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what's up guys David here if you guys enjoyed that intro be sure to give this video a big thumbs up I was able to make the intro all dramatic with music and sound effects from clips I got from audio blogs which is a subscription-based royalty free stock media site that gives you unlimited access to over a hundred thousand audio clips and as a special deal for you foam buffs audio box is giving you a free 7-day trial where you can download up to a hundred and forty clips now these clips are valued at almost 50 bucks a pop so if you do the math it adds up to an amazing deal so if you're interested in getting some sound effects and music for your videos for your songs or whatever other creative work you do take it advantage of that 7 day free trial by hitting that first link down below in the description all right let's get to getting rid of that cartoony look that comes with TouchWiz and do all that beautiful hardware some justice by making the phone look and feel like a nexus alright so the first step to next applying the note 5 is to install a theme with material design to do this go to settings find themes and then tap on theme store from here find a theme that's called either material or material design and note that while there are some material themes out there that cost money there is one available for free if you can find it once you've found a material theme click download and when it's done press apply after a few seconds the theme will finish installing and voila the settings and the UI in general now look much much closer to stock Android and way less cartoony so this step alone can make a huge difference but we're not done yet step number two is to install the Google Apps that you'd normally find on a nexus phone so go to the Play Store and download things like Google Calendar Google messenger Google camera Google's clock app and a few other google apps all of which I'll be putting the links to down below in the description after you've installed the Google Apps step number three is to disable both Samsung and any carrier bloatware that may be pre-loaded onto the phone do this by opening up the app drawer hitting edit and then tapping on the little minus icon next to the apps that you don't want so in my case I disabled all the 18 T apps along with some Samsung ones like s voice and milk music disabling these unwanted apps not only makes the phone look cleaner but it can also help the phone run a little smoother as well so you didn't think we're going to stick with a touchwiz launcher did you no way step number four is to install a new launcher you can either get Google's own launcher which I'll link to down below or you can download a third-party launcher like nova launcher that in addition to having this stock look also comes with icon packs to match the icons on Nexus phones either way after downloading your launcher of choice press on the home button and you'll be given an option to choose your default launcher since we're gonna be sticking with the nova launcher we'll tap on nova here which in turn will disable the touchwiz launcher after you've set it as a default launcher open the app drawer and go into nova settings if you bought the paid version first thing i'd recommend doing is going into the apps and widgets option selecting hide apps and then hide any samsung system apps that you downloaded google ones to replace like the camera and calendar i'd also hide any apps that you wanted to delete earlier but couldn't when done with that go to the look and feel option in nova settings tap on icon theme and set it to android lollipop this will change the icons for apps like the dialer to look just like they do on Nexus phones instead of using Samsung's more cartoony icons last thing you need to do to get the launcher looking just right is to set the correct grid in icon sizes and nova settings so go to the desktop option and set the desktop grid to 5 by 4 then set the icon layout to an icon size of 125 percent do the same exact thing under the app and drawers option and the dock option and you be set last but not least the fifth and final step is to get rid of those annoying TouchWiz sounds by going back into the main system settings tapping on sounds and notifications then ringtone and sounds and then switching off both touch sounds and screen lock sounds your sanity will thank you and that's it you've not made your note5 feel like a Nexus took a little bit of work I know and obviously TouchWiz is still running behind the scenes but this is the closest thing you can get to the stock Android experience without having to actually route the phone anyways that is it for me in this video thank you guys for watching in as always I'll see you in the very next episode