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[Nexus S General] mzalan:
Is the OTA getting rolled out for anyone? Since the Nexus S runs the stock Android, the manufacturers and carriers have no say in when the update gets deployed, do they?
[Nexus S General] batting1000:
It hasn't even been released yet......
[Nexus S General] Matridom:
I believe one of the big differences well be for us to update without reinstalling our apps and to avoid data loss. With such a big change it can't be trivial to do. So be patient. The nexus one owners waited 2-3 months for ginger bread, if it's only one month for us I'll count myself lucky

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S General] mzalan:
Wasn't the Galaxy Nexus released on the tenth, with Google saying OTAs begin rolling out a week or so after? I'll admit I haven't been following the news lately...
[Nexus S General] hernick:
Koush alpha 8 AOSP ICS

So I just got a used I9020A Nexus S for 245$CDN yesterday off Kijiji. Very nice compared to my HTC G1 (sadly, now broken).

I immediately installed Koush's alpha 8 AOSP ICS, and it works as advertised.

Skype works, except for video chat. The rear camera works fine in the Camera app. I've installed a number of apps, but no video player I've tried works; other apps are fine.

So I'll be using it as a daily ROM, upgrading regularly to newer alphas. I just wish I had a working video player.

Anyway, this is way better than CM6.1 on a G1 as I was using before. The performance jump is huge! The OS is much improved!
[Nexus S General] steven676:
Working USB mass storage support on Nexus S with ICS

Being brand-new to the forum (and too lazy to post random stuff to random threads), I can't post this in the development forum where it probably belongs, but ...

To get working USB mass storage support on ICS, you need to modify /default.prop in the initramfs (in boot.img) to read

persist.sys.usb.config=mass_storage

(I believe you can also set this to "mass_storage,adb" to have adb enabled at boot.)

You also need a kernel with the USB gadget patch (I believe both koush and kwiboo's default kernels have this, don't know about the custom kernels). Tested with koush's alpha 9 build.

I've attached a modified boot.img (koush's alpha 9 kernel and initramfs, with only the above change applied), which can be flashed with fastboot.
[Nexus S General] xsteven77x:
If you recall the nexus one forum was outraged over how long it took to get gingerbread and i dont blame them.
[Nexus S General] XCellPhoneSalesRep:
I'm pretty sure that they were referring to the ICS Source, not actual OTAs.
[Nexus S General] decalex:
FWIW, I'm pretty sure performance governor keeps CPU at Max all the time (even at screen off).

. . NS4G . . ICS . .
[Nexus S General] jaestreetss:
So wat do you think I should put it on?
[Nexus S General] NineONine:
Re posted in DEV threads
[Nexus S General] hah2110:
What is "deep idle"? I currently have a Galaxy S2 and love it, but it is big and I really want ICS. Is ICS helping with battery life at all? What are people experiencing performance/battery wise? Things like data speeds? Is image/camera quality any better on the device?
[Nexus S General] mercado79:
do we know if this same boot.img can be used for both gsm and cdma variants? anyone test it yet?
[Nexus S General] DirtyShroomz:
Why would anyone downgrade?
[Nexus S General] DirtyShroomz:
That's how it works on any phone. Sell the latest and greatest, make money then upgrade older phones, if it wasn't like this people would never upgrade.
[Nexus S General] arthurcdomingues:
I had problems too!!

But fortunately my 3G was working fine and I could download an App called Wifi Manager. Check this out on your Android Market!
[Nexus S General] gavingreystone@gmail.com:
Agreed.

We need to remember that the ICS versions available are only source code. The basics. There is a version specific to the Galaxy Nexus and will be a version specific to any other phone that gets the update, including ours. Once proper drivers and the rest are in place we'll see that gingerbread smoothness :) I went through the same thing with galaxy s when the ports were coming from nexus s. It can only be expected, its not " made " for our phones yet. Patience my ninja brother: )
[Nexus S General] gavingreystone@gmail.com:
Lol are you kidding ? This guy just copied/pasted this/these question(s) and made a thread about it.....dude....calm down. One question at a time. :) Some of your questions are very general and you have to try for yourself. I'll answer the data speeds part. Depends on your carrier, radio and tweaking. No ROM can improve data speeds, other than possibly allowing data to be written faster to your card.: )
[Nexus S General] Greenycq20:
I for one am happy to wait for the full OTA as coming from SE im used to waiting over 10 months for 1.6 - 2.2 and about the same time for 2.2 - 2.3.3

even then both the update were not OTA and they made everyone wipe there phones :confused:

i did miss all the OTA update my G2 used to get :cool:
[Nexus S General] Si.U:
better all of you wait for OTA.. huft.. bug on Leaked ICS is very much.. hohoho
[Nexus S General] Pudg3:
I think it's more of a marketing tactic where they want to give the galaxy nexus an edge over the rest of the android phones with ics. They may also be using the galaxy nexus as a test run for ics so they can knock out any issues before releasing to the rest of the android devices.
[Nexus S General] decalex:
I usually set to ondemand, which means EITHER Max or min. But depends what you want. Performance would be pretty rough on battery life.

