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[General Questions and Answers] wdmfs:
i made the flashing: i had to format the sd card and then one of the offered htc roms worked.

but still no connection to the PC - and the standby consumes as much power as switched on - so full charge in the evening - no use in the night - empty in the morning

What can it be? and for the connection issue - can i debug the USB connection somehow - if something is sendet at all??
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] FcKx:
Hi, i just wanted to know if there is a way to include some of my favorite apps into the MiniCM7 ROM, and remove some i don't use. I want to make a clean install and avoid installing/uninstalling all the applications i use.

Also it will be really good if i can automatically include into the build.prop, when flashing the customized ROM, additional lines like the MegaBass tweak, the Google Maps line for the Maps caching, etc.

It will make a one-click clean install of the Rom!
[General Questions and Answers] raunakrajvanshi:
just flashed cosmic xperia for my optimus one now i cant download whatapp ! DEVICE NOT SUPPORTED
[Galaxy S II General] anshmiester78900:
Finally samsung reveled :D

"We know you have been waiting and we're thrilled today to announce that we'll start serving Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to GALAXY Note and GALAXY S II in the first quarter of 2012.

In addition, other ICS-upgradable GALAXY devices include GALAXY S II LTE, GALAXY R, GALAXY Tab 10.1, GALAXY Tab 8.9, GALAXY Tab 7.7 and GALAXY Tab 7.0 Plus.

Separate announcements on details of the OS update will be made soon, so stay with us on our Facebook & Twitter communities for more updates!"

http://www.facebook.com/notes/samsu...ch-upgrade-for-galaxy-devices/328795820483403

[UPDATE]

Europe and Asia got the much anticipated ICS update .
[Galaxy S II General] Laird_Attwood:
Was just about to post this after seeing their tweet. :) not long
[Galaxy S II General] anshmiester78900:
Its not far ..! Also Samsung is improving when it comes to Updates .!
[Galaxy S II General] bala_gamer:
Great work by sammy actually!! its just a matter of time before we get the leaks....
[Galaxy S II General] betadan:
I am looking forward to this like the rest of us. However we need to take into account that delays (ATT i897 Gingerbread) aren't necessarily Samsungs fault. Quite often it is the carrier that causes the delays. So for those that are on ATT for example may have to wait longer then the rest of the world. Hopefully this is not the case.
[Galaxy S II General] Virtualsk:
Actual news came from. ...

http://global.samsungtomorrow.com/?p=8894
[Galaxy S II General] t0ph0id:
This could still be 3 months away though, that's ages!!
[Galaxy S II General] Logi_Ca1:
Yup, Q1 is January to March. Who knows we might get it on the 31st of March :D
[Galaxy S II General] marcadam:
At least samsung is quicker than lg, it took them a whole year to update the optimius 2x from froyo to gingerbread. Really looking forward to ICS, hopefully it will land late January early February. I'm sure we'll have CM9 sometime in January.
[Galaxy S II General] Logi_Ca1:
+1. I was shocked when I read about the Gingerbread update for the O2X being released recently. I assumed all along it had Gingerbread. Shame on you, LG!
[Galaxy S II General] Sharpen3d:
Speaking as someone who had to wait well over a year before my last phone *finally* got freaking Froyo (and was told it was never getting Gingerbread) this is a welcome and ambitious announcement. Here's to hoping Docomo can get on the same page as quickly as Samsung.
[Galaxy S II General] akbarirfan:
Looking forward to this - but I am still a noob enjoying all the custom roms the devs have to offer.
[Galaxy S II General] titooo7:
Yeah, that's ages,but be honest... do you REALLY need this update? I bet your phone works perfectly and you still would be absolutely happy even if ICS didn't exist yet.
[Galaxy S II General] soulicro:
Seeing as we're already getting leaks, I would be surprised if the official ROM for international users would take that long to come out.
[Galaxy S II General] tjtj4444:
Why do you think that? The current status rather clearly points to a february/march release.

Current leaks are unstable, so probably a month more development for decent stability, then comes a period of wider testing (all different carriers and Samsung sales companies in different countries), probably some certifications made in parallell as well. Now we're in end of january or later...

Then some bug fixes once again after these tests. And some additional tests of course after these fixes.

I cannot see any possibility for an official release before mid-february, probably a bit later in March.

