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[Acer Iconia A500] Wilkij:
I'm Hosed?

Problem solved with help from this forum.

Wanted to try this one. I was using Civato's 4.1.2, Skrilax's unlocked bootloader V8 and TWRP 2.1.3. I backed up everything before I started and then performed a full wipe (factory reset, cache & Dallvik wipes) then flashed this ROM build 6 and the GAPPs from the OP.

The tablet booted just fine, the GAPPs were there and the Play Store downloaded all my missing apps with no problem. I performed the initial setup and made a few adjustments under system settings, but left most everything at the initial defaults. I rebooted and it was then that I was in a boot loop. Having read the instructions to wipe data/media if this problem occurred, I went back into TWRP recovery and found there is no option that wipes data/media (data yes, data/media no). In fact I could not even find data/media using the built in file manager.

Oh well, time to restore my backup, but TWRP could no longer find it (it should be on the external SD) nor could it find the downloaded ROM and GAPPS (also on the external SD) so I couldn't even try to re-flash the ROM. I don't think it can see the external SD.

I no longer have a bootable tablet and can't restore or install anything!

I hope somebody has a suggestion on how to proceed, I'm stymied. Thanks for all responses.
[Acer Iconia A500] pjsports:
Maybe if I have enough time.

Please use TWRP 2.6.3 and try again.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=47275173&postcount=268
[Acer Iconia A500] DaveLTE:
I thought this on my phone with twrp but then i found i had to select the ext sdcard in the twrp .

Go to restore at top of page under time it should say storage: internat storage, if you touch that you then get the choice to select ext card.

Hope that helps.
[Acer Iconia A500] djyoshii:
Installed and works fine, more stable than the 4.2.2 ROM i was previously on.

However when scrolling between homescreens and also in the appdrawer, there was a noticeable framerate drop. It scrolled smoothly, but the animation itself wasn't smooth.

i had noticed this on the 4.2.2 ROM and that was due to some bug when running the Tablet UI, but putting it back to normal (bottom LHS nav controls, bottom RHS notifications) fixed that right up.

I tried it on this ROM but it didn't work.

- I also tried with Nova Launcher with and without background transparency in the app drawer, and also with faster animations

- tried tablet UI and normal UI

- disabled PIE

- disabled HALO (read it causes some lag)

None of these worked, so I guess just wondering if this is the same with you guys? Or is everything buttery smooth?

if so have i missed a setting adjustment somewhere?

Thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] Wilkij:
Thanks, Dave for your quick response, it's appreciated. Your version of TWRP must be different from mine as I did not find the options you mentioned under restore. It did cause me to check under the "mount" option and there I found the option to use the external SD. I mounted it and found the backup and ROM packages.

I was able to restore my backup, but sadly now I have a boot loop with the restored backup. ????

I'll keep trying different things, but at least your response got my past ground zero.

---------- Post added at 02:20 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:09 PM ----------

I can't try a newer TWRP as I can't download or sideload anything to the tablet. Thanks anyway.
[Acer Iconia A500] CurtisMJ:
Not so fast...

You should be able to flash the recovery partion in fastboot mode (hold volume up while booting to find it). Also, this may be partion corruption(but I've only seen that with thor's kernel, and he fixed it). If it is indeed corrpution you need to do a "real" format, which in twrp pretty much involves pushing every format button you can find.:fingers-crossed: Try updating it first though(fastboot)
[Acer Iconia A500] Wilkij:
Thank you too Curtis. This is a great support forum as others make the time and effort to help we less knowledgeable duffers.

It finally occurred to me that since I had a working recovery, I cold remove the ext-SD card and download different recoveries to it from my computer. I did and chose to use "recovery-ra-iconia-3.17-gnm.zip". This was more fully featured that the TWRP recovery I had used to make my backups. Through experimentation, I discovered that loading this ROM apparently formatted the data partition differently than my backup image and that's why I could not restore my backup. After reformatting data to its original type, I reloaded TWRP and was able to successfully restore my backup. Whew!

Again, thanks to you and Dave; your suggestions led me to a working solution. I think I'll leave well enough alone for the time being, there's nothing wrong with being an Android release behind. Is there?
[Acer Iconia A500] Polarbert:
I've just installed this rom and I'm very impressed.

I have a quick question though. I was trying to add the wife as another user, and every time I try to do that the settings closes.

