cyanogenmod

Many of you may have flashed roms to your devices back in the day for the specific purpose of being able to apply themes via the CyanogenMod theme engine. At one time this was the only way to get system wide changes to your color scheme. You could theme your notification panel, boot animation...

The days of CyanogenMod are officially behind us as Lineage OS continues to chug along. While it is not the same it does provide us with what we needed from CyanogenMod which is a pure Google Android experience on devices that otherwise include an OEM skin. One of the main features of...

Earlier in the week we found out that CyanogenMod was officially ending. There would be no more nightly builds following the final day of December. CM would be replaced by LineageOS. We are already beginning to see builds of LineageOS rollingout to many devices. As you remember LineageOS will be...

Cyanogen has been having all kinds of trouble lately. Earlier in the year the company had made a pivot from a full on OS company to a company providing their own version of apps and services. This seemed to be a viable alternative for the company, but it would come with significant layoffs. As...

The Nextbit Robin was one of those unique smartphones that seemed super interesting at first, but then never really took off. The whole point of the Nextbit Robin was to allow you to access memory from the cloud as actual internal memory meaning you would never have to worry about running out of...

One of the main reasons that OnePlus gained popularity early on is the fact that they have always been so developer friendly. For this reason rom developers gravitate toward their phones. This also means that rom development is pretty rapid and continues to happen as the devices age. You just...

Cyanogen has finally began the rollout of CM14.1. Their latest build is based on Android 7.1 Nougat. This includes all the features from stock Android plus many custom features. The nightly builds are now available for the Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X, Xiaomi Mi3/Mi4, LG G3, Moto G, LG G4, Galaxy S5...

ZTE appears to be working directly with Cyanogen to finally bring official Cyanogen Mod support to the Axon 7. ZTE has mentioned that they will provide hardware to the team to speed up the process of getting the official Rom on the phone. While ZTE is doing their very best to bring the Rom to...

A few years back the CEO of CyanogenMod went on record stating that his company over time would put a bullet in the head of Google somehow insinuating that his Android Skin overlay would not only be able to thrive without the existence of Android but also that his company would be the one to...

Starting a few nightlies back users started to notice a new blank weather feature in the settings dashboard. Until now there has been no explanation of what this is. Cyanogen Mod has been using Yahoo Weather and OpenWeatherMap to power weather features in the status bar and the weather widget...

The OnePlus X was one of the better budget devices released last year. It featured a premium metal and glass build and looked very similar to a device like the iPhone 5s. It was also pretty snappy and performed well overall. OnePlus has yet to officially update the device to Android 6.0...

One great reason to root your device and add a custom recovery is the ability to continue to update your device long after the device has been end of lifed by its OEM. CyanogenMod has been providing older devices with the latest and greatest versions of Android for years. The latest lineup of...

CyanogenMod users have had to suffer with the inability to Chromecast! Until now any attempts to cast video or images to your Chromecast from a device with CyanogenMod installed resulted in a black screen. The bug was present when using many Google apps including Google photos and some other...

Zuk released one of my favorite sub $300 phones last year in the Zuk Z1. It wasn't one of my favorites because of the build quality, or even because of the specs. I loved the Z1 because it shipped from the factory running CyanogenOS. It is also a super developer friendly phone which you won't...

A few months ago I got to spend some time with the Zuk Z1. Zuk was an independent OEM that was doing such a great job with mobile development that Lenovo took interest and eventually bought them. Now they are Zuk by Lenovo. The Z1 is their latest flagship device. It is actually a pretty popular...

Cyanogen is working hard on preparing a stabilized version of CM13 for the multitude of supported devices to be released by the end of January. In anticipation of this release CM has readied the rom for localization. Translators are now able to begin their work on getting the whole system...

The Nexus devices are always the first to receive the latest and greatest software from Google. Even older devices like the Nexus 5 generally end up getting the updates. Applying the update is not always the easiest for those of us who like to root and rom our devices. Accepting an OTA update is...

The OnePlus One was a huge success when it comes to a budget device. This is mainly due to the use of CyanogenMod as their stock OS. This instantly drew in the Anroid Rom and Hack community. Pretty quickly OnePlus was able to make a name for themselves as having one of the most developer...

It may not sound like big news, another device gains Cyanogenmod support, but trust me this is big! Cyanogen has officially stated that they would not support devices with Exynos chips. The reason being is that Samsung does not do their due diligence to provide developer with the source code...

I can never stress enough how important the development community is for older devices. Once a device hits a certain age it gets end of lifed by OEMs never to be updated again. This means that even if security patches come out those devices will remain unsecured. The rom development community...