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[Galaxy S II General] Mihaillo:
Official JB final

Samsung Korea posted Jelly Bean upgrade details about the Samsung Galaxy SII. The Jelly Bean update by Samsung will reduce internal memory from 12GB to 11GB and the reduced 1GB memory part will be used for system partition, as it will also re-partition the memory system, so this upgrade will take at least 1 hour. This upgrade will only be available through Samsung KIES.

The Samsung Galaxy S II is Samsung’s second best-selling Android device ever. Samsung introduced the Galaxy S II 2 years ago at MWC. The Galaxy S II features a 4.3” SuperAMOLED+ display, Exynos 4210 Dual-Core CPU clocked at 1.2GHz, Mali-400 Quad-Core GPU with 1GB of RAM and an 8 megapixel camera. This is not the first time the Galaxy S II is going to receive a major upgrade. Samsung updated their second best-selling Android device before from Gingerbread (Android 2.3.6) to Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0.4). The Galaxy S II will now receive Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean upgrade.

Galaxy S II owners be happy!

Major Changes in the new Software Upgrade

1. Platform upgrade Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich → Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

- improved Home screens and improved scrolling performance (thanks to project Butter)

- Improved usability for some applications

2. Preloaded applications

- Add Help

- Add Google+

- Add +Talk

- Add Play Book

- Add Play Movie

3. Newly added/improved functions

- Add Easy mode, Block mode

- Improved Camera functions: function like Pause while recording and more

- Add Smart Stay

- New functions like Pop-up play and more

- Improved some functions & applications usability
[Galaxy S II General] leocooper:
Old news
[Galaxy S II General] KuNgZi:
ok, ok, but where is it? :confused:

I can't see anything:(
[Galaxy S II General] :
Yes give up the wipe version.

Upgrading , flashing, turn of phone.

Hard bricked. Thank you for using Samsung official hard brick software.

Samsung Sweden claimed that the hard brick bug isn't present in official releases only "leaked"

Be aware that you have a chance of thousand to brick your device on the upgrade procedure. This is Samsungs rules. :D

So be aware if your phone doesn't start after boot you'll know why.

As they don't think the brick bug is present in official releases. They should really check the release before pushing it out :rolleyes:

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[Galaxy S II General] ohwarumbloss:
If I get this right :

For now they symlinked the system files to /preload/symlink/system/app and on the official release they will put all them back into the /system folder?

Other than that I can not find any advantage to the leak with some propper mods provided by XDA devs.

More to say, after the release comes that late and looking at CM moving SO quick to 4.2, why not move to 4.2 with the official Update? Ok, surely my very own simple look at this all but why should Samsung release old stuff?

A 4.1 release in December 2012 would have been ok but now it starts to feel like we're getting windows 7 while Microsoft released windows 8...

Anyway, I do like the 4.1.2 leak and with the mods it's more than just a leak to me, it's a very stable and reliable daily driver. Unbloated and modded of course.
[Galaxy S II General] j510:
Be thankful were even getting jb to begin with.
[Galaxy S II General] dikidera:
So as this new update re-partitions everything, I must backup EVERYTHING from the sdcard?
[Galaxy S II General] shishircoolin:
Probably Samsung will have something in mind, i guess, which won't allow users to backup each and everything up!:cool:
[Galaxy S II General] :
I would be happy if I got windows 7 just when windows 8 has been released as I hate the interface (though it can be disabled) I still wouldn't like it.

And in this case if we were going to get 4.2 it would been come when 4.3 or 5.0 was newly released. Even so you would still say the same thing, right?

Anyway I'm happy that we'll get jelly bean it was a good step by Samsung the whole mobile felt brand new with the leak,

I'm thankful that they decided to "listen" to the people that we asked for jelly bean, don't know if they upgraded due to users request and wishes. But it was a good step.

Not that Ics was bad, but the jelly bean made our phone more awesome with a more user friendly ui

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[Galaxy S II General] ohwarumbloss:
Nah, I guess you got me wrong there, I wasn't crying @ Samsung, please read carefully ;)

Just when I see how quick the CM devs integrated their stuff on the new base ( remember,they are doing it for the community, not for money), I wonder why Samsung wouldn't make that move. The leak is original Samsung and they did a good job on it. Period.

This is not me crying for new stuff on older hardware, it's me asking if it wasn't better to move to 4.2 before releasing 4.1 late.

If we get 4.1 official, I'll be happy, if not I'll be happy with the leak. Don't lay words into my statement ;)

Main point would still be why they change the system partition while it works very well with the symlinks?

