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[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
Exactly what I was going to mention. Usually porting or developing on phones is easier when someone else with similar hardware has done it before. You just borrow their work and adapt it. The Galaxy S2 doesn't share its hardware with many other phones. Hell, the whole Galaxy S2 line is super fragmented anyway! You have Tegra, omap, Exynos, different cameras, different specs alltogether.

If you just think of the international version... We're pretty much set apart and in the dark with all the proprietary code that the phone has. If you want a quick development path for your phone, you'll need a phone which has generic hardware or fully opensource code... Which is far from being this phone's case sadly.
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
Of course a lot of the SGS 1 roms where just cut and paste jobs .

Rom +Theme A then Rom + Theme B does not make two roms .

I am more than happy and the answer has always been you want more roms donate a phone to a dev instead of expecting them to pay for your flashing habit .

jje
[Galaxy S II General] Andrewawright:
It must have something to do with what can be achieved; with the exception of new releases from Google the only areas of interest really are storage space and speed. Both of which are pretty good as stock on the S2 where as development for the Desire was huge as it could be faster and, as stock, had a lack of storage space.

Even if you didn't like the look of TouchWiz you could choose a new launcher rather than rooting and flashing new ROMs.
[Galaxy S II General] Suarez7:
if you want a regular updates and more development then maybe the phone for you is the galaxy nexus. pure google phone and a phone to get updates straight from the Google itself. I have not gone into the forums over there but i am pretty sure you have proper roms coming out through your ears...And i mean roms probably making that phone even better than it already is..and as being so new still the development for that can only get better...

The same for the S2. once the source code is released then you will see roms coming out and development will for sure will be on the high again and you see proper ICS roms coming left right and center...So be happy with what we have here and do more tweaking to get the max out of the phone instead of wondering if the development is slow or not..:)
[Galaxy S II General] Kailkti:
In a way I guess since we have more cooks than developers here. But that doesn't mean I don't find the firmware perfect.
[Galaxy S II General] UnitSHIFT3R:
The developers seem to offer pretty much any configuration the end user might want. I cant say there are any particular features I am crying out for. I'm very happy with my current rom and the state of the development within the community right now.

Having said that, I think the reason we aren't seeing a lot of ICS roms is because there is only so much that can be achieved with the current builds available. Also it's probably not worth dedicating lot's of time into fixing the bugs that exist in these early builds as an official ICS release probably isn't that far away.

I would have thought once we see an official release from Samsung the dev section will be full of ICS based variants.

But I'd have to echo the same sentiments as some of the other users, the stock rom was very good, most people are only looking to make small customisations. To be honest the only reason I even bothered to root my I9100 is to remove some of the pre installed bloatware.

Android devices I have owned in the past rooting seemed more important for performance gains than anything else.

Just my take on the situation anyway.
[Galaxy S II General] Silverwolf2:
I don't know about other androids but for SG2 is great.
[Galaxy S II General] wurzelsepp3:
I don't think thats the case, the Galaxy S2 was sold more than the original Galaxy S (in their first 9 month after release) and overall the Galaxy S2 is still the best Android phone available.

There is/was allot of flaming going on in the Galaxy S forums too.

Hundreds of threads about ****ty GPS performance, bad video recording quality, Pentile discussions, blue screen tint, LAGS!!!, only 340MB ram available although 512mb ware advertised....
[Galaxy S II General] buzzboy:
I suppose you're right.

It's still early days In development really. There's no doubt some exciting times ahead for us.

Regards
[Galaxy S II General] TheFes999:
I am very happy with all the work the developers put into their custom rom's. I couldn't do what they do, so I am really grateful for their hard work!

I am currently using Simplistic ICS RC3 and it works fine for me, okay I had some reboots and FCs, but generally, for a rom based on a beta rom, it works good!
[Galaxy S II General] kpeters87:
I am very happy.

But i think the ICS for Galaxy S development going "faster" its becase sammy not confirmed ICS for it. I think they want to prove to sammy that hardware can run ICS.

