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hey guys it's Brandon mini-myth from pocket now calm the Samsung Galaxy Note is an awesome phone it's got that huge screen it's got a dual-core 1.4 gigahertz Exynos processor and it's got pretty good battery life to boot the problem with the Galaxy Note is that it's running TouchWiz well what if you want stock Ice Cream Sandwich better yet what if you want something better than stock Ice Cream Sandwich like CyanogenMod 9 well it's ready for use in this video I'm going to show you CyanogenMod 9 on the samsung galaxy note let's get to it so this is still technically an alpha but every bug that I found in previous versions of CyanogenMod 900 for the Galaxy Note have been worked out so this is good enough plenty fast enough to use as your daily driver and you get all of the cool stuff of Ice Cream Sandwich that look in the field of raw Android plus a lot of really cool enhancements provided by CyanogenMod 9 so let's talk about what we have here this is the stock Ice Cream Sandwich experience we're gonna dump into the settings in a second just want to show you that this is indeed the look and feel of Ice Cream Sandwich as Google intended it and there's actually a really cool piece of functionality with the stylus of course we don't get all of the S Pen applications but you can still use the stylus and interestingly if you can see that let me zoom in a little bit on the screen the pointer a pointer actually shows up on the screen even if you're not touching the screen I'm not touching the screen right now so you can still use the stylus to move around it's kind of a novelty at this point you can download some handwriting applications and it will work and you get the mouse pointer but all in all the functionality is pretty much gone because you don't have the s-pen widgets and so forth anyway let's go into the settings and take a look at some of the stuff we get with CyanogenMod 9 we get the trebuchet launcher which allows you to do all kinds of fun stuff with the homescreen for example you can set the grid on the home screen or the number of home screens which you can't do stocke Ice Cream Sandwich you can change the grid size so you can really take advantage the Galaxy Notes high-res screen for example if we go back home you'll see that I've got a grid setup so that I can fit a ton by cons whereas stock ice-cream sandwich or on TouchWiz you only can have like 1628 ons whatever it is we'll jump back into settings and by the way here's the stock Ice Cream Sandwich multitask UI and it works just like it does on any other stock Ice Cream Sandwich device so let's go back into the launcher and see what else we can do here tons of settings we can enable the persistent search bar or turn it off if you just don't like the look of that we can resize any widget which is super fun we can scroll wallpaper the list goes on and on on and on we can have a transition effect with the app drawer and finally there are some general settings such as auto rotate screen other things that you can customize typical for CyanogenMod is themes and some system settings we can change for example the status bar up here we can show the clock or not show the clock which is cool we can have the battery status show up I have it kind of low and battery there we can have an icon that just has an icon or we can have it hidden all together if you don't care about battery life and you don't want to be watching it the whole time you can just remove it altogether and if you also don't want to have the the signal up there to show how many bars you have you can take that off but I kind of have that hidden I kind of like to clean and look up there and there are some other things you can do there are also some performance settings down here that is a that has been added with CyanogenMod we can change the CPU speed which is kind of fun so built-in CPU adjuster thing that's probably not the right term so we can change the CPU governor to performance and have it run at fourteen hundred megahertz the whole time this will kill your battery but it's kind of fun to see how fast the phone runs I'm going to put on demand which scales it up and down let's take a look at web browsing performance here in CyanogenMod 9 so we're gonna go into the browser the totally stock Ice Cream Sandwich browser experience let's go over to engadget.com a long web page we get the stock Ice Cream Sandwich keyboard everything stock it's just it's great stock plus a little bit more because you get that CyanogenMod 9 features so we're gonna look at the mobile site really really snappy performance here in the browser even though this is still an alpha this thing flies and it just feels really good in the so we can zoom in text clears up very quickly and you get that beautiful view because the screen is so big on this phone and all other apps work previously the camera didn't work right YouTube didn't work all of these things have been fixed in a latest alpha your phone has to be rooted of course and once you root your phone it's very easy to swap roms on this phone there are some other cool roms out there we'll put up some links to xda-developers where you can go to get this ROM and once you get it it's easy to install again as long as you're rooted and you'll all be off and running with stock ice cream sandwich which feels a lot faster on the samsung galaxy note if you like this video please give us a thumbs up and thanks for watching that's it for now