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Cyanogenmod 10.1 RC1 Starts To Roll Out To Devices Near You
New submitter Noitatsidem writes "Good news for Cyanogenmod users, according to their blog it looks like 10.1 is nearing its stable release. 'We haven't used the "Release Candidate" nomenclature since the ICS days, but we feel the 10.1 branch is quickly approaching the point where a "final" build is due. To prepare for that eventuality, RC1 builds for CyanogenMod 10.1.0 are now landing on our servers! This will be one of (if not the last) milestone releases before a 10.1.0 is pushed out. These builds will appear as they complete the build process and, as always, you can download the builds via get.cm!' Android Police speculates that this is due in part to the rumored release announcement of Android 4.3 given at Google I/O 2013 which is taking place in (now) less than one week. Looks like the Android community will have a lot to talk about in coming days!"
Been running 4.2.2 on my samsung galaxy tab 2 10.1 since i bought it. Fantastic and always been very stable.
we'd have been told what a "cyanogenmod" is by a sentence or phrase in the article. But this is slashdot, which started circling the drain long before CT left as he lost interest
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My device (HTC Desire S) still only has "official" support for Cyanogenmod 7. Slightly out of date, I'd say. Actually, most devices aren't going to get CM10 for a long time, if ever. Just a few ones the devs happen to like.
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As someone who hasn't been running cyanogenmod but is interested in doing that, I have a question.
Is permission spoofing (e.g, reporting bogus info about location/contacts/etc to prevent spying by apps) currently in or out of CM? I heard mixed things and wasn't sure.
That is THE killer feature as far as I am concerned and is why I want to use something like CM.
Good news for users of the popular Android* distribution Cyanogenmod...
See how easy it is to do it without anyone even noticing? Brief, informative, and not condescending. The real news does it all the time.
*"Nurr, but you didn't define Android, what if someone doesn't know what that is? Yuck yuck yuck..." It's not all-or-nothing, obviously, and you have to draw the line somewhere. I'd say one-level-up is usually about right. Just read a decent newspaper and see how it's done.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
I've been running 10.1 experimental on my HP TouchPad for a while and it's been fairly stable. Can't wait for the RC! My company has resurrected about two dozen TouchPads thanks to Cyanogenmod. Ghu love the folks who put their time and effort into this project!
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CM specific - Some of the release canidates suffered from echos during calls, poor mic pick up. If you notice the other party on your call having problems hearing you speak it's a known issue on some devices.
Stability and battery life have been very good w/ recent CM 10.1 RCs.
This isn't unique to Cycanogenmod but I HATE how JB handles Wallpapers now. Whatever image you pick is cropped in the shape of a "t". WTF? There's live wallpaper apps that workaround this, but it's a stupid change. BOOOOooooo.....
Could someone take a look at this?
There appears to be a bug in the Slashdot code (is it still Slashcode?) that posts random release notes from obscure development projects as front page stories.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
I have a Galaxy Tab 2 and there's about 50 different cookbook methods for installing CM, none of which work.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
I wish some company would just sell a phone with cyanogen on it stock.
I switched to Android from iOS earlier this year specifically to get a bigger screen and widgets (Galaxy Note).
The Samsung ROM was horrifically slow and ugly and filled with unremovable apps I didn't want, plus it contacted the AT&T mothership constantly even though I don't use AT&T and the phone is unlocked.
So I downloaded a CM10.1 experimental build. It was guaranteed to spontaneously reboot during the first 5-10 second of any placed or received call.
So I wiped and downgraded to CM10 stable. This one lets me make calls, but randomly reboots at least half a dozen times a day.
My first experience with Android phones (and it has been expensive in terms of learning curve to get rooted/installed) has not been pleasing. Android may be more flexible, offer larger screen devices, and have more active hacking community surrounding it, but first and foremost, I want to be able to rely on my device.
I'm now trying to decide whether to revert back to the Samsung ROM (Jelly Bean was finally just released for the i717 on the 3rd) and see if that restores the stability of the original Samsung ROM (though no doubt it will also restore the ugliness, slowness, and bloat) or try out a CM10.1 nightly...or just sell the device and get another iPhone and jailbreak it, even without widgets and a big screen.
I should say that my experience with cheap-ass Android tablets from China has been much better. They run stock and are stable and fast. But the phone thing is killing me.
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Running 10.1 RC1 on my Galaxy Nexus now, it uses a lot less memory than the M3 monthly snapshot (450 vs 600 MB). So my phone is a lot snappier now.
I can't find a download for my trusty old SGS2. Am I beeing dense or does it not exist?
If you still have an HP TouchPad, there's an experimental Cyanogenmod build for it - installed side-by-side with WebOS.
I am currently running CM10 on my HTC One S. The main problem that I have noticed is the battery drain that my phone has with CM10 Stable.
in my world. I don't have three hours to spend on my phone during any given fiscal quarter, much less any given day. Maybe I could dedicate three hours a year to phone maintenance, but it's seriously a problem for Android.
I'm using the i717 builds of CM. Just reverted back to CM10.1 RC1 and it seems relatively stable—but the lag is awful.
Still not particularly happy w/Android...
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was to get the phablet size—it was between an iPad Mini with calls using Talkatone and the Galaxy Note series. I went "small" w/the Note series...but I'm within a week or two of just chucking it on eBay and getting the iPad Mini after all.
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Sure, it takes a minute or two to actually install a ROM, but the time spent crawling Teh Google just to learn what the Android ecosystem looks like (i.e. that there is something called CyanogenMod, and where to get it, and so on) is expensive. Increases exponentially if you want to look at other ROMs.
People keep saying "try another ROM" and all that kind of stuff, but just finding download links is like playing 'net tag. I don't have (or want to have) the time for this nonsense.
If there was a single source of links that was a portal, not a forum to wade through like XDA, Android would be far ahead of where it is.
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And while it's not rebooting, CM10 on the i717 is pretty sweet. But the damned thing needs to work.
When you're on the phone to international clients, you don't want spontaneous reboots and callbacks. It's just not good business.
I need a phone to work. So far, Android is not fitting the bill. But there's another week or two of patience left in me. We'll see how CM10.1 RC1 does, though so far it's laggy as hell.
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just works, but without the features that I want, vs. the features that I want that just don't work. :-P
I said in a comment in another story that I wish the universe would cough up a marriage of the iOS ecosystem and the Android ecosystem—all of the features, all of the stability.
For very sound empirical reasons, this is unlikely to happen. But good to dream.
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by putting on a bumper, there would be a much greater chance of me keeping it.
As it is, I have a case on it, but it drops calls anyway and I can't even do an immediate callback because for the first minute it's busy booting.
You could make the case that there's a parallel there, but the difference is in the degrees.
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