[Q] What is CM doing? - Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I tried to flash CM on my N6 and it bootlooped. So I got to checking, since going public, Cyanogenmod has not put out anything but nightlies since cm10. What is going on? Why start up an actual company if you're just going to pump out nightlies from a generator?

travisjshepherd said:
I tried to flash CM on my N6 and it bootlooped. So I got to checking, since going public, Cyanogenmod has not put out anything but nightlies since cm10. What is going on? Why start up an actual company if you're just going to pump out nightlies from a generator?
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This is one of the reasons why many users have jumped ship for other ROMs.

I have tried CM over the years on several devices and I've never found them to be most stable ROM out there. maybe it's just me but I tend to avoid them now.
Sent from my Benzo'd Google N6 on VZ

DebianDog said:
I have tried CM over the years on several devices and I've never found them to be most stable ROM out there. maybe it's just me but I tend to avoid them now.
Sent from my Benzo'd Google N6 on VZ
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Same I rather use aosp ROMs then CM.

travisjshepherd said:
I tried to flash CM on my N6 and it bootlooped. So I got to checking, since going public, Cyanogenmod has not put out anything but nightlies since cm10. What is going on? Why start up an actual company if you're just going to pump out nightlies from a generator?
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Cyanogenmod (the open source rom) and Cyngn Inc are not the same. People really need to learn this.

akellar said:
Cyanogenmod (the open source rom) and Cyngn Inc are not the same. People really need to learn this.
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They are not as separate as they are trying to imply. cyngn is the "business" side that CONTROLS the "code" side. Cyanogenmod is the *pretend* community side. The relationship between the two is parasitic. Nothing goes into cyanogenmod without going THROUGH their gerrit server, which is wholly under the control of employees of cyngn.

Exactly. Thank you. CyanogenMod is open source community driven, Cyanogen Inc is a business.
Would you say Fedora Linux is the same as Red Hat?
As for the OP, CM12 wasn't around long enough to go milestone yet. They release a stable variant when they are no major bugs and all the *extras* are included. This takes a while.

_Dennis_ said:
Exactly. Thank you. CyanogenMod is open source community driven, Cyanogen Inc is a business.
Would you say Fedora Linux is the same as Red Hat?
As for the OP, CM12 wasn't around long enough to go milestone yet. They release a stable variant when they are no major bugs and all the *extras* are included. This takes a while.
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and I completely understand this, but not even so much as a RC since cm10 is a bit odd, right?

travisjshepherd said:
and I completely understand this, but not even so much as a RC since cm10 is a bit odd, right?
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This explains it:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Release_Versioning
There are never going to be RCs or Stables.

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Best Version of Honeycomb Port

