Gadgetory

this episode is brought to you by domain.com so you've likely heard of CyanogenMod but exactly what is it and why should it matter to you CyanogenMod is one of the best-known custom roms out there enabling millions of users around the world to custom their devices until their heart's content CyanogenMod is so popular that the people behind CyanogenMod started cyanogen inc and developed partnerships with phone manufacturers that have CyanogenMod as the default operating system but what exactly is a custom rom Google releases the source code for android via the Android Open Source project which allows anyone to download the source code for stock android and modify it to their liking many people add features to try and further optimize the operating system to improve performance when people talk about flashing roms they are referring to overwriting the old version of Android that is installed and replacing it with a third-party alternative like CyanogenMod however the term ROM is not necessarily used correctly when talking about third-party custom firmware a ROM per se in computer science terms is read-only memory which can only be read and not written more than once in the most basic sense smartphones and tablets use flash memory to store the Android OS so the correct term should really be custom firmware this naming convention may lead to some confusion when talking about custom roms just remember the firmware is being changed not any roms that might be on the device now let's talk about the roots of cyanogen CyanogenMod started out as a simple alternative to stock Android on the HTC dream and HTC magic devices with the initial release of CyanogenMod 3.1 back in 2009 with androids open source nature and the ability to obtain root access anything is possible and with the popularity of custom roms the CyanogenMod community blossomed in fact it boomed CyanogenMod really started to be recognized with santa Jin mod 7 based on 2.3 Gingerbread this release added new and improved features over stock Android like busybox in the shell as well as improving the stock apps now what exactly are the advantages of sanity mod over stock Android well the whole reason behind installing a custom ROM is to add features improve performance and change the look of stock Android this is exactly what you get with CyanogenMod there are features in CyanogenMod that are simply not available in stock android like the ability to change the status bar to your liking or apply different themes CyanogenMod brings a lot to the table in terms of freedom and one of the biggest aspects of that is root access you see root access gives you administrative rights at least in Windows terms to your file system this means you can access all your system files and just allows you to do a lot more for example there's no official way to backup your data easily however if you use titanium backup and it's route needed features you can backup your apps and data and transfer your data to another device without fail however a word of warning root access is not as secure as non rooted now let's talk about Saanich and mods release cycle because after version 10.2 Saanich and mod changed the release cycle to make everything a lot simpler there's really two levels there's the development Channel these are the same as Knightley's from before they're every 24 hours and are highly unstable you don't want to use the development channel on your daily driver device the second is a release channel these are like m snapshots and are made each month which are suitable for daily use although they may lag behind the nightly builds by two weeks as far as features and improvements now how exactly do you flash CyanogenMod on your device well if you look at the link below and the show links there is a general step-by-step guide to help you do just that let me know how it works on your device what is your favorite custom ROM have you tried cyanogen and what did you think let me know in the comments below if you guys remember from like 15 years ago when people were making money hand over fist in the dot-com bubble remember we didn't call it a dotnet bubble or dot org bubble we didn't call them dot biz billionaires we called them dot-com billionaires because that's the power of a.com now why is that because no domain name extent tells your story with the same degree of trust as a.com or.net domain name dot-com and dotnet domain name extensions and jet credibility into your online presence save fifteen percent on domain names and web hosting when you use our coupon code Android at domain.com check out when you think domain names think domain.com