Like every week Paranoid Android, releases an update of its firmware, and this time the update is really important and focus on different areas of development of the popular ROM, and the most obvious difference is the name, which loses the word “Beta” for gaining the 4.4 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) name, a sign that we are faced with a much more stable than in the past and very similar to that will be the final version.
Now Paranoid Android 4.4 is based on the most recent distribution of Android 4.4.3, and this involves a number of steps to follow before proceeding to flash the ROM, you need to update your bootloader, radio sector, the gapps and the custom recovery.
There are many new features in this release, other than the change of the OS version and the usual bug fixes. Thanks to the contributions of users’ reports presents the first public version of Hover. The community support has been felt in the case of Hover since some of its features have been suggested by users such as the chance to show an indicator for applications made by Hover blacklist and the fact that now the notifications from the application active not re-open the notifications Floating Hover.
The Paranoid Android team also assures that the Theme Engine CyanogenMod, which was brought last week, will be kept always updated to the latest release, and in this respect also recommended some themes to be installed:
It is now added support for some AOSP components as the refresh of the home button, and reported that the only remaining bug with Theme Engine regards the incorrect update of the background of the navigation bar when you apply a theme, requiring a restart of the terminal.
Lastly, we point out the section graphic of ParanoidOTA update, based on the design proposed by user Austin Hill via his Google+ profile.
If you want to precede to install this week’s update download Paranoid Android 4.4 RC1 from the usual link of the official Paranoid Android website, remembering carefully to follow the procedures required given the fact that this update brings a change of version.
Before the installation, just keep in mind that if you are from a ROM based on Android 4.4.2 you will have to flash a new bootloader and radio of 4.4.3, in addition to the latest version of Gapps, and also make sure that your recovery is the latest version.
