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    News - Samsung Galaxy S II Android 4.0 update March 15th?

    Samsung Israel announces March 15th roll-out.
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    Re: News - Samsung Galaxy S II Android 4.0 update March 15th?

    And my Galaxy S has been binned by support 18 months after i got it... one reason i might be going apple next time around

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    Re: News - Samsung Galaxy S II Android 4.0 update March 15th?

    Quote Originally Posted by HalloweenJack View Post
    And my Galaxy S has been binned by support 18 months after i got it... one reason i might be going apple next time around
    i suppose not having a new update is much better than putting the latest version of ios on an old iphone and grinding it to a halt nearly.


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    Re: News - Samsung Galaxy S II Android 4.0 update March 15th?

    whats annoying is O2 have ditched the phone allready - they got 1 release of gingerbread (manually updated to the latest) but thats not the point - ics works on the galaxy S as well

    time to root i think

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    Re: News - Samsung Galaxy S II Android 4.0 update March 15th?

    Quote Originally Posted by HalloweenJack View Post
    whats annoying is O2 have ditched the phone allready - they got 1 release of gingerbread (manually updated to the latest) but thats not the point - ics works on the galaxy S as well

    time to root i think
    The Galaxy S is fast and stable without ICS and does what it says on the tin still a good phone?
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    Re: News - Samsung Galaxy S II Android 4.0 update March 15th?

    Quote Originally Posted by HalloweenJack View Post
    whats annoying is O2 have ditched the phone allready - they got 1 release of gingerbread (manually updated to the latest) but thats not the point - ics works on the galaxy S as well

    time to root i think
    You don't need to root to run a custom ROM + I ditched Vodafone's ROM the moment I got my S II, Samsung releases an update about once per month and you'll never see those updates if you stick with a UK carrier unless there's a serious issue to be fixed.

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    Re: News - Samsung Galaxy S II Android 4.0 update March 15th?

    @Scribe

    How did you install another rom without rooting? I thought you had to root to install another rom (haven't tried yet).

    Also, where did you get your carrier free rom from?

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    Re: News - Samsung Galaxy S II Android 4.0 update March 15th?

    actually i just used odin to install 2.3.6 - O2 wont support anything newer than first release gingerbread , was really easy - then i went *gulp* over all the possible brick the phone that could happen with it

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    Re: News - Samsung Galaxy S II Android 4.0 update March 15th?

    You can debrand, which involves making a 'gold card' out of your sd card to spoof the handset ID so you can put a plain ROM on...

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    Re: News - Samsung Galaxy S II Android 4.0 update March 15th?

    Quote Originally Posted by ksdp37 View Post
    @Scribe

    How did you install another rom without rooting? I thought you had to root to install another rom (haven't tried yet).

    Also, where did you get your carrier free rom from?

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    For the S II there's a great resource here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1075278

    I would assume there's a similar resource for the original Galaxy S somewhere on xda-developers too.

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    Re: News - Samsung Galaxy S II Android 4.0 update March 15th?

    About time. I might be on the lookout for a custom ROM which doesn't include TouchWiz though. No problems with it in Gingerbread but I'd rather have the base ICS experience.

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    Re: News - Samsung Galaxy S II Android 4.0 update March 15th?

    Quote Originally Posted by HalloweenJack View Post
    And my Galaxy S has been binned by support 18 months after i got it... one reason i might be going apple next time around
    Why would you buy an Android phone and not fiddle around with it???

    Pretty sure there is some ICS build out there for the Galaxy S already that is stable enough to be used daily. There's even roms out there that overclock the cpu and smooths a lot of it out to make a great phone 'Greater'.

    Not that hard to do if you just read simple guides over on XDA.

    Apple on the otherhand.... go there if you want it all to be boring and easy.

    My experience of them hasn't been that hot. Updated a perfectly fine 3GS to iOS 5 and the phone was crippled to a crawl and struggled with most simple things.

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    Re: News - Samsung Galaxy S II Android 4.0 update March 15th?

    Based on my experiences with the Asus Transformer, and the user reports on the Sony site for the beta ROM for the Arc S, then I'm going to agree that SII owners are in for a treat with their ICS upgrade. TBH, on the Transformer I wouldn't go back to Honeycomb even if you offered me £100 cash to do so.

    Anyone know (rumours okay) if ICS will be the last upgrade for the S2? Reason being that I quite fancy an S3 when my contract expires in four months, but if it's going to be a £600+ slab* then I was thinking that the S2 would be a suitable "fall back", (* if I can "live with" a slab phone then it's the Galaxy Note for me). If the S2 is likely to get an official Jelly Bean release then it's definitely worth thinking about, Key Lime I'm quite happy to get via XDA (assuming I've still got the phone by then).

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    Re: News - Samsung Galaxy S II Android 4.0 update March 15th?

    I'm not updating to anything. My Galaxy SII is rock solid and does not hand. Why waste my time if everything works (unless it's a hobby of yours to update OS ).
    However, each time i talk about something working, it breaks apart the next day...

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    Re: News - Samsung Galaxy S II Android 4.0 update March 15th?

    Quote Originally Posted by royi View Post
    I'm not updating to anything. My Galaxy SII is rock solid and does not hand. Why waste my time if everything works (unless it's a hobby of yours to update OS ).
    However, each time i talk about something working, it breaks apart the next day...
    If the Samsung upgrade is like the Asus one, then it's no big deal to do - more like a big patch. Heck, mine completed in about ten minutes, including the download.

    I understand, (and to an extent agree), with what you're saying about "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"*. On the other hand, are you saying that you wouldn't like a little more speed and some of the less-clever design features fixed?

    (* my phone's on an old Gingerbread release, and while I could go to XDA to get an ICS upgrade, the vendor-supplied ROM is stable and works relatively well - so like you I figure why go to the hassle at this point).

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    Re: News - Samsung Galaxy S II Android 4.0 update March 15th?

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