Nexus 7 on CyanogenMod
At last…
I had been lazy, leaving all alone.
In February, I figured I was heading off for a chunk of the month on a cruise, hence wanting tablet for multimedia, but without network, so it was timely not to spend time fiddling with configuration with possible risk of mussing such up.
Alas, the OTA upgrade to JellyBean did a certain chunk of mussing… It busted SuperUser access, thereby breaking Titanium Backup. No backups went properly since .
So, today seemed right timing. I wanted backup, and needed root, the latter looking like a fight. Ah well, go for gusto, see what we get without it…
I had to upgrade adb to support latest Android… Got Clockwork Recovery in place, and zip files for CM10.1 and Google Apps…
The last backup was Feb 16, but happily the files still remained after fresh CM10.1 installation, so I could do a good chunk of recovery of apps, and in plenty of cases, this was basically network configuration, so apps would update their own data upon startup. Sweet!
Superuser is nicely integrated into CM10, also sweet, no extra installation process.
I’ll need to reconfigure the launcher, due to the shift from ADW (I had a license) to built-in Trebuchet on CM10, but that seems like the “worst” irritation, and one I can well live with.
I’m not sure I can readily identify big differences between stock Android and CM10, but there are nice small creature comforts my CM10 phone has gotten me used to, like a quick “turn on/off WiFi” directly on notification screens. Small but I like it.