Samsung Official 4.2.2 update - May - Galaxy S III General

Hi Folks!!! Samsung promised its Flagship devices Note-II and S3 a 4.2.2 update in the end of May 2013. Update includes most of the features available for Galaxy S4.
1. Real-time lingo-decoder S Translator.
2. Array of pointless camera features, such as Dual Shot, Dual Video
3. Smart Stay.
4. Smart Scroll.
5. S Health.
6. UI Changes including the Theme and Lock Screen Modifications in launcher.
Hope, Google's I/O 2013 can also bring out Note-II, S3 fantastic features a head...Fingers crossed..
Here is the Link for Samsung Updates Page:
http://samsung-updates.com/samsung-will-update-galaxy-note-2-and-galaxy-s-3-to-android-4-2-2-till-end-of-may/

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They said it was from a fan not official
sent from a galaxy far away

There is an update but it won't show on rooted phones. It will over Kies but it will not update the phone. It will just sit there and won't update.
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Just checked, no update available past 4.1.2
At least not for this handset.
Stock rom, unmodified etc non branded sim free blah blah.
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realwillow said:
Just checked, no update available past 4.1.2
At least not for this handset.
Stock rom, unmodified etc non branded sim free blah blah.
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Well not sure what to tell you. I get one over Kies for my s3 what doesn't update because handset was modified. And when I check on my s3 I get no updates allowed because it has been modified. If I wipe the whole phone the update shows on my s3 but again I can't install it.
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dante501 said:
Well not sure what to tell you. I get one over Kies for my s3 what doesn't update because handset was modified. And when I check on my s3 I get no updates allowed because it has been modified. If I wipe the whole phone the update shows on my s3 but again I can't install it.
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Not knowing what version you're on now, it's all academic anyway

Great
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dante501 said:
Well not sure what to tell you. I get one over Kies for my s3 what doesn't update because handset was modified. And when I check on my s3 I get no updates allowed because it has been modified. If I wipe the whole phone the update shows on my s3 but again I can't install it.
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Learn how to Flash with odin
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phaniblaze said:
Hi Folks!!! Samsung promised its Flagship devices Note-II and S3 a 4.2.2 update in the end of May 2013. Update includes most of the features available for Galaxy S4.
1. Real-time lingo-decoder S Translator.
2. Array of pointless camera features, such as Dual Shot, Dual Video
3. Smart Stay.
4. Smart Scroll.
5. S Health.
6. UI Changes including the Theme and Lock Screen Modifications in launcher.
Hope, Google's I/O 2013 can also bring out Note-II, S3 fantastic features a head...Fingers crossed..
Here is the Link for Samsung Updates Page:
http://samsung-updates.com/samsung-will-update-galaxy-note-2-and-galaxy-s-3-to-android-4-2-2-till-end-of-may/
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Great news!!!
That's why i didn't root my S3 yet...

rootSU said:
Not knowing what version you're on now, it's all academic anyway
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This one.
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rootSU said:
Not knowing what version you're on now, it's all academic anyway
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This version
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Well, you can get back to stock in download mode, flashing with odin respective firmware of your region...make sure you have flash counter reset to zero, if not use triangle away so that your device again becomes genuine. ...
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This version
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That's a really old release of 4.1.2. There are loads of 4.1.2 updates since then. That will be what you are getting prompted for. You're 6 months out of date.

I've been wondering when were they thinking about releasing this since the leak has been around since february (i think) and the S4 has been released already. But to be honest, I couldn't care less about those "features" for an update, all i want is multitasking fixed. Which i'm fairly sure we won't get. Samsung should stick with fixing the basics instead or pushing out mostly useless crap. Guess i'll stick with aosp and just get a nexus at some point...

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That's a really old release of 4.1.2. There are loads of 4.1.2 updates since then. That will be what you are getting prompted for. You're 6 months out of date.
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Well I use arhd anyway so mot really care about if it outdated. Just saying that I was promoted for updates quite a lot. But with a custom Rom I do not care.
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phaniblaze said:
Hi Folks!!! Samsung promised its Flagship devices Note-II and S3 a 4.2.2 update in the end of May 2013. Update includes most of the features available for Galaxy S4.
1. Real-time lingo-decoder S Translator.
2. Array of pointless camera features, such as Dual Shot, Dual Video
3. Smart Stay.
4. Smart Scroll.
5. S Health.
6. UI Changes including the Theme and Lock Screen Modifications in launcher.
Hope, Google's I/O 2013 can also bring out Note-II, S3 fantastic features a head...Fingers crossed..
Here is the Link for Samsung Updates Page:
http://samsung-updates.com/samsung-...-galaxy-s-3-to-android-4-2-2-till-end-of-may/
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Here's the fun fact of the day for you, we will not get s health because it requires hardware our phone doesn't have.
And another freebie the page they got that from was a fan page not an official one so it's all rumour nothing more.
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Heres a tweet...
Android 4.2.2 for high-range devices from June https://twitter.com/search/%23sgs3