Any advice? Has anyone else had this happen to them?
[Acer Iconia A500] Polarbert:
I managed to fix that problem by wiping the data, but now I have a problem when watching Netflix, the screen will go black after ten seconds. Also YouTube app is very tempermental. Just won't load a lot of the time. http://uslugi.nie-spamuj.eu/budownictwo_remonty,20,0.html
[Acer Iconia A500] amonfog:
I flashed this rom and after seting up my accounts and installing some apps restarted the tab to find out I was stuck on the bootloader in "Loading kernel image". So I wiped everything (including data and data/media) and reflashed everything. got my tab to work, installed some apps rebooted and. bam there is the stuck again...
[Acer Iconia A500] mikespe:
I had this exact problem & I had to format data... Not just wipe. However make sure you have all the files you need (ROMs, backups, recoveries...) on your external sd card since it WILL delete everything! I got it up & running. My only issue now is that I can't get the newest version of TWRP installed. I tried goo manager but it just hangs on the download screen & does not install. I know fastest is my only option but since I really don't use the a500 much anymore... Just to play & learn new hacking tricks... I don't have my computer set up for fastboot. So im on version 2.4.4
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
...you could try Thor touch recovery 1.7.3, or even 1.8.1... 1.7.3 is absolut stabile, 1.8.1 not yet but it has a lot of interessting options and is made for people who use dual boot...

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] deathnoise:
Are there any plans to release the new version? There are some applications that are not working properly/are crashing during the start, like FreeCiv
[Acer Iconia A500] vipa:
Had the same issue and to solve this issue I had to do a full wipe.

Which means the ROM needs to be reinstalled.

Before I did not do a full wipe when upgraded to this ROM from another 4.2 ROM.
[Acer Iconia A500] willy1234x1:
I've been trying to install this ROM for a while now but it's been getting stuck at the Acer logo. I've seen posts suggesting to wipe /data/media and I've tried but my recovery is always saying it's skipping that directory. How do I go about wiping that properly?
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
What is your recovery?

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] RKramkowski:
Can't get past bootloader menu - as if nothing's there

Hi, I got my a500 rooted and confirmed it with one of the root confirmation utilities. I'm trying to get build 6 installed.

Anyway, I used Blackthund3r's APX flash utility, and downloaded the latest Skrilax bundle. I also put cm-10.2-20131004-UNOFFICIAL-a500.zip on my SD card. I got an error when trying to install from the SD card and so wiped everything and tried again. I can now only boot up to the Skrilax bootloader v9 menu. If I boot recovery, I can get to the Android system recovery menu. So I select Flash zip menu, choose zip from SD card, select the UNOFFICIAL zip file.

It fails, saying "asset failed: getprop("ro.product.device") == "picaso" || getprop("roE:unknown command [.build.product")]

getprop("ro.product.device") == "a500" || getprop("ro.build.prodE:unknown command[uct")]

E:Error in /sdcard/cm-to.2-20131004-UNOFFICIAL-a500.zip

(status 7)

I've tried all sorts of things and gone down numerous threads but nothing I've tried can get me past the bootloader menu and the recovery menu. Nothing I've done gets me a working OS.

If I try to boot primary kernel image, it tells me "invalid primary (LNX) kernel image.

What are my next steps to get the ROM installed?
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
...could be just a bad download...

Did you check the md5?

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] RKramkowski:
I found another download of the same file (I think from the mirror site) and moved it to the SD card. Same problem and messages. But I did find the Tegraowners_NR2_ROM_V6t4.zip and it installed OK. It's v4.3.1. I also installed the GAPPs and it started up fine so I started putting all my apps back on. But when I went to reboot again, I now have a new problem. It boots to the bootloader every time. So I select the primary (LNX) and it goes to the startup screen and goes no further.
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
...you mean the CM boot logo?

What is your recovery? Maybe your data partition is corrupt and you need to format data/media....

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] RKramkowski:
Yep, the CM logo. I saw on the TegraOwners forum that a number of tablets took a real long time to boot so I left mine to sit overnight. No luck,. Still at the CM logo. I tried both Thor's 1.7.3 recovery (seems 1.8 was pulled. Every link I found was dead) and one called recovery-ra-iconia-3.1.7-gnm. No difference using either recovery.
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
When you are on the 1.7.3 do this: http://forum.tegraowners.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=83

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] RKramkowski:
Thanks, I did that and also took it back to square one with reinstalling the bootloader, recovery image, kernel, etc. including formatting and clearing all caches. It's been running pretty well this time. I've restarted it numerous times and got all my apps back on. The only glitch so far is that when I opened up a PDF file with Acrobat from my NAS, it rebooted the first time I opened up Acrobat. But I've re-opened it since with no problems. Hopefully it'll remain pretty stable.

