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[Galaxy S II General] marcellocord:
No one likes to work on the S II. Codeworkx is working more on the i9100G because it's OMAP, lot more easier [and fking great, his words] than Exynos. The S I development is better than the S II, because the S I hardware is very similar to the Nexus One, so, nexus... you know. The Galaxy S JB will be better than the Galaxy S II JB. That's why, and more things, I really want to sell my S II and buy the Galaxy Nexus. The hardware of the Nexus is just a bit [really bit] lower than the S II. But with JB it just turns the Nexus a kickass phone, much better than the S II. Most likely S II won't get JB, even Samsung is tired of working on it.

So, +1 to your ideas.
[Galaxy S II General] PunkOz:
I'm blaming samsung

There's a dual core exynos that runs better than the quadcore I don't remember the name, and thanks i'll take your advice and change the title
[Galaxy S II General] ttg:
There's still some hope.

SGS2 isn't flagship device. however even if Galaxy Note would be promised JB devs will get some blobs.

If I remember also the Galaxy Tab 2 and 7" variants are Exynos means some support could be get from those.
[Galaxy S II General] Frostfree:
Pentile seems bad on a spec sheet, but in real life the implementation is stunning. Once I tried out the S3 I just had to have it, but I'm surprised how quickly everyone that used to be here have moved on to the S3.
[Galaxy S II General] ant987:
Well if everybody has tons of money it's obvious!

Personally I bought my S2 a year ago and I don't have the money to buy an S3! I was so happy when they announced jelly bean, because I knew the S2 has a big community and I thought it would have seen JB soon, but now I'm realizing that the developers have abandoned our device! What can I say, I'm really really disappointed! I will never buy another non-nexus device! Never never never never! Just wait one more year, Samsung will release another super device, all the developers will move to that device (with the money that users donate....) and then the S3 will no longer be supported. I've already said it, and I'm gonna say it again, This is not the spirit of android! :( :( :(
[Galaxy S II General] Bl@ck:
>no one is working on jb for the S2

Not true, codeworx and espenfjo are working on it, plus other devs.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=28679156

I say, just be patient and wait, it's not like CM will abandon the S2, it'll just take more time comparing to other, more open, devices.

Sent from my Cyanogen modded GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] PunkOz:
the same happened to me.. i had a big hope and now i see everyone is getting JB and we havn't even started /: It feels weird you know, we're used to get all the updates and now S2 is dead. I also bought my galaxy S2 and since then i check the forums daily for updates, new kernels, roms etc, I've flashed over 100 roms or even more. Am I the only one that feels like the S3 isn't worth it if you have a S2? D:
[Galaxy S II General] PunkOz:
Codeworkx is only working on i9100G I stalk his twitter a lot :p and that post is old but yea, we have to be patient and stop rushing the devs (If there r any still here)
[Galaxy S II General] Bl@ck:
But GT-I9100G is much easier to port since has a more open hardware, who would start from the hardest thing first and then leave the easiest for last? If it's easier you can get things done faster and later use the knowledge gained on the harder task.

Sent from my Cyanogen modded GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] ArmorD:
Really? JB was released a week ago and we already have a port, which people are actually working on. ICS roms are updated weekly, S2 forums are active...

Go check out forums for Sensation, they're much less active, so is Xperia S', still people like their phones.

Sent from my Volvo
[Galaxy S II General] GFXi0N:
One week has 4.1 been out and the people is like mad because it's not still running on their SGSII

Planning on changing to another model, spending more money...

Calm down people... Let things happen and be patient. It's not like 4.1 is that super big change, some apps that you use, for sure don't even work properly on this system and we have cm9 on rc stage. Please stop bong so inpatient and childish, calm down and wait: there will be 4.1 for this device as it's being sold a lot and still has a lot of units out there!