Who in anyone’s opinion makes the best Honeycomb port for the Nook Color?
I know CM7 is out there and I use it for my phone, I think it’s awesome on my phone and will probably be great on the Nook as well.
Are their any other good ports for 2.3 or especially 3.0?
Right now, we have:
an official CM7 rom.
and HC rom from madcat & deeper blue.
I am endlessly happy that we have such awesome devs working on so few roms. I got sick of the G1 threads blowing up with roms that tended to break more things than they fixed.
Just look for the most recently updated threads in the dev section.
HC is based of sdk, btw.
ace7196 said:
Right now, we have:
an official CM7 rom.
and HC rom from madcat & deeper blue.
I am endlessly happy that we have such awesome devs working on so few roms. I got sick of the G1 threads blowing up with roms that tended to break more things than they fixed.
Just look for the most recently updated threads in the dev section.
HC is based of sdk, btw.
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Do you prefer one to the other? I was looking to install Honeycomb any advice one which one is most preferable?
IMO since BC is not officially released, you will always be dealing with a not fully ready version. The dev's are doing great work with it but it is not a daily driver unlike cm7
myers022 said:
Do you prefer one to the other? I was looking to install Honeycomb any advice one which one is most preferable?
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I would stick with CM7.
CM7 all the way. HC is amazing for what they have to work with, but for daily driver, cm7 is awesome. Wait for the next nightly, and all will be well
ace7196 said:
CM7 all the way. HC is amazing for what they have to work with, but for daily driver, cm7 is awesome. Wait for the next nightly, and all will be well
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Why, what's happening in the next nightly, something new?
myers022 said:
Why, what's happening in the next nightly, something new?
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Yes do tell.
I Am Marino said:
Yes do tell.
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Yeah. Seems the more recent nightlies are having trouble with wifi. Should be fixed.
Also, so everyone is on the same page, the bootloader will be flashed as well, so that should help a lot of people out.
Also audio and video hiccups will be fixed.
It's all here. Bookmark and read along!
http://cm-nightlies.appspot.com/?device=encore
I liked DB's HC version, and the version before the recent release of madcat's where the SD card stopped working personally, I couldn't get used to the softkeys from the other versions.
I'd like to echo the responses above that suggest sticking with CM7 as a daily driver for now. HC is coming along nicely, and I do install the latest on an SD card every now and then to check out the progress, but it's really not "done" enough to use every day. CM7 is. The occasional nightly hiccup aside, it's definitely feature-complete enough for daily use.
ace7196 said:
Yeah. Seems the more recent nightlies are having trouble with wifi. Should be fixed.
Also, so everyone is on the same page, the bootloader will be flashed as well, so that should help a lot of people out.
Also audio and video hiccups will be fixed.
It's all here. Bookmark and read along!
http://cm-nightlies.appspot.com/?device=encore
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so its cm_encore_full-86.zip that has all these issues fixed? thanks
nolook said:
so its cm_encore_full-86.zip that has all these issues fixed? thanks
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Theoretically, yes......However it is still a "nightly" build and hasn't been labeled as stable....Some things could be fixed and other stuff could have broken in the process (don't know that's the case, just saying it's a possibilty.)

