14 DAY TRIAL // On Wednesday, the CyanogenMod team officially announced support for Motorola’s Moto G smartphone in its popular custom software, with nightly builds already available for download for interested users.
For the time being, however, only the single-SIM variants of the device have received support, with the dual-SIM version expected to taste it soon.
“First, we’re proud to announce that the Motorola G is now an officially supported device in CyanogenMod,” the team announced in a recent blog post.
“This popular budget phone will carry the designation of ‘falcon’ – with a unified build for both the xt1032 and xt1034 variants. We are in the beginning stages of supporting the multi-SIM capable xt1033, so please be patient as we work through that process.”
For those out of the loop, we should note that Motorola launched the dual-SIM version of Moto G in various emerging markets out there, including Brazil and India. However, the device has yet to see expanded availability.
At the same time, the team unveiled that it had decided to go for a similar unified support for other Motorola devices as well, and that new builds are now available for them.
Thus, Moto X and Droid Maxx Dev Edition (model numbers xt1053, xt1058, xt1060, xt1055, and xt1080) will be enjoying CM releases under the moto_msm8960dt name.
The Motorola RAZR HD, Photon Q, and ATRIX HD handsets (models xt897, xt901, xt905, xt907, xt905, xt925, xt926, mb886, and the former xt897c) will be moto_msm8960.
“The new ‘msm’ designations are based on the common architecture used in these devices. As always, source for these unified device projects are available on our Github,” the team announced.
As mentioned above, nightly builds are already available for these smartphones, including the Moto G, and can be found on CyanogenMod’s download website. They are CM11 releases, based on Android 4.4 KitKat.