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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] KennyL98:
Downloaded the official JB update

I recently rooted my wifes GS2 (stock). This morning, she announces to me that she got an update notice. I told her to let it run. Unfortunately, it stopped at the screen where you select the file to run (installed during the rooting process)

NOOB QUESTIONS:

1. Can I find the file and select it and let it run? I really don't care if I lose root. In this case, does anyone know the file name? There is a file called update.zip, but I'm not sure if that is an old file I used in the rooting process.

2. If I can't, should I flash the stock ROM again and run it from there? I hope I don't have to go this route, but it may be necessary.

Thanks in advance for any help.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
Unfortunately, it's not Jelly Bean. It's another version of 4.0.4. It says here: http://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-3029 that the OTA will run until February 7, so maybe something will come shortly after that. If you recall, there was an update required before we got ICS as well :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Genesis3:
This one was trouble.

I flashed the stock recovery and then allowed the update to go -- and it totaled my phone.

I had to ODIN back to Gingerbread, take the update off KIES and WIPE (yes, factory reset) to get back.

Caution folks....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] MrKnitty:
@scoobyracing03 you forgot this one.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Elloco305:
Lmfao!!! That was the best. Totally catch one off guard with it
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] scifan:
Same source that correctly told me when the update for the S3 would roll out, told me that the S2 update would roll on Feb 13th...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] GS2_Man:
Love the timeliness of his updates. One day after MrKnitty gives us an update, I get an OTA notification from TMobile for the pre-JB patch.

No problems for me on the install, so far.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] KennyL98:
thanks for clarifying that

Thanks for the heads up. Now, I'm wondering if I should go through the hassle just to get the patch.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
You will eventually need the patch to install the jb update when it gets here, if you plan on using the stock ROM. If you plan on using something else than you obviously wouldn't have to.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Elloco305:
Which the majority of us will just wait till a rooted deodexed version hours after the official update lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
Mrknitty, any ideas when the update will come out, after having just received this patch this morning? I remember last time there was about a month between the patch and ICS.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] GS2_Man:
The TMobile document said this current update would be pushed OTA until Feb 7th ... So likely around that time we could see JB.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bbrennan:
so question I have is, If i ran stock Tmobile ICS with this update and didnt root, granted I can't get modem loaded, but is there the possibility of getting OTA update pushed on SR thru Tmobile?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] malisha1:
I believe it will a few months(4+) until tmobile SG2 gets JB.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Sicily1918:
Wow! My computer froze halfway through the update and I had to flash through Kies recovery and even through all that my phone's just fine.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] corwest:
I flashed the new LI4 rom and went back to CM 10 after. May just be a placebo but I feel that CM10 runs even smoother after applying the LI4 rom and going back. Dont know what Qualcomm patch there was but I feel it sped things up a bit.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Elloco305:
Placebo. The 'patch' only applied to those on stock roms. So if you go and wipe back to a custom rom. The 'patch' therefore is pointless to you lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] corwest:
So what did it flash then? I would assume it was some driver level stuff that a custom ROM and kernel wouldn't touch.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Elloco305:
It applied patches which could mean system files and etc but again that's for devices not on custom romz with soff lol before you went back to cm you had to full wipe. System caches so it makes no sense. To me at least to say that ota fixed anything to make it smooth on a cm build. My 2¢
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] corwest:
I see what your saying but there is a chance that there are deeper driver level patches that were applied that are not touched by recovery wipes or different roms. Curious to see what the patches were exactly.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Elloco305:
You're right. Anything is possible with these devices. :)

Except jelly bean in the first quarter! Jk
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Onemoa:
It's great to hear the S2 is really going to get jelly bean. I have friends and family members that are going to love this somewhat official news. I myself picked up a Note 2 in the T-mobile store and have never looked back. But the S2 is still a great phone. If you think about is age and specs, it was a phone well ahead of its time.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] droptopMP:
No ota update here, no computer so I can't go through kies :(
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Elloco305:
There is no ota yet. Last one a few days ago was still ICS. So don't worry lol.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mina_munchy:
sorry for being idiot over here but what is the benifit of that new patch update ?????
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] corwest:
Allegedly it is required before the JB ota gets applied. It has some patches for various things inside.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] droptopMP:
I'm not, I didn't even get the ota notice for 4.0.4 like some people did. Still mad cuz I like my stuff up todate

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They did the same thing right before ics also.(patch for GB)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] MrKnitty:
Not necessarily true because you don't need this patch because "its required to run JB". It's just a update fix so that no script related malware could effect the phone. Think of it like a update for a virus scanner.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] peppersu812:
Keep calm and pet the fury wall people. It's just like when we got ICS and same method. I waited for a dev to do his magic then flashed away. It will be here soon enough.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
In other words, necessary so the average idiot (no one here I'm sure) won't screw up their phone with a script.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] corwest:
Well there ya go. :)

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And go smoke a Jeffrey...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Onemoa:
I've been playing with my Note 2 and I really hope they port over the Camera to the S2 in the Jelly Bean update.

