5 ms·

Ice Cream Sandwich runs (surprisingly?) well on Nexus S

13 points by mrsebastian 15y ago

bryanlarsen 15y ago
One advantage of custom ROMs is that they can get away with shipping light or stripped down versions of things a lot easier than Google could. If you're using a ROM that doesn't come from Google you aren't as surprised that you aren't getting the full Google experience. The other thing custom ROMs can do is ship with a requirement that 'you must have a 1Gig or larger μSD card inserted and that it must be formatted ext4'. This makes me hopeful that us Nexus One owners will soon be able to experience the Ice Cream Sandwich tastiness even though our phones are crippled with only 512MB of core flash.
- there 15y ago
  This makes me hopeful that us Nexus One owners will soon be able to experience the Ice Cream Sandwich tastiness even though our phones are crippled with only 512MB of core flash. it's worth noting that google has dropped support for the nexus one as of android 4.0, so there will be no official build or drivers for the nexus one. i'm sure 3rd party rom developers will hack together something eventually, though.
cryptoz 15y ago
This is a bit premature; there is no official build yet of ICS for the Nexus S, and so explaining that it's choppy when running a custom, hacked-together build doesn't really mean anything at all to probably 90% of Nexus S owners. I'm very interested to see how ICS runs on my Nexus S, but the only real way to see it is to have it come from Google; why else would I have a Nexus S, if it weren't to get updates directly from Google? Running a custom, unsupported ROM is completely awesome but makes for a very poor OS/product review. And then to suggest that it should run fine 'cause Windows can is ridiculous! You've never seen regular ICS actually run on a Nexus S yet, so stop making statements like "It's slow".
- nuclear_eclipse 15y ago
  I've been running Koush's builds of ICS on my Nexus S, and I honestly feel like it runs faster than Gingerbread/CM7 did before. The biggest factor is that ICS responds so much more quickly/sensitvely to touch movements than Gingerbread or Honeycomb did, and that goes a very long way to making the entire experience feel smoother and more responsive. Between that and the new interaction features in ICS, I'm never going back to Gingerbread on my phone again, and I'll be flashing ICS on my tablet as soon as someone releases a stable build for it. It really is phenomenally better than previous versions of Android, hands down.
ericdykstra 15y ago
I'm more interested to see how well ICS runs on a Kindle Fire. We already know the Nexus S is getting ICS, it still has decent specs compared to the newest phones, and there's really no reason why it shouldn't run well.

13 points by mrsebastian 15y ago

One advantage of custom ROMs is that they can get away with shipping light or stripped down versions of things a lot easier than Google could. If you're using a ROM that doesn't come from Google you aren't as surprised that you aren't getting the full Google experience. The other thing custom ROMs can do is ship with a requirement that 'you must have a 1Gig or larger μSD card inserted and that it must be formatted ext4'. This makes me hopeful that us Nexus One owners will soon be able to experience the Ice Cream Sandwich tastiness even though our phones are crippled with only 512MB of core flash.

there 15y ago
This makes me hopeful that us Nexus One owners will soon be able to experience the Ice Cream Sandwich tastiness even though our phones are crippled with only 512MB of core flash. it's worth noting that google has dropped support for the nexus one as of android 4.0, so there will be no official build or drivers for the nexus one. i'm sure 3rd party rom developers will hack together something eventually, though.

cryptoz 15y ago

This is a bit premature; there is no official build yet of ICS for the Nexus S, and so explaining that it's choppy when running a custom, hacked-together build doesn't really mean anything at all to probably 90% of Nexus S owners. I'm very interested to see how ICS runs on my Nexus S, but the only real way to see it is to have it come from Google; why else would I have a Nexus S, if it weren't to get updates directly from Google? Running a custom, unsupported ROM is completely awesome but makes for a very poor OS/product review. And then to suggest that it should run fine 'cause Windows can is ridiculous! You've never seen regular ICS actually run on a Nexus S yet, so stop making statements like "It's slow".

nuclear_eclipse 15y ago
I've been running Koush's builds of ICS on my Nexus S, and I honestly feel like it runs faster than Gingerbread/CM7 did before. The biggest factor is that ICS responds so much more quickly/sensitvely to touch movements than Gingerbread or Honeycomb did, and that goes a very long way to making the entire experience feel smoother and more responsive. Between that and the new interaction features in ICS, I'm never going back to Gingerbread on my phone again, and I'll be flashing ICS on my tablet as soon as someone releases a stable build for it. It really is phenomenally better than previous versions of Android, hands down.

ericdykstra 15y ago

I'm more interested to see how well ICS runs on a Kindle Fire. We already know the Nexus S is getting ICS, it still has decent specs compared to the newest phones, and there's really no reason why it shouldn't run well.