Hi,
Guys I need your help on this one.
I sold my A500 almost a year ago to a friend of mine. At that time I flashed it with a HC ROM and Recovery 1.3.4.
Last week the new owner of the tabled asked me for help updating the ROM to JB. Since now I use a Samsung Galaxy I completely forgot on the correct procedures to update the Acer A500. I simply downloaded a 4.2.2 Rom and tried to flash it on recovery mode.
After that I'm stuck with an endless loop. The tabled boots, pass the Acer logo, shows the ROM logo screen and than boot again.
Since I can still acess the recovery screen (it still shows 1.3.4 recovery) I tried flashing other ROMs with no sucess. Every room that uses the Aurora installer freezes as soons as Aurora Installer message shows on the screen. So I wasn`t able to flash a new Rom or a new Recovery (since all the Roms and recovery that I have found uses the Autora installer).
I also tried to install an older room (Tried the Lightspeed 2.1 ROM) and although I was able to flash it and reboot from recovery, it stops on the boot screen after that (I waited for 4 hours).
Can you guys help me with this one? Also, do you guys know if I can install a new Recovery using Odin?
Thanks
Anyone?
Maybe you should try flashing stock rom. Download 》rename it to update.zip》install from sd card or use EUU roms.
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[Q] I cannot boot EURO Tab anymore. Always landed into Android system recovery <3e>
Hallo all. I've been searching this forum for solution and I've not found any. My GTab cannot boot normal any more. Every time it lands into Android system recovery <3e>. Please help me. I'm really frustrated.
How it started:
I ran ROM Manager to check whether there is support for EURO Tab (no supprot yet). Then from inside ROM Manager I booted into recovery to do a nandroid backup. Unfortunately no nandroid is there. When I did reboot GTab cannot start anymore. Everytime I boot I land into Android system recovery <3e>. Booting into downloading mode is also not possible. I've tried many times. GTab only boot into recovery <3e>.
I have Galaxy Tab EURO, rooted, updated to JM6.
hello!
have you flashed the international kernel before? if u did so and u want to revert all, u can flash with heimdall a stock kernel and a stock secondary bootloader (boot.bin and sbl.bin) from JM6! maybe u need to reflash the whole firmware with heimdall or Odin, whatever u like better!
Thanks for reply. Actually I did flash the EURO ROM three weeks ago. I did nothing recently. I only booted into recovery via ROM Manager and since then GTab cannot boot normally.
I tried Odin already, but no success, because I cannot switch into downloading mode, but recovery. I tried with adb shell, and cannot find the directory /data.
I have rooted and flashed the EURO ROM on my Gtab as well; and I am having the same problem finding a ClockworkMod version compatible with this ROM. I've tried AT&T, TMobile, and Verizon versions of ClockworkMod. I preordered from UK, so I didn't expect any to work, but it doesn't hurt to try.
Anyway, I run into a similar problem as you on reboot. I get to system recovery and it "sticks". However, if I press the HOME key a few times, it will reboot normally.
Still no recovery, still no nand, but at least the Gtab is functioning. I guess I just wait on a EURO version of recovery.
My Iconia has CWM installed. I used it a while ago to install the leaked ICS rom. I tried to install the most recent (official) ICS rom. Now my Iconia will not boot past the Iconia logo. I've loaded CWM and formatted everything and reinstalled the official rom. No go.
I figure at this point I have to use nvflash to install a new recovery image and rom. Could somebody tell me how to do that and what files to get?
Thanks
Before doing anything else have you tried wiping cache and data? Has worked for me when a rom wont boot. Have you still got cwm can you access it? If no cwm you can accomplish this by holding power and volume up then toggle the rotation lock.
Yes, I have access to CWM. I have tried wiping everything. I even successfully installed a new rom. The device still will not boot past the Acer logo.
I booted wit hte method you described. Two messages appeared in quick succession, "Clearing data..." and "Clearing cache". After the cache message, the device just sits there doing nothing at all.
Previously I had the data partition encrypted. Could that be causing trouble?
did you install an ICS bootloader?
I'm not sure. That is why I created this thread. I'm looking to get the recovery and OS image necessary to get this device working again.
