NO ICS :(

[rrand]

Dude, your situation stinks! This is a long shot, but it worked for my old Droid Incredible. Try manually setting your system date to a year ahead. The system may then realize it's way late in updating, and then trigger the update. Like I said, a long shot ...

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Thanks, but it didn't work. It was worth a try.

 

[WillieDynamite666]

Willie in Philly here and mine still has not updated as well. I do also have the A500 which updated easily. Comparing the A500 and the A100, the 500 seems much faster and vitually no lag at all. Now that I've had time to compare I can see my A100 may have been laggy all along. I'm just guessing but maybe there is something wrong with it since it never update over the last few weeks and the only thing that did happen was the "wireless signal weak message" a couple of times when I manually checked for updates. I may try AIRBORNE MP's method this weekend to try to update.

(I also recomend getting the A500 from Secondipity for cheap as it's a great tablet, but the only need it doesn't fill well is as a book reader becuase of the size.)

 

[rrand]

Here's how I got mine to update: the ota didn't work for me either, so I thought it was because I was rooted. I did a factory reset and still had no ota. I did however lose everything but I had movies songs and pics either on my SD card or free 50gb box drive (thanks box! lol). Then in desperation I downloaded and installed the leaked ICS which brought me to 4.0. Once this was done the OTA kicked in and downloaded the official 4.0.3 update. Hope this helps

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Thanks, but I can't seem to find a good copy of ics.

I found out what happened with my backup though.

Colornotes is a program I use all the time to keep my notes in. I have a bad memory so I have lots of notes. For some reason I copied all the files that were on the internal sdcard to my computer, but every time it got to a folder with the word colornote in it, the copy process would abort without any type of warning. So when I came back I thought it was done. That's what happened to my manual backup. I still can't even copy anything manually or one file at a time to backup colornotes. The copy process just stops.

The titanium backup didn't backup all my personal files. Only apps and some data.

 

[PookaLady]

Sorry I lost track of this discussion.I accidently deleted my bookmarks.Good one,huh? I deinitely am a newbie to tabs and not techsavvy for sure.

So sorry you lost all yourdata and still no ics.I did enter a question on one of the android forums for acer a100 about factory reset and ics. A helpful person jumped on there and let me know they had already tried that and it did not work.

Does anyone know if Acer ever puts the updates on their Acer site ?
I know Amazon does this on their site for their Kindle ereaders and their Kindle Fire tablets.
They do it because not everyone has wifi at home and sometimes people want the update quicker, I guess.

Anyway, does acer do this too? Ihave asked this question before,somewhere but did not receive a reply before I wiped out my bookmarks.grrrr.

 

[rrand]

Well I'm posting from ics now. I do like it better but it stinks that I tried the hardware reset Acer told me to do and lost all my stuff in the process. Simply flashing to ics doesn't delete any of your data it seems. So I lost a lot of stuff for no reason at all. Oh well, nothing I can do about it now.

The rom and instructions I used are at this page:

www.androidauthority.com/update-iconia-tab-a100-to-ice-cream-sandwich-official-rom-56142/

 

[mightyfacundo]

Bummer about losing all of your data and pics, but congrats on finally getting ICS. Hopefully it's worth all of the trouble you had to go through.

 

[rrand]

We bought two of them off EBay (Thanks, Mr. Anonymous!) and I had to drive two hours both ways to get them at 1am. Fun times.

It was a good thing we did it that way, though, because we don't live in a 3G area and they wouldn't have been sold at local stores.

Thanks! I don't know if it was worth it. I still can't remember all the files I lost. But at least I got ics as a consolation prize. lol. I am happy a few annoying issues got fixed in ics. Browsing the web is going to be nicer.

Thanks for sticking around after you got your ics.

 

[Joker35]

YEAH!!!! i finally got my ICS OTA this morning. about damn time Acer!

 

[rrand]

I'm not very happy about this ics update. Everything keeps slowing down for no reason I'm aware of, and i have to keep force closing apps that freeze up. Am I the only one?

 

[B. Diddy]

Same thing happened with my A500 after the ICS update, which resolved after a reboot. Didn't notice it with my A100, but if you haven't already tried it, power down and power up again.

The other thing to try is to go to the Manage Apps part of Settings and clear the cache for culprit programs like the Browser, Facebook, etc. But clear only the cache, don't clear the data from these apps.

 

[PookaLady]

I'm not very happy about this ics update. Everything keeps slowing down for no reason I'm aware of, and i have to keep force closing apps that freeze up. Am I the only one?

