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Install Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich on the HTC Sensation

If you just can’t wait to get Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich on your HTC Sensation 4G nows the time and it comes with Sense 3.6. There has been an Ice Cream Sandwich ROM created by an XDA Developer named thelegendarylegends called Extreme Sensation that gives you everything you need.

The Ice Cream Sandwich ROM for the HTC Sensation is based on a leaker RUU version 3.24.401.1 and stable enough to be used as your daily ROM. Best of all you get HTC Sense 3.6 with the ROM with a few extra features like overscroll glow, semi-transparent app drawer, battery percentage meter and more.

How to Install Android 4.0.3 ICS on the HTC Sensation:

  1. Your HTC Sensation muss be Rooted with S-Off
  2. Make sure your battery is at least 80%
  3. Install ClockworkMod Recovery via ROM Manager (free on market)
  4. Put the Extreme Sensation ROM on your SDcard (Download Link)
  5. Place the 3.24 Unlocked firmware zip on your SDcard (Download Link)
  6. Place the “su-bin.zip file on your SDcard (Download Link)
  7. Reboot your Sensation into Bootloader “Vol Down + Power”
  8. When a screen comes up select “Bootloader”
  9. Select “yes” when bootloader asks for an update to install 3.24
  10. Wait for your Sensation to install firmware and reboot
  11. Connect your Sensation to a PC via USB
  12. Delete the 3.24 Unlocked Firmware file from your SDcard
  13. Disconnect your Sensation from the PC
  14. Open ROM Manager and select “reboot into recovery”
  15. When in recovery select “wipe data/factory reset” and confirm
  16. Select “wipe cache” and confirm
  17. Select “install zip from SDcard” and choose “Extreme Sensation”
  18. Wait for the phone to flash the ROM then select “reboot device”
  19. Once booted install “4EXT Recovery Updater” from the Android Market
  20. Install the su-bin.zip file via 4EXT Recover Updater
  21. Congrats you now have an HTC Sensation 4G running Android 4.0.3

As always we are not responsible for the use of these instructions although any issues you run into please feel free to ask in the comments below. Let us know if there are any steps that need more information added in your opinion and we will be sure to add them.

Brandon Orndorff
I have been interested in Android from the moment the first devices were released. I love the fact that it's such a widely accepted mobile OS and that I can be a large part of the community as a whole.

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