hi, i don´t know what should i install, jelly bean or ice cream sandwich, i hear that jelly bean is the best option, but i´m want to bee 100% sure,, and what room should i install? i don´t know too much about rooms, and some of you are going to say that i should install a rom that can adapt to my needs, but i don´t have a lot of needs, just a good battery and a smooth feel, so if someone can recommend mee a good rom i will appreciate a lot, other thing that im not really sure is (i know that the best thing is to do a clean installation but if i can upgrade my phone without restoring it, i mean i wanna keep my apps and games save, but if someone comes wrong i can make a clean installation, is there a way to do this.
thank you very much, and if you have made a tutorial or if you know about a good tutorial and if you can share me the tutorial i will be very thankful, i know that there is a lot of tutorials everywhere, but i prefer to follow a tutorial that you know that is good.
Thank you very very much.
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The tl;dr appears to be: tell meh teh best "room" plx thx!" which isn't allowed here.
i don´t understand what are you trying to say, i can´t ask about rooms here? another thing is that some people say that i should wait until the official jelly bean release, should i wait? because some people say that some roms are better than the official, what do you think, thank you..
in this moment im running gingerbread, should i update to ice cream, because some people say that jelly bean have a lot of problems.
neto333 said:
i don´t understand what are you trying to say, i can´t ask about rooms here? another thing is that some people say that i should wait until the official jelly bean release, should i wait? because some people say that some roms are better than the official, what do you think, thank you..
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No, you can't ask subjective questions like these here. It's a matter of taste and preferences. Try them yourself.
And for your other questions: search and read, don't be this lazy. And btw, it's 'roms', not 'room'.
Sent from the Matrix
Thank you very much, i will try to find more information about this by myself, but if you can share me your opinion about upgrade to jelly bean or ice cream sandwich or stay in gingerbread i will be very thankful, also if you can tell me what version do you have in your galaxy s2, gingerbread or what?
thank you.
neto333 said:
Thank you very much, i will try to find more information about this by myself, but if you can share me your opinion about upgrade to jelly bean or ice cream sandwich or stay in gingerbread i will be very thankful, also if you can tell me what version do you have in your galaxy s2, gingerbread or what?
thank you.
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Hey Ma8,Some people over here r using 'Jelly Bean' roms and say its the Best. Smoothest etc, there are Some Using 'Ice Cream Sandwich' roms and say Its the best ,Stable and fully Functional for them, and there r Some who r using 'Gingerbread' roms nad according to them Its the very best android version so far without any issue's.
So to Summarize 'Its the Right Choice and Comfortness with the same is what matter's
u can always upgrade from GB>ICS>JB or downgrade from JB>ICS>GB.
So go ahead and do some flashing and see the 'Right Choice and Comfortness u see in the One for and stick to it
PS- Also have a look at this link below it will be of gr8 help to u
http://xda-university.com/
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Hi All,
I am new to this forum and also to this Smartphone world
I am planning to buy Galaxy S2 , but want to use ICS Stock UI ( I can wait for official ICS update or use some ICS ROM ) , but what I want to know is that how can I use default ICS Stock UI on my Galaxy S2.
And another question when we use unofficial ROM on our Android phone , what are the risks we should consider in terms of our personal data security and also the stability of our phone ?
Thanks,
Maverick
mavericki said:
Hi All,
I am new to this forum and also to this Smartphone world
I am planning to buy Galaxy S2 , but want to use ICS Stock UI ( I can wait for official ICS update or use some ICS ROM ) , but what I want to know is that how can I use default ICS Stock UI on my Galaxy S2.
And another question when we use unofficial ROM on our Android phone , what are the risks we should consider in terms of our personal data security and also the stability of our phone ?
Thanks,
Maverick
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If you do some reading around the SGS2 forum, you'll find all of the information you seek. Or you could try google...either way, the powers that be here at XDA aren't very friendly to those who don't bother trying to research, read, or use the search function. I'm trying to be a bit more personable.
At the moment, ICS is in either the Alpha or Beta stage...meaning that it's still buggy and doesn't really function as a daily driver yet.
To get ICS right now, you have to flash a ROM...which involves root access. The risks are pretty high. You have the risk of bricking your phone, if you don't read the instructions and follow them exactly, which isn't always easy because you're not very likely to find exact instructions for your specific phone (the hardware specs will match, but the ROM/Radio/Modem numbers may be different which can lead to confusion). You also run the risk of voiding your warranty, which is a pretty significant one.
