Hi guys! I ordered the oneplus x yesterday and it is coming in tommorow. I am coming from the nexus 5 ive been using it for 2 years and i flashed the heck out of that phone until the motherboard died last month lol. So the question is should i root this phone? Will i lose some functionality of some sort? Is it better with custom roms?
Any help on this will be appreciated!
Well, the only thing you will lose is the Ota features... (Over the air updates)
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Well, the only thing you will lose is the Ota features... (Over the air updates)
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Okay cool, i know about that. Thanks anyways
Yes you should since OOS get almost no updates and custom roms are working great !
I've been debating the same thing coming from the nexus 5 which just died. Even after replacing the battery, it just won't boot anymore. I'm actually quite enjoying this Oxygen OS. I've only been using the phone for 3 days, but it has enough customizations that I don't think I need a custom rom. It allows you to customize the battery with percentage, and has the custom reboot menu out of the box.
The only thing I'm contemplating root for is adaway, as I hate surfing the web and seeing all these ads and perhaps the custom kernel to get more battery life.
I'm getting tired of boot loops and troubleshooting the phone because of something I flashed I'm going to see how long I can stay with an unmodified phone this time around.
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I've been debating the same thing coming from the nexus 5 which just died. Even after replacing the battery, it just won't boot anymore. I'm actually quite enjoying this Oxygen OS. I've only been using the phone for 3 days, but it has enough customizations that I don't think I need a custom rom. It allows you to customize the battery with percentage, and has the custom reboot menu out of the box.
The only thing I'm contemplating root for is adaway, as I hate surfing the web and seeing all these ads and perhaps the custom kernel to get more battery life.
I'm getting tired of boot loops and troubleshooting the phone because of something I flashed I'm going to see how long I can stay with an unmodified phone this time around.
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I was tired of the bugs too, tried to stay on the same rom for 1-2 months but there were always issues no matter what. Lets see when my phone arives tommorow! I am expecting better battery life from opx as the n5's battery life sucked xD even with elemental x.
Do you think opx is better in terms of daily usage than the 5?
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I was tired of the bugs too, tried to stay on the same rom for 1-2 months but there were always issues no matter what. Lets see when my phone arives tommorow! I am expecting better battery life from opx as the n5's battery life sucked xD even with elemental x.
Do you think opx is better in terms of daily usage than the 5?
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I was a long time Cataclysm + Elemental user since I got the phone in 2013. With the custom kernel, I was able to easily go a full day without charging. I found all the problems with the N5 began when I upgraded to Marshmallow. LP never had all these issues I experienced. Currently OPX on LP, after 3 days the phone is running very smooth, no issues at all and the battery lasts a full day as well so I currently have nothing bad to say about this phone.
I just updated to 2.2.1 this morning, as the phone came with 2.1.2 from the factory but I wanted to ensure I didn't have any problems before upgrading the OS. But for me, I'm very happy with the OPX right now. I think it's more than suitable as a daily and there isn't much I miss on the N5.
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I was a long time Cataclysm + Elemental user since I got the phone in 2013. With the custom kernel, I was able to easily go a full day without charging. I found all the problems with the N5 began when I upgraded to Marshmallow. LP never had all these issues I experienced. Currently OPX on LP, after 3 days the phone is running very smooth, no issues at all and the battery lasts a full day as well so I currently have nothing bad to say about this phone.
I just updated to 2.2.1 this morning, as the phone came with 2.1.2 from the factory but I wanted to ensure I didn't have any problems before upgrading the OS. But for me, I'm very happy with the OPX right now. I think it's more than suitable as a daily and there isn't much I miss on the N5.
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Yep, m was buggy. I was on chroma and the phone slowed down after a month on every mm rom. Dont know why, anyways thank you for your experience
Got a almost new 1+x here for about 3 days the previous owner had used kingroot on it so it stayed after reset I did get a Ota but it kept failing to install so downloaded the full oxygen rom update.
