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[Q] What about MIUI?

Soo.. I know the title isn't very specific.. but I would like to throw a question in here and get some responses..
So.. WHAT excatly is MIUI compared to other ROMs?
To me, MIUI is "just" plain (AOSP?) Android with every single "GO"-App available. GO Launcher, GO SMS.. and so on.
So.. what does MIUI exactly have, that e.g. CM with every app changed to some GO-App doesn't have?
MIUI is skinned to kinda "copy" Iphone-style..sure.. but is that really all?
Benchmarks show there are some differences..
So I wonder what's left of MIUI if you install a MIUI based ROM and change any GO-App to another one?
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'Cause most ppl say they love MIUI for how it looks like. But honestly.. I could also use stock Android with e.g. Motoblur and change the launcher and so on.. so why going through the hassle to root and install a completely new ROM?
Ty everyone
And yes, I used the search, but didn't find anything relevant.. maybe because "MIUI" & "GO" are a liiiiittle bit vague

We need to know the history. MIUI just want to be like IOS, but in the Android enviroment. AOSP is just a plain OS, CM was loaded witb tons of tweaks but the UI not that eyecandy. HTC? Good but too dark to be like IOS and bloated. So MIUI with the UI mimic IOS with slight modification came. For me it is another CM with the stress more on UI.
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Ps sorry for bad English

Wasn't the first MIUI ROM was found accidently? IIRC, the dev passed away and his work was found and released. Maybe I'm thinking of something else?

dEris said:
Wasn't the first MIUI ROM was found accidently? IIRC, the dev passed away and his work was found and released. Maybe I'm thinking of something else?
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A renaissance artist perhaps? MIUI is developed by a Chinese team and someone came across it and started translating it.
There's plenty of info and screenshots etc. over at http://www.miui-dev.com which is the site run by the translating team.
Essentially it does largely look to be making Android more iOS-like. It's based on FroYo AOSP (Gingerbread soon) but with a _lot_ of alterations. It shares a little bit of code with CM as far as the addins.

In my opinion MIUI is the first Android Distro because it proposes a completely different way of Android where other ROMs are just forks.

Miui is the simple face of ios with the power of android.
sent from my MIUI HTC HD2

MIUI has the most powerful and easiest theme engine..I really wish it was open source so others could use the theme engine..Its really that nice and simple to use..such a shame..

MIUI is so much better then stock android:
here's a list of apps that avalible only on miui:
Monitor (let you block apps and see how much data you have used)
Theme manager (no more zip's, really easy to theme stuff)
Better mms app
file mamanger
Miui gallery and camera
miui music
special lockscreen - much better the stock
folders - better the stock
quick settings on the notification bar
better phone app
easier to use setting's
miui wheater (avalible for all now)
some widgets like conatcs and etc...
if you chineese you can use the update app which auto update your phone to the latest version.
battery monitor
and much more that I might forgot

I'll go ahead and toss my two cents in...
Simple version-- I rooted my phone about 6 weeks ago, I flashed several roms in the first two days. (Cyanogen, Mikfroyo, Myns) Then I flashed MIUI. That was the last time I flashed a rom...
(If you want to know more, PM me and I'll give you the L O N G version of why MIUI is the best in my opinion)
Not a single one of the "GO" apps I've heard of including the two your mentioned are a part of MIUI. The post above me outlines a lot of the features but there is also so much more. I just discovered a feature the other day I never realized was there.
Try it, if you don't like it, NANDROID!! Make sure to grab yourself a few themes off of the MIUI forum. Again, I've installed one theme since I flashed MIUI ignoring the other 100 simply because what I have, Elite HD by bustadroid, is the best damn theme (period)

I just started to use Miui Camera for my Milestone today. Awesome fast!
Maybe can someone compile a list of Miui's apps and post links here?

MrDSL said:
MIUI has the most powerful and easiest theme engine..I really wish it was open source so others could use the theme engine..Its really that nice and simple to use..such a shame..
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MIUI isn't open source?? Why the heck did they do that? :-/

[Q] What is the appeal of Sense?

