As I've said on a couple of threads, I've been foiled by the horrific Kies in my attempts to update to Jellybean and have also found an issue with the OTA update. (The Kies issue is there with my mother's Samsung and on two different PCs, so I suspect Kies really is the problem and not something else).

However, I've just seen some threads on a couple of forums claiming that Jellybean has caused problems for some people - bugginess, reduced battery life and so on. One S3 user said he went back to ICS.

I'm quite happy with ICS, so I wonder what advice you would give. Is Jellybean having teething problems and would I be better waiting a while? Is there any genuine benefit in Jellybean over ICS?

If I do decide to stick with ICS for now (given my problems upgrading I may have to do that whether I like it or not) how do I stop the nag asking me to update?

No problems on the S3 anyway. I ran it for a while when i had my S3 and the Mrs is fine as well

Only got Jelly Bean on my Samsung tablet and it works fine on that.

I only got Kies to work just a few days before the tab updated to ICS and now it’s not working again but not to fussed anyways.

No problems with Jelly Bean for me on my S3 and have been running it for a while.

It's a lot quicker than ICS as well.

I’ve no issues with jellybean on my S3, and I’d favour it over ICS, but it’s not massively different.

Kies is a bag of poo and I never use it other than to upgrade. To install 4.1.1 I completely uninstalled Kies then reinstalled it. For 4.1.2 when I fired it up (hadn’t used it since) it insisted that I upgraded Kies before upgrading the phone. Did that and it seemed to work fine.

I updated my galaxy tab 2 to jelly bean a month ago. So far it's been better than ICS. No crashes, no freezing or rebooting (which happened with ICS) It's faster and smoother.

I found 4.1 on the S3 to be very slow and a huge battery drain. The recent minor update to 4.1.2 has fixed everything again plus added the multi-window feature too.

4.1 notifications are reason enough to upgrade!

I have a nexus 7 I've had to root it and freeze the version at 4.1.2 as so many of my favourite apps just won't work on 4.2. I don't really have any need for the multi-user features of 4.2 but it is annoying and one of my gripes with Android in general

JB has been out long enough now that the problems have been fixed.

is it better to stick to windows XP? no.

like what?

MM Tracker for a start which is my favourite app will not work in 4.2. Unfortunately that program is no longer available on the App store and we don't know if the developer is planning to update or issue a fix.

Android 4.2 should run android 4.1 apps no ?

Edit I think some apps that work with bluetooth have been affected also.

I practically got the N7 so I could use that app with all my OS maps so yeah it's really annoying.

In the business world XP is still used day in day out an awful lot, especially on back office client pcs which only need to run whatever bespoke system they need and probably word and excel.

I still develop in c# and oracle on an XP machine as we need our client software to be able to run on XP.

We have plenty of virtual machines which can run and test our software on all the latest OS's including the despicable windows 8 so our clients have a choice on OS and we know it will work. To be fair Microsoft does tend to be remarkably backward compatible, apart from some nuances between 32 and 64 bit OS versions.

Its interesting you say this, then say you use VMs anyway


It doesn't seem to me like your using XP only because your clients do.

It's very simple our software needs to run on XP and up to windows 7 and soon windows 8 because our customers run these operating systems . We develop in XP and our Software is then tested on virtual machines on all variations of the operating systems so we can licence the software to be compatible with all the different variations. We sometimes have to tweak variants for the 32 and 64 bit versions.


Perfect sense as Microsoft is generally backward compatible you develop on the oldest version you need the software to work on. I'm talking niche bespoke and very corporate systems which run in the back office of large corporations and they really only care if the software does the exact job they need it to do. There is nothing of real relevance in windows 7 or 8 to what the software needs to achieve.