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Root No! ICS is far too new for us!

HappyJoe

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Now running ICS (4.0.4, c/o galaxyics.com) and wonder if any other of you cutting edge folk are having any problems running older apps under it? Also, if anyone can indicate what the aspects of ICS that are incompatible with older software?

I am saddened that I can't run the venerable ex-PalmPilot Graffiti keyboard input. Also, I can't download Chrome for Android because GPlay can't see my shiny new update, thinking that my Galaxy Ace is forever trapped with Gingerbread. Is there a way out of this??
 
With each new version, android changes in such a way that apps need to act differently to do the same things. This is also true of windows, OSx and Linux distributions. This is not unique to android so a good Google search may help you to understand the finer technical points of how softwares work if you really want a specific answer to that.

Most developers, if they have not abandoned support for their app, update their market version to be compatable with new android releases. Sometimes Google changes an API which results in no way for a developer to code a particular function into an app, meaning some apps die with a certain version of android.
 
Is the ICs for ace the real ICS, or is it gingerbread skinned with ICS?

I think only the CM9 based rOM is based on real ICS, the others are just skinned with a faked version number.
 
there will never be official ICS for ace, samsung made a business decision to not roll it out.

Heck in the uk they didnt even bother updating gingerbread to its latest version.
 
The ace has official 2.3.6 latest version on some networks. 3 has it for sure. Chrome won't work on ace as it requires arm v7 chooser (ace is armv6)

CM9 is ICS based by the way!
 
Its more to do with progress. Take a PC for example. The latest versions of most software won't work with older hardware. Like it or lump it, the Ace had out of date hardware when it was released. Sure for its specs its awesome, but you did know it was cheap right? You get what u pay for.......
 
Its more to do with progress. Take a PC for example. The latest versions of most software won't work with older hardware. Like it or lump it, the Ace had out of date hardware when it was released. Sure for its specs its awesome, but you did know it was cheap right? You get what u pay for.......

Actually on a PC most software will work on 10 year old hardware. Its exactly the point of my comment. Especially web browsers.

Also ACE isnt cheap
 
leave the chrome, there are loads of great browsers already available for us.
Enjoy chrome on windows :p
+100!

Chrome is only in beta stage anyway for Android.... Lets not get over excited about it!! Ayush29k is right!, plenty of great browsers available for our ACE.

Why dont we enjoy whats already available for the ACE and stop worrying about what isnt. Nothing to stop people developing or porting themselves if they want it that bad!!
 
You seem to be very negative and argumental about a lot of things. While you make very valid points I think you expect too much from your ACE. It is in phone terms a low end device now. Unfortunatley all the time people rush out and buy the latest handsets the manufacturers will drop older stuff and divert support to the new hardware that makes them the most cash. This is the way things are now (not for the better though). Why would they spend time and money developing for older hardware which is being phased out. They should, but they dont. And by the way the ace is cheap for a smartphone. you can get one for about
 
your missing the point. This is the smartphone market not the PC market, and the ace is cheap for a smartphone. Yes not compared to an old nokia. But compared to other smartphones it is cheap.
 
Doesnt matter its still technology, ie software running on hardware. Its the same sort of tech except its shrunk to fit into a mobile device that also does mobile phone functions.

Its low priced for a smartphone yes, but I thnik you disprespecting millions of people by calling
 
I'll put it in simple terms.
200 is a lot of money, but not for a.smartphone. Just as 4000 is a lot but it wouldn't buy you a decent car.
The ace doesn't cost 200 anymore.
About 130 now.
For a smartphone its the bottom end of the market.
The hardware was out of date when it came out 18 months ago.

THAT IS ALL FACT.

really though you've made your point. Please just end it. I for one won't reply anymore.......
 
I am willing to stop this if you stop insisting your view is fact.

To say something is out of date the day it comes out is absurb, because it isnt high end it doesnt mean its out of date. You have been brainwashed by android propaganda :p

IThe only fact there really is that it is at the low end of the market on price and the price it is now under 130, rest is down to point of view.

However in terms of what the consumer expects of a company when buying a product is they still expect a reasonable amount of time in terms of software support etc. The fact is that the ace is still been sold today on the market as a new phone and it is reasonable (In my view) that people expect its cheap because of lower hardware spec not reduced support from the vendor, I dont see it in the advertising stating by the way this phone is cheaper because there will be no more software updates for it.

Given that ICS has lower hardware requirements than gingerbread to run I find the samsung and retailers stance undefendable on this issue. Its also laughable that a web browser such as chrome has been coded to require cutting edge cpu functions. I have tried to google as to why this requirement has been coded in but I could not find as to why.

Unfortenatly for consumers the vast majority of the smartphone market is full of people with little technical knowledge who are falling for it all. They will keep buying the new phones without realising the game thats been played. So yes I accept the ACE is now low end of the market, bottom end in fact however my view is that should only be in hardware capabilities and not artifically also limited in software. Since I come as a experienced PC user and know alot about software and hardware in general in the computer sector I can see whats happening right away. Apple has a lot of faults, I dont like what they doing either, although they not abusing the OS situation as badly as android vendors.

Game over for me in this thread ;) We will never agree with each other on this issue.
 
Yep, the Ace is out of date and always was. It was still better than its competition when 'new' and is still perfectly usable as smartphones go. I'm not complaining - I got mine off some snotty kiddie (well, his Dad, actually, and not in a pub... ;-) for
 
Cm9 is real ics, but not pure ics, which is, AOSP. Btw AOSP for galaxy ace is being made on xda! :D

I know dude, but he was getting it confused with pure ICS so i had to clear it for him :p
You just awakened a dead thread mate. :D
AOSP is still pretty far, but fully working CM9 is almost here for us man.
 
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