yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II General] :
It should be a sticky really so all who want to rush and open a thread (the OMG i know news that no one else does) read the title of this one and post there stuff here instead:D

actually thought about putting the link of my thread in my sig with the title "post your ics stuff here" to avoid the many threads expanding:p
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
Uff.....we all are going way OFF TOPIC here.

A kind request, please stop these needless posts. But please continue anything related to porting.

Thank you very much..........

:)
[Galaxy S II General] :
Indeed my friend lets keep it regarding ICS related stuff and porting issues:)
[Galaxy S II General] t0ph0id:
Who are the actual developers for this port? Could you put this detail in the first post.

Also could you link the dev section thread?

Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] :
Dev link is already on the first post mate.:)

and sure i will post who is working on the project on the first page if you want:)

EDIT: Done mate:)
[Galaxy S II General] t0ph0id:
Thanks

How come the other thread is in Android Dev and not Original Android Dev? that's why I couldn't find it.
[Galaxy S II General] vcosmin:
we should make another irc channel for ics retaled jokes and keep this thread clean. therefore some of us won't have to search in thre development thread for answers like what it have been done, when it will be over, etc...

just my opinion...
[Galaxy S II General] :
Well if you posted your question here i would of either myself or someone else answered you straight away my friend...This is the whole reason why i opened this thread so people can ask questions and for someone either myself or someone else to answer them... And this thread is not so hard to find as im sure its at the top of the General chat for everyone to see.:)
[Galaxy S II General] :
i know it should of been in the Original dev section. Why they did put it in the android i do not know but i will find out and let you guys know
[Galaxy S II General] Coentje44:
Wrong ICS thread haha
[Galaxy S II General] tolis626:
Tsk...Developers posting their developmental bull**** in noob threads...Mods,please ban him!He's trolling! :p
[Galaxy S II General] :
:D:D:D now that was funny:D
[Galaxy S II General] XpLoDWilD:
Quick video made : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UqWQ4jOKWU

Also, follow me on twitter for latest news about the ROM (I'm pretty much watching IRC as much as I can) : @xplodwild
[Galaxy S II General] interfreak:
Awesome! Can't wait for this to come out.

Thanks so much devs for all your hard work!
[Galaxy S II General] Paradoxxx:
Thank-you for the video mate.

Sent from HydrOG3N MOD S2.

Technology Evolves, Android Evolves.

HydrOG3N is THE Revolution.
[Galaxy S II General] maxim380:
Do I lose recovery when flashing the test version?
[Galaxy S II General] :
You shouldnt...But id stay away from downloading till a beta is released so at least you can play around with it then...If you know what you are doing and wanna help out go for it...any useful posts head over to the other thread links are in the first post of this page and help the guys out if you can...

more help the sooner they get the job done;)
[Galaxy S II General] surya_mca:
Hey Guys as any one tried it yet!.. any reviews remarks... anything.. i saw the video how to but hasnt seen the screen after bootup..

anything.. plz..
[Galaxy S II General] anshmiester78900:
Cool im so much excited ..!!1
[Galaxy S II General] jastonas:
Good news:

@adamg_xda Adam Green

Porting ICS to SGSII is main priority first, everything else is 2nd

https://twitter.com/#!/adamg_xda/status/136421607982907392
[Galaxy S II General] tasty_boy:
this was'nt fixed yet!
[Galaxy S II General] nuwayman:
This is not a fully functional ROM yet. read the first post and it explains it all.
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
lol, there is no data/wifi atm.
[Galaxy S II General] jegormeister:
It says in the first post that SMS and calls are working and I don't understand how that would be possible without a network service.. Maybe I should have been more specific. I can not connect to the T-Mobile network. I was not talking about data nor Wifi.
[Galaxy S II General] NoOneCanHelpMe:
so nobody knows or noone cares to help a fellow :(
[Galaxy S II General] akbarhash:
As soon as these guys fix the wifi Call and SMS I am jumping ship.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] qsec:
I think you have to remove your sim lock if you have one.
[Galaxy S II General] akbarhash:
Dude your username is noonecanhelpme. How do you expect people to help you with that attitude ;-)

The new keyboard is heavily attached to ICS framework. It will be difficult to port. Why not just wait for ICS. Coming soon. ;-).