I flashed an ICS build yesterday, and then my S2 wouldn't charge. I eventually flashed back (thank God I had made a backup yesterday, and 2 days ago as the one from yesterday didn't work!)
As far as security goes, nothing really to worry about. Dev's don't build in Carrier IQ and don't really want your personal data. But the flip side is, that they don't get paid for what they do...so if you have a problem or 'eff something up, you're pretty much on your own. You can ask for help, but again, sometimes the dev's don't want to be bothered with a question if it's already been answered or if you could've found the answer by searching for it. This is where it gets rude, sometimes.
That's the long answer. The short answer is READ, READ, READ...everything about your phone and flashing ROM's. Start at the beginning of the forum, as that's where the 'stickies' are and work your way thru. ICS will be released officially and stably later.
Hope that helps.
Thanks ,
I have googled it and read some threads on this forum and on others as well... thats how I came to know that you can root your phone with unofficial ICS ROM... but wasn't sure that in that case , will I get ICS with TouchWiz or Stock UI...
And 2nd thing that if I screwed up what will happen to my personal data...
anyhow thanks for replying my (dumb ? ) question
Hi, I'm looking to buy this phone unit one of these days.
but, most of the units that I see/saw , has gingerbread OS,
is the ice cream sandwich now available ?..
please point me out to a URL of a step by step tutorial
how to tweak samsung galaxy S II , in order to upgrade it to
android 4.0 ice cream sandwich
Thanks in advance
I can't see the point of that until/unless you actually have the phone in front of you
And for the 174,823,904th time, ICS will be released by Samsung "some time in Q1 2012".
Cyanogen have an alpha/experimental ICS build out at the moment which seems to be improving stability/performance-wise every day tho.
addbot said:
Hi, I'm looking to buy this phone unit one of these days.
but, most of the units that I see/saw , has gingerbread OS,
is the ice cream sandwich now available ?..
please point me out to a URL of a step by step tutorial
how to tweak samsung galaxy S II , in order to upgrade it to
android 4.0 ice cream sandwich
Thanks in advance
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MistahBungle said:
I can't see the point of that until/unless you actually have the phone in front of you
And for the 174,823,904th time, ICS will be released by Samsung "some time in Q1 2012".
Cyanogen have an alpha/experimental ICS build out at the moment which seems to be improving stability/performance-wise every day tho.
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I see, so it wasn't released yet, based from your reply.
I thought it was already available.
My objective is, learn how to upgrade, so that once I bought
this unit, I'll immediately upgrade/update the OS before putting
some nice apps from the droid market place.
any tutorials that you might want to recommend for noobs to read ?
How to root your SGS2 & how to flash firmware. Also, some roms have specific instructions (like having to flash the rom twice in order for it to work), always follow these to the letter if they differ.
Best bit of advice I can give you is read. Then read some more. And when you're done with that, read more again. Don't do anything to your phone unless/until you understand why you want to do it and how to do it.
Go to the development section of the forum to read up about the various roms/kernels available for the SGS2 & you'll be able to get an idea of the features/pluses/minuses of each & other users experiences with these roms/kernels.
Then you can decide which you might want to try for yourself.
And before you ask, no I won't recommend "the best rom/kernel", because there's no such thing. Every phone comes out of the factory slightly different (components vary a little), you won't use your phone the same way as me nor will you have it setup the same as me. So you're going to need to do your research first, then try some roms/kernels & see which work best for you.
addbot said:
I see, so it wasn't released yet, based from your reply.
I thought it was already available.
My objective is, learn how to upgrade, so that once I bought
this unit, I'll immediately upgrade/update the OS before putting
some nice apps from the droid market place.
any tutorials that you might want to recommend for noobs to read ?
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How to root your SGS2 & how to flash firmware. Also, some roms have specific instructions (like having to flash the rom twice in order for it to work), always follow these to the letter if they differ.
Best bit of advice I can give you is read. Then read some more. And when you're done with that, read more again. Don't do anything to your phone unless/until you understand why you want to do it and how to do it.
Go to the development section of the forum to read up about the various roms/kernels available for the SGS2 & you'll be able to get an idea of the features/pluses/minuses of each & other users experiences with these roms/kernels.
Then you can decide which you might want to try for yourself.
