I’m calling this 4.1.999 because I’m waiting for the MT3G OTA, and my new installer is a little different. The ROM itself should be incredibly stable, though. This is a modified version of AOSP 1.6 without the proprietary bits. In order to get up and running the first time, you’ll need to follow some simple instructions.
Please visit the Wiki for information on how to install the Rom.
#1 by Evan on October 13, 2009 - 3:34 am
Michael,
The HTC IME keyboard is busted in this build. Go to your settings, Locale & Text and disable “Touch Input.” You’ll have to use the stock keyboard for now.
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#2 by jb on October 13, 2009 - 4:59 am
Michael and Evan,
Just install the HTC_IME apk thats linked in the post like Cyanogen instructed if its FCing
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#3 by Jann on October 13, 2009 - 8:42 am
Ok, so what if the list of proprieraries that were left ot, and was PDFViewer one of them? Does anyone know of a way to get them back?
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#4 by Michael on October 13, 2009 - 8:59 am
Hey, i noticed a few bugs i believe, If i am in the messenger app, sms and i try to click menu attach a photo and send the photo then preview the photo it restarts the phone, happened twice that i’ve done it. Also i have a force close issue in google maps when you update the route and go to show map it fore closes. and also i had an issue with the camera until i restarted but it wuold force close when i’d open camera
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#5 by Samer on October 13, 2009 - 11:50 am
I’ve always loved Cyanogen mods, but the last .999 broke my phones messaging. I can’t send or receive texts for some reason. Not sure why. It shows that they are sent, but never get to the person, and vice versa.
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#6 by Samer on October 13, 2009 - 11:54 am
Actually, I just realized, the other person gets the text but I can’t receive anything.
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#7 by joan on October 13, 2009 - 2:18 pm
Hi
Thank you for your work
I have a HTC Dream and when I try to install the Android 1.6 Recovery Image (renamed as update.zip) I get the following messages:
Installing from sdcard…
Finding updata package…
Opening update package…
Verifying update package…
E:No signature (412 files)
E:Verification failed
Installation aborted.
Press Home+Back to reboot
I checked the checksum of the file and is ok.
Any idea?
thank you
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#8 by Evan on October 13, 2009 - 2:43 pm
jb and Michael,
I tried that APK when I first flashed and it still force closed. I tried it again, UNINSTALLING FIRST, then reinstalling it and it works as expected.
Thanks for the help jb!
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#9 by joan on October 13, 2009 - 3:34 pm
solved!
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#10 by Michael Magliotti on October 13, 2009 - 5:36 pm
Thanks JB! I installed the HTC_IME apk and it’s working flawlessly. Thanks Cyanogen for making our G1s so fun to use!
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#11 by sterlingprice on October 13, 2009 - 5:48 pm
I’m getting ready to flash to the latest version but I am not as tech savvy as most of you so I am researching the process and working out my questions before I get too far in over my head. I have heard a lot of concerns about the lagginess and the fix_permissions command fixing this from the console screen of boot. I own a myTouch 3g and am unable to enter this command during the reboot because of no hard keyboard and the soft keyboard not being accessible. Is this step not required for myTouch? I think this is my only concern before flashing the latest.
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#12 by jordi on October 13, 2009 - 10:50 pm
Hello, when I try to upgrade from cm-recovery 1.4 when I select signed-dream_devphone_userdebug-ota-14721.zip I get this error
Installing update…
assert failed: getprop(“ro.product.device”) == “dream” || getprop(“ro.build.product”) == “dream”
E:Error in /sdcard/signed-dream_devphone_userdebug-ota-14721.zip (Status 7)
Installation aborted.
Can someone help me with it?
Thanks,
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#13 by SideshowMelleMel on October 14, 2009 - 12:09 am
Anybody know why I can’t flash the recovery image using stock Donut?
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#14 by ct on October 14, 2009 - 2:41 am
does nandroid backup/restore the system binaries?
As in — since I backed up, and now restored from nandroid, did I just negate the entire point of upgrading to 4.1.999?
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#15 by Evan on October 14, 2009 - 2:58 am
ct, you betcha. Go to Settings>About Phone and check under Mod Version.
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#16 by Jack on October 14, 2009 - 4:48 am
Do any of the flash roms support activesync to a pc? I noticed the new sprint hero does. I dislike going through gmail to sync contacts and calendar.