Thanks,

Bob
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
Glad to hear :)

So see you on the tegraowners forum!

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] droidxxxxx:
Does the microphone work with a headset?
[Acer Iconia A500] agentfazexx:
I have this like half moon notification thing on the left middle of my screen. How do I get rid of this? It's kind of annoying.
[Acer Iconia A500] skojevac:
it's HALO most likely. try holding it and dragging it to "delete X" it may take you some time and number of attempts to do that, but it should work.
[Acer Iconia A500] LPMatt:
You can disable Halo in settings

Sent From Here
[Acer Iconia A500] rayman95:
Hi

I just install copilot 9.3.3.173 and it stops during the setup

I uninstall and install again but still same problem

if I restore a backup done on N7000 I ve same problem, during setup when I use identity copilot to restore account it stop

someone know the solution

I install copilot on N7000 without problem

I want to know why when I open files explorer I have a 0 folder with same things than normal system files ( alarms, android, dcim, download, movie, music....)

I have storage/emulated/0

storage/sdcard1

storage/usbdisk0

thank's
[Acer Iconia A500] jeffjoker:
Hi,

Hope you ll do a CM11 build !!! ;)

If I knew how I would !!
[Acer Iconia A500] Pajaroide:
Xbox 360 wired controller

Anyone else having problems with the Xbox 360 (wired) controller? It used to work and now it doesn't =(:crying:
[Acer Iconia A500] cutterman:
I am on 4.03 build.

I have to do something particular before flashing zip file ?
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
You need an unlocked boot loader and custom recovery.

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] kronflux:
I haven't really taken the time to browse through the thread, but I don't imagine many people try to build from source.

After running the above commands, I get "no rule to make target bacon. stop."

now, it shouldn't be my build environment, because I've built other roms for other devices using it. but I'm kind of at a loss, as it doesn't give any real helpful info.

Any insights?
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
Thor from tegraowners build from source, so his ROMs are the best aveliable for a50x :)

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] kronflux:
the problem with tegraowners is that they don't tend to make their sources public(which violates GPL btw). At least not last time I checked.

I'm trying to build from source(for a specific purpose. not to achieve a stable rom.)
[Acer Iconia A500] HenrikE:
I had the same problem when I tried this. For some reason the main makefile had not been copied correctly.

Check if there is a makefile in the root of your working directory. If not, copy the one from here:

https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_build/blob/cm-10.2/core/root.mk

It was a shile ago now so I don't remember but I think you may have to rename after copying.

Then I could not make it build with pjsports configuration, he replaces four packages with versions from "loosethisskin". They gave compile errors for me so I removed them. They are in "localmanifest.xml", remove both the four lines that remove the standard packages and the four lines that import the corresponding ones from "loosethisskin".
[Acer Iconia A500] droidxxxxx:
How's the microphone repair coming on this rom?
[Acer Iconia A500] kronflux:
any chance you can look into what I have to rename it to? I can't find any relevant info, and I'm back at this point where I started, on my second attempt.

Nevermind. you rename it to "Makefile"

figured it out by grabbing stock CyanogenMod, without any a500 stuff.
[Acer Iconia A500] Zakariasz:
My a500 is stuck or bricked

Could someone help me please,I try to install this rom to check how it looks like with no success and after that my tablet is stuck on acer logo screen ? I have only access to CWM it does matter what rom I will install it is exactly the same,did I bricked it some how then ?
[Acer Iconia A500] rickdtweet:
Change your bootloader with this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1619913 and upgrade your recovery too...
[Acer Iconia A500] Zakariasz:
That is the problem I am not able to upgrade to bootloader V9 it just wont let me do that I can operate only on v8 dunno why :/
[Acer Iconia A500] rickdtweet:
At the end of the first post from the link you can find a zip file to flash the bootloader with CWM.
[Acer Iconia A500] Zakariasz:
Yes you right but even that doesn't work for me I have try 5 times with same result with error...

