A1-180 constantly freezes
Hello,
I've been using a hand-me-down A1-180 for over a year now. The specs aren't spectacular and I used it to surf YouTube and browse the internet, so it inevitably crashed once in a while, and I'd have to do a forced reboot. After one of those crashes happened recently, I got around to downloading a RAM cleaner from the Play Store, and that's where the trouble begun (though it could be coincidental). To keep it short, it is now unusable for the most part, even after I managed to get it booted up for long enough to uninstall the RAM cleaner. Sometimes it freezes right after startup, other times it freezes after about ten minutes using it. A factory reset would be the obvious option here except I have two doubts about that - (1) what if it's down to bad RAM, and so what if it freezes up just as I'm resetting it? (2) how do I get my data out? I want to sync my history and bookmarks to Chrome but that isn't working because the tablet froze on me when I tried to do that just minutes earlier. As I type in fact, it has frozen just as I'm trying to evacuate some of my files to an SD card. I'd rather not pay for a repair – this will be my last Acer tablet for sure, and this is going to be sold if I get it working again.
