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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 12, 2011
The Samsung Vibrant (the first of the original Galaxy S devices to hit the U.S.) is no longer supported by CyanogenMod. According to developer Abhisek Devkota, issues with the way the radio in...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 07, 2011
Google Wallet isn't there, MyVerizon and contact backup assistant (as well as some network code to assist GPS) is there, and everyone is freaking out. Verizon has killed the Nexus. T...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 02, 2011
The CyanogenMod team today has dropped a little update on the progress of CM9, its custom, Android Open Source Project-based build of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The short version is they're...
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by Chris Parsons
Nov 25, 2011
Well -- there goes the joke, will my HTC G1 get Ice Cream Sandwich?
No, it's not overly functional. No, it's not extremely fast. But that doesn't really matter. The fact Android 4.0 Ice...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 20, 2011
You didn't think we would stop playing with the Ice Cream Sandwich AOSP ROM for the Nexus S so soon did you? Trust me when I tell you it's almost 100 percent, and well worth the time t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 20, 2011
Here's why we love open-source software folks. With the release of the Ice Cream Sandwich trunk of the Android Open Source Project code came the ability to build it yourself instead of wai...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 16, 2011
In case you missed Steve Kondik's tweet a couple days ago after the Ice Cream Sandwich source code dropped, the CyanogenMod crew is now working on CM9. (CM8 was Honeycomb, which, of course, ain&...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 19, 2011
In a post on the Android-building Google group, Dan Morrill announced that the AOSP tree (the "Master" and "Gingerbread" branches) are once again available online. Because ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 19, 2011
Well, now. That was quite the Android 4.0 launch in Hong Kong, eh? Now that the dust has settled ever so slightly on the Ice Cream Sandwich event, let's take a look at what's going to happen...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 10, 2011
We teased the Breaksclusive™ last week from the CyanogenMod panel at the Big Android BBQ (check out the video if you haven't already), and today CyangenMod 7.1 has been released. The chang...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 09, 2011
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One of the most exciting parts of the first day of the Big Android BBQ in Austin, Texas -- next to miraculous appearance of a couple of kegs of Texas' finest --...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 07, 2011
Carriers, manufacturers who play nice get 'non-contractual time to market advantage'Can't say this surprises us much. Think back to mid-May, when This is my Next's Nilay Patel did a bang-up job explai...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 12, 2011
The rumors that the next version of Honeycomb being right around the corner look to be true, as today Android Open-Source Project engineer Jean-Baptiste Queru has pushed the GPL portions of the 3.2 so...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 28, 2011
Looks like folks with rooted and hacked phones won't have to wait very long to have a crack at the Android 2.3.4 update, as the code and the proprietary binaries (radio and GPU software) have already ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 25, 2011
A quick heads up for all you CyanogenMod users -- CM7.0.1 CM 7.0.2 stable was just released, and it brings along a slew of bugfixes identified since CM7.0 hit. Here's the official word:It’s been...
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by Chris Parsons
Apr 21, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewing So what happens exactly when you take the Palm Pre and load it up with a healthy dose of Android -- more specifically a Gingerbread AOSP. The folks over at PreCentral...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 12, 2011
Jean-Baptiste Queru, AOSP engineer for Google, has verified that GPL and LGPL portions of the Honeycomb source code have been entered into the AOSP repositories. Don't get too excited though, it...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 02, 2011
Someone contacted Android Police with a list of applications that contain malicious code to root your device, and this has resulted in Google using the kill-switch and pulling 21 applications fr...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 24, 2011
An AT&T-3G version of the Samsung Nexus S has been rumored for a while now, but while poking around at Google's Android Open Source Project git repository I noticed one of the changes made for 2.3...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 22, 2011
Google has released the full Honeycomb 3.0 SDK updates, meaning developers can download and begin work with the finalized APIs for Honeycomb. This comes in preparation for the launch of the...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 11, 2011
Still hanging on to your OG Droid? Here's some news you're going to love -- Peter Alfonso, of Bugless Beast fame, has released a mostly AOSP build of Gingerbread (Android 2.3.2) for your cl...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 17, 2010
Now that the Android 2.3 code has been made available as part of the Android Open Source Project, we knew it would just be a matter of time before we get it on devices other than the Nexus S. First u...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 17, 2010
For your folks who like to compile and run your own ROMs straight from the source (and who doesn't?), know that the Android 2.3 Gingerbread source code is being pushed to the Android Open Source ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 15, 2010
While we still don't have a definite date, Googler Jean-Baptiste Queru lets us know that we'll be seeing Gingerbread in the AOSP tree soon after the Nexus S ships. My geeky side is all tingly, a...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 23, 2010
This one goes out to all our Droid Incredible users, especially the ones who prefer a more vanilla experience -- IncDoes ROM for the Dinc has been updated, and it comes with a twist. Some o...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 29, 2010
No, that wasn't a typo -- the Droid X, despite the manufacturer's best efforts, has been spied running a custom ROM, namely the Sapphire AOSP 2.2 ROM (see the Sapphire team's post here in the fo...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 28, 2010
After weeks and weeks of coding and testing, CyanogenMod 6 is now officially "stable" and ready for download. For those of you new to Android, the CM series of ROMs are based off the An...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 14, 2010
Motorola Cliq owners, you haven't been forgotten. A group of developers has cooked up some Eclair love for you. In what sounds like a herculean effort travisjames, along with fellow develo...
