Take this with a pinch of salt as it's far from official but:
Gaurav Hasabnis, an industry analyst and contributing editor of Fonearena.com posted on Twitter: “Something gonna come in Jan 2012. #sgs2 users gonna rejoice!”, followed by a second tweet: “Soon Mali400 gonna be in full use.”
The mentioned Mali 400 is the name of the GPU on the Samsung Galaxy S II. Rumors states Ice Cream Sandwich will utilize the the full potential of high-end smartphones better than previous Android OS, which leads us to believe that the ICS will be making its way to the Galaxy S2.
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hell yeah .. now this is what i call awesome news
Hurray...I said January last week....
Hope this is true.. SGS2 will rock the smart phone business more!!!
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Thank you for the heads up. Hope GS2 will not take a long time to upgrade like the Samsung did for Galaxy S.
seems to match up with this
http://www.lifeofandroid.com/news_detail/ice-cream-sandwich-to-debut-on-android-handsets-in-weeks/
The worldwide release of Android 4.0 will begin in time for Christmas with Google’s Nexus S smartphone meaning the new OS should be broadly available for all compatible handsets by early 2012.
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Hope this is true and not a rumors........waiting
They hvn't even released the 2.3.4 update in India.Jan 2012 s too early a date for us i guess .
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If they won't release it officially, I'm sure we'll get a custom rom with 4.0 running as soon as the Galaxy Nexus is launched But good news, anyway!
Just think. If it's January 'officially,' then it could be December (or earlier) for us!
That's a great news. Though I think we'll get ICS unofficially before that. Anyone?
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Why do I all of sudden get the feeling we're not far away from getting ICS onto our beloved S2s....
(can't wait)
HellcatDroid said:
Why do I all of sudden get the feeling we're not far away from getting ICS onto our beloved S2s....
(can't wait)
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hehehe i think so so, come on Intratech lets be having it mate
Wow this is great news. Now android is a step closer to WP7 and iOS in handling resources. +1 HW acceleration
Even if we are not getting the official update, i am sure xda developers will cook one for us.
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Wow - official in 3 months? Testing should be out soon - shouldn't it? =p
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They hvn't even released the 2.3.4 update in India.Jan 2012 s too early a date for us i guess .
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Didn't Samsung drop development of 2.3.4 as they started 2.3.5
I still haven't got any official updates from 2.3.3 on a SIM free handset here in the UK.
Samsung UK have also tweeted that there is no time frame for getting ICS on the SGSII (read in to that what you want)
Think custom roms will be the only way forwards on ICS for some time.
Well that announcement is about Official release, NOT unofficial one. 70% users use Official ROM and like them, existing use this and that. Without a Stock ROM there won't be any Custom ROMs? Would there be?
Count me in those 70%.
We'll sure have some custom rom runnig ICS before the official one but I wonder what they'll do about touchwizz...
Looking forward to it
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I want to know if the SG2 will get the update
I think it will be getting the ice cream sunday update instead
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I think it will be getting the ice cream sunday update instead
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Terrible joke you made for a newbie ^^
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Probably, but not very quickly. I think a realistic expectation would be next summer for an official release.
1 year??!?? By that time there will be a SG3, damn it i really wanted it, guess ill have to replace my SG2
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1 year??!?? By that time there will be a SG3, damn it i really wanted it, guess ill have to replace my SG2
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I think some time next year though doubt it'll be as late as summer for the exact reason you mentioned, the SG3 being released around that time of year. Expect it Spring hopefully.
Strange you'd want to replace it THIS quickly though.
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Probably, but not very quickly. I think a realistic expectation would be next summer for an official release.
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rumour has it that it'll be released before the end of 2011,i hope it is anyway.
Cyanogen cyanogen cyanogen
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Cyanogen cyanogen cyanogen
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Hopefully there will be some more AOSP roms which are working good.
oxygen and cm7 seem to have some probs and hardware isn't supported completely
For my htc desire there are much more complete working AOSP roms. Would be nice to have that suppot on SGS2.
surely once the ICS is out to nexus the devs will have roms cooked up in the next few days after its released..