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] jegormeister:
This worked. Thanks a lot!
[Galaxy S II General] Tricky103:
I don't think you will be the only one.
[Galaxy S II General] coincoinlapin:
Alpha 7 is amazing.

15 char
[Galaxy S II General] pepez05:
I am suprise, ICS is very very fast. I can't wait version of alpha with network and sound.

Besides, the fact that we are the hardware buttons works + buttons tacitles this is only temporary right? There will be only the hardware buttons (like as Nexus S) ?

PS: sory for my english :D
[Galaxy S II General] jonny68:
This is brilliant to see such fast progress being made take a bow all involved :)
[Galaxy S II General] Chad_Petree:
This is awesome, cyanmod needs some competition ;)
[Galaxy S II General] :
Do not worry your english is fine my friend. The guys are working on things that are more important right now as getting this port from alpha to beta and then stable mode...All the important stuff are listed on the first post and mainly on the website now which links are all on the first post for everyone to see.

It tells you what they are working on and what they are going to try and do next.

All i will say to people is please be patient. Download the alpha builds have a play around but still stick with your current rom until this is officially up and running...Thank you.:)

And to the guys i know this has already been posted but you lot are famous now:D

http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/18/ice-cream-sandwich-ported-to-a-galaxy-s-ii-and-the-people-rej/

Ps: I still cant freaking believe how popular this thread is becoming:eek: sometimes i cant keep up with it:D but seriously though the guys Paradoxxx, Chadouming and the rest and Silver420 and Skyline1989 they are the ones who all deserve a thanks for keeping this going..:)
[Galaxy S II General] jonny68:
Guys i wanna try Alpha 7 - do i just flash as normal in CWM (i have a backup of my ROM already)
[Galaxy S II General] thegost4u:
yep, wipe then flash and be careful there is no boot image so the screen will be black after booting
[Galaxy S II General] :
The way i did it was first wipe everything. Data, cache, dalvik and even i mount and storage and format system. then flash the alpha like normal...might take a while to load up but it will...guide is on front page but also few pages back some other good guys have posted what you need to do Jonny..But please mate i know you said you already have a backup but just do it again mate just incase..:)
[Galaxy S II General] jegormeister:
I did and it worked. Do not forget to flash TWICE.
[Galaxy S II General] jonny68:
just wipe cache and dalvik yeah?
[Galaxy S II General] :
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=19475137&postcount=359

read that also might be helpful to you when flashing;)
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Right, what have I missed? Nothing? Panic over :D
[Galaxy S II General] :
Buttons on menu now gone, wifi is working and basically from alpha we gone to stable:eek::eek:

Now the guys are working on Jelly Bean:D:D:D
[Galaxy S II General] jonny68:
i flashed once and all i could see was the Samsung Galaxy SII screen for about 10 minutes so i pulled the battery and flashed again, same again ill give it another 10/15 minutes to see if it installs, i didn't do a full wipe just wiped cache and dalvik cache.

EDIT # Screen just came on saying Android is upgrading so i guess it worked ok this time :)
[Galaxy S II General] :
You just have to be patient Jonny mate...:)
[Galaxy S II General] ktix007:
Great work guys!! Thank you very much!

BtW why is Face Unlock not in the ROM? Sorry...I had to ask
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
lol if only
[Galaxy S II General] :
Think that is not a priority at the moment my friend...Think what is most important for the guys to get working is wifi, data and to make calls and sms of course..Then hopefully to move on onto the other features....Knowing the speed these guys working you might have that sooner rather than later...:D
[Galaxy S II General] jonny68:
wow:eek: how amazing is this i can only imagine how superb it will be when it's the finished article,pretty amazing for an alpha im gutted here having to restore back:D
[Galaxy S II General] Dorilife:
Lol^^

To the devs it never gets old saying great job!!!;)
[Galaxy S II General] :
imagine a checkrom revo ICS:D:D...but seriously this is the beauty even without all that....:D im gonna have an ics as we speaking i just cant stop playing with it:D:D(oh my i do have a dirty mind) Ice cream and playing with it...naughty me:p:p:D
[Galaxy S II General] Razer(x):
What's next thing? Sdcard?
[Galaxy S II General] ChriisM:
If i flash this , and say i dont like it (even tho i will) will i be able to restore a back up ?
[Galaxy S II General] :
Right guys guide to flash alpha build, is one on the first post but also on the website..Please follow the first post for links to go to the website to find out more...
[Galaxy S II General] jegormeister:
yes. just make a backup and you will be fine
[Galaxy S II General] Galactus:
Make sure you wipe your hands BEFORE you touch the screen.....LOL
[Galaxy S II General] :
Yes mate you can restore to a back up..that is what im doing at the moment..flashed alpha 7 and just mucking about with it now..

