When Google came up with Galaxy Nexus, introducing with Ice Cream Sandwich Android 4.0 update, every owner of Android high end smartphones wondered whether there device will receive Android 4.0 update. We all know that Google will first provide update to Nexus devices first and coming out in the news that Nexus S 4G Sprint owners will receive Ice Cream Sandwich early today. Nexus S 4G has already received the Android 4.0.3 update earlier but US Sprint carrier version of the phone have been waiting for quite some time for this update.
If you wondered why mobile network operators take so long time in coming out with updates, they have to go with rigorous testing and not to mentioned that this update will bring the Google Wallet and Google Voice to this update itself. Also this update to Spring Nexus S 4G was leaked earlier with bugs but this Android 4.0.4 update seems to be stable.
Nexus S 4G – Check for OTA Update
Users who are not sure whether this update is available to them or not, they can manually check it out on their mobile phone. To do that you should go to Menu > Settings > About Phone > Software update and select the option of ‘Check for an update’. If you find any update available then proceed with the installation and if you didn’t find any then check back latter. Make sure that you have backed up most of the things on your phone and it will get lost during this firmware update. Alternatively many users might receive an notification from Sprint or Samsung about this software update, those users can directly click on download button there in the notifications and proceed with the firmware update.
Once the firmware update is successful, you can easily know that Android 4.0 is installed on your phone as it brings complete new makeover to differentiate both Android Gingerbread and the latest one.
Still you can check for Android version by going through Menu > Settings > About Phone and this Android 4.0.4 update to Sprint Nexus S 4G will have the following parameters –
Android Version – 4.0.4
Baseband version – D720SPRKH1
Kernel version – 3.08 –gb55e9ac android-build@apa28#1
Build number – IMM26
Did you receive update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich?
