[Q] Freezing Issues? - HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera

Hi all, sorry I'm a noob so please bare with me. /flameshield up. Anyways I've had a tmobile HD2 since it has been released and my brother is the one who has always tinkered around with my phone (no longer around), so I have no idea what he's done to it. Anyways right now it is currently running WP7 but it keeps restarting for me and sometimes all my data gets erased. I used to have android 2.2 on it but it also used to freeze up also. I was just wondering, is there a guide I can follow to go from WP7 back to Android 2.2 along with something that might help my phone stop freezing?

Your phone is restarting cuz of your sd card or it is incompatible with WP7. You need to format the sd card with panasonic formatter, full format btw. If that doesn't work, you need a new sd card.
To flash MAGLDR android do this:
Download a MAGLDR android build of your choice , don't ask me which please, all of them are great and oyur phone is compatible with all of them
power off phone
power on phone whilst holding power/end call button button
hold power button until a menu pops up
Using your volume keys to go up or down go to USB Flasher
Use the call key to select USB Flasher
Connect your phone to the PC.
From the android build you downloaded, go to its contents and run DAF.exe, in administrator mode btw.
Read and click next, if no read me pops up, ignore and keep going on.
Android should be installed.
For flashing a clockwork mod build, there are plenty of guides on how to, just search and read up on it.

Tyvm, I got android booted but it freezes when it says "Preparing SD card" I assume its my sd card thats making it freeze, so ill grab a new one and hope that works. I've also noticed that my phone gets very hot when it freezes, could it be that my cpu is working to hard, thus making it overheat and freeze?

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Stuck at G1 screen - read everything I could find

I have read and tried anything I could think of here.
I have downloaded RC29
Extracted the file to SD ccard formated to FAT32
Started up in Bootloader
Phone found the file and successfully installed
Pressed action button to reboot.
Stays in Tri color screen
I have tried the soft reset, but I am still stuck at the G1 screen.
I am not new to flashing and recovery, only to the G1. What am I missing?
Does it reboot and return to the tri-color screen, or not reboot at all? Did you try taking the sd card out and then rebooting?
The same thing happened to me, I downloaded rc29 to root my phone so I did the rooting and then I wanted to install the JF Rc33 update so I tried rebooting in recoveyr mode to install the update and my phone just got stuck in the G1 logo. It works on normal reboot but not in tecovery mode or when I press camera & power it takes me to a white screen with green letters and the little green android guy..... how can I fix that? I want the jf update. Is there any way of installing it without having to use recovery mode? Or is there anyway to fix recovery mode?
danguyf,
Thanks.
I just redid the RC29 boot off the SD card. Just to rule out some more issues, I formatted the card again (512mb Sandisk).
As soon as I hit the action button, I get the tri color bootloader screen.
I have tried:
removing the SD card PRIOR to pressing the action button
removing the SD card PRIOR to a soft boot (call, end menu).
I have been using a fully charged battery.
wpr said:
danguyf,
Thanks.
I just redid the RC29 boot off the SD card. Just to rule out some more issues, I formatted the card again (512mb Sandisk).
As soon as I hit the action button, I get the tri color bootloader screen.
I have tried:
removing the SD card PRIOR to pressing the action button
removing the SD card PRIOR to a soft boot (call, end menu).
I have been using a fully charged battery.
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Looks like you dont have rootacces, try this http://www.multigesture.net/articles/t-mobile-g1-downgrade-rc30rc8-rooting-update-tutorial/
Thanks. Gotta learn a new OS!
I will give this a try in a few and report back.
Oke good luck !
You need a WM phone to make a Goldcard and Qmat 2.24 if you use Windows.
Ronnymes said:
Oke good luck !
You need a WM phone to make a Goldcard and Qmat 2.24 if you use Windows.
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Thanks. I might need more than luck.
What is Qmat 2.24? Boy I hate feeling stupid!
wpr said:
Thanks. I might need more than luck.
What is Qmat 2.24? Boy I hate feeling stupid!