And before you ask, no I won't recommend "the best rom/kernel", because there's no such thing. Every phone comes out of the factory slightly different (components vary a little), you won't use your phone the same way as me nor will you have it setup the same as me. So you're going to need to do your research first, then try some roms/kernels & see which work best for you.
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At the moment, I don't really know what the hell are these roms/kernels you're talking about. But thanks for the link, I'll start digging this to prepare myself for the ICS before buying this cool unit .
Hello, i want to create my own custom rom for the Samsung Galaxy S II.
I searched everywhere on XDA but i cannot find any guide or ressources i can understand. If someone have a topic, a link, or whatever it would be very appreciated.
The must would be a ROM on Ice Cream Sandwich. I don't want to realize something big, i just want to begin to theming defaults applications and perhaps i would continue learning "how to" in the future.
I already have Android SDK installed on my computer.
Thanks a lot! And sorry if there is already a topic like this, i'm a french guy and i'm a rookie on custom ROM, i just know how to root a device, install clockworkmod and install a custom ROM, but i'm not a rookie about programmation and computing.
THANKS!
I would also be very interested in this.
But from what Ive seen, building custom roms is not that easy at all, unless you at the very least have a good amount of linux experience, and other programming.
if not tho, then I'd love to give it a go....even if it was just to grab my fav rom, and change a few things. Is that easy?
EmryX;21580999
The must would be a ROM on Ice Cream Sandwich.
As ICS is a buggy unreleased test rom with no release date from Samsung you are in my view throwing yourself in at the deep end .
Possible one place to look is the XDA forum .
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jje
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Thanks a lot for yours answers guys!
I know is not to be easy to create a custom ROM. But i have to begin to learn how to
I searched on the Android category on the forum and i saw this. It's very interesting. But i downloaded all the SDK, and the APKtool/Manager and i have a problem. I took a ROM named Pure ICS v3 for testing if it work, and when i choose "Extract APK" with the batch file, the xml in all of the APKs is buggy, and i can't modify a buggy xml...
What i can do?
I have another question. For the moment, i'm just testing with a ROM made by a guy. But doing this is concidered stoling people's work. Where i can find a stock ICS rom for the Galaxy S II?
Thanks a lot!
ICS is not released so their are no stock roms .
The leaked Beta /Alpha test roms are in the General section as individual posts per rom .
jje
Thanks a lot!
hi , im the owner of HTC evo 4G LTE for about 4 months already
i'm still running stock and never installed any updates.
my phone info is
Hardware version : 0003
Sorftware version : 1.13.651.1 710RD
Android Ver : 4.0.3
i used to want to install the mean ROM but due to my busy schedule i didn't have the time yet
and after that they released the official jelly bean update and also the mean Bean and severals other custom ROM based on the jelly bean.
now i have the time to play with my phone and i really want to make my experience with android , especially with this EVOLTE better.
please advice me , is it better for me to update to the stock jelly bean ?
or install other Custom ROM that are based on jelly bean?
or stay in this stock ICS ?
i just want a stable phone with good speed and battery life to be use everyday with minimal hiccups.
because i heard bad things about the Jelly bean update that are causing some of the people here some trouble.
please advice as i'm really newbie in Android.
thank you so much.
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hi , im the owner of HTC evo 4G LTE for about 4 months already
i'm still running stock and never installed any updates.
my phone info is
Hardware version : 0003
Sorftware version : 1.13.651.1 710RD
Android Ver : 4.0.3
i used to want to install the mean ROM but due to my busy schedule i didn't have the time yet
and after that they released the official jelly bean update and also the mean Bean and severals other custom ROM based on the jelly bean.
now i have the time to play with my phone and i really want to make my experience with android , especially with this EVOLTE better.
please advice me , is it better for me to update to the stock jelly bean ?
or install other Custom ROM that are based on jelly bean?
or stay in this stock ICS ?
i just want a stable phone with good speed and battery life to be use everyday with minimal hiccups.
because i heard bad things about the Jelly bean update that are causing some of the people here some trouble.
please advice as i'm really newbie in Android.
thank you so much.
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Unlock your bootloader.. Get root.. Then u deff want to get s-off.. Then i would flash meanbean best rom for this phone:good: There are many guides on here in the dev section..
