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[Q] ICS: Update or not to update?

Ok.. I've seen posts cautioning anyone against trying to install ICS on N7000.. supposedly there is some issue with Samsung's ICS which could brick the device. I've seen warnings saying that even if someone has flashed the OFFICIAL German or Taiwanese ICS, they should flash back to GB immediately.
So.. what gives? Should we wait for a third ICS before upgrading..? Are these warnings genuine?

Yes its safer to wait for either a solution from the devs or samsung.

I see you are using Liquid Smooth ICS V1.. was that safe to flash? This whole ICS stuff is becoming very confusing. I actually switched from my I9100G to N7000 JUST for ICS, and seems like will have to wait even more! lol

Yes, very confusing.
And where is samsung by now?? They got our money with the device and again with the reparations!
Last samsung device for me.

Ys im using LiquidSmooth ICS Rom, But i had installed this rom before the BRICK BUG came into picture. I am stuck on this rom for now but i have no complaints as its running beautifully without any problems... i'm waiting for a fix and not using the CWM at all.
LP1/5/6 repack
LPY
LPF
all of the above have the bug.
Try using CM9 as it uses a different kernel. And go through thread before installing.
ICS running beautifully on SGnote but this brick bug is just ruining the party.

Ok CM9.. I see that there are many things which don't run well on CM9.. speaker phone etc.. any comments?

Waited too long for a official ics jow waiting again for fixed ics. .
I cant believe samsung made a mess but still i dont see a better android platform then samsung for a year or 2 atleast. .
Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk 2

hello, i've updated my SGN using the german rom, and till the moment i've not encountered any bug, only that the phone is bit slower...
is it recomended that i return to stock gingerbread??

Better stay in GB & wait for stable official/stock ICS. I flash LPY German & CF Root...my Gnote have issue with bluetooth (keep disconnect/fail when sending file) & date/time keep changing itself after reboot...weird!

zalmd06 said:
hello, i've updated my SGN using the german rom, and till the moment i've not encountered any bug, only that the phone is bit slower...
is it recomended that i return to stock gingerbread??
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if ICS works well it is better not to try , don`t flash anything don`t use cwm and everything should by fine, wait for next release of ICS or fix.
but really it is your decision (the risk used ics but also the risk of a brick note when you try back to GB)
J_Kirk better to wait for a stable ICS.

Thanks netoperek.. I've reached the same conclusion myself.

netoperek said:
if ICS works well it is better not to try , don`t flash anything don`t use cwm and everything should by fine, wait for next release of ICS or fix.
but really it is your decision (the risk used ics but also the risk of a brick note when you try back to GB)
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@ the moment is working fine with no bugs @ all..
wi-fi works fine, with no DC, Bluet.. also, text messeging, calls, games, facial unlock, etc
the only thing i think is a bit slower is the phone it self. for example is not as smother as before when playing for example the fruit ninja.
when i get home will do downgrade again and w8 for next release

Got my Galaxy Note...but...

Hey Guys I got my galaxy note today! it's awesome!!!....but...I immediately tried to check for updates... but after agreeing with the terms and conditions, it says "Registration is failed. Try Again?".
How can I get around this and update my device OTA?
Here's my phone info:
Model: Galaxy Note GT-N7000
Android: 2.3.6
Baseband: N7000XXKK5
Build Number: GINGERBREAD.XXKKA

have you tried installing Kies on your PC, then connecting the Phone via cable so that Kies can update it?
4.0 isn't available through OTA atm so you'd need to do the Kies thing

Aiphares said:
have you tried installing Kies on your PC, then connecting the Phone via cable so that Kies can update it?
4.0 isn't available through OTA atm so you'd need to do the Kies thing
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I'm doing that right now! Thanks! ... I guess my Galaxy Nexus habits are hard to break! LOL!

