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[Q] acer a500 hangs on apx mode

Alright guys so I'm about to sacrifice root for this and just get the ota update and root again.....I've tried reinstalling drivers for Acer and apx mode didn't work tried different downloads for tools didn't work tried a whole new PC all together didn't work.. I've also tried entering apx mode manually and automatically I'm running flex reapers ics rom and whenever the tablet is supposed to go into download mode it hangs and never goes I've tried waiting even after an hour it just a black screen ive tried doing a wipe and reinstalling rom twice any thoughts.....i have no idea thanks
Im trying to get ics bootloader by the way ;-)

The black screen IS APX mode... You shouldn't get anything until you actually start to flash the bootloader using nvflash or the tool created to flash the bootloader - sorry, its about 3am here, I'm at work and can't remember who created the flash tool.....

ultramag69 said:
The black screen IS APX mode... You shouldn't get anything until you actually start to flash the bootloader using nvflash or the tool created to flash the bootloader - sorry, its about 3am here, I'm at work and can't remember who created the flash tool.....
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haa thanks for replying so late haha i was trying to flash the bootloader but it would never go into download mode????i dont now why tried everything i could possibly do!!! just recwntly tried rolling back an flashing a new ics rom didnt work....

gears177 said:
haa thanks for replying so late haha i was trying to flash the bootloader but it would never go into download mode????i dont now why tried everything i could possibly do!!! just recwntly tried rolling back an flashing a new ics rom didnt work....
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Hi,
I was fighting the same battle just a other day and got over it with the manual flashing guide by Civato & Co. Found at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1622425 (almost at the end of the forst post)
I also used blackthund3r's A500 manager to get to the APX mode and then finalized with the manual way.. So a combo worked for me..

kameli said:
Hi,
I was fighting the same battle just a other day and got over it with the manual flashing guide by Civato & Co. Found at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1622425 (almost at the end of the forst post)
I also used blackthund3r's A500 manager to get to the APX mode and then finalized with the manual way.. So a combo worked for me..
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Thanks ill try but hopes are not very high..EDIT Tried it but now it hangs on formatting partition 4 please wait......waited about 20 minutes

get this tool and it has a get out of apx mode, if that doesnt work just flash a new ics bootloader
download:https://hotfile.com/dl/158437685/178e3f6/Afterota_v1_07.zip.html

jnktechstuff said:
get this tool and it has a get out of apx mode, if that doesnt work just flash a new ics bootloader
download:https://hotfile.com/dl/158437685/178e3f6/Afterota_v1_07.zip.html
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I think I'm just ready to flash back to 3.0.1 unstable and get the ota....i don't have ics boot loader that's what I'm trying to get

gears177 said:
I think I'm just ready to flash back to 3.0.1 unstable and get the ota....i don't have ics boot loader that's what I'm trying to get
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lol then dude go to the development section and click the DUAL-BOOTLOADER thread and get the v4+ ics patched bootloader,
follow civvy's guide in the above post to flash your shiny new unlocked ics bootloader
the new apx flash tool the above user described to you sound like your right path,,, read up on the method and versions before trying anything and always nandroid and keep your cpuid saved and backup digitally and physically (sticky note )
did this 3days ago with civvy's guide and all is great in land of android.

chismay said:
lol then dude go to the development section and click the DUAL-BOOTLOADER thread and get the v4+ ics patched bootloader,
follow civvy's guide in the above post to flash your shiny new unlocked ics bootloader
the new apx flash tool the above user described to you sound like your right path,,, read up on the method and versions before trying anything and always nandroid and keep your cpuid saved and backup digitally and physically (sticky note )
did this 3days ago with civvy's guide and all is great in land of android.
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Ill try one more time

gears177 said:
Ill try one more time
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I put on the my previous post to try boot loader v4 but I would probably go to the v8

chismay said:
I put on the my previous post to try boot loader v4 but I would probably go to the v8
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Alright will do im going to rollback and try again later thanks

same issue
Hi,
i have an a500 and it is in apx mode. I am completely new to finding cpuid and babsector euu.
I have many thanks but i have an important event soon so can someone guid me through this.
Thank you

