Acer a500 stuck on acer screen - Acer Iconia A500

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

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[Q] Stuck at rooting

Hello,
So i've tried to root the nook. Copied the touchnooter on my card, booted the nook. And then : forever stuck on the "root forever" or the "read forever" (when i get the card off)..
The hard reboot (20 sec on power off) doesn't work and i'm stuck at this "read forever" screen.
Is there a way to recover the nook ?
Thanks.. !
When doing the hard power off (long press) the screen doesn't usually change and you might be fooled into believing nothing happened.
Have you tried to let the unit settle for 10 seconds and then press power for a few seconds to see if it tries to boot?
Hey,
thanks for replying. I have tried a 30 sec hard boot + a reboot try but nothing happened. It freezes on the "nook is starting screen".
I afraid i have broke my device... But strangely i followed the rooting steps and nothing seemed to do wrong.. I guess.
Bye
If you can in fact get the unit to start booting, just long press power (10s +) as soon as you see the unit try to boot to interrupt the boot, then power it on again and repeat this procedure for 8 times (sucks, yes I know) and you should drop into factory reset.
Ok so i have to say : WTF !
So this morning i looked at my nook and saw that it still was on the "reading forever"/"starting" thing. As i saw your advice i tried to boot 8 time..
On the first boot attempt : it worked ! So maybe is was the eighth..
The nook started and asked me if i wanted to continue with android guy or "es something"... so i pressed android guy..
SO now i don't really know if the procedure went well ? Is it supposed to be rooted now ?
Thanks anyway for the time you took replying !
I hope my english is not too hard to read.
Bye,
By "android guy" I guess you're referring to the Android Welcome screen?
That would suggest that the Touchnooter went trough successfully.
Did you get Go Launcher and ButtonSavior up and running?
IIRC, whenever you do a fresh boot and try to use ButtonSavior you'll get a notice saying ButtonSavior has been granted superuser access, which would indicate that you're successfully rooted.
I had a similar problem, using touchnooter 1.11.20 and it was too quick. Maybe 45 seconds, removed card and restarted. Stuck in a boot loop, on tne "Nook" screen with the little blocks move across the screen and just keeps restarting. Fortunately I made a backup and was able to restore. Not sure what the problem is but I tried TouchNooter 5 times, downloaded it twice, wrote it to the SD cars 3 times and same result, Stuck on the nook screen, animation gets to the 4th dot and restarts. Tried salsichaNooter .4 with the same result. Any ideas on what the problem could be? It would be really nice if I could get a decent reader on this thing.
I made my life a little easier by having 2 micro SD cards to use, nookie on one and touchnooter on the other. I also made sure I had a good backup of my original ROM by opening the image with 7zip and the nook with partition wizard and verifying they were the same. At least I can gat it back to a working stock rom.
Why dont you try my new method?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1346748
PS:
..... insomnia Sucks......
Thanks, I'll see if this works.
Not really insomnia, trying to get this fixed before I have to put my wife on a plane. It's her nook touch, I have a color, it was so much easier.
I'm having a similar problem: I used SalsichaNooter, I let Rooted Forever to be on the nook screen for an hour, there were no messages on the screen no progress indication of any sort. I did a hard reboot after an hour and it seems at least some part of the rooting script worked - but how do i know the nook was rooted all the way through since it didnt reaboot during the rooting process as it should?

A500 boots into shurdown screen

Hi
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

SOLVED : Managed the impossible - Bricked my Defy+ - PLEASE help !

