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[Galaxy S II General] atulalvenkar:
TouchWiz is not just the launcher, Samsung changes stock dialer, stock messaging app etc. Can't be sure of what Samsung will remove/add once they are done TouchWiz'ing ICS.

Atleast we can be sure of one thing, since Samsung is going to update GSII to ICS we'll have the binary drivers compiled for 3.0 kernel which can be used in AOSP ICS builds.

At one point these skins were important as stock android did not have many features, in ICS android has come a long way and i hope Samsung doesn't change much except for launcher.
[Galaxy S II General] Spongeworthy:
Does anyone notice that xplodwild sounds alot like this guy?

/watch?v=OZJwSjor4hM
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Makes no difference to me. ICS (from samsung or not) will still be a huge improvement over Gingerbread. Its as simple as that :)
[Galaxy S II General] Jeegsawk:
Increased speed? I believe it will be hard to notice that. Where in gingerbread are you finding lag or slowness?

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[Galaxy S II General] shabby85:
How?

FWIW I believe that, on the SGS2, stock roms and roms based on stock have been far more stable, faster, and offer more features.

So I can understand that you might think that the only reason to port AOSP is the lack of Samsung supported firmware. But some people simply prefer AOSP. With devs like adam_g and his fabulous Oxygen rom around its easy to understand why.
[Galaxy S II General] shabby85:
Also, silver, if you really want android 4.0 on your phone, regardless of UI, you can do that right now with Galnet MIUI rom. Its ICS, but with miui ui.

Take my word though, it's no faster than regular MIUI :)
[Galaxy S II General] eybee1970:
that's just ICS framework and NOT ICS...so you can not compare
[Galaxy S II General] shabby85:
I think he was talking about the framework.
[Galaxy S II General] graemefaulkner:
Am i not right in saying the build in that video is more recent than the build available on sgs2ics.com?

It looks like a lot of progress has been made since build 3 was posted.
[Galaxy S II General] IINexusII:
yeah, only wifi/sms/calls work with build 3. no data connection or speakers/microphone, so not usable yet :)
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Huh? I never said I was seeing slowness. That doesnt mean ICS is not a faster platform to work with.

Again, I never said that :rolleyes:

lol thanks but I didnt buy an Android to make it then look like an iphone :p
[Galaxy S II General] shabby85:
What makes you say that? The hw acceleration? Cause there are honeycomb tablets that are laggy as **** compared to a stock SGS2.
[Galaxy S II General] le_lutin:
Then don't use the MIUI iphone theme, use any one of the dozens of other themes (including ice-cream sandwich). Sounds like you don't really know MIUI.
[Galaxy S II General] Virtualsk:
MIUI is Closed System...they dont share android with others....

I also feel like MIUI makes your android an IPhone which i dont like either.
[Galaxy S II General] evolutiontheory:
Please dont make this thread another debate thread guys.. Please...

Let us all try not to prove our points and stick to the topic... A humble request, please do consider....
[Galaxy S II General] PhrostB:
I have nothing substantial to contribute as I'm just a Linux nerd and not a coder... I just wanted to say I respect the work you all are doing and am looking forward to get a version of this with high functionality. Good job guys. ;)
[Galaxy S II General] ssconceptz:
Would you or anyone else for that matter know the password to build 3 or build 5?
[Galaxy S II General] mrsiu:
is it possible to remove those three buttons in ics ? :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] Rytkonen:
This has been asked quite many times. Yes.
[Galaxy S II General] Paradoxxx:
Its done already.

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[Galaxy S II General] rauschkugl:
Tytung did almost the whole port for the hd2. Maybe he could help with some stuff. I know different hardware and so on but he's a great dev that maybe could solve some problems for us.

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[Galaxy S II General] mrsiu:
Thanks. That's a good new :D

Those buttons are awful when using GS2:o
[Galaxy S II General] marber45:
I read that cyanogenmod need to wait until samsung releases/leaks ics for sound/gfx drivers. I was under the impression that the linux base was kernel and drivers so I would be glad if someone could explain if there are also hardware drivers in the android/java part outside of the linux base needed? Why isn't it possible to use a linux kernel with drivers from gingerbread? Anyone care to explain this or point me to information?
[Galaxy S II General] carloslopescj:
Keep up the great job :D
[Galaxy S II General] :
totally different kettle of fish the two...simple as that....if that was the case ICS would of been done and dusted by now:p so unfortunately the wait continues:(
[Galaxy S II General] Jeegsawk:
I believe this could work if we had the source code, in that case it would be possible to compile the modules for the kernel. You can hardly use modules compiled for another kernel.

