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[Q] Update to CM5 as promised but nothing??

here is a post Cyanogen did back in June 30th of 2010
It’s been just under a week since Google released Froyo (Android 2.2) into the open-source world and we’ve made great progress on CyanogenMod-6 already. Approximately 20 of us on the CM team are working hard on merging all of the community-developed extras in, as well as porting to new devices. Google did a great job and really gave us the best foundation to start from this time around.
Here’s where we stand so far.. Most of the CyanogenMod extras have been merged. Some features are being reworked (like trackball settings), new device ports are well underway. The first devices to see CM6 experimental releases will most likely be the Nexus One and Droid simply because those are the devices that “just work”. The Dream/Sapphire port has everything working but one small issue remains. Wes Garner has the Slide port well underway. I don’t have a status report of the Desire, Incredible, and Evo versions at this time.
I’m expecting that we should have some experimental releases by the weekend, but please don’t spam us asking for ETAs.. We are just as excited to get this out as you are
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You can follow our progress on Github or drop by irc.freenode.net in #cyanogenmod or #koush.
Regarding updates to CM5.. A small update will be coming this weekend to fix a few bugs but the focus will remain on CM6!
Thanks to everyone who has been supporting us with testing, bugfixing, code, new features, and of course donations. CM is what it is because of the community. Thank you!
just curious for us not using froyo will there be an update to CM5??..
Discuss

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10char....

Bamp?
10char? anybody what to discuss the promise he made??

This is really not good that he promised something and then didn't fullfil this promise, but honestly... CM6 is so much better than CM5.08, personally I am not even thinking on trying 2.1 ROMs, I really don't understand why to bother with older software if newer gives you not only new features and same if not better speed and stability.

There is no point. Same reason why we don't see any progress on donut roms. They're old. 2.2 runs one hell of a lot better than any 2.1 roms did. Give up on CM 5 and come to the now.

I regret moving away from Donut (CM4.x). For me CM6 works worse than CM5 and CM 5 works worse than CM4. The only reason I am staying with CM6 is the hope that 6.1 will improve the situation. The main issue is the lack of memory and what follows as consequence (can't view big websites, can't take photos, apps close themselves due to lack of RAM, push mail does not work, etc.)
These problems are not always occuring, but they occur most of the time, especially if the last reboot is more than 2 or 3 hours in the past. I recommend waiting for CM6.1 and then reassess whether it is viable to switch.

Hellek said:
I regret moving away from Donut (CM4.x). For me CM6 works worse than CM5 and CM 5 works worse than CM4. The only reason I am staying with CM6 is the hope that 6.1 will improve the situation. The main issue is the lack of memory and what follows as consequence (can't view big websites, can't take photos, apps close themselves due to lack of RAM, push mail does not work, etc.)
These problems are not always occuring, but they occur most of the time, especially if the last reboot is more than 2 or 3 hours in the past. I recommend waiting for CM6.1 and then reassess whether it is viable to switch.
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This is a punishment for lack of exploring. I've been using 2.2 ROMs now for a while and aren't having any of the issues you're having. Did you mess with any of the cm settings? What about the adw launcher settings? All of these play a part in the functionality of the ROM. Some advice:
Under CM Settings > Performance Settings:
Code:
Use Compcache @ 25%
Disable JIT
Disable Surface dithering
Make sure Lock Home in Memory is checked
VM Heap Size 32m
For ADW Launcher:
Screen Preferences:
Code:
Make sure you are only using 3. This helps with the slowness
System Preferences:
Code:
Disable Scrollable Widget Support
Check System Persist
UI Settings:
Code:
Uncheck Desktop Dots
Uncheck Secondary ActionButtons
Uncheck desktop Indicator
With these settings, I have no problems running any 2.2 rom on my G1. Also, I have widgets on each of my screens.

when you press anything in setting or any app.. does it load instantly?
or is there a second or 2 lag? i strip my donut roms completly remove everything google including market, and i have 35.43 mb free on my data partition. its stupidfast. but csdi is the fastest @ that setting.
most of the time when i end apps with task killer i have 55 mb free.
so i can load it up with widgets if needed.
what im trying to say i have achieved that speed with froyo but only if my cpu is clocked @ 650+ all the time and super stripped. gah i rambled.. i hope you understand what im tying 2 say.

