I hope you didn't invest in Cyanogen...

[The_Chief]

If you did, keep your day job!

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/24/c...ering-its-services-and-os-as-part-of-a-pivot/

 

[psionandy]

Is now the time we should be downloading everything we might need (just in case)?

https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/24/cyanogen-pulls-the-plug-on-its-services-and-os-next-week/

 

[El Presidente]

It's just Cyanogen OS, the commercial arm, so if you're running a community build of CyanogenMod, you'll be fine. If you have a device that shipped with Cyanogen installed, don't expect updates any time soon....

Android Police ran a pretty good article a few weeks back where Kondik basically said he started the company with the wrong people - http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/1...ailure-cyanogenmod-to-reorganize-and-regroup/

I imagine they started with the best intentions, but that Kirt guy seems like a bit of a squeb and kinda ruined things for them (although I'm sure there's a lot more to it than that).

 

[El Presidente]

It transpires it does actually mean the end for CyanogenMod - http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/12/24/cyanogen-shutting-service-nightly-builds-december-31-2016/#1

 

[Deleted User]

That's sad. What are the options for us with devices that no longer receive official updates e.g. my Nexus 5?

 

[psionandy]

That's sad. What are the options for us with devices that no longer receive official updates e.g. my Nexus 5?

fingers crossed, and wait until lineageos gets up to speed.....

http://www.androidcentral.com/goodbye-cyanogenmod-hello-lineage-android


https://github.com/lineageos

 

[psionandy]

Is now the time we should be downloading everything we might need (just in case)?

https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/24/cyanogen-pulls-the-plug-on-its-services-and-os-next-week/

looks like someone has hit the button

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[psionandy]

Well, the XDA folks are closer to the cutting edge than we are.... so

https://www.xda-developers.com/the-death-of-cyangenmod-and-whats-in-store-for-the-future/

 

[El Presidente]

CM seem to think Cyangn (or whatever the corporate arm was called) pulled the links in response the the CyanogenMod blg post a few days back -

https://twitter.com/CyanogenMod/status/813086249506349056

 

[Hadron]

That's sad. What are the options for us with devices that no longer receive official updates e.g. my Nexus 5?

Surely a Nexus 5 doesn't have too much to worry about? There will be other AOSP development for those devices. It's those with devices with less community support who will be more affected.

 

[El Presidente]

From what I've seen on various social media posts, most of the code for devices has been migrated over to the Lineage Gerrit/GitHub so they just need device maintainers to pick things up from there.

There's already a Lineage build available for the LG G4 so I don't expect Nexus devices will be waiting too long.

 

[Digital Controller]

As far as I know the downloads page is still up, so if you are looking for one last taste of a nightly to hold you over until Lineage here is the link: https://download.cyanogenmod.org/

 

[Deleted User]

Surely a Nexus 5 doesn't have too much to worry about? There will be other AOSP development for those devices. It's those with devices with less community support who will be more affected.

You're probably right. I need to look into what's possible.

 

[Rxpert83]

Cyanogen gave me a bad taste in my mouth around the same time they starting saying they were going to "put a bullet in Googles head". As a company, they were all bravado without any real plan it seemed.

Cyanogenmod will bounce back/continue on in another form, as open source solutions tend to. I can't say I'm sad about the company. They did it to themselves.