How do you like 4.0 ICS on your T989?

alextop30 said:

I have a quick Idea you might want to consider - I am not aware if your phone is rooted but If it is not I would suggest you root it. Grab Titanium backup from the store install it (you don't need the paid version for this) and create a backup of your apps. So all of your apps and your data that is in the apps will be saved. After that just go ahead and do a complete reset - wipe everything on the phone (not the sd card that's usually where the backup gets saved). Try using the phone without all of the apps and see how it suits you.

I don't seem to be having any of the issues. The phone is speedy and it opens everything up - The only thing that I could have a complaint but really do not is the request for the internet once you open the stock browser but again when you are over T-Mobile's network some lagg or latency is expected. Other than that its fine my battery life is pretty much exactly the same 2 days - keeping the screen brightness very low because that seems to be the biggest waste of battery.

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I did that, that is how I got to this point, but the second time it (last night) seems to be working better. Lag was all on the phone, not the network. T-mo is pretty snappy where I am. It's better, but battery life isn't what it was before, that I can deal with. Need to give it a few days and see how it works out. Thanks!

Atmazzz said:

Last night I went to recovery and wiped and formatted everything using darkside super wipe and darkside cache wipe and Odin'ed ICS one more time. Haven't tried to root again yet but its running smooth. That also proved one thing to me, you don't need the LDE update as a prerequisite to ICS.

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Rerooted today after the complete wipe and clean install with Odin. Titanium Backup is working again and the phone is running smooth. Also removed 112 meg of bloat from system rom. All's right with the world again.

Atmazzz said:

Rerooted today after the complete wipe and clean install with Odin. Titanium Backup is working again and the phone is running smooth. Also removed 112 meg of bloat from system rom. All's right with the world again.

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NICE! I have to finis getting rid of some more bloat, had the camera hang today though. but it does seem better than it was. Can't get USB mass storage to work atm though.

This guy has a good list of things you can safely disable. I just deleted most of it. Now I have 137 meg free in system rom. I had 7 before I started.

Atmazzz said:

This guy has a good list of things you can safely disable. I just deleted most of it. Now I have 137 meg free in system rom. I had 7 before I started.

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Yes I saw that in the other thread, good to have a new list worked out.

I changed 3 settings that made a huge impact on the amount of lag I was experiencing. Not sure how this affects all apps though. Can't take credit for it because I found it on either XDA or T-mobile support forums.

Settings > Developer Options >

Turn Off Window animation scale and Transition animation scale
Checked Force GPU rendering

I'm still having a bit too much battery drain, and all, but it's stable and working well for now. I'm able to charge it when needed, but I hope to get better battery life soon. It is still using about 100mb of RAM more than it was under AZ, and a bit hotter as well ( as expected ). I'm going to stick it out for a bit with ICS.

Mine is running great since I did the clean install but the battery has gone to hell.

Yeah, The battery is the biggest issue for me right now.

i like it alot

alextop30 said:

I agree battery life is a bit lower than gingerbread

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I don't know what's happened to mine but its a lot lower. Usually when I plug it in the charger about this time everyday its around 75%. Since I installed ICS its about 38%.

Atmazzz said:

I don't know what's happened to mine but its a lot lower. Usually when I plug it in the charger about this time everyday its around 75%. Since I installed ICS its about 38%.

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yeah, I usually hit the charger with about 30 at midnight, now I've been charging off the computer for an hour or two in the eve and hitting the charger at 11pm with 15-17. I think I'm heading back to Android Zombie. It's been fun, but I really want that battery life, and I know it's half is going out as heat, cause this sucker is running hot.

Last night about 10pm I took it off the charger at 100%, went in recovery cleared battery stats and wiped cache partition. When I got up at 6am it was at 90% so maybe that helped. I'll see when I get home this evening.

alextop30 said:

Well now I am in the same boat as you guys and actually I wiped my phone and put gingerbread from my last backup.

The problem has been happening for a couple days but yesterday it really aggravated me. My phone goes from 4g to edge and there is no signal and I can see the Tmobile tower across the street. Funny enough my mom was next to me with the same phone and hers is still on gingerbread and full signal and 5meg download on 4g. I missed couple of important phone calls and I am tire of it. If the phone function does not work there is a problem with me. Plus who's dumb idea was it to separate the dialer and the contacts in ics. From the dialer you can only access the favorites. I know the smart dialing things is connected to the phone book but when you don't know how to spell names from the other side of the world you want to look for them.