Rm_awesome said:
Hi,
i have an a500 and it is in apx mode. I am completely new to finding cpuid and babsector euu.
I have many thanks but i have an important event soon so can someone guid me through this.
Thank you
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First of all, install all the acer drivers on the PC.
Install the Acer Drivers from Acer Support and the USB drivers from the Android SDK here
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Then get afterota
and export / save (whatever it says) your cpuid and system info and stuff....there should be a button that lets you save that
next, download a rom of your choice and place it on the EXTERNAL SD card...don't put it in internal storage
then use babsector and follow instructions below
Heres the link to babsector.rar
How to use babsector -
Turn your tab off and put it in apx mode manually. Press and hold reset button, hold power for 3 secs after the light comes on and release it, after another second release the reset button. Your screen is black and the power light is on.
Download and extract the .rar to a folder on your PC
Connect your tab to your PC
Navigate to the babsector folder and click on 501 A.bat
Reboot into recovery
Go to Mounts and Storage and Format System twice and Power Off
Go back into apx mode and run 501 B.bat
Reboot into recovery and do the wipes and flash your rom
Reboot!!!
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If anyone else is stuck on partitioning error or something using nvflash or blackthund3r, use this method
Hope that helps!

usb debugging
When i tried afterota and got to the second line it said usb debugging but i cant turn on usb debugging in my situation
i dont know what to do!!:crying:

Rm_awesome said:
When i tried afterota and got to the second line it said usb debugging but i cant turn on usb debugging in my situation
i dont know what to do!!:crying:
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why cant you turn on usb debugging? does your tablet have a section called developer options? did u enable it?

black screen
ryukiri said:
why cant you turn on usb debugging? does your tablet have a section called developer options? did u enable it?
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the thing is my tablet has black sceen white light so I cant really navigate to usb debugging

Rm_awesome said:
the thing is my tablet has black sceen white light so I cant really navigate to usb debugging
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what happens if you hold the power button for like 15 seconds or so? does it shut down? (i dont have an a500 and ive nvr been stuck in apx mode..)

help

So I have the acer a500 with the stock ics and rooted. i was using my tablet just fine last night and later on went to use it again and now its stuck on the acer screen. i have tried the resets for recovery aND IT does not work. its still stuck on the acer screen. can anyone help me? please. my tablet is the gen2 when i received the ics update if that helps. and as mentioned it was fine until last night. is there a way i can reinstall it with the sd card? i would love the stock image if possible.

Wrong forum section.

nishka256 said:
So I have the acer a500 with the stock ics and rooted. i was using my tablet just fine last night and later on went to use it again and now its stuck on the acer screen. i have tried the resets for recovery aND IT does not work. its still stuck on the acer screen. can anyone help me? please. my tablet is the gen2 when i received the ics update if that helps. and as mentioned it was fine until last night. is there a way i can reinstall it with the sd card? i would love the stock image if possible.
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Download a stock acer image and place it on a MicroSD under the name of update.zip then boot into recovery
But yes it is the wrong forum section - should be in Q&A doesn't bother me too much but it irritates devs because it's the development forum
Sent from my Iconia A500 using Tapatalk 2

ok
hi, thank you, please im not good at this. can you tell me a link for the stock? and tell me how do i boot it?
thank you

so can anyone direct ne to a sstock zip file of ics for the gen2 acer a500 tablet that works. i have no idea how my tablet got messed up. its stuck on the acer screen. ive tried so many things. i have tried the reset pinhole button, i have downloaded a lot of zip files or roms and tried to do the volume, power button and all i get is a robot with red triangle. i cannot use usb because my computer wont read it not even after downloading drivers. anyone help me please?

