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[Acer Iconia A500] III Man:
Chrome gave me the same message using whatever when I tried to download it, so I downloaded again into a sandbox and scanned it, nothing found. I tried installing it on a blank tablet and it seems fine.

Here are some notes about the ROM. The developers on this ROM have done a great job with it, I figured it is only fair that I let them know what I have found since I am using theiir work. (I'm copying some of the notes I wrote about the OmniROM Unofficial 4.4.2, as I found fewer but similar issues)

Notes:

The options for the Quick Settings bar do not seem to function:

Settings > Bars > Quick Settings:

Quick pulldown - this option doesn't appear to change the behaviour of Quick Settings at all (I tried in both the stock and Nova launchers)

Smart pulldown - this option doesn't appear to change the behaviour of Quick Settings at all (I tried in both the stock and Nova launchers)

Quick setting configurable - checked or unchecked, I can still make changes to Quick settings

Settings > Notification drawer:

Quick swipe - checked or unchecked, I have never been able to swipe between quick setting and notification drawer (I tried in both the stock and Nova launchers)

Apps:

YouTube and Netflix work great.

Plants vs Zombies 2 - The apps starts to load, but after the static loading screen and the video changes to a dynamic game interface, the screen goes black but still plays music and usually still responds to touch commands. (Obviously this is not a priority on any developer's list, but I am including it here because it isn't a very video intensive app and because of that I suspect that other apps will have the same problem)
[Acer Iconia A500] gpysz:
Very fast ROM for our old Iconia ☺

I need contact end email apk ... How I can add them ? If only install this apk from mega main proces android mui crash it.

Grzech
[Acer Iconia A500] micky387:
are you flashed GAPPS before ???
[Acer Iconia A500] gpysz:
Yes,MICRO MODULAR PACKAGE
[Acer Iconia A500] abbas_sheikh:
Email & Contacts

@OP, Any recommendation where to get email and contacts app? I also suffer crashes if I manually install it?
[Acer Iconia A500] droidxxxxx:
Is there any way to run a theme with this?
[Acer Iconia A500] riro56:
How many times takes the first boot ? I've all downloaded & installed and the screen is on without the bootanim (normal) but I' waiting again and again ....
[Acer Iconia A500] rebel1699:
Go into recovery and wipe cache. Reboot. Profit.
[Acer Iconia A500] riro56:
My tablet is very laggy ... With the google launcher or smart one ...

I've decreased all animation to 0.25 but all the menus, page dock change are laggy ....

IS there a way to get this ROM smooth ?
[Acer Iconia A500] deryckmeister:
Backup your existing ROM first then try the following.

1. Try wiping:

cache

dalvik cache

2. Increase performance to 1200 max, 312 min

3. Use governor interactive / sio

4. Factory reset

5. format data (really format data)

Hit thanks if this or anything helps. Let me know how it goes.

D.
[Acer Iconia A500] riro56:
Thanks to deryckmeistern it works, but it seems I've a problem now on memory, I've 13Go internal storage and only 1 Go used by apps and others things. But available storage showed is 379 Mo, so there's a problem. After a research, it could be made by a log file into the data folder.

Any idea ??
[Acer Iconia A500] deryckmeister:
Glad you got the lag smotthened out.

About memory, some things you may want to check:

1. Are there two partitions or one partition of the SD card?

2. Where are you backing up your Roms? An external SD card is best. Each backed up ROM version can be as large as 2GB.

3. Download and install the app from Google Play Store: Disk Storage and File Analyzer. Check under disk usage and determine which folders are occupying most of the space. Videos, music?

D.
[Acer Iconia A500] riro56:
There is one partition on the Sd card (internal storage)

ALl my ROMS are backuped pn the external SD

I'm unable to install any apps : not enough storage message appears ...

Here's the detail of used internal storage :

Total storage : 12.58 Go

Apps : 378 Mo

Photos, videos : 36 Ko

Audio : 178 Ko

Downloads : 12 Ko

Data in cache : 0.93 Mo

Miscellaneous : 270 Mo

Available : 378 Mo

So around 11.8 Go are ghost !

Strange
[Acer Iconia A500] deryckmeister:
Looks like you will definitely have to format the whole internal SD card and then restore your latest backup omniROM. Since your backup ROM is not over 10 GB I would believe that it is not a file that you have in your backup. It is most likely an error on the SD card partition.

