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[Galaxy S II General] Kailkti:
Waa but the iphone has just as good apps as the android and in everu aspect. Moreover in some aspects the apps are world's beyond android in functionality. So to call it a feature phone is a bit of a stretch.

$1 gets you a reply
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
The Asus Prime's a good example. They were all frothing to get ICS. When it was released, it was kind of a yawn and really didn't do much except improve the aesthetics. It bonked tethering and a lot of apps aren't ICS compatible yet. Some users reverted to HC. 3.0 (HC) already had h/w acceleration so there wasn’t a big performance boost.

For a fast phone like the SGS2 there should be a performance boost because 2.X didn't employ h/w acceleration. And the aesthetics and usability (absent TW) are much improved. But, at the end of the day, the OS sits in the background so depending on what you actually use the phone for ICS (especially with TW) won't seem terribly different.
[Galaxy S II General] downwiththebanksters:
I'm willing to give them time, so we don't have any bugs, but it would also be cool to be the first flagship handset upgraded (are we?? has an HTC or LG or Googorola been upgraded yet?)!
[Galaxy S II General] Honchay:
It gonna be released before April, Im pretty sure ;)
[Galaxy S II General] terranhms:
We wait ICS, but i still do not think that ICS will solve all the bugs, i think they must be honest with customers, they must at least tell that, `Yes guys, we gonna give you this update till ..... for sure. and do not expect any update till .....` Or maybe this is way that to push us update our phones trough ODIN to UNOFFICIAL ICS, then we can loose our warranty. Honestly, i do not like their service about this, they like a forget about us, that is my opinion, agree or not, Samsung has no good service about updates and etc.
[Galaxy S II General] killall:
When you buy a pc with win 7 installed, you expect and get updates to win 7, however you do not get win 8, because you bought a win 7 pc.

We bought a handset with gingerbread on it. We can expect and demand updates to gingerbread, but we did not buy a handset with ICS on it, so why should we have the right to demand the upgrade???
[Galaxy S II General] nursespecialist:
Paience is still the best virtue..
[Galaxy S II General] ionut.micu:
Acording to Sammobile: "Samsung will start with Ice Cream Sandwich updates this month for the Galaxy S II."
[Galaxy S II General] anshmiester78900:
I just want to kill someone right now :mad:
[Galaxy S II General] Li4m79:
This.........
[Galaxy S II General] anshmiester78900:
You sir you made my day :D
[Galaxy S II General] Atomix86:
Android is a free, open source OS. Comparing it to Windows is wrong, you should instead compare it to Linux.
[Galaxy S II General] Ingvarr:
I think with Linux it's even worse, if you buy PC with Linux, you generally on your own except quite basic support. You'd definitely couldn't expect them to provide free major upgrades for you.

Since its open system, you can, however, manage to upgrade yourself/by homebrew OS builds. Which is already being done for SGSII and dozen of other android devices.
[Galaxy S II General] Madarox:
When is the I9100G getting ICS ? Is it getting it this month along with the I9100 ? Sorry for noobie question.
[Galaxy S II General] Sizuke:
Mother of God!!!
[Galaxy S II General] cottino:
android is open source, not firmware.

It's slightly different
[Galaxy S II General] Ingvarr:
What shocks you so? Buying PC with Linux is basically paying for just hardware, you don't pay for (free) OS, and some PC suppliers provide this option. It's somewhat better than selling PC with clean hard drive (unbootable) or one which drops you to DOS prompt.
[Galaxy S II General] Jeegsawk:
Of course you have never heard of ubuntu online release advancement or mandriva online update or so. You know, many Linux distros have kind of ota upgrade. You are right when you say android is more like Linux so the users expect to get free and constant upgrades

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[Galaxy S II General] port76:
so the prediction for ics was wrong about 1St of march we are on the 2nd and still no official ics does any one know when it will be released
[Galaxy S II General] Ingvarr:
A lot of people miss one important difference between current mobile devices and PCs though.

PCs use open and wide-established hardware standards. Like x86 architecture (not just instruction set), PC BIOS specs, PCI, USB *HCI, ACPI, and tons of others.

Also there is established architecture of OS which utilizes this architecture, where each hardware piece plugs into PC using open hardware interface spec and OS driver spec.

Android (and other mobile OS) devices lack all of this. They have quite a lot of own hardware standards, but they a lot less stringent then PC ones, they all mostly optional and device developer could throw them in together in any fashion imaginable. Which requires you to build whole OS for each new device. This creates needed significant workload, which placed usually on device developer (which is not very willing to do this for long).

