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Ok, my A101IT has been slowly but surely giving me the F*U "finger" and I'm really getting sick of it. I'm about as sick enough to newly take up the sport of Disc Golf and use my A101IT as my starting first disc frisbee!
Here are all of my problems:
1) Completely dead USB port.
2) WiFi turns itself on only half the time when the device is turned on from being off. (Device's Wifi Setting reads "Error" most of the time when device is turned on from being off, yet the device is always connected AND authorized with correct network password at my home).
3) Now my soft buttons on the far right side of the screen have vanished and I cannot get them back whatsoever.
Side Notes:
I have never uninstalled or "accidentally" deleted anything I wasn't supposed to but I will say I do have it permanently rooted to FW 2.3.20 via Chulri's Method. One-by-one these problems stared happening about a month ago. I'm considering upgrading to FW 2.3.26 but I don't know if that will fix my WiFi problem? Also, how do I get my soft buttons back?! Hell, for that matter can ANYTHING be done to fix ANY of the above?! Also, I had previously installed a 3rd-party Wifi Manager and that still didn't work.
Please help because I'm about to lose my mind here! .... I'm seriously starting to doubt Archos for sure now and as the rest of the year progresses with a more passionate hatred! Knowing that there has been vast amounts of proof (on XDA here & ArchosFans) that the Gen 8 A101IT is **** and is not really expected to work let alone turn on after 6 months of being perfectly new just makes me wonder how "reliable" the new Gen 9 series A101IT's are going to be.
P.S. - I bought mine off eBay from this guy who bought the A101IT as new back in March '11 and used it maybe 5-6 times so I bought it off him in late April '11. Nothing was on the device and everything was wiped clean. From the time I bought it off him-to-the end of May I never had any problems whatsoever because at that point I thought Archos was the best tablet company on the market but that all changed last month.
Any and all suggestions are welcome! If I use it as my first disc golf frisbee what color should I spray paint it? Or maybe take it out to my local gun shooting range and use it as target practice?
spicy_puerto_rican said:
Ok, my A101IT has been slowly but surely giving me the F*U "finger" and I'm really getting sick of it. I'm about as sick enough to newly take up the sport of Disc Golf and use my A101IT as my starting first disc frisbee!
Here are all of my problems:
1) Completely dead USB port.
2) WiFi turns itself on only half the time when the device is turned on from being off. (Device's Wifi Setting reads "Error" most of the time when device is turned on from being off, yet the device is always connected AND authorized with correct network password at my home).
3) Now my soft buttons on the far right side of the screen have vanished and I cannot get them back whatsoever.
Side Notes:
I have never uninstalled or "accidentally" deleted anything I wasn't supposed to but I will say I do have it permanently rooted to FW 2.3.20 via Chulri's Method. One-by-one these problems stared happening about a month ago. I'm considering upgrading to FW 2.3.26 but I don't know if that will fix my WiFi problem? Also, how do I get my soft buttons back?! Hell, for that matter can ANYTHING be done to fix ANY of the above?! Also, I had previously installed a 3rd-party Wifi Manager and that still didn't work.
Please help because I'm about to lose my mind here! .... I'm seriously starting to doubt Archos for sure now and as the rest of the year progresses with a more passionate hatred! Knowing that there has been vast amounts of proof (on XDA here & ArchosFans) that the Gen 8 A101IT is **** and is not really expected to work let alone turn on after 6 months of being perfectly new just makes me wonder how "reliable" the new Gen 9 series A101IT's are going to be.
P.S. - I bought mine off eBay from this guy who bought the A101IT as new back in March '11 and used it maybe 5-6 times so I bought it off him in late April '11. Nothing was on the device and everything was wiped clean. From the time I bought it off him-to-the end of May I never had any problems whatsoever because at that point I thought Archos was the best tablet company on the market but that all changed last month.
Any and all suggestions are welcome! If I use it as my first disc golf frisbee what color should I spray paint it? Or maybe take it out to my local gun shooting range and use it as target practice?
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To be fair, some of this has nothing to do with Archos. You need to reinstall your firmware. If your soft buttons "disappeared" without you setting the board.prop, something is seriously wrong with the UnionFS.
As for the rest of it, you are an early adopter, that's the price you pay for wanting a tablet before the hardware was viable. Buy a second gen Transformer or Xoom if you want a "finished" product.
