Last night I decided I wanted to upgrade my tablet OS since it had been quite a while since the last official update from ASUS. I was at 4.1.1 Android (Jellybean) and I wanted to try out KitKat. This was partly due to the fact that I am now leaning towards moving away from a Droid phone and getting an iPhone. But I still want to be able to play around with Android and figured this would be a good way to do it.

I searched around and found a good site describing exactly how to do it. http://d3-media.blogspot.com/2014/08/upgrading-asus-prime-tf201-to-android.html did a nice job of running through all of the things I would need to do from unlocking to rooting to loading a recovery image.

The steps were easy to follow and I was doing well until I got to the point actually trying to load the new image. It got part way through the process and then the little android keeled over and I was done. The tablet would no longer boot to anything but the recovery image. I started to panic as my tablet was my primary source of Netflix and Candy Crush enjoyment. I went back to the site to see if I had done something wrong.

I found a statement about a problem they had run into with the recovery image not recognizing their external SD card. They had to load a different recovery image to get it to recognize the card. Since I was using the internal SD card I ignored it. But as I was desperate I went ahead and loaded the second image and voila! success.

I now have an upgraded and functional tablet. Now I can go back to my Trailer Park Boys binge watching!