D.
[Acer Iconia A500] riro56:
Ok thank you ! I will done it soon and give you some feedbacks
[Acer Iconia A500] riro56:
I've backup the Rom on the external Sd Card, so after I perfomed format mnt/sdcard but this is the external sd Card which is formated ! CWM backup on my external sd card, no problem but for format step, he has inverted the two storage.

I don't want to take the risk to lose my data :/

Edit : I have successed to install ROM manager in order to remove all old backups, but storage showed is the same ...

Edit 2 : Wath the partitions storage used ... especially the emulated/ 0 shows 500 Mib left & second picture, 12 GiB free ...
[Acer Iconia A500] Spartan304:
Battery life

Anyone else having horrible battery life? I flashed this ROM the other night, put it on charge, took it off at 8:00AM the next morning and by 2:00PM in the afternoon I was down to 5%. Charged it again last night and had the same battery drain. Battery usage says it's the OS that taking up 78% of the battery usage.
[Acer Iconia A500] deryckmeister:
Remove the external SD card manually. Power on the a500 and then go into the recovery section and format the internal SD card. Once that is done, power off the machine and insert the external sdcard. Then power on into the recovery section and restore omni rom from the external card.

D.

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Was it a clean install?

You may need to turn off the location settings of the GPS. Turn off notification of the apps that keep requesting the WiFi to be on to update. Set the wifi_scan_interval to 180 in the build prop settings. Make sure you backed up all your data and made a back up of the whole tablet before messing with the build prop settings.

Also:

You may need to reconditioned your battery by running it down to zero power if possible and then fully recharge it to 100%. Do this about three times. It does improve the battery charge a bit.

D.
[Acer Iconia A500] Arashi1118:
I'm really loving this rom. Thank you.

But has anyone encountered a problem wherein the tablet won't turn on from sleep? I had to force shut down then power back on. And I know it was on before I do the force shut down because the power button was lit. Any help? Thanks.
[Acer Iconia A500] nelsontky:
Try disabling lockscreen in settings
[Acer Iconia A500] georgedorn:
Just want to thank you for this great ROM! New life for my good old Aconia.
[Acer Iconia A500] Unimatrix-zero:
I have exactly the same problem, which I was not able to solve up to now.
[Acer Iconia A500] Fanarkle:
I used to have sleep of death (SoD) problems when I was running cyanogenmod, but this post helped me resolve it. I installed OmniRom Light yesterday and have not encountered SoD yet, but if I do the first thing I will try is Wake My Android Pro since that has been what worked for me before.
[Acer Iconia A500] droidxxxxx:
Still loving this ROM..was there ever a fix for the calendar sync problem?
[Acer Iconia A500] Fanarkle:
I have not had any issues with calendar sync. I used pa_gapps-stock-4.4.4-20140818-signed to install.
[Acer Iconia A500] droidxxxxx:
So when you use a calendar widget all the entries are shown?

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Can I just flash this over the old gapps package I originally installed?

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Never mind..that worked..I got working..thanks!
[Acer Iconia A500] Fanarkle:
Sorry I couldn't get back to you sooner, but yeah, everything seems to be working. I'm glad that fixed it for you:good:

I am loving this ROM, but I prefer the Google Now launcher so I removed the default.
[Acer Iconia A500] riro56:
I guys, I've just downloaded the experimental apk in order to screen mirroring http://xdaforums.com/hardware-hacking/chromecast/experimental-enable-mirroring-device-t2812193?__utma=248941774.953149641.1404404270.1404739884.1405089607.3&__utmb=248941774.1.10.1405089607&__utmc=248941774&__utmx=-&__utmz=248941774.1405089607.3.3.utmcsr=feedly.com|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/index.html&__utmv=-&__utmk=224118680 Acer a 500, but as many devices, it seems audio.r_submix.default.so is missing. Could it be possible to add it in the ROM Please. Without this, it won't work. The file is to push under /system/lib/hw
[Acer Iconia A500] nelsontky:
OmniLight v1

OmniROM UNOFFICIAL 4.4.4 for Acer Iconia A500

Hi guys today I present to you a lightweight version of OmniROM 4.4.4 for our beloved A500. This version of the rom has lots of bloatware removed and is very snappy and fast. So I hope you guys will try out and give your feedback thank you!

Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/download/blox6pxt11f18ob/omniLight-4.4.4-20140623-a500.zip

GApps: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2397942

Instructions:

1. It is recommended that you use CWM 6.0.4.5 from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2583710 to flash this rom.

2. Download SuperSU from http://download.chainfire.eu/supersu/ and put it on your device.

3. In recovery, if you are coming from another rom or another android version please format data. If not, you can skip this skip.

