Hey all of you,
I'm pretty new to XDA, but not to Xiaomi.
I am the kind of User that still sticks with MIUI to not risk any broken phone or anything... I've never even unlocked a bootloader or anything...
I was pretty happy with my Poco F1 till my battery life was going even more downhill :crying:
That's when I decided to buy the Poco F2 Pro from eglobalcentral. I was sooo happy when TI arrived... But that feeling quickly changed. On 11.0.2 I experienced a hard battery drain while the phone was off. That's when I updated to 12.0.4(didnt knew 11.0.6 would probably be a better choice).
Now I'm stuck with the Poco F2 Pro that doesn't have a great battery life and problems with Netflix and Amazon Prime
-> Prime doesn't work in HD anymore...
-> Netflix doesn't work in HD and with it broke the mediaserver
You have to love it :/
-> when watching anything of the above, mediaserver drain around 70% of the battery (screen is around 10%( the apps themself at 2 to 5)
Welp those phone were reset the normal way enough times to know nothing will change
My idea was to maybe unlock bootloader, clean install 11.0.2, 11.0.6 or try 12.0.4 again.
But since I'm a total noob at this:
1. Do I lose sensor like I've read a few times when downgrading)
2. Is the re any reliable source to download twrp and is there any guide out there?
3. Can I use miflash for the phone to downgrade aswell? Or will it have complication (does it totally reset the phone?)
4.how to I make my pc find my phone in fastboot mode?
5. Does it make more sense to send it to Xiaomi and make them fix my phone for me?
6. What's a reliable source for Poco f2 pro Roms? The xiaomi.eu website didn't have poco f2 pro in there list, or am I juts blind?
7. Anybody else had any problems MIT miui 12 yet?
If anybody is so kind to help me, it would be Highly appreciated.
Thanks for reading and have a great day
I would suggest to update the phone. Mine shipped with 12.0.3. There was a noticable improvement to whatever the next upgrade was, a substantial improvement changing to eu roms, mind blowing performance and battery improvement switching to MSM- Extended. All guides are very easy to find
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Yes, yes, it's possible to love a phone. Heck, you sleep next to it, don't you? Rate this thread to indicate your love for the Xiaomi Redmi 5A, all things considered. A higher rating indicates that the Xiaomi Redmi 5A is an incredible phone that you enjoy tremendously. You love it.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
There and Back Again a Phone/ROM odessy
From the spec sheet the Redmi 5A is nothing to write home about. I was looking for a cheap phone at the time, having a nasty surprise bill which had to be paid. So my Sony Xperia had to go. :crying:
I had the device for a while and did my usual (rooted ROM, stay on stock, try XDA ROMS, get tired of the bugs/lagging, return to stock.
I have to say that while there is a plethora of content for miui and an enthusiatic user base, going back to a stock ROM was less than straightforward. Perhaps it is a symptom of being a China/India company first and foremost. I've started to sympathise with people who have english as a second language....
My road back to stock had a number of speed bumps. I had used a pie rom and after trying an incompatible kernel, the phone was soft-bricked. No problem for an experience ROM junkie right? Well the first stock rom was via fastboot which took the usual wrangling to get on Windows. After a day I realised the camera was not working. Nothing would fix it. I wanted at least Oreo and found what I thought was the solution, but turned out to require "developer permissions". Download the QI messaging app (or whatever it was) and request a developer account. Sadly it kept reverting to Chinese so I could not use it. Did I mention that the phone requires you to enter your MI account after re-flashing. I nearly had lost the password and after failing the challenge questions, they said "we'll get back to you in 3 business days(!). Fortunately I found the right credentials in my browser cache.
After flashing stock Oreo data stopped working completely. I then had to flash an update to the baseband and now happily all is well.
Android Pie is nice and I miss some aspects of it, however the stock ROM is faster and unlocks better with my Mi Band 3. So it looks like I'll stay on Rooted stock for the time being. Plus I do enjoy messing with the different themes :laugh:
Good device for the price! Very nice to test your nerves when you brick it!
As many fellows here on the forum, I just can't stay much time on stock ROM. It's fun to discover the features and bugs of those jewels the devs bring to us.
This Redmi 5A was very chalenging to get back to work after a wrong kernel flash. The soft brick needed to disassemble the device to make USB get recognized, and it make me go back to windows for a while to solve it (it lacks supported Linux tools to do the fastboot flash).
The stock is a very good ROM itself, but as it's stucked in 7.1 (the dev version is Oreo and can be used as daily driver as well).
It was my first cheap and all chinese phone bought from a chinese e-commerce site and it still is a very good user experience.
