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[Nexus S General] ferozfero:
Common guys will we get it today...has anyone already got it...my god the suspense is killing me...
[Nexus S General] fightingroost12:
Ever been to nyc? i went yesterday to see the tree and EVERY BUS had a nexus s ad. almost every train station as well
[Nexus S General] aic719:
Lol really? I've never seen a nexus add either :-P

The iPhones in the other hand.. It's the opposite

Sent from my CyberGR Nexus S
[Nexus S General] ferozfero:
thats right ..here in south india...i had to through a lot to buy my nexus...hell they havnt even heard of the nexus one....but thankfully i got a nexus s....and lovin it..never regretted for a second..
[Nexus S General] donsh00tmesanta:
Boo iPhone lol

Sent from Oxygen 2.3.2 powered Nexus S 4G
[Nexus S General] dbairduk:
its a bit annoying that both samsung and sony erricson have betas and alphas out already!
[Nexus S General] mkoch820:
So.. We won't get it today(?) :/
[Nexus S General] aic719:
Makes two of us! How much you get yours for btw? And where?

Sent from my CyberGR Nexus S
[Nexus S General] prinz3nroll3:
nope,

we wont get it today... :(
[Nexus S General] 4I-I:
How would you know?
[Nexus S General] ferozfero:
well i got it for 20....me from kerala..

---------- Post added at 04:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:08 PM ----------

yeah how in the world would u knw that..
[Nexus S General] McDV:
How do you know that now? Google normally starts events at 10AM GMT -8. That's 6PM GMT (and UTC in wnter). Now it's not even 11AM UTC. If it's the same with OTAs, we'll have to wait some hours + some time, until s.o. receives the OTA and reports it.

If we didn't hear anything until tomorrow, we know the 16th is wrong. ;)
[Nexus S General] donsh00tmesanta:
Not to be a troll but where did we all get the idea the OTA is coming today?
[Nexus S General] :
OTA is coming, is coming not, is coming, is coming not...

Sh.t, I must ask my magic sphere :-))
[Nexus S General] benrees21:
I just have no faith in it being today.

Sent from my Nexus S on CM9, Morfic's SEUV Kernel and some help from Tapatalk!
[Nexus S General] corythug:
I'm impatiently waiting on any news on this. Fingers crossed.

Follow the leader @corythug ;)
[Nexus S General] itlnstln:
Ten Characters
[Nexus S General] Skunk Ape1:
Their just speculating. I know I will

NOT receive it. I will not get the ota. I will wait for roms based on the ota but will likely continue to run gingerbread until an ICS room comes out that looks like gingerbread. Hate the way Ics looks on my phone.
[Nexus S General] juliano_q:
I dont think it is a smart idea to release an OTA on friday. I was also expecting the 16/12 date, but now I am feeling naive :P
[Nexus S General] zipredictive:
I found a 8 Magic Ball on a website...

Hope it works..

:D

and I think today is our nexus s' birthday
[Nexus S General] snandlal:
Ya. Not a good day to deal with any unforeseen problems. I was optimistic yesterday cuz a lot of google apps updated yesterday.

Google Books, Music
[Nexus S General] HAKA:
guys chill....

@TeamAndIRC said it will release this "week" we still have 2 more days.

And if nothing works, don't weep.

According to me, Christmas is the deadline...

Bloody sh!t Andy Rubin said that ICS for Nexus S will release in couple of "weeks" after GN launch. hah!
[Nexus S General] caliban2:
Big question is: couple of weeks after GN launch in which country? ^^
[Nexus S General] evcz:
Maybe in north Korea
[Nexus S General] zipredictive:
GN launch is the first GN on the market....

So when the first GN has been sold? Uk on November 17?

So Andy was wrong.... it happens
[Nexus S General] evcz:
He is often wrong...
[Nexus S General] zipredictive:
Especially when he sets a date! :D

anyway we are used to wait for otas

Well what do I need on my NS to receive Ics Ota?

