Yes, CyanogenMod is dead. Cyanogen, a failing company, is pulling the plug on CyanogenMod. The open source project for the last 3 years has been taken over by the commercial entity Cyanogen or Cyngn. This was a company setup by…
Cyanogen downsizing
News report came on 23 July that Cyanogen is downsizing. The OS team has been let go.
Uncle Sultan
I cannot stop laughing when I saw this on Reddit. Words in bold are mine. We haven’t been abandoned, but we’re clearly the oldest kid in the family from an earlier marriage. Our mom still loves us, but she has…
OnePlus One ghost touch fix
Some eagle eye flasher saw the new Synaptics driver for the OnePlus One going into the CM nightlies for 15 May. Soon everyone (including me) was falling over themselves to flash this. Initial reports indicate that there is a definite…
CM12.1 nightly is out
I have tried one CM12.1 nightly. This was an unofficial build by Ccrazy_boy at XDA. It gave a breath of fresh air to Android L. After a few days, this happened.
CM12S is released.
Cyanogen OS 12, formerly known as CM12s is released today. It is based on CM12 or Android 5.02. The internet and the OnePlus forums goes into overdrive.
New stuff Android 5.1 and TWRP
Hot on the heels of the just-released Android 5.0 or Lollipop, Android 5.1 promises to fix a few things. One of them is the memory leak in the Nexus line. This leak will consume all available RAM causing the launcher…
CM12 Lollipop nightly

After a few weeks of keeping an eye of CM12 nightly, I finally bite the bullet and upgraded. Since the first nightly on 6 Jan, the patches for each nightly has been really long. On some days (or nights) it…
CM12 is here.
CM12 nightly is here!!! This was announced on 5 Jan 14. This is the official nightly from CyanogenMod. The OnePlus One Cyanogen version CM12s is suppose to arrive in Feb 15. Only time will tell. During the Christmas break I…
Upgrade the OnePlus One to 38R
The OnePlus One, out of the box is a diamond in the rough. The software version out of the box is 22R. You can easily upgrade to 25R using the build in Over The Air (OTA) software. Note this an…