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[Q] Has anyone played with this ICS build for gsm?

There's a link in the article,
http://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-s2-android-4-0-3-ics-xxkp8-firmware-46396/

Oh dear...

I pulled this from the article. Read carefully.
This firmware and the instructions for installing it is for the international variant of the Galaxy S2 (GT-I9100) and may not work for the U.S. variants or other variants (e.g., Epic 4G Touch, Skyrocket, GT-I9100G, etc.).
If another person flashes this, I will disown my first born

Do not play with it you'll brick your phone. Calk had a version with no radios or bootloader. Look for that or watch qbkings video review.
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not flashing but I am gonna take it apart. Not stirring the pot guys, just came back from Verizon and I miss my nexus, I would love to figure out some porting. Just looking for input thats all.

Some on the Epic Touch have tried it. LOL. And there phone was screwed afterwards. Honestly though I don't know how buggy it is.

OP. Down? Nice
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Does anyone have a link for calks? His multi upload links are still fried...
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Yep, it gave me 4g lte on my epic touch
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lawnguy said:
Does anyone have a link for calks? His multi upload links are still fried...
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I have it uploaded to Rounsy's Mediafire last night. Let me see if I can get him to post a link. I am trolling NYC right now. That ICS RDF has me stopping and checking the forum frequently. Lol
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I flashed the international ics when I first got this phone accidentally.I didn't realize that there were so many variants of the sgs2. It flashed fine. No radios or data and no back or home button... Something like that.
I just ran the sfhub stuff and everything was fine.

Came from evo 3d

sup peeps to make a long story short my 3d thought it could walk on water like Jesus did and come to find out it was a fail fml ........so sprint sent me a epic touch. Im knew to the whole Samsung galaxy s thing but I'm pretty sure I will get the hang of it specially with the Odin thing but my question is what's a good stable ROM with no bugs decent battery life and no lag? I wanna start this experience off right!!
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Calkulin's ROM (Gingerbread version, not ICS) or Blazer ROM. Don't flash ICS ROMs as they have the potential to perma-brick your phone.

Don't listen to this guy he knows nothing. Flash the goodness rom for a great ics experience. Calk gb rom is great, his current ics build is stable but horrible battery life. Long story short flash slim n trim, the goodness, or cm9 just make sure you flash from gb el26 kernel with cwm and you have NO risk of brick at all.
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Blazer GB is solid as a rock
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I've flashed ics roms about twice a day for the past three weeks straight not one brick
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Chauleyboii said:
sup peeps to make a long story short my 3d thought it could walk on water like Jesus did and come to find out it was a fail fml ........so sprint sent me a epic touch. Im knew to the whole Samsung galaxy s thing but I'm pretty sure I will get the hang of it specially with the Odin thing but my question is what's a good stable ROM with no bugs decent battery life and no lag? I wanna start this experience off right!!
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ice cream sandwich or gingerbread??

wp7chris said:
Don't listen to this guy he knows nothing. Flash the goodness rom for a great ics experience. Calk gb rom is great, his current ics build is stable but horrible battery life. Long story short flash slim n trim, the goodness, or cm9 just make sure you flash from gb el26 kernel with cwm and you have NO risk of brick at all.
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Says the guy with 3 thanks and 62 posts. I worked in a Sprint store as a technician; trust me I know what I'm talking about. Yes, you can circumvent the issues by doing what you said (flashing a Gingerbread kernel), but one misstep and you're screwed. I said nothing wrong; this guy just got his phone and he said he's still trying to get the hang of things, so like I said, I don't recommend flashing an ICS ROM [right away].