Stock rom which one? 2.3.6 ?

Locked or unlocked?

root or without root?

Thank you
[Nexus S General] mkoch820:
Stock ROM for sure, unlocked and root doesn't matter as long as u don't remove any sys apps. Every stock ROM is fine, but it'll alert you to update to 2.3.6, so it's easier to install that at the first place
[Nexus S General] Royvin:
Yep same here, I will be very shocked if it does happen but I wont complain if it does :D
[Nexus S General] fightingroost12:
i have a nice scratch on my screen so im going to sprint today to get it repaired, if for some reason they have to hold my phone for a few days and the update comes out i will be PISSED! but happy for u guys :P
[Nexus S General] zipredictive:
This is good news for us... because of this we have more chance to see ics on our phones. You know how things work.... whe we do not expect it arrives.... and when we cant update (broken or lost phone or without wifi) it arrives :D
[Nexus S General] stkiswr:
I have been telling my ns4g its system is not up to date since October?!?

Is my phone broken
[Nexus S General] HAKA:
GOD ! This is spoiling my studies!!
[Nexus S General] prinz3nroll3:
50 pages and no ics ota update :(
[Nexus S General] bozzykid:
I doubt he was referring to the UK. More than likely their deal with Verizon prohibits Google from releasing ICS on the NS for a period of time after launch. And I highly doubt that is 1 day. :rolleyes:
[Nexus S General] athani:
Make that 51 :mad:
[Nexus S General] SupaDupaFly24:
*Sighs* I don't think its happening today. Maybe we will have luck next week!!
[Nexus S General] moon-unit:
Guys if we see this before February I will be surprised, cast your mind back to GB on the N1......

I would bet good money that Verizon have at least a 1 month exclusivity period with the GN and Android 4.

The best you should hope for is a new years present...
[Nexus S General] Romonster:
Its the 11 page for me ;)
[Nexus S General] bdff:
I hate google for this..

i thought we would get ics very quick.

but it is one month ago that ics got released with the galaxy nexus.

im sure that they are done with it...why they cant release it..

and no leaks anywhere
[Nexus S General] djluis48:
Since day one, they said that the other Nexus devices will get the update a FEW days LATER the GN hits the streets, so my bet is that its comming the next week or later.
[Nexus S General] bdff:
or in 2 month,because google hate us.

in the meantime sony,htc,samsung and all the others have released ics for their phones.

really im angry,sony and samsung released their alpha (with correct drivers) and nexus s....nothing.

(sry for my bad englisch)

//and a few days later..galaxy nexus is out in austria since november,i dont believe them.

they should give us a correct date..not just a few days/weeks/year later after gn
[Nexus S General] fightingroost12:
lol well if it does come out today you all can thank me :P
[Nexus S General] bozzykid:
Actually they said a few weeks, not days.
[Nexus S General] bdff:
i bought a nexus s instead xperia arc because of ics,now they are laughting at us <.<
[Nexus S General] ferozfero:
Yeah few weeks..but u knw this isnt fair...Google should knw how important this is to us....we are the cream of android..theyr makibg us sink...
[Nexus S General] XCellPhoneSalesRep:
Hey gurls - I'm not sure if anyone has already posted this, if not, then great! and if so then oh well, look again!

On the Google Android Support page and under ANDROID 4.0 it has "Select your device" and there are (2) selections: Galaxy neXus and neXus S :

I'm not sure how long neXus S has been up there exactly but i know for sure that it wasnt there about 2 weeks or so ago...

It has got to be so friggin close!!!

Galaxy neXus Help Screen:

neXus S Help Screen :

*edit*

Sorry, i forgot the LINK:

http://support.google.com/ics/nexus/?hl=en&topic=2371275
[Nexus S General] bdff:
lets i hope we get it this weekend or if we get it today iiiiiiiiiiim so happy...but lets see..

miui 4 is very nice too
[Nexus S General] SupaDupaFly24:
The update is definitely happening soon. Thanks for that post XCellPhoneSalesRep!!!