Edit : the win7 win8 thingy was just an example. I think the more important stuff is what we don't see :)
[Galaxy S II General] :
Nah Samsung isn't that fast with this :p the time Samsung will be as fast as cm , that time it will probably be best vendor of the year in one way. Rest ways no.

However someone wrote about not being accessible to something. Was it the update server or main page? Of upgrading the firmware?

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[Galaxy S II General] shishircoolin:
Samsung is atleast better on providing timely updates...I pity customers of LG & Sony devices, they have good devices but still stuck on GB and some on ICS!:silly:
[Galaxy S II General] hazwheel:
You should do that anyway ;)
[Galaxy S II General] gabboman:
Samsung is not Google. Its a big company and they have a lot of s**t to do. I hope that the release helps to CM10 and CM10.1

Enviado desde mi GT-I9100 usando Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S II General] :
What makes you think it will when it didn't on Galaxy s3?

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[Galaxy S II General] bombaybadboy:
Cm10 is mostly backported s3 mali last time I checked and cm10.1 is from google 4.2 source and maybe some help with hk i9100 kernel source, broken code from insignal. The rest comes from cm team and other members hard work. Very doubtful that the release will be any use to them at all
[Galaxy S II General] jgcaap:
They should honor their Word and release the exynos documentation as promise
[Galaxy S II General] :
Just wanted to tell you guys that I'll be leaving the Galaxy s2 community :D even though I haven't got the update,

It's been a pleasure to be with you guys and the ota will for sure come :p

I'll keep the device as a second hand phone. Because ill be updating it to official jelly bean. It's a good device.

Sorry for most of topic in this comment, if mod decides to delete it then they can do so. I'll just hope it will be more stable and less battery drain in official firmware

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[Galaxy S II General] drraptor:
Sir S4 is GT-I9500 not GT-I9400:D
[Galaxy S II General] shishircoolin:
What new device are you switching to?:silly:
[Galaxy S II General] gabboman:
me every 10 minutes

Im checking this thread every 10 minutes to see if it has been released. It hasn't been released, i feel that i'm obsesed with the rom
[Galaxy S II General] :
Carrier branded note ii :D with unlimited free surf and messages :D

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[Galaxy S II General] drraptor:
I have been waiting for it since last 6 months:p
[Galaxy S II General] :
That signature was there before the actual phone number was leaked :D So there's no need to point that out

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[Galaxy S II General] drraptor:
9400 is your phone number ? I sent a sms :D
[Galaxy S II General] :
Lol yes :rolleyes:

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[Galaxy S II General] Dexter_prog:
jesus, stop it with this stupid talk.
[Galaxy S II General] shishircoolin:
:laugh:congrats:good:.....Now Samsung's new logo should be "don't contain yourself so much"! Lol!:p
[Galaxy S II General] rumailingme:
Waiting for JB

+1 to that.I am also terrible waiting to see all that JB fancies.

Hope 4.2 JB will also be available for S2.(i wont mind waiting (for days) for that...:cowboy:
[Galaxy S II General] bombaybadboy:
Took this long for samsung to give us 4.1.2 would you wait that long for 4.2. I think 4.1.2 will be the last update for s2, its old now
[Galaxy S II General] shishircoolin:
+1. Due to Hardware limitations, I doubt that 4.2 will be officially supported by Samsung.
[Galaxy S II General] Jgjd691995:
whats so special about 4.2 again???
[Galaxy S II General] shishircoolin:
Major changes are Multi Users Support & Photosphere, etc. Check over here:

http://www.android.com/whatsnew/
[Galaxy S II General] Jgjd691995:
if i were samsung i wouldnt waste time on an update that has only these features i think they might incorporate it in a minor update
[Galaxy S II General] expl0de:
Are there any newer phones than GS2, that still don't have JB?
[Galaxy S II General] Jgjd691995:
one v
[Galaxy S II General] marin4284:
I hope jelly bean comming soon.
[Galaxy S II General] Jgjd691995:
i hope ever lol wasnt the Korean one supposed to be out today??
[Galaxy S II General] zaraza23:
They just said ....
[Galaxy S II General] jgcaap:
Why hardware and not laziness?
[Galaxy S II General] razno:
So, are you saying there will be no 4.2 for any phone without min quad core, and less than that half HD resolution? Because that is all different on s3....