Moderator:please close this thread

My own Project was already in the works for another TEAM:
http://www.aedesign.cn/bbs/forumdisplay.php?fid=6
DOWNLOAD of THEIR work:
http://u.115.com/file/bh5z76gp#AED_Legend_5.0.0.RC3_exp.zip
good to see
Good to see someone else to make something new for the legend comunity. Keep going!
By the way, what is your ROM base? The video is too blury...
ogo2 said:
Good to see someone else to make something new for the legend comunity. Keep going!
By the way, what is your ROM base? The video is too blury...
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I would say this rom:
http://www.aedesign.cn/bbs/viewthread.php?tid=316&extra=page=1
Looks cool, looking forward to this rom. Gj so far
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I am glad as well to see someone else step up to the plate. I think this will give the CyanogenMod developers some more motivation to make a stable release.
LiViD said:
I am glad as well to see someone else step up to the place. I think this will give the CyanogenMod developers some more motivation to make a stable release.
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Yeah, I know we are idiots. All of our releases have been unstable, full of bugs and missing nearly every feature one could wish for. Please excuse us, but we really can't do any better. The fact that all ROMs that are not based off RUUs are CyanogenMod rip-offs should clearly tell you that we just can't get anything right at all.
Very MIUI like.. Looks pretty much like my new Desire... Great job seeing similar running on the Legend..
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great job!
LiViD said:
I am glad as well to see someone else step up to the plate. I think this will give the CyanogenMod developers some more motivation to make a stable release.
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i suggust u say sorry for your arrogance to the CyanogenMod tea
btw awsome work!
dilip007 said:
i suggust u say sorry for your arrogance to the CyanogenMod tea
btw awsome work!
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You guys don't pay attention to the experimental thread do you? Seriously, over 160 attempts at a nightly build and still nothing that performs up to par with ogo2's 2.3.3 Sense UI ROM. Sure his is lacking WiFi AP functionality, but I can live with that.
I love how you call everyone elses' ROM a rip-off of a CM ROM. Get a life guys, no one would attempt to use your builds unless said person was extremely lazy.
LiViD said:
You guys don't pay attention to the experimental thread do you? Seriously, over 160 attempts at a nightly build and still nothing that performs up to par with ogo2's 2.3.3 Sense UI ROM. Sure his is lacking WiFi AP functionality, but I can live with that.
I love how you call everyone elses' ROM a rip-off of a CM ROM. Get a life guys, no one would attempt to use your builds unless said person was extremely lazy.
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Damn.. Where have you lived your life? 2 versions of stable ROMS is what we have.. original from HTC is 1 - CM is 2.. All roms worth mention is variations of one of those.. (for Legend that is)
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LiViD said:
I love how you call everyone elses' ROM a rip-off of a CM ROM.
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I know I'm wasting my time here and I really don't care anyway.
Still I think I have to clarify that I'm not talking about people using some "builds". I'm talking about the source code.
If you want to build a ROM for the Legend (and nearly every other device out there) you've got two choices: Push some files from official releases (RUUs) around and zip them, or compile from source.
As a matter of fact there's no project out there that releases working source code (for anything but Google's official devices) except for CyanogenMod.
Video encoding or decoding? msm* support? Backported code for ancient libcamera, libril and framework support for said ancient libraries? GPS backport or implementation? Kernel backports for Gingerbread? Yeah, good luck finding that somewhere else (no, I don't mean the CAF repositories where we are copying from and giving credit of course).
LiViD said:
Get a life guys, no one would attempt to use your builds unless said person was extremely lazy.
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"Get a life"? Come on, don't be ridiculous.
MD5-sums can be quite revealing by the way. Or boot messages (like "Welcome to CyanogeMod" in MIUI). Some people were even charging for shady rip-offs – that's why the CM team ultimately decided to close down development and switch to "release when it's done".
LiViD said:
Seriously, over 160 attempts at a nightly build...
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Sorry, but you didn't understand the concept of a nightly build? There are no "attempts at a nightly build" and they are not even meant for users. Nightly builds are there to see if current code in the repositories still compiles. Nothing else.
whitetigerdk said:
All roms worth mention is variations of one of those.. (for Legend that is)
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Unfortunately not only for the Legend but for most other devices too.
Android was said to be open but in fact it's just proprietary crap again. No developer wants to spend months doing the work of forty CM devs, so they either join CM – or sometimes steal their work declaring it as their own – or use (or combine) binaries from official releases.
If you didn't care, you would be in other developers threads attacking their attempts at making something that just may work better than what you're pushing out.
Face the facts; People want more choices other than CM. I am willing to admit that CM 6.1 was a damn good ROM when it came out, but I can't for life of me figure out why you guys can't live up to the same expectations with CM7.
I have been testing the NewSense 1.0 RC's (HTC Salsa ROM) for some time, and I as I said; Without the lack of AP support, it works well and does not have the crash prone problems that I have seen with 7.0.3, and 7.1 RC1.
ali ba said:
Unfortunately not only for the Legend but for most other devices too.
Android was said to be open but in fact it's just proprietary crap again. No developer wants to spend months doing the work of forty CM devs, so they either join CM – or sometimes steal their work declaring it as their own – or use (or combine) binaries from official releases.
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Oh Sorry.. Didn't know much of other devices.. Recently bought the Desire and currently using MIUI. Must admit that I believed the MIUI to be a completely rewrite of the Android framework..
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LiViD said:
I have been testing the NewSense 1.0 RC's (HTC Salsa ROM) for some time, and I as I said; Without the lack of AP support, it works well and does not have the crash prone problems that I have seen with 7.0.3, and 7.1 RC1.
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You can thanks for that to HTC, because i haven't written a single line of code in NewSense. Only some crappy hacks.
Really, our community is too small and we have a lack of devs, but that's not all. HTC provide to us just ****ty sources. It just sucks!
Btw: this rom here is based on cm7...
Edit: I commented on the wrong ROM. My bad.
I still think Blayo's rom's are the best for Legend!
Been using them for quite a while and I never have had any complain!
whitetigerdk said:
Must admit that I believed the MIUI to be a completely rewrite of the Android framework..
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Their earlier releases certainly used CM sources with modified framework and apps. I don't know what they are doing now – but as they don't release their sources I can accuse them of using modified CM source code as much as I want without ever being able to prove it so I refrain from doing that.
If you are interested, the UltimateDroid soap opera is a good read by the way.
ogo2 said:
You can thanks for that to HTC, because i haven't written a single line of code in NewSense. Only some crappy hacks.
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That doesn't make your work worth less than anyone else's and certainly not "crappy".
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HTC provide to us just ****ty sources.
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I'd be happy if they provided the real sources for the binaries they are releasing but as a matter of fact HTC continuously violates the GPL and we can't do anything about that.
LiViD said:
If you didn't care, you would be in other developers threads attacking their attempts at making something that just may work better than what you're pushing out.
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Where exactly did I attack emiliano7's work? I'm actually very glad that someone is developing for the Legend and I never stated anything else.
You obviously on the other hand couldn't resist showing your arrogant attitude by addressing the CM team in this thread making false accusations. You can't take a discussion off-topic and then blame others for taking the same train.
LiViD said:
...the crash prone problems that I have seen with 7.0.3, and 7.1 RC1.
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Instead of making vague accusations you could have filed bug reports a long time ago. CM is a community project and nothing without its community.
It sometimes still makes me sad that for some people whining doesn't seem to be a problem but as soon as it comes to writing a good bug report they come up with various excuses.

