Camera losing focus on Pie roms - Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 / 5 Plus Questions & Answers

I've tried many Pie roms, and most of them seem to have problem with Google Camera. My camera is always losing focus on GCam, while the camera app coming with the roms worked fine. Google camera from Play Store also worked fine, but it didn't have HDR+. I've used many different GCam apks, from the oldest to the lastest, but this problem keeps happening. Is this GCam's problem or Pie's? Is there any way to solve this? Thanks in advance.
I'm currently using AEX Pie 20181028 with its kernel. I even tried to flash older firmware (of both MIUI 9 and 10) but no help.

I have tried many roms. The only pie rom that doesn't have this problem is ArrowOS pie
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Mahmud08 said:
I have tried many roms. The only pie rom that doesn't have this problem is ArrowOS pie
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Does ArrowOS have the ability to stop head ups like this? Check if you can find it in the rom's customization menu -> Notification or Status bar, something like that.

HungNgocPhat said:
Does ArrowOS have the ability to stop head ups like this? Check if you can find it in the rom's customization menu -> Notification or Status bar, something like that.
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Yeah it has Head Ups.

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Is your device stuttering that much on Oreo ROMs?

As in title. EVERY single oreo ROM works good for a while, and after like 2 hours it's starting to lag, stutter and is practically unusable. What's the reason behind that? Nougat ROMs works like a charm tho
I'm experiencing it too. I've tried 12 Oreo roms so far.
areallytinydot said:
I'm experiencing it too. I've tried 12 Oreo roms so far.
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Yes...
What nougat roms would yoy suggest for smoothness ?
Kevin Saiza said:
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What nougat roms would yoy suggest for smoothness ?
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DotOS, HalogenOS (<3), RR, FlymeOS (its actually Nougat, not Marshmallow).
It's a nice thing to hear that I am not the only one who is experiencing that :/
ReDuXX528 said:
DotOS, HalogenOS (<3), RR, FlymeOS (its actually Nougat, not Marshmallow).
It's a nice thing to hear that I am not the only one who is experiencing that :/
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Have you tried any custom kernel on oreo roms? I'm using AEX 5.1 a few days with velvet kernel and i'm still trying to figure out whether i stick to oreo or go back to rr.
akisg said:
Have you tried any custom kernel on oreo roms? I'm using AEX 5.1 a few days with velvet kernel and i'm still trying to figure out whether i stick to oreo or go back to rr.
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If you are experiencing those lags you should definitely go back to rr. Yeah I have tried every single kernel, but it seems that it's not a big help.
ReDuXX528 said:
If you are experiencing those lags you should definitely go back to rr. Yeah I have tried every single kernel, but it seems that it's not a big help.
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I haven't experienced any lags that make phone unusuable. A few spikes might come up when using and switching between heavy apps maybe, but not in a way that make phone feel laggy. I use this phone as a daily driver so i can't stand with lags etc. That was my main concern before switching to oreo, but it looks really fine to me. Also, using velvet kernel (limited to 1.6ghz by default) those tiny spikes i mentioned look normal to me. I don't use phone for gaming, so it's enough for me as long as battery and smoothness are balanced.
akisg said:
I haven't experienced any lags that make phone unusuable. A few spikes might come up when using and switching between heavy apps maybe, but not in a way that make phone feel laggy. I use this phone as a daily driver so i can't stand with lags etc. That was my main concern before switching to oreo, but it looks really fine to me. Also, using velvet kernel (limited to 1.6ghz by default) those tiny spikes i mentioned look normal to me. I don't use phone for gaming, so it's enough for me as long as battery and smoothness are balanced.
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Which Oreo ROM, you use ?
senpoos said:
Which Oreo ROM, you use ?
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I used AEX 5.1 for a few days with no problem. I just found a bug in airplane mode in this rom (which i don't like) so i decided to change rom once again Using Cardinal AOSP for a few hours, with same apps installed as in AEX, i find this rom much smoother.
akisg said:
I used AEX 5.1 for a few days with no problem. I just found a bug in airplane mode in this rom (which i don't like) so i decided to change rom once again Using Cardinal AOSP for a few hours, with same apps installed as in AEX, i find this rom much smoother.
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Try pressing recents button from home. If you have overlays like swipepad, you'll experience extreme stuttering when you go to recents from your homescreen.
This doesn't happen in nougat ROMs.
No,I am using RR official rom with android oreo.It's more smooth than miui or any other rom
mkkapoor461 said:
No,I am using RR official rom with android oreo.It's more smooth than miui or any other rom
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It struggles to render when you have a lot of overlays like swipepad or Facebook chat heads or some floating thingie on your screen. Since not everyone uses them, only a small number of people experience the stutters and hence their posts get ignored.
The issue is with "surfaceflinger", which is what is responsible for drawing UI elements. Test using swipepad on your RR ROM. Install it, enable it, go to home and press recents. If you're not sure, try more apps that draw on your screen (like screen filter, meteor swipe etc)
Please report the results here as I'd be happy to switch to any Oreo rom that doesn't have the issue (but I'm pretty sure I've tried them all and omnirom had it the least, so I'm on that). Also I'd like to know whether the OP uses any such apps.
Hello,
I'm on LOS 14 right now and I'm wondering if it is worth upgrade to Oreo. Is it still all that buggy with connection problems and what not?
i am using aosip rom with weeb kernal and custom sound mod i havent faced any issue all are working smooth. even i got higher benchmark than nougat..here some screenshot try with my combo if you want you will not get issue..
rajus6667 said:
i am using aosip rom with weeb kernal and custom sound mod i havent faced any issue all are working smooth. even i got higher benchmark than nougat..here some screenshot try with my combo if you want you will not get issue..
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I got the same benchmark results in both nougat and Oreo.
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Test using swipepad on your RR ROM. Install it, enable it, go to home and press recents. If you're not sure, try more apps that draw on your screen (like screen filter, meteor swipe etc).
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Did you try with any of these apps? I know it doesn't lag or stutter when no such apps are enabled.
areallytinydot said:
It struggles to render when you have a lot of overlays like swipepad or Facebook chat heads or some floating thingie on your screen. Since not everyone uses them, only a small number of people experience the stutters and hence their posts get ignored.
The issue is with "surfaceflinger", which is what is responsible for drawing UI elements. Test using swipepad on your RR ROM. Install it, enable it, go to home and press recents. If you're not sure, try more apps that draw on your screen (like screen filter, meteor swipe etc)
Please report the results here as I'd be happy to switch to any Oreo rom that doesn't have the issue (but I'm pretty sure I've tried them all and omnirom had it the least, so I'm on that). Also I'd like to know whether the OP uses any such apps.
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Do you think that also affects games that uses multiple touch? Because on every rom whenever i play games that requires two different action to be done at same time touch screen flies and "malfunctions".
blaspheme000 said:
Do you think that also affects games that uses multiple touch? Because on every rom whenever i play games that requires two different action to be done at same time touch screen flies and "malfunctions".
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Depends on the game. Do all of those games behave like that or is it one specific game?
areallytinydot said:
Depends on the game. Do all of those games behave like that or is it one specific game?
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Only play mobile legends and coc. On oreo roms its hard to multi touch its way to sensitive and the touch is way too shaky. After downgrading to nougat it was fixed. Maybe it is the surfacefling thing.
blaspheme000 said:
Only play mobile legends and coc. On oreo roms its hard to multi touch its way to sensitive and the touch is way too shaky. After downgrading to nougat it was fixed. Maybe it is the surfacefling thing.
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I'm not sure
CanBostanci said:
Hello,
I'm on LOS 14 right now and I'm wondering if it is worth upgrade to Oreo. Is it still all that buggy with connection problems and what not?
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In my opinion, stay with Nougat for now. There are many awesome Oreo ROMs out there (thanks to the amazing developers) but most of them have some bugs. If you want stability, I suggest you stick to Lineage or any other nougat ROM for now.
Kudos to developers!