It's been working great I ended up putting kingroot back on as its something different and don't feel like I need to flash a custom rom yet
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Got a almost new 1+x here for about 3 days the previous owner had used kingroot on it so it stayed after reset I did get a Ota but it kept failing to install so downloaded the full oxygen rom update.
It's been working great I ended up putting kingroot back on as its something different and don't feel like I need to flash a custom rom yet
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Okay thanks buddy
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Just a thread to see what the majority of people are choosing to run right now and which you have tested as well. This is NOT intended to be any type of a bashing thread, just please stick to what you've tested and what you've chosen to currently use.
As for myself, I'm running UnNamed from gtg and have been for a bit now. I've removed a few additional pieces of software that I didn't want and modified the battery icon but other than that, it's pretty much as is.
I've tested and have a backup of CM 7 and I'm planning to test Cognition next...
I am running UnNamed, I had a circle battery mod, but flashed the full update and have stuck with it as-is. I ran Cognition with no issues or complaints, but wanted the extended power menu.
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I'm running Cognition as of yesterday. For a few days before that I was running a stock + root ROM.
I must say, my battery lasts sooooooo much longer since installing Cognition compared to Stock. I just now hit 90% and it's been off the charger (getting regular use: some idle, some web browsing, some pp installs) for about 6 hours now.
I love it.
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Just a thread to see what the majority of people are choosing to run right now and which you have tested as well. This is NOT intended to be any type of a bashing thread, just please stick to what you've tested and what you've chosen to currently use.
As for myself, I'm running UnNamed from gtg and have been for a bit now. I've removed a few additional pieces of software that I didn't want and modified the battery icon but other than that, it's pretty much as is.
I've tested and have a backup of CM 7 and I'm planning to test Cognition next...
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I'm on Cognition and haven't tried others, yet. It works and as ROMs have appeared, I've pulled what I wanted from them. I get great battery life (3 hours of display time, but lately it's been increasing - yesterday I got 4 and today I'm on pace for over 5 hours of display ). I'm really interested in CM7. I hadn't tried it yet because I'm not convinced that it's bug free (which is important for me). What did you think of it?
I'm getting such poor battery life still, even after rooting and removing data hogs (AP Mobile, etc.), running BBS and CPUSpy to monitor, and turning off unnecessary sync. I'm thinking about moving to Cognition, but I kinda like Touchwiz's interface and the safety of running stock.
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I'm on Cognition and haven't tried others, yet. It works and as ROMs have appeared, I've pulled what I wanted from them. I get great battery life (3 hours of display time, but lately it's been increasing - yesterday I got 4 and today I'm on pace for over 5 hours of display ). I'm really interested in CM7. I hadn't tried it yet because I'm not convinced that it's bug free (which is important for me). What did you think of it?
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I liked CM7. I probably didn't give it enough time to make an accurate assessment of it as I liked the idea of trying UnNamed simply because I like the stock build as it is... minus the garbage bloatware and wanted the extended power menu. I'd highly recommend giving CM7 a shot though. I simply get each rom running and then do a full nandroid backup in case I want to go back in the future - barring any major improvements of course in which case I'll start out fresh.
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I'm getting such poor battery life still, even after rooting and removing data hogs (AP Mobile, etc.), running BBS and CPUSpy to monitor, and turning off unnecessary sync. I'm thinking about moving to Cognition, but I kinda like Touchwiz's interface and the safety of running stock.
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I have to say that I was never much of a believer in Juice Defender but between running that program and doing a battery calibration with the app, BatteryCalibration, my battery life has increased quite a bit. I've still got Gmail auto syncing but I have turned off 'Back up my data' in Privacy and keep GPS off until I need it. Everything else is running as is. Oh and no Facebook or Words with Friends. I login to Facebook via Dolphin HD when I have to check it on the go.
Running UnNamed 1.0.3 and really like it. Clean, snappy and excellent battery life (yes, better than stock rom).