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surely once the ICS is out to nexus the devs will have roms cooked up in the next few days after its released..
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Maybe not within a few days, but I think we'll have ICS by the end of this year, assuming it does get released in October/November.
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1 year??!?? By that time there will be a SG3, damn it i really wanted it, guess ill have to replace my SG2
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Just get CyanogenMod then. They'll be the first to have it available. Guaranteed.
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Cyanogen cyanogen cyanogen
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still never flashed their ROM for the GS2 too many bugs.
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Hopefully there will be some more AOSP roms which are working good.
oxygen and cm7 seem to have some probs and hardware isn't supported completely
For my htc desire there are much more complete working AOSP roms. Would be nice to have that suppot on SGS2.
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i guess its becoz Samsung doesnt release all its source codes especially for drivers and hardware specific stuffs
Lol going off past updates,
Nexus nov-dec
Galaxy feb-mar
Either way, its way too soon for us to be talking of ICS, im waiting for 2.3.5 as that will arrive before any ICS update.
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rumour has it that it'll be released before the end of 2011,i hope it is anyway.
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It is scheduled for November 2011, with the release of Nexus Prime.
While the phone hasn't been released in the US yet, Samsung has decided to go ahead and release the Kernel source for the AT&T version of the Note. Thought US-based Devs would like to have this so the ROMs can be worked on for the US Note (which I can't wait to pick up on 2/18, myself)
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AT&T Galaxy Note Kernel Source Released I want ICe Cream
So with Sammy releasing the AT&T Galaxy Note Kernel Source does this mean they are going to release ICS for the Note and have a whole new Kernal?
ICS for US based Note will come after April ....
Oh, please, after the wait we had for GB on the Captivate, I don't think anyone can predict ICS's coming on any kind of a schedule.
Do you guys think we will have a root method waiting for us when release day hits ?
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Do you guys think we will have a root method waiting for us when release day hits ?
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When I had the note in hand last Saturday I tried super one click and it "claimed" it worked...I had issues with superuser though.
I wasn't brave enough to try and flash a custom recovery and a superuser zip though as it wasn't my device haha.
Either the test unit was rooted already, or superoneclick worked
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Oh, please, after the wait we had for GB on the Captivate, I don't think anyone can predict ICS's coming on any kind of a schedule.
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So true, but then again this is atts flagship phone. Theres hope of it coming a lot faster!
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Do you guys think we will have a root method waiting for us when release day hits ?
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If super one click doesn't work I know an alternative method that might work for this phone
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If super one click doesn't work I know an alternative method that might work for this phone
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Which is???
I hope we get some good development for this device! I just pre-ordered at Best Buy this morning and cant wait till the 19th!!!
As much as I appreciate the sentiment, remember, this is Development, not General. I'm locking this up now.
I know we don't have any ICS kernel sources yet but do you think we will get ICS before this August?
I thought I read somewhere that we were getting it in the next month or two. I would assume we would have a good working ICS port at the least in the next month or two. Can't speak for the devs here, but I thought that's what we were looking at. As for when ATT will push it out, that could be forever...I hate how long they take, but oh well.
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I know we don't have any ICS kernel sources yet but do you think we will get ICS before this August?
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do you think the cubs will win the world series this year? not likely but how will we know the answer either of these questions without official word...
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I thought I read somewhere that we were getting it in the next month or two. I would assume we would have a good working ICS port at the least in the next month or two. Can't speak for the devs here, but I thought that's what we were looking at. As for when ATT will push it out, that could be forever...I hate how long they take, but oh well.
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No, you're thinking about the i9100, not the i777
I'm sorry but just go and get a galaxy nexus ...no matter how good those roms are for all the other phones....there's no full ics google experience guaranteed on them other phones.....that's in my opinion
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I'm sorry but just go and get a galaxy nexus ...no matter how good those roms are for all the other phones....there's no full ics google experience guaranteed on them other phones.....that's in my opinion
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The only thing you're gaining by going to the Galaxy Nexus is a better screen and NFC. I dont understand why people switch phones over Android versions.