Thank, sorry for my bad English!
[Galaxy S II General] ozaric:
A lot more could be done with the rom's for the GSII but I think what you have to take into consideration is the time, effort, skill and money.

A lot of progress could be made/ and will be made with this phone there are a fair few decent rom's out for Gingerbread. CM7 being my first choice any day, a lot of effort has been put into GB but that's been out a dam lot longer than ICS seeing as Its still not out for the GSII officially.

Just having development for ICS already is an achievement on the developers part, obviously more could be done but does any developer(s) really have the time or money to sort out every single bug before the source codes is released.

be patent in time I'm sure there will be lots of new and exciting rom's will appear.

I think we all own the developers for the GSII a massive thank you :):D:)
[Galaxy S II General] pulser_g2:
Remember not everything is published here. For example, my current rom is a modified cm9, with my own adjustments to bring in extra security features from CM7...

it's probably not something I'll ever release, simply because of the self entitled users we see here. It does exactly what I want, how I want it. That's my definition of something being useful, but yours may differ.

I'd suggest that anyone thinking their device lacks development needs to do something about it. So go get AOSP or CM, and sync up the sources. Try a build for your device. Did it boot? If not, find out why. If yes, make it better!

And once you are done, you can upload your changes to github, or you could submit them to gerrit for review for inclusion in cm...

So anyone feeling their device lacks development only has themself to blame.
[Galaxy S II General] sorrowrain:
i have a gtab 8.9 and it does have 2 roms onxda

roms for galaxy s2 cannot be numbered.
[Galaxy S II General] peachpuff:
You're forgetting that the gs1 has been out for one year longer than the gs2, when the gs2 landed the gs1 developer base was huge, the gs2 will eventually get there.
[Galaxy S II General] Gnarfsan:
Even the latest stock ROMs for the original SGS are laggy. Custom ROMs are necessary if you want a good user experience. That isn't the case with the SGS2.
[Galaxy S II General] mavishow:
no very heavy

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edit! no, too heavy, and his foster child
[Galaxy S II General] narcosis34:
I am more than satisfied with devs here,ty guys for everything!
[Galaxy S II General] stoney73:
Actually, I would blame muppets such as you. Shooting your mouth off for no apparent reason. I would say you are a prime example of the reason devs are sick of imbeciles not reading/stealing their work/typing **** on the forums.

Perhaps you should crack open a book and develop your own ROM? And really show people how to develop properly? Lmfao

And before you whine about how I'm a cm supporter, I have CheckROM on my s2.
[Galaxy S II General] blueseeker:
The original SGS desperately needed development because the original roms had issues. Big issues. But SGSII stock roms are something else.

Some feature added here, a tweak there, but mostly is done in customization, not performance because the performance is already top notch (minus the javascript performance in the stock browser).

The only thing missing from my phone right now is a wi-fi driver which can do packet-injection :D

Maybe I'm the only one, but I won't update too soon to ICS because everything is awesome on Ginger.
[Galaxy S II General] MemoryController:
Looks like we are getting sth NEW AND EXCITING from hyperdroid....

I wonder what could it be....(sense sense sense.... :D)
[Galaxy S II General] OrrPenn18:
Anshul, I know what you mean, and it is quite less! ;)

Roaming around every fora in XDA, I found it dissapointing! :D
[Galaxy S II General] anshmiester78900:
Hmm u guys are right . i was just disappointed by seeing my frindz SGS1 performing so well on ICS and i was still there standing with GB 2.3.6 :(
[Galaxy S II General] androidkid311:
Perfect phone with perfect firmware... far from it mate tbh. Without all these tweaks. The phone wouldnt even be all that to be honest. Sammy r terrible with firmware. I just cnt wait for them to release the ics source code and download a good custom rom. Phone wise... lol! Camera issues, sure uve seen the thread. Its a top quality phone but calling it perfect is a joke :)

looks like an iphone but powered by android baby!!!!
[Galaxy S II General] TheATHEiST:
Well coming from the HD2 forum I feel this forum is a HUGE step backwards as far as organization and amount of devs.. HOWEVER the stock firmware is of such great quality it doesn't really matter that much plus what devs we do have seem great and also seen a few coming over from HD2 to SGS2 :)

This forum is still great but just feel it needs a little more organization and stricter tagging system like for example putting date of modification of OP at beginning of topic title which means browsing releases allot easier as updates are noticable at a glance because it looks like releases here are completely random, some dont update title with data, some do but put it in random place, all use different date styles etc etc whereas the HD2 and GTAB forums seem to keep to one standard of date and beginning of title which is just a very small thing that makes a big difference.

