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

[Bob Jonkman]

On 12/11/2014 02:01 AM, Paul Nijjar wrote:

> Does anybody have a full HDMI to mini-HDMI cable? (Do such things even
> exist?) If so then we have an HDMI to VGA converter box that would
> probably work.

That would be me.  Although I think it's a micro-HDMI, suitable for my 
phone.  Annoyingly, it's about the same size as a microUSB. I 
successfully used it at the 2013 Software Freedom Day with your 
HDMI-to-VGA box.

--Bob.


On 12/11/2014 02:01 AM, Paul Nijjar wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:01:18PM -0500, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Gordon Dey <gordon.dey at happydeys.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Nothing as hackable and having a great community like the Acer A500/A501.
>>
>> Now, it is running OmniROM 4.4.4 (KitKat), with root (SuperSU), and is
>> amazingly fast. Orders of magnitude faster than I have ever seen it in
>> 2.5 years.
>>
>> So, I am sticking with this tablet for a while.
>>
>> I can demo the partitioning and flashing, and how to get a new ROM on
>> the tablet if needed  [even in the January meeting for half a slot]
>
> That would be fantastic.
>
>>
>> Though I am not sure how to project that so people would see it. There
>> is a micro HDMI port on the tablet, and I have an HDMI to VGA cable.
>> But when I tried it with the one VGA monitor I have, it did not
>> display anything. I tried it in ROM mode, and when the table is
>> working normally. No dice.
>
> Does anybody have a full HDMI to mini-HDMI cable? (Do such things even
> exist?) If so then we have an HDMI to VGA converter box that would
> probably work.
>
> Raul once did a presentation where he VNCed into his tablet and showed
> that on the screen. Would that be a possibility? (I am guessing not,
> but I thought I would ask.)
>
> - Paul
>