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Hi All,
I bought my galaxy tab yesterday from Currys UK. I have been a very happy user of HTC Desire and now i thought to move to bigger screen.
Today, when I connected my phone using Samsung Kies, it informed that there are new firmware (*JJ7) available for tab. My tab currently has firmware *JJ3. I am currently installing the upgrade using Kies but its kindda slow.
Few questions --
1. Firmware upgrade - I think it is same as we say ROM upgrade in HTC phones. Right?
2. In Desire, I used to get OTA (Over the air) upgrade. Is this not the case in Samsung? Will I always get updates via PC? if yes then what a shame?
3. Not sure what benefit I am gonna get after firmware upgrade but its good to be on latest official version.
Thanks in advance.
JM
pda_crazy said:
2. In Desire, I used to get OTA (Over the air) upgrade. Is this not the case in Samsung? Will I always get updates via PC? if yes then what a shame?
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With the unofficial JM6 ROM (see the other discussion thread in this forum), there is a "Software Update" service that runs in the background, presumably to check for the latest available version of vendor-provided features...or maybe it checks for the latest Samsung stuff...not sure.
Let us know how it goes with the official firmware update.
daniel.weck said:
With the unofficial JM6 ROM (see the other discussion thread in this forum), there is a "Software Update" service that runs in the background, presumably to check for the latest available version of vendor-provided features...or maybe it checks for the latest Samsung stuff...not sure.
Let us know how it goes with the official firmware update.
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Hi,
After firmware upgrade, i dont see any major difference, in fact i just used my new galaxy tab for few hrs so probably i would not be able to make a judgement what's the difference.
But its working very well. If you have any specific question then i can try to answer that.
One thing, I am using Google talk on my tab, messages are not in proper sorted order as per date. It's been sorted as per person which means I am getting all the other side messages on the top.
Could you please help me to figure out how can i rectify it or Do I need to upgrade my Gtalk App. Unfortunatly I am not getting this app in Mrket place.
Regards,
JM
Can you do me a favour, open your browser and go to the UK's PeakFM web site and see if you can view the page, click on any of the boxed links and navigate correctly through the web site.
I am finding certain web sites such as this and others are not being displayed correctly, so if the update has cured that I would jump at upgrading.
Thanks.
pda_crazy said:
Hi All,
I bought my galaxy tab yesterday from Currys UK. I have been a very happy user of HTC Desire and now i thought to move to bigger screen.
Today, when I connected my phone using Samsung Kies, it informed that there are new firmware (*JJ7) available for tab. My tab currently has firmware *JJ3. I am currently installing the upgrade using Kies but its kindda slow.
Few questions --
1. Firmware upgrade - I think it is same as we say ROM upgrade in HTC phones. Right?
2. In Desire, I used to get OTA (Over the air) upgrade. Is this not the case in Samsung? Will I always get updates via PC? if yes then what a shame?
3. Not sure what benefit I am gonna get after firmware upgrade but its good to be on latest official version.
Thanks in advance.
JM
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Hi, could you let me know if this upgrade wiped your Tab please? i.e. you had to reinstall all apps, redo all home screen customization etc?
pda_crazy said:
1. Firmware upgrade - I think it is same as we say ROM upgrade in HTC phones. Right?
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Correct.
2. In Desire, I used to get OTA (Over the air) upgrade. Is this not the case in Samsung? Will I always get updates via PC? if yes then what a shame?
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Have you seen the size of the firmware packages for the tab? Many people won't be too keen on downloading around 300MB over their cell connection.
Having to plug it into the PC once every few months is not that much of a chore.
3. Not sure what benefit I am gonna get after firmware upgrade but its good to be on latest official version.
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No-one has yet to find an official changelog for any of the versions of the firmware, Samsung is unlikely to release this information to the public.
AndyGarton said:
Hi, could you let me know if this upgrade wiped your Tab please? i.e. you had to reinstall all apps, redo all home screen customization etc?
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No, all my apps are intact after applying the update.
I haven't seen the email app crash since the update (it used to crash reliably every 2nd time) and I haven't had the camera preview messed up either. Of course either of these might just be luck, but here's hoping.
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I just updated the firmware.
All the bugs that i know of is still there, the browser lag, the video player thumbnail generation lag, etc.
Don't know what has been fixed here, unless i can see a changelog and test it.
My phone version has been updated from J16 to JJ1.
PDA JJ1 to JK3.
EDIT: The Gallery Loading is faster...ie. it generates the thumbnails almost instantly now. I have around 5-8 folders with over 1 GB of images inside.
knightnz said:
Correct.