AndrOINC. BOINC project for Motorola Milestone freedom

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This is an official thread about AndrOINC - BOINC project created by Sesef and OxyOne from Polish National Team.
Informations
Official name: AndrOINC
Motto: For Motorola Milestone freedom
Website:
Creators: Sesef and OxyOne from Polish National Team(BOINC.pl)
Special thanks to:
pontomedon - for creating the MilestoneRSA project and putting everybody one step closer to Milestone freedom
Platforms:
Windows x86 - supported
Windows x64 - supported(with app from x86)
Linux x32 - currently working on
Linux x64 - currently working on
GPU application ATI + nVidia - very soon
What is it?
AndrOINC is a BOINC project trying to break a 1024 bit RSA key used by Motorola to sign the boot and recovery partitions on the Motorola Milestone. If this key could be broken, we would be able to sign our own boot/recovery images, which would enable us to run custom kernels and recovery images on the Milestone.
//Will be updated later

Reserved for future use.

Let's get started, I'm sure all of us together can achieve it.

What about the possibility of searching not just the milestone key but also the ones from other moto models to increase the audience ?

It's already going to take till the end of time to find the Milestone without adding extra verables to the mix.

DannyDroid said:
That would length the time on all they keys.
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My skill on symmetric encryption is almost zero, so sorry for the dumb questions.
This mean that every motorola phone has a different pair of public and private keys ? There isn't a single public motorola key, right ?

I have joined this project

Team Canada ready for joining.
Thanks for the project hosting

just a sec - AndrOINC? nobody told me there'd be pigs involved!
seriously, though: congratulations and thanks for the effort. count me in.

registered
what happened to previous boinc project?

bijixda said:
registered
what happened to previous boinc project?
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Unfortunately, the MilestoneRSA has been aborted and we have to start from scratch....
However the good news is that we are going to use optimized worker from PNT and they are goin to provide GPU support as well.. so we'll cover up the wasted work sooner than later.

joined in (tough its just a laptop). can't wait for the bootloader to be cracked.

source code of the worker so we would actually know what are we computing?

Alternative Quicker Method?
Started helping you guys out with some computing cycles.
I know nothing about encryption, but a team from Univ. of Michigan broke 1024-bit encryption quickly by altering voltage to cause CPU faults. We can easily control voltage on Milestone and DX...anyone looked into their paper and its application to unlocking the boot loader faster than a brute force method?
engadget.com/2010/03/09/1024-bit-rsa-encryption-cracked-by-carefully-starving-cpu-of-ele/
ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=7551

I'll join as soon as the linux client will be available .. Can i use it first and then switch to the one with CUDA support?

yes, I think BOINC will just have to update the worker itself to support CUDA, not the whole client
However, since they mention Nvidia and ATI support, they won't be using CUDA (nvidia only)

man these WUs are fast. I'm doing 6 minutes compared to 12 hours on my x86 Win7 VM with 2Gb on my MacPro.

DigiK said:
Started helping you guys out with some computing cycles.
I know nothing about encryption, but a team from Univ. of Michigan broke 1024-bit encryption quickly by altering voltage to cause CPU faults. We can easily control voltage on Milestone and DX...anyone looked into their paper and its application to unlocking the boot loader faster than a brute force method?
engadget.com/2010/03/09/1024-bit-rsa-encryption-cracked-by-carefully-starving-cpu-of-ele/
ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=7551
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They way I see it, you would have to alter the voltage at boottime since that is when the keys are being checked.. this is not the same as tweaking the vsel if this is what you refer to with "we can easily control the voltage"
So I don't know if would be that easy to do.. But hey, I'm not an expert or something

SophT said:
man these WUs are fast. I'm doing 6 minutes compared to 12 hours on my x86 Win7 VM with 2Gb on my MacPro.
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or the workunits are very small...

