| Peter Del Bosque | 07/10/2012 1:52AM
The much anticipated, long, drawn-out wait for the Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Samsung Galaxy SII Skyrocket smartphone has finally arrived.
Although other similar devices such as the Galaxy Nexus was born with Android 4.0.4 and the standard Samsung Galaxy SII had been updated weeks ago, Skyrocket owners felt very left out.
As a Skyrocket owner, I would constantly check for the update either via Google Search, scanning the best Android forums such as Phandroid, Android Central, and xda-developers, for rare insider information not found elsewhere, or occasionally via Samsung Kies, which I personally am not a fan of.
I did contemplate using a leaked version of ICS months ago, but I kept noticing many people complaining about various errors and glitches caused by the unofficial release.
Nevertheless, the wait is finally over and Skyrocket owners can connect their Skyrocket to their computer via the USB data cable, open up Samsung Kies which itself may require an update, and then, after Kies is updated, you will finally be able to select the ICS update.
Don't forget to back-up all your phone's files first. But, if you just so happen to be running low on disk space and Kies won't allow you to back up your files, and sadly, Kies doesn't make it easy to figure out how to change the back up path to an external hard drive, here is the trick...
Go up to the top menu and click on Tools
Select Preferences from the drop-down menu
Look for Folder Location- There, you will see the default folder
Click on Change to change the default folder to any other hard drive you wish.
Finally, attempt a back-up. You will see the back-up will finally process. Yay!
Here's a Youtube video showing a rooted version of the ICS rom.
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