yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Acer Iconia A500] lionedas:
No complaints from me!

I'm sure these guys spend endless hours working on these roms

I just hope they don't get bored and give up.
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
Yeh, or they decide to get other devices...

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] pjsports:
Build 5 I recommend to wipe data/cache.

Microphone might be difficult for me. But I will try to fix it if possible.

I'm glad if someone made ​​a better ROM.

developer can take the source code for fix it, I release it at github.com.
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
Thank you for you commitment and work pjsports!

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] utterchaos:
sorry for being stupid but how do i install this, i have downloaded it, i has twrp recovery and a version of cygnogen mod on there but its stuck in a boot look well stuck on the spinning circle screen, any pointers oh what to try
[Acer Iconia A500] mordeith:
id love to,but im a full time law student,and as such barely get time to sleep:silly:...ill test anything you throw up though..
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
What is your boot loader? ICS unlocked is necessary for this ROM.

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] p_025:
Pj, perhaps you can get some pointers from some of the developers whom have microphone working in their roms. When you guys collaborate, everyone wins. In any case, I love this cyanogen ROM and I hope to see more awesome things in the future. Sure, I could spend $300 on a newer tablet, but this one is more than capable and is nice enough anyway.
[Acer Iconia A500] apapousek:
They get it, you need a mic support. If you really need it that bad, just use stock.
[Acer Iconia A500] pjsports:
Build 6 available.. mic still broke..:D

Changelog:

Build 6

- Fixed memory leak (Cause of lag & sound crack when run multi app)

- Update Xpad driver.

- Defualt CPU min freq@216 MHz

- Kernel v5.3
[Acer Iconia A500] psycho_somatic:
hi, just installed this but it won't boot, using twrp to install , anything i'm missing?
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
What is your boot loader? Data factory reset was performed?

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] psycho_somatic:
fixed it, just installed the boot.img manually with fastboot and it's all ok, thanks for the quick response though :)
[Acer Iconia A500] deathnoise:
works great, thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] benand:
C est tout bon pour moi.

Merci

Envoyé depuis mon A500 avec Tapatalk 4
[Acer Iconia A500] Mlopik:
Thanks for build 6! Is mic fixable problem? Can we expect fix of this bug in build 7?
[Acer Iconia A500] steve30x:
I've tried V5 and V6 of this rom. It installs perfectly and runs everything perfectly , but as soon as I reboot my tablet this rom will not boot up again. I tried it with TWRP 2.6.3 and CWM 5.5.4.0 with bootloader v8 and bootloader V9 (ICS V3.14.8) by Skrilax_CZ. I do a complete wipe of the tablet every time I install the rom. Either I am doing something wrong or there is something wrong with my tablet.
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
...I don`t know anything about the recovery you are using... but you could look for an option like "real format", which erase your internal SD. To be more exact, it should erase data/media. Data factory reset leaves data/media untouched. Very often this data/media gets corrupt and real format solves it in the most cases....

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] LPMatt:
When I had a similar problem, it turned out that my partitions were messed up. Check the stickies for how to fix this. To be safe, you might need to rarbab it and start from scratch with a fresh bootloader and recovery.

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[Acer Iconia A500] josh2020glacier:
Why is everyone asking the same thing over and over. Stop clogging up the threads. If the dev didn't answer the first person then he ain't answer.

TEAM US!™

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[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
...?!?

...what do you mean? Some users have an installation issue, whay shouldn't we help...?

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] steve30x:
I've done a real erase. I erased and formated everything from the tablet in such a way it got suck in APX mode but it still wont reboot into the rom.

I've already tried that. This seems to be the only rom I am having trouble with.
[Acer Iconia A500] josh2020glacier:
Still has a sluggish feel to it def when i use camera. Other then that great work
[Acer Iconia A500] p_025:
Update XPad driver? Sounds cool, what should we look for to be fixed by this?

Keep up the fantastic work, I can't believe how much I love this ROM.
[Acer Iconia A500] lionedas:
The second time I booted up on v6 I froze at the v8 bootloader screen, powered down and it fully booted on the 3rd try.

Just an fyi
[Acer Iconia A500] SveninFla:
I tried last night. Got the same. Thought I got a bad download. Reverted back to 5. Will redownload again and reflash.

Thanks for the heads up on 3 reboots.

Love the ROM.
[Acer Iconia A500] madfox76:
help build &

hello you managed to solve with deep sleep?

