How is your ice cream sandwich?

[Jackson1]

I like it, had a few problems at first. I put my apps back with titanium backup, the .apk only. FC and unresponsive but after clearing some data from said apps and rebooting. Now it works like a dream. I also set up some dual bootloader thingy as ICS is not compatible with the Honeycomb bootloader. I've not finised reading about this dual bootloader yet or tested it but I think it means I can go back to old honeycomb backups very quickly by switching to the second bootloader image.

I'm not sure why I'd want to though. ICS works like charm. I slapped Sandvolds ICS port onto my HTC Desire. Now my phone and tablet match. I even copied the bookmarks over

 

[Wilsr]

I updated a month ago and - like many others - no longer have any screen rotation when I turn the tablet.

Some apps will turn it themselves but then it's stuck the same way when I exit.

Acer are sending a voucher for "repair" although I can't see what they will do if it's a firmware problem.

When I removed the 32GB external card prior to sending it off the rotation worked OK! I thought that had isolated the problem but after switching off and on again - no rotation.

Frankly, even excluding this, I don't see any advantages in ICS and many apps have changed for the worse.

 

[stridermt2k]

My only issue is the "sleep of death" bug that keeps it from waking, forcing a restart.

It's made me want a new tablet.

 

[chenga61]

Hi Jackson,
I've got a A500 tablet, and it's now updated to HC 3.21.
reading on this forum that made me hesitate to update mine to ICS.
May I ask which model of the Iconia tablet that you have??
Please take a look at the bottom of the box, and it should say Acer Iconia Tab A500-10S32x.
I think the last alpha at indicated a specific HW build.
perhaps that's why lots of other people have problems with their ICS upgrade; since they might all have slightly different HW / chips in their A500 tabs.
please advise. many thanks.
PS. You may CC your reply to my Email: chenga61@gmail.com
Thanks very much.

 

[Wilsr]

Hi Jackson,
I've got a A500 tablet, and it's now updated to HC 3.21.
reading on this forum that made me hesitate to update mine to ICS.
May I ask which model of the Iconia tablet that you have??
Please take a look at the bottom of the box, and it should say Acer Iconia Tab A500-10S32x.
I think the last alpha at indicated a specific HW build.
perhaps that's why lots of other people have problems with their ICS upgrade; since they might all have slightly different HW / chips in their A500 tabs.
please advise. many thanks.
PS. You may CC your reply to my Email: chenga61@gmail.com
Thanks very much.

Acer Australia returned my A500 in about a week, with the screen rotation fixed. The work note said they had changed the "faulty" motherboard. My reading on that is the build was one of those that had a problem with the ICS "upgrade" bypassing some initialisations of the sensors.

I am afraid I cannot say what the number is, because the sticker was removed when I sent the tablet back to Acer with a fault soon after I bought it.

From the "settings" screen on the actual tablet:

(Upgraded) Android v 4.0.3
Kernel v 2.6.39.4+
Image v Acer_AV041_A500_RV03RC01_WW_GEN1
Build no. Acer_AV041_A500_1.031.00_WW_GEN1
Image P/N FM.S14A0.00U

If any of that makes sense!

My tablet was just still within warranty: other forums say that Acer won't fix the rotation problem outside warranty unless you pay. This is disgraceful - you start with a working machine and after installing an Acer-approved "upgrade" it's broken: they should fix it regardless.

You will see that I put "upgrade" in quotes: FWIW I think ICS is a retrograde step. Several things in settings etc have been changed and are no longer user-friendly or even available. The main things appear to be cosmetic and IMO don't look as nice as previously anyway. I see no difference in speed or anything else that would make me "upgrade" again