{"id":128,"date":"2011-08-05T15:22:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T05:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.klaverstyn.com.au\/david\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T00:21:14","slug":"cyanogenmod-7-on-the-galaxy-s-i9000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klaverstyn.com.au\/david\/blog\/2011\/08\/cyanogenmod-7-on-the-galaxy-s-i9000\/","title":{"rendered":"CyanogenMod 7 on the Galaxy S I9000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last month I have been going back and forth between the CyanogenMod 7 custom ROM and the stock Samsung ROM.\u00a0 I get full of enthusiasm towards a ROM that promises fast speeds and wonderful customisations\u00a0only to be bitterly disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>The first time installing CM7 onto my phone I was completely confused as everything looked and felt different.\u00a0 So I rolled back to the stock ROM.\u00a0 Sometime later I had another attempt at installing CM7.\u00a0 I was able to understand more about CM7 and what things were called.\u00a0 I was reasonably impressed, until I went to take a photo.\u00a0 The Camera application in CM7 is very basic and has none of the features that the Samsung camera does.\u00a0 So I rolled back once again.<\/p>\n<p>So I used the Samsung stock ROM for some time until I decided I had to install CM7 once again. So I did.\u00a0 Everything was great.\u00a0 Things worked really fast, I understood the camera was not going to function as the Samsung version but I wanted speed and full customisation of the user interface.<\/p>\n<p>I was happy for about 12 hours until I tried to play some videos.\u00a0 The videos froze and force closure windows appeared.\u00a0 I tried downloading different players but nothing succeeded. I\u2019m heading to New Zealand soon and I need some entertainment during the flight and not been able to watch some movies or TV shows that I have downloaded was just not going to sit very well with me.<\/p>\n<p>So I rolled back to the stock ROM and here I am going to stay, no matter what; having said that I may try it again once the product has matured. \u00a0CM7 has released RC1 so I think I\u2019ll wait until it has release the final product to market.<\/p>\n<p>The major problems I see with CM7 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Limited camera functionality<\/li>\n<li>No video calls<\/li>\n<li>Unable to play common video formats.<\/li>\n<li>SMS conversation views are not very nice and I found hard to view<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The last version of CM7 that I tried was build 76, 2011-08-03<\/p>\n<p>What I don\u2019t understand is how custom ROM\u2019s like CM7 and others can make the phone operate very responsively but the companies that release their phones can\u2019t or won\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last month I have been going back and forth between the CyanogenMod 7 custom ROM and the stock Samsung ROM.\u00a0 I get full of enthusiasm towards a ROM that promises fast speeds and wonderful customisations\u00a0only to be bitterly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/klaverstyn.com.au\/david\/blog\/2011\/08\/cyanogenmod-7-on-the-galaxy-s-i9000\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4,14,9,15],"tags":[19,21,20],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-information","category-product","category-rant","category-review","tag-cm","tag-custom-rom","tag-cyanogenmod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaverstyn.com.au\/david\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaverstyn.com.au\/david\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaverstyn.com.au\/david\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaverstyn.com.au\/david\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaverstyn.com.au\/david\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/klaverstyn.com.au\/david\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/klaverstyn.com.au\/david\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaverstyn.com.au\/david\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaverstyn.com.au\/david\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaverstyn.com.au\/david\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}