Still waiting for your Ice Cream Sandwich update? You might not have to. The latest release candidate of CyanogenMod (7.2) has brought a raft of Android 4.0 features to phones running on Android 2.3. Read on for the full details.
The ‘release candidate’ is a nearly-finished, publicly available version of CyanogenMod 7.2, which has been tweaked to port a load of Ice Cream Sandwich tricks onto older devices. 69 older devices, to be specific. While CM 9 is currently being built to tackle Ice Cream Sandwich full and proper for phones like the Galaxy S2 and Nexus S, this option proffers a similar experience.
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The full list of updates from the CM 7.2 change-log is below, but let us quickly highlight some of the better bits: There are new lock screen styles, Ice Cream Sandwich transitions and rotation effects, alongside support for handsets such as the Samsung Galaxy Ace and Mini, the Motorola Atrix and the Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro, alongside 65 others.
Check out the full list below and let us know if you’re going to dip your toes into the CyanogenMod waters…
- New devices: Samsung Galaxy Ace, Mini, and Epic. LGE Optimus Black, 3D, Hub, Pro, Sol, and One. Motorola Atrix. Sony Ericsson Xperia Live, Pro, and Active. Huawei U8150
- Common: Updated translations – (everyone)
- Common: T9 predictive Phone dialer – Danesh M, Pawit Pornkitprasan
- Common: Media player and recorder fixes for a number of corner cases – CAF, Danny Baumann
- Common: Profile resets – Ladios Jonquil
- Common: Assorted Wifi fixes
- OMAP Common: Support for recent OMAP3/OMAP4 devices – omapzoom
- Common: Control haptic in quiet hours – Danesh M
- Common: Lockscreen updates and new styles – Andrew Sutherland, Danny Baumann, Danesh M, Sven Dawitz, Taichi Nishimura
- Common: Bluetooth MAP support – Jonathan Bensen
- Common: ICS telephony fix backports – Spencer Oliver
- Common: Support for Bluetooth GPS dongles – Cuong Bui
- Common: Better support for mouse and usb keyboards – Emilio Lopez, Tanguy Pruvot
- Common: Fix timezone detection in Hawaii – Warren Togami
- Common: ICS Transition effects backport – Russ Underhill
- Common: ICS Rotation effects backport – Tanguy Pruvot
- Common: Allow photo storage selection when possible – Greg Kochaniak
- Common: Improved Calendar reminder options – Danny Baumann
- Common: Fix color banding in Gallery while displaying 32bpp images – Sang Tae Park
- Common: ADB over network
- Common: Improved AVRCP 1.3 compatibility
- Common: Improved external keyboard and mouse behaviour on some corner cases – Tanguy Pruvot
- Common: Status bar battery icon configuration – Simon Davie
- Samsung Galaxy S GSM devices: Fix emergency dialing
- p990: Add FM Radio support
