Samsung Galaxy sII ICS update meteor

innthe

Hey i was wondering when the ice cream sandwich update will be released for meteor, it was released today for some other countries in europe so i hope it will be released soon here.
Thanks

cojomo2

innthe wrote: »

Hey i was wondering when the ice cream sandwich update will be released for meteor, it was released today for some other countries in europe so i hope it will be released soon here.
Thanks

+1..anyone have any info?

Briksins

I heard from the friend that it will be available on 19 of March, but not sure whether its 100% correct!

im wondering how this update will installed? trough Kies?
my Kies a bit glitchy, doesn't like my SGS2 anymore, is it might be the case of rooting? or Kies have to work fine with rooted phones?

innthe

Briksins wrote: »

I heard from the friend that it will be available on 19 of March, but not sure whether its 100% correct!

im wondering how this update will installed? trough Kies?
my Kies a bit glitchy, doesn't like my SGS2 anymore, is it might be the case of rooting? or Kies have to work fine with rooted phones?

19th of March is when it will be released in UK, i had a rooted galaxy s and it worked fine on kies so yours should work even when rooted

Briksins

im getting "Kies doesn't support this device"
possible problems with cable

innthe

Briksins wrote: »

im getting "Kies doesn't support this device"
possible problems with cable

Not sure about that, maybe use a different usb cable like you suggested?

Sauce

Samsung are rolling out ICS to sim free Galaxy S2 phones on March 19th in the UK so I presume this means Ireland too. Network locked phones normally take longer.

O2 in the UK have said that Galaxy S2 owners should see ICS hit their handsets in mid April so I imagine the Irish Networks will be around that time frame too

Briksins

Thnx to the amigo

Here is detailed instruction for upgrading SGS2 to Final Official ICS 4.0.3 from Samsung

yomamasflavour

Look at the reviews first though.
I've the official ICS on my S2 and it might as well be gingerbread.
Samsung ruined it with this touchwiz crap.

Briksins

Can you give more details, as im still in firmware download process.
whats wrong with the Samsung official ICS?

KTRIC

yomamasflavour wrote: »

Look at the reviews first though.
I've the official ICS on my S2 and it might as well be gingerbread.
Samsung ruined it with this touchwiz crap.

Me too, doesn't act or look much different to be honest.

Briksins

but what are the main features of the ICS? are they in? or samsung ruin the whole stuff?
is all the stuff mentioned here is still in?

smilerf

personally I'm not going to update unless I'm forced to. happy on 2.3

Briksins

Feedback - After Update

I finally moved to ICS 4.0.3 by flowing the instruction in this thread
I used "3 files update" - as its clean update and will fully wipe your system.

the flashing time was 3.28 min. didn't have any problems on the first boot, all went smoothly.

from my personal point of view it worth 100% to upgrade your firmware as you getting many nice things in the phone, here is a lits what i discover and like so far since last 24h of use:

1) Improved multitasking management and app switching system
2) Finally native Data counter which allow u to set up bill date, the limit of bandwidth, warning notification before u reach the limit. in addition it represent in details how much each app consumed, and u can check overall network use from/until date
3) Improved animation
4) the keyboard now better responding
5) a bit more responding quick call/sms in contacts (when u slide left/right on the contact name)
6) a lot of new options for developers
7) improved security includes several options from "Where's My Droid" or grant full access to the mentioned app
8) New Gmail look - like it very much!
9) Chrome Browser (however it doesn't support flash, even after flash install from the market) so i back to native browser
10) face unlock - i didn't try that yet

so from my point of view it is worth to upgrade

P.S. for those who are freaky scared to loos warranty by upgrading the phone:
you will not loose your warranty as you updating official but not custom firmware, you will not get triangle on the boot screen and counter wouldn't be incremented, the method described in the link is 100% save.

srsly78

I was running a custom rom before I flashed this official one. The yellow exclamation mark (showing I had tampered with the phone) is now gone :pac:

Briksins

the yellow triangle might be gone, but i think your counter stays incremented and if you go to the service they will eventually discover that u was flashing custom ROM...

there was some hacking tutorial how to reset triangle, unfortunately its on Russian language, so u will have to search for English, but there is defiantly solution

ellinguistico

srsly78 wrote: »

I was running a custom rom before I flashed this official one. The yellow exclamation mark (showing I had tampered with the phone) is now gone :pac:

I am running Checkrom but want to try ICS out, did you do a full wipe?

