![]() Steve Kondik released CyanogenMod 6, based on Android 2.2 codenamed Froyo, for the Nexus One, Dream, Magic, Droid, Aria, Legend, Desire, Evo 4G, Hero, Wildfire, Incredible and myTouch 3G Slide. Within a few months, the number of devices and features supported by CyanogenMod blossomed and CyanogenMod quickly became one of the most popular Android firmware distributions.Īs of December 2016 Cyanogen Inc, shut down the infrastructure behind CyanogenMod as part of a corporate restructure. In August, 2009, JesusFreke stopped work on his firmware, and suggested users switch to a version of his rom that had been further enhanced by developer Cyanogen (Steve Kondik) called "CyanogenMod".ĬyanogenMod quickly grew in popularity, and a small community of developers, called the CyanogenMod Team made contributions. One, maintained by a developer named JesusFreke, quickly became popular among Dream owners. In the following year, several modified firmwares for the Dream were developed and distributed by Android enthusiasts. Having root access, combined with the open source nature of the Android operating system, allowed the phone's stock firmware to be modified and re-installed onto the phone. Soon after the introduction of the HTC Dream (named the "T-Mobile G1" in the United States) mobile phone in September 2008, a method was discovered to attain privileged control (termed "root access") within Android's Linux-based subsystem. ![]() Although only a subset of total CyanogenMod users elect to report their use of the firmware, as of December 7 2011, CyanogenMod has recorded over 900,000 active installs on a multitude of devices. ![]() CyanogenMod is also stated to increase performance and reliability compared with official firmware releases.ĬyanogenMod is developed as free and open source software based on the official releases of Android by Google, with added original and third-party code. Features supported by CyanogenMod include native theming support (also called the "T-Mobile Theme Engine"), a codec for the Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC), a large Access Point Name list, an OpenVPN client, a reboot menu, support for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and USB tethering, CPU overclocking, soft buttons and other "tablet tweaks", toggles in the notification pull-down (such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS), as well as other interface enhancements. ![]()
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