The themes in the store are very fun play with too. :laugh:
It's love
Back in mid 2018 I bought this phone as a back-up for my Galaxy S8. It was my first Xiaomi phone. For the price (€85) I did not expect much, but I was very surprised! Especially the screen quality is very good for this price, nice colors and good contrast. Because I liked it so much I have replaced my S8 with a Xiaomi Mi 9T as my main phone in mid 2019! Now the Redmi 5A is being used to control smarthome stuff and to experiment with. Even in 2020 as i am writing this mini-review I still like it a lot, and it is still up to date with a LineageOS 17.1 (Android 10) ROM, and it works flawlessly. Also the latest official Global and EU MIUI roms work smoothly, although Android isn't updated past 8.1 on those ROMS. This is one of the few budget phones I used that just 'work'. No annoying bugs or lags, just a phone that does everyday tasks as it should, even in 2020!
Hey there,
I have a Pixel 1 rooted with Nougat (7.1.2). The phone is playing tricks lately (shuts down after random activities for no reason even when the battery is more than half full), so figured it might help to use a more updated version.
Couldn't find a full guide on how to root Pie on a Pixel. The only guides I saw were for Pixel XL and Pixel C, where it said the
Any idea where I can find one or maybe it's not going to help at all with the issue I'm having?
Thanks in advance.
I'm starting to get the same on my pixel running stock android 10, I get the occasional reboot while charging or while taking a photo? Probably a battery or hardware issue more than a software issue.
Root wise just check the main magisk thread for how to root, can either flash via twrp or you can root via magisk manager with a modified boot.img.
Good luck
On my end it doesn't even reboot. Just shuts down and unless I connect it to a charger, it won't load up (just shut down right after boot).
So indeed sounds like hardware/battery.
Is there a chance an updated OS will fix that or I'm wasting my time and best would be to get a new battery or a new phone?
It depends on the device, Ive changed batteries on a few before with mixed success tbh. I won't be changing the battery in my pixel as it's a right pig to change apparently so I'll get another device once it's dead.
Hello XDA people,
I received the phone and would like to ask you some tips or thought about some questions.
I just plug in the phone for charge to 100% before power it on and customize, by customize i mean doing options preferencies, using adb and "FastBootTools", updates.....
I would like to know in witch order I should :
parameterize the phone before or after using XADBF ?
Doing updates if there's update ? before tweaking ? Put my sim card in it before or after ?
Some of you got trouble with MIUI 12 vs MIUI 11 ? Should i stay on MIUI
I read this week when i prepare my things before getting the phone, that i shouldn't touch "Gallery" and "Finddevice" ( don't know if a freez is ok ), is there others things i need to avoid ?
Thanx for your help.
Just for info, got a oneplus 3 with a screen who got "detached" , unglue and the amoled was turning purpple to black,couldn't find a low price for a screen (amoled), online,they sell LCD panel and thought i couldn't repair it with an lcd screen.... so for a week was looking for a new phone.This is my first xiaomi !
Does this thread still works today with the poco F2 pro if it is still safe to follow it or should i be aware. I know some release OS change some path or disable some tweaks. https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-cc9/how-to/packages-safe-to-remove-problems-t4006171
Thx for help !
OK so i did everything alone, as usual ^ ^ and for now so far so good. First impressions, i 'm not a fan of some MIUI things, like the fact that you can't for now disable the Finddevice, the "Shield Guard" (firewall) but others then that, works fine,got a straight line on my battery at night, no data on my back... will see in the future. Received OTA after tweakings, and connect my sim card, all good.
That straight line is for 30 mins
No there's a bug...... got 0% when i wake up everyday (no plane mode ). Got it on my oneplus 3 too for 4 years.Just doing my tweaking ,and options...
Will see tomorrow ; )
So my poco x2 which was running latest stock miui with locked bootloader had the "cannot connect to camera" issue for two months but I ignored it thinking it's a hardware fault but since yesterday the touch stopped working even though I never dropped my phone and today on twitter there were other people tweeting the same, some say moving to a rom based on oos vendor avoids this problem but now that my phone already has the issue is there a possibility for fixing this issue if I move to a oos vendor based rom? Has anyone tried it
I am also having same issue, both camera and touch dead, any idea how to solve this problem?
facing the same problem on my POCO X2... Don't know changing to custom rom will solve the problem or not...
Is there anyone who tried this method please reply....
We know there is last option to reball the CPU.... But tearing down the device and playing with CPU chip will cause some permanent damage or gradually growing other issues.
So thats why looking for this solution......
Guys if anyone using these phones n experienced well about performance means tell me which is better phone Xiaomi 11x pro or 11T pro, I don't want the heating issue in phone so asking u guys... please comment
Does anyone know how the heck could the speaker of phonecalls be less powerful? Cause privacy seems unposible when we speak on a call...the speaker is too loud even in the lowest volume..may xiaomi find a way to fix this ?
Hello to everyone,
since day 2 after buying the Xiaomi 11t pro, i see no notification effect (Rhythm, Pulse, Starlight) when the screen is locked. For some hours after activating the device for the very first time, it worked and then nothing. I have tried everything in settings, i have changed several Themes (default and by third developers) and still no effect on screen.
Any idea?
Thank you in advance!