I've had several HTC phones and I really don't see the appeal of Sense. Disable Sense, either with script, new launcher, or new rom is literally the first thing I do when I get a new HTC phone. Yet I see a steady request from people to make more Sense ROMs or add Sense features to nonSense ROMs. I know it's blasphemy around here, but I actually like TouchWiz and the iPhone UI. So I ask:
What is it about Sense that you find attractive?
EDIT: I want to add that I'm not trying to "troll" or be confrontational or contrary, more wondering if there is something about Sense that I'm missing or possibly haven't taken advantage of. Obviously HTC is doing really well right now and I'm sure that their Sense UI plays a role in that.

MHO, im in the same boat you are sir, the only thing I do like is the social networking features built in, although now, i use launcherpro, so i am just waiting till i can root, then its CM time!

Its simple and very user friendly. The UI is very eye appealing to me. Its really all personal choice. I always find myself enjoying things built into sense roms like the ringtone trimmer is pretty stellar!
Sense 4+ and Sense 5 are awesome implementations to HTCs new devices, I got my HTC One in the mail yesterday and I have been enjoying the less intrusive side of Sense 5 but blink feed needs to go ASAP
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I don't see anything in it, except more battery and more heavy. Deleting it is the first thing I do in any ROM. Well, the ROMs I use now don't have Sense bundled
Edit: I have been using ZEAM launcher for months now... both on Captivate and Inspire.

I hate how it reaches to every aspect of the phone. I never liked TouchWiz, but at least TouchWiz was pretty much just a launcher. I really don't like anything besides AOSP, though.
I like the themeing, but I hate Sense itself. That's why I'm using CM7 themed like Sense.
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I don't like Sense either. I find that it normally slows my phone down dramatically and drains the battery. I rarely used anything in Sense, so I have also always disabled it!

I'm in the middle.. I enjoy sense because it is pretty much one thing EYE-CANDY. Its awesome to see and show off as well as some of the features built in especially friendstream and the weather. I love AOSP as well, reason I have widgetlocker and a few other apps to bring me my AOSP goodness. Sense roms dont really drain battery.. I get amazing life on Kingdom Sense 3.0 and Honey Sense HD 1.5.

This is gonna be a stupid reason, but the clock/weather widget.
I also think that it's the #1 replicated part of Sense.

I like it as it looks sweet. It also hooks me into my entire social world. When I have a sense rom running anyone and everyone can hit me up, Facebook friends, google friends, tweet friends. Everything shows me as logged in and ready to communicate.
That said I am running Gingerbeast ASOP, with Go Launcher EX and Widget locker right now and loving the Battery Life. while still looking amazing.

I'm on the fence on Sense, seem to flash back and forth between AOSP roms and sense roms like clockwork. I can say that my preference is stock Gingerbread with Launcher Pro widgets.
Here are some of the Sense pros:
-The lock screen on Sense 3.0 is almost enough to keep me using sense.
-I also like the better integration with Facebook and LinkedIn in my contacts.
-It's near impossible and expensive to re-create all of the HTC Widgets in a non-sense rom. The closest alternative is Launcher Pro, paid version to get the extra widgets, plus Beautiful widgets for the home screen clock. You can find comperable widgets, but if your a design purist, it's hard to get all of them looking consistant
- You can actually get decent battery with the right custom roms. I run TBFusion with the Lee kernel, undervolt, setcpu, and it's good for a full day.
Dislikes:
-Dialer - very old-school number search approach I have never liked. It was designed for when phones had only numberpads to allow you to find contacts quickly. Basically the deal-breaker for me on Sense.
-Keyboard layout; hide key is too close to space and shift, plus very cluttered (easily fixed by installing another keyboard)
-Not a fan of the way they implemented quick settings in the notifications. Having to slide down, then tab between notifications and settings is an extra step. Seems silly, but gets annoying if you've ever used CM7 or something like that.
I really like the simplicity, speed, and battery performance of pure AOSP Gingerbread. I'm running Gingerbeast at the moment. Very smooth.
IMO - if you like iPhone and touchjizz, try MIUI