Have you seen the size of the firmware packages for the tab? Many people won't be too keen on downloading around 300MB over their cell connection.
Having to plug it into the PC once every few months is not that much of a chore.
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That may be the case but Kies is an absolute nightmare.
I also have an SGS and when I applied an upgrade for Froyo on a stock SGS with nothing altered Kies 'bricked' the phone.
Luckily I could still do the 3-Button Recovery so managed to wipe the phone clean and use Odin with the upgrade ROM from samfirmware.com
As such I am no fan of Kies and not looking forward to connecting my Tab to it.
Question to everyone else who has done the upgrade ~ has anyone experienced any difficulties with Kies and the Tab?
I just upgraded also and can't really spot any changes so far. The upgrade did preserve everything, although I had to re-root. Oddly Opera Mobile was crashing a lot also (it hardly ever did prior to the upgrade), but an uninstall and reinstall seems to have fixed that.
Beards said:
Question to everyone else who has done the upgrade ~ has anyone experienced any difficulties with Kies and the Tab?
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It worked ok for me, although what are Mac users supposed to do? Luckily I had a PC in the house I could use.
Hi,
Upgrade was quite slow. It took 30-45 mins.
My all apps and home screen customisations are intact. That's really good.
JM.
Beards said:
Can you do me a favour, open your browser and go to the UK's PeakFM web site and see if you can view the page, click on any of the boxed links and navigate correctly through the web site.
I am finding certain web sites such as this and others are not being displayed correctly, so if the update has cured that I would jump at upgrading.
Thanks.
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Works fine using miren browser on the old firmware
How come I don't get the update in kies? It says my device is already running the latest firmware. I'm on an unlocked and unbranded euro version of the tab.
edit: is it because I rooted it?
crippleb0y said:
How come I don't get the update in kies? It says my device is already running the latest firmware. I'm on an unlocked and unbranded euro version of the tab.
edit: is it because I rooted it?
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same problem here too, i wish someone could tell us what to do in this case.
zozodouce said:
same problem here too, i wish someone could tell us what to do in this case.
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It's not because you've rooted anyway because I've done that and I got the update. Perhaps you really are already on the latest? My Tab is an unlocked one bought in the UK on the day of release and was running JJ3 originally.
It would appear the update is for JJ users as in JJ3 to JJ7.
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Have you seen the size of the firmware packages for the tab? Many people won't be too keen on downloading around 300MB over their cell connection.
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On HTC phones, you are notified that an update is available for download, and then advised that it may be better to switch to WiFi before downloading.
Having to plug it into the PC once every few months is not that much of a chore.
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Try telling that to someone who is running OS/X or Linux!
Yes, I know you can use a VM, but:
a) That *is* a chore!
b) You need to have a Windows license, which some people might not legally have.
EDIT: I see there is a Kies Mini now for OS/X users!
OTA is definitely the way to go IMHO.
Regards,
Dave
foxmeister said:
On HTC phones, you are notified that an update is available for download, and then advised that it may be better to switch to WiFi before downloading.
OTA is definitely the way to go IMHO.
Regards,
Dave
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Couldn't agree more with you Dave.... Kies is an absolute nightmare. Besides the insane method Samsung use, you connect and take a chance it does not brick your phone.
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Try telling that to someone who is running OS/X or Linux!
Yes, I know you can use a VM, but:
a) That *is* a chore!
b) You need to have a Windows license, which some people might not legally have.
EDIT: I see there is a Kies Mini now for OS/X users!
OTA is definitely the way to go IMHO.
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I'm using OSX at the moment and am fine with having to boot into my win7 partition or use my WinXP VM if need be.
In order to download a 300MB file OTA, i'd either need to change my data plan to one that costs me an extra $30/month, or pay 10c/mb for data beyond my current cap. Not everywhere has good cellular data plans, although Europe, North America and Asis, would encompass >95% of their target market, so I can't imagine they'd care too much.
Obviously they _should_ support OSX users as it's a reasonable sized market, although probably most OSX users would be more likely to get an iPad as they're already suckling at the teat of Jobs. It's simply a USB/COM gateway, basically just an adb redirect, so other than the UI it's not like it's complicated for them to implement as most of the framework already exists in the SDK.
Daer all,
Yesterday my device offered my the first firmware update.
My current version: Acer_A500_1.016.03_com_gen1
Downloaded version: 1.126.03
I did not update yet because i am aafraid to loose root. So if anybody can tell me where my system download the uodate to i can shar the file with you.
Anybody else already had a update?
