CyanogenMod 10.2 M1 Released 65
sfcrazy writes "CyanogenMod team has announced the release of version 10.2 M1, just after the release of Android 4.4 aka Kit Kat. In a post the team says, "With all the Android 4.4 hype, we haven't forgotten about CM 10.2. Tonight the buildbots will focus their efforts on building and shipping out CyanogenMod 10.2 M1. Builds are already hitting the servers (please be patient, this will take a while). We are targeting over 70 devices for this initial M-release.""
Re:Great! (Score:0, Insightful)
Anybody with Google and half a brain does. (Score:5, Insightful)
I use it on both of my devices: A cheap phone and a Nook tablet. Neither are officially supported, but there seems to be a lot of unofficial ports for unsupported devices. In both cases, my devices have better performance and features that were not available in their stock format. Personally I wouldn't buy an Android device unless I was sure that someone out there has already forged a clear path to install CyanogenMod, but if the Mozilla people can make a better alternative, I'll be more than happy to give that one a shot as well.
It's pat of my long standing philosofy never to use the OS that came with any computing device I purchase.
Re:ELi5: CyanogenMod (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm sure CyanogenMod is awesome, but the CyanogenMod homepage doesn't do a good enough job of explaining WTF it is, and why anyone would want it. I'm thorougly unimpressed by "it has themes" and "it has a DSP equalizer" and "it has quick settings". There are no obvious videos showing how it works, so please help me understand why anyone would use it.
Can anyone here please ELI5 (explain like I'm five) what it is and why someone would want to use it?
Dad: Tablets and phones are like computers. Every so often they need to be updated to fix glitches, to run faster, and to run longer. Normally these updates come from the people that made them. But, sometimes the people that make the tablets and phones stop building and giving us these updates. So, what the Cyanogenmod team does is gives us the updates for tablets and phones built by all kinds of different companies, even older ones. In other words, it allows you, Jimmy, to play the latest balloon game that requires KitKat.
Kid: Like the Chocolate bar?
Dad: Yes, like the chocolate bar.
Kid: My game needs a chocolate bar?
Dad: No Daddy does... Where did you hide your Halloween candy?
Kid: Daaaaad... Mom told me not to tell you... but my game needs a chocolate bar?
Dad: The latest update for your tablet is called KitKat because the Cyanogenmod guys like sweets...
Kid: I like sweets too... Can I play my balloon game now?
Re:Great! (Score:4, Insightful)
That's sadly not remotely the case -- most popular or "nice" Android tablets and GSM phones do, but most inexpensive tablets or CDMA phones (even ones with a fully-supported GSM"twin") don't even have a port. That is to say: devices by a high-end company Samsung invariably do, but anything by one more like Coby is passed over as the developers reasonably/logically only work on things they own.