[Acer Iconia A500] sbleed:
I've never had this much trouble before.

Ok. A little back story first. I'm not a moron, I have a myTouch 3G Sapphire 32a Fender rooted using the gold card method, LG G2x - P999 Rooted running CM10, and a SGH-T999 Stock rooted (That's a Galaxy S3 for those who don't know).

I have a friend that got an Acer Iconia a500 tablet a year ago. He's not a power user, doesn't know anything about rooting. All he did was play games on it. One day it wouldn't turn on, the screen was blank. Occasionally it would freeze at the Acer logo, but it would never boot up.

Now it's stuck in APX mod due to him pushing a bunch of buttons(idk how he got it into APX mode so don't ask), so there is absolutely no way to boot the tablet. He never turned on USB debugging, and I can't get into the tablet to turn it on because it's stuck in apx mode.

I must stress this!

I have been working on this tablet for 3 weeks now, and read countless posts about how to fix the exact problem that I'm having with this tablet, the only drawback is: step 1 is always, "Turn on USB Debugging." That is IMPOSSIBLE for me to do at this point.

Here is list of what I do know:

Hardware

- Acer Iconia a500, APX Driver Version - 1.0.1.0 Released 4/1/2010 Shows as APX in Devices. Shows as Acer USB Boot-recovery driver in device manager.

Software

ADB info - Android SDK rev.20

ADB ver 1.0.29

Windows 7 64-bit completely up-to-date

Commands: adb get-state, get-serial ------- returns, unknown

Commands: adb remount, root, usb ------- returns, "error: device not found"

Command: adb devices -------- returns no value at all.

Programs used for rooting - AfterOTA 1.09, EUUS v3, blackThun3r A500 Manager

I have the CPUID, and SKB (I was somehow able to acquire those in one of my attempts to flash the stock rom)

What I don't know:

What version of Android OS is on the tablet. I'm pretty sure it has ICS, but he was deathly afraid of downloading any updates, even app updates even though I told him that all updates should be installed a.s.a.p. So there's a chance that it's still running HC.

Now here is my problem other than being stuck in APX mode. I have tried AfterOTA, it won't detect anything past Driver Installed on the Tablet information screen because USB debugging isn't enabled. So I can't use most of the functions of that program.

blackthund3r APX Flash v0.4 - Will get the tablet into the bootloader mode where it says:

Acer Iconia APX Mode in the upper right with a glowing yellow Acer logo in the center of the screen, nothing is flashing like the APX flasher says, I have reinstalled the drivers hundred of times with the same results.

Hangs at, "Flashing Bootloader (EBT) stage two - uploading image..."

EUUS v3 - Says, "Acer Iconia not detected"

(I had a screenshot posted here, but stupid forum limitations wouldn't let me. You could see what's going on if it let me post this.)

I do the reset procedure and it just goes back to the same message.

It will go into a screen on the tablet that says "Entering Acer Download Mode" Then EUUS tells me to do the reset procedure again, and this is a continuous loop that results in nothing being flashed. If I ignore that message and just continue nothing happens.

I also have a file called a500-hc.bat that runs nvflash and it gives an error that leads me to believe that a partition on the tablet is corrupted. Everyone says that EUUS v3 should fix this and flash back to original stock, but it obviously doesn't work.

Any help that I could get would be greatly appreciated. If you need any more information, just ask, and I'll do my best to get it. The tablet is (for lack of a better word) bricked, so I'm very limited on what sort of software info I can give you straight from the tab. Please Please Please help. And thank you in advance.