I have the same problem, and it is annoying, I installed directly the build 6 and I can not find solution.

can you help me?

thanks

can someone help me?
[Acer Iconia A500] SveninFla:
Redownloaded Build 6. All is running perfectly.
[Acer Iconia A500] wdeydwondrer:
Hey there. Im going to be installing this rom and was a little confused by the second post in the thread. Is tje rom file linked in the first post just a download and install, or do we need to download it and then build it like i think the second post talks about, i think?
[Acer Iconia A500] benand:
I had these problems before. I disabled the lock screen and it disapear. Give it a try

Envoyé depuis mon A500 avec Tapatalk 4
[Acer Iconia A500] wdeydwondrer:
Nevermind, got it installed, having a lot of UI crashes though, not really sure what's up with that
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
Did you wipe the caches and performed the data factory reset?

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] deserted1:
I cant seem to get your build instructions to work, when I goto brunch it, it kicks back

including vendor/cm/vendorsetup.sh

ls: cannot access device/*/a500/cm.mk: No such file or directory

build/core/product_config.mk:233: *** Can not locate config makefile for product "cm_a500". Stop.

Device a500 not found. Attempting to retrieve device repository from CyanogenMod Github (http://github.com/CyanogenMod).

Found repository: android_device_acer_a500

Default revision: cm-10.2

Checking branch info

Default revision cm-10.2 not found in android_device_acer_a500. Bailing.

Branches found:

ics

Use the ROOMSERVICE_BRANCHES environment variable to specify a list of fallback branches.

ls: cannot access device/*/a500/cm.mk: No such file or directory

build/core/product_config.mk:233: *** Can not locate config makefile for product "cm_a500". Stop.

** Don't have a product spec for: 'cm_a500'

** Do you have the right repo manifest?

No such item in brunch menu. Try 'breakfast'
[Acer Iconia A500] jeffjoker:
Hello,

I have fully wiped my device before installing this build and the corresponding gapps.

I can only boot it once !!!

After I install it boots (long as first boot on the cyano screen) I can use it ok

It is slow to get out of screensaver but that s ok

But when I shut it down, it never reboots

I get stuck on the bootloader !!!
[Acer Iconia A500] mementototem:
Me too, I restart after complete setup and it gone forever :crying:

Oh, after I tried to factory reset and reinstall, it work!
[Acer Iconia A500] pjsports:
You have a problem with a previous build? or build 6 only.

Something wrong with the build instructions. try this

$ cd YOUR_WORKING
$ repo init -u git://github.com/CyanogenMod/android.git -b cm-10.2
$ mkdir .repo/local_manifests
$ curl https://raw.github.com/PlayOSS-Dev/android/cm-10.2/local_manifest.xml > .repo/local_manifests/local_manifest.xml
$ repo sync
$ cd vendor/cm
$ ./get-prebuilts
$ cd ../..
$ source build/envsetup.sh
$ brunch a500
[Acer Iconia A500] jeffjoker:
I haven't tried other builds

I upgraded from one of your latest 4.2.2 directly
[Acer Iconia A500] pjsports:
Looks like [MENTION=2001429]mementototem[/MENTION] found the solution.
[Acer Iconia A500] jeffjoker:
Of course I tried that

Didn't work
[Acer Iconia A500] steve30x:
Yes reinstalling will allow this rom to work until a reboot. Then when some of us reboot the rom refuses to boot again so we have to start over with a fresh install.
[Acer Iconia A500] mementototem:
I tried on build 6 only.

Can you try:

- Install only ROM and then reboot to system

- Do welcome setup and after complet wait a few minutes, then try to reboot

- If it work, reboot and go to Recovery and then install GApps.

- Try to boot into system again

This is my long story:

After frozen after first reboot it first tried, I tried to fresh install (wipe system) with factory reset many times (sometime I wipe Dalvik cache too), it always stuck on boot loader for long time at the first boot, at the last chance before I give up and load another ROM, my screen gone back and viola! I can see boot animation of CM.

After I setup my device and tried to restart, it still work.