The slow motion feature is amazing. I also hope they port the Music Player. I know it will not give the same sound as the N2 since the S2 doesn't have the amazing sound chip that the N2 has but the music player itself is great.

Now I'm really wondering what they are going to bring from the Note 2 and S3. Google now is a given just because it's a part of jelly bean. But S-Beam and the Camera options would be awesome. I hear they are going to have most of what's on the S3 in the update for the S2 but if they add some of the best features of the Note 2, now that will make the S2 a phone that will last another 2 years as far as what it can do. It will be able to keep up with the newer phones that will be coming out this year.

The reason I'm really so excited to see what's being brought to the S2 is that will tell us how well they will be updating the newer Samsung phone's such as the S3 and there newest addition to the Galaxy line of high end phones, the Note 2. I guess it's not something I'm just interested in either. I'm sure all of you S3 and Note 2 owners are waiting to see what the S2 will get as even with its old age is still a great mid range phone for the price of free with a two year contract on most carriers. The S2 will be given a new lease on life with this update and I hope Samsung continues to upgrade all there phones to the newest version of Android.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mina_munchy:
hello guys im trying to get the new update via kies and now in step:prepare for software upgrade and it saying downloading firmware upgrade components 99% and it stuck in that for half an hour till nw while the mobile still works good what should i do ?????
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gary93:
Samsung does release updates for other S2 such as the international one. What I thought and some other does is that TM holding back/ slowly working/ planning to give us updates. Or it's that TM wants their customers to upgrade their phones for newer firmware.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Koragg618:
But of course, XDA makes life hard for them :D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] corwest:
That may or may not be part of it but the T-Mobile GSII is completely different hardware wise from the international one so drivers and such have to be re written
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] scifan:
I was told on the 13th... we'll see if my source was right. :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] syntaxerr0r:
The Telus update is also scheduled around dates for the T989. The Telus ROMs are usually quite bloat-free so I'm hoping it'll come sooner rather than later!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] hatememarkz:
13th of what am foot the TMobile gsII
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] algorhythm:
I think your brain broke half way through this sentence.

But you guys think we are strung along by TMo? The original GNote JUST got ICS.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] scifan:
February 13th... next Wednesday. I know this person was spot on for the SGS III JB release... we'll see...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Koragg618:
Lets hope, I'm eager to get a smoother TW Jellybean ROM running, because that AT&T leak is uhh.. you get the point
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Elloco305:
Tuesday night I'll have to revert to stock ICS. And search for software updates every minute. :P
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
They'll post something about it early in the day on the update page for our phone when it happens. If it's not there, you don't have to bother checking :p
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Koragg618:
AOKP 4.2.1 and CM10.1 was released sometime yesterday

Sent from my Galaxy S2 X T989D running 4.2.1.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Elloco305:
still not official tw though. :P
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] exautt:
I'd be jumping all over the AOKP and CM ROMS. however im one of those poor saps with poor signal and COMPLETELY rely on Tmobile's WiFi Calling. so here i sit, staring at forum, waiting.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Falco:
Update op so that people don't make 4.2 threads?

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rfail1988:
I think it's pretty established that we will never officially get 4.2.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Onemoa:
Naw the S2 will get it. But not on the 13th. It's going to be released on Kies a few days after. The reason they are not rushing this out is the same reason they will not be rushing out KLP for the Note 2.T-mobile does indeed want you to go buy a new phone and a new 2 year contract. Most people do even though the phone they have is fine and it just needs jelly bean.

It's like when the S4 comes out. Samsung will say it does something that the S3 doesn't do ect. Allot of marketing gimmicks get most people to buy new phones full price when the phone they have does more then what they need it to do as it is. Right now if you have a dual core phone with a good camera and good display the biggest thing that makes the new phone you want is the lack of new software / software updates.

