yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Acer Iconia A500] mjwhirly:
Immature comment posted by me, edited it
[Acer Iconia A500] randomblame:
not even worth responding to
[Acer Iconia A500] dincdoes.me:
I like tegraowners Tom but because I want a fast stable ics build I'm using civs work right now really like it but jelly bean us awesome I love it! Thanks again for sharing
[Acer Iconia A500] mjwhirly:
I wouldn't of either if I was you, when I went back and reread what I wrote I realized how childish I sounded, I'm sorry man after dealing all day with rich snobs I sometimes come back and inadvertently take my anger out on people that don't deserve it. I thanked your post for not only making me realize how stupid I sounded but also for your work, I'm also going to give your rom a try and help you out by seeing if I notice any bugs...sorry once again man
[Acer Iconia A500] B214B1:
Money Quote...

So you're the one responsible? Thor works for you? I knew there was someone pulling the strings...

Why don't you assign another of your top developers to help Random figure out the wifi with this SDK port? Maybe someone who uploads to a github as opposed to just downloading from one... :rolleyes:
[Acer Iconia A500] Rippster:
Which version of gapps are you using?
[Acer Iconia A500] eBug:
Works great now!

WiFi is OK

System sound OK

Sound in apps too, I can watch videos on YouTube

Apps install OK

Google voice search OK

Then only problem seems to be Google now! If I opt in the search widget stops working and I have this damned 'Unfortunately, Google search has stopped' popping all the time. So for now, when i'm presented with Google now! I have to opt out at any cost.
[Acer Iconia A500] randomblame:
I'll update this as soon as I can I got distracted: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1778202
[Acer Iconia A500] chismay:
*cough*forget that *cough* a500 more important *cough*:fingers-crossed:
[Acer Iconia A500] Visegrad:
Ok folks, pounding my head on the floor with this one. Decided I wanted to take JB for a test drive with the new V5 with fixes. I went through all the usual steps (backup, wipes) installed the ROM and rebooted. Everything came up great, went to load JB apps and I don't have a recovery any more (volume up + power). I saw the Ubuntu method of getting that back, but don't have ubuntu. Is there another method or something I am missing (Other than my Recovery :p)? Thanks for the help.
[Acer Iconia A500] JoeyDVDZ:
You could use blackthund3r's a500 manager tool to reboot to recovery; as long as you have your USB drivers installed it should work. That's what I did the first time I flashed this ROM & nearly blew up my tab.
[Acer Iconia A500] lionedas:
had something like that happen to me yesterday,

i used blackthund3r_A500_APX_Flash_Tool, and the files from Afterota v1_09

to fix mine. download and extract both.

enter apxmode manually.

power down your a500 and connect it to the usb of you pc

take a tooth pick and hold down the reset and hold the power button

down until you hear the usb connection tune, release the buttons,

power light should be on, but screen may be off.

light up blackthund3r_A500_APX_Flash_Tool

and guide it to the Afterota v1_09 folder

kernel = krn_srw_1041.img

bootloader = bl_ics_ac_v8.bin

recovery = rc_ics_thor_v173.img

all the files above are in the Afterota v1_09 folder/ kernel and nvflash

you can use other recovery and so on but this should get you going.

good luck
[Acer Iconia A500] JoeyDVDZ:
I don't think he'll need to go through all that; it seems like he was using ICS recovery, which I assume means (I hope!) he was wise enough to back up his existing installation before flashing?
[Acer Iconia A500] lionedas:
I didnt have anything backed up so this whole thing took me about 7 minutes to do,

and i had my tablet back.

I also though it may one day help someone searching the forums for a fix. :)
[Acer Iconia A500] Visegrad:
Yes, I was using the V6 UNL ICS BL with the Thor touch recovery. I did make a back-up, however, since I no longer have a recovery (it goes to put recovery kernel img, stops, then boots up primary kernel img and JB) so Ican't reload a back-up. About to give AfterOTA a shot.
[Acer Iconia A500] eBug:
Recovery is VolDown+Power
[Acer Iconia A500] JoeyDVDZ:
My bad. Apologies, sir!

Alright, I'm gonna stop posting to this unless I have something real to add; I don't want to jam the thread up with nonsense. Good luck gentlemen!
[Acer Iconia A500] Visegrad:
Many thanks! I'm going to go back to my good ole ICS rom for now :) But hey, from the little taste I got, JB is really smooth and very fast. Great work everyone!
[Acer Iconia A500] blucmal:
Downloaded build 5 fixed ROM and omfg the name of the file is very apt :-) audio all works properly apps fc have all dissapeared audio over Bluetooth is working all my desktop widgets are working no problem so far except video which is very stuttery awesome work now to go back through to thank appropriate people :D

Edit: I tried to start the Google now app now Google search crashes every 5 mins or so how do I fix reboot does not help.
[Acer Iconia A500] lechuckthepirate:
Does V5 work flashed with a Thor's boot/recovery ? I just did and my Iconia stays at the acer logo forever...

---------- Post added at 09:13 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:10 AM ----------

Woah.. it's even worse than I thought .. I can't even get to recover with power+vol down ... any hint?
[Acer Iconia A500] blucmal:
Do you have ICS boot loader don't know what's going on couple people have lost recovery I have not had any issues. You may have to use adb mode and re install ice cream sandwich boot loader and recovery.
[Acer Iconia A500] lechuckthepirate:
And how am I supposed to to that when I can't even get adb to recognise my tablet? It gets stuck at acer logo... does nothing.
[Acer Iconia A500] wesvista:
Had this to on thor's recocery flash another

you can try this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1751978

or

use blackthund3r's tool (i did)

(i flashed public recovery and didn't had any more problems)

Howto flash

make sure you are on bootloader v8 and not on thor's recovery.

Then flash v5(i suggest my version but you can choose)

Flash google apps

Should work then
[Acer Iconia A500] blucmal:
power off tablet. put a paperclip in the hardware reset button (the small hole near the usb) and hold power button at same time then use blackthunders apx tool and flash the ics bootloader and recovery. Check out civatos guide http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1622425 follow the instruction on using blackthunders tool there are other ways but its the way I did it cheers
[Acer Iconia A500] andrjas:
and back to development: I've been trying to get HW accelerated video to work. Here's what I've got so far:

When trying to use YouTube (the app) or MX Player, logcat tells that libwvm.so is missing. I tried several versions (and their dependent libs) from different ROMs (Taboonay 3, some 4.1.1 ROMs from other devices) but no luck yet. The Jelly Bean versions crash or simply won't work and the one from Taboonay tells me that "IsWidevineMedia not found in libwvm.so". Seems like Google changed some parts in WVMExtractor and a new libwvm.so is needed.

I'm not a skilled android developer (but know stuff about linux), but as much as I can tell the libwvm.so is vendor supplied and my guess is that we'll have to wait for Acer to build a new one. Though maybe any libwvm.so for JB from a Tegra 2 device would do.
[Acer Iconia A500] lechuckthepirate:
Thanks for the link, I'll try to recover the tablet tonight, I can't download all that stuff at work.

Cheers
[Acer Iconia A500] blucmal:
Bugger so that two things we a relying on from acer video and camera hope acer come to the party. Rom is now good enough for me for daily use can live without video and the camera for now. cheers and thanks for your contribution.
[Acer Iconia A500] fox.not.fire:
Google Now doesn't work on mine.It keeps telling "Unfurnately, Google Search has stopped". I runs the introduction of Google Now and then stopped. I have reflashed all just to make sure and it still doesn't work...
[Acer Iconia A500] blucmal:
Same now getting lots of Google search force closes may have to flash it a third time and not use it this time.
[Acer Iconia A500] wesvista:
I had google now working yesterday didn't know what i did but trying to find it out.

For now go to settings and disable google search
[Acer Iconia A500] eBug:
I had the same problem. If you try to launch Google now! You'll trigger the error popups and there's no way to stop it. One would be to disable Voice search, but it keeps re-enabling itself automatically.

The way I found to get rid of those pesky warnings was to factory reset (no need to reflash the ROM) and then, don't opt-in to Google now! ever
[Acer Iconia A500] Somairotevoli:
Or you can just clear the defaults of the search app. no need to factory reset

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2
[Acer Iconia A500] -beluga-:
Status? :-s

May I humbly ask if there is a reference to the current status of this project somewhere? :confused:

The Front post doesn't seem to have been updated for some time, the OP seems to have moved on to focus on JB for HTC DHD and there are 61 pages to sieve through. The last few posts appear to indicate things work well besides no video accel and Google Now crashes?

Much appreciated. Thanks!
[Acer Iconia A500] eBug:
Has anyone be lucky enough as to be able to watch video streams from within the browser?

