CyanogenMod 7.1 is pretty sweet

Last week, the CyanogenMod Project released their version 7.1 of the Android phone OS; 7.1 is based on Android 2.3 and my Motorola Cliq (Motorola Dext in the rest of the world) was only supported by the company for Android v2.1.

I put CyanogenMod 7.1 on my phone on Friday following the info on the project's Wiki.  I was getting errors "No Such Device" but it turned out I needed to restart the service:

./adb push rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin /data/local/tmp/

Error: no such device

./adb kill-server

./adb start-server

./adb push rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin /data/local/tmp/

They also don't mention in that Wiki, that you need to run the commands from the folder where you installed them.  That is, "adb start-server" won't function because 'adb' is likely not 'in your path', i.e., not in your list of locations to find programs.  Putting the ./ in front alerts the shell that this directory . has the command.

It's only been a few days but so far I am enjoying the newfound responsiveness on my phone.  I can't yet report much on battery life, but I can say that I've spent a lot of time getting my contacts organized.  I seem to have 2 or 3 or 4 of many of my contacts, and I've been combining them.