But of course, the leaks in january used for wider tests might be pretty good for all-day use, so if you don't require official releases you don't have to wait that long.
[Galaxy S II General] h20pt:
What a clever way of "stealing" us 3 months... :(
[Galaxy S II General] soulicro:
Because its not like the devs on here that do these things on their free time - the developers at Samsung working on the port are paid to do so, its their job, and they have to work on it several hours a day, every day.

But I might be an optimist. In any case, I'm sure a good enough leak will come along sooner than expected that is beneficial to the devs.
[Galaxy S II General] Mittaa:
Agree - my SGSII is rooted so I got rid of all bloat-ware.

It's fast and battery is good :)
[Galaxy S II General] ParanoidDK:
They say Q1 now, but if we look back at the updates they have done before they relese a update, that breaks something, then pull it again work on it for a month or 3 before releasing it again...

But that have ofc more been a kies problem then a update problem. Can remember when i had the Galaxy S and that got the GB update, that left the users in download mode, when updating over kies...
[Galaxy S II General] xethor:
Does this mean that the leaks are non-indicative of the actual update, and we will indeed get ICS launcher/TW5?
[Galaxy S II General] rbimdxe:
This is a common problem with the world and, more particularly, the "Technology Generation".

Admittedly I too suffer this at times, and am keen to get things Express Posted and downloaded as soon as possible etc etc, but I can still be patient.

It's something alot of people these days don't have; patience. It's all "I WANT this now" or "I NEED this now" - when in fact, you don't.

People were perfectly capable of living just 20 years ago when every single person owning a mobile phone would be a laughable idea, now there's some ridiculous number of mobiles out there - a couple for every person in the world, even enough for Third World Countries - but again, it's the expectancy of getting everything immediately that drives this thought pattern.

Ah. #firstworldproblems.

/ramblings far too old for someone my age.
[Galaxy S II General] hIdd3N-:
keep cool guize. sammy will delivar soon!
[Galaxy S II General] Znuf:
bad topic....
[Galaxy S II General] walidhiphop:
i'll say that samsung will give us the ICS in the next two weeks......i think....
[Galaxy S II General] lordjester:
You would think with are the rumors on the web and forums about ics being released today that samsung would simply say No it isn't! They don't have to issue a date or anything! Stop all the nonsense and rumors..!!
[Galaxy S II General] Bodisson:
Sorry... what???

What immenent update?

Customers are not supposed to get any update, they are supposed to be happy with what they bought.

Look at my sig... Touch HD NEVER received official update to WM 6.5. And visible from my sig, it's more than powerful to run it. So, was I supposed to sue HTC? Hit them with a baseball bat?

It's only phone producers goodwill to provide update... and even that might be blocked by local provider.

It's phone producers obligation to correct critical bugs in software you bought... but that is entirely another matter. And that is called bugfix. Or something like that. Not update.

BTW, if you go from Windows XP to Windows 7, do you update? Or upgrade? Hmmm???

So be nice and wait for official Sammy's goodwill... NHF, eh?
[Galaxy S II General] Starlight!:
(I made this long post with information. I have a new user, so I can't post links)

Short version:

I think this started the rumors.

@SMTHSCN We will be offering Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade for selected GALAXY devices starting first (cont)

Continued with this.

"@SMTHSCN We will be offering Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade for selected GALAXY devices starting first quarter 2012."

This confirmed what you guys here have been saying

"@robmlbaker Hi Rob, no exact date has been confirmed yet, we will be offering Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade for selected GALAXY devices starting first quarter 2012."
[Galaxy S II General] andy j:
From Samsung

"@DanKing90 Ice Cream Sandwich will not be released today, we have confirmed that the roll out will begin for selected Galaxy devices starting first quarter 2012. When the update is made available, we will let you know. Details here: http://bit.ly/uANhnt"

Maybe we can all stop asking about this now.
[Galaxy S II General] mcvigo:
Coming from an iphone, android in general sucks that you have to wait months for an update.

Why this happens is because companies release like 15 devices per year.

They should release 3 devices per year imo, a high end, mid end, and lo end.

I like android alot but this is one of the major downfalls of being such an open source.
[Galaxy S II General] xZeDgEx:
Ummm yea, Androids market share says otherwise..

