The virtual ink had only just dried on our guide to installing CyanogenMod when Google dismissed the official app from the Play Store, much to the dismay of modders and hackers. A vibrant ...

The Amazon Kindle Fire is is a 7 inch tablet designed to access Amazon’s digital book, music, movie, and app stores. But we’ve already seen that you can root the device, install the Android Market, ...

Today is a pretty big day for the folks over at CyanogenMod. They announced that they are now a company, Cyanogen Inc. One of their first goals as a company was to make installing CyanogenMod easier.

CyanogenMod has launched its app installer for Mac computers in public beta. The move creates a new installation path for its open-source alternative Android firmware, allowing users to load it onto ...

Update: CyanogenMod 9 Alpha 0 is now available — and we have detailed instructions on installing this (buggy) version of Android 4.0 on the HP TouchPad. The CyanogenMod has released an updated version ...

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The maker of CyanogenMod, a modified version of Google's Android mobile operating system, is to distribute the product without proprietary Google Apps included. The shift in strategy follows a ...

So as I detailed in an earlier thread, I was thinking about installing cyanogenmod. Well, I've finally cracked and decided to do it. I left my phone on the table at 6:00 this morning and it was dead ...

The tech giant doesn't object to the variant of the open-source Android OS, but it does say the installer app violates Google Play developer requirements. Well, there's always sideloading. Stephen ...

Cyanogen has switched gears, leaving the Android variant CyanogenMod in the lurch, CyanogenMod's developers aren't giving up. They're forking the code into LineageOS. Read now The open-source mobile ...

When you think of Custom ROMs, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Probably CyanogenMod, or MIUI, right? When most of us flashed our first ROM it was probably one of those two. CyanogenMod has ...