CyanogenMod

225. That figure represents the total number of days since Android 4.0 (ICS) hit the AOSP repos. 37. That is the number of devices receiving their RC1 build of CyanogenMod 9 today. It wasn’t quick or easy, but we are extremely proud of this release and what it represents for us as a group. The [...]

After 3 rounds of release candidates, and squashing a few more bugs in the stabilization branch of CyanogenMod 7, the newest stable iteration of the Gingerbread-based CM7 is now being released. The team would like to thank everyone who submitted and followed up on bugs during the RC phase and helped us all get a [...]

Today we branched our mainline repositories to start the code freeze which will lead us up to the CM9 release. While there are still a number of technical and organizational issues that need to be resolved very quickly, the plan is to quickly iterate through a series of release candidates over the next few weeks. [...]

It’s been nearly two months since we released the initial 7.2 RC1. Since then, the team has been working hard to identify and fix the issues reported to the bug tracker. We are nearing our release of CyanogenMod 7.2, based on Android 2.3.7 and will be releasing…….soon! You didn’t think you were getting an ETA [...]

Our Jenkins instance is now creating CM9 nightly builds for a number of targets including the Nexus line, various Samsung devices, Asus Transformer, Galaxy Tab, and others. We’ll be bringing more targets online as they are ready. CM7 nightlies are not currently being built due to the slow rate of patches going into this tree, [...]

We put out a call for help back in February asking for support from the community to help us get our nightly builds back up to speed. The community answered our call in force! With the contributions, we were able to acquire three Dell R610 servers. Each server has dual Xeon X5675 CPUs (12 cores [...]

Preface: “Why the change in Mascot? We loved Andy Bugdroid!” A lot of people love Andy, our former skateboarding mascot. This was clearly evident with the polarized reviews to our announcement of selecting Caio’s prototype. We love Andy too, he has served us faithfully for close to 3 years now. However, he increasingly became a [...]

The preferred download method at this point is torrents, grab them here. If you want to help you fellow peers, grab all the torrents. http://www.jeago.com/cm/ It’s been a long time in the making, but it’s finally here: CyanogenMod 7.2, the latest version based on Android 2.3(.7), has reached the release candidate stage! We’ve been delaying [...]

Many of you may not give it a second glance, but among all the furor and concern about permissions requested by market apps and privacy, all Custom ROMs (CyanogenMod included) ship with one major security risk — root! We have been struggling with how to handle this for quite a bit, and took a first [...]

Thanks to all of the contributions we recently recieved from the community, we were about to purchase three new Dell servers for taking care of nightly builds for all devices! The new boxes are pretty monsterous, 12-core Xeon machines with 32GB of RAM. Perfect for building lots of copies of CyanogenMod 9 (and 7!), with [...]