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[Galaxy S II General] Terr20114:
I got an infuse (half the speed of the s2) with 500MB ram I'm on 4.31 running perfectly. Kernel's old too 2.3+ don't worry, the S2 will be great on 4.4

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Quit your worrying, Sammy stopped giving the Infuse updates at gingerbread, we've got ics n jb currently I'm running os4.3.1 its faster than the ones before it and I'm loving it. So quit the worrying, you're good.
[Galaxy S II General] SilviuMik:
Galaxy Nexus & Android 4.4 (KitKat) FAQs

Is Google releasing Android 4.4 as a system update for Galaxy Nexus?

No, Galaxy Nexus phones won’t be receiving the update for Android 4.4 (KitKat).

Why isn’t Galaxy Nexus receiving the update to Android 4.4?

Galaxy Nexus, which first launched two years ago, falls outside of the 18-month update window when Google and others traditionally update devices.

Source : https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/3468085

So judging by this if even google stopped support for the nexus ... the hopes with "many devices" with 1 Gb or less Ram to get KitKit are shattered :)

Our S2 will 100% stay on 4.1.2 official :)

Let`s hope custom roms can be made more stable once 4.4 will hit which ... i doubt :(
[Galaxy S II General] Paul Blake:
Everyone knows that s2 dies ... today or tomorrow .... s5 is already planed to hit next year

Why samsung should care about s2... maybe tommorow will forgot about s3 too
[Galaxy S II General] mauriicio21:
source from 4.4 already available?
[Galaxy S II General] JDR0iD:
4.4 SDK is now available
[Galaxy S II General] doctor_droid:
Lol situation when Google says kitkat is optimized for older devices wid 512mb ram bt denies galaxy nexus an update..

Actually a facepalm situation for google
[Galaxy S II General] JDR0iD:
Lmao yeah thanks Google
[Galaxy S II General] Mettafox:
Why?

By the Google update policies, Google only give 18 months of oficial support, so, Galaxy Nexus is 2 years old.

This new optimization for devices with 512 MB or less, is for the new ones.
[Galaxy S II General] hectorviov:
That is not why they stopped supporting the Galaxy Nexus. The Galaxy Nexus, alike the Galaxy S2 are pretty capable of running 4.4 KitKat, the problem is that TI (manufacturer of Galaxy Nexus' SoC) has stopped supporting it. Same as the Exynos SoC that is on our device. That is why they are not releasing this, nor any other update to our phone.

That doesn't mean we are not getting KitKat, that only means we will not get official KitKat, devs will make some AOSP ROMs for it.
[Galaxy S II General] rakeshishere:
If the S2 had stable AOSP roms, it wouldn't have been awesome to use KITKAT on it.

I would have never even thought I'd buying a new phone ;)

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[Galaxy S II General] doctor_droid:
Okay by this I conclude that purchasing a nexus device is no longer beneficial as I was unaware of the 18month rule applicable to nexus devices also...

Faster updates necessarily doesnt means better and stable updates..

Also google didnt addressed the fragmentation issue by saying "they can force anything on the oem:

All they did was ram optimization of low end devices so that new entry level android comes wid kitkat on board... just blindly increasing the number of Android phones
[Galaxy S II General] tugz101611:
Android 4.4 KitKat (KRT16M) Source Code Released, Factory Images and Driver Binaries Available for the Nexus 5

http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...nd-driver-binaries-available-for-the-nexus-5/
[Galaxy S II General] leechseed:
Is it ported yet?

:p

Just kidding.

Cant wait for it.

Omni+Slim-4.3.1Dorimanx|i9100¬Tapa2
[Galaxy S II General] LOGMD:
Soon ill be getting the Nexus 5, so my i9100 will become my experimental phone! been learning how to build roms for XOOM over the past week so maybe we will have some support =]
[Galaxy S II General] mareers:
S2G (i9100G) has stable AOSP Roms :)
[Galaxy S II General] rakeshishere:
Regretting now not getting the G variant :(
[Galaxy S II General] mauriicio21:
Any news about cm merging 4.4 sources?