Here are the facts:
1. My defy+ with red lens had this rom :Android 2.3.5 "Gingerbread" DEFY+ 4.5.1-134-DFP-125 - CEE LINK
2. took the stupid decision to flash this A.2.3.6-MIUI-XIUIv4.04-13.06-DEFY+/red-fixed'sbf from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1691901
3. the phone did not boot, remained at the black screen with the white writings on it so i decided to flash the image that i had (read point 1)
4. flash went relatively ok but now my phone is stuck at the animated motorola boot logo
5. if i take the battery out and power it on with the volume down i encounter a triangle with a "!" in the middle next to an green android - the 3e menu is missing - can't do a thing
if i power the phone with volume up the bootloader says "Bootloader 09.10, Battery OK, OK to program, Connect USB, Data Cable"
6. tried the following with no luck:
- let it run the animated boot loop for 10-12 minutes - hoping that will come out of it
- flashed it several times
- tried this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1618718 and it's exactly how it;s acting mine and i quote: "If that doesn't happen,it will ask you to reboot manaully and your phone will be stuck in MOTO logo.
- Now remove your USB cable and remove battery. Hold power button and vol + button, you will get that screen.
- Now connect usb, now it result should say pass.
- Press the power button and start the phone. First boot will take some time (Min of 10 minutes or more). "
I am tired, upset and kinda desperate... i thought it will never brick and... surprise
yo did not break your phone... that's almost impossible...
did you tried to flash a defy+ sbf from here http://sbf.droid-developers.org/umts_jordanplus/list.php using rsd lite???
try that first and later came back with results
dude, this is the wrong area but as you are desperate.... did you try to find some post
that could help you with your problem?
i'm sure that somebody already have the same problem as you do... so,
try searching for it in the general section
i can't help you with that, i have a green lens defy
best of luck
#edit
try doing what the guy above said
Questions go in the Q&A section
Did you do a full wipe from STOCK recovery prior to flashing your sbf? You MUST do a full wipe before you flash any sbf or you could bootloop. Reading your post it sounds like you can get to stock recovery (volume down +power) once you reach the triangle screen you describe press vol up, and vol down at the same time to get your menu and do a full wipe
Ok, brought it back to life!
First of all i want to thank all of you who wrote me in thread and private.
Second, yeah, i was pretty desperate mostly because i tried so many solutions, read so much and the thought that i was gonna empty the battery without finding a solution was really stressfull.
What did i miss? At step 6 what i should have done is press the volume up AND down at the same time to make the 3e Menu show up then wipe cache and everything and tadaaa... phone started.
Unfortunately it took me almost all night to figure out, read countless threads, googled like crazy till i found someone who posted the right and complete solution
Once again, many, many thanks guys
PS.
# espaciosalter20
i did several times with several images
# zyxwvut
i wanted to do a full wipe but the menu was not there, i thought that powering the phone with volume down pressed was enough to make the menu show up and do the wipe but unfortunately this was not the case... you had to press the volume up and down at the same time to make the 3e menu show up... stupid if u ask me... also not many ppl pointed this out in many tutorials/hints/threads so i had a hard time finding this piece of vital information.
edit said:
Ok, brought it back to life!
First of all i want to thank all of you who wrote me in thread and private.
Second, yeah, i was pretty desperate mostly because i tried so many solutions, read so much and the thought that i was gonna empty the battery without finding a solution was really stressfull.
What did i miss? At step 6 what i should have done is press the volume up AND down at the same time to make the 3e Menu show up then wipe cache and everything and tadaaa... phone started.
Unfortunately it took me almost all night to figure out, read countless threads, googled like crazy till i found someone who posted the right and complete solution
Once again, many, many thanks guys
PS.
# espaciosalter20
i did several times with several images
# zyxwvut
i wanted to do a full wipe but the menu was not there, i thought that powering the phone with volume down pressed was enough to make the menu show up and do the wipe but unfortunately this was not the case... you had to press the volume up and down at the same time to make the 3e menu show up... stupid if u ask me... also not many ppl pointed this out in many tutorials/hints/threads so i had a hard time finding this piece of vital information.
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Next time, please, make a full wipe ALWAYS before flashing... Yo can do that even in custom recovery (not need to do in stock all times, just when things go really mess up )

it just froze up, I reset a couple times, then tried power+vol up then..