Chillax, for f*cks sake..... All this subject is making me sick!
[Galaxy S II General] iamsloany:
im giving a big thanks to all the devs on here not just this forum but all other android devices on xda.

dont forget a lot of time and effort has been put into development for our beloved S2 so a break or change of device sometimes is a good thing. development for the G1 is still ongoing. im using paranoid for my s2 which was only developed for the SGS2 and named D4 rom, but now it has morphed into multiple platforms on various devices with s few more devs onboard so thumbs up to the devs for trying to get their name across other to android users they have a reputation and fan base to build while making some awesome mods,kernels and roms. we will have jb eventually remember how long we waited for ics since the gnex was released it took months but we got it now.

bit of patience goes a long way :)

Tapped Hybrid S2
[Galaxy S II General] pulser_g2:
Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it don't exist :)

I've booted JB thanks to the hacksung guys. But we need proprietary libs to get audio working etc...
[Galaxy S II General] pulser_g2:
Not necessarily true.

Not everything takes place where you can see it ;)
[Galaxy S II General] anshmiester78900:
Hello sir glad u posted here . U know what problem our S2 forum is facing right now ? There are many 15 yr old kids crying and winning about the JB .! And im sick of their useless post . Whatever comes in their mind they just come here and start posting crap about it . I would request you can u please lock these kind of threads a ur a mod also .!
[Galaxy S II General] christan:
Quoting OP? lol :D

Well, having the latest android version is not all you can reach in life, huh? I'd stop complaining about devs leaving our beloved SGSII (I don't mean op but other users) and use the magic we are given. As said before PARANOIDANDROID was originally developed for our S2 and codeworkx didn't stop development but he just stated that it's hard to port things to exynos devices and he wants to help out the poor G community too..
[Galaxy S II General] jonboyuk:
I couldn't agree more - I genuinely read that as a rant, despite the misleading subject. I'm not having a pop at the op, but I am always updating my SII Rom, (usually a weekly release from the RR thread). Updated kernels appearing all the time etc - far from dead in my honest opinion.

There are also JB threads and builds appearing and if I was a dev, posts like this would make me feel somewhat unwanted. There are still recognised devs cracking on and working for our obsessive flashing pleasures. Perhaps support would be the order of the day rather than highlighting a dip in community activity!
[Galaxy S II General] valentinrascu:
Maybe samy will release the drivers for jelly bean...but not the official firmware...

Inviato dal mio GT-I9100 con Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S II General] zaki0saad:
+1

I miss the HTC forums
[Galaxy S II General] mesaj:
I hope new developers will come :)

GS2 is getting cheaper so more people can afford it and many also says that GS3 is not worth the price yet as GS2 is enough good.

and +1 for HTC forums, also loved my Desire Z's community :)

I'll try myself porting JB, I know I'm not experienced yet but worth try, just for fun :P
[Galaxy S II General] Mittaa:
Your S2 is dead !?

As many others your have turned your phone into a project ... not a tool for daily use!

What would you do if HW didn't evolve ... complain about that I suppose!

Get a life ... or a new piece of HW :laugh:
[Galaxy S II General] :
And you know that because...? (And please, different argument than "SGS didn't get ICS" would be appreciated :) )
[Galaxy S II General] LJE:
hahaha serious?

My missus has an S2 and I have endless roms to choose from and install for her.

All because the work the devs have put in.

"Samsung will release another super device, all the developers will move to that device (with the money that users donate....)"

Why don't you ask for a refund as you clearly didn't get what you paid for. Maybe sue them for not working hard enough and for not receiving the ongoing work that you have paid for.

*end sarcasm*

And the spirit of android?

Hahahahaga

Maybe read up on development and start learning to help yourself instead of expecting someone to do it for you
[Galaxy S II General] digkong:
Its been compared to those phones coz it out performs them.. and the ones u are trying to compare s2 with stand no where near it.
[Galaxy S II General] molesarecoming:
i know it sucks to say this, and i really dont mean to piss anyone off, but next time get a nexus. codeworkx had or has that advice even written in his footer. people have told crazy bull**** about camera and mali chipset yaddyayadda, in the end of day its the only device out there thats bound to get better, not older and it has a great dev community with many original and fresh roms.

i started with the s2 and gave it away simply because i saw the state of the dev community, half a year after ics was out 90% was still hung on ****ty gingerbread, rest were ports. cyanogen was one of the few exceptions and without it i would not even have considered buying it. its way better now that cm is stable but still, now jb is out and the whole madness starts again.