By the way my guide the way i got it working..

Backed up my current rom first..(that is the most important thing to do)

Wiped data

wiped cache

Mount and storage(format system)

Advanced , wipe dalvik

Flash the alpha...

Reboot and wait...Mine after five minutes came on straight away and im just playing with it now..i am were it says make it google and sign in with my gmail account
[Galaxy S II General] :
:D:D of course :D:D
[Galaxy S II General] :
WOW WOW WOW...Blown away..:D imagine when this bad boy is finished.....i got ICS fever now:)
[Galaxy S II General] Ffbf:
I cant believe how fast this guys are porting this. All i can say is thank you very much, and i know thats not the main reason but i will sure make a donation.
[Galaxy S II General] NoOneCanHelpMe:
Finally, MANY MANY thanks for ur reply.

sry for the attitude but I've been trying to get an answer for days now :X
[Galaxy S II General] :
hey buddy i apologize for not getting back to you earlier.:( just been busy with trying to keep up to date with everything..many apologies...all i will say is be patient and all your questions will be answered in due time..i always make sure i try to reply were i can when i can...Most of the info is on the front post anyway buddy...and guys on here are always here to help out when needed.:)

also just restored back to my current rom without any problems to anyone whos wondering.:)

but my word its super fast and smooth than anything out there at the moment...:D
[Galaxy S II General] ChriisM:
ohhhh 1 more question, does the recovery 5 come in the alpha 7.zip?
[Galaxy S II General] gallous_boy:
im interesting in installing this rom, does the sound still not work?
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
I dont believe they changed it from the other versions so yes
[Galaxy S II General] jonny68:
yes it does mate, ensure you back up your current ROM (just a reminder):)

edit - sorry man i assume it does because when i went to restore my backup it was recovery 5 (in blue)
[Galaxy S II General] Dorilife:
Please read the 1st post, no the sound is not working yet.
[Galaxy S II General] gallous_boy:
whats the point in then then, is it just to play about with?
[Galaxy S II General] jonny68:
it's called work in progress mate and already major progress has been made and i believe in no time even more progress will be made:cool:
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Its in "development" :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] NoOneCanHelpMe:
yeah I guess, play with it, see if you can find some bugs or give a suggestion to the devs to help make a stable version faster :)))

with the current speed it's gonna be really soon when we have a stable ver. :)
[Galaxy S II General] akbarhash:
Precisely, play around and just look at what technology has come to.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] :
The point is that its to show people like you me and everyone else that it is possible to get the ICS working on our phones..Although there are ALOT of issues to still iron out this is a start..No one has said that this is a daily basis rom yet but its here to show you that its working the dev team has managed to get it over to us and they are sharing the work to us so we can all enjoy with their excitement...Yes i wet my pants in sure excitement having ICS on my phone:cool::D:o...So there IS a point playing with it and there is a point in just having a little taster of what the real thing will be like...

PS do not make me go all Chuck Norris on you now:D:D:D just messing mate(or am i :D)
[Galaxy S II General] akbarhash:
Haha. Everyone just pounced on him. Shows how impatiently they are following this thread and how everyone wants to defend ICS. ICS FTW.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] Dorilife:
Wow! People still seem to amaze me..

Im sorry if i come off abit rough..but..

Its an alpha, what were you expecting?

To me its hella solid to be an alpha still..;)
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
And all in less than a week from Source release :D
[Galaxy S II General] ChriisM:
i must say, this is awesome, was so excited to see that start up screen after the anticipating black pause haha , Looks awesome, cant wait for a few more alphas to come out with working wifi, and hopefully they fix the lil issue with the keyboard, when i goes black as the keyboards comes up , other than that its amazing.
[Galaxy S II General] :
Is it me or is the IRC channel supposed to be for the ICS porting over? just went on it now and nothing but pure (sorry about my language)**** on there.....How can the guys work there i am amazed...Sorry again for my language but i just had to come off there as its just nothing but people (not saying everyone on there)trolling around...Oh well at least they are getting news there..:)
[Galaxy S II General] Dorilife:
Yeah they have come so far in such a short time..