Joined. Hopefully we will win

Cyanogenmod 7.1 now available for ultimate Android customization

Open source projects follow a pretty standard pattern in my experience. If the project becomes popular, it grows at a breakneck pace. New features, bug fixes, and more are suggested and submitted daily. Eventually, you have to say no to a couple of things. Once enough things are said no to, those who come up with those ideas move on to the next logical thing, which is to take your ideals and your creativity and make your own version of that project. Soon, you’ve got a hundred flavors of Linux and a few hundred thousand people with their own opinions as to why theirs is better than yours.
It turns out, Android isn’t all that different at its core from this description. One such example of this is the Android Open Source Project based distribution of CyanogenMod. The CyanogenMod team is a group of developers, hackers, themers, and more who have all come together to adjust Android to their ideals. This week marks the next version of their distribution, CyanogenMod 7.1.
CyanogenMod is currently the only distribution of Android that supports nearly 70 devices with the same version of Android. Many devices that have been abandoned by the manufacturers, or have been waiting far too long for an update to the next version, are supported equally by the CyanogenMod developer team. New Android phones are typically supported fully within a month or two of the release of the phone.
What’s the cost for CyanogenMod 7 over what is on your phone when it comes out of the box? It varies. For some, it could cost you your warranty. For others, it might just cost a little bit of time to figure out how to install the OS on their phone. One things is certain, if you are even remotely interested in tinkering with your phone and getting the best experience Android can offer, you might want to consider CyanogenMod 7.1.
Customization
From the beginning, the CyanogenMod distribution has been all about customization: Make your phone your own, using the tools that have been in Android the whole time, but were redacted or omitted at the cost of user friendliness.
While it’s cool to be able to set a custom wallpaper for your phone, or custom ringtone and notification tones, that level of customization seems slightly empty when you can’t control how your lockscreen looks, or the incoming call screen. Maybe you’d prefer your lockscreen to offer you more features, such as the ability to launch an app right from the lockscreen. Visually, nearly every element on the screen is completely customize-able. In fact, there’s a theme engine built into CyanogenMod that is filled with themes you can apply to change the color, effect, and style of buttons, battery, icons, and anything else you can find on your phone.
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The customization doesn’t stop at visual elements, either. You can kill the shutter sound on the camera app, allow a friend to browse the web on your phone in a Chrome style “Incognito Mode”, or set your phone to stop ringing after a preset time. The experience is the same across all of the devices they support, including things like tapping the screen to focus the camera or being able to connect a Bluetooth mouse to the device.
Settings allow you to revoke permissions from an app you have installed from the market, meaning you can disable any app’s ability to access your location, access to your contacts, or anything else you’d like. Many of these features you see scattered across the existing Android devices, but there’s only one place you find all of these features together.
New Lockscreen
CyanogenMod offers several different kinds of lockscreens for you to choose from, most of which are enhanced versions of screens that have been found on other devices. CyanogenMod 7.1, however, offers a new lockscreen that allows you to set apps to your lockscreen to launch when you drag the bottom ring to the app. This is similar to what has been seen in the recent lockscreen found in HTC’s custom distribution of Android. Unlike HTC’s attempt, however, this version allows for more apps and a higher level of customization. Additionally, this lockscreen is available on all CyanogenMod 7.1 devices, where the HTC lockscreen is only available on select devices running Android 2.3.4.
Final Thoughts
This is not for everyone. There’s a pretty steep learning curve between stock Android and CyanogenMod, and an even steeper learning curve between one of the heavily themed versions and CM7.1.
CyanogenMod is not a small project anymore. With support from Sony Ericsson, recognition from many Googlers currently working on Android, and devices in the UK like the GeeksPhone line of devices shipping with the ability to easily put CM7.1 on it, the once small collaboration of like minded geeks has grown into a complete distribution of Android with a team of over a hundred different contributors to the project.
Recently, several pivotal members of the CyanogenMod team spoke at a developer panel during the 2011 Big Android BBQ about the project and its future.
Source:
http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/cyanogenmod-7-1-now-available-for-ultimate-android-customization-20111012/

Android Gaming System Development Going Live!!

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Gamers Rejoice!!!
For those of you that haven't heard, Android Gaming is taking on a new face... an actual CONSOLE, that's right folks, your very on console, here are the specs and the back story behind this amazing creation:
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OUYA began as a project concept like many, but has quickly set itself aside from any other project that may have been like it. In the course of 8 hours, OUYA has raised 1 million dollars as a new Kickstarter Project, and this is not even including the other 29 days left for funding (people must really wanna see this come to pass). Here is why its so great (SPEC CHECK):
- Tegra3 quad-core processor
- 1GB RAM
- 8GB of internal flash storage
- HDMI connection to the TV, with support for up to 1080p HD
- WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
- Bluetooth LE 4.0
- USB 2.0 (one)
- Wireless controller with standard controls (two analog sticks, d-pad, eight action buttons, a system button), a touchpad
- Android 4.0
Pretty impressive right?Due to the unexpected increase in funding, we could very well see an increase in that internal flash storage, maybe even an expandable memory slot, who knows. But all of that Tegra 3 quad core, ice cream sandwich, 8 Gig goodness is not even the best part! This console has been rumored to hit a TV near you one day for a mere $99. That's right, you could Enjoy all your favorites, whether you're a shooter addict and have a taste for some alien slaying in N.O.V.A. 3, or maybe you like to feel the virtual wind in your hair in a nice race in Real Racing 2, and for you people that love to serve your country, shoot a couple of spies in Modern Combat 3, all for less than the price equivalent of 2 new Xbox 360 games. Not to mention, with Android's recent participation in Major League Gaming, this could set the bar on a new plateau. The (virtual gaming) world is your oyster, and these are just the hard core games, the sky is the limit with compatibility due to it running our favorite sweet treat OS version.
Want to check out a video from the developers themselves, check it out HERE
And for all you developers and hackers, this is your call to fame! the console is (and I quote from the people that made it) "hackable". read this quote from Mobile Magazine:
Perhaps the even bigger kicker is that there is an open SDK where they promise to provide digitally-delivered titles for free. I imagine the marketplace will start with a handful of freeware titles and free-to-try games, but it has to open up to paid games eventually.
So any and all (LEGITIMATE!!!! NO PIRACY IS CONDONED, but then again, that's Android's major loophole with the whole Open Source thing) hacking and modding is welcomed, say goodbye to JTAG-ing or jumping through hoops to make your console your own (you paid for it so you should be able to do any LEGITIMATE, cant stress that enough, modifications you want! get the message Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo?).
So, you could spend $400 on a Galaxy Tab, or even $200 for the Nexus 7 for HDMI output, OR you can pay $100 for a console that (due to the vigorous nature of the Android Community) will inevitably get full access to the Google Play Store for you to play your favorite games (and maybe apps, don't quote me on that though) on your 1080p HD screen. BUT I'm just the messenger droid, the real magic is happening behind the scenes and hopefully we can get some awesom updates! Stay on the lookout for this project, and keep on gaming!
Thanks for reading guys,
ognimnella
Wanna read MORE? check out these stories about OUYA
MOBILE MAG ARTICLE
GAMESPOT ARTICLE
KICKSTARTER ARTICLE
DROID GAMERS ARTICLE
Are you buying one? Comment below!