nishka256 said:
so can anyone direct ne to a sstock zip file of ics for the gen2 acer a500 tablet that works. i have no idea how my tablet got messed up. its stuck on the acer screen. ive tried so many things. i have tried the reset pinhole button, i have downloaded a lot of zip files or roms and tried to do the volume, power button and all i get is a robot with red triangle. i cannot use usb because my computer wont read it not even after downloading drivers. anyone help me please?
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I'm not sure what may have happened but the easiest way to fix your tab is to downgrade back to HC using an acer utility called an "EUU". you will need your cpuid for this so i hope you have saved it somewhere.
Look here for 'jazzyjames' tutorial How to rollback to HC - for instructions on how to do this and a link to timmydeans HC EUU - also take a look thru my cpuid post (link in sig) for loads of info and links and even how to get yr cpuid if u dont have it

thanks i tried it and follow instructions numerous times. evry time i get to the step where it says "entering acer download mode on my tablet" on the EUU program on my laptop it says it "failed" so i try and try again with the same results. im running out of options. i dont know what to do.

maybe give this a shot. I've never had to use it myself but it's probably worth a shot.
How to unbrick your tablet -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1699277

oh heck that doesnt sound too good, i've not heard of the actual EUU "failing" guess thats the result of the usb issue you spoke of!
The "update.zip" method, you have 2 choices here See this thread for all the Official Acer Stock Roms - Ensure you download a "Full" rom and not just one of the update packages....instructions are in the first post...
You need to extract the update.zip and it may need to be decrypted as I said instructions for all this are in the OP!!
method2 - I've tried this once!! I got pretty frustrated real quick. Its a buggy chinese rom - took me a good hour to finally get into flashing a recovery, but it did work and plenty of others
have posted success with it... drkalo has a guide right here
Failing that m8 yr options are very, very few...
Try on a different computer so we can rule that out...or not!
or try to troubleshoot the usb issue....there are the only 2 ways via sdcard or pc/usb...
thinking about it now, in your post you said
"i cannot use usb because my computer wont read it not even after downloading drivers. anyone help me please?"
Not sure I follow, wouldnt have thought you'd get all that way to download mode without USB drivers to begin with.
You have debugging enabled in settings and you connect your cable to your pc but your tab does not show up on your PC in Device Manager???
Are you still on the stock bootloader??what about recovery??

this is what comes up
this is what comes up after trying this methid

nishka256 said:
this is what comes up after trying this methid
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So this window that pops up saying 'failed' and with instructions to go into apx mode - did u do this? what happened after you did it?
I haven't seen this particular error but normally with the downgrade process you do not have yr tab connected UNTIL you see the "cant detect your iconia tab" window (with similar instructions to enter apx mode manually) did you see this window at all? you do not enter your cpuid until AFTER you have put yr tab in apx mode and connected to yr PC, then the green status bar shows and then you should see "Congratulations".
To check you are in apx mode your tab screen is black and the power light is ON.
Now before you connect yr tab to yr PC open up Device Manager (pc) so you can make sure the apx/usb driver loads when you connect the cable - it will show under "USB Controllers". Once you can confirm the drivers are installed then you should be all good
The drivers are a bit of a pain as there are different ones for each different 'mode' of your tab i.e
USB driver that allows you to see the contents of yr tab from yr PC
ADB driver that allows yr tab and pc to communicate by sending commands to yr tab via yr PC
APX Driver which you normally only see while running HC, but yr PC can sometimes report an error with the "apx device" if the drivers have not installed properly
Acer Boot/Recovery Driver which NEEDS to be installed for any type of nvflash or EUU flash to be successful
Fastboot Driver if you have flashed bootloader v3 up this driver will load when you enter "Fastboot"
This is why folks have trouble with drivers and why we keep telling them "reinstall the drivers!!!" The Acer drivers from acer support AND the Google adb drivers which you can get from the first post of my cpuid thread (link in sig) the zip also has the fastboot drivers and saves you having to download the full android sdk. Having device manager OPEN while attempting any type of flash definitely helps you see whats happening - or not - driver wise...

