VegaICS Now Status Beta -- VegaICS Beta1

VegaICS just released as beta1 yesterday at tabletroms. Just click the link below and try it yourself

VegaICS Beta1 at TabletRoms.com
Thank You Cass!

HoneyIce Chimera Edition vs VegaICS A3

Yes, the war. Almost the same time, this two main Advent Vega Mod dev release his update.

From Areo -- HoneyIce Chimera Edition (3.2.7 RC3) and from Cass -- VegaICS Alpha 3.

HoneyIce, from a few week ago has some problem, thread closed due to piracy investigation, when the thread back, Areo release new update, but this is maybe the most unstable update he ever release. Then he remove the update. But, now he release the Chimera Edition, which is excellent one in my opinion. You can try this update if you have Advent Vega or similar devices. But, one thing that is annoying is, you must format your SD card in order to install this nvflash update.

VegaICS, the contender is about 3 month in ages. I must said, this ROM has advanced very fast. With the release of its 3rd Alpha, and some minor update for A3, this ROM maybe soon became beta. Some folk at the forum also indicate that maybe there will be fix for the 3g and even the internal GPS module. I personally hope for this ROM to grow to a stable state as fast as possible. This ROM is based on 4.0.3 platform, so it is the most up to date exist.

HoneyIce at its best now, but I think soon vegaICS will grow shadowing the older brother.

Some Galaxy S II will convert to ICS in 2012

Samsung Galaxy S II owner, you have something waiting on March 2012. It's the date, when your device will have the chance to update it's OS, from Android Gingerbread to Android ICS, officially. Samsung has promised in December 2011, some of it's Android device will get an ICS update. Well, this promise may be soon become reality. With this update, your galaxy S II will be compatible to more recent application, and or at least, it will give you new look and feel :)

This news were from Eldar Murtazin tweet, said that Samsung Galaxy S II update to ICS 4.0 will be available (OTA or Samsung Kies) on March 1st 2012. Murtazin is guy from Mobile Review Magazine.

Some people has been using some ICS beta for their S II, that said, leaked from the company. This is why, I personally believe that, this rumor maybe true. We'll just wait.

Some other Samsung Android phone and tablet may also get some update for ICS:

• Samsung Nexus S 4G
• Samsung Galaxy Note
• Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

But, unfortunately, some other won't get update:

• Samsung Galaxy S, S Captivate, S Fascinate, and S Vibrant
• Samsung Galaxy Tab 7

Remounting /system in read/write mode, Froyo

I used this to remove unwanted application from my tablet advent vega, running Froyo. First, you need superuser installed on your system. Find a terminal emulator program on the Market. If everything ok, open the terminal emulator program and type:

#su

grant the emulator a superuser privilege, then continue:

#mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

this will remount your system partition in read/write mode. You can now navigate to system/app by:

#cd /system/app

and remove or copy any application you want to use as a system application. For example:

#rm Calendar.apk //removing the Calendar.apk

or:

#cp Cron.apk /system/app    //copy the Cron.apk to system/app

that's it, hope it help someone :)

VegaICS Alpha 3 is in the Air

Cass, the man behind VegaICS development has released the third Alpha for VegaICS. VegaICS A3 (Alpha3) is out after about six week of work on it's previous VegaICS Alpha 2. He said a lot improvement has been made, but not all things are working. For example in his post, he mention that although Wi-Fi is working, but still buggy, 3G and sleep issue is still in progress.
Many testers has report and submit their log to assist Cass resolve the issue, and some temporary workaround for the WiFi "weirdness" is also given by another user at the forum.
This is ICS for our tablet. Cass seems to be extra cautious in his porting effort. I've already install this ROM, and it's looks good. So, I hope this ROM will change its status to beta in the coming couple of weeks. Thanks for the work Cass, I love the ROM.
Here is the link to the forum:

1. TabletRoms
2. Modaco

Installing VegaICS Alpha2: Ice Cream Sandwich Experimental on Your Advent Vega

VegaICS is an alpha build, use it at your own risk. It contain many error, but if you would like to feel Ice Cream Sandwich, it's up to you.
This mod will be installed using nvflash so please read this post.
You just need to change the step 5 (Run the Vega Moddedstock 1.10 v2.exe) with
5. Run the VegaICS-Alpha2.exe

Before that, download the VegaICS here:

1. DropBox
2. Multiupload

More info, visit tabletroms forum, about this thread.

Latest News From Honey Ice: RC3.0.2x Released

Areo, developer for Vegacomb 3.2 Build 9 update, has just announce his latest update on the attemp to port Android 3.2 Honeycomb to Advent Vega and "Advent Vega Like" device. More information on the forum