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[Galaxy S II General] :
Latest video is up now and linked to first post. Click here to see video its a summary with what is going on so far. also i deleted old videos as i do not want anyone getting confused. i will just keep leaving only the latest videos up so you guys know what is going on.
[Galaxy S II General] LBTaylor1984:
so have the brakes been applied now as there aren't the drivers available to get this fully working?
[Galaxy S II General] anshmiester78900:
Thank you mate :) ...!!
[Galaxy S II General] :
you welcome...everything you guys need to know is answered by Ouverta.:)in the process in watching it so il give more feedback....but its a summary first video so i think that kinda says it all
[Galaxy S II General] androidkid311:
**** you got a problem! no one pays these devs! you should go and create something and see it takes time and whats wrong with getting paid for work u do??? your the 1st person to moan about donating and hopefully the last!
[Galaxy S II General] leedavis:
Well said that man
[Galaxy S II General] LBTaylor1984:
+1 what a Prick, Don't worry they only do it for free, and don't worry about the amount of time they spend making this happen, so we get ICS earlier than Samsungs release, let alone is AOSP.

dude get the **** off the forum, you don't deserve to be here.
[Galaxy S II General] :
Well said yes...But this has been done and dusted now....Lets leave it to that...:)
[Galaxy S II General] :
I know this is on the first page but people are asking me regarding the twitter link so if you want to keep up to date here it is..All the latest is on there to

https://twitter.com/#!/aospsgs2
[Galaxy S II General] onejay10:
I was under the impression that cyanogen was employed by Samsung? Regarding drivers if they have to wait for release then it doesnt look good for everyone else too! Hopefully they work summet out soon! Great work so far Devs :-)
[Galaxy S II General] CamoGeko:
Cheers. :D

Thanks to you mate for running this thread like a champ, answering questions and always keeping it updated.

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[Galaxy S II General] :
Thanks mate much appreciated..:) and to be honest this thread is kinda running itself now...everyone on here does the updating for me..:) so many thanks to everyone who watches this thread carefully...thank you...

Birdman....i see you flying about helping others....hope you fly this way as well if you can and share your wisdom if people need help:D
[Galaxy S II General] netchip:
Hey,

Some news for you.

We can't call cause microphone doesn't work, so for the poeple who thinks we can call, no we can't.

netchip
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
I left a message for you in the chat. Can't get hold of the sources mate, nobody I know has access to them or will share if they do.:(:(
[Galaxy S II General] CamoGeko:
Haha, yes I noticed that as well.

I will try to fly here on my special DJ flying turntable a little bit more often and will help out when I can.

Anyways, I see that there are dev's also looking into this thread quite often so I guess that's why there aren't many questions being asked. Maybe becaue everything is clear and simple. :p

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[Galaxy S II General] marber45:
Ok but why can't you use a kernel of the same version? Then the module should work. Or do you need like a branch that somehow would break dependencies?

I understand that it doesn't work that way cause if it did it would have been done already.

I'm interested in understanding why it doesn't work!
[Galaxy S II General] sidepocket:
Does anybody know if the default launcher can be rotated to landscape orientation?
[Galaxy S II General] netchip:
That's bad news :(:(

We must fix it ourself I guess :)
[Galaxy S II General] FireWalkerX:
Google proberly added some extra stuff to the kernel, so the only viable solution, would be to backport whatever they have done to the new kernel, to a known functioning kernel, except if they have added extra api calls to the drivers, then your still stuck....
[Galaxy S II General] marber45:
That answers my question. Thanks now I understand!
[Galaxy S II General] netchip:
Xplodwild has fixed the transparency issue, not whole, but the biggest thing.

This is just the news :D
[Galaxy S II General] ricey1986:
Does this mean the hwcomposer is sorted?