Where u located
Sent from my A500 using XDA Premium App
did you look on the sdcard for an update.zip ?
Most likely it is on the /cache partition. More importantly, in your log will be the URL, search for ota.
I'm on Acer_A500_1.112.01_EMEA_CUS7 - nothing here yet
No Update Here Either
A500 from Best Buy bought on May 3 - has FW: Acer_A500_1.104.02_Com_Gen 1
Has anybody deciphered Acer's code for FW Labeling?
docfreed said:
A500 from Best Buy bought on May 3 - has FW: Acer_A500_1.104.02_Com_Gen 1
Has anybody deciphered Acer's code for FW Labeling?
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I have that too. BB A500.
docfreed said:
A500 from Best Buy bought on May 3 - has FW: Acer_A500_1.104.02_Com_Gen 1
Has anybody deciphered Acer's code for FW Labeling?
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Ditto. 10char.
question..... why dont you ppl use the signature?
Ditto here in Texas from BB: 1.1104.02_com_gen1
No OTA yet even after forcing it to check.
Ken.
Today I received my Acer A500 in Germany, purchased from Amazon through preorder. It's the first Honeycomb to hit the german mass market.
I have Acer_A500_1.112.01_EMEA_CUS7
The "E" sounds like it stands for "european" or "Europe" to me, however the only localization I can choose in Settings is "german", while on my other Android devices (HTC phones) the ROMs always contain multiple localizations (or even worldwide like *WWE* ones).
I hope this helps, just started digging through the device and going to root it soon.
If anyone needs any further info regarding this version, which seems to be newer than those being OTA'ed to US customers let me know.
FWIW, I have not yet had any random screen turn-ons so maybe they fixed that.
ugh I need this zip my acer is messed up since I tried that chinese update.zip!
thor2002ro said:
question..... why dont you ppl use the signature?
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I thought about adding f-droid.org to my sig, but I'm too lazy.
same here!
Acer_A500_1.104.02_COM_GEN1 is my build and check but no update yet...
Mine says Acer_A500_1.016.04_COM_GEN1 has not updates..
docfreed said:
A500 from Best Buy bought on May 3 - has FW: Acer_A500_1.104.02_Com_Gen 1
Has anybody deciphered Acer's code for FW Labeling?
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Mine bought yesterday in Germany. 1.112.01_EMEA_CUS7
Dear all,
there is nothing in "/chach" and on the SDCard.
I had a look into it with the "Rootexplorer" and commandline, nothing.
I also searched with "Rootexplorer" for "*.zip" but nothing that is coming from me.
Do they maybe use a "hidden" mount?
Where can i find the logs?
did u reboot?
cache may be cleared while rebooting
Sent from my Nexus S using Tapatalk
Hi,
yes i did reboot, but the system is still telling me that it want to perform the update and not that it want to downlaod something again.
Just brought a Xoom today and after trying to find ways to get 3.1 manually installed, low and behold I reboot and get greeted with a Üpdate found - 3.1
Being a new xoom, i need to charge it for a bit first before it would let me!
So if you have a UK Xoom, reboot and check your updates
What store has open on a sunday?
If its true that you got the update is great news.
Do you have wifi-only or 3G?
You sure? I got nothing here on my 3g / wifi
Nothing here on Wifi model.
Can anybody confirm this?
risq said:
Just brought a Xoom today and after trying to find ways to get 3.1 manually installed, low and behold I reboot and get greeted with a Üpdate found - 3.1
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Sure it wasn't an US import?
Nothing for me so far...
Better not be, after I wasted most of my Saturday night rooting and installing the US update
Please can you check it wasn't 3.0.1
Im in uk and got nothing so far.
Sent from my Xoom
iammodo said:
Please can you check it wasn't 3.0.1
Im in uk and got nothing so far.
Sent from my Xoom
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that's what I thought it might be - but UK Xooms (Wifi at least) all started at 3.0.1 out the box.
As no one else confirmed this it's probably a US import I guess...?
iammodo said:
Please can you check it wasn't 3.0.1
Im in uk and got nothing so far.
Sent from my Xoom
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I think they ship with 3.0.1, don't they? I've bought two (returned the first due to screen problems) and both had 3.0.1 when I first booted them.
I think this is someone's cruel joke
Pics or it didn't happen!
just spoke to my friend who works at carphone warehouse, part of the geeksquad and he says its not out in the uk for another 2 weeks (fully) but will be starting to roll out from tomorrow.
