The Official Cyanogenmod Thread

Flashed last nights nightly. CyanogenMod Account has been added. After reading about it, seems it is a very secure method for tracking / wiping your device remotely. A good start indeed.
 
Yoh ... my boet was running one of the 10.1 final versions (i'll have to check which) and his Google Services went moggy... it has managed to download 13gb of data?!? He didnt even realize.... OOB Shark has taken a huge chunk of his arse....

The dumbarse had not set his data limits.... big whoops moment there...
 
A New Chapter

To all CyanogenMod users, contributors, and fans:

What follows is a true story. No names have been changed to protect the guilty. Let’s take it from the beginning:

May 25, 2009 was one of those days when something that seemed completely trivial drastically changed the course of my life. It was my first post on XDA Developers, announcing my new ROM for the T-Mobile G1. I’m terrible with names, so I just slapped “mod” onto the end of my handle and ran with it. I was a total noob and fully expecting to be laughed off the forums, but I did it anyway. I was pretty happy with this thing and even though it wasn’t really anything that new, since I was building off the work of the legendary JF, I figured that maybe someone would think it was decent. The response was great. Way better than I imagined. I was hooked, and have spent every free minute since pouring myself into this thing.

XDA was a great community. I’d upload a new version, and hundreds of people would immediately install it and give feedback every step of the way. “THIS is how you write software”, I thought. I was working as a developer at a small startup in Pittsburgh, and while we were doing really interesting things, being able to actually see the results of your work in real-time like this was amazing. Sometimes I would upload multiple versions in a single day to fix bugs. And the competition was fierce—lots of original work, and also mods of your mod, and mods of your mod’s mod. It was a lot of fun. We all shared the same idea—there was a product we wanted, nobody would make it, so we did it ourselves at any cost. This idea became the ethos of our community.

Shortly after releasing the first version, I pulled it together and started putting my changes on Github for others to use. I’ve always been a big advocate of open source, so this was the logical next step. A few other people who were also making their own ROMs decided to send patches to me that I quickly merged. Some really great features were born that you couldn’t get anywhere else, and certainly not on any phone you could buy.
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Read the rest here

Thoughts?

CM won't be open source as we know it in the next year or so. Here's a lengthy post from the creator of Focal of what has happened behind the scenes with Focal being removed from CM.
 
Kwerty said:
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Thoughts?

CM won't be open source as we know it in the next year or so. Here's a lengthy post from the creator of Focal of what has happened behind the scenes with Focal being removed from CM.
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When I read the initial post by Steve, it did have me worry that they would go down this route- in a way, to comply with CTS, they had to. But I had faith that at the very least, they would not abandon their contributors or userbase.
 
SirFooK'nG said:
I'm contemplating trying PA 3.99RC2.... CM10.2 nightlies been ok, but nothing really spectacular...
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Be keen to know what it's like if you do install it as I'm also on CM nightlies. What exactly are you looking for in a ROM that's making you consider PA?
 
saor said:
Be keen to know what it's like if you do install it as I'm also on CM nightlies. What exactly are you looking for in a ROM that's making you consider PA?
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I've used PA 3 or 4 times before... I just like to give them all a fair chance, find whats smooth and user friendly. At least till I get bored with a rom and move to another. Right now the CM10.2 nightlies still have regular "mini freezes"... getting a tad annoying. If PA isn't for me, I'll go back to the latest 10.1.3 stable release
 
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[Ah - forgot this wasn't the S2 thread. If the battery life on PA was noticeably better I'd give it a go but I'm pretty happy with the CM nightlies right now...]
 
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