Archos 28/32/35/43/70/101
Firmware changes
- Archos 35: improve touch screen experience
- Video: improve flv playback
- USB host: fix host not working anymore on some A101 units
- Archos 35 home connect: allow to change temperature unit in weather clock
- Video: improve playback of some FLV files
- Archos 35 home connect: new tunein professional application version integrated
- Archos 35 home connect: adjust minimum speaker volume level
- A101 accessory: add Kontron (Industrial Computer Source / ICS Advent), DM9601 Fast Ethernet Adapter support
- Suspend: solve power consumption regression
- Archos 35 home connect product support
- Archos 35 smart home phone product support
- Internationalization: add Korean translations support
- Video: improve SMI subtitle support and provide better subtitle codepage/encoding detection
- Applications: increase reactivity of applications constantly updating sound volume without any change in value (e.g. fruit ninja)
- A101 accessory: add support for Archos 3G key
- A101 accessory: add support for some USB Ethernet adapters (chipsets: RTL8150, ASIX AX88xxx, Davicom DM9601, SMSC LAN75xx, SMSC LAN95xx, NetChip 1080, MosChip MCS7830)
- A70 hard drive based devices: fix unit loosing mass storage happening sometimes on recent models
- Accelerometer: apply calibration right away without requiring a reboot to take effect
- PTP: fix USB host camera support
- Display: improve UI fluidity
- Display: suppress black/white screen happening sometimes when exiting suspend
- Applications: increase compatibility with third party music players
- Applications: fix black camera image for skype upstream video
- Video: fix some mp4 files stopping with audio errors
- Video: fix some H264 streams not decoding correctly
- Audio: fix some FLAC files not playing correctly
- Internationalization: improve Spanish, Italian, Dutch translations
- Flash: integrate flash plugin version 10.1.105.7 (can be uninstalled)
- Subtitle wizard: allow to associate a subtitle to a video (launched by a long press on a video file in video browser)
- Audio player: solve some seldom force to close
- Audio: increase compatibility with android applications (e.g. games)
- Video: avoid crashes when playing truncated or broken MKV files
- Video: fix bulgarian subtitles detection
- Wi-Fi: fix unit rebooting in loop sometimes when waking up from suspend leaving Wi-Fi on in nomadic situations
- Battery estimation: report 100% at full charge (power led blinking) after removing the charger
- Battery estimation: provide more accurate battery charge information at boot for A70it hard drive model
- Media library: purge media library entries relative to the sdcard at sdcard removal
- Internationalization: include better Russian translations
- Wi-Fi: fix cannot scan on an access point above channel 11 regression
- Phone tethering: fix TCP/IP header compression setting crash
- System stability: avoid Android reboot in case of missing audio
- Media library: fix media libray not updated on hard drive based A70
- Notification: decrease low battery notification volume
- Application: attempt to solve Pandora application not able to switch songs
- Application: solve music lag in applications using OGG format
- Bluetooth GPS: increase compatibility with 3rd party applications
- Display: avoid white/black screen happening sometimes when switching back the display on
- Application: a new Archos remote service and universal Android application to control your Archos device remotely using Wi-Fi. It is intended to operate your Archos using any Android phone/device for instance when the Archos is connected to the TV. The "Archos Remote Control" application is available on Android Market and on Appslib
- Application: a new Archos youtube application to easily view and play youtube videos
- Network shares: samba network share transfer speed has been enhanced to support HD streaming
- Network shares: password protected shares are now discoverable
- Media library: improve indexing behavior and robustness
- Media info scraper: more robust poster and information retrieval process for TV and movie shows
- Media library cleaning: all multimedia information (movie/tv shows posters and indexation data) can be cleared through settings->repair/formatting/reset multimedia library entry
- Contacts: fix importation and exportation of Vcards
- Applications: fix sound muted when initiating a call with Fring
- Screen snapshot: fix capture for all screens and TV
- Camera: increase quality of 720P H264 recording (decrease blockiness effect)
- Multimedia: improve UPNP stability preventing hangs when Wi-Fi connection stops
- Multimedia: for shoutcast network streams display url, station, genre on MusicPlayer
- Multimedia: fix next playing video being paused at start in folder play mode
- Multimedia: MMS playback support has been fixed
