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[General Topics] lennie:
1st my device: tytnII, running DCS1.7 wm6.1, using touchpal pro as default sip.

2nd synopsis: I have been having the this problem for a while and have been searching but found no answer. My problem is with the virtual keyboard auto pop up on any txt field i hit (in opera 9.5 as soon as a touch the screen, anywhere on the screen, the sip auto pops up).

now to the question: is there a way to stop this auto sip pop up? I know about the use the built in keyboard and the sip will go away (but that doesn't work especially in opera9.5 for me). the thing is I want to use the sip but I don't want it to auto popup I want to bring it up when I want to use it. is there a way to get that done? a registry hack of some sort? a program, utility, something?

regards, lennie.
[General Topics] lennie:
no one is having the same problem?
[Acer Iconia A500] Worldblender:
Supported Distros

Almost any distro will work out-of-the-box (OOTB), but some require software-level modifications that can only be done on a real armv7-based device or emulation, so here is a list of distros whose latest stable versions have an arm build, can successfully boot up, use glibc <= 2.23, and their image locations (all of them can at least boot to a terminal login screen, if a graphical desktop environment is not preinstalled, but this will require use of an external USB keyboard):

Devuan 1 Jessie (Mirrors for this distro are located in the directory "devuan_jessie/embedded/")

Slackware ARM 14.2 | http://ftp.arm.slackware.com/slackwarearm/slackwarearm-devtools/minirootfs/roots/

CentOS 7 | http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/armhfp/

openSUSE Leap 42.3 | http://download.opensuse.org/ports/armv7hl/distribution/leap/42.3/appliances/

Unfortunately, for some reason, the BCM4329 wi-fi works OOTB only with older versions of some distros, including these:

Devuan 1 Jessie (already listed above)

Debian 8 Jessie and older (supported until May 2020)

Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr and older (supported until April 2019)

On newer versions of these distros, if I was able to boot them successfully, they will work, but when running

iwconfig wlan0 txpower auto

it results in input/output errors that are meaningless, and the kernel messages do not really help that much, even when using the supplied nvram file (do I need to get a different one, or support had been dropped entirely for this card?) For these cases, USB ethernet adapters are the only way to get an internet connection to this tablet model. I have never been able to get Bluetooth to work, unless I missed some other task that I have not yet heard of.

NOTE: To remove the root password, use this command on a Linux/BSD/other Unix OS:

sed -i 's/root:x:/root::/' /etc/passwd

"/etc/passwd" can be replaced with another location if needed. "/etc/fstab" may also need to edited to reflect the partition layout of the microSD card that a selected distro is installed to.

OOTB distro support for this tablet model is very limited at this time; support for it seems to be being dropped implicitly :( , unless I can compile and successfully get a newer kernel version to boot up. DistroWatch.com lists many more, but older versions of most distros will most likely have to be used. It's better to use the versions that are still supported, for that they will still receive software and security updates occasionally.
[Acer Iconia A500] BatyaMedic:
booted up slackware rootfs using thor2002ro installer successfully
[Acer Iconia A500] Worldblender:
Potential new kernel source

See the bottom of the first post for more information about this.

I'm working on trying to get us a newer kernel version than the NVIDIA-provided 3.1.10 one, located at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tegra/linux.git/. This one is at 3.17.0-rc7. It's better in that comes straight from kernel.org, the official source of Linux kernel releases. However, its last update was from 09/28/2014, so while it is considerably newer than manufacturer-provided sources, it's not as new as the 4.x series (I'm not sure if I'm even willing to try compiling this series due to the age of this tablet model's hardware), but at least this will allow the tablet to successfully boot up newer distro versions. The issues with the BCM4239 card are likely to carry over here, but I can compile more drivers, either built-in to the image, or as modules that need to be added to a rootfs. Doing this will open up more alternate methods of getting an internet connection, such as by USB wi-fi/cellular adapters, or by USB RNDIS tethering. For reference, here are the current two 3.x release series, both of which are receiving updates as long-term support series:

3.16.x, supported until April 2020.

3.2.x, supported until May 2018.

That means in about two more years, this tablet model will effectively reach its end-of-life.

Do not flash the boot image attached here; it does not work yet. All of the attachments are provided for analysis, as they need more work before becoming usable. I try to learn most things on my own, but some things are not obvious to me as to what I should, so I need all the help I can get so that we can load new distro versions and give life to the remaining of these tablets for a few more years. At most, CentOS 7 is supported until June 2024 (enterprise-oriented distros tend to be supported for unusually longer amounts of time), if older kernels versions must be used or I fail to get this new kernel working at all, so this will be our only supported option if we can't get a new solution by the 1st half of 2020.
[Acer Iconia A500] BatyaMedic:
i found a thread with step how to install wifi drivers on deb-based distros

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1782549

we need packages: broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-source firmware-b43-installer firmware-b43legacy-installer b43-fwcutter

(i never tried it, idk if it even works)
[Acer Iconia A500] adconway:
still pursuing this project?

not sure if you are still pursuing this but if you are i would like to help

Aaron
[Acer Iconia A500] Worldblender:
Yes, I'm still looking for people to help me with this; it will happen for as long as I own this tablet model; I haven't made much progress as I haven't found enough people to help me. It's good that you would like to help me.
[Acer Iconia A500] laciii1985:
Hi!

Sorry for the noob question folks...

I really would like to try some linux distros on this tablet, I have the Skrillax_CZ's custom bootloader installed, also the latest OmniROM but how can I install / boot a linux distro?

Thank you!

Ladislav
[Acer Iconia A500] Worldblender:
The kernel that I used expects the root file system to be on

/dev/mmcblk1p2

. Images for the Raspberry Pi are usually formatted with two partitions: one containing the boot files; the other containing the actual filesystem. The latter is what the kernel expects to read.
[Acer Iconia A500] niniendowarrior:
I've been hoping for a thread like this since I wasn't getting anywhere with my own old A500. With Google support flaky as ever on my tablet, I've been itching to remove it entirely for a Linux distro. When I get time, I would love to tinker with the materials you've shared, Worldblender.
[Acer Iconia A500] TeTriNol:
Do someone have headers for kernel 3.8.13.20-digetx-thor-01232-gfe12f92?
[Acer Iconia A500] Worldblender:
2019 Status

Finally, I've decided to try again to get something a little more recent onto here. Ubuntu 16.04 and one flavor, Ubuntu MATE 15.04, can currently be run. Ubuntu Mate is an Ubuntu flavor shipping with the MATE desktop environment, and the only flavor to produce images for the Raspberry Pi, hence their partition layout is compatible with the 3.1.10 kernel image.

Here's what I went through today (all versions require editing /etc/fstab to disable mounting of the first partition for them to complete booting. To get Wi-Fi working, use the text file from the very first post of this topic, and place it in the same location (/lib/firmware/brcm); no need to copy the BIN file as it will already be present on the images):

Ubuntu MATE:

15.04: Only version that successfully boots out-of-the-box. Unsupported version. Use this image for now, as all others listed here don't work out-of-the-box.

15.10: Crashes with a kernel panic. Unsupported version.

16.04: Crashes with a kernel panic. Requires replacing the libc6 package and everything that directly depends on it with the ones from 15.10. Supported until April 2021. Glibc version 2.23 is in 16.04, while 2.21 is in 15.04 and 15.10.

Ubuntu:

16.04: Preinstalled images for Raspberry Pi 2/3 available at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/16.04/release/. Username and password is "ubuntu", and will prompt to change password upon logging in. Requires replacing the libc6 package and everything that directly depends on it with the ones from 15.10. Glibc version 2.23 is in 16.04, while 2.21 is in 15.04 and 15.10.

For Ubuntu 16.04, the following packages must be replaced prior to first boot with a chroot running on either an ARM virtual machine (the instructions at https://wiki.debian.org/QemuUserEmulation will also work), or another ARM computer (Android smartphones and tablets can be used here, as long as they have a microSD slot or support USB-OTG, where a USB SD card reader has to be used instead):

libc-bin

libc6

locales

perl

perl-base

perl-modules

After that, I recommend pinning/locking the packages "libc6" and "perl-base" to prevent the OS from becoming unbootable after an upgrade.

For all unsupported versions of Ubuntu, change the package repository URLs to point to http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ so that more packages can be installed.

To download any of the Ubuntu MATE image versions listed above, use the torrents attached below (should still work at the time of writing this post). The Internet Archive has saved copies of these torrents, as they can no longer be accessed from the current Ubuntu MATE download page. They can be found at https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://ubuntu-mate.org/raspberry-pi/*

This is the best that I can offer; either use Ubuntu 15.04 right away (and access some newer program versions, but have no access to the latest security updates), or tweak Ubuntu 16.04 post-install with the package names listed above (and access even newer program versions plus security updates until April 2021). It may be the last time we can get newer software on an aging tablet from 2011 [!], unless new ones are compiled from source.
[Acer Iconia A500] beaka:
digetx repository

digetx has a repository on bitbucket, might be there
[Acer Iconia A500] beaka:
Upgrade from 14.04 lubuntu by digetx

Thanks for posting the upgrade info, trying for a while but never found out the fix, until now.

