[Acer Iconia A500] RedOmega:
Keep getting format errors when trying to flash anything now. APXFlash would hang repeatedly when trying to flash v8/cwm 1.7.3. Couldn't see any error messages in the cmd windows/debug but some of them closed so fast I may have missed it. So I went back to trying the manual return to 3.2.1 that OP used earlier and now I can't even get that to complete without errors.

nvflash --bct flash.bct --setbct --odmdata 0x100c0105 --configfile flash.cfg --crea

te --bl bootloader.bin --sbk 0x4CA71E00 0x74B3D706 0x9BFA3304 0xA02A2103 --go

Nvflash started

rcm version 0X20001

System Information:

chip name: t20

chip id: 0x20 major: 1 minor: 3

chip sku: 0x8

chip uid: 0x037c61c04240f357

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: flash.bct

- 4080/4080 bytes sent

flash.bct sent successfully

odm data: 0x100c0105

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

sending file: bootloader.bin

| 714385/714385 bytes sent

bootloader.bin sent successfully

waiting for bootloader to initialize

bootloader downloaded successfully

setting device: 2 3

creating partition: BCT

creating partition: PT

creating partition: EBT

creating partition: GP1

creating partition: SOS

creating partition: LNX

creating partition: APP

creating partition: CAC

creating partition: MSC

creating partition: FLX

creating partition: AKB

creating partition: UDA

creating partition: GPT

Formatting partition 2 BCT please wait.. FAILED!

command failure: create failed (bad data)

bootloader status: specified partition is invalid or does not exist (code: 7) me

ssage: nverror:0x42008 (0x6042008) flags: 0​

I've tried babsector and manuall install of v8 using v8.bat as well and get error messages with those too.

Babsector gives me this:

creating partition: GPT

failed executing command 12 NvError 0x120002

command failure: create failed (bad data)

bootloader status: fatal failure to read / write to mass storage (code: 9) messa

ge: nverror:0x8 (0x19000008) flags: 0​

v8.bat gives me some different errors:

Loading bootloader...

Nvflash started

rcm version 0X20001

System Information:

chip name: t20

chip id: 0x20 major: 1 minor: 3

chip sku: 0x8

chip uid: 0x037c61c04240f357

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

odm data: 0x300d8011

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

failed executing command 25 NvError 0x120002

command failure: sync failed (bad data)

bootloader status: Bct Write Failed (code: 22) message: nverror:0x42004 (0x42004

) flags: 0

*****************************************************************

* Press any key when your A500/501/G100W is in bootloader mode *

*****************************************************************

Press any key to continue . . .

Flashing bootloader: bootloader_v8.bin ...

Nvflash started

[resume mode]

Formatting partition 4 please wait.. Command Execution failed cmd 13, error 0x12

0002

FAILED!

command failure: format partition failed (bad command)

bootloader status: unknown operation (code: 1) message: flags: 0​

Reading some of your replies in other posts Dibb, I'm guessing you'd say memory chip issue and that tab is toast?