yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Acer Iconia A500] dibb_nz:
To run an update.zip,

1. put it on yr ext sd and power down yr tab.

2. Holding the volume down button in, press power button until the power lite comes on and release it.

3. Yr tab should vibrate ( release the vol button now)and will boot into the stock recovery mode.

4. You should see the android robot and underneath him u should see a yellow progress bar.

5. The process should take 10-15 mins max.

6. If the update is successful,Your tab will reboot....

7. If the update FAILS you will need to use the nvflash method instead.

Notes:

The update.zip method does not require yr tab to be connected to yr pc.

It does not require yr tab to be in apx mode, download mode or bootloader mode.

You must use vol down/Power and enter Recovery mode

It does need yr ext sd card to be formatted as fat32. You must format the card either with an Android device or SDFormatter for PC. You cannot format with windows itself.

To run nvflash and to download the necessary files and instructions, see the root guide in my sig

rgds

dibb
[Acer Iconia A500] dmpsuen:
Can someone use NVFLASH to --rawdeviceread the partition 4 to me? it should be a 4MB file, please :(
[Acer Iconia A500] dibb_nz:
Yep can do, just tell me how, wot commands etc
[Acer Iconia A500] dmpsuen:
Thanks!

- Put your A500 in APX mode

- Connect APX with nvflash. Please replace the SBK with your A500 one.

D:\Android\A500\V8-UNL-ICS-HC-bootloader-MULTI-cwm>nvflash --bct bct.bct --setbct --sbk 0xxxxxxxxx 0xxxxxxxx 0xxxxxxxxx 0xxxxxxxx --configfile flash.cfg --bl bootloader_apx.bin --go

Nvflash started

rcm version 0X20001

System Information:

chip name: t20

chip id: 0x20 major: 1 minor: 3

chip sku: 0x8

chip uid: 0x037c61c0xxxxxxx

macrovision: disabled

hdcp: enabled

sbk burned: true

dk burned: true

boot device: emmc

operating mode: 4

device config strap: 0

device config fuse: 0

sdram config strap: 0

sending file: bct.bct

- 4080/4080 bytes sent

bct.bct sent successfully

downloading bootloader -- load address: 0x108000 entry point: 0x108000

sending file: bootloader_apx.bin

| 714981/714981 bytes sent

bootloader_apx.bin sent successfully

waiting for bootloader to initialize

bootloader downloaded successfully

- Get he partition table to see the partition 4 info

D:\Android\A500\V8-UNL-ICS-HC-bootloader-MULTI-cwm>nvflash -r --getpartitiontable ptable.txt

Nvflash started

[resume mode]

Succesfully updated partition table information to ptable.txt

- In the ptable.txt file, you should see your EBT partition=4. Note the StartSector and NumSector to be used in the next command

PartitionId=4

Name=EBT

DeviceId=18

StartSector=896

NumSectors=1024

BytesPerSector=4096

- use the nvflash command to extract img file. It is a file with 1024 sectors with 4096 bytes each sector. So the file size should be 4MB.

D:\Android\A500\V8-UNL-ICS-HC-bootloader-MULTI-cwm>nvflash -r --rawdeviceread 896 1024 p4.img

Nvflash started

[resume mode]

Bytes to receive 4194304

receiving file: p4.img, expected size: 4194304 bytes

/ 4194304/4194304 bytes received

file received successfully

- Please send the p4.img file to me

:)

Thanks a lot!
[Acer Iconia A500] dibb_nz:
K I'm at work atm so will get back to you l8r...can I ask what it is you're wanting this for?

EDIT: all done see attached

EDIT 2: Whats best way to exit download mode,tried nvflash -r --go but didnt work???

EDIT 3: Ejected apx device from "safely remove hardware" and rebooted ...phew!!
[Acer Iconia A500] dmpsuen:
Thanks for your gr8 help, but it still not booting....

I tried flashing my A500 but it ended up with BCT write failed:

D:\Android\A500\V8-UNL-ICS-HC-bootloader-MULTI-cwm>nvflash -r --format_partition 4

Nvflash started

[resume mode]

Formatting partition 4 please wait.. done!

failed executing command 25 NvError 0x120002

command failure: sync failed (bad data)

bootloader status: Bct Write Failed (code: 22) message: nverror:0x42008 (0x6042008) flags: 0

I cannot format, cannot download to it.

I tried you file but no luck.

Is the partition table for 2 to 4 of yours like this?