Here are the direct links to what he is talking about!

Tips for 2.3 users upgrading to 4.0

http://support.google.com/ics/nexus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2371340&topic=2371276&ctx=topic

Google Android Support page

http://support.google.com/ics/nexus/?hl=en&topic=2371275
[Nexus S General] hp420:
yup...it's there for me too.

If they follow their usual schedule, it should be up in about 45 minutes, assuming it's coming today :) (10am PST gmt -8)
[Nexus S General] bdff:
i cant wait..please let it happen ;_;
[Nexus S General] ferozfero:
Guys i jus found somin... see in the galaxy nexus support section there is a mention of face unlock....but for our nexus s the whole option has been removed...long story short..we definatly are nt getting the face unlock with THIS upgrade...which im sure is happening in a few hours...
[Nexus S General] bdff:
No problem,we can get face unlock with a asop rom.

but finally we get the right drivers.
[Nexus S General] juliano_q:
I dont really care for face unlock if they release the OTA today :D
[Nexus S General] zlogic42:
When Gingerbread was OTAd on Nexus One, it was sent in waves. Some devices got it early, some had to wait for weeks (or download the update.zip and apply it manually).

Also, before that OTA was released, a lot of posts by Googlers appeared on the internet with screenshots - "look, I'm already running GB because I work at Google, but you will have to wait like everybody else"
[Nexus S General] hp420:
yeah, exactly!! I couldn't care less about the firmware update lol...I just want the drivers so we can get them in aosp's oICS :)
[Nexus S General] SupaDupaFly24:
Yeah I had a feeling we wouldn't be getting face unlock! I guess this kinda confirms it *sighs*
[Nexus S General] ferozfero:
True...im soooo siked right now...im jus woried bout wat all wer gonna miss out on...guys if we all pray hard enuf together ,we might hear that notification sound ...which says..we have an upgrade..
[Nexus S General] bdff:
poor nexus one users..

google can be sometimes like a troll...
[Nexus S General] ferozfero:
But one things for sure ... this isnt an alpha or beta lik sony or samsung..this is the real deal...
[Nexus S General] SupaDupaFly24:
I guess they had to leave some features exclusive to the Galaxy Nexus!! I wonder what else they left out!
[Nexus S General] juliano_q:
When people start receiving the OTA someone will create a flashable zip with it and everybody will be able to download and flash it. I never waited for an OTA, always installed by myself.
[Nexus S General] bdff:
lets wait,maybe they troll us too and wait an another week for releasing ics...
[Nexus S General] petrochemicals:
All I see is mention of Nexus S.

Does this mean the NS4G is included/not included in the update?
[Nexus S General] ferozfero:
Yeah but i bet we'l get these features by our amazing developers....oh developers flash this upgrade and do ur magic as fast as posible...
[Nexus S General] saranyan:
I maybe wrong. Think that support page was for the google employees who got the ota for them to report bugs and stuff. Saw some screen shots a few days ago.
[Nexus S General] gregorisvas:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...en+support+ics+nexus&cd=1&hl=el&ct=clnk&gl=gr

11 Dec. only Galaxy Nexus appeared. :)
[Nexus S General] ferozfero:
Oh common u got to be kiddin me...damn that was our best lead...that was our only hope for hope...damn it...and damn u for pointin that out..no offence ..jus immense frustration..
[Nexus S General] ferozfero:
Oh thank god...thats a relief...
[Nexus S General] hp420:
dude, calm down...it's proving that the SNS link was just added recently, which is good news :rolleyes:

