Tech Chaitu

After shocking users all around by announcing the shutdown of Cyanogen services yesterday, the CM team has some good news. The CyanogenMod team, what’s left of it, will use the CM source code and transition it into Lineage OS. The CyanogenMod ROM was and is still one of most used custom Android ROMs. A lot of users rely on the CM ROM to get the latest Android OS on their devices. When the OEM doesn’t support a device anymore, users could go to CyanogenMod to get the latest version Android running on their devices. Lineage OS will be a continuation of CyanogenMod, although it will be slightly different. It will still rely on the CM source code, and as Cyanogen mentioned in their obituary, anyone can use the open source-code to continue the work. The CM team realized that a lot of users still relied on CM to get the latest Android update and so have formed the new OS. “Embracing that spirit, we the community of developers, designers, device maintainers and translators have ta...

CyanogenMod is virtually the best-known custom ROM out there, and for good reason: it brings the newest version of Android to devices that would otherwise have to wait much longer to receive it, or would never receive it at all. This week, quite a few popular devices have received CyanogenMod 14.1, which is based on Android 7.1 Nougat. CyanogenMod 14.1 (Android 7.1 nightlies): Google Nexus 5 (hammerhead) LG G Pad 7 LTE (v410) Motorola Moto X Pure Edition (2015) (clark) Nextbit Robin (ether) Oppo R5/R5s (Intl) (r5) Oppo R7 Plus (r7plus) Enthusiasts who still own the Nexus 5, of which there are many, will no doubt be thrilled to see Android 7.1 Nougat come to their devices (though it did arrive  in CAF form  late last month). The Moto X Pure and Nextbit Robin are also popular choices for Android addicts, so it's nice to see CM14.1 builds for those up. However, it is worth noting that the Moto X Pure build isn't fully functional; I fla...

Cyanogen Team has finally started developing Cyanogenmod 14.1, based on latest Android 7.1 for supported Android Devices. The first nightly builds of CM14.1 will be start rolling out today for few supported Smartphones. Here's a list of the Android devices that will be able to download the Official CyanogenMod 14.1- Moto G variants(falcon/peregrine/thea/titan) OnePlus 3 Nexus 6P (angler) Nexus 5X (bullhead) Xiaomi Mi3w/Mi4 (cancro) LG G3 (d855) LG G4 (h811/h815 ) Samsung Galaxy S5 (klte/kltedv/kltespr/klteusc/kltevzw) Zenphone 2 (Z00L/Z00T) Your Smartphone's bootloader must be unlocked and should be having a custom recovery Installed (TWRP/CWM) in order to Install the latest Cyanogenmod nightly on your Device.

Got bored of the stock version of Android? You might want to try something new. Moto G 3rd Gen owners can now download the official CyanogenMod Nightly updates from the company’s website. The device is codenamed osprey and is now listed on CM downloads page. The newly released Moto G 2015 model is an amazing affordable smartphone. The packs a 5-inch of 720p display screen, powered by a Snapdragon 410 processor with 2GB of RAM and Android Lollipop operating system. The smartphone also includes a 13-megapixel camera on the back with 2470 mAH battery inside. But as Nightly builds always include some bugs, so we will recommend you to think twice before flashing it or wait for more stable version. Download Link

OnePlus is getting good number of sales in the Indian market. But still the company is using its very popular invite system to sale this smartphone. But things are changing now. The company has finally announced that on February 10th, Indian users will be able to buy OnePlus One in India from Amazon India website without any invite. The sale will begin on 10 AM. To remind you, OnePlus One is priced at Rs. 21,999.  OnePlus One packs a 5.5-inch of Full HD display screen, powered by a 2.5GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor with 3GB of RAM and 64GB of massive Internal Storage. The phone runs Android 4.4-based Cyanogen Operating System, but soon it will be Android 5.0 Lollipop based OnePlus OxygenOS. Amazon says that only limited units of OnePlus One will be on sale. So, if you are planning to buy it then be sure to be quick.

When Cyanogen officially dropped support for the OnePlus One in India due to Micromax’s exclusive rights to CyanogenMod, OnePlus announced that it would be making its own custom ROM. Their new ROM will be called OxygenOS and it will be coming on February 12th . Screenshots of this new OxygenOS have been leaked online before the official ROM.  This new OxygenOS is developed by the same team that developed the existing CyanogenMod ROM. This leak shows that the UI will be flat and icons arranged in categories. Limited features are offered initially like the weather will only indicate the current temperature and the details will be enhanced in the final build. Cyanogen has announced that CyanogenMod 12 which is based on Android Lollipop, is in the final testing process for the OnePlus One’s global variant. Cyanogen has still not confirmed that whether this latest version of CyanogenMod will be released to OnePlus One units over the air, but they have confirmed that In...

Microsoft is investing in Android — that’s a news most of you won’t believe, but it’s true, well sort off.According to Wall Street Journal Microsoft is reportedly planning to become a minority investor in Cyanogen, best known for its customized version of Android. None of them are talking about the deal, and we still don’t know how big Microsoft’s investment may be. Reports state that the two companies are in negotiations to create a new version of Cyanogen’s image that will feature Microsoft’s services, similar to the Nokia X series. The report comes only a few months after Cyanogen declined a Google buyout offer. Cyanogen will probably worth a lot more after additional investments than what Google was willing to pay. Microsoft’s already has Windows Phone, but that platform isn’t exactly exploding. There are more than 50 million people using Cyanogen which would put it at five percent of the one billion active users of Android, and that number will rise significantly if...

A lot of people will be sick by now of hearing about Android 5.0 (Lollipop). Chances are though, the people who are sick of hearing about it, probably fall into one of two camps. Those who don’t know or care about Lollipop and those who already have Lollipop on their devices. For all those still waiting, it is probably safe to assume they do care. What’s more, those who are waiting are probably starting to get itchy feet over the last few days, as we are now approaching the middle of January, which was round about when most OEMs promised Lollipop will start rolling out to their devices. Remember all the ‘ninety-day’ promises?                                                Well, one set of users who are probably itchier than anyone else are owners of the Google Nexus 7 LTE (2013). This is because they have a Nexus device. Firstly, Nexus devices are pretty much con...

Waiting for CyanogenMod support for your Android One smartphone, you are in luck. The CM team has now officially added support for Android One smartphones. The custom ROM team has also released an experimental Android 5.0-based CM 12 ROM for the smartphones and the nightlies will begin soon. As all of the available Android One smartphones – Micromax Canvas A1, Karbonn Sparkle V, Spice Dream Uno, and Symphony Roar A50 use the same hardware and software builds, there is a single CM build for all the devices and it can be found under “sprout” codename on the CM website. The current experimental CM 12 build is not meant for everyone and if you want a software build that won’t create problems in daily-usage, you should wait until the first CM 12 M-release. In addition to Android One phones, CM team has also added support for Nexus 6 and LG G3 D855. CyanogenMod is the most popular after-market firmware for Android devices. It is based on AOSP Android and comes with several of its own...