Enviado do meu GT-I9100 no Brazil
[Galaxy S II General] leechseed:
https://m.facebook.com/CyanogenMod/posts/10153491608270425

Omni+Slim-4.3.1Dorimanx|i9100¬Tapa2
[Galaxy S II General] Wolfey7:
4.4 sounds great but I think Samsung doesn't care anymore about SGS2...
[Galaxy S II General] 1username4thisforum:
OH MY GOD

This is beyond hilarious.

Good one! REAL good one.
[Galaxy S II General] wulsic:
kitkat changelog is huge from android 4.3 to 4.4

https://funkyandroid.com/aosp-JSS15J-KRT16M.html
[Galaxy S II General] :
I finally got myself a Nexus 4 yesterday, wont buy an Samsung anymore.

GT-I9100 is dead, believe it or not, there are no good aosp roms anymore which run stable enough for everyday use, stock sucks anyway.

But its nearly 3 years old, so ist time to get a new device mates.

Hopefully Samsung changes there way of updating older phones, Android 4.4 is optimized for low Hardware, so maybe youre lucky
[Galaxy S II General] leechseed:
Im callin' BS :p:D

S2 will (hopefully) get 4.4, but of course not from samsung. There are some aosp s ready (N4 was first within 12 hours). I will try any 4.4 if i see/get one.

But i have to agree with you as i also would never buy samsung again oppo & nexus all the way.

Omni+Slim-4.3.1Dorimanx|i9100¬Tapa2
[Galaxy S II General] doctor_droid:
Enjoy ur nexus 4... bt why demoralize me ;)

Njoy franco kernel wid goodness of 4.4 :) if both are compatible :D
[Galaxy S II General] :
Well I think Samsung should get away from their way of pushing TouchWiz Crap to us costumers.

They should work with Google together to build a theming platform for Stock Android.

Then Costumers could decide when they buy an Samsung Android Phone wether they will use the pure Stock Android or the Samsung TouchWiz Interface with their Features.

This would be more flexible and would push many People back to Samsung.
[Galaxy S II General] dud3me:
Samsung does what's most profitable for them and frankly, your idea isn't. Believe it or not, masses like touchwiz and it's the selling point of Samsung devices. And if you haven't noticed, they're selling quite well.

And i hate to break it to you guys, phone's have never lived. They're pieces of machinery. No we won't get an update from Samsung, nor will GNex which is a newer nexus device. Hopefully, we'll get KitKat thanks to the developers - at least somewhat functioning version. I think the beauty of this forum is that it keeps non-supported devices "alive". Only thing, we're lacking are proper sources.

Yes, I'd prefer official updates, but Samsung did a pretty good job with providing them for us anyway. I'll most likely be getting Nexus 5 2014 edition or whatever it will be called, but owning the new Nexus 7 I do get why people prefer touchwiz etc. I don't, but if you don't root nexus devices can be kind of bare for the majority of people. Remember we're the minority.

I think pure android looks far better, but I also prefer PA 100% to stock AOSP.

Edit: Oh and apart from few features, the current 4.3 roms are easily good enough for daily use.
[Galaxy S II General] dz1ki:
Try to replace battery :D. You can`t ? So sad :). I9100 was top model, and will be suported by army of devs :D
[Galaxy S II General] kokesh:
I wouldn't call i BS, as all the devs fled the ship. There is nobody who would be willing to do the pointless fight for an old device without sources.

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What army? There are practically no old devs, who were able to keep it alive despite Samsung sources missing..
[Galaxy S II General] doctor_droid:
Dev army??? U are two years late my friend :/
[Galaxy S II General] dz1ki:
Maybe resistance, but still, support is good :)
[Galaxy S II General] doctor_droid:
Agree. ..we still have official support for most of the custom roms which most of the device owners jz dream.of ;)
[Galaxy S II General] TechNoJerky:
Guys stop. We will get an update sooner or later. They ace with 278 mb ram and the old as f*ck motherboard and processor and devs ported ics and jb to it.
[Galaxy S II General] zavorrax:
True, but right now device specific work has been done by cm developers only. ROM maintainers then used to just merge their patches.

