Cyanogen wants more than to provide you with a ROM to use on your rooted device and now they also want a piece of the Recovery part, thus they’re preparing something called Cyanogen Recovery. This will be a tool aimed at rivaling the likes of ClockWorkMod and TeamWin Recovery Project. CyanogenMod has already been enough of a hit to become preinstalled…
CyanogenMod team member Koushik Dutta has just posted a video on the web showcasing the screencast feature that has been implemented on CyanogenMod. It allows the user to capture a video recording from the screen of a device, but also some ambient sounds like his voice for example. The Screencast capture is activated by pressing the Power and Volume…
Cyanogen has become a full fledged company this week, after getting $7 million this week and today they’re in the news again. This time the topic of discussion is Focal, a beta app that has hit the Play Store after it was pulled from CyanogenMod. The developer who made the app, Guillaume Lesniak decided to pull the software from the open source…
Google’s Chromecast was only recently released, with limited functionality it’s true, but there’s more to it than meets the eye. Now CyanogenMod is in on it and it comes with a new feature that allows it to stream almost any content to Chromecast. I have to remind you that the Chromecast is priced at a mere $35 and gives you content…
You’ve probably heard a complaint or two regarding the camera app in Android 4.2 and probably Android 4.3 as well, since not much has changed. The CyanogenMod team must have heard the complaints and took it upon themselves to come up with a decent camera app. The new app is called Focal and it follows the same stock Android design language that’s…
Most users that ultimately decide to choose an Android device base their decision on the brand, carrier contract, price and other characteristics, to in the end get to the version number or the features the OS offers. Aware of such circumstances manufacturers try to offer a most complete experience with their devices. Not only once have we heard…
The history of Pie controls, first introduced by Google with its Labs option is the stock webkit-based browser for Android, has only recently begun to take shape into different implementations. The most popular form is the one brought by the excellent custom ROM for Android – Paranoid. The Paranoid ROM has been in general developed for Nexus…
With the latest versions of the Android OS, 4.2 and above, Google has put an emphasis on camera quality, especially on its flagship smartphone – the Nexus 4. The device offers as a stand-out feature built-in HDR photo in the stock camera with tuned parameters for exceptional results. From behind Google CyanogenMod comes strong and steady as one…
From the first Android smartphone, the T-Mobile G1 to today’s quad-core devices, CyanogenMod has been providing the most popular custom ROM for the platform. Based on AOSP and providing the closest to stock pure Android experience, the team behind the project has received support from both the manufacturers and the OS fans. CyanogenMod announced…
The number one custom ROM for Android is continuing to evolve and integrate a great number of features. While it packs quite many functions, unlike some other custom ROMs out there CyanogenMod does not sacrifice the stability in favor of random implementations. It is an aspect that makes it the top favorite among Android enthusiasts. One feature CyanogenMod…
