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[Galaxy S II General] scuzzbag87:
Stop lying I hate when I read posts like these . U don't get 2 days with "alot" of internet and calls. These things die in like 6 hours but I'm actually a power user not a liar
[Galaxy S II General] Marcb:
bottom line is:

ICS is not a failure. Samsung's implementation of ICS is "being" failure!

Can still change though...
[Galaxy S II General] ram3n:
Lolz

Just Sharing my results with my new tweaked combo : Wanam LP8 + AbyssKernel 2.2.

Take a look :

I can easily last 1hour screen on time with 89- 88% left.

AbyssPlug gov + SIO

Extreme UC UV settings.

Bloatware freezed.

My Extreme UV : 800-825-850-900-925-950-975 mV (Not every CPU will support it :P )

Best battery life with really nice performance ever.

So do you still believe ics is a big failure? :D

My two cents.

Sent via my s2 monster
[Galaxy S II General] dareas:
No, I don't think ICS is failure, anyway, Samsung ****ted on it. When I first time saw ICS (on Nexus) I thought the ICS on my SGS2 will have the same awesome interface, but again we received ugly Touch****. It's the same ugly TW from Gingerbread, just added some transition effects. I really want the horizontal loop in menu back, because now it reminds me of an iPhone (which sux).

The other bad thing about ICS is that there are no official update in all countries (like mine, we don't have official ICS and I doubt we are getting it soon). I flashed Samsung official ICS 4.0.3 rom, but it was bugged as hell. I couldn't change my keyboard input language and it was crashing all the time. Just errors and errors and errors.

I flashed CM9 nightly 4.0.4 and IT'S GORGEOUS! Same as Nexus UI, fast, customizable and it doesn't have annoying low battery sound :mad:

Now I'm back to stock 2.3.4 GB with Siyah 2.6.13, I downloaded GO launcher ex. I didn't like it in the past, but now I fell in love with it :D The second thing I did - delete TouchWiz. Now I'm happy, my life is not pointless anymore :D:D:D (joke)
[Galaxy S II General] donny02:
I come from galaxy ace with gb 1.3.6 and got a usde sgs2 some days ago. First thing I did was flashing ICS :D I am aware that there might be some problems because it's new. But i'm sure, that they will be solved. I'm very happy with it at the moment. Without new releases we never will get really new features!
[Galaxy S II General] Bodisson:
Not sure yet...

I have ICS for few days, and first serious test was pure failure - pairing over BT with my car stereo resulted in SGS2 reboot!

If it happens again, then Sammy interpretation of ICS is flunking the year... ;)

I'm not into FlashingMania during guarantee period, but then I'll try to go back to GB.

Battery life.... cannot comment for sure, since I'm using e-reader more and GPS less than with GB...

Oh, and I hoped for some TW redesign...
[Galaxy S II General] meboy:
A scientific minded person would list the pros and cons and decide based on that.

Based on my assesment the pros are far fewer than the cons and therefore ICS is worse than GB.
[Galaxy S II General] iromek:
OK I read this thread and had to put in my thoughts.

First of all NOTHING is bug free, not Android (any version), not IOS, not WP7, etc etc...

Every new version of an OS has issues, some are more major than others. Android has a more difficult time dealing with this thanks to it's success and how it's been put on so many different devices (different hardware).

So I'm not sure how familiar people are how Android works but there are a couple key parts that work together to make the OS actually run. You have the Kernel, the Modem version, baseband version, and finally the build version (which is actually everything combined if you install a "package" (like what the manufacturers and carriers provide).

The whole beauty of Android is choice. You can wait for the official builds, you can install custom roms, you can even mix and match (install official build, but flash a different kernel for example).

Overall I find ICS to be a good update. It adds a few "eye candy" things which are needed to make the OS more polished, and seems to be VERY good with both performance as well as battery.

The reason different people have different experiences is because they come from one Rom to another (potentially bringing along things that cause problems) or run on hardware which hasn't had it's issues worked out YET.

It's a bit of a game but it's the reason why I love Android and continue to use it!!! :D
[Galaxy S II General] axne1:
A failure???

Are You Crazy??? :D

sent from a Android device :)

I'm always on!
[Galaxy S II General] v28:
I think ics is amazing, just a shame about touch wiz.
[Galaxy S II General] meboy:
Be specific if you're so sure in yor answers, touting it's greatness.

