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hey guys it's Joe with pocketnow.com yesterday we showed you a video on how you can go through and unlock root and super user your Nexus 4 we did that for a reason because today we're gonna show off CyanogenMod 10.1 running on the Nexus 4 let's go take a look so here we've gotten the Google Nexus 4 of course made by LG if you missed our full review I will have a link to that at the end of this video you don't want to miss that if you missed our video on how to root and unlock and install supersu you'll want to make sure you watch that video too I'll have a link to it at the end of this one as well it's kind of a prerequisite to this video so this video what is this this is CyanogenMod 10.1 so go ahead and if I can pull down my notification shade here take a look at this in the settings about phone got my CyanogenMod updates and statistics yada yada yada version 4.2.1 and you can see that this is 10 2012 12:03 nightly so this is the December 3rd nightly rather than the December 4th I think there were some problems with the download of that version so we're definitely running CyanogenMod 10.1 the point one just means that this is android 4.2.1 got it ok good deal so now that we have this 10.1 it is a nightly Knightley's our experimental they are not stable there are things that are not implemented there are things that are broken so keep that in mind generally speaking CyanogenMod roms are fast sometimes they're faster than normal roms we went ahead and ran some benchmarks let me pull that up I took some screenshots for you and in Geekbench scored 1823 just a smidgen slower than running the stock rom take a look over here at quadrant I can't read it from that angle 42 69 which again is a little it's slower than the stock rum for a nightly version of CyanogenMod that's not to be unexpected it's gonna get faster it's going to get better and the drop in speed between what we had seen and what CyanogenMod 10 is really is negligible and you're not going to feel it in everyday practical use I mean it's still very very fast so what are some things that you can expect with CyanogenMod first of all notice I have gone ahead and modified my dock down here my hot seat as it were and I've added a couple extra spaces for icons so now I can have seven or more icons down there it's great it's customizable that's what we like next we've got our power widget which I love this thing is great it lets you do all kinds of stuff right there in the power widget this of course is running the trebuchet launcher so let's jump right into that we'll go into settings first of all we've still got the stock Android jelly bean 4.2 quick settings up here the quick toggle screen not the one from previous versions of CyanogenMod at least not yet they're probably going to extend what they have here rather than go back in and and reinvent the wheel with theirs but that's just a guess on my side so we have this new section called launcher and if I can tap it instead of going into Google now I'll be helpful in here we can modify stuff on our home screen change our grid size the number of home screens I've changed from the default of 5 to 3 because that's all I use and that helps speed up my device I can set the default screen I want to change that to 2 because that's the middle one I can change my vertical padding horizontal padding do I want a persistent search bar yes or no I like it if you don't take it off you can do that it's awesome you can resize any widget including widgets that are kind of old and don't know how to be resized now you can because the launcher knows how to do that for you if you know what things are based on their icon and you don't need their label you can hide their icon label it's super awesome this is stuff you have seen before wallpaper stuff yada-yada-yada I show page indicator fade it dock divider all that fun stuff drawer say basic stuff doc this is what I was telling you how many doc I can so I could have let's go back to five go from there and general we can Auto rotate the screen to whatever orientation we're in I like that feature so let's go ahead and do it and this of course is trebuchet zero point two moving down in here theme ability one of the major most awesome cool things that you can do with cyanogen mod is theme it it comes pre-installed with one theme the stock theme so there you go if you want to add more you can add more you've got buttons up here to be able to quick launch into that you can grab stuff from the Play Store make it look all kinds of cool coming into system can change the status bar up here I have shown the am/pm over on my clock as a small I've got some other options in their normal and none none being the default battery status style percentage I believe icon is the default you can put a percentage in there a circle circle with percentage which is what I've done right there or you can just hide it if you don't really care or if you've got a widget on your home screen telling you what it is go ahead and hide it so we'll leave it where it is the signal strength style there's an icon for me this is for at your phone you can make that text or hidden if you want notification counts really cool if you have notifications up here how many Gmail's how many missed calls whatever it will show you how many there are so you don't have to go into the app or pull down the notification shade to see really kind of a quick easy way to find out hey you've missed 10 calls might be important power menu when you hit the power button you can do all kinds of stuff show the reboot menu take a screenshot so you don't have to hit volume down and power at the same time expand a desktop I haven't played with that one