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

[Paul Nijjar]

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 

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