yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Poke_N_PDA:
I don't know if it's that people don't read or if my expectations are just to high. *sigh*

If anyone has anything positive to say, please say it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jxr94:
No negativity here just opinion. I think manufactures should just include more built in storage. Flash memory is way faster than sdcards and I think that if there more of it, space would stop being an issue.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jxr94:
I do think they'd be nice until the increased built in storage came into play though.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] unlvmike:
Your a little sensitive. Nobody has said anything negative, just sharing their opinions. SD cards are not really necessary any more. Clouds!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] danmanx:
I just want SD to load my videos when i dont have wifi available. Its perfectly reasonable when every tablet has one...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] harveydent:
Be thankful for the dicussion, as it bumps up the thread. If you limit posters to those on your side, this thread will fall into the depths of page 10+
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kxs783kms:
Deleted this post. Sorry.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Poke_N_PDA:
1. Not everyone want's to store their information on other peoples servers.

2. That's only valid if I have a high speed connection everywhere and unlimited use of it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kxs783kms:
The only problem with this is that, the more the storage, the more the price of the phone. Imagine how much a 64 GB phone or tablet is going to be. I'm pretty sure at some point buying a 64GB sdcard would be cheaper. Plus, when you spend more money on that new 64 GB device that you want, now you have to spend all of that time saving it to the cloud or transferring it from the old device to the new one. Now when your space in the clouds begin to get to full, you now have to spend a monthly/yearly fee for more space. Sorry, but I don't see the benefits.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Poke_N_PDA:
Most Excellent point.

Fighting the forum is probably not the best plan.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jeh_:
Screw memory cards, where is my dvd-rw nexus??
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ColdAssassin:
This is my only gripe with the galaxy nexus. With all the talk about taking high resolution videos and photos, boasting about the 720p screen that is great for watching media and they only include 16gb. The minimum these days should at least be 32gb if they are not going to include a sd slot. Content is only going to get bigger so shouldn't there be enough storage space to accommodate it. Also all the talk about the "cloud" is pointless because almost everyone has data caps and it is only good for those who have unlimited data and also you have to factor the battery life wasted on downloading/uploading a file when it could have been on your device. Just my opinion.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] leppo:
I damn hope you cloud proponents are being sarcastic. Why on earth would you want to make yourself dependent on two service providers to access your own (possibly vast collection of) content?

1. Quality of telco signal and cost of data plan/usage

2. Reliability of cloud service provider, and the cost of hosting the quantity of content that a simple micro-sd card could hold locally

It's pretty clear to me that the reason the OP doesn't simply want to go choose another device is because that device wouldn't be a Nexus or have stock AOSP.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] I Am Marino:
I'm happy with 32GB, all my content is on Dropbox and BOX and then resaved on a computer so I'm set.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
I still don't see how it "slows things down" with external storage?

What are the drawbacks to having the GNex as is, but with a microSD card slot? In other words, the card not being used for applications or the OS, but just as an extra spot to store media. It would actually make it faster to load up the device with video and music, as you could stick the card into a reader, load it up, and place it in your phone <-- much quicker than any other way of doing it. It's this aspect of having an external sdcard: removable storage.

This was one of the three issues I knew I personally was going to have with the GNEx before I bought it:

1) No LTE on the GSM version

2) No removable storeage

3) Made of plastic versus metal.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Poke_N_PDA:
6 Signatures now. Making progress :P
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MS.:
Because we like Nexus. Is it so hard to understand? I'm always out of free storage space, which wouldn't happen if GNex had a mem. card slot.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] LoveNFC:
Cloud storage proponents are absolutely crazy. There is no benefit to having cloud storage other than potential access to a greater amount of faux storage, but there are many show-stopping drawbacks of relying on the cloud.

1) Costs. Cellular data is not free; a MicroSD is a one-time payment.

2) You won't always have access to your content. Even in America you're not blanketed with coverage.

3) You won't have access to all of your content when abroad, unless you want to pay stupid amounts to roam or sit in the hotel on WiFi all day.

4) Having to use radios to download/stream your files will use more battery power than accessing local storage.

5) You have to pray that Google's servers don't go down. It happens. Amazon's went down just yesterday.

This is why the Nexus 7 is not a compelling device for those who leave the house or travel. The dependency on WiFi to access rubbish cloud storage solutions is an absolute show-stopper, especially on a tablet.

A cloud-based model of storage will not work on personal devices.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] anton2009:
I'm on Verizon with Unlimited 4g data (unlimited and fast use of the cloud) + a GNex that has 32gb internal storage (for stuff that needs to be stored internally, apps, etc), so although I don't think this is necessary, I guess for some users it would suck if they have a poor data connection... but internal storage + cloud services is the future, so I'd rather they focus on that.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Poke_N_PDA:
10 signatures, keep it coming!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] veloslave:
I'm with ya...

I mean... why not? If it doesn't add much cost and can be added without affecting the appearance of the unit...

Heck, if someone wanted to take a lot of video... that alone is a good enough reason and with 32 or 64 Gb getting so affordable...?

I think it is a little silly for anyone to tell someone else how much storage is enough for everyone else. Flexibility sells... that is why we buy a Nexus... so we can change it how or when we want... why not the same deal with storage?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bagelicious:
Finally we have some intelligent discussion on this. Glad to see so many people sticking up for sd cards being included. Google is absolutely retarded for not including one. Unless they make a 64gb Nexus I'm probably not ever going to buy one. Which is a damn shame since every Android OEM sucks balls at getting updates to their phones.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Hyperion82:
signed !

:good:

I'd love to have an sd option on my nexus.

I really like the FLAC+poweramp+good headphones setup I had on my sgs (1+2) and now I'm limited to 5-6 albums at this quality
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] daern:
Not bothered enough to sign a petition about it (let's be honest, in this case, it won't change anything!) but I wouldn't mind having an external mass storage device *just* to store media files on and nothing else.

The whole "move to SD" debacle caused a nightmare for Android - think about how to handle a system application which suddenly finds that it has vanished from the phone because the user has plugged it into a PC - but I'd be happy to have a system wide restriction that means that only media data can exist on an SD card. No apps, no app data files, nothing. Just music and films. 16GB is more than enough for all of the apps I'd ever need and if I get to move my music and videos off too, so much the better.

Others may have different feelings about this, of course, but that's my twopenn'orth.

Daern
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Poke_N_PDA:
It's not a problem if you have 16GB of space on the phone. I think that is the main thing Google is trying to do by getting rid of SD cards. However, they aren't giving us enough storage to compensate for it.
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] blgblade:
Great news :)
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] simoneser:
It seems that I can't flash update.zip anymore (1.011 ROM or FOTA) :(

I desperately need a stock recovery.img because my system is not working anymore (I've installed this Recovery, and then tried to apply the FOTA update: when it reboot to recovery the flash seems to have had some errors. On system reboot the tablet is stuck on Acer logo). I can't flash the 1.011 ROM anymore :(
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] nikagl:
See attached recovery for A510. I'm quite sure it works for A511 too.

Did you try to enter recovery using "adb reboot recovery" or by power off, power on with Volume- and wait for recovery? And did you put the 1.011 ROM (update.zip) into the external sdcard?

Flash recovery with:

1. Reboot into bootloader with:

adb reboot bootloader

2. Enter the next command from the folder with the recovery.img:

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

By the way, I've managed to get into bootloader mode by using Volume- and switch the rotation lock back and forward at the same time...not sure whether there's another way (other than booting the device and rebooting into bootloader with the adb command).

Regards,

Nika.
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] nikagl:
Maybe some more details from your side are good as well.

1. Why did you install the 1.011 update.zip using the recovery? See also next question

2. Did you try install update.zip (put in external sdcard and name it update.zip!) using the regular recovery? In my case it always first tries to do update.zip and then goes into the recovery

3. Make sure the update.zip is correct on the external sdcard. Maybe copy it back and unzip to see whether it's not corrupt

Yesterday I also tried installing another zip that I created myself (to see whether I can get root somehow) and running the zip works fine, so it definitely works!

