Tag: custom rom
Many months ago I took the plunge, I did what many phone enthusiasts do, I pre ordered a phone from a company with a history of buggy software, dodgy memory setup and questionable update policies. Yes I’m talking about Oppo and my Find 7a. So here I am …
The OnePlus One is a fairly unique device, or it is in the software stakes anyway. Running a unique version of Cyanogenmod, which was made specifically for the OnePlus One and many people are itching to port it to their devices. Not too surprisingly the first device to …
CyanogenMod is arguably the most popular custom ROM for Android phones and tablets, and the latest incarnation is almost ready for final release. Based on Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, CM 10.1.0 is so stable that they’ve decided to issue a release candidate for it. If you’ve ever flashed …
Earlier we reported that the CyanogenMod team were being held to ransom over their domain by an unscrupulous member of their team. Spurred by the news, the wider community have come to the rescue, and the situation is now under control. Cyanogen himself took to the blog in …
For the uninitiated, CyanogenMod is probably the most widely used custom ROM suite in the Android community. The team work as a non-profit group of programmers that provide fully open source, freely available ROMs for dozens of devices for nothing. Nice people, doing great things for the common …
The HTC One X+ is the latest flagship in the HTC One range. It’s been a controversial move by HTC, and much has already been made of the decision to release it so soon after the original One X. Well, the time for controversy is over as those …
When CyanogenMod developer Codeworkx was quizzed as to why certain versions of the Samsung Galaxy SII were getting CyanogenMod 10 sooner than others he explained that it was down to the fact that some use Samsung’s own Exynos SoC (system on a chip) and others use Qualcom or …
Slim Bean is the all new Jelly Bean update to Slim ICS – a super slick, minimal version of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich which has proved a popular alternative to CyanogenMod and AOKP. Since the release of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) Jelly Bean source code …
If you’re not the proud owner of a Samsung Galaxy Nexus or a Nexus 7 tablet, then you’ll probably be wondering when (or if) Jelly Bean – the latest version of Android – will be coming to your device. Well, adventurous owners of the rather excellent Nexus S …
After the announcement of Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update and the release of the SDK, a couple people have been hard at to work getting it ported to several devices. Thanks to @drewgaren for his hard work we are now up to Beta 10, with …
This morning the Cyanogenmod team have announced that 7.1 is now the new stable release. I know a lot of you will have been running this via the nightly route and your wondering what the fuss is about. Well this release includes official stable support for most of …
