Version 2.0.54 – Android “Froyo” 2.2.1 – November 30th, 2010
- 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
I have been secretly testing this for the last week (together with cajl of http://jbmm.fr and Thocan of http://archoslounge.net), it works pretty much awesome. Few optimizations and few bug fixes still to be done before Archos can release this cool firmware update.
* 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
Appslib: migrate to new appslib application
Display: use arrow pointer cursor on TVout
Audio: improve choppy voice audio on some android applications
Music: take DISCNUMBER tag into account
Music: fix some internet radio streams not playing
Video: fix crash with empty SRT file
Video: fix some large MOV/VP4 or MP4 HD files not playing
Video: add support for some more PCM formats in MOV/MP4
FM: fix FM receiver noise occurring on new hardware
Wi-Fi: improve reconnect speed in environment with lot’s of access points
SDcard: allow reformatting of SD card
austnash posted a video explaining how to install the modified firmware on Archos 7 Home Tablet to have the full Google Marketplace experience on the device, as released by knightdominion to the forum since 19th of June this year in this thread: http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=34668
Display: add accelerated 3D openGL support
Fullscreen: add statusbar notification when an application is requesting fullscreen with ability to enable fullscreen for this application. Fullscreen enabling/disabling can be performed through power menu (on long power button press).
Archos media center: faster display
Thinkfree: v2.0 with full edit features
Thinkfree: can now be un-installed by user. Note that sometimes during this process an invalid shortcut might remain on the home screen. If this happens this shortcut can be removed by a long press and drag towards tray trash icon.
Display: add transparency to notification tray background
Version 1.9.10 – June 3rd, 2010
Video: fix some MJPG files not playing correctly
Audio: add support for .M4B files
Audio: improve speaker sound quality
Tethering: fix user password support and do not filter devices pretending not to be phones (e.g. Windows Mobile)
Internationalization: add Hebrew glyphs in font and corresponding virtual keyboard layout
Location: fix location manager sometimes preventing device suspend
System: better management of background applications under high memory pressure.
Wi-Fi: fix disconnection occurring on some devices after a few minutes of web browsing.
Wi-Fi: correct speed is now reported in Settings
USB: fix crash sometimes happening when connecting USB in MTP mode
USB: fix Archos Multimedia Center not working during USBNET connection
Video: disable resume and bookmark features when video file is not in the “Video” directory
Tethering: re-enable user/password functionality
FM radio: Add button to force speaker output
Another couple new things reported by users of the forum:
- Paid Apps now work with the Marketplace hack
- Hebrew fonts support has been added
Version 1.7.95 – March 23th, 2010
Multimedia center: fix multimedia center sometimes not starting
Suspend: implement a deep sleep mode triggered by long press on power button that suppresses device wake up by alarms. Normal suspend behavior is preserved and triggered by a short press on power button.
System monitor: add kill all applications entry on top of the running application list for easier access
Mutlimedia: increase Archos Multimedia Library update speed for large hard drives when using MSC USB mode
Multimedia: fix some mp3 files playing with wrong sampling rate
Multimedia: fix some subtitles preventing correct video playback
Multimedia: fix compressed MKV subs sometimes not displayed
Cell phone tethering: disable TCP/IP header compression since it conflicts with some carriers
Networking: fix some DHCP issues occurring with some buggy access points on certain firmware revisions (e.g. WRT54G v5 FW 1.01.0)
Networking: fix some Wi-Fi disconnect occurring when exiting from suspend
Networking: fix Wi-Fi turning directly off when wpa_supplicant.conf file is empty
Appslib: version 1.1.6b2 of appslib is installed at firmware upgrade
Accessories: add HDMI minidock support
The performance of these Texas Instruments processors is very relevant to us Archos Fans. In this video I interview Atul Aggarwal, Director of Product Marketing at Texas Instruments, about the performance, hardware acceleration, software support for their awesome OMAP3 series of processors.
Android 2.1 is thus said to have been “available for developpers” just only about 2 weeks ago and it is demonstrated to run beautifully on both OMAP3430 based Zoom2 and the OMAP3630 Zoom3 development devices.
OMAP3430 is similar to the more powerful OMAP3440 that Archos is using in the Archos 5 Internet Tablet with Android. Thus I try to get some informations from the Texas Instruments representative about which kinds of hardware acceleration limits in terms of Video playback and 3D rendering and other graphics accelerations that we might see in firmware updates. Of course the firmwares that Archos can release for us do not have to feature all the latest from Texas Instruments, but the latest stuff that TI can demonstrate, logically Archos engineers might also be working with those tools for our firmware updates.
Not that I am able to exactly confirm what kinds of hardware acceleration upgrades and Android upgrades we might get in the next firmwares, but I can tell you that I heard lots of very exciting stuff from the Texas Instruments engineers and product managers at the Mobile World Congress, as I was there to film 55 video interviews for my other site http://ARMdevices.net
I am meeting with Archos soon, the CeBIT is coming up in just one week and I will be there filming 50 videos as well. So look forward to more very exciting updates on the hardware acceleration updates for Archos Android that are coming!
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