Sorry to hijack the thread but I also got my G.Note, but yesterday . Got it from Amazon Germany, and as soon as I took it out and connected it to the Wifi Internet it said that it had found the OTA update for the ICS.
I cancelled the update as I was not sure if it was worth it. I hear so many people saying that Gingerbread runs smoothly but that ICS is a pain. I also hear about all the camera bugs, etc that ICS has.
The question I have is: Should I keep with Gingerbread for a while longer or should I just update to ICS?
Thank you all for your advice.

Johev said:
Sorry to hijack the thread but I also got my G.Note, but yesterday . Got it from Amazon Germany, and as soon as I took it out and connected it to the Wifi Internet it said that it had found the OTA update for the ICS.
I cancelled the update as I was not sure if it was worth it. I hear so many people saying that Gingerbread runs smoothly but that ICS is a pain. I also hear about all the camera bugs, etc that ICS has.
The question I have is: Should I keep with Gingerbread for a while longer or should I just update to ICS?
Thank you all for your advice.
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I will tell you in a bit! ... coming from the Galaxy Nexus, I miss some of the features...so it is a must for me.
EDIT: Do I did not get ICS on this update... I think I got new baseband:
Baseband: N7000XXLA4
Build: GINGERBREAD.XXLA6

Johev said:
Sorry to hijack the thread but I also got my G.Note, but yesterday . Got it from Amazon Germany, and as soon as I took it out and connected it to the Wifi Internet it said that it had found the OTA update for the ICS.
I cancelled the update as I was not sure if it was worth it. I hear so many people saying that Gingerbread runs smoothly but that ICS is a pain. I also hear about all the camera bugs, etc that ICS has.
The question I have is: Should I keep with Gingerbread for a while longer or should I just update to ICS?
Thank you all for your advice.
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I have tried Criskelo ICS, CM9, Stunner, Liquid Smooth and various GB roms. Even though I like some features of the ICS rom, I eventually settle for Chrack GB rom. It run smooth with good battery life and I have no problem runing all the applications I needs. I suggest that you use your GB rom for awhile before trying to update.

Chaosin1983 said:
I will tell you in a bit! ... coming from the Galaxy Nexus, I miss some of the features...so it is a must for me.
EDIT: Do I did not get ICS on this update... I think I got new baseband:
Baseband: N7000XXLA4
Build: GINGERBREAD.XXLA6
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Try to install the german open version i think its LPY, im running that one right now and it works fine for me ^^

Nevermind!

Johev said:
Sorry to hijack the thread but I also got my G.Note, but yesterday . Got it from Amazon Germany, and as soon as I took it out and connected it to the Wifi Internet it said that it had found the OTA update for the ICS.
I cancelled the update as I was not sure if it was worth it. I hear so many people saying that Gingerbread runs smoothly but that ICS is a pain. I also hear about all the camera bugs, etc that ICS has.
The question I have is: Should I keep with Gingerbread for a while longer or should I just update to ICS?
Thank you all for your advice.
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there were several updates to note (at least on mine, Base/Eplus Contract btw)
before ICS, and since ICS is not yet available OTA i think you can hit update on your phone until there are none left, then you should have the most recent Gingerbread version.
for ICS, see last post: Kies update^^
Sadly i already did the Samsung Kies update to ICS and now i have some battery problems (google cloud service and several other Wakelocks draining like a *****)
apart from that little problem ICS is working fine

Hi all and thank you for your input.
As for the last post from Aiphares, I can confirm that there is an OTA update for ICS for my phone.
If I hit update it says that an important 4.0 ROM is available and that it will be 316mb (if I remember it correctly). If I wanted to update now or later.
So I did hit later to see what your replies would be, as I did not want to be one of those asking for help how to revert to gingerbread because my phone could have horrible battery drain, or any other known ICS bug.
I would really like to have a working ICS on my phone, and hopefully something that would improve the S Pen, so that I could actually use it for my daily annotations (minutes of meetings, etc.).
Why can't Android battery just improve, I remember that from Froyo to Gingerbread the battery got much better. Well we can't have it all with these dual cores running in our pockets.
As for the custom ROMs I first want to try the official ones, and if I am am not happy with them, I'll read and read so to prevent triangles and than I'll try a Custom stable ROM.