After installing and upgrading 14.04 install as originally described on tegraowners I locked all the packages you mentioned eg:

libc-bin

libc6

locales

perl

perl-base

perl-modules

Then did a distrbution upgrade and presto, v16.04. Now I can install the latest versions of some programs I use.

Many thanks for sharing and kudos for finding issue. One day I hope to get back into linux seriously, changed a lot since the 14 floppy disk distributions. :good:
[Acer Iconia A500] beaka:
18.04 upgrade works so far

After the v16.04 upgrade I thought "go for broke" and try another dist upgrade and after a few warnings it worked.

Havent tried everything yet but Chromium works to get this typed, and system profiler but I can't upload image here.

Kicad 5 installed but eeschema crashed in 16.04 but it runs on 18.04 albeit a little slower than an i5

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X3yEyWYsCWyF6RXxgd4GpBkyIHBmIPlw/view?usp=sharing
[Acer Iconia A500] pheex79:
Hi beaka, can you share rootfs and install files from tegraowners lubuntu 14.04 ? I'm looking for it but tegraowners is gone now.
[Acer Iconia A500] beaka:
rootfs and installer from tegraowners

Hi pheex,

Here are links to the files I used to install lubuntu 14.04 then do the distupgrades to 18.04

installer:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13Gg7Xhyx_C1Ra7_rkD4G_3yoPbf-qvC5/view?usp=sharing

rootfs:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14YZ-_o2c-3afqD0PbppWod12p3xB5fs2/view?usp=sharing

I have skrilax v8 loader and install to sd card.

Hope that helps. :good:
[Acer Iconia A500] pheex79:
thanks a lot !

Now wifi work, i can't figure it out with ubuntu debootstrap root fs
[Acer Iconia A500] pheex79:
Dist upgrade don't work for me, something broke dependencies, maybe the packages i freeze (libc...)

Do you remember how do you proceed ?
[Acer Iconia A500] beaka:
I did a new install to card.

apt update

apt upgrade

reboot

open synaptic package manager and lock the versions of:

libc-bin

libc6

locales

perl

perl-base

perl-modules​

by selecting then Package/Lock version from menu

reboot and make sure it works

open software updater and update (use gui version as apt doesnt seem to lock version)

reboot and make sure it works

open software updater and do dist upgrade to 16.04 (go to bed as slow dl on 3g)

reboot to see if it worked

then I did a dd of the sd as the upgrade takes hours over 3g

software updater to upgrade 16.04 security

after that I again used software updater to go to 18.04

dd sd card so never have to do it again :eek:

using apt from 18.04 doesnt seem to break anything so far that I use.

brief summary but hope it helps. once you get it to 16.04 it seems a bit more stable and on 18.04 it works and is a bit more responsive but I havent tried every feature, just web(chromium and ff v55, had to find old pre-neon vers) , samba, kicad, freerdp (works well) and I can even print to epson wifi x420 (just found it on network, almost thought I was in windows :D)

good luck let us know how you go
[Acer Iconia A500] pheex79:
hi, i can't upgrade.

software updater can't find repo for saucy ou raring repo when i try to dist upgrade

like "http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/saucy/...."

but in my sources.list, i change all old dist repo to old-releases.ubuntu.com...

if i delete raring and saucy, i can upgrade (xserver is upgraded) but the iconia tab reboot when xserver is starting

Did you modify source.list ? or repo sources by another way ?
[Acer Iconia A500] beaka:
I did not modify sources list but I did not have wpasupplicant installed. I am doing the process again and will check if I left anything out.

I just tested xsane scanning on wireless Epson XP420 which works without any config, better than Mint 18 on pc.

When I get fresh upgrade on new sd card I will put image up on google drive as well.
[Acer Iconia A500] beaka:
Rootfs image files for 16.04 and 18.04 soon

I have tarballs of 16.04 and 18.04 and will post next week when I can get to a fast broadband connection as the files are 2Gb in size.
[Acer Iconia A500] pheex79:
thank you !

I try all the weekend and can't get it working.
[Acer Iconia A500] beaka:
I think that wpa_supplicant is a problem. I do not use it as I have open wifi, no one for miles to worry about.

The upgrade went differently this time so I had to uninstall wpa_supplicant to get it to boot and with it went network manager and lubuntu core. Not sure what lubuntu core does but it works fine without it.