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#17 by RicFusion on October 14, 2009 - 6:20 am
If I am using a HERO Rom right now, do I have to take my phone back to its original ROOT state with Android 1.5, or will I be able to simply install the Cyanogenmod 4.1.99, and then the .999?
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#18 by toks on October 14, 2009 - 10:20 am
I suppose this doesnt work for samsung galaxy.
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#19 by Tiago Becker on October 14, 2009 - 1:22 pm
Great build, althoug it has some battery issues for me.. went from full to 0 in 7 hours, just in stand by
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#20 by CraigM on October 14, 2009 - 5:03 pm
For some reason lately I’ve only been able to make 1 call per reboot…..
It just started after tying to install HTC’s PDFviwer i think i screwed something up…
Can someone explain how to connect my MyTouch to a computer and use the fix_permission script? not sure if this will help but it can’t hurt
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#21 by Shawn on October 14, 2009 - 6:22 pm
I installed 4.1.999 yesterday with no issues. I woke up this morning to my browser force closing everytime i open it. It was fin eyesterday. Any suggestions? I’ve already reflashed.
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#22 by peter on October 14, 2009 - 11:13 pm
Bluetooth is now working, but when i try to pair with my bluetooth keyboard, it power cycles my g1.
http://i-miss-erin.blogspot.com/2009/09/connect-bluetooth-keyboard-in-android.html
Using a stowaway fwiw.
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#23 by Kot on October 15, 2009 - 12:30 am
No lags but I just can’t connect to my WiFi network… It is the most depressing part ;((((
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#24 by RicFusion on October 15, 2009 - 2:40 am
This ROM is actually starting to piss me off. I’ve flashed several other ROMS before with NO issues, and this one, when flashed WITH a data wipe, will not sync my google contacts. I’m assuming that is because that is something proprietary to google? Even then, when I restored a backup, and tried it again without wiping, it loaded fine, worked fine, but all my contacts were gone, and once again, would not sync. Whats the deal?
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#25 by Arno on October 15, 2009 - 3:48 am
Ok guys, I really can vouch for this rom. But here is a little story:
I installed the rom (and I did not have my SD card split for A2SD usage) and it was… well, it was ok, but not awesome. It would keep crashing at one point, it wasn’t as fast as I would hope it would be.
Then I decided to actually format the SD card and create an ext4 partition (there are instructions online how to do it). Guess what – my phone runs AMAZING, very fast, no lag, I have never had my phone run so smooth and fast. My sync works, everything functions perfectly.
For all having problems with this rom – create a partition, upgrade it to ext4 and enjoy. I would be extremely surprised if you still have the problems.
The only problem can be that some apps won’t work at first, but if you uninstall them and install them back on that problem usually disappears.
I really hope this helps you. The guys CM did a great job, give them credit after trying using the rom in the way it was originally intended to be – ext4!
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#26 by Chris on October 15, 2009 - 7:29 am
Ok I am running 4.1.999 on my phone now so awesome btw great work cyanogen but I have one issue I just got a new 8 gb sd card and my phone refuses to use it it goes to the ancroid screen and then goes black and just hangs here bbu when I put my 4 gb back in it urn on and goes all the way through what can I do to fix this?
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#27 by Jelmer on October 15, 2009 - 4:02 pm
Ouch, nothing but trouble upgrading from an older cyanogen-mod to this one. Without wiping: google calendar and gmail among others wouldn’t start anymore. With wiping: browser constantly force-closing. Used “Backup for Root users” to backup my data – but restoring doesn’t do a thing now.
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#28 by rand76 on October 15, 2009 - 5:42 pm
Much like Tiago Becker I am having issues with battery life. Before this update it lasted the whole day, now I’m lucky to make it through half a day.
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#29 by contacts on October 15, 2009 - 10:52 pm
Contacts not working?? why is not syncing to google? how can I get this back? please
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#30 by rand76 on October 16, 2009 - 4:25 am
hmm, disregard my last comment, for whatever reason, without changing anything the battery is lasting like gangbusters now. lol
Cyanogen rocks.