4. Now format cache and dalvik cache and flash the rom and SuperSU zip and GApps in recovery.

5. Reboot and profit! (Note that bootanimation is disabled, so do not panick when there is no bootanimation!)

Features:

- Very fast and snappy

- Replaced default launcher with Smart Launcher 2

- A bunch of removed apps, which are:

Apollo.apk

BasicDreams.apk

Calculator.apk

Calendar.apk

CellBroadcastReceiver.apk

DashClock.apk

Development.apk

DSPManager.apk

Email.apk

Exchange2.apk

Galaxy4.apk

HoloSpiralWallpaper.apk

HTMLViewer.apk

MagicSmokeWallpapers.apk

MonthCalendarWidget.apk

NoiseField.apk

PhaseBeam.apk

PhotoTable.apk

PrintSpooler.apk

Provision.apk

QuickSearchBox.apk

SoundRecorder.apk

TelephonyProvider.apk

VideoEditor.apk

VisualizationWallpapers.apk

TeleService.apk

Contacts.apk

Launcher3.apk

OmniSwitch.apk

ContactsProvider.apk

CalendarProvider.apk

OpenDelta.apk

VoiceDialer.apk

OneTimeInitializer.apk

(You you want to install some of the removed apps, you can download all the removed apps from https://www.mediafire.com/folder/8d66dav5p59a1/Removed_apps)

- A couple of build.prop tweaks

Bugs:

Camcorder does not work.

Screenshots

Thanks:

To the IconiaHD team for the device, vendor and kernel sources!

To the OmniROM team for such an awesome rom!
[Acer Iconia A500] nelsontky:
Rom updated

Rom is now updated with a few minor changes and multiwindow functionality added :)
[Acer Iconia A500] djyoshii:
Just dropping by to say Thank You for your work, and to keep it up for (for as long as you can anyway)!

My tablet has pretty much been gathering dust until I happened upon your ROM. Gave up on it after the last 4.x ROM i used crashed/rebooted/froze several times a day at random, but thanks to you it's now got a new lease on life (and taken away some of my temptation to upgrade...for the meantime).

Cheers!
[Acer Iconia A500] japinder:
+1

Just flashed this.

Initial impressions look good. Seems to be fast & fluid. Needed something just like it. The previous Omni build was starting to go slow after some usage. Looks like it will be a worthy successor to the ROMs I have used till now on my beloved A500. :cool:

The only hiccup was the crashing of Google Account manager when it asks for the first/last name to customize the tab. I had to proceed with blank, otherwise it kept crashing. No further errors since. :p

Thanks,

Jp
[Acer Iconia A500] nelsontky:
Thanks for the positive feedback! I appreciate it
[Acer Iconia A500] nelsontky:
Hmm that did not happen to me but did you flash gapps first before booting??
[Acer Iconia A500] deryckmeister:
+1

Downloading now. Will provide feedback soon.
[Acer Iconia A500] djyoshii:
No issues with it so far, apps I've used are noticeably smoother than v1, but home page & app drawer scrolling shows some lag/frame rate drop (running on cpu 300/1400 & interactive/sio). Then again I'm wasn't expecting miracles from a 2-3 year old device.

Stable, battery seems ok so far, and everything I've tried has worked (haven't tried the camcorder which was meant to be a bug in v1 though).

For anyone that plans to flash either the mini or micro Gapps modules, I had to also install the google keyboard addon module as well, as the first time I booted up I couldn't do anything as it kept saying "google keyboard has crashed" (not sure if the AOSP keyboard was installed with the ROM or not), couldn't flash the Chrome addon module either, so had to do that via PlayStore. Besides that, everything's been fine.

Oh one last question, how do you use the multi-window feature?

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Nevermind, figured out multi window.

Go to recent apps, long press on app/s, and select it from there
[Acer Iconia A500] Robert417919:
I have flashed it and installed and it works great! I want to try out the multi window.. but I don't know how. Can anyone help me out?

EDIT: djyoshii answer that for me.
[Acer Iconia A500] nelsontky:
Seems like there is a problem when using gapps on tegra 2 devices. I personally think that the only important thing in gapps is the play store and play store was automatically installed with omnirom and i did not even flash gapps. Can anyone try not flashing gapps and getting back to me if play store is there???

And yea camcorder was fixed by the IconiaHD team :) :)
[Acer Iconia A500] djyoshii:
I tried keeping it as lean as possible with regards to gapps, as your rom is pratically bloat free to begin with, so ran the mini gapps module + a couple of addons.

