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Hello, so I'm asking if I should flash a custom ROM instead of keeping my OOS 4.1.3?
U have to try man. It's clear thing for this device.
Thunderbolt said:
U have to try man. It's clear thing for this device.
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What roms do u recommend? Ive flashed RR on my mom's galaxy s5, it looks pretty good
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What roms do u recommend? Ive flashed RR on my mom's galaxy s5, it looks pretty good
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One of available versions of RR, phoenix AEX, official AEX, Dirty Unicorns. Today im back to Phoenix AEX, it is a great, stable and fast rom with great developer.
idubis said:
Hello, so I'm asking if I should flash a custom ROM instead of keeping my OOS 4.1.3?
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This is so vague, as it tells us nothing about what features you may be looking for, why you want a custom ROM, etc.
If you are just looking for something different, then sure, go for it. Similarly, if certain features of a custom ROM (or ROMs) look attractive, then go for it. There is really no downside, as unlocking the bootloader does not void the warranty. And reversing any changes (returning to stock) is pretty easy as well.
On the other hand, stock OOS is amazingly good. Very little bloat or skinning, but with the right amount (IMO) of customization added. Many folks (myself included) accustomed to flashing custom ROMs to get the most out of their device, have been just happy with stock OOS. But of course, there is always room for improvement, tweaking, etc.
It's an individual choice. Most users of Android devices will never flash a custom ROM. Majority probably don't even know what that means.
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Hello, so I'm asking if I should flash a custom ROM instead of keeping my OOS 4.1.3?
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First determine what you`re missing in stock OOS, find those features in a custom rom/kernel and flash it. Done
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First determine what you`re missing in stock OOS, find those features in a custom rom/kernel and flash it. Done
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I want something different, and good battery life
idubis said:
I want something different, and good battery life
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Its not just a rom or kernel that makes great batterylife, mobile reception strenght (modem ) and usage (apps, syncing, gaming yes or no) are vital too.
I'd go with FreedomOS or RRemix. Really LineageOS is mostly placebo battery fixes and an overabundance of customization options. Most of the lineage roms outside of RRemix are very unstable or just kinda useless. Hate to say it cuz some devs put lots of time in but Ive always found worse battery life with the same usage patterns on anything but stock.
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I'd go with FreedomOS or RRemix. Really LineageOS is mostly placebo battery fixes and an overabundance of customization options. Most of the lineage roms outside of RRemix are very unstable or just kinda useless. Hate to say it cuz some devs put lots of time in but Ive always found worse battery life with the same usage patterns on anything but stock.
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Oh. That's bad. I want to use a custom ROM. But if Oxygen is so much better?!?!? :silly:
No good ROM available?
Well Oxygen OS was made for this specific phone in mind remember. So of course it fares best.
I don't know. Perhaps lineage with sultan kernel is an option.
I try to find the best ROM with great battery life, performance, stability, features etc. Any recommendations?
Phoenix is good, Resurrection remix also, but how is battery life and performance? So many features in it...
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Oh. That's bad. I want to use a custom ROM. But if Oxygen is so much better?!?!? :silly:
No good ROM available?
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In the time you've been waiting around for someone to make a decision for you; you could have just unlocked the bootloader and flashed a ROM (of even more than one) and be trying it yourself.
Just make a TWRP backup of the stock ROM (or otherwise, know how to return to stock with the official zip file) and you can easily revert if you don't like the ROM you flashed.
No point in waiting for someone else to tell you what to do. Everyone's opinion and preference is going to be different. Just because someone tells you to flash a ROM or not (or which one), doesn't mean that is the right answer for you as an individual.
Even things like battery life and performance are going to vary drastically depending on how you as an individual use your device (as others have also mentioned). Then also throw in the differences in personal preferences and tastes; and the result is that you can't go by the direction of others. You need to decide for yourself.
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In the time you've been waiting around for someone to make a decision for you; you could have just unlocked the bootloader and flashed a ROM (of even more than one) and be trying it yourself.
Just make a TWRP backup of the stock ROM (or otherwise, know how to return to stock with the official zip file) and you can easily revert if you don't like the ROM you flashed.
No point in waiting for someone else to tell you what to do. Everyone's opinion and preference is going to be different. Just because someone tells you to flash a ROM or not (or which one), doesn't mean that is the right answer for you as an individual.
Even things like battery life and performance are going to vary drastically depending on how you as an individual use your device (as others have also mentioned). Then also throw in the differences in personal preferences and tastes; and the result is that you can't go by the direction of others. You need to decide for yourself.
