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[Acer Iconia A500] LPMatt:
There are some major changes between 4.2.2 and 4.3. Many app developers (depending on the type of app) seem to be having difficulty updating apps to be completely compatible with multiple versions. On some devices, themes won't work unless they are specifically designed for 4.3. I'm not informed or adept enough to know or explain why that is our how device specific that issue is, but I do know that the changes have stumped people far more knowledgeable than me.

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[Acer Iconia A500] HDRules:
Anyone with a Belkin [MENTION=276128]tv[/MENTION] box or a Slingbox able to connect via wifi on the Release 1 build? I connected to my [MENTION=276128]tv[/MENTION] box just fine on the previous build but get an error message on the current build ("Your phone does not support connecting to the device over local area network").

Running great other than this one issue.
[Acer Iconia A500] randomblame:
working on the 3.1.10 kernel today pulled in the last of the linux4tegra commits and worked at the bugs. I seem to have most of the sleep issues solved *fingers crossed* and lightsensor fixed... still gotta fix rotation camera and bluetooth it's all up on git for the curious https://github.com/randomblame/3.1.10_a50x

Edit

Bah still not sleeping properly
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
[MENTION=4610330]LPMatt[/MENTION],

did the test! There was no wakelocks in save mode :)

So now I just have to identify the culprir app.

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] LPMatt:
Nice. I found that some of the apps I was previously using to replace some of the built - in features were no longer necessary. Try fresh downloads of your must - have apps (excluding any that are redundant to built - ins) and see how that goes.

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[Acer Iconia A500] kdejong2012:
[MENTION=1776875]randomblame[/MENTION]

Have you considered including active notifications in your rom?

The necessary commits are listed in the following post -

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2450697
[Acer Iconia A500] randomblame:
Neato I'll have a look
[Acer Iconia A500] articuno1_au:
Hopefully not too stupid a question, but can this build be OC'ed?

I can't find the setting in settings, so a future plan or..?

Thanks for the great work :)
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
OC

But ofcourse you can overclock!

Go to about the phone in settings and type several times on the build number, this will release the performance and the developer options :)

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] randomblame:
I lost track what needs fixing besides Ril for a501? I think I have that figured out
[Acer Iconia A500] drapper:
Just to help you, 3G stick support for A500 (PPPWidget or otherwise)
[Acer Iconia A500] rg1003:
If there is any way to get the mic working that would be much appreciated!
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
I just feel free to informe you guys, that there is a third JB 4.3 ROM for our devices :) It is made by Thor & Digetx on tegraowners.com.

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] articuno1_au:
YouTube is still locking up for me.

I've tried the suggestions in the thread but am still having issues.. It loads the mini video view then locks up.

Any suggestions? :o
[Acer Iconia A500] kdejong2012:
Try logging out of YouTube.
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
I`m useally not using YT but I did some tests and the result was: starting it from the app, you need to log out, starting it from the widget, worked whan loged in.

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] articuno1_au:
Yeah, I found that kind of works, sometimes I have to set video quality to standard before it will start working..

Its weird.. Very inconsistent >.<

Thanks for the info :)
[Acer Iconia A500] Dikks:
Please add working Cellular radio functional to A501 :fingers-crossed:
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
You mean the fm radio - right?

This is a CM issue. For me it was the same on my mobile phone. The app spirit fm on xda & play store solves it. It corresponds with the radio on your chip, what CM is not able too.

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] macia10:
I think he meant 3G radio.
[Acer Iconia A500] Dikks:
Of cause i mean 3G!!!
[Acer Iconia A500] articuno1_au:
Appropriate name.

Also, I've noticed another issue with the ROM. MX Player will always use software mode when playing videos. On top of this, uninstalling it gives me the following prompt: "Cannot read /data/xposed/modules.whitelist". This is on top of the YouTube issues. Perhaps they are related?

Having all kinds of issues with the ROM all of a sudden :(

Might need a reinstall I guess?
[Acer Iconia A500] steve30x:
I am using this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1529715 and it works perfectly.
[Acer Iconia A500] articuno1_au:
Having tested some more I believe its related to HD video. If I put YouTube in SD it works fine, put it back into HD and the app locks up. All the media players I have default to software playback. Its something to do with the ROM >.>

Either way it's workable, but not great >.<

Anything I can do to help you out in fixing this randomblame?
[Acer Iconia A500] tresed:
In three hours I have to get up and go to work, if you release some updates (3g for example) I try it tomorrow at this time I did fix the satellites, in the house!
[Acer Iconia A500] randomblame:
Okie no new builds tonight gotta take care of the kids and work on HTC ace a bit I think it may just be missing the ril lib or a dependency no big deal I'll try to look into it tomorrow
[Acer Iconia A500] parker09:
'Feels faster' then the previous 4.2.2 build I was on, WiFi doesn't seem to be working for me after I rebooted but might be a problem on my end.

