Android Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS 4.0) on Acer Iconia A500 Tab

This is a small demo of what to expect of Ice Cream Sandwich on the Acer Iconia A500 tab at this point (13th of december 2011). I'm running Thor's beta; I think release number 37 or 38, not sure.

Quite a lot of stuff is working already, including WiFi, audio, SD card slot, 3D Hardware acceleration, etcetera. Some apps still don't work well but it's all a matter of time. It seems very very smooth. Battery life is also brilliant. Note that it says 13 hours uptime on this battery, but you have to understand that it has been on idle (screen off) for quite some hours.

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• Android (operating System)

[HamdiMoZa]

dit is geen ICS stock rom? of wel?

als dit een custom rom is, wat is de naam aub?

[rcmaasenwaal]

@HamdiMoZa Nee deze rom is door developers gemaakt, een AOSP (android open source project). Zoek even op google naar tegraowners, dan kom je 'm vanzelf tegen :)

[MrRaptor26]

how install android market on android 4?

[rcmaasenwaal]

@MrRaptor26 It came with a seperate google apps package that you can install using CWM manager

[ba000za]

how did you rooted the device ?

[rcmaasenwaal]

@ba000za I'm not sure after it's been quite a while I did that, but I think it was the method found on this on topic number 1055354 on the XDA-developers forum (can't paste a direct URL here).

After rooting, I used 'Acer Recovery Installer' from the market, which installs Clockworkmod for easily installing and backupping roms on your a500 :)

[themisterlp]

o acer iconia vai receber o ICS 4?

[iTzGavin96]

@rcmaasenwaal you speak german?

[mochannel25]

When comes the alpha?

[morell21212]

where you download this

[mrducttapeman100]

that looks way faster

[sk8filmpjes]

hoi ziet er gaaf uit en werkt de usb poort ook ?

[kajiggaa]

Nice vid ics is awesome