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Thanks. I already tried some ROMs. But I can't decide.
Are there big differences in battery life?
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Thanks. I already tried some ROMs. But I can't decide.
Are there big differences in battery life?
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If you are still asking that question, then you missed one of the main points of my last post:
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Even things like battery life and performance are going to vary drastically depending on how you as an individual use your device
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Plus others (more than one) on this thread have already answered the question (of battery life on the various ROMs).
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You're right. It's only so difficult to decide, because here are so many ROMs and kernels and they are all similar and I want a good daily driver and don't want to change it the next years.
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@redpoint73
You're right. It's only so difficult to decide, because here are so many ROMs and kernels and they are all similar and I want a good daily driver and don't want to change it the next years.
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If you're so concerned about battery life, beta 7 + Franco kernel
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If you're so concerned about battery life, beta 7 + Franco kernel
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I will try lineage with sultanxda kernel. I hear it has amazing battery life.
I also like Resurrection Remix , but I suppose, it has bad battery life, but I'm not sure.
I've tried a handful of roms... they're all just fine in my opinion but I seem to always end up back on the Oxygen stock rom. I root, but that's about it. I just can't get over how well Oxygen OS is running these days compared to my OP2 ... Just flash and try! You won't hurt anything, and if you do you have a 99% chance of fixing it!
Hey All, I'm new to Samsung Note 9 960f. I've been on Oneplus devices for thr last couple years with ease of root and ample kernel options. I've rooted my Note 9 with the stock OS. Now I'm looking for a decent kernel to go with the stock OS that can help with general tweaks. Any recommendations? Thanks!
Bump... Or in the Note 9 world people aren't really active on custom kernels?
Everyone has different preferences so there is no best...Take a look at the dev thread and try some custom stuff for yourself to see what works best for you.
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Everyone has different preferences so there is no best...Take a look at the dev thread and try some custom stuff for yourself to see what works best for you.
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I totally hear you, I was just asking for recommendations. I understand, in the kernel world there's no best. Just that I believe there's only one kernel listed & available in the exynos development thread Thanks!
BeastMode Kernel is a Beast!
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Hey All, I'm new to Samsung Note 9 960f. I've been on Oneplus devices for thr last couple years with ease of root and ample kernel options. I've rooted my Note 9 with the stock OS. Now I'm looking for a decent kernel to go with the stock OS that can help with general tweaks. Any recommendations? Thanks!
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well.. appart from tweaked kernels devs have cooked in their rom, on xda there is only one stand alone kernel you can flash.. so.. lol
guess its beast kernel ftw.
Quick update, I'm now on the one and only Beast Kernel
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Quick update, I'm now on the one and only Beast Kernel
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How it fairs compared to stock?
Also on the topic, it's a bit sad how dead the development section of note 9 is. Lack of ROMs and total lack of kernels and a lot of time passed from release.
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How it fairs compared to stock?
Also on the topic, it's a bit sad how dead the development section of note 9 is. Lack of ROMs and total lack of kernels and a lot of time passed from release.
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Definitely nice so far. I've felt a slight snappiness over stock (could be placebo). Also I was experiencing random reboots once / twice a day until this morning (on stock). This kernel has been stable so far, hoping to not experience those anymore. Btw, I haven't tweaked anything on the kernel yet except for anabling double tap to wake.
And I hear you, the development on this device is fairly dull. I guess users are happy with the phone as is, but rooting for me is a mandatory exercise. I've moved from a Oneplus 6 which was one of the most vibrant development communities.
Experience has been good decent far, but ofcourse with the usual set of gripes of adjusting on 8.1 from 9, etc.
Thanks!
Quick question. How do you know which kernel will work?
Running Team Exy Kings, current baseband N960FXXU2ZRL6.
Tried Beast and it boot-looped. Although, I did flash the zip in recovery. Do I need to use Odin?
Been a long time since I last played around with Samsung's.
JagSem said:
Quick question. How do you know which kernel will work?
Running Team Exy Kings, current baseband N960FXXU2ZRL6.
Tried Beast and it boot-looped. Although, I did flash the zip in recovery. Do I need to use Odin?
Been a long time since I last played around with Samsung's.
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flash endurance kernel then reflash magisk v 18.1
just be sure you know the difference between oreo and pie and touchwiz/oneUI and AOSP
The phone been released for 2 months now and yet not even an official TWRP recovery. not a single custom rom too.
i've been looking at Mi 8 forums and it has much better support. at least they have pixel experience rom
do you think it's still early for custom roms to be released or this device really has poor support?
