The CyanogenMod team has just added a new feature to their nightly builds called "Heads up" which is very similar to Paranoid Android's "Hover" feature. It allows you to display floating notifications over your current activity and allows you to interact with them (similar to how they are on iOS 8)The feature does bring some…
While users are still desperately looking for a OnePlus One invite and others still haven't forget the horrible marketing campaign OnePlus did to give female users free invites the OnePlus team has confirmed during a Reddit AMA that it is already working on a successor to the OnePlus One called the OnePlus Two.In the AMA, the team…
The company behind the popular custom Android ROM called CyanogenMod could be working on their own Recovery according to new leaked icon images on GitHub. Cyanogenmod has used the ClockWorkMod Recovery for some time now but it seems like it will ditch it in the future for its own recovery.A Recovery is a "Limited boot…
The most popular Android custom ROM Cyanogenmod is vulnerable to what is known as Man in the Middle attacks due to the reuse of Java code that contains this very same vulnerability. A Security researcher which goes by the name of Vulture South (to hide its true identity) says that CM developers have used old Java 1.5…
Mobile devices, especially those within the Android ecosystem, have reached unprecedented levels of performance with their multi-core processors and gigabytes of RAM. However, for various reasons, you may want to increase the performance of your device. Manufacturer customizations, heavy multitasking, and other things can slow down the device and adversely affect day-to-day performance. If you…
The new OnePlus One smartphone running the CyanogenMod will be officially revealed on April 23rd 2014 but the company has already been tweeting out some interesting stuff regarding this new handset.One of the things it has confirmed is the price, the device will be "under 350€" in Europe (approximately $450) which is impressive keeping in…
Cyanogenmod no longer supports CDMA Galaxy Nexus devices (This means the Sprint and Verizon variant of the Galaxy Nexus). The drop in support is mainly because of the lack of documentation and driver updates for the chipset this in combination with the lack of resources, the team has decided to completely drop support for the CDMA…
Mike, an official Staff members on the OnePlus forum have confirmed that the OnePlus One, the smartphone which comes with Cyanogenmod 11S pre-installed, will get the Android L update within 90 days of release.
See Also: OnePlus One teardown
The main reason why it will take so long is because the OnePlus team has to wait until…
Samsung recently confirmed that the international model of the Galaxy S III will not be receiving the update to Android 4.4 Kit-Kat. While the device is two years old, it is still immensely popular, meaning that this is a blow to a huge number of customers.Samsung will not be officially supporting the OS for this…
OnePlus finally released an update that fixed the Touch Screen multi-touch issue which fixed the OnePlus One's poor touchscreen response and performance. According to Kalpik the update is now being reverted due to huge OnePlus One battery drain issues for those who have already installed the latest update, you can follow the guide bellow to fix the…