Yes, Yes, we’ve all been waiting in the sidelines for Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich as it’s known to miraculously appear on our devices.  The developers have been working their magic with the Android 4.0 SDK build trying to get it working on any and every device out there.

The ones that are available give you a great rundown or demonstration of what Ice Cream Sandwich is all about, but they are not ready for prime time yet.  many have only a few features working and frequent problems.  They sure do look pretty though

It looks like they might have a helping hand, as a leaked developer version of the boot, recovery and system partitions from the Samsung Google Nexus, have been released by MoDaCo and can be downloaded from their forums right now.

Here’s what they had to say:

The Android world is funny you know.

Often I come across releases, beta tests, development builds and suchlike that I can’t share at all, sometimes I am given builds that I can share with some changes, and sometimes I have files that my sources allow me to share in their entirety. It’s a sad fact of some of the community today that this concept seems to difficult for some to understand. Their thinking is simply that if you have something, you should share it, forget the responsibilities towards your sources etc., they just want what they want. It’s a shame, but today i’m pleased to have something that I CAN share…

Below are links to a ICL23D Ice Cream Sandwich development build for the Galaxy Nexus!

Some points to note about the files…

• All 3 files are completely stock and unedited
• This build is a dev build, not a release build
• This build is from a test Galaxy Nexus
• This build is not odexed!

I know a lot of people are hacking up ports for other devices, so hopefully the non-odexed nature of this release together with the fact it includes the boot and recovery images will help make that happen.

Developers! Head over and download the images as soon as you can and let’s see if this helps getting a faster and more stable Ice Cream Sandwich port out.

Source: MoDaCo