Galaxy s2 to get ICS

[Pete.]

Just read that the Galaxy S2 gets the choice to upgrade from Gingerbread to Ice Cream Sandwich. I was going to buy one but plumped for the slower Galaxy Nexus instead to get the later operating system (and the HD screen res). The s2 is a faster phone but that screen on the Nexus is just wicked.

Anyone done it/going to be BCF's guinea-pig?
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[The Artist]

Raw ICS? Meh.

[Frost]

Currently only Three have the update out. I'm with O2 and have been promised it by the end of the month...

[bazza]

I expect the useless cunting retards at Virgin Mobile will, as usual, vomit forth some sort of half-arsed lashup which bricks your phone. By November.
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[Phil.]

I've been running a modified ICS rom for a few days now. It's alright. Battery seems to be better.

What i'm more excited about is today samsung released the kernel source for ICS. So things like Back Light Notifications can be added.

[Pete.]

You cooking your own roms or downloading them? Not that it matters to me as I'm not brave enough to mess with my wife's new £500 phone
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[Phil.]

I'm running this rom;
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1095274

I tried CM9 Nightly, was pretty buggy so I'm sticking with that till CM9 matures.

Unless you're flashing bootloaders you can't really fuck up the phone. I've soft bricked mine a few times, just reflash them no big deal.

[el_oso]

it didn't work for me....
ODIN flashes it and says it completes successfully. however when it reboots it hangs on the boot screen
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[el_oso]

seems, that i needed to flash it twice. I did remove the SD card on the 2nd flash, so wonder if that had anything to do with it
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[Phil.]

Now that the Kernel source is out it seems like people have been busy patching it. Looking forward to flashing this one this evening;

https://www.gokhanmoral.com/gm/2012/03/20/siyahkernel-v3-0beta4-for-ics-only/

Miss having BLN on ICS.

One other thing on the Sammy ICS and it's derivatives, there's an SMS duplication bug when using any 3rd party app which is a bit of a shitter.

[GhostRider]

Isn't it wise to wait a couple of weeks and let the guinea pigs fuck up their phones first until the creases are ironed out?

GhostRider
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[Phil.]

[el_oso]

i have to say I prefer the Resurrection ROM over the Lite'ning ROM. seems much more polished.
I tried the CM9 ROM quite a while ago and it was very buggy back then. depending on how this Resurrection ROM goes i may never switch back to CM.
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[CaNsA]

Im still running VillainRom 3.0 on mine, I'll wait until the VR boffs release a ICS rom.

I hooked the missus' stock sgs2 into kies last night but still no ICS yet.

[el_oso]

[CaNsA]

mine is, but the missus' aint.

Im fgonna wait for the FOTA or Kies to update it. My life wouldnt be worth living if i borked her phone.

[GhostRider]

I rooted it the day I got it just to unlock it, other than that I haven't bothered tweaking with it.

From what I read there's like 100 different OS's and each one has it's own quirks and tweaks etc, I honestly cannot be bothered going through them all and testing them when I stand a good chance of fucking it up each time, this is why I preferred the iPhone = 1 Jailbreak, everything sorted, no messing.

I think if you have countless hours to sit and fuck around with it then the S2 is a dream in terms of rooting and farting around with it, but the sheer volume of stuff out there has really put me off playing with it, yet the S3 is due out next month I believe.

I'll see what Apple come out with and if it's even close to the S2 I'll go back to apple for the sake of simplicity.

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[el_oso]

[GhostRider]

Yeah but thats the problem, tons of ROMS each unique, like I'm gonna sit for days installing each ROM, then re-installing all the apps and settings and transfer all data over, only to use it for 2 days and then go "nah this is shit, I'll try another one" and do it all again.

I want to like it but its geared towards full time nerds only, and unfortunately I'm a very busy man.

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[el_oso]

I am not a full time nerd
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[CaNsA]

No-one talking about the diff kernels tos?

[el_oso]

I do have a non-standard kernel running on my g2.
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[Vinyardo]

[Phil.]

[Vinyardo]

I forgot to mention, with the WanamLite ROM it keeps all your apps, settings, contacts etc so you don't need to mess about putting everything back on! It is basically an upgrade instead of a whole new ROM.
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