Saturday, February 6, 2010

Nexus One - detailled instructions to install Cyanogen's alternative firmware from Mac OSX

The post Cyanogen ROM Beta 4 from GeekSage contains detailled instructions on how to install famous Cyanogen's alternative firmware on a Nexus One from Mac OSX.

As it is said : "INSTALLING A NON-GOOGLE ROM WILL VOID YOUR WARRANTY.".

If you wonder why one may want rooting an Android phone, consider the following posts : Why (and How) to Root Your Android Phone, Five Great Reasons to Root Your Android Phone and Why Root along with the following ones for the G1 : Rooting Android and Android – G1 – Root Access Why & How and the "root" tag on FrAndroid (in french).

3 comments:

a2b said...

The 5.0-N1-beta4's changelog :

* Highmem kernel is now the default. 2x RAM available.
* MMS bugs fixed (message size, image resizing, etc)
* Updated Wysie's Contacts to latest
* Disabled the JIT entirely. It's not even an option anymore. Too buggy and breaks the debugger.
* Built Webkit with V8. Feedback needed on this!
* Updated APN list, should fix AGPS issues
* Added option to keep screen awake while charging for the Music app (car mode)
* Other minor fixes

a2b said...

[ROM] CyanogenMod 5.0 for Nexus One (EXPERIMENTAL) [02/02/2010 / 5.0-beta4] from xda-developers's forum.

a2b said...

The last Cyanogen Nexus One stable firmware is [ROM] CyanogenMod-5: Kang Central Station (STABLE) [03/23/2010 / 5.0.5.3]

The Nexus One's Cyanogen's wiki contains some instructions : head to Full Update Guide - Nexus One Firmware to CyanogenMod.