Thanks for the builds :D

edit: nvm the WiFi region was set to Europe not Australia :P
[Acer Iconia A500] randomblame:
The stock Keyboard glitch from 4.2.2 is gone now I haven't found any bugs besides the a501 ril and GPS on a500 :cyclops:
[Acer Iconia A500] duryard:
Which bootloader for this rom is best please also which kernel is recommended?

Will it also work on the 501?
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
You need to be running the skrilax_cz customized bootloader. Instructions for installation can be found in the Development Forum.

As for kernels, the rom itself has a kernel.

As for your other question..... Read the OP (original post) for information concerning which device. It states the ROM is for "50x" which means the A500 and A501.

Also, if you run into issues installing the bootloader, please post your bootloader/Recovery installation questions in the appropriate threads. ;)

MD
[Acer Iconia A500] duryard:
Sorry MD. Missed the A50x. My bad.
[Acer Iconia A500] kdejong2012:
Installed ROM last night and during set up my wifi network was recognized, I connected but had no internet connectivity. Rebooted and wifi & internet connectivity was established. Loaded up all apps from Google Play. Lost wifi connection and only way to re-establish is reboot.

Started up tab this morning. All good but the lost wifi within 10 mins. Rebooted and got stuck at Skrilax bootloader. Rebooted, no issue at bootloader, wifi staying connected, and now testing again.

Overall, ROM is fast and pretty stable (less a couple wifi drops needing reboots). Excellent work for such an early build.

For curiosity, ran Quadrant Standard benchmark and received score of 2772 - very snappy.
[Acer Iconia A500] ki316:
So just asking is it snappier/faster than apapousek's CM10.1 ?
[Acer Iconia A500] wlk0:
Great job !

Seems faster than ever on my 2 years old a501.

Maybe trim support in 4.3 is helping...

Although, I have the text-to-speech engine fc at startup, and also when trying to run it from the settings tree ("language and input").

Did a full wipe.

In game speech seems odd (high pitch), I guess this is related to the tts issue.
[Acer Iconia A500] randomblame:
Fstrim needs a few conditions to be met before it will work automatically battery must be at 80% and device must be sleeping for an hour unplugged or atvleast 30% battery while plugged in sleeping for an hour I'm not even certain that this kernel supports it let me check a few things. There is an app in play store called lagfix that can force an fstrim command.

*EDIT* It looks like fstrim is not supported on the kernel side still looking into it

*EDIT2* I'm not finding any real list of required kernel features for fstrim besides a generic 2.6.33+ requirement...

*EDIT3* I just managed to force fstrim to run on the 3.1.10 kernel

Most of the speed improvements are likely due to rendering improvements but I'm not sure - I can say it is noticeably faster which is something I will rarely say without hard numbers
[Acer Iconia A500] randomblame:
I need to enable selinux too should just need a few quick changes to kernel
[Acer Iconia A500] wlk0:
backtrace of the TTS engine fc.

Seems voices/voice_metadata is missing from the package. Any clue ?
[Acer Iconia A500] randomblame:
growing pains with gapps package
[Acer Iconia A500] kdejong2012:
I haven't been using apapousek's CM10.1 rom lately but this is very responsive. I suggest you do full backup then try this rom. It's likely not as stable as 10.1 roms but nothing surprising since this is the first 10.2 rom available for A50X. Randonblame is always blazing the trail for us.

My wifi drops after several hours which require reboot to re-establish. Text to speech force closes when starting maps and other apps that call it.

