[s3ndo]

It wasn’t for nothing. I had SD Card Problems (connecting/disconnecting) and it took forever to boot.
Usually this kinds of problems are fixed by updates. What I read on the net, my device was faulty anyway,
since it reseted itself under load and had problems by simply installing apps on the Android side.

Patching the system successfully by the preferred, official way, with official bios of the device producer should
never brick the system as long the bios chip isn’t broken. Its just these cheap systems with lots of small changes
(like changing the bios chip type or display type slightly) between two production batches but same DEVICE ID that
seem to soft/hard brick quick and hard.

I have routers, switches, servers and other phones and tablets. None of them ever bricked easily (or ever!)
like this Chinese tablets. The other Android Tablet soft bricked when you had the “wrong” combination of WLAN,
flightmode and too low on battery. Look at the other forums. ZTE Phones bricked with the wrong SD Card and
you needed also a bios patch to fix this. I don’t consider this any problem, its the china tech way of life.

[s3ndo]

My dealer says he can only RMA it by sending it in, and then he sends it to Teclast in China. Which takes another 2 weeks roundtrip.
I now ordered another tablet from Lenovo from a local dealer, so I have something I can do my work with.

What I didn’t try: attaching a keyboard and monitor to the USB/HDMI slot. Some Russian forums claim, that a bios update can wipe
the defaults setting for monitor and partitions. I can see that an attached keyboard lights up on mine when I press power, but I dont have the cabling
to test if there would be something on a monitor. I hear a slight buzz when I press the power on, so its probably not “bricked” in a true sense, just dead configured.

I would wish Teclast would add a “press 30seconds all buttons to reset the bios to base” mode to a $200 device.

[s3ndo]

Thats the mic? http://techtablets.com/forum/topic/x98-plus-internals/

There is seemingly no discreet reset button on the A5C8-

Thanks anyway, I will try to put it one day on a charger
and if it still doesn’t work, I will RMA it.

[s3ndo]

yoandme2 wrote:

Never mind, did a reset and now works ok

How did you do a reset?

I have an erratic a5c8. Android and Win 10 reseted without reason.

Tried to flash it with the newest bios, and it looked like everybody elses screenshots.

But now its looking hardbricked and none of the buttons are working.

 

 

 

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