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CyanogenMod Windows-Based Installer Released, With Supporting Android App

Posted by Soulskill on from the ready-for-prime-time dept.

Zanadou writes "CyanogenMod today released for general availability a friendly[er]-to-use Windows-based installer that will automagically (no need to first root and/or unlock the bootloader) step users though downloading, flashing and setting up an appropriate CyanogenMod version on supported Android phones. Along with this, a 'companion app' that apparently helps set up the installer is now available the Play Store, along with a newly-refreshed download page. Still no image for 'hammerhead' (Nexus 5), though."

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  1. Great work these guys are doing by FuzzNugget · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But I really wish the phone technology ecosystem didn't *require* good people, like the guys at CM, to do what they do.

    I'm referring mostly to the locked-down, restrictive, anti-user bullshit that defines the smartphone world. Boot loaders that are locked, software that you can't easily remove ... change any of that and you'll void your warranty, of course. When's the last time you voided a warranty on a real computer's hardware for modifying some fucking *software*?!

    I should be able to pop in a micro SD card into any smartphone (yes, all smartphones should support one) and install any operating system with the right drivers.

    Y'know, like a *computer* (because it is one)