Android 4.3 Based CyanogenMod 10.2 Nightlies Arrive

hypnosec writes "The CyanogenMod team has announced the release of version 10.2 nightly builds, which are based on Google's latest Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. The current nightly builds have been released for the Google Galaxy Nexus, HTC One, Samsung Galaxy S4, Samsung Galaxy S3, LG Optimus G, Sony Xperia Z, and Motorola Razr among others. As always, CyanogenMod team reminds that these are experimental."

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[stoolpigeon]

I made the mistake of buying a galaxy s3 from t-mobile in the U.S. T-mobile hobbled the thing so badly I switched away from the stock os for the first time. I have to say that there are a few bumps but over all I've loved it. Not waiting on Samsung for ever and ever to get Android updates is probably worth it alone.

Closed source drivers still a bane

[Kinwolf]

I tried CM 10 on my GS3 and sadly I had to remove it. Wi-fi, camera and bluetooth refused to work properly, kept crashing or had awful performance, depending on the revision installed. So I went back to the stock ROM, which isn't too bad thankfully, but still has alot of services and programs that I have no use of and yet are always loaded in memory. Next phone(which should not be before 3 years) I am going Nexus to avoid all that pain.(and hoping that Nexus phones still exist at that time)

Re:do they fix the play store update bug

[Andy Dodd]

How can we fix a bug in shit that isn't ours?

Play Store is part of gapps, which has always been a separate install because it's Google's stuff and not open source. It's a Play Store problem, not a base OS problem (which is why it started happening suddenly on devices that did not receive any form of OS update).

Re:Update

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean 10.1.2 Stable?

Yeah, ages and ages. Or, yknow, a month. Whatever.

Re:Still waiting for S3 Mini Stable

[Andy Dodd]

S3 Mini is NovaThor based, and I am not sure if a single NovaThor device is receiving nightlies.

Some NovaThor-based Sonys got unofficial weekly builds from FreeXperia, but the platform was a nightmare to work with and I think jerpelea gave up on NovaThor after either CM9 or CM10.0

And yes - there are platforms even worse for a CM maintainer than Exynos4. NovaThor and MTK65xx being two of them.

Re:do they fix the play store update bug

[Anonymous Coward]

lots of people are getting "package is invalid" errors when they try to update random apps. sometimes apps update, sometimes not

It's not just happening with Cyanogen, it's happening to people using the stock ROM's from their Carrier as well.

Re:nice

[dc29A]

They are also one of the hacker friendliest devices with most having unlocked bootloaders and they publish kernel sources. Oh and SD card slot ... and removable battery.

Re:nice

[JestersGrind]

I had a similar experience with Verizon. Their bloatware essentially crippled the device. Even with a larger battery, I was lucky to get a half day out of it. I installed a minimalist custom mod and now battery life is 3-5 days, depending on use obviously.