I am hoping that some new Dev will appear, but AFAIK xplodwild is currently our only chance.

Z

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[Galaxy S II General] doctor_droid:
Xplody has a s3 now... perhaps the only reason u see s3 In the list of supported omni devices. Dont know if he still has a s2.. bt a commit was seen related to galaxy s2 devices bring up on omni gerrit... m patient enuf ;)
[Galaxy S II General] Skolotaie:
Hopefully with 4.4 my Phone finally can make me Toast with Bacon and Cheese!
[Galaxy S II General] rakeshishere:
Is [MENTION=3208754]codeworkx[/MENTION] still having a i9100 or has he also left S2 dev scene?
[Galaxy S II General] doctor_droid:
Toast and cheese are okay but u need to hunt ur self for the bacon...

:p [MENTION=3663978]rakeshishere[/MENTION] - codeworkx is still developing for s2... u can see his commits in gerrit..omni gerrit obviously
[Galaxy S II General] rakeshishere:
DELETE!!
[Galaxy S II General] codeworkx:
i'm not working on cm since some weeks. and i've no time till q3 2014.
[Galaxy S II General] kendur:
Is still having a i9100 or has he also left S2 dev scene
[Galaxy S II General] doctor_droid:
I got confused wid real life names of 2 ERD... :banghead: apologies ...

Tk cr
[Galaxy S II General] xyron_2k:
uhmm

Guys..i don`t know if you read the news or not but here we go...galaxy s2 is getting official 4.4 from Samsung.

Source: http://www.sidhtech.com/news/android-4-4-kit-kat-update-phones-list/10023209/
[Galaxy S II General] leechseed:
...no

Slim-4.3.1|Dorimanx|i9100¬Tapa2
[Galaxy S II General] mosespl:
Hmmm this is a first list and i think that is out of date...

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[Galaxy S II General] 911-Future_Maker:
I don't trust that website. :laugh: Better wait to see "the real article" on androidpolice, engadget or somethin like that.

btw, in real fact there is no way Samsung rolls out official 4.4 update for S2. ;)

Otherwise I'm pretty sure we'll get AOSP/AOKP/CM 4.4 nightlies.
[Galaxy S II General] OliEvans:
The report came out yesterday so it would be unlikely to be out of date...

Don't trust it though but there is still hope ;)
[Galaxy S II General] twigster:
I don't see how this article gets anyone's hopes up. It doesn't say anywhere that the s2 is getting the update. It just says that based on the fact that 4.4 can run on phones with lower memory, the s2 could get the update, ie has the potential to be updated (This is something we all know already). And it's based around a list of potentially updatable devices made by android central, not Samsung.

Sorry but this is a nonsense article in my opinion.
[Galaxy S II General] doctor_droid:
Dont get ur hopes high... when google stopped support for galaxy nexus giving 18month excuse... so are expecting a major os update for a 30month old device? ??

Come to real world everyone... discussion is baseless... jz bcoz a device WAS popular doesnt means it gets all latest updates...
[Galaxy S II General] TechNoJerky:
It's fake. The galaxy young or young duos will never get an official update again.
[Galaxy S II General] whigga:
+1

Sorry for all the optimists, but try to accept that Samsung is not looking after the S2 anymore. Our only hope/option option are custom roms.
[Galaxy S II General] Paul Blake:
Come on people, wake up , samsung will not release another update (ill be happy if someone tell me that im wrong and can demonstrate)

Cm maybe will release 4.4 in a day or in another but how much s2 will keep receiving updates from cm

My s2 is only 1 years old but i know that ill need an update but s4 isnt so cheap here so ill wait until s5/6
[Galaxy S II General] brgroover:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/11/06/meet-art-part-1-the-new-super-fast-android-runtime-google-has-been-working-on-in-secret-for-over-2-years-debuts-in-kitkat/

oh yeah baby. Common kitkat
[Galaxy S II General] chusebizen:
That looks promising.... I hope I will see it running in my beloved S2. :fingers-crossed: :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S II General] jloh84:
[MENTION=4553079]mosespl[/MENTION] is right. That "list" has actually been floating around since Sept. And that sorry excuse for a news site had already posted that same piece 2 months ago sidhtech.com/news/android-44-kitkat-update-roadmap-phones-list/10019827/ :rolleyes:

And remember 2 months ago we were still thinking we'd get 4.2.2 :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] OliEvans:
Good Point :good: I just hope we will get our s2 running 4.4 very soon
[Galaxy S II General] schubeir:
Samsung has said a long time back that the S2 will not have KITKAT as they are not able to adjust the UI for the S2!!

And talking about Samsung forgetting S2? i was with LG OPTIMUS 3D MAX --stuck on 2.3.6! The earlier model, OPTIMUS 3D got ICS, but not 3DMAX!!!!

schubeir
[Galaxy S II General] TechNoJerky:
[MENTION=4032085]schubeir[/MENTION] if that's the case, then their developers suck.
[Galaxy S II General] Entropy512:
Nexus is still in better shape than other devices despite this - since at least it'll have solid support for the duration of its supported life, which means it is MUCH easier to extend its life past the end.

Look at the Nexus S and Galaxy S1 family - due to sharing a chipset with the NS, the GS1 (aries) family have actually had better support in CM than the GS2 family, and that support has continued because the people working on it didn't burn out due to feeling like the guy from wallbreaker.
[Galaxy S II General] Caproid:
Dude, the UI problemes were at Jelly Bean 4.2.2. And if you saw this about KitKat, post a link ;)
[Galaxy S II General] Xami:
How about a petition guys, like Galaxy nexus ? someone should start one for SII

https://www.change.org/petitions/google-update-the-galaxy-nexus-with-android-4-4-kitkat
[Galaxy S II General] Karls0:
Do you know, even one single case, when Samsung cares about petitions?
[Galaxy S II General] Xami:
I'm talking about trying...
[Galaxy S II General] Entropy512:
In rare cases they'll make some sort of a promise - which they won't actually keep.
[Galaxy S II General] Karls0:
I know, but it's likely it will not works. We rather should find another way to force Samsung to update our phones to 4.4 :)
[Galaxy S II General] Xami:
Let's make some calls to Mafia groups in Korea :laugh:

I think we should try the petition way
[Galaxy S II General] Jockson:
How is this thread still going haha. We're not even getting 4.2, which the S2+ already has. Samsung don't give a damn about petitions, there will be no more updates for the S2.
[Galaxy S II General] leechseed:
No one wants samsung updates, everybody is waiting for an aosp 4.4 for our s2 i belive. :D

Slim-4.3.1|Apolo|i9100¬Tapa2
[Galaxy S II General] matrixatxd:
Samsung S2 is getting 4.2.2 that is surprising however we are waiting for AOSP 4.4... :good::D
[Galaxy S II General] 911-Future_Maker:
That's right dude, we're all patiently waiting. :laugh:

offtopic: I really enjoy that thread in the S2 general forum, according to that so many newer phones sub-forums

doesn't even have a word spelled about 4.4. ;)

It seems the S2 users would never lose the hope. >**<
[Galaxy S II General] brgroover:
Instructions for build CM11

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=47172898&postcount=1574
[Galaxy S II General] Caproid:
Yea, lol , I hope we still have some active CM developers for S2
[Galaxy S II General] sidrocks89:
Don't know about CM, but Slimrom is currently working on Slimkat for SII :victory:
[Galaxy S II General] TechNoJerky:
Yeah!!!! :thumbup: :D
[Galaxy S II General] leechseed:
Omni is also on it. :thumbup: check the gerrit.

I guess slim is in the lead atm. :D

Whoever pushes first unofficial - im gona test it.

