Ice cream sandwich issues

[holeymoley27]

Hi i'm new to this forum and hope somebody can give me some advice.
I recently upgraded my Galaxy S2 which is on the o2 network in the UK to Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich.
The upgrade went without a hitch via Samsung Kies and i have many of the new features including Face Unlock and the new keyboard etc. The problem is my phone looks exactly the same as before the upgrade. I have no shiny new homescreens or any new icons which is disappointing.
Has this issue been noticed by anybody else on here or am i a one off? Could i have done something wrong or am i supposed to use a launcher to get the new appearance.
If its a download issue is there any way i can retry bearing in mind that my phone is not rooted.
Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

[greenman]

It is disappointing when you first open the downloaded ICS as it looks the same. That's because the launcher is TouchWizz as in Gingerbread. Have a look at this site for what ICS brings:
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/sams...ased-50007384/

ICS does allow you to download the Nova launcher which I think is the best available and gives your S2 a new look. Also try Google Chrome Beta for your browser. Both need a little time to get used to, but I reckon worth the effort.

[quadros753]

how to uninstall ics on galaxy s2??? and return to gingerbread???

[Richardj]

Go to sammobile.com, find the version of GB you want, and use odin to flash it. Before you flash it, make sure you do a wipe data/factory reset and wipe dalvik cache, all from recovery mode. When you have re-flashed to GB do another wipe data/factory reset, wipe dalvik cache.