice to text files to start up and run. If there is no text to speech, the splash screen starts, and then the program closes with no indication of why.

I downloaded a free trial of Ivona Text to Speech HQ and the Ivona Kendra US English Beta voice. Once both were installed Co-Pilot worked correctly.

Note: The Kendra voice is a 149mb download!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Jpe230:
Sorry :( dude
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tm515:
Moving programs to Internal USB/SD card

twsk and dawkon13

Thank you for the great support that you are providing to the A107, Toshiba totally ignores us once they sell the product. Have been using your SlimDroid v8.1 and seems to work great :good:. I have a problem of space as I am running out of 1.83GB internal program storage. I have to delete existing programs to install a new one because of this silly limitation.

It seems to be impossible to move programs from 1.83 GB program space to the 12 GB USB storage (internal SD). I tried using Titanium Backup and APPMgr to move but have failed. In the Lenovo forum, there is already a discussion about this but no solution yet.

http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad...ted-Lenovo-A1107-Internal-Storage/td-p/998805

In other ICS devices ppl have been able to transfer programs even to the external SD but it seems that it is not possible for the Ideapad.

:confused: Can you please lot us know how we can move programs to internal USB or better even to the external SD cards?

Anybody found a solution??

Thank you for your hard work.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tinybeetle:
Dawkon,

While looking at the Chinese site the kernel is from, it appears to me that some more updates and changes are coming from you, the Chinese, and possibly Graham. Can you confirm that any additional development is happening for the A1?

Like several others have reported, every time I restart my A1 it "upgrades" some apps. Currently it is about 87 of them. I have tried reloading the operating system 3 times (wiping everything, loading slimdroid and the new kernel). Each time I install gapps it does this. I've tried the "gapps-ics-20120422-signed" and the "gapps-ics-20120429-signed". Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks.

---------- Post added at 11:35 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:09 AM ----------

Dawkon,

Regarding External and Internal SD Cards. On the Lenovo forums Someone posted the following. I am having trouble understanding it because I don't see the same naming convetion, but in case you hadn't see it, I'm reposting it. Perhaps it will help to solve the move-to-sd problem.

I bought both the a1107 and started having this issue, I read through the posts and it really seemed no answers had a clue of what was wrong. so i gave it to my wife and bought a a2109 instead and no issue. then the wife complained of the issue. Easy solve was to ...remove removable/external sd card and reboot... but if you want an external sdcard here is the fix... its a file structure and naming issue, i discovered while looking at my a2109 the issue only occurs on the a1107... basically when an external sd card is installed the external sd and the internal sd storage/usb drive are inaccessable when dowloading apps off google store some automatically save portions to the sd card storage area and the apps fail to install and give a cannot read sd storage error

The reason for this is the a1107 gives the internal memory the name "sdcard" but when you add additional memory it also names this the identical thing "sdcard"

the fix is actually simple...

use your computer to put a file you will recognise on the external/removable sdcard and insert it into your tablet.

power off then power on your tablet. then use the preloaded es file explorer application and open it

click on favorites.... then choose "/"

open a sdcard folder.... if you see your file then rename that folder to "sdcard2" if not leave name as "sdcard"

click on favorites.... then choose "/"

open "mnt" folder..

open a sdcard folder.... if you see your file then rename that folder to "sdcard2" if not leave name as "sdcard" so in that "mnt" folder you will then have "sdcard" , "sdcard2", "usbdrive"

by seperating the names your device will recognise the difference and your storage will work properly again.

Hope this helps

Altazink​
[Miscellaneous Android Development] nccruz:
Dawkon

does this support sd-ext2?

I had removable sd_card on ext2 and it came out as read only....

