a500 = a501?

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Sorry if that a question that cleared... as a new owner of a501. Can i root and flash a500 Roms? Mms and GPS works for you?

Moscow Desire would probably be the best one to answer this for you, since he has a 501 but...

You can flash a 500 rom, but you will lose all functions related to the phone, since the 500 doesn't have a radio for that there is no need to have those functions in a 500 rom.

The A500 and A501 are in fact identical, save the fact that the A501 has an Ericsson baseband for 3g/4g internet access... Flashing an A500-only ROM will result in a missing driver for that baseband, thus it won't work. Otherwie, the ROMs work just fine, in fact I'm using civato's Flexreaper (which is an A500 ICS ROM) on my A501... and I'm looking for a way to add the missing baseband driver and settings items, too. Didn't get anything yet, though.

I have a a501, have had it a week now and the day after I got it I installed Moscow Desire's Alexander III rom:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1467689

Its a stripped version of the stock rom, everything works including the 3G just as good as the stock version but with root access and no bloatware.

Personally I love it, it works well, and has great battery life. Really I think his rom is the only rom out there specifically for an A501 at the moment.

Originally Posted by meinmichi

Sorry if that a question that cleared... as a new owner of a501. Can i root and flash a500 Roms? Mms and GPS works for you?

You can run 500 roms. I do it all the time for testing.

What you will not have;

internal 3g (this covers all functions that use it)
GPS

The 501 kernel is different than the 500's. Mainly because the 501 uses a "nuetered" radio for 3g and gps. The code for these are only available in the 501 kernel. And Acer has so far, never released kernel source for the 501. Probably due to the special ATT and Rogers versions they sold.

I've had success getting it to run on a "certain" 500 HC rom, but with no GPS.

Originally Posted by Moscow Desire

You can run 500 roms. I do it all the time for testing.

What you will not have;

internal 3g (this covers all functions that use it)
GPS

The 501 kernel is different than the 500's. Mainly because the 501 uses a "nuetered" radio for 3g and gps. The code for these are only available in the 501 kernel. And Acer has so far, never released kernel source for the 501. Probably due to the special ATT and Rogers versions they sold.

I've had success getting it to run on a "certain" 500 HC rom, but with no GPS.

is it possible an other customrom with your kernel to work?
or other, a full ics rom to run on a501?
is it hard to port another rom to support a501 full? or most buildprob.?

edit: the link was impossible...

meinmich, remove that link NOW... Before you get blasted for linking it... It's Thor's kernel which is not GPL compliant and ALL links to his work are not allowed here...
You should know this as you have been here a little while...

Originally Posted by meinmichi

is it possible an other customrom with your kernel to work?
or other, a full ics rom to run on a501?
is it hard to port another rom to support a501 full? or most buildprob.?

edit: the link was impossible...

1. The kernel I use, is RichardTripps 3.4. It is a Honeycomb kernel.
When you use Overclocked kernel, you have to be careful of voltage to the system board. Too little votage, and you have 3g lock. (tab freezes). Or, the tab will have SOD (sleep of death). It WILL NOT work with ICS.

2. No. The current GPL kernel for ICS, is for a500 only. It does not have the necessary code to make it work on the 501. This includes Thor's kernel. And his Device tree is different from the ICS "leaked" roms. His, is ASOP, so it WILL NOT work with the current ICS release.

3. You cannot port another device kernel. Not easy, as the 501 has the only3g internal. Other kernels, use different hardware drivers which Acer has not released.

Acer, is never going to release the source code for the 501. They are too busy sleeping in bed with ATT and Rogers network. Ain't gonna happen.

Originally Posted by Moscow Desire

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2. No. The current GPL kernel for ICS, is for a500 only. It does not have the necessary code to make it work on the 501. This includes Thor's kernel. And his Device tree is different from the ICS "leaked" roms. His, is ASOP, so it WILL NOT work with the current ICS release.

However, his ICS rom does have GPS enabled for the A501 after you rename a file.
Still no 3G though....

Originally Posted by ultramag69

However, his ICS rom does have GPS enabled for the A501 after you rename a file.
Still no 3G though....

Yeah, I saw that the other day. Probably guess he also tweaks the kernel as well. Not sure.