CyanogenMod Installer Release

Is the installer actually open source? I searched a week ago for the beta source and it wasn&#x27;t available yet.<p>(I&#x27;m quite annoyed by the current developments in cyanogenmod: Less and less is open source as it seems...)

I _literally_ installed CM10 on my Samsung Galaxy S2 the hard way today, spending nearly 8 hours getting the right tools, the android sdk, figuring out why adb would not find my device and after a ton of cursing finally got it to load.<p>And then I had to also install gapps by using the Clockwordmod recovery mode.<p>A gigantic pain in the ass! I wish I would have attempted this tomorrow, would have saved me a ton of trouble!

CyanogenMod dramatically improved the experience on my first droid (which was a very cheap one, to see what all the fuss was about.) It couldn&#x27;t solve the hardware issues (crappy resistive touch screen) but it sure made the device more responsive and usable, in spite of that.<p>I&#x27;m pleased to see them making the install process easier. I wasn&#x27;t quite heart-in-mouth since it was a £50 second hand and spare phone, but it was still pretty long winded and there were too many opportunities to brick the thing.

I saw a few negative reviews on Google Play arguing that a turn key solution might let some people not read the detailed instructions, warnings and risks thoroughly. Being a CM user, I must say I agree with this. Reminds me of a thread in XDA where a post read - If you are asking the question what is root, then you probably don&#x27;t need it (paraphrasing).<p>Let alone the instructions&#x2F;warnings&#x2F;risks, I know many Android users who barely go through the permissions they grant an app during installation.<p>A little off topic, but an instance that I thought impressed the gravity of the risks and partly cracked me up was the warning on Alpharev [1] &quot;Warning: Make sure you have read all the warnings below before attempting to run this utility!&quot;<p>[1] <a href="http://alpharev.nl/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;alpharev.nl&#x2F;</a>

<i>(I have installed CM in the past myself on my old phone, but have not done it yet with this phone because last time it was a pain in the ass to install, and was unstable to boot)</i><p>It is linked from the blog entry, but I cannot find the windows side installer linked from their homepage while the android side software is.<p>This sort of oversight is incredibly frustrating for me, and I consider myself fairly technically capable... I can only imagine that this is even more frustrating for more typical users.

Back when I used android, I would have loved this. Sense was total garbage, and cyanogenmod setup wasn&#x27;t the most streamlined process.

Pleasantly surprised to learn that this supports locked at&amp;t and verizon bootloaders. Does anyone know if it does it with loki?

Wow, one more program installing just a stub then wanting to download from the internet without even _thinking_ about proxies. :(

Argh, no support for the HTC First! Please god make it so!

&gt;Disable any anti-virus software for the duration of the install.<p>How about no?

Does this support the Galaxy Nexus (Play Store edition)?

Does it still phone home by default?