WOW ! just tried once again and wtf its done ! now it is v9 ok let me try install something once again.
[Acer Iconia A500] rickdtweet:
You'd better flash a new recovery too, TWRP in particular. You can find it here in the forum or search on Google.
[Acer Iconia A500] Zakariasz:
Ok I will try TWRP for this device but it is very hard to find .zip file as goo web is offline...
[Acer Iconia A500] davdroidnsb:
hi,

I have the issue where I succeed booting into Cyanogen the first time, but next time the device boots, it gets stuck on "Booting primary Kernel Image"

- I tried with Skrilax v8 bootloader, and now v9

- I am using TWRP 2.6.3 as recovery

- Before flashing rom from TWRP, I wipe everything and Format Data as suggested in previous posts, but it does not help!

What Can I do? It is frustrating to see that it works only for a power cycle
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
...and disable the adblocker!

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] amphi66:
Didn't see any security question, so it was probably AdFree, however this morning it went right to a green "Download" button, before I got to AdFree to disable. Go figure. Thank you.
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
...well, the ROM (JB 4.2.2) I`m using on my liberty tab(=a500) doesn't show any of those issues. I recommend you to try it :)

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] pjsports:
I have added another mirror. see OP
[Acer Iconia A500] p_025:
Anybody have any input as to how this compares to the roms by apapousek? I'm using his 10.1 rom and I'm just loving it, is it worth jumping to this one or should I wait for apapousek?
[Acer Iconia A500] kdejong2012:
I recommend you try this one. Just do full backup in recovery before installing. If you don't like this then you can restore the backup in minutes and you're back to apapousek's rom.
[Acer Iconia A500] deathnoise:
Imho it's better, if you download the "pimp my rom" app afterwards and change your scheduler/io and tweak your rom. i'm using interactive/sio
[Acer Iconia A500] romagnus:
thanks

Thank you for keeping my Acer tablet alive. I love this thing and am grateful that it runs the newest stuff. I use it everyday at university. So far it is good. :good:
[Acer Iconia A500] romagnus:
I started to get random rebooting last night while reading a PDF. Any ideas? Do you think fix permissions may help?

Fix permissions did not help. I am getting random reboots by just swiping the lock screen. Is this ROM still supported?
[Acer Iconia A500] lionedas:
Best 4.3 to date

I have had no issues with this rom, running it since he released it,

I get great battery life, no dropped Wi-Fi, I installed youtube 4.5 and have everything

I need

Maybe something you installed or tweaked

Also not sure why you would ask if the rom is still being supported,

its only been out what 5, or 6 days !
[Acer Iconia A500] romagnus:
I didn't see the date of release and saw little traffic, that's why. I'm glad the rom works for you. I too have no problems with wi-fi or battery life, not sure why you bring that up in response to my post. I haven't installed anything but the rom and have random reboots.
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
Are you coming from JB 4.2 or lower? If so did you performs a data factory reset & wiped the caches?

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] romagnus:
I came from 4.1.2. I did a full factory reset and cache wipe. And it just rebooted again. Could it be a kernel issue?
[Acer Iconia A500] pjsports:
Lol, i 'm working on github.com : https://github.com/PlayOSS-Dev, not here. The next build might help solve your issue. i hope so ... ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
Great news :) Looking forward to it!

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] pjsports:
Build 2 available.

Changelog:

Build 2

- Update bluetooth driver

- Update wifi driver

- sync cm 10.2

Please re-install Gapps-no-neon for tegra2

http://goo.gl/qtxJPJ
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
Will test & report!

Thanks a lot!!

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] cfgh:
Seem that link rom in Mediafire is for Build 1 (20130830).

Thx
[Acer Iconia A500] pjsports:
Oh.. thank, fixed it.
[Acer Iconia A500] mpopovic85:
Can we flash Build2 over build1 without wiping everything? So just cache and dalvik?

never mind, I flashed it without any wipe, works just fine...
[Acer Iconia A500] kdejong2012:
Flashed over Build 1 and everything is working great. Seems to be more responsive and wifi signal shows better strength.

Great work and thanks.
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
Yep, looks good so far.

Tablet UI patch doesn't couse any problems :)

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] romagnus:
Build 2 is much more stable for me, thank you. I have no issues to report at this time.
[Acer Iconia A500] cfgh:
8AS970852E305300U

Many thanks for your great work with A500.
[Acer Iconia A500] MrOban:
I'd like to migrate my A500 from Thor's v12 with kernel t39 and recovery v5.5.0 rev1.7.3 to this ROM.

