Cyanogenmod For Droid

If your at all involved with android roms and haven't heard about the drama surrounding Ultimate Droid and cyanogenmod, then you just haven't been paying much attention.

I'll keep this simple:

There is an awesome app to manage roms, it handles absolutely everything for you and makes rom swapping painless. This app is called RomManager (it's in the market, you should absolutely buy the premium version.) and was developed by @koush. RomManager is the only reason why I had tried Ultimate Droid, I hadn't even heard of it before I saw it on the download list.. and hey, it worked for what I needed at the time (the right kernel build for orbot).

About a week later, maybe less, the problem occurred.. I saw an update for Ultimate Droid, but then it disappeared. The drama? blackdroid threw a shit fit about UD being part of RomManager... you can hunt down the rest of that part of the drama yourself...

blackdroid's attitude and behaviour put me off and I decided that Ultimate Droid wasn't a project I wanted any part of anymore. So I went back to Rom hunting... and it turned out that the same guy that makes RomManager was developing the cyanogenmod rom for Droid, and had recently updated it, so I gave it a shot... lucky me, it got the kernel update I needed and is a generally awesome Rom, run by people with respectful and professional (read, relaxed and not whiny) attitudes.

Today I read about the continuation of the whole issue, apparently Ultimate Droid v10 is a complete rip of cyanogenmod, kinda funny...

So, at the end of the day, I really like cyanogenmod, and it runs the software that I need it to. The look and feel isn't quite as nice as SmokedGlass, but I'll bet that's mostly a matter of finding the right theme. RomManager will ofcourse be there to help me add any mods that I want and other roms if i get the distro hopping itch. RomManager has also kept distributing UltimateDroid, with occasionally changing entertaining new names, but I wont be running that rom again.

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Changelog
http://github.com/cy...clair/CHANGELOG

Features:

* Clean shutdown/startup system
* NO APPS2SD. I've implemented a hack that will store the dalvik-cache of system apps in /cache, which saves you ~40MB on /data. A better APPS2SD system is being worked on by Chris Soyars
* Built in USB tether
* ARM NEON optimizations from 0xdroid and Qualcomm
* Includes BusyBox, htop, nano, powertop, openvpn, bash, and all engineering commandline utilities
* FLAC audio support from Kenny Root
* Phone enhancements from Cytown
* Contacts enhancements from Wysie
* Perform zipalign-on-install of applications
* DeskClock tweaks- longer autosilence and "require unlock" option
* Huge collection of ringtones and audio
* All available locales are included thanks to PsychoBoy
* 360-degree auto-orientation by Optedoblivion
* OpenVPN integration thanks to James Bottomley
* Many other bugfixes and tweaks from AOSP contributors

All source code is available at the Koush Github


INSTRUCTIONS:

- First time flashing CM to your Droid?
1. Unlock your device and install ROM Manager from the Market
2. Do a Nandroid backup!
3. Download the ROM to your phone
4. Install the ROM (choose DATA WIPE)