I would recommend that you go with one of the custom ROMs. The developers generally fix issues that are in the stock ROMs. Before you jump in, I would also recommend that you do a lot of reading. Are you rooted and unlocked? If not, here is a good place to start:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2026938
Your experience in customizing your phone will go a lot smoother if you achieve S-OFF. There are currently two methods that can be used:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2163013
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1964309
Once you are S-Off, you'll want to adjust your firmware:
http://themikmik.com/showthread.php...wel-Firmware-Collection-Latest-3-16-651-3-OTA
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1704612
Once your firmware is up to date, you can flash a new ROM. I am a big fan of Viper4G, Operation Jelly Bean and JB Tranquility.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2124391
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2142977
http://themikmik.com/showthread.php?15830-Operation-Jelly-Bean-3-15-651-16-Build
http://themikmik.com/showthread.php?15582-ROM-JB-Tranquility-RLS3-Trans-and-Inverted-2-16-13
While I like Jelly Bean, if you want to stay with Ice Cream Sandwich, Bad Seeds and Team Anonymous have fun ICS ROMs (along with Team Venom).
Once again, I would highly encourage you to do a lot of reading. While it is not that difficult to customize your phone, your experience will be much better if you take the time to learn about what it is you are actually doing to your phone, what could go wrong, and how to fix issues that may arise. Good luck!
yeah, you'll definitely wanna get S-off. It's the easiest way to update radios and such without having to RUU. You said you now have extra time , so just read up as much as you can about the process. There's a thread in the original Dev section. I don't use htc./sense ROMs, but from what I've read, battery life is worse than ICS (on sense ROMs), and a lot of people don't like some of the changes made to sense in the JB update (I tried it for a minute and immediately hated the new battery use reporting, there's less info). After unlocking bootloader, and hopefully S-offing, I would suggest trying out PACman ROM by jamieG71 . It's a very solid AOSP (not HTC) ROM with tons of customization possible. And great battery life, especially when paired with ThickLizards komodo kernel.
Good luck, have fun
From my Evo LTE, yup.
okay
thx for the responses.
im totally stock, no root, no unlocked.
purelly stock, never did any upgrade since i bought this.
so i need to root first ? unlocked the bootloader ? or S-Off first ?
thank you.
so osrry for many silly question.
10-Dee-Q said:
okay
thx for the responses.
im totally stock, no root, no unlocked.
purelly stock, never did any upgrade since i bought this.
so i need to root first ? unlocked the bootloader ? or S-Off first ?
thank you.
so osrry for many silly question.
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If u look u will find all the answers to your questions.. Use the search bar thats what i do:good:
Hi..I did a search but i am completely confused and bewildered by the vast amount of different posts and opinions in threads..so i apologise if this has broken any rules.
Basically i have a stock s3 i9300 (uk) with original samsung jellybean 4.3 rom,I am getting a bit sick of it now (and the bloat) and i am looking to move on to something more appealing..I have already rooted and installed Rom Manager and CWM..i was wondering what the "Best Simplistic dark themed (small footprint) rom" to go for As i want minimal installed size to make the most of my 16gb memory,i dont mind which android version as long as the process is easy and the battery life is among the best available..And of course it is as stable as my current Samsung android rom..
i would really appreciate any valued veteran guidance..many thanks.
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Hi..I did a search but i am completely confused and bewildered by the vast amount of different posts and opinions in threads..so i apologise if this has broken any rules.
Basically i have a stock s3 i9300 (uk) with original samsung jellybean 4.3 rom,I am getting a bit sick of it now (and the bloat) and i am looking to move on to something more appealing..I have already rooted and installed Rom Manager and CWM..i was wondering what the "Best Simplistic dark themed (small footprint) rom" to go for As i want minimal installed size to make the most of my 16gb memory,i dont mind which android version as long as the process is easy and the battery life is among the best available..And of course it is as stable as my current Samsung android rom..
i would really appreciate any valued veteran guidance..many thanks.
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Wow, 50 views and nobody could recommend a decent Rom To a newbie..despite the collective experience between those whom would have viewed the post..Thanks..Sorry to have put you out ile try somewhere else.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/galaxy-s3-i9300-basics-best-performance-t3111802
riesi said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/galaxy-s3-i9300-basics-best-performance-t3111802
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Thanks...but during my relentless search for a tried and trusted method/stable rom i had already posted on this Guide yesterday,the links are broken and i got no reply there either.
cheers anyway.