Whether this is 100% accurate not too sure
I guess this would be for the 3G model? I hope Wifi roll-outs begin soon and I get it soon... Patience is not my greatest virtue
no it isn't a joke and it was a device brought today in PCWorld, so its not an import as suggested. All I did was restore to factory settings, added my gmail account and connected to wifi. It instantly found the update and I'm now on 3.1.
I have no need to lie, I'm a regular poster and although a new to the xoom...I know android.
What was so annoying was I had been trying to root it to get 3.1 but after bootloop I had to get the firmware from Motorola UK, reflash the boot and system.imgs and recovery.img and was back to a full OEM stock xoom. Whether that has anything to do with it, I couldn't tell you.
Anyway hope that. Explains a bit more.
Why does the XDA app FC once you login? Hoped 3.1 would sort that as even with the browser ,XDA lags.
risq said:
no it isn't a joke and it was a device brought today in PCWorld, so its not an import as suggested. All I did was restore to factory settings, added my gmail account and connected to wifi. It instantly found the update and I'm now on 3.1.
I have no need to lie, I'm a regular poster and although a new to the xoom...I know android.
What was so annoying was I had been trying to root it to get 3.1 but after bootloop I had to get the firmware from Motorola UK, reflash the boot and system.imgs and recovery.img and was back to a full OEM stock xoom. Whether that has anything to do with it, I couldn't tell you.
Anyway hope that. Explains a bit more.
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How did you manage to get hold of a copy of stock firmware? Don't think its available yet. Please share the link if you got it. Thanks.
risq said:
What was so annoying was I had been trying to root it to get 3.1 but after bootloop I had to get the firmware from Motorola UK, reflash the boot and system.imgs and recovery.img and was back to a full OEM stock xoom. Whether that has anything to do with it, I couldn't tell you.
Anyway hope that. Explains a bit more.
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Hmm. They haven't released the UK system image yet, have they? Is it possible you got US firmware and the update came as a result of that?
When you booted up did the language screen say English or UK English?
qwerp_ said:
How did you manage to get hold of a copy of stock firmware? Don't think its available yet. Please share the link if you got it. Thanks.
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I created a moto account then it let me download. All I did then was extract each component and flash via ADB... I.e boot boot.Img system system.img recovery recover.img
hatworthy said:
Hmm. They haven't released the UK system image yet, have they? Is it possible you got US firmware and the update came as a result of that?
When you booted up did the language screen say English or UK English?
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It said English (united kingdom)
Cool. You should upload your system.img , if you get a chance. I'm sure a lot of people would appreciate it.
Something is quite weird here, no screenshot, no upload. Fishy...
Hey guys,
Not sure if anyone has posted this yet, but I managed to unbrick my A500 using this Update.zip
http://www.filesonic.com/file/958397621/acer_a500_0.000.00_1.122.01_emea_gen5_update.zip.html
It only has English, French and Arabic language support.
Interesting! Where'd you get this file?
unbrick tablet
Mine is a USA model. would this work?
I randomly stumbled across this while doing a Google search.
I tried flashing it on my Australian model (which I think is the same as the US) and it works fine.
wait, do you mean it supports Arabic in menus and reads and writes Arabic with no issues ?
please answer this because I'm so looking for something like this
msasbaly said:
wait, do you mean it supports Arabic in menus and reads and writes Arabic with no issues ?
please answer this because I'm so looking for something like this
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Would you be so kind and stumble upon a US update.zip as well?
What is the version id of this?
msasbaly said:
wait, do you mean it supports Arabic in menus and reads and writes Arabic with no issues ?
please answer this because I'm so looking for something like this
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Yes. Check it out below -
huxflux2003 said:
Would you be so kind and stumble upon a US update.zip as well?
What is the version id of this?
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Build Number: Acer_A500_1.122.01_EMEA_GEN5
dr1337 said:
Yes. Check it out below -
Build Number: Acer_A500_1.122.01_EMEA_GEN5
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Man, you discovered an amazing file! The Arab world salutes you
Edit: I hate filesonic, so sloooooooooow.
I will upload it to multiupload when I download it. Here's the link: http://www.multiupload.com/D3A2DU7X4D
What I don't understand is why files like these are NOT OFFICIAL from Acer ???
THANK YOU...I accidently deleted the wrong App Folder and my Acer Froze but I installed this Update but the problem I'm having now is that my Wifi either doesn't work or it can't connect to my 3G tether from my Droid 2....Does anybody else have Wifi Issues?
thanks a lot dr1337 for showing us the arabic support and finding this file
and thanks to you too mr.r9 for the multiupload link
now I can show off with my Iconia
I flashed this image to get out of a boot loop. It worked but now I have no lock screen and the home button doesn't work.
