Do you ever get a little bit frustrated at the way your phone manufacturer thinks you want to use your phone?
Some carriers charge a premium for tethering (using your phone as a modem for a PC) or have annoying built in programs that you have to use, or counter-intuitive menus.
And why is there no option to reboot?
Cyanogenmod is basically an alternative to the stock operating system that you received with your phone. It is based on the Android OS, but has been improved with the things that users have demanded.
Some of the coolest things:
Tethering - use your massive data plan to run your home internet.
Phone goggles - program self restraint into your phone! No messages can be sent to your ex after beer o'clock.
Gesture lock screen - instead of neatly drawing a shape onto the nine dots on the lock screen, you can unlock your phone with any shape you like, drawn onto a blank slate.
Status bar - completely customise how your status bar looks.
Reboot - You can choose to reboot your phone instead of having to turn it off, wait, turn it back on.
Your phone company and the manufacturers don't want you to use this.
If you do, you will have no warranty and get no support from your carrier with any software glitches. Please do your research before deciding whether this would be right for you.
http://www.cyanogenmod.com/
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