I don't blame you for not knowing(definitely not flaming you or anything), but Archos has, and will always be, a pioneer. They were the first to make an mp3 player, the first to use a hard drive in media players, the first to have color screens, the first to have touchscreens, etc. There are heavy costs associated with pioneering, so they simply aren't going to make as good a product as the rest, because they get theirs out at least a year before the other companies can get to market.
msticninja said:
To be fair, some of this has nothing to do with Archos. You need to reinstall your firmware. If your soft buttons "disappeared" without you setting the board.prop, something is seriously wrong with the UnionFS.
As for the rest of it, you are an early adopter, that's the price you pay for wanting a tablet before the hardware was viable. Buy a second gen Transformer or Xoom if you want a "finished" product.
I don't blame you for not knowing(definitely not flaming you or anything), but Archos has, and will always be, a pioneer. They were the first to make an mp3 player, the first to use a hard drive in media players, the first to have color screens, the first to have touchscreens, etc. There are heavy costs associated with pioneering, so they simply aren't going to make as good a product as the rest, because they get theirs out at least a year before the other companies can get to market.
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And they were the first, who did an android tablet
The A5It for 200€ i had this it was very laggy but after some fw updates it was good.
I sold my A5It to a friend, and now he get Cyanogenmod..(propably)
Bubu said he work on that
This is another hope for me:
If A5IT, stock 1.6, gets Gingerbread(2.3.4), i think we'll get HC or ICS
Ok, well it seems that something major was wrong with my permanent rooted install of FW 2.3.20 via Chulri's Method so I figured why not try to install UrukDroid 1.0? Installing UrukDroid also got my soft buttons back on my screen via the "Small Buttons" setting on UrukDroid AND fixed my Wifi connection problem I was having before and it seems to be real neat and a hell of a lot more stable than Chulri's Method but I have one (probably) minor problem. Whenever the device gets turned on from being off OR I go to install a Google Market App it gives me an error message that reads... "The process android.process.media has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
I don't know if it has been asked on how to fix that problem with the process thing because I skimmed over some of the UrukDroid Installation in the Dev's forum but I didn't find anything on how to solve it. So are there any solutions to this so I can get rid of this annoying little message??
Also, it shows that the version of my FW is 2.1.8 but I get this notification to upgrade to FW 2.3.26 and I'm just wondering if it's a good idea to upgrade? If I upgrade to FW 2.3.26 will I lose my permanent root access with UrukDroid 1.0?
spicy_puerto_rican said:
Ok, well it seems that something major was wrong with my permanent rooted install of FW 2.3.20 via Chulri's Method so I figured why not try to install UrukDroid 1.0? Installing UrukDroid also got my soft buttons back on my screen via the "Small Buttons" setting on UrukDroid AND fixed my Wifi connection problem I was having before and it seems to be real neat and a hell of a lot more stable than Chulri's Method but I have one (probably) minor problem. Whenever the device gets turned on from being off OR I go to install a Google Market App it gives me an error message that reads... "The process android.process.media has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
I don't know if it has been asked on how to fix that problem with the process thing because I skimmed over some of the UrukDroid Installation in the Dev's forum but I didn't find anything on how to solve it. So are there any solutions to this so I can get rid of this annoying little message??
Also, it shows that the version of my FW is 2.1.8 but I get this notification to upgrade to FW 2.3.26 and I'm just wondering if it's a good idea to upgrade? If I upgrade to FW 2.3.26 will I lose my permanent root access with UrukDroid 1.0?
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You can't upgrade through Uruk, just ignore the message. As for the force close, try installing Arctools from Appslib, and using it to reinstall the Google applications.
spicy_puerto_rican said:
Ok, well it seems that something major was wrong with my permanent rooted install of FW 2.3.20 via Chulri's Method so I figured why not try to install UrukDroid 1.0?
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Did it help with the dead USB port?
I wouldn't count on that.
The 101 ( the first few batches ) is known to blow the usb port, that's why archos quickly accepts RMA on it.
If you bought it at Saturn/MM try to talk to them.
Well here is what I ended up doing to solve the "disappearing soft buttons.":
- I completely and fully reformatted my A101IT to factory settings.
