I read in the cyanogenmod forums that that the ROM (the public alpha-1 version) made by arco68 is "unofficial" CM9 ROM. What can be the reason for this custom ROM being "unofficial?"
im sure your not a good of a reader arent you ?
well 1st of all its unofficial because samsung WILL not realease ICS on SGW
and what arco has made is still incomplete ... there is still known bug and unknown bug that hasnt been fix yet ...
and the the ics camera on cm9 for sgw still is not working that's why its not official
chocolemon said:
im sure your not a good of a reader arent you ?
well 1st of all its unofficial because samsung WILL not realease ICS on SGW
and what arco has made is still incomplete ... there is still known bug and unknown bug that hasnt been fix yet ...
and the the ics camera on cm9 for sgw still is not working that's why its not official
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I see .
Before my next question, I wanted to clarify first that by "unofficial," I meant the "unofficial CM9" built by arco68. (I am also aware that Samsung will not release "official" stock ROM)
Now, if that's the case, then what is the difference between the nightly builds (which, I assume are the alpha builds, please correct me if wrong) in the cyanogenmod's device page and the build (Alpha-1) version of arco68's ROM?
it's considered unofficial because it's not being released by the core team from cyanogenmod. They don't and can't work on every single device.
Still, cyanogenmod announced recently that they will support and assist whenever possible independent developers (like arco) and make their ports official at some point and, of course, under certain criteria (QC probably).
AFAIK CM9 for the SGW will become an official CM9 release as soon as it gets finished.
If I'm not mistaken all releases of CM9 are still in alpha stage.
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from this news:
http://www.androidcentral.com/cyanogenmod-reaches-half-million-user-milestone?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+androidcentral+%28Android+Central%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
The CyanogenMod user install base has hit the 500,000 mark, according to the stats released by the CM team. This is across all devices, and includes unofficial versions in the numbers. Some interesting totals are 502,364 total installs, 376,066 of which are official while 126,298 are unofficial, or "kangs". We also get a glimpse into the number of installations per device -- you can see the full list at the source, but here's the top five (with install numbers as of Saturday evening):
HTC Desire 70,630
HTC EVO 4G 39,654
Motorola Defy 28,956
Nexus One 26,707
Motorola Droid 21,335
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I just wondering:
1. Are Motorola defy really that popular? Or is it widely used by geeks like Nexus devices?
2. Or We widely us CM from quarx because there are not much good alternative ROM?
3. Why Cyanogen doesn't officially supported this devices, if cyanogen is widely use in this devices, more than other official devices?
I want to use CM for my defy, but still waiting for stable one. I hope if it's officially supported, there will be faster development and have nightly rom.
Sorry for my English, I just want to get this out of my chest.
That's because of the locked bootloader in the Defy - you can only load officially released (or leaked) roms into the Defy because the bootloader checks this when using RDSlite to flash a sbf. So CM cannot produce a version for the defy. The best that can happen is if there is an official or leaked version of Android OS for the Defy with the same version kernel as what CM uses (Android 2.3.4), is for a hacker to take all the nice goodies from CM and restore them via a nandroid backup onto a fixed sbf which has been stripped of all the built-in stuff without breaking it.
So that means you have to wait for a kind hacker to do this hacking for you and post the results for all to use.
That is as far as my understanding goes.
om4gus said:
from this news:
http://www.androidcentral.com/cyanogenmod-reaches-half-million-user-milestone?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+androidcentral+%28Android+Central%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
I just wondering:
1. Are Motorola defy really that popular? Or is it widely used by geeks like Nexus devices?
2. Or We widely us CM from quarx because there are not much good alternative ROM?
3. Why Cyanogen doesn't officially supported this devices, if cyanogen is widely use in this devices, more than other official devices?
I want to use CM for my defy, but still waiting for stable one. I hope if it's officially supported, there will be faster development and have nightly rom.
Sorry for my English, I just want to get this out of my chest.
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The devs of the defy port are working in make official..
but i don't see any difference in being official or not..
Perhaps, because development of CM7 in defy is in Release Candidate.
M usind Dev's CM7 on my defy.. it having a tons of bugs, hope they release it officially for DEFY.
maybe because is in early develpment
Dev works on get CM7 offical.
https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_device_motorola_jordan
It's now official!
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/forum/375-motorola-defy/
Link dead today ?
new link...atlast it is official
http://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices/motorola-defy
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new link...atlast it is official
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I wonder why CyanogenMod gave it official status. I thought that CM requires that the mod be compiled from source, and as the Defy bootloader is still locked it makes it impossible to compile the kernel (And the kernel used in Defy CM7 is just ripped out of another ROM).
I wonder how sustainable the development would be if CM moves to a new kernel that isn't available for the Defy.
What bugs.... you don't know what you are talking about...
It's very stable, i have been using RC1v2 for the last weeks and no reboots no hang no lag, i have 60 apps installed and use every resource the phone has every day.
Other ROM, official or not is "flinstone" compared to CM7.
Sorry for the hard conclusion but it's the truth.
It's no one's fault that Motorola has done a superficial work with defy's drivers... camera for ex... because the defy is a budget smartphone. I understand now Apple's policy... at least they try to make the best software optimization for the device(not talking about features that iOS has or not in comparison to Android)... not an apple fan but i hate Motorola's lack of support for devices... way to many.
Happy that google made them support the devices 18 months after launch.
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Can anyone port ICS to our defy from aosp??
