I finally decided to go for it a few days ago after seeing a build in the Clockwork Mod lists, it didn't work so I started looking deeper into the state of the build. Turns out that the Clockwork Mod list has a much older build (as much as 2 weeks is "much older").
So I downloaded the latest available build from http://ville.giev.de/ which was CM10 20120815 which is conviently linked on the page. It contains the insecure boot image that you will need to flash using fastboot.
Just drop the whole zip file on your phone and also extract the boot.img into your fastboot folder. You should also download the gapps (Google Apps) zip file if you want to be able to connect to your Gmail and the Play Store. Drop the gapps zip on your phone.
THIS is VERY IMPORTANT, because there is no removable SD card it is much harder to fix your phone after you started if you don't have a working system image already there!!!!! Just maker sure that you drop the .zip file on to your phone before you install the boot.img file.
Boot your phone into fastboot, see that the red fastboot icon changes to fastboot USB. In a terminal window navigate to your android SDK folder and then to your platform tools folder where you dropped your boot.img file earlier.
Run the command:
- sudo ./fastboot devices
You should see your device ID, I always do this to make sure that I have comms to my phone.
If this has worked then the next step is to flash the insecure boot image, this allows you to install new kernels aka the Jellybean kernel, so run the command:
- sudo ./fastboot boot boot.img
It will only take a few seconds to complete. Basically you are writing the file boot.img into the boot partition of your phone.
Once that is done you can now install the latest CM10 build, on your phone go back to the bootloader and then into recovery.
Select install zip from sdcard
Choose zip from sdcard
Naigate to where you dropped your zip file earlier and select it
Scroll down to Yes install cm-10..... .zip
The system will install, it doesn't take too long, you will then be dropped back to the recovery prompt, you can follow the same format to install the gapps zip file.
Reboot your phone. You should see the CM9 boot animation (this is on the low priority list of fixes). After a little bit your phone should boot into CM10, you will see the Jellybean lock screen.
That is it.
Ok now my conclusions, I have only had my phone for about 2 months now, I have never used stock ICS. I was running HTC Sense 4.0 on top of Android 4.0.3. Now I am running CM10 which is based on Android 4.1.1.
The phone is now faster then I have had it so far. My main test for this is Temple Run, which used to studder when first starting when running Sense ICS, it is smooth all the way through now. I know this is not the most scientific testing method but the studder was repeatable on the Sense ICS build and I haven't seen it yet on the CM10 JB build!
There are still a few things not working on CM10 but overall it is in a stable daily usage state now, I will follow the development as they do the final polishes on it. Maybe then it will get the official stamp and become part of the main CM line.
The One S is a great piece of hardware, just needed a software upgrade in my opinion.
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