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CyanogenMod just made a major leap to becoming more stable on your device I'm Joe Levi for pocket now and this is a look at CyanogenMod 10.1 m before we take a look at the device itself which happens to be a nexus 10 running the latest M version of the software let's talk about what exactly that means CyanogenMod comes out with what they call Knightley's which are well they're available as you'd expect almost nightly they're very experimental they have all the commits from the previous day and they're usually somewhat broken however compared to previous CyanogenMod versions like six and seven CyanogenMod ten points something roms have always been very very stable at least in my experience on the race to a stable version of the ROM the team usually releases a couple release candidates these release candidates are relatively feature complete they're relatively stable they may still have some known bugs but they're ready for primetime and ready for mainstream use usually go through one two maybe even three of these before they finally release a stable version of the ROM recently CyanogenMod started introducing an M version of their ROM or a monthly a monthly is kind of like a nightly released every month except it's more feature complete and it's more milestone based than just nightly Tsar it should also be a bit more stable that having been said it's also clearly labeled as experimental and kind of use at your own risk like the nightly Tsar what's inside the latest monthly build of CyanogenMod 10.1 let's take a look at that right now this is CyanogenMod 10.1 monthly running on my Nexus 10 let's go ahead and take a look over here in settings at about and I'll show you what I'm talking about it is running Android 4.2.1 and this is right down here the 10.1 2013 January 21st experiment m-1 build that's how you can tell if it's a monthly versus a nightly a monthly is going to have the m1 next month presumably we'd have an m2 and so on until we finally get some release candidates and then a stable build so let's take a look at what's included first of all while we're in about tablet CyanogenMod statistics this is not uncommon you've probably seen this before it's how the CyanogenMod team gathers and collects information about errors and whatnot so that they can go through and correct things without you having to submit a bug report when there is a bug found and fixed they will roll that out into a new version and that you can apply over here in CyanogenMod updates this is relatively new to 10.1 you don't need rom manager anymore to download and install custom roms this will even update you when there's a new version available and you can select what kind of update type you want whether that's all versions stable only all versions including nightly or just new versions so very quick very easy it uses clockworkmod recovery and some other compatible rums recovery roms rather to apply these different versions that you download and install and it's really quick and easy you can tell which version you're running by the little Sid guy over here waving at you if you have one that you've downloaded you'll have a little downloaded icon and if there's one yet for you you'll have a download icon over on the side since these are monthlies we just have the one let's dig into some more of the settings and see what we have we do have the performance tab which you have to go through and do your multi tap we showed you how to do that in a previous video to show the developer options once that's done you'll have this performance option a little disclaimer and then we can come in here and look at our processor stuff you can change your governor to one of these three it defaults to interactive we talked about governor's in the previous episode but you notice down here we cannot change our minimum and maximum speed so we can't go in and overclock at least not yet so that's one thing that isn't yet wired up in this particular version of the build we also have memory management to allow purging of assets I turned that on to speed things up a little bit 16-bit transparency if you want to crease your colors so you can get more performance with the Nexus 10 I haven't needed that and over here we have surface improvement which I've gone ahead and turned up to fix color banding and blur effect versus the default which is just to fix color banding looks a little bit nicer in my personal opinion moving up a little bit we have profiles that you can set these are profiles for lack of a better word they're groups of settings that you can apply to different areas home at night silent work car the game church whatever the case may be you can come in and change the settings to turn on and off mobile data turn on and off Wi-Fi turn your volume up down or off entirely very nice and you can write those to an NFC tag so you can just tap your device to the NFC tag to toggle between those very quick very easy you can also then come back into settings and use profiles in there or use your power button to go through and switch your profile to something else fast easy I like it let's see what else we've got in here of course we've got themes I don't have any extras installed on here it comes with just a couple if we wanted to we can change from default over here to this nice green one we'll apply that and yes I want to apply anyway just saying that they're from some assets that aren't available for my particular screen resolution I've never had a problem with that message coming up ever it always just works you can see now that my icons on the top my coloring is now green and I have these super cool I don't know skittles colors over here for my icon so it just makes things a little bit more fresher a little bit more bright and vibrant and of course you can download these themes from the Android Play Store download them install them some are free some cost money play around see what you like let's go back over here into settings again and once we are in settings we just looked at themes let's look at system in system we can change the status bar and I don't have time in this video to go into each one of these but I want to highlight what you can do you can change stuff in the status bar you can change stuff in your quick settings panel that's that guy right over there you can change your notifications drawer your our menu even your clock widget so you can change all kinds of cool stuff in there a notification bar and the notification light if you want that on/off or customized to some specific value really cool there you can customize your lock screen of course and then this is if you are using the trebuchet launcher which comes stock in all CyanogenMod builds or official CyanogenMod builds you can come in and change all of this stuff that's an entirely different video I love trebuchet it's super fast not terribly customizable as far as what you can do you've got some cool rotation stuff and transitions that you can do you can see how I've got that one set to kind of rotate and tumble in and out so really fun I don't like that and you know trebuchet just does everything that I need it to and it's wonderful if you want a third-party launcher go ahead and throw a nova launcher on there or one of the others that we've shown you in our launcher war series they're great but that's a quick look at what we've got in signage in mod 10.1 M the M stands for monthly if you have questions or comments head over to pocketnow.com and you can ask us those in the comments over there if you liked what you saw here make sure you give the video a thumbs up or tell your friends about it on Facebook or Twitter for PocketNow showing off CyanogenMod 10.1 I'm Joe Levi thanks for watching