Sunday, May 19, 2013

Samsung Galaxy S Advance Android JellyBean 4.1.2 Update


  Assalamualaikum, hye and welcome to my blog :) As far as I'm concerned, there's no website that shows exactly what does then Android JellyBean 4.1.2 change in Samsung Galaxy S Advance (GT-I9070). I'm writing this blog to let you know what improvements and dis-improvements that Android JellyBean will bring to your Galaxy S Advance.

  First things first. I recommend that you guys wait till the OS reach your country. If it does not yet to come, then, upgrading using Odin is well on your own risk. The OS reached my country on 31st of April, so, I used Samsung Kies (www.samsung.com/kies) oke, yada yada, blah blah, let's get to the fun part.


   The first thing you will know the difference is the lock screen:



  And the home screen:

  The notification screen also changed. From this:
 To this:

The RAM of the phone had also improved from 555MB to 625MB:
As for the main menu:

The settings menu also had been changed:

  The motions settings had gone up to a new level. The new Android JellyBean features Direct Call, Pan, Double Tap to Top.


Some random website that I'd surfed into said that there would be Smart Stay in this new Firmware upgrade. Well, you know what, they LIED. 

But the new video player had awed me.


The camera icon on top of the video player is used to capture in-video images while the icon on the bottom right corner is used to play video while doing some other stuff. Like this: 

You can always pause/play/stop and re-size the window while running this. As for the native music player, I don't use it much because I used an app named PlayerPro, which is way much better. The native music player:


PlayerPro:


And while playing with PlayerPro, the lockcreen will look like this:


   As for the camera, the new firmware had added zoom capability to the device. 
The Google search app: 
The Internet Browser: 
as for the gallery: 


But the main problem of this update is that it drains battery faster and its a bit slow at times. just a bit. . 
Almost forgot bout the keypad: 

  Apart from the battery and RAM, the firmware is great. Highly recommend this to fellow Samsung Galaxy S Advance user :) cheers.