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Try google
wpr said:
I have read and tried anything I could think of here.
I have downloaded RC29
Extracted the file to SD ccard formated to FAT32
Started up in Bootloader
Phone found the file and successfully installed
Pressed action button to reboot.
Stays in Tri color screen
I have tried the soft reset, but I am still stuck at the G1 screen.
I am not new to flashing and recovery, only to the G1. What am I missing?
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Just so we are clear, these are the steps you followed???
1. Format your phone's SD card to FAT32 mode:
* Hook your phone up to your computer using a USB cable and then wait for the notification to show up in your title bar of your phone.
* Click the notification, and then click "Mount".
* A new removable disk should show up on your computer. Right click it and select Format, and select FAT32 as the file system type.
2. Download and unzip the RC29 or RC7 image file. Copy the DREAMIMG.nbh file to the SD card. (RC29 for US, RC7 is for UK)
3. Turn the device power off.
4. Hold Camera button, and press Power button to entry bootloader mode. You should see a gray/white screen with instructions to flash your phone with the update on your SD card. If you don't see that, make sure you followed the instructions properly.
5. As per the on-screen instructions, press the Power button to start upgrade procedure. DO NOT DO ANYTHING TO INTERRUPT THIS PROCESS.
6. After it is finished, perform the restart your phone.
The phone is not mine. It came in to us to recover. It came in frozen on the G1 screen, so I cannot perform these 2 steps:
* Hook your phone up to your computer using a USB cable and then wait for the notification to show up in your title bar of your phone.
* Click the notification, and then click "Mount".
It does charge via USB and AC.
It is now powered up and frozen, but XP does find the Android phone and it shows up as a disk drive in device manager.
First off, who froze it?
Secondly, does the phone get to the homescreen?
The user brought it in at the G1 screen.
That is as far as it gets in power up.
wpr said:
The user brought it in at the G1 screen.
That is as far as it gets in power up.
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i hope you have a computer and either an extra mini sdcard *1MB in size* handy, or a mini sd card reader handy.
format the card, fat32.
download the rom from here. *scroll down to downloads section and pick the appropriate one. rc-33 U.S. RC-9 U.K. ADP unbranded*
if it's already named update, transfer it to the card, if not rename it update, then transfer it to the card.
After it has been transferred.
place the card back into the phone. start the phone up holding home and end key till it enters the recovery mode.
you should see a list of commands with a leopard looking-like screen.
hit alt-w
then alt-s
after it is complete, hit back+home to reboot again.
Just wanted to follow up annd say thanks to everyone for the help. I did not get a chance to deal with it today, but I will post the outcome.
I have the same problam too.
I have JF 1.1 Holidey version and when I try to update it to jf1.5 it gets stuck on the G1 logo, I tried using differnet updates to and differnt sd cards
and even tried the JF updater and it dosent work, I'm a bit frustrated, my brother rooted the phone for and installed the RC29 rom and the JF rom,
it offered me a system holiday update awaile ago and when I updated it froze on the G1 logo after I waited a long time (about 45 min) I removed the battery and started the phone again.. then I saw about 35MB free space (before I had only 10MB) and I think that from that point it added the holiday but I'm not sure if it wasn't already before that.. I realy need your halp with this.. I can't find a way to boot my phone and start a bootloader..
p.s. I was able to get to the fast boot when I press the power + Camera but I don't know how to use it..
Follow the same directions in post 14 =)
Mikey1022 said:
Follow the same directions in post 14 =)
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I have a big problem!
MY G1 is still Frozen on G1 splash
I don't have access to the recovery mode (power+home), or fastboot mode (cam+power)...just show G1 logo...for hours!!!
Any idea?
I need to access to any mode to try to rescue my phone...
It is the second phone rooted by me, but I don't know what happened =(
thanks for the quickly answers!
No update
Mikey1022 said:
i hope you have a computer and either an extra mini sdcard *1MB in size* handy, or a mini sd card reader handy.
format the card, fat32.
download the rom from here. *scroll down to downloads section and pick the appropriate one. rc-33 U.S. RC-9 U.K. ADP unbranded*
if it's already named update, transfer it to the card, if not rename it update, then transfer it to the card.
