U.S. Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet Ice Cream Sandwich update rolling out now

U.S. Lenovo tablet owners will be happy to hear that their ThinkPad Tablet Ice Cream Sandwich update is finally here. After the company released the Ice Cream Sandwich update for the international versions of the device, it’s now time to meet the Android 4 needs of the North American public.

According to The Verge, the Thinkpad Tablet Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade has been available since Monday, but in case you haven’t received a notification for your over-the-air update yet you can always try to set it off manually.

Here are some of the features that Android 4 will bring to your ThinkPad tablet:

Refined, Evolved User Interface
Multitasking
Improved Notifications
Home Screen Folders and Favorites Tray
Resizable Widgets
New Lock Screen Actions
Swipe To Dismiss Notifications, Tasks and Browser Tabs
Improved Text Input and Spell Checking
Powerful Voice Input Engine
Control Over Network Data
New Accessibility Options
New People App
Unified Calendar, Visual Voicemail
New Camera capabiltiies
Redesigned Gallery App With Photo Editor
Live Effects For Video
Sharing With Screenshots
Google Chrome Boomarks
Improved Email
Android Beam For NFC-based Sharing
Face Unlock
Wi-Fi Direct and Bluetooth HDP
A Unified Developer Framework

Have you updated your ThinkPad Tablet yet?

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Comments

Ethan Spitz

I can’t find a lot of these things on it, I got the ICS update yesterday…where is the favorites tray and face unlock?
tBs_Battousai

See Motorola, even Lenovo are pushing out ICS, why the hell are you so slow at updating outside of the U.S.?!?!?
http://twitter.com/LVMEDIT Las Vegas Med I.T.

Still waiting for the update-
AdY

didnt get face unlock :S
Barbara Zirkin

I agree…FaceService application on the thinkpad but no icon to launch
http://twitter.com/FivelineR Jae Chang

this was posted on blog.lenovo:
Note: Since this blog post was originally published in February 2012, we have learned that the “Face Unlock” feature will not be part of the Android 4.0 feature set. Apologies for any confusion. Thanks!
G

I still haven’t received the update and have tried to manually down load it several times any suggestions
edn0

guys / girls – go to system setting on Your TPT, search for the last option – phone/device info, there will be a sub-menu item called “check system update” and if your wifi is running good, and you didn’t fucked up your system, it should find an upgrade, but please belive me – don’t do it! system is no so faster as it was told, and battery is running down faster! some said that in 3.1 thinkpad have some problems with this pen writing – bullsleep ;-) – it’s the same as in 4.0 – if there would be en option of downgrade i would do it without thinking! and another case – there’s no exploit for tpt tablet 4.0 android – there’s no root.
G

edn0 I tried that and it didn’t work. Not sure what the problem is. I guess it is time to finally bite the bullet and root this machine.
- SkinnyBytes
  
  I was frustrated too that I wasn’t getting the ICS update. I finally found a KB on Lenovo that solved my issue. You need to go into your ‘Downloads’ and delete any previous Update.xml manifest files in there. Once I did that the update flew through…
  http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-slate-tablets-Knowledge/Thinkpad-tablet-slate-system-updates-OTAs-not-installing/ta-p/713571
  - G
    
    Thanks That worked like a charm!!!!!

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