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Running UnNamed 1.0.3 and really like it. Clean, snappy and excellent battery life (yes, better than stock rom).
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+1 for UnNamed.... love that rom!
Ive been on cog beta 4 for a while and it is perfect. Picked up DD exp kernal a few days ago and its still perfect. Perfect combo i guess. Battery life is amazing. After 15 hour days i am always getting 4 hours of screen on time along with playing music thoughout the day and few calls and messages data and sync always on.
I have yet to have any problems and gonna make this my offical "go back to, stable rom" when others start to drive me nuts. I would like to just stay on this rom and call it good cause its perfect but that never happens.
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UnNamed 1.0.3 for the past two days. Had no issues and I like the added features. This is the only custom ROM I tried so far.
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Ive been on cog beta 4 for a while and it is perfect. Picked up DD exp kernal a few days ago and its still perfect. Perfect combo i guess. Battery life is amazing. After 15 hour days i am always getting 4 hours of screen on time along with playing music thoughout the day and few calls and messages data and sync always on.
I have yet to have any problems and gonna make this my offical "go back to, stable rom" when others start to drive me nuts. I would like to just stay on this rom and call it good cause its perfect but that never happens.
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Wow.... That sounds impressive. I may need to give that rom a whir then.
I've been debating whether or not to upgrade my firmware to the latest and I keep going back and forth.
Can we discuss the pros/cons of doing so?
All I really know is that NOT having the new firmware limits support for most ROMS and can cause some issues. I have also heard its hard (impossible?) to go back to the old one if it was necessary to do so?
Thanks!
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I've been debating whether or not to upgrade my firmware to the latest and I keep going back and forth.
Can we discuss the pros/cons of doing so?
All I really know is that NOT having the new firmware limits support for most ROMS and can cause some issues. I have also heard its hard (impossible?) to go back to the old one if it was necessary to do so?
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Pros:
ICS is awesome!
Smoother, faster, etc
Battery seems to charge sightly faster
Cons:
Bad battery life (horrible, worse than GB)
CPU overheats (sometimes to 110 degrees!)
Worse reception
Can't downgrade to old firmware till we get S-OFF
In other words, don't upgrade!
I personally have stayed off the firmware and I'm going to wait until ROMs are based off the official OTA or we get S-OFF.
There's a firmware patch anyway that lets you run recent ROMs on the old firmware, so that's a plus.
I've been running ICS ROMs for months with no issues and it's actual ICS.
Heard too many issues coming off the leak anyway.
It seems like the new firmware has the CPU running full tilt where the old firmware did a better job of governing. So the phone gets hot quick(for me screen on only) but stop using it and it cools off fast as well.
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It seems like the new firmware has the CPU running full tilt where the old firmware did a better job of governing. So the phone gets hot quick(for me screen on only) but stop using it and it cools off fast as well.
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I thought the CPU issues were with the kernel, not the firmware?
For me, the news has all been good except for one thing re: new firmware...
Cell Reception.
I can't keep a call connected unless I go outside. Data is great, and overall signal quality is good... until I get a phone call. Then I immediately lose at least 2 bars! How dumb is that!?!?
I can't wait to get S-Off so I can flash the old radio back on. I'm hoping that fixes it.
Pro : no more Blue Flicker
Cons : Reboot like a zillion time a day WTF ??? Bur I think it's just me
Glad I posted this before just going for it. Seems like its not worth it at this point in time. S-off is a long was away, right? I'll just stick it out with the old one.
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Glad I posted this before just going for it. Seems like its not worth it at this point in time. S-off is a long was away, right? I'll just stick it out with the old one.
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It would seem we're not as far off from it as we once were
but you're a lot better off without the new firmware IMO.
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I thought the CPU issues were with the kernel, not the firmware?
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You definitely got me on that one. I have no clue who the culprit is but it has only been like this since the ICS leak RUU.
I have better battery life.
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I have better battery life.