So all new mid range phones, even new one still to be released, are screewed with 4.1 because hardware limitations? :)
[Galaxy S II General] ParanoidARG:
Hardware limitations? I don't think so. But we are not going to get 4.2. This is the second major update to the SII, no other device got more than 2 updates. And think about, if they were to update to 4.2 it would come around the time the new S4 (or whatever they call it) is annouced, so SII would be 2 generations old. Sadly the lifespan of our phone is ending...

BTW, Sammy released lots of updates today, no SII love again... sigh... :(
[Galaxy S II General] rakeshishere:
Everyday I see my colleague's Note 2 (Unbranded variant) at office, I just want to ditch my S2.

Some of the Motion based gestures which are gimmick to people but I find them useful and I use few of them on my SGS2.

I wish Quick glance, Smart Alert on Note 2 gets ported on the SGS2 as a MOD. Since the Galaxy S2 doesn't have a Notification LED I find the above features useful.

Sent from the Matrix
[Galaxy S II General] drraptor:
If you need JB 4.2 camera just flash zip (included in my non-root guide see my signature).

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Congrats, so you have bought a phone even the iPhone fan envy:D
[Galaxy S II General] vegogo:
Samsung should make another major update for SGS2, I think. The main reason: this phone is very popular. If a lot of people will require updates, Samsung has to make them.
[Galaxy S II General] tomashokenberi:
What would be Samsung's motivation to do it? Where is the profit? As any corporation Samsung is motivated only by profit. It’s good for Samsung to create impression of company that supports users of its products to some point, but supporting indefinitely is not to be expected.

Samsung doesn’t want us to stick with S2 too long. They would like to attract us buying new S4, S5, whatever.
[Galaxy S II General] :
Oh yes and multi user on a phone is so great :rolleyes:

It's like like having 2 candies with same flavor but they just look different not so good eh? Also Samsung doesn't implement all the goodies, remember pop up notification for a message? That wasn't included. Remember swipe from camera to gallery? Not either implemented. Samsung doesn't implement the good stuff, it's sad because I really used the message notification on cm, now I paid for glow fly (due to i loved the notification about a message and a fast reply Window) however using too many 3rd party apps to get the best features from jelly bean isn't that fun, specially when you need to pay for it, and it will be more battery drain :D

Well at least I supported that developer as Samsung didn't implement that awesome feature, we'll see what they'll be implement from 4.2 . Think they'll go with their own. But I don't blame Samsung after all I think they got the best features on the phone on stock rom :D

Have a nice day!

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[Galaxy S II General] drraptor:
I flashed JB 4.2 camera just for this:p
[Galaxy S II General] shishircoolin:
What I said was samsung won't support it

officially

via firmware upgrade:). May be they'll release an update just as they did for the Samsung Galaxy S and as far as the 4.2 and the other mods go we do have custom Roms, isn't it?:o Well all those mods are already available on CM 10.1. The whole point is samsung will now focus on newer models rather than updating firmwares on older models!:silly:
[Galaxy S II General] drraptor:
Mine is unrooted :p
[Galaxy S II General] etherspin:
their motivation and the profitability would be being the leader of the android pack in reliability and software feature set. keeping a customer happy for the longest time per handset creates brand loyalty and makes a customer want to buy their next phone from the same brand
[Galaxy S II General] tomashokenberi:
True. But they have to choose optimal level of support to both provide image of company that "cares for customers", and at same time they have to motivate customers to upgrade to their new devices, and not to stay with old ones. Also you have to account the fact that bulk of the Samsung customers does not care for firmware upgrades at all, as long as their devices operate as advertised.
[Galaxy S II General] Ankit Tulsian:
True. I have seen many users still running on the OS which they got it with the phone . They don't really care for the updates till some one explains them the benefits of new updates.
[Galaxy S II General] ssanyi:
@Grif_07

Any news?
[Galaxy S II General] drraptor:
Galaxy S advance got jelly beans in Russia:p
[Galaxy S II General] cpl.Bower:
funny

Hardware limitations? :laugh: . Are you kidding, right?.
[Galaxy S II General] burtallicus:
True again, most of the users are buying a new phone one every 2 years i guess....either warranty ends or battery starts to fail, but if samsung and other manufactures would not be in this race to have more cores and more ram and more blah blah, which at this point are useless maybe the software will be better.