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#31 by Steve on October 16, 2009 - 7:22 am
Cyanogen has been awesome with all of his builds, and I am truly grateful for his work. However, I just find 4.1.999 to be way too buggy and too full of lags and random reboots to be considered anywhere near stable. I have reflashed 3 times, fixed permissions, and think I am going to have to just roll back to 4.1.111* to expect decent usability from my phone, which is a shame. Mainly the problems I have noticed have been home or process acore force closes resulting from any change to the phone- exiting programs to home, changing screen orientation, even selecting notifications; and also the phone will freeze if connected to a charger approximately half the time. Reflashing and/or fixing permissions does nothing for these issues, and I am merely posting this as a warning for any noobs looking for a stable or quasi-stable build. While I greatly appreciate his work, from my experiences with this build it needed to cook a little longer…
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#32 by camellight on October 16, 2009 - 12:41 pm
@contacts: go to settings/applications an remove the cache of Contacts and contacts storage.
I had the same trouble for gmail and contacts.
I also have a question, the market doesn’t see anymore the installed apps, to I have to remove as well the cache?
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#33 by Flashfox on October 16, 2009 - 5:40 pm
4.1.999 has been relatively good for me. I did experience spontaneous reboots and the “no more desktop icons” problems, but they were very infrequent. One of my friends had a catastrophic failure (reboot the phone and everything went awry). Locked @ ANDROID logo, unable to restore, unable to re-flash, pulled battery, swapped SD cards, reformatted SD cards (ext3), did all of the tricks of the trade to no avail. He finally went to T-Mo and they (surprisingly) gave him a refurbished replacement. It came with 1.5 so he reinstalled 4.1.999 and all is well (up to now). What was odd was that he had done nothing more than reboot the phone. But then again, 4.1.000 “is” experimental. Crossing my fingers and hoping for 4.2.
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#34 by Flashfox on October 16, 2009 - 5:42 pm
4.1.999 has been relatively good for me. I did experience spontaneous reboots and the “no more desktop icons” problems, but they were very infrequent. One of my friends had a catastrophic failure (reboot the phone and everything went awry). Locked @ ANDROID logo, unable to restore, unable to re-flash, pulled battery, swapped SD cards, reformatted SD cards (ext3), did all of the tricks of the trade to no avail. He finally went to T-Mo and they (surprisingly) gave him a refurbished replacement. It came with 1.5 so he reinstalled 4.1.999 and all is well (up to now). What was odd was that he had done nothing more than reboot the phone. But then again, 4.1.999 “is” experimental. Crossing my fingers and hoping for 4.2.
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#35 by Chris on October 17, 2009 - 5:22 pm
I have a question.
I have 4.1.999 installed but my market is still the old one… anyone can help?
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#36 by Gavin Edwards on October 17, 2009 - 11:31 pm
So I am fairly new to the cyanogen mod. I installed it a couple months ago and it has been by far the most stable mod out there. I recently tried to update using the cmupdater and it said I had to reflash for 4.1.999. No worries. I followed the instructions on the site and loaded the 1.6 recovery image. Now when I try to install cyanogen’s latest it verifies and the aborts the installation. Any sugestions would be greatly appreciated.
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#37 by Chris on October 18, 2009 - 6:42 am
@ Gavin: I’ve never encountered that problem. u might wanna verify the 1.6 recovery image installed accordingly.. or prolly just wait for it like i do, as soon as u hit the trackball, just be ready to hit home right away lol… that worked for me on the recovery 1.6 image. but i didn’t have to do that for cyan’s rom.
By the way, i’ve experienced some lags on the 4.1.999. just wanna share it to u. i’m not quite sure which is causing the lag on my end coz other people said theirs worked fine. but i find 4.1.99 more useful and faster.
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#38 by Ray on October 18, 2009 - 7:12 am
hey cyan! lovin the roms, i just have a question to put out there. im kinda a noob with adb pushing and stuff and i have the htc hero music .apk and im just wondering how to install it, ive tried with package installer and it wont let me. ive also tried uninstalling the stock music apk and it wont allow me too do this, so any help would be appreciated. thanks in advance
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#39 by digitaltailor on October 18, 2009 - 8:48 am
I just followed the wiki and got everything working. The ext4 partitioning REALLY helps with the speed of things. The only problem I have now is Bluetooth. It simply does not work. I scan for devices repeatedly and it never finds anything (I have at least 3 BT devices in range). I even made the G1 discoverable and none of my other BT enabled devices see it. I noticed after trolling through the comments here that the problem exists for other users, but they haven’t been answered/addressed. I really want to stick with this mod. It’s my favorite of all the developers out there. And I don’t want to have to go back to 4.1. Will this be fixed anytime soon? Also, just a small detail, the mod version shows up as 4.1.99 not 4.1.999. Don’t know if that matters. All that said, Cyanogen, you ROCK!