PartitionId=2

Name=BCT

DeviceId=18

StartSector=0

NumSectors=768

BytesPerSector=4096

PartitionId=3

Name=PT

DeviceId=18

StartSector=768

NumSectors=128

BytesPerSector=4096

PartitionId=4

Name=EBT

DeviceId=18

StartSector=896

NumSectors=1024

BytesPerSector=4096

PartitionId=5

Name=GP1

DeviceId=18

StartSector=1920

NumSectors=256

BytesPerSector=4096

PartitionId=6

Name=SOS

DeviceId=18

StartSector=2176

NumSectors=1280

BytesPerSector=4096

can you extract partition 2, 3 and 6 so that I can try to copy it to see if it works?

Thanks for your gr8 help and I appreciate it very much!
[Acer Iconia A500] Douvie:
Chaps,

Yeah had same problem with my A500 - stuck on the ACER logo screen. Before this happened I was trying to play a youtube video. 4 times the tablet turned OFF and rebooted fine. On the 5th go it shut down and restarted, or at least tried to, got to the ACER logo and no further. This really gave me the pip.

Does anyone know, if one had a external SD if the data will still be on it? I'm going to give the suggestions in this thread a go to see if I can get my A500 working. I know that the build version/ Flex version is Acer_AV041_A500_1.031.00_ww_GEN1. Which update.zip do you suggest? Any help will be much appreciated.

Douvie.:cool:
[Acer Iconia A500] Douvie:
Brilliant!!!!

That worked a charm. Renamed .....update.zip to update. Repaired and reloaded! Now I have the "pleasure" of getting all my apps back.

Thanks Chaps you're great.

Thanks to Moscow!!!!!

Douvie.:cool:
[Acer Iconia A500] drshafique123:
Tried all 4 decrypted files posted by "Moscow desire". The first one stuck at 25%, the 2nd and 3rd didn't work, the 4th started working but during reboot it shows "start updating EBT, blob update failed' over the upper left side of the screen with the Acer logo on, then the screen goes blackout with the power switch light on.

really don't know what to do now.

i'm not an expert.

please help me out of this problem.
[Acer Iconia A500] dibb_nz:
You're stuck in apx mode...hope u got yr cpuid. Run babsector.rar file. Download and instructions in post 2 of the root guide in my sig
[Acer Iconia A500] drshafique123:
thanks for ur kind help, but as i mentioned that i'm not an expert on this ground and i don't have the cpuid and moreover the way to find it out as posted in different posts is beyond my understanding.

it would be so helpful if u can guide me through the whole process step by step.

i guess you might be a very busy person, but i badly need ur help.

please do me a favor. thanks.
[Acer Iconia A500] dibb_nz:
You must get yr cpuid using ubuntu and I cannot help u with that side of things.

See srbeens thread how to recover sbk, (unless u have the v8 bootloader or a nandroid bacckup)

this is the ONLY way.
[Acer Iconia A500] droidxxxxx:
I am on twrp..and can get into the custom recovery no prob. I was stuck on the acer logo as well. I booted into twrp, tried to flash several Roms I've used in the past, but now its hanging on the first screen, the custom boot loader screen. I can't get it to load a new ROM or a backup. Just goes to the first screen. I went into boot loader mode, and tried to run the secondary kernel, and it is giving me an error, says something about an akb . Can I try putting a stock zip renamed to "update" on my ex SD and boot into recovery or do I need to somehow be on the stock recovery for this to work? At this point I don't care if I loose root, just want the tab back. Any time in the past, if I could get into my custom recovery, I could flash myself out of my problem, but no matter what I flash now, its still stuck..
[Acer Iconia A500] Douvie:
The CPUID is under the cover of the ExternalSD card slot on an A500/501. The A100 is the same generation so I believe you'll find it there.

Douvie.
[Acer Iconia A500] eppeP:
No, that is the serial number, which is not the same thing.
[Acer Iconia A500] raparose:
my A500 was also stuck on Acer logo only @

Dear user do you find any solution or can you boot up your device ? please let me share your thoughts and i am also finding the sollution for boot my Acer A 500 . ​
[Acer Iconia A500] lumirez:
Hi there moscow, i tried to up this thread again

my tablet got stuck in android screen, and i already tried 3 of the update.zip and every each one of them success till screen upgrading android (install 115 package) but after that it still stuck on android screen. is that really take a long time or just another failure?

because today is the first time my tablet stuck like this

thanks before
[Acer Iconia A500] Moscow Desire:
Honestly, I have no idea. It's been a long time since I had my old A501 (RIP).