Try doing a factory reset.
now i have the chinese update.zip installed,can i overwrite with the engl./arab update.zip
ok,it works,
now i have the market back.
how do I get the update on Android 3.1
thnx to dr1337
but i need the german update.zip for complete restore
I am having a similar issue. I used this to get up US version unbricked and it worked, but now I am unable to update the tab to any of the newer versions. I have manually downloaded the 141.07 and tried to flash it and get and error about signature verification failed. any way around this now.
so I am guessing the update I tried to get before I realized my tab got bricked because I renamed the phone files I won't get it after flashing this update? I really would like the update that supposdly came out may26.
That worked
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I am having a similar issue. I used this to get up US version unbricked and it worked, but now I am unable to update the tab to any of the newer versions. I have manually downloaded the 141.07 and tried to flash it and get and error about signature verification failed. any way around this now.
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Where did you download the update?
Acer needs to put out a system recovery image with this Tablet. Their computers have them. The hoops we have to jump through to get OUR hardware working are ridiculous. Hell you can load a restore image on a freaking IPAD, but not this ?
a flashable factory recovery image should come with the tablet just like recovery partitions on some PCs.
Especially since the Acer update screwed up my tablet. All I had done is run gingerbreak and installed some screencap apps.
I hope the 3.1 update is better
Hi this is my first A500 tab had it a couple months now came with stock 3.2 question is ive seen people saying the latest fw is 3.2.1 should this be for all A500 tabs or is there only a select thew ive tried updating it but allways saying no update avalible device is up to date and tried again all this week with the ICS supposed to be avalible but getting the same message and plus my market has not updated to the PLAY STORE so is there something wrong with the tab does anybody no thanks in advance
Anybody somebody must no ?
I've had mine about a year and its gone thru all the OTA updates with no problem. Have you registered your tab with Acer?? Do you have your Google account registered? I've had mine rooted a couple of times as well, is yours bare bones?
RJ
kamakazie_1 said:
I've had mine about a year and its gone thru all the OTA updates with no problem. Have you registered your tab with Acer?? Do you have your Google account registered? I've had mine rooted a couple of times as well, is yours bare bones?
RJ
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Yes google account reg and so is the tab on acer website and its never been rooted dont no why ive had no update to the 3.2.1 thow its allways saying device is uptodate so i doubt it will even show the ics update if its not showing 3.2.1 takes the piss
Contact Acer - they'll be able to see what the deal is with your serial number.
gammaRascal said:
Contact Acer - they'll be able to see what the deal is with your serial number.
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Tried that but as my sn is a uk one i can only speak to uk support and they have no online chat support only phone mon-fri plus its 50pmin no thankyou lmao
crazymanc said:
Tried that but as my sn is a uk one i can only speak to uk support and they have no online chat support only phone mon-fri plus its 50pmin no thankyou lmao
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Have you tried email?
gammaRascal said:
Have you tried email?
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Yes sent on fri around 7pm still no reply
So has any one got a idea why my device is not updating to 3.2.1 then
269 views come on all these mods and devs on hear and not one reply need some ideas i think this is the reason why my a500 is not updating to ICS it is not even updating to 3.2.1 come on mods devs at least one person must have an idea why thanks in advance
****ing useless this forum
crazymanc said:
****ing useless this forum
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I am sure everyone will jump on the help wagon after that comment. LOL
I don't suppose you tried updating the update tool huh?
CyaN1de said:
I am sure everyone will jump on the help wagon after that comment. LOL
I don't suppose you tried updating the update tool huh?
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Lol anno ye just wanted to see if anybody was still watching the thread updated the update tool nearly amonth back when it came out and also uninstalled and reinstalled still on 3.2 and says device is uptodate so it cannot see the 3.2.1 update so i doubt i will see the ICS update
crazymanc said:
269 views come on all these mods and devs on hear and not one reply need some ideas i think this is the reason why my a500 is not updating to ICS it is not even updating to 3.2.1 come on mods devs at least one person must have an idea why thanks in advance
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I'm certainly not a developer, but I can tell that's what Acer has to update the program recommends ICONIA TAB Update Enhancement, which is responsible for finding the firmware update (firmware) that runs Android 4.0.3 and install it. For installation, you must follow to Google Play and install or upgrade the application. Acer company claims that after installing the application will detect your tablet once a new firmware and it will download and then install.
Why do not some of the plates are updated using standard tools, the company does not comment on the Acer.
Video, to understand what to do.