I quite broke Android on the Mele today, and the easiest way to fix it (without opening it or reinstalling it entirely) is to boot an alternative linux distro.
I tried:
- Linaro 12.07 by CNX-Soft
- Image name linaro-precise-alip-20120724-274
- Needs 4 GB SD Card
- Display is laggy, but access to internal file system, fine for "unbricking"
- Ubuntu 12.04 for Mele by CNX-Soft
- Image name linaro-precise-alip-20120525-143
- A bit slow, but access to internal file system, fine for "unbricking"
- Puppy Linux for Mele, by Rhombus-Tech
- Image name mele-sd-4gb-lui-5.2.90.img.xz
- Needs 4 GB SD Card
- Boots fast, is fast, but no access to the internal filesystem so unusable for "unbricking"
- Other problems like SATA hard drive not recognised, No GPU acceleration for X, SeaMonkey crashes makes it alpha quality and can't really be used