I couldn't find any hint in the op how to install this ROM.

Can you give me some advice how to?

Install ROM/gapps, factory reset, wipe every thing, install special recovery/kernel?

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[Acer Iconia A500] cfgh:
Factory reset

Install ROM

Install gapps

That is all

I suggest backup before (use recovery 1.7.3).

Good luck
[Acer Iconia A500] MrOban:
Thanks, I'll try.

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[Acer Iconia A500] MrOban:
Hmmm, hangs on ACER, nothing happens.

Any idea?

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[Acer Iconia A500] macia10:
You need to have ICS bootloader.
[Acer Iconia A500] MrOban:
Do you have a link for me?

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[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
This is a srep by step discretion: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1622425

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] MrOban:
Thanks Meduza.

That's nothing on a Sunday evening with a balvenie. I'll have a look next weekend.

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[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
Yes, it needs definitely reading & time! Be careful!

Viel glück und spaß :)

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] pjsports:
TabletUI and HALO is tested in Build 3. I think the ROM lags a bit when HALO is activated.
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
Please disable (the ugly, stupid ;) halo by default, because you are right. In the forum to my default ROM the users were reporting that it slaws the tab down indeed.

Looking forward to test the new release :)

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] romagnus:
Yesterday I walked past my tablet and saw it had rebooted on its own. I had it at the table during dinner and it rebooted again. Is there any possible reason for this self re-booting? I have wiped the thing several times and it still does it. It happens less times than build 1, but still bothersome. Any ideas?:confused:
[Acer Iconia A500] macia10:
Hm I wonder why halo slows down the tab. Does it use a lot of cpu or is it any other factor? It does not slow down my SGS and its alot slower that iconia.
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
It could be a corrupt data partition for example, it couses a so called kernel panick and shot the machine down to prevent further demage. A log will be here very helpful. Try to get the last kmsg log imiditly after the reboot.

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] cfgh:
:good: Please disable by default :good:
[Acer Iconia A500] romagnus:
thanks I'll try to do that next time:good:
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
Dmesg log will be good too. When I`m not wrong, we could see there if the ext4 is corrupt.

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] Chahk:
I've been experiencing Sleep Of Death on Build 2, when tablet does not wake up after going to deep sleep. Pressing the Power button doesn't do anything, rebooting is the only way to bring it back.

Has anyone else seen this? Which logs can I provide for debugging?
[Acer Iconia A500] kdejong2012:
This happened to me yesterday. I could not wake up the tablet from deep sleep without a reboot.
[Acer Iconia A500] pjsports:
CMAccount, if you want to testing :laugh:

CMAccount.apk : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3773430/CMAccount.apk.

Copy to /system/app

It's included in build 3
[Acer Iconia A500] pjsports:
I have no issue with deep sleep.
[Acer Iconia A500] lionedas:
unable to write to external sd card,

anyone have advice

Thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] pjsports:
I have no problem with external sdcard, try to format your card.
[Acer Iconia A500] pjsports:
Build 3 is available for download.

Changelog:

Build 3

- TabletUI mode (Settings >Interface >Status bar >Tablet status bar)

- HALO (Disable by defualt, Activate in notification bar)

- CMAccount (CM)

- Sync from cm10.2
[Acer Iconia A500] Taifun:
Thank you :good:

Great work
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
Can`t wait to test :)

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] technoid1964:
Finally up and running, only took 3 days to recover from a corrupt install... WOW, this is amazing, a brand new tablet with out having to buy one!

Thank you!
[Acer Iconia A500] kdejong2012:
Flashed build 3 over build 2 and everything is running great. New CM log-in process caught me by surprise but was easy to go through.

Nice to have Tablet UI again - THANKS. Tablet has gone to sleep several times and I've had no issues with tablet waking up.

Thanks for the awesome work!
[Acer Iconia A500] mpopovic85:
Thanks for the tablet UI!

Found a little bug in keyboard - Swype gesture input doesn't work. Was working fine in build 2
[Acer Iconia A500] josh2020glacier:
Wife been using and she loves biuld 3 so far. Thanks pj
[Acer Iconia A500] pjsports:
Gesture typing work for me. Someone else had this issue?
[Acer Iconia A500] technoid1964:
Swift key flow works for me too.

Only issue I have so far is Netflix is not very happy and had video playback issues, the screen goes black, audio is ok, if you click where the buttons should be, they work.