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hey what's up guys I'm Kay PhD here and today I'm gonna be taking a look at a pretty commonly requested video about the Samsung Galaxy s3 I've reviewed the Samsung Galaxy s3 already and part of the thing that I talked a lot about was TouchWiz which was on top of it and TouchWiz is the skin on top of Android 4.0 on the galaxy s3 when you get it it's planned to have an upgrade to touch ways the next version which will be on top of Android 4.1 but I've enjoyed my Galaxy Nexus so much that I wanted a pure almost near stock Android experience on my galaxy s3 so without any further ado I'm gonna be taking a look at my favorite ROM so far for the galaxy s3 if you've root it you can get CyanogenMod 10 or the nightly builds and I'll show you what it looks like running on my verizon galaxy s3 let's go ahead and take a look by the way I have no idea this is the final angle for what I'm going to be doing videos at I'm still sort of messing around with things getting it set up but let's get into this real quick now the first thing you'll notice about your device when you turn it on is your lockscreen and that's because the lockscreen here I have it right next to the Galaxy Nexus here this is running pure stock Android 4.1 and this is running CyanogenMod and you can see here that the lockscreen is identical I could add some other shortcuts up here and up here if I wanted to but you also have to swipe up Google now left for camera and right to unlock and that is where you'll get to your home screen and that's where the the similarities are pretty much the same for the rest of everything else with some minor additions thanks to CyanogenMod so first of all to make sure you have Android 4.1 jelly bean you can go to menu and system settings and at the bottom there's about phone you can see here Android version 4.1.1 and CyanogenMod is the kernel version and we have of course our full two gigs of ram you'll actually find that you use less ran because TouchWiz does use a little bit of the RAM and you won't have any of that RAM being used by TouchWiz when you're running stock Android some other neat additions are you get to swipe down from the notification bar and you'll get your toggles here from CyanogenMod so Wi-Fi toggle Bluetooth your GPS and you can change your volume and set it to volume on or vibrate or silent or whatever you want to do there also project butter is present throughout the operating system so everything is just dead smooth there's no hiccups or stuttering as far as I've seen just like Android 4.1 on other devices that are running stock Android there aren't many but you can get that experience by running CyanogenMod and it is absolutely buttery smooth Google now still works so I'll ask it a random question like what's the weather like what is the weather like and it'll go ahead and tell me what the weather is like here and if you have the volume on it'll go ahead and read stuff out Google now works flawlessly data works flawlessly there is nothing missing or wrong or incorrect about this ROM and that's why it's been working perfectly as a daily driver for me also I'll show you the camera this is another big reason that I've been using the galaxy s3 is because that 8 megapixel camera but it still has instant shutter so of course if we take a picture here it'll move to the side and it's instantly available and you can swipe left and right and go through the pictures you've taken all that soft force still works this will take panorama and you can now take 1080p video and just keep taking really really fast shutters and eight megapixel photos will just fly through like that also for location-aware apps like say Google Maps the galaxy s3 actually has some of the fastest GPS lock of any device I have ever used so if you ever have any issues with that well you won't have any issues with that Google Maps Navigation any GPS tagging stuff like Foursquare that'll all work perfectly quickly and really really fast thanks to the fast OS and the fast GPS lock on this phone some other neat things I notice there are no software buttons on the bottom so I'll bring in the Nexus again so you can see there are these software buttons back multitasking and home but you don't have these here on the galaxy s3 because your home button here you have your menu button and you have your back button and those all still work perfectly in terms of battery life I've gotten some pretty decent battery life I do use my phone quite a bit you can see here it's been on for 6 hours with quite a bit of screen on time actually not a lot of screen on time but quite a bit of usage basically and it's halfway through the day and I have 76% battery life left I typically end the day around 11 p.m. and I'll have about 20% left which is pretty good but besides that everything else about the phone is fast I mean I haven't gotten a lot of questions about it but basically people wanted to know is it daily driver material and from what I got to say from my experience yes this is daily driver material so I can use this for all my apps that are compatible with Android 4.1 and below you know Twitter ABB's notifications all that kind of stuff it just works I haven't found any flaws with it and it's been a really enjoyable experience so far so connects to really fast data I'll go and do a speed test here just because I happen to feel like showing off my new Wi-Fi but I mean there's not a whole lot that goes wrong at all I haven't had any random reboots this happens to be the Verizon version of the Samsung Galaxy s3 which means you'll have to get past the bootloader before you do any of your routing and flashing your rom so I'll have instructions for that below but basically if you have any questions feel free to send me a message on YouTube or go ahead and leave a comment below and I'll do my best to help you out this is an absolutely highly recommended ROM I just there's nothing wrong with it at all and it's a pleasurable experience here's a quick tip I use on all the 4x devices if you go to settings and you go down past all that CyanogenMod and Google stuff and you go to developer options you can go down here into your animations and change the animation scale to 0.5 X so let's say you want to make it really really slow by 5 X you'll see all the animations are really really slowed down by default it's actually 1x if you make it point 5 X you'll notice your device just feels a lot snappier and you can turn animations off completely but I prefer to have them on really snappy and it feels really really fast and last thing you should know is there are some CyanogenMod settings in here so if you go to interface you can change some settings about the launcher so you can change your look and feel you can change all the different signs in my settings if you have themes if you have profiles all the stuff is accessible in here so if you're really hard for Android person you can go in and customize and change everything about this stuff you can change which buttons you have up here in the widgets you can change which toggles you have all that stuff is available to you and that's pretty sweet so I've been using CyanogenMod 10 for Android 4.1.1 and I love it so there you go it's really really close to stock Android and it is been my daily driver for a couple months now actually it's a really really solid ROM and I'd recommended if you've rooted your Galaxy s3 for those of you who are new to the whole flashing a ROM process and being rooted I'll have some links below this video where you can check out the best way to get your phone rooted to get your bootloader unlocked into flash Romney want thanks for watching this video go and give a thumbs up if you enjoyed it or if it was helpful at all and next video is one that will be that's been requested a lot more than this particular video was so I hope you guys are ready for that either way thanks for watching and I'll talk to you guys later you