dante501 said:
Well I use arhd anyway so mot really care about if it outdated. Just saying that I was promoted for updates quite a lot. But with a custom Rom I do not care.
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That's not really the point.
Your point was Kies tells you there is an update and that it must be 4.2
My point is you are on a 6 month old release. Any update Kies tells you available is not 4.2. It is one of the 30 4.1.2 releases newer than yours.

delsus said:
Here's the fun fact of the day for you, we will not get s health because it requires hardware our phone doesn't have.
And another freebie the page they got that from was a fan page not an official one so it's all rumour nothing more.
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I did think about that since i read somewhere about the extra sensors involved, i just thought they'd adapt or disable functions that really required them or at least do it in a different way that wouldn't need said sensors - there's software to mesure heart rate with the camera, which isn't the most conventional way and, to be honest, if someone told me before that was possible i'd most likely dismiss it as a prank app/gimmick, but i did see it roughly working

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Is this the end of the updates for the xeu unbranded galaxy s..I hope its not
yawn......
What are you talking about?
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Are Samsung going to update the galaxy s any more or have updates have now stopped as there hasn't been any leaks for a bit
I believe there will be at least one official update to fix patent related problems in the gallery.
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We will have more updates even ICS
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I believe there will be at least one official update to fix patent related problems in the gallery.
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And were really bothered about that !!!! I have the Gallery stock app any how so i will just put it back on.
Isn't there a Google agreement that if the phone meets the minimum requirements for a Update then it gets it
Plus Gingerbread has not been the best rom for most phones
Froyo was the best as it had alot of development Gingerbread still needs work to fix the FC problems, They can't leave there phones like this as it will spill over to the other devices
Well, Samsung is busy on ICS, so probably no more GB firmwares.
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Well, Samsung is busy on ICS, so probably no more GB firmwares.
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Think so tooo... If Nexus S is already running ICS then it should be a major problem to make it runable on galaxy s maybe with TW4?
Northern.dj said:
Isn't there a Google agreement that if the phone meets the minimum requirements for a Update then it gets it
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This is only for phones made 2011 or later.
We need to face the fact that sooner or later this day will come.
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i just want to no when the day will be... so then i can try out the other roms at lease they should get updated i just miss using odin
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i just want to no when the day will be... so then i can try out the other roms at lease they should get updated i just miss using odin
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Surely the people to ask are Samsung Technical Support, as the members of XDA do not normally have a priority information feed from Samsung.

Petition for S4 features on Galaxy Note.