I'm really hoping Key Lime Pie will change that with the rumor of it having a built in updater. That way you can get the newest version of Android sent right to whatever phone you own and bug fixes for that very own model of phone. That will be when Android really will shine.

That's what needs to happen anyway. Because there are way to many different Android phones out there. That it's pretty hard for the manufacturers to tweak each version of Android that's released to each phone then get the update approved then add the bloatware and send it out ota.

That's why I'm really hoping KLP puts a end to all that. Then they could come out with some kind of update schedule, every 6 months for smaller fixes, every year for big new updates. Either way or how ever they do it. It will be much better then the way things are done now.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] OldeCrow:
No the S2 won't see 4.2, T-mobile doesn't commit to more than two software upgrades and we've had our two, (2.3.x-4.0.x), (4.0.x-4.1.x) thats two.

Neither Google or Samsung will be giving away updates either that is simply not the way the android pyramid scheme works, T-mobile has to pay to have it done.

Besides you can see what happens when development gets top heavy and all the good developers are working on source at CM and AOKP there isn't a single example of CM or AOKP actually working well on any one phone because all the really good developers have left individual phone development. Our phone is a great example of this.

Most of us (the adults anyway) try a new flavor of the day rom and when it doesn't work reliably we end up back on a stock or modified touchwiz rom again.

Now if Key lime turns out to be a huge departure from the current model and say they went to PC business model where manufacturers were responsible for maintaining drivers for their hardware that work with Android instead of the current model which basically makes manufacturers responsible for making Android work with their hardware then samsung could release drivers (and software) for the phone, T-mobile could release software for the phone and Google really could develop and update the Android part independently. Although an argument could be made that the PC business model doesn't work any better than Google's current setup...

that was a little more than my 2c sorry ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Onemoa:
I get what you mean but anything would be better then the way it is now. I mean so many phones just getting jelly bean. It's been out for 6 months now? Just doesn't seem right. I guess it's manly the USA though. T-mobile, ect.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] algorhythm:
You do realize 4.1 is JB also, right? And we haven't seen that yet.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sharpeyedman:
T Mobile might if we all sign petetion. N we make big complaints, pointing to sky rocket,how att releasd the jelly bean for it but T-Mobile hasn't for gsii.

They'd feel threatened to do something, theyd hate to see customers leaving.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] algorhythm:
Everyone knows that Internet petitions do wonders. :rolleyes:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] kvaka22:
Amazing how many people are pessimistic

as it will be the end of the world if we do not get JB

exceptional phone even without JB will remain outstanding

I do not see any reason not to get JB

I'm sick reading what people write, sell the phone and go off this board

Stop boring us with your pessimistic forecasts
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] abhayy:
Yes, but we do have unofficial cm10.1 and 4.2.1 aokp builds.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] MrKnitty:
Its coming, everyone relax.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Elloco305:
Mr knitty with the news update, though!!!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] blackangst:
edit: nevermind.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Scoobyracing03:
Odd if it's coming soon we have yet to see any leaks for our phone. Wonder why that is....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rfail1988:
What, our sources don't count now? I believe it is coming very soon as they say... Just not 4.2.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] me_is_rushin:
Actually both of those roms are official. CM is built by teamchopsticks and AOKP is built by Whitehawkx the maintainer. You will very likely see both of these roms for our device in the next round of respective milestone builds.

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13th like the latest rumor says?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rayray430:
Any JB ROM with working wireless tethering?

I'm currently on Jedi Jelly 4 but there's some issues with this rom and I'm looking to change to another one. My main feature needed is the Wireless Tethering. Can anyone help me with a stable JB ROM? Thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] me_is_rushin:
AOKP M1, CM10 Stable, or Slim bean 3.1.0
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rayray430:
Thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] scifan:
With my source, she was spot on for the S3 for Tmo... AND there wasn't any other source claiming that the update would roll the day it did... no leaks, nothing.

Would I be surprised if 4.1 didn't roll for this phone on Wednesday... no... but based on past experience, I expect it to.

I'm only interested because I want my wife to have a better experience on her phone... (tempted to go find her another S3... and just buy it and move on...)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Elloco305:
Appreciate the passage of knowledge though. ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Jofecu:
Can't wait for official JB.

