Dumb question from a Prime owner (me) - ICS upgrade

[WallaceD]

Hi.

I have a Prime, and I like it. A lot. I have no issues, and it works great.

I have NOT upgraded to ICS. I think I've only installed one OTA upgrade, and it was prior to the ICS OTA. (I'm running 3.2.1, kernel 2.6.36.3).

Here's my question. Now that there have been a couple OTAs after the initial ICS update, what is the process for me to upgrade, if I choose to do so? Will I get the initial ICS update, and then all the ones after? (One install after the other?)

Thanks in advance. This is probably a dumb question, but this is my first experience with a tablet.

 

[zookman]

My experience in updates would say you would receive the most current ICS, I have never been offered an option on which kernal to choose from.

 

[digitalslacker]

short answer is you don't really need to care. Install the upgrade that your system says is available. It doesn't matter if you skipped previous OTAs, the system will only let you install the next one in the line. You will be prompted after one OTA upgrade is installed to install the next available one.

The long answer is that official OTAs are built off of each other. That's to say that you need OTA update x to go to OTA update y because OTA update y expects and needs files included in OTA update x

That's why OTA's are so small, they only contain the files that have changed since the previous OTA.

If you care to test that theory, do a restore of any Android device back to the stock version it shipped with. You'll get OTA prompted to install every OTA along the way until your device is running the current version.

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[WallaceD]

Thanks VERY much for the info, guys!