CM is faster than the stock android and for users of rooted phones it offers a full normal function set, all devices working, plus additional function not included in the stock releases - like tehtering via USB, bluetooth and WiFi.
Even better, you can update it over the air using Cyanogen's "CM Updater" app (right). I have been eagerly applying these updates within minutes of them becoming available. It's easy, simple and fast.Of course nothing is ever perfect and today I ran into a patch of imperfection. I'd put the CM 4.2.7.1 update on last night and found that during the course of the day my phone was crashing and rebooting. Usually when I had been using the camera and then trying to share a photo via Handcent SMS or Gmail. The screen went black....then the CM Android boot logo (above) appeared and the phone had obviously rebooted itself.
I was going to go back to CM 4.2.6 as this had been very stable. But instead I opted to try wiping my phone and re-installing the HTC 1.6 rooted base image, then applying CM 4.2.7.1 over the top. This is what you would do if you were installing CM for the first time. I then downloaded all my apps and reinstalled them. Yeah...it was a pain, but the result seems to be a stable system. I can't reproduce the camera / phone crash.
If you're having trouble with CM 4.2.7.1 you may want to give thisa try.
[Update 2009-12-22: I am now on CM 4.2.9.1 and I don't have as many issues as I used to - which wasn't many - but the phone still re-boots randomly perhaps once every two days. It's below the annoyance level and not much worse than Android as-sold, which also rebooted occassionally. It may be that this isn't a CM issue at all, but an underlying Android issue. My second phone is on Wes Garner's "Build 10.2" and it has randomly re-booted once in 2 days. I mainly use it for broadband data, due to the way my telco packages data and voice.
I have the same problem where the camera randomly reboots the phone (50% of the time you use it).
ReplyDeleteI tried wiping with the HTC image and reinstalling cyanogen but it didn't help for me.
Simon: My phone is more stable than that. I power my phone off each night and boot fresh in the morning. I don't want phone calls or txts after I go to bed, so let them queue up while I sleep. Perhaps this regime sees me having fewer problems as my phone is rarely running for more than 18 hours at a time.
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