Archos 5 Internet Tablet
Firmware changes
- Multimedia Libraries: allow to disable Archos and/or Android libraries automatic updates after USB disconnection (Settings > Device Storage > Multimedia libraries)
- Multimedia Libraries: allow to limit Android library indexing to Music/Video/Photos instead of the whole storage
- New ThinkFree Mobile 1.1: word finder, charts rendering, zip extraction, larger document handling, etc.
- Mail: allow to send various file types (pdf, ppt, doc, xls, zip, apk, etc.) from ThinkFree Mobile
- Video: thumbnails were not created for HD videos
- Video: improve MP4 files support
- Video: improve codec support for MKV files
- Video: improve VOB subtitles support and display
- Video: sometimes HD videos could not be read, had to reboot to fix the issue
- Video: some videos were playing back with a wrong resolution
- Video/Music: some MP3 and MPG streams did not play
- Video/Music: improve error reporting for unsupported audio/video formats
- Music: do not stop FM Transmission when going back to the Music Browser to change track
- Photo: zooming of images with a 180 degrees rotation was not correct
- Thumbnails: fix some cases of corruption of thumbnails image
- Web Browser: fix YouTube fullscreen playback
- Web Browser: allow to zoom-in/out with Page-down/up on the Remote Control
- Media Club: back button now takes server redirections into account
- Network Browser: The current folder name was lost when returning to Network Browser at player exit
- Network Browser: Added an animated hourglass while searching for the first UPNP server
- GUI: add localized keyboards for Russian, Bulgarian and Greek in Android
- GUI: improve Chinese, Dutch, French, Italian, Russian and Spanish translations
- TV: touchpad mode didn't allow to reach the whole screen area in 720p mode
- TV: HDMI audio output was proposed when video output was analog
- System: lower power consumption in suspend mode
- System: display was frozen when inserting an SDcard after Arclibrary update
- System: prevent Bluetooth (ACRVP) and IR Remote Control key press to wake-up the screen
- System: prevent USB mode to be changed during USB connection
- System: add localized firmware update messages
- Audio: correct left and right channel inversion happening sometimes
- Video: allows to seek in FLV files without index
- Suspend: fix suspend side effects occurring on some devices
- WiFi: fix driver crash occurring on some devices
- GPS: quicker time to fix and improved position accuracy
- Suspend: some devices were not able to stay in suspend for long period (restarted in cold boot instead)
- Indexing: a new setting allow to disable the indexing of Android's own library (Device storage > Multimedia libraries)
- Video: H264 SD High Profile did not play
- Video: allow smoother H264 HD playback in some cases
- Video: seeking in MKV file sometimes caused audio or video freeze
- Photo: right border pixel column of the thumbnails was corrupted
- Photo: slideshow was not paused when trying to go to suspend
- TV: output AC3 5.1 when "SPDIF" settings is selected, else output AC3 stereo only
- TV: fixed some of the HD and PAL/NTSC video picture formats
- USB Host: add a notification in the Android statusbar when a PTP or MTP device is connected to enable safe removal
- Network: Media Center network browsing was not working with some network configuration
- System: device was sometimes going to suspend while playing back music
- System: Archos Media Center sometimes was not using the right system settings (language, time zone, clock format)
- Internationalization: support display of all type of foreign unicode filenames in Archos Media Center
- Internationalization: now supports Japanese ID3 tags
- Internationalization: additional Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian translations,
- Accessories: add HDMI dock support
- Android applications: all Archos default Android applications are installed during firmware update process after reboot if not present on the disk
- Web browser: fix some random crashes
- Youtube: solve some video playback issues
- TV output: setup wizard shows a picture of the connectors and cable
- TV output: fix AC3 sound being stereo only on SPDIF/HDMI
- TV output: provide higher HDMI output volume
- Android sound recorder: recording is now performed at 44.1kHz
- Bluetooth: provide better auto-reconnect support for A2DP headsets
- Multimedia: faster MKV parser implementation and smoother H264 playback
- Cell phone tethering for data access: tethering is supported under Archos Media Center and Android is now made aware of tether network connectivity
- Sound recorder: add capability to record in PCM under android
- TV output support: desktop icons are now resized to avoid overlapping on PAL/NTSC output
- USB connection: a ftp and samba server are running on the device when mounting usbnet connection, device behaves now like a network file server
- Android debug bridge: ADB is now enabled with user shell privilege
- Recording: sound saturation issue has been fixed
- Archos media center launcher widget: provide a faster shortcuts display
- Hardware support: improved GPS and Wi-Fi driver
- Storage: microsd formatting and ejection is now supported under Android
- Keyboard support: when a physical keyboard is connected, virtual keyboard is deactivated to allow larger edition space
- Suspend: contact with touchscreen surface is no longer preventing suspend
- Archos media center launcher widget: reactivity has been enhanced
- Browser: video playback is supported on Youtube mobile website
- Email: attachments can be saved and opened
- Cell phone tethering using bluetooth: more cell phones are supported
- Bluetooth: keyboard support has been added