If you can't wait for official ICS firmware, just flash custom ROM hehe. Look for the ones based on the leaked Samsung firmware; should be XXLPH now. Very stable for me.

any dates for official ICS?

Ah okie.

U said freeze something, so the problem was a particular app that came with the theme?

No no specific dates. Sometime in March. Maybe even later since Malaysia always get Sammy update late.

And the point is that it will drain battery fast, and I am referring to the post above, please read above..

Not exactly, you can just make the os to run only on a single core at a low frequency, so it doesn't drain much battery. Quad core doesn't mean running all four cores at once, if so, battery will be dead in no time

+1, yeah but it would be good if the manufacturers could allow us to control how many cores the consumer chooses, like for instance S2 cannot choose the number of cores..

That wouldn't be good, later some idiot users force the phone to run on all cores at highest frequency at all time thinking performance will be good then battery drains like hell and they blame the phone for having such crappy battery

Maybe someone can create an app like voltage control to do so, but I don't really see the need, Samsung roms power optimizations are already good enuf in my opinion

Since it was brought up, no, I'm not particularly hyped up about quad cores.

Sometimes, less is more

Architecture > Cores, unless you write specific apps to utilize the added cores.

This post has been edited by ellimist: Feb 23 2012, 06:49 PM

Same here, quads gonna chew up battery like hell hopefully Samsung pull off a miracle by including a15 processors in s3

Hmm, I was thinking why not 3 cores??
Why must be even like 2 and four??

about the applications that can safely remove from phone... anyone can tell how to remove it? thanks

Root phone n use titanium backup to remove

ok... thanks

While we're talking about quad core here. What apps would really get the most out of a quad core processor? I mean,it's not like any apps on the market right now really needs a quad core. Utilizing a quad core just means that casual android user will now have more reason to be ignorant on how they treat their apps,like not closing it properly,IMO,might be wrong though. Battery wise,well,we'll have to see it in the coming models.

Just found out something really interesting, I'm one of the top 6 posters in this and previous thread versions shizuru and antt are also regulars at the top

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Added on February 23, 2012, 7:39 pmApps on market haven't even fully utilise dual core, now got quad core already devs really need to start working hard on their apps to keep up with tech

This post has been edited by TheLaptopDudeGuy: Feb 23 2012, 07:39 PM

even positron got higher post count than me by just asking silly questions and spamming... haih

New thread soon!

Apparently, the LG one has a 4+1 core; the extra core will be used to run normal tasks so won't drain that much battery.

If true, then it's the best of both worlds. The only question now is how effective and intuitive the core switching will be.

" (...) the Tegra 3 features a 4+1 "Companion Core" design, with a fifth low power unit available to take care of more mundane tasks without draining the battery. "


Source: Engadget

This post has been edited by blackchides: Feb 23 2012, 07:46 PM

No. It wasn't.

It was caused by an app name Total Recall (record call's conversation).

Kind of old news we know tegra 3 had a companion core in Jan already when transformer prime was announced