Regards,

Nika.
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] nikagl:
OP changed. It works now. It's not touch recovery, but using Volume+ and Volume- works and use power to select an option.

** WARNINGS **

1. I have not tested each function yet!

2. Step 12 below seems to have a problem. Sometimes the recovery does get corrupted and needs to be reflashed.

Believe it or not, my first version of the recovery was very close. I just had some problems due to invalid BoardConfig.mk entries which I had used from the Dees-Troy recovery source. I have now used the ones that were generated automatically when using the CWM-recovery-build-website (which generated the touch recovery but seems to have the before mentioned issues)...
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] simoneser:
1. I've installed the 1.011 update.zip (via stock recovery) yesterday and all went fine. Then today I saw your recovery and I flashed it. Then I saw the FOTA alert, I've pressed "Update", but when it went to flash it I saw an Android with a red triangle, and on restart the tablet is stuck on Acer logo.

2. Yes, but it goes straightly to your recovery. And if I flash 1.011 update.zip with your recovery I see only an Android robot, it seems that it can't flash it for some strange reasons. And I can't see the bottom part of the recovery, it's zoomed so I can't know what's happening.

3. It's the same .zip that yesterday worked, so it's not corrupted

Now the situation got worse..I tried some other things (other recoveries for A510 like Thor's or TWRP) but didn't get to solve. Now I think that the battery is dead, and I'm charging the tablet from 1 hour (but it's not booting anymore: nothing happens when I press power button, the screen doesn't turn on...I hope it's not definitely dead :( ) so I can't try the above method :(
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] nikagl:
When you only installed the recovery as recovery you should be ok. Bricks only happen when you flash a new boot record... I've also tried TWRP's but didn't have any issues so far, other than that they didn't work.

Remember the tablet doesn't charge when USB connected (unless using the charger). In my case that's one of the reasons I had to stop yesterday :(

When it runs again (hopefully) try my new recovery. Get into bootloader mode with the Volume-, Poweron, screenrotation lock method and flash it with "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img". If it's locked again (which happens after flashing roms, it will then complain when you try to install the recovery) run "fastboot oem unlock", reboot with "fastboot reboot" and try again to flash the recovery.

Good luck and keep me (us) posted :)

Regards,

Nika.
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] simoneser:
The tab is completely dead :(

I've charged 100% (white LED), but the screen won't turn on.

I only noticed that if I connect the tab to pc via USB there is a new device called "APX" in "Other devices".

Checked some A500 threads and it seems APX mode is to flash bootloaders :(

But nothing for A510\1...so it's dead :(
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] nikagl:
That's horrible :( also for others because it will make the choice to install this a little harder... although I honestly have not had any of your trouble, and I don't really understand what happened either :(

But.. definitely check on google. I have seen many successful recovery from APX-mode.

Good luck and keep us posted.

Regards,

Nika.
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] nikagl:
For others, still willing to play around with the device, here's a solution to get root:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1729432
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] BENETNATH:
great job

any idea if it can fit in a510?
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] nikagl:
root or cwm? I guess I can build CWM for A510 too, but you have TWRP and CWM already don't you (on other forums...)?
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] BENETNATH:
we have root but no working recovery..

Twrp first not allow the swipe to unlock

cwn release from EB launch but only backup works, not restore.

