CyanogenMod 7

CyanogenMod is a free, community built, aftermarket firmware distribution of Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), which is designed to increase performance and reliability over stock Android for your device.





CyanogenMod is based on the Android Open Source Project with extra contributions from many people within the Android community. It can be used without any need to have any Google application installed. Linked below is a package that has come from another Android project that restore the Google parts. CyanogenMod does still include various hardware-specific code, which is also slowly being open-sourced anyway.

Downloads
Latest nightly
Google Apps

Installation
You need to be on a Stock Gingerbread ROM 2.3.* otherwise your device won't boot.

1. Root your device and install ClockworkMod Recovery.


2. Reboot into Recovery using 3-button-combo


3. Do a Nandroid backup!


4. WIPE (wipe data/factory reset + wipe cache partition)


5. Install the ROM from internal sdcard using ClockworkMod Recovery


6. Optionally install the Google Addon