In a combination of bugfixes and feature additions and enhancements, the latest version of the popular custom ROM for Android phones, CyanogenMod has just been updated to version 5.0.4 for the Nexus One. CyanogenMod has been around since the days of the G1 and main author, Steve Kondik, maintains a version of G1/Magic (myTouch 3G) [...]
HTC Releases CDMA Hero Kernel Source
HTC released the source code for the CDMA Hero (Sprint) kernel. This was a major roadblock for custom ROM developers who were running into trouble porting Android 1.6, 2.0 or even 2.1 to the CDMA HTC Hero. Without the Kernel, many of the tweaks devs were limited to making to their ROMs adding just package [...]
Motorola Milestone Rooted
It didn’t take the clever folks over at Android Hilfe.de long to root the Motorola Milestone. This will open up the Droid cousin to customization, root Applications and the all kinds of extra features only available to a rooted phone. This is the first step in getting custom ROMs, either with added features or with [...]
CyanogenMod 4.2.13 Available
ROM developer Steve Kondik has just released CyanogenMod 4.2.13 which is another “stable” release in his long series of great releases. His custom ROMs have been around for a while and they just get better and better with time. They are available for the Dream (T-Mobile G1) and Magin 32B (T-Mobile myTouch 3G). If you [...]
MoDaCo Custom HERO ROM Builder Available
MoDaCo has released what they are referring to as a Kitchen Sink for created custom ROMs for the HTC Hero, both the GSM version and the CDMA version. The kitchen sink aspect is like a shopping like for making a custom ROM. You simply select the applications and/or features you wish installed on your phone [...]
Android 2.1 on DROID
Apparently, a somewhat stable, if not a little finicky, Android 2.1 build from Nexus One has been ported over to the Motorola DROID. There are a few steps that must be taken, it’s not a quick throw in a go ROM, but it’s still Android 2.1. There is a step by step guide on alldroid.org. [...]
Android 2.1 Now Available for Hero (GSM)
Well, that didn’t take long. As I reported earlier this morning, the HTC Hero ROM with Sense UI on top of Android 2.1 was found and a dump of the files was made. The result was a custom ROM for the G1/myTouch 3G crowd. Well, now behnaam from XDA has released an already updated ROM [...]
Update to HTC Hero 2.1 News
Drizzy has gone and removed the watermark from the Hero Android 2.1, apparently, those funny watermarks were actually in the ROM itself. This ROM has been ported over to the G1/myTouch 3G phones already, but it’s a matter of time before it’s ported back to Hero and CDMA. But, what’s really important here is this [...]
CyanogenMod with Eclair
Well, that didn’t take long. CyanogenMod has already been updated with some Android 2.0, Eclair, bits in it. Steve Kondik, the author behind CyanogenMod has been hard at work. He had Android 2.0 working on his G1 last night, well mostly. It’s still missing some audio and video codecs and so it wasn’t a useful [...]
Custom ROMs
One of the biggest selling points of an Android powered phone is the customization. T-Mobile has gone to length finding well known and unique celebrities to help sell the customization of it’s myTouch 3G phone. Verizon has poked fun of the a well known competitor who “iDon’t customize” as well. A number of cell manufacturers [...]