The bulk of the users that are not educated in this matter, unfortunately hurts us because they are like sheeps, where more is always better....more cores more ram and so one.

remember the amd vs intel race to 1GHz speed? was pointless as at that time no app benefited those speeds.....same here dual core ...yeeeyyy....quad core...yeeeyyy......where is the benefit?

can any one here (lets say end of 2012 ) name 20 games designed and coded for quad core ore more, in PC industry? how about 10 games and 1 OS designed for quad phones ?

i would understand that...ok, im buying a quad core now so it will be future prof and ill not be forced to upgrade after 6 moths a six core.....

waste of money......and green company my ass
[Galaxy S II General] tomashokenberi:
And that is of course true for any other mobile phone and company, and for most, if not all, consumer electronic devices. Example: my neighbor wanted to buy a brand new TV, because his ~24 months old set was not able to play MKV files, and there was firmware upgrade that enables that for last, let say, 18 months.

To be on topic again, I do not believe, while it would be nice, that Samsung will go beyond 4.1.2 for our devices. I will be very satisfied if they make bug free and stable 4.1.2 with fully operational project butter.
[Galaxy S II General] razno:
I don't see ant real benefit from quad on phone for now. But from frequency and single vs dual its massive. Waiting comp/phone to do something trivially because some app doing something is not cool. And OS lag s.... I don't like any waiting, stutter....
[Galaxy S II General] mhoss48:
I think that because the gs1 got the jelly bean update, the gs2 will get 4.2 just a hypothesis
[Galaxy S II General] J_The_Nerd:
Did i miss something?

When did the sgs1 get jellybean? It only ever got to 2.3.6 (with value pack) officially.
[Galaxy S II General] vzdemon:
please help

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2090732
[Galaxy S II General] shishircoolin:
Please read the line again, if you can, I meant Officially...Its not something to be funny about. Please don't spam the thread.
[Galaxy S II General] mhoss48:
I mean the jb leak :P :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] :
What jelly bean leak for Galaxy s? Only s advance will get it and it's not the same as s1

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[Galaxy S II General] tomashokenberi:
When did GS1 received Jely Bean update? To my best knowledge last official update for GS1 was 2.3.6 with "value" pack (same touchwiz as in GSII and GSII wallpapers etc).

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[Galaxy S II General] burtallicus:
that is because the rom and the apps are not optimized not because the extra core.......dont be misselead, there are plenty of single core phones that run ICS very smooth.

Imho hardware manufactures throwing more cores and more rams in the devices are not helping in this situation because if the developers have more resources to waste trust me they will do it. Then more powerful hardware must be created and so on the spiral goes on ...Memory leaks for example were unacceptable 2-3 years ago, now the answer to that is increase the system requirements for the software. (im on QA so im speaking from xp)

lets face that the more cores more ram (not saying anything about screen size, another discution :D ) is just marketing because the average user will never use those cores, as some one else said most of them dont know what version of android are running.

im absolute sure the S2 hardware could run android 5 but there is no interest for samsung, that is a HARDAWRE manufacturer to make it run, because they need to sale the newest hardware. is simple.

You will never reach the full capability of the hardware because it will be made obsolete by marketing.
[Galaxy S II General] shishircoolin:
+1..that is why XDA-DEV are for...Custom Roms!:cool::victory:
[Galaxy S II General] burtallicus:
yeep, here is the explanation on why custom roms are smoother that official......not the extra cores....just hardwork software wise...

Given that S2 is at his end of the market life samsung should release all codes for it, and let others give a try and prove them wrong
[Galaxy S II General] rajarshi10:
Galaxy S4 to have an OCTA chip. 8 cores :o :o :o :o :o :o
[Galaxy S II General] shishircoolin:
Woaa..8 cores??:eek:..better than my PC!:laugh:
[Galaxy S II General] coolbiza:
Lets face it new entry level android phones run on 800 mhz single core cpu. My friend yesterday bought new lg p700. It has same sizes like s2 , same screen size, android ICS and it goes just fine. Well i can see some lag comparing to my s2 with leaked jb, but as i remember s2 with ICS had similar lags. And is more than half price of new s2! Of course camera is weaker and other stuff... But as we talk about CPU there is not too much diference in normal use of phone. I tried to open play, phone, messages, email apps the same time on both phones and it open all almost instantly on both phones.

Maibe some CPU intensive app or game can show difference but normal use is almost the same...

Cheers!
[Galaxy S II General] KuNgZi:
F.ck off Samsung :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] vegogo:
For example, iPhone 3GS released in 2009. Last version of iOS released 2 months ago and Apple users can use it on 3GS. What are we worse?
[Galaxy S II General] King_Rat:
+1

dam skippy!