In all the time I've spent in this forum and flashing about 8 different ROMS I have yet to find one that works flawlessly, meaning everything working correctly as it should and at the same time being buttery smooth. Does anyone know of any?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] blackangst:
There are several posted in this thread, one page back even. If you need wifi calling, youre going to have to wait.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ackliph:
I got an update notification today and botched it by having twrp installed. Was it by chance a JB update? I already have 4.0.4.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Elloco305:
Did you do hw last 4.0.4 update
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tripprapp:
No, they wont.there were petitions for the Vibrant. TMO only gave the Vibrant a Froyo update. XDA has done more for that phone then TMO ever has. I believe the same will be true for the S2.

I am surprised that we even got an official ICS on the S2.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ackliph:
Hw?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Elloco305:
Did you do the latest update from last month?

I doubt its JB since if it were it would be everywhere by this time. Lil
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Koragg618:
Well tomorrow is the 13th, I hope the source is true :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Elloco305:
+1000 lol Wednesday can't come soon enough
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] zender2k:
Not going to happen. :(
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Elloco305:
Super optimistic though
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] a93hunt:
I'm pretty optimistic about this too. The whole process of odin ing back to stock will be a pain.. Any who receives potentially receives an update, we'd appreciate it if it were reported here!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sharpeyedman:
Samsung did promise the jb update for s 2 in February. Now the question is will T mobile release one for T989?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Elloco305:
True. But all faith goes to rumors now. Fingers crossed and let's hope T-Mobile doesn't screw us. Whether today the 13 or march lol optimistic ftw
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RushAOZ:
I really do hope tmo releases 4.1.2. I'm tired of flashing different ROMs and I'm overall bored/sick of this phone. I just want to slap official jellybean rooted on it and call it a day until I decide to upgrade.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sharpeyedman:
Sorry guys! Today is not the day!

Check out following from an article from tellmenews:

Samsung did not announce any update schedules for North American Galaxy S2 users, so it’s safe to assume that AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon users of the Galaxy S2 may have to wait until March or even April before receiving Jelly Bean on their phones.* Traditionally, Southeast Asia and/or Korea are first in line to receive Android software updates, followed by Europe.* North American customers are usually among the last to have their Samsung phones upgraded.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Jofecu:
Be nice guys....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Woody:
Truth!! Callip started the Twitter campaign,#neveragain, to get Froyo for the Vibrant (success) and I wrote The Petition to get it ICS (fail). Mine was bounced from the Vibrant, to Captivate, to XDA General and died in the I9000 section. We did get the crappy Service Pack but anything that TMo could do, we did it better over there. I mean they abandoned it on Froyo, but now it is running JellyBean. Clearly it isn't a hardware issue.

Whether it comes out today, tomorrow or next week, I know that hopes are high. Please don't let your hopes skew your posting habits and make snarky comments out of frustration.

My wife has an SGS2, so I am watching also. Granted I have her on a custom ROM now, but once the official comes out, Devs can pull the code and work their magic and isn't that what we really want?

Thread cleaned slightly.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] me_is_rushin:
Eh... I'm not too sure about that. I'm not saying it will come today or any time this month even, but I've never heard of this news site and Verizon never even had a GS2 so that makes them seem even less reputable if they can't even get that right.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Jofecu:
Lol!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
It seems the OTA period for the last update was extended from february 7 to the 28th. Perhaps today would have been the original date, if the ota wasn't still going on.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] psyclist:
Im hoping Telus will pull through, we still have a vague February date for 4.1.2 ...hoping that it makes it here sooner rather than later, I need me some butter
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] scifan:
Like I said earlier, she was 100% spot on for the S3... but you never know...

I'm asking her for an update again... who knows... not going to stress over it... have other higher priority things to worry about... ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] me_is_rushin:
Let us know if she says anything. I know a lot of folks around here care a great deal about official updates for wifi calling and other reasons.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Elloco305:
Mostly darn call echo. Lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] scifan:
Hopefully this doesn't burn my source, but, I just got this back, and it doesn't sound very promising... :(

Straight from a tech at Samsung:

"I have no info right now. Believe there are memory concerns. T Mobile is investigating an alternate path which may help, however, that has been status for the last 4 weeks. I will keep you posted."
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mataflakitas:
samsung s2 epic 4g touch is official jelly bean 4.1.2
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] me_is_rushin:
Source? I know they have had several leaks and they use the same chipset as the intenational SII so porting is easy, but I have not heard anything about an OFFICIAL update.