[At your own risk] How to get ICS bar buttons on the ASUS eee Pad Transformer

Pre-requisites:

• Rooted device
• CWM recovery
• External storage (Micro SD card)

More and more ICS "stuff" is becoming available, and today I found the guys (and girls) at XDA had found a way to get ICS bar buttons on the ASUS eee Pad Transformer. Reportedly for every 3.x iteration of Honeycomb.

The following image might be what you have right now, depending on whether you've reverted to the Xoom buttons or have a different ROM:

So what's involved you ask? Follow along for the instructions, it's fairly easy and painless.

1. Download CWM zip file from here

1. Copy the downloaded file to external storage, that's /Removable/MicroSD. I have created a sub folder called Flash which is where I moved my downloaded zip to)
2. Power off the pad
3. Hold the power and down volume button until you're prompted to enter RCK i.e.recovery
4. When you see the screen quickly press the volume up button
5. The CWM recovery menu is presented, take a nandroid backup

To navigate through the menu options use the volume button to move up and down and the power button to make the selection

1. Backup and restore
2. Backup
1. In my experience it takes longer to backup the Pad than it does my Samsung Galaxy S2. Don't panic, it's all working but good things take time.
3. Install zip from sdcard
4. Choose zip from sdcard
5. Navigate to the ICSButtons_TF101_Andrew2511_VRTheme_v0.3.5.zip file (I put mine in a folder called "Flash")
6. Use the volume key to select: Yes – Install ICSButtons_TF101_Andrew2511_VRTheme_v0.3.5.zip
1. Note: the first time mine returned a message "installation aborted". I started again from step 3 above. Second time the zip file flashed successfully.
7. Use the volume button to +++++Go Back+++++
8. Reboot system

Bob's your Uncle. You're done!