:p
[Galaxy S II General] bally3:
You just nailed it right there. !00% correct.
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
Misinformation here... Companies do *NOT* release 15 devices a year, they release as you've said, roughly 3. Maybe one or two more in some company's cases... Samsung isn't an example, because Samsung distributes their phones between regions. Makes it hard for them to support.

The problem with Android is not the open source, it's how they regulate companies on using their mobile OS. They want to avoid fragmentation, but have not done so in a justified manner because they can't control the companies. Apple can control it because they produce the OS and they produce the phone. Noone else can make an iphone, noone else can use iOS. The positive of this deregulation of Google's own Mobile OS though? They became a very important part of the market share REALLY quickly because they had so many phones and solutions from multiple companies to compete with the BIG ALLMIGHTY IPHONE.

Each company handles their updates differently. Samsung is actually one of the better ones out there ever since the SGS2... I've updated my phone, what... 12 times with different Gingerbread bases? And I haven't had it for a year yet. As opposed to my LG phone which had 2 updates. One bugfix edition and one "Update" to Gingerbread which broke everything. And this is in the same timeframe as the SGS2.

To make Android anything similar to iphone, Google would need to impose standard specs for all low end, all mid range and all high end phones. They'd need to set a Service Level Agreement with users for upgrades that's standard across companies and they'd need to bundle easily customizable upgrade packages to companies so they can plug in their code, compile and rollout within a reasonable timeframe. This though, will never happen because they add their own interfaces which screws up massively with AOSP structure (Sense being the best example, it's nothing like Android is supposed to be?).

Google already took a step in the right direction: Forcing companies to keep their overall ICS theme on the next rollout. Baby steps...
[Galaxy S II General] mcvigo:
Well the number 15 isn't exact.

I agree, samsung is one of the better ones support wise, but its not perfect. HTC has very good dev and support too back when I had an inspire. Other companies like motorola and LG suck.

I think Android should be a bit more closed, have quality control, like windows phone where phones have to use the same specs, that way more app compatibility would be achieved. Have you played fruit ninja on a galaxy ace? Lags alot!

By having the same specs, updates would be alot more easy to make. Since samsung for example has to do updates for tegra 2 devices, exynos, snapdragon etc etc.

Also I don't like the idea of phones being released by regions. The only variant I can understand is LTE vs 4g.
[Galaxy S II General] Frostfree:
I was expressing sarcasm in light of the obsessive anticipation for ICS. For the first time I don't give a monkeys about the next version as the phone's almost perfect as it is. Not sure what the killer feature of ICS is, I just can't comprehend the hysteria.
[Galaxy S II General] chipko3k:
Omg.. I just connected into kies and got I've cream sandwich on my galaxy

S2!

Luckily, not much and the ice cream didn't melt into the home button.

(I'm sorry, I couldn't resist!)
[Galaxy S II General] Burgscheinkerkdeiktraast:
Yup - ICS except other look doesn't provide any "milestone" updates for phones. It is just another update, but this time a little bigger than usual.
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
Why do people want to switch from the iphone 3GS to the iphone 4? Nothing major there either... Why did everyone want to switch from the 4 to the 4S? Nothing major there either... It's all a question of creating needs. As alot of people say, Third world problems.
[Galaxy S II General] Frostfree:
Wasn't the iPhone 4 a hardware upgrade to the 3GS? It had a better design, retina display and overall hardware upgrade, so I could understand that upgrade. Don't get me wrong I want ICS, but I can't see the 'killer features' that's driving the current levels of obsession.
[Galaxy S II General] DaveinSoCal:
Very cool pic.
[Galaxy S II General] roymustafa:
They say ICS is on teh way ..."ICS update on the way for SGS2 9at least in Russia) - Samsung ready to deliver it and waiting for Google approval only (from Feb, 21)"
[Galaxy S II General] s1lenz:
so its march 1st.. where's the official ics release....
[Galaxy S II General] Burgscheinkerkdeiktraast:
Not again....
[Galaxy S II General] rtimoff:
from Eldar Murtazin couple minutes ago
[Galaxy S II General] krazykat:
He's either trolling - or he just has to be right. LOL. Oh wait - that's the same thing.
[Galaxy S II General] dorian95:
What he meant by "on the way for SGS2 9at least in Russia" ? :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] Jeegsawk:
+1

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[Galaxy S II General] Toss3:
Covering up the fact that he was wrong.
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
http://www.sammobile.com/2012/03/01/official-ice-cream-sandwich-updates-by-samsung/
[Galaxy S II General] brar.arsh:
He meant "on the way for SGS2 (at least in Russia)"

he missed to press the "shift" key.. lol
[Galaxy S II General] dorian95:
Lol, cheers mate, didnt thought about that, actually, makes sense now.

