Samsung has started rolling out a firmware update for the Galaxy S II, the smartphone has Android Ice Cream Sandwich. The update is in the next few days in phases to be rolled out in Europe and Asia lwa.
That makes the company known on both his Facebook page and Twitter account. The release is internally known as XXLPQ and is the first official version of Android 4.0 that Samsung for the Galaxy S II release, until now, turned the devices on Android Gingerbread. Users can the firmware bringing their device to a computer and Samsung’s Kies software to start. Also can the firmware over the air downloaded. The update is based on Android 4.0.3, but seems to look not on Googles bare-bones version of Android; Samsung, as usual, TouchWiz skin and software suite.
About the release date was the last day of any confusion. The Israeli branch of Samsung promised last week that the firmware on 15 march released would be. A few days later appeared a message online that the Samsung firmware on 10 march would release, but the company denied this quickly. Samsung late in the announcement, incidentally, to know that ICS firmware for the Galaxy Note, Galaxy S II LTE, and the 8.9 and 10.1 Galaxy Tabs also soon be released will be.
The manufacturer has the kernel source code of the new update is not released yet, although the license that requires. Probably happening later this week. That source code is needed for developers of alternative firmware, all the hardware within the device operating to be able to get.