If you’re trying this on a Galaxy Nexus or Nexus 4 (both of them have on-screen buttons), you can even add extra buttons to the navigation bar. You can do stuff like tweaking your display for better colours (I actually tweaked mine for better visibility in sunlight). Customization and attention to detailĬustomization is something you’d definitely expect from a custom ROM and CM fulfils the need for me.
On the other hand, battery life is more or less the same as 4.2. In performance, CM is marginally better, you’ll still see frame drops here and there, but definitely better than 4.2. Now that I’m using CM since 3-4 days, I guess I can comment on both of these. Battery life on my Galaxy Nexus was pretty good, though. No one knew what happened to all that Project Butter goodness. There was a serious outrage among especially Galaxy Nexus users in Google Code forums. Jellybean 4.2 was definitely a step back in performance for Android. It’s a different kind of clock widget – showing weather and calendar events along with time. CM 10.1 also has a Clock widget baked into it. If you use the Lockscreen widgets a lot, you can configure to make them open in expanded state by default. So for example, you could add the Phone app as a shortcut and have it quickly opened. Lock screenĬM 10.1 lets you add custom slider shortcuts. This is much better than Google’s implementation, where you have to pull the status bar with two fingers. The ones in 4.2 weren’t really toggles, the Wi-Fi switch for example, would take you to Wi-Fi settings screen and then you had to enable it.Īnother really cool thing in Quick settings on CM 10.1 is, you can set it to open if you pull down from right of status bar and you would get the notification center if you pull down from left. What this means is that, you can add stuff like GPS, Auto-rotate, Sound, Sync etc. This is where CyanogenMod enters the game and makes it lot more usable.įirstly, in CM 10.1, you can add custom toggles to Quick settings. Quick settings was one of the nicest additions to Android 4.2, though Google really screwed up the implementation. Now, the whole point of this post is not on how CyanogenMod 10.1 brings Vanilla Android experience to many devices, but rather on how it actually is better than Vanilla Android. You just need a rooted Android device which can run custom ROMs! CyanogenMod is one of the most popular ROMs available for Android and it has reached 10.1 lately. But then you don’t need a Nexus actually. It is one of those things which most of the Android users don’t have any idea about, because they haven’t tried a Nexus.
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