No Recovery, Wont boot. APX mode only. Help

As the title states my ASUS TF101 B70 model is stuck in APX mode it will not go into recovery and i can not get ADB to see it. I have searched to no end trying EasyFlasher, Peri and Nvflasher. When using Wheelie it will go to partion 4 and hang up. It will show 2 lines on the screen but nothing else. I have also left it for hours so it is hanging up. I have used the naked drivers and i have also tried the asus sync drivers. Thanks in advance.

tboost said:
As the title states my ASUS TF101 B70 model is stuck in APX mode it will not go into recovery and i can not get ADB to see it. I have searched to no end trying EasyFlasher, Peri and Nvflasher. When using Wheelie it will go to partion 4 and hang up. It will show 2 lines on the screen but nothing else. I have also left it for hours so it is hanging up. I have used the naked drivers and i have also tried the asus sync drivers. Thanks in advance.
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you need a good computer to do it
Hit the 'thanks' button if it helps

I would suggest trying a different SBK version. B70's - some are SBK1, some are SBK2.
EasyFlasher has both SBK's built right into it when you open it up. Try one, then try the other.

TheMrcool212 said:
you need a good computer to do it
Hit the 'thanks' button if it helps
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What makes a computer good. I have tried it on 3 computers. Xp home,Vista and windows 8 machines.

frederuco said:
I would suggest trying a different SBK version. B70's - some are SBK1, some are SBK2.
EasyFlasher has both SBK's built right into it when you open it up. Try one, then try the other.
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I have tried both SBK 1 and 2. SBK 1 is the one that will show some signs of formatting.

tboost said:
I have tried both SBK 1 and 2. SBK 1 is the one that will show some signs of formatting.
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If EasyFlasher, NVFlash or other APX tools, my guess is that there is a hardware issue with your motherboard or flash memory and it cannot be fixed.

Does TF101 or TF101G ? If TF101G B70+ can't use adx or nvflash only adb
Envoyé depuis ma TF101G-B80 with Revolution HD 4.0 (3.6g release) by Mike _1986

APX driver

After trying to upgrade my ROM, I'm stuck at the ACER logo screen. I've tried about every ROM listed the the developer forum and none of them work. So now I'm trying to use the "afterota" tool.
I hold the reset button and power on and the tablet goes into "APX" mode and the Win7 machine sees it. But the Win7 machine can't find an APX driver for it. I've tried the USB driver from the ACER site but apparently that is for the ADB mode. When I run "afterota" there is an option to "Install Driver" but that doesn't work either.
I've searched google till I'm ready to pull out my hair and can't find a solution. Anyone know how solve this?

lewmur said:
After trying to upgrade my ROM, I'm stuck at the ACER logo screen. I've tried about every ROM listed the the developer forum and none of them work. So now I'm trying to use the "afterota" tool.
I hold the reset button and power on and the tablet goes into "APX" mode and the Win7 machine sees it. But the Win7 machine can't find an APX driver for it. I've tried the USB driver from the ACER site but apparently that is for the ADB mode.
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2 sets of drivers. Acers and adb/fastboot drivers.
When I run "afterota" there is an option to "Install Driver" but that doesn't work either.
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R u running ICS stock ota rom. Afterota will only work with that firmware.
I've searched google till I'm ready to pull out my hair and can't find a solution. Anyone know how solve this?
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You must use nvflash based tool to get fixed ....an EUU or v8 bootloader flash will do
See links to guides and drivers in my sig
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dibb_nz said:
2 sets of drivers. Acers and adb/fastboot drivers.
R u running ICS stock ota rom. Afterota will only work with that firmware.
You must use nvflash based tool to get fixed ....an EUU or v8 bootloader flash will do
See links to guides and drivers in my sig
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I made some progress. I got the V7-UNL-ICS-HC-bootloader-MULTI-cwm.zip, which had the driver and I now have "Nvidia USB Boot-recovery driver for Mobile devices" installed. It also has nvflash and several other apps. I read the link you have for getting the CPUID, but have to admit that it just throughly confused me. Also read through the nvflash help but it seems I need a config file to do anything with it and that seems to require the CPUID.
Any suggestions on where I go from here?