as for the NS4G, I think that will come from sprint because of the wimax driver ;) afaik, that and baseband are the only differences with the two.
[Nexus S General] ferozfero:
Sorry dude that replly was meant for the mesage two posts above... i was relieved to see the cache message...
[Nexus S General] SupaDupaFly24:
Good to know that the page was just added...this is good news, very good news!
[Nexus S General] zlogic42:
Apparently Nexus S will use MTP instead of the current USB transfer mode. Or maybe they simply copied this page from Galaxy Nexus documentation :)
[Nexus S General] gregorisvas:
Good news indeed..And If you take a look at the help topics (Nexus S), all of them use ICS screenshots..Copy paste from GN?Dont know..Still, it's good :)
[Nexus S General] hurte1:
hope the update is today. i bought this phone because of 4.0. so i hope today is the day
[Nexus S General] Skunk Ape1:
WTF is face unlock?
[Nexus S General] ferozfero:
Are u freakin kiddin me..?.dude face unlock is a main feature of ics..it uses facial recognition to unlock our screen..jnstead of sliding or pattern we jus look at it....
[Nexus S General] coolmaster121:
Face unlock

This was THE feature I was looking for.

I was hoping to have an easy solution to prevent the kids from getting access to my phone and the $.10 games I got last week. I guess once the OTA hits, will go back to root and using roms.
[Nexus S General] ferozfero:
Well we are nexus users..ina way google actually wants us to do that...wer else would they get ideas for upgrades than custom roms... anyway dont worry that feature wil DEFINATLY br added with some custom rom and maybe even a future official ota...
[Nexus S General] SupaDupaFly24:
Take a guess..
[Nexus S General] ferozfero:
Besides it wouldnt have worked either if ur kids looked a lil lik u...mite sound insane but thats how innacurate face unlock is even in the galaxy nexus....
[Nexus S General] bdff:
got anybody an update?^^
[Nexus S General] coolmaster121:
Ur right...

If my kids didnt look like me it would be a problem lol
[Nexus S General] juliano_q:
Or if they have a picture of you :P
[Nexus S General] chrisgtl:
Is it only me that thinks face unlock is completely unsecure?

I'm sticking with pin codes to unlock.

Face detection is the least important feature of ICS for me.

How will people unlock phones using face detection in dark rooms? Get out of bed just to turn light on so the camera can see your mug shot.....

Someone who has a photo of your face able to unlock phone by tricking it into your phone thinking its looking at the user and not a photo of you....
[Nexus S General] Nedzadk:
i tried face unlock on some alpha ICS, took my picture with other phone and used it to unlock phone. It works even better than when i put my own face in front :)

Meaning i could not care less for face unlock...just give us ICS smart guys on this forum will give us face unlock in couple days im sure.
[Nexus S General] SupaDupaFly24:
I think it is very unsecure. It's a great feature to show off and that's it. And I agree there are way more important features in ICS than face unlock!
[Nexus S General] :
Course not, even Google points that out. It is however, a novel feature which iOS doesn't have, and that's what it ought be viewed as.
[Nexus S General] McDV:
Did you notice since today Flash Player supports Android 4? That might be a sign. ;)
[Nexus S General] zlogic42:
That's probably just for Verizon's Galaxy Nexus :(
[Nexus S General] SupaDupaFly24:
Yeah the update was released yesterday!

I don't think the OTA is coming today but I think we are very close to and update coming soon!!
[Nexus S General] darksideauto:
disregard my dumb
[Nexus S General] hp420:
yeah...this one lol...like 2-3 pages back :p
[Nexus S General] darksideauto:
lol im flip flopping between my phone and my pc. i must have missed it. sorry for the double post.
[Nexus S General] raducux:
Get real dudes... well be running official ICS next year. Lol...i hope im too wrong!
[Nexus S General] LuffyPSP:
sorry i made a typo. should be "us"
[Nexus S General] bdpyo:
Really? I was up there about 2 months ago maybe and didn't see anything like that. :/
[Nexus S General] bdff:
when google usually roll out their updates?
[Nexus S General] frenchbigdog:
I don't know.... I update manually every time...
[Nexus S General] bdff:
ah ok

it is 8 pm now,and nothing happened yet..
[Nexus S General] XCellPhoneSalesRep:
Sorry guys, had to drop the kids off @ the pool. i forgot to post the link with the screen shots of neXus S Android 4.0 help pages: http://support.google.com/ics/nexus/?hl=en&topic=2371275
[Nexus S General] bdff:
thx for the link..

