15 Facts About CyanogenMod

1.

CyanogenMod is a discontinued open-source operating system for mobile devices, based on the Android mobile platform.

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2.

CyanogenMod offered features and options not found in the official firmware distributed by mobile device vendors.

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3.

CyanogenMod did not contain spyware or bloatware, according to its developers.

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4.

CyanogenMod was said to increase performance and reliability compared with official firmware releases.

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5.

CyanogenMod grew in popularity, and a community of developers, called the CyanogenMod Team made contributions.

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6.

Similar to many open-source projects, CyanogenMod was developed using a distributed revision control system with the official repositories being hosted on GitHub.

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7.

The custom portions of CyanogenMod are primarily written by Cyanogen but include contributions from the xda-developers community and code from established open-source projects .

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8.

On 15 February 2011, the first release candidates of CyanogenMod 7 were rolled out on several of the supported devices.

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9.

On 4 April 2012, during development, CyanogenMod unveiled "Cid", the new CyanogenMod mascot, which replaced the previous mascot, Andy the skateboarding "bugdroid".

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10.

On 6 November 2013 the CyanogenMod team started pushing the code of CyanogenMod 11, based on Android 4.

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11.

CyanogenMod's asked the community to consider forking and rebranding the source code, possibly with some form of crowdfunding based on the project's underlying popularity.

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12.

CyanogenMod stated that while "that this most recent action from [Cyanogen Inc ] is definitely a death blow for CyanogenMod", the community had already begun taking the steps needed to fork the project under a new name and aimed to return to its grassroots origins while retaining professional approaches adopted during the Cyanogen Inc era.

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13.

The reaction from many CyanogenMod users towards Google was hostile, with some claiming that Google's legal threats hurt their own interests, violated their informal corporate motto "Don't be evil" and was a challenge to the open-source community Google claimed to embrace.

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CyanogenMod's added that she was receiving assistance from Google employees.

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15.

CyanogenMod officially supported a large number of devices, including most Nexus and Google Play Edition devices.

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