After it has been transferred.
place the card back into the phone. start the phone up holding home and end key till it enters the recovery mode.
you should see a list of commands with a leopard looking-like screen.
hit alt-w
then alt-s
after it is complete, hit back+home to reboot again.
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And what about if the screen says:
Finding update package..
Opening update package..
E: Can`t open /sdcard/update.zip
(No such file or directory)
Installion aborted.
G1 homescreen freeze
Hi,
I have a G1, installed hero-rom from xda(Jacheroski 2.0). I found it pretty annoying because the phone was very slow etc. So i tried to go back to the almost original software.
1. started G1 in recovery mode(Home+power), alt+x, adb shell, #parted /dev/block/mmcblk0, mklabel msdos, Y, rm1, rm2, mkpartsfs, primary, fat32, 0, 8000(8 gb card), shut down G1.
Downloaded:
- Radio (from htc support)
- SPL (from xda)
- Rom (from htc support)
Copied those files to my SD.
2. started my G1 in recoverymode(Home+power), wipe, apply any zip from SD,
First installed Radio = succesful
Tried to install SPL:got an error in line.
So thought that I first need to reboot my G1(because of the radio)
I rebooted my G1. got a installation screen. then I restarted my G1 and wanted to go to recovery mode to install spl and rom. It was frozen on the homescreen. I can't do any thing. not recovery not the other one(camera+power)
Any advice?

DREA100 and the infamous Triangle of death?

Ok.. So a friend of mine suddenly got a triangle with the exclamation mark picture on his phone. That's all it boots up to. So, he took it to T-mobile, they told him it's FUBAR, and sold him a new phone.
The fact that the thing boots to a recovery mode tells me that there's SOME way to un-FUBAR this phone. My friend is too technologically inadiquate to attempt to do any modifying, so I'm going to assume he was at whatever firmware level would hve been blasted out to T-mobile as of last Friday 01/15/2010.
If I boot the phone normally, it gives me the TriAngle. I pop open the keyboard and hit alt-L and the I get the Android System Recovery menu. at the bottom I get "E:CAn't open /cache/recovery/command"
I've spent all day bouncing around this forum, and many like it, downloaded all sorts of G1 fimwares trying to go back to RC29, RC28, 30, 33.. gah! The latest one I'm trying to update to is "signed-kila-ota-116143-prereq.TC4-RC19+RC28+RC29.zip" Which i rename to update.zip . I hit alt-L, select 'update from SD card' It goes through:
--Install from sdcard...
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package...
Installing update package....
Installation aborted.
That's it... no more log than that.
I've done the Alt-W, and Alt-S.. wiped cache partition. I think playing around with the recent firmwares might be fun, but I'd like to get this bad boy reset back to factory defaults. I've read the forums here on how to do that.. but all of the procedures fail.
I can get Windows 7 to recognize the phone, but I cannot access the sd card while it is in the phone. I've been transfering data to it by taking the sdcard out, and putting it into a known good SD card reader. I've formatted the sdcard to FAT16, and FAT32 quick and not quick.
Seriously.. why is this so complicated? Now I need some serious digging assistance. Is there an interface that will allow me to directly talk to this phone via the USB cable? How can I force an firmware onto it? Clearly something is functional, or I would get no I/O. How can I get this silly thing back to where it was? I know this thread seems like a redundant one, but as far as I can tell, its not. The typical procedures posted here don't seem to work, but I'll be happy to run through any steps y'all suggest. I'll resign that it's been bricked if that's really whats happened.. but I'm not ready to throw this unit away yet.
Ask questions.. let me answer them. I know this team can get this phone working again.
Thanks y'all.
--Rob aka The Austin Slacker.
