thanks for your response, but this is a 9742 tablet and there is no home button. only power, vol-/+ and back buttons.
I tried to hold both power and vol- buttons,then a 'lying-down android' appears with a /!\ red sign...after some seconds the tablet reboots and stucks on the android loading screen.
I am afraid the tablet is dead
Cyrus I own one and I just put it into recovery mode last night
PRESS THE VOLUME + FIRST AND HOLD
PRESS THE HOME BUTTON AND HOLD DOWN WITH THE VOLUME +
WITH OTHER HAND PRESS AND HOLD THE POWER BUTTON, tablet had to be off not in sleep mode. keep tryingtill you get a green robot with either a red triangle or a spinning ball in his back or belly.
I have photos off all the screens, also I have tried 2 ways to reset to factory defaults and both leave the phots taken with the camera intact, it was not unitil I got into it and turn on the usbhost1 port that it then brought up a pop up window in my compueter and iwas able to copy evrything off the tablet to my pc. BUT the OS is hidden and you can not get at it that way. when i deletd certain files in a couple of folders like ebooks and the root with those stupid photos of a ballon and kid and 3 silly mp3's it then did not allow aldikos to wokk ok , once i moved bacl all as it was it let the book reader app work.
later following SonySony's post I went to a few other sites from the pad and I was able to install the kindle app and got it to work with Amazon just fine and dandy, also downloaded another reader and it worked fine with google books
downloaded a app dear to my heart about the stars constellations and to my surprise it worked as good as Starrynight app on my laptop, i downloaded GoogleEarth and it froze up, have to try that again.
ah yes while I had the computer hooked up in usbhost1 mode I moved a bunch of apks into the download folder and tha has made the folder broken, when I click on apps from the settings screen I get a window with a error and not even a button to cancel it , so I just use the back arrow to get out of it.
so far the factory rest SUCKS~!!!! Oh there's a picture in this web site of the recovery mode and i wondered how i was not getting it, when you see the robot with the red triangle, if you press the VOLUME - it then shows the screen on top if you keep pressing the V- button you can move down and pick Factory reset from therre then press the power button briefly and that start the rest it will ask you permission first. this still did NOT truly set it to factory mode
some pictures I took while messing with it
https://picasaweb.google.com/114249175875604535634/CobyKyrosMID9742*************