Not sure what the heck happened to my device. I was using it when it just froze up outta nowhere. I tried resetting it a couple times but it wouldnt get past the android screen. Hard Reset, nothing. So I tried going into APX mode, power+vol up(idk why) then, it wouldnt get past the 'Acer' screen after that. So I let it charge overnight now it doesn't show anything at all. The power button does light up, but thats it. what the heck just happened?
NOTE: I lent out my sdcard with the update.zip in it. would putting my sdcard back in fix the problem or is it bigger than that?
is this thread a possible solution to my problem? problems seem similiar
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1874345
can someone please help me find out what happened with this, I really dont wanna call Acer n send it in if I can fix the problem myself
500tab said:
Not sure what the heck happened to my device. I was using it when it just froze up outta nowhere. I tried resetting it a couple times but it wouldnt get past the android screen. Hard Reset, nothing. So I tried going into APX mode, power+vol up(idk why) then, it wouldnt get past the 'Acer' screen after that. So I let it charge overnight now it doesn't show anything at all. The power button does light up, but thats it. what the heck just happened?
NOTE: I lent out my sdcard with the update.zip in it. would putting my sdcard back in fix the problem or is it bigger than that?
is this thread a possible solution to my problem? problems seem similiar
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1874345
can someone please help me find out what happened with this, I really dont wanna call Acer n send it in if I can fix the problem myself
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Eh, well, need to know the condition of the tab. Sounds like it is stuck in APX mode. (Black display, white PWR light). Is this the case?
Generally, you might be able to PWR down, by press and hold the pwr button for several seconds. Then try to boot it normally.
Oh, BTW, Pwr and Vol+ is not how to get it to APX. That usually gets the stock bootloader which really isn't much of anything unless you have an update.zip on your ext sd card.
Were you completely stock? (not rooted or custom rom)
MD
Yes that's the condition, black screen white pwr light. It is rooted, thats it. Running ICS 4.0. I wont be able to get my sd card until wednesday so if I need that update.zip file I'll have to wait a few more days. Its completely off right now, I tried powering on and off a few times and I got nothing just a blank screen. Im unsure, what to try next??
500tab said:
Yes that's the condition, black screen white pwr light. It is rooted, thats it. Running ICS 4.0. I wont be able to get my sd card until wednesday so if I need that update.zip file I'll have to wait a few more days. Its completely off right now, I tried powering on and off a few times and I got nothing just a blank screen. Im unsure, what to try next??
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Yeah, you're going to need an SD card. And make sure the tab is charged.
In the meantime, you can try a couple things just to see it you can get a different response. However, understand this.
1. You can probably forget any personal data that's stored on it. Photos, downloads, music, etc. Just to prepare you.
2. You probably have a corrupted bootloader partition. How it happens, with a normally functioning tab, nobody really knows.
You can try doing a data wipe. Usually we would wait till you get an SD card, but I'm curious if you can get anything on the display. To do this, with the tablet off, Press and hold PWR, while at the same time, continiously cycle your rotation lock left and right, quickly until you see "erasing user data" or something similar on the display.
Another thing, manually put it into APX mode. This involves using a paper clip, and press and hold the "reset" button near the USB port, then press and hold PWR. Count to 4 and release PWR, and 1 second later release the paperclip. Then plug your tablet into the PC, and see if the PC loads the drivers for it. You should already have installed the Acer USB drivers. If not, get them from the Acer site.
Understand, your chances of getting it going again, are less than 50/50. But, we all will give it a shot.
MD
This is exactly the situation I'm in... Black screen, White power light...
I was in the middle of an app, when tablet rebooted, wouldn't boot back up..
I was able to get into CWM recovery... investigated, and found that /system wouldn't mount... So, I was prepared to re-flash, so I first went to do a nandroid backup of my data folder... I also had an old nandroid backup, so I decided to restore that... After I did that, I couldn't even get into recovery anymore...
I've tried setting my tablet into apx mode, and trying to flash, but they always seem to freeze at "uploading image" (both with afterota unbrick and blackthund3r's tool)
Now, blackthund3r's tool will actually get the acer logo to show up, with "Entering download mode...", so that leads me to think the tablet isn't completely shot? It just gets stuck during the upload image...
Tried the erasing data as suggested by MD, but no luck, just black screen...
What is the sdcard method that you are speaking of? Is there anything else I can try?
Thanks in advance
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Edit:
Tried placing update.zip on sdcard for flashing, tried turning on the tablet with volume down...No joy
Hopefully someone has some other ideas for me? Thanks again in advance.
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Edit 2:
After a day of searching, finally came across this post.
Fixed and saved my tablet... Whew!

[Q] Trying to fix my A500

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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