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

Honey Ice Release Candidate 3 Released -- Some Problem Persist

It's 2 days now since the dev at tabletroms release their work on Honey Ice Release Candidate 3. As we all know, Honey Ice was an update series for vegacomb 3.2. But from what we read on the forum, this release may be a forced release. Many issue the dev said has been fixed, but yet they haven't. The touch screen, bluetooth, wifi and some more. I have flash with the update, but tonight, I flash back to the previous release, because I found it more problematic.
The browser still forced closed. Google Map and some application also forced close. The oversensitive touch screen is still the main complain of some. From my opinion, I don't know what's has been improved in this release. Nothing to feel really, for me. The internal GPS also still unusable. Playing high quality video still giving the ROM a hard time. The accelerometer, this is my special attention, because I use the tablet for most to play a game that utilized the sensor, practically crap! The lag is still not allowed me to use it with gaming.

Where is VegaICS?
I now turn my hope to VegaICS, although it is still alpha, looks more promising than the Honeycomb complement. The guy who developed it seem to be more "conservative" than the dev of honey ice, who is in my opinion, developing to break everything. So, unless there is something that the dev of honey ice offer that is true for me, I'll stick to the Vegacomb 3.2 release 9 update 3 and hoping for the next release of Vega ICS from Cass.

My 3gp uploaded youtube video won't play -- lack of codec integration

Just smile when I tried to watch a video, I have uploaded someday's before  from my tablet. The video has been recorded using my tablet camera. I upload the video to youtube, also using my tablet.

But, when I want to watch the video using the same tablet, it won't play. The tablet says "unsupported video format".

How come?? Of course the application I use to watch the video, has been failed to recognize that the tablet support that video format. This is lack of codec integration, and it should be better if the app can play the video, without having to install the codec prior it. There should be an Application programming Interface (API) that enable some app that need the codec installed on the system.