One thing I did notice, was after setting it up after initial boot, Play Store automatically started installing a bunch of google apps (eg Google+, which I purposely avoided hence the mini module).

If you had asked before I finally got my tablet all set up, I'd try flashing again without gapps. I just don't really want to go through it all again now that I have it working as I like...even my GPS is working now, after never having worked properly since flashing my first ROM not long after it was purchased!
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
We need non-neon gaaps for our devices!

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] nelsontky:
No prob dude I understand your situation I believe there will be others who will help!
[Acer Iconia A500] nelsontky:
Idk i tried the non neon gapps it also does not work well with our device. Currently, i am running my tablet without gapps but omnirom mysteriously installs play store even without gapps. Am i missing out something?
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
...interesting?!? Clean install? Did you try tegraowners gapps maybe...?

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] japinder:
Yes, ROM + SU + GApps as per the instructions.

from my SGS4 i9505 using XDA app
[Acer Iconia A500] nelsontky:
Yes clean install i tried the tegraowners gapps a few months back
[Acer Iconia A500] nelsontky:
Ok try installing without gapps thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
...they were updated not long ago... , actually i it's not to easy to find non-neon gapps...

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] deryckmeister:
Installation went well for me overall. Got a notice saying "chrome would be uninstall" during the gapps installation and then everything proceeded to completion.

I use:

( wiped dalvik cache and cache)

a500 Omni light v2

pa-gapps-full-modular-signed-omni-4.4.4 (version 2014_08_18)

superSU v2.02

I used the links OP provided. Will provide further feedback.:cowboy:

D.
[Acer Iconia A500] deryckmeister:
Using Multiwindow

Select recent application icon

Select and keep pressing on selected window

(a menu opens up)

Select "add to split view"

Select another window and add to list

(max no of windows is two)

-------------

To remove a window, select the recent application icon

press and hold the chosen window

select "remove from list"

D.
[Acer Iconia A500] Zakariasz:
Unfortunately my tablet become a veggie after flash this rom it is stuck on the boatloader,fortunately have still access to CWM.
[Acer Iconia A500] nelsontky:
Very sorry to hear of your plight but can you please tell me which rom you came from and how did you flash the new rom excatly thanks
[Acer Iconia A500] Zakariasz:
ICS 4.0.3 flashed via only one working for me CMW 6.0.4.5. now I'm running FLEXREAPER 4.0.4 and is stable and running withouth any problem
[Acer Iconia A500] nelsontky:
You should try installing android 4.3 (here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2426942)

before trying to install this rom
[Acer Iconia A500] Zakariasz:
ok thank you I didnt know about it :) I will try it :)
[Acer Iconia A500] japinder:
Speaker volume on this ROM seems to be on the lower side.

Tried a couple of xml file edits, but they are not applicable.

Don't want to use apps unless I can confirm they won't mess up this otherwise great ROM.

Anyone else facing low sound?
[Acer Iconia A500] deryckmeister:
Yes, low sound is present. A sound boost would be nice.

Embedded Videos can not be viewed in web browsers. Need to be seen at full screen.

A great rom otherwise.

D
[Acer Iconia A500] Zakariasz:
Could someone help me please,I try to install this rom to check how it looks like with no success with that as well 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] deryckmeister:
You need to:

Go into recovery

format data

wipe dalvik cache

wipe cache.

Make sure that the " data" is mounted so that it can be formatted.

Let me know how it goes.

D.
[Acer Iconia A500] Zakariasz:
I do not have option to format data folder,I am using CWM 6.0.4.5 and I think it is out of date,cannot find TWRP as goo web is down.
[Acer Iconia A500] deryckmeister:
Here is the link for a500 TWRP

http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/picasso

Scroll down to the end of that web page to get the latest build for the a500.

D.
[Acer Iconia A500] Zakariasz:
Thank you ! you save my life ! I have my tablet back again :)
[Acer Iconia A500] japinder:
Any suggestions for any app etc which could help?

When I checked out the config file edits for boosting sound, I was unable to find the required paramers in /system/etc/mixer_paths.XML.

Does anyone know if adding those lines to the XML file would work.
[Acer Iconia A500] nelsontky:
Nah the a500 sound is by default very soft
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
acer sound

...yes, that's true the sound and mic aren't very good on or devices... :(

But on tegraowners OMNI we do have sound boost integrated :)

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] deryckmeister:
You are welcome. Glad to hear of it.

D.
[Acer Iconia A500] The_Bizzel:
that sound boost integrated very much interests me. if there was a flashable zip or a an "omnirom light" build with this feature, i think that would be pretty sweet.

