A Christmas gift to myself. It was on sale anyway. A Nexus 7 tablet. I swapped out the stock Android for Cyanogenmod so I’d have a little more fun tweaking it.
The home screen looks a little severe, but it will do for now. Red is not a favorite.
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Once you go Cyanogen, you never go back. 🙂 Do you have the official nightlies installed or one an XDA developer made?
Nightlies.
Running Nexus devices, there are fewer reasons to swap out the OS since there is no carrier stuff on there anyway, but I wanted to learn how these things are done. Pretty darn easy, especially after mucking around with Linux all these years. It was worth it just to get rid of that Google search bar that I always hated. The boot animation is cool, and there is more to play with.
I’m keeping Brian’s device stock (for now). I like having an instant comparison always available. Learning Cyan actually helped me to trust myself to fix his stock system. He was getting the black screen of death sometimes – device continues to run but won’t wake up. I just did a reset, and it is fine again.
It takes some nerve to mess around with a $300+ device, but there’s not that much to swapping things around. Reverting back to stock, or reflashing, is a piece of cake.
I’m sure I’ve asked you this before, but is Cyan any more or less hackable by the NSA than the standard Android OS?
I don’t know. I just don’t know. :p