Unofficial nightlies?????????????

I dunno I seem to remember there being Nightly's and stable releases. Now we have Unofficial Nightly's. Why? This isnt going to continue is it? Eventually we will get back to just Nightly's and Stable right? Not that its a big deal just seems unnecessary.
As I look through the threads I see there are a good number of people running these Unoffical Nightlys so maybe someone can explain to me the difference between Official and Unofficial. Are they that bad that they cant be official? If they are that bad why are so many people running them? Seems to reason that the unofficial is stable enough so cant we just make them official for god sakes. I mean really whats the worst that can happen? Its not like Cyanogen is going to be sued. Its already assumed that official nightlys are not going to be stable so whats the problem?
Official is being built by the Cyanogen servers and released at their discretion. The unofficials are users creating their own builds (usually with modifications) and being released separately.
That being said, CM7 has been in development for a while so there are both nightlies and stable releases. CM9 is still in early development, and Cyanogen team hasn't been releasing nightlies yet. The ones you see are users releasing it on their own.
You're either not very smart or a terrible reader. Unofficial simply means private individuals are taking it upon themselves to regularly post private builds that they made themselves, for others to take for a test drive. Official builds would come directly from CM, which has not happened yet.
Get a clue.
Perhaps your highness would be kind and gracious enough to direct us to a place where we could read that explanation (assuming, of course, that we can read such lofty material)..
Tongue firmly in cheek.. but.. hey Dude.. lighten up.
skwalas said:
You're either not very smart or a terrible reader. Unofficial simply means private individuals are taking it upon themselves to regularly post private builds that they made themselves, for others to take for a test drive. Official builds would come directly from CM, which has not happened yet.
Get a clue.
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Yep those are the only two possible reasons for me not knowing whats going on.
IFLATLINEI said:
I dunno I seem to remember there being Nightly's and stable releases. Now we have Unofficial Nightly's. Why? This isnt going to continue is it? Eventually we will get back to just Nightly's and Stable right? Not that its a big deal just seems unnecessary.
As I look through the threads I see there are a good number of people running these Unoffical Nightlys so maybe someone can explain to me the difference between Official and Unofficial. Are they that bad that they cant be official? If they are that bad why are so many people running them? Seems to reason that the unofficial is stable enough so cant we just make them official for god sakes. I mean really whats the worst that can happen? Its not like Cyanogen is going to be sued. Its already assumed that official nightlys are not going to be stable so whats the problem?
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I'm kind of confused due to your confusion
What "Unofficial Nightly's" and "Official Nightly's" you are seeing?
Don't tell me that you are confusing the Official Nightly's of CM7 and the Unofficial Nightly's of CM9.
Two different things.
Im sorry! Im trying to keep up with the development of the Nook Color, HTC Droid Eris, and the Galaxy Nexus and I lost it. LOL Not too mention my search for the perfect router to finally rid me of that god awful Linksys WRT54GS combined with the overkill Smoothwall finally ended. My home network has been in shambles till recently. Again I apologize. Its purely my mixup and clearly nothing to do with the information provided at XDA. I just needed to search a bit more. Or I could have asked like I did here but maybe in a more positive tone. Im sorry for that as well.
So I recently purchased the GNEX and I love ICS. OMG I cant tell you how nice it is to finally have a proper smart phone with polished Android Goodness. I want the same for my Nook. From what ive read so far the "Unofficial Builds" seem to run pretty good. Users reporting it runs as good as CM7. Is this true? I mainly use my Nook for watching Netflix and Hulu. I do some light browsing as well. Would the latest build work well enough for me to hop in now?
Thanks for your help and understanding!
I don't know how far but CM9 is far from stable as CM7
IFLATLINEI said:
Im sorry! Im trying to keep up with the development of the Nook Color, HTC Droid Eris, and the Galaxy Nexus and I lost it. LOL Not too mention my search for the perfect router to finally rid me of that god awful Linksys WRT54GS combined with the overkill Smoothwall finally ended. My home network has been in shambles till recently. Again I apologize. Its purely my mixup and clearly nothing to do with the information provided at XDA. I just needed to search a bit more. Or I could have asked like I did here but maybe in a more positive tone. Im sorry for that as well.
So I recently purchased the GNEX and I love ICS. OMG I cant tell you how nice it is to finally have a proper smart phone with polished Android Goodness. I want the same for my Nook. From what ive read so far the "Unofficial Builds" seem to run pretty good. Users reporting it runs as good as CM7. Is this true? I mainly use my Nook for watching Netflix and Hulu. I do some light browsing as well. Would the latest build work well enough for me to hop in now?
Thanks for your help and understanding!
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Awesome. Reading comprehension skills FTW.
CM9 is nice. Personally, I'd wait for solid wifi and any true resolution on HW accel.
CM7 had 'official' stable releases and 'official' nightlies built by the CyanogenMod automated build process. The last stable was 7.1 but there were nightlies after that which continued to fix some remaining problems.
Back in mid November 2011 the build process suffered from some hardware failures and the nightlies stopped appearing. At the same time ICS was being released and the devs switched their attention to that (CM9) and, although the build process got repaired, the CM7 nightlies were never restarted.
There were some outstanding issues in CM7 that had got fixed but never built by the official process into either a stable or a nightly. That is where the 'unofficial' builds stepped in and built new ROMS from the source incorporating the latest fixes and including some other improvements. The most common of these is the MiRaGe build found in the thread in development and that has been very stable, gives great performance and is often referred to as 7.2
CM9 is effectively still in an alpha form and does not have official nightlies or 'stables' yet. The developers did encourage people to learn how to build ROMS from the source and some have now made these 'unofficial' nightlies available.
Some find these unofficial CM9 nightlies good and stable enough for daily use; I am one. There are trade offs; the CM7 ROMS are generally a bit snappier in performance and there are one or two limitations in CM9 functionality (e.g. hw video acceleration) but this is balanced by a significantly nicer user interface and functionality in CM9. You just choose based on what is important to you.
Nandroid backups are always your friend and allows you try out various options at low risk and just a few minutes to fully restore to a former point.
Thanks for the summary and info.
But how well does Hulu and Netflix work? Right now thats the most important thing.
Im currently running CM7 stable with the processor clocked at 925. I see alot of people running overclock kernels so when you say CM9 isnt as snappy to which are you comparing to. Low end or high?
Either. I'm running CM9 at 1200 right now and there is still lag (haven't done any tweaks though, working on other things). Besides that, I don't think Netflix is working on CM9 yet. If you are wanting stability, smoothness, and more application compatibility, CM9 isn't quite there yet.
It's funny how the people calling the OP clueless seem blissfully unaware of the situation with nightlies the last few months, but bobtidey broke it down well. The automated system for CM7 nightlies is broken, but the updated source is still available, and some people are sharing their builds from source (MiRaGe being the most reliable atm).
If Hulu and Netflix are your priorities, CM9 is probably not for you just yet. You can try it out a number of ways,
As bobtidey said, back up your current build, flash CM9, and if you're not happy go back.
Set it up on SD--there's a link in my sig for that, just grab CM9 and a compatible gapps instead of CM7.
Repartition the NC and set up a dual boot like mine (also linked in my sig) with MiRaGe's CM7.2 and Samiam's CM9.
If you just want a fresher flavor and don't want to mess around too much, I'd say go w/ MiRaGe's build.
Blah! It is what it is. As stated things have been pretty hectic around here. Now that I think of it things are always hectic. So I overlooked something and needed correction.
I just may dual boot. Ive wanted to try MiRaGe for awhile now anyways. I hear great things. Should be a nice upgrade over CM7 stable right? Thanks for info!

