I'm pretty new to the rooting/ROM scene. What in particular gets people so excited about CyanogenMod?
If someone could give me an in-depth explanation of its features and pros, I'd really appreciate it.
AOSP, optimized, easy updates, fast, stable...
go here and see for yourself...
http://www.cyanogenmod.com/about
then go to the screeshots...
Cyanogen is a huge figure in Android Rooting and ROMS. Generally speaking the Cyanogenmod ROMs have tweaks that others do not. They are based on open source, which is great. They tend to use some of the most up to date android source available...
Used them on my Droid. My wife prefers Sense UI, so it looks like she won't be using it on her Eris.
Cyanogen a.k.a Steve Kondik (think of him as Oprah of Android) it all that start when Android just was picking up the mainstream and he first made his ROM for G1 phone (considerably the first phone to be powered with Android). He just blew every other developer out of water, JesusFreke, Haykuro, and DudeForLife are well known but no longer in development and that's because everyone rather use either Cyanogen or Ported Hero ROM. However, about Haykuro he's really good too, unfortunately due to some drama over Hero stuff, he bailed out. Some of Dev here leave because people here just grip on issues and drop drama bomb. Cyanogen handle drama better than most of dev I've seen.
I forgot to add few things, Cyanogen have connection with folks over at Google, particularly with those who are involved with Android development.
Is there any project about Honeycomb on HD2? Do you know somebody tries to port it?
there was a thread in the dev section with honeycomb but i think most efforts now are getting gingerbread working propelrly and with sense 3 coming out honeycomb has taken a backburner to it all
Lack of interest from devs I guess, and community. Seeing as everyone loves sense and gingerbread. And I don't think most are keen on the idea of a tablet ui on a phone.
If you go to the SD builds, there's a regularly updated build that emulates Gingerbread. I used it last night and quite liked it, and I may try it again when I have the time
EDIT: Sorry, Honeycomb
smeddy said:
If you go to the SD builds, there's a regularly updated build that emulates Gingerbread. I used it last night and quite liked it, and I may try it again when I have the time
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honeycomb or gingerbread? they are different os's
it is bootable now, let push imilka more
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=978939
its not stable i'll wait for something more stable
sarp_pasha said:
its not stable i'll wait for something more stable
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No more work can be done on Honeycomb until Google release all the source code needed, getting everything working on Gingerbread sense appears to be the main focus for most now but still issues like camcorder and glitches,etc to sort out alongside some other small issues.
and they aren't planning to release the source 'till ice cream thingy is released, sometime around.after the end of teh year, they dont want people putting it on phones, cos they used trickery to make it work on tablets(is their official stance) ((all part of their slow gentle move towards controlling their own phone OS, in an iOS/WP7-like way, in my uneducated, wildguessworklike opinion, , ))
I see the 2 major ones are miui and cyanogenmod 7. I have cyanogenmod, but im not sure if i like it. Id like to try MIUI, but i see tons of different ones. Is there 1 official (latest) release for EVO? Thanks. Also, what is a good cyanogenmod NIghtly for evo? And whats different between those and the official release? Thanks.
Lots of new blood on tongiht, ok here we go:
Cyanogenmod has two basic release types: official and nightly.
Official releases are finished products, per say. Everything should work or at least mostly work (sometimes bugs make it in of course).
Nightly releases are just that: nightly. Those are snapshots of what the team is working on _right_now_. Because of that, NOTHING is guaranteed to work. Mind you, usually things do, but it's the bleeding edge line we walk if we want to play with the newest features first.
On the other side of the fence is MIUI. This project is closed source and run from China ... devs there do not post their code, rather post weekly updates fully compiled. From there some dedicated fans translate and port that ROM to us eager US users. There are two known teams who work on MIUI ports: www.miuiandroid.com and www.miui.us. They actually take a Nexus ROM and port it over to the EVO, then add the English translations. Because they are both pulling from the same closed source ... there is really very little if nothing different between them (I've even flashed one over the other).
In addition to the ROM, there will occasionally be "Language packs" released mid week to correct any missed translations (some apps/buttons still in Chinese, or the verbiage improved).
Biggest blemish to MIUI atm is 4G: it doesn't support it. As MIUI is released closed source the porting teams can't add the code .... and as WiMAX doesn't run in China the originating team can't be bothered to add it. If you dont mind not having 4g (maybe your city doesn't support it), everything else works and it's a fantastic ROM.
Both Roms have market apps that can help manage the whole flashing/updating process if it seems intimidating ("ROM Manager" and "MIUI ROM Downloader").
Also, i took awhile to setup a new homescreen on launcher pro, if i do a titanium backup ,will it backup all my widgets and whatnot? Im asking because im going to fresh to update my prl, whatever that is. What does that do? Thanks
hi everyone,
As you see the topic its about AOKP team which they have a new version of ICS porting method. First they started moding the devices like Nexus-S and Galaxy nexus. After succeding they came up with other new devices and ported ICS base rom to other devices such as HTC, Xoom,Galaxy Tab.Today i talked to Roman the Dev guy from this team about our beloved TF.Unfortunately he said they wont port this rom to TF. I just started this thread to ask this team for porting this rom. I think if they see our requests they might put their efforts to make it work on our devices. Im currently using build 23 of this rom on my Nexus-s.it comes with lots og built in features.
here is the link for the website.Head over it might be interesting for you.
http://aokp.co
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You said yourself they already said no. Respect their decision and leave them alone; if you don't like the decision you can port it yourself.
