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Acer Iconia A500: All Things Root Guide
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General Information
Guides
Stock ROMs
Honeycomb:
Ice Cream Sandwich:
Themes
Tools & Utilities
Scripts & Mods
Tips
Since this is a new root guide for your all-things-root sub-forum, we need your help to populate it and keep it organized with the best and most relevant information. Please contact (by PM) your favorite Guide, or drop us a note in the private chat section if you have any good information to contribute, update, or correct in the root guide. Alternatively, hit the

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Acer Iconia A500: All Things Root Guide
Click the "Show" button below for a root warning / disclaimer:
Quick note / disclaimer: as always, you are ultimately responsible for any root-related activities on your phone.
You should understand not only the benefits of rooting, but also any possible consequences (voided warranty, boot-loops, bricking, etc.) that might occur as a result of your root-related actions.
AndroidForums.com / Phandroid.com, its owner, and staff are not liable for any root actions you might undertake as a result of information used from this site.
Reading, researching, understanding, and carefully foll[ur,lowing the published steps and instructions can go a long way towards helping to make your rooting efforts a successful one.
You should understand not only the benefits of rooting, but also any possible consequences (voided warranty, boot-loops, bricking, etc.) that might occur as a result of your root-related actions.
AndroidForums.com / Phandroid.com, its owner, and staff are not liable for any root actions you might undertake as a result of information used from this site.
Reading, researching, understanding, and carefully foll[ur,lowing the published steps and instructions can go a long way towards helping to make your rooting efforts a successful one.
Guides
- How to root the Acer A500 running ICS (4.0.3
- Rooting Stock Honeycomb 3.1
- Rooting A500 on Honeycomb 3.2.1
- Rooting A500 3.2/3.2.1 including youtube video walkthrough
- Full root for A50x ICS 4.0.3
- Guide to Installing Unlocked ICS Bootloader & Custom Recovery / Returning to HC Bootloader
- (to be filled in)
Stock ROMs
- HC 3.2 Stock
- HC 3.2.1 Stock (pre-rooted or plain stock)
- Acer OTA ICS (Stock & Deodexed versions - full root)
Honeycomb:
Ice Cream Sandwich:
- ICS 4.0.3 Icylicious
- ICS 4.0.3 Lightspeed 4.8
- ICS 4.0.3 Flexreaper R9 Final
- ICS 4.0.3 Taboonay 3.0.1
- CM9
Themes
Tools & Utilities
Scripts & Mods
Tips
- (to be filled in)