You can now update their smartphone to the ice cream sandwich official KIES through 4.0 and in the air (OTA). Currently, the phone is running on gingerbread appears to correspond to the arrival of new phones on the market with the latest operating system Android. Download size of the update size is obviously larger (220.31 MB), so do not try to update if the Internet connection is too slow.
Improvements in ICS
- Face Unlock and Android Beam are added.
- Mobile data recorder via the network.
- Re-sizeable widgets
- Improved user interface TouchWiz
Note:
- Non rooted phones can be updated.
- Back up all data, contacts and notes, messages, applications using a backup of the phone.
- Make sure your phone battery has more than 70% of the load from left to hold for a couple of hours.
- make sure that you enabled USB debugging in your phone in “Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging” if you’re going to update using KIES software.
- Make sure that you’ve installed the latest Samsung KIES application.
- To update the phone OTA, go to Settings > About the Phone > Software Update, login using your Samsung account details or register new account.
- Update via KIES is as simple as you should be notified of the update firmware when the device is connected via KIES. It guides you through the process.
I wanted to update my Glaxy S3 to Android Ice Cream Sandwich but was not able to do that. Hope, by using these guidelines I will be able to update my phone.