How to Install Official Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.3 on Samsung Galaxy S2 T989 T-Mobile! [Windows]

It finally came out! The official Ice Cream Sandwich came out on 6/11/12 or 6/12/12 depending where you live. There was a lot of anger and despise against T-Mobile for quite some time because they didn't plan on releasing Ice Cream Sandwich any time soon. Finally T-Mobile released it but not without many customers being dissatisfied with their service. It eventually came out so lets starting enjoy the sweet taste of an Ice Cream Sandwich!

Note: Their is another way to install the Ice Cream Sandwich, but I'm going to show you the official way to install ICS. This is the only official way to truly get the official Ice Cream Sandwich.

This will delete EVERYTHING on your internal SD card. Not external SD card
Install Samsung Kies if you don't already have it: Here

1. First we will enter in "Download Mode". Hold down the volume up, volume down, and power button all at the same time. When you feel vibration let go of the power button, but keep holding on to the volume up and down button.

2. When you see a yellow warning triangle you can let go of all the buttons and press the volume up button to continue into "Download Mode"

3. Download and extract the files here:

--> Download: SGH-T989_UVLE1_ICS.zip
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4. Open odin3 v1.85.exe located in the extracted file

5. Make sure only  reboot is checked marked (located under the yellow bar)

6.Click PDA and find the file named: T989UVLE1_T989TMBLE1_T989UVLE1_HOME.tar.md5 (You extracted this file from: SGH-T989_UVLE1_ICS.zip

7. Click start and wait until your phone reboots

8. You phone is now on a fresh stock version of the official Ice Cream Sandwich.

9. If you get any errors or force closes you need to enter into "Stock Recovery"

10. Unplug your microUSB cable from your phone. Hold down the volume up, volume down, and power button all at the same time. When you feel a vibration let go of the power button but keep holding on to the volume up and down button.

11. When you entered into stock recovery choose "Wipe data/factory reset" by navigating up and down with the volume buttons and the power button to select an item.

12. Go down and choose "Yes"

13. Reboot and you will be a fresh Ice Cream Sandwich. Enjoy!

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