Exactly what is this presumably large list of things that are "better" than GB?
[Galaxy S II General] axne1:
At least you live up to your user name :p

sent from a Android device :)

I'm always on!
[Galaxy S II General] Amritttt:
touch screen is not responsive i feel while playing temple run
[Galaxy S II General] sujantdn:
ICS is cool, native support of indic font yay :)
[Galaxy S II General] majickal:
+1

I'm using Resurrection remix rom (ICS 4.0.4) and the overall experience is faster and smoother than any gingerbread rom i ever tried... Menu's are laid out more intuitively and more settings are available.

Battery life could be better, but that's the same with any new version in it's infancy. ICS is an amazing imrovement and can only get better.

Give AOKP a go and you wont be disappointed :)
[Galaxy S II General] theman22:
I'm still waiting for a bug free ICS to try it...
[Galaxy S II General] hathomer:
I must admit I'm impressed by some the custom roms I tried such "Resurrection Remix ICS 4.0.4" but I'm in a dilemma and keep going back to the Samsung stock because some of the Samsung apps are better such as the Camera app, it gives you a lot more control over some of the functions such as meterting and ISO that others don't!
[Galaxy S II General] majickal:
Same dilemma as me. I was dual booting resurrection remix and wanamlite so I could have the best of both worlds, but I had problems with the play store with that setup... I'm not sure what caused it but I'm back to one rom for now (resurrection)! Wanamlite is a great rom if you like the samsung apps, but I just want that bit extra customisation too.
[Galaxy S II General] keeganmccallum:
I have nothing but good things to say about ics, battery has been better than ever, tons of eye candy, and cm9 is almost bug free for me
[Galaxy S II General] DanielEGVi:
Both Gingerbread, Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich all have "concurrent app execution" so I may ask what's what you're complaining of?

Ice Cream Sandwich does have considerations for multi core...

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[Galaxy S II General] oliuf4e:
As of all I like the better battery life of ICS but I was not happy when they've changed basic UI patterns like switching cancel and ok buttons. Personally I was way happier with ICS custom ROM than the official galaxy S2 release. There were too much bugs and this even messed with my development.
[Galaxy S II General] githoniel:
i dont like the black&blue theme of ICS, it is just a mess of black!

nothing special in ics,nothing attract me, I have return to GB, everything is good
[Galaxy S II General] axne1:
My Gnex iCS is AWESOME!

sent from a Android device :)

I'm always on!
[Galaxy S II General] ferrigato:
I have dorimanx rom and kernel and it works very smooth!
[Galaxy S II General] Flash05:
ICS isnt a failure. it is a revolution!

you know what is failure? it is samsung's ICS implementation. that is the failure.

sure, they have great hardware and unlocked bootloaders. but their ICS sucks.

do you know why samsung doesnt lock bootloader? because it is meant to be on custom ROM.
[Galaxy S II General] stewart30:
I agree. If Samsung had half the creativity of HTC then we would truly be rocking an awesome user interface
[Galaxy S II General] jonny_ftm:
ICS has great features. Coupled with Apex or Nova it shows great potential, but, for me:

- I need a stable OS, no FC. GB can run for weeks with no reboot on my phone, Sammy ICS version will FC, wifi death... random, rare, but always. GB never got FC for my usual apps. ICS, even stock apps FC (camera...)

- Screen responsiveness to touch is a 3 steps behind compared to GB. It made S2 comparable to iPhone, now, we're back to a few years ago (unlock pattern feel to the touch...)

- Lag: On GB, we forgot the term lag. On ICS, we're back to the days of i9000 (for people that had both phones) with random lag

Well, ICS is a great potential, sammy missed it completely

Hope, next roms will fix these issues or back to GB for long term rock stability (key point for my needs)
[Galaxy S II General] NortuRE:
Somehow I have this belief that all the nuisances of ICS are due to the kernel implementation. Using the stock kernel, I barely managed 10 hours of battery life under normal usage, with 3rd party kernel (SiyahKernel) the battery can last for more than a day without any problems.

One good thing about custom kernel is that you'll get more features and (most of the time) more stability.
[Galaxy S II General] Kailkti:
Yes because gamecih doesn't work properly for it! D:<

Tried game guardian but it didn't work contrary to other reports. Dx

Other than my complaints I found the experience barely and different from gb aside.

$1 gets you a reply
[Galaxy S II General] DesertVelo:
Samsung's implementation of ICS does appear to be GB warmed over but it does have some nice features that some owners really like. I am currently using F1 ROM which is the Galaxy Nexus adaptation for GS2 and could not be any happier. Pure Google experience...
[Galaxy S II General] rsenden:
Back to GB

After trying several ICS releases from Samsung over the last month or so, I went back to GingerBread.