Sorry to hear you are not happy with ics after all the extra work you went to in order to get it.I still have not received the update. I do not have a micro sd card to try and follow the directions from the link you posted.My health is not great and it is hard for me to get out.I live in small town and we lost our Radio Shack.I have ordered one online though.I have not used the a100 hardly at all.I bought it because it should have alreadyhad ics on it.I also ordered it online.

I hope you are able to get it to work correctly.I am not techsavvy at all.Unfortunately no one around me is either.

 

[rrand]

Same thing happened with my A500 after the ICS update, which resolved after a reboot. Didn't notice it with my A100, but if you haven't already tried it, power down and power up again.

The other thing to try is to go to the Manage Apps part of Settings and clear the cache for culprit programs like the Browser, Facebook, etc. But clear only the cache, don't clear the data from these apps.

Unfortunately neither of those suggestions worked. But your suggestions were appreciated.

 

[rrand]

Sorry to hear you are not happy with ics after all the extra work you went to in order to get it.I still have not received the update. I do not have a micro sd card to try and follow the directions from the link you posted.My health is not great and it is hard for me to get out.I live in small town and we lost our Radio Shack.I have ordered one online though.I have not used the a100 hardly at all.I bought it because it should have alreadyhad ics on it.I also ordered it online.

I hope you are able to get it to work correctly.I am not techsavvy at all.Unfortunately no one around me is either.

The instructions are relatively simple. The only complicated instructions are possibly making the backup, copying the file to your external sdcard and renaming it. And that's really not too complicated. You will probably need a file manager program like Astro to do that. Outside of those steps I only think you'll have trouble if something goes wrong. Hopefully nothing will. If I can, I would try to help you. But I had backup problems myself so...

 

[PookaLady]

The instructions are relatively simple. The only complicated instructions are possibly making the backup, copying the file to your external sdcard and renaming it. And that's really not too complicated. You will probably need a file manager program like Astro to do that. Outside of those steps I only think you'll have trouble if something goes wrong. Hopefully nothing will. If I can, I would try to help you. But I had backup problems myself so...

Yep, I believe it is somerhing I can follow. I do appreciate the info amd the " almost" offer to help.Still waiting fod the sd card to arrive.

Have you ever managed to get your tab to speed up yet?

 

[rrand]

Yep, I believe it is somerhing I can follow. I do appreciate the info amd the " almost" offer to help.Still waiting fod the sd card to arrive.

Have you ever managed to get your tab to speed up yet?

I will help if I can. That's all I meant. If I can't help I'm pretty sure someone else can.

As far as speeding up my tablet. I got a widget that tells your cpu usage. It seems every time the cpu usage gets high everything slows down. Especially my keyboard. I went in there and disabled most programs that use high cpu or uninstalled them. It's somewhat better but when it happens, by the time I'm able to check the cpu it's already settled down. So I don't know what programs are causing it.

 

[rrand]

Also I've had a few programs crash on me that used to be stable. I'm not sure about what's causing that.

 

[PookaLady]

Also I've had a few programs crash on me that used to be stable. I'm not sure about what's causing that.

What an aggravation.I don' t know if I even should try to flash the update.If something went wrong I certainly would be in a mess since my android/tab knowledge is limited.

I hope you are able to get all your issues straightened out.
My tab is the gen2 3.2.1. Looks lile fhe update I viewed was for gen 1.

 

[rrand]

What an aggravation.I don' t know if I even should try to flash the update.If something went wrong I certainly would be in a mess since my android/tab knowledge is limited.

I hope you are able to get all your issues straightened out.
My tab is the gen2 3.2.1. Looks lile fhe update I viewed was for gen 1.

Only you can decide if it'd be worth it to try upgrading or not. I think most people haven't had any problems. I just seem like an unlucky one. Maybe my download of the rom had an error or something, or maybe I downloaded the wrong one.

Here's a thought. Are you able to return it to the store where you bought it from if it doesn't work?

 

[PookaLady]

I purchased it refurbished on Amazon's Marketplace sellers. It is up to the individual store. I have been thinking about sending an email to explain the problem and all the bull Accer kept feeding me....just keep waitng. I have barely used the tablet. I really am disgusted with acer qnd their customer service.

 

[rrand]

I purchased it refurbished on Amazon's Marketplace sellers. It is up to the individual store. I have been thinking about sending an email to explain the problem and all the bull Accer kept feeding me....just keep waitng. I have barely used the tablet. I really am disgusted with acer qnd their customer service.

I am not happy with Acer as well. I wonder how many people out there don't know about the update and will never get it.

I don't think it would hurt to send the letter and you may get an mra which you only have to use if you want to. Did the store promise ice cream sandwich in any way?