ICS update rolling out for SGSII

[lothar]

I would be looking for blood right now if I had a SII:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/13/2867950/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-android-4-0-video

That would push me to root/ROM in a heartbeat. Normally I'm not one to do that within a devices' reasonable update window but that is simply unacceptable.

Viper GTS

I don't understand your chief complaint.
What exactly is unacceptable?

 

[poofyhairguy]

I would be looking for blood right now if I had a SII:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/13/2867950/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-android-4-0-video

That would push me to root/ROM in a heartbeat. Normally I'm not one to do that within a devices' reasonable update window but that is simply unacceptable.

Viper GTS

Yeah because it is so hard to get rid of that Touchwiz launcher:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.anddoes.launcher

 

[Mopetar]

I would be looking for blood right now if I had a SII:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/13/2867950/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-android-4-0-video

That would push me to root/ROM in a heartbeat. Normally I'm not one to do that within a devices' reasonable update window but that is simply unacceptable.

Viper GTS

To be fair, while everyone on these forums wants the cool new features, can you imagine how much regular users would be confused by all of the changes? Samsung probably doesn't want to deal with thousands of complaints about "how their phone has changed and something is different now and wah wah wah."

 

[jiffylube1024]

Huh? As a SGS2 owner I'm lost and confused at your statement.

I think he means that Samsung has essentially covered up many of ICS's key features with Touchwiz. You don't get resizeable widgets, the combined app/widget drawer, the nice ICS folders, etc. with Samsung's official firmware.

 

[postmortemIA]

ridiculous number of smartphone models = impossible to support and provide timely updates.

Apple unfortunately owns them with single phone that is 'in' until they make new model, once per year.
Android smartphone makers on the other hand are competing among each other and apple. So they have way shorter hardware development cycle that hurts them in a long run. The sooner they figure out that they should not make more than 2 phones per year, the better. HTC already said so and already has 4 phones announced. Way to run themselves to the ground, and whole android platform.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

ridiculous number of smartphone models = impossible to support and provide timely updates.

Apple unfortunately owns them with single phone that is 'in' until they make new model, once per year.
Android smartphone makers on the other hand are competing among each other and apple. So they have way shorter hardware development cycle that hurts them in a long run. The sooner they figure out that they should not make more than 2 phones per year, the better. HTC already said so and already has 4 phones announced. Way to run themselves to the ground, and whole android platform.

:thumbsup:

 

[zerogear]

If anyone wants Samsung ROM without TouchWiz. Take a look at Pure ICS ROM. It is basically as close to Nexus phones in terms of pure ICS as you can get. It should be on XDA. Though currently it's still using beta build of the samsung ics leak. I would say wait a week or so and the devs should have one based on released ICS build.

 

[ITHURTSWHENIP]

99% of the people who bought a Samsung Galaxy S2 dont even know what OS version they have. Do people really expect Samsung to introduce a whole new UI design via firmware update to these people?

If you can post here then you are smart enough to know you can change the launcher of any Android device. So whats the point of complaining about Touchwiz?