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Guide and Review: The new CyanogenMod Installer
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article published on 17 November, 2013
In September, CyanogenMod, the popular custom Android developer became a real company, Cyanogen Inc., and raised $7 million in venture capital funding as it provided plans to become the third biggest operating system in the world behind Android and iOS.
Founder Steve Kondik admitted at the time that in its current state, installing CyanogenMod was not accessible to the average smartphone ... [ read the full article ]
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Bozobub
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17. November 2013 @ 13:42 |
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Some important notes:
- Not every cable will do! Even some data (as opposed to charge-only) cables are not sufficient. This comes straight from the CM forums. That said, my bog-standard Radio Shack retractable USB cable (which is quite thin, frankly) worked fine.
- If you're on a sub-carrier, such as Ting, beware! I use Ting, and encountered an issue where the device APNs were incorrect. In essence, the CM installer assumes a "Sprint" phone (Ting uses the Sprint network) needs all-Sprint settings. This killed MMS and standard 3G and 4G LTE, although if I turned off 4G entirely, 2G still worked (2G doesn't use APNs). I was able to fix this problem via the process shown here; if you have a different sub-carrier (or a different phone model), the files will be different, but the process will be the same. I can verify that my phone now works just fine with Ting.
- There are enough different kinds of supported phones, with enough different possible problems, that there is NO guarantee that even CM devs and knowledgeable users can help you if you encounter issues, especially outside of the install process itself (no one on the CM forums actually were able to help me with my Ting problem). Remember, this is a beta! That said, you can find the official CM forums at http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/ . I've actually achieved better results, however, including the information that told me I had an APN issue, at xda-developers ([url]http://forum.xda-developers.com/]/url]).
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 18. November 2013 @ 15:25
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18. November 2013 @ 04:54 |
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It will be very familiar, especially to Google Nexus 4 owners, who were already running the same version of the operating system including Google Apps such as the Play Store, Maps, Gmail and all others.
Does the installer actually show you the .zips that are being pushed and flashed? I haven't followed CM properly for a long time and I'm curious to know if they are still not allowed to incorporate Gapps into the main ROM - you always had to flash it as a separate .zip after the CM install due to legal issues with Google.
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Bozobub
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18. November 2013 @ 11:46 |
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If you pay attention to your phone, it does show you at least some of the steps and .zips that are flashed, as it installs the ClockWork recovery, then uses that to continue. Up-to-date Gapps was installed automatically in the process, when I installed CM through the Google Play app. It's quite possible, even likely, they merely automated the process of a separate d/l and install, without actually including it in the main ROM.
Remember, the installer performs many formerly discrete tasks; it doesn't consist only of installing the ROM, itself.
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18. November 2013 @ 13:47 |
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Yep. I've been tinkering with my Android phones since the G1, I'm familiar with it. Anyway:
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It's quite possible, even likely, they merely automated the process of a separate d/l and install, without actually including it in the main ROM.
This is probably the case, yes; my angle was more the legal aspect though.
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Bozobub
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18. November 2013 @ 15:23 |
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Having Gapps be a separate, transparent install also makes sure that your Gapps install is always up-to-date, at least upon install, without the CM devs having to do anything extra.
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22. November 2013 @ 18:29 |
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Unless you are a fanboy of your manufacturer's user interfaces and its plethora of bloat, I see no reason to not give CyanogenMod Installer a try.
When he says 'give it a try' that seems to imply that the process could be reversed if the user does not like it. Does this mean that if you do a factory reset then the original OS will return?
Also, does anyone know of a way to save app (game) data prior to installing CM?
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Bozobub
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22. November 2013 @ 19:54 |
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Yes, you can restore the original ROM. No, it's not as simple as doing a factory reset.
You can save game (and other app) data with Titanium Backup.
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22. November 2013 @ 20:10 |
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Is there a guide to restore? (T-mo galaxy s4)
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Bozobub
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22. November 2013 @ 20:14 |
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