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[Galaxy S II General] dfi2k5:
if Samsung is not willing / cannot release some source codes, maybe they are willing to compile and share the compiled libs / modules. If someone can get in touch with Samsung...
[Galaxy S II General] WebghostDK:
We wont see a ROM with ICS on SGS2 before the official ROM is released i believe.

Anyway im running the ICS port on my Nexus One now, it IS epic :-D
[Galaxy S II General] codeworkx:
Right nothing has happend till then.

Working on a specific task can take weeks.

Do you build a house in one day? No, you don't.

Users have to learn to be patient.

My Life: sleep, work, ics, sleep, work, ics, sleep, work, ics...

NO FREETIME!

Isn't it enough for you? Shall i quit my job and work fully on getting ics?
[Galaxy S II General] Remoteconcern:
That would be perfect. Thanks codeworkx!

...;)
[Galaxy S II General] 02ranger:
Take whatever time it takes. I'm sure you'll still finish before Samsung and their work is ICS. I appreciate all you do and the rest of the team as well. I know that many others on this board will agree. Again, thank you.
[Galaxy S II General] volapyk:
Seriously, progress has been really fast so far. People need to relax and wait. Or do the port themselves.
[Galaxy S II General] jonny68:
Ignore people asking for ETA's and requests mate do what you have to do and take as long as possible to ensure it is done properly which im sure you will;)
[Galaxy S II General] svceon:
codeworkx is right. The basis of this kind of development is astonishing vague, theres no documentation or any plausible help from the device manufacturer at all.

Respect from me to you and your team codeworkx.
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Ludicrous to say nothing is happening. Source was only released on the 14th and since then, progress has been blazingly fast IMO :D
[Galaxy S II General] mintvilla:
While i agree with the decision to wait til everything is working before releasing whats done, i think the trouble some people are having is that on other devices, take the nexus s for example, the CM9 devs are releasing alpha's, even with many things not working, so people are seeing this getting released, and asking well why arent we getting alpha's?

Anyway i just want to add to the 90% of people on here saying thanks for all the "very Hard" work youve done and to ask you lot not to get annoyed with the other 10% of moaners on here.
[Galaxy S II General] codeworkx:
Remember back, when Samsung released the first Gingerbread ROM for Galaxy S. (Froyo -> Gingerbread)

- Release

- take back because of bugs

- another 2 month later release again

- still bugs and lags

- another 4 month

- roll out Update

- looks usable for the first time

Do you expect something different this time? I don't.
[Galaxy S II General] xelin0:
I didnt mean to sound ungrateful code, should have phrased it differently, just very excited and interested in the progress of this project, and seeing a lull in how frequently updates were given from the past compared to now just made me want to ask ^^
[Galaxy S II General] YOSEFE:
+1, although the Flyer is still amazing. As for smartphones? SGS2 is in a class of its own.

I am actually getting my wife a SGS Plus, as she is not a power user.
[Galaxy S II General] daleski75:
A note to the idiots who keep pestering the dev's

STOP doing it.

We all want the latest and greatest ICS on our phones but pretty much demanding updates is not going to speed up development it will slow it down or even stop it.

The dev's do all this in their own time and do not get paid by google or samsung or any other phone company.

Quit your whining and moaning and do something constructive like learning to code rather than pi$$ing off the dev's

Sorry for the rant it really annoys me that a lot of people really don't seem to appreciate what the dev's do and just come across as selfish and a I want I want attitude.
[Galaxy S II General] xelin0:
Just a note, considering your post is likely in some way directed at me, if you compare my posts to yours I think your accusation of "whining and moaning" might take on a more ironic tinge.

Further ironic that you make your post essentially in part saying stop asking questions about progress in a topic titled: ICS progression (NON DEV ISSUES & Q&A)
[Galaxy S II General] daleski75:
People expect too much too soon and if everyone here knew how to debug, code, test and test again for Android then people would appreciate the work you do.

