Archos 5 Internet Tablet
Firmware changes
Since this firmware is based on a new version of Android, after the update, you will be prompted to reset your device configuration. It is highly recommended to do so. The extra applications that you may have installed will need to be re-installed, but your multimedia files will not be affected.
- Android 1.6 "Donut": quick search box, power control widget, battery usage indicator screen, WVGA screen native support, VPN
- ThinkFree Mobile 1.2: double-tap zoom in PDF, miscellaneous bug fixes and speed improvements
- Video: add automatic gain control option for sound in Video Player
- Video: fix support for MJPG files
- Video: improve youtube playback support
- Music: add support for .mp2 files
- Music: allow to play shoutcast .PLS files from the web browser
- TV: improve image centering in Video Player when using DVR Snap-on
- Android: fix touch screen offset experienced in some applications due to presence of Archos status bar
- Keyboard: add up and down arrow keys in Android keyboard (press "?123" to get it)
- Keyboard: add "OK" key in Android keyboard (long press on "Return" key to get it)
- GUI: improved Archos Widget layout on TV
- Storage: correct random hard disk disconnection while playing music or video
- Network: fix UPnP and network sharing not working on Wi-Fi access point not complying with Wi-Fi power saving standard specification
- Network: add an option to disable power saving at the expense of battery life for a specific access point at first association to cope with some buggy Wi-Fi access points
- Network: fix archos multimedia application sometimes failed to access the network
- Alarm Clock: fix alarm could not be set when android multimedia library was off
- System: use Android default notification sound when android multimedia library is off
- System: add accelerometer calibration in Startup Wizard
- Storage: correct random hard disk disconnection while playing music or video
- Video improve H264 HD playback, fixes some streams that did not play at all
- Video: allow to play some H264 SD tracks that were previously unsupported
- Video: fix H264 streams with "weighted p" feature
- Music: fix some Vorbis tags not read properly
- Music: fix some ID3 tags not read correctly
- Web Radio / Web TV: fix Archos media center sometimes crashing after finishing a podcast download
- GPS: improved heading and velocity reports
- Wi-Fi: improve scan performance and connection manager
- Video: now display subtitles for HD videos
- Video: fix MKV subtitles that were sometimes truncated
- Video: improve youtube video playback
- Video: correct playback of certain M4V/MP4/MOV files
- Video: solve some videos not correctly displayed
- Streaming: Archos Media Player couldn't open http links containing special characters (space, coma, etc.)
- USB: fix transfer interruptions in USBnet mode
- USB: accessory did not work when USB cable was connected in ADB mode
- Fix Archos Media Center applications sometimes quit unexpectedly in portrait mode
- Video: improve H264-HD playback
- Video: improve audio-video synchronisation for certain MKV files
- Video: added support for TS files from Freebox
- Video: fix seeking for MOV/MP4/M4V files generated by Handbrake
- Video: improve MKV subtitle support
- Video: allow switching between TXT and DVD subs in MKV files
- Video: allow to chose between internal and external subtitles for the same video file
- Video: add support for VORBIS in MKV
- Video: don't skip audio due to non-supported audio track in case there is another one supported in the file
- Web Radio: fix favorites being shared between several users
- TV out: fix freeze occurring sometimes when removing the device from DVR Station while Video Recorder is running
- TV out: display is now switched back to LCD in case of a crash of Android
- TV Snap-on: after exiting the TV application it was impossible to use Archos multmedia applications
- Home Screen: some third party widgets took more cells than expected (Widgets must be removed and added again)
- Home Screen: Search, Music and Picture Frame widget frames were not well displayed on analog TV
- Contacts: fix application crash on long click on contact or on emails addresses
- Contacts: In case no third-party application is associated with the "address" field, open google maps using the web browser
- Accelerometer: Some third-party applications were not working properly (Accelerometer must be calibrated again, see Device Settings > Sound & display)
- System: better accessory detection
- System: improve display speed in Archos Multimedia applications
- System: fix multimedia center unavailable when setting Archos Multimedia Library manual update
- System: fix some issues occurring after opening a Multimedia application while the Archos multimedia update was on-going in background
- System: now display a warning message when USB and TV Snap-on are connected at same time
- System: don't keep device awake forever when a firmware update is detected while user is away.
- System: ADB USB identifier was incorrect
- System: device was consuming too much power from USB in ADB and USBnet modes
- 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