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[kehs]

CyanogenMod is about to cross 1 Million Unique Installs in a matter of hours.

That's pretty crazy. Steve Kondik aka Cyanogen (the founder of CyanogenMod) is now working at Samsung at the moment. Alot of these "small" contributions amount to something bigger.

Open Source©®™℗

https://plus.google.com/117962666888533781522/posts/aBKLaNLnXrg

 

[Jamesfrom818]

CyanogenMod is about to cross 1 Million Unique Installs in a matter of hours.

That's pretty crazy. Steve Kondik aka Cyanogen (the founder of CyanogenMod) is now working at Samsung at the moment. Alot of these "small" contributions amount to something bigger.

Open Source©®™℗

https://plus.google.com/117962666888533781522/posts/aBKLaNLnXrg

I am responsible for three of those installs.

 

[Circle T]

Lol mine's been doing that since I had my OG droid, maybe a year....

You know, now that I think about it, I started to notice this when I got my Nexus. Since you can swipe down the notification tray from the lock screen in stock ICS, and go right to the item, I've been using that a lot. Previously, I would just see what app had a notification, and then unlock the phone and launch the app. That would obviously clear the Voice notification. You're probably right, and this is an old bug that I'm just now starting to notice due to my new usage patterns.

 

[Papercuts]

My HTC Incredible keeps giving me a low on space notification, but I've deleted pretty much everything I can and it won't go away. Dialer Storage for some reason is getting huge and is at 99mb, but I have no idea why. Any way to fix this?

 

[kehs]

I am responsible for three of those installs.

I can only chip in for 1, maybe 2 if you count recommendations.

 

[Patriots7]

The more I see the Xperia Ion, the more that I want it.

The only annoying thing is, when it finally does get ICS, two of the buttons will be useless. Ugh.

 

[jey_16]

assuming you went with the CM9 on xda?

just noticed a new build released today so going to try that out

I think CM9 will be pretty amazing once it is finished.

Yep, I think I'm going to stick with it for a while atleast

 

[risk]

Thanks for the feedback, I'll try out ICS on my Captivate first. Any major issues with the teamhacksung builds? Leaning a little towards the S2 after reading your guys' opinions.

 

[saunderez]

I am responsible for three of those installs.

I'm on 3 too. Desire, Touchpad, GSII.

Anxiously awaiting stable CM9 for the Touchpad and GSII.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

CyanogenMod is about to cross 1 Million Unique Installs in a matter of hours.

That's pretty crazy. Steve Kondik aka Cyanogen (the founder of CyanogenMod) is now working at Samsung at the moment. Alot of these "small" contributions amount to something bigger.

Open Source©®™℗

https://plus.google.com/117962666888533781522/posts/aBKLaNLnXrg

I'm responsible for 2 installs, on my old Droid X and on my Touchpad.

 

[Angst]

Aaaand they've done more than 1.000.000 installs:
http://stats.cyanogenmod.com/

Edit - they actually crossed the line 90 minutes or so ago.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Aaaand they've done more than 1.000.000 installs:
http://stats.cyanogenmod.com/

Edit - they actually crossed the line 90 minutes or so ago.

Wow, there are 18,000 or so Tenderloin installs.

Tenderloin is HP Touchpad, for the people who don't have one.

 

[rozay]

I love the design of the Xperia S and now I'm wondering if I should go with one of those over a nexus. maybe if it had a decent development community..

 

[panda21]

Aaaand they've done more than 1.000.000 installs:
http://stats.cyanogenmod.com/

Edit - they actually crossed the line 90 minutes or so ago.

they only have 19000 on SGS2?! thats actually amazingly low, i thought cyanogen was much bigger than that.

 

[saunderez]

they only have 19000 on SGS2?! thats actually amazingly low, i thought cyanogen was much bigger than that.

I think you'll find a lot of people use modded official roms due to TouchWiz actually not being that bad. I was using a modded official rom most of the time. Will be moving to CM9 when it gets a bit more stable due to the fact Samsung is still pushing ahead with TouchWiz and has uglified the new UI with it.

 

[Angst]

they only have 19000 on SGS2?! thats actually amazingly low, i thought cyanogen was much bigger than that.

I assume CM together with MIUI are the biggest custom ROMs. You also have to factor in all the derivative ROMs that are created from either TW or CM and then modified in some way.

And most people either don't know about custom ROMs or don't bother with it.

 

[The Faceless Master]

I think you'll find a lot of people use modded official roms due to TouchWiz actually not being that bad. I was using a modded official rom most of the time. Will be moving to CM9 when it gets a bit more stable due to the fact Samsung is still pushing ahead with TouchWiz and has uglified the new UI with it.

and TouchWiz also has hardware acceleration for more video formats and the browser!

