{"id":1039,"date":"2012-01-05T00:12:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T04:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2012-01-05T11:40:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T15:40:22","slug":"samsung-galaxy-s-ics-c-9-alpha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2012\/samsung-galaxy-s-ics-c-9-alpha\/","title":{"rendered":"i9000 ICS – CyanogenMod 9 Alpha"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the things that I look for in a phone is community support. For me there are two main reasons this is important: 1) It’s nice to have a large group of people you can ask questions of, or an active forum you can search for answers on 2) When later versions of Android<\/a> are released, that community will hopefully build a version for your phone.<\/p>\n

If you’ve been watching the tech news, there have been rumors that Samsung will support Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS)<\/a> on the Samsung Galaxy S (SGS)<\/a> and claims that it won’t. The latest news<\/a> appears to be that they will not upgrade the device, a bit sad as it was only released 18 months ago. So not even kept current through the length of most cell company contracts. This is one area where the iPhone<\/a> has done right for the consumer.<\/p>\n

If you’re interested in getting ICS for your i9000 (or in my case the i9000m) skip over to the XDA Forum and read through the huge thread<\/a>. The team behind it are the same folk who helped bring CyanogenMod<\/a> to the SGS originally and are now working on CM9<\/a>. This is an alpha, there will be rough edges and I don’t suggest people leap in unless they are very brave.<\/p>\n

I originally tried Build 11 and that didn’t work well enough for me to switch from the 7.1 stable<\/a> I was on but it was close. Build 12 appears to be quite good, with a few changes I needed to make for my usage, specifically adding dropbear<\/a> (SSHD<\/a>) and rsync<\/a> so I can do nightly backups (which I’ll talk about at the end of this post).<\/p>\n

The forum thread has these instructions for people coming from CM7<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Upgrading from CM7?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Do a Nandroid Backup!<\/li>\n
  2. WIPE (wipe data\/factory reset + wipe cache partition)<\/li>\n
  3. Install the ROM from internal sdcard using ClockworkMod (CWM) Recovery<\/li>\n
  4. Optionally install the Google Addon<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    I would recommend that you consider getting CM7 first, it’s a good base to work from and there will be better how to and help to get it working. Experience there will translate over to working with the ICS Alpha<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Here are my steps I used when moving to ICS .<\/p>\n