Ricey
[Galaxy S II General] netchip:
We hadn't a hwcomposer problem :P

It was ICS change in source code.
[Galaxy S II General] ricey1986:
oh ok my bad there just seemed to be alot of comments regarding it thats all
[Galaxy S II General] buzzboy:
Looks promising, update:

https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/aospsgs2/status/139020072437022720

Regards
[Galaxy S II General] Paradoxxx:
Yup, wallpaper!

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[Galaxy S II General] Razer(x):
In-call audio is confirmed not working?
[Galaxy S II General] buzzboy:
https://picasaweb.google.com/m/view...hkey:Gv1sRgCLWq9NKD-6LzKQ/5638580244336224194

My god, looks like we know the answer to the national Grid outage!

Regards
[Galaxy S II General] qwerty warrior:
drinking drugs and women

never knew u could drink women
[Galaxy S II General] SaneinOne:
Speaker issue I believe.
[Galaxy S II General] ferreinf:
This is why sometimes i miss my HD2, my wife is going to be a litlle piss, but bye bye crappy MIUI hello ICS > http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1354267:D:D
[Galaxy S II General] Hollow.Droid:
https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/aospsgs2/status/139020072437022720

Anyone know what this eta is towards? It may have been mentioned but I couldn't see it in the past few pages.
[Galaxy S II General] :
Looking at the actual date of the ETA it could be predicting my natural death.
[Galaxy S II General] le_lutin:
First contact.
[Galaxy S II General] rauschkugl:
Yeah it's working on the hd2. Tried it yesturday.

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[Galaxy S II General] DJSLINKARD:
Haha! Those are my pics! I cant believe i just stumbled upon this. I posted those while running the MIUI ICS build and i cant wait to run only ics to see what kind of performance i get.
[Galaxy S II General] nkolsen:
Well rather wait and have it on much better hardware ;-)
[Galaxy S II General] LBTaylor1984:
good to see it on a device, I hope will see it on the SGS2 soon, and if i'm honest I too hope to wait a bit longer, but have it much more finished. Good to see Devs already getting it out there though, and appreciate there effort :)
[Galaxy S II General] schriss:
I can confirm that flashing ODIN tar file from SGS2ICS.com with MobileODIN app works great. As simple as selecting Open, pointing to a file and clicking Flash. So entire process can be done on the phone.

Had to wipe data to get it to boot.

Strangely got welcomed with ""Unfortunately, [insert chineese characters here] has stopped". LOL :D
[Galaxy S II General] kickassdave:
Go into language and input settings and switch the default to the English keyboard. Problem solved :)
[Galaxy S II General] schriss:
Holy cr*p! I enabled some "overlay pointer" option and now cant get out of the stupid black screen with touch point markers. Rebooted and after it booted it went straight into that app! Wiping data now.... again.
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
I did say some pages back not to do this ;)

Annoying, but easy to fix at least :)
[Galaxy S II General] schriss:
Thanks, that worked :D

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When software keyboard opens, it somehow blacks out most of the screen above, is there a fix for this too?

Got wifi to connect, playing with the browser now...
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Is an overlay issue I believe. There isnt a fix atm.
[Galaxy S II General] schriss:
I wanted to flash google apps, so I rebooted into CWM and found out that it can no longer mound my SD card. Is this normal?
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Did you go for Build 3 by any chance? Or anything after Alpha 7 for that matter?

If so, you need to flash a kernel on with CWM, to restore. Or flash a whole new ROM via ODIN... eventually ending up at the restoring part. Nothing after Alpha 7 (so far) has the option to restore unless you make it so.
[Galaxy S II General] schriss:
Yes, Build 3. So I can't do anything from CWM at the moment because it won't let me select any ZIP. I guess I need to use ODIN now.
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Yes thats what I was saying. You need to get either another Kernel on that works (Id be making sure it worked mind, I take no responsibility if you flash one that doesnt.) or a ROM (which would take longer, but youd know the Kernel would def work with it...) to then be able to get back into CWM.

I did see someone say another method of restoring in IRC a few days ago, but I cant remember what the process was now, sorry.
[Galaxy S II General] Darkyd:
Would ninphetamine kernal 2.0.5 work with this?
[Galaxy S II General] schriss:
Can I flash any of these? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1103399

I think I was using one of these when rooting the phone for the first time. That should allow me to go back to CWM and restore, right?