IMHO, Sense is a very cool thing. I love Sense ROMs and wish that Sense was open source so that many of its features could be added to CM7 or vice versa. For me, the cons list is short so I'll start there.
---CONS---
-Battery life is reduced
-System is slightly slowed
-RAM is hogged by Rosie, Sense, and Sense apps
+++PROS+++
+The keyboard is very good IMO
+The UI is clean and appealing
++Menus are colorful and therefore easier to navigate IMO
++Organization and useability of things such as the Customizations menu is superior to Android Stock
+The widgets are all built in and are very functional (Mail, News, Settings, Stocks)
+Many HTC apps are superior IMO to the stock Google apps.
+Seven home screens as opposed to 5 for stock. (However, I know CM7 and many others can add screens, I like the layout of Sense better as you do not have to choose whether home key goes to default screen or overview as you do in CM7. Sense home key toggles between the two)
Yes, I realize many will argue that the genie widget is great for news, but HTC's News widget (Google RSS reader) is the most visually appealing and easiest to use of all news widgets I have tried.

I do have to give HTC props on their implementation of Select/Copy/Paste, it is much better than AOSP - the magnifying glass method is definitely better than the stupid little marker method.

AOSP vs Sense vs MIUI. Discuss your favorite!

Which do you prefer and why? Pros and cons please!
Rank from most liked to the least.
My favorite=MIUI
Pro: The beautiful UI and very easy, high customization of everything.
Con: Takes a little more battery life due to UI.
Second=AOSP
Pro: Always works flawlessly and doesn't feel bloated. Simple and clean.
Con: IMHO, none.
Third=Sense
Pro: Again, I'm a UI guy, and Sense is very nice in that aspect
Con: Unlike MIUI, even though it is heavily themed, it always feels slowed down on every device I have tried it on, not matter all the tweaking.
Feel free to put multiple pros and cons

Considering ive never owned an htc device im just gonne do touchwiz
Touch wiz pro: fast and has many cool features
con: Sort of ugly (in my opinion)
Miui
pro fast and simple
con: i want an app drawer ):
Aosp.. im assumin thats what cm7 is?
pro: fast very smooth
cons: to simple for me im a ui guy aswell

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Android without Sense it´s kinda boring, even ICS...
In my opinion

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Android without Sense it´s kinda boring, even ICS...
In my opinion
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I'd definitely take sense and miui over aosp

I got a HTC Desire. Went like this:
Sense 1.9 > Sense 2.1 + 3.0 > AOSP (CyanogenMod) > MIUI.
And well, I'm still on MIUI.
I loved Sense 1.9. Sense 2.1 + 3.0 was also great.
AOSP felt really empty and lacking, especially coming from Sense.
MIUI felt iOS-ish in beginning, but customizing it changes that all. I love it and been using it quite a while now.
Love all the simple touches of MIUI.
- Hold Menu on lockscreen for torch.
- All settings toggleable from notification bar.
- Volume Down + Home takes a picture from screen. (So no software needed)
- Double tap on lockscreen for music widget to come up.
The only thing I don't like is that the default music app doesn't support playlists of any open format. So you just gotta shuffle everything you have or use a 3rd party music player. And the default widgets are lacking.
Tip: TypoClock looks great with MIUI.

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Android without Sense it´s kinda boring, even ICS...
In my opinion
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I've got a Desire S and I think I've tried probably every available ROM out there.
My Ranking
1. Sense
2. MIUI
3. AOSP
I like the speed of the AOSP roms and the look of MIUI, but I really love the way Sense is working. First, the widgets. Second, and that's actually much more important, is the way it the different apps are interlocking (I hope that's the correct translation, sorry if not). I mean I can browse my contacts, see their Facebook albums, I can easily stream my media to my laptop and vice versa and so on. I love it

Not that much between the three as they're the best user interfaces imho.
Nr1 for me is AOSP (stock ICS).
Nr. 2 is MIUI v4 (Nr. 2.5 would be the older MIUI)
Nr. 3 for me is Sense, although it is a nice UI but just doesn't match the other two in terms of clean beauty

I wish I could take some of the themes from MIUI and put them into normal AOSP, like the messaging and music player.
As for Sense, favorite of the OEM skins lookswise but it's a memory hog.

