CyanogenMod Hits 1,000,000 Users

by: Kellex | posted 01.12.12 | News, Root

When you combined official CyanogenMod installs with the abundance of installs of kanged ROMs in the wild, the number of users has now eclipsed 1 million. Quite the number, right there. Congrats CM team, can’t wait to see the official CM9 when it rolls out.

Via: Google+, CMStats

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http://www.facebook.com/TJHRULZ tjhrulz

No one can say now that the number of rooted;ROMed phones is a small amount
- Guest
  
  In comparison to non-rooted, non-ROMed phones it really is a trivial amount, not that it matters anyway as long as there is still an active dev community out there for those of us who do like to mess with their phones I could care less the percentage of rooted and ROMed phones.
Sporttster

Now wait a minute here….this can’t be! I keep hearing “who cares about locked bootloaders?”….I guess quite a few,huh….just a little….
Anonymous

What does “installs” mean? Installs != users. I’ve installed CM probably 30 different times at least. Are each of those installs counted in the 1,000,000? And I’m not even using it now.
- http://www.facebook.com/TJHRULZ tjhrulz
  
  No this is a currently installed and using on the phone number
Anonymous

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http://www.facebook.com/sjtilney Scott Tilney

What is the benefit of using a rom? (besides wifi tether, I can already do that with out rooting for free using a widget)
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=25001493 Hank Godwin
  
  https://www.google.com/search?q=beenfits+of+using+ROM+on+android&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=uLR&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=X&ei=mzMPT7P5No2rsALEzNj9Aw&ved=0CBwQvwUoAQ&q=benefits+of+using+ROM+on+android&spell=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=957188b4591c2c9a&biw=1679&bih=898
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VILOPQWK4ARURRYCHS4FY4XVRA David

any idea when CM9 is coming out for the Nexus?
Anonymous

Congrats to the CM team…they crank out the some of the best work around, and easily the most stable. 1 million is quite a number!
http://www.facebook.com/sjtilney Scott Tilney

Can someone please explain the benefits of rooting my device? I know about wifi tether, but I get that free on my Gnex with a free widget from the Android Marked. What is so amazing about it?
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=25001493 Hank Godwin
  
  https://www.google.com/search?q=beenfits+of+using+ROM+on+android&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=uLR&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=X&ei=mzMPT7P5No2rsALEzNj9Aw&ved=0CBwQvwUoAQ&q=benefits+of+using+ROM+on+android&spell=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=957188b4591c2c9a&biw=1679&bih=898
Anonymous

Disqus, Y U no work right?

#doublepost
http://profiles.google.com/dannydarko44 danny fitzgerald

About time, been using CyanogenMod roms for a quite awhile now. Congrats to the whole CM team.
https://plus.google.com/100275307499530023476/posts
Guest

So in other words, about 2,000 users who flash nightly. Got it.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1429980108 Jim Hoffman
  
  I don’t think so, on his g+ koush (one of the CM devs) called it 1 million unique, active installs.
  - Guest
    
    trololol, yeah right…gullible much?
    - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=25001493 Hank Godwin
      
      No one takes you seriously when you can’t even sign in. Next.
      - Guest
        
        LOL, nice comeback. Yes, because signing in (where I can put a fake email and name) somehow validates what I’m saying. You sheep just about believe everything right? Hmm, 700,000 android devices activated daily, 1,000,000 CM users, you guys just love big numbers huh?
      - Enkrypted17
        
        Youre an idiot you don’t believe cause the numbers are just too big.
      - Guest
        
        Yes exactly. They are just too big. You must be an idiot too, since you seem to agree with me?
      - jason6g
        
        “Yes exactly. They are just too big. ”
        
        Thats what she said!!!!!!, in the same sarcastic tone referring to your balls lolololol
      - Josh Groff
        
        A little iSheep trolling and android forum, how creative. Go back to your Apple forums and talk about how iOS 5 didn’t kill your battery while wearing a scarf and drinking pabst blue ribbon because everything else is too mainstream (whilst having the most mainstream phone by the way and studying literature instead of comp sci/ database management.)
Josh Groff

Probably.
http://twitter.com/kittygetwet James Sorensen

Does it count every install, like people with all their nightlies?
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1429980108 Jim Hoffman
  
  Unique active installs. Check the cyanogen g+
- Guest
  
  Yes.
  - Rjhall
    
    No, it does not moron.
EC8CH

“Unofficial Installs (KANGs) 416,701″

See… even CM can’t stop everyone and their brother from skinning their already modified version of Android.
- Anonymous
  
  Who skins the skinners?
  - Anonymous
    
    wait – is this where i write “THEN WHO WAS DOG?” ?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=10215724 Raj Bhatt

Out of curiosity, is the CM team building nightlies for the Galaxy Nexus? Or do we need to rely on the kangs out there?
- Anonymous
  
  I’m sure they’ll get a final build but the nightlies from AOKP are great. On build 16 right now and works great on my Nexus.
  - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=10215724 Raj Bhatt
    
    thanks!
Anonymous

Never really understood this… of course they are appreciated but I always found certain other roms (whether based on CM or not) to be much higher quality than CM.
- Josh Groff
  
  Stability or speed wise? cm7 is pretty good at both. Also, AOSP is pretty solid.
  - Anonymous
    
    Well… both. SS5.5 and Pete’s were both always much more stable while still retaining the speed. CM always gave me issues. Always quirks about it, and it never seemed like it ran fast for very long while the others had no issues like that.
    - Josh Groff
      
      Never had much problems with cm7 even in alpha builds for the sensation (tested alpha 6-10.) I guess it’s mainly phone-phone basis.
Michael Forte

That’s a lot of kangs lol.
- Kyle Walker
  
  Atleast there’s more official installs
- Unexpected62
  
  what the hell is kang?!??!?!
  - J Dub
    
    A dev using the CM source to build their own ROM named something else. A lot of ROM’s are like this. They build from CM source. There are a few that don’t. I think Pete Alfonso builds from AOSP.
    - Anonymous
      
      Cyanogen builds from AOSP as well.
      - http://twitter.com/hugobosslives hugh
        
        they have their own source tree. think of it as cm modified AOSP. a kang is just when you compile the rom on your own desktop instead of downloading the rom from the cm mirror. doing it yourself means you can change and add things, such as the latest unmerged changes
  - Anonymous
    
    Yes, I’d like to know as well!

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