. . NS4G . . CM7 . .
[Nexus S General] lio02:
I'm at work now, will try this app when i got back home. Thanks!
[Nexus S General] 4I-I:
If you have a sgs2 youre in the wrong forum! Theres bound to be a working ics rom for the sgs2 somewhere! ;)
[Nexus S General] Pudg3:
I've tried both on demand and lazy and I think lazy handles the CPU better for battery life. Mind you, this only comes with a custom kernel like trinity, glados or Franco's.
[Nexus S General] Pudg3:
I have an I9020T and wifi is working fine for me using brainmasters v4 with glados Nov 23. I flashed after data, cache and dalvik wipe.
[Nexus S General] 4I-I:
Smartassv2 has the best batterylife for me...
[Nexus S General] hah2110:
I don't have the phone. I used to. I'm considering getting it again but obviously can't test this stuff.
[Nexus S General] fightingroost12:
yea I had an xperia x10 and it took well over a year for at&t to upgrade the phone from 1.6 to 2.1, so for me I don't mind the wait at all. and for the people complaining try using a Samsung intercept, I used that thing for the past 8 months and wanted to blow my brains out
[Nexus S General] tbellenger:
So far battery life is comparable to what I had with Oxygen Rom
[Nexus S General] davewpy:
Would you happen to have any idea what is required to enable wifi-tethering?

What i do know, bcm4239.ko in /system/modules are different across different kernels.

When going on Steve Garon's kernel, wifi-tethering broke. I pushed kwiboo's .ko file but it still doesn't work. I'm guessing some configuration in boot.img needs to be fixed for this.
[Nexus S General] 4I-I:
updated the link to mathkids kernel! before it only led to his normal v11 now its the ics kernel link! ;D
[Nexus S General] kptnk:
I guess you could add rthese 2 new Roms, posted by simms22 on Morfic's thread yesterday and 2 days ago :

Originally Posted by simms22Image IPB

let the kanging begin!

NEW Nexus S #ICS build by @gearheadcustoms http://goo.gl/HPLbK (youll need the gapps too)

flash with the Trinity SEUV or S144 ICS kernels for a fully skanky build!

Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Crackflashing.. Enjoy Image IPB

thanks joey steadman

AND :

Originally Posted by simms22Image IPB

so..

how about a little variety, a different build of ICS for the Nexus s..

heres one from @fitsnugly http://kan.gd/1ap7 you will need gapps with this.

its running fabulously when paired with trinity! and i highly recommend using them together.

heres SEUV22-alpha3 http://morfic.euroskank.com/simka/SE...-NS-ALPHA3.zip

its like TEUV but for ICS

and heres S144 http://morfic.euroskank.com/simka/S1...-NS-ALPHA3.zip

the 1.44ghz ICS kernel

Purely Skanky ICS

Honestly these are the best i've tried, better imo than Koush's or Brainmaster's.....and with SEUV22 kernel, my phone is so happy :)

atm i'm using Gearhead Cutoms's one, and it is F***** fast and stable .... so thanks to simms22 for having posted these !
[Nexus S General] K-SHOX:
Maybe a little off topic but I flashed an ICS ROM and then flashed back to the stock ROM (I'm waiting for the official release of ICS for now), my question is do I have to unroot and relock the bootloader to perform an OTA update to ICS when it's officially available? I haven't modified anything on the stock ROM or deleted any systems apps etc.

Thnx!
[Nexus S General] offenberg:
Stock rom + stock recovery is what you need.
[Nexus S General] borrowedchief:
Doesn't an OTA usually just overwrite your recovery?
[Nexus S General] _KP:
guys ...i tried taking a screenshot in kwiboo's v2 ICS rom using the vol down+power button but it doesnt seem to work :/ ....am i doing something wrong or its a bug in the rom as of now ??