It's worth a test-drive!
[Acer Iconia A500] randomblame:
I haven't seen any WiFi issues yet maybe I'm just blessed if you can catch a log I'd appreciate it. I got most of the selinux stuff fixed it still says its disabled but the logs aren't complaining anymore about the missing kernel features gotta figure out what I'm missing
[Acer Iconia A500] symbiiote:
Thank man, will get to testing tomorrow. will report back.
[Acer Iconia A500] kdejong2012:
Will try and get log to you soon. I'm in process of moving so may take a day or two.
[Acer Iconia A500] theCroh:
I installed this yesterday. No problems so far. Wifi also working without problems. Thanks for the great work randomblame!
[Acer Iconia A500] LordZilo:
no problems yet. GPS and Google Maps seem to find my location with ease
[Acer Iconia A500] drapper:
Awesome job! If you make PppWidget or the Mobile network to work in A500 it will be almost complete!

Installed this morning ring after a format and wipe and wife, camera, extsd, usb all work fine
[Acer Iconia A500] ki316:
I connect my tab no problem but if I desconect it it wont conect back until reboot. Bummer. I wiped system, data, cache and dalvik. Did any of you erased anything else? Flexrom maybe?
[Acer Iconia A500] randomblame:
I assume you're using windows? I don't have that problem in ubuntu can anyone else confirm? Don't erase flexrom it will do you no good
[Acer Iconia A500] randomblame:
I think I've got the selinux issue tracked down to another twrp issue so today I'm working on this:

My nexus 4 takes the worst pictures
[Acer Iconia A500] vinylgruve:
flashed earlier and booted fine, but TTS kept crashing and AOSP keyboard so I couldn't connect to WiFi. Suppose that wasn't huge at the time, but typing would be nice. Since have gone in and re-wiped and am about to re-flash. will post updates.

[MENTION=1776875]randomblame[/MENTION] thanks for all your work with all the projects you've done on the a500.

edit: just realized I have gapps-jb-20130812-signed.zip not gapps-jb-20130813-signed.zip. Slaps forehead. Will update once I re-flash with those gapps
[Acer Iconia A500] randomblame:
I'm not seeing any keyboard issues on these builds maybe it's because you failed to wipe it all or used the wrong gapps package with it I don't know :S
[Acer Iconia A500] vinylgruve:
did a factory reset and flashed. it was my apps. just reflashed the new apps package and everything is golden. :good:
[Acer Iconia A500] ki316:
An im so so sorry I thought I wrote wifi. Its wifi problems that i have

PS: I must say it is a LOT smoother in animations and windows transitions
[Acer Iconia A500] randomblame:
build 4 available - for those wondering no build 3 was never uploaded I only have so much bandwidth here haha
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Told ya years ago, to upgrade your modem...... but nooooooo :D
[Acer Iconia A500] gsurath:
Beyond expectations

Randomblame,

I really felt that 4.2.2 would be the end of the road for our tablet. It seems you have gone ahead and proved me wrong "again" and that makes me really happy.

And the fact that you are on build 4 is testament that 4.3 will end up running like it was designed for the A50x.:cowboy:

On build 2 I have Wifi issues and battery drain. Let me give build 4 a run. Any chance of changelogs??
[Acer Iconia A500] duryard:
Awesome work [MENTION=1776875]randomblame[/MENTION]. Had a few prob installing but that was due to the tablet rather than your Rom. Keep up the good work.

PS Is there any change log from 2 - 4 please.
[Acer Iconia A500] tresed:
Even with the version 4 3g does not work
[Acer Iconia A500] iggdawg:
Finally found where the cleaning lady hid my A500. Can't wait to give this a spin. Thanks a ton RB for keeping the A500 alive.
[Acer Iconia A500] kdejong2012:
Installed build 4 and setup process went perfectly. Had wifi issues with build 2 and will report back on wifi performance with build 4. Will try and get log if I have issues. Any chance tablet ui toggle is hidden somewhere in the build?

Great work and thanks Randomblame.
[Acer Iconia A500] KoTiX2:
A changelog please?
[Acer Iconia A500] ki316:
The only problem I had was wifi and seems to be fixed XD. Now Im trying to install the exposed framework to address the netflix but is a no go. Have any of you installed it successfully?
[Acer Iconia A500] lightflier:
Hi guys. Can anybody confirm that the mic. is working? Thanks.
[Acer Iconia A500] randomblame:
trim should be working in build 4 selinux is also mostly enabled in the kernel so there are far less errors also I pulled in changes from cm

I know trim is working on my device but it could actually be due to a kernel change I made late last night if someone wants to test on build 4 download lagfix from playstore and see if it works. If it does then it should work fine automatically through 4.3 - either way let me know and I'll get the latest build up