Give it some time. Mi 8 and Mix 3 also took a while before the first ROM came.
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then you have time to learn how to build for us
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i am sorry i didn't mean to be rude. i am just asking cause i've been waiting so long for a pixel rom and i was kinda concerned. the mi 9 would shine with it.
It took almost 7 months for custom roms to be usable on OnePlus 6
Just chill
I think sm8150 source code just got released not even a week ago, now developers get their first real look and can start working on builds. Really tho, unless the phone you are looking at already has strong developer support don't assume one without it will get it.
Just use GSIs meanwhile? They work very well...
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Just use GSIs meanwhile? They work very well...
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I think that depends on your individual set up. I use TMobile and have 2 sims, 1 for work and one for personal, granted I've only tried floko but I can't use them both with LTE selected, only manage to get edge working. When switching to LTE, I get constant disconnects every few seconds. Sms only seems to work properly with GSM as well. Might be a TMobile US issue, dual SIM issue or dual SIM on same network. Not real sure.
The Mi9 is out for months. Normal whene coming custom roms this comes in the first month. I think we will not see any custom rom now but Miui is also good with custom launcher. I missing nothing.
The device doesn't have "really poor support", the interest and capable people are and will be there. The problem is just the drop of sources. This was to be expected when you have one of the first devices with a new SD SoC. Threads like this really add to the increasing stupidness on XDA.
Sources are out for weeks.
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Sources are out for weeks.
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You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. Xiaomi kernel source code has been out indeed.. but go look at CAF
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The device doesn't have "really poor support", the interest and capable people are and will be there. The problem is just the drop of sources. This was to be expected when you have one of the first devices with a new SD SoC. Threads like this really add to the increasing stupidness on XDA.
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Thanks for clarifying this for all of us "not so much into all technical details" people. I can understand your frustration, but I think for most people eagerly waiting for something else then MIUI, (who are not willing or knowing where to start with GSI Roms) its good to have one of these threads out there (maybe even pinned on top).
As you are stating it's only a matter of time, and that is good to know for all of us. It would also be great to have some DEVs that are planning on building for the MI 9 in such a thread to even built more confidence.
Just a word from another Dutchmen. Have a good weekend y'all! And try (just as I am about to) not to check XDA MI 9 forum every 6 hours every day. Just wait some weeks. Things are probably about to become very Pixely soon.
I've already dumped an obscene amount of time into this device, we have only had caf source for a couple days. It's a brand new soc no one is building working roms for it yet on any device. System as root has caused a lot of issues as well. Up to this point my work has been focused on the kernel and recovery and now I have lineage building with the new hals and the kernel updated to use them and ramoops working so I can actually debug init. It's not as easy as we make it look I'm already a couple hundred hours in and I work for free
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I've already dumped an obscene amount of time into this device, we have only had caf source for a couple days. It's a brand new soc no one is building working roms for it yet on any device. System as root has caused a lot of issues as well. Up to this point my work has been focused on the kernel and recovery and now I have lineage building with the new hals and the kernel updated to use them and ramoops working so I can actually debug init. It's not as easy as we make it look I'm already a couple hundred hours in and I work for free
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Thanks Kelsi For your hard work.
And don't let these idiots pressure you!
Don't they get you work for FREE and you probably have
a life also Lol.
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I've already dumped an obscene amount of time into this device, we have only had caf source for a couple days. It's a brand new soc no one is building working roms for it yet on any device. System as root has caused a lot of issues as well. Up to this point my work has been focused on the kernel and recovery and now I have lineage building with the new hals and the kernel updated to use them and ramoops working so I can actually debug init. It's not as easy as we make it look I'm already a couple hundred hours in and I work for free
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You are making a really good work.
Unfortunately i have not the device so i can't make a good work fast, maybe in another month i will fix recovery
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You are making a really good work.
Unfortunately i have not the device so i can't make a good work fast, maybe in another month i will fix recovery
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Yeah it's good enough for now for my purposes but needs improvement. The big question is how do we make it compatible across different dtbos
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Yeah it's good enough for now for my purposes but needs improvement. The big question is how do we make it compatible across different dtbos
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Can't you include a dtbo in the rom zip?
Can i ask you if i can use your kernel in my TWRP?
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Can't you include a dtbo in the rom zip?
Can i ask you if i can use your kernel in my TWRP?