 

[Angst]

and TouchWiz also has hardware acceleration for more video formats and the browser!

Yep, that's why I'm on CheckROM at the moment. I also use MHL quite a lot, which I don't get with Cyanogen. If they somehow manage to get MHL in there (someone on XDA said TV-Out was integrated in ICS) I'll jump ship for CM at once.

 

[Blackhead]

still waiting for cm9 on the galaxy nexus. i usually lose interest in a device before CM support is available for it :/

 

[The Faceless Master]

"Verizon and AT&T don't want seven stock ICS devices on their shelves," he said, insisting that he "has to make money" and that there simply isn't a way to profit on a device that isn't differentiated. "The vast majority of the changes we make to the OS are to meet the requirements that carriers have."

http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/10/2...erizon-and-at-t-dont-want-seven-stock-android

Pipe Bomb

 

[DrFunk]

Stay unlocked folks

Carriers, stay free

 

[kehs]

http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/10/2...erizon-and-at-t-dont-want-seven-stock-android

Pipe Bomb

Wait, wait, wait, Ma Bells want complete control over everything?

I refuse to believe that.

 

[brotkasten]

http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/10/2...erizon-and-at-t-dont-want-seven-stock-android

Pipe Bomb

I wish there was a law that would degrade carriers to the same level that ISPs are. Just offer you damn service and don't ever touch the devices.

Meanwhile, Microsoft signs another Android/Chrome OS patent deal.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=458680

 

[rpmurphy]

Ugh, Youtube app is broken. Subscription videos don't show up, a good number of them force closes. :[

 

[gcubed]

I wish there was a law that would degrade carriers to the same level that ISPs are. Just offer you damn service and don't ever touch the devices.

Meanwhile, Microsoft signs another Android/Chrome OS patent deal.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=458680

MS has to stay in the game somehow, god knows THEIR phones aren't bringing in any money

 

[andycapps]

Is there a fully functional ICS ROM out yet for OG EVO?

 

[SimleuqiR]

I have seen Chrome for Android, and it is good

Chrome for Android is coming, but not anytime soon. The demonstration I was shown is already everything I described above and more. My source had it running on a Samsung Nexus S. During my brief stay at the Marvell booth to ask questions, my source introduced himself as a representative assigned to help support Marvell at CES for any advanced questions. In its unreleased form, Chrome for Android is very plain. I was not permitted to take any shots of it, but there is really nothing a photo or screenshot could show you. The browser is very fast, even on the Nexus S, and is already well on its way to being everything you could expect from a proper build of Chrome. Switching between tabs is incredibly easy, and dismissing tabs when you are done with them really does happen with a flick. After seeing this brief demonstration it was clear that this browser is going to be worth the wait.

 

[Toki767]

I thought ICS pretty much used a version of Chrome. The ICS browser is quite good.

 

[walbertsmith]

My HTC Incredible keeps giving me a low on space notification, but I've deleted pretty much everything I can and it won't go away. Dialer Storage for some reason is getting huge and is at 99mb, but I have no idea why. Any way to fix this?

That is easily one of the most annoying issues ever, and it has to do with the way HTC partitioned the drive.

Do you have a lot of text messages? It doesn't completely fix the issue but it helped a ton for me. There was also an update for the Inc that released sometime in Nov that supposedly fixed the issue as well (I needed to delete my texts before I could dl/install the tiny 8mb update).

 

[kehs]

I thought ICS pretty much used a version of Chrome. The ICS browser is quite good.

Nope, it's a webkit based version, but not really based off the chrome tree.

 

[jayb]

I'm loving Dragon Go. It's my new favorite way to search.

 

[Ephemeris]

Wow, there are 18,000 or so Tenderloin installs.

Tenderloin is HP Touchpad, for the people who don't have one.

I've held off on upgrading mine until ICS. When that's out.. +1

 

[Papercuts]

That is easily one of the most annoying issues ever, and it has to do with the way HTC partitioned the drive.

Do you have a lot of text messages? It doesn't completely fix the issue but it helped a ton for me. There was also an update for the Inc that released sometime in Nov that supposedly fixed the issue as well (I needed to delete my texts before I could dl/install the tiny 8mb update).

I have around 200, which I don't think is much. The phone has actually wiped out all of my texts in the last month when it told me I was low on space last time.

It says I have 4.94gb/6.60gb left on phone storage, 652mb/748mb on phone memory, and 1.34gb/1.86gb on the SD card. I'd like to keep the texts if possible but I'm not sure how else to fix it.

 

[Jamesfrom818]

I've held off on upgrading mine until ICS. When that's out.. +1

Same here.

 

[Sky Chief]

My coworker has screen burn in on his Droid Charge. Is there anything he can do?