I didnt think I would move to a new device for at least another year as HD2 was/IS pretty awesome and although the SGG2 cant do as much as far as OS choice etc it is still a f*cking awesome device!

Would just like to say that I appreciate all the work the devs put in I'm satisfied and happy with all of what they bring us small or large and cant wait till Sammy release ICS kernel for S2 :)
[Galaxy S II General] veyka:
Galaxy s has it easy, as the nexus s has the same hardware and mostly open source drivers, so doing a aosp bring up is "easy" in comparison.

We don't have ics kernel source, so there are unfixable bugs, and lots of "aosp" roms are based on cm7 or cm9, which for the sgs and sgs2 are at least in part codeworkx's work. I haven't seen codeworkx troll anyone else's work, he's taken people to task for trolling his, but if you see some of the dumb things people have said in this development threads, you would feel the same.

The sgs2 has loads of development, we have aosp and stock roms, we have voodoo louder and screen tuning, jkay, tons of wonderful themes, etc. And we don't even have our winzip themed roms mixed in with our real dev work, what more could you want?

We dont have any huge problems like the sgs and its awful filesystem, so yeh.
[Galaxy S II General] pulser_g2:
Perhaps if he'd chosen to read my post about this previously, he'd not end up making stupid comments that show himself up as a troll? http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=21631369&postcount=29

People, read these words...

If you think there is not enough development for your phone, get off your fat. lazy ar$e and make some contributions to it. You can't complain unless you contribute. Here's my github, so I'm entitled to complain... And I'm not, because there's more development here than I've seen on many devices.

Kangs and winzip roms don't count, and there's way too many of those already! On all devices, especially the SGS2. But deep under the crap, there are a couple of good devs out there.
[Galaxy S II General] alperto:
with a ics rom daily use, i can said this forum is very reactive and put this phone at the top of the top!!! thanks the dev :)
[Galaxy S II General] s2d4:
so you opened this thread because your Phone wasn't as cool as his?

Therefore it must be lack of development, not enough good developers to make yours cooler than his?
[Galaxy S II General] B3311:
Posts like this make me lose the will to live. No good for my toothache either.
[Galaxy S II General] :
It's proving to be much more difficult to port ICS to the SGSII, not for lack of trying. Many hardware hurdles to overcome.

FWIW, I've been on CM9 since late December, it's stable as hell, now faster and smoother than stock, battery life is often approaching that of what I was getting on CM7. If you can get past the things that aren't working (yet), it's great.

Not a single FC, crash, or reboot. Not a single video shot yet either, but I can live with that for now ;)

You may have to just wait a little bit longer for a fully functional and stable ICS SGSII, the wait will NOT kill you.
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
Keep dreaming, we were against sense on the HD2, don't see why we'd be for it on the SGS2 ;) haha.
[Galaxy S II General] ephraim87:
Maybe there just isnt the need for it on our phone; although from what ive seen of the forums here, people do nothing but ***** and moan about Cyanogen 9. The devs do it for fun and the challenge; I know id feel pretty lousy if what i was making for others to use was being thrown back in my face. Dont know what people are saying in the other phone forums.
[Galaxy S II General] Mittaa:
Relax and enjoy ...

Some people use endless amount of time searching for tiny glitches and any kind of new improvement. Turning SGS2 into a project itself instead of just enjoining this wonderful smart phone :confused:

I'm very happy about my SGS2 2.3.5 as it is (rooted and removed bloatware) :)

When official ICS arrives I might update firmware ... or maybe I just decide to keep on enjoying my SGS2 as it is now :rolleyes:

I think the large majority feels in same way, and one thing is for sure; a nightly firmware fix want make me more happy.

