No Cyanogen Mod on the Galaxy s4

XpLoDWilD of Team Hacksung sharing CM’s general thoughts and feelings about the Galaxy S 4:

“Nobody at Team Hacksung (the team behind Galaxy S2, Note, S3, Note2, G Tabs… official CM ports) plans to buy it, neither develop for it. There are two variants which will be a pain to maintain, [and] the bugs we have on the S3 will probably be there on S4, too (camera), and we all know Samsung ability to release sources while staying in line with mainline. Yes Qualcomm releases sources, but Exynos sources we had were far from [working on] actual Galaxy products. I’m pretty sure the same will happen for this one.

That’s a uniform “no” from us.” 

Well what can we say, we could see this coming. Guess its almost certain now that there will be no cyanogen mod on the galaxy s4 ! For those who don’t know what CM is , CM is a team of developers which produce their own alternative to the stock Touchwiz(or any other) ROM that the Samsung Galaxy(or any other OEM) comes with. They tweak and mod the original ROM on different devices using the kernel source made public by manufacturers of processors and OEM’s to allow developers to work on the device and submit bug reports so that the manufacturer can alter the code and eliminate the bugs. Because of the ever-growing conflicts of interests between the various Sammy licenses/kernels and well… the folks who want to hack tweak things to make the device a little better, the CM team just felt that attaining the Galaxy S 4 just wasn’t worth the trouble.

So all those geeks addicted to XDA and waiting to get their hands on a smasung galaxy s4 just so you can get down and dirty and start rooting and flashing, HOLD UP ! Lets see how it unfolds in the coming weeks. As for others go get that Samsung Galaxy S4 and let us know when you do so !