 

[walbertsmith]

I have around 200, which I don't think is much. The phone has actually wiped out all of my texts in the last month when it told me I was low on space last time.

It says I have 4.94gb/6.60gb left on phone storage, 652mb/748mb on phone memory, and 1.34gb/1.86gb on the SD card. I'd like to keep the texts if possible but I'm not sure how else to fix it.

Yeah I think I had almost 2000 haha. Besides deleting unnecessary apps, did you try clearing the cache/data in your apps too? Not sure if you should do that for contact storage, but I had to do it constantly for email/dolphin/reddit/handful of other apps just to remove the error.

Make sure you try to dl that update as well.

 

[Circle T]

My coworker has screen burn in on his Droid Charge. Is there anything he can do?

I noticed that a couple times with my Captivate. At times, when looking at pictures or video, you could see a faint ghost of the clock/battery/data in the upper corner. I would just full-screen a pure white image in the gallery, and let it sit for a few minutes at full blast brightness. Seemed to work the screen back to normal pretty well. Might give that a shot.

 

[Sky Chief]

I noticed that a couple times with my Captivate. At times, when looking at pictures or video, you could see a faint ghost of the clock/battery/data in the upper corner. I would just full-screen a pure white image in the gallery, and let it sit for a few minutes at full blast brightness. Seemed to work the screen back to normal pretty well. Might give that a shot.

Thanks

 

[kobashi100]

Did the youtube app get a stealth update? I doesnt default to my subscriptions now.. wtf. Dont like it.

same here. Just noticed it.

When is the Xoom getting ICS?

 

[Divvy]

So there is a live interview on the Verge right now with Matias Duerte talking about new efforts to make third party applications to follow an ICS style guide.

 

[gcubed]

So there is a live interview on the Verge right now with Matias Duerte talking about new efforts to make third party applications to follow an ICS style guide.

good?

two things i did notice, no phone has ICS yet that isn't a nexus, most are a good ways out, and almost no phones at CES had ICS. I wonder why this is.

a third thing i guess. Very little has been updated for ICS (there is no reason a video app doesnt run full screen when streaming), which goes back to the above. They need to get it pushed out to more devices.

 

[Divvy]

good?

two things i did notice, no phone has ICS yet that isn't a nexus, most are a good ways out, and almost no phones at CES had ICS. I wonder why this is.

a third thing i guess. Very little has been updated for ICS, which goes back to the above. They need to get it pushed out to more devices.

Just started watching. There seems to be a real effort into making a unified style guide for developers.

EDIT: Josh is an asshole as always though.

 

[JonathanEx]

The guidelines he is announcing are up now: http://developer.android.com/design

Also, FULL family of Roboto fonts! (Black, Thin, Light, Condensed).

 

[SimleuqiR]

This is what CoCo was talking about:

Up vs. Back

Can't remember if it was in this thread or the Tuna one.

Edit:

Wooo look at what we have here:

A new Google Talk icon!! Wonder if they are updating the app soon.

I also noticed that the Google Voice icon on the page tab is very similar to this new Talk one. Check it out now if you haven't noticed it yet.

 

[Bboy AJ]

Fucking finally. I am so sick of ugly, hideous, and inconsistent apps.

The Google Talk icon is already out on the most recent GApps pack.

 

[Papercuts]

Yeah I think I had almost 2000 haha. Besides deleting unnecessary apps, did you try clearing the cache/data in your apps too? Not sure if you should do that for contact storage, but I had to do it constantly for email/dolphin/reddit/handful of other apps just to remove the error.

Make sure you try to dl that update as well.

Yeah, I've been clearing cache and deleting apps, still won't go away. Dialer Storage keeps growing and is 100mb right now, lol.

Is there a way to manually get the update? I don't see why I wouldn't have it but I'll try again.

 

[Toki767]

A new Google Talk icon!! Wonder if they are updating the app soon.

The new Google Talk icon is part of Android 4.0.3. Pretty sure it's 4.0.3 at least, it could be 4.0.1 though.

 

[Lesiroth]

and TouchWiz also has hardware acceleration for more video formats and the browser!

Well, the browser advantage for TW is not there anymore with ICS, and the video formats can be solved by using Dice Player. It's how I get by on custom ICS roms on my SGS.

 

[SimleuqiR]

The new Google Talk icon is part of Android 4.0.3. Pretty sure it's 4.0.3 at least, it could be 4.0.1 though.

Not on 4.0.1 or 4.0.2. I was using .1 as of yesterday, on .2 now, and no new icon.

Also, they are straight up showing you the difference between iOS and Android 4.0 here:

http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/pure-android.html

 

[DualShadow]

Hey guys, I'm new to Android and wondering what the pros/cons are of rooting my Samsung Galaxy II.