Any help would be appreciated
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] nikagl:
Ok... will build it as soon as I can (takes some time to setup the env). I haven't tested restore btw, need to backup some more stuff (with titanium backup) to make sure I don't loose anything :)

Also, make sure you have a large enough external sdcard when making backups. Remember the internal sdcard is huge and backups can cause the external to be full ;)

One more thing, also good to know, you can always backup using DD commands:

dd if=mountpoint of=/sdcard/filename.img

And here's a list of the mountpoints in the A510/A511:

/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/SOS /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /recovery
/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/LNX /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /boot
/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/APP /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 /system
/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/CAC /dev/block/mmcblk0p4 /cache
/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/MSC /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /misc
/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/FLX /dev/block/mmcblk0p6 /system/vendor /flexrom /flex
/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/AKB /dev/block/mmcblk0p7 ?
/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/USP /dev/block/mmcblk0p8 /aboot (bootloader.blob)
/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/DE2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p9 ?
/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/UDA /dev/block/mmcblk0p10 /data

So you can use these commands:

dd if=/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/SOS of=/mnt/sdcard/recovery.img
dd if=/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/LNX of=/mnt/sdcard/boot.img
dd if=/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/APP of=/mnt/sdcard/system.img
dd if=/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/CAC of=/mnt/sdcard/cache.img
dd if=/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/MSC of=/mnt/sdcard/misc.img
dd if=/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/FLX of=/mnt/sdcard/flexrom.img
dd if=/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/AKB of=/mnt/sdcard/AKB.img
dd if=/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/USP of=/mnt/sdcard/bootloader.img
dd if=/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/DE2 of=/mnt/sdcard/DE2.img
dd if=/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/UDA of=/mnt/sdcard/data.img
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] nikagl:
Well... I tried making a backup in my CWM and it says "Error while making a backup image of /data". Not sure yet why... will first make some dd backups, titanium backups, wipe device and will then start testing from scratch...
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] nikagl:
Sorry for spamming, please provide a boot.img of your device/rom-version so I can use that kernel for building the recovery.
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] nikagl:
Touch is now also available, built through the builder of CyanogenMod (turned out I used the wrong recovery, I now used boot.img from the 1.011 ROM). Use the power button to go back one step (up one level in the menu).

See first post :)
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] loerkus:
Problem with CWM

Great work. Only problem what I have is that my device is not recognized when entering CWM. In the device manager is just an unknown device. I have installed the drivers from the Acer support. Do I need somehting else, too?
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] mongocliqque:
Well, my A511 is stuck at "writing recovery".

Bootloader vICS-MR1-89805f0(UnlockMode) :

sending recovery 5268kb ...

OKAY 2,063s

writing recovery ...

FAILED status malformed 0 bytes

finished. total time 503.062s

Well its still booting without problems in unlocked bootloader, but i cant flash. It just stuck there even if i try it again and again.

A511 & NV Fastboot Driver are both recognized by my system, but can it cause an error that i run windows in a VB? Need to enable USB-Debugging to run adb.

I never had problems with my Arc before using fastboot in a VB.

EDIT: Same for the touch-CWM. It just stuck at writing recovery.

adb v1.0.29
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] nikagl:
Just do not use backup/restore and preferably do not use FOTA updates! See topic 1
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] wikie:
Hi everyone, I wanted to ask whether there is some give when even acer roms for the a511?

thank you

sorry for my bad english
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] Randomwalker:
Are you asking for stock ROMs for the A511? There is this thread here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1729425
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] wikie:
Thank you very much:good:
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] nikagl:
Hi all,

I saw another (possible) brick here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=29681018

Maybe someone can try to help him? I am not sure what to do either :(

Here's what he sent me in a PM:

Regards,

Nika.
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] BENETNATH:
yep, my thread is there to gather all brick info ;)
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] FordSierra88:
Hi All,

I've seen that you've uploaded a stock recovery. He also works with Acer A511? :) Because i have my new A511 and need Root...

Greetz

FordSierra88
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] BENETNATH:
frankly, i would not recommend to put any custom recovery currently..
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] FordSierra88:
I like to keep my Stock recovery before there is no way to close everything back to stock Recovery. The root with thr Roottool does not work on the A511.:(
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] BENETNATH:
i know, sad for a511 users.

one idea (not sure it might work) :

use : fastboot boot recovery.img

just to boot and send the zip file, without erasing the stock recovery, not sure it can work ?
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] FordSierra88:
I will try this.