*edit tested and it is working on build 4 without any changes :D
[Acer Iconia A500] tresed:
Only for information, absolutely do not want to rush you, have you heard for the 3g :confused: :confused:
[Acer Iconia A500] randomblame:
haven't looked into 3g yet I still don't have a 3g card so it's a pita to deal with and thus low on my priority list. I figured I'd get trim and selinux working first so more people would benefit
[Acer Iconia A500] tresed:
OK .. thanks for the reply

I have to go back to the previous version because the tablet I use it for work and I need 3g.

good work
[Acer Iconia A500] ki316:
Tested lagfix. It worked fine
[Acer Iconia A500] randomblame:
yup kernel supports trim I recomend not using that app any further it's a bit wishy washy and 4.3 will trim the file system on it's own
[Acer Iconia A500] ki316:
Good to know and thanks. Now I dont seem to successfully install the exposed app to use the netflix patch. How do make it? It says files for update not found
[Acer Iconia A500] randomblame:
I'm not sure it's compatible yet
[Acer Iconia A500] Pajaroide:
Hi! I've been using it for 3 days now! It's so fast compared to my old ROM (OTA 4.0). Two things though:

- I don't know if it's expected behavior but ADB doesn't work (it worked previously) I have the a500, the computer detects an a501, I installed the a501 drivers too and nope.

-The Wifi bug: it's happened only twice in 3 days, but it's there, somewhere. The first time I left the tablet unatended, wifi on for about 4 hours, I came back and it detected no Wifi. Nothing worked except rebooting. Then it worked perfectly for 48 hours and it happened again.

So far, it's awesome! Thank you, you rule :)
[Acer Iconia A500] randomblame:
you must go to settings - about tablet - tap build number until developer options are unlocked then go to settings - developer options and enable adb in there.

well I got selinux working with the 3.1.10 kernel so it seems that it's a problem with the 2.6.39 kernel
[Acer Iconia A500] taodan:
Sound works fine. It works with HDMI too.

Sent from my Galaxy S Blaze 4 G
[Acer Iconia A500] symbiiote:
Things going fine here, just youtube app plays videos but screen is frozen.
[Acer Iconia A500] 10507:
Will we get a chance to test out the new build today? Yes, I am also experiencing the WiFi drop with build 4. I need to reboot the tablet to get WiFi back on.
[Acer Iconia A500] randomblame:
Not too many changes today I'm about to give up on selinux because it requires the 3.1 kernel and a custom recovery I built with that kernel and it requires all partitions to be formatted in that new recovery or bad things happen. The recovery has to be flashed to secboot because its too big to fit in the 5mb recovery partition and this kernel still has sod and no accelerometer I'm working to backport the newer version of selinux to the 2.6.39 kernel but its being a pita the only thing its good for in its permissive state is logging anyways I don't know why I'm even bothering
[Acer Iconia A500] pjsports:
Wow..good job!:good:

for wifi issue, you need to patch WoWLAN to wifi driver. see my commit https://github.com/PlayOSS-Dev/kernel_acer_a500/commit/f8b685ff55e30cbaf65205c30a9b3215e5632dd6

I can't confirm. Just wanted you to try :)
[Acer Iconia A500] randomblame:
Thanks I'll try it :)
[Acer Iconia A500] 10507:
Anyone has any problem connecting a bluetooth keyboard to the tablet? I am able to connect my bluetooth keyboard to my tablet running Android 4.2, but I cannot connect to this jellytime 4.3.

Any idea?
[Acer Iconia A500] randomblame:
Lots of Bluetooth changes to 4.3 the extent of my testing was pairing with my phone anyone else having BT troubles?
[Acer Iconia A500] 10507:
No, i don't have any problem pairing and connecting to my phone. The only problem is connecting to my BT keyboard.

thank for the quick reply.
[Acer Iconia A500] hqqh:
workaround for wifi issue

Hi,

Im on cyanogenmad 10.1 (4.2.2). There I also had broken wifi connections and had to reboot the a500. Also to disable the wlan-optimization didnt solved the problem.

But when I use the Flight Mode switch to turn on/off wifi, I have a stable connection. This works now for several weeks.

Maybe someone can test this at this 4.3 rom.

Kind regards

hqqh
[Acer Iconia A500] rg1003:
This WiFi issue is odd. I have been on this ROM since build 2. I am on build 4 now and how yet to have a WiFi dropout issue. I had them occasionally on apapousek"s (which I was on since it first came out).

