Android Tablets

[cook236]

Hi everyone,

A500 tablet which had ICS update installed.

Perhaps someone can help before I take a sledgehammer to the tablet.

History, my A500 tablet froze, could not do anything.

I tried a hard reset several times still did not work.

I put "update.zip" on my SD card and did a "volume,power etc  and only got  the android icon fallen over and exclamation mark. That did not work.

I put previous android OS on SD card renamed it "update.zip"  Then everything seemed to start going fine I got a screen whcih said "tablet reconfiguring, do not switch off" on the reboot I then got a blank screen with "boot verified failed" in red at the top of the screen.

I then connected the tablet to the PC hoping I could do something with the "bootloader v0.03.12-ics: starting fastboot usb download protocol" and whillst it showed up in my "device setting" and stated abd working correcting I could not do anything.

I have sent a message to ACER support.

My A500 is out of warranty and 3 years old.

Can anyone help before the machine goes in the bin.

Kind regards,

Ivor

[IronFly]

Probably you have a locked ICS bootloader and trying to flash an older OS version, this is way you have a "boot verified failed".

you can try to follow this guide to fix it (not mine and not Acer official!!!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOe6_Ix6XOg

[cook236]

Seen this link before.  Tried everthing and got nowhere, not clued up enough to go down the adb route and android operating system on my pc.   I will not be going for out of warrantly repair but bin it and by an ipad.

Thanks for trying to help very much appreciated.

cook236

[IronFly]

Another option will be the APX flash but it's not the easiest way and we can't talk it here but google is your friend.

[cook236]

Yes, do not think I have anything to lose, I am sure it is not an hardware problem, boot files are corrupt.

One question perhaps you could answer, I have download zip file for this, now should I unzip and load onto my SD Card? and then reboot tablet?

[IronFly]

I never did an APX flash, so i don't know how to do it.

[cook236]

Thanks, will reread the guide on the web.