CM 11 M9 Changes

After the new stable build was released on monday we finally received a build four our device. In this post we show some of the changes and new features in M9.

The Update Process

There is nothing new with the update process – but it still doesn’t work on encrypted devices. As far as we know, this is caused by ClockworkMod (CWM). The current version of CWM (6.0.4.5) doesn’t support mounting encrypted storage, so the update fails.

The filter notifications feature
This new feature allows you to filter specific types of notifications instead of blocking all notifications sent by an app.

 

To do this, longpress on a notification and select “Block messages like these”. You can mange the blocked nofifications in the Settings app, they are located in Privacy > Filter notifications.

All notification filters

If you tap a filter, you can see how many times an when the app tried to send a notification.

 

There seems to bee a little bug here: If you tap on delete, the filter rule will disappear, but notifications will still be blocked until you restart the app. We’ll look into that as soon as we are able to reboot our device (We blocked screenshot notifications and even thow we deleted the rule they are still blocked…)

Update: After rebooting the device the notifications reappeared, and testing with several apps confirmed our assumption that a app restart is necessary. So if you block any notifications from system apps, you will have to restart the system to update the filter rules.

Proximity wake-up prevention

If you activate this new feature, cyanogenmod now checks if the proximity sensor is covered. If the sensor is covered, e.g. the device is in your pocket, pressing the power button doesn’t wake the device up. This is really cool for everyone who presses the button accidently (and has no screen security enabled).

Other Changes

The settings search has highlighting now

 

The smart dialer now supports korean

Disable Oboom in JDownloader

Two months ago I published a guide how to disable premium offers and oboom in JDownloader 2. In the comments I was asked how to do this in JDownloader (One), so here’s your guide:

Note:
JDownloader doesn’t have a setting for this, but I was able to find a workaround. Tell me in the comments if this worked for you.

Oboom is gone

0. Close JDownloader

1. Go to your JDownloader folder (on my Windows x64 it’s C:\Program Files (x86)\JDownloader ) and navigate to the sub folder \tmp\oboom.

Open the file oboom.zip.extracted as a zip file. This zip file should contain a file named enabled.json. Open this file with a text editor and change the content to false. Save your new .json file back to the zip and remove all other files – or – create a new zip file containing your enabled.json and place this file in the oboom folder. I changed the edit/write permissions to admin only (root on Linux) to prevent JDownloader from overwriting my new zip, but I don’t know if this is necessary.

If you do not want to create the zip file by yourself you can download it here.

2. Go to the \jd\img\default sub folder and remove the files jdbanner_free_<languagecode>.png and jdbanner_getpro_<languagecode>.png. Remove also every file starting with logo_oboom.

3. Go to %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\JDownloader v2.0\themes\standard\org\jdownloader\images\oboom (Windows 7, sorry for everyone not having this OS, I don’t know were this folder is) and remove every image.

4. Start JDownloader. If the oboom ad is still present, ask in the comment section for help.

This is more complicated than in JD2, but I think it wasn’t intended to be a setting to be changed by the user at all.

And by the way: Please do  not rush through the installation menue of Adware like JDownloader. Always select Decline!

The two screenshots below are from an Installation some days ago, so you will probably get different “offers”.

Usually, these programs make money for the developers, they aren’t saving your money and time.