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one of the things people like about device is powered by the Android operating system is the ability to route them and run custom roms I'm Joe Levi for Pocket now this is a look at CyanogenMod 11 for the nexus 5 this is my Nexus 5 and until I undertook this project to move over to CyanogenMod I've been running stock and I've been really happy with the stock version of Android that comes with the device it's been really good to me however I am a custom ROM err and I love CyanogenMod so I went ahead and loaded up the milestone 1 release of CyanogenMod 11 and had all kinds of problems with it however the December 9th and December 10th Knightley's haven't had any problems to speak up so far these are still Knightley's it's unstable you're gonna run into some issues some bugs and whatnot app crashes overall not a problem however the m1 all kinds of problems at least for me so let's go ahead and take a look around the first thing you are going to get when you fire up your device in the morning is your launcher and this is the regular Google Experience launcher as you can see here we can even say ok Google is it going to snow today I've got my sound turned off so it's not going to speak to us but it would it works great it does everything that it's supposed to absolutely love it another thing that you're going to notice is when you turn the power on and you have this lock you now have the ability to quick unlock into various different activities or just do a straight unlock you also have that ability now with the Google launcher you've kind of had that in the past with CyanogenMod roms so you can add shortcuts here to either side though I haven't set them up yet so let's go ahead and take a look in the settings and see what we have first of all here is our toggles you can see it quite a bit more information here if we switch over to the other side you can see I've also got those quick toggles across the top here this is an option that I did turn on we'll walk through really quickly kind of where to see that this also mirrors these so you don't have to maintain them in two different places really really kind of nice and kind of does away with the need for your toggles because you can quick toggle to them anyway moving into settings let's start off first and foremost with home you can select either a launcher which is what I've selected or launcher three which we're not going to go into much in this video next is the lock screen where you can go in and set your slider shortcuts if you don't like what comes prepackaged you can set your own you can set up your widgets for C lock your clock and alarm weather panel your calendar events and whatnot set those up you can maximize your widgets or go in and allow multiple widget pages to be added and selected to your lock screen so a lot of the stuff that we've seen before themes now making an entry into CyanogenMod 11 and KitKat this is stuff that we've been used to since what back in CyanogenMod 9 maybe even before with the the t-mobile theme er that they open sourced and built into CyanogenMod I don't have any other themes to show you here but it works just exactly the same select which one you want apply and then you can get all of your different colors and whatnot your themes it's beautiful it does what it's supposed to do it's great moving on into interface we can change stuff in the status bar I've chosen up here that I want my battery style to be a circle with a percent the default is just circle this looks very empty I suspect they're going to fill it up with the other stuff from previous versions of CyanogenMod we'll see that as it progresses quick pull down all this other stuff Auto close just let you look through here and see what you can get in the quick settings panel notification drawers kind of the same thing Auto close behavior expanded desktop which I have turned off buttons and layout so you can change the buttons down at the bottom or the order of them if you want and quick launch shortcuts and this is what I was talking about so you can add a a quick launch for for that one we'll just do torch because it's quick and then we can turn our flashlight on just that simple okay let's move on to the next one buttons we can change the way that the buttons behave menu we can make it show the reboot menu screenshots a whole bunch of other stuff right there it's very nice of course I don't have expanded desktop enabled so it's not going to show us that playback control with a long press of the volume button we can essentially just move through the tracks that are playing so very nice we don't even have to turn on the device or turn on the screen to control music reorient the volume buttons don't you hate it when you tip your phone and now the volume slider and the volume buttons are opposite of one another well CyanogenMod ah so - and now you can reorient those that's what I've done so it more closely matches what it should be that again is to carry over from previous versions as well profiles also from previous versions of CyanogenMod lets you go in and set up default rules for default locations so home work train car whatever you want to do you can even set up a custom one Church if you will that will turn on and off various things you can have it turn on Bluetooth turn off Bluetooth leave whatever the status is alone all kinds of cool stuff that you can do in there and you can even assign an NFC tag to do that quick toggle which is something that we've shown you here at pocket now in the past you do have a new account it's a CyanogenMod account this is what you use to send all of your metrics and your user statistics over if you've opted into that stuff you do have to sign in or sign up for that or skip through it when you set up your device the first time which if you're familiar with CyanogenMod 10.2 some of the later versions incorporated that changes as well I've already gone in and tapped on this to be a developer so I'll show you the the developer options in the performance stuff in just a minute this is Android 4.4.1 even though 4.4.2 was just released yesterday or today depending on when you're watching this video of course it may have been a little while ago but we should see an update to 4.4.2 somewhat soon if you want to get updates here's that updates panel just like we've seen before and then here's your statistics that are tied back into your CyanogenMod account so let's go into developer options most of the stuff here is pretty much what you'll see with regular versions of Android the the performance however is where you can go in and do all kinds of fun stuff like change your CPU governor I like to do on-demand and you can set your minimum and maximum frequencies though for some reason doesn't seem to be restoring those settings on boot or at least not restoring this interface at boot so every time I come back in it goes back to whatever it was before though I think it still respects that minimum threshold just a little torque that we've seen in previous versions of CyanogenMod that they'll need to work on as they progress io scheduler and I leave this alone defaults to see if queue and memory management which I turn on there's not all of the other memory management options in here like previous versions of CyanogenMod at least not yet we'll probably see more as the the ROM progresses but turn that on reboot to allow purging of assets and then if you want to to drop down your screen resolution transparency a bit you can speed it up at the cost of some graphic quality by by selecting that as you can see not all the features that you're used to in that signage in my ten point X roms have made it over into the CyanogenMod 11 ROM that's okay it's still very very early we just passed milestone 1 there adding in features and making them work with the new KitKat infrastructure if you liked what you saw here why not throw the video a thumbs up and of course make sure you subscribed if you have not done so already doing so keeps you up to date with all that's new and happening in the world of mobile technology while you're at it why don't you share this video with your friends on your favorite social media networks my favorite is Twitter where we are at Puckett now and I am at Joe Levi thank you very much for watching we'll catch you next time