[Q] Help with Acer Iconia tab bootloop?

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Hi, so I've had my acer iconia tab a500 for a few months, rooted it and recently it had been shutting off randomly I thought this might just be honeycomb being buggy.

Well In the past week my tablet has been stuck in a boot-loop that I have no Idea how to fix, the only thing I have changed on the tablet is the boot animation to a custom one that was posted on this forum.

Anyone have any idea how to fix this? I've been thinking of bringing it back for warranty but I'm not sure if me having root would void that.

If anyone could help that would be nice, I tried doing the update.zip thing but I still got a boot-loop although it went slightly longer than before. Now my tablet won't show up when plugged into my laptop so I don't know what to do. I'd appreciate the help if anyone knows anything on how to fix this.

I don't know if this is a factor but I replaced the boot animation with one from this forum, could that be what is causing the bootloop?

Originally Posted by floos

I don't know if this is a factor but I replaced the boot animation with one from this forum, could that be what is causing the bootloop?

That depends. Did the boot animation ever work? If so, then no. It's a pretty benign mod.

If it didn't work the first time you booted after pushing it to your tab and has since been looping then you borked the process somehow.

Hmm, I'm not really sure where I borked it.

Originally Posted by swampy67

Okay so this is what i did as directed by the guys above.
1. Download this file. have to warn you though this service is horribly slow http://api.viglink.com/api/click?for...pdate.zip.html
2. Put your external SD card into your computer, and copy over the file to the root of the card.
3. Rename the file update.zip(make sure it isn't named update.zip.zip)
4. Put the SD card back it the tab.
5. Make sure your tab is completely shut down.
6. Hold down the volume down button and press the power button.( dont let go of the volume down button till the screen turns on)
7. The recovery will boot and the update should hopefully restore your tab.
8.(optional but recommended) follow these steps in order to revert back to the latest OTA american version so that your able to upgrade to 3.1 when it comes out.http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1101859

Hope this helps.

I tried following this, I'm not sure if that is the incorrect way to do it.

Hi guys,

Same problem. I flashed this Stock ROM 3.2.1 on my A501, but got bootloop. I flashed back my original ROM over it but I still got bootloop. Could you tell me if that procedure is correct?
Thanks in advance.

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