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i'm a noob, but
Didn't I just read that if you remove the AT&T logo, you get ics automatically?
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The only thing you're gaining by going to the Galaxy Nexus is a better screen and NFC. I dont understand why people switch phones over Android versions.
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Having used ICS on the captivate, it truly is an update worth switching devices for. However, I'm pretty happy with the I777 so I will just wait. Android updates that were actually really good: Froyo, Honeycomb, and ICS. The rest were just hyped too damn much and gingerbread is the worst of all of them (imho).
Wow. Use the sticky thread.
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The only thing you're gaining by going to the Galaxy Nexus is a better screen and NFC. I dont understand why people switch phones over Android versions.
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For one, it's not just ICS when Jellybean comes out, you're going to get it much quicker than anyone else. And also, it's the purest form of the Android version minus any bloatware each manufacturer puts on the phone, which can be either a pro or a con, but overall, the bloatware has been a con in the past.
IMO, Gingerbread was a very good update, Froyo didn't seem that special when I finally got it for my S7. The biggest improvement was non-broken radio firmware, which had nothing to do with Android version.
Gingerbread had significant power management improvements.
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Didn't I just read that if you remove the AT&T logo, you get ics automatically?
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Im still trying to rub it off!
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Tired of waiting!!!!
I love and appreciate all the work that the Devs have done for our phone, but if we don't get ICS soon I will be leaving this phone. A lot of my friends have phones with ICS roms and it is such a improvement over GB. I don't understand how one and two year old phones have ICS and Samsung won't allow us to have it. It is ridiculous.
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I love and appreciate all the work that the Devs have done for our phone, but if we don't get ICS soon I will be leaving this phone. A lot of my friends have phones with ICS roms and it is such a improvement over GB. I don't understand how one and two year old phones have ICS and Samsung won't allow us to have it. It is ridiculous.
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I mean I understand sorta, but it doesn't help to threaten the devs that if they don't do what you want you will leave. Tbh, I don't think any dev really cares.
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I mean I understand sorta, but it doesn't help to threaten the devs that if they don't do what you want you will leave. Tbh, I don't think any dev really cares.
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I am not threatening the devs at all. I am sick of Samsung not the devs. Read a little more careful next time.
chadrick.7 said:
I love and appreciate all the work that the Devs have done for our phone, but if we don't get ICS soon I will be leaving this phone. A lot of my friends have phones with ICS roms and it is such a improvement over GB. I don't understand how one and two year old phones have ICS and Samsung won't allow us to have it. It is ridiculous.
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I keep hearing about source being released within the next month, just wait it out
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I keep hearing about source being released within the next month, just wait it out
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I am really trying!!!
chadrick.7 said:
I love and appreciate all the work that the Devs have done for our phone, but if we don't get ICS soon I will be leaving this phone. A lot of my friends have phones with ICS roms and it is such a improvement over GB. I don't understand how one and two year old phones have ICS and Samsung won't allow us to have it. It is ridiculous.
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What the hell is your problem? Name one phone other than the Nexus line that has received ICS officially.
HTC hasn't released any updates yet.
Motorola hasn't released any updates yet.
Sony has only released betas (I applaud them for putting out prereleases)
Asus has only pushed it to one tablet (easier to port HC tablets due to HC being a newer codebase and not having to deal with the RIL) and that was an utter disaster
So far, my experience with ICS is that it's not an improvement over Gingerbread. I haven't been able to see any significant positive improvement - some parts of the UI are a bit shinier, but the gapps user interface is clunker than it was in GB. ICS has some good improvements on tablets, but for phones - not so nice.
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What the hell is your problem? Name one phone other than the Nexus line that has received ICS officially.
HTC hasn't released any updates yet.
Motorola hasn't released any updates yet.
Sony has only released betas (I applaud them for putting out prereleases)
Asus has only pushed it to one tablet (easier to port HC tablets due to HC being a newer codebase and not having to deal with the RIL) and that was an utter disaster
So far, my experience with ICS is that it's not an improvement over Gingerbread. I haven't been able to see any significant positive improvement - some parts of the UI are a bit shinier, but the gapps user interface is clunker than it was in GB. ICS has some good improvements on tablets, but for phones - not so nice.
