Last month I got a little Acer A100 Android tablet. It came with Honeycomb (OS 3.2). Although I've played with Linux for years, this was my first Android device. I had been a little leary of upgrading to Ice Cream Sandwich (OS 4.0.3), as OS upgrades are usually best done by wiping the drive and doing a clean install. But I have been really impressed with the Android OS and decided to see how tough it was. So when the automatic update system offered to do an upgrade, I crossed my fingers and clicked OK.
Somewhat to my surprise, the upgrade went perfectly. I had to reinstall Flash and one other app, but didn't lose any data or system settings. It even kept the desktop preferences and network passwords. I've never had a live upgrade go so smoothly. I'm very impressed.
Please note that my Acer came with a sticker on the box advertising a free upgrade to ICS, so the factory hardware was designed to run the new OS. And I didn't have anything more elaborate than Netflix and the Kindle app installed, so I certainly don't guarantee that everything will work with Ice Cream. Although all of my smaller apps, including some office "suites", seem to have survived the switchover with no problems.
Hopefully, everyone else's upgrade will go as smoothly as mine did. However, be warned that trying to undo the upgrade to ICS (if it causes problems) is apparently a major pain in the butt and does require wiping the whole drive and reinstalling from scratch.
Somewhat to my surprise, the upgrade went perfectly. I had to reinstall Flash and one other app, but didn't lose any data or system settings. It even kept the desktop preferences and network passwords. I've never had a live upgrade go so smoothly. I'm very impressed.
Please note that my Acer came with a sticker on the box advertising a free upgrade to ICS, so the factory hardware was designed to run the new OS. And I didn't have anything more elaborate than Netflix and the Kindle app installed, so I certainly don't guarantee that everything will work with Ice Cream. Although all of my smaller apps, including some office "suites", seem to have survived the switchover with no problems.
Hopefully, everyone else's upgrade will go as smoothly as mine did. However, be warned that trying to undo the upgrade to ICS (if it causes problems) is apparently a major pain in the butt and does require wiping the whole drive and reinstalling from scratch.
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