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  1. O

    Help Help me pleaseee, too many Pattern Attempts

    I have Attempted too many wrong Patterns with turned off WiFi Please heeelp me what should I do !!! I trieed the Factory Format or the Hard Reset and nothing worrked, it brought me the Android Robot with a triangle and "!" symbol... I'm loost now, more than 1 month trying to open it again but...
  2. jseger9000

    Help In the browser widget, replace the little globe with Firefox?

    So I've set Firefox as my default browser. On the browser widget, if I tap any of the little screen capped shortcuts, they open in Firefox. But if I tap the globe icon in the lower right corner of the widget (to return to the last thing I looked at if the browser is minimized for example), it...
  3. S

    A500 problems

    My gallery and music apps are overloaded with songs witch are not present on my tab. It has all the songs that are present on the memory and also those that exist on my external hardrisk which i connected to my tablet via the usb port. I have tried clearing the cache nut it still desnt work. I f...
  4. Z

    Help package file invalid

    Hi, everyone, I had to reset my tablet, after reset I tried to download apps previously on tablet. Keep getting a message that said package file invalid, what can I do about this?:(
  5. P

    BT Sport Ap

    I got BT Infinity BB and have downloaded the BT Sport Ap. BT suggest that Android 4.1 or above is required. Nevertheless, I am able to watch BT Sport on my A500 but I'm getting picture judder. I have no such problems watching BT Sport on my Windows desktop and laptop. It's obviously an A500 and...
  6. S

    Help My Acer Iconia a500 tablet does not recognize my SD-card?

    when I inserted my newly purchased micro SD card SDXC UHS-I Card Pro from Samsung 64 GB, nothing happened. I went to "settings" and "capacity", where it says "mount SD-card", but when I clicked again, 2 seconds after the same message came up, and so on and so on... How can I mount/activate my...
  7. AliLand

    Help screen shot tip wanted

    I heard that most tablets have odd things you can do to take a screen shot. I'd really like this - pocket messes up format and my dads got a screen shot button on his tablet (jealous of that, but love my Acer!) I looked this up, and found that Acer screen shot is achieved with the power button...
  8. H

    Root How can I Root Acer A500 ICS

    How can I Root Acer A500 ICS Please help me
  9. K

    Help Bricked

    Well, it finally happened. This thing has been temperamental since the ICS update. Now it's finally made itself useless. While I was browsing in Chrome the other day, the screen went dark and now I can't revive it. I tried holding in the power button to reboot, I tried pushing the reset button...
  10. T

    Help No Audio

    Speakers not working, no sound. headphones okay, icon comes on & off with headphones no problem. Tried factory reset, OS application, patch,,,,,,, nothing seems to work:mad:
  11. A

    Help connecting xbox controller to acer a500?

    So I have a joy tech wired Xbox 360 controller and I been reading around where people just been plugging it in and it works no apps/drivers ect. Can't seem to get it to work I put it in the USB slot and the four lights just blink . Is their an app I download or do I have to buy this OTG host...
  12. H

    Help locked out to many failed attempts

    Hi my son has the tablet and is at boarding school the boys tried to break into his tablet and now he cannot get in at all - he was using the pattern password. He says that when he turns it on he is asked for google info but when he puts gmail address and password its wrong which its not. How...
  13. A

    Help a500 black screen

    turned on my a500 today and i had three screens overlapping. pushed the back button and everything went black. now it is dead except for the power light on the on/off switch. but when i remove the power cord that light goes out as well. i cannot hard reset it either. i assume it is dead. i have...
  14. L

    Bluetooth GPS on A500-Does It Work

    I would really like to use a separate Bluetooth receiver with my A500...Would make it a lot more convenient and comfortable in many instances...I noticed that there are Aps that supposedly "disable" the internal GPS in the tablet and allow the Bluetooth GPS to take over...Do they work? Any...
  15. M

    Help I think my A500 is dying :(

    Here's what's going on. For the last few days I've been trying to see what's consuming all my space (I had about 400 MB free on the internal memory). It would NEVER finish calculating, even if left on that screen overnight. Last night, while trying to clear space I was removing a...
  16. N

    Acer A500 Kiosk Enclosures

    Hello to everyone. I am new to this forum, but I am excited to learn about the issues surrounding the Acer A200 & A500. I work for a company nClosures.com that designs and manufactures tablet enclosures for kiosk and POS applications. We sell to a lot of people using these two models...
  17. P

    Help Selectively removed saved passwords on Acer Iconia Tab A500

    Is there a way to remove only certain saved passwords on the Acer Iconia Tab A500? :rolleyes: Anyone???
  18. L

    Help USB keyboard issue

    Hi all. I have an issue with my A500s (HS teacher w/a class set) and using a USB keyboard. At random times, typing on the keyboard brings up seemingly random apps. Upon doing some research, I found that these are shortcuts that are hard-coded into the Android OS. The shortcuts can be easily...
  19. W

    Help No sound

    Hi all, I've had my a500 for about two weeks now. A couple of days ago, I noticed no audio from a youtube vid. I've since tried everything, including mp3's, etc. No sound. Volume is up all the way and I've gone into settings and set all three volume levels to the highest. One weird thing...
  20. T

    Can't Boot!!!

    Hi, my A500 sticks at the Acer screen and never advances. Using power and minus volume rocker gets it booting and it has an exclamation mark and only gets about 20% into it and just stays there. Been a good tablet and I didn't drop it or do anything weird. Any ideas? Help!!!!
  21. C

    Printing (Brother printers) & Taking a Screen shot?

    I've had my A500 for over a year and a half. I love it, but it would be so much better if I could print directly from it. Going to another computer to print is a pita. :mad: I would like to be able to print to our Brother b/w laser printer. I may occasionally use our Brother color AIO printer in...
  22. M

    Help Question about an update? Acer_A500_7.014.01_Com_Gen2

    Does anyone know what this update is? Acer_A500_7.014.01_Com_Gen2
  23. M

    Help Newbie with problem installing update, (Acer_A500_7.014.01_Com_Gen2)

    Just bought an, A500 and right out of the box it asked to update. The update was Acer_A500_7.014.01_Com_Gen2. My android version is 3.2 and my build number is Acer_A500_7.00.6.01_Com_Gen2. It downloads it fine, but when installing it starts to install but then stops. It shows a triangle with a ...
  24. R

    Help wifi problems

    Sorry, I know this may be an issue spoken about ad nauseum, but my a500 seems to have wifi issues even when it is in the same room as the router. It only manages 2-3 bars and is battling 0-1 bars in other rooms. Its running OTA ICS. it's happened since then. I have done every thing I read...
  25. V

    Reading Google Books Offline

    I just recently purchased a book from the Google Play store on my Acer Iconia A500 without any problems. But when I click to "Read Offline", the screen flashes and then nothing happens. It's not saving the book anywhere. Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated.