ICS for XyBoards and JB for Asus TF300 now rolling

Bateluer

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http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...-to-the-transformer-pad-300-in-north-america/

Announced on its Facebook this morning, ASUS has started pushing the Jelly Bean update (Android 4.1.1) to the Transformer Pad 300, making it the first 10" ASUS tablet to receive the update. The TF300 getting updated to Jelly Bean isn't much of a shocker, but the fact hat ASUS was able to perform such a quick turnaround and get the update out is nothing short of impressive. With that sort of speed going on behind the scenes, we expect the the TF201 and TF700 updates will be here in no time.

Kudos to Asus for delivering updates in a timely fashion.


http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...wich-update-now-available-in-the-u-s-via-ota/

Uh, Moto . . . about time, I guess?

Updated Browser with faster rendering, zoom and pan: Users can also now save pages for offline reading and request desktop versions of websites.

Swipe to dismiss notifications and recent apps: You can now dismiss individual notifications and apps from the Recent Apps list with a simple swipe of a finger.

Redesigned app launcher: In All Apps launcher, you can now simply drag an app to get information about it, immediately uninstall it, or disable a pre-installed app.

New System Font for Improved Readability: An entirely new typeface (called Roboto) optimized for high resolution screens improves readability and brings a polished feel to the user interface.

Updated “People” Application: Replaces contacts and integrates seamlessly with Google+ and other social networks.

Improved text input and spell-checking: The keyboard now features improved accuracy to make text input faster. It also now includes an in-line spell checker to make corrections easier.

Type with your voice: Now you can simply touch the microphone on the keyboard and start talking to write emails, or any other text—more than 20 languages supported. Text appears in real time, so there’s no waiting for server processing.

Richer and versatile imaging capabilities: For new flexibility and convenience while shooting video, you can now take snapshots at full video resolution just by tapping the screen as video continues to record. For capturing larger scenes, the camera introduces a single motion panorama mode. You can also launch camera directly from the Lockscreen. When you shoot videos, you can now choose from a number of silly faces and other fun effects which recognize individual facial features so you can give your friends big eyes, squeeze heads, make noses bigger, or change the scenery with background replacement.

Redesigned Gallery app with photo editor: To help pictures look their best, the Gallery now offers a powerful photo editor so you can crop and rotate pictures, set levels, remove red eyes, add effects, and much more.

Richer, resizable widgets: You can expand widgets to show more content, or shrink them to save space.

Quicker screen rotation

A new setting to choose whether the power button immediately locks the device or not: shows up only when you have a pattern, PIN or password lock, it then lets you set a timer for how long it takes to lock after pressing the sleep button.

Microsoft Exchange improvements with additional EAS policies

Improved stability

Face Unlock: Face Unlock is a new screen-lock option that lets you unlock your device with your face. It takes advantage of the device front-facing camera and state-of-the-art facial recognition technology to register a face during setup and then to recognize it again when unlocking the device. Just hold your device in front of your face to unlock, or use back up PIN or pattern.
 

Aikouka

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Heh, I just happened to turn my TF300 on today, and I saw the update. I figured it was just firmware from ASUS, but when I saw the whole "optimizing Android" thing pop up, I had a feeling it was 4.1.
 

Puddle Jumper

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So much for the Xyboard update, just tried it now and it claims no update is available.

Thank you Moto for yet again showing how the Nexu 7 is a better device for half the money.
 

Skurge

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On a related note the international SGS2 is getting JB sometime near the end of the year. JB is rolling out super fast.
 

ponyo

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On a related note the international SGS2 is getting JB sometime near the end of the year. JB is rolling out super fast.

Super fast? 1/2 a year is super fast? :what: 1/2 year is like a generation/ cycle in mobile world.

You'll get JB and Nexus will be on KLP. Forever playing catch-up.
 

Skurge

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Super fast? 1/2 a year is super fast? :what: 1/2 year is like a generation/ cycle in mobile world.

You'll get JB and Nexus will be on KLP. Forever playing catch-up.

For android it is pretty fast.
 

Raduque

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I think the tf101 is over. Mine has gotten slower with each update and I think JB would probably push it over the edge.

Now that I think about it, I'm probably fine with it not getting an official JB release. Tegra2 probably couldn't handle it anyway.

Revolution HD ICS absolutely flies though, even at stock clocks.
 

wirednuts

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the tf101 should have plenty of horsepower for jellybean. but all of those models are out of warranty, so if they did release an update and it borked anyones tablets they would end up with some very unhappy customers.

better to let the underground finish tf101 development.
 

s44

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Uh, my Prime came out months before the 300 and with the same SOC, so wtf?
 

SilthDraeth

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Anyone here that updates there tf300 to 4.1.1 mind copying the wpa_supplicant file and sharing it with me?

I have a Nexus 7, and I can't connect it to my cell via adhoc and my cell doesn't support infrastructure wifi hotspot.

So I want to give the Transformer's wpa_supplicant file a shot.