Of course we can, and of course it will be ported...if you people read a bit before posting you would learn that the next version of CyanogenMod with ICS will be CM9. The SDK was just released yesterday so leave them time to work on it . Plus, with our bootloader locked, Quarkx will probably have to make a version of CM9 with the Defy+'s Gingerbread Kernel (our actual one being the Froyo kernel, but i guess it would be too old for an ICS port)
Voilaaa
Sent from my CM7 Defy
crakeron said:
Of course we can, and of course it will be ported...if you people read a bit before posting you would learn that the next version of CyanogenMod with ICS will be CM9. The SDK was just released yesterday so leave them time to work on it . Plus, with our bootloader locked, Quarkx will probably have to make a version of CM9 with the Defy+'s Gingerbread Kernel (our actual one being the Froyo kernel, but i guess it would be too old for an ICS port)
Voilaaa
Sent from my CM7 Defy
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I thought that CM8 will come with ICS. Where I can find this information on cyanogenmod site?
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Of course we can, and of course it will be ported...if you people read a bit before posting you would learn that the next version of CyanogenMod with ICS will be CM9. The SDK was just released yesterday so leave them time to work on it . Plus, with our bootloader locked, Quarkx will probably have to make a version of CM9 with the Defy+'s Gingerbread Kernel (our actual one being the Froyo kernel, but i guess it would be too old for an ICS port)
Voilaaa
Sent from my CM7 Defy
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Ofcourse not!! As there will be no no SDK port of ICS on CM (source : CM team). We'll only get a port when the official ICS source is out.
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ryan8r said:
Ofcourse not!! As there will be no no SDK port of ICS on CM (source : CM team). We'll only get a port when the official ICS source is out.
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And right you are.
CM8 as intended for the honeycomb version but its source never released. Thus CM8 wont be there. Hope the same wont happen with ICS. According to an old statment by google ICS source should be released
Hello!
I didn't flash a CM rom for more than a year (Nexus 1), I want to try a good CM9 rom but which one is fully working and bugless?
I mean wifi,GPS,camera,camcorder...
I heard there is an ''echo'' bug in the voice calls?
Well the echo bug is fixed. Try trip's rom. It's pretty good and has almost everything working.
I'm on cm9 alpha 4 by (forgot the name but I think it's tbalden and mdj).
Will give trip's rom another try sometime later. Did not work good for me the first time.
Try this....
This is the most stable CM9
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1706001
The torch app is working with the ''super bright'' option?
I have a major doubt about CM9 here. Why are there so many CM9's in the development section? When i had my nexus s there was only 1 cm9 thread started by the official maintainer of the device!
Furthermore which among the various CM threads is the actual one from the CM team with the official maintainer?
Or hasn't CM officially supported our device? I read that the SGS3 got official CM9 nightly builds.. Do we also have official nightly builds?
As the title says the HOX is finally getting an official Cyanogenmod release , maybe official CM10 is on its way
Well I know there already is custom roms but officiam things are always special.
Here's the link Official CM9
Hey!
I've been wondering if i should start using the stock nightly builds over get.cm,
FXP hasn't been giving out detailed logs for the xperia arc, so i guess there are no fixes done to it? cause all i see are *latest cm 9.1/10
So do older fixes gets pushed to newer FXP CM builds or are they already fixed on the official cyanogen builds?
FXP is the team, who develops CM for Xperia devices.
So, what you see on the CM website, is made by FXP team.
You should know i guess that fxp team are the official cyanogen maintainers for xperia devices so u wudnt notice much difference in these ROMs. Regarding the nightlies, every nightly has newer fixes/patches and older fixes are naturally included as well..
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FXP is the team, who develops CM for Xperia devices.
So, what you see on the CM website, is made by FXP team.
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Based on my post, you ahould know that i have understood all of that prior to this post. Please read my post and not just the topic. FXP builds haven't been pushing log fixes for the arc recently but a rebranded fw off stock cm. Get.cm has newer nightly builds buf fxp only uses a week or even later builds for their newer releases.
So i'm still confused... Is the rom of fxp the same as the nightly builds, or the same people working on those roms?
Now I'm using the nightly build, I tried it because at first i got issues with the fxp build, issues were: keyboard fc's and no wifi, but with nightly I reflashed wifi modules(lupus) after installing rom and that does seem to work, so perhaps also would work on fxp but don't know because didn't try yet. Keyboard issue persists, so i flashed xperia V keyboard which I like better anyway(swype).
I come from ultimate HD but i like cm10 more, even though battery is better on uhd. What i like is lockscreen, sms popup and ant+, etc... I don't like camera app and no out of the box digital clock widget I know some of these can just be modded and flashed over except ant+ whick is key to me because i bought a heartrate monitor.
Sorry I made it a cm10 vs uhd thread
dahakske said:
So i'm still confused... Is the rom of fxp the same as the nightly builds, or the same people working on those roms?
Now I'm using the nightly build, I tried it because at first i got issues with the fxp build, issues were: keyboard fc's and no wifi, but with nightly I reflashed wifi modules(lupus) after installing rom and that does seem to work, so perhaps also would work on fxp but don't know because didn't try yet. Keyboard issue persists, so i flashed xperia V keyboard which I like better anyway(swype).
I come from ultimate HD but i like cm10 more, even though battery is better on uhd. What i like is lockscreen, sms popup and ant+, etc... I don't like camera app and no out of the box digital clock widget I know some of these can just be modded and flashed over except ant+ whick is key to me because i bought a heartrate monitor.
Sorry I made it a cm10 vs uhd thread
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Fxp is the team. CM are stable builds while nightly are more unstable with untested fixes and bugs.
Sent from my soon-to-be bricked Neo V