Or TAR version of Siyah v2.1 kernel? Thats what I use on daily basis.
[Galaxy S II General] veyka:
Nope. I don't think any kernels apart from the one it comes with will work.
[Galaxy S II General] Hollow.Droid:
Ugh my head hurts from my own stupidity. I was quickly reading in while in work and simply saw 24th and assumed the rest said Nov 2011. Disregard please :p
[Galaxy S II General] :
I figured as much; I had to do a double read.
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Not sure sorry. In theory, most wont work. You could be lucky and find one that does, though it would prob be safer to just flash a whole ROM through ODIN.

Its all good to test, but in situations like this Id go with what you know works :)
[Galaxy S II General] :
Its ok mate..Just have fun when you play with it..

Anyway guys please have a look at my first post and please tell me what you think..:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=19375577&postcount=1

If you guys think its a good idea lets keep it going even the little you can give it still means alot compare to what the guys are giving to us way sooner than Samsung is...:) thank you again for the support here and to the devs

If you find it easier to PM me with regarding your donations i think that would be easier so i can actually go back and see who is offering and then your name will be put on the first post
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Even tough times are hard for me atm with some bad news hitting recently, even I will match you and also donate £10. I just wish I could contribute more in terms of actually helping with the project. Sadly my skills are not at the level thats required which is a pity.
[Galaxy S II General] :
Thanks mate much appreciated... Sorry to hear about your situation, do not worry i know how it feels..I am just hoping new year will bring a bit more happiness to me and to you as well...I can do with a freaking job...But anyway i will put your name at the front post buddy
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Its annoying though. Really good with computers, crap with coding lol. Im actually a webmaster so find it really frustrating that I cant help in a constructive way. Most devs say its not about the money, and thats true, hence its annoying when you cant help the project :(

Is my own fault... Spent far too many years with Symbian, and only switched to Android 6mths ago :o
[Galaxy S II General] :
Same here. Spend so many years with iOS and jailbreaking scene, and only switched to android as well 6 months ago..But during those 6 months man i have learned alot..But still not able to help the guys as much as i want to:o
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Can I ask a quick question..

In regards to "then be patient and wait for it to boot up."

How patient? Ive been watching the boot logo for a while... Just wondering how long you had to wait for it to boot first time?

Is prob me being impatient, but I always am lol
[Galaxy S II General] :
took about five minutes mate.:) but i did wipe everything.
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Hmm random. I did a factory reset, wiped cache, then dalvik cache, installed.. and got nothing after 10mins except for the boot logo :confused:

Maybe its because I flashed from external SD, so will try again. Just restoring now so at least CWM works :D
[Galaxy S II General] jonny68:
good stuff ill keep an eye on this:cool:
[Galaxy S II General] :
no put it on the normal one mate...:)

thanks jonny mate
[Galaxy S II General] jonny68:
I too will pledge €5 that's all i can afford as my financial situation is not good at all and especially with xmas and santa for the young lad but hey it's something eh;)
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
I have heard people have had probs when trying to flash from external SD (Though not me till now) so have tried from the phone itself...

Round 2....

Annoyingly (as I want to have a play), fail still :( - I dont get why as its not exactly hard to flash a ROM. Maybe my download was corrupted or something :/
[Galaxy S II General] :
Jonny your name is on the front post now mate thank you.:)

Reminds me the ending of Rocky 2 or 3 if i remember well..Apollo Creed and Rocky fighting at the end and you hear Apollo doing the ding ding sound (bell sound) that is what your round 2 thing reminded me off for some strange reason:D
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Downloading again, Round 3 :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] :
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[Galaxy S II General] Ultimate Chin:
Ill add in €10 too :)

Im a sh!t coder so im just gonna get nosey and look for obvious stuff thatll be no help whatsoever :D
[Galaxy S II General] :
Done mate..Thank you:) Name on the list now in front post to
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
3 attempts, still no joy. Boo, I want to play! :(

Contribute? Cant even flash a ROM apparently :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] Krisbo:
Krisbo - AU$15 pledged ;)
[Galaxy S II General] Jreddekopp:
If you're downloading the third alpha, make sure the md5 hash matches this one:

74e165f4580787d66ed8e34d35625bbe

I wasn't able to properly install the rom until I realised that for some reason my initial download of the file was corrupt.
[Galaxy S II General] schriss:
What I was thinking to do was to flash Siyah kernel or any other that has CWM and then reboot straight into recovery mode. Wouldnt that work? Regardless of the ROM (be it Build 3 of ICS or any 2.3.5)

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Well, I just did that. Flashed Siyah v2.1.tar with ODIN. Rebooted straight into recovery and it's now restoring from backup.
[Galaxy S II General] mariotme:
A little update.

