- Aug 6, 2010
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There has been a new Gen 8 Firmware release by Archos. This is 2.3.20. The number indicates Gingerbread. It may be downloaded manually from Archos here
http://update.archos.com/8/gen8/gen8_2.3.20/firmware_archos_android_gen8.aos
Or you can wait for the Over the Aire update.
I am installing now. I will comment on anything I discover. Below is the change log for this release.
http://update.archos.com/8/gen8/gen8_2.3.20/firmware_archos_android_gen8.aos
Or you can wait for the Over the Aire update.
I am installing now. I will comment on anything I discover. Below is the change log for this release.
- Application: a new Archos remote service and universal Android application to control your Archos device remotely using Wi-Fi. It is intended to operate your Archos using any Android phone/device for instance when the Archos is connected to the TV. The "Archos Remote Control" application is available on Android Market and on Appslib
- Application: a new Archos youtube application to easily view and play youtube videos
- Network shares: samba network share transfer speed has been enhanced to support HD streaming
- Network shares: password protected shares are now discoverable
- Media library: improve indexing behavior and robustness
- Media info scraper: more robust poster and information retrieval process for TV and movie shows
- Media library cleaning: all multimedia information (movie/tv shows posters and indexation data) can be cleared through settings->repair/formatting/reset multimedia library entry
- Contacts: fix importation and exportation of Vcards
- Applications: fix sound muted when initiating a call with Fring
- Screen snapshot: fix capture for all screens and TV
- Camera: increase quality of 720P H264 recording (decrease blockiness effect)
- Multimedia: improve UPNP stability preventing hangs when Wi-Fi connection stops
- Multimedia: for shoutcast network streams display url, station, genre on MusicPlayer
- Multimedia: fix next playing video being paused at start in folder play mode
- Multimedia: MMS playback support has been fixed
- Multimedia: MIDI playback support has been fixed
- Multimedia: fix compatibility with Rhapsody player application
- Audio: fixed alarm volume when headphone are plugged (was lowered)
- Video: fix some MPEG2 files not playing correctly on A28
- Video: fix seeking in AVI with layer2 VBR sound
- MusicPlayer: display track number (like "3/10") for A43/A70/A101
- Videoplayer: fix folder play mode with HD video
- Subtitles: auto detect UTF8 codepage
- Storage: remove disk damage notification happening sometimes even after a successful file system check
- Peripherals: display a notification when plugging a USB device that requires more than 100mA current for A28/A32/A70 to provide feedback that it is not supported (e.g. some USB keys)
- Battery: improve prediction of wake up time to shutdown the product when battery is low
- Proxy: http proxy support has been fixed
- Phone tethering: increase compatibility with Blackberry phones (introduction of a setting to enable TCP/IP header compression)