Working for sprint doesn't mean you know shiz, people brick only if they don't follow directions
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Product F(RED) said:
Says the guy with 3 thanks and 62 posts. I worked in a Sprint store as a technician; trust me I know what I'm talking about. Yes, you can circumvent the issues by doing what you said (flashing a Gingerbread kernel), but one misstep and you're screwed. I said nothing wrong; this guy just got his phone and he said he's still trying to get the hang of things, so like I said, I don't recommend flashing an ICS ROM [right away].
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Damn fred haven't seen you around since evo4g how's it going?
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riassan said:
ice cream sandwich or gingerbread??
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Gingerbread
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Product F(RED) said:
Calkulin's ROM (Gingerbread version, not ICS) or Blazer ROM. Don't flash ICS ROMs as they have the potential to perma-brick your phone.
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fatboypup said:
Blazer GB is solid as a rock
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They are both true, get use to your device and odin. Then when your comfortable go from there
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Chauleyboii said:
sup peeps to make a long story short my 3d thought it could walk on water like Jesus did and come to find out it was a fail fml ........so sprint sent me a epic touch. Im knew to the whole Samsung galaxy s thing but I'm pretty sure I will get the hang of it specially with the Odin thing but my question is what's a good stable ROM with no bugs decent battery life and no lag? I wanna start this experience off right!!
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Hey man I just got mine 2 days ago in place of my 3d also and I just finished installing ff02 from the leak in ths thread. Its working great so far. I installed the no data one with root. Its ics and everything seams to be working just fine.
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riassan said:
Damn fred haven't seen you around since evo4g how's it going?
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Pretty good. I've owned a LOT of phones since the Evo 4G (which is still one of if not my favorite). The Epic Touch is a solid phone and will chew and spit out anything you throw at it (especially high-end games like GTA 3, Shadowgun, Riptide, etc). The camera is amazing too. You're gonna have a blast with this thing. I'm actually buying an international GS3 and heading to Straight Talk though, so I'm selling my Sprint GNexus soon.

Alright fellas come on now this how you show a new guy what the epic touch family is about lol naw but seriously I understand where you both are coming from and I've seen product around here a lot so I know he wouldn't steer me wrong but I see where yall coming from and thanks
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Chauleyboii said:
Alright fellas come on now this how you show a new guy what the epic touch family is about lol naw but seriously I understand where you both are coming from and I've seen product around here a lot so I know he wouldn't steer me wrong but I see where yall coming from and thanks
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Seriously dude u should try out that ff02 leak like I stated above. I don't think it took me even 5 min lol and I love it!
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My friend has a 3D. What did you say to get the epic touch? Lol
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locoboi187 said:
My friend has a 3D. What did you say to get the epic touch? Lol
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I "lost" it? Lol
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locoboi187 said:
My friend has a 3D. What did you say to get the epic touch? Lol
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Nothing; when Sprint runs out of supply of a phone, the system offers other phones that are usually of the same tier or better (iPhone is an exception, will never be offered or repaired by Sprint). Some reps will be nice and give you a list of choices, but most of the time they'll tell you what they've chosen for you. It's really up to the manager.

Product F(RED) said:
Calkulin's ROM (Gingerbread version, not ICS) or Blazer ROM. Don't flash ICS ROMs as they have the potential to perma-brick your phone.
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I really wish people would do more research before saying such things. Yes, there is a chance of a brick, but it has been figured out now and some safe ICS options have been developed. Check out the Development thread and look at agat63 and sfhub's offerings at the very least.

okantomi said:
I really wish people would do more research before saying such things. Yes, there is a chance of a brick, but it has been figured out now and some safe ICS options have been developed. Check out the Development thread and look at agat63 and sfhub's offerings at the very least.
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+1
Agreed, if people read and follow the instructions, including familiarizing themself with the How not to brick your E4GT thread (link below), then bricking becomes a lesser threat.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1525495
Also to the OP, try out Blu Kuban if you're still looking for a good ROM.

From a ns4g to s2

I've been around for a bit from the tmo dash to the touch pro to the evo and soon to the epic touch. I have a few questions which i hope some of.you can help me with. Does this have the same weak radios and horrible battery of the ns4g? And what's with all these build numbers fh this and that? What would changing the modem do? Is cwm still the most popular recovery? And finally, it has ics on it so will I be able to root?
I have been trying to read but I'm getting confused. I was able to only update the radios, rom and kernel now there are all these options.
Thanks in advance for any useful info
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aman1127 said:
I've been around for a bit from the tmo dash to the touch pro to the evo and soon to the epic touch. I have a few questions which i hope some of.you can help me with. Does this have the same weak radios and horrible battery of the ns4g? And what's with all these build numbers fh this and that? What would changing the modem do? Is cwm still the most popular recovery? And finally, it has ics on it so will I be able to root?
I have been trying to read but I'm getting confused. I was able to only update the radios, rom and kernel now there are all these options.
Thanks in advance for any useful info
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Yes to all of them the radios do suck. But u can root it and its easier than the evo
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sasquatchotragavaca said:
Yes to all of them the radios do suck. But u can root it and its easier than the evo
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I had to root the evo through adb shell. I was too impatient to wait for a one click solutuon. That was a pain and a process. I've read that the et4g is one click root so I'm happy
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aman1127 said:
I had to root the evo through adb shell. I was too impatient to wait for a one click solutuon. That was a pain and a process. I've read that the et4g is one click root so I'm happy
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Yes its odin one-click way better than evo
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I found my older evo 4g easier to root than my e4gt personally
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dmonger11b said:
I found my older evo 4g easier to root than my e4gt personally
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Yeah i think the older boot loaders r the same as e4gt but if u have latest bootloader on evo its alot more complicated
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Thanks for the replies. From reading I'm gathering that a modem is the same as a radio? And do I have to look at anything before I can just flash away (I mean in terms of being compatible). I hear these are easy to brick also...
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aman1127 said:
Thanks for the replies. From reading I'm gathering that a modem is the same as a radio? And do I have to look at anything before I can just flash away (I mean in terms of being compatible). I hear these are easy to brick also...
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Just look for the newest one download the .zip and flash through recovery. It all depends were u live radios r different for every phone a new modem might not work as good as a old one so just download a couple and which works better.
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I got this from a friend who is getting an iPhone. He just had his S2 replaced like a month ago so I get a new phone for cheap. Im holding out my upgrade for a quadcore phone. I refuse to go with the LG only because I dont think the developer or factory support will be there. This should make my wait more bearable with my huge leap from NS4g.
I have jelly bean right now with everything working ok (except the massive battery drain) on my NS4G. Anything close to that on this phone? How is the developer support? Im coming from a phone with ok support and maybe like 3 choices that are updated consistantly.

