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
arpith.fbi said:
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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the new ubuntu (11.10) has the 3.0 kernel (while the last one had 2.6x, which android has too), and it has about the double the battery life than the 11.04. Are we gonna get this kernel too, and if yes, when? Can we hope for an improved battery life with this new kernel?
Thats the whole point of a locked bootloader you cant replace the Linux kernel. Unfortunatey we're screwed.
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i meant whether the android sysem will use it or not (e.g. ics or the one after that), didnt mean the defy.
Well according to various leaks in the past ICS does run on Linux kernel 3.0.1 .There'd even been a misplaced device that was spotted to be running ICS on the very kernel which was later pulled. A dev on xda has the dump image of that very rom but I guess we can only be sure once the actual device is out.
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Android 4.0 was already announced, and some people started to work for roms for other phones. My question is does anybody going to do a rom for Arc?
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Android 4.0 was already announced, and some people started to work for roms for other phones. My question is does anybody going to do a rom for Arc?
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We won't see a ROM until the source code for ICS is released, Google usually releases it when the first phone gets it.
Acutally there is WIP at X10 forum. Google has released the SDK for ICS.
I saw someone who Ported ICS SDK to his Nexus one, but it was on old kernal, ICS uses the new Linux Kernal 3.0
ICS Porting guide by Siulmagic
download sdk for ics
I just got my new laptop, however, it has a UEFI bios, and grub doesn't play well with my computer so I haven't been able to set up my Build Environment to start compiling AOSPA, which has been my favorite ROM since the beginning of time Anyways, I just got my S2 as a backup phone, and I'd like to start making things from source as soon as everything else gets setup.
Would anyone care for AOSPA?
Yes AOSP ...
You can start a hybrid rom android 4.1.2 to start and then jump to 4.2.2 would be great ..
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Yes. The more roms the merrier:good:
Hi all.
I've just read about the new Meizu's MX3 with ubuntu touch fully fonctionnal and was wondering about a leaked rom of ubuntu touch for the HOX. Is this currently possible ? Is the facepalm available for tegra 3 ? (like this : http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...e-htc-one-xl-and-droid-dnaheres-how-to-do-it/)
I'm very interreted in testing this solution since Android is making me mad. I've tried several roms from XDA dev, but all are using 700M RAM ! So... i do not understand it at all, and i think that maybe, ubuntu can give me more improvements for my HOX.
Thanks to all dev for their work.