One day in future when Samsung don't want to support SGS2 anymore, CM would surely be a tempting alternative ... but that's another story :)
[Galaxy S II General] bluefa1con:
i will hopefully learn java and c++ this summer and take part in development if i cant :)
[Galaxy S II General] randy.turker:
Quite satisfied
[Galaxy S II General] Iklau:
I was very happy, but the possibility to experience the full potential of our device

I can only modding: I can't stay without jkay, I cant't stay without kitchen some details. I want to change settings panel, launch panel, status bar options... If these things are important to me I must flash custom rom! ;)
[Galaxy S II General] Angelocruz:
very satisfied!

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Now using Omega ICS V1.1 cf-root propper Kernel, all goes well. Everything works great! :)
[Galaxy S II General] fmsmt:
Yes! Very happy and satisfied having a lot of options to install custom roms and mods.

Currently using CheckRORevoHD v4 with latest Siyah kernel.

A way better than stock rom.
[Galaxy S II General] jj03:
only rooted my gs2. it works flawlessly on official firmware...no chance in hell i will flash a custom rom...

The dude abides....
[Galaxy S II General] andreiss:
Not really satisfied from SGS2.

Too many developers and some of them doing great job.

Official software development its not like HTC. Lot of manufacturing bugs, like noise suppression.

Previous phones:

HTC DESIRE

HTC HD2

HTC CRUISE TOUCH
[Galaxy S II General] zabranjeniples:
I must say, I am really happy with sgs2 development.
[Galaxy S II General] nacho129:
Muy satisfecho en general
[Galaxy S II General] apolo69:
What happens is that Samsung does not release until the official kernel can not do much. Great work developers are doing with these betas that Samsung released that can be used for daily use
[Galaxy S II General] Xroom01:
I like the development that makes galxy 2
[Galaxy S II General] KaiserZ:
Yes, the develop is good, I'm happy for all the rooms, and tweaks we have.

Kaiser Z
[Galaxy S II General] dodgypast:
I follow the general consensus. It's already a great phone and custom roms and kernels are doing a great job of polishing the few rough edges.

I'm incredibly grateful to the devs who have put in so much time to do this.

I'm looking forward to running ICS roms when they eventually stabilize. But at the end of the day I'm in no rush since my phone already does every thing I need very well.
[Galaxy S II General] davepople:
In regards to OP, Im surprised by the overall the length of time to get ICS into the community, but as far as the 3rd party/indie Devs, i think they are doing a top notch job with what they have to work with
[Galaxy S II General] Angel.CT:
I'm actually quite satisfied with the development on the i9100. I've already tested a few ICS ROMS and I'm glad with them.
[Galaxy S II General] boullusgoullus:
Definitely satisfied with both stock roms and aosp (which I prefer to use) roms... The device is incredible and you have an huge amount of stable ICS roms on the forum :)
[Galaxy S II General] Ok_Kaleidoscope5109:
Kinda disappointed. I came from a Nexus S and wow that phone had uber loads of development. Yes, I know it's a Nexus phone. My previous phone was a Milestone with a locked bootloader, so I always thought that development for any other phone like the SGS1 or HTC phones were insane. However, I guess part of the success of the SGS1 phones was because of the Nexus S having the same hardware, making development very easy.

I'm kinda sad CM7 is still a mess on the SGS2. My friend who has a Captivate and I (on my Nexus S) run Kangs all the time with zero issues. Meanwhile, I'm saddened to find that CM7 can't even run well on my SGS2. There's backlight issues on the latest kangs, and the market is messed up
[Galaxy S II General] biosong:
i think...

maybe the developers in the other sub forum never bother to own a SGS2 to begin with, maybe they are satisfied with what they have and they are still happy playing with them. :)
[Galaxy S II General] vbauer86:
I just dont get it.

Can you tell me whats THE killer-musthave-feature on ICS and explain me why so many ppl crying for 4.0? Everything on GB 2.3.6 is working like charm on our Device.