lewmur said:
I made some progress. I got the V7-UNL-ICS-HC-bootloader-MULTI-cwm.zip, which had the driver and I now have "Nvidia USB Boot-recovery driver for Mobile devices" installed. It also has nvflash and several other apps. I read the link you have for getting the CPUID, but have to admit that it just throughly confused me. Also read through the nvflash help but it seems I need a config file to do anything with it and that seems to require the CPUID.
Any suggestions on where I go from here?
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You MUST have yr cpuid....there are 8 methods in the guide. .if u cannot boot at all or have no nandroid it is difficult but not impossible. .see srbeens guide in general forum using linux to retrieve yr cpuid/sbk....dont try ANY flash or repair with win8, it wont work...win7, xp or linux only
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dibb_nz said:
You MUST have yr cpuid....there are 8 methods in the guide. .if u cannot boot at all or have no nandroid it is difficult but not impossible. .see srbeens guide in general forum using linux to retrieve yr cpuid/sbk....dont try ANY flash or repair with win8, it wont work...win7, xp or linux only
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I tried the Linux method using a Mint 15 64bit box. I created the apx file without any errors but when I ran it, it got this error "Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string". I posted my error in the thread above this one and am hoping eppeP can tell me what's wrong.
BTW, I did check using lsusb that my tab was connected at 0955:7820

A500 APX Flash Utility - No APX mode devices are connected

hi,
Recently I wanted to install a custom rom onto my Acer A501 tablet. I looked up a bunch of guides in this forum and found a very common flash guide made by blackthund3r, so I went and followed the proper guidelines given here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1622425. Everything worked fine until I got to the part where the A500 APX Flash Utility was suppose to detect my tablet in APX mode but it can't.
I've installed the Acer Composite ADB driver found here: http://downloads.rurouniserver.com/...driver-download-v1000524-android-32-honeycomb. (Version 1.0.10.0).
Someone else on the forum suggested here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1660313) that we must install the google adb driver instead but I can't seem to get it to work either.
I desperately need help or advice on how to get the A500 APX Flash utlity to detect my tablet.

Sometimes it just hangs, also only runs with ics roms. if both sets of drivers are correctly installed u should see an apx device listed in device manager on ur pc. What os r u using...if all else fails just use the manual nvflash method instead
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when I set my tablet into apx mode the screen is dark but the power button is on. I don't see any apx devices listed in my device manager and the composite adb driver disappears after setting into apx mode.
I'm running windows 7 ultimate x64 on as my OS.

Run the manual method instead but in saying that, if an apx device isn't listed. ..uninstall and reinstall the drivers
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night8388 said:
when I set my tablet into apx mode the screen is dark but the power button is on. I don't see any apx devices listed in my device manager and the composite adb driver disappears after setting into apx mode.
I'm running windows 7 ultimate x64 on as my OS.
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Hi
I thought I got the same situation like you.
I use blackthund3r's apx flsh 0.41. Everything goes well:
.........................extracting resources
.........................Starting ADB Server
.........................Enter APX Mode
.........................Wait 5 Seconds.....
.........................Killing ADB Server
and then, no matter how many times I press the "Done! Press to run again", I CANNOT go into the APX mode again.
at this time, the a500 screen is black.
I run another adb screen on PC, and found no device list.
But when I re-open the a500, I can detect the device.
Now my a500 cannot go into the recovery node, but it can work normally.
Anyone can help me to figure out what happened?:crying:

uzni said:
Hi
I thought I got the same situation like you.
I use blackthund3r's apx flsh 0.41. Everything goes well:
.........................extracting resources
.........................Starting ADB Server
.........................Enter APX Mode
.........................Wait 5 Seconds.....
.........................Killing ADB Server
and then, no matter how many times I press the "Done! Press to run again", I CANNOT go into the APX mode again.
at this time, the a500 screen is black.
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apx mode is black screen and power lite is on - carry on with the flash!
I run another adb screen on PC, and found no device list.
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When you are in apx mode - adb is not available -
Check the drivers are correctly installed correctly.
..put yr tab in apx mode,
(sometimes its easier to do this via the buttons, theres plenty of posts on how to do it, do quick search)
you should hear the new hardware detected sound in windows...
then go todevice manager or the safely remove hardware icon in your system tray and look to see if an "apx device" is listed there...
if it is, then carry on and flash the bootloader and recovery.
See the apxFlash pictorial in my sig for a step by step if you still have troubles
But when I re-open the a500, I can detect the device.
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Do you mean you can view your tabs files from windows???
This is why you need both sets of drivers! acers and androids (you need the android-sdk installed too, but if you have used the mini-sdk zip from my guide then you don't need the full sdk kit)
Remember, if you can view files you cannot be in apx mode and vice versa...its one or the other
There can be driver issues with 64bit win 7/8 PC's. XP or Win 7 work best.
Reinstalling Acer drivers can help too.
Now my a500 cannot go into the recovery node,
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No it won't if you have not completed the flash!

