[At Your Own Risk] Rooting the ASUS Transformer on stock ICS

Over the weekend my ASUS Eee Pad Transformer received an update to the much anticipated Ice Cream Sandwich. In order to upgrade I needed to remove CWM. The OTA updates are only successful if you’ve got stock recovery. I had added CWM so that I could apply root. Now I had to do without CWM, and with it root.

You can use Voodoo OTA RootKeeper to temporarily remove root, and then after the upgrade you can restore root. This worked for me as I went from Honeycomb 3.0 to 3.1, but not when going to ICS. Though many others it worked even on ICS. I’ve decided the problem is gender related.

So here I am with my nice sparkly ICS running perfectly on the pad but I’m sulking because I can’t get root. And without root I can’t use Titanium Backup, Root Explorer and AdFree. All are staple apps for me.

Join me over the break to see how to to fix this.

ASUS Transformer Prime: ICS video walkthrough and important information regards Root

Quick post just to alert you to our video demo of ICS running on the Prime, catch the video below.

Also an important piece of news for fellow owners - if you want Root on ICS then you need to follow these simple steps:

1. Root your Prime before the update using viperMod from XDA, every thing you need to know is here (this is the easiest Root method I've ever used so I won't produce a full guide)
2. Install OTA Rootkeeper from the Market, it's a free app by awesome dev Supercurio
3. Run through Rootkeepers set up
4. Install the ICS update
5. Restore Root with Rootkeeper
6. Show your gratitude to Supercurio by making a donation to keep him caffienated