Have you tried the RC29 DREAIMG.nbh file?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4593084&postcount=1
Roadmasta01 said:
Have you tried the RC29 DREAIMG.nbh file?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4593084&postcount=1
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bingo !
sounds like your friend tried to flash something he shouldn't have. or messed around with stuff he shouldn't.
as far as taking it to the store, and accepting their suggestion to "GIVE US YOUR MONEY!" that was a mistake.
the phone is likely fine, and maybe you'll buy it from him for cheap, then fix, resell/use.
good luck, should be easy.
The "press camera and power to get to bootloader" procedure. I've tried holding the Camera while pressing power over and over and all I get is the triangle. However if I press power and the "back" button (swooping arrow to the left), I'll get the bars screen, and a Gray screen telling me to press send to restore.... Which is all good, but there's no progress or any thing to indicate that i've done something by pressing the send button.(based on cell phone standards, I'm assuming "send" is the green "call" button.
Is this normal?
No yeah.. he gave me the G1.. its mine. I just need to fix the little bugger.. .. well.. then laugh at him
Ok.. one more day (well ok.. couple hours) of fiddling with this thing, and i'm begining to wonder if Microsoft was involved. I'm not able to get this poor G1 to do anything new. I tried using a different SD card, hoping perhaps the one I got with it was bad... no dice. camera + power doesn't do anything useful.
I can connect it to the PC.. but i can't see the data card that way. adb devices reads no output, so its not correctly attaching to the PC (tried Windows 7 32bit, and Windows XP 64bit).. There's gotta be a good way to force a known good image onto this silly thing.
Is it probable that the internal memory has gotten corrupt somehow? I know someone out there's got the golden suggestion, please do tell if you do. I'd really like to use this phone.
--Rob
If you can get into fast boot (the tri color screen) there are ways to flash it... try getting into your tri color, then plugging in the USB cable and see if it switches from Serial 0 to USB at the bottom, if so you are golden to flash using the fast boot method.
There are guides around on how exactly to do that, as well a couple places that you can download the official RUU that will do all the hard work for you!
gah.. nothing doing. I can hit Back and Home, and end up with the tri-color screen for about 1/5th of a second, then a gray screen saying:
This operation will delete all your personal data, and reset all settings to manufacturer default. Press Send to restore manufacturer default, or press other keys to cancel.
At this point, the unit is dead. I can remove the battery, and continue on my little quest.. but hitting *any* key at all (including the Send key) will not produce any sort of output. I've tried pressing Send one time, then setting the phone down for a full hour (watched a netflix show) nothing. I can't power it off either w/o removing the battery.
I would throw in the towel.. but from all the research i've been doing, it seems as if this one is behaving in a manner in which other forum users havne't posted. Maybe by continuing to try options and post results, a positive outcome will come out, and someone else who has a G1 behaving this way will have an easier time.
... or y'all can tell me that its toast and to bugger off.. ha ha.. either way.. I continue to google. If you can think of anything, please toss it out.
OH!.. tried an RUU.. found one called. RhodiumSPLRelocker Looks promising.. but can't see the device when attached to the PC... yeah.. guess the phone has to have a functioning OS before that will happen...
You would want a Dream RUU... I looked around a bit and couldn't find one. Maybe someone has a quick link?
Double check that your SD card is formatted FAT32 and see if you can get ADB to see it when on that greay screen.
I've formatted the SD card in FAT32 multiple times.. I even questioned if my Windows 7 32bit would do it, and formatted it on a laptop running XP 64bit. adb doesn't seem to see it ever.
I don't get why I can't get it into fast boot. I've been looking on ebay for dream G1s with broken screens.. heh.. I guess i'm preparing for the worst. really sad, becasue this G1 was actually pretty well taken care of. My friend didn't do anything he shouldn't. HE woke up one morning and it was like this. He lives out in the country.. so he gets pretty spotty signal. I'm wondering if T-Mobile didn't push out an update, and it got interrupted by signal loss.
By the by... I've been doing all this work w/o a SIM card. Does that matter?
austinslacker said:
(based on cell phone standards, I'm assuming "send" is the green "call" button.