My main reason for going back is that ICS consumes battery a lot faster. I guess the main reason is the Exchange client, although I've also experienced the Audio_Out wakelocks. In general, ICS seems more wakelock-hungry. For me, ICS only brings some aesthetic improvements, not any new functionality. So when it was time to flash a new ROM again because I was experiencing the well-known SOD of LP9, I decided to go back to GB.

BTW Since this is my work phone, I cannot flash any custom ROM's or kernel's, nor use an alternative Exchange client.
[Galaxy S II General] efkooo:
I'm using ICS [(F1 Galaxy Nexus ROM)] and I never look back to GB. This is amazing ROM, pure Galaxy Nexus feel with some added features that make our life easier :) Great design + performance = PERFECT !
[Galaxy S II General] yoramweil:
Ics is awesome. Samsung castrated it completely. Thanks for CM and AOKP for getting it where it should have been initially. With the recent nightlife, Cm is now rock stable. Can't go back to GB
[Galaxy S II General] flicka81:
Personally I am loving ics, couldn't wait for Samsung to release to unbranded handsets and eventually rooted my phone and installed resurrection remix by westcrip and haven't looked back since. Everything is better and faster in my case.
[Galaxy S II General] axne1:
^^^^^

sent from a Android device :)

I'm always on!
[Galaxy S II General] Jerri1988:
I really dig ICS, but i don't like Touchwiz. Some Vanilla ICS rom is a very nice expierence i think :)!
[Galaxy S II General] anotheran:
i think the ics rom turned out fairly well. there's been issues with wifi, bluetooth, and battery reported but overally it's been smooth for most.

the roll out was horrendously slow however
[Galaxy S II General] ars_92:
When I want a sammy based ROM, I go for Thebyani, and when I want AOSP, I go for D4 ROM, and if its AOKP, its definitely HYDROG3NICS

GB, who uses that anymore? lolz
[Galaxy S II General] Kailkti:
Da people who want to hack their games! :3

$1 gets you a reply
[Galaxy S II General] shazui:
Dislike the stock ICS ROM, touchwiz just doesn't do it for me
[Galaxy S II General] tokayto:
I think that GB ROMS work better than ICS ROMS so far.
[Galaxy S II General] Doodle:
For me the biggest reason why I like the ICS rom is that the frequent sudden reboots of my S II under GB, while Wifi was on, have now stopped.
[Galaxy S II General] bananalow:
I love the simple and fast ICS compare to the GB, but my vote still go for GB for daily use ~~ :p
[Galaxy S II General] karl85:
Just upgraded last night.

Seems like a good upgrade from Gingerbread. They just need to get it out onto more devices sooner!!
[Galaxy S II General] drelite08:
Don't know why people are moaning about ICS so much. It's fine. I can't find a reason not to like it. If you don't like it, then go back to 2.3.6 and stop complaining. simples. :D
[Galaxy S II General] meboy:
It is the duty of smarter people to speak up when the sea of idiots loudly voice their opinions that are incorrect. Like that ICS is better or even awesome when it's actually worse in more ways than good.

We're all in this together unfortunately.

So please for the sake of others don't yell your foolishness so loudly or the companies will think they're on the right track and we all get worse products.
[Galaxy S II General] anirudhshirsat97:
Using ics resurrection remix rom on 4.0.4 version 17 and it's awesome
[Galaxy S II General] Juan Kerzhoff:
I prefer ICS but not in it's standard form. However using Asnet Miui rom completes the package :)
[Galaxy S II General] sulligogs:
I'm a little confused on the name of "Elastic Scrolling" that is implemented in ICS. What's so elastic about it exactly?

I mean, in CM7, I could scroll through all 80 odd of my

contacts in a simple swipe. As the end of the list is being

reached the scrolling would gradually slow down until the

last item appears.

In CM9, sometimes I have to use three or four swipes to

make this happen and at other times it might take more.

One swipe will only result in a slight movement whilst the

next same swipe will be much larger.

This applies to any list on my screen, not just the contacts

list that I gave as an example. The only app that doesn't

portray this behaviour is Opera Mobile, but that obviously

uses its own I/O engine.

In Apex settings, for example, I can toggle Elastic Scrolling on and off and that gives what I would expect - a slight bounce effect when swiping from one screen to the next.

This version of elastic scrolling is like driving into a ditch

and then trying to free yourself from it. Am I the only one who would think that? Bit by bit and then whoomp!