---------- Post added at 03:57 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:55 PM ----------

It was a generic post and a rant not directed at anyone in particular, as I have followed this thread from the beginning and it amazes me the amount of posts which come across as kids being selfish and impatient.
[Galaxy S II General] YOSEFE:
Not good for community ethos, and would devalue our community developers. This would make them vulnerable to the insults of their "pay masters". Think about the disrespect and abuse they get from "beggars". What will become of them once they become paid developers? Just think about it!
[Galaxy S II General] stoney73:
So much irony.
[Galaxy S II General] vikas776:
its sad to see forum moderators just letting people to posting in the thread . :(

Its a closed developement now so why these threads are here.

pulser , gamer or any mod pls closed the damn thread of ics in general , or any development sections .

keeping these threads open will invite more people to express their impatience of seeing ics on sgs2

Let teamhacking do their work and whenever they feel like they can reopen the thread. ( day , week , month or 2 month its their wish )

That a request ..........................
[Galaxy S II General] Genrauser:
It is indeed a shame that this stuff stopped, taking it account the giant progress it got latest half week before the incident...
[Galaxy S II General] robbiev80:
I am able to use my PS3 controller on my honeycomb tablet (via USB) so I'm sure ICS will support it.
[Galaxy S II General] DSA:
I knew it would go down this road M....you just cant please some people (keep going dude, you know you are doing something good, thats enough)

Donations - I still think its a great idea, and NOT required (as mentioned multiple times)

If you feel iffy about the donate link....dont donate? pretty simple really..

@DSF: i understand what you are saying (and agree to a certain point) but its not relevant here...

and the new sig comment made me spit my tea over my keyboard at work....thanks for that!! :)
[Galaxy S II General] kanefox:
Nice thanks very much for porting :-) drop me a pm if you need a tester..will be more than happy to help
[Galaxy S II General] :
i know mate you cant keep everyone happy but what can you do..not much really..anyway i have changed the first post yet again i have put an explanation yet again why i started it and why i had to cancel so anyway lets concentrate on the guy sbeing succesful as their is a big progress happening anyway and hopefully we can leave it to that

EDIT:Glad you noticed that:D
[Galaxy S II General] NickChaplin:
I would like to pledge $50AUS (specifically to anyone that can get bluetooth working.)

ps the sign for euro is € (you can copy and paste)
[Galaxy S II General] Paradoxxx:
I ****ing love your answers mate.

Thanks for clearing all that stuff. :)
[Galaxy S II General] :
No problem Para mate...Just sometimes get annoyed when people do not read first and then post..I clearly stated my intentions and people take it the wrong way..Anyway favour i need from you when you have time send me a PM who is working with you and i will add the team on the front post so everyone can give their thanks to them if you do not mind my friend..

And i would of thanked you but im out of limit:D
[Galaxy S II General] :
Nick buddy keep the donation for now mate (thanks for pledging) but i had to scrap the idea for now..First post will explain everything..Once the guys are succesfull in the project then we can donate if you want. Webhosting site will be up and running so the guys will provide more details on that later on hopefully.. I will keep trying to get as much info as i can and post it on the front page for everyone to read...Till the meantime stay tuned and if you can think of anything that might be helpful feel free to post it the other thread for dev issues.:D thanks again buddy
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
You dont need donations for hosting, as hosting is cheap and me or Skyline will provide you with free hosting to say thank you :p

P.S. I think you should remove the download link from his server, and just have it as external mirrors to save his bandwidth :D

Awake and watching this thread again :D
[Galaxy S II General] oikeakives:
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[Galaxy S II General] prospect51:
I couldn't see the problem either just a nice gesture to some hard working enthusiasts (thank god to s2 word correction lol) was at our on free will, if you don't like the idea don't donate and don't moan for god sake i come on here for peace away from wife :P
[Galaxy S II General] :
Nice to have you back buddy:)
[Galaxy S II General] YOSEFE:
The cwm recovery on my galaxy does not have advanced option, and therefore, I can't see delvik, only data and cache are available for wipe.

What can I do?
[Galaxy S II General] hurstov:
How do u get back to another rom?! Cwm is gone!
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
I havent used CWM before version 4. What version is yours?

CWM shouldnt be gone. What process did you take? Can you still get into download mode? At the worse you could reflash a stock ROM via ODIN, Root and flash CWM, then restore your nandroid backup.