- Reinstalled UrukDroid 1.0
- Flashed Chulri's Kernel to get permanent root access for FW 2.3.26 at 1000 MHz
(Found out that the OC to 1200 MHz for FW 2.3.20 will not work whatsoever for FW 2.3.26, but Chulri's Method of Permanent Root Access works on FW 2.3.26 only to an OC of 1000 MHz. I now see that the above case is pretty obvious but not at first to noobs like me when I first started out).
- Rebooted
- Device works now but the Wifi thing keeps on happening but less often.
As a side note:
No, removing Chulri's Method and Installing UrukDroid 1.0 did not solve the dead USB port. I didn't think installing UrukDroid 1.0 would solve it anyway since it's a deep hardware issue. I'm assuming in due-time the USB port eventually dies because the battery is too close in proximity to the USB port on the inside when it heats up and probably gets so hot from normal use that it unsolders the USB port from the motherboard after a certain amount of time possibly because the USB port and the battery coils and its connections are probably improperly heat resistant. Kind of like the Xbox 360's Ring of Death I would imagine. I went through 5 of them, from the most basic one to the top-end Elite and every one in-between years ago but that's a different story altogether, lol. Don't you just love technology sometimes....? I vote that this is all FUBAR.
Oh, I have a Board Version 6 by the way.
Hey!
One week ago, I bought my Archos G9 and since then my device crashes around 7-8 times a day. I have the newest firmware with root enabled on my device and disabled everything I could imagine (window animations, gps, etc.).
I have know idea why it crashes. There is no special pattern. One moment it crashes during browsing, the other while playing doodle jump, etc. Maybe it's because of the 512MB RAM? I already put a swap file on my device, but it didn't help at all...
hope you can help!
Ram has nothing to do with crashes. Try rooted firmware without custom busybox, download in Modified Init thread (custom busybox seems to be responsible for quite some problems)
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thanks for reply!
My device is already running on this custom rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1480906
EDIT: Seems like there is something wrong with the CPU... while performing the SetCPUs stresstest, my device crashed. Is it a general Archos G9 problem, or a specific problem with my device? I also noticed, that the back gets relativly hot... This happens only while i charge it.
coolo said:
Hey!
One week ago, I bought my Archos G9 and since then my device crashes around 7-8 times a day. I have the newest firmware with root enabled on my device and disabled everything I could imagine (window animations, gps, etc.).
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When i first bought mine it also crashed every now and then and what i did was a full reset from the settings . Since then no more crashes on apps , so give it a try
If u dont need it, make sure bluetooth and gps are off, that always seemed to help me
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I've had mine for 10 days now. I haven't rooted it yet - it's running the stock 3.2.80 firmware.
For the first 4 or 5 days, it seemed fairly stable - odd reboots, but nothing too bad.
Now, it won't stay running for more than 2 or 3 minutes from reboot before it freezes and I have to long-press the power button to shut it down. Sometimes it just reboots on it's own. But after each reboot, it stays running for less time than the last. If I let it lie down for a few hours, it will return to running for 2 or 3 minutes before freezing or rebooting again.
Mine also seems to get pretty warm on the back.
I've tried getting an RMA number from the Archos website, but that page doesn't work (shows a MySQL error!). Had to resort to emailing their support team a couple of days ago, but still waiting for any response.
I wish I had bought it from Play.com instead of direct from Archos - at least I could have returned it easier. All in all, I'm not very impressed so far.
BTW, I did do a full, factory reset, but it's made no difference.
Nothing worked, i already deactivated GPS and bluetooth and did a factory reset too.
I think I'll wait for the ICS update and hope, that archos will fix the problem... I don't think it's a hardware issue...
Try 3.2.79 version, IMO it works overall better than 3.2.80 but I can't test 3g stick. Wifi however behaved better on .79.
Note- you can't downgrade official firmware (AFAIK)
I believe there is a way of downgrading official firmware - I may give 3.2.79 a go.
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My Archos 80g9 touch screen have a problem: difficulty to respond to commands and the tablet is lost. I tried many times to do the calibration, but does not solve the problem. you know you help?
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If you have custom firmware installed try wiping dalvik-cache
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I Have Noticed A Similar Problem With My 80 G9 After I Took The ICS UPDATE Yesterday And I'm Bone Stock My Screen Will Not Automatically Rotate Even Though I Have The Auto Rotate Box Checked I've Tried Recalibrating It The Only Thing It Does Is If I Have It On The Kick Stand It Will Only Turn Down To The Bottom And Not Straight Up And Down Long Ways With The Camera Up In The 12 O'clock Position And If U Do Get To Go To The 12 O'clock It Won't Go Back Just Stay And Rotate To The 12 And 6 O'clock With Camera Being 12 Any HELP Or Advice Would Be A BLESSING THANK YOU GUYS AND GOD BLESS YOU
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I solved the problem. During the calibration, it should be left on a perfectly plane surface.
