[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yoqui:
I hope knowledgable people are still watching this thread.

I bought my s6000f (WIFi, 16GB) a year ago and have been very pleased with it, other than Lenovo's disinterest in releasing updates. This past fall I wondered about what seemed like short battery life and did some Googling. Google Services were the culprit and with some guidance I used 3C Toolkit to disable the offending bits. Battery life improved and that was that, until a few Google app updates went by and I started getting an irregular stream of 'Google Services have unexpectedly stopped' pop-ups. I tried to use the aforementioned guide to undo what I had done with 3C Toolkit without success. So I did a factory reset.

And things got worse. The Home button stopped working. The icon would highlight when depressed and the tablet vibrated, but it wouldn't actually take me to the Home screen. Other functions were also dead - the Notifications tray would open and close but other than the date and time remained always empty. The Lock screen vanished - pressing the power button would take me right into what I had been on before the screen darkened. When shutting down, instead of a collection of options like mute, only one option appeared, Power Off, followed by the confirmation window. Wifi still worked, internet browsing was unaffected, the device refused to root with Framaroot and, oddly, MX Player wouldn't play videos but other players (BS Player and ES File Explorer's player) worked just fine.

So I did another reset. And another. No improvement. Which brought me to this thread. I've read it through, copied the bits that were relevent to me to a Notepad file and downloaded the appropriate files, checked and double-checked that everything matched up: build numbers, chipset, everything that I could think to compare. Everything looked good other than occasionally divergent instructions on how to actually flash the new ROM. I went through hell with my previous tablet, an Asus Nexus 7, and didn't want to repeat that experience.

I downloaded the first ROM from this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=45726645&postcount=34

I used usbdeview to remove every tablet and phone driver it listed. Disabled driver signature verification. I connected the tablet while powered off, noted the new MTK entry and updated it with SP_Drivers v1.4. DIsconnected the tablet, launched SP_Flash_Tool_v5.1436.00 from here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=57198726&postcount=86

I loaded the scatter file, waited on the purple bars which flashed by quickly, set it to Download Only, clicked Download and then connected the still-off tablet. The red bar filled quickly and then I got a pop-up saying, "PMT changed for the ROM; it must be downloaded."

http://i.imgur.com/uN9o1zM.png

I didn't see this posted anywhere in this thread. Googling said it has something to do with the partition. I switch to Download Only and try again. Now it throws a 'BROM ERROR'.

http://i.imgur.com/aVQJQvv.png

Googling doesn't provide any clarity at all. My frustration was growing and I figured that since I have the ROM I'll just jump in and lay it all down fresh. I change to Format All + Download. As long as the hardware in the tablet is working properly and I have the correct ROM (which I'm certain I do) I should ultimately just be able to write that ROM to the drive.

I got the BROM error again. And again. The read bar completes, the formatting seems to complete and then the error drops. Further, the tablet doesn't respond at all to the power button (and why would it with a blank drive). So I sat back and thought a bit and remembered a past flashing issue with a smartphone and had been told to try different usb ports on my tower. It worked back then and maybe it would work this time. I used usbdeview to clean out the MediaTek drivers, moved the usb cable to a different port and with Device Manager open I connected the tablet. DM flashes once indicating it sees the new connection but doesn't otherwise behave like it did before by installing its own pre-connection driver than I could update. So now I'm stuck. Unlike posted screenshots of the old MediaTek usb driver package downloads, the current packages do not include an installation exe. I don't know how to install the dlls in those packages.

Further adding to the weirdness, while Device Manager isn't installing any drivers for the tablet and SP can no longer see the tablet, usbdeview is detecting new drivers for the tablet.

http://i.imgur.com/GyZVjBg.png

I am baffled. I would just like to write the stock ROM to the tablet and be done with it all. Does anyone see a road to doing that?