I then wiped and made fat32 partition and now I can read/write.....

thanks....

been testing for a week and this really runs smooth and fast....

noticed that my internal storage of 1.8 gb can now receive almost all for apps... have used about 600mb and have left 1.2 gb, can this be??? no need for app2sd....

gps is also amazing.... gets 7 registered even inside the house here at 89128.

only issue so far is wifi during sleep... set first at never on but could never wake it up even with wifi on/off api.... had to reboot. current set at always on but will test the last setting of on when plugged...... battery drain has been better than old ics 1,2 updated to 2xxx.....
[Miscellaneous Android Development] nccruz:
how did you get one power guard from playstore???? it does not show up when I search on my A1... thanks..

or is it just "power guard"??
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DroidZombie:
As I said, the play store reads it as incompatible so it won't show it to you on your tablet. Search the forums for it and you will find it. Or look at the play store on your computer and search there. I believe the description has the xda link.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mrled:
Thanks for this great ROM for ideapad

I installed without problem in my boss ideapad until touch was not responding

But I found your guide to flash Touch Firmware and now is fine (thanks again)

I notice something in kernel, the minimum speed is 600 in GB was 300 MHz

Is possible put this step again? I think is more battery friendly.

But is only a suggestion, I don't know about compile kernel or if was removed because don't work properly.

Thanks for keep developing for this tablet and for you great work.

and sorry for my English.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jpisini:
Under ICS the minimum is 600 I don't believe that can be fixed.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Stolz:
¿how to use init.d? I want to run a script I have in /mnt/sdcard on every boot
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dawkon13:
system/etc/init.d
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tm515:
:confused: Bump, any solution for this?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DroidZombie:
The solution is jellybean and hopefully well get it one day. I'm not holding out much hope though. There are too few resources for the developers and each new tablet pushes this one further into the legacy category.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Stolz:
I mean, how to make it work?. Is there any special thing to do for it to work? Because no matter what I try it seems that the scripts I create on /system/etc/init.d/ are not executed on boot.

Here is an example I copied to /etc/init.d/99myscript (which btw is chmod 755)

#Mount /system rw
mount -o rw,remount /system

#Mount sdcard without nosuid,nodev,noexec
umount /dev/block/mmcblk0p5
busybox mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /mnt/sdcard

#Some tests to se if this script is executed on boot
busybox touch /mnt/sdcard/test
date >> /mnt/sdcard/last-boot.log

busybox touch /test
date >> /last-boot.log

busybox touch /data/test
date >> /data/last-boot.log

busybox touch /test
date >> /data/last-boot.log

busybox touch /tmp/test
date >> /tmp/last-boot.log

But when I boot /system is still mounted ro, the SD card is still nosuid,nodev,noexec and there is no "test" or "last-boot.log" file in any o fthe tried folders.

I've tried also with full path for busybox (/system/xbin/busybox) or even without busybox and no luck.

So I gues I'm missing something about how init.d scripts work or it's just init.d doesn't work in this room.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tm515:
Thanxs DroidZombie; I am also not that hopeful that we will get JB. It would be great if somehow we can overcome this limitation in the ICS. I am not too sure but I think I was able to get the apps to the internal SD in the GB (stock ROM) when I got it rooted. But that was year ago, so not completely sure if that was the case. Still hoping that somehow this arbitrary limitation can be bypassed within the SlimDroid itself. Still hoping...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mrled:
Hi

Is USB OTG supported on this ROM / KERNEL

I ask because There is an App called USB OTG Helper installed

If yes, I need a Powered USB Hub to Work?

Thanks in advance.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dawkon13:
OTG not working yet :(
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zetty:
Well finally happened, my Lenovo IdeaPad A1 is death.

The touch pad not work and I couldn't make it work, :(

It was fun, I enjoyed very much. My next tablet it will be a Nexus definitely. :p
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DroidZombie:
Try going back to CM7 before you trash it just to be sure
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zetty:
Thanks, I will :sly:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Stolz:
Try this: http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad...-Unbrick-fix-full-factory-restore/ta-p/841499
[Miscellaneous Android Development] geoponer:
How does this version compare to 2.3.7 regarding battery life? I have noticed that more that 20% of the battery is drained in idle, and airplane mode ON. Do you also happen to have reduced battery life with this ROM version?

I just downloaded the ROM in my Lenovo A1 and installed it through CWM (Install .zip from external SD), over my existing CM7 installation. Maybe this has to do with that?

Apart from that, the ROM is super: fast and sleek! Thanks dawkon!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DroidZombie:
CM7 has much better battery life. CM7 can idle for weeks without needing a charge. ICS can go several hours, up to a day with a decent battery saver app.

