[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] shonangreg:
Regarding the update: http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/info/notice/page/120702_00_m.html

・Disney Mobile on docomo F-08D

・Disney Mobile on docomo P-05D

・GALAXY Note SC-05D

will start getting updates about August.

・「F-12C」

・「XperiaTM PLAY SO-01D」

・「XperiaTM ray SO-03C」

・「XperiaTM acro SO-02C」

・「XperiaTM arc SO-01C」

may get updates, but docomo seems to be saying the lack of RAM is making it a challenge for them to get acceptable performance with ICS on these phones:

"■AndroidTM4.0へのバージョンアップ検討中の製品について

以下の製品については、AndroidTM4.0へのバージョンアップの際、メモリ不足となる場合があり、その際十分な性能が確保できない可能性があるため、AndroidTM4.0 へのバージョンアップは見送らせていただきます"

Those phones all have 512MB of RAM.

---------- Post added at 11:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:03 PM ----------

More about the SC-05D (and perhaps other docomo phones) you might find interesting:

I disabled LTE on my Galaxy Note (SC-05D) yesterday using Samsung's service mode ( *#*#2263#*#* specifically. Google it for more info...) While I do not yet see any longer battery life or cooler running temperature, this change did finally fix a long-standing problem.

Since I got the Galaxy Note over a month ago, I have been unable to access the net while on the train between Yokohama and Totsuka. My phone cannot send email or browse the web in that area pretty much everytime any time of the day.

Until today.

Today I could browse and do everything just like normal. There were no apparent network problems whereas before there was nothing but problems. Apparently disabling LTE resolved the problem.

I had gone to the docomo shop a few days ago because my battery had been drained to zero, so low that the phone could not reboot even with a powered USB cable connected. Maybe the phone requires more current than USB delivers, so it needs the battery for a boot, but mine was too low, I guess.

Anyway, the phone kept cycling through incomplete boots, sometimes mentioning the battery was too low before the full UI was fully loaded, then rebooting again. Eventually it would only buzz every five seconds or so. There was no other response to attempting a power on with the battery in and USB connected. Coincidentally, when I took my phone in and showed it to the staff at the local docomo shop, it began a normal boot (or a normal charge cycle while off . . .) I used that opportunity to ask a lot of questions and make suggestions and requests.

So today I went in again to tell them that I had fixed the one network problem. I did get patched through to a knowledgeable support person, and she tried to understand everything precisely, apologized for the problem, and said she would pass on the info. I asked her when the first service update would be on the phone figuring that would probably solve some problems -- and I asked about the Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade -- again. And this time I got a different answer than the usual non-committance.

On July 2, docomo will issue a press release that may address when the Galaxy Note will get its upgrade. It might happen soon after that, maybe even the next day. So, we Galaxy Note users should check the docomo site on July 2nd. If there is nothing about the Galaxy Note in the press release, a lot of us calling and asking about the update for our malfunctioning phones will have a magnified impact.

Regarding the specific problems with the phone:

- the battery drains fast (perhaps little can be done about this...)

- the phone gets hot enough for the camera to be disabled. Something should be able to be done about this. I can't imagine the Note's current temperature sensitivity is set correctly. For example, today I was typing messages in a restaurant for lunch for about 15 minutes. My phone got up to 42 degrees (I checked later using "Battery Mix"), and I tried to take a photo of my curry set using "Evernote Food", but the camera app said the phone was too hot and refused to run.

- The phone about once a week will lose the network connection and nothing short of a reboot will find it again. This sometimes happens after the phone being in WiFi mode all night and then going out into a 3G area the next morning. Toggling airplane mode does not catch the network.

- The aforementioned cellular black hole between Yokohama and Totsuka when in normal, LTE/automatic mode.

These problems aren't just with me. Searching for related keywords 電池　熱い　弱い　すぐ　カメラ "SC-05D" will show other people complaining about the same things. I do wonder if the other national and international versions suffer the same fate . . . The LTE chip/ROM is particular to Japan, so I hope Samsung and docomo just couldn't get the best settings for the new configuration before release of the SC-05D but will soon.

Other than these problems, I love the phone. The big size is not causing me much trouble, but it comes in very handy for typing with a decent sized keyboard in landscape mode -- and for eBooks, games, showing photos/videos to others, etc.