Slim-4.3.1|Apolo|i9100¬Tapa2
[Galaxy S II General] hectorviov:
What would you recommend, slim or cm?
[Galaxy S II General] TechNoJerky:
Well cm has less features than slim but it is also a bit more stable... so somewhere in the middle?
[Galaxy S II General] xHyDrAw:
Can't wait for 4.4 ! :D
[Galaxy S II General] sidrocks89:
Take my word, slim is more stable than cm. Definitely go for slim.

BTW, AT&T S2 already got unofficial CM11 build, guess the international version is lacking behind.
[Galaxy S II General] mauriicio21:
AT&T does not have the same specs? Exynos cpu....

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[Galaxy S II General] vonuzu:
I think it's the same exinos chipset with 1,2 dual core cortex a9 cpu.
[Galaxy S II General] Kai Disobey:
CyanogenMod 11 for I9100 !!!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2523604
[Galaxy S II General] leechseed:
I read qualcom.. AT&T + T-Mobile S2 had CM11 already, now international :thumbup::thumbup:

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[Galaxy S II General] kimo98:
Haha!!! Finaly
[Galaxy S II General] cortex69:
Even if we are not able go get OTA we will get cm11 ;p cheer up then
[Galaxy S II General] Entropy512:
It's pretty much an issue of who owns what device.

I have an N7000 and I777 and I refuse to do blind development - but it would be incredibly easy for someone to take my I777/N7000 changes and apply them to I9100.
[Galaxy S II General] mauriicio21:
sorry, I know you are very busy with other things, but you could help @ Wayland_ACE with Cm11 for i9100, at least for the boot function. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2523604

sorry my bad english
[Galaxy S II General] Caproid:
Wayland_ACE is a great developer . I used his ROMs a lot:)
[Galaxy S II General] TechNoJerky:
Yeah I remember him when I had the ace... He ported ICS to it... If I remember correctly...
[Galaxy S II General] Samsson:
wip rom 4.4 cmi9100 can successfully boot up. 3g is working but wifi is broken.
[Galaxy S II General] jpdoliveira:
Must wait to see. I'm excited about it
[Galaxy S II General] leechseed:
wifi is fixed :good:

____

[MENTION=591147]Entropy512[/MENTION]

anybody else (of omni team) still got an s2 and working on it?

some work was done (in omnigerrit) by [MENTION=2162789]XpLoDWilD[/MENTION] if i remember right
[Galaxy S II General] Samsson:
awesome!
[Galaxy S II General] marcuspereira:
Since Kit Kat is optimized for mid-end smartphones,I think that Kit Kat based ROMs will be the most smooth (not considering Sammy's 4.1 Stock) ROMs ever.
[Galaxy S II General] tanqueta207:
Great news!
[Galaxy S II General] Mayne93:
Awesome

This is awesome. I've been following the thread and Wayland_ACE seems to be making good progress
[Galaxy S II General] mirceapuy:
Can't wait for an unofficial release :) this new version is awesome.
[Galaxy S II General] omkarsathe92:
The graph continues to go up

It all started with Gingerbread.. The sammy based custom roms were smoothest in 2.3.7.. Then came ICS we all were happy with the major update and ton of things improved on the platform level and so ICS retained the smoothness GB offered in Sammy based custom roms.. Then came JB 4.1 and its my personal opinion that the smoothness and the responsiveness decreased on sammy based 4.1 JB roms.. They are still darn smooth but after using SlimSaber rom based on 4.3.1 with new Mali drivers, I must admit the sammy based 4.1 JB custom roms dont come close to [MENTION=1228651]fusionjack[/MENTION]'s creation.. Considering the AOSP based roms now, which kinda seems like the future for our s2 as we dont really expect sammy to update our capable s2 to KK, transition from 4.1 to 4.2 wasnt that easy as in 4.2 was more resource heavy.. 4.3.1 is pretty darn fast and things are surely gonna go to the next level with KK based custom roms especially the low ram mode and using ART instead of Dalvik.. All in all, our s2 will be perfectly usable for at least a year more before 64 bit android and SoCs take the game to the next level:)
[Galaxy S II General] PMoto:
+1.