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its not the green send button -- its the red end button
see below extracted from http://theunlockr.com/2009/07/05/how-to-unroot-your-t-mobile-g1/
Load the DreaIMG.nbh File
1. Download the Original DreaIMG.nbh file:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XXSQ0T7W
2. If the file downloaded above downloads as a .Zip file, please unzip it first then put the DreamIMG.nbh file that is inside on the SD card, NOT in any folder. (If you did Section I the phone is off still, take out the memory card, put it in the MicroSD adapter and plug it into your computer to transfer the file over, since your G1 won’t turn on right now if you did Section I above. Otherwise if you did not need to do Section I above, then you can just put it on the SD card normally using the usb cable and the phone).
3. Turn the phone off if it is on.
4. Turn on the phone by holding the Camera button and the End key until the bootloader screen turns on.
5. Hit the End key to start the update. DO NOT INTERUPT THIS PROCESS.
6. Once it is done, hit the trackball to restart the phone. You now are on the stock firmware RC29
austinslacker said:
The "press camera and power to get to bootloader" procedure. I've tried holding the Camera while pressing power over and over and all I get is the triangle. However if I press power and the "back" button (swooping arrow to the left), I'll get the bars screen, and a Gray screen telling me to press send to restore.... Which is all good, but there's no progress or any thing to indicate that i've done something by pressing the send button.(based on cell phone standards, I'm assuming "send" is the green "call" button.
Is this normal?
No yeah.. he gave me the G1.. its mine. I just need to fix the little bugger.. .. well.. then laugh at him
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You mention that you can access fastboot by pressing the back button while turning it on, isn't that how the hero gets into fastboot? maybe your friend tried flashing a rom that was meant for the hero. if you have access to fastboot you should be able to flash a new image from there, just place the image file in the root of your card and follow the fastboot instructions
Also if fastboot isn't doing it for you have you tried adb? if you don't know what that is look it up I've seen a couple guides on how to do it and they are really detailed.
Im having the same problem, Im stuck in the recover triangle of death. Ive done the alt+w and reboot, the RC29 DREAIMG.nbh , the update.zip, camera+power, I cant get the gray screen to pop. Nothing, its brickkkkeeeddddd, FUBAR. There has got to be someway I can reload this G1. I wasnt trying to root it or anything. I was bowling and then it triangled on me. Anyone have any ideas at all on how to fix it?
Triangle of Death
I'm from Brazil, I can't take it to t-mobile to fix...
when i tried to root my G1 did the downgrade perfectly, the screen was just as it was suposed to be.
But in the recovery mode boot, appeared this triangle with an exclamation...
what do i do now???? help plz!
deftoneage12 said:
Im having the same problem, Im stuck in the recover triangle of death. Ive done the alt+w and reboot, the RC29 DREAIMG.nbh , the update.zip, camera+power, I cant get the gray screen to pop. Nothing, its brickkkkeeeddddd, FUBAR. There has got to be someway I can reload this G1. I wasnt trying to root it or anything. I was bowling and then it triangled on me. Anyone have any ideas at all on how to fix it?
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Any one have any ideas? hell ill pay someone to fix it for me
The only idea I have is make'ing an goldcard so your sure your phone accepts the update (dreaimg)... other than that...
Sent from my HTC Dream G1 using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
Any chance the home button is stuck? I'm not 100%, but I think if you were to hold home, camera and power, the recovery would come out on top.
Home button is not stuck, and cant seem to figure out the CID of my SD card since my phone is unaccessable.

Help

Hey every one I'm new to xda and I got my samsung vibrant rooted with the stock system recovery and was working fine but than I decided to do some apps and file transfer from another android phone to it and after that my phone kinda froze on me. So I rebooted the phone and boom nothing happen after the galaxy s animation, its just stuck there then the screen went black out. I rebooted again and this time I went to the sustem recovery mode and try to do the data reset but it couldn't fix it either. I tried to connected to my computer but since the phone wasn't fully booted into the home screen my computer are unable to detect the phone driver. I reconnect the phone and computer together, and this time I got to where it say's "downloading" "do noy turn off target", what is that mean? is it download something or is that I'm suppost to do something to it. Please can someone help me out. I've already download the stock firmwire but couldn't be able to transfer to the mass storage cos the phone couldn't boot beyound the galaxy s animation and eventhough its in the system recovering I still couldn't get it to connect to the phone mass storage. What can I do to fix it?.