people who told **** about mali being slow now look like complete fools when they see a stock nexus being 20 times more fluid than the meanest most aggressively overclocked s2. samsung did a great job tricking prople with stats and numbers, they are the ones who rely on hardware sales so they blow out ten smartphones a week with supposedly "better" stats. google doesnt need to pull this nonsense, they have a device that can withstand a solid 2 year run, that deals with apps and games in that period, and will always be up to date. that is the reason google employees use nexus and thats the reason it was still THE phone of the I/O. its easy to forget the impact of software and user-experience when megapixel and gigahertz stats look so bright and tempting. all that has taught me this: screw samsung, i will never ever buy a smartphone that is locked down, developer unfriendly and fragmented via amateurish UI overlays that take months to update.

sorry about that, dont stomp me for it. :o
[Galaxy S II General] Entropy512:
Galaxy Tab 2 (both variants) are OMAP4. As a result - easymode.

Tab 7 Plus and Tab 7.7 are Exynos - but their developers have their own problems (closed-source wifi driver from hell).

Yes, the CM team thought JB would be easy - and for many devices it is proving to be that. However, no one was expecting the audio HAL interface rework, that was a nasty little surprise that no one could have known about until source code release. (And, in my opinion, making that "it'll be easy" post before source code dropped was a bad idea.)

Who knows - maybe we'll get lucky and wrapping the HAL will work better for ICS->JB than it did for GB->ICS (which was epicfail). Too early to tell.

Espenfjo has been working on CM10 bringup, focusing (of course) on everything but audio. Once he's gotten that mostly in place, it'll be time for a concerted attack on audio from multiple people. Right now, my personal focus has been CM9 polish (opensource sensor HAL for example) and the whole eMMC damage mess. Once the eMMC mess calms down I'll have more time to mess with JB. :)
[Galaxy S II General] victorator:
I have both the S2 and S3 and I don't really see the point of this thread.

You have so many roms on the S2, AOSP AOKP, Paranoid, endless variations of stock roms, miui, old one, new one, you will get CM10. Stop complaining.

You think other phones have better development? You are mistaken.

BTW. I tried a couple roms on the S3, I went back to stock for the first time in my life I don't see any reason to change to a custom firmware on the S3.

You can guess how much I care for the S3 development.
[Galaxy S II General] cpl.Bower:
hate to spam but are you saying that I should trash my brand new S2 because of this?
[Galaxy S II General] victorator:
Hell no. The S2 is the 2nd best phone in my eyes after S3.

The GNex is also good but it's onscreen buttons suck and the camera is a ss compared to the s2/3.
[Galaxy S II General] :
+1 completely agree
[Galaxy S II General] Scarface1991:
Development for SII hasn`t stopped. CM 10 is being developed for the SII but because of the Hardware used in SII it will take longer.

Here you can follow the progress for the SII and CM10 and as you can see they are doing something for it every day.

http://nechko.com/sites/cm10cl/index.php?device=galaxys2&translations=no
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
It's funny how we saw an almost identical thread back when ICS came out saying the same thing... Of course dev work will go down because the SGS3 is out, but to be honest, do we really need an insane amount of dev work on this phone still? Once JB is over and done with (Samsung will release an updated version I'm sure), development will pick up a bit more, then drop off...

I'm not as excited about JB as I was about ICS, I guess. ;)

---------- Post added at 05:34 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:30 PM ----------

See that's the thing. It's not necessarily commits to the SGS2 branch, but commits which are universal for all phones, which falls under the SGS2 category. Commits for the SGS2 directly are few and far between. Samsung would have to help on that portion (Which they won't for the time being)
[Galaxy S II General] mckeowngoo:
Meh!

Can't say much for what had already been said in defence of the phone.

You want a JB build then it's time to hit the text books script kiddies because *****ing, bile and silly envious posts is just going to annoy the Devs working hard to make it happen and encourage others to start the ***** fest over the supposedly poor, out of date, under-powered and hard to develop for S2.

Give it a rest.
[Galaxy S II General] PunkOz:
As I said in the thread, this is the first time I make a thread like this. Why? Because I got the S2 since it was released and I've never seen the development dead like this, I always held myself from making a thread like this but honestly there's not many threads about JB as there were when ICS was released.. It was a chaos in XDA, not like we need threads like that though.