What ever I guess I had my rant I will stay with gingerbread until cm9 starts working for my phone as it put it in bootloop yesterday.

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I'm thinking this might change your modem and put you back on 4g.
Try using ODIN to install android 2.3.6 then root the phone and restore your backup with clockworkmod.

I'm having a problem with my email. Everything else is fine, sans the battery issue noted above.

On my exchange email everything is being pulled down.

On my comcast.net email, I'm not getting my emails. It is only showing 2 from the 18th and that is it. I have 14 from today alone that are not coming through.

Edit: I deleted the account and readded it. The emails are now showing up. Weird.

Well, for the first day or two ICS seemed very sluggish, but it seems to have sorted itself out. The battery life is not as good as it was, either.

The bug which is bothering me the most right now is that the menu buttons won't stay lit! The off, 2 second and 6 second options work fine, but the "always on" option only works until the phone goes to sleep, then the buttons never light up at all. This is very disheartening since I use the phone in poorly lit areas and I need them lit so my old eyes can see them.

The other real disappointment is the new email app. If it were any slower, I'd think it was hand sorting index cards. I try to mark a bunch of emails as "read", and it takes 30 seconds and I can see them mark off one...at...a...time. I've just loaded up K9 email, which is fast and slick. We'll see if its other features pan out.

The other bothersome things are more opinions than actual bugs. For example, the recent app list (holding down the menu button) used to be a nice concise list, and now it has these big, clunky screen thumbnails and it can only fit 3 on a page. I want my old list back. Same for Favorite Contacts, which used to be a nice list with small pics, and is now monster sized pictorial tiles. No good, guys! Then there's the power control widget which is twice as large as it used to be.

All in all, my phone was slick and functional in Gingerbread, and clunky and slow with ICS. Anyone know how to go back????

Mike

Hmmmm, battery life got better after clearing stats and fully draining it, still not great, but OK. (not related) Copy/paste quit working and now the hang on the goodbye splash screen has returned. So, Goodbye ICS, see ya when you're out of beta.

I don't like the way they took the contacts tab from the phone app. I mean really! Should I have to leave the phone app to access my list of phone numbers!?!? Since getting a cell phone I don't remember phone numbers anymore, so that list is probably the MOST important bit of the phone app. What were they thinking? I've actually started browsing the store for a better phone app!

I do like how the contacts app now has Groups as the first tab. This is the way I like to access my contacts. I have groups for co-workers, clients, family, friends, etc. This makes each contact list much more manageable and I used to have to scroll the tabs to get to the groups tab. Subtle but very nice improvement.

My battery use seems higher. The draw down rate last night when the phone was inactive seemed faster. I went to bed with 60% and woke with 20%. I seem to recall that I would usually lose about half that before.

Sometimes it gets real sluggish, and doesn't seem to notice my touches. Hopefully this will sort out as it seems to with some other people.

Settings menu is more intuitive.

In the text app if the last received text is longer than the available space above the keyboard, then it refreshes and tries to resize after each word I enter making it all blinky and annoying.

I did like how this update forced me to try keis. After the update I used my PC to make tons of updates to my contact list much faster than I could have done via my phone interface.

I was really hoping that the scrolling wallpaper would come back with ICS.

I haven't figured out how to enable the new locked screen features (access to camera etc)

The gallery app is supposed to be redesigned in ICS but looks the same to me, and doesn't look like on the android.com/about/icecreamsandwich page.

Overall, this ICS seems like little more than a font and menu update to the old GB, and doesn't seem worth the hassle and the various crappy little issues. But I don't currently plan to rollback because it'll be yet another big hassle.

I can agree that battery life is a lot lower. I have only one major problem that is bothering the sh*t out of me with the update. My notifications or popups for texting apps (GO SMS, Handcent, or Chomp) does not come through unless I have it active in the background. I have tried everything possible to make it work.

Other than that, everything is smooth for me.

Ukemike said:

My battery use seems higher. The draw down rate last night when the phone was inactive seemed faster. I went to bed with 60% and woke with 20%. I seem to recall that I would usually lose about half that before.

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My battery life is much improved a few days later. I'm at 30% after 1 day and 19 hours of very light use.

I'm still occasionally encountering bad lags. For example, yesterday I went to look up something with the google search bar and was presented with the android keyboard (I've never used any keyboard but swype). The fact that the setting changed on it's own was bizarre. So when I tried to change it back I sat there for almost a minute tapping the swype option in the settings menu before it finally responded and let me change the setting. Very odd. Never experienced anything like this in GB.