1. AOSP- clean and quick. You can theme it however you want.
2. Sense- love HTC and Sense is beatiful
148. Miui- for the Iphone lover at heart

I haven't had the chance to try Miui yet, but so far I think I like AOSP ICS.
I was using Sense for quite some time, but as others have mentions it does have lag at times. Plus, I was using Sense since I got my phone so I was really sick of it.
There are things I do miss about it though.

Sense
OEM based custom
AOSP

My favourite is MIUI, with a few CM tweaks. That's best of both words.
(Called WIUI on Defy)

MIUI v4, but i'm slightly biased since I'm a mirror
If you don't like the lack of app drawer you can use a lancher pretty easy.
If you don't like the iphone-ness (agreed) you can use blackandroidtheme.blogspot.com/p/miui.html which also happens to be made by an miuiandroid dev.
NS with v4 and SG-NS-ICS_24012012 kernel with tweaks.

Sense - Pros: Everything works, HTC Apps & Widgets. Cons: Can't use HTC Sense widgets with other launchers.
MIUI - Pros: Fully Customizable UI. Cons:no 4g, no 720p, it looks like the Iphone UI.
AOSP/CM7 - Pros: Semi-Customizable UI and Many Tweaks. Cons: no 720p.

All these people saying MIUI looks like iOS: Yes, the launcher has no app drawer (that's why I always imediately replace it,just as I do with almost every other standard launcher) and some Iconslook similar (But there are tons of themes that change the icons). That's it! In general the UI looks beautiful imoand the customisation is a huge plus, just like the lot of other custom apps and tweals thatcan't be found anywhere else, neither on iOS not on CM7/ AOSP.

I really like Sense. Unfortunately, it's slow and I have an old-ish phone, so I don't use it. Also, I know HTC isn't gonna release ICS for my phone, so I've started using CyanogenMod. CM9 is great but the UI is lacking in small ways--the launchers have dead space around the widgets and icons. The status bar doesn't say the date. I haven't noticed that many issues, though.

Sense comes first, slow compared to others though
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I prefer MIUI over Sense and AOSP. MIUI's user interface just looks much more polish than AOSP and much more customizable than Sense. I never make my Android look like an iPhone, which is why I use other themes, mine looks somewhat like Meego now...

I have tried all of them and I personally like AOSP but at the same time each have their own pros such as miui's ability to customize everything so easily in any way you want but sense is also a very clean ui everything just works nicely with it.

AOSP is my favorite! and MIUI is good,,,and sense is not my type

Android L Everything/Anything Thread

Well android L is looking really shmexy, I think this should be a general thread for discussion of L. To get us started I've got a few things.
1. Holo is dead, long live Quantum Paper/Material! I like it, it finally gets rid of holo dark and is highly improved over holo white. Conversion is going to be an absolute PAIN though with all our user apps. Mismatched interfaces everywhere.
2. Lots of features similar to those of custom ROMs, I think this is a very good thing and that in general the Google implementations are cleaner and nicer. Examples: Lockscreen notifications, hover like notifications (though a heads-up thing was in the kitkat source code)
3. Heavy unification of Google services and android, chrome tabs in recents, Google now is basically the notification system, pretty much every aosp system app has an improved play store counterpart. I think this is a good thing other than aosp ROM compiling issues, for example, w/o flashing PA stock Gapps we would have outdated/discontinued calender, sms, camera and email. Even after flashing pa stock Gapps we have the movie studio and news and weather apps that are old (and kinda gross in terms of ui) which aren't even on nexus devices. Also Gapps packages in general are still a legal gray area. I want unification of nexus and aosp in terms of continually developed elements and for deprecated services to be removed from aosp when they are removed from nexus firmware.
4. ANDROID E'ERYWEAR (get it, wear). I can't wait for this stuff personally.
5. The death of traditional oem theming. If oem s want to theme android, they need to change their philosophy. Take touchwiz for example, Samsung has an android wear watch coming out today, meaning google now, meaning transition away from s voice. They will likely have to have more design elements in common with stock in many more areas as well. Also it looks like chrome will pretty much be necessary for the best user experience, so no oem custom browsers. Samsung in general has tried to make replacement apps for just about every Google service and built their own framework, but the Google framework and app set is now being integrated to the OS.
6 and beyond! Your stuff!