I actually just switched back to CM7 because I was tired of always charging my tablet and having unending problems with ICS. The devs did a great job with what they had to work with, but they just didn't have what they needed to make it usable. Mine is about ready to be relegated to the post of reader as my Nexus 10 will be at my door tomorrow.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zetty:
Nothing is working, I tried everything, flash CW7, full wipe, installing stock rom 2.3 (row), I will try the solution than I find in a Chinese forum, if this works I will notice you.

Cross fingers for me!! Hahahaha :p

Sent from my N9776 LewaOS 4.1.2 Costum Rom
[Miscellaneous Android Development] geoponer:
Thank you for the confirmation. I tried some tips for battery saving in 4.0.4 (such as disable data usage and sounds), which I found online, but still the battery was draining in idle very-very fast (drained from 80% in idle in less than 20 hours). In the end I got so frustrated that I decided to go back to CM7 - after all I didn't see any actual advantage in 4.0.4 apart from the different interface and the option to install a couple of apps incompatible with CM7, like Google Chrome (which was really slow anyway) and Google Keep (for which I have alternatives).

It must be something with the 16GB version of the tablet, as a friend of mine using SlimDroid v 8.1 by twsk & dawkon13 [07.04.13] in his 2GB version of A1 did not notice a battery drainage of more than 5-10% per day, which I also find normal. Since my battery lasts for days with the CM7, I believe that this is not a battery issue.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jpisini:
Take a look at the new Nooks. I got the 9 inch model and don't regret it. $149 it runs well and there are two modern jellybean Roms for it. My daughter is still using my old A1.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DroidZombie:
Unboxed my Nexus 10 today. Already in love with it. My A1 is heavy beside it. It's just a beautiful machine.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] kaberos:
I installed the SlimDroid v8.1 according to the instructions

and A1-07 2GB works perfectly!!! :good:

(beautiful,fast etc)

thank you very much dawkon13:

Clarification

I did the installation of LePad 2G Exchange MP

the external SDcard shows up as a storage USB

http://oi40.tinypic.com/2zi4r36.jpg

Is that right?

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[Miscellaneous Android Development] amjl2000:
it's interesting that people have been upgrading their A1s with something bigger. Myself, I have gone the other way, and bought myself my first android phone! Huawei Y300, 4" dual core, ips.. yada yada for £60! absolute steal, and likely to do everything on it I did on my tablet... but better (was never impressed with soud quality on the a1). The A1 will be used now to train the wife on android, and to run the kids games.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DroidZombie:
I have my GS3 which is great and I love it, but the screen size is not practical for doing any kind of work or even reading. I used my A1 to do work, but the keyboard was just too small. On my Nexus 10 I can comfortably type.

As for the sound, I know my A1 had a bad speaker. It would crackle and hiss all the time. With that and the absolute lack of updates from Lenovo I've been scared off of Chinese companies.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mrled:
Try This http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1935025
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jackk:
Installed 8.1 but GPS does not work. Is there a fix?

Edit: Reinstalled the kernal in CWM and now it works:p
[Miscellaneous Android Development] UchihaKakarot:
I am unable to root my tablet. Can someone pls help me.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] yjosipy:
Hello people can anyone help me with touchscreen sometimes it doesent work or its laggy :(
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ryuuzaki1989:
Hi, I'm having troubles installing some applications, i'm getting the next error: "Unable to perform the installation on the USB or the SD". Is there a way to fix that? Thanks in advance.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MicheleFrost:
You guys are great, really :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MadPriest:
Search for it before asking
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ryuuzaki1989:
Yes, sorry, you are right. I found a solution in another thread, it was posted by janolarson.

-- rooted the device (A1_rooter.zip)

-- installed a terminal emulator from Play Store

-- open the term emulator and get the superuser grant ('su' command)

-- unmount the internal storate ('umount /mnt/sdcard')

-- install your apps from Play Store

-- when you finished remount the internal SD

It solves the problem in a lot of applications, but there are still some apps (mostly games) that need to install information on the internal memory.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MadPriest:
there's no known solution for that at this time :(
[Miscellaneous Android Development] carlosmoto:
"Insert an SD card before using the camera"

Hi all.

I installed "dawkon13 Version" in my A1, works correctly but i have problems with SD card, the camara no detected and I can not take photos ("Insert an SD card before using the camera"). In the "es file explorer" i can see my data in the folder "removable_SDcard".

