CyanogenMod is a free, community built, aftermarket firmware distribution of Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), which is designed to increase performance and reliability over stock Android for your device.
This version is a release candidate, but you will find it stable for everyday use.
CyanogenMod is based on the Android Open Source Project with extra contributions from many people within the Android community. It can be used without any need to have any Google application installed. Linked below is a package that has come from another Android project that restore the Google parts. CyanogenMod does still include various hardware-specific code, which is also slowly being open-sourced anyway.
All the source code for CyanogenMod is available in the CyanogenMod Github repo. And if you would like to contribute to CyanogenMod (
http://github.com/CyanogenMod ), please visit out Gerrit Code Review (
http://review.cyanogenmod.com ). You can also view the Changelog (
https://github.com/CyanogenMod/andro...CHANGELOG.mkdn ) for a full list of changes & features.
Instructions:
First time flashing CyanogenMod 7.2 your device, or coming from another ROM?
1. Root the device and install ClockworkMod Recovery. Instructions are available here (
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2. Perform a NANDroid backup of your current ROM.
3. Format the system, data & cache partitions of your device.
4. Perform a factory reset.
5. Flash CyanogenMod.
6. Optional: Install the Google Apps addon package.
Upgrading from earlier version of CyanogenMod 7?
1. Perform a NANDroid backup of your current ROM.
2. Flash CyanogenMod (your Google Apps will be backed up & restored automatically).
Issues?
Experience issues? Please provide the following info:
If the device was hard reboot, please provide the file "/proc/last_kmsg".
If the device was soft reboot or is "bootlooping", please run a logcat (
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Logcat )and provide the full output.
Please use Pastebin (
http://cyanogenmod.pastebin.com ) when possible.
Download Links:
CyanogenMod:
Latest version: update-cm-7.2.0-RC2
Download:
http://get.cm/?type=RC
Mirror:
http://goo-inside.me/cm
MD5sum: See Mirrors
Google Apps addon:
Version: gapps-gb-20110828
Mirror:
http://cmw.22aaf3.com/gapps/gapps-gb...828-signed.zip
Mirror:
http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip
Please confine all discussion of RC releases to your device's Experimental subforum. This will make it easier for us to track RC specific issues.
The CyanogenMod team would like to thank everyone involved in helping with testing, coding, debugging & documenting! Enjoy!