And dont tell me that ics roms for S1 are running well...they all still heavy bugged. Im pretty sure that the S2 will get earlier Stable release of ICS than S1.

In my opinion the S2 has one of the largest Development and theres nothing to cry about it.

Im very thankfull to every single developer who puts his freetime to offer us newest features day by day.

Cheers
[Galaxy S II General] pl4sMa:
Yes it is an awesome device from hardware specification.

Then again, I kinda agree with TS as there isn't even a single GB AOSP that can offer all the functionalities that a Samsung based offer. However, this is not due to lack of dev. Instead it is just because we don't have an open library of drivers from Samsung, and the Nexus device doesn't use a similar chipset.

This forces dev to wait for Samsung, or write a driver from scratch. Frankly, there aren't many people that can write from scratch. Hence the long wait.

Oh well, at least it's better than Moto and locked bootloader.
[Galaxy S II General] M1ch43lk:
I must praise the enthusiast who make all those Rom images but It would be nice to see companys put some more effort and encouragement by publishing their specs officially.
[Galaxy S II General] rps13:
Don't complain about ICS builds since the Galaxy S is basically the same as the Nexus S they get kernel sources and drivers earlier while we have to wait for Samsung and there is no other manufacturer that uses similar hardware
[Galaxy S II General] custm_made:
I agree, There isn't as much support as the original Galaxy S. However, that doesn't mean that the GSII doesn't have any good stable ICS Roms that you can use for daily use. Westcrip has been making some serious progress with his Resurrection rom. check out this thread to view some of his awesome work.
[Galaxy S II General] tomtorre:
Absolutely

- I totally agree, the company's really need to step up THEIR Development in the area of ICS for the lastest GB Phone ;)
[Galaxy S II General] sgs2ger:
I´m very happy with development on SGS2.

Changed from iOs to Android and it´s amazing how much mods, custom rom´s and community support is existing.

Just started learning Java and hopefully start developement by myself when Galaxy S3 released :D

greetz
[Galaxy S II General] jj03:
i'm very happy with my gs2...i use official roms and couldn't be happier...

The dude abides....
[Galaxy S II General] rommy667:
Couldent be happier my self so may great roms to choose from,i came from ios and in comparsion to that locked down system its heaven :)
[Galaxy S II General] bawbaw24:
I am happy overall with the development!
[Galaxy S II General] cwh1996:
Pretty good

From my point of view, the development's pretty good. I'm not too sure about the SGS1, but there are tons of roms available for SGS2. For ICS, i feel that the time will come with many roms being made available and developments being made under the developers
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ademejia:
I was updating my rom to 4.0.3 and then it got stuck on system img for like 30min, so i decided to press the reset button and install the rom again then when i got on there is no more 8gb memory . i also try to mount it with cwm no sd found. help i have a mac computer if anyone know how to repair and fix the disk using terminal terminal
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zabihjan:
BEFORE anyone mention that this problem has been mentioned before, read twice.

i was on omega rom, it kept rebooting. so i cleared cache and all that stuff. shut down the phone, booted in download mode. tried flashing my stock firmware KK3, it goes up to flashing kernel then fails.

when i turn the phone off and on i get the a different screen saying firmware upgrade failed try restoring via kies.

i tried lp2 firmware it flashes fine. could it be that i was using ICS before and now it doesnt let me go back to 2.3.6

pls respond with solutions
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cooza:
Omega has ICS themed ROMs but no ICS firmware ROMs so it wont be cos of that.Did you try a full system wipe before the flash??

boot to recovery and wipe cache partition.Then go to "mounts and storage" and format System/Data/Cache and then do a factory reset then reboot.The Phone probably wont go past the Galaxy-S logo so pull the battery then put it back in and boot to download mode and try the flash again.If that doesnt work you could try to flash the F/W that works and then flash a new kernel.After that try the 2.3.6 flash again.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zabihjan:
Thx I will try it soon. But how come I can flash ics kp8 and lp2 roms
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulser_g2:
Are you using the new bootloader then?