- Multimedia: MIDI playback support has been fixed
- Multimedia: fix compatibility with Rhapsody player application
- Audio: fixed alarm volume when headphone are plugged (was lowered)
- Video: fix some MPEG2 files not playing correctly on A28
- Video: fix seeking in AVI with layer2 VBR sound
- MusicPlayer: display track number (like "3/10") for A43/A70/A101
- Videoplayer: fix folder play mode with HD video
- Subtitles: auto detect UTF8 codepage
- Storage: remove disk damage notification happening sometimes even after a successful file system check
- Peripherals: display a notification when plugging a USB device that requires more than 100mA current for A28/A32/A70 to provide feedback that it is not supported (e.g. some USB keys)
- Battery: improve prediction of wake up time to shutdown the product when battery is low
- Proxy: http proxy support has been fixed
- Phone tethering: increase compatibility with Blackberry phones (introduction of a setting to enable TCP/IP header compression)
- External keyboard layouts: various country layouts are now supported using Settings > Language and keyboard > Select external keyboard layout setting (qwerty us/uk, azerty french, qwertz deutch, latin america spanish, russian, japanese)
- Proxy: http proxy settings have been enabled for the browser in Settings > Wireless & network > wifi proxy settings
- Network shares: introduce an option to enable/disable network share scanning per Wi-Fi Access Point in Wi-Fi authentication dialog box
- Battery: improve robustness of battery charge status for hard drive based A70it
- Sound: fix sound level saturation causing loss of audio when playing on speaker
- Music: fix some MP3 files have bad sound after seeking
- Video: make some high level H264 HD files play correctly
- Video: fix black screen on video player resume from suspend for MPEG4 files
- USB host: fix NTFS UTF8 support
- Wi-Fi: fix network disabled occurring after several suspend/resume loops
- Wi-Fi: prevent false state information reported when authenticating/enabling Wi-Fi
- Multimedia library: avoid deletion of multimedia files happening sometimes on SDCard
- Applications: fixes force close happening on applications not handling properly SecurityException (e.g. AppMonster and Dolphin)
- Network shares: limit scanning to /24 subnet mask
- Video: fix some audio glitches after seeking WMA files
- Video: add support for MTS files
- Video: bring UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoded subtitles format support
- Video: fix SUB subtitles sometimes truncated
- Video: add IDX/SUB subtitle handling
- Video: fix http://.*mpeg playback
- Video: support resume and bookmark for network shares
- Video: fix some FLV files not playing
- Youtube: fix mobile site video not playing
- Multimedia: fix RTSP support for Android applications
- Multimedia: fix some web radio applications by adding basic M3U support
- Audio: apply shorter steps in audio balance tuning
- Audio: fix sound glitch on system notification while playing music
- Music browser: fix album view crash on scroll with a lot of albums
- Music: support samba protected directory access
- Thumbnails: resolve thumbs generation freeze
- Indexing: improve rescan robustness
- Indexing: fix scanning not restarting after connecting device on PC or ejecting SDCard
- Network shares: large files (>2GB) can now be played
- Wi-Fi: fix disabling power saving not working
- Wi-Fi: enable IEEE802.11n support
- Wi-Fi: achieve faster reconnection
- SDCard: fix sdcard removal not being taken into account
- Storage: enable EXT3 filesystem support and migration
- USB keyboard: fix external directional keys layout when rotating the device
- Memory: enable 32MB swap by default and increase it to 64MB after Android reset or full device reformat
- Applications: fix applications disappearing sometimes between reboots
- Applications: fix unit not responsive after Google voicesearch use
- Power management: allow to define deep sleep mode by default in settings/about device/power management
- VPN: PPTP VPN support has been fixed
- Wi-Fi: fix Wi-Fi stuck after a while when using WPA2/AES encryption mode
- Wi-Fi: fix cannot connect on channels above 11 due to wrong default regulation domain
- Power management: for A43/A70/A101 add a setting in about device to allow 3 levels of power management. Overdrive that allows CPU max frequency to be 1GHz with ondemand governor, optimal that brings CPU max frequency to 800MHz with ondemand governor and powersave that set CPU max frequency to 800MHz with conservative governor
- Indexing: faster rescan is now achieved at USB disconnect
- Storage: SDCard now supports NTFS (read only) and EXT3
- Storage: fix sdcard not recognized sometimes when swapping different cards brands
- Video: fix subtitles on A101
- Network shares: enhance scanning speed
- Network shares: handle the case where a server shares are not visible if not authenticated
- Network shares: allow in wireless settings to define manually a server authentication details
- Network shares: reload samba and UPnP services when switching between access points without disconnecting
- Audio: a silent mode (Global Mute) has been enabled in the power button menu. It will impact all streams except alarms in case one select alarms sound always on in alarm settings
- Application: appslib is now reinstalled after an Android device reset
- Application: fix quadrant CPU benchmark
- Power: fix shutdown sometimes happening on short power button press
- Internationalization: support for Korean codepage tags and subtitles
- Multimedia: use smaller memory footprint for decoding H264 SD
- Memory management: achieve more progressive kill in low memory situation
- Boot: fix deadlock happening sometimes preventing device to complete boot
- Higher performance: just in time compiler (JIT) technology makes applications run up to 5 times faster than previous Android "Eclair" 2.1 firmwares
- Enhanced Microsoft Exchange support: it is now possible to synchronize contacts and calendar events
- Allow to install more 3rd party applications by installing them on the storage memory (for applications that supports it)
- Video: movie information and cover retrieval in video file info dialog
- Multiple selection mode is now always enabled in the file manager
- External bluetooth GPS receivers are now supported
- Better assistance is provided in the tethering wizard to pair with cell phone using bluetooth DUN profile (smart APN detection)
- OpenVPN is now supported
- Slideshow support for network shares has been added to Gallery and Photoframe applications
- Photoframe: full screen picture can now be displayed on double tap when in floating image mode
- Manual white balance setting has been added in Camera application
- Faster USB write transfer
- Battery: more accurate battery charge estimation
- Audio: improved compatibility with android audio stream volume management (voice/music/ringtone etc.)
- Orientation: fixed compatibility issue with some applications working with inverted accelerometer axis
- Video: fix some videos hanging during playback or seek
- Video: improve fluidity of HD playback
- Video: improve subtitles detection
- Photo: fix some JPEG decoder crashes
- UPnP: increase timeout to allow server discovery
- Power: long press on power button (5s) initiates shutdown
- Touchpad mode: improved usability on TVout
- Touchscreen: avoid possible loss of touchscreen after boot/calibration/suspend on A70/A101
- Airplane mode: disable Wi-Fi
- USB host: speedup device availability by avoiding file system check at mount
- Plugins: propose installation at USB disconnect and correctly report plugin status in settings
- Internalization: Polish translations
- Video: improved HD playback performance
- Video: improve MKV support (header compression)
- Video: support MPEG1 in MKV
- Video: improved lip sync
- Music: solve some MP3 tags displayed not correctly
- Camera: improve compatibility with fring video calls
- Photoframe: allow to play photos from a SD card or through USB host
- Photoframe: fixed menu cleared and redrawn when opened quickly after launching the application
- File manager: new multi selection mode
- Wi-Fi/Bluetooth: fix some reconnection issues after suspend
- Bluetooth: OBEX file transfer has been fixed
- Accessories: support more keyboards/mice in USB host mode
- Display: allow touchscreen calibration under settings/repairtools for A101/A70
- Battery: improved battery percentage report
- A28: increase UI reactivity
- Keyguard: fix unlock pattern not requested at boot if set
- Network shares: samba password protected shares are now supported
- File manager: a progress bar is now displayed when copying files
- Gallery3D: fix color banding effects on some pictures
- Statusbar: notify airplane mode
- VoIP: fix audio volume too low for some VoIP Android applications on the A43
- Web browser: A70/A101 are now configured to use a desktop user agent to get the full web experience (non mobile one)
- Battery: more accurate battery level reporting on A70/A101
- Tethering: android is now aware of the tether connectivity status fixing apps download using appslib
- TVout: improve trackpad control behavior
- Display: faster sliding between home screens
- Photoframe: nicer button layout
- Video: add support for some more PCM formats in MOV/MP4
- Video: fix VOB subtitles color
- Video: improve playback of large MP4 files
- Video: improve audio/video sync for low resolution H264 video
- Music: fix some Internet radio streams not playing
- Music: display codec details in information dialog
- Music: display track/artist/album name in audioplayer for non-indexed tracks and for network SMB/UPnP shares