CyanogenMod’s custom Android ROMs won’t support the Samsung Galaxy S4 when it launches next month. CyanogenMod has confirmed that Team Hacksung, the group behind its Samsung ROMs, will not support the new flagship smartphone.

In a statement published on its website, CyanogenMod explains that Samsung devices are just too much of a pain to maintain. Furthermore, it says nobody in Team Hacksung plans to buy the new Galaxy S4:

Nobody at Team Hacksung (the team behind Galaxy S2, Note, S3, Note2, G Tabs… official CM ports) plans to buy it, neither develop for it. There are two variants which will be a pain to maintain, [and] the bugs we have on the S3 will probably be there on S4, too (camera), and we all know Samsung ability to release sources while staying in line with mainline. Yes Qualcomm releases sources, but Exynos sources we had were far from [working on] actual Galaxy products. I’m pretty sure the same will happen for this one.

I don’t blame them, especially after my Note 2 experience.

Update – following the publicity there might be a change of heart.