[Q] New Touchpad!

Hey guys,
I'm getting my Touchpad some time next week and I plan on setting up CM9 after I play around with WebOS for a little bit.
I guess my question here is: which nightly do you use?
I've been looking around various forums and many seem to say that 5/29 is pretty stable (as stable as Alphas are anyways...) so I'm probably going to start with that.
If any of the more recent ones are better, please let me know!
Thanks
davidwnbrgr said:
Hey guys,
I'm getting my Touchpad some time next week and I plan on setting up CM9 after I play around with WebOS for a little bit.
I guess my question here is: which nightly do you use?
I've been looking around various forums and many seem to say that 5/29 is pretty stable (as stable as Alphas are anyways...) so I'm probably going to start with that.
If any of the more recent ones are better, please let me know!
Thanks
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I'm using eyeballers UNOFFICIAL nightly paired with GooManager and TWRP recovery. That way I get differential updates every morning and don't have to flash gApps because it doesn't format the /system folder.
As far as stability I have concluded that's up to you and your device. If you have wifi issues its got something to do with your particular TP and your setup because the problems are not across the board or isolated to certain versions or builds. Luckily I have a glitch free device. I have no sound and speaker issues nor do I have wifi issues. Never have since I installed Android. Don't even have the charging issues a lot of folks common complain about. But the setup I mentioned at beginning is what I believe to be optimal
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cdzo72 said:
As far as stability I have concluded that's up to you and your device.
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That's a bummer but I'd agree- it seems to be the case across the board.
Out of curiosity, which build of CM did you start off with initially?
Thanks for your help, Pura Vida~
davidwnbrgr said:
That's a bummer but I'd agree- it seems to be the case across the board.
Out of curiosity, which build of CM did you start off with initially?
Thanks for your help, Pura Vida~
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I started off with the official nightlies but got tired of the system partition getting formatted and having to.manually add gApps each update. The route I described eliminates that problem
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Sounds good.
And you're currently on the most recent build (6/8 as of now) with no problems?
I just don't want to start off my TP mod experience with something that is known to be faulty...
davidwnbrgr said:
Sounds good.
And you're currently on the most recent build (6/8 as of now) with no problems?
I just don't want to start off my TP mod experience with something that is known to be faulty...
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Zero problems
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davidwnbrgr said:
Hey guys,
I'm getting my Touchpad some time next week and I plan on setting up CM9 after I play around with WebOS for a little bit.
I guess my question here is: which nightly do you use?
I've been looking around various forums and many seem to say that 5/29 is pretty stable (as stable as Alphas are anyways...) so I'm probably going to start with that.
If any of the more recent ones are better, please let me know!
Thanks
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I heavily recommend AOKP. But that's my personal preference. CM9 is just as stable, I just like the customization AOKP has a lot more.
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MikeyCriggz said:
I heavily recommend AOKP. But that's my personal preference. CM9 is just as stable, I just like the customization AOKP has a lot more.
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Yeah, I've heard a lot about AOKP. I'll have to try it out with the others.
Is it hard to switch from one version of the OS to another? Do you lose any data?
been using 5/29 tenderloin, smooth as silk at least for me...
also have Goo & TWRP installed, plenty of options available.
probably will try something new soon, i'm still a green noob but i'm learning quickly.
davidwnbrgr said:
Yeah, I've heard a lot about AOKP. I'll have to try it out with the others.
Is it hard to switch from one version of the OS to another? Do you lose any data?
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Not at all, just make sure you back up.
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Also, here's a n00b question:
How would I check the changelog when downloading an update? Is it in the .zip?
Thanks again
Eh I got it. Thanks anyways

