Cyanogen Mod 9 GalaxyICS KANGED Beta 3 For Galaxy Ace GT-S5830.

GalaxyICS is a team of dedicated and experienced developers formed of the following members : Maclaw, bagnz0r, tom3q, marcin1147, djsky2011, squadzone and lagloose. The team is working on the project, named 'GalaxyICS', and they aim to bring latest Ice Cream Sandwich based Cyanogen Mod 9 custom rom to galaxy series of Samsung android smart phones currently working on Galaxy Ace, Galaxy Fit and Galaxy Gio and many other devices yet to be considered. This is what they say about themselves :

We're the people behind development of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for ARMv6/MSM7x27 phones.

So, as you can see, this is a huge project and the team requires your support to continue and expand the project to other devices as well. If you want to help them then please consider donating a small sum of money to the team by visiting their site at galaxyics.com.

CM9 Beta 3 GT-S5830

Now, if you are ready to begin then let's talk about Cyanogen Mod 9 rom for galaxy ace. Yes, the team has worked hard and they have been able to get CM9 Beta 3 for galaxy ace. Below is an overview of change log.

• Full HW Acceleration - smooth Trebuchet.
• Improved battery life.
• Working browser with full GPU acceleration and saving pages functionality.
• Working Gallery, GMail and GalaxyICS app which provides news about project and updates directly from your phone!
• Fixed CPU sleep when screen is off.
• Less flickering.
• Added CM9 boot-animation.
• Fixed all apps, which using webcore (Facebook, Gallery etc.)
• Fixed wrong text at wrong place.
• Fixed some issues in Phone.apk
• Fixed user-agent in default Android browser.
• Latest CM9 sources - CM Settings, like percent battery indicator, finally working.
• Readded CM9 Music Player.
• Performance boost.

So, these are all the changes in the Beta 3 version since the last Alpha 3 version. The rom is now almost stable and smooth and is working fine on many aspects except for the camera bug. The team has already fixed the bug in their port to galaxy gio gt-s5660 smartphone and the team says that it will be fixed very soon --maybe the next release will have a working camera. So, let's proceed and get this rom flashed on your Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 smartphone and have a look at it from inside.

Disclaimer : TRY IT AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Note : Those who have Gingerbread 2.3 and above firmware and any Custom Recovery installed on their device can skip Step 1 and Step 2. Also, if you have any other custom roms then you can skip both Step 1 and Step 2.

1. Upgrade your android firmware to Gingerbread using Odin Multidownloader v4.38.

2. Install latest Clockwork Mod Recovery v5.0.2.6 on your galaxy ace.

3. Download CyanogenMod 9.0.0-RC0-GT-S5830-GalaxyICS-KANG-beta3 from the site of GalaxyICS team.

4. Copy the downloaded file to ( the root directory of) your sd-card.

5. Reboot your device to Clock Work Mod Recovery (Press Home + Power Button).

6. [Optional but, Recommended] Do a Nandroid Backup of your current rom.

7. Choose Install Zip From Sd Card>>Choose Zip From SD Card option and then select the zip file you downloaded and copied to sd-card from galaxyics website.

8. Wait few minutes for the rom to be flashed and once it is done; Wipe Data and Wipe cache from clockwork mod recovery main menu.

9. Reboot your device from your recovery main menu when everything is done.

Once, you are done with the steps above, wait for a while since you device might take few minutes to boot up for the first time. Now you have got latest and quite stable Cyanogen Mod 9 Beta 3 custom rom on your Samsung galaxy ace gt-s5830 smartphone. Explorer through and see the differences with the previous beta versions. Search for new options in Settings as well and give them a try. And, after you have looked around for quite a while don't forget to share your views regarding this custom rom with us at the comment form below. Also, please take some time and say thanks to the developing team for their hard work on this awesome rom at this thread on xda-developers forum. A small amount of donation will be highly appreciated by the team so feel free to help them at galaxyics.com.