I don't know what happen and why... um... in my last time I install only ROM and after reboot and I found I forgot to install GApps, so I go back to Recovery and install it, and it still work :silly:
[Acer Iconia A500] romagnus:
this post is worthless
[Acer Iconia A500] pjsports:
Anyone has boot stuck issues, try this build and let me know :

BUILD : DEV_VERSION

- FIX boot stuck

- Lasted sync from CM10.2 [09-10-2013]

Download:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1-9cmjZySggRk05UTI2c01ORGM

Thanks

PJ
[Acer Iconia A500] steve30x:
Thank you. Ill give this a try later and let you know if it fixes my problem
[Acer Iconia A500] steve30x:
I think this fixed the hang on reboot problem for me. Ive rebooted twice so far and its always went into the OS for me. If I have any problem I will report back

[EDIT] This fixed the non booting after reboot problem for me but now the tablet keeps freezing after a few minutes
[Acer Iconia A500] meand0g1:
You have to do that only one time.

After first installation and setup go back into recovery, perform only a wipe data ( do not wipe cache and wipe dalvic!) and reinstall the ROM.

I never had this problem here but a very similar one with a 4.3 ROM on another device. So just try it.
[Acer Iconia A500] p_025:
Yeah, I've never had a problem with booting on this ROM. I even went from a CM 10.1 ROM to this one starting from Build 1, without ever wiping data, and never had a problem.
[Acer Iconia A500] Pazzu510:
Pretty good rom. Best so far and very snappy when overclocked to 1400. One thing though, the hdmi image is still cropped; can someone help me run this commands?

setprop persist.tegra.dpy5.mode.width 1280

setprop persist.tegra.dpy5.mode.height 720

They are supposed to make the tablet send the entire image through hdmi but i cant get them to work. They where discussed for another tegra 2 tablet with the same cropped image. Maybe they wont work with ours. :(
[Acer Iconia A500] steve30x:
I tweaked this with this tool http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2200660 and it runs a lot smoother , but it doesnt get rid of the random locups I am getting with this rom.
[Acer Iconia A500] yishay:
Great Rom.
[Acer Iconia A500] meand0g1:
+1

No probs here.Many THX!
[Acer Iconia A500] Mlopik:
What about microphone fixing?
[Acer Iconia A500] drapper:
Any chance we may get PPPWidget running?
[Acer Iconia A500] yishay:
I don't have any problem with microphone.
[Acer Iconia A500] crazyjc81:
Hey pjsports, maybe you should check with Thor about the reboot issue(if it's still a problem).

I'm running his V2 build and it's really good. There are some graphical issues and crashes while playing games but normal day to day use its pretty good.
[Acer Iconia A500] p_025:
Is anyone else getting system lockups with the recent Netflix update on this tablet? I think maybe Netflix is having comparability issues with Tegra 2 devices.
[Acer Iconia A500] chrisdroid33:
Not booting

Hi,

Just tried to install it.

My current version is LightSpeed 4.7

I installed build 6 but once I reboot I keep having the ACER welcome screen. But nothing more.

I also tried version from pjsports with no better result.

Is there any prerequisites to get this ROM start ?

Any help appreciated
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
...after data factory reset?

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] p_025:
What is your bootloader?
[Acer Iconia A500] deathnoise:
you need to do a full wipe
[Acer Iconia A500] chrisdroid33:
Yes I did a full wipe (data, cache, dalvik-cache, batt. status)

I'm using :

- CWM recovery v5.5.0.x (rev 1.7.3)

- boot loader 3.01

Any clue ?
[Acer Iconia A500] deathnoise:
It's a bootloader. You need to upgrade to the newest version of patched ICS bootlader v9 (0.03.14-ICS).

You can get it from here : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1619913
[Acer Iconia A500] chrisdroid33:
thanks for this tip, I'll give a try ASAP
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
...or you try the tegraowners ROM with JB 4.3.1, it is working with the good old HC boot loader too :)

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] chrisdroid33:
Yes I could install this ROM successfully (which is 4.2.x in fact)

But cannot upgrade my bootloader yet.

adb devices : lists my a500

But blackthund3r APX Flash is not able to detect my A500 (no ADB nor APX) and I don't know why yet...
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
There is a 4.3.1 too, I`m running it, it is even smoother then the 4.2.2 :)

m.

PS.

Try afterota to upgrade the boot loader, maybe it works. It is a very safe and easy to use tool: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1675939
[Acer Iconia A500] chrisdroid33:
Yes you're right, I used MR1 instead of MR2.

Still struggling with bootmanager upgrade... but keep trying
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
:)

How about afterota?

We are getting here off topic....

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] mrazndead:
where can i download the old youtube version 4.x?

the latest youtube locks up and never plays properly...

thank you.
[Acer Iconia A500] chrisdroid33:
Not working.

Too much effort to get the boot loader updated from a Windows 8 machine....

I'll stay on tegraowners ROM with JB 4.3.1

Thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
That`s the best choice anywhere, in my opinion :)

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] romagnus:
try this link and look to the right. took me 3 seconds to find it.

http://www.androiddrawer.com/10874/download-youtube-4-5-17-app-apk/#.UnJIH1M0wS4
[Acer Iconia A500] Börger:
Ne wonder at all, is already that one should upgrade from 4.2.2 to 4.3?

Does it run smoothly?

mfg Börger
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
Yep, smooth & responsive :)

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] benand:
Hello Chris,

Here is my Howto to upgrade the bootloader. I didn't succed to do automatic upgrade so let's do it manually. (i m also on windows 8 Fr)

Download the USB drivers from :http://www.acer.co.uk/ac/en/GB/content/drivers Tablet/Iconia A/A500

Download the V8 UNL Boot Loader from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1622425 (search link V8-UNL-ICS-HC-bootloader-MULTI-cwm in Manual Flahsing)

Extract it in C:\nvidia

Get your CPUID and SBK with Vache tool : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1810618

Shutdown the a500 (the power button led should be off)

Push the reset button and then oush de power button for three seconds. Release the power button and then the reset button.

The Screen should stay black but the power button light should be on and your PC should detect your device and install the driver. (check the windows device manager if you want to be sure)

Run c:\nvidia\v8.bat

Enter your SBK

Chosiir TWRP en recovery

This should flash a new bootloader and a new recovery.

If it doesn't work you can try to execute manually the .bat instruction :

c:

cd \nvidia

Replace 0x12345678 0x12345678 0x12345678 0x12345678 with your SBK in teh folowing command :

nvflash --bct bct.bct --setbct --bl bootloader_apx.bin --configfile flash.cfg --odmdata 0x300d8011 --sbk 0x12345678 0x12345678 0x12345678 0x12345678 --sync

Format & write du bootloader

nvflash -r --format_partition 4

nvflash -r --download 4 bootloader_v8.bin

Format & write du recovery (for bootloader v8 for bootloader V9 you need to user fastboot to flash the recovery on the secondary boot)

nvflash -r --format_partition 6

nvflash -r --download 6 recovery_twrp_2.1.3-ICS.img

nvflash -r --go

(If I remmber you to force the shutdown and restart after that)

Then you have acces to the recovery

NB : With the v9 bootloader the recovery must be installed with fastboot not Witt nvflash

If you still have problem you perhaps corrupted your partitions then you should try babsector it did the trick for me)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1624645
[Acer Iconia A500] ki316:
Now that 4.4 has been pushed to AOSP will you make a build for this tab? Just asking
[Acer Iconia A500] jeffjoker:
I have cleaned and fixed all issues on my A500 with BABSECTOR, upgraded to launcher v9 and installed the latest build (v6 with boot patch)

Then everything works perfectly !!
[Acer Iconia A500] egandt:
Unable to boot after installation of gapps

Installation of Build6 is fine and the OS boots, but if I install the gapps then it does not boot any longer, I'm on V9 of the bootloader, but the issue seems to be with the gapps, any suggestions?
[Acer Iconia A500] mixednuts:
PJ has included his own gapps within the OP... are those the ones you used?
[Acer Iconia A500] egandt:
I took them from:

GoogleApps : Thank to dreamcwli

gapps-jb-mr2-noneon-20130824-signed

Which I assumed to be the correct version.

I do the follow on install:

wipe, cache, battery and dalvik

wipe factory reset

install cm-10.2-20131004-UNOFFICAL-a500.zip

install gapps-jb-mr2-noneon-20130824-signed.zip

fix permissions

reboot

Now it starts tyhe Skrilax_CZ's bootloader v9 and starts booting "booting android image from LNX partition ...."

Then reboots and shows the same screen again.

Thanks,

ERIC
[Acer Iconia A500] mixednuts:
That would be the one I would use... sorry, that's the only suggestion I had.

I know that a lot of users post problems with gapps, but I never seem to have those issues

This is a little OT as it doesn't have much to do with the development of the ROM, but I'll help you with this one post.

Factory Reset wipes cache anyway, so you can skip the cache wiping before flashing. After flashing the two ZIPs try wiping cache and Dalvik then boot into system.... don't really think there's a need for fixing permissions.
[Acer Iconia A500] egandt:
Got it to work, Installed TWRP 2.6.3 as a secondary, and used it along with the v9 boot image to first clean every partition and then install the image, all went well and I finally was able to boot, sadly I then configured the device and installed all of my apps and rebooted to recover (secondary in this case) and backed up the system. Again all was well and the backup was created, however I can not boot again, as select the primary, simply hangs as if there was not kernel. Tried a recovery of the backup, guess what it also failed as it says the backup is bad, even though MD5 passes for the backup.

