[Acer Iconia A500] Scythwolf:
Hi there!

Warning for the pros: I am an android noob, so I am not sure if I use the right terms. Be further sure of one thing 1,5 days ago I had no idea what apx, the acronym HC and so on could be, so... well... I say this so you know that I read A LOT :D and at the bottom there is the point which I believe is the core of my issues.

I hope you guys can help me:

I am trying to get to tegraowners ICS (because I own a a501 and would like to use my 3g) from taboonay HC. So far I have lightspeed 4.dunno installes and tried taboo 2.2.

Of course I still have hc-bootloader, so no tegraowner for me. Now I try to flash my bootloader. For doing that I use a500 manager, a500apxflash and afterota.

But first things first. My system is 64-bit with the following OS:

- Kubuntu 12.04

- Windows 7 as guest in VirtualBox Linux-host

- Windows 7 natively installed

My different problems:

- I got my cpuid and sbk using afterota within the virtual machine. If I try to use the a500 manager for retrieving the serialnumber the field stays blank (as far as I know serialnumber = cpuid?).

- When I used a500apxflash in the virtual machinge I got an errormessage while "staging and backing up bct" about a missing file while dumping bct.dec with details:

************** Exception Text **************
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'bct.dec'.
File name: 'bct.dec'
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.IO.File.InternalCopy(String sourceFileName, String destFileName, Boolean overwrite)
at System.IO.File.Copy(String sourceFileName, String destFileName, Boolean overwrite)
at A500APXFlash.DumpBCT.btnDumpMyBCT_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5420 (Win7SP1.050727-5400)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll
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- but the thing that bothers me the most: when I enter nvfflash --sync I get "nvflash started" followed by "no usb-device detected". I go into devicemanager and look after entries for acer I see a "NVIDIA-USB Bood-recoery driver for Mobile devices" when in apx or a "MTP USB Device". Both have this ugly exclamation mark. If I try to update the drivers by hand (guide windows to the folder with inf-files - I tried nvidiausb.inf in folder usbpcdriver coming from "V8-UNL-ICS-HC-bootloader-MULTI-cwm.zip") it won't work.

So... I have no idea where to start from now. Is there a possible linux-based solution out there? Saw one, but I am not sure if I got that one correctly (remember, I am a noob ;) )

Scythwolf

Edit: Just an idea, but this W32 in the error message disturbed me all the time. Trying to flash with a 32-bit pc and control/search .net / acer for 64-bit.