HTC Flyer Gets Its First Ice Cream Sandwich Port, Unofficial

HTC's first try on tablets, the Flyer was initially launched with Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system on board. After many months of waiting, the tablet has finally received its Android 3.2 Honeycomb upgrade.

For the time being, it's unclear if HTC will roll out an Ice Cream Sandwich update for HTC Flyer in the future. However, those who already purchased the tablet and consider themselves savvy enough to flash an unofficial ICS ROM can do so courtesy to the folks over at XDA Developers.

XDA forum member AidenM has just ported successfully an Ice Cream Sandwich ROM on the HTC Flyer. Apparently, this is the first unofficial Android 4.0 ROM for HTC's tablet, so we should assume that it does come with at least a few bugs and features that won't work.

Obviously, one of the main problem will be to make the Pen working, which won't be an easy feat for any developer who tries to cook or port an unofficial Ice Cream Sandwich ROM on the HTC Flyer.

Sadly, users won't be able to take notes using the Pen, but, hopefully, this problem will be corrected in a future update. Other things that have been reported as NOT working include: camera, Bluetooth support, HTC Apps (not correctly sized for screen), rotation is a bit blurry and pixelated, and some setting panes are not functional (Keyboard selector).

Still, there are quite a slew of features that are fully functional, such as: Wi-Fi support, Android Market access, touch capabilities, external SD, ADB access, rotation, as well as AOSP lockscreen.

HTC Flyer owners who are eager to flash this ROM on their tablets should know that they need to be Honeycomb S-OFF. Then, simply copy the ROM on the root of an SD card and run it from there.

Check out the video below to have a glimpse of how it looks. For more details on how to install this ROM head over to the original thread.

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