Maybe situation will change in the future...
[Galaxy S II General] Frostfree:
There's been no official statement from Samsung, so who knows?
[Galaxy S II General] Jeegsawk:
I know it but I am not telling

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[Galaxy S II General] RorixRebel:
omg you too?

we shall never tell our secret

its my precious!!
[Galaxy S II General] Sckank:
I have heard about the 15 this month from my source.
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
I hear speculation gives urinary tract infections.
[Galaxy S II General] DaveinSoCal:
i hope that ICS is worth the wait, at the same time I know a ROM will come out soon after and be better than what Samsung will give us.
[Galaxy S II General] xstarbuckx:
My spirit guide said it will happen on the 21st of December 2012..................or was he talking about something else, I never listen to it anyway because who wants to talk to an ghost ant with a wheel for a leg
[Galaxy S II General] officiallyme:
is there a reason why so many feel the need to spam all over this thread?

no offense, but aren't there enough off-topic threads somewhere else?
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
Boredom and lack of updates = Itchy ORD (Obsessive ROM update Disorder)
[Galaxy S II General] xstarbuckx:
Just trying to keep a smile on our faces
[Galaxy S II General] vcosmin:
rili?

on windows i can buy windows 8 and, guess what... UPGRADE MY WINDOWS...

on a MAC i can buy and... you got the picture, right?

So, please, keep that philosophy to yourself!!!!

in mobile world, you cannot buy an upgrade so i am expecting it.

But is a usual deal for samy to screw us, just ask Omnia users, Galaxy S users. those poor galaxy s users won't even have hopes...
[Galaxy S II General] bahaa89:
http://www.youmobile.org/blogs/entr...-Update-for-the-Galaxy-S-II-coming-this-Month
[Galaxy S II General] vcosmin:
shore they will.

This months there will be New Guinea, then in April Trinidad Tobago, in June Mauritius...
[Galaxy S II General] channdy:
Yes, i am waiting for official ics long time. Hope it will release soon :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] titan87:
I have a Transformer ePad. Just to see what the performance difference was like going from HC to ICS, I ran Quadrant pre- & post-upgrade. It went from ~1,500 to over 2,400. That's a huge increase... Based on this I would expect more going from GB to ICS.
[Galaxy S II General] keijames:
IF google do not approve it, pls release as leak beta again.

http://www.sammobile.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/I9100.png
[Galaxy S II General] stijnec:
Why would Google have to approve? ICS was created by Google, can't imagine they will reject their own software?

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[Galaxy S II General] meranto:
Are you not ready to add the poor SGS2-users to the list, since this might well be the last major upgrade the SGS2 will see?

Maybe we will see a nice value pack 'upgrade' to 'Android 5' after weeks of petitioning.
[Galaxy S II General] chakata:
great!

i waiting for delicious ics!:)
[Galaxy S II General] atep:
I hope I won't have to wait next 3 months till the update is avalible in my country.:confused:
[Galaxy S II General] TheAlteredState:
LOL! I think I have that problem....:p
[Galaxy S II General] fredphoesh:
As Bob Dylan says, don't criticise what you don't understand. Save your breath for useful comments, not ones to prove your superiority.

Personally I AM excited about ICS on sgs2.
[Galaxy S II General] terranhms:
Guys, what do you expect from ICS ??? :D:D, You think your mobile phone gonna fly with powerful rockets ?? , Early or Late we all gonna have this `HOLLY` ICS, for now, lets enjoy with GB..., After updating to ICS, we gonna wait JellyBone, BigCake, SweetCandy, LovelyPoo etc. updates. Till that time i think lets have a deep breath, and enjoy what we have now, OF COURSE i am angry on SAMSUNG TOOOO!!!!, and OF COURSE I know that it is Big Lie that the ROM is not READY for SGS2,!!!!!, But what we can do?? ABSOLUTE NOTHING!!!, till they release the OFFICIAL HOLLY MAGIC ICS, we just need to sit on our chairs, take a beer and read all news around about it, Am i right??? (sorry for my incredable English )) ::D:D
[Galaxy S II General] xstarbuckx:
Its my understanding that ics will bring some nice extras mainly the hardware acceleration as well as better bat life
[Galaxy S II General] terranhms:
Of course it will, but i mean, it can not turn a bee to an elephant right?, for a little bit improvement we just not have to lost our minds (mad, crazy etc.) :D, The main think is whatever, or whenever it comes, it will have certainly many bugs (it is my opinion!!), so that will not make us fully happy (it is for sure). So lets wait and see what Google and Samsung Offer to us ;), Lets hope to get the most stable, less buggy ICS update. GB is not bad OS, i used official GB, Using, and maybe will use more few weeks, (I hope) :D:D, My phone is now working like a charm :), I am sure your guys also ;), so lets RELAX !! Already we have ferrari, now we just wait for cool rims for it ;)
[Galaxy S II General] xstarbuckx:
Im in no rush only just gone from s1 to s2 in the past week so happy with the speed
[Galaxy S II General] terranhms:
Oh, i think you can explain us your experience about it, (i had never use s1), what is the most exiting thing in S2 for you?? just speed??
[Galaxy S II General] ucarcamagnu:
Hello. May I ask you what ICS 4.0.3 will bring more to my current GB 2.3.5?
[Galaxy S II General] sxi200:
You'll be able to go into settings / about and see a new version number.

