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hey guys it's brandon minimun front pocket now calm I've recently come across one of the coolest third-party android roms called paranoid android it's fast it's available for a ton of devices and it's got a crazy cool feature that has literally changed the way that i'm using my android phone and in this video i'm going to show you paranoid android running on the HTC One X let's get to it so let me summarize quickly what paranoid android does and I'll show it to you paranoid android allows you to run your phone in tablet mode but not only in tablet mode but you can choose selectively between apps which apps are tablet mode which apps are phone mode and if you have an Android tablet like the Nexus 7 you know that since android 4.0 ice cream sandwich android apps are designed to work in two environments phone and tablet so what you might get on the tablet is different than the phone and the tablet you'll get split views for example you'll get your email inbox on the left and your messages on the right whereas on the phone everything is arranged in one column so you can just really tap the power of high-resolution screens if you've got a big screen like on the Galaxy Note the Galaxy Nexus the galaxy s3 the HTC One X anything with a screen 4.5 inches and above paranoid android makes your screen sing let's take a closer look alright so let's take a look at paranoid android on the One X and this is actually based off of cyanogenmod in this particular case cyanogenmod 10 so yeah I'm running jellybean here and it is super fast plus I get all these awesome features of paranoid android where I can run my phone in phone mode in tablet mode or phablet mode PHA blet that term favet of course so right now I've got it running in purely tablet mode so you'll notice immediately I have no notification try here at the top it's on the bottom like you'll find on most Android tablets the reason that that's awesome on a phone like this where the screen is tall is because typically on a 1x or a galaxy note or Galaxy Nexus reaching up to the top for the notification shade is a huge reach but now it is along the bottom all I've got to do is flick up there's the notification shade and there is you know just like the notification tray at the top you can swipe notifications off the screen and I've also got a lot of quick toggles here just like a tablet so within easy reach I've got this beautiful toggle menu thing in the bottom right corner of the screen now let me show you where all the magic happens I'm going to go into the settings here and what you'll immediately notice is again I'm a tablet mode so i get two different frames one on the right and one of the on the left instead of a single frame window like you get on android phone so that makes a lot more easy to jump around you change the item on the left and it shows up on the right so let's go to the Paranoid Android settings this is really the heart of the ROM and this is where everything comes together if I go to configuration I can choose whether i want to just run in standard phone mode or stock UI run in phablet UI which is the same that you'll get on the Nexus 7 where you get the on-screen buttons on the bottom as well as the notification shade on the top I don't think that's the best use of space on a phone then we've got tablet UI small medium and big right now I'm running small that's why it looks so tiny down here but I loved it on maximizing screen space browsing the web I get all of this screen space it this is actually a lot thinner than the notification that comes stock on an android phone and you can change all of these you can actually add back the on-screen buttons here that would occur in the bottom left corner of the screen which is quite cool now what's super cool is that you can configure whether it's a tented running a tablet mode or phone mode by the app if we go in here it's going to load the app list and let me show you what I mean I'm going to go into the YouTube app and you're going to notice immediately that this is actually this is actually the tablet app from you know from android tablet so we get this beautiful 3d scrolling thing it's super smooth because we're running with project butter here on jelly bean and this is different than the phone UI but let's say we want to get the phone UI just for this YouTube app well go back into settings we'll go to the bottom where it says YouTube and there are several settings you can choose from so I'm going to go to 2.6 pixels I don't really know what a lot of this means but let's go back to the YouTube app and see if it's changed okay crash that's actually kind of common but if we relaunch there we go now we're in the phone UI pretty cool right and we can do that for every single app we can do it for calendar we can do it for the web the web actually looks super cool because what happens is when you go into tablet mode tabs appear at the top kind of like Google Chrome so if we go into it like this check it out tabs are are at the top and if we go into the settings let's say we don't want the tabs at the top just for this app we go to browser here's a browser and we go over here we change the layout to the sort of smaller screen layout will go into the browser it might crash or maybe not who knows it didn't crash and now the web address bar is at the top furthermore there are DPI settings so let's say you kind of like no tabs at the top but you want to make this bigger watch what I can do go into settings this is just tons of fun for an Android power user I'm going to jack up the DPI save it go back into the browser and boom we've got a taller address bar so you can just spend all day long customizing every app to have the optimum feel the reason that this is awesome is because an Android some apps are highly functional on a tablet and in some cases they're just more usable on a phone so you can mix and match to your heart's content you can change PPI settings to get more icons on the screen less icons on the screen and again sits at cyanogenmod based you get all of the post cyanogenmod features so if we go over back in the settings here are all the launcher settings for trebuchet we get some really cool system settings for example you can actually customize on this particular device the action of these keys so right now I've got this set as the multitask you I a tap and hold will bring up the system menu and you can actually customize the other buttons to do whatever you want which is super cold and check this out I can actually turn on on-screen software buttons and it's going to relaunch and see look at this on the bottom of the screen although it's tiny it's pretty darn cool you can add back these buttons you can actually run a piece of software that will disable this capacity buttons so you're just using the on-screen buttons as if there was an actual android tablet so really cool stuff here if you if you've got a phone with a large screen i highly recommend you check out paranoid android i think it's a power lover's dream to be able to go into every app and change how it looks on your phone so you can take advantage of that huge 12 1280 by 720 resolution I've been having a lot of fun with it so I know if you like this video please give us a thumbs up we'll put some links in the description to get paranoid android jelly bean style for some of those bigger screen phones out there in case you want to try on your phone thanks for watching and that's it for now you