What does it take for a ROM to move from unofficial to official or is that not how it works? For example, I run cm11 official because its official. I would like to run cm12 but it says unofficial.
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Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.. But... Unofficial is usually when someone compiles the build themselves and share. They sometimes add commits that have not been merged into official builds. Sometimes add add-ons that may not be supported in official builds. Sometimes a dev team may not have a maintainer for a specific official build. Most times unofficial builds aren't always as dependant as official. Sometimes they can be better.
As for CM 12. It went official last night. They are nightly builds, but they are official now. The thread is in the original development section. You can go to the CM site and it shows all the official 11 builds and then starting with 1/6 it is now on official 12 nightly. Hope that helps. ?
Just to clarify. The official CM11 thread is where to go for more info right now. Sure they will probably start a new one soon, but the link still takes you to CM and the latest build is the CM 12 from today 1/6. http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=vs985&type=nightly
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Okay so while everyone is looking out for Cyanogenmod 9, I'm still wondering about CM7...
Simple question, if there is already a stable build, what are the purpose of the Nightly builds? In the link http://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices/samsung-galaxy-s2 you can select between, Stable, Experimental and Nightly builds. Why would one choose a Nightly build over the Stable build?
Because a nightly is the latest version of the rom. But it is likely to have more bugs then the stable.
For our device there is no CM build labeled as stable. But the nightly builds are stable for daily use.
Can you still follow me? It's just how the rom is labeled.
Lennyz1988 said:
Because a nightly is the latest version of the rom. But it is likely to have more bugs then the stable.
For our device there is no CM build labeled as stable. But the nightly builds are stable for daily use.
Can you still follow me? It's just how the rom is labeled.
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That's not entirely true, there is a build labeled "stable", here.
However, it's an old build, and you would be better off using a more recent build. I would go as far as recommending a kang build, because the latest nightly is also old. There will be no more nighties for CM7, because CM9 should arrive... in the near future.
The latest semi-official kang, built by codeworkx, is here.
I'm using Novek's build without problems (it contains more recent commits than codeworkx's), which you can download here.
what's the difference between the cm in http://get.cm/?device=olympus and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1257574 (Ba2tF) ??
and how the nightly stoped at november? is it Ba2tF something final?
kossel said:
what's the difference between the cm in http://get.cm/?device=olympus and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1257574 (Ba2tF) ??
and how the nightly stoped at november? is it Ba2tF something final?
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Ba2tf is a beta release by the Atrix dev. team, who originally ported CM7 to the Atrix; it includes Atrix specific fixes from the previous beta release.
The nightlys are released by the CyagonMod dev. team, based off of the work provided by the Atrix dev. team. The nightly updates include fixes, new test build ideas, etc. that have to do with CM7 in general, and may or may not include specific updates for the Olympus (aka the Atrix).
The nightlys and also the Atrix dev team beta builds have been suspended more or less, due to the fact that most of the members of both dev teams are allocating their resources towards working on getting CM9 out. Last estimate I herd of a release candidate for CM9 was something like April???
There are also weekly builds released by the Atrix dev. team (see corresponding thread in dev. section). These are kind of alike nightlys (except that they are weeklys ) released by the Atrix dev. team to try out fixes, new things, etc.
The most stable of the three choices you have to choose from is probably the beta build by the Atrix dev team (Ba2tf). Although, I've been using the most recent nightly for the last month or two and have had no problems. The most recent weekly has incorporated the fingerprint scanner into it.
If I have gotten any of the above info. incorrect, please feel free to correct me anyone.
thanks for the very thorough summary.
wow thank you very much! you have cleared all my doubts and even questions that I wanted to post later lol
This helped clear up a bunch of confusion for me - thank you
I saw today that the CM website has a nightly build of CM11 available for the Inc4g now. It's the first nightly build they have posted as far as I can tell. I don't know if it's different than the unofficial CM11 build posted on the development forum so I don't know if it requires any special recovery version like the unofficial build did. I'm also assuming it uses the same gapps version as the unofficial build does.
Just thought i'd mention it for anyone interested.
so will us sprint variants vet cm14 as well? What do you think
anyone??????
Yes, it most likely will. Still working through some issues but I would expect it at some point in the future.
You might get better exposure and more answers if this thread was in the Sprint Q&A section.
no idea but we have CypherOS which is pretty mush stable if your on sprint and has a few bugs if on Boost Mobile
6th_Hokage said:
no idea but we have CypherOS which is pretty mush stable if your on sprint and has a few bugs if on Boost Mobile
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i tried grabbing that here- http://get.cypheros.co -but the ls990 says--> No downloads available <--
The XDA page links there as well (it's incorrectly listed as the ls900)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-lg-g3/development/rom-cypheros-3-0-1-cheesecake-t3490515
luckily the mirror link works...
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=125844
i'm going to try it out, thanks for mentioning it (odd that the downloads are so hard to come by though)
*** just an update ... tried it but miracast didn't work, so i wiped it, i'm about to test the newest cm14 unofficial build to see if miracast works (it doesn't work on cm13 builds for me on both d851 & ls990) The official cm14.1 builds for the T-Mobile d851 has Miracast working if that helps anyone.
Official builds are now available. (https://download.lineageos.org/ls990)
Make sure you follow the recommendations on http://lineageos.org/Update-and-Build-Prep/ if you plan to install the official nightly.
Regarding installation, we recommend that users wipe when switching to LineageOS, and reinstall their gapps. However, we recognize that this can be time consuming, so we are offering an EXPERIMENTAL (read as, if it fails, you’ll have to wipe anyways) solution.
•Alongside the ‘weekly’ release for your supported device, we’ll provide an EXPERIMENTAL data migration build.
•This build will allow you to ‘upgrade’ from CM to the signed LineageOS weekly
•This build may wipe permissions (you’ll have to re-allow app permissions), but should retain all user data
•This build will be watermarked with an ugly banner to ensure that you don’t permanently run this EXPERIMENTAL release, and upgrade to a normal weekly after.
•The process for this installation will be as follows:
◦Install EXPERIMENTAL migration build on top of cm-14.1 build (don’t try to install LineageOS 13.0 on top of CM 14.1, that will not work).
◦Reboot
◦Install LineageOS weekly build
◦Reboot
◦Re-setup your application permissions
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I finally got around to creating a dedicated thread for the ls990 on LineageOS 14.1
i see official builds are coming up right now but no LOS official build till now
so it's coming this days ?
All Android 8.1 ROMs still have the exact same bugs. Just because dotOS or crDroid chose to already go for 'official' status doesn't mean they're any more stable than Lineage. It just undermines what 'official' should stand for - a ROM where everything works. I'd rather that development took its time and the 'official' status really meant something.