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Acer Iconia A500

The_Prof
By The_Prof
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My Acer Iconia A500 hasn't been working for a while now, and only now have I decided to fix it. I dismantled it completely, and discovered it was to do with the power button, this is a known issue with this tablet. So I put it back together, confident that I could turn it on by shorting the contacts. However, I plugged it in, it indicated it was charging with the charging light, and shorting the contacts did nothing. To short it I put a piece of Aluminium foil in some tweezers and put it on the contacts. Am I doing something wrong here? Or does shorting the contacts not turn it on?

 

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I assume it's not a latching switch. So connecting the thing permanently is like pressing and holding the power button, that might not work.

Does you mum know you're here?

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