Flashing "A1_ICS_SD-Card.zip" via CWM and stock recovery and does not work.

Mtp mode is activated, windows install drivers and recognizes the device as "galaxy nexus" but I can not see anything on the pc.

any suggestions?

P.S. My english is very bad, sorry and thanks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] nccruz:
look into http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1624979&page=10 especially post#91/etc... worked for me.....
[Miscellaneous Android Development] hs671:
I jumped the gun, without reading through the thread and flashed A107I0_A404_001_007_0091_US.zip (271MB) with CWM and it got aborted. Rebooted to be stuck at the ANDROID loader. Rebooted again and the stock recovery picked up the update.zip on my sd card and tried to flash it again.

Did not work as i got a red triangle which meant it did not flash. Since then Kept getting stuck at the ANDROID loader screen. Did not know what to do, so I removed my SD card, inserted it into a card reader and deleted the update.zip on it and instead copied A107W0_A234_001_015_2643_ROW.zip (renaming it to update.zip)

Rebooted in recovery and stock recovery picked it up and now I'm back on 2.3.4

The bright side is that my tabled is unbricked. Will try installing the slim version and hope that works (btw can anybody post an alternate link for the slim version as the mediafire is blocked in my country)

Hope this helps
[Miscellaneous Android Development] BARMANIA:
Is there a way to overclock the A1? It was possible in the unofficial Cyanogenmod...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jpisini:
Unfortunately it is a kernel function you will have to build a new kernel and right now we don't have the source since this is beta .
[Miscellaneous Android Development] carolinakidd:
I know this is off topic for this question but I need a lil help..ok so I was messing around with my a1 trying to put ics on it and not paying attention I went into android recovery instead of cwm and did a factory reset...need less to say I now have no operating system on it now...everytime I try the power+volume - combo and the android recovery always comes up....is there any way to at least get cwm back on the tablet so I could restore my cm7? Thanks 4 any help
[Miscellaneous Android Development] nccruz:
@carolinakidd

if you want to load ics, you need to start with sock rom anywayyy. download from here http://download.lenovo.com/slates/a1/OTA/ and rename rom to update zip and flash thru android recovery...

after that go to here .... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1624979&page=10 look at post 91 and 95.... you can always get cwm by copying to your sdcard and renaming to update zip and flash thru recovery...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] carolinakidd:
Thanks will try as soon as I get off from work
[Miscellaneous Android Development] carolinakidd:
Nccruz u are a lifesaver homie thanks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dawkon13:
New Slim version Available!!!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mihnutzu:
I've installed it but I still have a bug where browsers won't load other pages than homepage. When I want to go to another URL it hangs in loading and after that some other apps that require internet connection stop working.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] crayBoy:
sd card

Is it good for 2G tablet A1? Do you resolve sd card problem?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jpisini:
The slim was built for the 2gb version. I don't know about the other part of your question.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] carolinakidd:
Another question...do i have flash 1.2 first before i flash the slim version? Or just go in cwm and flash it like a normal rom?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jpisini:
Can I flash your new slim version from CWM I am running CM7? Do I need to be on ICS already or can I just flash a gingerbread stock rom and install from there using the update.zip method?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dawkon13:
You can flash this via cwm recovery (from bootable SDcard ;) )
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jpisini:
Thanks. Hopefully I will have time to try this out this weekend.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Stolz:
I'm currently using CM7 and I want to try out ICS but with so many versions in the OP I'm a bit confused.

If I download SlimDroid v3 from post #2, rename it to update.zip and copy it to my SD card, can I then use cwm-5.0.2.7 to flash ICS using "install zip form SD card" option?

or do I have to flash the original Lenovo ROM with the stock recovery to try SlimDroid?

And finally, is SlimDroid v3 based on the the offical ICS relesaed today (16.06.2012) ?

My A1 is the 16GB version.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dawkon13:
Flash VIA STOCK RECOVERY or CWM RECOVERY FROM BOOTABLE SDCARD!!! (apply update from sdcard; yes,apply update.zip...)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Stolz:
Thanks dawkon13. I'm trying now to get the instructions to create the bootable SD from Linux. All I can find so far are for Windows (Win32DiskImager.exe stuff) but I only have Linux. I'll keep trying though.