[Q] Is my A100 bricked?

[rrand]

Can anyone help me? I installed a program called gallery refresh and it didn't seem to do anything. Then my A100 started running very slow, so I rebooted it. Now it won't come on! It goes to the ANDROID screen, and it's animated, but it just stays there forever. One time it started up after about 15 minutes but it went really slow then just froze. Now it won't boot up at all. Just the Android logo. Is my A100 bricked? I still had important information on there. Is there anything that can be done or can I save my data off the internal sd card??

Thank you.

 

[rrand]

Can anyone help me? I installed a program called gallery refresh and it didn't seem to do anything. Then my A100 started running very slow, so I rebooted it. Now it won't come on! It goes to the ANDROID screen, and it's animated, but it just stays there forever. One time it started up after about 15 minutes but it went really slow then just froze. Now it won't boot up at all. Just the Android logo. Is my A100 bricked? I still had important information on there. Is there anything that can be done or can I save my data off the internal sd card??

Thank you.

Now it's stuck at the green "acer acer acer acer" screen. It doesn't seem to be doing anything at all.

 

[rrand]

It's worse now...

I read some instructions on another site to clear the Dalvik cache and I tried it. Now all I get when I turn on the A100 is a black screen. I think it's really bricked now.

 

[rrand]

The acer logo is back now. I accidently forgot to put the external sd card back in it. It now boots up to the Acer logos, but that's it.

 

[pio_masaki]

Need more info, what rom, recovery, etc?

 

[rrand]

Need more info, what rom, recovery, etc?

Stock ICS, rooted, CWM recovery.

I went into the CWM settings and told it to do a Backup and on the next blank screen, the android came up with a spherical thing in his tummy that's rolling about. I'm not sure what that means. There is no indication of how long the backup will take, or even where it's putting it, or whether it works at all. I don't know how long it lasts.

 

[rrand]

Does Android have a safe mode you can somehow get to?

 

[justjackyl]

Does Android have a safe mode you can somehow get to?

Goto a100 general sticky section, there is a dedicated brick thread with some things to try.

Sounds like the good old emmc failure to me though, and if it is, everything is lost, data, motherboard, TOTAL LOSS.

Sent via my Sosei "III" Bakedbean Iconia A100.

---------- Post added at 02:22 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:18 AM ----------

Also, there is a difference between emmc failure or just bricking by say a bad flash.

Suggest reading the wealth of guides here.

Sent via my Sosei "III" Bakedbean Iconia A100.

 

[pio_masaki]

Last thing you can try is booting back into recovery and try to adb pull off your internal SD. Not likely to work, but worth a shot. Stop rebooting and wiping it, you'll just kill it faster, wait until after you get what you can off of it.

Then do a factory reset. It'll likely just not finish or reboot or go to Andy on his back again, never know.

Sent from my HTC DNA

 

[rrand]

Now it won't work at all. I didn't do anything to it, just went to sleep and when I woke up it wouldn't turn on. Been on the phone with Acer. They won't allow me to send it in for repairs because I'm three months out of warranty.

 

[plznote]

Now it won't work at all. I didn't do anything to it, just went to sleep and when I woke up it wouldn't turn on. Been on the phone with Acer. They won't allow me to send it in for repairs because I'm three months out of warranty.

That sucks, Acer probably put only a year of warranty on because of their stupid eMMC chip. Thank god we are moving towards eSata now. I'm hopefully buying a Surface Pro.

Sent from my A100 using xda app-developers app

 

[pio_masaki]

That sucks, Acer probably put only a year of warranty on because of their stupid eMMC chip. Thank god we are moving towards eSata now. I'm hopefully buying a Surface Pro.

Sent from my A100 using xda app-developers app

I think a year is the standard time for devices, though IMO once this defect became known they should have recalled or extended the period, instead they just replace it with the same buggy board and kick it back out to die later for good.

Sent from my HTC DNA

 

[rrand]

Yes, I was very peeved. Acer wouldn't even fix it for money. They said I could not send it in. Thankfully, my note program was synced to Google. I thought for sure I lost it! I was feeling sick about it all night. Today I bought a Nexus and it synced right back up. I was so relieved. It was by far the most important data on the device. So I'm done with Acer now. Hope my Nexus will be better. Thanks for your concern, guys.

 

[Cporcelli]

Same here. But I got on with acer chat and got bumped up to level 2.and they are fixing for free and paying for shipping. Out of warranty since March.

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[DesertRambler]

ontiuoW 368

Same here. But I got on with acer chat and got bumped up to level 2.and they are fixing for free and paying for shipping. Out of warranty since March.

Thank you so much for posting your experience with Acer! If I had not seen this, I would not have even tried to get service since my warranty expired Nov 2012! But I guess because my problem was the dead emmc issue, I got bumped to Level 2 support and they authorized my return/repair immediately, including sending a FedEx shipping label to send my tablet to them! (Still waiting on the email with the shipping label, but I expect it shortly.)

So if you have a dead emmc, contact Acer chat service anyway, regardless of warranty! Their Level 2 support hours are 8:00 AM - 4:45 PM CST, Mon-Fri. Just go through support chat and they will transfer you through!