A smattering of users running older devices are getting the sad news that their trusted electronic pal won’t be on the love train of CyanogenMod past 7.x. The team has found these old school units wouldn’t be capable of CM 9 or beyond, they most likely would end up breaking Android’s Compatibility Test Suite. Why is this bad? Well glad you asked since the hard working team explains:

“The CTS is used by device manufacturers to ensure that their changes to Android source do not break Android API, platform and other standards. This, in turn, brings stability to the Play Store for app developers. Breaking CTS would lead to a bad and inconsistent experience for app devs, which in turn would lead to a bad experience for you guys as users. If CyanogenMod was perceived to be blatantly violating CTS, developers could eventually blacklist CyanogenMod users from using their apps (or worse, Google could blacklist CyanogenMod from the Play Store altogether). No one would win by going down that path.”

Got it? Good. The list is comprised of phones at least a year and a half old or low cost\low end phones. Good news is, some of you should be able to upgrade to a swell super phone! More good news – Team Cyanogen could come back to these puppies if there comes a way to get CM 9 or 10 or whatever they’re on without breaking CTS. It’s a possibility, highly unlikely but still, it’s there.

Curious if your phone is on the list? Hit the break for it in its bullet pointed splendor!

• ZTE Blade
• Droid Incredible
• Droid Eris
• LG Optimus One
• LG Optimus Pro
• LG Optimus Chic
• LG Optimus Hub
• HTC Desire
• HTC Desire CDMA
• HTC Wildfire
• HTC Tattoo
• HTC myTouch 3G Slide
• HTC Hero
• HTC Hero CDMA
• HTC Evo
• HTC Legend
• HTC Aria
• Motorola Cliq
• Motorola Backflip
• Xperia X10 Mini
• Xperia X10
• Google Nexus One
• Commtiva Z71
• Samsung Galaxy Ace
• Samsung Galaxy Fit
• Samsung Galaxy Mini
• Huawei U8150
• Huawei U8220
• Geeksphone ONE
• Geeksphone ZERO

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