While initially it was announced that no Google Android 4.0 ICS upgrade will be developed by Samsung for its older Galaxy devices. The company did make the upgrade available to Galaxy S2 users, and now Indian users have the upgrade officially pushed to them via Samsung Kies.

Steps to upgrade Samsung Galaxy S2 to latest officially available Google Andoid version is as follows :

Like most of the other mobile devices Samsung Android devices also support three modes of connection - "Samsung Kies", "Media Player" and "Mass storage", out of the three "Samsung Kies" or "PC Studio" mode allows users to manage their devices using company's "Samsung Kies PC Studio" utility and even upgrade device firmware versions.

After plugging-in USB cable the device automatically connects in the pre-configured mode if not already opted for "Ask on connection" mode, here is how to configure the device to get connected into the mode of choice.