{"id":2467,"date":"2011-09-05T14:07:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T18:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2011-09-05T14:07:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T18:07:53","slug":"cm-nexus-gingerbread-for-mytouch-4g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/cm-nexus-gingerbread-for-mytouch-4g\/","title":{"rendered":"CM Nexus Gingerbread for MyTouch 4G"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a regular reader, you may have noticed that my blog posts have become less frequent lately and more about my smartphone than anything of importance. Basically, I&#8217;m of the opinion that people shouldn&#8217;t write unless they have something to say. You&#8217;ll see I have some 500+ blog posts, many of substance, with perspectives not often expressed by others. Generally, though, if I feel a certain way about an issue, and I see that plenty of others have already blogged the same perspective (or if even <i>I<\/i> have in the past), I just don&#8217;t see the point in saying &#8220;Yeah, me, too&#8221; or &#8220;Let me repeat what I said before.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> So this is for the ten MyTouch 4G users out there who are reading. Maybe there are only three of you, actually. <\/p>\n<p> For two years, I&#8217;ve been using Cyanogen roms. They&#8217;re solid. They&#8217;re good. I&#8217;ve even donated a very small amount to the project. I used Cyanogen on my old MyTouch 3G, and I used it for my currenty MyTouch 4G. <\/p>\n<p> Just on a whim, I thought I&#8217;d try another rom, and I ended up trying <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/showthread.php?t=1017516\">[ROM] (v1.3.1) CM Nexus Gingerbread 2.3.5 &#8211; Faux123 [Aug-30-2011]<\/a>. It&#8217;s a good rom with some bad defaults. <\/p>\n<p> <b>The good<\/b>: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s fast and responsive.\n<li>It&#8217;s very close to vanilla Gingerbread (doesn&#8217;t even include ADW Launcher or a custom boot splash screen).\n<li>Even though the developer says <i>Updates for this ROM will NOT be very FAST or FREQUENT due to my LACK OF TIME&#8230;<\/i>, it actually appears to get updated more often than the official Cyanogen rom. It&#8217;s gone through 27 versions since the beginning of April.<\/ul>\n<p> <b>The bad<\/b>: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are multiple download links, but whichever one I picked, the download speed was extremely slow, and the announcing post did not include an MD5 hash to verify the download integrity. In case anyone&#8217;s curious, my download <i>appeared<\/i> to be fine afterwards, and the MD5 hash was <b>cedcfd08aba0b7717f3c9b0237089290<\/b>.\n<li>The keyboard default is to make a loud clicking sound (much like a typewriter) with every key press. And before you log in, there&#8217;s really no way to turn this off or even adjust the volume. Fortunately, once you do log in, you can turn it off.\n<li>The keyboard is also an English\/Asian keyboard by default, with both Chinese and Japanese input methods. I&#8217;m all for accessibility, but this is a bit confusing, since the thread announcing the rom is totally in English on an English-speaking forum, and there&#8217;s mention at all in the rom description that it&#8217;s a trilingual keyboard. I had to Google how to get rid of it and bring back the standard Gingerbread keyboard (long-press a text input box and then select <b>Input Method<\/b>).<\/ul>\n<p> Another nice thing&mdash;and I&#8217;m not sure it has anything to do with the rom itself, since I checked the \/system\/build.prop file, and the phone identifies itself as <i>HTC Glacier<\/i>, which is the original model name of the MyTouch 4G phone&mdash;is that I can natively install <a href=\"https:\/\/market.android.com\/details?id=com.netflix.mediaclient\">Netflix from the Android Market<\/a> (no need to trick the Market into thinking I have another phone or no need to manually download a copy of the .apk from some random place). So either Netflix finally expanded official support to the MyTouch 4G, or the rom builder included some other workaround that isn&#8217;t modifying the build.prop file. <\/p>\n<p> Overall, a nice rom (with a couple of bad defaults), and the <a href=\"https:\/\/market.android.com\/details?id=com.appack.angry_birds_backup\">3in1 Angry Birds Backup app<\/a> was instrumental in making the move over relatively painless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a regular reader, you may have noticed that my blog posts have become less frequent lately and more about my smartphone than anything of importance. Basically, I&#8217;m of the opinion that people shouldn&#8217;t write unless they have something to say. You&#8217;ll see I have some 500+ blog posts, many of substance, with perspectives&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/cm-nexus-gingerbread-for-mytouch-4g\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CM Nexus Gingerbread for MyTouch 4G<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[811,812,788,810],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cm","tag-gingerbread","tag-mytouch-4g","tag-nexus","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2473,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}