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GrayTheWolf said:
I have better battery life.
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I do too, but I think it's more due to the Devs like Nils and lllboredlll tweaking their ROMS for max battery conservation than the new firmware.
I've just solved my rebooting Issue by doing this
1. Reboot into recovery -> Format all to EXT3 and wipe everything
2. Lock Bootloader
3. Flash the leak -> let it run till the end and will automatically reboot back into bootloader.
4. You'll notice the "TAMPERED" on top of the screen has been gone.
5. Flash the leak the 2nd Time and you'll be good.
I've been on it for 3 days without a reboot or slow down or heating issue. Now, I gotta say this leak is great in term of stability, battery life, signal (in Seattle,WA) and performance compared to Gingerbreak.
First, here's a poll on battery life. It seems most people got better or the same battery life with the update.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23874951
I upgrade to the new firmware and at first thought I was getting horrible battery life, then it got better about 8 hours with 2 hours screen on time.
Then, I decided to go back down to the old firmware and radio because Andy told me he was getting better battery life on it. I went back down, a and honestly--I haven't noticed a real big difference in battery life with screen on. Both firmwares get about 2 hours on screen time. You can get awesome battery life on either ROM If you leave screen off, but that kind of defeats the whole purpose of using the phone. The new firmware gets better battery life when the screen is off, I think.
The radios are hit or miss, I think. The 4g reception is always different day to day in my daily commutes. Sometimes I'll get a constant 4g signal. Other days it'll be spotty, while some days it just stay on 3g and then I have to put it in airplane mode to get 4g again. And then 5 minutes later it goes back to 3g. I haven't really noticed much of a difference in call quality, but don't really pay attention to that.
I may go back to the new RUU, honestly.
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Sorry for the silly question but how do I see what firmware version I'm on?
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Sorry for the silly question but how do I see what firmware version I'm on?
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At home screen.
Menu button> settings> scroll all the way down to about phone> software version> more button
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Is it the build number?
3.11.605.22?
I guess what confused me was something in this thread led me to believe that if you used the "patch" to install from GB, you would still be on the old firmware but running ICS. I'm currently on ClearnROM ICS Pro (ICS obviously)
The very first thing I did upon getting S-OFF was to get off that darned leaked firmware.
I sugesst waiting, personally.
there's so much more negatives than positive, at least was for me.
I run ICS on GB firmware and runs great. Sense 4, does as well. the patch works very well.
also before returning to GB frimware, I was running the leaked for a while and I personally didn't notice the new firmware to be much if any smoother.
all it did was overheat and destroy my batt life.
lesson learned for me.
no more messing around until we have an option to return to normal.
I am just lucky that I didn't brick my rez in the beta s-off(which the method works great BTW!, I hope to see it released ASAP!!) and was able to return to stock firmware, and enjoy my phone again.
andybones said:
The very first thing I did upon getting S-OFF was to get off that darned leaked firmware.
I sugesst waiting, personally.
there's so much more negatives than positive, at least was for me.
I run ICS on GB firmware and runs great. Sense 4, does as well. the patch works very well.
also before returning to GB frimware, I was running the leaked for a while and I personally didn't notice the new firmware to be much if any smoother.
all it did was overheat and destroy my batt life.
lesson learned for me.
no more messing around until we have an option to return to normal.
I am just lucky that I didn't brick my rez in the beta s-off(which the method works great BTW!, I hope to see it released ASAP!!) and was able to return to stock firmware, and enjoy my phone again.
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Just so we all know, what all did it take for you to roll back to the GB firmware when you had S-Off?
Upgraded a couple days ago and here are the issues I'm having. Any help or suggestions appreciated by those of you who have been through this:
Battery life about half what it was on KitKat
Recharging VERY slow. MORE than twice as long as with KitKat
Pandora won't shut off when I exit car mode. Keeps coming back. Eventually it quits.
Voice in car mode is different - and like fingernails on a chalkboard!