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You can use my kernel of course, pstore works with it so it's actually possible to debug init with some effort pressing both volume buttons and ai button sends a soft reset to recovery signal which is the only way to keep the ramoops info in memory. The problem is if you flash a dtbo then the boot.img may be incompatible. Recovery boot and dtbo all have to be matching unless there's a way to make recovery work off the existing kernel in /boot
I cant understand the Problem here. Just Look at phhusson the god of devs for GSIs. The Day He posted on xda that his New Main device is the mi9 was the Day my next device was also the mi9 (just arrived today). His aosp gsi is working on mi9 for weeks with just some realy small Bugs and i think it wont last long until He has fixed all Bugs. And from that Day on we will have every custom Rom thats available as a gsi with their next Update.
https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/wiki/Xiaomi-Mi-9
https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/releases
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pr...vice-development/aosp-9-0-phh-treble-t3831915
I dont like gsi. For flashing need a PC. Gsi is for me not a custom rom. I need a custom rom what i can flash with twrp, without pc.
i am using xiaomi mi 8 and i don't know which rom is better for mi, i want to play game , good camera and GPS, Can you give me some suggest, which rom is suitable for me, thank you so much
Easy User said:
i am using xiaomi mi 8 and i don't know which rom is better for mi, i want to play game , good camera and GPS, Can you give me some suggest, which rom is suitable for me, thank you so much
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This question has no sense.
Nobody know what rom is the best for you. There are several roms for dipper and all are good. Try yourself and stay with the best for you.
Easy User said:
i am using xiaomi mi 8 and i don't know which rom is better for mi, i want to play game , good camera and GPS, Can you give me some suggest, which rom is suitable for me, thank you so much
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Personally I like Xiaomi.EU the best, it is always the most up to date, uses the latest source code and there are no issues with anything, battery life is outstanding. Absolutely there are many great roms, but for me is the most consistently stable.
If you try it, use the built in kernel, and it works fine with the latest magisk Canary.
Easy User said:
i am using xiaomi mi 8 and i don't know which rom is better for mi, i want to play game , good camera and GPS, Can you give me some suggest, which rom is suitable for me, thank you so much
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If you need MIUI than xiaomi.eu is best option, if you need AOSP with extra gimmicks than you can consider HavocOS, if you need pure Pixel experience than PixelRom or Pixel Experience is your best bet. But there are several roms out there you can check but this is my own opinion and you asked for it :laugh:
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Personally I like Xiaomi.EU the best, it is always the most up to date, uses the latest source code and there are no issues with anything, battery life is outstanding. Absolutely there are many great roms, but for me is the most consistently stable.
If you try it, use the built in kernel, and it works fine with the latest magisk Canary.
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I had a fingerprint issue with xiaomi eu. Where as soon as an app was launched it would detect ghost touches. Had to move over to lineage OS. Don't know if it was just me or it affected others too.
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I had a fingerprint issue with xiaomi eu. Where as soon as an app was launched it would detect ghost touches. Had to move over to lineage OS. Don't know if it was just me or it affected others too.
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I have never had that issue. most people that had that issue was when Android 10 first came out. Try it again sometime. Just be sure to start clean with a full wipe.
tsongming said:
I have never had that issue. most people that had that issue was when Android 10 first came out. Try it again sometime. Just be sure to start clean with a full wipe.
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Tried clean flash, yet no luck. Strange thing is that this issue only occurs with some apps, while others work just fine. All other roms (lineage, havoc and pe) work without this issue. Real shame as I prefer miui.
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Tried clean flash, yet no luck. Strange thing is that this issue only occurs with some apps, while others work just fine. All other roms (lineage, havoc and pe) work without this issue. Real shame as I prefer miui.
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Without a doubt, one of those custom roms custom roms has corrupted one of your partitions .
You need to use a fast-food ROM and restore your phone, Use Mi Flash make sure the bootloader box is not checked or use Adb.
Note: A recovery ROM will not fix your issue it has to be a fastboot "images" ROM. Images will be in the name of the file.
Afterwards you can flash this ROM and no longer have those issues.
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Without a doubt, one of those custom roms custom roms has corrupted one of your partitions .
You need to use a fast-food ROM and restore your phone, Use Mi Flash make sure the bootloader box is not checked or use Adb.
Note: A recovery ROM will not fix your issue it has to be a fastboot "images" ROM. Images will be in the name of the file.
Afterwards you can flash this ROM and no longer have those issues.
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Your an absolute legend. Thanks.
which is the best and most stable rom for MI A2. By stable i mean for day to day use and obviously bug free rom.