Of course it's on the way, not only in Russia for sure, but why he didnt mentioned any dates :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] krazykat:
Just so he sounds right that GOOGLE is stopping them from releasing. Ultimately - no evidence to believe he is until the build.prop is verified.
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
3G to 3GS was a lackluster upgrade... 3GS to 4 did have some value, but still. 3GS owners were still content... 4 to 4S was a joke. But still, masses flooded stores everytime a new version came out. Same applies to iOS, new versions weren't massive updates everytime, but people flood to install them. It's all a question of having something shiny and new I guess. ;) Most people just don't know why they want it, they just do...
[Galaxy S II General] dorian95:
Empire of evil :D

Probably, they will give their "yes" only in mid-march, but guys from samfirmware should have latest final build leak I guess, it's all matter of time.
[Galaxy S II General] daniel_dedeman:
From Samfirmware twitter:

Firmware: I9100XWLA3_I9100FRELA1_FRE http://www.sammobile.com/firmware

3h ago.

What is this?
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
LA3 is probably a Gingerbread ROM...

I9100XWLA3 french provider "free mobile"

- PDA : I9100XWLA3

- PHONE : I9100XXKI4

- CSC : I9100FRELA1

- PCode: GT-I9100LKAFRE

-release date : 12/01/2012

Same as LA2 and LA4, but french carrier ROM.
[Galaxy S II General] rtimoff:
we will see;)
[Galaxy S II General] chrisjcks:
I want to know why Sammobile have not leaked the official version....

Samsung are due to release it themselves THIS MONTH, yet where is the leak?

I highly doubt it's LPH.

Either Sammobile do not have it, which would be poor considering their sources, or they are withholding it which is just plain wrong!
[Galaxy S II General] tann3r12:
this is slightly unrelated but i didnt want to start a new thread just for this.

"At the same time, Lockheimer said Google is well aware that "some users prefer our true Google experience," which is one reason that Ice Cream Sandwich includes the ability to strip off many apps and functions added by manufacturers and carriers."

"If you prefer plain ICS, you can disable the [added] apps," he said. "One slice does not fit all. This way, you can have your cake and eat it too."

does this mean it might be possible to have official vanilla ics on our gs2's?
[Galaxy S II General] dorian95:
Wow, is it delay, because they're implimenting true ICS feel on it? I mean, sammy made firmware, and then gaved it to Google, and right now Google is polishing it, to give pure ICS feel on it, so users can enable/disable it?

There's a little hope for that
[Galaxy S II General] krazykat:
It's already possible with CM9. But as for the releases so far (LPB, LPH, etc.), some apps cannot be "snapped off" such as voice commands, kies, etc. directly from Apps in Settings. Those must be taken off through TitaniumBackup (something that requires root).
[Galaxy S II General] tann3r12:
hmm i'm not sure but i saw this and thought maybe google and samsung decided to give many users what they've practically been begging for since the introduction of touchwiz :)
[Galaxy S II General] krazykat:
He said approval - not "revisions". LOL. Hardly doubt the ASOP option will be implemented via Samsung/Google.
[Galaxy S II General] aceofclubs:
Well if Telstra in Australia are telling the truth about currently testing ics with a view to release in April then there is the possibility that they have something none of us have seen yet.
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
I heard Ice Cream Sandwich was cancelled. Too sticky of a situation for Google to handle. They ran out of wrappers.
[Galaxy S II General] anshmiester78900:
now its just a matter of few days and we will have it :)
[Galaxy S II General] aceofclubs:
Yep not many sleeps now...
[Galaxy S II General] Gero6:
The nordic countries haven´t even got the 2.3.6 yet :D
[Galaxy S II General] chrisjcks:
Your lucky,

UK unbranded XEU which used to always be one of the first regions to get an update is still on 2.3.4
[Galaxy S II General] adamski123:
Ba dum tshhhhhh ;)

(Drum noises)
[Galaxy S II General] hyp3rstrike:
That is your opinion. It is my opinion that Apple should release a good phone, rather than re-releasing the same phone every year.
[Galaxy S II General] admartian:
No, I think he has a point. Not the part about Android sucking, because that's fanboy-talk; but it is true about Android updates.