Anyway, this is the general section and I wanted to make a thread about what I think about the development and samsung, I'm also keeping an eye on the other JB threads and they're dead, I just wanna see how many people think like me, I'm not crying or breaking any rule, yes there's a sticky thread about JB but I'm not only talking about JB (:
[Galaxy S II General] ArmorD:
Mods, please lock this thread. These kids have no right to complain! And actually there it's nothing to complain. S2 has still one of the largest communities, Cyanogenmod has already started working on making Jelly Bean and we already have a port. Seriously, this thread is a joke!

Sent from my Volvo
[Galaxy S II General] Scarface1991:
I don`t agree that development is dead for the SII. Look at the ICS Threads. ICS for the SII is in it`s prime time. It is very stable, very fast and you can achieve great battery life with the right ICS Rom and the right Kernel. The AOKP Team just released Milestone 6 which works absolutely great on the SII and Roms are being updated by it`s developers. So what`s the problem here???

Jelly Bean will come also, it`s just gonna take a little longer, so what? I mean you are saying it like it`s not possible to use the Phone without Jelly Bean.
[Galaxy S II General] Entropy512:
Yeah, seriously... Whining because you can't have Jelly Bean in a week?

It took 4-5 months (primarily waiting for kernel source) before there was stable ICS.

It's a mature device - far less development is needed. Yeah it's lower on the totem pole than other devices in terms of some developer's priorities because of the ****ing MC1N2 - but "dead" - not even remotely close.

You're just another *****y whiner like the people who would claim that N7000 CM9 development was "dead" every time I decided to take a night off and go drink a beer instead of hacking. Seriously, I'm not kidding - I couldn't take more than a night or two off without someone *****ing that development was now dead!
[Galaxy S II General] anshmiester78900:
True there are many kids over here .!!!
[Galaxy S II General] PunkOz:
What's with people calling everyone kids? Does that make you feel big or important? The port we got is an image of galaxy nexus and CM team is working on i9100G not GT–i9100, the JB port we got was ported by LastStandingAndroid he's not even in CM team or hacksung, and the mods will close this thread if they feel like they won't close it only cause you say so 'kid', and if you think my thread is a joke and I'm a troll of whatever then 'don't feed the troll' and don't comment, We'll at least I don't comment in useless threads.
[Galaxy S II General] anshmiester78900:
U just did .!
[Galaxy S II General] PunkOz:
Oh I'm not whining I'm just stating that the development is frozen until a JB release and no1 is working on it yet I specified in the thread that I'm not blaming the devs, well I see many people didn't like this thread I'm off, always loved xda community but o well I'm off see ya
[Galaxy S II General] sahibunlimited:
What's with the kid talk?

If someone spams or make useless requests, then is he a kid automatically?
[Galaxy S II General] iconata:
oh please.. "the ics development is in it's prime".. do you mean the 10000000 of "different" aokp and cm9 roms? in their own way they're different.. with some of them i cant connect to my wifi router until i reset it.. with others i get FC, contacts.apk freezing, unexplained lag, ****ty kernels.. aokp team might have released M6, but is it officially available for SGS2? no.. the problem is that the so "called" developers are copy-pasters.. gather some mods and other **** put them in a zip file and let the donations coming! as lastly as codeworkx said: there are many cooks on xda.. some of them fry, others use pan.. but none of them really develop
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
Everyone is not kids, that's the issue. But some are, and they really are, it's not their problem actually. Any gadget forum will have them. Because nowadays even an illiterate person is opting for a high end device. And 24 hours online to troll and spam and at the end of the month asking his rich father, daddy please recharge my number, i don't have enough balance to troll on. This isn't the case when i go to Omega forum or Audi ones. That's the difference.

Anyway can't blame them, an immature brain can't make wise things. :o
[Galaxy S II General] mckeowngoo:
Let me just clarify what I meant by the term script kiddies...

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/script_kiddie.html

Not that I should have to explain myself.
[Galaxy S II General] UnwiredDroid:
I used to love Samsung because they make good Android phones but when they released the S3, it seems that they forgtt that their best selling phone is still well loved by every owner of it. Their marketing focus only on the current model (S3) and every phone that is their best sellers were suddenly became obsolete by not giving update. So I decided that my next phone will be pure Android.

