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.'"

Comments

Re:Another terrible summary

[esldude]

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 Is Better

[ilikenwf]

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.

AOKP

Re:AOKP Is Better

[Roujo]

AOKP is based (at least in part) on the CM code. They'd be doing something wrong if the end product was worse. =P

Re:Nook?

[bill_mcgonigle]

There's never going to be a stable cm9 for Nook Color. cm10 is already more stable than cm9 on it, so that's where all the developers went. As far as I know they've thrown code over the wall but nobody has built zips yet.

There's supposedly a debian vm you can get with most of the bits installed to build it. Why nobody's done that and then synced the resultant images to an FTP site, I'm not clear on (so there must be more to it than that, right?)

Anyway, use cm7 or self-build cm10 now for Nook Color.

Thank you!

[rastoboy29]

Thank you Cyanogenmod guys for making our phones not suck.

Seriously, I really appreciate it.

x86 port?

[Eil]

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.

Re:x86 port?

[ilikenwf]

...although, porting isn't that difficult if the device specific stuff is out there for the version of android the build is based on. That said, I'm pretty sure x86 is one of the build targets, in a qemu image.

I think you'll be able to google and find premade VM's of x86 android. It does exist, and I'm not sure but I think it does for CM as well.

Re:x86 port?

[dns_server]

If all you want to do is play around with a vm running android just download the official android sdk.
This contains vm's to run android and is released ahead of the source code and any devices hitting the market.

Lack of non samsung support!

[tnerb123]

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!

Re:Lack of non samsung support!

[jrumney]

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!

Samsung gives good support to third party developers, so their phones are well supported in return. Rather than blaming the Cyanogenmod developers for your device manufacturer's lack of support, and tossing out accusations of "sell-out", perhaps you would be better directing your anger at the device manufacturer that does not release specs or full source for their customized Android build.

Re:Lack of non samsung support!

[Grishnakh]

I can't speak to Samsung specifically, but one of the problems with Android, compared to regular Linux (and this is also true for many embedded versions of ARM Linux), is that a lot of the device drivers are not open-sourced. And a lot of the others may be open-source, but haven't been merged into the mainline kernel, so they only work with specific kernel versions. So if a phone maker doesn't release their drivers as open-source, then porting a different CM/Android version to their phone may be impossible or extremely difficult.

Re:Lack of non samsung support!

[samoanbiscuit]

They didn't sell out to Samsung. Samsung rather, has reached out to them repeatedly, in order that it's phones run CM well. They even hired the lead dev last I heard. Why don't you ask your phone manufacturer to provide free devices and hire devs the way Samsung does?

Re:ORLY? Re:Lack of non samsung support!

[Dot.Com.CEO]

Samscum? Really?...