Guys,
So I'll be spending three months abroad, and likely to travel a fair bit for my job in the next few years. I'd like to get myself a dual-sim phone - one sim with my current home phone number, the other for the US sim (or wherever I go). I've been looking at Xiaomi phones for a while now, and the RN3 SnapDragon is the best value, I would think.
My current phone is a Nexus 5X - I bought it because I love stock android. For me, MIUI is an absolute non-starter. (I've also got an HTC One M8, and tried MIUI 7 and 8 on it - can't stand it.) So I'd have to rely on custom ROMs.
Hence my question : Are any of the N ROMs on Kate stable for daily, dual-sim use? I've gotten used to N on my Nexus and would find it hard to go back to MM (but I could if needed). I mostly use my phone as a communications node (calls, texts), as a web browser, and as a music player in my car via BT.
Thanks much!
Camera Bugs and Flashlight are the most popular issues encountered in N ROMs, some apps crashing and like that. So, in my opinion, I'd stick with MM ROMs for now. I'm using the Lineage OS 13.0 ROM as my daily driver.
I'm using Resurrection remix for the last 4 days and since then no reboot was even needed, so it seems stable for me. There are small bugs, like the flashlight bug and disappearing battery information from the statusbar (this may be RR specific bug), but for me it's no big deal.
Sent from Note 3, Xiaomi Redmi Note 3.
Pretty much stable for me. The main problem are the incompatible camera HAL driver. But it's not big deal. Just flashlight toogle must pressed 2-3 times for turn on sometimes, and random crash on camera. It can be fixed by flashing google camera from OpenGapps.
Yes, use last cm official nightly. I'm using from 2 months without any issue
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Don't flash any custom kernel or anything
OK - so no crashes with Google Camera? Other than that (and the flashlight toggle), pretty stable on CM14.1? (And by CM, I assume you mean Lineage?)
Okay, so BabyTedhu said Google Camera works, so I flashed CM 14.1 with Stock GAPPS (Google Camera replaces Stock AOSP), is it by default that you can't save through SD card? There's no option to save thru SD card.
SilverJS said:
OK - so no crashes with Google Camera? Other than that (and the flashlight toggle), pretty stable on CM14.1? (And by CM, I assume you mean Lineage?)
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exce1ia said:
Okay, so BabyTedhu said Google Camera works, so I flashed CM 14.1 with Stock GAPPS (Google Camera replaces Stock AOSP), is it by default that you can't save through SD card? There's no option to save thru SD card.
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There's no option to save through sd card. It's set by google.
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Try nitrogen os rom. Most stable nougat for now. Camera and fp works fine with stock kernel
Nougat is pretty much stable already, but I would recommend getting a kenzo over a kate so that you can flash custom software easily. Also, it is slightly easier to find accesories for the kenzo.
Ya nitrogen os has no camera bug it is stable 99%. As compared to other Android 7 roms
Using RR nightly, Smooth & rare bugs which mentioned earlier.
Any Other better ROM than this? Nitrogen vs RR ? Which is best ?
Even Slim ROM shows stable build. Any EXP. on this ?
OK, awesome. Good to know. I wasn't tracking Nitrogen OS, thanks to whoever pointed that out. I'm a huge fan of the Slim series in general, really hoping that it'll be good to go on RN3 soon.
Thanks to everyone for the inputs! I was scared for a bit that I'd have to invest in a Mi5 (their Nougat ROMs seemed to be pretty stable, from what I could read), but glad to know I won't have to. This is just for a travel phone anyway, and the RN3 would be fine for that.
Cheers!
Go for Redmi note 3 pro(kenzo) as development for this model is absolutely amazing. Don't go for the (kate) as it's very difficult to mod that device and also can't flash custom ROM easily on it.
But he is getting the kate since he would be travelling a lot. So those extra bands might help him??
Well - my understanding is Kate only has one additional band (20) which wouldn't even be used in the States (where I'd do 60-70% of my travel). The regular Kenzo is still a fair bit better than most traditional Xiaomi phones in terms of LTE band availability. But honestly, LTE band availability is not a big deal to me. Any Xiaomi phone would be fine - I just talk/text, and do light web surfing when I'm using cell data. Most of my heavy lifting happens when I'm home or on a WiFi connection.
AFAIK, you can use Kenzo ROMs with Kate easily. Just flash Kate firmware-update folder.
Oh really?!? That makes a big difference then. But what do you mean : "Just flash Kate firmware-update folder"?
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Oh really?!? That makes a big difference then. But what do you mean : "Just flash Kate firmware-update folder"?
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MIUI ROMs contain a folder with firmware for the base band. That's the "firmware-update" folder I'm talking about. There are threads in this forum which provide Kate firmware to replace in Kenzo ROMs.
Hey guys, greetings from Africa! :laugh:
I have been using my Kenzo as a daily driver for more than a year now, and I would like to know from you the best configuration of ROM & Kernel to get better photos & videos from this camera.
I have tried many ROMs, but eventually I return to MiUI 8 Global Stable in order to get acceptable results from this Samsung sensor!
Please guys, if you have any suggestions for better camera performance I will be glad to hear!
Use the Google camera hdr+ port on nougat, it's much better than miui camera imo
Hi to all I'm coming from an iPhone 5 to this amazing phone the z ultra was wondering if anyone could help me find a good stable rom for daily use or share your experience on what rom you are using thank you
resurrectionremix 7.1 rom runs quite well, I installed it yesterday, you have to double tap the focus on the cam, but overall it seems to be pretty damn good.
Hello,
I'd like to discuss here about nougat builds.
I know that a lot of good Oreo and pie builds are getting out, but still I think nougat are smoother, games are playing faster, and MMS are just working!...
So the best I found is crDroid which have April security patch.
I've tried mokee, up to date, but really buggy and without much customisation...
The other ones are too old (2017)...
Which one do you use?
Any GoogleCam working in nougat?
Let's talk about it !...
Hey bro use viper N by devil7 almost all gcams work in nougat
Use ore it is good to use liquid remix by diferd
I'm using LiquidRemix by Difr and I must say there's not better ROM I think, so I highly recommend to use it
Hope you will like it
Cheers!
I am currently running pixel expierence rom but I saw Lineage Os is official released . But I also heard about xiaomi.eu all sound pretty good. What's your favourite and can you write some things why you use this rom ?
I learned to love the app gestures with the one bar.
On my Nexus 6 custom roms I loved the long press for torch feature.
Although every customisation feature is welcome
Thx
sounds like the story of most of us here
I tried eu miui 10 pie, miui pro 9.1.24, and oxygen os port 9.04.......if they fixed 3.5 mm audio output and Fm radio in the oxygen os port it will be the best but so far miuipro is best for me overall!
try crDroid
Hmmm. Ive heard that the best one today is OOS ..oxygen os. Ive read most of the oos users claim that its a very smooth gaming rom.. and im planning to try that one of these days..
Btw.. i dont give much time on any roms aesthetically. As long as its smooth in gaming.. it definitely suits my taste..