Android 4.3 Based CyanogenMod 10.2 Nightlies Arrive

hypnosec writes "The CyanogenMod team has announced the release of version 10.2 nightly builds, which are based on Google's latest Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. The current nightly builds have been released for the Google Galaxy Nexus, HTC One, Samsung Galaxy S4, Samsung Galaxy S3, LG Optimus G, Sony Xperia Z, and Motorola Razr among others. As always, CyanogenMod team reminds that these are experimental."

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nice

[stoolpigeon]

I made the mistake of buying a galaxy s3 from t-mobile in the U.S. T-mobile hobbled the thing so badly I switched away from the stock os for the first time. I have to say that there are a few bumps but over all I've loved it. Not waiting on Samsung for ever and ever to get Android updates is probably worth it alone.

Re:nice

[Nerdfest]

I find their hardware is decent, and they have some cool add-on features, but they sure aren't doing Android any favours with the nasty interface wrapper they have.

Re:nice

[dc29A]

They are also one of the hacker friendliest devices with most having unlocked bootloaders and they publish kernel sources. Oh and SD card slot ... and removable battery.

Re:nice

[Beardo the Bearded]

I have an S3 with CM. The whole process took about an hour, there are guidelines everywhere, but make sure you download everything, including Gapps, before you get started.

Camera works fine in movie and still mode, and lots of options exist. The buttons require long presses to access functionality that I thought was lost when upgrading.

I unplug my phone in the morning, use it for tracking my ride or run with Runkeeper while playing MP3s on PowerAmp. It generally plays MP3s all day long, often while I check FB using Chrome.

Zero problems with phone and text, I have called 911 from my car stereo no problem.

The only problem I've had is that GTA: Vice City doesn't work. For some reason, when you get into a car the screen freezes until you get out of the car.

Oh, and the Bluetooth stack is done different, so I don't get track / album data transferred to my car stereo. Apparently this is because CM is doing BT correctly, which is different than everyone else so it doesn't work. I still get audio transfer. The text did transfer before I flashed to CM.
It will run out of power within 24 hours with that usage.

Re:nice

[JestersGrind]

I had a similar experience with Verizon. Their bloatware essentially crippled the device. Even with a larger battery, I was lucky to get a half day out of it. I installed a minimalist custom mod and now battery life is 3-5 days, depending on use obviously.

Closed source drivers still a bane

[Kinwolf]

I tried CM 10 on my GS3 and sadly I had to remove it. Wi-fi, camera and bluetooth refused to work properly, kept crashing or had awful performance, depending on the revision installed. So I went back to the stock ROM, which isn't too bad thankfully, but still has alot of services and programs that I have no use of and yet are always loaded in memory. Next phone(which should not be before 3 years) I am going Nexus to avoid all that pain.(and hoping that Nexus phones still exist at that time)

Re:Closed source drivers still a bane

[Kinwolf]

Didn't we just have a front page article about how the Nexus 7 has closed source drivers and some guys stopped maintaining their build?

Waiting for Tuppe666 to tell me why this is good, and how Google is jesus.

I don't know if google is jesus, , but after googling it I found out that Jesus is ON Google +!

Re:do they fix the play store update bug

[Andy Dodd]

How can we fix a bug in shit that isn't ours?

Play Store is part of gapps, which has always been a separate install because it's Google's stuff and not open source. It's a Play Store problem, not a base OS problem (which is why it started happening suddenly on devices that did not receive any form of OS update).

Re:Are popular Bluetooth keyboards supported?

[Andy Dodd]

I'm not sure if they do yet, but one of the team members has been working on it and I think found the culprit. They're just trying to determine the ramifications of reverting the change that broke things right now. (They were about to leave on vacation, and I think may have band-aided it before leaving though...)

Re:Update

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean 10.1.2 Stable?

Yeah, ages and ages. Or, yknow, a month. Whatever.

Re:do they fix the play store update bug

[spartacus_prime]

I had that problem after flashing the latest Gapps build. What I did that fixed the problem was deleting my Google account from my phone and wiping all that data out, and then reinstalling it. My apps updated like normal.

Re:Still waiting for S3 Mini Stable

[Andy Dodd]

S3 Mini is NovaThor based, and I am not sure if a single NovaThor device is receiving nightlies.

Some NovaThor-based Sonys got unofficial weekly builds from FreeXperia, but the platform was a nightmare to work with and I think jerpelea gave up on NovaThor after either CM9 or CM10.0

And yes - there are platforms even worse for a CM maintainer than Exynos4. NovaThor and MTK65xx being two of them.

Re:do they fix the play store update bug

[Anonymous Coward]

lots of people are getting "package is invalid" errors when they try to update random apps. sometimes apps update, sometimes not

It's not just happening with Cyanogen, it's happening to people using the stock ROM's from their Carrier as well.

I'm waiting

[LanMan04]

I dirty-flashed my Nexus 4 (mako) with the new 4.3 nightly over the last/latest 4.2.2 nightly (and flashed the new gapps) and it was a disaster.

--Play Store broken, errors on every download/update even after clearing data/cache/etc
--No audio on phone calls
--Practically every Google app crashed
--No photosphere in the camera app

Bleh, I'll wait until it's stable.