Also i wanted to know if the performance of Brainmaster's ICS mix v5 is comparable to that of Kwiboo's v2 cuz i heard that koush's v9 lags a bit..:/
[Nexus S General] offenberg:
Yes. But Google OTA needs stock recovery to flash. Unless they changed something.
[Nexus S General] lio02:
it didn't :(

left with my 3g only. no wifi. no matter what i try.

if anybody knows/gets solution, please help

i guess it has something to do with wpa_supplicant...
[Nexus S General] Esteway.619:
Hold it down a bit longer
[Nexus S General] offenberg:
You need to press and hold vol down + power for about 5 sec. then let go.

And users seem to have different exsperiences with the builds. For me koush build is the faster. But they are all slow.
[Nexus S General] hah2110:
All slow as in you couldn't run it day to day? Performance is bad?
[Nexus S General] xsteven77x:
He is talking about how long you have to hold down the buttons for a screenshot...
[Nexus S General] offenberg:
The performance is okay. But it´s ultra slow. They can all be used as your daily ROM. If you like your superphone very slow. Imagine Eminem rap when he´s 95. That´s ICS on the Nexus S at this point.
[Nexus S General] adnanbaig18:
For all those saying that its fair of Google to hold the OTA update for nexus S, I tend to disagree. Firstly saying that a mere 1 year old device dont deserve a launch update is rubbish, apple has been doing this for years now. They launch a simultaneous release of their OS for each of its device, be it 1 or even 2 year old and that's one of the major factors for apple's success in customer retention. So guys please stop underestimating ur device coz once a customer doesn't show a desire for proper after sales support and timely updates, manufacturers wont even bother about it.
[Nexus S General] al1ve:
by the way, has anyone some information about an upcoming update for the Cisco anyconnect client on ics? I think the better vpn support is one of the greatest improvements of ics
[Nexus S General] simms22:
i beg to differ. after replacing the stock kernel with trinity(seuv and/or s144) and a little tweaking, the aosp ics rom is pretty darn quick :)

this is with the S144 kernel

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your very welcome. as changes are made/work on cm9 is started, more roms will be linked.
[Nexus S General] alvaroaze:
where can i get SEUV22? the link is not working :(
[Nexus S General] simms22:
seuv22(880mhz undervolted/underclocked kernel, with a 220mhz overclocked bus/gpu plus other goodies) http://morfic.euroskank.com/simka/SEUV22-ICS-NS-ALPHA3.zip

s144 1.44ghz overclocked kernel http://morfic.euroskank.com/simka/S144-ICS-NS-ALPHA3.zip
[Nexus S General] rossnjolt:
jist change the url to end in "simka and then the links are available
[Nexus S General] Abaddon:
anyone knows how to turn off haptic feedback on lockscreen? it feels cheap :)
[Nexus S General] mzalan:
Should be in Location and Security settings, under the name tactile feedback...
[Nexus S General] funkyblue04:
So which is the best ROM and Kernel to use?
[Nexus S General] simms22:
from my twitter.. this is a pre cm9 kang, bacon flavored ICS. enjoy :)

no changelist yet, so dont ask for it.

@simms22Bacon flavored #ICS ? o.O #NexusS RT @fitsnugly #euroskank #sammich Crespo 11252011-1945 http://goo.gl/31YPz
[Nexus S General] Zorrich:
Thanks! Where can I get the gapps for ICS? I tried flashing the ones from Koush's thread and I could not sync calendar.

EDIT: Never mind, this new version has them included :)
[Nexus S General] rossnjolt:
dowloaded the fits snugly Rom...loaded fine, but gapps will not run..tried flashing at the same time thru CM and separately.
[Nexus S General] simms22:
you need to flash the gapps with the rom. if you flashed without them, go back and flash them. they work perfectly fine here. ics gapps http://download.clockworkmod.com/test/gapps-ics-20111122-4-full.zip
[Nexus S General] live99:
Koush build is great with his fast updates
[Nexus S General] rossnjolt:
many thanks..I had a different version of gapps
[Nexus S General] kptnk:
Thanks ! coming from Gearhead customs, do i need a full wipe ?
[Nexus S General] saryu:
hi.. anyone can make viber works? mine keep disconnecting... is there any way on our user end to make apps work on ICS?

koush A11 is amazing.. i would like to make this my daily ROM, but viber is essential to me.
[Nexus S General] offenberg:
Thanks man! Now Eminem is like 18 again :)
[Nexus S General] _KP:
Thanks man ! :)
[Nexus S General] davewpy:
is USB gadget and data limits working for you?
[Nexus S General] 4I-I:
Could you maybe give me the links?
[Nexus S General] simms22:
no wipe, just flash right over, gapps(and kernel) too.

