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Today we've got another special episode! Don't worry, there will be another regular episode on Friday. In today's episode David tries to find out what happened to Android ROMming? There was a time when flashing the latest nightly on your phone had an entire community built around it, but those days disappeared.. rather suddenly. What happened? We investigate.

Chapters
00:00 What is ROMming?
11:44 Rich Miner has entered the chat
14:25 What phones were like at the time
17:00 How Google got Android
26:55 XDA
29:48 Ads
33:39 Cyanogen
46:12 Carl Pei has entered the chat
49:17 Early Android
01:05:50 OnePlus letter from Carl Pei
01:08:32 A Cyanogenmod phone?
01:13:50 A fork in the road
01:14:28 Ads
01:15:13 The birth of Lineage OS
01:26:40 Why ROM now?
01:41:15 Winner of the episode

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Rich Miner:   / richminer  
Stefanie Kondik:   / cyanogen  
Lineage OS team: https://lineageos.org/

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