Archos 5 Internet Tablet gets firmware update – Version 1.3.07 ready for download

Last month, Archos rolled out a firmware update for its Android MID and now there is yet another Archos 5′s new firmware update (direct download link). This new firmware add a host of features and fixes few issues. Here is the list of what this firmware brings to the Archos 5 Internet Android MID

• 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

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