I totaly agree here.
[Galaxy S II General] mirceapuy:
I love this version, so smooth.
[Galaxy S II General] ahmedelhofy:
We now have two different 4.4 ROMs

OMNI, and CM 11 :)

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] Daserds:
I use 4.3 gapps.

Work fine until now, no problem at all !
[Galaxy S II General] Resync:
Link to omni?

Gesendet von meinem GT-I9100 mit Tapatalk 4
[Galaxy S II General] Reyden:
Oh come on. Searching would have taken about 10 seconds...

Anyway: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2494127
[Galaxy S II General] kratosnajafi:
2 developers workin on 4.4 roms i'm totaly hopefull...
[Galaxy S II General] EricCartmanez:
cm11 already working fine with almost 0 bugs :D
[Galaxy S II General] xinchi:
that's true. I don't think samsung will officially upgrade the s2 to 4.4 for us.
[Galaxy S II General] vorturner:
The CM11 ROM is truely ready for daily use...after a few days - thats awesome!
[Galaxy S II General] sinistance:
yah confirmed :good:

a day using CM11 without force reboot
[Galaxy S II General] omkarsathe92:
My review of Unofficial CM11

I recently reviewed CM11 (17th Nov build) on my YouTube channel and here's the link:

http://youtu.be/kdW6XnvIyYA

Forgive me for the lengthy video :) The rom is indeed awesome and stable.. HUGE THANKS TO [MENTION=4326427]Wayland_ACE[/MENTION] :good:

Attaching some screenshots as well..
[Galaxy S II General] charlie.cz:
Pure KitKat is the best

I don't mind if Samsung decided not to upgrade S2 to KitKat (which is in my opinion already decided - it's not coming).

I have tried this new Omni ROM and CM11 and both are simply gorgeous. Omni is definitely the fastest ROM I've ever used on my S2 or any other device. I really don't want to see Samsung crash this great user experience with TouchWiz stuff and tons of other useless apps.
[Galaxy S II General] omkarsathe92:
Totally Agreed!

+1 my friend :)

Just one doubt, in CM11 (latest build) everything is working.. Can you confirm Omni is equally stable if not more?

Thanks in advance
[Galaxy S II General] hikarugo:
CM is more into bug fixes. Yea no bugs but it's laggy and there are some graphical issues. Perhaps bcs CM currently doesn't actually have any experienced exynos4 devs.

Omni is about performance. One of the bugs present is the signal indicator that falsely shows only one bar all the time but the real signal is actually normal. The devs are actually former cm's main exynos4 team, hence you can expect full exynos4 support
[Galaxy S II General] mrsergio81:
CM11 is almost perfect for my daily usage!

love it!
[Galaxy S II General] doctor_droid:
Havent used omni yet... Currently on cm11 18/11 build.. Runs flawlessly...
[Galaxy S II General] 1username4thisforum:
Are you kidding?

Why do people keep saying that?

No, Samsung is not going to update the galaxy s2.

There is absolutely 0 financial incentive to do that
[Galaxy S II General] Mayne93:
Currently running CM11 build 11/18. Working flawlessly for daily use.
[Galaxy S II General] adzz37:
4.4 kitkat for me

4.4 kitkat really is amazing... though it really needs more updates espacially art...

but it really is fast for me....
[Galaxy S II General] ekarraldi:
matsal these

4.4 kitkat is increible
[Galaxy S II General] 0b4:
Android 4.4 is supposed to be faster and smoother on old devices with low ram. So I don't understand Samsung why they don't make 4.4 for S2... we have a fair ammount of ram, so it wouldn't be slow at all.

BTW, does 4.4 has better battery time than prev. versions?
[Galaxy S II General] FazerMint:
Anyone knows any AOSP roms for SG2 with 4.4?
[Galaxy S II General] Paul Blake:
Because s2 is OLD and we must understant that, s5 will knock at door sometime in q1 2014 and why samsung should care about 3years old device or 3 generations old device? Remember gnexus is in the same situation but its maintained by google and didnt get 4.4 official. Imo one last update from samsung should make users happy

Btw cm aokp omni pa and other s are only one who will (maybe) continue development to 4.4 and up