in german they put nexus s in the list,but there is nothing <.<
[Nexus S General] :
Android dropped mass usb storage in 3.x. Nexus S won't have that feature.
[Nexus S General] ekerazha:
Google is rolling out 4.0.2 for the Galaxy Nexus GSM version... apparently, Nexus S will receive 4.1... so options are:

1) we will receive 4.0.2 soon

2) we will receive 4.1 not-so-soon (because they just released 4.0.2)

3) we will receive 4.1 soon, before the Galaxy Nexus (almost impossible)
[Nexus S General] bdpyo:
I think they will do 4.0 first just no clue when.
[Nexus S General] frenchbigdog:
Look here : Google announce Android 4.0.3, "the base version of ICS for partners".

http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/16/android-4-0-3-announced-brings-variety-of-optimizations-and-bu
[Nexus S General] McDV:
They wouldn't provide that help-page for Android 4.0 on Nexus S, if the update wasn't VERY short before release. Why should they? Maybe it won't be today, maybe not tomorrow, but it will be rather days than weeks.
[Nexus S General] SupaDupaFly24:
We are sooo close!! I'm excited!
[Nexus S General] McDV:
OK, then we'll get the OTA when the source of 4.0.3 is released. I guess that will be very soon.
[Nexus S General] prinz3nroll3:
hello,

page 58 and no ota update,

at page 100 we will get it ;)
[Nexus S General] wyk126:
Google just released 4.0.3

according to previous leaked Googler-tested build, which is 4.1 IML63B

so I guess we may get OTA after 4.0.4, 4.0.5, 4.0.6........4.0.9 and.....

4.1

then we will get it
[Nexus S General] X1111:
Google haven't love nexus s at all

i'm so disappointed....
[Nexus S General] Lordofminor:
I think we will get OTA when GN gets its 4.1 update
[Nexus S General] bdff:
please..........what are google doing..this ist just stupid.

Again we will have to wait .
[Nexus S General] athani:
Ok. I'd just seen a stray comment on some website that all developers with Nexus S were getting the update.

The wait continues...
[Nexus S General] Serious_Beans:
I know this is off topic but does that mean you can just build any aosp rom and it will run on another device you just need to have a kernel that has the proper drivers?
[Nexus S General] xsteven77x:
Wish someone would just ****king leak it already damn it!
[Nexus S General] VaKo:
Yes, and some of the drivers are closed source which is a hindrance. I think the move from 2.x to 3.x kernels is also a problem, but I honestly know little about that. So essentially while it is possible to build ASOP ROM's, they won't be as good as the official OTA until the OTA is leaked and the relevant drivers can be purloined.
[Nexus S General] tylercarter:
Same here!
[Nexus S General] simonb255:
What he said
[Nexus S General] bozzykid:
I know. Why should a Google employee care about keeping their job!
[Nexus S General] xsteven77x:
Exactly! /s
[Nexus S General] LordPhong:
Why can't they just release to us xda folks?
[Nexus S General] hp420:
not everyone who owns an employee model still works for them, you know....there are a few users on this website who have already said they have one and they don't work there. So why not stop with the sarcasm, since it doesn't make you look any smarter when you are wrong.
[Nexus S General] bozzykid:
And none of them have received the OTA update. They aren't going to do a slow rollout of an OTA that is sent to Google employees. No one here has reported receiving it. My guess is after the N1 fiasco (with lots of people outside of the company got early builds even test units), Google is keeping tighter control on the devices and keeping up to date with who owns them.
[Nexus S General] DirtyShroomz:
I'm pretty sure they know exactly which phones are registered to non employees

