“Samsung Electronics plan to provide the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for GALAXY devices. The platform update for GALAXY S II and GALAXY Note will start in the first quarter 2012, and other GALAXY devices will soon follow. The ICS-upgradable devices are the GALAXY S II, GALAXY S II LTE, GALAXY Note, GALAXY R, GALAXY Tab 10.1, GALAXY Tab 8.9, GALAXY Tab 7.7, and GALAXY Tab 7.0 Plus.” Could be worse, I suppose.
But what’s with all the yelling?
Anyways Q1 means end of march + maybe a few weeks.
A beta build was “leaked” a couple of days ago, so if you’re feeling adventurous you could give that a whirl. No doubt it will speed CWM9’s development in any case.
Edited 2011-12-20 10:54 UTC
will be installing ICS via CM9
Galaxy S isn’t two years old and already abandoned, typical of Samsung.
I feel your pain … I’m also a Galaxy S owner and I’m dreading the day I’ll have to root my phone and install CM9 according to dubious instructions scattered in a 200 page xda thread, when all I really want is vanilla ICS
Wait for CM9 and only look at their wiki.
To upgrade to CM 7, there is a central spot for information on how to do it:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S:_Full_Update_Guid…
I really doubt much will change for CM 9/ICS. I mean that both as in: I doubt the instalation will change much and I doubt that if it does it that the instructions on how to do it will be anywhere else.
Careful .. I came across this and switched to the Atrix immediately.
The Vibrant doesn’t call 911 with Cyanogenmod installed
We are no longer supporting the Vibrant due to the inability to dial 911. We consider the issues related to this unresolvable without source code from Samsung related to the Radio interface layer and its interactions with the Audio layers and have taken the decision to no longer support this. We apologize for the inconvenience and strongly suggest that Vibrant users use a Samsung ROM due to the 911 issues with any ROMs based on open source code.
-SGS Team/Team Hacksung/Teamdouche
http://www.ijailbreak.com/android/cyanogenmod-no-longer-supporting-…
If you’ll note, I linked to the Samsung Galaxy S page, not the Vibrant. Each iteration of the Galaxy S line has a few peculiarities that need to be accounted for. They never supported the Vibrant as a stable build. Using a non-stable build may result in certain problems ( like lack of 911 support, lack of camera support, lack of 3/4G, issues with GPS, ect) . Stick to stable and you’ll be fine.
That’s cool, looks easy enough, though I see that it doesn’t cover rooting. Do you also happen to know of a reliable rooting tutorial?
I’ve used a couple methods in the past. The easiest in the world is super one click.
http://shortfuse.org/?page_id=2
Its a dotNet app that keeps up with various different rooting mechanisms. I’ve used it on a variety of phones. Basically you hook up your phone via usb, start the program and click a single button.
Warning: Its supposed to run under mono, but I’ve never gotten that to work( under Fedora 14-16 or Mac OSX Snow leopard or Lion). I actually borrow a friends windows computer when ever I need to run it.
Gracias. I’ll give it a shot.
Not to degrade this into a flame war. Can Android users now admit that some people consciously choose the product that is known to be more supported and making this conscious decision doesn’t make us brainwashed iFans?
Sorry to say this, but IMO for someone who doesn’t try to start a flamewar you do a bad job at it.
Anyway, to answer your question, I think pretty much everyone here knows that iOS *does* have some advantages over Android. I think I can even stretch it as far as saying that most people acknowledge that Android is technologically a horrible OS that they only choose to use due to lack of a better option, just like people can choose to use Windows on the desktop.
The question is : are you ready to fund an uncanny denaturation of all that microcomputing used to stand for only to get a few more updates and a bit of UI reactivity here and there ?
Although I’m bothered by this whole update mess, I wouldn’t use a 4S instead of my Galaxy S, even if someone gave it to me for free.
I love too much the fact that I can make the device mine (I’m different than you, so why not make my phone look and behave different than yours), that I have a filesystem that I have access to, that I can just use my phone like a mass-storage device, that I can install any app I want (like a new browser for example or a new keyboard), that I can plug Micro SD cards into it, that I have good multitasking and not just a “most recent” app list, that I can use any cheap Micro USB charger with it, that I can install any apk I want on my non-rooted device (even a torrented iGo app if I’m that kind of person) and the fact that even when I’ll root it and install other ROMs on it I’ll still have access to the Android Market.
As an Android user, I can’t admit it, because its obviously true. It would be like admitting that gravity exists. Or that 7 is not always the right answer.
The question comes from a false assumption that we who use android are a monolithic block that thinks the exact same way: sort of like we were brainwashed. So your question sets up an inversion where by you want to un-associate yourself with a negative trait and re-associate it with those you feel persecuted by. But the only real way towards a psychologically healthy attitude towards inanimate objects comes from inward discovery and acceptance of yourself. Only then will you realize that persecution is impossible, if it does not start from within.
2.3 itself not yet released in India?
Not sure when it will be released for Samsung SII of Indian model phones?
Any one any idea?
Are you sure about that? A Samsung Galaxy SII that does not have gingerbread ( android version 2.3.x)? They were all released with android 2.3 already installed according to everything I can find.
Do you have an exact model number?
Settings => about phone=> Model Number
I’m not really sure if India gets different models than Europe.
In the really odd case that they did not ship with android 2.3 you should be able to install a stock rom with 2.3.x if you have the same model number.
Edited 2011-12-20 21:14 UTC
Sorry, my model has 2.3.3 and the Model number is GT-I9100 Build Number GINGERBREAD.XWKF3.
Waiting for 2.3.5.
Edited 2011-12-22 08:01 UTC
This is dumb. By the time the vendors get around to porting their bloatware to ICS and updating all their phones (or at least the ones they haven’t abandoned already), Android 5.0 will probably be out.
Point being, either buy a Nexus phone or don’t buy an Android phone at all.
Nexus One has been abandoned. It is 6 months newer than the iPhone 3GS and more powerful, yet not good enough for ICS.
Nexus One has been abandoned. It is 6 months newer than the iPhone 3GS and more powerful, yet not good enough for ICS.
That is not so much a consequence of processing power, than it is one of insufficient storage space. The Nexus One is an HTC device and HTC seems to be fond of small phone storage.
The original Desire couldn’t get the full Gingerbread either. HTC had to chop out some bits to make Gingerbread and Sense fit. Stock Gingerbread wasn’t a problem though.
I firmly believe ICS will get to the Nexus One with an inevitable custom rom.
Ya, the Nexus One only has about 256MB of space for app storage.
Someone, somewhere, will figure out how to do a bind mount in Android, allowing the SDCard to be used as part of the “phone storage”, thus removing the horrible partitioning limitations that Android foisted on us.
Either that, or someone, somewhere will figure out how to get device-mapper and LVM working underneath Android, thus removing the horrible partitioning limitations that Android has foisted on us.
After using ZFS and realising the wonders of “pooled storage”, I just cannot believe OS vendors are still using partitions of specific sizes. That’s so 1990s of them.
Well, 3GS isn’t good for ICS, either…
But seriously, one sort of could made that argument of yours in the past – even when the experience on older Apple devices was often a bit castrated. Even despite this being also an ~illusion of sorts, from how Apple actively promotes, pushes old devices onto consumers for much longer than is typical – so that the support periods counted from the end of large-scale sales aren’t that remarkable at all.
However – now, that Apple explicitly removed free Siri from Appstore, so that it can be “introduced” with 4S? Please…