Samsung Galaxy S... highest spec Android phone released... also with QWERTY!

Mansize_tissue · 25 Dec 2011 at 20:44

Cheers, although I went with DarkyROM 10.2.2 in the end, which is based on 2.3.4. Seems ok, although the battery life is a little worse than before despite that being one of its main features.

Anyone know what ROM will give me the best battery lift?

PiKe · 26 Dec 2011 at 15:45

w1lliam said:
Not at all, not when I was running 2.3.5 and not on ICS either. I take it you've rebooted? If so it might be a rom issue, and might need reinstalling or use the latest one.

Turns out the 2.4ghz video sender was jamming the signal.

PiKe · 27 Dec 2011 at 19:55

Samsung are re-evaluating ICS for the SGS and rightly so based on this video!

w1lliam · 27 Dec 2011 at 20:11

I'm currently running teamhacksung's version of ICS and it's pretty stable but the lack of ram is a concern, after a few hours it's about 70mb free so samsung are right in that a touchwiz version of ICS is not going to work well and will lag like hell. But my galaxy tab has more free ram when on GB and ICS so it shouldnt be an issue. Glad that they're rethinking the issue though.

PiKe · 27 Dec 2011 at 20:18

w1lliam said:
I'm currently running teamhacksung's version of ICS and it's pretty stable but the lack of ram is a concern, after a few hours it's about 70mb free so samsung are right in that a touchwiz version of ICS is not going to work well and will lag like hell. But my galaxy tab has more free ram when on GB and ICS so it shouldnt be an issue. Glad that they're rethinking the issue though.

They should just release the AOSP source for the SGS then its up to the community to support it

w1lliam · 27 Dec 2011 at 20:41

PiKe said:
They should just release the AOSP source for the SGS then its up to the community to support it

I dont think they can, i cant remember the details correctly but i think it had something to do with samsung not owning the original sources/drivers for specific components which means the dev's have to create drivers creating a long testing period. You just have to look at cyonagenmod for the galaxy series, its pants when you compare it to HTC mobiles which all have builds that are far more complete or RC status.

Fallen god · 27 Dec 2011 at 23:40

PiKe said:
Samsung are re-evaluating ICS for the SGS and rightly so based on this video!

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Running this version since Beta 3 and its been amazing, no really problems, memory seems fine even after 1-2days for me.

Hen_Dawg · 28 Dec 2011 at 15:15

I've been looking at this Onecosmic ICS ROM and quite tempted as it seems pretty functional. However the installation instruction put me off. Install a Cyanogen or MIUI ROM (which requires as certain method) then flash again in CWM. The wipe everything, then flash the ICS ROM. Lot of faff (and for me background reading to work out how to do it) but I guess it's worth it?
Currently running Simplicity ROM on 2.3.4

Balb0wa · 28 Dec 2011 at 15:19

Hen_Dawg said:
I've been looking at this Onecosmic ICS ROM and quite tempted as it seems pretty functional. However the installation instruction put me off. Install a Cyanogen or MIUI ROM (which requires as certain method) then flash again in CWM. The wipe everything, then flash the ICS ROM. Lot of faff (and for me background reading to work out how to do it) but I guess it's worth it?
Currently running Simplicity ROM on 2.3.4

been running this rom 4.0.3 RC1 since this morning, tried it the other day but it would just boot loop.

Had another go today, had cm7 on, booted into recovery, installed it , would boot loop. so i flashed it again and it booted up ok, wi fi wouldnt work but theres a kernel link on the 1st page that fixes that, just put the rom and update on your card, should be fine.

alex24 · 1 Jan 2012 at 01:26

Been out of the loop for a while. Newest stable, bug free stock rom?

Is CM7 decent for battery and stability now? Is it complete? Nightly or stable 7.1?

Not that fussed about ICS until it's ready. Thanks for any help with this.

w1lliam · 1 Jan 2012 at 18:59

Get a stable CM7 or the latest smasung stock rom, cant complain with either tbh

Ringiho · 1 Jan 2012 at 19:15

Nevermind!

churchhawk · 1 Jan 2012 at 22:35

ICS is lovely, makes my galaxy S a whole new phone!

try it you wont regret it

PiKe · 1 Jan 2012 at 23:09

Samsung will be bringing ICS to the Galaxy S afterall but it will be a 'lite' version.

w1lliam · 2 Jan 2012 at 00:54

Tried the new version, build 12, of the ICS on the sgs and it runs really well. Build 11 would occasionally lag but i'm having none of these issues with the latest version. Check it out.

Emlyn_Dewar · 2 Jan 2012 at 02:25

Every Samsung rom has been a slow, laughable shambles from my experience on the Galaxy S.
Can't wait until the online community sort out all the issues with their ICS releases. They really are the saviours of this phone.

Hen_Dawg · 2 Jan 2012 at 10:20

I've just installed ICS and it's absolutely fantastic. The UI is so smooth and beautiful. The ROM is a release candidate but I found nothing wrong with it. It is a complete new lease of life for this old phone!

http://ics.samsung-updates.com/ICSI9000/

mrk · 2 Jan 2012 at 10:21

YO, Y U GUYS get ICS properly before we S2 owners do!

*sulks*

Adnams Drinker · 2 Jan 2012 at 17:07

w1lliam said:
Tried the new version, build 12, of the ICS on the sgs and it runs really well. Build 11 would occasionally lag but i'm having none of these issues with the latest version. Check it out.

I put Build 12 of the Team Hacksung ICS on mine this morning and it's absolutely great apart from one thing - whenever I try and go to the Gallery app, play music or set my SMS or phone ringtone, I get this error:

Unfortunately, the process android.process.media has stopped

and I can't get any further. Anybody else had that? Other than that, it's absolutely sweet ...

EDIT: Just needed another factory reset after installing ICS ... duh!!!

fozzy · 2 Jan 2012 at 20:57

I'm currently running build 11 of teamhacksung ICS and it's great appart from a few niggles here and there. Cannot get navigation to work at all, I start the app and it crashes with no error message. 720p video recording is very jerky as well. Going to try build 12 tomorrow and see if it helps. If they can iron out some of the bugs, it will be very slick.

If it helps I used this topic Here I came from Darky rom 10.2 I think. Make sure you remove your external SD before you flash, otherwise you end up with boot loop after restart.