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CyanogenMod 9 Achieves Stable Release
New submitter jolle sends word that stable builds for CyanogenMod 9 rolled out to their servers last night, supporting a wide range of devices. Downloads here. From their announcement:
"[This] release is for the majority of our ICS supported devices, the stragglers will catch up, and we will leave the door open for merging in additional devices from maintainers, external and internal. The team itself, will focus solely on Jelly Bean and maintenance of the CM 7 codebase. Many have wondered why we bothered to finish CM 9 when we are already active in CM 10 development. To that, our answer is: we don't like to leave things incomplete. There is no profit gained from what we do, so the satisfaction of completing a goal is our only reward. This release also serves as a release suitable for the masses, especially those who won't have 100% functioning releases of CM 10 immediately or are averse to anything branded as 'preview', 'alpha', 'beta' or 'nightly.'"
You are right the summary was rushed and could have been better. If you don't know what CyanogenMod is, it is an alternate open sourced ROM for Android devices. Phones and tablets can have this replace the stock ROM getting you more control over your device, and some alternate features. Often glitchy Android devices with propietary ROMs work better with this CyanogenMod.
AOKP tends to be more polished/slick it seems. I realize there's Liquid, etc, but I've tried several roms including CM on my touchpad, Droid2, and VZW Nexus, and I always come back to AOKP.
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I don't see Nook in the list. Although their site says other devices may come later.
Anyone else see something specific about the Nook?
I've been very happy with CM9 on my Touchpad. You chose a good time to flash it. Early in the year I was paying close attention to their progress. It was very exciting when custom kernels and user performance improvements were frequently being released but that stuff has slowed quite a bit. I just updated my CM9 install after about 3 or 4 months and the latest releases are pretty awesome. I also have installed cm9 on my Droid 3 but that project seems to have died.
Thank you Cyanogenmod guys for making our phones not suck.
Seriously, I really appreciate it.
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Seeing as Android is open source, are there any x86 ports of CyanogenMod? Even for just running in a VM like VirtualBox? Seems like having such a thing would at least increase user/developer interest.
I know there have been some x86 ports of Android, but those have either been for very specific hardware (e.g., a certain model of netbook) or poorly maintained.
Cyanogenmod is great. But they have turned there back on the phones that started it all. A lot of phones have version 9 but they are totally unsupported versions. Its to bad because its a great ROM. It also looks like they sold out to Samsung. They seem to support even samsungs older phones which are worse off then some of there unsupported phones!
Well here's my impression, it's alright.
Here's what annoys me - Lock screen: Old CM7 had the 'ok' button in the bottom left corner, now it is in the right, screws up my muscle memory. I end up typing in my lock screen PIN and hitting 0 instead of OK, very annoying.
The same thing goes with the 'accept' call slider, before you had to move the slider to the left to accept a call, now you have to slide it to the right. Can't tell how many times I've accidentally hung up on someone calling me because I reflexively move the slider to the left.
Other than that, no issues with the thing, it does seem very, very blue though. Like literally blue, the color, there's a lot of it.
Admit nothing. Deny Everything. Make Counter-accusations.
It's "ok." It's still not stable, but it's a good effort. I'll try it again in a few weeks, but the current build still crashes on my HTC.
Samscum? Really?...
Mother is the best bet and don't let Satan draw you too fast.
Okay, I want to buy a device for CyanogenMod. I don't want the hassle of jailbreaking and I want to know for sure that it will keep working even if I try an upgraded manufacturer's ROM. The official supported device list doesn't say anything. The install instructions all start with "now root your phone". How can I find out a list of recommended phones including information about how easy the install is?
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I'm surprised Nexus 7 isn't supported. There are tables, but only the Advent Vega, Nook Color and HP Touchpad.
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I'm likely going to be switching from T-Mobile to US Cellular (due to coverage issues where I live now), and am seriously disappointed to see that their phones are all apparently unsupported (except for one discontinued older model, the "Samsung Mesmerize"). The CDMA versions of the Galaxy S II and S III seem to be excluded.
Anybody know if any of US Cellular's phones are likely to see support any time soon? After years of happy Cyanogenmod at T-Mobile I'd really hate to be stuck with a manufacturer "skin" version again...
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Yes. I've been calling them that since the 90s.
I'd go on a Vegan diet but the delivery time from Vega is too long. --brownkitty
... all they had to do was provide ICS without their crappy interface(s) like swype and the crapware they load on..
I've got a Samsung Epic - the Galaxy S with a slide-out keyboard. I'll agree with you about the bundled crapware and their Touchwiz interface, (or whatever it's called). But Swype is simply awesome.
Currently running ICS, and one of the first things I did after flashing was install Swype.
Redundancy is good And also good.
The major problem with anything over 2.2 is 911 calling which is sporadic at best. If there were open hardware specs on the radio or S* would at least compile the driver for some flavor of ICS it would fix that issue.
I'd go on a Vegan diet but the delivery time from Vega is too long. --brownkitty