After many restarts I got it to boot, and then had to reboot, now its failing to boot again.

I figured out the issue every time I reboot the kernel is lost some how, it just sits on "Booting android image LNX partition..."

Now the problem is just loading CM does not seem to restore the kernel or anything, once lost I have to jump through hoops and reboot multiple time to get it to boot at all again. Since it offers the choice as to which OS, it knows that there are 2 kernels, it just can not start the primary one.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

ERIC
[Acer Iconia A500] ki316:
I have a problem. When I try to wipe data it says error removing /data/misc/adb! Im running out of ideas and cant get tab to boot :-/
[Acer Iconia A500] pjsports:
Hi there

If this ROM does not boot, you need to wipe '/data/media' before installing this ROM.

First of all, please back up your data.

It' s better if you use TWRP2.6.3 recovery (Unofficial from me :Size 5.1 MB not need secboot partitoin)

Download : http://www.mediafire.com/download/1dz1v3u71qbp7gt/twrp2.6.3_acer_a500.img

Installation :

fastboot flash recovery twrp2.6.3_acer_a500.img

PJ
[Acer Iconia A500] LPMatt:
PJ, I've never been able to get fast boot working on my A500. I'd love to use twrp though. Do you think you could make a flashable zip of the twrp img you posted? I've been using CWM, which I don't like. Thanks in advance.

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[Acer Iconia A500] pjsports:
Try using the Acer Recovery installer app.

- Rename this twrp recovery to recovery.img.

- Copy to /external_sd.

- Download 'Acer Recovery installer' from PlayStore.

- Choose: Custom or Stock recovery.img from micro sdcard.

It should work.

PJ
[Acer Iconia A500] LPMatt:
Thank you. That did the trick.

Sent From Here
[Acer Iconia A500] vipa:
In Settings --> Users there is a option to add new user to the system.

Trying to use it results in FCs.

Is this a known CM bug or something specific to this ROM / my device?

In terminal:

pm get-max-users
Maximum supported users: 8

pm create-user test
Killed

Thank you for the ROM!
[Acer Iconia A500] LPMatt:
I have the same issue trying to switch profiles using the widget bar in notifications. However, I can switch profiles in settings. Where are you trying to toggle users?

BTW, no, this is not a CM issue, as users works fine on other roms and devices.

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[Acer Iconia A500] vipa:
When I upgraded to pjsports ROM i had another profile left from previous 4.2.2 ROM (where it was created without problems).

But now (after I have deleted second profile, thinking that it might be the reason for FCs) - I only have one user - I can't toggle, because I can't create another user.
[Acer Iconia A500] powerhouselb:
Touch Input virtually unresponsive

I love this build. Unfortunately, my Tab does not respond to my touch input.

I wiped everything before installing the ROM. Did a factory reset, and all was well. Or, so I thought.

I installed the ROM while my wireless keyboard was connected (via bluetooth receiver in the USB port). When powered on, touch recognition is available long enough for me to unlock the screen regardless of whether the keyboard is plugged in. After that, the keyboard is absolutely necessary to navigate the tablet.

Any ideas? I'm afraid if a log is needed I'll need instruction on how to do that. I don't even know how to use ADB.

Thanks again for the ROM. :good:

Sorry guys. Looks like it was my charger causing the problems. Touch response is as smooth as butter when not plugged in.
[Acer Iconia A500] OKAstro:
Any progress on the microphone fix?
[Acer Iconia A500] pjsports:
I don't have a problem to add new user. try to wipe cache or clear Settings cache

Try to full wipe 'data/media' and install it again.

Of course I tried to fix it but it did not succeed.
[Acer Iconia A500] kdejong2012:
PJ - Any chance you're releasing a CM 11 (Android 4.4 Kit Kat) rom in the future? I know I'm not supposed to ask about future releases and timing but just curious.
[Acer Iconia A500] mikespe:
This rom works GREAT! My A500 has been sitting in a box, replaced by a Nexus 7 (2012) and an iPad Mini (1st Gen)...You revived my A500 back to life! Thank You!!!
[Acer Iconia A500] LPMatt:
Just wanted to brag about battery life.

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