ASUS Transformer Pad TF300 gets updated to Jelly Bean

posted by Alan F. / Aug 18, 2012, 11:27 AM

ASUS Transformer Pad TF300 gets updated to Jelly Bean

ASUS has started updating its tablets to Android 4.1.1

If there ever was a tablet manufacturer that made sure its customers received timely updates, it's ASUS. Last month, the manufacturer announced that it would be updating its Transformer Pad, Prime and Pad Infinity tablets to Android 4.1.1, and on Saturday the heavy lifting had begun with the rollout of Jelly Bean to the ASUS Transformer Pad TF300. In addition to updating the OS, ASUS has added a new power saving feature, global file search, and has made "improvements to the pre-installed apps".

The OTA update can be found by going to Settings > System Firmware Update > Check Update. As for its other tablets, ASUS says that updates for the other Transformer Pad tablets will be announced "in the near future".

source: ASUS via MobileSyrup

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26 Comments

1. denied911

Posts: 361; Member since: May 31, 2012

go asus, go android

posted on Aug 18, 2012, 11:42 AM 5

2. kartik4u98

Posts: 511; Member since: May 19, 2012

Asus please come to my country..!! please!

posted on Aug 18, 2012, 11:57 AM 3

3. aokde

Posts: 186; Member since: Jul 09, 2012

where are the apple fags that say android gets updates late now? way to go asus, waiting for a confirmation from sony for my XPERIA arc.

posted on Aug 18, 2012, 11:58 AM 2

11. Jay_F

Posts: 236; Member since: Nov 29, 2011

Are you honestly denying that Android gets updated slow as hell on a lot of products? Yeah ASUS did good with this update, I'm updating my tablet to JB now as I'm typing, but to make a dumb statement like you just made is just uncalled for. Apple has very few products, but at the very least when they roll out with a new OS, or any update, it's immediately available for all compatible versions to download. There's still news out there about phones still upgrading to ICS well after JB was already released. It's comlete bulls**t that people buy top of the line phones, yet can't have the most up to date firmware when it's released by Google.

posted on Aug 18, 2012, 2:40 PM 0

20. zhypher_23

Posts: 195; Member since: Jun 04, 2012

That's why there are custom roms :))

posted on Aug 18, 2012, 8:23 PM 1

23. Jay_F

Posts: 236; Member since: Nov 29, 2011

It shouldn't be necessary though.

posted on Aug 19, 2012, 5:39 PM 0

26. Nexiboyyy

Posts: 1; Member since: Dec 05, 2012

At least if you get a custom ROM or do have Android released for your device your not missing key features -_-... *Cough* Siri *Cough*. Also thats not a flaw in Android thats a flaw in the OEMS

posted on Dec 05, 2012, 1:30 PM 0

4. maryaaadil

Posts: 146; Member since: Apr 07, 2012

Best Android tabs=Asus Best Android phones= samsung

posted on Aug 18, 2012, 11:59 AM 8

5. Non_Sequitur

Posts: 1111; Member since: Mar 16, 2012

I agree with the first part. Second part, it varies. I can't wait to get 4.1.1 on my TF700!

posted on Aug 18, 2012, 12:24 PM 8

25. slavytodorov

Posts: 48; Member since: Jun 23, 2012

Best Android phones=HTC

posted on Aug 27, 2012, 8:27 AM 0

6. Cerberusa2a

Posts: 33; Member since: May 24, 2012

Just updated mine... awesome!

posted on Aug 18, 2012, 12:57 PM 1

7. hung2900

Posts: 966; Member since: Mar 02, 2012

It's easy to understand. Asus has Nexus device and Nexus 7 has the same chipset as TF300T (TF201 and TF700T have other Tegra 3 SoC). Asus's UI is a sligtly modified Vanilla OS.

posted on Aug 18, 2012, 1:29 PM 0

8. ap1989

Posts: 145; Member since: Oct 12, 2011

GO F*** Yourself Verizon for not updating galaxy nexus to jelly bean yet.

posted on Aug 18, 2012, 2:17 PM 3

9. kayeeman

Posts: 18; Member since: Feb 28, 2012

I was wondering to buy a asus tf300 or ipad3 ! is asus reliable ? or issues with touchscreen or motherboard will occur ?

posted on Aug 18, 2012, 2:17 PM 1

13. Jay_F

Posts: 236; Member since: Nov 29, 2011

Well do you want to spend $600 on a good and proven iOS tablet or $400 on a very solid tablet with JellyBean? I had the same choice at the time and went with ASUS. Haven't regretted my decision at all.

posted on Aug 18, 2012, 2:45 PM 3

17. Non_Sequitur

Posts: 1111; Member since: Mar 16, 2012

Asus is an excellent company and has won over my love already. I have the TF700T, have had no problems with it, and it is an excellent tablet/short-term laptop replacement. Get the TF300 with the dock. You won't regret it.

posted on Aug 18, 2012, 4:28 PM 2

10. Bluesky02

Posts: 1439; Member since: Dec 05, 2011

already :O

posted on Aug 18, 2012, 2:19 PM 0

12. Jay_F

Posts: 236; Member since: Nov 29, 2011

Mine is almost done updating :D

posted on Aug 18, 2012, 2:41 PM 2

14. imkyle

Posts: 1111; Member since: Nov 18, 2010

Can anyone confirm if the stock browser is more responsive than ICS?

posted on Aug 18, 2012, 2:56 PM 1

15. nwright94 unregistered

I got rid of mine too soon. Didn't like rebooting it twice a day and all the force closing. It'd probably be better now but I wanted something that didn't need to be restarted to stop force closing.

posted on Aug 18, 2012, 3:06 PM 0

16. SprintPower

Posts: 74; Member since: Dec 29, 2008

Got my Jellybean love on my TF300 around Midnight Friday. It warned that Flash is no longer supported so the first thing I did was check YouTube and the videos all played fine. Waiting to hit a video roadblock but haven't yet.

posted on Aug 18, 2012, 3:45 PM 3

18. poojaroy

Posts: 52; Member since: Apr 29, 2012

well done asus and samsung will b rolling update soon on 29th of this month coz u know there r millions of samsung phones world wide.good steps for future android

posted on Aug 18, 2012, 6:25 PM 0

19. nnaatthhaannx2

Posts: 820; Member since: Oct 19, 2011

.... and i just got ICS on my GTab 10.1.....

posted on Aug 18, 2012, 6:46 PM 0

21. Nikolas.Oliver

Posts: 1574; Member since: Jul 01, 2012

take it samsung!

posted on Aug 18, 2012, 10:28 PM 0

22. nastynaps

Posts: 93; Member since: Aug 16, 2011

I hope this resolves a myriad of issues I'm having with mine from auto shutdown to crappy web browsing.

posted on Aug 19, 2012, 4:19 PM 0

24. slavytodorov

Posts: 48; Member since: Jun 23, 2012

When is the update coming to Bulgaria? I've been waiting for ages!!! :@

posted on Aug 27, 2012, 8:26 AM 0

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