I'm so excited I can't even process it! I've already put my $0.02 in on the thread in the General forum. But O.O. I wonder what this means for the future of Gaming, Android, etc. Now I just need to pledge my money to get a console and maybe an extra controller (And the founder status attached to my Gamer tag would be sweet.)

Thanks for Letting me Copy this Man, i Gave Credit where it is due, it is now up

Android compared with Mobile OS for security updates (iOS, Ubuntu, Sailfish,PrivatOS)

If you are concerned about security updates, you can check this report (updated 07/02/2018), providing information for device between 2011 and 2017 and report if your device is updated not.
This is a compilation of data based on official reports, official support responses and users feedback community.
Source : https://twitter.com/SecX13/status/961691443931820033
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TD.

Again with this exaggerated focus on security updates. Am I the only one going "who the **** cares?" I mainly care about general OS updates, and even then I don't go around being angry for not getting it (if anything, I get more angry if the update is **** and I have to wait a long time for the next update to come along and fix the problems the first one brought). But not once in my life have I gone around thinking "hmmm, wonder when I can get my next security update..." This issue with security updates seems to be completely blown up by tech nerd sites and a small minority of enthusiasts online. Hell, I even consider myself a smartphone enthusiast, as I buy and sell phones for a living (and get to test virtually all flagship phones). But even I don't give a **** about this. I doubt the average consumer do either.

For a basic user this can be not so important, until he’s affected with a malware or other security issue.
This is more important for business company, organization and people that need minimum security, especially during this time with Meltdown, Spectre and also other malware affecting Android.
You can look this table like «*Brand that does good/bad job to update and maintain quickly/slowly your device*» not only with the security purpose.
Don’t forgotten that brands that does minimum security updates does also minimum and slower OS updates.

TylerD13 said:
Don’t forgotten that brands that does minimum security updates does also minimum and slower OS updates.
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That's just wrong, and you know it. There's no real coherence between fast security updates and fast OS updates. A great example is how fast Essential is with security updates. They're not as fast updating to a newer OS version compared to, say Google, now are they? And that's even despite the fact that their interface is virtually stock Android and should be an easy job for them, as well.
Also, you exaggerate the security update’s importance by your talk about malware, spyware etc. issues being of importance. But the fact of the matter is that of all the phones I have tested and owned over the years, I have never ever run into issues with malware or any other kinds of security problems with my Android phones. That includes a ton of phones from Google, Samsung, Sony, LG, OnePlus, Huawei, Xiaomi, HTC, Motorola, etc. All OEMs with large variations in times they take to give security updates. It also includes 4+ year old devices that family members have; no issues there either. So this worry you seem to have is blown out of proportion. It's an issue no average user or even enthusiast really gives a **** about.

generalako said:
That's just wrong, and you know it. There's no real coherence between fast security updates and fast OS updates. A great example is how fast Essential is with security updates. They're not as fast updating to a newer OS version compared to, say Google, now are they? And that's even despite the fact that their interface is virtually stock Android and should be an easy job for them, as well.
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There can of course be exceptions, but overall with main OS like iOS and Android this is most the time true.
Essential is not a good example, it’s a new and small company compared to other.
If your device brand don’t take care of your software with security update, there’s great probability that is the same with other updates.

i'd say it depends on how valuable your data and "transactions" on the smartphone is to you. if you dont giva a ****, so be it and maximum damage/risk is caller/sms fraud or some minor annoyances like crypto trojans and the like which exhaust your battery. if your doing banking apps, password save or or have other confidential data on your phone (test: you'd handover your photo gallery to a stranger?), then you might think again about your personal risk management.
my 2 ct.