I'll have my new Mi Mix tomorrow. What are some of/all of the things I should do to make it the best it can be? At the very least, what are some of the big things I should do right away?
Bootloader Unlocking
OEM Unlocking
Update OS to 7.?.? or Oreo if possible? How?
Root - Anyone know what the best method is, maybe provide a link, I'm a noob.
Flash ROM - What's the best ROM out there? One that doesn't cripple the phone in anyway, what are the benefits of it?
Pixel/Pixel 2 Camera App, is that included in any ROMs? Is there a way to install it only?
Is there any other way to make the camera better?
Is sticking with stock worth it or just to unbearable?
Did I miss anything? Any links you can provide would be greatly appreciated! I get so overwhelmed looking through these forums I wind up giving up. I really want to make this phone the best it can be!
Thanks in Advance!
P.S. If you and recommendations for cases or screen protectors, that would be cool too!
benodiktine said:
I'll have my new Mi Mix tomorrow. What are some of/all of the things I should do to make it the best it can be? At the very least, what are some of the big things I should do right away?
Bootloader Unlocking
OEM Unlocking
Update OS to 7.?.? or Oreo if possible? How?
Root - Anyone know what the best method is, maybe provide a link, I'm a noob.
Flash ROM - What's the best ROM out there? One that doesn't cripple the phone in anyway, what are the benefits of it?
Pixel/Pixel 2 Camera App, is that included in any ROMs? Is there a way to install it only?
Is there any other way to make the camera better?
Is sticking with stock worth it or just to unbearable?
Did I miss anything? Any links you can provide would be greatly appreciated! I get so overwhelmed looking through these forums I wind up giving up. I really want to make this phone the best it can be!
Thanks in Advance!
P.S. If you and recommendations for cases or screen protectors, that would be cool too!
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Go to the guide section it's all there, as for Oreo, were still waiting.
My best advice is give miui a chance I love it make a miui forum acct and get themes I've always been the root and custom rom guy but I love this phone as is with themes of course
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My best advice is give miui a chance I love it make a miui forum acct and get themes I've always been the root and custom rom guy but I love this phone as is with themes of course
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+1 for that. Some call miui is laggy etc, which is bullshît. I was always choosing miui even on non-mi devices. Theme engine of miui: A fk'n cool stuff ever built in my eyes. Easy to set and customizable ?
Yet, I tried many of Los/Aosp based roms on Mix, always went back to miui, Epic rom actually.
Thanks for all the replies! I got the phone a day early and holy crap is this thing gorgeous!
Anyway, @Kalisfura1001, I took a brief look at the guides and boy there's a lot of modifications, tweaks, etc... Surely standard for any phone on these forums but still a bit overwhelming for me. I'll dig deeper once I'm more settled in with the phone. Thanks.
@gtshiftin6, @james1089, I'm happy to hear that you really enjoy using MIUI. Some questions for you if you would be so kind:
Is there an MIUI beta update out there with Nougat and is it worth it? Or are you just using the latest MIUI provided by OTA updates?
What tweaks or App installs have you done. if any, to help out with the poor performance of the camera?
Are there any tweaks in the settings that you would recommend turning on/off?
That's all I can think of at the moment. If you guys think of anything else that new owner may not be aware of please share!
Thanks
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just purchased a sprint htc hero im wondering what are the advantages or disadvantages on changing the roms and can someone help me in chosing and installing a new rom
Themes. Tethering. Improve battery life and signal. Improve overall speed. New 2.1 features. And VARIETY! Just to name a few...
The advantages are many...it's fun to see what other people come up with, exciting to find new features, cool to check out many different awesome themes....
Disavantages....on occasion you have to wipe going from one rom to the next (but that can be fun too)
.....what ROM to choose, that is going to be up to you and what you like in a ROM....from all the ones you test out on your HERO!!!!
Do some reading and ROM searches my friend, you'll be surprised at all the good stuff you find
And all the info you'll need is at the top of the forum.
Here -http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=618874
And here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=618867
No one can help you chose a rom, it's a personal choice and frankly there are so many to chose from you'll get at least 5 different answers from 10 people.