Typically the package should take about 15 minutes if I remember correctly. One of the things you can try, is a factory reset (wipes Data). This might help clean out any old data, then try running a package again.

If I remember, it has something to do with powering on, and cycling the rotation lock back and forth several times. It should display something like "erasing data". It's best to search the threads for this. or shoot a message to dibbnz (should be able to find his posts in the forums) Dib has pretty much about every unbricking answer for the 500/501.
[Acer Iconia A500] ftovar72:
Acer Recovery done. Thanks MD

Many thanks to MD for all the information provided. I did some research and here is what I got

41-124-01-update.zip : Acer_AV041_A500_0.019.00_WW_GEN1

41-125-03-update.zip : Acer_AV041_A500_0.022.00_WW_GEN1

41-203-01-update.zip : Acer_AV041_A500_1.021.00_WW_GEN1

41-206-01-update.zip : Acer_AV041_A500_1.041.00_WW_CUS1

Hope this information can help someone like that wanted to go back to OTA stock.

Thanks to Moscow Desire, Civato, BlackThunder and all the guys that are involved with Acer A500 ROM development. My Acer come back to live after several hours of hard work reading threads and downloading tools and ROMs.

Thanks again.
[Acer Iconia A500] 9th_jedi:
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Hi Karthi,

did you overcome this issue? I am stuck at the exact same place.

Using the blackthundr apx tool.

My a500 is detected by win7 as an apx device. But adb does not. Even the apx tool does not. But I went ahead and told it to flash. That puts the device in apx mode....green Acer logo and text on upper right corner. But nothing after that. I am suspecting hardware :(

I got my uid using lubuntu and the apx.c code. So the device is recognized by some thing.

Running nvflash shows errors in formatting/partitioning

Device is stock with no USB debugging ...I.e USB debugging disabled

Thanks in advance.
[Acer Iconia A500] ftovar72:
I suggest to use blackthundr tool latest version (blackthund3r_A500_APX_Flash_Tool_v0.4.1) and start the tablet in APX mode using the manual method:

1. Start Blackthund3r tool

2. Turn off your A500

3. Connect USB

4. with a paperclip press reset button and power button, keep reset button pressed for 3 seconds then release

5. Blackthundr tool will detect that tablet started in APX mode

I used A500_Thor_Recovery_1.7.3.a500apx this will setup the bootloader and then you will be able to install the rom I used Acer_AV041_A500_1.031.00_WW_GEN1-FULL-ROOT and it is working excellent.

Hopefully this comments help you to solve your issue.
[Acer Iconia A500] Rikki7:
Thanks!

Thanks so much for these links. I was just about ready to bin my old a500 as nothing I tried would get it to boot up. Thank god I had my cpuid. Flashing that last one brought my tablet back to life. Although I'm still no wiser as to how it got bricked in the first place, haha.
[Acer Iconia A500] The Pizza Mill:
I'm having an issue with partition 4 on my a500 as well. I have tried an EUU, I have the Thor 1.7.3 CWM recovery, V8 Bootloader, Lubuntu on pc, skb, & cpuid. The EUU didn't work, the update.zip files didn't work, blackthunders tool didn't work, and I'm not really sure what I'm doing in general. I've had issues with it not turning on and I haven't been able to use it since September of 2013. Any ideas?

My Windows pc is running Windows XP, but also runs the newest Lubuntu.
[Acer Iconia A500] mrjjane:
well tried all 4 but no joy.

In the bin it goes, I have a Tab S 10.4 also anyway.
[Acer Iconia A500] keith88gt:
M problem is euu tool doesnt recognize m acer but the pc does and shows up as apx device connected. How can I fix this issue so I can flash m a500 cuz the sd card method is not working either.
[Acer Iconia A500] dibb_nz:
There are 2 sets of drivers you need - the Acer ones and the use/fastboot ones. Reinstall the Acer drivers.