I suspect the problem with wpa_sup is it may use Neon arm extensions which tegra2 doesnt have, so I will check the code later and see if I can build it on the A500.

Sorry for the delay to upload but says 13hours on 3g and I am no way near that patient. :D
[Acer Iconia A500] beaka:
ok got 16.04 up as tarfile of rootfs.

So basic procedure is:

install 14.04 by process on tegraowners. will post if required, no time yet.

get sd card into pc.

mount sdcard and cd into folder and rm all files.

sudo tar -xvjpSf /pathto/rootfs1604.tar.bz2 -C /pathto/rootfs

unmount sdcard and place back in a500 and boot

caveats: no networkmanager and wpa_supplicant but wifi works via cli.

sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid yourroutername

sudo dhclient wlan0

working on way to get wpa_supplicant working.

16.04 updates ota to 18.04

username: user

password: password

this is being typed in Chromium browser running on 18.04 upgraded from this tarball.

good luck

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wv_-dGNEmI0B_iwu71eI9ZGmA-guLU_
[Acer Iconia A500] pheex79:
Hi beaka, thank you for sharing rootfs

but the link you provided is broken (404)

---------- Post added at 12:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:13 PM ----------

For networkmanager and wpa_supplicant, maybe to force first packages version for 16.04 ?
[Acer Iconia A500] beaka:
try this it works in chromium and firefox, both on the a500

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wv_-dGNEmKI0B_iwu71eI9ZGmA-guLU_/view

not sure if previous versions will work, I can try later, if it doesnt boot after installing them then remove networkmanager on pc by chroot with qemu then reboot.

I have got just wpa_supplicant installed and can connect by command line with wpa_passphrase, will post details soon.
[Acer Iconia A500] pheex79:
Lubuntu 16.04 up and running !

No open wifi network at my corp to try dist upgrade 18.04 or try wpa_supplicant old version for now, i'll try later

thank you again :)
[Acer Iconia A500] beaka:
great news, glad it works. I will try to upload 18.04 asap but it is 2.7gb and will take a long time on 3g (16.04 took 6 hours). I am unable to get to broadband for a while so still working on wpa_supp.
[Acer Iconia A500] beaka:
Here is link to 18.04.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iJxDW_kzxbp9go1UfUJ6dQ5vGHJ66_zM/view?usp=sharing

Same procedure as above, install 14.04 from tegraowners then untar over rootfs.

Same issue with wifi, it works fine without networkmanager and wpasupplicant and I am still trying to find out issues.

If someone is a wpa expert some advice on how to get it to compile would be appreciated .
[Acer Iconia A500] flambo87:
Hi i'm new to this section. I got my Acer Tab A500 out of the shelf, cause i want to Install Ubuntu or any other Linux distro on it. As my english is not the best, i'm looking for a little help or guid to get Linux on it.

The Tablet is already rootet and i have the skrylax bootloader on it plus a custom ICS Rom.

Is it just install Ubuntu on the SD-Card and put it in the bootloader? I read something about Ubuntu works OutOfTheBox....

If anyone can help, i would really appreciate it.

Regards

flambo
[Acer Iconia A500] Worldblender:
Check out my latest instructions here: https://xdaforums.com/iconia-a500/linux-acer-iconia-tab-a500-2020-edition-t4136023

I wrote it just now.
[Acer Iconia A500] flambo87:
Awesome. I will try and let you know.
[Acer Iconia A500] flambo87:
Oh boy. Looks like its gonan be a lot of homework.

Actually i dont know where to start. I have my Ubuntu Laptop and my Acer in Front of me. Reading yourPost and that site over and over again.

Could you please give me a start?
[Acer Iconia A500] Worldblender:
I'm sorry for being a little late, but I'll tell you where you should start:

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Installation_guide

But first, you will need to install pmbootstrap, following https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Installing_pmbootstrap.

Then, run:

> git clone https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap.git

> cd pmbootstrap && python3 setup.py install

It's too much for me to explain here, since I haven't produced any prebuilt images. Unlike with my past attempts, the efforts with postmarketOS are actively being developed, not frozen in time as with many of the Android OSes found here.
[Acer Iconia A500] flambo87:
Hi,

is it possible to get an Image on how Postmarketos looks like, when its desktop is loaded?
[Acer Iconia A500] Worldblender:
After reaching past the bootloader stuff, the following things will appear, in order:

2 Tuxes, each representing the CPU cores present.

The postmarketOS logo, with the text loading, at or near the center.

Wait a little longer, you'll eventually see a cursor, a sign that the X11 server has launched successfully.
[Acer Iconia A500] flambo87:
Guess i still need some help. I'm at the Point, where i should add the vendor. But Acer doesn't show up.

