ICS Update for the Nexus S 4G Discussion Thread

[piaband]

apparently, complaining too loud about Nexus phones is against the rules here.

So I'll just post this.

It has been 163 days since google announced Ice Cream Sandwich. Is it official on your Nexus yet? Mine neither.

 

[piaband]

im curious...will jelly bean be announced before ICS is on the Nexus S 4G?

Wasnt that the entire point of creating the Nexus line?

 

[Ryuuie]

https://code.google.com/android/nexus/drivers.html

The binaries are there for the Nexus S 4G. It's all ready and waiting. Who are we waiting on? As JBQ said himself, we're waiting on our carriers because they are CDMA and Google isn't going to screw with CDMA files that are tied to Sprint and Verizon ONLY. That's their job to make it work, not Google's anymore. It's simply against the idea AOSP as the CDMA files aren't really "open source".

I get that people are pissed. I'm anxious too...but there's really only three options we can do here:

1. Root your phone and get ICS, stop relying on Sprint to give your phone updates.
2. Wait for the official update.
3. Leave Sprint, stay away from Verizon (as they're going to have the same issues) and hop on T-Mobile or AT&T and import a GSM Galaxy Nexus which will work fine on either of those carriers.

Google's put 4.0.4 out, it's now the official most-recent version of ICS. They've updated the T-Mo and EU Nexus S and the GSM Galaxy Nexus. Now we and our Verizon cousins will have to wait for our carriers to hurry up.

If you want to complain, go ahead. But just realize that this is now inevitable unless you root or switch carriers to a GSM carrier.

And no, the Sprint Galaxy Nexus is not exempt from this. It WILL happen again.

Honestly, I'm more pissed that the US still has CDMA as that's pretty much the bigger reason for this wait (bigger than the whole 4.0.3 fiasco).

EDIT: JBQ did state that 'sojus' would be added to the factory images list when the OTA is announced. 'sojus' is the factory image name of the Nexus S 4G. So it looks like we may get 4.0.4 anyway.

 

[Droid800]

apparently, complaining too loud about Nexus phones is against the rules here.

So I'll just post this.

It has been 163 days since google announced Ice Cream Sandwich. Is it official on your Nexus yet? Mine neither.

Its more like you guys are acting like your situation is unique and that you're being ignored by Google. You're not. The nexus one had to wait just as long to get gingerbread.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

 

[vincentallen2]

So has anyone that forced a modded version of the 4.0.4 leak through Odin on their GSM Nexus S recieved the real update or were they denied? I have the ics leak on my NS4G through ODIN and im wondering if i should go back to gingerbread (eeeeek!)

 

[6tr6tr]

Out of all the complaints I've heard over time about the Nexus line using Samsung the only real issue I think that stands out is they need to consider a better choice of radios, otherwise the rest of the hardware seems very good. Maybe add a better external speaker.

Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk 2 Beta-4

My only complaints about Samsung:

* No Gorilla glass
* Cheap plastic back
* poor radios

 

[6tr6tr]

https://code.google.com/android/nexus/drivers.html

The binaries are there for the Nexus S 4G. It's all ready and waiting. Who are we waiting on? As JBQ said himself, we're waiting on our carriers because they are CDMA and Google isn't going to screw with CDMA files that are tied to Sprint and Verizon ONLY. That's their job to make it work, not Google's anymore. It's simply against the idea AOSP as the CDMA files aren't really "open source"..

I don't see wimax stuff there at all. That's just generic Nexus S from what I can tell.

 

[6tr6tr]

Wrong. 4g & Wifi Tether works fine on any of the custom ROMs I have used which is basically all of them. Early early builds back a few months ago of ICS for the NS4G had problems but that is all in the past.

Just curious: have you tried cyanogenmod 9? If so, what things don't yet work?

 

[Paul627g]

Just curious: have you tried cyanogenmod 9? If so, what things don't yet work?

I've ran early builds of CM9 and even some of the newer CM9 kangs and really I can't say there isn't anything broken out of normal operation. Now it's more like optimizing and tweaking little mods and custom options added in by the CM team.

Everyone seems to be on the same page saying CM9 runs much better than CM7 ever did.

Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk 2 Beta-4

 

[pitmasterme]

Just curious: have you tried cyanogenmod 9? If so, what things don't yet work?

why not flash it and find out for yourself......or check out the thread.........





Why anyone isn't running 4.0.x on their ns4g is beyond me(those that are rooted, that is). Been with ics since beezy first brought us the sdk builds and haven't gone back......So much better, IMO.......:-D

Long days and pleasant nights...........

 

[Paul627g]

I hope for the sake of better development and maybe even a shot at an updated modem we see the official release soon. Not holding my breath on the modem but one can wish right?

 

[pitmasterme]

ya know what "they" say........."wish in one hand, $π!+ in the other".......

Long days and pleasant nights...........

 

[Ryuuie]

I don't see wimax stuff there at all. That's just generic Nexus S from what I can tell.

It's near the bottom of the page:

Nexus S 4G binaries for Android 4.0.3 (IML74K)
...
CDMA, WiMAX Samsung Link 1e0300469c33809f196b405bc45418c1 8db8d3098bc25d15d8a797ef5fd4797bfe844ff8

Nexus S 4G binaries for Android 4.0.4 (IMM76D)
...
CDMA, WiMAX Samsung Link 199438a22c2abf3a50acfdff533304a2 c739328f3565814bca44908850b071fbedf29862

I hope for the sake of better development and maybe even a shot at an updated modem we see the official release soon. Not holding my breath on the modem but one can wish right?

Didn't the 4.0.4 leak have updated radios?

 

[BlackHawkA4]

I concur. I've been running cm9 for a week. Gold stuff.

 

[j_grouchy]

I'd go ahead and root or flash or whatever it's called, but A) it just seems too late to bother now since I've had this phone stock almost a year now and I don't want to lose anything by doing so and B) you can obviously tell I don't know the first thing about rooting or flashing or whatever it's called. :-[

 

[BlackHawkA4]

As soon as the official ics is out for this phone I'm not even going to run custom roms. I'll still be rooted just in case but ics is good enough not to need root.

 

[skinneejay]

As soon as the official ics is out for this phone I'm not even going to run custom roms. I'll still be rooted just in case but ics is good enough not to need root.

Why would you stop running a customer ROM? What's the point of going back to stock ICS?
Most of the ROMS are better then the stock roms?

 

[Paul627g]

Didn't the 4.0.4 leak have updated radios?

Yes but after all it is a "leak" and one thing I have learned from my time rooting and running many versions of leaks dating back to Froyo leaks you can't trust radio/modem's in leaks.. Those are usually tweaked right up to the end before release.

 

[d14racer24]

I'd go ahead and root or flash or whatever it's called, but A) it just seems too late to bother now since I've had this phone stock almost a year now and I don't want to lose anything by doing so and B) you can obviously tell I don't know the first thing about rooting or flashing or whatever it's called. :-[

Sounds a lot like me, haha. I tried getting my g/f to sacrifice her phone to my newb rooting, but she wasn't going for it. I tried reading through some of the forums and how-to's on XDA, but the room started spinning, and I figured that was my clue that if I tried this I would probably screw something up.

 

[j_grouchy]

Sounds a lot like me, haha. I tried getting my g/f to sacrifice her phone to my newb rooting, but she wasn't going for it. I tried reading through some of the forums and how-to's on XDA, but the room started spinning, and I figured that was my clue that if I tried this I would probably screw something up.

Amen. I'm looking at the instructions to get CM9 on my HP Touchpad and I've spent days trying to psych myself into it...all just to get friggin' Netflix on a tablet.