I'm assuming you're using blackthund3rs tool and you have the cpuid??
[Acer Iconia A500] harv65:
I am having an issue with my a500 tab rebooted and stuck on boot-loader tried a factory reset now it is stuck on the android laying down with a door open with a red triangle with a black !

any help would be great
[Acer Iconia A500] HunterKiotori:
hello everyone, I hope somebody reads this as this is a thread from 2012. I recently came into possession of An Acer A500 that has this same problem. And although i followed the directions given here on how to restore it, I am still unable to restore it. Most of the links to the full ROM packages on the other thread are all dead or 404 and the few that i do have don't seem to go through. I so far have been able to get one to work but then it stops about one third of the way and hangs. All the others i have how only the android with the red caution Symbol and nothing else. If there is anyone that can point me in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it.
[Motorola Droid X2] jeff5347:
Just curious. I have the aokp from with gapps I think from 4/26. Gmail updated Aug 1 but I can't get it to update. It goes thru dl'ing and installing but then a pop up states error package file not signed correctly uninstall than reinstall. Should I do that or how do I go about about updating
[Motorola Droid X2] coolpoete:
Yes, uninstall then re-install.
[Motorola Droid X2] KiaraTheDragon:
nah just back up gmail unistall make sure to reboot then what i did is get the apk from another source and installed
[Motorola Droid X2] The-Hulk:
Please don't post questions in the General section.

Moving to Q&A
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Jayfunk:
I have a Galaxy S i9000 with darky v11 ROM which is in ICS.I tried to flashed it with JB rom of cm-10-20120906-NIGHTLY-galaxysmtd and it went into some sort of bootloop..(it goes to start and then CWM appears then samsung logo and then CM9 logo appears again and again) I did wipe cache, wipe data and dalvik cache first before flashing the CM10.

the situation lasted for about 15 mins and I realized that something is wrong.

I have no choice now but to take out the battery and enter recovery and then I make a restore, my current restore point is Darky v10.4.2 but the CMW is stucked to restoring boot

what should I do to fix this problem?

any help from you guys will be appreciated thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] DanielSanchez:
This thread gave me cancer.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] jaykay0079:
I had the same issue. And I fixed it by manually getting into CMW by three button combo

Steps done..

1. Flash gb stock

2. Root it

3. Do factory wipe/clear cache/clear dalvik. Install cm 9 and go to CWM byt three button combo.

4. Do factory wipe/clear cache/clear dalvikInstall cm 10.. after selecting installation file I had a boot loop.

5. Did 3 button combo and got to CWM recovery and did actory wipe/clear cache/clear dalvik and selected cm 10 and second time it went fine.

6. Install gapps after finishing cm 10 install and do factory wipe/clear cache/clear dalvik cache

All working good now... :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Abyv:
Kool stuff guys..any change log? Screenshots?

Thanks again for this amazing info
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Der-Maxi:
flash kernel with odin and reflash the rom
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Ciprilik:
FIX and explanation how to go back and forth between CM9 and CM10 nandroid backups:

Same thing happens to me when I switch from CM9 to CM10 . I start flashing CM10 and about half the installation the phone goes into loop with cwm-samsung logo and so forth . I just pull the battery out and then I enter CWM again, wipe everything again and I flash CM10 again and gapps. The installation will succeed this time and the phone will boot. I think this happens because the partition method is being changed.

If you are on CM10 or an JB rom and want to restore CM9 or ICS nandroid backup, first wipe everything, flash the CM9 or ICS rom , let it boot and then go into recovery and wipe everything and then restore the ICS nandroid backup.

If you are on CM9 or an ICS rom and want to restore CM10 or JB nandroid backup, first wipe everything, flash the CM10 or JB rom , let it boot and then go into recovery and wipe everything and then restore the JB nandroid backup.

YOU NEED TO DO THESE STEPS BECAUSE ICS AND JB HAVE DIFFERENT PARTITION METHODS AND JUST RESTORING NANDROID WILL NOT CHANGE IT.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Gvdn:
Close and delete this thread please this is development section.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Asad Bilal:
The day i bought my SE Xperia Arc, i noticed that even after heavy usage the battery status did not go down even 1 %.

A couple of hours later it switched off. When i connected the charger, the charging did not go up even a little.

After a couple of days i realised that when ever i need to see the correct charge i need to restart my phone and while charging, whenever i need to see the correct charge i still have to restart my phone. The phone will stop taking charge at 52% at which point ill have to restart the phone again to make it go till 100.

i have tried a new charger and battery but the issue remains.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Overdose1986:
Try with this:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...xLDEsImNvbS5uZW1hLmJhdHRlcnljYWxpYnJhdGlvbiJd

(need root)
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WhiteiceDMSTech:
Kind of burned out of flashing all these different roms. Dont get me wrong, I appreciate all the hard work everyone is providing for us. But I am burned out and wasting hours of my day flashing rom after rom etc.

So I went back to stock and rooted. But I did want to see if there was any advice on any kernel out there that I should be running with the latest stock build?

Thank you,

Whiteice
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr_tris:
+1 :)
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WhiteiceDMSTech:
Just wanted to try again and see if I can't get any suggestions on this please?