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kernels..

seuv22 http://morfic.euroskank.com/simka/SEUV22-ICS-NS-ALPHA3.zip

s144 http://morfic.euroskank.com/simka/S144-ICS-NS-ALPHA3.zip

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usb tether is working, data limits i havent checked.
[Nexus S General] mickae1:
the koush build version 11 is amazing ! Too bad that add a facebook account doesn't work :(
[Nexus S General] DoomFragger:
Google close to start updates Android 4.0 for Nexus S!

@SamFirmware
[Nexus S General] kptnk:
for the roms you have the links in my post, given by Mr Simms22 :

fitsnugly.euroskank.com/sammich/crespo/

dl.dropbox.com/u/2769033/full_crespo-ota-eng.joey.zip

Thanks again to him :)

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twitted today : "SamFirmware: Google close to start updates Android 4.0 for Nexus S!"
[Nexus S General] davewpy:
thanks, USB wasn't working for me. doing a full wipe and test again.

btw, good kernel morfic, except if you could let us use our bootanimation.zip LOL
[Nexus S General] petertakov:
A bit of publicity of one's twitter account is never too much. How many people have started following sam after this announcement has been made?
[Nexus S General] simms22:
use the dual mount sd app for now, free from the market, for usb functions. it works.
[Nexus S General] SupaDupaFly24:
Naw they are a pretty realizable source!! Apparently there is information about the update on Samsung server!!! I can't wait!
[Nexus S General] jubeiyagyuX:
I installed version 11 but its stuck on the boot screen :( Help,anyone?
[Nexus S General] petertakov:
That's great! I just wish they were a bit more precise than "close to starting"
[Nexus S General] mkln:
ICS is amazing.

but I was wondering. DSP manager does not work, google music eq is not working.

is there a way to have decent audio out of ICS right now?

it's the one thing I miss having.

the only thing that works is voodoo with a custom kernel but that's way too little.
[Nexus S General] simms22:
the trinity seuv and s144 ics kernels have voodoo sound included in them. you can use the voodoo app(market) to control sound.

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redownload and flash again. you might have to wipe before you reflash. your download could have corrupted.
[Nexus S General] 4I-I:
The two roms are they both made by you simms2? Or are they two different roms because size is very similar...

And how can i update the music app?

Thanks
[Nexus S General] Moystard:
In your opinion, what is the actual best ROM out there (including kernel). I was pretty happy with kwiboo v2 and tried out brainmaster's that happened to be pretty disappointing. Now I have to switch to another one, but don't know which one to go for.
[Nexus S General] mkln:
Yes I am already using voodoo, the problem is that it just has a (weak) bass-booster.

DSP is so-much-better!

I installed it on ICS but it does nothing at all. and the same happens with gmusic's in-app eq: nothing at all.
[Nexus S General] simms22:
no, i dont make them. one is by @gearheadcustoms and one is by @fitsnugly. i just share them. using root explorer, delete the music app from /system/app/ and install the google music app from the market.
[Nexus S General] davewpy:
thanks. but i needed the usb 2.0 speed that franco had - though wifi tethering was lost :(

will keep monitoring the morfic's work. :)
[Nexus S General] rossnjolt:
tried fitssnugly but had a couple of sod..had to pull battery
[Nexus S General] Ieatnoobs:
I would have preferred for them to release ICS when Nexus Galaxy was released. Apple did with IOS 5 so it bugs me that Google couldnt .
[Nexus S General] kptnk:
with Gearhead customs i hadn't had a single issue, zero problemo, and the update runs so well...(with seuv).

it seems smoother than fitsnugly's...imo

btw simms, what about opening a thread kind of CM9 Kanged, as the one for cm7 ....? just a thought....
[Nexus S General] simms22:
im gonna do that tonight, when i get home from work.
[Nexus S General] LordPhong:
can you tell me how to make it recognize my music that's already on the device? the new music app still doesn't see any media.
[Nexus S General] simms22:
try this..

theres a free app on the market called System Toolbox Free, install it then open it. press system tweaks, then enable the media scanner. if its already enabled, disable it and re-enable it. back out of the app then reboot. check if that works.
[Nexus S General] Mrcojocaru:
Maybe they feel that people who are on the fence wont buy a galaxy nexus if their nexus s quickly receives ics
[Nexus S General] oakamil:
The best ROM is CM9 Alpha 11 (Koush). Pretty much everything is working, and it is far faster than kwiboo v2 (I have not tried v3).

If you want faster performance, franco kernel or SEUV22 applied on top of CM9 make significant improvements. I tried both, and am using SEUV22 because it includes tun.ko for VPN (still need to insmod though).
[Nexus S General] ecg10:
Have you tried dice player? Or the free mx player? They play fine!

