It’s always preferences.

Want near stock vanilla android? use LOS, PIXEL experience..

want customisation? Use RR, NOS,

There are also several custom kernels like Elemental, Agni, Shadow

*flash twrp to install xiaomi.eu rom*

Hey bro I need help with my phone, same as yours. I just did the global update miui 9 and it still in MIUI loading screen. What do I do? Flash custom rom? I didn’t even bother to unlock the bootloader when I first got the device.

I’m a aosp fan, but luckily i enjoy miui. And i say luckily because if i didn’t i would need to sacrifice my warranty in order to flash another rom, don’t really want that. Custom roms are great, but i always wait after the warranty expires if i want to use one. This was a real problem 3-4 years ago, cheap android devices weren’t as good as now, and if the device was heavily customized you had to live with slow phones and clunky interfaces in most cases, and changing the rom meant no warranty, so…

I bought Mi 5s because it was cheap and it had great hardware. One of the best cameras available at the moment, easily beating much pricier phones.

The stock firmware was an annoying disappointment, but luckily a couple of months later I upgraded it to LOS and was happy until it drank some water and died.

The lack of MIUI is what I don’t like about the A1, but that’s the whole point of that model of course.

You have locked bootloader right? And recent miui 9 update didn’t bootup your device. I suggest you to wait a little more, if it doesn’t bootup to system. Go to stock recovery and wipe cache. If it still doesn’t bootup, make a new post here, other people might help you.

Am I the only one who loves MIUI?

I wanted to update to LOS but I have a few questions:

– How’s the camera? I heard that the camera quality in custom roms is pretty poor.

– The flashlight of your device is completely white? Or is it more reddish/yellowish?

So what do you guys use besides the stock MIUI then? As in the go-to ROM if you’re flashing the device.

Meh. I’m what you would consider a power user, and I always end up going back to stock at some point or another. The problem with custom ROMs is that they’re always full of bugs that I really don’t want to have to deal with on a day by day basis.

I switched to los recently, I would seriously prefer MIUI but based on higher version of android, official for my phone is lollipop. You notice that a thing is a feature and miss it only after a switch.

and if you got custom launcher you cant even tell if its miui or something else.

The “how-to” instructions to simply receive Gmail notifications are longer than those to install a custom ROM. The littany of settings, permissions, optimizations and hoopla you need to dive into is out of control.

The notification icons (and status bar font) are way too small. For all the things you can control, it’s ridiculous that you’re stuck with size 6 font at the top.

LOS for me. Stock Android appearance with customization/features. GCam is tremendous! But based on how difficult and cumbersome the unlocking process has been getting with every new phone, this may be my last Xiaomi. “Construct a deep flash cable by sourcing the following parts.” GTFO

Did you even tried LOS for Mi5? If so, then I don’t know what you are talking about, because it’s rock solid.

You can download the APK for mi camera app. That’s the best option.

Same here, I love their rom builder.

I buy Xiaomi specially to have MIUI. It’s the only android flavor that doesn’t suck IMO.

I love my mi A1 because it’s not MIUI, it’s nice to know updates are there, and the fake apple aesthetic cheapened the look. The only thing I missed was night mode but that appeared for me after Oreo. I hated the launcher too, always preferred Nova

The split screen feature helps a lot too, you can put youtube on one of them.

But I’m having trouble finding the Options button, on my redmi note 2 I used to hold down the left touchkey and it’d open options on certain apps, I cannot locate this on the miA1.

About the pull down notification, this may help :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wq.dropdownstatusbar&hl=en

I used to use it on my redmi note when the drag stopped working (not sure if that was hard or software related.. it worked when it wanted to.)

BTW, why buy Xiaomi if you dislike MIUI. Why not get the A1 or another brand that has stock android?

* fixed

* Can be changed

* Can be heavily themed to look like stock

* Dunno about that

* Never heard of that before

* Do they ship with root any more? I’d use magisk anyway

Because the hardware/price is nice.

Don’t worry, by the Redmi Note 16 Xiaomi will force users to wait 2 years before unlocking the bootloader, so nobody will use custom roms anymore.

I’ve found that if you disable as much as possible in the settings it’s not too bad

Well in China, and for some less-fanatic stock fans, MIUI actually looks pretty and works well enough, which is what most users care about anyways

I use the Google Camera and it is 10 times better than the MIUI camera.

I like MIUI, I prefer stock though. The RAM management is a bit too aggressive, but MIUI is very smooth.