posted by Thom Holwerda on Sun 18th Mar 2012 21:23 UTC  When it
comes to Ice Cream Sandwich on the Galaxy SII there's two
general routes you can take: Samsung's stock ICS ROM or modified
versions thereof, or the nightly CyanogenMod 9 builds. It may
surprise you, but a team of open source hackers who are at a
severe disadvantage compared to Samsung's own engineers produce
a far superior user experience. If you have a Galaxy SII and
even have only a modicum of technical knowledge or know someone
that does (it's insanely easy), there's honestly not a single
logical reason not to move to the nightly CM9 builds.  Samsung's
Ice Cream Sandwich ROM is a total and utter disaster. It's not a
single bit faster or more responsive than the Gingerbread ROM,
which, as far as I can tell, is an achievement in and of itself.
Worse yet, it has a Frankenstein-esque user interface that
combines the beautiful Ice Cream Sandwich design with old
Gingerbread bits and large swathes of TouchWiz crap, leading to
a very schizophrenic bac