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Android 2.3.2 Not gingerbread

I have just put android 2.3.3 please for give my typo on the post title of 2.3.2 on my dhd expecting it to be gingerbread the interface looks nothing like gingerbread, it just seems more like an updated version of froyo exept it has higher quality audio recording in videos 44.1 khz aac 96kbs the firmware i loaded was Seraphic stock-rooted 2.36.405.8 but doesnt look anything like gingerbread and has no DSP equalizer option either, i did try cynogens 7 firmware but didnt like it the camcorder and camera app is awfull with a horrible grey border awfull 8khz sound recording and no focus function on the camcorder either which states by pressing the screen it does not work so i thought i would install a non modded version of firmware, is this normal for 2.3.3 to be like this or have i done something wrong?
Thanks

Err, It is Gingerbread.
Gingerbread has been officially labeled as "Android 2.3 Gingerbread" for months.
As much as it looks like the older Froyo 2.2, it still is Gingerbread.
Liam

yeah but the interface is nothing like gingerbreads?? wheres all the fancy extra audio options? also in the software version under about phone it would actually say gingerbread just like it say's froyo 2.2.

stephenuk said:
yeah but the interface is nothing like gingerbreads?? wheres all the fancy extra audio options?
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I think you maybe mistaken for the custom roms i.e. CynogenMod.
I know what you mean though... I thought the same but then I came to the realisation that is what the developers of the custom rom's have implented.
Liam

Your getting a little mixed up here.
Gingerbread is Android 2.3
What you are referring to is HTC Sense, the skin/framework that HTC uses to brand Android. HTC Sense has looked like this since the very beginning back with the HTC Hero.

just looking at pictures of some gingerbread builds the main home screen has different dock icons and thats something the developers did redesign, you dont swipe the screen down in gingerbread to inlock its sideways and when you shut down gingerbread the screen goes off with a white line effect like a crt tv being switched off, this build does not seem like gingerbread at all and the developers particulary said they where implementing new dsp equalizer features which are featured on the androids developers website, i also downloaded a very buggy leaked release of gingerbread which had developer test apps on it as well, the gingerbread battery and wifi icons are green not white and thats not because it was modded, the nexus has gingerbread which looks nothing like this release.

Yes the Nexus S runs Pure Android, which does not have HTC Sense, and as such looks nothing like it. You wondered why Samsung's TouchWiz looks nothing like Motorola's MotoBlur, Its because they were designed to look different from Pure Android.
The docks can be changed easily with different launcher apps from the Market. WiFi & mobile network icons are white when your not synced with Google, they turn green once connected.
HTC has removed some features, i.e the CRT animation as they probably feel it doesn't flow well with HTC Sense.
Have you tried MIUI?

yeah i use go launcher ex its just the developers at android stating a major audio overhaul which is no different to froyo i just thought it would look more like this
http://magazine3.com/techblog/demo/...ndroid-2.3.3-brings-expanded-NFC-features.jpg
thanks anyway andy has explained it now was just a bit mythed by it

Icecream Sandwich - Leaked photos

Just a few photos and some updates
http://rootzwiki.com/content.php?r=221-Ice-Cream-Sandwich-Pics-RootzWiki-Exclusive
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/08/11/exclusive-leak-first-android-ice-cream-sandwich-screenshots-plus-more-ics-details/

Oh god yes. And they are using Cyanogen colours as their inspiration. Who is leading who?

cannot wait to get it on my SGS2

It looks great, i expected everything would be gray/black themed like the new Market. Can't wait to see more. Also wondering the performence of the ICS.

ams84 said:
cannot wait to get it on my SGS2
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Hopefully we can by the end of the year if a fall release happens as expected

Blue theme, they wanna degrade AMOLED based displays that fast I guess..
Mostly UI changes - many older devices (< 1 year old) should be able to run it
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Err what? So nothing really major in 4.0 ?

Well, I am skeptical about these pictures.
On Google IO a "state of the art" UI was promised, but all I can see is the same look Gingerbread had, but with blue elements.
If I recall right, on IO the Google-Representative said they are "AIMING for a Q4 release", not "it WILL BE RELEASED Q4".
I don't think ICS is anywhere close to release at this moment. And even if it will be released Q4, which I highly doubt, then only on the Nexus Prime, the rest of the Nexus family, not to speak of non-Nexus phones, will follow in 2012.
I expect to get ICS on my GS2 around april to may 2012.

Dammit Google just because you made the statusbar icons blue doesnt mean u should make all the icons blue! !
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Looks like the leaked photos from same guy.

Fake.
Truly hideous.
Clearly fake.

I hope they are fake (though the sites claims they are 100%) legit. Hardly looks like the total UI overhaul they promised.

Why is this under galaxy s 2? And this won't be on gs2, If it is, it will mainly be TouchGay, no AOSP. This is the picture of a nexus s...and they said it would be gingerbread and honeycomb, it is. Looks like all the themselves for sensation, nothings changed, just coloring and looks more confusing.
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Cant be ice cream sandwich. Pretty much the same as gingerbread.
If it is though,,... I and many would be greatly disappointed.

Touchwiz is cool stop being mean.

For those commenting, you do realise that even the leaker stated this is a very early build. Obviously it looks like GB, it makes sense that ICS would be built upon the GB platform, therefore early builds will clearly look like a tweaked GB rom.

Firstly I know the guy who provided us with the photos and he is the same guy who gave us screenshots of Gingerbread before it's release and they turned out to be 100% real.
Secondly ICS is not going to look that different from Gingerbread, but it will act differently.
You can see already that the notifications bar has changed a bit, the market has now changed (and available to all) music app has changed (available to all) and in the screenshot you can see the new widget page which is similar to honeycomb and the app switcher on the home screen again similar to honeycomb. The rest of the UI will look roughly the same as we expect as it works well on a phone.
One thing that will change is the way the UI and apps respond when the phone is in landscape. It will act more like a tablet when in landscape and more like a phone when in portrait.
Just wait for more information to come out and you will see that although it looks similar it will in-fact work completely differently.

well damn it google. they should have make a more beautiful AOSP theme rather than having themers making lot more work than them, which is beautifully done. for out the box UI, Android actually failed that. Sense is the most customized ones, though every version looks the same. I love how the updates from google make things work differently, but please~~ the UI~~ not everyone can customize and have the creativity, so make a beautiful one damn it google.

ICS THEME for CM7

Thanks to one enterprising developer, there's a wicked theme for CM7 that gives you all the aesthetic polish of ICS on your current-gen, non-ICS phone. It's done by the same guy who made Tangerine and Arctic Green (to name a few), and as good as those were, Ice Cream Sandwich CM7 Theme rules the roost in terms of look and quality.
For starters, all of the system apps we've come to know and love have had their icons updated to their Ice Cream Sandwich counterparts. That means Calendar, Camera, and the like have fresh, new looks, while Gmail is finally the icon we've become accustomed to from Honeycomb.
The notification bar and its respective icons have been all TRON'd out, as they're sporting the new blue color that was first introduced in Honeycomb and is being carried over into Ice Cream Sandwich. The text in the pulldown bar (such as your carrier, the date, and the word 'Notifications') are similarly colored.
Text on your actual notifications is a bright white, which stands out nicely compared to the darkness of the pulldown and makes everything easy to read. Instead of a 'Clear' button, there's just a blue X, but its purpose is obvious. It also looks much sleeker than the button of Android's yesteryear.
The dialer is sporting Roboto Light (or something close to it) and looks all the better for it. The numbers are in blue and the letters are in grey, but it all comes together nicely.
Check boxes inside menus have also been rendered blue, with a subtle glow to them. (No, it doesn't pulse.) Anything highlighted is the same blue, and the force field that appears when a list hits the top of bottom of the screen is colored the same, too.
For anyone else who can't wait for Ice Cream Sandwich to officially drop (and has a rooted phone running CM7), I'd pick this theme up, posthaste. It's clean, works like a charm, and best of all, it's free. Plus, if you use LauncherPro Plus, there's an additional app you can download that themes your widgets to look all Ice Cream Sandwichy, too.
http://www.androidcentral.com/android-theme-review-ice-cream-sandwich-cm7-theme

Just downloaded it and it looks amazing. Can't wait to play around with it and see how the funtionality is, but otherwise it looks super fresh and clean!

great so far! have some minor minor graphical discrepancies but still amazing! love the notification bar!

Does it works on CM7 with go launcher?

Yes. Running beautiful with go launcher here.

Is it easy enough to just change the theme back to CM7 default if i don't like it? I haven't played with themes on cm7 before

timfoote said:
Is it easy enough to just change the theme back to CM7 default if i don't like it? I haven't played with themes on cm7 before
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You can change back with theme chooser.

CaelanT said:
You can change back with theme chooser.
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Cool, just applied it. Looks great!

First screenshots of ICS and TouchWiz 5.0?

Saw this on the Samsung Mobile USA Facebook page. The screenshots don't resemble the current version of TouchWiz, is this our first look at ICS on the GS2? If so, I'm not impressed...
The footer does say screen images simulated, so I'm not sure.
Whats your opinion on this?
Source: Can't post until I have 8 posts...
PS: Please don't flame me if this is already known or just plain noob, I am new here. Just sharing what I found, as it may have some relevance.

ICS are blue themed, this is green!

Agreed - could be true that it is touchwiz 5 though to stop anymore lawsuits but def. not ICS.

all thing that we saw from ICS 4 was pics from galaxy nexus.May be the ICS for SGS 2 can be with some changes..

Both screenshots on the GS2 are rather different, so I'm not sure what it is...

Looks more like a custom launcher to me. Not very Samsung-ish or Google-ish

there are 2 different SGSII models, one with 4.2 inch and the other with 4.5 inch display.
each is designed for a different operator in us so the operator might asked for a different customization of the os.
the weather widgets are the same...
Is TW4

MistaBishi said:
Both screenshots on the GS2 are rather different, so I'm not sure what it is...
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Looks like a PR screwup in the graphics department. This happens all the time.

It's possible I guess.. either way the shots are interesting. This was on samsung USA mobile?

http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones

Wow, thats ugly.

matokt said:
Wow, thats ugly.
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I couldn't agree more. I want as close to stock ICS as possible (since I think ICS is pretty close to touchwiz 4.0). I really hope Samsung add the wifi/bluetooth/gps etc to the notification bar again, I love that feature.

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I couldn't agree more. I want as close to stock ICS as possible (since I think ICS is pretty close to touchwiz 4.0). I really hope Samsung add the wifi/bluetooth/gps etc to the notification bar again, I love that feature.
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I don't think that the look of the upcoming ICS Rom will have a lot of similarities with the Google ICS look.
They'll stay on TouchWiz and it will look like TouchWiz.
Samsung created TouchWiz to give the Phone a specific look and feel and to be different/better to their competitors. They'll not jump into another direction now.
A BMW is still looking like a BMW, a Mercedes like a Mercedes. Even if you remove the Logos.
Actually ICS is to much hyped. Everyone is expecting to much.
That's ICS:
http://imgur.com/a/Ifpjp#0

codeworkx said:
Actually ICS is to much hyped. Everyone is expecting to much.
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I agree. We're starting to sound like Apple Fanboys
I posted my thoughts here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1371870

Sorry, it was on the Samsung Mobile Facebook page, not the website. Silly error on my part.
It's feeling more and more like its just a mockup, not anything that Sammy will release. But we'll see.

Lmao definetely not TW5 or Ice Cream Sandwich.
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Freakin' hideous!

hell no that looks ugly

The statusbar is kinda remiscent of HTC's sense. The icons are just ugly. Take away message of these ads is, one can customize an Android phone (skin) to the point of it being unrecognizable (as well as unusable?).
Touchwiz is just a luncher, icons and a blue bar. The blue bar I now like, the launcher and icons are easily changable even without rooting.

Obviously a marketing guy pulled random screenshots off the internet. The second shot is showing an HTC Sense wallpaper, so stop worrying that this is Samsung's rendition of ICS. Look at the Galaxy Tabs with Honeycomb if you want to get an idea what TouchWiz on ICS will look like.

[Android OS] Read All Porters, New Android OS Coming Up, Better Than S3

look and see the new sharp device, with its own android os
http://android.pandaapp.com/news/06192012/020336581.shtml
will we be able to port it ? do you guys like it?

This is great, hope to try it soon.

wow looks great...

Ugly. The 3 column icons looks exactly like old symbian.
And it looks like the UI is too complicated. Really heavily customized. Not like touchwiz which is simple and light
Touchwiz is the best UI so far
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hikarugo said:
Ugly. The 3 column icons looks exactly like old symbian.
And it looks like the UI is too complicated. Really heavily customized. Not like touchwiz which is simple and light
Touchwiz is the best UI so far
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Want me to be honest?
Touchwiz may be cool on GB, but it's the ugliest thing that happened to ICS. I mean those ugly icons, green layouts, I wonder if Matias Duarte sees that, he will get an infart?
For other side, that one on the video looks pretty much like a "better sense", I dont like the style, but gesture control used is pretty innovative (Plus that weather thing, wich looks amazing)
EDIT: Title is kinda missleading, if I read well is just an interface (Perhaps a just a framework) not an entire OS

It looks lame. Whats wrong with ICS DOMINATION...? Its the best theme available on XDA.
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wow that's quite amazing, really love if someone port to galaxy s2

arief347 said:
wow that's quite amazing, really love if someone port to galaxy s2
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I'm sure we'll see it ported when it's released.
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@OP: I love it. I love your username too.
Swyping from my i9100 via Tt

its really gr8
btw- will have to wait for it till then my intention is to buy sgs3 can't wait for it too

D4rKn3sSyS said:
Want me to be honest?
Touchwiz may be cool on GB, but it's the ugliest thing that happened to ICS. I mean those ugly icons, green layouts, I wonder if Matias Duarte sees that, he will get an infart?
For other side, that one on the video looks pretty much like a "better sense", I dont like the style, but gesture control used is pretty innovative (Plus that weather thing, wich looks amazing)
EDIT: Title is kinda missleading, if I read well is just an interface (Perhaps a just a framework) not an entire OS
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Is that not a themed systemUI and framework-res and a custom/proprietary launcher?
Lame and Nothing Special!

wow looks awesome... i want just the lockscreen ^^ really cool and nice made

wow looks great.
hope to port this to s2.

Looks like its made for blind people (nothing against them...) like Windows Phone/Win 8, but I like the lockscreen.

nice to see all your oppions, but im waiting for it to come out, i will be porting this, and
yes the lockscreen is nice, im just saying there are no good roms for the sgs3 YET,
becouse they made stock look so good, the sgs2 4.0.4 update will be looking the
exact same as sgs3, as samsung technical support told me them self over phone,
no point in porting it any more, =)

It's not an OS, it's a skin. And "WILL WE BE ABLE TO PORT IT?" isn't enough to justify posting it in the GT-I9100 section
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