The advantages are you will get much better performance out of your device and unlock potential that the average person would never know exists. Sprint bogs the thing down with so much crap you would be AMAZED at how much better it will operate when it's all cleaned up Also you can do things like wifi tether (true) and enable the built in light saber (false)
The disadvantage is learning about this stuff and doing it for yourself is so fascinating and fun if you're not careful it will quickly take over every aspect of your life (true)
There are plenty of guides from getting started for total noobs to things like compiling kernel from source code. Check out the guides wiki at the top of the forum, it' one of the stickies. First thing you will do is "root" and backup your phone, then you're pretty much good to do whatever you want and as long as you don't flash a GSM rom on your CDMA hero anything you do after you make a nandroid backup is reversible.
Welcome to xda, have fun!
*edit- LOL, there's a few of us up late tonight I see!
I finally decided to use custom ROM because I got sick of waiting for Sprint to release 2.1 update. There is all sorts of software out now that just runs on 2.1, Google Navigate was the big one for me.
Since I upgraded, there has been other things, speed, the ability to install a virtually unlimited set of apps, live wallpapers, swype keyboard, these are the big things i Like. Edit: Oh and wifi tethering is huge!!
There are some problems right now, you cant have everything at once. and it will take some time playing around to get what works best for you.
One other thing to consider is that when Sprint rolls out the 2.1 update over the air, you may lose the ability to root your phone. You can root now, and when the update comes out, someone here will make a rom from it and that way you will guarantee the ability to have root and still have latest stock sprint/htc software.
nebenezer said:
The disadvantage is learning about this stuff and doing it for yourself is so fascinating and fun if you're not careful it will quickly take over every aspect of your life (true)
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Haha very true Sometimes i think to myself; xda is a drug.
Some more stuff you can read:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4258574&postcount=1
and this to save yourself from flaming
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6271277&postcount=1
jcruz13 said:
just purchased a sprint htc hero im wondering what are the advantages or disadvantages on changing the roms and can someone help me in chosing and installing a new rom
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This is a good step by step guide I used to root my phone. Also A good rom with everything working is fresh 2.0d without overclock but with the updates. You'll get live wallpapers wait just read what he wrote
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This is a good step by step guide I used to root my phone. Also A good rom with everything working is fresh 2.0d without overclock but with the updates. You'll get live wallpapers wait just read what he wrote
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themed regaw for me
thatguythatdid said:
This is a good step by step guide I used to root my phone. Also A good rom with everything working is fresh 2.0d without overclock but with the updates. You'll get live wallpapers wait just read what he wrote
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Agreed, there are several methods to rooting but you cant go wrong doing it the old fashioned way. You get some great exposure to the inside of your phone and TTG wrote a very good guide. Just follow the steps.
Also in that guide he has a link to the 1.5.2 recovery image, thats a little outdated, you want RA's 1.6.2 found HERE, scroll about 2/3 down the page and choose one of the 4, doesn't matter which, the only difference in them is cosmetic.
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Also you can do things like wifi tether (true) and enable the built in light saber (false)
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Just because you haven't found it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Ask me some time about my impromptu circumcision and why I always disable the menu-menu-to-unlock feature.
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Just because you haven't found it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Ask me some time about my impromptu circumcision and why I always disable the menu-menu-to-unlock feature.
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Damn, light saber app killed the Aardvark huh? I never thought anyone would get hurt when I wrote that app....sorry.
Hello XDA,
It's been a while since I've gone through the whole process of finding a good rom. I'm running Gingerbread still, a variant of DarkyRom_3.4.1 currently. Flash works great. Probably going to miss that. But it's getting slow. I need a reinstall.
Plus, cracked my screen. Bezel edges and corners are also torn up. Paid $140 for new screen and replacement rear back/bezel/case http://www.ebay.com/itm/281265794618?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
So, anybody spend time testing ROMs in the last month? What's new, stable, and clean? I've skimmed the rom list, but nothing beats interactive testing. For looks, I want AOSP but can't decide if I want TW with Apex or Nova, or CM 10.1 like SuperNexus. Trying for speed, fluidity, no bloat.
