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The grumpy editor answers a call from CyanogenMod 7

The grumpy editor answers a call from CyanogenMod 7

Posted Mar 10, 2011 1:24 UTC (Thu) by tetromino (guest, #33846)
Parent article: The grumpy editor answers a call from CyanogenMod 7

I've been using CyanogenMod since 7.0.0-rc1 on my Nexus One.

On the plus side, it really is amazingly configurable, looks better and feels faster/more responsive than stock Android 2.2, comes with a terminal emulator and a pretty decent FM radio app, and best of all, it lets you use the camera flash as a super-bright flashlight! (the stock firmware doesn't allow that).

On the minus side - battery life is on average worse than with stock Android 2.2; I've had it corrupt my SD card's filesystem on one occasion (fixed using fsck.vfat on my desktop machine); and on another occasion, the screen started becoming intermittently corrupt (fixed by a hard reboot, i.e. pulling out the battery).


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The grumpy editor answers a call from CyanogenMod 7

Posted Mar 11, 2011 15:28 UTC (Fri) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link]

There are apps that let you use the camera flash as a flashlight on the stock ROM -- TeslaLED is quite good.

The grumpy editor answers a call from CyanogenMod 7

Posted Mar 14, 2011 20:59 UTC (Mon) by leoc (guest, #39773) [Link]

I've noticed that since updating my n1 to gingerbread (stock) the battery life has gone down so it may not be cyanogenmod.

The grumpy editor answers a call from CyanogenMod 7

Posted Apr 12, 2011 10:33 UTC (Tue) by pointwood (guest, #2814) [Link]

On my HTC Desire (GSM), battery life has been a lot better with CM7 than with the Android 2.2 + HTC Sense that it came with.

I quite like CM7, though I agree that the configurability can make it overwhelming.


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