Comments on: Cyanogen Emerges, Releases New ROM!

By: Shams

Shams — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:15:51 +0000

It’s better to have Cyan and other modders independent rather than employee of any other corporate giants. open source development is based on independent thinkers. Google and other corporate giants should respect these modders too and should incorporate the enhancements in their official releases. at the same time modders shouldn’t distribute closed source apps without app developers explicit permission. but i know modders are good enough to work way around ;) so that we can use closed source apps too without violating laws

By: twrock

twrock — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:20:45 +0000

David, I’m just guessing too. But your suggestion makes a lot of sense to me. He was high profile. He also added some unreleased (leaked) code into one of his ROMs. That couldn’t have made Google happy. Also, he’s working in the “plain vanilla” versions, so if Google doesn’t make the point with him, who will? I think Google wanted to send a clear message to everyone and picked the highest profile case they could. If HTC wants to defend their Sense UI code (definitely proprietary and also being released by the modders), HTC can write the C&D letter to those modders. But if those mods include Google proprietary stuff, Google is certainly within their right to tell them to C&D as well. (But I do believe that Google can handle it much better than they did and get better results without all the bad press.)

But the message is clear, and fortunately Cyanogen has a workable solution. Anyone who is still including proprietary code in their release, in a sense is already on notice. At this point everyone should know pretty clearly what the rules of the game are.

By: yoaj

yoaj — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:51:09 +0000

droid stock ui is very disappointing. i do not know any coding, but im not computer illiterate. is there a way for me to be able to design my own ui to change the look without know heavy coding?

By: David

David — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:12:54 +0000

Does anyone have any insight into why Google came down on Cyanogen and not any of the other modders out there? Is it because he had the biggest audience, or is there something else going on here?

By: zefi

zefi — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:11:29 +0000

Uh, sorry about that. The first line was to add to what you said, and the second line was for someone else. It was to whoever that claimed during the uproar that the C&D was ridiculous because android is a piece of nothing without the proprietary parts.

By: twrock

twrock — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:00:26 +0000

@ zefi, sorry, I have no idea what you are trying to say there. Since you posted right after me, I thought maybe you were responding to something I said, but maybe not. So I’m just saying, I don’t get it.

By: zefi

zefi — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:13:31 +0000

Plus, if he’s in google, don’t think he can ANYTHING he wants to, even though whatever he wants to do may be awesome.

And uh, who said the other day that without all the proprietary bits, android is nothing? Seems like your very own favourite modder disagrees.

By: twrock

twrock — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:11:15 +0000

“Rob”, (not Rob Jackson) seriously, your sense of “entitlement” is way over the top. The site admin owes you absolutely NOTHING. Please go away and only come back when you’ve learned how to show a little appreciation for all the hard work of others.

@ iddqd, right on. The modders are doing “modifications”. Without the original OS to work with, there’d be nothing to modify. There’s credit to be given where it’s due, on both ends.

By: iddqd

iddqd — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:47:57 +0000

Awesome! This is what its all about. These announcements make me an even bigger fan of Android.
And for people sayin Cyanogen > Android team… you gotta remember that the very point of open source is to have the community involved in development.

Instead of pitting one against the other, lets be thankful for the collective efforts of individuals to make something we can all enjoy.

Without the OS there are no devs. Without devs there is no “Android”

By: Perry

Perry — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:34:44 +0000

Agree it would be awesome to see a 2.0 Droid mod done. Well, that or overnight I somehow become a C/C++ god. Don’t see the latter happening though.

By: Paul Monroe Jr

Paul Monroe Jr — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:05:24 +0000

I stopped using cyanogen’s mod when I found out that google sent him that C&D. I figured that he was done with custom mods. Now that he’s back, I just took off my JACxHero rom and put the Cyanogen 4.2.2 on my G1 and I love it. I’m still wondering why he hasn’t been offered a job by google yet. His mods are 1 MILLION TIMES BETTER THAN THE STOCK ROM!!!!!! That being said, I don’t understand how he can make a version better than developers that have been initally working on the source code since the android platform debut. Go figure. Anyway Cyanogen rocks!!! Keep’em coming, I’ll keep using Cyanogen’s mods with every android device he makes them for.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:57:32 +0000

@Dean… risks are pretty low. I think it’s pretty hard to “brick” the phone… If you follow the instuctions you should be able to easily go back to the standard image. I ran in to problems the first time i did it because my rom download was corrupt. So you might want to double check the MD5Sums with fciv once they are on your sdcard before you start. Buggy? not really. Much less than the standard image. Plus it gives you access to many things the standard image doesn’t have. The major enhancement for me is being able to use vpn. I like it a lot.

By: Walt

Walt — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:30:09 +0000

Very clever way to get around the proprietary stuff by cyanogen. I don’t know why google doesn’t hire this guy instead of trying to shut him down.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:28:09 +0000

According the XDA site, only HTC devices are supported… maybe they will change this?

Droid!=HTC

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:35:39 +0000

i just think that “Rob Jackson” should atleast keep in touch feed us some news about anything for example a sample of the motodroid reveiw ever sense he got that phone hes disappeared atleast tell your viewers what you think of the phone so far comon i thought the droid is that amazing to just to leave us hanging cold turky like that