Edit:

After installing flash player from here I was able to play some videos on vimeo and YouTube.
[Acer Iconia A500] lionedas:
Yea you need to install the latest adobe flashplayer for ics, 11.1.115.12

The apk is floating around xda, do a Google search for jellybean flash player

Just a note they will no longer support devices as of August 15th
[Acer Iconia A500] taylor.fowler:
You can just clear app data (Settings--Apps--All--GoogleSeach--Clear Data), too.
[Acer Iconia A500] chismay:
ive been watching this thread hourly since it started, from what i have made out:

wifi - 95%working

sd card - 75%working

gps - not working

hardware accel' - not working

sensors (orientation) - not working

google now - 50% working

bluetooth - unknown

hmdi output - unknown

audio - 90%working

recovery after flash - 45%chance

this is not scripture but from what im goin on myself, if anyone feels to change these status's just say and i will.

its because of the ones above that say not working that i havent installed yet, as these for me personally are required for my tabs daily life
[Acer Iconia A500] SmashMatt:
Flash is incompatible with Jelly Bean so it's better not to do that. Besides video doesn't work in Chrome which doesn't even need flash. I'm betting we need to wait until hardware acceleration is working.
[Acer Iconia A500] andrjas:
I'd change some of there values: sd card works (internal and external) without problems in my opinion.

orientation sensors: work, only the orientation lock switch is useless right now.

bluetooth: I can pair my bluetooth mouse and it works. Haven't tried anything else for lack of.

audio: even system sound works now (haven't found any missing sound, but that's hard to do ^^)
[Acer Iconia A500] Rippster:
Running all the latest patches, here's what I can tell you:

Working:

Audio (system audio plus every app i tested had audio)

Bluetooth (acer bt keyboard worked)

Internal storage (all my apps can now download required data to the internal storage)

SDCard (this has always worked)

Wifi (I have never noticed a loss of connection)

Not working:

Camera

Full Hardware Acceleration

Google Now

GPS

the rotation lock switch

External USB hard drives

HDMI??? (I haven't tested this)

This rom IS good enough to be a daily driver (I am :D). I added a different launcher, customized my widgets, TeamViewer remote is a must have and that works great. With that said, it is still ALPHA, so do NOT expect some things to work and complain when it doesn't. The dev team is doing what they can, when they can, on THEIR schedule.

To the dev team: THANK YOU!! Keep up the good work!
[Acer Iconia A500] andrjas:
just checked: hdmi does work! at least as usual: highly cropped. and for the rotation lock: yes, the hardware switch does not work, but you can toggle the function in the clock-menu-thing (whatever this menu by tapping twice on the clock is called)
[Acer Iconia A500] navodwickra:
it's not incompatible at least on 4.1.1. works perfectly on my Gnex
[Acer Iconia A500] lawrex:
Does the download in the OP contain all the fixes some post back, or do we need to do those separate still?
[Acer Iconia A500] chismay:
OK so updated the collected status of this rom, totally for randomblame and the other DEV'S working on this i am in no part of this team, i am just making it easier hopefully for the average first comer and random-checkers alike, collected from the users, thanks given

wifi - working

sd card - working

gps - not working

hardware accel' - not working

sensors (orientation) - works (but no lock switch / can use clock-menu shortcut)

google now - 35ish% working

bluetooth - working

hmdi output - working

audio - working

camera - not working

recovery after flash - 45%chance

special thanks to WESVISTA for the major contribution
[Acer Iconia A500] andrjas:
No, the first post was not updated recently. But the newest patches are provided by wesvista:
[Acer Iconia A500] chismay:
ok 1 second

edit: special thanks given in that post but i cannot update the OP as Randomblame is the thread maker,.
[Acer Iconia A500] Rippster:
Use the link wesvista provided for now. RB will probably update his post when he returns.
[Acer Iconia A500] ibawanzingee:
WiFi working 95% may be accurate. Every time I change the advanced settings of WiFi - WiFi always on: only when plugged in - I lose WiFi maybe a few hours later, maybe a day later, but this seems to have happened twice. I can't confirm this is completely accurate (may be coincidence), but I suspect this is the case. Can anyone else confirm this?
[Acer Iconia A500] chismay:
thanks for update ill change the post

wifi - 95% working

sd card - working

gps - not working

hardware accel' - not working

sensors (orientation) - works (but no lock switch / can use clock-menu shortcut)

google now - 35ish% working

bluetooth - working

hmdi output - working

audio - working

camera - not working

recovery after flash - 45%chance

special thanks to WESVISTA for the major contribution
[Acer Iconia A500] Thanar:
Does anyone have any trouble downloading some apps like root explorer?

Sent from my EVO
[Acer Iconia A500] eBug:
Same problem here.

