A100 bricked, possibly even dead, need help

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Okay so I'm running stock ICS without root or any custom stuff, everything just stock, today I was listening to music and decided to change the songs, so I pressed the power button but the screen didn't come on, tried a few more times, the screen didn't come on but the music kept going, so out of desperation I held down the power button and after 3 seconds or so it sounded like a BSOD, sound repeated quickly for a second then just nothing.
So after that I tried starting it up back again, here we go, acer logo....aaaannnddd.......nothing.
Tried a few more times and left it over 30 minutes yet nothing. just that acer logo.

so finally I though I could flash a stock rom file, so I grabbed the .014 ics file and put it in my freshly formatted micro sd under the name update.zip (and no I didn't have the double .zip), then I went to recovery, it came up with the familiar android with his chest open and the spinning cube thingy in front of him, then after 5 seconds it came up with the android and the red warning sign above him, which usually meant either SD card not found or update.zip not found, tried a few more times and NOTHING.

FINALLY, I tried the volume down and rotation lock method to try factory reset, it erased userdata and cache and fingers crossed...yet nothing.
am I SOL? Or is there any hope at all, I tried connecting to a computer while it's at the Acer logo screen, you can hear the USB connect and disconnect sound, but adb won't detect it, please help, I love this thing too much and Acer wants me to pay 100 dollars to fix it, I'll die before I do that.

ANY HELP will be appreciated, any suggestions are welcome.

Bump, anyone please??
I love this tablet too much

Try update.zip again on a different SD card. Not all of them work in all devices. Also doubt check its formatted fat32 not something else. Are you sure you have the proper drivers installed for adb?

Tapatalked from my Galaxy S II.

Originally Posted by pio_masaki

Try update.zip again on a different SD card. Not all of them work in all devices. Also doubt check its formatted fat32 not something else. Are you sure you have the proper drivers installed for adb?

Tapatalked from my Galaxy S II.

I have proper drivers installed and I tried with 2 sd cards, one was almost full but on FAT32, and one was freshly formatted to FAT, I'll try format to FAT32 and report back

I tried formatting to FAT32, placing the update.zip
Sadly, didn't work
Any other suggestions anyone?

Originally Posted by Metallica 4 Life

I tried formatting to FAT32, placing the update.zip
Sadly, didn't work
Any other suggestions anyone?

What does didn't work mean? The answers are in the details, we need them or we're just guessing at random things. Any text, vibrations, lights, pictures all that.

Try adb from a different cable, port, computer? Try hard reset again, hell try 3-4 times, sometimes it takes some persistence.

Oh also plug it into power supply, low battery can cause issues too.

Tapatalked from my A100 - Flex Reaper RF1.

I've been trying for a few days with almost everything, tried APX mode but apparently it doesn't work since you need the CPU ID
and by "doesn't work", I mean I get the vibration, the acer logo pops up, then at the top it starts saying the loading update.zip stuff, then it goes to the green android with it's chest opened and a small blue link ball rotating beside him, after 7-8 seconds, it just shows a dead android, with his chest open and a red triangle with an ! in it.

So yeah, ADB doesn't work, as it never goes past the acer screen.

OK have you managed or tried fastboot? If you can manage that then you should be able to get adb up.

This is basically what I mean about fast boot

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27015316



Tapatalked from my Galaxy S II.

Only if I can get to fastboot from stock bootloader, everything I had was stock, OTA ICS, stock bootloader, and no root

Originally Posted by Metallica 4 Life

Only if I can get to fastboot from stock bootloader, everything I had was stock, OTA ICS, stock bootloader, and no root

You can that's how you unlock the boot loader, check out that post and give it a shot.

Tapatalked from my Galaxy S II.