You can take the battery out at that screen, but I don't know if it's going to fix your overall issue.
Take sd out. Hook to computer with adapter. Move stock nandroid to sd. Replace sd in phone. Boot into clockwork recovery. Restore nandroid. Reboot.you are now stock with root.
one thing
I know what I did is stupid but at lease I learn my lesson. I would really appreciate if someone could help me out.
help
I tried but its not working cost the phone doesn't read what's on the sd card it read only the mass storage which is the 14g not the 2g memorycard.
The SD card won't be in the phone so of course it won't read from it. It will read from the interbal memory, so do it from there.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
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Hey every one I'm new to xda and I got my samsung vibrant rooted with the stock system recovery and was working fine but than I decided to do some apps and file transfer from another android phone to it and after that my phone kinda froze on me. So I rebooted the phone and boom nothing happen after the galaxy s animation, its just stuck there then the screen went black out. I rebooted again and this time I went to the sustem recovery mode and try to do the data reset but it couldn't fix it either. I tried to connected to my computer but since the phone wasn't fully booted into the home screen my computer are unable to detect the phone driver. I reconnect the phone and computer together, and this time I got to where it say's "downloading" "do noy turn off target", what is that mean? is it download something or is that I'm suppost to do something to it. Please can someone help me out. I've already download the stock firmwire but couldn't be able to transfer to the mass storage cos the phone couldn't boot beyound the galaxy s animation and eventhough its in the system recovering I still couldn't get it to connect to the phone mass storage. What can I do to fix it?.
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Turn off the phone, take out the battery and take out the SD card, try to get your hands on a sd card reader for your card so you can fix what you did without using your phone to mount it. Copy the rom or stock firmware over to the card and use the recovery, wipe data/factory reset and then try to load up the stock firmware. if all else fails do a hard reset:
To hard reset Samsung Vibrant, follow the steps below:
Step 1. Turn your Samsung Vibrant off. If your Samsung Vibrant is frozen, pull the battery out and reinsert it.
Step 2. Hold the Volume Down button.
Step 3. Press and release the Power button.
Step 4. You are now presented with a menu that allows for Fastboot, Recovery, Clear Storage, and Simlock
Select Clear Storage by pressing the Volume Down button, then press and release the Power button.
Step 5. Choose one of these: Volume Up for YES and Volume Down for NO. If you selected YES, all data including third-party applications will be deleted from the Samsung Vibrant.
That is for the default recovery so depending on the recovery you are using try to wipe everything and flash the ROM from the sd card, if you need help PM me or contact me on chat.andirc.net #droideris, or irc.andirc.net #droideris
Best of luck!

frozen tablet after partial update, copied fron the wrong forum

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Going Bald here. I have searched this forum and the more I am reading the more confused I am becoming.
After a partial update my Acer Iconia A 500 froze. I tried rebooting and it took me to the start up screen where the lock is and nothing. Frozen solid.
I got acer support and they told me to Hold the vol button while turning the power on for 3 seconds the turning the screen lock on off on off. I get a green robot with a yellow exclamation mark. I am guessing this is called bricked!
I purchased the Tablet at Best Buy in the USA and brought it home to Australia.
The Acer support wants me to send it in for repair and also says...quote "However, considering that your device has been flashed to the US firmware, there may be an issue with resetting the unit to Australian standards."
I have read about OTA and kernels Roms.... YIKES. Most say download the OTA for your tablet ( how do I know what one if I cant get into it)
Can some Guru here please explain in clear English what I should do. Where I should go. You guessed it total Newbie here. HELP
Thank you in advance
Answer from FLOATING FATMAN.....thank you
There are several things you can try.