---------- Post added at 05:43 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:42 PM ----------

What app do you guys use, if any, to play video .avi files?
[Acer Iconia A500] chismay:
have you tried mxplayer?
[Acer Iconia A500] Rippster:
No problems here. All apps (free/paid/side loaded) download and install just fine.
[Acer Iconia A500] Thanar:
Hmm strange. I'm having issues and the log cat is picking up it having an issue with smp2tmp1 but the file isn't there. I had a weird issue with my wipe and maybe that was it. Factory reset didn't seem to clear my data.

Sent from my EVO
[Acer Iconia A500] ibawanzingee:
Interesting. I'm going to turn it back on then. Last time this happened, I ended up resetting my router and it made no difference. I'm going to turn wifi back on all the time and if that doesn't help, I'll have to reinstall. I hope just turning it back on works.
[Acer Iconia A500] eBug:
Thanks! I didn't know about mxplayer. Works great!
[Acer Iconia A500] lechuckthepirate:
I'm having problems with big applications.. for example 30mb or more .apk. They won't install. Small ones work perfectly... be them free or payed... is that an issue with partitions or anything¿
[Acer Iconia A500] andrjas:
Sorry, can't confirm that. I've just installed World of Goo (46 MB), Ice Age Village (94 MB) and Real Football 2012 (399 MB) without problems. And they work fine (except that Ice Age could not get internet access, though Real Football did)

What apps did you try to install?
[Acer Iconia A500] eBug:
Did anyone else notice that the unlock ring disappears from lock screen after a while. I still have to make the gesture to unlock the tablet, but blindly, because the unlock ring isnt shown.
[Acer Iconia A500] fox.not.fire:
I don't have this problem after using this rom for several days...
[Acer Iconia A500] ibawanzingee:
Wow, how long have you been on the ROM? maybe it's time for titanium and a fresh install...
[Acer Iconia A500] SmashMatt:
Well this is weird. Suddenly YouTube and HTML5 in Chrome are working perfectly now.
[Acer Iconia A500] Timelord83:
i am using the V5 from op and i flashed in this order

1) Rom

2) FULL sound Fix

3) SD Fix

4) JB Apps

first boot of rom i had full sound all gapps work wwithout closing wifi is 100% whenever however long i use it and i had a marathon Netflix day on monday all on the tab. the stock browser is picky on what embedded content works some says it can't load tap to retry then it magicly loads. I also have the random waking issue, just the display pops on when ever it wants to the lock screen then shuts off a minute later. All my paid apps work fine. Any size. BT works Perfect as i use an ELM 327 to monitor my truck daily.

Side Note: IMO this thread needs a cleaning its nice to give thanks but it has exploded and out of the 60+ pages the SD issue has been address far to often people are clearly not searching and cluttering this thread up.
[Acer Iconia A500] Rippster:
+1 I'll have to agree with you. This is a DEVELOPMENT thread...not a place to report issues with applications, "how do i" questions, etc. Maybe a secondary "Discussion/Help" thread should be opened so these kinds of issues can be discussed.
[Acer Iconia A500] blucmal:
Yes has on mine noticed it this morning.
[Acer Iconia A500] xaoc747:
I'm instal this Rom, now I'm on ACER logo, how long to wait?
[Acer Iconia A500] lechuckthepirate:
If you didn't have a proper bootloader then you're screwed. It happened the same to me... bricked on acer logo. And unbricking it can be very very difficult if you don't have the CPUID or SKB of your tablet. I ended running my PC's Ubuntu partition and compiling some C++ code to get the CPUID from the tablet and being able to rescue it.

The good news is that the tablet is recoverable. I did it yesterday, and after recovering and installing a proper bootloader now I have JB running smoothly in my acer.

Check this : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1622425

---------- Post added at 10:47 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:45 AM ----------

I solved it... I didn't have the SD fix installed, after doing it all works smooth again.

Cheers!
[Acer Iconia A500] chismay:
anymore updates on how google now is goin? voice n all
[Acer Iconia A500] wesvista:
Im still trying out somethings.

Also ported the cm9 setting's to our's but it's not really working.

Added cm wallpapers, settings and apollo music player
[Acer Iconia A500] lechuckthepirate:
Sound is fully working? Even with the sound fix, I get lots of audio errors in logcat... is that normal ?
[Acer Iconia A500] wesvista:
This version is not even alpha needs alot of code cleanup.