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S General] 4I-I:
Hows ur batterylife? I just got the bestvi ever had with matr1x v11 for ics!!
[Nexus S General] guru2468:
WOW, I have franco kernel and I get that:

You think it's the kernel? What should I do?
[Nexus S General] kptnk:
first i would change the kernel of course. Try seuv22, and if you still have this drain problem, then you ll know the issue come from elsewhere, maybe an app in background......
[Nexus S General] davewpy:
Kwiboo v3 no mods
[Nexus S General] guru2468:
What brightness, because mine takes 75% :/. Also, what kind of usage?
[Nexus S General] davewpy:
just letting it standby the whole day with push mails and full sync and auto brightness.
[Nexus S General] 4I-I:
im rly amazed by the batterylife i had!! but i didnt use my phone much... was online with wifi for about an hour the whole day and phoned about 3 times... i had brightnes completely down! uses a lot of battery when not completely low!
[Nexus S General] guru2468:
Oh, I see, thank you :)
[Nexus S General] al1ve:
Hey guys,

i've installed the Ultimate ICS v0.1 ROM and the ICS Kernel Matr1x with BLN and voodoo v11.5.... but still the BLN app tells me that BLN isn't available :(. I wiped the cache, delvik cache and fix permissions after the kernel install... has anyone an idea?
[Nexus S General] 4I-I:
As you could have read in the matr1x thread bln isnt available for the ics kernel... so u wont be able to enable it!
[Nexus S General] ljordan2:
If you need bln you can use Franco's kernel. bln works flawlessly.
[Nexus S General] 4I-I:
Im sorry i might have misinformed you!

Ive got bln enabled on matr1x 11.5 via nstools! Try for yourself! ;)
[Nexus S General] davewpy:
End of a full business day with the same configuration. Testing Franco's build tomorrow...
[Nexus S General] thegtfusion:
You are not alone!!!!!!!!

im having no wifi with all ICS roms now

device: i9023!!

check my post:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=19747604&postcount=1210

i attached a logcat for anyone who whats to help us!
[Nexus S General] giese:
sure the ota will be great but kwibos rom is pretty darn awesome already!!
[Nexus S General] thegtfusion:
its awesome yeah :D. but for people like us where wifi doesnt work it sucks badly :(
[Nexus S General] RonnieRuff:
LOL my camera and wifi both work ... you need to switch ROMs!
[Nexus S General] RonnieRuff:
Each time...
[Nexus S General] .OmEgA:
Hey I joined late in the nexus game. I understand that we get ota's first compared to other phones but my question is does google (or carrier, Idk) look at the ns4g different from say a 3g nexus when it pushes an ota or do they push it across the whole nexus platform? This isn't a when will we get it question, but just trying to understand how it works since I never had the chance to see how it works.

Sent from my CM7.1/*Apocalypse-Talon* v3.2.1 NS4G
[Nexus S General] 4I-I:
Theyll push i to every nexus i think...

I actually would just like to have a new ics rom to flash and try out! Haha

Sent from my Google Nexus S
[Nexus S General] amehdi43:
Correct me if I'm wrong...

Spriont and Google have a Partnership for the NS4G. Im guessing that may mean that the NS4G is getting ICS soon and most-likely first...

But thats just what i believe.
[Nexus S General] solesonfire:
I hope you're my friend
[Nexus S General] irishrally:
... and Google has no carrier partnership with the NS. I would be surprised if NS4G got ICS before the NS.
[Nexus S General] xavierdylan:
So u mean they just release the source code for the nexus phone every time and not the source code for android? or will they do that later?

Forgive the stupid questions, just trying to increase my knowledge.
[Nexus S General] fcuk90:
oxygen v3 is coming . just wait for it .
[Nexus S General] Rem3Dy:
Android source code was released. Device specific code for other devices becides the Galaxy nexus was not.
[Nexus S General] brrip:
I think google would probably care more about its nexus branding than any errors, external partnership. The nexuses will both probably get their ics at the same time.

Then again, I'm a nexus 3g user heh
[Nexus S General] 4I-I:
Is that based on ics? Do you have a release date?

Thanks!

Sent from my Google Nexus S
[Nexus S General] renna1992:
yes and no. :)
[Nexus S General] Monztruo:
stop speculation, please!
[Nexus S General] obsanity:
Koush posted on G+ that he got wifi working on ICS and now its Bluetooth and camera left.

Sent from my Nexus S 4G