Somehow I appreciate how Apple is providing software update to their older devices, and seems does not affect their sales. Samsung is full sh*t when it comes to customer support!

I only updated my S II with their stock firmware for only a week after that I saw this F1 GalaxyNexus ROM which is pure Android ROM and I am very much happy since then. Question, If I like JB on my S II, who doesn't? but Samsung is not giving us needed drivers for 3rd party developers to have the porting easy as slicing a butter.

Android, Android Fragmentation and Greedy OEMs - we the customer and pure supporter of Android is now in the mercy of the 3rd party developers for the update of our devices.

P.S: If you go to a Samsung concept store you'll see lots of Android devices and still using Gingerbread...They don't care about the lifetime of the device what is important is that they can sell as many devices as possible just to grab the lead from Nokia and Apple. Seeing this I realized that this company is not worthy of my support for their future devices.
[Galaxy S II General] atulalvenkar:
No OEM has said anything yet about JB.It has just been about a week since JB is in AOSP. Give it some time. If Samsung says they won't give an update then you can whine. Original Galaxy S was released with 2.1 Éclair and was upgraded to Froyo and then GB 2.3.6 so there is hope.

About 3rd party drivers, it's again not always Samsung's choice. The audio is by Yamaha, wifi i guess is by Broadcom and so on. Not all parts are made by Samsung and they don't have authority to provide you with sources.They have their own NDA's.
[Galaxy S II General] PunkOz:
I wanted to say exactly the same but I couldn't find the right words since english isn't my native language. +1
[Galaxy S II General] Scarface1991:
Of course it depends on the Rom you are using and on the Kernel. With Resurrection Remix 2.6 and the newest Siyah kernel i get great results and so far without any problem.
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
Is there really a point to explaining ourselves over and over again? ICS is pretty decent, otherwise there's Gingerbread. It all works on our phones, how about we enjoy it for the time being? There isn't much left to do on the phones considering the situation we're in (Closed source binaries) and the people competent to do it are doing it for the rest... So why complain? If you spend time complaining on this forum, it's mostly because you can't do half the things Entropy, codeworkx and the rest are doing. When they complain, it's about how frustrating it is to work blindly without proper source and how people harrass them for fixes.

Grab a 'Puter, install Linux + Android SDK and figure it out yourself. You'll at least learn something.
[Galaxy S II General] seshaz:
Dumb thanks for lowering my iq on a Monday
[Galaxy S II General] anshmiester78900:
codeworkx ‏@codeworkx

and the crying starts again... http://imgur.com/a/9tsJg#1 #i9100 #jellybean #cm10 #nosound
[Galaxy S II General] GFXi0N:
The problem is too many baby child's that want the last piece of software one week after its released and even think about spending more money to get so....

It's just stupid.... Very aple-ish way of thinking that has been slowly becoming more and more common: new software with few improvements: where do I leave my 600 bucks?

Grow up a bit and beware of recession....
[Galaxy S II General] :
people got lifes you know, also it seems dead as people are not giving updates what they are doing, CM10 and aosp is being compiled but there ain'g any updates about that,

stop complain, developers got a life, they are not robots
[Galaxy S II General] PunkOz:
Am I asking the devs to hurry up and get me JB? No. I'm just giving my point of view :x I'm saying that it feels like S2 is dead atm not forever,
[Galaxy S II General] anshmiester78900:
Then ur just a fool but just saying it cuz of JB . We have lots of AOKP AOSP and CM9 getting updated everyday .! Just cuz of not getting JB within a week of its release doesnt mean devs left S2
[Galaxy S II General] prbassplayer:
This thread will just lead to a endless amount of flaming and trolling. I will be closing it.

Side note Porting/ building from source takes time. Be patient and it will be release eventually.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liad1981:
In the system folder in the rom?

Tnx alot!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watsa:
SamsungIME
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liad1981:
Tnx, and if i take this file and poot him in rom without

Samung keyboard, i will have one?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] fundoozzz:
Mclaw from galaxy gio had got jb boot up n working on gio..

Many things are working, more info here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=28662840