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Acer Iconia A500: All Things Root Guide

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General Information

• Root Terminology
• What is root or being rooted mean?

Guides

• How to root the Acer A500 running ICS (4.0.3
• Rooting Stock Honeycomb 3.1
• Rooting A500 on Honeycomb 3.2.1
• Rooting A500 3.2/3.2.1 including youtube video walkthrough
• Full root for A50x ICS 4.0.3
• Guide to Installing Unlocked ICS Bootloader & Custom Recovery / Returning to HC Bootloader

Rooting Tools

• (to be filled in)

OTA Updates

• Full Acer ROM Packages/Updates master list

Stock ROMs

• HC 3.2 Stock
  
• HC 3.2.1 Stock (pre-rooted or plain stock)
• Acer OTA ICS (Stock & Deodexed versions - full root)

Custom ROMs

Honeycomb:

• HC 3.2.1 The Collective - Epiphany
• HC 3.2.1 civato-Flexstriker R9.5

Ice Cream Sandwich:

• ICS 4.0.3 Icylicious
• ICS 4.0.3 Lightspeed 4.8
• ICS 4.0.3 Flexreaper R9 Final
• ICS 4.0.3 Taboonay 3.0.1
• CM9

JellyBean:

• JellyTime

Themes

• ICStyle Theme by OiJkN (for Flexreaper ROM)

Tools & Utilities

• Acer Recovery Installer
• Afterota v1.09

Scripts & Mods

• Softkeys & Accurate Battery Mod

Tips

• (to be filled in)

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Last edited by D-U-R-X; January 5th, 2013 at 12:20 PM.

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The following posts will be used as a changelog, so that the thread is bumped and people can tell when new links have been added.

Feel free to let staff know if there is anything that needs adding/changing/removing

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Added Afterota tool and Guide to unlocking ICS Bootloader links

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Added OTA updates link, OTA rooted stock ROM link and changed layout slightly, to split custom ROM's up by Android version