Difficulty

Very difficult

Steps

4

Time Required

                          30 minutes - 1 hour

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  • How to flash Lenovo IdeaTab A1000L
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What you need

Step 1

              Welcome
  • Requirements:
  • A internet conection
  • A charged A1000
  • A usb data cable
  • And most importantly a windows pc
  • Warning: don’t do this if your tablet is already working or you modified the boot loader ,you can brick your tablet .

Requirements:

A internet conection

A charged A1000

A usb data cable

And most importantly a windows pc

Warning: don’t do this if your tablet is already working or you modified the boot loader ,you can brick your tablet .

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Step 2

              Finding Firmware.

Go to http://lenovo-forums.ru/topic/1855-%D0%B…

And translate the page. It should be like this <–

Find your model number on the list of firmware and download it.

Download the flash tool http://lenovo-forums.ru/Files/OS/Tablets…

And the usb driver http://lenovo-forums.ru/Files/OS/A390/MT…

Install the driver.

Step 3

              Unpacking the firmware
  • Unzip the firmware and the flashtool in any folder only with latin characters.

Unzip the firmware and the flashtool in any folder only with latin characters.

Step 4

              Flashing the firmware
  • YOU CAN BRICK YOUR TABLET ON THIS STEP! I am not responsible for any bricking of a tablet.
  • open Flash_tool.exe. and select File > Open Scatter-loading file … and select the file MT6577_Android_scatter_emmc.txt from the firmware folder
  • Check the box DA DL All With Check Sum and Press the Firmware -> Upgrade button
  • If this <– happens check the firmware and delete checksum.ini from the firmware and try again
  • Plug in your tablet turned off
  • First wait if you get a green circle after flashing you have a successfully flashed tablet.

YOU CAN BRICK YOUR TABLET ON THIS STEP! I am not responsible for any bricking of a tablet.

open Flash_tool.exe. and select File > Open Scatter-loading file … and select the file MT6577_Android_scatter_emmc.txt from the firmware folder

Check the box DA DL All With Check Sum and Press the Firmware -> Upgrade button

If this <– happens check the firmware and delete checksum.ini from the firmware and try again

Plug in your tablet turned off

First wait if you get a green circle after flashing you have a successfully flashed tablet.

Congratulations you have a working tablet

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                    Filip Velickovski

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