After the upgrade, my Galaxy S2 is like running on a new engine. The UI is now much more neat and clean, and many new exciting features such as face-unlock, much much better Gmail app, high resolution image for contact icon, etc and most of all, much longer battery life! (after almost a normal working day ends at 7pm charged since 8am in the morning, it still has 64% left). One more thing to note: before upgrade, my S2 does not have the Chinese language option in the System Language setting. If you bought the first batch of S2 during its early launch, you will have the same version like mine (probably it's the European version). After upgraded to this ICS kernel, the Chinese language option is back on the menu...
The steps are relatively simple but you got to do these at your OWN RISK:
- Backup all your stuffs on your phone, and transfer all your data to external SD card and your PC as well as 2nd backup (read this):
- SMS with SMS Backup and Restore app
- Contacts and Calendar sync to Gmail account
- Call Logs with Call Log Backup and Restore app
- Installed Apps with Astro app
- media files, ringtones, music, data files, etc
- memos
- tasks
- etc
- get the right official kernel image DXLP7 for Asian Galaxy S2 model from this forum. Look for DXLP7 and download from the Multi-CSC link.
- Follow the steps in this blog . There is also a link to root your new ICS.
- Once booted into new ICS, if you found that many of your previous settings are preserved (such as wallpaper remained the same before upgrade), it's advisable to performe a Factory Reset, which is believed to ensure better stability of your new ICS.
- Enjoy your new ice-cream sandwich!
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