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- What's up guys, David here.
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All right, let's get to getting rid of that cartoony look
that comes with TouchWiz and do all that beautiful hardware
some justice by making the phone look and feel
like a Nexus.
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The first step to Nexifying the Note 5, is to install
a theme with material design.
To do this, go to Settings, find Themes,
and then tap on Theme Store.
From here, find a theme that's called either Material
or Material Design and note that,
while there are some material themes out there
that cost money, there is one available for free
if you can find it.
Once you've found a material theme, click Download,
and when it's done, press Apply.
After a few seconds, the theme will finish installing
and voila, the settings and the UI in general
now look much, much closer to stock Android
and way less cartoony.
This step alone can make a huge difference.
But, we're not done yet.
Step number two is to install the Google apps
that you'd normally find on a Nexus phone.
Go to the Play Store and download things like
Google Calendar, Google Messenger, Google Camera,
Google's Clock app, and a few other Google apps,
all of which I'll be putting the links
to download below in the description.
After you've installed the Google apps,
step number three is to disable
both Samsung and any carrier bloatware
that may be preloaded onto the phone.
Do this by opening up the app drawer, hitting Edit,
and then tapping on the little minus icon
next to the app that you don't want.
In my case, I disabled all the AT&T apps
along with some Samsung ones like S Voice and Milk Music.
Disabling these unwanted apps not only makes the phone
look cleaner, but it can also help the phone
run a little smoother as well.
You didn't think we were going to stick with
the TouchWiz Launcher, did you?
No way.
Step number four is to install a new launcher.
You can either get Google's own launcher,
which I'll link to down below,
or you can download a third party launcher,
like Nova Launcher that, in addition to having
this stock look, also comes with icon packs
to match the icons on Nexus phones.
Either way, after downloading your launcher of choice,
press on the Home button, and you'll be given a option
to choose your default launcher.
Since we're gonna be sticking with the Nova Launcher,
we'll tap on Nova here, which, in turn,
will disable the TouchWiz Launcher.
After you've set it as the default launcher,
open the app drawer and go into Nova settings.
If you bought the paid version,
first thing I'd recommend doing
is going into the Apps and Widgets option,
selecting Hide apps, and then hide any Samsung system apps
that you downloaded Google ones to replace,
like the camera and calendar.
I'd also hide any apps
that you wanted to delete earlier but couldn't.
When done with that, go to the Look and feel option
in Nova settings, tap on Icon Theme,
and set it to Android Lollipop.
This will change the icons for apps like the dialer
to look just like they do on Nexus phones
instead of using Samsung's more cartoony icons.
Last thing you need to do to get the launcher
looking just right
is to set the correct grid and icon sizes in Nova Settings.
Go to the Desktop option, and set the Desktop grid to
five by four, then set the Icon layout
to an icon size of 125%.
Do the same exact thing under the App and drawers option
and the Dock option, and you'll be set.
Last but not least, the fifth and final step
is to get rid of those annoying TouchWiz sounds
by going back into the main system setting,
tapping on Sounds and notifications,
then Ringtone and sounds, and then switching off
both Touch sounds and Screen lock sounds.
Your sanity will thank you.
That's it, you've now made your Note 5 feel like a Nexus.
Took a little but of work, I know,
and obviously, TouchWiz is still running behind the scenes,
but this is the closest thing you can get
to the stock Android experience
without actually having to root the phone.
Anyways, that is it for me in this video,
Thank you guys for watching, and, as always,
I'll see you in the very next episode.