Those who are dying for ics, we already have it in the leaked betas. Official will be the same but stable. People are acting like it's going to be completely different.

Sent from my GT-I9100T
[Galaxy S II General] Eggmoon:
ICS in Carrier testing

The Vodafone Australia website says that 4.0.3 ICS for the Galaxy S2 has been delivered to them from Samsung, and they they are currently testing it.

So, Samsung have finished their part... now all the carriers should have it for their tests and customisations....
[Galaxy S II General] B97:
At this time ICS for the GSII is practically finished, looking at the latest news it just needs to go through google and unlocked European models (in Europe) should have it within days.
[Galaxy S II General] xstarbuckx:
Well the S1 is a great phone and was the first smart phone Ive ever had so was blown away. I started to get tired of 2.3.5 found it laggy and just showing its age. I then read how it wasnt going to be getting an official ics so at that point I took the plunge and hit the roms, mainly cm9 and was shocked at how smooth it ran and just how much TW took out of the phone this made me want more POWER lol so after a round of ebay auctions selling off some of my stuff and the fact it was my 30th I popped for the s2. I really love the screen size (just right) which is strange as when I saw the size of the phone compared to the S1 i thought it looked to big and clumsy but after a week Ive discovered I know sod all lol. Only downside is the battery life but I brought a samsung 2000mah battery kit and seems fine, only just had the battery so need to run it in a bit to see how it last.

All in all very happy with the S2
[Galaxy S II General] Eggmoon:
I am thinking it IS finished... form Samsungs point of view anyway.

As I said.... Vodafone Australia said they have it from Samsung and are curretly testing... so yes... unbranded models should be getting it very soon....
[Galaxy S II General] uridium_uk:
Well I'm hoping Samsung have added their own Email app as the stock ICS email app llacks a lot of exchange functionality...

all of the leaked beta's had the stock ICS Email app....
[Galaxy S II General] DEREKTROTTER:
I rooted my SG2 on 2.3.5 but im wanting to update to 4.0 on release

should i revert the root or wouldnt i need to?
[Galaxy S II General] roswell782:
Flash lph with odin

3 files is enough

Code in pda

Modem in phone

Csc in csc

No tick repartition or other things already tick

No need to unroot your actual version

Do that and you won't get any problem, of course you can make your wipe in CWM if you want before flashing, that's the way i did!

That's it!
[Galaxy S II General] ronhoover88:
Check out the user manuals

http://www.samsung.com/hk_en/support/model/GT-I9100OIATGY-downloads?isManualDownload=true
[Galaxy S II General] SnowWaltz:
i am dying

dammit, i am so excited!

Just flashed resurrection remix v9.4 and holyshiet i am loving the "early" ICS experience...

Can't wait to see the official ICS roms in action :O

Hopefully all the silly minor bugs will go away ;3

and once again, i am proud to be an owner of a SGSII (and not an iphone)
[Galaxy S II General] dorian95:
Monday should be release date definetly!
[Galaxy S II General] MaFiBoSS:
I also believe it is this week. :D
[Galaxy S II General] rajarshi10:
Probably 15th of March. Sammobile said MID march today.
[Galaxy S II General] daniel_dedeman:
Me too!15th March.
[Galaxy S II General] Elistheman:
No one at Vodafone Australia can leak it? damn....
[Galaxy S II General] sloanyboy:
this is the 3rd check for update popup without an an actual update iv had this week, just do it already dammit.

anyone else having this?
[Galaxy S II General] dorian95:
Yeah, I also have it, Sammy is just obviously ready to release it, but seems something blocking it, annoying to be honest.

