While the Theme Engine was an integral part of the CyanogenMod 7 experience, it has been strangely absent from CM9 nightlies. Fortunately, they’ve reintroduced it, all spruced up for Ice Cream Sandwich. Now switching themes is as easy as opening an app and pressing one button. Themes are also in the convenient form of installable APKs. The whole system… Read more
The Galaxy Note is half phone, half tablet. With its massive 5.3″ 800×1280 screen, it needs an operating system that can really take advantage of all that glorious space. Unfortunately, it’s running Gingerbread. Yes, Samsung promised an update sometime this year. And yes, there are Ice Cream Sandwich leaks out there, but they are all TouchWiz based. So… Read more
During the fire sale of the TouchPad by HP, there was plenty of people who bought the tablet. It was only made more necessary for some people to own it because of Android, which was being put onto the dead device. Now that that effort has continued, and the support community has done their very best to make the Android experience on the tablet worthwhile,… Read more
Back in December CyanogenMod discontinued all official support for the Samsung Vibrant. It was with good reason, as the phone could not make 911 calls due to a bug. Good news for Vibrant owners, as the bug has been fixed and CyanogenMod has added support once again. It’s a good day for owners of the Vibrant, as they can once again frolic in the land of AOSP… Read more
Remember hearing about a few of HP’s TouchPads shipping with Android instead of webOS? It turns out there was quite a bit more of a story to that, as it appears that HP had an internal team developing Android for the TouchPad all along. Out of the kindness of their hearts, HP has given that very Android kernel they developed to the CyanogenMod team. It also… Read more
Weeks ago, reports came down the pipe that the CyanogenMod Music Player application would be made available for anyone out there to download, whether they were rooted or not. This morning, we’ve got good news and even better news, as the application has finally become publicly available for anyone who wants to download it. It’s not available in the Android… Read more
CyanogenMod is most one of the most popular custom ROMs currently available, and they now have a big number to show it. Last night the original creator of the ROM let the world know that they officially have 1 million unique user installs. That means that the ROM has been flashed on 1 million different devices. Of those installs, the most popular version… Read more
Looks like some action on the Google+ yesterday. One of the members of the CyanogenMod team, Koushik Dutta, posted an interesting idea on the CyanogenMod Google+ account. The post outlined a plan to develop a separate app store that would bring root-access-required apps and apps banned from the Market together, not unlike Cydia for the iOS platform which… Read more
All owners of the HP TouchPad have been waiting patiently for an Ice Cream Sandwich port to their discontinued tablet. Some progress has been made however, as developer tigerdavid has successfully booted the new Android version onto his tablet. It isn’t what you’d expect though, as the UI immediately crashes. The touchscreen isn’t working either, so the… Read more
LG Optimus 3D, LG Optimus Pro, LG Optimus Hub, and LG Optimus Black owners, come and get some love. Some CM7 love that is. Ricardo Cerqueira, a member of the CyanogenMod team and apparent LG device expert has brought nightly support to the three phones. For those uninitiated, nightlies describe releases on a daily or near-daily basis. The releases would… Read more
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