I like ICS, after all is said. But, I get the impression that perhaps some patent problem is leaving ICS with a substandard scrolling system that makes GB shine in that perspective.
[Galaxy S II General] OnePhantom:
The scrolling issue is an ICS bus I believe but I haven't noticed it as much recently.

I for one think ICS is very good. I liked GB but from a personal design taste, I prefer the clean lines of ICS. Once all UI inconsistencies are ironed out it will be a lot better. I never had any major issues with GB so I'm really looking at this purely from an aesthetic and UX approach.
[Galaxy S II General] whmcal:
It could be better imo, as could be WM6, gingerbread and honeycomb. I think there's a trap many people fall into... of building up anticipated upgrades too much in their mind. Then, when the upgrade comes out , they're disappointed, because it's not what they would have imagined. I think it's better to have an open mind about upgrades, accepting that all they are, is someone else's opinion on what would make our product 'better'.
[Galaxy S II General] tazer4:
ICS is the best thing that ever happened to me in my life :cool:
[Galaxy S II General] Robafet:
ICS makes me sad

Personally, I'm surprised that there isn't more customization, would be great if you could change the drop down taskbar colours, and alter the blue lines and yellow progress bars. Maybe I'm expecting too much from android, but seems to me these were staple parts of customization on symbian phones, and even further back on windows pc. I do think that I prefer GB, but as I'm unrooted and on stock, there is no way to officially go back to GB. Also think the new scrolling in apps is very wierd. In fact I'm not sure if there is anything I prefer about ICS over GB. I can't even customize the fonts on my Galaxy s2 anymore. :(
[Galaxy S II General] tgl0be:
Yep, same for me... I love ICS but scrolling experience on GB was better imho.
[Galaxy S II General] alvin551:
I love checkrom because of its battery life and stability but its gb! but i always seem to come back to ics a few days later! I dont think its a failure just needs to be tweaked to make it perfect.
[Galaxy S II General] T3rran:
couldn't agree more!
[Galaxy S II General] Retardz N'Liarz:
Tomorrow I'm going to have again an i9100 and the first thing I'll do is to flash ICS...

Gingerbread was good but ICS truly unleashes the full power of the hardware of this beautiful phone.
[Galaxy S II General] erriezeekanmgn:
Which ROM + Kernel will give me the best ICS + battery life experience? I have CM9 right now but the battery live is f*cked up. Using Whatsapp (and nothing else) with WiFi will give me 10h battery life. Even when i'm charging the battery drains -_-

Also, I heard some positive stories about CM9 + siyah 3.0. I downloaded siyah 3.0 already but how am i supposed to flash it with Odin?
[Galaxy S II General] calanizzle:
Not at all!

hydrog3n does the work!:D
[Galaxy S II General] sims34:
I have the Official ICS on my SGSII and works like a charm. Much faster than any ICS custom roms.
[Galaxy S II General] randomseasons:
ICS to me is a failure, at least for the time being. Maybe because I have tweaked my GB so much that ICS loses on any aspect.
[Galaxy S II General] alejandroyoh:
It's just my opinion, but i have tryed Froyo, Ginger and even Honeycomb and ICS is by far the best till now, love all hte ecosystem and all the modifications you can make it.

Just loved it.
[Galaxy S II General] da.trute:
it was for me until DarkyICS was released :)
[Galaxy S II General] Molius:
After trying some ICS versions and seeing how horrific battery life is on ICS due to constant exchange wakelocks (I use phone to get work mail) I went straight back to 2.3.4 stock XXKG3 with syiah kernel, some undervolting works wonders with battery life.

Rock stable and useful.

What I miss from ICS is new browser with added features (desktop mode,inverted colors etc.).
[Galaxy S II General] max621:
+1
[Galaxy S II General] ekanix20:
i really like ICS more then GB at least :)
[Galaxy S II General] MiKenning:
It's an iOS killer ;)
[Galaxy S II General] norpan111:
Did you try all custom ics roms and then went to the official unrooted kies ics?
[Galaxy S II General] Kwull:
I have official ICS + CF kernel - works like a charm.
[Galaxy S II General] Karas_mkii:
I use a custom rom based on the ICS, and it's better and more suited for the my sgs2, although I have never tried the official rom.
[Galaxy S II General] wolfensteincmd:
I'm using an AOSP Rom and works really very good, before i use the stock rom with diferent kernels and work fine, i like ICS more than GB, but i respect the points of view from others
[Galaxy S II General] hristoS2:
The people that think or say that ICS is a failure maybe they are a failure!!!
[Galaxy S II General] DOGMA1138:
Slim ICS with chrooted linux in the backround wifi+data and around 36-48 hours battery time...

