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CyanogenMod Drops ROM Manager In Favor of OTA Updates

Posted by timothy on from the sure-beats-at&t-for-my-phone-then dept.

sfcrazy writes "There's some great news for CyanogenMod fans. The CM team has decided to drop ROM manager, which was the de facto standard of getting CyanogenMod updates." Instead, the CM team is building its own updating method, explained (with screenshots) at Android Police.

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  1. Re:Better Android by s_p_oneil · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't know. I never had a working camera app with CM. It would take anywhere from 0 to 3 pictures before forcing me to reboot the phone, and when I tried to take video, the visual quality was so bad that you couldn't recognize the people in the videos. That kind of killed one of the major benefits of having a smartphone for me.

    Maybe they've improved it since then, but the last thread I read on the subject (maybe 6-12 months back) was "Well, the camera still doesn't work, but..." Needless to say, when I upgraded my phone, I chose NOT to install CM.

  2. Re:Better Android by NemosomeN · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's because stupid people don't put CM on their phones. Stupid people do, however, buy iPhones.

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