@codeworkx: we know why the mic during calls isn't working, we know what it's caused by but we don't know how to work around. ;-) #sgs2 #ics
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Sorry was away. Glad it worked :)
[Galaxy S II General] leedavis:
Would it be fair to say this is now on hold and unlikely to be completed until Samsung drivers are available?
[Galaxy S II General] robbiev80:
So is codeworkx doing most of the work here? Seems like it...no offense.

CM9 + codeworkx = awesomeness
[Galaxy S II General] King Shady:
Codeworkx, netchip, and xplodwild seem to be the main guys. I'm sure the other devs provide a lot of other help too.
[Galaxy S II General] furrypotato:
Nope, they are still working on it and knowing the devs will not give up until they succeed.
[Galaxy S II General] alangrig:
Matriak31,

Is there plan to remove those software keys (menu, home, back) and assign to actual ones, cause it's looks really strange having 2 row of control keys?
[Galaxy S II General] jankhner:
Yes (already answered ~100 times)
[Galaxy S II General] Teio:
Lol they've already removed it
[Galaxy S II General] leedavis:
I reckon if you go back through this entire thread there are only actually about 5 questions. They just get asked about 100 times each!
[Galaxy S II General] LBTaylor1984:
Can we get it in the first post that the softkeys have gone, in the last 3 days i've seen the question about 4 times.

I have to admit I wish we have softkeys instead of hardkeys like the Nexus, but hey it is what it is
[Galaxy S II General] kickassdave:
Really appreciate you guys (the devs) keeping us all up to date and sharing the progress on YouTube that's going above and beyond :D

The last version we got a taster of seems 50% of the battle is done, I'm sure there are lots of complex problems to still get by though...

I think someone else mentioned they had tried their "contacts" but without success....but, has anyone actually had an official reply (presuming it's been attempted) from Samsung with regards to providing the few key things you guys need to get it working fully?

The fact they were willing to donate handsets out for the CM guys really gave us all massive respect to Samsung, but is that pretty much where their assistance ends?
[Galaxy S II General] Dwayne01:
whhoop

https://picasaweb.google.com/106978...hkey=Gv1sRgCLWq9NKD-6LzKQ#5677858706376713250
[Galaxy S II General] screamworks:
I still can't believe how quickly the development on this project is moving :eek:

----EDIT

1000th post :D
[Galaxy S II General] :
Soft keys have now gone ala Nexus style

under now working section on first post.;)
[Galaxy S II General] runebinder:
I reckon even if you were to put that they were gone in the title of the thread, we'll still have people asking that question.
[Galaxy S II General] drelite08:
Well done and great work to all working on this for us s2 users :D
[Galaxy S II General] ekoandrew:
@ biohazardious & @ Matriak31

I noticed on Update 5, the pinyinIME is now removed! Is this temporary? will all the Languages IME be intact in this ICS? Can you keep all the IME intact?

Sorry, I use the Chinese IME for both Traditional and Simplified Chinese. Will like to see that both stays intact for a Final Complete Finish!!

You guys are doing a AWESOME JOB!! Every time, I stop by to peek, always see improvements!! Keep up the Good Work!!
[Galaxy S II General] :
Hey sorry for the late reply....I am pretty sure they are taking everything on board that you guys leave here so im sure they will leave that intact and not just leave it to one or two languages...:) But hopefully one of the other guys can just correct me or verify it to
[Galaxy S II General] thunderger:
Did I correctly recognized that actual ICS port is using kernel 2.6.x instead of kernel 3.0? What about mali 400 driver (user space) source code availaable? Can you build drivers from this source code?
[Galaxy S II General] eezdva:
I am not really sure how to unlock my sim card. Maybe a stupid question. Plus there is no search option anymore in XDA????