Why we should wait for March 15, if firmware is already ready and tested?:confused:
[Galaxy S II General] Da_Mak:
I did not look the last posts and threads. But we are talking about ICS for i9100.

What about it on i9100g?
[Galaxy S II General] chrisjcks:
I very happy with GB, once ICS drops - not all your apps will work, so what's the rush....

Not to mention, waiting for root, custom kernels, tegrak & voodoo louder support, etc
[Galaxy S II General] remo31:
I don't believe we will get it before gs3 will be released. That's logical for me. New model should get it first to boost it's sale.

Sent from my gs2
[Galaxy S II General] Molitro:
At this point we can be pretty much certain that's not gonna happen.
[Galaxy S II General] the4finger:
I highly doubt this. The GS3 will have TW5 to boost it's sales where as the GS2 will only has TW4 splashed ontop of ICS
[Galaxy S II General] Orenium:
Samsung Israel confirmed march 15 to be the official release date of ICS for the SGS II (in Israel).

Source:

well I can't post the link since I'm a new user, but you can see it in the official facebook page of "Samsung Mobile IL"
[Galaxy S II General] rajarshi10:
A screenshot maybe?

Edit: Here's the statement

"We promised that we're working on it. You waited patiently. On 15 March it comes: the Android version 4, ICS, tens of thousands of the devices purchased GALAXY SII cellular companies in the country or directly from us. We here are very excited for the launch, hope you :) "

HURRAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! \o/ \o/
[Galaxy S II General] Liran Israel:
Thats true!!!

That's true, Samsung Mobile Israel Says in their Facebook that in the 15 to this month we will get Android 4 ICS for Galaxy S II (FOTA). israeli roms are coming with with menus in Hebrew:), Arabic, Russian and English.

The source MSG is written in Hebrew so screen-shot is useless for you.
[Galaxy S II General] Millarmusic:
Sorry for sound like spammin but TubeMate is back on market HD Video Downloads...would tell everyone as itll be took off soon as last time
[Galaxy S II General] MaFiBoSS:
So let's wait a few more days until March 15...:D

Waiting for ICS...:p
[Galaxy S II General] Jeegsawk:
Well said. On my side if ics would have come out before next week I would not have upgraded as Viber was not working...

What is the purpose of upgrading if you cannot use your favourite apps anymore?

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[Galaxy S II General] Da_Mak:
Samsung announced officially CS in March for SGS2, so lets wait for it.

I don't think it will come after SGS3.
[Galaxy S II General] dorian95:
Damn, I thought SamMobile have ICS before 15 of March ;/
[Galaxy S II General] Burgscheinkerkdeiktraast:
Ha! I said "15th" when most of you were screaming about ICS at 1st :D
[Galaxy S II General] rajarshi10:
If ISRAEL gets it on 15th, Netherlands & other major European countries will get it earlier :D :D
[Galaxy S II General] Jeegsawk:
Why?

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[Galaxy S II General] rajarshi10:
Cause thats how it should be. Cant expect Israel to get it first :P
[Galaxy S II General] dorian95:
I guess 15 of March is worldwide internation model, but why the hell it's such a delay, if firmware already done and tested? Why they can't release it right now?

Even SamMobiles don't know anything, very strange.
[Galaxy S II General] wltklah:
I can't agree more on this.
[Galaxy S II General] v1rtu4l:
i can only think of this here http://blog.gsmarena.com/android-4-0-4-update-not-found/ being a cause for this.

since the leaks where all 4.0.3 and this version is causing other samsung devices (namely the galaxy nexus and the nexus s) problems and issues, samsung might probably wait for a more stable/mature build of android ICS to release the first update. it would be of no help if users that where happy with GB before got this ICS update and have less functionality, because 4.0.3 is flawed!

it could even be that google did tell samsung that the current 4.0.3 is not stable enough and that they should wait until google brings out a real fixed ICS version.

it does tell you something when google pulls the updates for the nexus devices
[Galaxy S II General] vichimp:
Viber has ubgrade app and is working wery good on ICS now....
[Galaxy S II General] me_max:
Do you mean, Samsung is testing a greater version than public ICS? I don't think so, since shipping to providers already has begun. Apart from that, it will be interesting if/how Samsung circumvents the actual ICS issues.
[Galaxy S II General] v1rtu4l:
no, i mean to say that google has the power to force samsung not to release a 4.0.3 build if google thinks this build is bad/flawed.