Thanks in advance
Stock magisk y lswnchairv2
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which is the best and most stable rom for MI A2. By stable i mean for day to day use and obviously bug free rom.
Thanks in advance
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Sorry, but you'll have to test them by yourself and pick one that works for you... what suits me probably won't suit you. The features that I use the most probably are not as important to you, and probably the things that are important to you I don't use as much in order to say they are stable. The apps I use probably are not the same as you, the signal strength, the carrier, the charger, the bluetooth devices, the root method, magisk modules or even if you are not going to root.
I'm enjoying the PE+ rom, but I did many tweaks to it and it works for me, but there are many people facing really annoying bugs that makes it a no go. So there isn't an easy answer for what you are looking for.
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Sorry, but you'll have to test them by yourself and pick one that works for you... what suits me probably won't suit you. The features that I use the most probably are not as important to you, and probably the things that are important to you I don't use as much in order to say they are stable. The apps I use probably are not the same as you, the signal strength, the carrier, the charger, the bluetooth devices, the root method, magisk modules or even if you are not going to root.
I'm enjoying the PE+ rom, but I did many tweaks to it and it works for me, but there are many people facing really annoying bugs that makes it a no go. So there isn't an easy answer for what you are looking for.
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can u suggest some?
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can u suggest some?
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-a2/development
wow what kind of useless responses are those? He didnt say what is the best one, he asked what is the most stable dudes.
Hi! I tried most of them, PE+, HavocOS, AICP, LINEAGE, in my case the most stable and daily driver is Havoc OS, there is one problem on all of them for me, my banking app wont run on modded rom's so i reverted to miui, android one.
There is trial and error, some might work from start, some are harder to make them run ok, without any crashes. The fastest one i found was Pixel Experience+, the most stable one, Lineage OS(be carefull, it doesnt support google apps from the box), and the one which does any task well, good battery and stability in my case, was Havoc OS. With pleasure, ViVa.
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wow what kind of useless responses are those? He didnt say what is the best one, he asked what is the most stable dudes.
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And your input was more than helpful! Thanks for your effort!
The most stable ROM is obviously stock.
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The most stable ROM is obviously stock.
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Lol, no.
Stock has serious bootloop issues between updates.
If you're staying on stock you should still unlock bootloader, just in case. And backup important data before updates.
This saved me 4 or 5 times already.
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Lol, no.
Stock has serious bootloop issues between updates.
If you're staying on stock you should still unlock bootloader, just in case. And backup important data before updates.
This saved me 4 or 5 times already.
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Which Android version? I am on 10 and never had a boot loop after update but I always do it manually using fastboot.
I've also stripped Stock down to the bare-bones - no Google anything, except Play Services, Phone and Contacts and everything seems to work OK with no crashes ever.
I concur with your bootloader unlock advice.
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I've also stripped Stock down to the bare-bones - no Google anything, except Play Services, Phone and Contacts and everything seems to work OK with no crashes ever.
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Hi all,
I bought my A2 yesterday. This is my first time thinking of using stock rom instead flashing i.e. Lineage. Can you describe the steps to stripe down stock?
Thanks!
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Lol, no.
Stock has serious bootloop issues between updates.
If you're staying on stock you should still unlock bootloader, just in case. And backup important data before updates.
This saved me 4 or 5 times already.
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NEVER even once i had bootloop and im on stock since start
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Hi all,
Can you describe the steps to stripe down stock?
Thanks!
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Root using Magisk, then use something like link2SD to get rid of the bloat. I always freeze the unwanted Apps instead of deleting them.
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;83039631]Hi! I tried most of them, PE+, HavocOS, AICP, LINEAGE, in my case the most stable and daily driver is Havoc OS, there is one problem on all of them for me, my banking app wont run on modded rom's so i reverted to miui, android one.
There is trial and error, some might work from start, some are harder to make them run ok, without any crashes. The fastest one i found was Pixel Experience+, the most stable one, Lineage OS(be carefull, it doesnt support google apps from the box), and the one which does any task well, good battery and stability in my case, was Havoc OS. With pleasure, ViVa.
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can u tell me which version of havoc os u used was the most stable. thanks for ur answer
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which is the best and most stable rom for MI A2. By stable i mean for day to day use and obviously bug free rom.
Thanks in advance
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PixelExperience FAN EDITION is good its smooth but stilll there a few bugs btw PixelExperience unoffical is awsm its so smooth u can check it here https://mega.nz/folder/bZgRAAbA#AdWBnHBuAxkt4NHyvcdGoQ
Only Havoc OS. [emoji6]
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AICP for me.