Data Scientist by day, geek tech gamer junky by night.
09/11/2015
I was so stoked Friday to find Cyanogenmod 12 arrives for Nexus 4! The boards said it was stable, or that snapshot is the new stable, so I thought why not. I’ve been doing this since the Nexus 1, so I dropped into the usual update process; I backed up everything and took advantage of being able to install direct from my copy of CM 11. Everything went well, apps…
07/04/2014
For the first time on the Nexus 4, I’ve installed a Custom ROM, and to date this was my largest fail yet. I didn’t brick the device, although the password for the encryption I’d set up was continually rejected 🙁 I had to wipe the device completely, to remove drive encryption, and start Cyanogen 10.2.1, the last stable build based on Android 4.3.1, which is apparently more secure than later…
09/28/2013
Came across this thread on Reddit: Handmade Gadgets? This is my PirateBox After reading through a couple of links I’ve found that some guys here at xda-developers that have installed the necessary software on a Nexus1! I happen to have a spare rooted N1 sitting about, running on Cyanogenmod. I’ve been using it to occasionally stream Pandora, but I am more than keen to see if I can build a…
08/26/2013
Cyanogenmod – Make Mako your own! destructions for installing Cyanogenmod onto the Nexus4 Cyanogenmod was my preferred ROM for my Nexus 1, after it was no longer supported for updates. Now I’m considering switching back to it, on my N4, for different reasons… the main one to break away from Google’s tracking. The down side is that I’m hooked on Google Apps 🙁 So here’s a list of the benefits…
06/08/2013
I haven’t entertained the idea of leaving a google OS on my Nexus 4 until hearing about the tracking information, as this would lose functionality compared with 4.2.2…. until now 🙂 Cyanogenmod has been my OS of choice, after acquiring my Nexus1. So I’m quite looking forward to the task of installing the latest version, and finding life beyond google. Not sure of how I feel about ditching Ingress though,…
Slashdot Cyanogenmod 10.1 After owning my N1 for a few weeks I’d rooted it amd installed Cyanogenmod. I loved what it allowed me to do with my phone, beyond the generic Android OS. By N1 has been boxed up for a couple of months… well actually used as a dev test phone for a work app, and I’m more than happy with 4.2.2 on the N4 and N7. If I…