New Firmware 1.3.07 released
Posted by Charbax on November 17th, 2009
Archos has released a new major firmware update for the Archos 5 Internet Tablet with Android, available at http://www.archos.com/support/support_tech/updates.html
See the changelog:
Firmware changes
Version 1.3.07 – November 17th, 2009
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
You can discuss this firmware update in the forum at http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=27647