Official CM10 preview

http://omgdroid.com/cyanogenmod-10-preview-arrives-for-the-google-nexus-7-tablet/
Tried it and it's really fast and smooth.
Can someone tell me what the allure of Cyanogenmod is over the regular, stock Android?
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Can someone tell me what the allure of Cyanogenmod is over the regular, stock Android?
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Features, theming, tweaks, more control over your device.
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Features, theming, tweaks, more control over your device.
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I looked at some videos of CM10 on YouTube but besides the ability to put widgets on the lockscreen, I didn't see all these features and tweaks that you're referring to. Can you expand on that? Also, what do you mean by "more control over your device"?
I'm not downplaying or dismissing CM. Just trying to understand why it's so popular.
clankfu said:
I looked at some videos of CM10 on YouTube but besides the ability to put widgets on the lockscreen, I didn't see all these features and tweaks that you're referring to. Can you expand on that? Also, what do you mean by "more control over your device"?
I'm not downplaying or dismissing CM. Just trying to understand why it's so popular.
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This CM10 Preview is a VERY basic build, and will probably not have as much of the added functionality that CM9 would have (this is something I assume as I have not flashed this ROM yet). CM allows you much more control over customizing your device by adding more options under Settings, and also by including tweaks / fixes / new features. Things such as themes, Advanced Power Menu, more control over navigation bar, themes (yes I said that twice for a reason ), different launcher.
It also, in many cases, can make your device more responsive / faster by removing a lot of the 'bloatware' and unnecessary background apps that some manufacturers out in their ROMs.
Gotcha. Thanks for the rundown.
They would have a hard time to get me to use CM again, I once had a so-called "stable" build of CM 7.03 on my Desire last year and it had to be rebooted almost every day to fix a glitch here or there, presumably because of all the hacks/tweaks they use. Problems went away after going to a pure AOSP ROM.
Remember this is just a preview.
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Not sure if this has been asked on the forums, but can someone please tell me exactly, what is the difference between this and CM10[JellyBro] Nightly Kangs? I want to use the latest one as possible. Also, I know this is the Nexus 7 forum, but the same can be said for the Galaxy Nexus (maguro). Are the JellyBro Nightly Kangs the way to go for the latest CM10 previews?
Kangs are not official, this one is. I would recommend sticking with official since we got it now Official nightlies should come soon too.
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clankfu said:
Can someone tell me what the allure of Cyanogenmod is over the regular, stock Android?
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well, afaik, more settings, faster, more mods, better customisability, themes, etc..
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Kangs are not official, this one is. I would recommend sticking with official since we got it now Official nightlies should come soon too.
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So this ROM is officially by CM himself? Does it run JellyBean? Also, does the Galaxy Nexus have official CM builds with JB?
https://plus.google.com/113334764480431682966/about he is one of the CM maintainers. This is a Nexus 7 forum not Galaxy Nexus.
O hay guyz when will th3re be updaytes for dis!?22211?11!!!
Heh, jk. Looks absolutely fabulous!!! I'm continuously blown away by the CM team. I can't wait until this is stable enough for a daily driver. This is my first tablet so I can be a little more daring. Nightly are almost always stable enough, but now that I have a phone AND a tablet it'd be all right to tinker even more so with the tablet.
This won't be good for my flashing addiction. We need a support group for all the married dudes with upset spouses lol
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Kangs are not official, this one is. I would recommend sticking with official since we got it now Official nightlies should come soon too.
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The ONLY difference between a nightly kang and an 'official' build will be cherry-picked features that have not been added to the official version. Usually, these are small tweaks that will within a week or two be added to the official releases.
There are no other differences. Stability will, almost inevitably, be the same between the two.
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sassafras_ said:
The ONLY difference between a nightly kang and an 'official' build will be cherry-picked features that have not been added to the official version. Usually, these are small tweaks that will within a week or two be added to the official releases.
There are no other differences. Stability will, almost inevitably, be the same between the two.
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If they are the same, I'm going going to stay with the KANG nightly builds.
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Salty Wagyu said:
They would have a hard time to get me to use CM again, I once had a so-called "stable" build of CM 7.03 on my Desire last year and it had to be rebooted almost every day to fix a glitch here or there, presumably because of all the hacks/tweaks they use. Problems went away after going to a pure AOSP ROM.
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Cyanogen Mod has come a long way. CM is in 7.2 stage for the Desire HD at the moment. I wouldn't trade it for anything. Not once have I gotten a force close a random reboot or any other issues on CM7.2. Just because you have one bad issue, doesn't mean it should stop you from using their other roms. Remember you flash custom roms at your own risk and the word customer should make you expect issues here and there. :cyclops:

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