The only thing different is that I have very few apps installed. I deleted or froze everything not necessary for this tab and slowly add back things as I need them. I try to keep then number of gapps to a minimum.

BTW - great job with this. I am finding this ROM incredibly stable and battery life has been great. My only gripe is that the mic doesn't work but it did not work on any 4.2 build either.
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
I can ensure you, the JB 4.2.2 + kernel, I`m using doesn`t have any WiFi issues! It is worth a try, if you didn't decode for 4.3 yet.

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] randomblame:
OP updated build 5 includes the kernel patch from pjs for wifi let us know if it helps or not.
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
Have you been testing using our old 1.7.3 recovery or the new one?

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] deathnoise:
wifi still doesnt work on a500. it hangs up on "searching for networks"
[Acer Iconia A500] josh2020glacier:
WiFi works fine for me on a500 using recovery twrp 1.7.3 Thanks very much dev seems to be running great will keep running and update with any issues if there are.
[Acer Iconia A500] randomblame:
I have yet to see any WiFi problem at all. I got 4.3 running on htc Desire HD last night :cool:
[Acer Iconia A500] dankaren:
GPS and WIFI working great on my A500. Getting FC's on text to speech engine so turn by turn directions inop. Great work!!
[Acer Iconia A500] deathnoise:
Well, it does work on 4.2.2, it doesn't work on your 4.3 (for whatever reason)

after full wipe, of course.

is it possible, that it has something to do with the fact that i'm using a500 public recovery v0.2 baseed on CWM v5.5.0.4 ?
[Acer Iconia A500] taodan:
Recovery doesn't affect the way ROM work. I am using CWM on a500 and the Wi-Fi works fine on a Linksys router 2.4GHZ

Sent from my Galaxy S Blaze 4 G
[Acer Iconia A500] LordZilo:
I was on 1.8.0 but had several issues. Back on 1.7.3 until the release of 1.8.1.

And im no longer using this rom at the moment, at least for a little while
[Acer Iconia A500] LPMatt:
Wifi worked on v4, but borked on v5. Says out of range while sitting next to router. Reverting.

Edit: seems to be working better today. Might be sensitive to battery charge...

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[Acer Iconia A500] Scanlia:
On build 5, wifi has worked flawlessly for a day, will test further. Great work with the ROM!!

Edit: GPS doesn't seem to be working. Though that could be because I am in Australia.
[Acer Iconia A500] ki316:
Has anybody worked around the netflix issue?
[Acer Iconia A500] kdejong2012:
I'm still having wifi connection issues with build 5. Will keep testing.
[Acer Iconia A500] josh2020glacier:
Only issues I'm really having is video issues

Example:

1. When gaming high graphic games the screen freezes and flickers.

2. Youtube for me does not work either blank or distorted colors.

3. Using mxplayer with soft codec video is glitchy when put to tv.

Will get back to you if I see any other issues.

Other then that I love this rom pretty stable no wifi issues at all here. Thanks dev:D

O yeah im on A500
[Acer Iconia A500] reo4ua:
thanks

A500 clean install and WiFi seems to be very stable. much faster than prior ROM I had installed.
[Acer Iconia A500] LPMatt:
Anyone having audio issues?

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[Acer Iconia A500] mixednuts:
OP reads 50x, but the file states 501... I'm guessing the build is also meant for 500, correct?
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Works on a 500. However, as in the OP, GPS doesn't work yet for the 500, only for the 501. Remember, Acer used 2 different GPS drivers/radios for the 500/501.
[Acer Iconia A500] kdejong2012:
Wifi seems to be stabilizing. Kept wifi connection over night and havent had a drop in over 24 hours.
[Acer Iconia A500] bahnburner:
Anyone else having microphone issues with this rom? Google Now, voice search, etc don't seem to recognize any sound.
[Acer Iconia A500] randomblame:
As stated before the xposed Netflix fix used previously isn't yet compatible with 4.3 please don't pm me with stupid bugs in experimental Roms
[Acer Iconia A500] ki316:
You could've answered me via PM instead of this. The first sentence of it said that I was sorry yo do so you know. Thanks anyway
[Acer Iconia A500] randomblame:
Public shaming is a preventative measure :)
[Acer Iconia A500] ki316:
Feel bad as hell dude but Its ok. Lesson learned;)