Nice info

Samsung Knox will be natively built into Android L:
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What are the implications for this on xda? Specifically, the efuse?
TheUnladenSwallow said:
Well android L is looking really shmexy, I think this should be a general thread for discussion of L. To get us started I've got a few things.
1. Holo is dead, long live Quantum Paper/Material! I like it, it finally gets rid of holo dark and is highly improved over holo white. Conversion is going to be an absolute PAIN though with all our user apps. Mismatched interfaces everywhere.
2. Lots of features similar to those of custom ROMs, I think this is a very good thing and that in general the Google implementations are cleaner and nicer. Examples: Lockscreen notifications, hover like notifications (though a heads-up thing was in the kitkat source code)
3. Heavy unification of Google services and android, chrome tabs in recents, Google now is basically the notification system, pretty much every aosp system app has an improved play store counterpart. I think this is a good thing other than aosp ROM compiling issues, for example, w/o flashing PA stock Gapps we would have outdated/discontinued calender, sms, camera and email. Even after flashing pa stock Gapps we have the movie studio and news and weather apps that are old (and kinda gross in terms of ui) which aren't even on nexus devices. Also Gapps packages in general are still a legal gray area. I want unification of nexus and aosp in terms of continually developed elements and for deprecated services to be removed from aosp when they are removed from nexus firmware.
4. ANDROID E'ERYWEAR (get it, wear). I can't wait for this stuff personally.
5. The death of traditional oem theming. If oem s want to theme android, they need to change their philosophy. Take touchwiz for example, Samsung has an android wear watch coming out today, meaning google now, meaning transition away from s voice. They will likely have to have more design elements in common with stock in many more areas as well. Also it looks like chrome will pretty much be necessary for the best user experience, so no oem custom browsers. Samsung in general has tried to make replacement apps for just about every Google service and built their own framework, but the Google framework and app set is now being integrated to the OS.
6 and beyond! Your stuff!
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Is anyone else kind of miffed by Google's decision to basically copy the iOS 7 design for the status bar?

YES ! I'm waiting for my phone

" In addition, you also get the emulator system images, which includes experimental 64-bit system images along with standard 32-bit system images."
This is on the download page
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Different UI for Pixel

Hi,
I hate the UI of the Pixel. Apparently it's called "material design". Is there a way for me to change the UI to someone similar to Evie Launcher?

Material design is all Android 5.0+ devices. What is it you hate about Pixel UI? Its pretty much stock Android. Not bloated and ugly like Samsung (though better now) or LG.
You can use any launcher you like by the way.
But only real difference between stock Android and Pixel is Pixel has some blue in the menus.
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I don't like the dialer, messenger, settings UI, launcher and all other native basic system apps that are similar. I don't want to download apps from the Play Store to counter these issues. I would like a whole different universal / unified UI (different ROM). I also hate the forceful start up keyboard that's different from the default customizable one.

The UI of Pixel is trash in my opinion. There's lots of wasted space and general bad design.

milan187 said:
Material design is all Android 5.0+ devices. What is it you hate about Pixel UI? Its pretty much stock Android. Not bloated and ugly like Samsung (though better now) or LG.
You can use any launcher you like by the way.
But only real difference between stock Android and Pixel is Pixel has some blue in the menus.
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Just use another launcher or another Rom with substratum included like OctOS

Wunzero said:
I don't like the dialer, messenger, settings UI, launcher and all other native basic system apps that are similar. I don't want to download apps from the Play Store to counter these issues. I would like a whole different universal / unified UI (different ROM). I also hate the forceful start up keyboard that's different from the default customizable one.
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So...what don't you like about them?

Wunzero said:
I hate the UI of the Pixel. Apparently it's called "material design". Is there a way for me to change the UI to someone similar to Evie Launcher?
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Install substratum, read around xda to understand what is it and how to install (no root needed now)
There are a lot of themes with a different style, for settings, dialer, system and everything you can image (take a look here)
Just search a bit :good:

Try HTC Sense
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-xl/themes/mod-htc-sense-ui-experience-package-t3606635

How can you not like the stock UI? It's one of my favourite things about the phone. Clean lines and no unnecessary bloat, what's not to like. Evie's okay I guess apart from the app draw being on the left.