Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Archos 5 IT gets Android 1.6 Donut upgrade


UPDATED


Changes:

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

System: faster display in Archos Media Center applications
Storage: correct random hard disk disconnection while playing music or video
GPS: improved heading and velocity reports

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
Media: both Archos media library and Android media library are now updated at the same time
GUI: added support for Turkish virtual keyboard


Cool! Archos is clearly trying hard.

.. but this upgrade will kill the market hack so wait few for a fix if needed.



UPDATE: Update may have been pulled!!?? Let's wait if it gets back. Mirrors anyone?

UPDATE2: From Archos site:


Instead of 1.6 they have released v 1.4.25


Download archos5_r1.6.08





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5 comments:

Charbax said...

Let's wait a bit, there might have been some kind of bug, or perhaps Google phoned them and told them they could include the Marketplace now officially.

Anonymous said...

i have a mirror if you want one... send me a mail kaiouncharles [@] gmail.com

Biz said...

Warning with this firmware :

http://tinyurl.com/yftkx72

Anonymous said...

Off Topic-
MultiTouch in Linux Kernel
news - demo video

http://lii-enac.fr/en/projects/shareit/xorg.html

Anonymous said...

I received the Archos Donut update last night. It took a while for me to reconnect to my internet settings, but other than that, everything seems to work fine. My biggest complaint: losing all the previously downloaded apps and ebooks I had.

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