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Touchscreen issues - not responsive at all
Hello guys,
I have an Archos 101 G9 Turbo and have a huge problem.. The touchscreen became unresponsive and I cannot access the tablet at all. I tried to reboot it in recovery and forced a recalibration but it won't work at all. Sometimes, after "10" reboots, it is working for 5 min. sometimes 2 hours or more but than it suddenly stops again. The screen doesn't show some "ghost" activity it seems like the driver for the screen simply crashes or so. The system works normally, I can use my cellphone as a remote control but without that I wont be able to do anything with it.
When I reset the device it works for some time but sooner or later it will act up again.
I tried several Custom Firmwares but I switched back to the latest stock f. since the issue was persistent.
Does anyone have an idea what could cause this trouble?
I have also the same problem like you sometime works great sometimes catastrophic but sometime i have to push the device behind then works.
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Screen calibration on it's own does not always solve the problem, I had a similar issue trying to unlock the screen.
I found recalibrating the accelerometer and then the screen solved the issue.
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Touch screen does not work. It works some times randomly after numerous re-boots. So I tried to root it and after rooting on boot up touch screen now working at all
Stuck on language selection 1st screen of device setup.
HELPPPPP PLEASEEEEEE
I have also same problem. My 80 G9 tablet is old about two years and this issue i have noticed about half a year. Issue is progressing any i'm becoming frustrated...i have turbo model. Restarting and re-calibration sometimes help but lately not any more. I have send a ticket to Archos and they offered me option to sent tablet back and get a new product (so they didn't offer servicing or maintenance) with "kind 25% off" for new tablet, which is bull****! I have used mostly stock rom, once rooted and the latest one is custom rom (because i belived it is maybe up to rom) but problem still persist. After rom update/re-install everything works fine for a day or two and then problems emerge again. Does anyone have any clue what it might be?
fluidni said:
I have also same problem. My 80 G9 tablet is old about two years and this issue i have noticed about half a year. Issue is progressing any i'm becoming frustrated...i have turbo model. Restarting and re-calibration sometimes help but lately not any more. I have send a ticket to Archos and they offered me option to sent tablet back and get a new product (so they didn't offer servicing or maintenance) with "kind 25% off" for new tablet, which is bull****! I have used mostly stock rom, once rooted and the latest one is custom rom (because i belived it is maybe up to rom) but problem still persist. After rom update/re-install everything works fine for a day or two and then problems emerge again. Does anyone have any clue what it might be?
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I have downgraded & installed Stock ROM 4.0.26 as I feel 4.0.28 is the culprit. Its been 2 days since I did this and so far so good - no issues
I really dont know what to do...my G9 has become useless, screen does not work at all. This morning i have installed Clean_slim&Fast v.0.1 rom, tablet worked fine for a minute or so until i tried to clean screen...moment after it became unresponsive. I have contacted Archos before, they offered me new replacement tablet with 25% off, no repair option at all. I must say that i'm really disappointed with this brand, primarily with support they offer. Never again Archos .
Yep, they change it. It happened to me too but before the the warranty expired.Less than one week and I had a new tablet.
When I looked around for a solution I noticed many complained about this and it seems it was a very common issue.
Anyway, I'd like to help cos there could be a sort of solution, it worked for me, and I can tell you if you contact me.
fluidni said:
I really dont know what to do...my G9 has become useless, screen does not work at all. This morning i have installed Clean_slim&Fast v.0.1 rom, tablet worked fine for a minute or so until i tried to clean screen...moment after it became unresponsive. I have contacted Archos before, they offered me new replacement tablet with 25% off, no repair option at all. I must say that i'm really disappointed with this brand, primarily with support they offer. Never again Archos .
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I wanna remind you that despite Archos offers a one year warranty, after its expiration date, you still have 2 months to report the issue and get a new tablet. You are covered for 14 months (at least in Europe that's the law).
