Jelly bean?

[steveohim]

I'm new to android and was wondering what jelly bean is? I have a galaxy s3 is its a 4.0 software

 

[Unforgiven]

Android 4.0 is Ice Cream Sandwich. Android 4.1 is Jelly Bean. Google names each iteration of Android with a desert following the alphabet. The next version IIRC is Key Lime Pie.

 

[steveohim]

Ah I see so how do I upgrade to jelly bean?

 

[Unforgiven]

Ah I see so how do I upgrade to jelly bean?

It should be pushed to you phone when it is done being tested for the S3. I thing in a month or so.

 

[steveohim]

Ok thanks for the info

 

[Rxpert83]

Ok thanks for the info

If you are a rooted user you can download and load up jellybean now.

If you aren't rooted you have to wait till either the carrier or manufacturer push it to you as an OTA update

 

[Omar Days]

If you are a rooted user you can download and load up jellybean now.

If you aren't rooted you have to wait till either the carrier or manufacturer push it to you as an OTA update

If you root and put JB on your phone, is it exactly the same as JB on my nexus 7? Or is it some devs reiteration of JB and it's missing features etc? Sorry, if that's a dumb question. I'm on the fence as to whether to root or not.

 

[Rxpert83]

Well its going to be AOSP like the nexus 7, meaning no overlay like touchwiz.

As far as bugs? It's going to be different from device to device. I don't have your device so I'm not current on that. I know I've been running jellybean for nearly a month on my sprint HTC one x with few issues.

Id suggest checking out your devices all things root section and just seeing what's out there. Maybe statt a thread and ask what the current bugs are.

No commitment needed

 

[steveohim]

I don't really know what rooting is as I'm new to android, I'm guessing its the same as jail breaking an Iphone

 

[Digital Controller]

I don't really know what rooting is as I'm new to android, I'm guessing its the same as jail breaking an Iphone

Relatively speaking, it lets you basically get the full potential out of your phone, allowing you to do just about anything.

Android is basically linux

rooting your phone means giving yourself root, or superuser (think...admin) access, giving you access to system files and the ability to change things that normally are marked read only

This allows you to change all kinds of things that normally you wouldn't be able to, along with install custom versions of Android.

 

[Unforgiven]

I don't really know what rooting is as I'm new to android, I'm guessing its the same as jail breaking an Iphone

AKIN to it yes. In Android you can do a lot of the things without root that jail breaking was necessary for on iOS. Things like side loading apps, custom themes, etc.

For the most part, I recommend getting used to your phone and Android. At some point if you want it to do something specific and are limited by not being rooted, then jump down the rabbit hole.