I actually recieved abunch of text while i was running alpha 7 and started getting used to the black pop up while using the keyboard..lol
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Its been like that all day :(

Still... As long as the devs continue to manage to work round all the "When is Alpha X coming" and every other stupid question / comment... Lets be grateful :)

Do agree though, how they work with all that "noise" I dont know :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] xp3rto:
Seriously ! the dutch guy was a crackhead ! :mad:
[Galaxy S II General] sorrowuk:
Do we need to have the touch buttons at the bottom on the screen, because we have hardware buttons. So can't we just use them and turn the others off?
[Galaxy S II General] adamski123:
This port is making me happy in my pants.
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Read through the thread, its been answered loads. In the end they wont be there though.
[Galaxy S II General] xp3rto:
As the rom is still in the alpha stages the devs haven't removed them yet. Because ICS doesnt use those keys for phones with hardware keys. Hopefully they'll get removed in next updates :)
[Galaxy S II General] :
only got to the end of it were you guys said about the dutch guy..then few other guys were talking about siyah and were to get the link and other blah blah.....anyway the guys know were we are and i will do my upmost like you guys to keep this thread up todate as much as we can..:)

:)
[Galaxy S II General] buzzboy:
Quote of the day!

Seriously though, this is exciting stuff, very impressed with the team.

Regards.
[Galaxy S II General] sjoerdstegehuis:
Cant make it boot

Hello guys/devs

Thanks for this wonderful ROM.

Im back I was working, tried it again just flashed alpha 7 tested it with winrar the zip file was oke.

But it doesn't work.

leaved the phone for 15 minutes but only showed the samsung galaxy s2 boot logo.

When i boot into recovery mode it sad sd card not mounted.

I use the stock rom kj3 with the latest speedmod kernel.

Should i try a diffrent kernel like SiyahKernel v2.1?

Thx in advanced :):D
[Galaxy S II General] :
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=19480084&postcount=418

That is what i did to get it working first time first go...I think being on cwm 4.x.x.x works better to boot up than being on cwm5...that is just a thought..anyone else who is on cwm4 recovery if you can confirm that i would appreciate it...mine both times booted up straight away no delay or anything...yes i got the black screen but two minutes and it was up and running
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Good for me as long as I flash the zip twice in a row, first for kernel/CWM, 2nd time for the ROM
[Galaxy S II General] :
anyway dude thread is now in your hands;) im off to sleep been up since 5 this morning.
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Believe it or not I didnt go to sleep last night, so I doubt ill be up for long :D

esp as there is no more Alpha builds coming today. Good day for the dev team though :)
[Galaxy S II General] vnvman:
It's unbelievable that i'm here drunk and stoned in the middle of the night and i'm still checking here for the latest updates about the ICS port...you rock guys, get some good sleep, you freaking deserve it ;)
[Galaxy S II General] :
you guys are awesome and did a hell of a job today...cant wait for the rom with working calls and data and wifi.keep up the awesome work and cant wait for the team to get at it again lol.wish i had your skills so i could do it myself cause i want ICS badly but dont want to buy the nexus as i find it too big.
[Galaxy S II General] jchoong:
I am on CWM 5 and have been following your recommendation of flashing the zip twice in a row and have no difficulties booting up. However with alpha 6, the screen goes completely black for about 2 mins before booting up.
[Galaxy S II General] sjoerdstegehuis:
Good night and thank you for you reply.

Im going to report back tomorrow if cwm 4.x.x.x worked

PS

You guys the devs are doing a great job keep it up!

I hope when the stable release comes, you can make a cmw script to automaticly wipe the right things.
[Galaxy S II General] Dorilife:
I remember in my SGS I days kernal devs had a kernal cleaning script, dont know why they havnt made this for SGS II..
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
If your on CWM 5 you dont need to flash twice. As for the black screen.... thats because theres no boot logo on that build IIRC
[Galaxy S II General] lovidore:
Just popping in to extend my most sincere and humble gratitude to these devs. I'm a nobody but I still feel I must do so.