Works like a charm
[Galaxy S II General] theking_13:
I haven't encountered ANY bugs with ICS, except ones that I brought upon myself (kernel related). Battery is a dream, was so too on my Vibrant before I broke it. Would've been great on the G2x if Nvidia had released the Tegra 2 drivers.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus running AOKP+Franco from Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S II General] vijay kavithia:
Failure is hater?

Failure is hater?

How Is With Me

RISE ABOVE HATE

The people that think or say that ICS is a failure maybe they are a failure!!!

In Their LIFE
[Galaxy S II General] Aeserathe:
Ics is alright just not Samsungs watered down version.
[Galaxy S II General] hristoS2:
Nicely said
[Galaxy S II General] falconm11:
In my personal experience, ICS was a great attempt to try and stop the fragmentation of Android. I was hoping that all phones would be forced to upgrade to the new Android so that it become the standard like IOS is for Iphone's and Ipad.

Unfortunetly it didn't end up this way. That being said, I still enjoyed the upgrade on my Galaxy S2 and Transformer TF101, and if someone asked me to go back, I would say hell no. my GB experience was not without bugs, so anyone that tells me ICS has bugs, what software doesn't?

Reading all the posts, I feel like I am back arguing to my friend that Windows 7 was worth the upgrade and even with the fact that staying on XP was a security issue, he only saw the negatives of Windows Vista.
[Galaxy S II General] randomseasons:
To the guy who say this topic owner is a loser, you're such a retard.

First he just tells his opinion.

Second, he has a good point. I have bought and inveatigated and searched through thousands of threads in xda or other forums and tweaked my phone to its limits, all of the UI customization, 6 hours of screen on, smoothness, I can't find in ICS, for now, who is the loser now ?
[Galaxy S II General] Cryptostasis:
I think ICS is going to be a very nice OS but now it need a lot of polishing!
[Galaxy S II General] arkanan:
Not a lot of change for me from Gingerbread
[Galaxy S II General] bluebart:
Well after 2 months using ICS (UK stock) im going back to GB. Contacts are not copy all to phone so i have to use SIM to display them. Next , im using Dolphine browser (i dont like stock one). When i use for about 1h or more its freezing and closing it self. Im not sure if this is browser fault or ICS but it was never hapen on GB. Battery life is last thing make me move back to GB.
[Galaxy S II General] scayre32:
Step away from the TouchWiz

If you decide to take the leap and start using custom ROMs you'll see that ICS is brilliant. Sure, it needs a few creases ironing out, but that's just not a big deal. You can find a ROM that works exactly how you want it to.

ICS RULES!

GB DROOLS!
[Galaxy S II General] PureLogic:
it just hasn't matured yet. although it's already "good" as it is right now.
[Galaxy S II General] bluebart:
Lets say this way: ICS is good but Samsung make it ****. I will move back to GB, but maybe try CM9 first ;-)
[Galaxy S II General] Falamo:
i think the same, only ICS in my phones!
[Galaxy S II General] defenderko:
+1 for ICS! It is much better than gingerbread for me... Gps locks faster, signal reception better, also the wifi. So,no , it is not a failure.. Don't like preinstaled apps..
[Galaxy S II General] buxz777:
i quite like ics , resurection rom is really nice and i have my phone set up really good and iam happy with it

battery life is also better then gb in my opinion iam using fluix kernel with resurection latest release and some undervolting etc and i cant grumble at all

i didnt really like stock samsung ics due to the crappy theme etc but i do miss some of samsungs roms features like swipe to call and tv out etc

however theres a lot of good custom roms out there to try and verts ics theme makes many touchwiz roms look just like ics stock roms anyways

use what suits you best i say but for me ics is pretty decent
[Galaxy S II General] IkidPT:
i like ics, as gb... what i love is testing the cooked roms from great users... but i think ics have a better perfomance in the menus and apps...gb has a greater battery life...

Peace
[Galaxy S II General] htmltiger:
ICS is great. Fast, stable and it looks very nice.
[Galaxy S II General] kingcoyle:
I think ICS is a perfect casualty of what Androids strength really is...what I mean by that, is the customization of the previous version, is so vast and limitless, that there is only room for MARGINAL change in the next... I tweaked the brakes off my Nexus S, which allowed me to have most of the features of ICS, which in turn thawed my excitement (just a tad;) but that's the beauty of Android
[Galaxy S II General] DoItJust:
Android, "the way Google meant it" is ok. Some phonemakerimplementations are not so good.