At last, a (semi-)official Android 4.0 release (and not a beta) for Mele A1000 and Mele A2000 media players has been released.
This release is based on AllWinner Android 4.0 SDK. You can download homlet_4.0_v1.0_20120609_dd.img.lzma or here and dump it to the SD card with dd (Linux) and Win32DiskImager (Windows). It is also available via Bittorrent.
There is also another image named homlet_4.0_v1.0_20120609.img.lzma that can be flashed via the Phoenix Utility, but the download link is not available anymore at the moment.
Here are the instructions in Linux:
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wget http://www.lundman.net/ftp/mele/homlet_4.0_v1.0_20120609_dd.img.lzma 7z x homlet_4.0_v1.0_20120609_dd.img.lzma sudo dd if=homlet_4.0_v1.0_20120609_dd.img of=/dev/sdX bs=1M sync |
Where you need to replace X in /dev/sdX by the correct letter for your SD card reader.
Now insert the SD card in your Mele, and wait until the LED stops blinking, remove the SD card and restart the device. Et voila!
The default language is Chinese, so you’ll have to go to the Settings to change the language to your preferred one. Google Play is available in this version.
Mele will probably release their own Android ICS firmware in the next few days or weeks, but this one seems perfectly usable.
Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.
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