[Q] ICS on A101 AS WELL ?

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Hello guys,

I'm new to this forum but I read it from time to time since a few months.

I own an Iconia Tab A101 that I already rooted and so far I haven't received the OTA update toward ICS probably beacuse I used a Stock Rom from Vache which is not a full stock rom.

I already found few ICS ROMs but as I use this tablet for my job, I don't want to mess up with it. So far it dosen't say it would work with an Iconia A101, but only a A100. Did anyone already tried it on the A101 ? (I can't aford to lose my 3G conection/driver as I use it everyday to send my jobs forms)

Is there any way I could upgrade toward ICS without losing my applications and datas ? (I can handle the root and adhoc/wpasuplicant issue later..)

I wish I could install/use Nandroid to get a full backup of my tablet before just in case.... Would you advise me to use that application ? How do I do that ?

I alreadytried to install CWM but failed to it. I probably did something wrong or in the wrong order.

Anyway thanks for your help ! I love this forum.

Best regards
Fabien

Try looking harder. There's a leak of the official A101 ICS ROM in the development section.

The official A101 ICS ROM in the development section

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Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan

Try looking harder. There's a leak of the official A101 ICS ROM in the development section.

Would you be so kind and point me/us to the leak of the official A101 ICS ROM in the development section?
I wasn't able to find it...

Thank you,
Adrian

Try this link http://narod.ru/disk/47785011001.df9...-root.zip.html (CWM version)

Originally Posted by Infomediasvc

I already found few ICS ROMs but as I use this tablet for my job, I don't want to mess up with it. So far it dosen't say it would work with an Iconia A101, but only a A100. Did anyone already tried it on the A101 ? (I can't aford to lose my 3G conection/driver as I use it everyday to send my jobs forms)

Is there any way I could upgrade toward ICS without losing my applications and datas ? (I can handle the root and adhoc/wpasuplicant issue later..)

Acer didn't release ICS for A101 yet, so it's normal that you didn't receive OTA upgrade.

There is a leak of an old ICS build for A101 here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...91&postcount=6
I'm running it and it works fine. I just needed to delete and recreate APN, as the migrated one was disabled for some reason.
(P.S. You need to install all four update.zip from the archive in order. These are incremental and you cannot skip any.)

Thank you leomatt & smokku for you quick and clear answers. That's the spirit!
Thanks again,
Adrian

Thank you so much ! It worked like a charm.

Next step will be root (again), and adhoc support.

This may help:

1.Load Update1.zip onta a SD card. Rename it Update.zip. THIS IS IMPORTANT!

2. Press POWER and VOL- (the top vol button) and flash the ROM. The reboot will hang. Just power off and continue.

3. Repeat for the remaining updates, one at a time.

4. The final reboot will work and the ROM will be flashed. If error messages are encountered or constant rebooting is experienced, do a factory restart.

This worked for me and restored my Acer back to A101. (I had loaded ICS for A100 and lost 3g...I can't help fiddling with things I don't understand........

Originally Posted by GrigAdri

Thank you leomatt & smokku for you quick and clear answers. That's the spirit!
Thanks again,
Adrian

Hey. No need to thank me for telling you it even existed in the first place, that's perfectly OK.

For someone so utterly incapable of finding something so simple (seriously, third hit on a search), I suggest you don't even THINK about flashing it; you'll brick your tab.

Someday you'll get, that this forum is about people helping each other, not feeling superior to others.