Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on Samsung Galaxy S

The mighty developers at XDA have released a stable release of fully functional Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for Samsung Galaxy S users.

Samsung has been very late for determining whether its Samsung Galaxy S will be getting and upgrade to Android 4.0. Even though its been a year and a half of launch with Android 2.1 Eclair, the device now gets a Gingerbread update. Recently Samsung announced that some of  its Galaxy devices will be getting a Android 4.0 upgrade starting March next year. Since the fate of Samsung Galaxy S of getting the Ice Cream Sandwich was unsure, lots of Samsung Galaxy S users are disappointed.

samsung galaxy s ice cream sandwich

But the mighty developers at XDA have released a stable release of Ice Cream Sandwich for Samsung Galaxy S. This is sure going to cheer alot of Samsung Galaxy S users. The latest update is a Release Candidate (RC1) so it won’t be very smooth like the Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone. Here’s a video of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich running on Samsung Galaxy S I9000.

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Huge thanks to these people who made this possible.

-Onecosmic
-Pawitp for HW Accel + donating camera.aries.so
-Syntr for kernel patches.
-Galnet for first release.
-kooaN for I9000 kernel update.
-Thearc77 for google apps.
-WarDrake for mirroring.
-ytt3r for kernel patching.
-SGS CM team for ICS patches.
-Motafoca for 3g switch apk.
-DesignGears for hosting.

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