Yes all modems are compatible with any rom and we have cm10 and aokp versions of jellybean. The brick issues are much much less now that we developers have identified the problem and made safe recoveries. Don't flash anything in stock recovery.

Dual booting

I think we should pitch in some donations or something to try to get a dev to create a dual/tri boot for this phone
.. If it's possible for our device.
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hrffd said:
I think we should pitch in some donations or something to try to get a dev to create a dual/tri boot for this phone
.. If it's possible for our device.
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As far as I know it should be possible. The international S2 has dual boot...
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It would be nice if bootmanager worked on our phone but the zImage kernel causes issues with the way they handle the boot from SD function
We are legion, for we are many.
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-EViL-KoNCEPTz- said:
It would be nice if bootmanager worked on our phone but the zImage kernel causes issues with the way they handle the boot from SD function
We are legion, for we are many.
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So it would still be impossible?
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From what hes saying it may be possible, but a huge PITA to actually get off the ground. Just for curiosity, why dual boot anyway? (Phone wise) i do on my computer but for phone never really saw a reason. Just thought i would ask.

milky1112 said:
From what hes saying it may be possible, but a huge PITA to actually get off the ground. Just for curiosity, why dual boot anyway? (Phone wise) i do on my computer but for phone never really saw a reason. Just thought i would ask.
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Options from Stock to AOSP possibilities. I would much enjoy being able to switch back and forth, even if it's between CM10 and AOKP, without the hassle of having to backup, restore, etc. And from what I've heard of dual booting on Android devices, the apps stay up to date with eachother. Like data from apps, and text messages will carry over etc. But I may be wrong.

It would be nice to be able to have a stock image as well as your favorite rom so for GPS issues and prl/profile issues you could just boot back to stock real quick, update and then be on your way.

Dual booting is possible.
If the I9100 developers can do it, so can we... We just need a kernel that makes this possible.
Here is a link to the Siyah kernel which has dual boot capabilities.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23810024
And please, don't be an idiot... DO NOT FLASH THIS ON YOUR EPIC 4G TOUCH!!!
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Mattix, I googled and found that, that's what really made me think it's possible. But our kernel is way different, so I didn't take that just as a possibility.
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The hardware us the same except for the radio and nfc... We can dual boot with the right kernel.
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Chris is good with that. I wonder how we could persuade him to give it a shot.
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Either him or agat, and possibly get the Siyah dev to jump in. A combination of all 3 would make one awesome kernel.
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So who's made friends with one or more of the aforementioned devs and can get this suggested to them?

Someone slashed my tires so I won't be home anytime soon haha. I'll talk with them tonight.
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TriBeard said:
So who's made friends with one or more of the aforementioned devs and can get this suggested to them?
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I wouldn't say that I'm friends or anything, but chris and agat both know who I am on IRC.
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Reach out to Bubby. He had this working years ago
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^^ LMFAO!!! I don't think anyone in this community even cares to have Bubby develop anything for us. If his "dual boot" is anything like his CM7 kernel... Well, I would imagine it would be piss poor.
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Mattix724 said:
^^ LMFAO!!! I don't think anyone in this community even cares to have Bubby develop anything for us. If his "dual boot" is anything like his CM7 kernel... Well, I would imagine it would be piss poor.
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Let's not start this. Serious topic that would make a great addition to the phone.
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Dual boot would be a great addition... But it isn't coming from Bubby.
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hrffd said:
So it would still be impossible?
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Dual booting is not impossible, but the bootmanager app which allows booting numerous roms from sd would need an entirely separate app for our device due to the zImage needing to be implemented into a bootmanager specifically for devices with zImage kernels. Combining it into the existing version is impossible due to the boot from sd function needing
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Is it me or...

is it that development for this phone slowed down just a little bit?

lol nvm
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Just a little bit. Mostly because there's nothing else to put into ROMs, most are pretty complete.
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Phone is old now. Not obsolete, but very outdated at this point. A lot of people including myself upgrade every 2 years or so or when performance essentially doubles. Basically when an upgrade can not only be seen, but felt. People are moving on to bigger and better devices. To add, development for this phone is on its way to the grave. The phone has AOSP 4.2.2 and the last official update it's ever going to get, TW 4.1.2. Something that can't be said for most other phones from its time. Which is a surprise to me because as the crappiest version of the GS2 line, I didn't expect the t989 to get more dev support than its exynos powered siblings.
Angwho, I digress. What more do you want?
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I agree with most of what above poster said. This phone has fewer and fewer users every week. So development with reflect this.
As far as worst s2....nope, that would be my wife's bell s2 hd lte, i757m. Only one active jelly bean rom....no official jelly bean coming apparently, and its newer than the t989d. Lol
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What u need u got more theb u device cabt take bro
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esema1o said:
What u need u got more theb u device cabt take bro
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I can tell you what you need, bro. Autocorrect. Lawlz.
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Skip-Breezy said:
is it that development for this phone slowed down just a little bit?
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It's to be expected with the S4 out now.

H3adru5H said:
I can tell you what you need, bro. Autocorrect. Lawlz.
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Loll
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Cody42 said:
It's to be expected with the S4 out now.
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I'm probably going to make that move over the summer to the S4 as well

Umm guys I thought Samsung them selves said they were updating SII TO 4.2.2 OFFICIALLY an before key lime there releasing 4.3
GS² F AH NEXUS⁴ love my Devz

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Umm guys I thought Samsung them selves said they were updating SII TO 4.2.2 OFFICIALLY an before key lime there releasing 4.3
GS² F AH NEXUS⁴ love my Devz
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I never heard any of that....have a link??
And I guarantee you s2 will not get key lime pie. And by the time there's a stable rom made of key lime, we'll all have new phones! Lol
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A lot of our devs are already working on stuff for the s4 like Jamison and ptmr3 and his team deviant development can't wait to get that phone
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kj2112 said:
I never heard any of that....have a link??
And I guarantee you s2 will not get key lime pie. And by the time there's a stable rom made of key lime, we'll all have new phones! Lol
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Sammobile reported this: http://www.sammobile.com/2013/03/18/galaxy-s-ii-galaxy-note-to-get-android-4-2-2-android-5-0-for-the-galaxy-s-iii-galaxy-note-ii/
Perhaps it is what he was referring to. T989 and I727 are not listed at this point, but I9100 is.

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Sammobile reported this: http://www.sammobile.com/2013/03/18/galaxy-s-ii-galaxy-note-to-get-android-4-2-2-android-5-0-for-the-galaxy-s-iii-galaxy-note-ii/
Perhaps it is what he was referring to. T989 and I727 are not listed at this point, but I9100 is.
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Yeah nothing mentioned about any variant besides the international S2. Not saying we won't get 4.2, but imo the realistic chances of it are virtually nonexistent.

me_is_rushin said:
Yeah nothing mentioned about any variant besides the international S2. Not saying we won't get 4.2, but imo the realistic chances of it are virtually nonexistent.
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I agree. It's difficult to imagine Samsung or the carriers investing any further for devices with a relatively limited user population. I just wanted to share what @hatememarkz might have been referring to...which could very well be legitimate (but perhaps also irrelevant?)

style154 said:
A lot of our devs are already working on stuff for the s4 like Jamison and ptmr3 and his team deviant development can't wait to get that phone
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I'm coming to the S4 soon too

Skip-Breezy said:
I'm coming to the S4 soon too
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Ordered mine today will be here tomorrow its been a good run guys but couldn't pass up the s4 see some of you there
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I'm leaving for the n4 this weekend.

Traitors!
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I have almost 2 years left on my contract....I may be the last surviving S2 user. LOL
Unless I buy an N4 outright.
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