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So if I bought a SGSII tomorrow...

As far as I know, there is no completely stable ICS build for the S2. There are several experimental builds available that you could get however. I can't help you with these builds right now though because I'm holding out until a stable build becomes available, which should hopefully be in under a month.
 
Are you looking at the unlocked international one? AT&T, T-Mobile, or Sprint? As far as I know, only the GSM ones have working ICS ROMs for them.
 
FYI as far as I know the international SGSII doesn't include T-Mo's frequencies (thus the snapdragon / larger screen / HSPA+42 / etc differences) so don't expect to get an international on US T-Mobile.

Granted, due to the Gal Nexus being pentaband a lot of people are hoping the international SGSIII will be pentaband as well.

Cyanogen is your best bet for an ICS port, though that isn't totally AOSP+drivers like a nexus is.
 
GTaudiophile said:
So, when a stable build is released, from where would it be available? From Google? Or some torrent/Android fan site?
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Odds are, the first stable ICS builds will come from the CM team, though Samsung has leaked some alpha builds of ICS. The international SGS2 will definitely get it first.
 
Wow. I didn't know the INTL and TMO versions were different. Thanks.

I actually prefer the smaller screen size of the INTL version 🙁

How come no one has figured out a way to hack into the radios of these things and adjust the operating frequencies???

I assume the hardware is the same...
 
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GTaudiophile said:
Wow. I didn't know the INTL and TMO versions were different. Thanks.

I actually prefer the smaller screen size of the INTL version 🙁

How come no one has figured out a way to hack into the radios of these things and adjust the operating frequencies???

I assume the hardware is the same...
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I'm not sure its a hardware thing?

I do know that I've yet to see any community modification of a radio file. It'd be extremely risky to do regardless. One wrong step, and you have a nice new PMP.
 
Bateluer said:
I'm not sure its a hardware thing?

I do know that I've yet to see any community modification of a radio file. It'd be extremely risky to do regardless. One wrong step, and you have a nice new PMP.
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On die limitation, easily addressed but imposed by OEMs, per instruction of ordering carrier.
 
ghost recon88 said:
Cyanogenmod is your best bet, or XDA forums.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1402431
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Here's a better link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410400

GTaudiophile said:
How come no one has figured out a way to hack into the radios of these things and adjust the operating frequencies???
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Possibly because the hardware doesn't actually support those frequencies, you can't hack an att iphone to work on verizon's lte.
 
kyrax12 said:
How risky is rooting?

One wrong step and the phone is bricked?
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Nearly impossible to brick. Worst case can always use Odin to go back to stock. There are exceptions like if you use Odin to flash a sprint ROM on a att phone.
 
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Dulanic said:
Nearly impossible to brick. Worst case can always use Odin to go back to stock.
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So let me get this straight.

You need a kernel to root the phone right? And the kernel has something call CWN which is needed to install a custom rom?

I am still confused about the whole rooting/rom thing.
 
kyrax12 said:
So let me get this straight.

You need a kernel to root the phone right? And the kernel has something call CWN which is needed to install a custom rom?

I am still confused about the whole rooting/rom thing.
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You can root without a new kernel now. To install a new ROM then you need cwm, clockwork mod. I know sprint version has one click root which does this for you so I would think att version would also.
 
Odin can do everything. Odin can root your phone, swap kernels, and change roms. You do not need clockworkmod, although nice to have.

Too many people just rush and start flashing without reading and learning. People need to slowdown and research and learn before flashing stuff.
 
Oyeve said:
The only phone i managed to brick out of dozens of roots was the og droid. That was so long ago. Its nearly impossible to brick these phones now.
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Pull out the battery during root and it's not impossible anymore 😛
 
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