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Android-x86 ICS 4.0.4 for Acer1000 series – Beta 4 (Acer Aspire Timeline 1825, 1820, 1810, 1425, 1420, 1410 and compatible Packard Bell (Butterfly Touch …), Acer Aspire One and Samsung N145)

Hi guys,

I am very sorry that I have not answered all your comments yet, I try to do it when I have more time. This release is only the long announced development version from me with the first version of the ARM-Emulator included. Its different from current official implementation, because I have no time in the moment to update or work on my build….this situation will remain at least for entire September, because I am currently finishing my master-thesis before I leave the country for a while with destination South Asia… so you could imagine I have a lot things to do and to organize. But for keeping you satisfied this build with included ARM emulator will allow you to play a lot of games from Google Play like the famous Angry Birds. But keep in mind not all apps are working with this emulation but a lot! For everybody who hops I have integrated other drivers e.g. new wifi drivers, new kernel … I am sorry to promise you…no time, I have worked last months 24/7….I try to fulfill your requirements in the future but be patient I do not earn anything from this…. read more

Android-x86 ICS 4.0.4 for Acer1000 series – Beta 3 (Acer Aspire Timeline 1825, 1820, 1810, 1425, 1420, 1410 and compatible Packard Bell (Butterfly Touch …), Acer Aspire One and Samsung N145)

Although I am very busy for several months, because I am working on my master’s thesis project beside my job, I have found some time to finish beta 3 of my custom Android-x86 build. Feel free to donate me a beer if you like or enjoy my work!

If you are new to Android(-x86) on your laptop I suggest you reading over my old postings and the user comments from ICS and  honeycomb  releases. You will get a better feeling about which things are working (also how they are working) and which not and could get some other clues like how to prepare a bootable usb device, how the prepare for multi-boot and so on. read more

Android-x86 ICS 4.0.3 for Acer1000 series – Beta 2[a] (Acer 1825, 1820, 1810, 1425, 1420, 1410 and compatible Packard Bell (Butterfly Touch …)) [UPDATED]

BETA 3 IS RELEASED : http://www.ceh-photo.de/blog/?p=531

I am very proud to present you beta 2 of my Android-x86 ICS build for the Acer1000 series. Special credits to everybody who helped with testing my prereleases.

If you are new to Android on your Acer laptop/convertible  I suggest you reading over my old postings and the user comments from ICS  beta 1 and honeycomb  releases, because honeycomb is quite similar to ICS in usability and functionality and especially my builds. You will get a better feeling about which things are working and which not and could get some other clues like how to prepare a bootable usb device, how the prepare for multi-boot and so on. read more

Android-x86 ICS 4.0.3 for Acer1000 series – Beta 1 (Acer 1825, 1820, 1425, 1420 and compatible Packard Bell (Butterfly Touch …))

Beta 2 is available –> http://www.ceh-photo.de/blog/?p=480

I am very proud to present you my new Android-x86 build for the Acer1000 series, which is the first version of the Android ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) 4.0.3. release. This release is up to date with current development status of the android-x86.org repo and includes the gapps package. read more

Android-x86 Honeycomb 3.2 for Acer1825 series – Beta 3 (Acer 1825, 1820, 1425, 1420 and compatible Packard Bell)

ICS beta 1 is out please step forward to this release! http://www.ceh-photo.de/blog/?p=464

So it takes some/a lot of time to develop this new build (more like expected like every time), but I tried to put as much as possible into beta3. But I struggled hard with the integration of something like a slider mechanism on a phone, if you change from tablet to laptop mode and vice versa. My goal was automatically disabling/enabling onscreen keyboard and locking screen rotation in laptop mode, but it seems like this is one of these things which are not really well implemented in honeycomb and may a reason why google published that code so late (google sayed some things are really hacked together in honeycomb… and if I compare responsible files in honeycomb and ics there are a lot of changes and commented dead code in honeycomb). So the result is, I got really deep in touch with android internals, but I could not solve the problem and decided to step back and publish my new beta 3 without this feature, because I had already done a lot (see below). Inside the tips and information sections I will try to answer some unanswered questions from comments. read more