this would be bad because we already saw the leaked samsung roms with 4.0.3 which means samsung already put work into that build.

if google does pull the updates for the nexus phones because it thinks 4.0.3 is crap they could tell samsung to do the same (pull the software update).

google have that power: if you remember back in the days of the galaxy S (1) google forced samsung to deactivate the inbuilt AGPS-method (of a competitor of google) nearly a few weeks before release of the phones and so samsung hastily deactivated and many users reported bad GPS signal and so on.

google did this once and might do it again
[Galaxy S II General] me_max:
There are too many ifs :) Given that Samsung officially will release ICS soon and we have seen serveral betas my bet is that we will see a 4.0.3 or greater. Maybe Samsung and Google will deliver even a 4.0.4 same day. However, this seems rather unrealistic.
[Galaxy S II General] bulldozer1210:
good

i think i can get the ics firmware in this weak.

maybe it`s possible.

because so many people in korea predict (samsung will do the upgrade in this weak:))
[Galaxy S II General] bpivk:
What's the rush? Even when we get ISC there are still some open questions:

- If our USB jigs work (if we can flash old bootloader without adverse effects)

- If chaninfires remove Triangle app still works

- If we can simply root new ICS on our phones

- If all our existing apps/games are compatible

And last but not least (my personal opinion):

- When will an official stable stock ICS build come without TW but with all the functions (tethering and FM radio) and possibly a custom kernel

So as you can see I'll wait and see how it develops. :)
[Galaxy S II General] Jeegsawk:
Yes, but the updated Viber came out last week

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[Galaxy S II General] brainimpact:
I have couple of friends who work at Samsung in various roles and locations, any way one told Me to check for the ICS Update Thursday in the UK, I'm now trying to get this confirmed by another Guy I know who is more Senior
[Galaxy S II General] fatjivi:
Hope they release it soon...ive given up on buggy ics roms in circulation
[Galaxy S II General] maikelcrespo:
There are rom's better than the official version now
[Galaxy S II General] wonderstoat:
Which would you recommend?

Ideally one with full instructions on installation for a noob. Something that uses Odin perhaps ...
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
As their is no official version sounds like more nonsense posted .

jje
[Galaxy S II General] dorian95:
I hate Sammy for their bad communications with users. No exact date/no news/facts about firmware/no nothing.
[Galaxy S II General] nickmax1:
yup sounds like jibberish to me!!
[Galaxy S II General] oborazan:
what about current apps?

I heard somewhere that current apps won't be fully compatible with ICS. Is this true?
[Galaxy S II General] terranhms:
When we gonna update our phones to ICS with Kies, will our Apps gonna stay ?? or it gonna be WIPED at all ?? thanks
[Galaxy S II General] i1allz:
Even if official ICS is out right now, I will not update until Siyah kernel for ICS is released ... :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
I'd rather have vague communications and no release date than a solid communication with a postponement notice on that day. No point in rushing things like other manufacturers (Sony, LG, etc.) whom I've had bad experiences with. (Buggy builds released, postpone of a Gingerbread release on their FLAGSHIP PHONE when Gingerbread was already close to a year old).

Kudos to Samsung for following through on a first quarter release.
[Galaxy S II General] Krookd:
I think i will wait until there is a stable pure Rom on here. Can't go back to touchwiz, would just feel like a downgrade.
[Galaxy S II General] brar.arsh:
Use CM9, Only things broken are USB, Video Recording.. Very stable rom..
[Galaxy S II General] Liran Israel:
what is shiyaKernal?
[Galaxy S II General] i1allz:
A legendary kernel with feature-rich and battery friendly . ;)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1263838
[Galaxy S II General] snas281:
watch this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1263838

:D:D
[Galaxy S II General] ricardoglenn:
I am in no hurry to see ICS for the Galaxy SII released. I'd rather have a stable version instead, and give Samsung time to identify and deal with the major bugs before they release it. I have ICS on my asus Transformer, and it still has some bugs, even if it works pretty well in general. But if having a new OS means having your tablet's camera freezing everytime you use it...
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
Once source is released (A month or so after ICS ROM is pushed to all phones), we'll see a Siyah ICS kernel... That's what everyone in the community is holding its breath for: Source code.
[Galaxy S II General] j2002:
But, do you think Samsung is working or only expending time?
[Galaxy S II General] stuclark:
A new rumour "posted by Samfirmware" states 13th march for the ICS release
[Galaxy S II General] j2002:
¿Link?

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[Galaxy S II General] sachs:
It seems pregnancy.....:confused: