- New Android 1.6 "Donut"
- - Optimization of applications on the
high-resolution screen of the ARCHOS 5 IT
- - New "Quick Search" to find your Apps, Music,
Contacts, and browsing history and get suggested search results as you
type
- - Easy access to battery saving features (wifi,
screen, gps, etc.)
- - New version of office documents viewer (ThinkFree
Mobile 1.2)
- Version 1.7.33 - January 20th, 2010
- 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 reporting
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Warning:
This firmware revision is essentially an operating system upgrade and
was recalled by Archos due to unresolved issues. It is not supported by, nor
recommended by Archos. Do not complain about problems experienced with
the use of this software. It is made available for experimental
purposes only.
USE
AT YOUR OWN RISK
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- 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
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- Fix Archos Media Center applications sometimes quit
unexpectedly in portrait mode
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- 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
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- 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
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Application
Markets:
AppsLib
AndApps
Mobentoo
Alternatives to the Android Marketplace. Some of the apps
below can be found here.
The files below will remain posted for the people who choose to run
their Archos stock without Market hacks.
Tools:
Battery
Meter
What it says. But also a handy way to toggle Wifi, GPS,
and Bluetooth. Not quite optimized visually for Donut, but still works
Advanced
Task Manager
Great Task manager. Can also uninstall apps.
Taskpanel
Task Manager. Some people like this one better
Brightness
Level
Change brightness from desktop
WiFi
Toggle
Toggle WiFi from desktop. Caution: I seemed to have fewer
wifi issues after uninstalling. Seems redundant.
Stopwatch
Uh..a stopwatch.
Astro
Author should get a Nobel, not Obama: Only way I know of
to backup your apps!
Games:
Chess
I'm good, and it kicks my ass every time.
Solitaire
I'm not so good, and it kicks my ass every time.
Entertainment:
Shazam!
One of the coolest apps ever. Endless fun identifying
music. You will spend hours trying to stump it. Thanks to "You Reds" at
Archos Fans for contributing this gem!
Pandora
Last
FM
The
Weather Channel
Stocks
Nice simple stock checker. About the one useful app I
found in Appslib
Sports
Tap
All sports info, scores, standings, etc. for everything
but badmitton. Pretty damn cool, but suspicious of this one causing
issues.
Places
Directory (1.5 only)
Won't work with Donut. At least not this version
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Specifications
User
Manuals
NDrive
Manual - English
Battery
Test Results for 32GB
Reviews:
by GenghisKhent
by
Candy
CNet
(32GB)
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Android
Market
"Hack" -HOT
How-To
for firmware 1.6 Donut by devo & m4rk3t
Instructions:
- copy Market4Archos.apk to
download directory
- install it by selecting this file using
the device file browser
- run the installed package and follow the
installation steps
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Links:
Archos Official Website
A5A Wiki
Archives:
Android
Market
"Hack"
How-To
for firmware 1.4
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