As the previous poster noted, have you switched to the ICS bootloader? When I flashed my A500 with an ICS rom it too got stuck in a bootloop. I then discovered that I actually had to flash the ICS bootloader berfore installing the new rom.
vangorra said:
My Iconia has CWM installed. I used it a while ago to install the leaked ICS rom. I tried to install the most recent (official) ICS rom. Now my Iconia will not boot past the Iconia logo. I've loaded CWM and formatted everything and reinstalled the official rom. No go.
I figure at this point I have to use nvflash to install a new recovery image and rom. Could somebody tell me how to do that and what files to get?
Thanks
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You can't install official ROM with CWM. You need Acer recovery! This issue has been answered several times. Use search button!!!
I have an original Galaxy Tab (AT&T variant). Last year, I flashed the Euro ROM, and then flashed back to the only AT&T stock ROM I could find; the stock ROM is just fine except for the boot animation. It shows the SAMSUNG flash screen, then goes black during the remainder of the bootup. After a couple minutes, I can press power twice and the device is perfectly usable.
However, it seems that along with the boot animation, my recovery mode is also not possible. Just a black screen. I can get into download mode, but recovery is a no-go.
I want to flash an ICS based ROM, but all the ones I can find require flashing from SD, which is only possible if you can get into recovery mode. Are there any options available that will allow me to flash them via Odin or by any other means using my PC with the device in download mode?
Thanks in advance!
you are quite incorrect there.
To install ICS you need a CUSTOM recovery, mainly ClockWorkMod Recovery (CWM Recovery).
Even if you can boot to your AT&T stock recovery, it will not work.
Head over to http://www.teamovercome.net
You can read the guide at overcome site, but it has missing pictures.
You can see the whole guide here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20974872
I don't know what version is AT&T stock. if it is Gingerbread, you probably can't just flash overcome kernel in tar format using Odin and just boot to recovery and use the recovery.
Thank you very much! I went through that process effortlessly. Now on to more experiments!
Hi,
I ve done dozens of flashing with my Sony and Samsung phones with no problem. Today i decided to flash something fresh on my acer a500 tab. I did my first mistake Please help cause im reading threads for 3 hours now and i dont know how to proceed.
Heres the story:
I was on stock ics 4.0.3 rooted. I used successfully the AfterOTA tool and flashed Bootloader ics v3.14.8 + Recovery Ra v3.1.7 That gave me the Skrilacs Recovery V8.
Then i did all the usual wipes and flashed successfully RE-FLEX XX 40.4 Rom. After the first boot i noticed that my internal storage wasnt empty. It gave me only 14gb free. There were still stuff in like photos, some music and apps remainings. I desided to wipe again and reinstall the rom. I did it a couple of times and i got the same result (internal storage was still with the same stuff).
On my last try to install the rom again it stucked on rom booting screen (bootloop). I can still get into CWM but cant find a solution.
Thanks in advance for any help..
Update: just managed to get it boot back on stock. My heart is back to its place now.
Thanks
Hello!
I was about to unroot and get back to stock with my A500 so I flashed a stock ROM via CWM to get a ota-update. Before i had a custom ICS ROM installed and now I installed a HC stock ROM. The problem is that i forgot to go through the wipe menu in CWM before the flash and now when I start up my tablet I first see the ACER logo as usual, then a android text-logo which the tablet is stuck at. I've waited 20 minutes and is still shows the same thing. The logo has an animation which i still can see. I've tried to restart the tablet and get into CWM again without succes.
What should I do?
Webspirit said:
Hello!
I was about to unroot and get back to stock with my A500 so I flashed a stock ROM via CWM to get a ota-update. Before i had a custom ICS ROM installed and now I installed a HC stock ROM. The problem is that i forgot to go through the wipe menu in CWM before the flash and now when I start up my tablet I first see the ACER logo as usual, then a android text-logo which the tablet is stuck at. I've waited 20 minutes and is still shows the same thing. The logo has an animation which i still can see. I've tried to restart the tablet and get into CWM again without succes.
What should I do?
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I believe you have to have the HC bootloader. Now you have HC with ICS bootloader.