dibb_nz said:
apx mode is black screen and power lite is on - carry on with the flash!
When you are in apx mode - adb is not available -
Check the drivers are correctly installed correctly.
..put yr tab in apx mode,
(sometimes its easier to do this via the buttons, theres plenty of posts on how to do it, do quick search)
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OK, I upload 2 pictures for better explain.
01.jpg:
A500 power led light = on
U see, apx flash tool CANNOT go into the APX mode.
My notebook can see APX device
I set another window for adb devices, and found nothing.
02.jpg:
Set A500 power off and on. (manually)
do not touch apx flash tool window.
My notebook can not see APX device (while off).
My notebook can see "MTP" device (while on).
I set another window for adb devices, and found device code.
Now I can run A500 normally.
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Then, I click "Done! Press to run again" on the apx flash tool window,
It will become the "01.jpg"
Like an endless loop.:crying:
Could you help me?

Yup sometimes the tool does that.
Try again , when Windows detects the apx device just click the blue arrow anyway, let's see wot happens
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dibb_nz said:
Yup sometimes the tool does that.
Try again , when Windows detects the apx device just click the blue arrow anyway, let's see wot happens
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Many thanks for your suggestion, and I will try your plan tonight.

dibb_nz said:
Yup sometimes the tool does that.
Try again , when Windows detects the apx device just click the blue arrow anyway, let's see wot happens
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Sorry for my late response. Please check the attached pics for reference.
I ignore the wrong message and go forward. and then, I stuck on the 03.jpg over 1 hour...
and I open another adb screen, please see 04.jpg.
Does this help you recognize my problem? what should I do now? Please give me some advise.

It doesn't look good
Pls download the babsector.rar file. It's in post 2 of the root guide in my Sig along with the instructions. Run the bat file and post the output pls
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dibb_nz said:
It doesn't look good
Pls download the babsector.rar file. It's in post 2 of the root guide in my Sig along with the instructions. Run the bat file and post the output pls
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many thanks for your suggestion, and I will try it later.

dibb_nz said:
It doesn't look good
Pls download the babsector.rar file. It's in post 2 of the root guide in my Sig along with the instructions. Run the bat file and post the output pls
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Ya! I finally install your bootloader successfully!
Your "babsector.rar " is wonderful.
I had install a new rom for my old A500. Thanks very much.

uzni said:
Ya! I finally install your bootloader successfully!
Your "babsector.rar " is wonderful.
I had install a new rom for my old A500. Thanks very much.
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Yes babsector is a tabsaver!!! I can't take the credit for it as it came from someone in the Russian forums but it does a very good job. Pleased u got up n running again
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I think I am in a similar predicament here. My a500 has an SOS checksum error, and is not detected by windows as an APX device. None of the tools listed see my tab. ANy advice?

sharkguy said:
I think I am in a similar predicament here. My a500 has an SOS checksum error, and is not detected by windows as an APX device. None of the tools listed see my tab. ANy advice?
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Yr tab must be have drivers correctly installed and be in apx mode for Windows to detect it. use XP, Vista, win7 32bit. Issues on 64bit and win8
Run babsector.rar file as above.
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Oh, Thanks dibb, will give that a try! Only have a VM win XP so I hope that works...

sharkguy said:
Oh, Thanks dibb, will give that a try! Only have a VM win XP so I hope that works...
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Yerrrr...ok.good luck with that..try manual nvflash I.e. babsector(not the manual option in the tool) Will work when the tool won't.
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Scratch that. I guess what I will be using is a VM version of WIN7 32bit. not that it makes all that much of a difference. Just thought I would keep you informed, lol.

Gave up for the night. Can't seem to get the USB devices to show in my VM. will attempt a fresh install of lower OS in the morning. thanks again.
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