First, on the right hand side of the device there's a little hole. This is a reset hole (but doesn't wipe RAM). Try pressing this. You might have to reset a couple of times. If that doesn't help, read further.
Next, the step they describe is to force a wipe of the device. But it depends which volume button you pressed. With the device in landscape mode, it needs to be the side of the rocker furthest from the power button. Hold both down, then when you get the text, release the (I think) power button only, and toggle the orientation lock a few times.
If THAT doesn't work, contact the user sc2k on these boards via PM and he may be able to help you recover your tablet.
Question. When you tried to update your ROM, was it with an official OTA? And did you use Clockworkmod? If you used CWM, did you use the custom one in the A500 section, or the one from the market. The one on the market WILL BRICK YOUR TABLET.
My answer
Tried the reset, tried the power button. To answer the question.. The update flashed up on the screen so I thought it was a normal update. ummm Clockworkmod???? I havent updated from the market. Didnt know you could.
I am totally lost and ignorant here. SC2K will you please help me.
Thank you
ClockworkMod is a recovery menu for rooted roms.If you have'nt rooted then no need to worry about that.Ok power off,hold the volume button down from the left side,turn on your tab while holding down the volume button until you see small text pop up in the top,left corner,press the volume button again to wipe the tab completely(total reset)the pin hole on the side of your tab does the same thing.If this doesnt work,turn off the tab and plug in the usb cable to the tab and connect to your computer,your computer will try to install the driver,you might have to search for the driver on the acer site,then after it installs,you should be able to access your sdcard.You will need to search for the update or fix,not sure what tool is used for acer.
Is there anymore help out there. I dont want to download anything until I know for sure exactly what Im doing. I hate this tablet!
sassybees said:
Is there anymore help out there. I dont want to download anything until I know for sure exactly what Im doing. I hate this tablet!
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OK, let's take this a step at a time. At the very least, we should be able to get the tab functioning again for you.
First, you're going to need a new ROM. I don't know what region Australia is, but at this point I don't think is really very important, so for now I suggest you flash am international ROM. We can worry about the region later.]
Download this file: http://vache-android.com/v1/download.php?fileID=75
This file is NOT encrypted in any way. Extract the update.zip from this file.
Now, you need a microSD card. Sometimes these cars have trouble reading (this often causes the yellow exclamation point), so you might want to format it first (format it to FAT filesystem, not NTFS). If possible, do this in an Android phone.
Copy the update.zip to the card. Must be in the root of the card.
Put the card into the A500, then boot into recovery (Hold down power and volume down, the one closes to the power button in landscape). Keep BOTH of these held down until you see a few lines of text in the top left of the screen. Once that is visible, release the buttons and the device should update.
At this point you should have a working tablet with an international ROM.
i had the same problem with sassybees.
i've tried to download the file but the page is locked...
I have download the update.zip full package but i just don't know which version. I'm a malaysian. Is it need a specific version for countries? I had tried the 4.010.22_COM_GEN1 and the 4.010.40_COM_GEN1 but it seems not working cause when updating, the loading bar stops about 80% and the gear animation stop rotating. The tablet restart and freeze at the android text loading screen again.
I'm so confuse about cwm or other things.. i just need a simple steps to get back to original android system.
How can i solve this problem. My acer tab is useless if it just showing android loading text forever...
The steps really don't get any simpler than the ones I've already given...
Have you tried different SD cards? I've already mentioned these are a common point of update failure.
yeah... i had tried 2 sd card... formatted wit fat system..
just wondering which version i must use? i'm searching in the dev section and found so many version.
the link u had given is somehow locked.. how can i access it?
thelock_bp said:
yeah... i had tried 2 sd card... formatted wit fat system..
just wondering which version i must use? i'm searching in the dev section and found so many version.
the link u had given is somehow locked.. how can i access it?
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That link works fine for me. Right click it and choose "Save As..."
