Ice Cream Sandwich available through Kies

wolfyboy359 · Jun 25, 2012

jadalyle said:
Current Phone: AT&T Samsung Galaxy S2 shg-i777

I was recently able to get the ICS 4.0.3 update through Kies. One the update was installed, the performance is slower and glitchy. When I try to scroll from page to page or up and down through menu's, it feels slow and glitches. When I touch the camera icon, it takes a second or two before it activates. When I exit out of the camera, it I see a blank home screen and a few seconds later, the icons are added. ICS is supposed to be faster and smoother. The version supplied by Kies on Sunday evening has bunches of bugs and is slow. I though it was the launcher. So, I tried GO Launcher and NOVA Launcher. Both launchers had the same issues as the Stock launcher supplied by AT&T on ICS.

Does anyone have any work arrounds arround these issues? I'm currently disappointed with ICS!

What are everyones elses reactions with the AT&T ICS release?

I had to restart my phone a couple of times. try that.

jd52wtf · Jun 25, 2012

I just installed ICS on my Galaxy s2. First thing I did was ditch the Touchwiz for Apex launcher with the default ICS theme. My phone runs better than it did before the upgrade. From all the complaints in here I believe most of the performance hit is with the newer Touchwiz and not the ICS update itself.

Can anyone else confirm?

dwykofka · Jun 25, 2012

jd52wtf said:
I just installed ICS on my Galaxy s2. First thing I did was ditch the Touchwiz for Apex launcher with the default ICS theme. My phone runs better than it did before the upgrade. From all the complaints in here I believe most of the performance hit is with the newer Touchwiz and not the ICS update itself.

Can anyone else confirm?

I am running Touchwiz and it's very speedy. I dont have any issues.

Battery Wise:
Prior to ICS at 2pm on an average day I was at 30% remaining.
Today with ICS and lots of interaction with the phone I am at 63%.

I think on a normal day where I am not screwing around with the phone too much I might actually be at 75% at 2pm which is amazing compared to my Gingerbread experience.

enojy · Jun 25, 2012

I was having an issue installing the update. It would freeze at any given percentage. Running emergency firmware recovery would also freeze at a random percentage.

PROBLEM: phone was connected to a front (case) USB port, even though it is USB 2.0.
FIX: plug phone directly into a motherboard USB 2.0 (or higher) port. Emergency firmware recovery went through 100%, and installed ICS 4.0.3 firmware. I also did not lose any apps, settings, or data.

I use my case's USB ports very often, for external hard drives, phone docking, camera docking, flash drives, you name it. Never had an issue until this.

Performance so far seems equal or improved to 2.3.6 (NOTE: I have not rooted the phone nor installed any third party launchers/UIs.) I also gained "4G" emblem in task bar, as opposed to HSPA+ emblem while running 2.3.6. Running SpeedTest seems to reflect much better data transfer rates; connecting to a server ~800 miles away (for whatever reason, this is the closest server the app finds now) reflected 750 kb/s download, 195 kb/s upload.

Only issue I've run into so far is Tasker app crashing when I try to make any changes within it -- it functions as it should so long as I don't launch its frontend.

Can't comment on battery life yet; I've only been playing with it for an hour. No drastic battery % loss so far, at least.

wolfyboy359 · Jun 25, 2012

did a factory reset. don't know if it made a difference. but I think it was a good idea.

wolfyboy359 · Jun 25, 2012

here's an interesting tidbit:
Exciting News for Samsung Galaxy S

Jarlo · Jun 25, 2012

wolfyboy359 said:
here's an interesting tidbit:
Exciting News for Samsung Galaxy S

ch229151 · Jun 25, 2012

enojy said:
I also "dropped Apple to get the GSII," and I certainly know how to update firmware -- I've been doing it for nearly 20 years! With that said, my firmware update to ICS 4.0.3 froze at 27% for over two hours. Performed a hard reset, ran emergency firmware recovery in Kies, and THAT froze at 54%. Samsung live chat support is hilariously useless -- I asked how long is an acceptable amount of time for the update to be frozen in place, and their response was (verbatim) "It will take time to finish the preocess. Please wait for sometime. It will tae 5-to 30 minustes."

Haha thanks for the support. Same things happened to me. Granted, my phone is now working, but still....to go through all that trouble? Seems a bit crazy to me. And to the guy who posted above you, having a phone brick because of an official upgrade doesn't make someone dumb, makes them unlucky!

LouWags · Jun 25, 2012

wolfyboy359 said:
here's an interesting tidbit:
Exciting News for Samsung Galaxy S

dwykofka · Jun 25, 2012

This was on Engadget as well: ICS officially available for AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II beginning tomorrow -- Engadget

Covart · Jun 26, 2012

Jarlo said:
Does that include Skyrocket? It does not specify.

