[Acer Iconia Tab A100] pio_masaki:
Ok well here's my personal addition to the Brick Thread:

Just flashed a tester for waydownsouth

Running CM10, had a freeze after it booted, maybe 5 minutes.

Restarted into TWRP, wiped cache, dalvik cache

Restarted into CM10, got the usual Optimising applications message

Bogged down at 18, 10 minutes later it was on 19, then just stopped there

20 minutes later, hard boot into recovery

TWRP immediately gives /cache partition errors which I don't notice

Go to wipe system, hangs formatting system

Then I notice the error messages in the console log

Everything is gone.

Things I did once it was realised I had a brick on my hands:

Still in this boot of TWRP I happened to have been talking with waydownsouth in IRC, and we pulled some logs from it, recovery and kmsg logs

ADB shell failed, as did most ADB commands

Rebooted into TWRP, ADB Shell came up, pull kmsg again to compare against the initial failure kmsg

Using parted, verified all but 2 partitions were smoked, recovery and bootloader

Managed to push gdisk utility to /tmp/gdisk and operate it from there, the plan was to attempt to recover the GPT table at the end of the drive and restore it to the front, this failed.

Some things to note:

The A200 bootloader reports the wrong CPUID, I've said this before, but I'll say it again.

The A500 SBK tool requires 16 characters, ours is shorter, therefore, as I said before, the A500 SBK is different from ours, A500 methods will fail.

After a few boots into TWRP I eventually fell back to only APX mode, which means it's dead.

Got on the Acer site, got into a chat with a rep, while I logged the entire conversation, this is the summary:

Hi, what's wrong?

My tablet froze, then it got stuck at the Acer screen, now it won't turn on at all.

Ok, I can help with that.

(wait a minute)

Ok, your device is still under warranty (they asked for the SNID previous to entering chat)

Sweet so it can get fixed?

Have you tried to reset the device?

Yes, it doesn't even turn on now.

Ok, Lets reset the device.

(me :rolleyes: )

= Spams huge macro of instructions on how to reset the device =

(I then watch TV for a minute as I already know it won't matter)

Are we still connected?

Oh, sorry yes I was trying to reset it, but it never turns on or vibrates.

Ok it will need to be sent in.

(me YES muwahahaha)

And how do I do this?

When was it purchased?

(damn I got it used....)

I received it around May 2nd.

Ok, I'll place that as the purchase date.

Your warranty now expires 8/13

( me :victory: extra warranty!)

= Spams huge macro of instructions for sending it in =

And the rest is the usual, some info given, giving my undying appreciation for helping this hapless person try to fix my tablet. Then his final message:

Have a fun time.

:eek:

Now it has yet to be seen if I will need to PAY for this repair, as it stands I just have to pay shipping it out there, however they may choose to charge me or not once they get it. If they DO decide to charge me, I may have to tell them no, as I don't have money for it, then I think they send it back, and it just sits there, looking awesome and taunting me that I can't work on it anymore.

I'll update if anything new comes along or happens.