What have people settled on lately? Opinions are all I ask
How horrible is Flash compatibility now? I tried flash on a Nexus 4 on latest (4.4.2?) and it wouldn't play firstrowsports.eu or projectfree.tv so that's kind of a bummer...
Any suggestions would be great! Don't want to spend a full week testing roms and rewiping my phone..I don't have a second to use while I play with my Note, and I'm kinda busy with work lately to wipe my phone over and over.
Another question while I'm at it... Is a nandroid backup taken with my outdated CWM going to restore OK after I upgrade? Thinking I'll be ok.
Thanks :good:
If you are too lazy to test yourself then stay on stock rom.
Why should other members do the work for you and write here - which is simply a best rom thread and so against XDA rules (reading them might help you).
And: many members who cooked or developed roms spent a lot of time doing this and making good threads, tutorials and instructions. So please use these and pay a little respect to them by doing so.
ThaiDai said:
If you are too lazy to test yourself then stay on stock rom.
Why should other members do the work for you and write here - which is simply a best rom thread and so against XDA rules (reading them might help you).
And: many members who cooked or developed roms spent a lot of time doing this and making good threads, tutorials and instructions. So please use these and pay a little respect to them by doing so.
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Thanks for taking the time to tell me I'm lazy. I work hard, thank you very much.
Why should other members "do the work for me"? Well, without trying to justify anything, I've answered questions for other people, simply out of the kindness of my being, just because I know the answer. Last time I put in the effort of testing rom after rom, I shared my knowledge. I'm sure there's other people out there like me. I mean, with your methodology, we should all be told to go Google it...which is akin to telling someone to go shove it.
If you've put in the effort of trying roms, and you have the time to leave me a helpful response, and you don't consider it "working for me", I'd appreciate it.
At the moment im on c-rom kitkat its pretty fast and have alot of options. Its not touchwiz . Everyone has their own likings so flash one if you dont like flash another. End of story. I did what you did before asking for best roms and at the end i pick a rom no one mention in the thread in my own phone
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I've been using the OmniROM variants lately and found them to be slightly faster than TW-based ones. Right now I'm on Asylum OmniROM Naughties 4.4.2 and it's been pretty stable and zippy so far. Battery life is same as with TW. Not sure about Flash compatibility as I don't use it. As for nandroid backups, I recently read that you need to restore using the same kernel/recovery as you used when you made the backup. Not sure if that's true or not, but something to keep in mind if you're jumping from ROM to ROM.
AryaMod 5.5 is the best rom right now and has Flash support enabled by default. Every JB (or even KITKAT) version can handle Flash if you sideload Flash Player apk and a compatible Browser (Like Firefox). The stock, Samsung browser have Flash support enabled without any hack.
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AryaMod 5.5 is the best rom right now and has Flash support enabled by default. Every JB (or even KITKAT) version can handle Flash if you sideload Flash Player apk and a compatible Browser (Like Firefox). The stock, Samsung browser have Flash support enabled without any hack.
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Thanks for your reply, as well as the others. I'll be giving AryaMod a go.
I [and many others] really wish samsung would publish the hardware composer and other needed source for AOSP builds....It seems like I keep loving the AOSP interface more. Paranoid is awesome. AOKP helps little things. CM features are also great. Together, perfect.
For me, Stunner 2 is GUI perfect. Functionality missing though. Of course, need that hardware acceleration. Can't use my Vulkano (Hava). Can't watch Top Gear without transcoding from MKV.
On another "note" (no pun intended lol), does anybody know a 5.3" or larger phone that is 100% AOSP friendly?
Xperia Z-Ized this great rom
I have a meaningful update!
I found a new phone, and it's going to be cheap, and very new because it's about to be released.
Check out the OnePlus One, http://oneplus.net/ $300 / $350 middle of May supposedly.
Hello guys,
I use AryaMod V7 for a week. It´s a very fast,stable,battery friendly and smooth ROM with S5 theme. Also with S-Pen apps
I'm looking for functionality, little or no bugs, I am looking to stick as close to stock as possible with the option to customize if I wanted to. I know there are a ton of ROMs and I could spend ages scouring them for the one that might be right for me.
ghostspectrum said:
I'm looking for functionality, little or no bugs, I am looking to stick as close to stock as possible with the option to customize if I wanted to. I know there are a ton of ROMs and I could spend ages scouring them for the one that might be right for me.