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#40 by digitaltailor on October 18, 2009 - 9:17 am
Doh! I’m such a bonehead! I didn’t even have 4.1.999 installed! I flashed it and now Bluetooth is working. The Power Control widget doesn’t work but I can live with that for now. I guess it pays to troll through the comments. Thanks Cyanogen for a truly awesome rom!
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#41 by n3mo on October 19, 2009 - 3:39 am
My turn now
I have quite a big problem – software updates don’t work.
When I open the Market and go through “my downloads” I only see versions I have installed (when I read app details the version displayed matches the one I have installed), but when I search the same app I can see the new version and the “update available”, and only then I can update the app. The Market also doesn’t notify my of any updates (since it obviously doesn’t see any). I haven’t seen anyone with such a problem, what can be the cause?
I tried reflashing, wiping and formatting ext partition on sd, to no avail.
Thanks for any help.
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#42 by lavawallz on October 19, 2009 - 8:17 am
Ok here we go!
so far so good 4.1.999 was kinda laggy and had many forcloses… but I found out that if you click the background your phone will run smoothly.the forcloses were killing me lol..but its ok cuz its experimental Right! Oh and another thing dudes follow instructions cuz I probably unbricked my phone like hella times 
I find it fun lmao but anyway. I just checked the updater and I now have four 9’s and the ROM IS A BEAST….. MEGA SPEEDS I LOVE IT…I CALL MY POHNE THE CYANOGEN PHONE NO JOKING.. AND YOU KNOW WHAT …THANKS CYANOGEN. HAIL CYANOGEN!!! The FUTURE OF TEK.
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#43 by brie987 on October 19, 2009 - 8:50 am
Hi, love the mods. I have one problem and please direct me if this is the wrong place to bring it up. I have 4.1.9999 now and since 4.1.99 I have had the worst time trying to tether my G1 with bluetooth and “Wireless Tether for root Users”. It worked perfectly with 4.0.4 but I see this is no longer available. Any one else? Perhaps fixed with 4.2?
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#44 by digitaltailor on October 19, 2009 - 9:07 pm
I am having a problem with the cmupdater. I get a changelog for 4.1.9999 but nothing else downloads. How do I get the actual update for the rom?
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#45 by CraigM on October 19, 2009 - 11:38 pm
I am starting to have problems with connecting my phone to my computer….. with 4.1.999 and i waited for 4.1.9999 to come to find it has a simular problem.
When i connect my phone it gives me all the notifications and i click “Mount” and all is well than my phone reboots. Its still letting it communicate with the computer i was able to continue loadign my data onto it as the Android boot screen was up and once it just keep *notifying me about 20 times before i just got annoyed and pulled the cord
anyone else having this problem? i ran the fix_permissions script from the terminal emulator, rebooted battery pull ect. nothing fixed the problem
PS running MyTouch 3G
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#46 by Tim on October 20, 2009 - 5:59 am
@Gavin: I had the same problem you did (when upgrading to 4.1.99, though). I rebooted the phone after installing the 1.6 development build (which you should not do), and I believe it writes over the bootloader and then prevents it from being updated.
The only way I found to fix it was to downgrade to RC29 and start over.
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#47 by jman on October 20, 2009 - 11:44 am
when will the easy install method be ready to hit the market? You know, the one where the google apps” are backed up…and then i can refreshen my rom?
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#48 by kcw12 on October 20, 2009 - 6:47 pm
Very good ROM. Any idea on how to get the camera function of it to zoom?
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#49 by EJay on October 20, 2009 - 10:18 pm
was anyone able to get bluetooth filesharing and device pairing to work or am i just installing it wrong
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#50 by kevinebrown on October 20, 2009 - 11:40 pm
There is a Free and very nice markey camera zoom out there which works better, IMO, than the stock function…just search camera zoom.
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