I just made the jump to this rom yesterday, and im working on some bugs that may not have been caused by this rom.

now its just a matter of following some of those instructions and getting it worked out.

otherwise, i set the cpu to 312 minimum, because the regular omnirom 4.4.4 has it as a fix for noise in audio playback, caused by a too low default minimum CPU frequency. Solved by increasing minimum frequency to 312 MHz.

i'll post more updates later.
[Acer Iconia A500] meduza:
...I posted the info just to show that it is possible with OMNI and our devices...

For technical questions, I would suggest to contact Thor the dev directly...

m.
[Acer Iconia A500] deryckmeister:
A very nice feature (sound boost) to have integrated indeed. Having an equalizer app like Viper Sound effects work on the rom would also be a bonus.

D
[Acer Iconia A500] japinder:
On the contrary, using Civato's ROMs, the sound is loud enough. I had to lower the volume down a notch from the max in fact. So the hardware itself is capable of putting out adequate sound. Just a matter of optimizing the software for it.
[Acer Iconia A500] nelsontky:
Hmm ok i will try getting sound boost integrated
[Acer Iconia A500] japinder:
Thanks for not taking offence, I was in no way trying to compare devs against devs or ROMs againt ROMs. I love this ROM & plan to stick with it, at least for now. :)

Another wishlist entry: In youtube, by default it loads 720p videos, however, sometimes the video just hangs, while the sound plays on. On some videos, it is possible to downgrade to 480p & then it plays ok. However, for some videos, where 720p is the only option, i'm stuck with the video stuttering. Would it be possible to customize the GPU settings to get more performance out of it. I've seen it done on some ROMs. I repeat the above paragraph again, no attempt to belittle this great ROM or its developer. Thanks. :)
[Acer Iconia A500] nelsontky:
No prob dude I understand that everyone loves their A500 very much (me too!) Well you can download trickster mod from the play store and set gpu governer to performance and cpu frequency to max and see if it helps. If not just download lightning browser and access youtube with lightning browser :)
[Acer Iconia A500] japinder:
Thanks nelsontky.

I installed the trickster mod, but it doesn't seem to have any options for the GPU. Did you mean CPU Governor?
[Acer Iconia A500] nelsontky:
It does have gpu options check the other tabs
[Acer Iconia A500] japinder:
Thanks.

Yes it should be there under the 'Specific' tab, however, it isn't. :confused:

At the top of the 'Specific' tab, it says 'Settings on this tab depend on kernel features'.

I'm using the inbuilt kernel with this ROM. :cowboy:

Kernel version:

2.6.39.4-jellyplay_v5.3+

user@user #1

Sun Aug 31 09:55:41 SGT 2014

Would I need to use another kernel to be able to control GPU settings? :fingers-crossed:
[Acer Iconia A500] HenrikE:
The kernel already overclocks the GPU by default so I don't think there is much more to gain. The real problem is that the Tegra 2 hardware video decoder is very limited. It can play 720p only if it's low bitrate and encoded with the h264 "baseline" profile. The 720p youtube stuff seems to be encoded with the "high" profile.

H264 profiles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Profiles
[Acer Iconia A500] jdd1777:
Actually yes. Maybe not your particular issue but the a500 needs no-neon gapps.
[Acer Iconia A500] agungsp2000:
Perfect and really snappy

using twrp is fine, everything works, thank you so much, my kids will be happy with this old tablet but snappy new rom :D
[Acer Iconia A500] romagnus:
Thank you for this rom. I has sod on the other omni rom, and switching to this one fixed that[. I still use my tablet at university everyday. Thank you for keeping it alive.
[Acer Iconia A500] ibeqa:
Great Rom, just installed it a couple of hours ago. It is very smooth and fast.
[Acer Iconia A500] meatwad0222:
so i am having issues even getting this rom to boot, im using the correct bootloader, and cwm, i am following the instructions to a T. yet everytime i get stuck at an android splach screen....any help would be great
[Acer Iconia A500] japinder:
The ROMs take a long time to boot on our A500 (as compared to other devices), especially during the first boot.

Are you sure its hanging/getting stuck. You could try to wait it out.

Jp
[Acer Iconia A500] meatwad0222:
I let it sit all day with no boot, just hung at the android screen
[Acer Iconia A500] amphi66:
Clean flashed the ROM, but ran into the unresponsive home button issue, as noted early in the thread, but I never saw the fix. Reflashed a second time(dirty this time) with no change. Any advice? Thanks.