QUOTE(kongkkm @ Dec 17 2011, 10:32 PM)
From what I read, for official upgrade to ICS, the steps won't be that simple right?
For now, we just download the ROM, boot into recovery, wipe, flash and DONE.
For ICS, the bootloader and radio needed to flash again, flash back to stock 2.3.6, install superuser,bla bla bla...
actually, most of the major upgrade requires new bootloader and radio. This is Nexus S's first major upgrade, from 2.3/2.3.6/etc so its normal if you guys dont need to update radio and bootloader since its Gingerbread.
I have experience Eclair to Froyo, Froyo to Gingerbread, and now Gingerbread to ICS, all requires both upgrades, or at least the radio to make some hardware features to work such as in ICS case here, for signal to work, and while i was on Desire, for camera HD video to work, and so on.
if you have the OTA, all of that are done automatically actually(sometimes i think), but now since we are doing it manually, those are needed.