As for the SD card, have you formatted it in a PC or an Android phone? Better to do the latter if you can. As for the version you need to use, what was your current ROM? There are plenty of threads in the dev section describing what the versions are...
Hi Floating Fat Man
Sorry about the delay in answering. ( Time difference).
We are having issues with the only SD card we have. ( super expensive here) We also have the Nokia N8 android phone but no where can we find how to format the SD card ( we can format the phone but not the SD card ).We managed to get it to show on the PC and we can format but to a generic format and not the FAT filesystem. I know the Nokia N8 android is a rare phone in the USA cos all the phone shops were swooning over it and saying WOW, we dont have that. So help on formatting the SD card is proving hard to come by. Do you have any suggestions. Oh we copied the file you mentioned to the root on the generic formatted SD card and again got the yellow exclamation mark which was no surprise. I know I have bricked the tablet but I will be using it as a real brick very soon as it goes out the window LOL
Acer support has suggested I send it in for repair and that may be the only option left if we cant get this SD card up and running
I thank you for your help, I certainly have learned alot so far and I have a feeling its only the tip of the iceberg.
Thanks again
Your PC should give you an option to format the card to FAT32, which is the right format. Alternatively, a link to a format tool been posted on these sections recently in one of the many threads discussing the same issues, but I don't have a link handy, sorry.

(Q) Help! How to delete data in NAND

Hello
I needed some help badly
* Situation:
HD2 with HyperDroid cLK with ext3 on SD Card. Been running good. One day while trying to satisfied self curiousity I disassemble the phone and broke the Rigid Flex Cable where it connected to the volume rocker. Without the volume rocker functionality there is no more Power+Volume to flash or going into recovery.
Bought a new phone with no SD card so I took the HD2 card and place it inside the new phone, of course I reformat the card to make sure no weard stuff happening with the new phone.
* Problem:
Now I don't need the HD2 and decided to put it on Ebay for parts. Problem is I can not restart the HD2 to erase my personal data on it. without the SDcard ext the phone stuck at booting animation. Eventhough I have a backup of SDcard on my PC but not the extension -How stupid I am
So I am now can not boot android, can not going into recovery or Hotboot or boot loader whatsoever ...
I just need my phone erased all the sensitive info on it and I think there may be a solution using ADB. Problem is I dont know how to use it or command to delete data store in Nand. I already have ADB installed in my PC (using cLK)
Can some one help please
Greatly appreciates
antiquezip said:
Hello
I needed some help badly
* Situation:
HD2 with HyperDroid cLK with ext3 on SD Card. Been running good. One day while trying to satisfied self curiousity I disassemble the phone and broke the Rigid Flex Cable where it connected to the volume rocker. Without the volume rocker functionality there is no more Power+Volume to flash or going into recovery.
Bought a new phone with no SD card so I took the HD2 card and place it inside the new phone, of course I reformat the card to make sure no weard stuff happening with the new phone.
* Problem:
Now I don't need the HD2 and decided to put it on Ebay for parts. Problem is I can not restart the HD2 to erase my personal data on it. without the SDcard ext the phone stuck at booting animation. Eventhough I have a backup of SDcard on my PC but not the extension -How stupid I am
So I am now can not boot android, can not going into recovery or Hotboot or boot loader whatsoever ...
I just need my phone erased all the sensitive info on it and I think there may be a solution using ADB. Problem is I dont know how to use it or command to delete data store in Nand. I already have ADB installed in my PC (using cLK)
Can some one help please
Greatly appreciates
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try using HD2 TOOLKIT
Hey thanks for such a quick replied
How do I do it with HD2 Toolkit?
Task29?
My phone can not start now, it stuck at boot animation and without Power+Volume I can not go to boot loader (the three colors screen)
Edit:
I can hold Power+Home button, this will get me into recovery but without the volume rocker I can not go anywhere. Any ideas?
Thanks a million
Hey I got it
(by messing around with other hard key) and I can move up and down using Home and Menu button instead of volume up and down.
I am highly appreciates your effort anyway.
Thanks again

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