Doing Donuts With Android

I had been running with the Cyanogen mod ROM on my T-Mobile G1. And other than an aborted attempt at running one of the experimental versions, it’s been pretty glitch free. But now Android 1.6, or Donut has been released for Android devices. And, Cyanogen had been slapped with a cease and desist from Google for distributing the proprietary Google apps with the open source Android version he had been producing. So, after a few weeks of work, Cyanogen is back with a new version that by backing up your existing apps, it updates the non-proprietary portion of the OS. A very clever solution.

Unfortunately, the upgrade didn’t go smoothly for me. I ended up doing a factory reset and am now running the stock Android 1.6. I’m going to run it for a while, before trying to ‘upgrade’ to the Cyanogen ROM. So far, I miss the small speed bump of the Cyanogen ROM. But, I do like the new market. Otherwise, I haven’t seen much different from 1.5 that impacts day to day usage.