Hi, I have acquired an Acer Iconia A500 that was previously rooted(Or so I was told) and ran fine for months until recently. Now it only boots to the Acer Screen. Ill list what I have done so far to try to remedy this problem.
Reset
1. I hold Volume Up, Turn on the power, and switch the Rotational lock on and off until "Erasing Userdata and UserCache (I think, I see those two lines but don't really remember exactly what they were)
2. The device resets and gets stuck at the Acer boot menu.
Load an Update.zip from my sdcard.
1. This method just gets me to the Android guy with his chest open and a red exclamation point above his chest.
I apologize if threads like this already exist I have been searching for hours on how to fix this problem. If anyone is able to help that would be great!
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Someone asked me to look at their acer a500 tablet for them, when it boots as soon as it gets to the desktop, before the DE fully loads even, it comes up with a power off/shutting down message
And it shuts down
Tried the hold the volume up while powereing on and toggling the lock button factory reset 'fix' that seems to be posted everywhere but it didn't work, did once or twice get the android holding an exclamation sign thing once or twice but it did nothing from there
As far as I'm aware it's not been rooted so my question is, anyone know whether I can fix it by downloading a particular rom and trying to get that rom installed with a boot into recovery mode type thing?
Any suggestions I might try welcome
Fixed it now, found an update.zip file, applied that and it's back up and running
Thanks for looking to those that did
I've got an Acer A500 that's frozen on the Acer logo on restart. I can't get into recovery. I can't hard reset. When I press the power button (+/-) volume button, it vibrates and freezes on the logo... every time.
This happened after trying to root and install Thor's ROM.
I know there's other threads on this, but I can't find one to help me when I can't get into recovery.
Sorry, I'm sort of new at this...
fixed
Nevermind... reverted back to stock with EUU in APX.
mateenlist said:
I've got an Acer A500 that's frozen on the Acer logo on restart. I can't get into recovery. I can't hard reset. When I press the power button (+/-) volume button, it vibrates and freezes on the logo... every time.
This happened after trying to root and install Thor's ROM.
I know there's other threads on this, but I can't find one to help me when I can't get into recovery.
Sorry, I'm sort of new at this...
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How did you revert to stock? Mine: A500 not rooted stuck on google sign in screen.
unresponsive even after sticking a paperclip in it. not even certain if I did the "stick" correctly. Any simple direction? Just watched youtube flashing for a gtablet. same android but mine is acer Iconia a500. do have two google accounts linked to this tablet just can't get online with it. had gotten online with Samsung precedent and pdanet but lost 3g on phone so got cable internet (no router). can I route from asus k501j? not sure how to. did download some acer files from acer, have them unblocked and unzipped. haven't combined into one folder yet. not sure if that is correct procedure. files are: usb acer 1.00.0524, application acer 1.06.3006 and patch acer 1.0 A31. thanks, on verge of giving up.
I have an Acer a500 8gb version which I bought and gave to my girlfriend. It was on ICS stock. Stock everything, never rooted. Recently it ran out of battery and now when it only loads into the android screen and bootloops there.
I have tried the software reset button press and rotation lock method without any luck. it just says Erasing Userdata.. Erasing cache... blacks out and reboots back into the bootloop.
I have tried the update.zip methods with the three remaining roms I could find on the stock firmware forum but every time I try each one, it just loads with the red exclamation with the android laying down.
Was going to try flashing the EUU one, but I can't seem to get my CPUID as blackthunders A500 manager needs to have USB debug on, which I don't think was set before the tablet went bad. Just wanted to see what my options are as I am feeling a bit stuck right now. I have been searching the forum pretty tirelessly, but it is getting hard to figure what choices I have left. Any help would be much appreciated.
Hi guys i've been on here many times before with my old hd2 and how have problems with an a500 acer. It was running perfectly until i let the battery run right down without realising it. After charging it all it did was go to the acer screen and nothing else, didn't ever get past that to the Android Screen.
I've tried the soft reset and hard reset/factory reset methods of pressing the reset button for 3 seconds or power and volume up plus wiggle of lock button. Its says what it should erasing cache, restarts and still stays at acer logo.
Next I have tried putting the stock rom on the sd card and power and volume down and getting recovery to do its thing but this results in the dead android with a red triangle. Have done this many times with no luck, so have gone through loads of posts on here with the hope one might be useful.
Sadly one points to another and another and nothing is getting me anywhere as whatever post i read it says i need something else in order to install the previous thing i wanted to install.
Can someone please give me a starting point of what to install please.
Is it skrilax or something? What is the first step please. If anyone has a know method of all steps involved I can at least make a start but with there being so many posts with differing methods and me not knowing what the hell i'm doing yet makes this very daunting.
Thanks guys and dolls
Dan
hello, I recieved an acer a500 from a friend, because he couldnt make it boot.
I looked around these forums, looking for an answer but nothing seems to work.
First of all, this is an european acer A500 tablet,
when I power it up, it comes the ACER logo, with a red writing in the left corner > Boot verified failed
so I tried all the factory resets possible combos, power and volume up, but nothing works.
I downloaded from this site various update.zip files, put them one by one in the SD, and tried loading them with the power and volume button, but what happens is, first it comes the ANDROID logo loading, then on the ANDROID logo comes a RED triangle, and nothing happens.
I dont know what O.S was installed here.
I also managed to get to another screen while pressing the reset buttons,
thats a black screen, with this writing in the corner > Bootloader v0.03.12-ICS: Starting Fastboot USB download protocol
That-s all I managed to do, but nothing works for me, so could someone point me out a working update.zip file, or something, to unbrick this A500 please
if needed, i managed to get the UID code with ubuntu, and the SBK key
i-m still trying all the update.zip i can find on these forums, and so far, only one managed to get me a loading bar under the Green Robot, instead of giving the RED TRIANGLE error, but after 1hour, the loading bar is stuck on like 25%
help me pls
Either babsector.rar file and flash a custom ics rom. Or the tdv4 file, which will flash an HC Rom for you.
You will need a pc, the drivers and cpuid, instructions and downloads in the root guide in my sig
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