Samsung Galaxy S2 Getting Android 4.1 (Alpha) Treatment via CM10

303 days ago by 8

As an owner of the very popular Galaxy S2, I was amongst the disappointed when it became under debate as to whether this particular phone was likely to receive the Jelly Bean 4.1 upgrade. This was due to the limited capabilities of the phone in relation to the requirements of the newest software.

However there is hope thanks to the  CyanogenMod10 (CM10) team over at  XDA developers. The ROM is currently still in the very early development stage, therefore there are a few bugs:

XDA Recognized Developer XpLoDWilD posted this disclaimer:

This is a PREVIEW : CyanogenMod 10 is nowhere near ready to be used as a daily driver (lots of features still have to be merged), and same is the device support. CHECK THE KNOWN ISSUES LIST BEFORE THINKING ABOUT POSTING.

Those known issues are as follows:

- FMradio, heh!
- Camera is unstable, though taking pics should work
- Wi-Fi tethering is semi-broken

Although there are issues with the ROM many of the users using it believe that the S2 is fully capable of running Jelly Bean which is even more great news for a community that was likely never going to see an official release.

Via XDA-developers

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  • Irvy San

    “Although there are issues with the ROM many of the users using the this believe that the S2 is fully capable of running Jelly Bean”

  • irvysan

    “Although there are issues with the ROM many of the users using the this believe that the S2 is fully capable of running Jelly Bean” <Huh!? just too low tech? I really hope this is not the case. once again fragmentation will be the demise of the android OS (possibly)! :(

  • irvysan

    wtf is with the text editor!!!! :)

  • Mike L

    I completely missed that thank you for pointing it out

  • graffixnyc

    Is this serious? Phones with much less hardware are running jb just fine…only someone who didnt know any better would be worried the gs2 couldnt run jb

  • http://twitter.com/landofjohn John McKenzie

    OK Guys, thanks for the feedback, the post has been changed :-)

  • Yourbrotherrex

    Is this a joke?
    People weren’t sure whether or not the same could “handle” Jellybean?
    OP, I’d like you to please produce 1 human being on the planet who wondered this.
    Nothing has never happened as much as this never happened; did you just create the whole premise of your story with those refrigerator magnets?
    I’m thinking that must’ve been the case.
    If Jellybean (not only vanilla Jellybean, but CM10 as well) runs completely hitch-free on a Kindle Fire ereader, for gods sake, then why would anyone in their right mind even wonder for a second if the S2 could “handle it”? k

  • Mike L

    Thanks for the feedback, hope your all having lovely days :)

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