I went to Git Lab and Cloned the Acer "Port in to pmbootstrap by using the Command:

git clone https://gitlab.com/Worldblender/pmaports.git

I didn't get any errors and everything went well.

As soon as i type "pmbootstrap init" the following appears and acer doesn't show up in the list. Oh by the way, i choose "Edge as Release Channel

[19:32:35] Location of the 'work' path. Multiple chroots (native, device arch, device rootfs) will be created in there.

[19:32:35] Work path [/home/wiegert/sudo /home/user/.local/var/pmbootstrap]: /home/wiegert/.local/var/pmbootstrap

[19:33:30] pmbootstrap does everything in Alpine Linux chroots, so your host system does not get modified. In order to work with these chroots, pmbootstrap calls 'sudo' internally. To see the commands it runs, you can run 'pmbootstrap log' in a second terminal.

[19:33:30] Setting up the native chroot and cloning the package build recipes (pmaports)...

[19:33:30] Clone git repository: https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports.git

Klone nach '/home/wiegert/acer/cache_git/pmaports' ...

[19:33:40] NOTE: pmaports path: /home/wiegert/acer/cache_git/pmaports

[19:33:40] Choose the postmarketOS release channel.

[19:33:40] Available (2):

[19:33:40] * edge: Rolling release channel

[19:33:40] * stable: Stable release channel (first beta v20.05, does not have many devices yet)

[19:33:40] Channel [edge]:

[19:33:47] Choose your target device vendor (either an existing one, or a new one for porting).

[19:33:47] Available vendors (52): alcatel, amazon, arrow, asus, bq, chuwi, essential, fairphone, finepower, fly, fujitsu, google, gp, hisense, htc, huawei, infocus, jolla, leeco, lenovo, lg, medion, meizu, motorola, nextbit, nobby, nokia, oneplus, oppo, ouya, pine64, planet, purism, qemu, raspberry, samsung, semc, sharp, sony, surftab, t2m, tablet, teclast, tokio, vernee, wiko, wileyfox, wingtech, xiaomi, yu, zte, zuk

[19:33:47] Vendor [acer]: acer

[19:33:57] The specified vendor (acer) could not be found in existing ports, do you want to start a new port?
[Acer Iconia A500] Worldblender:
That's because this port is not yet merged into upstream pmaports. I'm working on getting it merged, however, so you can either wait for me to finish it (which I will announce somewhere), or if you really want to do it now, you have to check out my version of pmaports at https://gitlab.com/Worldblender/pmaports. To configure this for an already existing copy of pmaports, assuming that the commands take place inside it:

> git remote add https://gitlab.com/Worldblender/pmaports additions
> git checkout additions/device/acer-picasso
[One (M9) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Galaners:
In summary:

-Got an HTC M9 supposedly Unlocked version from China, it's S-OFF and LOCKED.

-Changed the CID to 1111111 and MID to 0PJA11000 in order to install the latest Unlocked RUU from the HTC site.

-Installed the latest RUU correctly.

-There's no IMEI and baseband number on the phone, no radio signal.

-I download the Verizon 1.33.605.15 firmware, apparently my phone was a Verizon one, not unlocked one.

-I didn't install the firmware, but unlock the bootloader and install TWRP Recovery (latest version).

-I install the ViperOneM9 ROM but the radio still fails.

-I change the MID to 0PJA30000.

-Installed the Verizon firmware.

-Loop boot.

-Try to install TWRP Recovery again, but it fails.

-Install the 3.3.0 version of TWRP (for Android < 6.0).

-Reinstall ViperOneM9 but boot fails.

-Changed MID to 0PJA11000.

-Can't install Unlocked RUU (Error 155 I guess).

-By error trying to made a full wipe I reinstall the Verizon firmware, it reboot my phone.

-The phone start in bootloader, always starts in bootloader.

-If I try to start download or recovery the screen turns blue and the phone reboots.

---Help.

Update 1. Fixed by flashing the 3.5.617.15 Unlocked firmware, but I still dont have IMEI or Baseband number on my phone, it doesn't detect any sim card
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] salvo831:
salve ho acquistato un autoradio marca (andream EW812P8QH) Octa Core 2G RAM 32G ROM Lettore DVD Dell'automobile Stereo Android 7.1 EW812P8QH

l autoradio accende con una schermata blu e si sente la radio ma non funziona nulla .come posso formattare e istallare tutto .xke secondo me ha perso qualcosa.grazie mille:(