I mentioned that Amazon Kindle Fire is not perfect on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich due to poor kernel support. However, thing had changed and changing fast. Lot of developers like Hashcode are working hard to make a better Android 4.0 ICS Kernel on Kindle Fire. Yes, we have better display driver and audio driver. Ducati / hardware codecs are working now. I can play 1080p MP4 video smoothly now thanks to hardware accelerated GPU support. This 3.0 Kernel is getting better each day. But it does have bugs like can’t shutdown properly issue. So only try this beta kernel if you know what you are doing…
Tag: Ice Cream Sandwich
Download & Install CyanogenMod 9 Android 4.0 ICS ROM for HTC HD2
CyanogenMod 7 is one of the best Android ROM for HTC HD2. And we have CyanogenMod 9 Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich ROM for HTC HD2 now too. The ROM is based on ICS AOSP via CyanogenMod sources. However, it is still an alpha release so stuffs might not work properly. Example, USB mass storage and camera are not working yet on Alpha3 – 16/12/2011 release. But rest assures that developers will improve CM9 ICS ROM for HTC HD2 performance and fix all the bugs in future releases.
Download & Install CM9 Android 4.0 ICS ROM for Samsung Galaxy S2
CyanogenMod 9 is a free, community built, aftermarket firmware distribution of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. It is designed to increase performance and reliability over stock Android firmware. Yup, I revisit CyanogenMod custom ROM after signed petition to Samsung Mobile. CM7 ROM for Samsung Galaxy S II was not that good during my testing last year. How about the latest nightly CM9 Android 4.0.3 ICS ROM for Samsung Galaxy S2? Let’s find out while waiting for the official ICS firmware from Samsung…
Download Trebuchet CM9 Launcher for Android 4.0 ICS Free
After I installed official Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich Firmware for Samsung Galaxy S II, I am not so satisfied with default Samsung TW Launcher. It looks the same as Gingerbread. Kinda boring… So I give Trebuchet CM9 Launcher a try. It is official CM9 Launcher on CM9 ICS ROM. So it will give the look like official Android ICS AOSP ROM on Samsung Galaxy Nexus. But it can be used in Android 4.0 ICS Samsung Galaxy S2 too once you rooted it.
HTC One X 3 dots Menu soft button issue
Nothing is perfect. Same apply to the latest flagship HTC One X. Well, HTC decided to use hardware buttons on HTC One X which loaded with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Google gives Android smartphone manufacturers the choice to use hardware buttons and on-screen software buttons. HTC had done nothing wrong here. But this decision brings an annoying issue to all HTC One X ~ on-screen 3 dots Menu soft button issue.
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