It's all just a pi55ing contest between manufacturers :mad:

The S2 won't get updates beyond 4.1.x - because they want you to buy SGS-3/4's

PS - to be fair we are all market controlled :silly: I desire an Experia Z with a 13 MP Camera :zoinks:

and when it gets dirty I can poor water on it from my drink bottle!! :victory:

dam those marketing gurus :p
[Galaxy S II General] shishircoolin:
looking at its specs, Xperia Z is a beast right now!:cowboy:
[Galaxy S II General] RandomPlayer:
where did you read that? At least sammobile said it will be exynos 5 quad core and octa chip is coming late this year or early 2014

"We expect to see the new Exynos5 Quad inside the new upcoming Galaxy S IV and in end 2013 begin 2014 the first Octa core devices"
[Galaxy S II General] mhoss48:
Ok you win this round :p my bad :cool:
[Galaxy S II General] imarcel99:
I guess update for S2 isn't so far away.
[Galaxy S II General] minidou-77:
Samsung announced it few minutes ago at the CES in Vegas ;)
[Galaxy S II General] ant987:
There is no proof up to now! I can't even check if that's real as I can't make it work! Can someone who has a Note check if that's true! Because if that's true, I can't believe that Samsung released it! I mean the development of the S2 ROM was soooo much more advanced than the one of the Note!
[Galaxy S II General] ssanyi:
We guess it for two months...
[Galaxy S II General] tomashokenberi:
True, however, you forget that Apple has to support only 6 different phones (Iphone, Iphone 3G, Iphone 3GS, Iphone 4, Iphone 4S and Iphone 5), and two of them aren’t supported anymore (Iphone/Iphone 3G). How many different phones have Samsung to support?
[Galaxy S II General] robertogl:
In the comments of the article there are a lot of people with a Poland phone, and there is not jelly bean out.
[Galaxy S II General] :
なん？

please source for video :) or at least tell more about what they said (i missed the video)

as i'm moving to note II i need to make a last update on the SGS II
[Galaxy S II General] nzo972:
wpa_supplicant.bin

Could someone please upload the wpa_supplicant.bin from this leak ? Thank you in advance.
[Galaxy S II General] :
you mean: see attachment ?
[Galaxy S II General] bombaybadboy:
Im on neatRom lite, would it help from that rom, all I have sorry

http://db.tt/ZmfkEsX6
[Galaxy S II General] nzo972:
Yes, pretty fast ! thanks a lot ! Need it to try the eap-sim fonctionnality from my provider on non-stock rom :D
[Galaxy S II General] :
no worries :)

anyway anyone heard some news, i missed the CES :(
[Galaxy S II General] blah12325:
Noob here,

I don't know if anyone else has been bothered about this, but I found the text on the notification bar HUGE! One or two notifications and the whole thing was filled up.

Any news on finding a fix for the lockscreen freezing? I found using alliance v5.1 rom fixed the battery drain issue, text issue but there is still the lockscreen freeze which is annoying as hell.

cheers:good:
[Galaxy S II General] bombaybadboy:
This kernel will fix your lockscreen freeze jeboo 1.1c

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2062208
[Galaxy S II General] blah12325:
Thanks a bunch, I'm assuming this'll work with the xxlsj based alliance rom?

right now i've got philz kernel.

EDIT*- works like a charm, thanks!
[Galaxy S II General] rakeshishere:
Search for Crusader's Jellybean reloaded theme. It has patches for No brightness slider, toggles without text etc which gives you serious amount of space in Notification drawer ;)

Sent from the Matrix
[Galaxy S II General] jgcaap:
Almost getting 7 hours screen on. Soon will upload screen shots. Still have 11%battery hehe
[Galaxy S II General] Dexter_prog:
post rom and kernel too. and settings!
[Galaxy S II General] jgcaap:
10 more minutes. Battery at 7%hehehe playing games :p

Power mode all time on, with customized Undervolt.

Siyah kernel

Wannamlite

If I controle 2 more apps and turned off the média server i Think i would have more 30 min :)
[Galaxy S II General] blah12325:
I ran cm10 for a few days after stock xxlsj for a while, but i missed having the touchwiz-esque look, so i gave Alliance v5.1 a try, best thing ever! It's like the perfect combination of vanilla and touchwiz.
[Galaxy S II General] jgcaap:
There :)
[Galaxy S II General] blah12325:
In canada theyre saying mar/apr. Instead of the original septermber.