I barely left :D
[Galaxy S II General] hurstov:
Flashed it in cwm over cm7, help!!
[Galaxy S II General] hurstov:
I can't get into download mode or anythin
[Galaxy S II General] hurricurry:
Quick question.

How will the multitasking work? Menu button or long holding hone button?

Also galaxy nexus has a indicator at The Bottom that indicates that there's a hidden menu, is there a way of porting it into the sgs2?
[Galaxy S II General] hurstov:
Panic over! Got into cwm. It wouldn't let me in for a while. Wierd
[Galaxy S II General] NickoPulver:
And you have tried to get into recovery from phone off using.....the three button way.....hold volume up and homebutton and then press power......till Samsung comes up release buttons
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Patience - Im sure all will come in time ;)

Least your in now and sorted :)
[Galaxy S II General] YOSEFE:
I think it is good for people with the same interest to interact on the common denominator at any given time, provided no one is getting at someone - this is a community.
[Galaxy S II General] runebinder:
While I can understand your view point on this, it is a general thread to discuss. If this thread gets closed, they'll be lots more being started. Probably easier for the mods to manage this 1 thread than keeping track of multiple threads popping up.
[Galaxy S II General] armanderli:
I dont remember...takin' six months to have a working Gingerbread leak on the SGS...It was less than that...just the first one was unusable"2.3.2 (the second one was a daily driver...)
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
So what your saying is, because of some peoples negativity, we should close the thread? How many threads do you think would remain open that was to do with beta/alpha builds if you did that everything there was negativity?

You cant let the minority spoil it for the rest. If you did, we wouldnt have forums/communities in general.
[Galaxy S II General] daleski75:
Let's hope the minority don't keep on spoiling it for everyone else then.
[Galaxy S II General] soulicro:
To everyone:

First of all, I think its great that this thread is open. There is another thread in the Development section, and I think its surprising how little spam (compared to, say, the CM7 thread) there is there. I personally think XDA should implement a better system for filtering posts on the development sections in general, but that's a discussion for a different time.

Second of all, I think people are forgetting that the source for ICS came out less than two weeks ago, and the amount of progress the developers have achieved in these two weeks is

utterly ridiculous

.

The Galaxy SII is one of the most popular Android devices out today, and this is a double-edged sword. On the one hand its great that it introduced the power of Android to so many people... on the other hand, there appears to be an influx of newcomers that think someone here owes them something.

Codeworkx, and the rest of the development team, I don't think I can stress this enough:

The entire SGS/SGSII community is in your debt!

Please ignore the very small (but extremely vocal) group of users who continue to bug you regarding ETA's and other similarly childish, selfish, impatient requests and comments. Please don't dignify any of these users with your time, for it is invaluable. Plus, I guarantee the same users will see this as an invitation to come back and bug you further, and I guarantee other similarly-minded users will now think its acceptable to post such things.

I promise you that the majority of the users enjoy and appreciate your work immensely, and are simply waiting patiently for your release.

To everyone who keep posting messages such as "stop spamming/this question has been asked before/read the thread":

Its pointless. We aren't moderators. I've posted the same things myself, but I realized that no matter how many times we post these messages... no matter how big the font in the op is... no matter how many times a question has been answered... egotistical selfish users will continue to repeat the same questions. Instead, let's just try to ignore them. Stop validating their posts by replying to them... instead, click the triangle with the exclamation point on the upper right corner and let the moderators moderate.

Yes, I wish we had the power to forcefully stop these users, but we don't... so let's let those who DO have the power to do so, do so.
[Galaxy S II General] marcelotorres:
I agree with you on all aspects.
[Galaxy S II General] nirhud:
Agree aswell. Let the Dev's do the magic and just be patient and excited :)
[Galaxy S II General] daleski75:
A very well written post and agree with all of it. It should be made a sticky lol
[Galaxy S II General] toekneekey:
Hey I have a problem with flashing ICS alpha 7, it wont show on the sd card. Anyone know if theres a fix for this problem?
[Galaxy S II General] kickassdave:
you mean you have copied it to your SD card and then when going in to CWM to flash it - it isn't there??

doesn't sound right..