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First of all I said that I APPRECIATE the devs!!!! And I never said that the roms were official. Almost all HTC and LG phones have ICS roms. I left t-mobile with the htc sensation and believe me that phone runs 300% better now that it is running ICS. And by the way Entropy it is no disrespect to any dev by what I said, I am rocking your Kernel right now (Excellent job). I am pissed at Samsung and them only. Our phone is supposed to be a flagship phone so what the hell is the holdup?
If you can't wait then just go get the G Nexus. These questions have been brought up and beaten to death. Just don't be surprised when Ics finally drops for our device and our Roms are superior than most. GS2 surely has the hardware to run prety much anything smoothly and dev community is strong here
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This thread is useless. Now on to something more important. When will we get jelly bean? I can't wait.
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Just got my new galaxy s2 in black and i love it
my question is is there a official ics rom out yet for my phone will there be or when ?
I dont want a cooked rom or anything as i dont want to void my insurance
i just want to know will there be an official update?
Thanks for your time and sorry if its been said before
Yes there will be. They said it will be released before the end of March.
Have a good day.
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Yes there will be. They said it will be released before the end of March.
Have a good day.
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thank you for your quick reply that great news
i love my galaxy s2.
S2 is one of top high end smartphones in the world, offcourse it will get ICS. If you read any threads, you would probably see that if rumours are true, we should see ICS for ~10 days or something. In Israel, I think it's coming 15.3. or something like that
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So Jelly Bean is anounced but when will the S3 get it?
What is your oppinion?
Leave your thoughts. Or if you have news of update it would be great.
Samsung insiders have apparently said Q3 2012 which is any-time between now and end of September, most likely true.
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Samsung insiders have apparently said Q3 2012 which is any-time between now and end of September, most likely true.
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That would be saweeet. I'm not saying that I don't believe you because I want this to happen, but given Samsungs track record with this, I'm a little wary. Maybe since Google and Samsung have been courting each other for a while, Sammy has had access to information that will help them get out releases earlier than usual?
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That would be saweeet. I'm not saying that I don't believe you because I want this to happen, but given Samsungs track record with this, I'm a little wary. Maybe since Google and Samsung have been courting each other for a while, Sammy has had access to information that will help them get out releases earlier than usual?
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All OEM'S including Samsung and HTC will have had JB sources for a while now.
Whatever reliable info you hear about release just add 2 months because Samsung's always late.
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Whatever reliable info you hear about release just add 2 months because Samsung's always late.
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OK official release now Christmas Day Source Sanity Claus .
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i read a litte bit about Jelly beans , but i didn't see a biggggg different between ice cream sandwich and it
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i read a litte bit about Jelly beans , but i didn't see a biggggg different between ice cream sandwich and it
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There is a very big difference. My only concerns are how well will the smoothness seen in the Nexus with the stock launcher carry over into Touchwiz and how or if Samsung will integrate Google Now since it does some things that Samsung has tried to do with their own software.
I think I am possibly one of the only people who doesn't give a sh!t. Not sure why. It comes when it comes and I'm happy with that.
When ics is stable then I'll worry about jelly bean.
are you guys ok without flash support on JB?... that's the very reason why i won't upgrade even if it comes early...
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More than likely one of the people who are so much smarter than me will on here will find a way to sort the flash issue
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When ics is stable then I'll worry about jelly bean.
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Why would you "worry" about jelly bean when ics gets stable? Think of jelly bean as an ics+ that makes ics better.. Wouldn't it be good to have? I don't think ics is getting more stable when 4.1 is here..
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are you guys ok without flash support on JB?... that's the very reason why i won't upgrade even if it comes early...
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Fu.k flash, thats why people invented the HTML5
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Samsung insiders have apparently said Q3 2012 which is any-time between now and end of September, most likely true.
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I heard that update comes in Q4 2012 who knows
Thats the only thing i dont like TW coz of updates... they have to rework every new android version to become suitable with it.