Thank you so so so much. :)
[Galaxy S II General] Bratag:
Must control hand of slapping. The POINT is that in less than a week we have gone from not running any form of ICS on our SGII's and with no official announcement on an ETA from Samsung on when we might get it. To having ICS running on an SGII with only a few items non working. You dont think thats amazing?
[Galaxy S II General] interfreak:
I'm on CWM5 and still need to flash twice. The second flash takes much longer than the first.
[Galaxy S II General] leasky:
soo with the new build can u make calls and txt?
[Galaxy S II General] sergiu251990:
Android 4.0

so i dont know how i thought this was for the tmobile one but i downloaded it and now my phone is not turning on.. anything i can do HELP!!!:mad:
[Galaxy S II General] id10terrordfw:
Pull the battery then try a jig. I don't know the three button combo to try on that device.
[Galaxy S II General] sergiu251990:
a jig? i tried up +down and power nothing is happining!
[Galaxy S II General] coolbuddyin:
Sorry for a dumb suggestion

why dont some one post the backup rom(nandroid back of ICS alpha rom),so everyone can restore it,and can taste ics within minutes,will it not be possible?
[Galaxy S II General] crobat:
Because flashing an update.zip would be much faster and the file would be much smaller. (I think?)

For example, the ICS update.zip for this rom is 112MB. My personal Nandroid backups average at about 800 MB :O
[Galaxy S II General] chetan_mohanty:
Put your phone in download by connecting a USB cable from your phone to your computer then holding down Volume down, Volume Up, and Power button together until you see warning, hit Volume up button.

Catch is plugging in to your PC ...
[Galaxy S II General] Tergon:
I did a nadroid backup of the ics install about 256 MBs in size so no I don't think anyone will post it at this point.
[Galaxy S II General] crobat:
Maybe we could add a guide on flashing this rom to the first post to help those who want to try it out.

I'm saying this because flashing this rom is a little tricky due to the CWM4-CWM5 issue.

Any views, people? :D
[Galaxy S II General] :
There is a guide up already. And there is a pointers already to people to only flash if you know what you are doing. This is not yet the finished article. Once you get in recovery then you are fine.

Again the way i did it and worked for me.

Go into recovery first.

Wipe data.

Wipe cache

Mount and storage then format system.

Advanced and then wipe dalvik

Flash alpha.

Reboot.

Then what happened then screen went black for me. Be patient. Wait for a few minutes. If you see that after few minutes press home button. Then your screen comes up and your ready to play with alpha.

To go back and restore do the three button combo. Volume up home button and power button to get into recovery and restore like normal.

And that is it. It worked for me fine. I am on cwm recovery 4 when flashing and then when. Restoring you are on 5. Anyway it worked for most people so it is working. If you are scared to flash then dont. And also check the website. Most important thing to do. There is a guide there also from the devs themselfs
[Galaxy S II General] crobat:
Oops, didn't see it there! Thanks! :)

I couldn't flash the rom using CWM4, so I got a little confused there.
[Galaxy S II General] :
Well you can cause i did it. Cwn recovery 4.0.0.2 that is the one i am on at the moment
[Galaxy S II General] jaksau:
How much time do we have to wait on the black screen? I waited for 10 minutes and the phone was still unresponsive. So I restored my old rom back.
[Galaxy S II General] :
That i cant answer. Different phones different times. Mine was pretty much booted within two minutes. Other people flashd the alpha twice to get it working. So it varies really. :)
[Galaxy S II General] samplespace:
Could we hide the On-Screen buttons??

There're already a hard buttons, so we didn't need them.
[Galaxy S II General] jaksau:
I too flashed it twice just to be safe. That is after wiping everything. But it wouldn't respond after black screen.

One more funny thing.. when i went to restore my old rom, i noticed i was still on cwm4 and not cwm5 o.0

Did it not flash correctly the first time?

Im coming from darkyrom and supercore by the way.
[Galaxy S II General] crobat:
Its still an alpha build, so they're not gonna remove the buttons for the moment because there are other issues they need to handle. It won't be there once its stabilized.

Heck, I'm spending too much time on this thread! :eek:
[Galaxy S II General] :
Sorry to have to say this but another guy few pages bk came with superuser and he had problems to and he did everything like you. He ended up flashing a cf root just to get alpha working. I advice wait.
[Galaxy S II General] :
Helps me out if you are here. :D
[Galaxy S II General] sergiu251990:
it wont install the driver when i do that, and also will the battery have to be in
[Galaxy S II General] akbarhash:
I will try and help you out. Am here too whole day.

Sent from my GT-I9100