If I'm being honest, it's nice to try out, but so far off a daily ROM that it's a little pointless flashing it just now. Just wait patiently for a beta release

:)
[Galaxy S II General] chebon.:
This is the perfect example as to why the developers don't want to open source their codes for now.

Always will have some users who can't read and asking for fix for problems they face after flashing an ALPHA build. And expecting it to be bug free.

Why don't you think why it is called an Alpha build in the first place?

Edit: I think I've misread your post. But if you have trouble even placing the correct file into your phone properly I think you should not be messing with flashing this.
[Galaxy S II General] runebinder:
+1 Very well said
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
He never said he expected it to be bug free. He was simply asking a question.
[Galaxy S II General] troffers:
+1

Well said

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] Milioo:
I totally agree. People here should stop being so bloody uptight. Why do the dev's complain about being asked about ETA's, IT'S A COMPLIMENT.

Now, what's the reason for stopping the development? Wasn't really made clear on the website. If it's a money problem i'd love to contribute.
[Galaxy S II General] 02ranger:
Um, who are you agreeing with? Most of the last ~20 posts are in favor of the opposite opinion.
[Galaxy S II General] mariotme:
guys i know that its totally off-topic to ask this but i cant resist :P

does activating debug.sf.hw=1 in buildprop in any 2.3.5 ROM affect battery life i mean does it tend to suck more battery with it enabled?
[Galaxy S II General] Milioo:
Originally Posted by chebon.

This is the perfect example as to why the developers don't want to open source their codes for now.

Always will have some users who can't read and asking for fix for problems they face after flashing an ALPHA build. And expecting it to be bug free.

Why don't you think why it is called an Alpha build in the first place?

"He never said he expected it to be bug free. He was simply asking a question."

Chebon was being uptight
[Galaxy S II General] atinm:
Wait, what? Who said development has stopped? I don't know what particular group this thread references - but we, as in teamhacksung (the guys who brought you CyanogenMod for SGS2 and Galaxy S series), are still working on it. And you can ask for ETAs etc as much as you want. We just ignore most comments anyway - we are too busy developing, and don't actually know *when* the issues we're working on will get fixed to give ETAs even if we wanted to, which we don't. Our top priority at the moment is audio input, without it our phone is not a phone. What we're building will be AOSP, followed by CyanogenMod 9, as teamhacksung is the group that does CyanogenMod for the Samsung phones.
[Galaxy S II General] Milioo:
Project (AOSP) is dead for now. CM9 isn't. We will be back with a 100% AOSP experience after Official Samsung ICS release or a leak.

Source; http://sgs2ics.com/
[Galaxy S II General] xp3rto:
You saved my day :-)

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] atinm:
Ah. Well, carry on then - sorry to interrupt.
[Galaxy S II General] akbarhash:
To restore backup flash a kernel like speed mod using Odin. Then boot to recovery then restore backup.

If you are not able to see the SD card in ICS that is because alpha 7 does not have the required drivers for it.

If you have any other problem please give us more details.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] Milioo:
Where can I donate?
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Id guess it would, however most custom ROMs already have this enabled by default. Have you checked yours?
[Galaxy S II General] Milioo:
BTW Still haven't got an answer, why do dev's hate people asking for eta's?
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
You did get an answer on the page before :rolleyes:

This can apply to any team, any firmware build, etc etc.
[Galaxy S II General] mariotme:
thanks for the reply silver.

it wasnt in my rom's build prop but i added it manually.

Are you positive about it sucking more juice? :)
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
No, hence I said I was guessing :p

But it is an educated guess :) Hardware acceleration (Or using the GPU for anything, i.e gaming) would be more thirsty for juice so you would expect to get less battery life.
[Galaxy S II General] mariotme:
heheh yeah but on the other side it would also drain less coz the cpu isnt working to render anything extra =p
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Not really. GPU's are more battery thirsty than CPU's :p

And the CPU is always working. Hardware acceleration means using the GPU on top, not instead off. Its to take the ease off and free the CPU up for other tasks etc.
[Galaxy S II General] Net.silb:
CM9 Galaxy S II

A few questions:

1. Why hasnt there been an update on "sgs2ics_com" for over 2 days?

2. I'v seen CyanogenMod 9 for Galaxy S "youtube-com-watch?v=hx8_1ggjvIM" and for multiple other phones but not for Galaxy S II, is this world working upside down or am I just imagining?! - As a galaxy s2 owner i feel neglected.
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Read the thread :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] Milioo:
+1

Sent on my Galaxy SII
[Galaxy S II General] Net.silb:
see ya in the year 2020 when i finish reading this 162 page thread...

whats +1?
[Galaxy S II General] 02ranger:
Ah, ok. Gotcha.
[Galaxy S II General] 02ranger:
1. The group that maintained that website has stopped development on an ICS port. Team hacksung is still going strong working on CM9 for us.

2. Those other phones were apparently easier/quicker to get running. The guys working on sgs2 cm9 have hit several speed bumps, mostly driver related.
[Galaxy S II General] Net.silb:
Thanks, any idea on how to follow their progress?
[Galaxy S II General] jamesa9911:
Indeed, you are legally entitled to have the free help of these brilliant developers and forum members, or are you trolling? Hmmmmmm. Why take it out on these dev's? Samsung are a multi million billion pound company, and they haven't released an update, and you paid them for your galaxy s 2?

On a side though, have been following this for a while and am patiently waiting in the background like everyone else that isn't posting on this thread.
[Galaxy S II General] :
Link on first page and here really my friend. :)
[Galaxy S II General] Net.silb:
:( I hope they manage to get passed the speed bumps soon!

I had ICS Alpha 7 and now I need ICS bad!!!:eek:

Any idea on how to follow their progress?
[Galaxy S II General] t0ph0id:
Look in the first post, there's a link to codeworkx website with updates.

Also following him on G+
[Galaxy S II General] atinm:
1. No idea (as in, I am not part of that team) but,

2. CM9 (well, AOSP ICS at the moment) for Galaxy S is being done by the same people (teamhacksung) who are also working on the SGSII - we're close, but have run into some issues related to the fact that the underlying library code isn't open source and the API has changed from Gingerbread to ICS and so using Samsung libraries related to audio from Gingerbread has been a challenge. We have most of it working, our main focus is audio input (mic) at the moment. We don't know when it'll be done, as we've just started to rewrite the driver to make this work.

Status updates are frequently posted on our G+ (codeworkx's, mine) as well as codeworkx sometimes updates his website as well.
[Galaxy S II General] *SanSiro*:
+1 hehe ;)
[Galaxy S II General] PunkOz:
and what about the camera? do we really have to wait till a samsung leak? :o
[Galaxy S II General] Net.silb:
whats not open sourced?

--source"dot"android"dot"com--

clearly states:

News

Source Code Available for Android 4.0

The source code for the Android 4.0 platform and software stack has been released! This release allows OEMs to begin preparing Android 4.0 for installation on new and existing devices, and allows hobbyists, enthusiasts, and researchers to develop custom builds. For information on how to obtain the software, visit our Getting the Source page.
[Galaxy S II General] Milioo:
The software needs to interact with the hardware. Its very difficult/impossible to find find/make drivers for this hardware to interact with ICS
[Galaxy S II General] 02ranger:
This is a much better answer than mine. lol. Thank you for taking time to come in here and answer questions like this. I'm actually really glad I dumped my infuse for an sgs2 as the dev community here is so much better. No offense to the infuse devs.
[Galaxy S II General] xelin0:
The drivers are not open sourced, and as such making the hardware work with the, as you have pointed out, open sourced ICS release, has become difficult

Difficult to the point where it seems the team working on this have resorted to actually writing sound driver/s from scracth to get around it. Something which they have not had to do for some of the other devices mentioned that already have a released beta of ICS.

This is all from random reading//guesswork so someone more in the know correct if it is wrong :P
[Galaxy S II General] Net.silb:
Than how come the Samsung Galaxy S has CyanogenMod 9 and Galaxy S II doesnt I'm going mad!
[Galaxy S II General] pewpewbangbang:
wait i got a bit confused....a few pages back AOSP for ICS is dead?? does that have any relation to this port project going on?? Or is this port still going on?