I have been using CyanogenMod’s Android build since the first time I first rooted my Galaxy S2\u00a0in Jul 2012.\u00a0There were flavours of CM that I have tried. \u00a0South Korea’s MCM before he disappeared, Infected_ and Markox89.<\/p>\n
After looking the state of change for CM, the usual bugs keep cropping up. \u00a0eg 3G reception, switching between WiFi and 3G. \u00a0I thought why not try something else different. \u00a0Then I saw a few posts of people coming over from Paranoid Android build.<\/p>\n
Paranoid Android is a small team building on AOSP but with novel features like Hover and Pie Control. \u00a0They are one of the first few to improve the interaction of the Quick Settings tiles. So why not?<\/p>\n
My first flash on 23 Jul with Paranoid Android 4.44 stable, all I got was a barely working phone. \u00a0No \u00a0Quick Settings tile were visible, browser keeping crashing. \u00a0After a post to Google Plus, someone advised to wipe data. \u00a0Tried that with the same result. \u00a0Another poster advise to wipe and don’t restore settings from Google.<\/p>\n
This time round on 24 Jul, instead of signing in at the setup wizard, I let it complete . \u00a0Most of the functions were there and it looks stable. \u00a0I signed in at\u00a0Google Play and started installing my apps.<\/p>\n
Since then I need to reboot twice. \u00a0Once to stop \u00a0Evernote from running crazy doing nothing. \u00a0The other is to regain control from AlarmDroid, I was unable to stop the alarm. \u00a0Other than that I have no 3G or switching problems. Very stable and impressive build.<\/p>\n
Features wise, there is no secure SMS, device tracker, you can use Google, lack of ability to add\/delete Quick settings tile, no blacklist for phone and SMS functions. \u00a0Some are niceties, some are from CyanogenMod that \u00a0really smooth out the rough edges of Google’s Android.<\/p>\n
\u00a0G+ page for legacy devices<\/a>\u00a0 Download<\/a><\/p>\n Update 31 Jul<\/p>\n Paranoid Android is most impressive. \u00a0Very resilient to apps crashing and random (me!) network switching. The only problem is the first alarm of the day can be difficult to silence. Other than that beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have been using CyanogenMod’s Android build since the first time I first rooted my Galaxy S2\u00a0in Jul 2012.\u00a0There were flavours of CM that I have tried. \u00a0South Korea’s MCM before he disappeared, Infected_ and Markox89. After looking the state… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[241,303,352],"class_list":["post-3004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-android","tag-cyanogenmod","tag-paranoid-android"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3004"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3016,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}