Edit :

Fastboot : Not Support the command in Lock Mode

Failed to process Comand download : 00525000 Error.

don't work :/
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] BENETNATH:
you will need to unlock the bootloader first..
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] jokerzlh:
It's me! :laugh: Thank u very much to help me post.

After some posts, finally i get rid of the damn stupid codes in image to fill in! :D

btw, since I'm new here, could u tell me: how could I immediately know others quote or reply me? :confused:
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] BENETNATH:
you have to subscribe to the topic (check on the upper part of the page)
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] jokerzlh:
then i got the skill, thank u!

hi all,

any news for the new CWM?

since nika broken his A511, is there sb else keeping on build it? It's the only hope for people who can't have the repair service in their country right now.:angel:

PS: the new 6.01.1 CWM for A700 was released, it's so amazing that i can install it on my A510 then i entered it, the screen looks like abnormal, but i can choose the options.

i chose to install zip, then i saw a abnormal picture without any text and progress bar. so i waited it for about 10 mins, it hang there anyway.

Then i chose to factory reset, 'cos i can't c any progress text, so i didn't know what happened, but it back to munue after a while.

I guess if the factory reset success, my bricked A510 maybe work! ( the 5.8.5 CWM kill my tab when i use the factory reset )

so i reboot my device immediately but it also hang in 'iconia tab' Logo. :(
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] BetaFace:
hi

i habe an german a511. i make a mistake. i used in android factory default and forget to revert the original recovery. now it stucks at acer logo. i read the thread but cannot find a help. i can boot into cwm and bootloader mode but the acer driver doenst work for the apx device. can you build an cwm zip to rename the recovery.sh files, can this help? i have no plan what i can do.
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] jokerzlh:
have you tried to flash the stock recovery back via fastboot?

enter fastboot: hold the vol- (two dots) and turn on, then immediately toggle the rotation switch on and off a few times
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] The Archangel:
@OP pm me when you want this back open.

sorry guys,i had to pull the links to avoid people from bricking.
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] nikagl:
Sorry, forgot to answer this. I don't really know what that might be - possibly some other (debugging) driver? I've played around with too many drivers to know what might be it. For me it just says "Android Composite ADB Driver" version 1.0.0.0...

I added the recovery tools I use to the OP (RECOVERY-A511-tools.zip), try that, maybe it's a specific modded file? I got them from one of the other recovery-downloads.
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] mongocliqque:
So just boot into bootloader and run the bat?

EDIT : I should put the img in the folder i guess.
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] nikagl:
Yeah, and make sure the bootloader is unlocked, see OP :)
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] mongocliqque:
reboot to bootloader

*daemon not running. starting it [...] *

*daemon started successfully *

reboot to bootloader

error : protocol fault (status 2f 73 79 73?!)

flashing recovery

sending recovery OKAY

writing recovery

And stuck again. I guess its the VMBox i run. I will try it later on a real Windows PC.
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] nikagl:
If it still fails on the regular pc, pls let me know. I could also try to create a signed update.zip file...
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] BENETNATH:
Here it is :

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/91092/boot.img

from a510 / 1.600.00_EMEA_CUS1
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] loerkus:
Found a solution. Don't ask me why but http://www.davinciunltd.com/2011/10/hacking-the-adb-usb-driver-for-acer-a500/ worked. Next Problem, I cannot find the "install-recovery.sh" to rename it.
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] mongocliqque:
Finally i resolved the one issue by adding a line on the top of the .bat because adb.exe runs twice and i just dont see it.

taskkill /f /im adb.exe

Flashing still not work on VMBox, more later.
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] nikagl:
You may need to mount system in the mount menu, if you're doing it from adb shell. When you install the root zip, don't worry about it - I do it from there as well (just to be sure :)).

Maybe "adb kill-server" works as well. I have seen it in many scripts but never use it as I've not had any issues with it yet...
[Acer Iconia A700 and A510] nikagl:
Will work on it soon... please provide more details on the backup/restore issues you are experiencing as it seems to have problems in A511 too (see above).