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Did you install twrp also? You will need that to flash anything... might want to back up what you currently have before flashing also. If you like the stock feel, you can always wait until xposed comes out of alpha and start your customizing with it too.... lots of good info here if your not familiar with it. As far as UI is concerned you don't necessarily have to flash a custom rom, you always try a few different launchers on for size first.... Nova is pretty popular apex is another.... I am using action 3 right now which I like...
I would suggest clean ROM for a very stock like experience and then install MCR mod pack. This is my setup and I love it.
Cleanrom and sinless. Both stockish and super stable.
Stock. If you're not going to try for yourself, then you shouldn't go sheep.
OP you should really look around the development forums, you can't expect what works for other people to work for you as well. Usually down the line, you'll have a question and you'll want to be searching for the answers, not to ask others for the answer when the answer to your question has already been answered.
Everything in life, you can't just ask for it. Similarly to your decision to purchase what car, what college you want to apply to, etc... all of that you can't just ask someone. That's something for you to determine for yourself. Except the difference here is that all ROMs and kernels are free, be adventurous and try them all out (or at least the ones you found interest into).
My recommendation to this is to look at ROMs based on the following criterias,
- Popularity... how popular is the thread? Why is it popular?
- How frequently does it get updated? Do I like to flash ROM updates daily/weekly?
- Read the last couple of pages (or skim) and see what other users have been saying about the ROM
ghostspectrum said:
I'm looking for functionality, little or no bugs, I am looking to stick as close to stock as possible with the option to customize if I wanted to. I know there are a ton of ROMs and I could spend ages scouring them for the one that might be right for me.
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Euphoria OS
Parandroid Android
LiquidSmooth
Chroma
Bliss Pop
SlimLP
Dirty Unicorns
And there will be always the buggy Cyanogenmod :silly:
I run Paranoid Android and FAUX kernel with the recommended faux settings and love it.
Everyone will have different taste nobody is the same I use euphoria its like the best ROM I ever used since custom Roms were out
Simple poll.
I am running Fedor917's Resurrection Remix v5.8.0 at the moment based off Android 7.1, but tempted to flash his build of CM14 instead because RR has a lot of useless 'complications' which i would rather be without. How does Fedor CM14 compared against that from davidevinavil, is there any noticeable different in stability, performance and battery life?
i think you guys are confusing cm 13 and 14 bases.
I have official mokee 60.1
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I have official mokee 60.1
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Any bugs?
I tried CM13/Bliss/RR and Mokee on Z2. In the end settled on RR 22/11 build, nice tweaks on top of CM13, I think it uses it's own kernel. Incredibly stable, haven't crashed once since I installed it.
There are a few variants of CM made by different groups as well so keep that in mind.
I can' even answer this
Hello all.
Sry for this noob question, however I am having a lot of difficulties with this and really would appreciate your help.
I bought this phone for my wife for Christmas, however I was told that some of them have problems with the Google Play store as items keep stuck on downloading.
I am looking everywhere for a solution for this and apparently the only one is to change the ROM.
Well I don't even know how to check which ROM I have, so I can't even answer this simple pool...
Can you help me with this? a step at a time, as I am really noob at this and don't know much about this "flashing" things.
I would love to have google play working, as that would be enough for me to give it to my wife, but if I need to change ROM I know it will void to warranty, so I would prefer not. Anyway, if it has to be...
pedroluisf said:
Hello all.
Sry for this noob question, however I am having a lot of difficulties with this and really would appreciate your help.
I bought this phone for my wife for Christmas, however I was told that some of them have problems with the Google Play store as items keep stuck on downloading.
I am looking everywhere for a solution for this and apparently the only one is to change the ROM.
Well I don't even know how to check which ROM I have, so I can't even answer this simple pool...
Can you help me with this? a step at a time, as I am really noob at this and don't know much about this "flashing" things.
I would love to have google play working, as that would be enough for me to give it to my wife, but if I need to change ROM I know it will void to warranty, so I would prefer not. Anyway, if it has to be...