So error's are normal for now.
[Acer Iconia A500] nebneb333:
Looking through this thread for the sd card fix I know someone posted it somewhere... lol So cool to be playing with jb on the a50, compared it to my sisters rooted and booted cm9 hp tp with 1.7 oc and it is still faster and smoother in respond time lol oh happy day! lol
[Acer Iconia A500] lechuckthepirate:
What is the work-in-progress at this moment? and how can I help... I'm developer and maybe I can help debugging or making easy things as I'm not familiar with android source yet
[Acer Iconia A500] wesvista:
You can pm randomblame it's his rom

im just messing around without any source ;)

For now not working

gps

sensors

google now

camera

video playback

And some code cleanup
[Acer Iconia A500] FloatingFatMan:
It would seem that they have the camera working on the Asus Transformer...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1781861
[Acer Iconia A500] blucmal:
Apparently Acer Australia has commented that they are not offering jellybean at this stage maybe sometime in the future. Eek not looking good for camera or hw video acceleration :crying:
[Acer Iconia A500] femmyade2001:
Anyone else experiencing YouTube crash whenever you increase volume?
[Acer Iconia A500] lionedas:
Try this it should get you going

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=28933141&postcount=587
[Acer Iconia A500] terrormattie:
I am sure devs will figure this out. Although I will never buy an Nvidia driven devices anymore. My mothers 100 bucks tablet perfoms WAY better in terms of video decoding and al the "only for tegra games" are just a scam. I really hate the fact google put an tegra in an nexus device.
[Acer Iconia A500] ibawanzingee:
And we very much appreciate your help, wesvista. You're really doing a lot of good. Even at this early stage in the game, the ROM really is stable enough to use as a daily. I am, and I'm having no problems. But then again, all I do on my tablet is surf the net and play words with friends. haha. I haven't had any problems with audio, whatsoever. It's 100% for me.

Nice find! Thanks! Hopefully this can help some of the devs working on this ROM!

That's odd. I don't think so. I was turning the volume up and down last night without any problem on YouTube. Do you have the latest gapps? (July 16). The only problem I had is, I was trying to load a YouTube video from Reddit, but it wouldn't load. It said the load failed, and to touch the screen again to reload, but it would never play. That's the only problem I've had, all other videos loaded.
[Acer Iconia A500] wesvista:
Here if you flash this you will get cm9 options in settings and cm wallpaper option in backgrounds. But it breaks app shortcut in settings. Long press on app drawer and slide to info icon still works.

Going to eat now will upload after it

Setting shortcut not working

Data usage

More..

Apps

Profile

From cm9 working

Lock screen

system

Performance
[Acer Iconia A500] chismay:
the question begs ,...where is randomblame?

matey the OP seriously needs updating/reforming

where ya at bro?
[Acer Iconia A500] wesvista:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1778202
[Acer Iconia A500] chismay:
paging randomblame, paging randomblame

please proceed to the a500 thread thank you ...ding-dong
[Acer Iconia A500] TFordham:
Settle down chismay. I can't imagine I'm the only one whose nerves you are getting on. RB has a life and other things he's working on. He's not here at your beck and call.

And remember everyone, this thread is for DEVELOPMENT for Christ's sake.

Sorry. I will shut up now.
[Acer Iconia A500] ibawanzingee:
wesvista!!! Awesome! Question: What's that thing they were talking about doesn't work? Something like Software acceleration? What's that responsible for? I mean, the ROM is already really fast, so I just wonder what it does, exactly.

Once again though, thanks SO much for your efforts!!! :D
[Acer Iconia A500] fox.not.fire:
I thought you will upload it after you eat.. :P
[Acer Iconia A500] wesvista:
I made a tweaked version of this rom

Also added some cm parts

http://www.multi-upload.me/tdb17bxeejp3/a500jellytime tweaked_multi-upload.me.zip.html

Not working

Gps

Sensors

Some video playback (in youtube hq video's work hd not)

Camera

Some Part of setting crashing

I am using gapps-jb-20120717-signed.zip

To return to old working settings flash this

http://www.multi-upload.me/no1lhe9y2zgc/Normalsettings_multi-upload.me.zip.html

ALMOST ALL CREDITS FOR RANDOMBLAME LIKE 99% FOR HIM 1 FOR ME;)

(battery empty after more then 50 reflashes resting now )
[Acer Iconia A500] ibawanzingee:
Where did you get your gapps? I have gapps-jb-10120716.zip, a day earlier than yours and it doesn't say "signed".

Also, "some part of settings crashing" - does it keep crashing over and over, and you keep getting notices all the time? Or it just crashes one time? :s
[Acer Iconia A500] fox.not.fire:
You can get it from this link: http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-jb-20120717-signed.zip