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Bit of an alarmist article title when plenty of fairly popular alternatives exist, like AOKP, AOSB, Slim, and PA. Was CM doing something extra to/with their ROM

by sli 10y ago

Bit of an alarmist article title when plenty of fairly popular alternatives exist, like AOKP, AOSB, Slim, and PA. Was CM doing something extra to/with their ROMs and code that these are not?

colordrops 10y ago
Hasn't CM covered more models with greater stability than alternatives?
- bobbyd3 10y ago
  Generally speaking, yes.
dispose13432 10y ago
AOKP - dead. PA - dead AOSB - Exceeded bandwidth and archive doesn't seem to have archived it properly. According to Google cache, they're working on L, so seems dead. Slim - was dead for a few years. Seems to have revived. The question is what will LineageOS look like?
- hackuser 10y ago
  > PA - dead I thought so too but, based on a quick search I just did, it was relaunched in 2016.
  - dispose13432 10y ago
    True!! I thought they were aquihired by OnePlus after the CM deal fell through to make OxygenOS
    - hackuser 10y ago
      I thought the same. I wonder what happened.
- varuniyer 10y ago
  AOKP is definitely not dead. Take a look at the recent gerrit activity: https://gerrit.aokp.co https://gerrit.aokp.co
  - varuniyer 10y ago
    Sorry, do url without https, so gerrit.aokp.co
bobbyd3 10y ago
Many custom ROM's are/were based on the CyanogenMod source code. Without CyanogenMod/lineageos, custom ROM chef's would need to rely exclusively on AOSP [1] source code instead. Certain custom ROM's such as ParanoidAndroid [2] used AOSP as a base prior to CyanogenMod getting shutdown so these ROM's would not be impacted. The nice thing about CyanogenMod was the wide variety of devices they supported. This meant you could get a newer version of Android/CM on what would have been an otherwise unsupported device by the OEM/Wireless Carrier. CyanogenMod was generally the model project for other third-party custom ROM's. [1] http://source.android.com/source/index.html http://source.android.com/source/index.html [2] http://www.paranoidandroid.co/ http://www.paranoidandroid.co/
h4waii 10y ago
With all respect to each of those projects and the work that goes in to them, just about all of those ROMs are based on CM sources and will seriously stagnate until Lineage is up and running full steam ahead.
vidyesh 10y ago
Most of the custom ROMs out there were based on CM with their spin to it. CM supported more than 500 devices, the only other ROM that is even close to that is MIUI which supports about 200 devices (most of which are in China). Other ROMs support less than 50 devices. Some even keep it limited to Nexus devices only (read CopperheadOS). AOKP is based on CM AOSB isn't being officially updated to even Lollipop I think. SlimROM is active but yet again quite limited and slow. They released their ROM based on M late this year which is very late in terms of custom ROMs standard (even most OEMs by then had released M for their devices) Paranoid Android is active but limited to about 30-40 popular devices. CM was known for supporting devices which the OEMs ignore after 2 years of launching them. And once CM was released for it many other custom ROMs were developed based on it to keep devices updated. This is the main reason why CM is most popular and appreciated for.
hackuser 10y ago
What about OmniROM? My impression, based on not a lot of experience, was that OmniROM was CM's leading competitor.

by sli 10y ago

Bit of an alarmist article title when plenty of fairly popular alternatives exist, like AOKP, AOSB, Slim, and PA. Was CM doing something extra to/with their ROMs and code that these are not?

colordrops 10y ago

Hasn't CM covered more models with greater stability than alternatives?

bobbyd3 10y ago
Generally speaking, yes.

dispose13432 10y ago

AOKP - dead. PA - dead AOSB - Exceeded bandwidth and archive doesn't seem to have archived it properly. According to Google cache, they're working on L, so seems dead. Slim - was dead for a few years. Seems to have revived. The question is what will LineageOS look like?

hackuser 10y ago
> PA - dead I thought so too but, based on a quick search I just did, it was relaunched in 2016.
- dispose13432 10y ago
  True!! I thought they were aquihired by OnePlus after the CM deal fell through to make OxygenOS
  - hackuser 10y ago
    I thought the same. I wonder what happened.
varuniyer 10y ago
AOKP is definitely not dead. Take a look at the recent gerrit activity: https://gerrit.aokp.co https://gerrit.aokp.co
- varuniyer 10y ago
  Sorry, do url without https, so gerrit.aokp.co

bobbyd3 10y ago

Many custom ROM's are/were based on the CyanogenMod source code. Without CyanogenMod/lineageos, custom ROM chef's would need to rely exclusively on AOSP [1] source code instead. Certain custom ROM's such as ParanoidAndroid [2] used AOSP as a base prior to CyanogenMod getting shutdown so these ROM's would not be impacted. The nice thing about CyanogenMod was the wide variety of devices they supported. This meant you could get a newer version of Android/CM on what would have been an otherwise unsupported device by the OEM/Wireless Carrier. CyanogenMod was generally the model project for other third-party custom ROM's. [1] http://source.android.com/source/index.html http://source.android.com/source/index.html [2] http://www.paranoidandroid.co/ http://www.paranoidandroid.co/

h4waii 10y ago

With all respect to each of those projects and the work that goes in to them, just about all of those ROMs are based on CM sources and will seriously stagnate until Lineage is up and running full steam ahead.

vidyesh 10y ago

Most of the custom ROMs out there were based on CM with their spin to it. CM supported more than 500 devices, the only other ROM that is even close to that is MIUI which supports about 200 devices (most of which are in China). Other ROMs support less than 50 devices. Some even keep it limited to Nexus devices only (read CopperheadOS). AOKP is based on CM AOSB isn't being officially updated to even Lollipop I think. SlimROM is active but yet again quite limited and slow. They released their ROM based on M late this year which is very late in terms of custom ROMs standard (even most OEMs by then had released M for their devices) Paranoid Android is active but limited to about 30-40 popular devices. CM was known for supporting devices which the OEMs ignore after 2 years of launching them. And once CM was released for it many other custom ROMs were developed based on it to keep devices updated. This is the main reason why CM is most popular and appreciated for.

hackuser 10y ago

What about OmniROM? My impression, based on not a lot of experience, was that OmniROM was CM's leading competitor.