Briksins

ellinguistico yes, i think you have to do full wipe if u want to fully remove the custom firmware and migrate to official ICS

Jarren

Getting rid of yellow triangle is actually very simple, just get an USB Jig.

ellinguistico

Briksins wrote: »

ellinguistico yes, i think you have to do full wipe if u want to fully remove the custom firmware and migrate to official ICS

Thank you sir

joecool666

Briksins wrote: »

im getting "Kies doesn't support this device"
possible problems with cable

try update intel motherboard drivers

joecool666

i updated my intel motherboard drivers and got kies to work everytime

Briksins

Thnx ill try! i didnt update my chipset drivers for ages!

joecool666

same here.

joecool666

i also got my lg p-990 pc suite going

wreckless

the new release is for europe so it will work for meteor, the uk specific is coming today or so. im on three IE and it works fine, even rooted my phone last night so i could use superuser and titanium backup. all good.

croo

Briksins wrote: »

im getting "Kies doesn't support this device"
possible problems with cable

I noticed a while back I had the same message on kies. A little googling tells me the reason is the "CSC" code. I have a sim free phone and under that message you mention is the Current firmware version at the end of which is a 3 character code in brackets ... on my own phone this is "(KOR)". This, apparently, is something called the CSC code and is regional; KOR being the home of Samsung, Korea. In Europe , or in Ireland at least, this should be XEU.

I've not actually done it yet as I was waiting for ICS to stabilise, but this is changed by entering

*#272*IMEI#

where IMEI is the IMEI of your phone. You'll find that in the settings/about phone.
When you enter this you'll be prompted to select a new CSC and as I said XEU is the one you want.
I think this change returns you phone to a clean install so you'll want to back up first. It's probably a good idea do this anyway. Since it's wiping everything I was holding out until I decided to migrate to ICS.

The source of my info is ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1355003&page=5

croo

croo wrote: »

I noticed a while back I had the same message on kies. A little googling tells me the reason is the "CSC" code. I have a sim free phone and under that message you mention is the Current firmware version at the end of which is a 3 character code in brackets ... on my own phone this is "(KOR)". This, apparently, is something called the CSC code and is regional; KOR being the home of Samsung, Korea. In Europe , or in Ireland at least, this should be XEU.

I've not actually done it yet as I was waiting for ICS to stabilise, but this is changed by entering

*#272*IMEI#

where IMEI is the IMEI of your phone. You'll find that in the settings/about phone.
When you enter this you'll be prompted to select a new CSC and as I said XEU is the one you want.
I think this change returns you phone to a clean install so you'll want to back up first. It's probably a good idea do this anyway. Since it's wiping everything I was holding out until I decided to migrate to ICS.

The source of my info is ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1355003&page=5

I tried this myself but alas I still get the same message that the device does not support software upgrading. So I'm not sure how to proceed now - except perhaps using odin to apply the update.

Sully

Briksins wrote: »

Feedback - After Update

I finally moved to ICS 4.0.3 by flowing the instruction in this thread
I used "3 files update" - as its clean update and will fully wipe your system.

the flashing time was 3.28 min. didn't have any problems on the first boot, all went smoothly.

from my personal point of view it worth 100% to upgrade your firmware as you getting many nice things in the phone, here is a lits what i discover and like so far since last 24h of use:

1) Improved multitasking management and app switching system
2) Finally native Data counter which allow u to set up bill date, the limit of bandwidth, warning notification before u reach the limit. in addition it represent in details how much each app consumed, and u can check overall network use from/until date
3) Improved animation
4) the keyboard now better responding
5) a bit more responding quick call/sms in contacts (when u slide left/right on the contact name)
6) a lot of new options for developers
7) improved security includes several options from "Where's My Droid" or grant full access to the mentioned app
8) New Gmail look - like it very much!
9) Chrome Browser (however it doesn't support flash, even after flash install from the market) so i back to native browser
10) face unlock - i didn't try that yet

so from my point of view it is worth to upgrade

P.S. for those who are freaky scared to loos warranty by upgrading the phone:
you will not loose your warranty as you updating official but not custom firmware, you will not get triangle on the boot screen and counter wouldn't be incremented, the method described in the link is 100% save.

