Comments on: Samsung Fascinate Receives “Alphalulz” Ice Cream Sandwich ROM Straight From Source

By: Timothy Sternig

Timothy Sternig — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:55:00 +0000

http://rootzwiki.com/topic/11850-romicsiml74k-teamhacksungs-ics-port-for-fascinate-build-2/

Working ICS ROM for Galaxy S

By: Ted Pavlic

Ted Pavlic — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:35:00 +0000

C’mon — really? That’s the issue? ICS internally is well aware of GSM and CDMA, and there can’t be that much difference between different GSM hardware. I think the main challenge would be the rest of the hardware within the Nexus S.

By: PC_Tool

PC_Tool — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:50:00 +0000

Much better (I hate disqus sometimes)…

Long-pressing the “menu” button in-call should bring up the keyboard. You can then use that to activate. (at least, this is how it worked in MIUI)

(just got notified you got it working. Gratz! Enjoy.)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:49:00 +0000

actually nvm I got it to work. Thanks again.

By: PC_Tool

PC_Tool — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:48:00 +0000

Heh… gonna reply above so you can read it. Give me a mo’. :D

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:27:00 +0000

Everything worked so far except when I try and activate the phone the dialpad does not come up any suggestions?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:40:00 +0000

Crazy. These devs nearly do this for free and yet these manufacturers have peopel that get paid a salary to do what they do. And they don’t even beat our community devs to the latest builds. I don’t buy into all the bs and politics of it all. Fact: We have ICS months before they give it to us. It’s a great community. Thank you to all those hard working devs. I applaud you.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:43:00 +0000

Will do thanks again. It should come tomorrow and ill let you know how it goes.

By: PC_Tool

PC_Tool — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:10:00 +0000

Almost forgot: Let me know how it goes, eh? If something isn’t working right (other than the bugs listed in the forum topic by jt) I might be able to offer work-arounds/fixes. Been using it a while now.

two suggestions:

Settings – Developer options:
Set Window and Transitions animations scales to .5
Do *not* check the “Force GPU Rendering” option as it forces some apps to display improperly and doesn’t seem to affect performance all that greatly.

By: PC_Tool

PC_Tool — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:48:00 +0000

Skip ROM Manager all-together. Just easier that way.

Step-by-step (The “Works for Me” method):

THIS WILL VOID YOUR WARRANTY AND POSES THE SLIGHT RISK OF BRICKING YOUR DEVICE PERMANENTLY!!! (That said, the steps below have been tested and will work for most folks…and it is pretty hard to perma-brick these devices thanks to our ability to ODIN back to stock)

Download ICS and Rick S.’s 11-25 MIUI ROM from XDA to your SDCard (I store my roms in a folder called 01 on the root of the SDcard, just so it is the first folder listed in recovery…easier to navigate).

When you’ve got them both downloaded, turn off your phone.

ODIN the “wiki” recovery (uncheck “Auto-Reboot”) using the PDA button –

(VERY IMPORTANT!!! DO NOT USE THE “PHONE” BUTTON OR YOU WILL BRICK YOUR DEVICE!!!)

Unplug the device after the ODIN flash is complete and put your battery back in.

3-finger boot into recovery.

Using recovery, flash the MIUI rom you downloaded previously, no need to wipe data, the conversion from BML to MTD re-partitions the device, effectively wiping it.

Boot into MIUI.

Power the device off and 3-finger boot back into recovery (Works on the kernel included with MIUI).

Once back into recovery, wipe data, go into the mounts menu and format *all* but “sdcard”.

Hit back and flash ICS.

Seems like a long process, but it only takes a few minutes. Once ICS is flashed, the first boot can take a *while*. Just set the phone down and do something else for a few minutes.

Welcome to ICS. Enjoy.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:25:00 +0000

yeah i just picked up a used one after to pass some time. I had one when it first launched and needed odin for everything. So if I use rom manager to install a mtd rom and then do the ics rom or should I skip rom manager altogether?

By: PC_Tool

PC_Tool — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:22:00 +0000

Depends on where you are starting from.

Odin is basically only required because of the switch from the BML partitions to MTD (or to flash the recovery if you don’t already have one). Easiest install I had was on my son’s fascinate where I simply flashed the latest MIUI build, booted, rebooted to recovery and flashed ICS. Took all of 5 minutes…

BML = TouchWiz “stock” based ROM.
MTD = AOSP based ROM (CM7, Pool Party, MIUI, etc)

Best bet, if you haven’t done this in a while, is use the recovery linked in the wiki from my previous post and flash an MTD rom if you are on a “stock” based ROM. From there you should be able to reboot into recovery and flash the latest ICS build (Currently V3/1128).

(Doesn’t matter which MTD rom you flash before-hand as it all gets wiped in the ICS install.)

Good luck man. Enjoy the ICS. Been using it non-stop since V3 dropped and love it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:19:00 +0000

what ways is the bionic better? It isn’t even better than the razr or rezound. I mean nexus has 4460 bionic has 4430, hd screen on rezound and nexus, qhd on bionic, worse camera on bionic, and thicker.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:39:00 +0000

Do you need odin for this? Its been awhile since I flashed anything and I know you needed odin before.

By: PC_Tool

PC_Tool — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:24:00 +0000

Unbelievable…

You’re still arguing? Just trying to save face, or are you actually trying to defend giving someone false and demonstrably misleading information??

To OP: No root required. End of story.