Being a GalaxyS user, I was rather disappointed when I heard the news that it would not be getting Android 4 aka Ice Cream Sandwich. It had been a long time since I got any upgrade for the phone's OS. My phone was behaving rather sluggishly these past few days. Time for IceCreamSandwich is what I thought :)
I started of by using Odin, a ROM flashing software which is what I got from a lot of blogs and forum posts. But bad luck was with me all the way and I bricked my phone. Not a hard brick fortunately. I was able to get the phone into download mode, and boy am I glad it was possible. After a lot tries with various versions of Odin, I finally moved to using another opensource software called Heimdall. This is much much better than the useless Odin, which is highly unreliable. It never even started off correctly for me, but all it did is brick my phone or make is useless. Thank god, there was someone who wrote Heimdall to help me. After all this commotion with Odin, I went back to my reliable Linux and flashed my original image which I got from samfirmware.com and first got my Phone to working condition. Once I had my phone running I had my heart beating at the normal pace once again.
To move to the next version I used ClockWork Mod and then used the Cyanogen Mod9 to get to the current awesome state. Because it is a Cyanogen Mod, it has loads of developer goodies, that are not of much use to the average user, but to a developer it is like sugar candy. Performance tweaks are also available to me now, from the settings. So aweseome! Also out of all the guides this one helped the most ( https://gurde.com/2012/04/how-to-android-ics-4-0-4-on-galaxy-s-i9000/ ).
I started of by using Odin, a ROM flashing software which is what I got from a lot of blogs and forum posts. But bad luck was with me all the way and I bricked my phone. Not a hard brick fortunately. I was able to get the phone into download mode, and boy am I glad it was possible. After a lot tries with various versions of Odin, I finally moved to using another opensource software called Heimdall. This is much much better than the useless Odin, which is highly unreliable. It never even started off correctly for me, but all it did is brick my phone or make is useless. Thank god, there was someone who wrote Heimdall to help me. After all this commotion with Odin, I went back to my reliable Linux and flashed my original image which I got from samfirmware.com and first got my Phone to working condition. Once I had my phone running I had my heart beating at the normal pace once again.
To move to the next version I used ClockWork Mod and then used the Cyanogen Mod9 to get to the current awesome state. Because it is a Cyanogen Mod, it has loads of developer goodies, that are not of much use to the average user, but to a developer it is like sugar candy. Performance tweaks are also available to me now, from the settings. So aweseome! Also out of all the guides this one helped the most ( https://gurde.com/2012/04/how-to-android-ics-4-0-4-on-galaxy-s-i9000/ ).
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