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CyanogenMOD’s new mascot finalized and officially named Cid
A few days ago, we told you about the new face of the most popular custom ROM series on the planet, CyanogenMOD. At the time, the little guy was tentatively named rAndy and there were still a few last minute changes to be made before everything was set in stone. Now, those changes have been made and a new name has been selected. Everyone, I’d like to introduce you to Cid.
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Simple script allows users to easily remove Blur from many Motorola Devices
If you own a Motorola device, chances are you either love or hate the OEM’s “Blur” overlay. As an AOSP purist at heart, I would absolutely fall into the latter group, provided I owned a Moto phone or Tablet (HTC and Asus all the way here, baby). If you just cant stand the way Blur looks, you might find interest in this simple script that was compiled by XDA Senior Member Lokifish Marz that allows you to de-Blur almost any Motorola device.
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Say hello to rAndy, the new CyanogenMOD mascot, by Caio Alves!
It appears as though the face of CyanogenMOD has permanently changed. A while back, the CM team asked the community for submissions of their own homemade mascots. The submissions would then be reviewed and voted on by the team and the selected winner would be chosen to represent the custom ROM project from here out.
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ClockworkMod touch recovery finally available for Asus Transformer and Transformer Prime
Just a quick note for those of you rocking an Asus Transformer or Transformer Prime; ClockworkMod touch recovery is now available for your tablet and can easily be obtained via ROM Manager. It’s the same great life-saving recovery package that most users with a rooted Android device are accustomed to with the extra added ability to ditch that volume rocker and navigate your recovery the way it was meant to be navigated.
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CyanogenMOD 9 input settings detailed in video released by CM Team
As the time draws near for stable builds to start appearing of the most widely-respected and installed custom ROM series known to the Android community, the CyanogenMOD team has once again risen above the standard and has released a “user manual” video of sorts, detailing what all of those mysterious input settings mean and what they do. Read the rest of this entry »
Video ROM Review: AOKP on the Asus Transformer TF101
One of my favorite things about the Android operating systems is, with a little bit of hackery, I can easily install a custom ROM on my device. In many cases, this ability brings along tons of benefits, including that of being able to test out new versions of Android before they are officially available for my device.
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MIUI ROM officially released for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus
If you’ve done any dabbling in custom ROMs for Android, there’s a high probability that you’ve heard of MIUI — next to CyanogenMOD, one of the most popular ROM series, available for a wide array of devices. Fans of MIUI who own a Verizon Samsung Galaxy Nexus (dubbed “Toro” in the development community) were treated to a tasty surprise yesterday, in the form of the development team’s spin on Android 4.0, otherwise know as Ice Cream Sandwich.
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XDA Member Orkillakilla releases a slew of mods for the HTC Thunderbolt
Remember the HTC Thunderbolt? Of course you do. It is, after all, the world’s first 4G LTE-capable Android device and was one of the most talked about phones when it was released last year. Well, if you’re rocking one of these babies, you’ll be excited to hear about a grip of modifications made and released by XDA senior member, orkillakilla.
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CyanogenMOD 9 to remove necessity for root access on Android devices
In an interesting and exciting breakthrough, the CyanogenMOD team took to their official blog to release a statement regarding the future of CM9 and the necessity for root access. Security has been at the epicenter of much debate regarding devices with root access enabled and/or running custom ROMs.
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Flowchart: Will your device receive CyanogenMOD 9?
Have you been on eggshells the past few months, wondering if your Android investment would survive the next wave of CyanogenMOD goodness? If the answer to that question is yes, you might want to take a gander at the flowchart posted on Google+, which details the requirements that determine if your device will “possibly” be CM9 compatible.
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