The Android ROM that came out of CyanogenMod's demise has been loaded onto 95,000 devices and will officially support over 80 devices.
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Cyanogen dies, CyanogenMod officially becomes Lineage OS
“A company pulling their support out of an open source project does not mean it has to die.”
So begins a new thread of history for the Lineage OS Android Distribution, the all-new forking of CyanogenMod we’ve all expected. The change —announced on the community’s blog — was warranted after Cyanogen Inc., the commercial effort attempting to spread the software, decided to shift focus and co-founder Steve Kondik pulled out of the venture to work on Lineage.
At the same time, Cyanogen Inc. has decided to shut down services for its Cyanogen OS fork. No more updates and nightly builds will be produced beyond December 31, though any open source material will remain free to download.
LineageOS.org is the new home address for the original open source project with links to social media and the GitHub repository dedicated for the refresh — we presume that files are still being migrated over from Cyanogen’s Seattle facilities through the end of the year.
Both entities are being watched closely for their next moves as Lineage figures out how to plant new infrastructure and find a way to keep lights on. Cyanogen Inc., on the other hand, is now centering itself in Palo Alto, California, and will likely deliver on some missions first rumored long ago. Maybe not.
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Repositories hint that CyanogenMod’s new name will be Lineage
Cyanogen and CyanogenMod have effectively split ways. The co-founder of both, Steve Kondik, has stuck with the latter. But the financial and legal spaghetti tangles between the two entities has meant that the community-driven Android ROM-editing project will have to go through some major changes to survive.
It seems that one of the changes will be the name. Sources to Android Police have pointed to references of “LineageOS,” the “Lineage Android Operating System”. An official repository is headed by the title “Lineage Android Distribution”. While the additional words may differ between mentions, “Lineage” seems to be the link in this case.
Merriam-Webster primarily defines the word as “descent in a line from a common progenitor.”
CyanogenMod files have been migrating over to GitHub at a rapid pace. Kondik wrote in a Google+ post that a lot of CyanogenMod’s infrastructure will need to be moved out of Cyanogen property if the project is to be saved. It’s likely that these movements represent that effort.
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Cyanogen move is official and so is Steve Kondik’s departure — wither CyanogenMod?
Whispers about another major shakeup at Cyanogen were verified. The Android ROM distributor’s CEO, Lior Tal, has confirmed on Wednesday that it will move out of its longtime Seattle headquarters by the end of the year and has broken ties with co-founder Steve Kondik.
The purpose of the change is to improve the communication and performance of the team which will now operate under one roof. This consolidation effort will allow us to build in greater efficiencies and reduce restrictions in our product development lifecycle. Understandably some are unable to follow their role and relocate. We appreciate and value all of the amazing work these individuals have provided to the growth and success of Cyanogen.
Tal mentions that the company is “well funded” to continue its operations at its facilities in Palo Alto, California.
Kondik had recently expressed his grievances over how the company was managed by his founding partner, Kirt McMaster. McMaster was framed in a Google+ Post by Kondik as the one that brought new management to the company that led to a spate of recent downsizing measures.
There is still no public word on whether Kondik will be allowed to extricate assets of the community-driven CyanogenMod project from Cyanogen property, something he has wanted to do.
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Steve Kondik says Cyanogen troubles were brewing for too long
Cyanogen co-founder Steve Kondik has posted his thoughts on the state of his and Kirt McMaster’s company and where the direction of a more perfect Android may be going. One big development we’ve learned: Kondik feels like Cyanogen hasn’t been his company.
The specialized ROM maker recently overhauled its organization chart which saw McMaster replaced as CEO by Lior Tal. Job losses starting coming down the line and it has only been exacerbated by word that Cyanogen’s Seattle headquarters will shutter by the end of the year.
In a post on the private CyanogenMod developer Google+ group extracted by Android Police, Kondik wrote that after the CM community helped the company get on its feet making some cash, that money changed things.
“Unfortunately once we started to see success, my co-founder apparently became unhappy with running the business and not owning the vision,” Kondik said.
This, he claims, is what led McMaster to take less care with how he dealt with the media, mentioning that Cyanogen’s treatment of Android would be able to “put a bullet through Google’s head.”
With workplace morale at a low, Kondik figures that McMaster probably decided to blow everything up and start over. He quickly assembled a new team to help him find a new direction, but Kondik wanted to maintain his original vision. The company essentially operated in two factions for the time, but “the new guys had other plans” that brought them to the current ledge.
Kondik seems to be interested in moving forward with CyanogenMod, but as it is quite entangled with Cyanogen in terms of infrastructure and intellectual property, the community will have to beat out the closure of the Seattle facilities to keep everything it has done so far. Other than that, it might have to make major revisions in brand, code and corporate structure (perhaps even as a non-profit) to keep on going.