From their point of view, I can see why they said no. We will--eventually, one day--get an update from Asus themselves, which will satisfy 99% of users. The remaining 1% will get mods based on the Asus stock roms, just like they do now. There's also already a partially completed port underway by somebody else.
Why would they waste their resources on the TF101 when there are plenty of other devices that have no ICS port, and no chance of getting one from their manufacturer, which they could work on?
Actually, the correct guy to ask for a port is this guy @ProTekkFZS . He recently went on a spree porting aokp to many devices. Roman only port to devices that he is currently using which are gal nexus, nexus s and gal tab.
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if they dont want to port it got to respect that decision but if they would i would be sooooo happy a really great rom would use it
roman recieved a htc sensation from rootzwiki and he hasnt even ported it there yet so i wouldnt hold my breath dude... although it would be epic...
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there is a plan for cm this is nothing compared to that and then there will be miui
pashinator said:
there is a plan for cm this is nothing compared to that and then there will be miui
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1, MIUI won't come to tablets until Xiaomi makes a tablet UI version
2, CM is nowhere yet for the TF
3, Currently AOKP provides more control and access to things than CM. It was stated Cyanogen by himself that CM9 will NOT contain the old CMParts style settings, but rather have them in their respective submenus. AOKP goes on the CM7 way, having a separate app what can switch controls on-off. I'm already using it on my phone (ZTE Blade), and it's currently more stable than CM or even an AOSP build.
fonix232 said:
1, MIUI won't come to tablets until Xiaomi makes a tablet UI version
2, CM is nowhere yet for the TF
3, Currently AOKP provides more control and access to things than CM. It was stated Cyanogen by himself that CM9 will NOT contain the old CMParts style settings, but rather have them in their respective submenus. AOKP goes on the CM7 way, having a separate app what can switch controls on-off. I'm already using it on my phone (ZTE Blade), and it's currently more stable than CM or even an AOSP build.
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1, Miui for tablets could become a reality without Xiaomi since they decided recently to change their code in Open source...so maybe one day
2, not yet, sure, even if CM has already talked about TF cm9 to come
3, here i think it really depends on the phone : with my Nexus S, aokp is pretty stable and smooth, but not as some other aosp (Pete Alfonso's) or CM (fitsnugly's kangs) for example.
Let's first get next Paul's builds, Asus's release then, and CM9 eventually.....at this point we all should be Fulfilled.
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1, Miui for tablets could become a reality without Xiaomi since they decided recently to change their code in Open source...so maybe one day
2, not yet, sure, even if CM has already talked about TF cm9 to come
3, here i think it really depends on the phone : with my Nexus S, aokp is pretty stable and smooth, but not as some other aosp (Pete Alfonso's) or CM (fitsnugly's kangs) for example.
Let's first get next Paul's builds, Asus's release then, and CM9 eventually.....at this point we all should be Fulfilled.
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1. First of all, they haven't gone totally open source yet. And to include a tablet overlay, that would be a huge work. Not just graphics, but compatibility, screen issues, alignments, and such.
2. There will be a CM9 build, but only after CM9 is stable enough, and Asus released theirs so Bumble-Bee, RaYmAn, Roach, and the others can make a working one. So no CM9 for now
3. Yes it depends on that too, but show me any point of CM9 having more feature than AOKP. AOKP derives directly from CM9 sources, with the additional apps and features, plus fixes. So I consider it more mature.
Paul already published his sources for the TF, so we could easily grab his tree, change some stuff for AOKP, and make a build. I don't have quite the PC for such building processes, it would take days, and my electricity bill is already over the limit - so I can't do it definitely. But if there's someone else willing, everything can be made
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1. First of all, they haven't gone totally open source yet. And to include a tablet overlay, that would be a huge work. Not just graphics, but compatibility, screen issues, alignments, and such.
2. There will be a CM9 build, but only after CM9 is stable enough, and Asus released theirs so Bumble-Bee, RaYmAn, Roach, and the others can make a working one. So no CM9 for now
3. Yes it depends on that too, but show me any point of CM9 having more feature than AOKP. AOKP derives directly from CM9 sources, with the additional apps and features, plus fixes. So I consider it more mature.
Paul already published his sources for the TF, so we could easily grab his tree, change some stuff for AOKP, and make a build. I don't have quite the PC for such building processes, it would take days, and my electricity bill is already over the limit - so I can't do it definitely. But if there's someone else willing, everything can be made
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1 & 2, i agree, that's sure.
3, aokp has indeed for now more features than cm9 and kept cm7 idea with nominated menu, which is more than rich of full customization possibilities. My point was in fact on the stability, efficiency and smoothness : there are, for nexus s at least, aosp roms and some cm9 builds which are better than aokp. So not in terms of "quantity" but of a certain idea of quality. Certain idea, because it is of course a question of point of view. That said, i love Roman's work.
I wish i could build on Paul's and Roman's sources for our beloved TF, but even if my electricity bill could eventuelly bear it (for a time), i have neither the pc, nor the knowledge to do so, which is worse .....here's just a very greatful and curious user....
Hi All,
I see that the [ROM][8.1] The Android Open Source Project thread is closed. I really admire a vanilla AOSP for 8.x and looking forward to it, but looks like we ain't getting any updates. The only drawback of that ROM that I read was deepsleep/doze not working and hence battery life not so good. Can someone suggest another ROM closest to AOSP (I really don't like any modifications)
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g4-plus/development/rom-pixel-experience-t3732226