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You will need some help from someone. I currently don't have this phone, but I am very tempted to buy one. Someone needs to help you flash another software. When I get mine and see how it is done I can help. I can help now too, but I never had this phone and it is better to do it first on mine and then help someone
pedroluisf said:
Hello all.
Sry for this noob question, however I am having a lot of difficulties with this and really would appreciate your help.
I bought this phone for my wife for Christmas, however I was told that some of them have problems with the Google Play store as items keep stuck on downloading.
I am looking everywhere for a solution for this and apparently the only one is to change the ROM.
Well I don't even know how to check which ROM I have, so I can't even answer this simple pool...
Can you help me with this? a step at a time, as I am really noob at this and don't know much about this "flashing" things.
I would love to have google play working, as that would be enough for me to give it to my wife, but if I need to change ROM I know it will void to warranty, so I would prefer not. Anyway, if it has to be...
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I've just ordered one and am worried I will have this problem. Have you managed to flash another ROM?
CarpeDiemJay said:
I've just ordered one and am worried I will have this problem. Have you managed to flash another ROM?
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I had to flash the Indian ROM. I required a few set of days, to grasp the knowledge of what bootloader, eld, adb, twrp recovery and all those stuff... But I eventually got it working. It now has an Indian ROM and MoreLocale with the language I need.
I used the tutorial that I found on Zukfans eu
I was thinking about buying the Mi Mix, but was wondering how you would go about installing stock android 7.0 on it, im not really a fan of MIUI.
I presume it would be just a regular rom flash through a recovery, but ive seen that there is something for the phone called like Mi Flash or something. Makes me very confused.
xRapidzZ said:
I was thinking about buying the Mi Mix, but was wondering how you would go about installing stock android 7.0 on it, im not really a fan of MIUI.
I presume it would be just a regular rom flash through a recovery, but ive seen that there is something for the phone called like Mi Flash or something. Makes me very confused.
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Sorry, there's no stock android you could flash on your MIX. Only several Miui based custom ROMs are available. And there'll be no AOSP ROM until kernel source is released. If you don't want to use Miui for several month, you should buy another phone! And by the way, i'm an AOSP fanboy (and developer) too, but i can live with MIUI for now. Isn't that bad.
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Sorry, there's no stock android you could flash on your MIX. Only several Miui based custom ROMs are available. And there'll be no AOSP ROM until kernel source is released. If you don't want to use Miui for several month, you should buy another phone! And by the way, i'm an AOSP fanboy (and developer) too, but i can live with MIUI for now. Isn't that bad.
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I was in the same boat (technically still am) but installing Nova Launcher pretty much cured the MIUI blues. It's nearly impossible to distinguish between Nova and AOSP on this device.
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I was in the same boat (technically still am) but installing Nova Launcher pretty much cured the MIUI blues. It's nearly impossible to distinguish between Nova and AOSP on this device.
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MIUI is so much more than a launcher.
We always get these threads. Someone buys a phone want stock Android only to discover it isn't even available. Do your research before buying people it's that simple. I have a hard time understanding why some won't do that before spending dollars on a phone.
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MIUI is so much more than a launcher.
We always get these threads. Someone buys a phone want stock Android only to discover it isn't even available. Do your research before buying people it's that simple. I have a hard time understanding why some won't do that before spending dollars on a phone.
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We do it because we like to tinker; that's why we're all here on XDA. We like to buy devices that present a challenge, even if we have to invent our own challenges. We all know it comes locked with MIUI, nobody's complaining about it, we're just looking to overcome the obstacles placed in our way. If it came with stock, we'd want to figure out how to make CM work; if it came with a locked bootloader, we'd look for ways around it. Nature of the beast that is us tinkerers.
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We do it because we like to tinker; that's why we're all here on XDA. We like to buy devices that present a challenge, even if we have to invent our own challenges. We all know it comes locked with MIUI, nobody's complaining about it, we're just looking to overcome the obstacles placed in our way. If it came with stock, we'd want to figure out how to make CM work; if it came with a locked bootloader, we'd look for ways around it. Nature of the beast that is us tinkerers.
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On positive note nougat mix spotted, so must be in testing.