“The rest of the ROM community seems to be highly dependent on us, but simultaneously wants us dead,” Kondik said. “How on earth do you fix this?”
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Cyanogenmod brings Android 7.1 to Nexus 4
The developer community is keeping the Nexus 4 alive by delivering an experimental build of Cyanogenmod 14.1, which is based on Android 7.1 Nougat.
If you’re still clutching that glass-backed LG phone to this day and are feeling a little adventurous, remember that you do have to sacrifice a little bit of the stock Android experience in taking on this software set. Also, experimental ROM builds are typically nowhere near functional for everyday use — in fact, there could some brick-worthy bugs in there. So really, you’re looking at a piece of eye candy.
But perhaps you can get a little bit farther around Android Nougat than the HTC HD2 has. Or, you can keep on the Marshmallow train and stick to the nightly builds of Cyanogenmod 13. We may see nightlies come over to 14.1 soon enough, though.
Android 7.1.1 is expected head out to some Nexus devices starting December 6.
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Of course the HTC HD2 would get Android Nougat, silly!
Whether or not this all-time thoroughbred can run the darn operating system, though, that’s another question.But we might as we take our victories as they come as HTC’s big Windows Mobile release for 2009, the HD2, has finally had Android 7.0 Nougat hacked onto it. XDA-Developers member macs18max ...
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Cyanogen claims no “pivot” to apps, more information to follow
The CEO along with a co-founder of Cyanogen is responding to anonymously sourced reports that the company is turning away from its vision of an operating system based on Android in favor of apps. Both Android Police and Recode posted stories about the move.CEO Kirt McMaster tweeted out his response.Cyanogen NOT pivoting to apps. We are an OS company and our mission of creating an OPEN ANDROID stands. FALSE reporting was ...
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Cyanogen layoffs hit hard, a new charge on apps expected
Cyanogenmod is well and alive, but Cyanogen, the company, seems to be in a struggle.The company behind the more polished version of the Android ROM has laid off about 30 of its 136 employees, most of them working on quality assurance, systems and community support in the open source division. The smaller offices in Lisbon and India have been heavily reduced. Sources to Android Police say they aren’t ...
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Marshmallow update for OnePlus One reaches ‘final testing stage’, but still no solid ETA
Like so many other Android device manufacturers, some a lot more popular and experienced with these sort of things, OnePlus missed its own self-imposed Marshmallow upgrade deadline. But maybe not by much.Both the OnePlus One and 2 were initially due for major software renovations between January and March, which obviously didn’t happen. Granted, the newer flagship lets its ...
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CyanogenMod no longer supports WhisperPush, Signal app offered as alternative
Device security and data privacy have long been a part of CyanogenMod’s open-source, customizable and continuously improving Android vision, although running a CM nightly build can often be risky from a number of standpoints.More so now that WhisperPush capabilities are disabled in Marshmallow-based CM13, unless you opt for the equally secure
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Official CyanogenMod 13 nightly sweetens Nexus 10 up with Marshmallow
The OG Google Nexus 10, manufactured by Samsung to take on the last non-Air 9.7-inch iPad back in 2012, is officially past its software expiration date, but that doesn’t mean it’s not technically capable of running the newest Android iteration.Unfortunately, you’ll need to wait a couple more months before the independent CyanogenMod developer team can altogether stabilize Marshmallows on the surprisingly well-kept 10-inch tablet. For the time being, there are only two CM13 nightly builds available to download, each tipping ...
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Official CyanogenMod 13 support already expanded to Nexus 5X, 6P, and LG G2
Well, that sure was fast. It only took the largest, greatest online independent developer community 24 hours to spread the CyanogenMod 13 nightly love to an Android device roster of ten. At first, there were just seven phones and tablets supported, but the LG Nexus 5X, Huawei Nexus 6P, and LG G2 have joined the OnePlus One, Nexus 7, LG G4, G3, G Pad 7.0, Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4, and Moto X 2014.Wait, so still nothing on the Samsung Galaxy handheld front? That’s odd, seeing as how the S6, S6 ...
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First official CyanogenMod 13 nightly builds bring (buggy) Marshmallow to select Androids
The wait is finally over for mobile software tinkerers who like to always be one step ahead of the masses, and don’t mind probing experimental CyanogenMod builds generally updated every 24 hours or so to continuously improve system stability and iron out inherent kinks.Google barely released official Android 6.0 Marshmallow source code last month, and already, the largest independent dev community has moved from CM 12.1 to version 13. Of course, ...
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CyanogenMod 13 by Christmas? More phones on the way in 2016?
Cyanogen has been gettin’ busy lately after a somewhat eventful 2015. While it was on and then off with OnePlus, it has picked up some carriage agreements with a few manufacturers. Just this week, the software platform made it onto a major carrier in Spain with the introduction of the
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