{"id":2790,"date":"2014-11-23T21:38:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T21:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2014-11-23T21:38:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T21:38:41","slug":"updated-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=2790","title":{"rendered":"Updated Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samsung_Galaxy_S_II\">Samsung Galaxy S2<\/a> for about 2.5 years now, originally bought as a Vodafone contract handset. It&#8217;s a great phone; nicely put together and reasoanably durable and powerful, but of late I&#8217;d got it in my head that the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Android_version_history#Android_4.1.x_Jelly_Bean\">version of Android<\/a> was getting on, and the combination of Samsung and Vodafone apps over the top annoyed me and cluttered the OS.<\/p>\n<p>Enter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyanogenmod.org\/\">Cyanogenmod<\/a>, a community-generated derivation from the <a href=\"http:\/\/source.android.com\/\">Android source<\/a>. As the S2 is a popular device, it&#8217;s well supported, and a quick prompt from a nice chap on Twitter pointed me in the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.cyanogenmod.org\/w\/Install_CM_for_i9100\">right direction<\/a>, and with a few Android developer tools <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.cyanogenmod.org\/w\/Adb#Ubuntu\">installed on Ubuntu<\/a> ( damned site easier than Windows), I was done. With the phone rebooted, I&#8217;ve got Android <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Android_version_history#Android_4.4_KitKat_.28API_level_19.29\">Kitkat<\/a>, no Vodafone bloat, and a generic Android interface, and seemingly, better performance and battery life \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a Samsung Galaxy S2 for about 2.5 years now, originally bought as a Vodafone contract handset. It&#8217;s a great phone; nicely put together and reasoanably durable and powerful, but of late I&#8217;d got it in my head that the version of Android was getting on, and the combination of Samsung and Vodafone apps &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=2790\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Updated Android<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}