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One of the main reasons that OnePlus gained popularity early on is the fact that they have always been so developer friendly. For this reason rom developers gravitate toward their phones. This also means that rom development is pretty rapid and continues to happen as the devices age. You just...

For years CyanogenMod has been the go to Rom for anyone wanting a custom Rom experience. There are thousands of options when it comes to custom roms but I always seem to make my way back to CyanogenMod. CM seems to be about as close as you can get to stock Android on any device with an unlocked...

Yesterday CyanogenMod started rolling out the first nightly builds for the Nexus 5X. It appears like they have been pretty busy lately. Today they launched official nightly build support for the Xiaomi RedMi Note 3. While the Redmi Note 3 is a solid midrange device it does suffer slightly in the...

The Honor 5X is still one of the best deals out there when it comes to budget smartphones. The only issue I ever had with this phone is the way that EMUI handles performance and multitasking in the stock software. You have to actually go into settings and disable the aggressive power saver mode...

One of the best features of a OnePlus device is incredible amount of Root and Rom support. The devices are open and are extremely developer friendly. The OnePlus 3 released with Oxygen OS, but even before the device started shipping there were already beta builds of CyanogenMod 13 available for...

Many of you will recall Hashcode from his work on Motorola and Kindle devices. He is most well known in the developer community for his work on "SafeStrap". Safestrap was a way of booting into recovery without the need to unlock a device's bootloader. It allowed for stock rom and AOSP based rom...

CyanogenMod vowed years ago that they would not support any devices with an Exynos processor. Exynos processors just aren't user friendly. Samsung is slow to release source code for the Exynos lineup of processors. When code is released it is often far from workable. This has driven Cyanogen...

If you want the Play Store and other Google applications to run on CyanogenMod on your phone you have to flash a G-Apps package separate from the CyanogenMod rom. The actual Cyanogen OS comes with a whole different set of stock apps called Cyanogen Apps. These are their own version of normal...

While OEMs put an end to updates after a year or so the development community continues to release updates for phones long after they have been end of lifed. I can remember last year a Lollipop Rom came out for the Droid X. If the phone were not basically extinct at this point I am sure someone...

A few years back the CEO of CyanogenMod went on record stating that his company over time would put a bullet in the head of Google somehow insinuating that his Android Skin overlay would not only be able to thrive without the existence of Android but also that his company would be the one to...

Wileyfox sells an assortment of mid-tier phones in the UK and other European countries like France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, and Russia. They chose Cyanogen OS as their shipping operating system on devices like the Swift which actually gives them a leg up against the hundreds of other...

Starting a few nightlies back users started to notice a new blank weather feature in the settings dashboard. Until now there has been no explanation of what this is. Cyanogen Mod has been using Yahoo Weather and OpenWeatherMap to power weather features in the status bar and the weather widget...

The OnePlus X was one of the better budget devices released last year. It featured a premium metal and glass build and looked very similar to a device like the iPhone 5s. It was also pretty snappy and performed well overall. OnePlus has yet to officially update the device to Android 6.0...

Last night CyanogenMod began rolling out the Snapshot 2 builds for several devices. If your device has an official maintainer chances are your build will be ready for install shortly. The Snapshot builds are meant to be the most stable builds available leading up to the final build. The Snapshot...

One great reason to root your device and add a custom recovery is the ability to continue to update your device long after the device has been end of lifed by its OEM. CyanogenMod has been providing older devices with the latest and greatest versions of Android for years. The latest lineup of...

Google has already given us the developer preview of Android N, yet only a small percentage of devices have actually made it to Android 6.0 Marshmallow. The Nexus lineup and a few select devices from OEMs like Samsung, LG, HTC, and Motorola have received the update. You can now ad OnePlus's One...

We finally have a stable build of CyanogenMod 13, and with perfect timing seeing how Google has just started to tease Android N with developer preview builds. All CM13 builds have been nightly builds which has meant if you were going to run them you were going to run the risk of having bugs...

We finally have a build of CyanogenMod 13 for the Sony Xperia Z5 Compact. Don't get so excited just yet though. This is a Pre-Beta release. It is booting, but not much else can be said for the build just yet. In fact the list of what is not working is longer than the list of what is working...

I probably sound like a broken record here, but the reason I have always loved roms is because they allow you to run the latest and greatest versions of Android no matter how old your device is. As long as there is a developer willing to develop for the device you can have have the newest...

I can not say that I ever owned a Galaxy S2. When the first Galaxy S and the Galaxy S2 came out i just wasn't really feeling the devices. At that time I was heavily a part of team Moto! Touchwiz just seemed very laggy and i wasn't impressed. I am impressed however that developers were able to...