CyanogenMod is an alternate operating system over your pre-installed Android OS that gives you an enhanced performance and increases the possibilities of your Android device. It is an improved open source firmware for Android based smartphone and tablets, which offers features that are not found on the official firmware distributed by the manufacturers.
CyanogenMod custom ROM is a successful development to remove the restrictions that bound the Android users to the minimum options provided on their smartphones. However, being an open source platform, Android does not restrict itself any way, therefore following the rooting process Android enthusiasts have found some amazing tricks to unveil the maximum possibilities of the Android OS.
CyanogenMod supports plenty of features that are worth considering. It includes many additional customization and interface options. For instance, it features native theming, customized soft buttons and tablets tweaks, enhance notifications and reboot menu. It also features performance boost on your devices, which can extend the limits of your device CPU speed with CPU overclocking. Also it supports open VPN client and enhanced tethering on WiFi, Bluetooth and USB.
It seems Lollipop is on every enthusiast’s mind these days, as OEMs have started a steady stream of OTAs. With this multipart update, Android 5.1, and what’s new and improved in CyanogenMod.
Android 5.1
Let’s start with the latest and greatest Lollipop release, Android 5.1. Released in the second week of March, 5.1 has actually seen two releases – 5.1_r1 earlier in the month and 5.1_r3 just this week. The team has been plugging away at these releases, rebasing and merging like fiends. We’re not quite at the point where nightlies will cross over to being officially branded CM12.1, but as always, you are welcome to track our progress.
The CyanogenMod 12.1 (Android 5.1) source is available to sync, and up and running with few issues on various devices – including the latest developer device the Nexus 6. When you repo init the source, just point the branch to ‘staging/cm-12.1’. The staging branch is where we are making things ‘just work’ (you’ll see many patches simply labelled “Fix build”). These patches will be cleaned up prior to moving the source code over to our active mainline branches.
Oldies Materialized
One of the first items you’ll notice is the Material theme, meant to invoke a sense of ‘living document’ while you interact with your device and apps. All the sweeping animations, bold and heavy on graphic design are present, and we’ve spent some time working on revisiting core CM apps to reflect the new design guidelines.
The CM Messaging app is now sporting a floating action button (FAB) and circular avatars for your contacts, embracing the most common indicators of Material. The app is now Android Wear compliant, thanks to contributor Anthony Williams (dexlab) – allowing it to gel nicely with the latest hot Android accessory. Browser, abandoned for the most part in AOSP, got a facelift as well, sporting a new icon and making use of Lollipop’s vector support.
This venerable app has been a CM staple for quite a few years now. While it too has seen the Material UI overhaul and even learned a new trick or two with zip/rar and secure storage support, its user experience (UX) isn’t the most ideal or easy to navigate. To that end, this is the next app on their list and user's inputs are welcome.
Features of CyanogenMod
There are many reasons that you may like to switch from the original Android to CyanogenMod custom ROM. The CyanogenMod community adds up many features in the stock Android like its security, lightness, no bloatware and extreme customization. Apart from this there are some key features offered by CyanogenMod which we are listing here in brief.
Up to date
CyanogenMod provides up to date versions that are bug free and improved with latest android updates. You can update you CyanogenMod with latest version when it releases or by your own schedule.
Privacy and app permissions
CyanogenMod provides you more control on your privacy and application permissions.
Blacklist
CyanogenMod offers the Blacklist features which enable users to block unwanted and annoying calls and messages by either complete blocking or just ignoring the alerts for a while.
Quick Setting Ribbon
You can have more easy access to your apps and features with CyanogenMod. It allows to embed quick toggles in your notification drawer for any of you useful apps. You can also customize the layout of your quick settings.
CyanogenMod Theme engine
Amazing themes are perhaps one of the most impressive thing offered by CyanogenMod. Using its integrated theme engine the entire look and feel of your OS can be changed. There are endless possibilities of styling on CyanogenMod. You can read more about the best CyanogenMod themes and free CyangogenMod themes in more details.
Status bar Behavior
Like the quick setting you can also customize the status bar and add new behaviors. For instance, you can set an alarm by just taping the time and access your calendar by taping the date.
Display and Lights
Unlike the normal Android ROMs where you have limited access to many features here you can control anything. For instance, you can Control brightness, wallpapers, rotation, notification lights and remote displays according to you choice.
Lockscreen
The Lockscreen can be more customized to increase you productivity. CyanogenMod enables you to access your apps directly from Lockscreen and also many useful information are displayed at first look.
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