I have done a factory reboot, which was alot harder than any other time I've done it, and that hasn't helped. Called both TMob and Samsung only to get the humma humma run around. "Replace the battery", "Do another factory reset", "Give it time to 'adjust' to the new OS". Nothing that helps much. Plus they said I could NOT re-install KitKat because of some changes made to the phone with then new update. Not sure if that ones true or not!
So for those who haven't upgraded yet - give it a bit. See what comes up in the next couple months. I sure didn't see this coming!
It is definitely more power hungry and inefficient, but not so much of the other issues you're talking about.
If I were you, I'd try to flash the stock lollipop ROM one more time, and do a factory reset right after flashing for good measure either by grabbing the stock ROM from sammobile and loading it by Odin or even flash using Samsung kies if it picks up your phone! (Sometimes Kies would give you error messages if you've loaded custom roms in the past)
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It is definitely more power hungry and inefficient, but not so much of the other issues you're talking about.
If I were you, I'd try to flash the stock lollipop ROM one more time, and do a factory reset right after flashing for good measure either by grabbing the stock ROM from sammobile and loading it by Odin or even flash using Samsung kies if it picks up your phone! (Sometimes Kies would give you error messages if you've loaded custom roms in the past)
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Well, I"m giving that a shot under the "It can't get worse" theory. Hopefully that's true. I'll let you know how it goes!
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Well, I"m giving that a shot under the "It can't get worse" theory. Hopefully that's true. I'll let you know how it goes!
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Well, it didn't get worse but it didn't get better either. After 6 days with Lollipop I can report a major loss of utility with the loss of battery life. I went from 15-18 hours of battery to 5-6. With that sort of battery life its not worth it. And its Samsungs fault for deploying this POS with inadequate testing.
Anyone successfully gone back to KitKat?
My contacts force close, led notifications don't work for texts or missed calls (yes it's on). Pretty disappointed too. Would like to downgrade to 4.4. Anyone dove this successfully.
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That IS the big question!
Well. I reinstalled KitKat using Odin and it went fine. Got my battery life back and that's a big deal. Couldn't see anything with Lollipop that was worth losing that! I'll think about an upgrade when I see what they do to fix this AND how well it works but right now I need battery life.
Hi! I've been reading this forum on and off for few years, but never actually posted. Hope someone here can help me sort out my issue, thanks in advance!
Basically, I've flashed a cm13 via custom recovery on my second phone - Xiaomi Mi4, and I'm having all sorts of issues with it. I bought the phone in China, and for a while
used the stock MIUI interface, but I hated all the bloated apps and weird pop-up advertising, so decided to flash. it was the first time i've attempted it, so it took some
time to figure it out
My two main issues with cm13:
1. It crashes and restarts two/three times daily for me. I mean, I've cleared cache, I basically have no apps on the phone (apart from few messaging apps and facebook).
Is it just because it's an early cm13 build, or it's a nature of custom roms? I'm wondering if switching to a snapshot cm12 build would be better? I don't really care for
android 6 features on this phone that much, I just want a stable experience.
2. The charging became uber slow, painfully so. On MIUI it'd charge to 100% in about 3 hours or so. On cm13 it takes 3-4 hours to get to 30-40%! Never seen anything like
this. Also, if the battery depletes to 0%, the phone wouldn't turn on, even plugged in for charging. It'd turn on after an hour or two into the charging process. Seems weird,
as every other android phone I've owned previously would turn on even with 0% battery if I'm plugged in.
Anyone else experience any of the listed issues? Is it just an early build, or I've done something wrong in the flashing process? I really just want a stable simple os, no advanced
features or whatever, just need it to work
Thanks!
I have been using latest nightly.. No issues no reboot.. Charging time is 3hr
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I have been using latest nightly.. No issues no reboot.. Charging time is 3hr
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Thanks for reply! Would you mind telling me which gaps you've used for your build? I remember I had some sort of an issue with few gaps
I tried, I think only the smallest package worked for me. Maybe that's the issue and something in the gaps i've installed freezing/rebooting my os?
