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so the 1+1 has a lot to offer but one of the things that you guys probably out there would really be excited about is the software experience and obviously it's because of the name that's behind it hey it's Josh reguar from Android Authority what's going on everybody and we're taking a look at the software of the 1+1 CyanogenMod 11s let's start from the top and make our way down so here is the lockscreen oops here is the lockscreen and it is a little bit different from ones that you've seen before where you probably have the circle in the middle that can go into a bunch of different shortcuts that you're probably seeing right now on the footage but in this case it's just a simple swipe down you do get a preview of the background but this area up top is replaced by various widgets like the google play music widget or any music playing rather and it will be populated accordingly to whatever apps you have running in the background other than that it just swipe down to get into the interface but as you can see down here you have the camera icon and you can just swipe from the right in any situation on the lockscreen and there you go we have the camera all right so let's go ahead and move along with the notification drop-down so I'll swipe from the left and come down and you can see the notification drop-down right there it's pretty much what you would expect it to be already when you get a notification you can always hit with two fingers and drag down in order to expand it and you'll see more information after that we have the button right here that brings you right to the power widgets and again it's a largely what you would expect it to be but of course being CyanogenMod you are able to customize it so let's go ahead and add a couple buttons on there so here are a couple that I actually thought were really cool or rather let me just show you one in general the orientation and after that the camera so I'll head back swipe down there you go and then of course the rotation locked is right there that's the orientation button and I always love having that there in case I really don't want my phone to go back and forth between landscape and portrait when I'm trying to do something but then then coolant is this camera one where it's not just a shortcut to the camera it is actually the camera itself so you are able to actually take pictures with it you just tap on there and you can see that's taking the pictures so that's a really cool little added one if you just wanted to take a quick snapshot of something is just one nice way of being able to get to it right away now the gallery application sort of takes on a bit of an htc vibe in that it groups together all of your pictures that you've taken whether they're camera shots or even in some cases screen shots and they'll group them together in various in various iterations like let's say here are the ones from today there's one from yesterday I have a picture from quote-unquote last week but that's more like a couple days ago and then here is some more from this week this week and if you saw my camera shoot out here are some pictures from my day out in Venice Beach all right so the next application that I'll show you is one that you usually only find or the capability at least when you are in a rooted phone and that is the screen cast it is built into Saanich and model 11s that you are able to open the screen cast and just start a screen cast I literally just hit here and then everything that you are seeing right now on the right side is what I'm doing on the phone right now and I do think that is really cool it is a built-in feature of here so if you ever wanted to just at least for me I come from a tech support background so if I really wanted to show somebody how to do something in Android this would be an easy way for me to sort of guide them through it but nonetheless it's just a really cool feature to have in here that Santa was able to build into the operating system rather than require you to have a rooted system and the last app that I'll show you is one that I was actually told by the guys over at cm that they're really excited about and that's the new theme engine again this is a feature that you would normally find and that's a a rooted version of a phone but it's built into the CyanogenMod on the oneplus one and here's the theme showcase right here we'll go and click on that and here we are in the actual theme store that's built by cyanogen so I've already installed a couple not all of them are free which is to be expected but I've already installed a couple of them and if you head on over to the pull over and hit the gear down there for settings you'll be able to see which ones you have available in your phone and those are these right here so let's jump over to right now I have the holo on but if I were to change it to flux now in order for me to even use any of it it requires me to install the entire style first and then I can tweak ones later so I'll go ahead and just apply that right now and as you can see the buttons changed if I head back to holo if I just wanted to change a few things like let's say the icons and I could do that and took away notifications and there you go but I'm not going to do that for now because I want to show you how things have changed so the icons are largely the same as you can see there but what is interesting about this particular theme is there are circle circle buttons in the power widgets in the toggles so it's a it's a nice a bit it's a bit of a nice change it's a way of really tweaking the phone to your liking and there are going to be a lot of themes available in the theme store for you to be able to play around with and that is just one example of how that looks if you click on privacy you'll get a couple of things here you are able to blacklist phone numbers so they won't be able to get to your phone you are also able to send encrypted SMS messages but anybody who has used a sounder mod in the past will be familiar with that in more recent iterations you have the privacy guard which will prevent applications from having access to any of the private data that is inside of your phone but for the sake of just showing you an example of what it does what will happen is when I select one of these it will continuously ask me if I really want the phone to access certain pieces of information like what mines current location is so that's one thing that I'll do right here with the WWE app look and I actually have it on my home screens so if I were to open up WWE the first thing that will come up is it would like to know my location this is one of those features of the privacy guard is that it always tells you what the app is trying to do if it's trying to access particular parts of the phone or if it's trying to do something like access your location I could always deny it or allow it but the problem is in this case I guess the app really does just need that information in order to sort of tag me or something like that I can continue to go and hit deny or allow or deny or allow but it might keep me from actually using the application so finally I kind of get in and I can watch the network but aside from that it's just a it's just kind of a way for you to really get a glimpse into what it is that your application is trying to do and if it's not kosher with you then you can always have the privacy guard on for you to always deny that kind of thing and then the final thing that I'll show you was a feature that a lot of you were really excited about and that had to do with the on screen or the capacitive keys and the fact that you can switch between the so if I was to head over to settings we would find that under buttons and there you go you can change the on-screen nav to be on or off if I turn it off there you go just slides away and now I have the capacitive keys down here and there we go double tap the home button in order to go to the recent apps screen but that is tweakable because you are able to change what the behaviors are of each and every one of the buttons down there but one thing I did throw me for a loop a little bit was the fact that the home via the back button rather is on the right side rather than on the other side which is what I'm used to using say a nexus 5 because with the on-screen buttons there on the left or it is on the left but let's go ahead and tweak that a little bit I'll go and hit the back button there and in order to change the or a customized rather the various buttons that are on the bottom we have to head back over to interface so there's some jumping back and forth between the menus in order to find what you need to find but here it is the buttons and layouts there you go so if we look at this here there is a lock over there on the top and you will be able to unlock it and there you'll be able to see that you can add buttons on here so nerve a couple to add let's say if I add a menu button then I really wanted a dedicated menu button because that's my thing it really isn't I'm just showing it for effect there you go so we hit the menu button and there you go it's an easy way of getting to the menu of various applications let's show one more application of it let's go to Chrome and there you go so that's just a level of customization that is really only available in usually you have to route and then flash a ROM onto your phone but in this case I'm sure mod is what is built into the oneplus one and all of those features from the screencasting to the privacy guard to even just tweaking the general interface itself is available out of the box and that is something that the oneplus one really gets to boast because Symington is a great partner to have in your corner when it comes to the software experience and so there you have it for this feature focus on satin mod 11s as found on the oneplus one now having satin in their corner really makes oneplus kind of fulfill that that little phrase that they keep throwing around of that's never settle and that's because Sandra Mott 11s provides you so much freedom to really change the experience to just the way that you want it whether it's through the settings or through the fact that you can use a different set of buttons if you wanted to or even through the theme engine which is incredibly powerful and is something that is built into the operating system rather than something you have to root it for if you have a new sandwich and mod in the past well this is probably one of the best ways to get started because the one plus one comes in at that great price and it comes with a drama already built in so you don't have to worry about routing or flashing a ROM on here just to get that experience so keep it tuned - and Rhoni for my oneplus one coverage the full review is coming very soon so keep it tuned here hit that like button because we'd love to see that thumbs up and also hit the subscribe button if you 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