Which firmware did you go with? Poland?

rommy

croo same thing happened me with the KOR CSC what i did to fix it was find the correct CSC over on xda and flash it using odin.I used mobile odin pro and it worked perfect.

croo

cheers rommy.
I downloaded *some* version of Samsung's stock ICS and used odin to flash it after posting that last message. I'm new to android so I was a little hesitant but it was actually all very straight forward. The most difficult task being to decide what to load - there seems to be an awful lot of variants so I'm not 100% sure what I have But it is Samsung & ICS and most importantly it is working with zero problems. UI wise it's a small upgrade on GB but it's still nice - I was disappointed it didn't have that nice google stock look the nexus has. Kies still doesn't allow software upgrades with is but odin was so straight forward I don't think I'll bother with Kies anymore.

thanks again for the tip.

The Ayatolla

Can I not update it by going to settings on the phone and "Check for update?"

innthe

Any mirror for the kernal here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1544487
cant donwload it

BopNiblets

This looks like a mirror for it:
http://www.androidaddicted.com/firmware/samsung/android/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-gt-i9100-i9100xwlp3-ice-cream-sandwich-ics-4-0-3-united-kingdom-o2-firmware-update-598.html

The Ayatolla

ANy way of updating it by normal means? On Meteor, unbranded phone. Don't really want to wipe my phone and data and have to back it all up...

thanks.

innthe

Does anyone elses meteor mobile internet not work after updating by this guys procedure?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1544487

EDIT :
nevermind got it working, gonna root it now

rai555

I believe we have to wait and meteor firmware will be the best after such fine tuning and hammering, rest of folks rooted and instaled ICS ages ago

Briksins

The meteor official firmware will be again full of crappy apps which you cannot delete without root.

im already several month on 4.0.3 and very much happy! especially for the battery live

rai555

Briksins wrote: »

The meteor official firmware will be again full of crappy apps which you cannot delete without root.

im already several month on 4.0.3 and very much happy! especially for the battery live

And which build you are using ? What's the battery life like ?

rokkitgurl

Briksins wrote: »

The meteor official firmware will be again full of crappy apps which you cannot delete without root.

im already several month on 4.0.3 and very much happy! especially for the battery live

I'm flashing ICS on the phone.. Will the adverts app still be there?

coldfire1x

rokkitgurl wrote: »

I'm flashing ICS on the phone.. Will the adverts app still be there?

No but you can easily get it from google play store.

jd83

connected my s2 to kies there now and just got ics update. So looks like emobile have finally got the finger out and released it. So should be out on meteor also

mightyreds

just got my official ICS update from meteor but now every time i plug in my car charger i get a warning saying voltage too high charging paused.Does anyone know how to stop this it charged fine before this

rai555

plugged my SG2 and no firmware update available :eek:

The Ayatolla

My Galaxy S2 was bought in Carphone Warehouse and has no branding on it whatsoever. Its on Meteor contract though, but it's unlocked out of the box and works with any sim.

Am I still bound to waiting for Meteor's update? :S

flanders2006

rai555 wrote: »

plugged my SG2 and no firmware update available :eek:

Same here, I'm on Emobile and the latest firmware is KJ1 (EIR) according to Kies.

rai555

Nothing happens, meteor is slightly behind other providers for the ICS update

The Ayatolla

Just did the "Check for update" in the "About Phone" and got the prompt to download the firmware update. Wahoo!

Marco85

The Ayatolla wrote: »

Just did the "Check for update" in the "About Phone" and got the prompt to download the firmware update. Wahoo!

Still nothing on mine.

Patsy fyre

I wouldn't be too concerned lads. Can't see any improvement so far. It's laggy enough, the text on websites looks muddled. Lots of spam included aswel from Samsung and ye can't even use skygo.

Ghost_of_ED209

Hey,

According to the tech guys on the Meteor forum its a staggered roll out...

We (the forum team) received confirmation internally that the update had been approved for release as of the 20th of April and should be available to users now.

I contacted the team responsible earlier to find out what is happening here. Personally speaking I believe that the issue is that it's a staggered roll out to IMEI's, but once I get confirmation I'll post it up here.