NS4G
[Nexus S General] albundy2010:
There was not any nexus one fiasco from what I recall.
[Nexus S General] apreichner:
Actually, the drivers are part of a vendor tree. And the kernel is tied pretty closely to the build itself. The android open source website is pretty detailed about it. While you can build a vanilla Android with no closed source parts and run it, it won't be very functional. The drivers are all closed source and they are called on by the rom framework a lot. So just because you have a kernel from some random phone, doesn't mean it will work. The framework may have methods that are calling on portions of the driver code that don't exist and vice versa. Which is why the cyanogenmod team is so talented. They have to do some crazy hacks on some of their roms just to get them to run on some phones. So yeah, everything is pretty integrated especially when it comes to HTC sense and Samsung roms.
[Nexus S General] 1902:
True, not all employees are getting the ota update.
[Nexus S General] hp420:
I saw a post from someone in the other thread talking about google employees getting the ota. The thread is now miraculously deleted, but they said they had gotten it and they were uploading it....and within 2 hours of that post, the thread was magically gone....methinks someone was worried about a lawsuit if they released it.
[Nexus S General] ragnarokx:
if that was true don't you think they would have uploaded it to a different forum and it would be all over the web by now?

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S General] HAKA:
Which thread are you talking about? Title please?

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[Nexus S General] shrivelfig:
Why would they upload it? Why not just publish the link to the original file?

Edit:

Actually, all that is needed is the original file name. All the OTA's have a common URL:

http://android.clients.google.com/packages/ota/google_crespo/filename.zip
[Nexus S General] athani:
By extension, aren't the file names also in some known format? Something like release_build.zip.
[Nexus S General] McDV:
Don't be silly, guys. The 4.0.3-SDK is released, look here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0.3.html

If the SDK is released, they won't leave it a long time without a phone running it. As they personally say, 4.0.3 shall be the base version. So the Nexus S will receive 4.0.3.

Further, at the moment they seem to release a lot of stuff. The GN-OTA, the 4.0.3 SDK. Remember, they don't even update all the phones of a kind at the same time, but in waves. So they surely won't roll out the SNS-OTA before the majority of GNs is updated.
[Nexus S General] gimiento:
Maybe if we all go out and buy ice cream sandwiches and then collectively and simultaneously take a bite a high energy ICS beam will be created releasing the OTA.
[Nexus S General] X1111:
by this manner HOW can wait for future ota after 4.0.1 ??!!!!!

can we expect Google to solve the bugs ??

i think Google is telling that to all NS users :(
[Nexus S General] bdff:
how long do you think will it take?

...

3 Updates of ice cream sandwich,no love for nexus s yet
[Nexus S General] ekerazha:
lol :D

/10chars
[Nexus S General] jesusice:
It's certainly worth a try :)

Sent from my sexily curvy Crespo4G running the latest CM9 kang. Jealous?
[Nexus S General] bdff:
i think we should steal a nexus s from a googler (?)
[Nexus S General] :
4.0.99 more like :)
[Nexus S General] X1111:
nexus one users are laughing us and you guys are just kidding !!!
[Nexus S General] jvanlew:
LOL. That's hilarious.

*runs out to grocery store and buys a pack of ice cream sandwiches*
[Nexus S General] rasengan82:
ugh, now next year GN users will be having their own OTA thread for Android 5??? lol
[Nexus S General] frenchbigdog:
Sure they will !
[Nexus S General] mELIANTE:
Jellypie?:D
[Nexus S General] AllGamer:
GN already got their first 4.1 OTA to fix a lot of the bugs with the first release of the phone
[Nexus S General] athani:
Yea, so much for the great "Nexus" experience :D
[Nexus S General] illizit:
I don't understand. What is the latest version? 4.01 or 4.1 or 4.02 or 4.03 or..back to 4.1 again? LOL..
[Nexus S General] Rblacula:
4.02 is current for Galaxy Nexus now and 4.03 is going to be rolled out soon to GalNex, other phones, and other tablets.