Yesterday, the CyanogenMod team started rolling out stable builds of CyanogenMod 10, based on Android 4.1. As of now, it’s available for lots of popular devices like the HTC EVO 4G LTE, One X, and One S; the Samsung Galaxy S II, Galaxy S III, Galaxy Nexus, and Galaxy Note; the Sony Xperia T; the LG Optimus Black; the Motorola Xoom; the ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity and Nexus 7; and many more. In fact, as of publication, it’s available on 32 different devices.
Some of the new features in the latest version of CyanogenMod include an expandable desktop mode, along with a built-in, root-enabled file manager. A few EVO 4G LTE users are reporting problems with LTE connectivity and the notification light, although others say that these features work flawlessly. As is always the case with custom ROMs, your mileage may vary.
I, for one, am very excited at the prospect of a stable version of AOSP-based Jelly Bean on my EVO, although I have one small reservation: the Sense camera. The camera that’s included in CyanogenMod 10 doesn’t utilize the ImageSense chip that makes the stock Sense camera so awesome. The shutter time is slower in CyanogenMod, slow-motion video recording doesn’t work, burst mode doesn’t work, and you can’t take photos while recording videos.
Sure, there are some camera apps in the Play Store that have some of these features, but nothing comes close to the image quality of the regular Sense camera, and for that reason, I don’t think I’m quite ready to make CM10 my daily driver. Of course, I may change my mind, but since I use the camera so much on my EVO, I’m not ready just yet.
What about you? Will you be flashing CM10 on your EVO now that we finally have a stable build?
I moved to CM10 about two months ago when the nighties had become stable and mostly feature complete. My only regret, and the only reason I consider switching back, is the camera. My wife and I both have the EVO LTE. Hers is still running stock. Pictures taken from her phone look noticeably better than from mine, and I really miss burst mode. But I also would have a hard time giving up JB’s notification features, and I hate what HTC did to multitasking / recent apps.
Once the EVO LTE gets an official JB update I’ll probably switch back and see if I can tolerate it. I keep hoping (probably foolishly) they’ll put back stock multitasking in the next update.
Yeah their redo of multitasking/recent apps was truly pointless. They went out of their way to break something that was fixed.
I’ve been using the nightlies for a while. I just installed the stable ver and it is running great. Haven’t received any crash notifications, nor random reboots.
I’ve been running Decks CM10 since August and absolutely love it. Leaving my OG Evo with CM9 was tough, and I just never really loved my LTE until CM10 was on it. Mean ROM is totally great, but ditching sense was the best thing that happened to me. Everything but the camera is better on CM10 for me, and being a hopeless camera nerd I never rely on my phone for pics anyway.
I unfortunately need the camera right now, so my flashing of AOSP and variants will me mostly just to see how they work.
Hey there, where do I find the most recent, most accurate instructions for rooting my Evo LTE?
http://www.pocketables.com/2012/11/dirtyracun-s-off-without-the-downgrade-for-the-htc-evo-4g-lte.html
Is it wrong that I just want to break my Evo LTE so I can get a Samsung G3? I really hate my Evo LTE but loved my OG Evo.
I kind of feel the same way….
Given how slow HTC has become at release software updates, this is probably my best chance to have an up to date OS.
I haven’t rooted yet but am really thinking about it. Is the camera quality in CM10 an issue? Or is it just that some of the functionality is lost? (burst, slow-mo, etc.)
Its not the same camera app at all… definitely hinders the performance but its not terrible. You will notice a difference in quality though.
With the zip for the sg3 camera (i think that’s what it is) picture quality is back on track. I haven’t run cm10 in a while but paranoid is running great. I loved sense on my hero and didn’t mind it on the OG but even with the mean tweaks I just can’t stand it now.
If I root, where would I find that sg3 camera zip you speak of…?
You may want to grab it though…CM looks to be going into a leagle battle soon and who knows if the servers to download may have to be taken down. One can only hope they stay up but with leagle battles no one really knows what could go down
get.cm is evidently not controlled by the people who grabbed the domain name. So download links are fine.
They’ve mostly moved to cyanogenmod.org now… lot of work left to do and that ICAAN dispute to initiate
Its running awesome now!! Love it… just wish anthrax would make a kernel for it.
i just flashed this on my LTEvO i am a loyal fan to teamVenom and viper4g but i am liking this rom just flashed it ive always wanted a pure android feel to my evo with the htc clock on it lol i know seems weird.. but ill keep it for a few days and see whats up
Thank you, Paul! Great info. But as we both agree until some camera magic is preformed.. I can’t get away from sense (MeanRom). Camera is just too good!
I sure would like to know when all the big boys will get the official JB code to update fully.??
(viper4g, meanRom etc..) the implementation of higher than stock sense camera and Google Now has really made these “hybrids” great ICS roms to be really quite good.
And for folks who do not care for sense.. I agree. I use a custom launcher (NOVA) and set up the phone how I like. . 3 home pages, a few widgets, Google search/Now bar and the bottom row “dock” as 2 pages of scroll but most of them are actually a folder with – like minded apps. Clean amd neat. Not even a app drawer button. Nova allows you to make your own gestures.. So for me..A two finger swipe down (on any page) brings up app drawer. Two up, the flashlight pops on. Two finger counter clockwise.. The clock/alarm clock pops up for easy setting.
So i loved cm9 on my og evo4g. And have tried on lte but the camera is just not as good at all. . And that is the main reason I couldn’t switch until this is accomplished.
Sad but true.
Sense got something right for once, and this particular one is pretty freaking awesome.
Dear John,
I’m an ass #*+&.
I am so used to Paul doing the ROMish.. reviews.
And through the comments he had submitted.
Big fan for long time.
My bad.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1965473
Ok so it isn’t the sg3 camera. Its the Jb 4.2 camera. My bad. Works great though.
Is there any way to get Wallet working with this?
I wonder how stable. Would it be able to output to the tv(mhl), komodo kernel has it but when I tried with codefirex Rom it didn’t work:( :….. cm10 is really nice tho. But the sense camera is the best. To get the sense camera quality, You can download an app called LGCamera, gives you lots of features and looks likes sense quality.
The stable version of CM10 for EVO LTE on Sprint does not have MHL (USB to HDMI Out) working. Also, the latest nightly as of today (12/20/2012) also does not have it working.
Bummer, need this for an upcoming trip. Guess I’ll just have to reload a stock ROM which sucks because other recently needing MHL support I’ve loved CM10. Hopefully it gets a cloud or developer fix and I’m back to CM10 in a sooner rather than later manner
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