Thanks
I play a lot of games so i definitely don't want to lose performance or don't want to be kicked out of fortnite. And i really like the miui gestures but also hate the bloat and notifications not coming etc. And how can i unlock my Pocophone?
no, we are all on XDA because we have nothing better to do
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no, we are all on XDA because we have nothing better to do
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What a nice reply from a brazillian fellow =)
hey OP, I'm with u, with stock rom and locked bootloader...
I would suggest u to unlock BL to solve ur notification issues, u'll need root too and flash that gps+speedview mod zip.
As far as bloat is concerned, its a serius issue, miui keeps mining our private data in d background. So I wil move frm miui forever once LOS 16 official becomes stable, will never flash n use data mining miui.
as for my experience. in todays android i see not much benefit using custom roms. most of the things we need are on the play store already.
whats more important for me now is to unlock bootloader, custom recovery and root access. to remove unnecessary things my default os has
and wat about touch problems and lag ?
I bought my first smartphone in 2011 and a while after a rooted it and never went back.
Been on custom ROMs since then and i can tell you two things for 2019:
1. There's nothing a locked-unrooted phone can do that an unlocked-rooted phone can't do.
2. There's almost nothing an unlocked-rooted phone can do that a locked-unrooted phone can't do.
The matter is which workarounds piss you off the least.
If you choose the "unlocked/rooted/custom ROM" path, be prepared to do some research and find yourself here on XDA every other day (especially in the beginning).
Personally, i tried to play clean for about 2 months now that I got my Poco (locked-unrooted). Almost everything I needed could be done.
But old habits die hard. I want more. So i'm in my 40th hour of waiting for my bootloader to be unlocked atm...
My question would be why would you like to stay with that buggy, overbloated, intrusive and crappy interface called MIUI?
Xiaomi.eu version is less bloated.
Also install malakas Kernel and your good to go, no thermal throttling with module in kernel thread. Kernel works also with Los ROM.
As for root, just run magisk and hide root from apps that sniff for it.
There are many options out there.
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It is VERY worth it imho...
Sure it's a bit of a hassle to unlock the poco but just for the battery drain alone it's worth it.
I went from losing about 10% battery in a night ( all antenna's off , battery saver on ) to just 2% ...
Daytime battery drain has also massively improved.
Even if miui is to your liking you can still get a lot more benefits for unlocking and re-flashing the poco
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I play a lot of games so i definitely don't want to lose performance or don't want to be kicked out of fortnite. And i really like the miui gestures but also hate the bloat and notifications not coming etc. And how can i unlock my Pocophone?
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its totally worth it man
you should install oxygenos
it improved my battery life by 40%
jaysingh Kakas said:
its totally worth it man
you should install oxygenos
it improved my battery life by 40%
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Lol that was so long ago, don't worry i installed xiaomi eu like few weeks after and using it ever since.
I would say yes. Stock ROMs are nice in some ways, but I don't necessarily trust that they're not data mining. I've tried damn near every combination of every ROM and kernel available. I want speed, battery life and privacy. Official RevengeOS, Arter Kernel R7, F2FS, no gapps, no microg. That's my current setup and it blows stock MIUI clean out of the water.
Ultimately I guess it depends on your needs though.
All custom roms for poco is ****, all contains tons of bugs lmao,
None of them works for screencast , oxygen os,rescurretion remix rom started to bootloop after 7-8 hrs,
I ve tried rr, oxygen os, lineage os, crdroid already, all got problems,
So i installed back stock rom, rooted via magisk, and uninstalled stock apps which i dont needed.
Now i m happy
I recently got this phone with the intention of flashing it daily like I used to with my Nexus 5, however, so far, I have had no reason to run anything other than the stock MIUI. It works well, does what I need it to, and as long as it gets updated on a regular basis with security updates, will suffice.