{"id":1008,"date":"2012-06-12T22:02:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T02:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/z-issue.com\/wp\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2012-06-12T23:00:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T03:00:58","slug":"t-mobile-us-samsung-galaxy-sii-sgs2-sgh-t989-update-to-android-4-0-3-ics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/z-issue.com\/wp\/t-mobile-us-samsung-galaxy-sii-sgs2-sgh-t989-update-to-android-4-0-3-ics\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile US Samsung Galaxy SII (SGS2 SGH-T989) update to Android 4.0.3 ICS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T-Mobile of the United States <a href=\"http:\/\/support.t-mobile.com\/docs\/DOC-3029\" title=\"T-Mobile SGS2 update to ICS\" target=\"_blank\">announced on their support blog<\/a> yesterday that owners of the T-Mobile variant of the Samsung Galaxy S II (SGS2, or model SGH-T989) would now be able to update their phones from Android 2.3.6 (Gingerbread) to Android 4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich [ICS]) via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsung.com\/us\/kies\/\" title=\"Samsung Kies application\" target=\"_blank\">Samsung Kies application<\/a>.  Interestingly, the update to ICS is <em>only<\/em> available through the manual installation method through Kies, and will not be sent out OTA (over-the-air).<\/p>\n<p>Since I don&#8217;t have any computers that run Windows or Mac OS, I had to fire up a virtual machine in order to install the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsung.com\/us\/kies\/\" title=\"Samsung Kies application\" target=\"_blank\">Samsung Kies application<\/a>.  Other than the download being a bit on the slow side (probably due to Samsung&#8217;s download servers being overloaded) and the typical Samsung bloatware, the Kies installation went smoothly inside of a Windows XP SP3 VM.  Thereafter, I simply had to enable USB Debugging in the settings menu, connect the phone via USB, and enable USB passthrough in the XP VM.  Of course, I had to reboot the VM in order for the application to function properly, as is the case with most Windoze programmes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if it was related to having Kies installed inside of a VM, but I had to minimise the main Kies application window immediately after starting the programme.  If I didn&#8217;t do so, the firmware upgrade screens were behind the main application window, and none of the options could be selected.  Further, once the process started, the progress window glitched and didn&#8217;t display any status updates.  After that glitch, the firmware transfer simply halted.  At that point, I decided to try the upgrade in a Windows 7 VM.  The application installed successfully, and didn&#8217;t have the visual glitches that were seen in the XP VM, but I couldn&#8217;t get the drivers to function properly in Windows 7, so no go there either.<\/p>\n<p>So much for upgrading to ICS a little bit early&#8230; at least from within a VM.  Maybe I will give it a try tomorrow on my work laptop, which unfortunately has Windows 7 as the primary OS.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nZach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T-Mobile of the United States announced on their support blog yesterday that owners of the T-Mobile variant of the Samsung Galaxy S II (SGS2, or model SGH-T989) would now be able to update their phones from Android 2.3.6 (Gingerbread) to Android 4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich [ICS]) via the Samsung Kies application. 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