yet if you want to tell us what it is go over to pocketnow.com and leave us a comment just a brief description of what the expanded desktop is and how you use it profile switcher now this is not multi-user profiles this is I'm at home I'm at work I'm in the car you can pre configure profiles and use NFC to toggle between them and you can get to that hitting the power button if you don't want to go to an NFC solution you can switch it into airplane mode quickly that way and go into the sound panel as well lots of cool stuff notification light I'll breeze over this the notification light down here is not that big but it is very convenient and with CyanogenMod 10.1 you can customize it so I have turned about my customized values it will blink blue for missed call it will blink white for voicemail it will blink green for email coming through the email app or red coming through the Gmail app and orange if I get a message through Google Talk so let's go ahead and see how this works you tap on it you can select what family of colors you want and then whichever color you want in here you can change the speed of the flash I like normal just because it looks better to me and you can even test it so let's go ahead and test that will bring up this dialog you turn off your screen and you notice down here now you've got this really cool blinky light it doesn't blink faster and as far as how many times per minute it blinks that setting on speed is how many times or how fast you want the light to light up and go away now that was kind of interesting you saw it was red and I clearly have it selected as orange in here I don't know why that's the case probably because this isn't Knightly and they are still working on things but again still red but before I put this on camera it was working and so your mileage may vary okay go ahead and try it I like it I think it's awesome moving right along let's get in there's so much stuff in this a lot of stuff you have already seen here we've gone through all a system profiles this is where you set up and configure your profiles if you don't want to use them to turn it off if you do want to use them here some pre-configured ones you can change your settings on each one of those over there you can also go in and set up your your NFC somewhere in all of this come back here and getting close to the bottom now developer options and performance are both hidden so you have to use the the multi-tap on your build number you tap that 10 times it says hey now you're a developer great once you do that both of these will show up in developer options I haven't seen much different there but you do now have this performance performance is just like you'd expect you've got proceed with caution warnings processor you can set it to the maximum speed 1512 as the maximum and the minimum speed I want that to be down here at 384 for some reason that didn't stick even though I told it to set at boot I like it to run as slow as it can when I don't need it to do anything to save on battery life like I said it didn't stick I don't know why again it's a nightly maybe that's the explanation you can also change the governor in there I'll schedule ER I've never done anything with that memory management Z Ram and allow purging of assets this essentially compresses your RAM it takes more processing power to do but you have more effective Ram that you can use so it's like you know instead of 2 gig now you've got 2.5 but it takes a little bit more time to get into it if you use a lot of RAM intensive apps that's a good thing to do test it and see if it works all of the benchmarks that I did were without doing any customizations to these so it was stock and then allow purging of assets you can just you know let the OS kick stuff out when they're not needed anymore free up some of that ram 16-bit transparency if you want to lose a little bit of quality in your transparent images and whatnot you can toggle that get some extra speed I don't like the way it looks so I leave it off and surface improvement the default is to fix color banding I've turned that to fixed color man perfect again after I did the the change or I'm sorry I did this after I did the the benchmark so the benchmarks are with the defaults so that essentially is it there's probably other stuff hidden in here that I haven't shown you but we can only cover so much in a video there is one very important thing that I need to mention and that is if you are going to be running CyanogenMod 10 my preferred way to flash this is using clockwork my set right using ROM manager and ClockworkMod Recovery together unfortunately the Google Apps the gaps package that you download with CyanogenMod ten nightly is version 4.1 and it will break that's kind of why it took us an extra day to get this video out it will break you will be in a boot loop it will cause all kinds of headaches Wow I've got a link over at pocketnow.com I'll have a link to the article where you can find that link where you can get a 4.2 Google Apps package that will actually work and as you can see here it's working just fine so make sure you head over to pocketnow.com so you can get that CyanogenMod 10.1 nightly I love CyanogenMod I love having it on my Nexus device even though it is a Nexus device because well that's what Nexus devices are really meant to do to let you do all kinds of customization I love it if you liked it let us know if you don't like it let us know if you've got another ROM that you're running on your Nexus 4 I want to know about that head to pocketnow.com and leave that comment down below so I can go and take a look at it and maybe even do a video about it for PocketNow showing off cm 10.1 on the Nexus 4 I'm Joe Levi thanks for watching