I'm a fan of stock android. But this time i think Sammy really outdone themselves because software features on latest S4 got me excited. I really like the health and smart pause features on S4. So i encourage devs for porting that features like those Multiview and smart stay before Samaung release it in official update. Thanks u devs. I think xda forum is the best to do it.
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it's the hardware for the softwares this time around
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I'm a fan of stock android. But this time i think Sammy really outdone themselves because software features on latest S4 got me excited. I really like the health and smart pause features on S4. So i encourage devs for porting that features like those Multiview and smart stay before Samaung release it in official update. Thanks u devs. I think xda forum is the best to do it.
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i think you need those "humidity and temperature" sensors for S-Health...
Escaperoute said:
I'm a fan of stock android. But this time i think Sammy really outdone themselves because software features on latest S4 got me excited. I really like the health and smart pause features on S4. So i encourage devs for porting that features like those Multiview and smart stay before Samaung release it in official update. Thanks u devs. I think xda forum is the best to do it.
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Wait long long. It will never ever reach the Note officially if not ever.
It's time for the One.
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Don't forget Samsung sucks in their updates.
I look for every attention in detail and their widget is still not aligned properly.
I'm talking about the 5x1 widget. Not the ugly widget that they stick in your face.
As a designer myself, I find that horribly disgusting and completely unprofessional.
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I really like the health and smart pause features on S4. So i encourage devs for porting that features. Thanks u devs. I think xda forum is the best to do it.
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So really this is just a begging thread?
Either that, or I think you have the wrong idea about petitions.
What more do you want from samsung for ur note. Its over. Thank God u didnt request for a new hardware for the note.
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Correct. What more, if S V or Note 3,4 keep coming.
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In the best case, and to be realistic we can only ask for wallpapers, ringtones and live wallpapers from Galaxy S4. Notes is already old. If you want features from S4...just buy one.
ok, lets start with the wallpapers then ;p
Robbie might port some possible features ..theyll show up in his rom first
Livebyte said:
Wait long long. It will never ever reach the Note officially if not ever.
It's time for the One.
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Don't forget Samsung sucks in their updates.
I look for every attention in detail and their widget is still not aligned properly.
I'm talking about the 5x1 widget. Not the ugly widget that they stick in your face.
As a designer myself, I find that horribly disgusting and completely unprofessional.
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Yeah. See voice talk app v and t are small.
Not professional.
In gingerbread there was Music player.
Check settings, there are few headings with such mistakes too.
NOT big issues but finishing touch and overall quality is poor.
I would like to see feature updates available as a paid premium from the Samsung Apps store.
We have gotten our money's worth. Granted the Note N7000 should get 4.2.2 before the final chop on support, but beyond that, updating touchwiz, s-pen features and other Samsung exclusives could be easily done with a paid app update.
Remember how with Windows mobile 4 phones had a paid upgrade to 5? Maybe nothing so extreme as to be charged for an upgrade within the first two years of its release, but afterwards, to keep the phone fresh and new, I would gladly part with my hard earned cash.
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Livebyte said:
Wait long long. It will never ever reach the Note officially if not ever.
It's time for the One.
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Because HTC is better at back-porting new features to their old phones?
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Because HTC is better at back-porting new features to their old phones?
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/s detected.
Yeap, more efficiently. Look at Jelly Bean for our Note. Garbage.
I was making a mod today and noticed some code for finger air view (LSF) so its very possible that its either coming or possible for the note 1
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I was making a mod today and noticed some code for finger air view (LSF) so its very possible that its either coming or possible for the note 1
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Alot of the note 2 features are inside our roms just not activated. In secsettings/res/xml/ there are files such as quickglance2013.xml and maybe they are planning on activating these at some point.
Hopefully
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Nianfur said:
I would like to see feature updates available as a paid premium from the Samsung Apps store.
We have gotten our money's worth. Granted the Note N7000 should get 4.2.2 before the final chop on support, but beyond that, updating touchwiz, s-pen features and other Samsung exclusives could be easily done with a paid app update.
Remember how with Windows mobile 4 phones had a paid upgrade to 5? Maybe nothing so extreme as to be charged for an upgrade within the first two years of its release, but afterwards, to keep the phone fresh and new, I would gladly part with my hard earned cash.
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i think sammy should give at.least key lime.pie for original note.
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/s detected.
Yeap, more efficiently. Look at Jelly Bean for our Note. Garbage.
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Any examples of new features on the One that is also coming to the One X and older devices? You have done some research on this, haven't you?
abubasim said:
Any examples of new features on the One that is also coming to the One X and older devices? You have done some research on this, haven't you?
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Possibly everything including the new sexy BlinkFeed except the Remote app.
I also want the petition to start for note 3's features to note1
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Because HTC is better at back-porting new features to their old phones?
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Their not good at back porting, they didnt even made the desire hd into ICS. And htc only supporting their most recent flagship when it comes to updates. And whats worse they only update it ones
By the time SIV feature apps installed on Original Note (oNote) there isn't enough memory to run them. Good Luck!
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Alot of the note 2 features are inside our roms just not activated. In secsettings/res/xml/ there are files such as quickglance2013.xml and maybe they are planning on activating these at some point.
Hopefully
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you know why? Cause Sammy was just making a dirty port of Note2-JB to our Note 1...they were not interested in doing it properly just for the 'old' Note...
So these features will never come to Note 1 officially - they are just leftovers...

I find a little strange that there was no 4.2.2 leak ...

With the S4 just weeks away from the final release presumably directly on 4.2.2 wouldn't have been a very smart idea to have something similar to that for S3 'accidentally' leak towards XDA so that Samsung could have many thousands of highly-qualified beta-testers iron-out most of the last-second surprises? Since the 4.2.1 leak was not looking very convincing to me, and it looked like it really needed more extra testing ...
I find a little strange that... Samsung still updating the S3
I find it a little strange how you expect someone to risk their job for you.
Do we have an ETA for 4.2 update?
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I find it a little strange how you expect someone to risk their job for you.
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Well a common theory is that Samsung are themselves responsible for the leaks, or at the very least, very much aware of, but indifferent to their occurrence.
And it makes sense. So many development ROMs get leaked, it seems odd to think that they would have NO way to prevent, or at least reduce, them if they wanted to.
IMHO makes business sense, when you think about it...
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I'm sure we will get a leak when they have something worth leaking, alpha testing is more than likely conducted in house, for obvious reasons, and I wouldn't expect a 4.2.x update for at least 8 weeks after the s4 release.
My opinion about leaks is that Samsung does use XDA for a cheeky bit of beta testing, when they have safe stuff to release, but I don't think they are stupid enough to release alpha stuff to the, let's face it, dubious skills of your average xda end user!
And if anyone did try leaking an alpha, I'm pretty sure they would get hung out to dry!
....but then I might be completely wrong!
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My opinion about leaks is that Samsung does use XDA for a cheeky bit of beta testing, when they have safe stuff to release, but I don't think they are stupid enough to release alpha stuff to the...
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That 4.2.1 leak we got was pretty alpha and generally unusable... I'm pretty sure that one accidently got out because we're used to samsung leaks having a few bugs, but that version wasn't even near done.
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That 4.2.1 leak we got was pretty alpha and generally unusable... I'm pretty sure that one accidently got out because we're used to samsung leaks having a few bugs, but that version wasn't even near done.
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I'll agree it was no where near complete, but it is very much usable, there weren't any really serious bugs preventing normal usage.
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I'll agree it was no where near complete, but it is very much usable, there weren't any really serious bugs preventing normal usage.
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I had it running for at least 3 weeks myself. The main reason I stopped using it was the battery life. I was getting about 4-6 hours with my 2500mah extended battery and would get pretty warm frequently. I have spare batteries, but it still got to be too much. I don't know if that was common for others, but I have a habit of running a lot of apps at the same time with push notifications and such, I think power management wasn't built out very well so it really impacted my use. The same apps and such get me about 8-10+ hours with the 4.1 roms (nearly double the battery life).
There were a few other little issues as well. I stuck it out longer than usual hoping some more 4.2 leaks would come out, but none did. Even the custom roms releases didn't offer any improvements, just the usual google apps updates.
Not a big deal, I mostly wanted 4.2 because I was hoping for camera updates, widget lockscreen, toggle panel, etc. I liked the widget lockscreen, but they didn't do anything with the camera. The toggle panel didn't prove to be that useful because the 25 toggle mod kinda does that just fine anyway. Other than the 4.2 improvements that samsung included from the stock 4.2 experience, I'm not really in any rush for a 4.2 rom on the S3. Other than smart stay and smart notifications, I really don't use many of the current S3 gimmicks and the S4 software gimmicks are just more of the same. Even google now is much more useful than s-voice.
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I don't think you understood my post - I was suggesting that it would make good business sense for Samsung to make that leak (and some other posters have noted the same thing about the older leak).
The final S4 will face one order of magnitude more competition now than S3 did one year ago, so having bugs that result in many apps not working well or too much power consumption and so on would NOT be good for Samsung, and the only way to test that on a large scale (give that there are no large scale S4 deployment) would be to "fake leak" a 4.2.2 for S3 - which the S3 WILL get anyway in the final form at some point!
Usual is we get a leak its probably a beta test deliberate leak .
Then it takes a fair while before the genuine release rolls out .
XDA cheap beta testers .
jje
I saw someone posted that Samsung will skip 4.2.1 and it will be on 4.2.2 on the official. I also heard rumours that it will be released mid of May, hopefully.
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I saw someone posted that Samsung will skip 4.2.1 and it will be on 4.2.2 on the official. I also heard rumours that it will be released mid of May, hopefully.
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its sad that we have to wait that long
or maybe im just a nexus spoiled brat
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its sad that we have to wait that long
or maybe im just a nexus spoiled brat
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Buy an LG then complain at Samsung upgrades.
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Buy an LG then complain at Samsung upgrades.
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lg? they dont even know what the word update means
i had 2 lg's
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lg? they dont even know what the word update means
i had 2 lg's
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You can't seriously have owned an LG phone and are now complaining at samsung updates.
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You can't seriously have owned an LG phone and are now complaining at samsung updates.
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i had two lg's and im not complaining about because i had lg im complaining because i had a nexus
thats why i said i was spoiled by it as i know Oem phones dont update as fast as google devices(lg and motorola are overkill)
good thing is that samsung is the best android maker(after google) with updates
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You know we started recieving leaks for 4.1.2 when the note 2 came out so I am sure in a few we will see some good leaks.
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But i do think Samsung will first release 4.2.1 without s4 feature and then release 4.2.2 with s4 features same like they did with s2 and s3 (4.1.1 and 4.1.2)
Because if they give us a update directly with s4 features it will affect s4 sales
Anyways it is now heard that android 5.0 is postponed and will not com in Google io so we gave plenty of time for 2 updates
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Prepare your flagship device...

Prepare your flagship device, backup your files,applications and charge your smartphone.
A prefect test update is closer then you expect!
What is mean for this..... check on sammobile...
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Will it have Snot and Multi-Widows...?:fingers-crossed:
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Will it have Snot and Multi-Widows...?:fingers-crossed:
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Yes, if you use a casing made from C4 and tissue.
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Prepare your flagship device, backup your files,applications and charge your smartphone.
A prefect test update is closer then you expect!
What is mean for this..... check on sammobile...
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Wow....can't wait
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Article was dated June 19 and stated test FW will be released by SamMobile in 48hours. If you check the firmware news an article dated June 21 was posted. Leaked FW for S3.
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Are you talking about JB update? WHich update aree you talking abt?
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Are you talking about JB update? WHich update aree you talking abt?
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Samsung accepted the obvious advantages of a CM-based approach and will add their TW features to CM as the new 4.3 TW JB from Samsung. Big advantage: they will publish all hardware drivers and sources which they protected until now (FM, radio, sPen).
Sadly sammobile didn't relase a rumor date until now.
I didn't understand
Guys, can anyone give me a link for my Galaxy Note 4.2.2 hint or something which you talking about I can't understand, I tried checking sammobile but there was no Post refering to something to do with our Notes!!
What's the use opening up wrong hardware?
Unless they open up the processor drivers and provide documentation there will be no use of the said radio s pen and fm drivers? That's stupidest decision ever. Also I don't understand why they are keeping the drivers a secret as if someone is going to copy their processors or refuse the processors from phones into other devices. Its just stupid. They are just trying to mimic apple by closing down. Maybe their concern is someone will install android on bada / me ego phones of theirs. But exynos based phones do not exist on those platform. So what is their worry?
The worry is about the processor flaws which will get exposed. Exyose is an unfinished processor which got released before it enters completion. So the processor tweaking is all done by samsung. They are scared people will ruin their devices if the aourcea are reprogrammed by amatures.
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The worry is about the processor flaws which will get exposed. Exyose is an unfinished processor which got released before it enters completion. So the processor tweaking is all done by samsung. They are scared people will ruin their devices if the aourcea are reprogrammed by amatures.
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good reason for them to avoid mass ruining by sharing the boundaries, beyond that = broken device.
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Pointless thread is pointless
Closed.

Android 4.4.2 KitKat

What do you think about the new android version. In my opinion, it's great , with better UI( if the leaked photos are true) , less RAM usage and new kernel. What do you think about the S2? Will Samsung update our phone ? In my opinion Samsung will not update the S2 or the Galaxy Ace or Mini...
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No they will not update our phone. And im also not too sure about new kernel. We do have dorimanx kernel which is light years ahead of most kernels... We have 3.12.rc1 while the Nexus have 3.4?
I don't thing Samsung will just think about updating the S2
It's an old device, it still an amazing device though
But updating it will not benefit Samsung
So no updates
But we still have AOSP
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I don't thing Samsung will just think about updating the S2
It's an old device, it still an amazing device though
But updating it will not benefit Samsung
So no updates
But we still have AOSP
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Yea,thats true, even if samsung don't update it, the leaked images are showing a cool interface
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No they will not update our phone. And im also not too sure about new kernel. We do have dorimanx kernel which is light years ahead of most kernels... We have 3.12.rc1 while the Nexus have 3.4?
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The only thing is that some sites said about,that they will update S2 along with S3 ,S4, Ace,Mini, Note,Note 2
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There are rumors that it will support all current devices
It's our goal with Android KitKat to make an amazing Android experience available for everybody.
- Google
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http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...re-some-things-we-are-expecting-to-see-in-it/
Caproid said:
The only thing is that some sites said about,that they will update S2 along with S3 ,S4, Ace,Mini, Note,Note 2
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I think you may be misunderstanding the sites. They say its possible for 4.4 to run on our device. No updates mentioned.
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Our S2 is getting old.. And i'm not sure that it will can run 4.4 as good as it run 4.2.2.
4.4 is made for less ram usage... Some sites say Ace can run it... Ace has 278 mb of RAM
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Caproid said:
4.4 is made for less ram usage...
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Source ?
S2 will run it
Samsung will not update it
Cyanogen will port it
Everithing will be ok except the fact that samsung will not give another update for s2 even 4.2.2 or 4.3 ... why they should think about 4.4?
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krazy1101 said:
S2 will run it
Samsung will not update it
Cyanogen will port it
Everithing will be ok except the fact that samsung will not give another update for s2 even 4.2.2 or 4.3 ... why they should think about 4.4?
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4.2.2 and 4.3 are full of bloatware...that's why our s2 can't run it....in fact 4.4 will be slimmer...Most of the sites, say that android 4.4 will be released in October 14, which in my case is tomorrow....
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Huh I find no issue with 4.2.2, its the best thing yet! We have spent so much time optimzing 4.2.2 that it is so stable and usable. Fast forward to 4.3 which is much newer we have spent much less time on it so for sure it is not as good. However I dont understand which part of either these versions, 4.2.2 or 4.3 is bloated care explaining? Even if Android 4.4 has so called less RAM usage and kernel improvements it would not really matter to us. Take kernel changes for example. We can't just port AOSP code and use it for our devices correct? Remember the time when we only had official 4.0 and 4.1 was released by Google. Everybody wanted Project butter. Due to Sammy not giving us official 4.1 and its source code on time (thank god they actually gave the source code..) we would never have gotten close to full project butter experience which we still lack fully. So if Sammy does not give us what we need then we can use 4.4 without its so called perks like "less RAM usage"
Yeah 4.4 should have lower hardware requirements. However, it doesn't matter because our exynos device still lacks proper drivers. That's worsen by the fact that we currently have no Galaxy S2 devs left working on CM to port new android versions to our device
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hikarugo said:
Yeah 4.4 should have lower hardware requirements. However, it doesn't matter if our device still lacks a proper driver. That's worsen by the fact that we currently have no Galaxy S2 devs left working on CM to port new android versions to our device
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What?
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-Grift- said:
Huh I find no issue with 4.2.2, its the best thing yet! We have spent so much time optimzing 4.2.2 that it is so stable and usable. Fast forward to 4.3 which is much newer we have spent much less time on it so for sure it is not as good. However I dont understand which part of either these versions, 4.2.2 or 4.3 is bloated care explaining? Even if Android 4.4 has so called less RAM usage and kernel improvements it would not really matter to us. Take kernel changes for example. We can't just port AOSP code and use it for our devices correct? Remember the time when we only had official 4.0 and 4.1 was released by Google. Everybody wanted Project butter. Due to Sammy not giving us official 4.1 and its source code on time (thank god they actually gave the source code..) we would never have gotten close to full project butter experience which we still lack fully. So if Sammy does not give us what we need then we can use 4.4 without its so called perks like "less RAM usage"
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The bloated versions are Samsung's ones... Pure Android is not bloated
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Caproid said:
The bloated versions are Samsung's ones... Pure Android is not bloated
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Yes I know that. But our phone has no problem running 4.2.2 or 4.3 that are AOSP based...... So whats the purpose of this thread anyway.... Cus Sammy has no intention of ever updating this phone to a higher version...
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Yeah 4.4 should have lower hardware requirements. However, it doesn't matter because our exynos device still lacks proper drivers. That's worsen by the fact that we currently have no Galaxy S2 devs left working on CM to port new android versions to our device
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This OmniRom thing might help when you look at the people running it
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DvWatt said:
Our S2 is getting old.. And i'm not sure that it will can run 4.4 as good as it run 4.2.2.
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Untill now, the S2 is running is able to run 4.3.1 and 100% it will able to run 4.4
Samsung adds a lot of bloatware to their official roms which make the device slow
that's why I never use stock rom
Yea but what about cool features like multi window smart functions and motion ?
If this doesn't mean smth for you .... what about drivers? 4.2/4.3 have a lot of glitches with graphics and cuz samsung dont release exynos source code our beloved s2 will die one day in a near future
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