[kwlug-disc] Where to fix an Acer A500 tablet?

[B.S.]

Did you open it up to see if you got lucky and there's an SD card you 
can just replace? If the flash is soldered in, you're SOL.

Might search for the model on YouTube, perhaps someone's done a video on 
taking it apart sort of thing and you'll get a sense of how bad 
(hopeless?) your problem might be?

Every time this sort of thing happens to me (except to my desktops - 
replaceable components), the repair always seems to be more expensive 
than buying a new device, especially as later / faster hardware has come 
along at lower price points in the mean time. USB 3, SATA III, DVI, 
Gbps, HD screens ...


On 12/04/2014 09:33 AM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> Well, my Acer A500 tablet (Nvidia Tegra based) acted up (no picture
> while playing a video, but there was sound). It was not responding to
> any touch input.
> So, I had to power it off, and it would not come up.
> After searching every where on how to unlock the boot loader and
> reload it, I was able to get Honeycomb (Android 3.2) on it.
>  From there, I was trying to get to to ICS or JB, and was halfway there.
> I was doing this from nvflash, an Nvidia tool for the Tegra platform
> that you can use from Linux.
>
> But suddenly it started to refuse the partitioning command, with an
> error that says there is a media problem (full error below).
>
> So, what are my options for fixing this tablet for a reasonably price?
> If I send it to Acer, they will replace the motherboard. Before I do
> that, does anyone know of a place to try locally? I already called
> MyTech (the small shop inside Walmart), and they said it is not
> feasible since they will order a part from Acer, and refused to try
> that.
>
> The output is:
> 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) message: nverror:0x42008 (0x6042008) flags: 0
>