cyanogen

Cyngn started off as a modification of a popular Rom on OG droid devices. It quickly became the top Rom of the Android community and eventually was the Rom that all other Roms were based on. Steve Kondik the rom founder eventually pivoted this rom into a multimillion dollar corporation. The...

All those years ago then CEO Kirt McMaster proclaimed that Cyanogen would be placing a bullet in the head of Google implying that their new OS product would one day be a worthy replacement for Google's Android which Cyanogen itself is built on. Cyanogen won't be killing Google anytime soon after...

There was a bit of confusion over the weekend surrounding reports that Cyanogen would be giving up on the Operating Business in favor of going in to the app business. This would not be shocking news if it were true as Cyanogen just finished laying off more than 20% of its work force...

Last night CyanogenMod began rolling out the Snapshot 2 builds for several devices. If your device has an official maintainer chances are your build will be ready for install shortly. The Snapshot builds are meant to be the most stable builds available leading up to the final build. The Snapshot...

Cyanogen "Mods" is not exactly what you are thinking. It doesn't refer to the most popular custom rom that ever existed. Instead "Mods" refers to the new program to open up Cyanogen OS to developers for further app integration into the OS. Cyanogen is providing developers with APIs to help them...

Sony may have decided to drop AOSP support for the Xperia Z, but that doesn't mean that you won't be able to get AOSP on your device. Thanks to Cyanogen you can run CM13 on the Xperia Z. The alpha version was just released for the device. The only real drawback is the fact that in these early...

As much as I love stock Android on the Nexus 6P I am a flashaholic at heart. This is one of the biggest reasons I love the Nexus 6P is the ability to easily unlock the bootloader and run custom roms. CyanogenMod 13 is officially available for the 6P. This includes all the standard Marshmallow...

The HTC One M9 runs one of my least favorite OEM skins of all time, HTC Sense. One great thing about HTC devices is that they are pretty easily hacked. You can unlock the bootloader and S-Off your device which will allow you to install a custom recovery like Team Win Recovery Project. From there...

Cyanogen has really began to make a name for themselves in emerging markets by being the OS on many lower cost handsets. One of my favorite devices this year is the Zuk Z1 which runs CyanogenOS 12.1. Today Cyanogen made several announcements concerning projects in the works for 2016. First up...

My good buddy Tom (aka RootJunky) had the opportunity to make it out to the Big Android BBQ in Austin Texas. There he was able to sit through a CyanogenOS presentation. They revealed some new and upcoming features. One of the most interesting new features is the all new live lockscreens. New...