[Q] 4.0 ICS Upgrade - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777

if i were to root my S2 will i still be able to get the upgrade when 4.0 is release?

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If you root your phone and learn how to flash roms, you'll almost guaranteed be able to put ICS on it long before it's released for this phone.
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but would the rooted ROM have the same features as the "stock upgrade"? because i know some of the customize rom have glitches in them most of the time

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Yes it would work. To what level and how smoothly it works would be up to you for what you would be willing to try out.
While that may not seem like the answer you were looking for, let me put it this way. When I had the captivate and they finally updated it with official 2.2 (froyo) there were already great 2.3 (gingerbread) roms available that worked amazing.
And the same story with the updates from 2.1 to 2.2.
Sure if you don't modify your phone at all, over-the-air (ota) updates will for sure work. But you can revert your phone back to stock (from a custom rom) to be able to receive those updates, whenever they decide to release them, anytime you want.
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I think yes. There is rooted stock rom with all ATT and Google stuff in it.
So you should be able to update with this rom.
tinman4124 said:
but would the rooted ROM have the same features as the "stock upgrade"? because i know some of the customize rom have glitches in them most of the time
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jconfus said:
I think yes. There is rooted stock rom with all ATT and Google stuff in it.
So you should be able to update with this rom.
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+1
Lol. For as much talking as I do and still not answer the question.
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I think you will have a better chance to get upgrade to ICS earlier.

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Yeah, as said earlier, AT&T official updates often lag by one major version, best case. Look at the Captivate.
Froyo after I9000 got GB, GB still unavailable.
Just like the Captivate and the I9000, the I9100 is our "International brother" and stuff can be ported rapidly.
Depending on the state of Samsung's ICS kernel source release, it may take only a few days for a 95% functional ICS ROM to become available for I777. (Longer if they leave out the MAX8922 driver...)

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gr8hairy1 said:
But you can revert your phone back to stock (from a custom rom) to be able to receive those updates, whenever they decide to release them, anytime you want.
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Does that mean it will be like you never rooted it or is that just another rom that mimic the OEM stuff. Or is that the same thing?
Thanks

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Like you never touched your phone. Back to what it was when you pulled it out of the box.
There's a great write up on getting your phone back to factory stock for warranty returns done by creepyncrawly. Be sure to check it out.
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can u give me the link the the thread?

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Just open the developement thread and look. I recommend the one by entropy512. For great step by step instructions open the general thread and find the post by creepyncrawly.
If in doubt, there is a search feature. And google.
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tinman4124 said:
can u give me the link the the thread?
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There's a reason there is a FAQ thread stickied in the General forums...
We are not here to hold your hand for things that are so easy to find they are in a sticky thread marked FAQ.