Johev said:
Hi all and thank you for your input.
As for the last post from Aiphares, I can confirm that there is an OTA update for ICS for my phone.
If I hit update it says that an important 4.0 ROM is available and that it will be 316mb (if I remember it correctly). If I wanted to update now or later.
So I did hit later to see what your replies would be, as I did not want to be one of those asking for help how to revert to gingerbread because my phone could have horrible battery drain, or any other known ICS bug.
I would really like to have a working ICS on my phone, and hopefully something that would improve the S Pen, so that I could actually use it for my daily annotations (minutes of meetings, etc.).
Why can't Android battery just improve, I remember that from Froyo to Gingerbread the battery got much better. Well we can't have it all with these dual cores running in our pockets.
As for the custom ROMs I first want to try the official ones, and if I am am not happy with them, I'll read and read so to prevent triangles and than I'll try a Custom stable ROM.
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Please do you people even read this forum?? If i was you and read all the threads about bugs (eMMC) etc. etc. i wanted to wait a bit more. Ok, you just might get lucky (or not) and wipe the phone ten times but if you're not prepare to go to the store and claim your warranty !!!
Please read the topics about bugs on ICS.
becosemsaida
(thanks??)

good to know that there is the OTA update now,
well if you feel uncomfortable you can always wait it out, i'm sure there will be more ICS updates and bugfixes

Random reboots

Hi guys
A friend of mine has a problem: his Galaxy keeps restarting randomly for no reason, many times in a day while using it.
What is weird: the phone hasn't ever been rooted/flashed with a custom rom, neither updated, always been 100% original. Just a normal usage!
I'm not much into this phone, so i don't know if it's a known issue or what.. but it sounds strange to me, possible hardware problem? Needs to be flashed or rooted? Other?
I've already done a factory reset and now i took off the sd-card to see if it could be it, but i'd appreciate some advices!
Thanks

Try updating it with kies, might help but can't guarantee

if random reboots happens while using too much mobile resources then its normal for galaxy mini like phone

Random Reboots might be device specific or not , It depends.
But you may want to visit the samsung care center in your vicinity area just to be sure about the latter .
Else just flash a new stock Rom via ODIN (not that it would leave your device impure as rooting does ).

yackovsky said:
Try updating it with kies, might help but can't guarantee
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thousandecibels said:
Random Reboots might be device specific or not , It depends.
But you may want to visit the samsung care center in your vicinity area just to be sure about the latter .
Else just flash a new stock Rom via ODIN (not that it would leave your device impure as rooting does ).
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Is Froyo the last "official" release or was a Gingerbread leaked/official firmware released? I'll probably try flashing something, don't know yet if a custom rom could solve the problem but still it's a possibility
dheeraj (dhlalit11) said:
if random reboots happens while using too much mobile resources then its normal for galaxy mini like phone
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With mobile resources you mean 3G/wifi or RAM? By the way in both the cases i don't think it's the problem, since there aren't many apps in background and the only one using internet connection is whatsapp!
Thanks for the replies :good:

Niscap said:
Is Froyo the last "official" release or was a Gingerbread leaked/official firmware released? I'll probably try flashing something, don't know yet if a custom rom could solve the problem but still it's a possibility
With mobile resources you mean 3G/wifi or RAM? By the way in both the cases i don't think it's the problem, since there aren't many apps in background and the only one using internet connection is whatsapp!
Thanks for the replies :good:
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The last official android update for for sgm was gingerbread based api.
Try flashing the stock gingerbread on the device via odin (google it if you don't know how to.) and then try custom roms.
Also the thing about resources, you already know about our sgm aka lil'g . Its not that powerful as most quad core latest devices boosted by plenty much RAM. So multitask on it wisely.

thousandecibels said:
The last official android update for for sgm was gingerbread based api.
Try flashing the stock gingerbread on the device via odin (google it if you don't know how to.) and then try custom roms.
Also the thing about resources, you already know about our sgm aka lil'g . Its not that powerful as most quad core latest devices boosted by plenty much RAM. So multitask on it wisely.
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I'll try with gingerbread when i see my friend, thanks! I own a i9000 and flashed pretty much so i know odin and similar stuff, no problem
And yes i tried the mini many times, doesn't have a bunch of ram but still i think it can't be a ram-lack problem since it did the same also after the factory reset, with few apps installed!
Thanks again for the help :good:
Oh, was forgetting: how does the cyano run on the mini? Smooth? Battery killer or ok for everyday use?

Try cm7 by mebitek. Despite its source code is old and official cm7 is way more ahead of it, the mebitek's cm7 relays on battery & performance like a pro..

by resources I mean more ram and CPU usage
background apps ( they don't play big role as they get closed automatically)
running big games (HD one)
etc.

if you have many apps, cut the .android_secure folder and paste it on your computer.. i had this problem with the stock GB 2.3.6.. reboots reboots and reboots!! i pasted the folder in my comp, delete unnecessarily used apps and VOILA! it was running smooth again.. but now i'm using cm7..

I updated to official gingerbread release, then after putting all the (few) apps into phone storage i removed every android-secure file!
I'll see how it goes with this, if the problem remains i'll try a cyano or go directly to the service center
Thanks again for the tips!

[Q] novahd crash & reboot

Hi, although i'm not a member very long, i've been following this site since last early last year when i got my LG p990.
Although i'm not into android development, i'm quit handy in customising basically any hardware i have at home (PC, nintendo Wii, Popcorn Hour, etc..)
Since then i tried a whole bunch of roms.
last week i installed NOVAHD Returns | LG UI 3.0 | Highly Customizable | Update 2 - 10/17/12
It works pretty good in general, i've had only 2 issues.
1. setting the alarm doesn't work, the app crashes.
2. the phone reboots ± 2 times a day, which is no improvement of the original stock rom.
Does anybody else have these issues and/or knows a solution?
At the moment i'm using gueste2x hybrid v3.8, which is very stable and everything works, but in the (very) near future i would like to use ICS rom from NovaHD.
Help, anybody???

kernel?

Friendly games are probably you are having these problems with NovaHD because of Kernel because I've done using the same problems and the only ones that really bothered me it was the rotation of some applications which caused Force Close Out ... it worked perfectly with Harsh Kernel 3.0.44 ...

grimmyrippy said:
kernel?
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Since i haven't got it running momentarely, i can't see, whatever is standard in the rom of novaHD LG UI 3.0 v2
I didn't change the kernel.
AIeX said:
Friendly games are probably you are having these problems with NovaHD because of Kernel because I've done using the same problems and the only ones that really bothered me it was the rotation of some applications which caused Force Close Out ... it worked perfectly with Harsh Kernel 3.0.44 ...
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Thanks, i will try that one then.
edit: Done, harsh kernel 3.0.44 installed and the alarm works, now just wait a few days if shutting down spontanously is also solved

1 questions about harsh kernel.
I tried to install LG_O2X_NOVAHD_Update2.zip with clockwork, but is says "bad zip"
tried several times to download again, but same result.
Does everyone have this or is it a problem on my end?

[Q] How to flash LG P999?