Thank you,

Whiteice
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anthonok:
I did the same. I'm running this at the moment. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1831780 with my min at 475 max at 1600, interactive. Had no problems so far. Gets a little warm but nothing crazy. Gonna bump to 1800 soon and see if it can handle it.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrSchroeder:
Der Kernel - Trinity. Comes in high OC version a96 to lower of but slightly irregularities a110 and many more. YMMV but this is a solid, customizable kernel.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WhiteiceDMSTech:
Is there a secret to flashing the trinity kernel?

I reboot into TWRP, wipe cache and /dalvik 2x (old habit) flash Trinity, reboot but still shows previous kernel under settings?

Whiteice
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
whats your previous kernel and whats in say in kernel version? btw, you dont need to wipe anything when flashing a kernel. anyways, only if you are coming from franco kernel you have to reflash your rom with trinity kernel(flash rom, trinity, reboot). this is because franco kernel uses its own ramdisk(frano kernel tweaks are in there). trinity and just about every other kernel use anykernel which grabs the roms ramdisk usually(unless you had frano kernel). so you want to flash your rom, then trinity, then bootup to resolve the issue. after that you can just flash the kernel. remember, no need to wipe a thing when flashing kernels.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WhiteiceDMSTech:
I am coming from the motley kernel.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
redownload the trinity kernel, flash it, itll say "boom.." you cant miss it. boot up, give your device 3 minutes to set up itself, then check your about phone. if its still motley, post a screen shot please :)
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WhiteiceDMSTech:
Thank for your help.

Each time I flash in TWRP I see the "boom" in caps. Reboot and it says Motley+3.1.10 Root@clemsyn-EP43-UD3L#106 SMP PREEMPT Aug 23rd (date and time of it here.)
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
will you post or pm me a last_kmsg? run this on a terminal emulator app from your device. there will be a file called last_kmsg.txt in your sd storage. if you can post it please, or send it to me via pm..

su(press enter)

cat /proc/last_kmsg > /sdcard/last_kmsg.txt(press enter)
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WhiteiceDMSTech:
OMG this is so frustrating, I did what you said and try to send it to you, or copy/paste in this thread and it says there are to many characters etc. Working on it.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WhiteiceDMSTech:
Hoping this works.

Thank you for your help,

Whiteice
[General Questions and Answers] fanofdean:
I'm trying to flash the latest [ROM] Unofficial Liquid PRE RC1 [9-05-12] from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1848118 but I keep

getting stuck on the "liquidsmooth" splash screen. I don't have enough post count to ask that question on the thread. Please help. Thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] archerross:
AND using ROM Toolbox...

I was getting an "Insufficient Storage" error when attempting to update current apps or install new apps. A search pointed me in the direction of removing odex files in data/app, clearing market cache, clearing market history, wiping dalvic...even so far as booting recovery and wiping data, and factory reset. All failed to solve my problem...I did not go so far as clearing data or factory reset.

Then I found a little nugget of inspiration posted here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1714022&page=2 by Minnion2008.

The important part for those getting the Insufficient Storage error and who are running ROM Toolbox is to make certain that app install location is set to auto. Problem solved. Hopefully, the next person won't need to spend 2 + hours searching for a solution to this situation. Oh yeah, the S3 apparently does not support apps on SD, I knew that but for some reason still changed that setting...go figure.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheLynxy:
Good to know, thanks for the info.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Themes and Apps] nobrakes2:
Hey guys, its been while....from the BA :angel: days. I think I have 15 of those things laying around! :eek:

Anyone have a solution :fingers-crossed: yet for the XAP Encryption that M$ turned on back here...

The threads have been either deleted or moved!!!

I have the HD2O_2.02_8779 and Pdaimatejam Rom 7.10.8779.8 v8.1 roms loaded on 2 different HD2's. And I cannot load any xap's on either. W.I.N.C.O. fails, Bazaar fails, my own ftp site fails....any xap I try fails.

If no solution is out there yet, how is everyone sideloading xap's? Or aren't you side loading....??

Is the only solution then as of September 7, 2012, to contact M$ and get a code??

Thanks ppl and keep up the good work. :good:
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Themes and Apps] dxdy:
yes, is exist new way to avoid new encryption but is forbidden to talk about piracy on XDA, that is reason way all topic is deleted...

contacting Microsoft and getting Live activation code is unnecessary to have Live services and working marketplace on HD2
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Themes and Apps] nobrakes2:
Thank you dxdy. Understandable ;)