Solved!! Help unbrick my a500!

[sojibby]

Hello all,

I understand that to unbrick that a500 I need this file

acer_a500_0.000.00_1.122.01_emea_gen5_update.zip

however any link for this file points to either megaupload or filesonic - neither of which work anymore.

Does anyone have a copy of this file, or any other instruction on how to unbrick my device?



Details: I was running a rom with a custom kernel and got it into my head all I needed to do to restore it to stock would be to restore acer's recovery and flash the unstable 3.0.1 rom. Now I'm stuck with Acer's recovery and a boot loop at the boot animation.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[drkalo]

If you have flashed the unstable 3.0.1 do a hard reset and reboot. It might fix it.

 

[Moscow Desire]

Hello all,

I understand that to unbrick that a500 I need this file

acer_a500_0.000.00_1.122.01_emea_gen5_update.zip

however any link for this file points to either megaupload or filesonic - neither of which work anymore.

Does anyone have a copy of this file, or any other instruction on how to unbrick my device?



Details: I was running a rom with a custom kernel and got it into my head all I needed to do to restore it to stock would be to restore acer's recovery and flash the unstable 3.0.1 rom. Now I'm stuck with Acer's recovery and a boot loop at the boot animation.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Let me guess. You increased to Max CPU, probably messed with the voltages, then selected "apply at boot"?

Ok, did you install the CWM Recovery that came with AcerRecovery when you first rooted? And then, make a system recovery backup before messing with kernels? Sounds like a no, or else it would have been easy to restore your backup copy after the boot-loop.

This may work for you like it did for the other guy;

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1506321

Note that you will have to decrypt the file, and get the update.zip from it. There is a tool listed there on Vache's thread listing for roms. It shouldn't need to be the exact Com_Gen version.

If that doesn't work, post back. We'll try something else.

Like this thread, method 2;

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1276227

 

[sojibby]

Thanks guys I will try these and get back to you

 

[sojibby]

So, the hard reset allowed my machine to boot, but then I got the setup screen asking for a password.

I hard reset the device again, saw the erase user data, etc and got the normal welcome screen.

Thanks very much guys!!



Incidentally Moscow, I think I may have played around with the GPU clock settings and forgot about them, but not the CPU. Yes I did use the CWM from Acer Recovery - which I used to restore Acer's recovery and flash downgrade_not_stable.

At any rate I am glad it's working again! You guys saved me a lot of grief!

 

[Moscow Desire]

So, the hard reset allowed my machine to boot, but then I got the setup screen asking for a password.

I hard reset the device again, saw the erase user data, etc and got the normal welcome screen.

Thanks very much guys!!

No problem. Next time, install CWM or RA Revamped Recovery, and make a Recovery/nand backup before messing with them dirty kernels

 

[sojibby]

ah, backups are for smrt peeepuls.

 

[erica_renee]

ah, backups are for smrt peeepuls.

backing up on your part could have saved alot of typing in this thread..
but its fine..
NOW GO BACK UP.. GRRRRRRRR