Hello all,
I have a LG P999 (Optimus 2X) running on WIND that will not connect to the network. it was attempted to upgrade from Ice Cream Sandwich to Jelly Bean but was not successful. it was then tried to restore the device twice and here it is.
The current specs are:
- Android 2.2.2
- Baseband version – Unknown
- Kernal version – 2.6.32.9
- Build number – FRG83G
- Software version – LG-P999-AWC-V11h
The phone is a GSM device running on 1700 frequency on Wind Mobile in Canada.
Does anyone have suggestions/recommendations on how i should restore this device ? Where can we get the latest stock firmware and what program should we use to flash it with?
Thanks in advance,

1. WIND never updated the P999 beyond Froyo, sadly. There aren't going to be any ICS/JB updates
2. Use LG's own tool to restore back to stock Froyo.
3. If you want any custom ROMs that allow the phone part of the phone to work, it's GB or a hackfest ICS/JB. Official CM10 with hardware acceleration has been shown to work perfectly except the phone radio won't work and so it becomes useless as a phone...
You will find vastly more support at the G2X forums, http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1114. Although Wind and Videotron brand the P999 as an Optimus 2X, hardware wise it is really the same as the American G2X.

machoman1337 said:
1. WIND never updated the P999 beyond Froyo, sadly. There aren't going to be any ICS/JB updates
2. Use LG's own tool to restore back to stock Froyo.
3. If you want any custom ROMs that allow the phone part of the phone to work, it's GB or a hackfest ICS/JB. Official CM10 with hardware acceleration has been shown to work perfectly except the phone radio won't work and so it becomes useless as a phone...
You will find vastly more support at the G2X forums, http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1114. Although Wind and Videotron brand the P999 as an Optimus 2X, hardware wise it is really the same as the American G2X.
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Hello,
Thanks for the reply.
As for the custom roms at this point im not interested. I will be happy if I can get the latest software on the phone and it working properly.
Do you know the name of LG's tool to do this? Or where I can download it?
Thanks for the help

bryanviper said:
Hello,
Thanks for the reply.
As for the custom roms at this point im not interested. I will be happy if I can get the latest software on the phone and it working properly.
Do you know the name of LG's tool to do this? Or where I can download it?
Thanks for the help
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Just to clarify, are you having a problem with your phone, i.e. is it bricked or supper buggy right now? If your phone is working fine and dandy, then there is no official "latest software" on the WIND version of the P999. To go beyond Froyo you will need a custom ROM (which works far better than stock anyways).

machoman1337 said:
1. WIND never updated the P999 beyond Froyo, sadly. There aren't going to be any ICS/JB updates
2. Use LG's own tool to restore back to stock Froyo.
3. If you want any custom ROMs that allow the phone part of the phone to work, it's GB or a hackfest ICS/JB. Official CM10 with hardware acceleration has been shown to work perfectly except the phone radio won't work and so it becomes useless as a phone...
You will find vastly more support at the G2X forums, http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1114. Although Wind and Videotron brand the P999 as an Optimus 2X, hardware wise it is really the same as the American G2X.
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machoman1337 said:
Just to clarify, are you having a problem with your phone, i.e. is it bricked or supper buggy right now? If your phone is working fine and dandy, then there is no official "latest software" on the WIND version of the P999. To go beyond Froyo you will need a custom ROM (which works far better than stock anyways).
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is this the software you are talking about?
http://www.lg.com/us/support-mobile/lg-P999
LG MOBILE SUPPORT TOOL
The phone turns on and you can get to its desktop with the apps and so on however it is not working correctly, it does not connect to the wind network or anything like that. It was flashed/updated with some other firmware and now it does not work properly so I'm trying to fix it for somebody.
Thanks

bryanviper said:
is this the software you are talking about?
http://www.lg.com/us/support-mobile/lg-P999
LG MOBILE SUPPORT TOOL
The phone turns on and you can get to its desktop with the apps and so on however it is not working correctly, it does not connect to the wind network or anything like that. It was flashed/updated with some other firmware and now it does not work properly so I'm trying to fix it for somebody.
Thanks
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Yeah you can use that tool.
Alternatively, try rooting then using GetRIL.

machoman1337 said:
Yeah you can use that tool.
Alternatively, try rooting then using GetRIL.
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Thanks
I'll give the tool a try as I have never done rooting so would not even know where to start. The tool seems the easiest if it will work.