I found a solution...so far i always had installed ES Task manager and used it for clearing cache, killing task, etc...well, i uninstalled it and now tablet works fine. Strange but true.
gluka said:
Yep, they change it. It happened to me too but before the the warranty expired.Less than one week and I had a new tablet.
When I looked around for a solution I noticed many complained about this and it seems it was a very common issue.
Anyway, I'd like to help cos there could be a sort of solution, it worked for me, and I can tell you if you contact me.
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I wanna remind you that despite Archos offers a one year warranty, after its expiration date, you still have 2 months to report the issue and get a new tablet. You are covered for 14 months (at least in Europe that's the law).
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A new Hyundai Rock X IPS tablet.
Loaded Android v4.1 stock Firmware.
Turned off at evening as always. Turned on next morning routinely but waked up without Touch function which makes the tablet unusable..
Reflashed several time w/ FWs of the last two version of factory.. Every time the same result. Booting up w/o touch facility and not possible to start and execute initial settings and use the tablet..
It is bricked some way..
As it is not recovered by flashing with factory FWs, what would be the reason? Hardware failure ? But screen is okay, only no response to touch.
What do you suggest ??
I am away to China and no chance to ask service and replacement..
But if it is screen hardware failure maybe a new screen (as spare part) may be purchased and replaced..
Do you think Hardware ? Could it be disconnection of some part such as digitizer ?
Unfortunately i just experienced the same problem. Searching on Google and it seems its becoming a common complaint. I think its a hardware problem.
P. S.
Mine is just 4 days old.
Hi guys,
Device: Version is G9 101 TURBO 8GB (A101).
Issue: depending on how you hold the tablet, lots of ghost touchs appear on screen and cause undesired touches. Example: if I hold it on the left side and try to use Google Maps, maps get crazy and start moving all over and zooming in/out.
I see some people complaining about it, but it's still difficult to see if it's a hardware or software problem.
Some people say reverting back to firmware 3.2.80 fix the problem, but I tried to downgrade the firmware with official and rooted versions and been unsuccessful (official gives error 221 because you can't officially downgrade and the rooted one flashes Archos logo nonstop).
I also tried to install CyanogenMod but installation fails after I select the ZIP file (stops at creating data ext4). Maybe because it's not rooted (I only have SDE installed).
Others apparently sent it to Archos for repair but I haven't seen the results - did them fix the problem?
If you experienced this issue, could you please post your solution?
Thank you!
ijrr said:
Hi guys,
Device: Version is G9 101 TURBO 8GB (A101).
Issue: depending on how you hold the tablet, lots of ghost touchs appear on screen and cause undesired touches. Example: if I hold it on the left side and try to use Google Maps, maps get crazy and start moving all over and zooming in/out.
I see some people complaining about it, but it's still difficult to see if it's a hardware or software problem.
Some people say reverting back to firmware 3.2.80 fix the problem, but I tried to downgrade the firmware with official and rooted versions and been unsuccessful (official gives error 221 because you can't officially downgrade and the rooted one flashes Archos logo nonstop).
I also tried to install CyanogenMod but installation fails after I select the ZIP file (stops at creating data ext4). Maybe because it's not rooted (I only have SDE installed).
Others apparently sent it to Archos for repair but I haven't seen the results - did them fix the problem?
If you experienced this issue, could you please post your solution?
Thank you!
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Just a follow up: I went back to the store and replaced for another one (same model) and this one works perfectly.
If it matters, the first one had serial number beginning with PR13 and the new one has PR08... maybe it helps someone.
I actually have the same problem. My A101 G9 got its LCD broken some time ago, I ordered a new display and replaced it myself (because Archos assistance was really awful, they sent me the tablet back with the transport costs added only) and now i had this strange issue in the bottom right corner. It's now impossible to use. I thik it's a digitizer glass issue, can you help me?
hmmm... I have no idea what might being happening there...
In my case I replaced the unit for another one and it's been working fine BUT after charging I noticed I might get ghost touchs in the corner too but in that case calibrating (inside Settings > Repair) fix the issue.
The unit I had before, nothing was fixing... so probably a hardware problem.
maina19 said:
I actually have the same problem. My A101 G9 got its LCD broken some time ago, I ordered a new display and replaced it myself (because Archos assistance was really awful, they sent me the tablet back with the transport costs added only) and now i had this strange issue in the bottom right corner. It's now impossible to use. I thik it's a digitizer glass issue, can you help me?
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