Good question. I would like to know as well. The article talks about the i777.

gcobb · Jun 26, 2012

I just updated this morning. I was rooted, no problems. It kept all my apps and data, widgets and the whole bit, even left Go Launcher up.

ch229151 · Jun 26, 2012

gcobb said:
I just updated this morning. I was rooted, no problems. It kept all my apps and data, widgets and the whole bit, even left Go Launcher up.

Nice! How does go launcher work for you after the update? Mine seemed a bit laggy, so I switched it back to TW. Works super smooth now.

Uncle_Rico · Jun 26, 2012

I updated my G2 yesterday... it took awhile.. but no problems.. after several reboots, it's been awesome.. very nice look and feel to the ICS interface.. great fonts.. very smooth response and action to the nice looking menus.. the facial recognition for screen unlook is too cool!!
Only one app had issues withthe upgrade.. the Smasung Desktop Docking app.. HA!!

I ran Quadrant on my phone this morning, just to check it out.. before on GB, I was averaging 3500-3800, with ICS, I'm running about 4400-4600 consistantly.. my guess is that ICS makes better use of the system resources!.. FTW!!

Very happy with this.. this phone was MADE for ICS..!

surf1 · Jun 26, 2012

FlyingPigL said:
so far so good. Seems to freeze, but this could also be GO launcher which I'm trying out.
Also, from a power usage standpoint, jury is out. I was reorganizing my home pages and downloading apps, and power went down from 70% to 30% in 2 hours.

I'm not sure about the factory ICS base, but I'm on an ICS Rom and battery life is flat out awesome. I use Go LauncherEX as well with no issues. Came with Apex but removed it with TiBu. This phone runs so smooth and fast on ICS that I don't see a need to upgrade this year, even with the GS3. I'm going to wait and see what the next Nexus is like though, otherwise waiting another year will be no problem with this phone.

gcobb · Jun 26, 2012

I am a big fan of go launcher. It hasn't ever failed the but, The first time my phone started It was just a little sluggish. It seems to be ok now.

gianmarco · Jun 26, 2012

Tried updating yesterday three times. Each time it was stuck at 0% for at least 10 minutes each.

Two of the times it notified me that the battery was low, but continued anyway (it was being charged via USB...)

Anyone have any trouble updating?

ndoran · Jun 26, 2012

Will I need to re-root my phone after this update? If yes, how?

Thanks!

EDIT: Nevermind, found it!
How to Root ICS on AT&T Galaxy S2 SGH-i777! | Galaxy S2 Root

CrimsonPride · Jun 26, 2012

gcobb said:
I am a big fan of go launcher. It hasn't ever failed the but, The first time my phone started It was just a little sluggish. It seems to be ok now.

now that youre on ICS, i recommend looking at apex launcher or nova launcher as they are both ICS optimized. I own the pro versions of each and prefer nova, but i recommend anyone new to ICS to give them a try

gcobb · Jun 26, 2012

I'm still looking for something to hit me really hard so I can justify why I upgraded. There are a few features that I noticed have changed but nothing that floors me yet.

wolfyboy359 · Jun 26, 2012

ndoran said:
Will I need to re-root my phone after this update? If yes, how?

Thanks!

EDIT: Nevermind, found it!
How to Root ICS on AT&T Galaxy S2 SGH-i777! | Galaxy S2 Root

That works great! I just rooted for the first time using that! Thanks! I am now backing up my original rom. Thanks again!

jimmylavino · Jun 26, 2012

Anyone else having a problem with the ICS camera and gallery after upgrading? I keep getting a "Media Scanner Running..." message then the home screen comes back up. When I go to the Gallery I get the same message. I've restarted multiple times, but it doesnt go away. I did not do a factory reset after upgrading.

gcobb · Jun 26, 2012

CrimsonPride said:
now that youre on ICS, i recommend looking at apex launcher or nova launcher as they are both ICS optimized. I own the pro versions of each and prefer nova, but i recommend anyone new to ICS to give them a try

I just downloaded them. They each have their own good things about them but nothing that would make me want to use either over Go Launcher. The speed between the three seems to be about the same. If I didn't already have something I'd use one or both of them. But I haven't uninstalled them yet!

VFT · Jun 27, 2012

Possible stupid question...is 4.0.3 seriously the update or did they drop 4.0.4 yesterday?

gcobb · Jun 27, 2012

VFT said:
Possible stupid question...is 4.0.3 seriously the update or did they drop 4.0.4 yesterday?

I installed .3, don't have .4 as an update unless it comes out later.

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