- Yay, Sammobile reports Samsung started pushing out Jelly Bean for the Galaxy S II
- Damn, apparently the ROMS are only available for Spain & China, not for my region yet.
- Yay, the Spain version has support for my region after all, downloading.
- Damn, can’t shut down my phone to switch to “download mode”, it just reboots.
- Yay, re-inserting battery while holding Volume down, Home & Power switches the phone to download mode after all, flashing with Odin!
- Damn, flashed and rebooted, but installation wizard hangs, rebooting.
- Yay, installation wizard completes after all.
- Damn, ADW settings screwed (widgets & some shortcuts MIA)
- Yay, almost done configuring ADW (except for the tethering shortcut on my desktop, can’t seem to reinstate that).
- Damn, no keyboard selection in notification bar, so no Swype!
- Yay, Swype available after all, hidden in “Language & Input” configuration.
So does Jelly Bean put the old S2 on the same level as the S3? Not really, some advanced S3-features aren’t included, think the ones in the Premium Suite for S3 that Samsung released a couple of months ago, especially “multi-window” (which might make less sense the smaller S2 display anyway). Both the Calender application and the mail-client (for my Exchange-mail) changed. Samsung replaced Calender with their own S Planner, which has a more skeuomorphic UI which doesn’t fit with the rest of the OS. Good thing you can install the default Android Calendar from Google Play. Mail got slightly better, with a nice little refresh-button and a timestamp showing when the last connection occurred (I don’t do push mail). But most importantly: Jelly Bean does feel more smooth (thanks to Project Butter) and at first sight battery life seems better as well. So, yeah, I’m happy!