I've always though things would be more streamlined if there were around 3 devices max per Handset-maker. Then it would be a lot easier to manage updates.

That, and Google enforcing a stricter timeframe in terms of updates.
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
That's because it's too cold up there, ROMs freeze before they get to you guys! OH THE FUNNIEZ!
[Galaxy S II General] ___tex___:
Ahahah

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[Galaxy S II General] Markbaja:
Aside from all usual people about to hang themselves because there not running ics, what in all honesty will the update bring to our phones? Sure, some of us can't wait, to some there would be a benefit, but 20 million sales, and just a guess, but say 100 thousand people on forums screaming for samsungs blood because they don't understand that the first quarter is still going, is not going to make samsung give us the update today!

They will make sure its as good as it can be, because 99% of people have no idea its coming, care its coming, or probably will never even put it on there phones. I can probably hazard a good guess and day about half have never even had an update applied, and probably about 90% aren't even rooted.

Relax, it'll be here. There are worse things in life to want to concern myself over, really.

Have a nice day.
[Galaxy S II General] diggedy:
There is some serious hype over ICS here, but then there always is when theres a major version change.

Whats the real differences though? I know theres changes under the hood and the styling is changed somewhat but what changes is this bringing that will actually make a difference to day to day usage?

This is a genuine question here, im not bothered about the change in looks as I could theme it to look like ICS now if I wanted, so what is the benefit of moving to ICS?
[Galaxy S II General] DreadPirateDan:
This is by far the best thing I've ever seen a Junior member post :0 well done sir about time someone nailed it
[Galaxy S II General] Archer:
The look change is a big factor, obviously, but as you quite rightly say, this can be achieved with theming. The stock apps are a lot nicer though, especially gmail. I know a lot of people use the Samsung email app but I'm a big fan of the gmail app and it looks lovely in ICS. The stock browser is also a LOT nicer looking and does seem faster (may not actually be, but it seems it!). Basically, all the google apps look great.

One of the main draws for me to ICS is Google Chrome. I use it at home and at work on PCs, and also in Ubuntu when I use that. I have my bookmarks synced on all 3 installations so I always have what I need, wherever I am. That ability has now been implemented in the mobile version of Chrome as well, so I'm very happy about that. I know that Firefox does bookmark syncing as well (don't know about the mobile version), but I don't like Firefox so that's not relevant for me.

There's also the excellent recent apps list when you long-hold the home button. Okay, we already have that in GB but the one in ICS firstly looks better, but is also functional. It has screenshots of the apps as they were when you last had them open and you can remove items from the list with a swipe (get used to swiping lists to remove items - it's nice ;)).

There's lots of other things I like about ICS over GB. Would I die without them? No, but I like them and that makes it worth the upgrade to me.

If you're not interested in the leaked versions then wait till it's officially released, run recovery and take a backup of your current system and then flash ICS. Give yourself a week with it (just to get used to the differences) and I bet you want to stay with it. If you don't, just go back to recovery and do a restore. At least you'll know for sure.

Obviously, the above are only things that please me about ICS. I'm sure it's different for everyone as we all do things differently and want different things out of our devices. The changes in ICS won't please everyone, but I think the majority will be happy.
[Galaxy S II General] deeman:
Exactly, there's about 10 people at my work place who all have s2's some purchased way before me. When asking them about ics they were like "ics, what's that?" Another thing is most have only just updated there original firmware to the latest simply because I told them to, even when they get update alerts they ignore them stating they didn't know what it meant.
[Galaxy S II General] vcosmin:
a feature phone like an iphone or an bada powered phone is much easier to update, especially when it is, basically, a variation of an 3 year old phone.

Android, on the other hand, is designed for peoples, from low expectations guys that just need basics like phone, sms, email, internet and music and going to better cameras, games, business apps, etc.