Hi Guys
I decided, because of the terrible copy text function on 2.3.6 to root my phone and upgrade to ICS.
Within 4 hrs i had successfully rooted my phone following various You tube vids and installed the Chinese repack OS and followed up with the ICS overlay ROM.
All went fairly smoothly and now i have ICS!
But there are a few things which do not work...
Video - doesnt work
WMA files - will not be even read by the OS at all for some reason - UPDATE: All my WMA's are on the external SD card, but the system only mounts the internal SD Card, I found Poweramp to be able to play my WMAs ok. So, the OS will read WMA files, but there is some lack of native support for playing them.
I am actually very surprised at how stable it all is, and how much does work.
And the copy function is now usable whereas before it was all but impossible to use
)))
So, as one who is pretty mediocre when it comes to such things, I can say the whole process was pretty painless, and the results are very good!
But I would say, i wouldn't upgrade for the sake of it. I had a specific reason to do it. I lost a good part of the functionality of the phone (ie wma and video loss) to be able to achieve a desired result which was impeding my business use of the phone to a large degree.
I have been using the phone solely for work since last night, as a test - ie no computer access for work; and now its a seamless thing - ie transition between pc and "phablet"
I decided, because of the terrible copy text function on 2.3.6 to root my phone and upgrade to ICS.
Within 4 hrs i had successfully rooted my phone following various You tube vids and installed the Chinese repack OS and followed up with the ICS overlay ROM.
All went fairly smoothly and now i have ICS!
But there are a few things which do not work...
Video - doesnt work
WMA files - will not be even read by the OS at all for some reason - UPDATE: All my WMA's are on the external SD card, but the system only mounts the internal SD Card, I found Poweramp to be able to play my WMAs ok. So, the OS will read WMA files, but there is some lack of native support for playing them.
I am actually very surprised at how stable it all is, and how much does work.
And the copy function is now usable whereas before it was all but impossible to use
)))So, as one who is pretty mediocre when it comes to such things, I can say the whole process was pretty painless, and the results are very good!
But I would say, i wouldn't upgrade for the sake of it. I had a specific reason to do it. I lost a good part of the functionality of the phone (ie wma and video loss) to be able to achieve a desired result which was impeding my business use of the phone to a large degree.
I have been using the phone solely for work since last night, as a test - ie no computer access for work; and now its a seamless thing - ie transition between pc and "phablet"