Best Oreo ROM with Customizations? (currently planning to go with RR Oreo)

I'm currently using NitrogenOS Oreo, but I'm having a little bit of issue with Play Store not auto-updating my apps when I charge my phone, and Facebook being wonky. I want to try out Resurrection Remix Oreo, but I'm not sure if it has any known issues, since they don't write it on their main post, so any RR users out there can tell me how it is?
And I would also like to hear suggestions for other Oreo ROMs which are stable and has customizations like NOS or RR. One feature I really like about NOS is the ability to turn off heads-up notifications in specified apps, which is really useful in games, when I can still hear the notification but don't get visual interruptions.
Thanks for reading my long post and I'd appreciate any help given!!
No issues on RR remix too ,all Oreo ROMs are same
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I'm currently using NitrogenOS Oreo, but I'm having a little bit of issue with Play Store not auto-updating my apps when I charge my phone, and Facebook being wonky. I want to try out Resurrection Remix Oreo, but I'm not sure if it has any known issues, since they don't write it on their main post, so any RR users out there can tell me how it is?
And I would also like to hear suggestions for other Oreo ROMs which are stable and has customizations like NOS or RR. One feature I really like about NOS is the ability to turn off heads-up notifications in specified apps, which is really useful in games, when I can still hear the notification but don't get visual interruptions.
Thanks for reading my long post and I'd appreciate any help given!!
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Are u using official gapps ?
naik2902 said:
Are u using official gapps ?
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Yes, if the one from http://opengapps.org is what you mean by "official".

Heads Up Stoplist in MIUI 10?

Hey guys, I've been using custom ROMs for an extended amount of time, and I'm thinking of going back to MIUI to see if I can live with it, since I find the scrolling screenshot quite useful, and also the swiping on the hardware buttons to enter One-Handed Mode.
However, there's this thing about custom ROMs that I really like, which is the ability to add an app (example a game) to the Stoplist of Heads Up notifications, which prevents them from popping up while I am in that specific app. Is there any way to achieve the same thing in MIUI?
Thanks for any response and help
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Hey guys, I've been using custom ROMs for an extended amount of time, and I'm thinking of going back to MIUI to see if I can live with it, since I find the scrolling screenshot quite useful, and also the swiping on the hardware buttons to enter One-Handed Mode.
However, there's this thing about custom ROMs that I really like, which is the ability to add an app (example a game) to the Stoplist of Heads Up notifications, which prevents them from popping up while I am in that specific app. Is there any way to achieve the same thing in MIUI?
Thanks for any response and help
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From Marshmallow to Oreo there is lot of difference in the core of the framework. Oreo brings u lot of features further in blocking notification individually.
miui marshmallow is fully stable but u will miss those more customisation in MM.
naik2902 said:
From Marshmallow to Oreo there is lot of difference in the core of the framework. Oreo brings u lot of features further in blocking notification individually.
miui marshmallow is fully stable but u will miss those more customisation in MM.
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One of the reasons I'm thinking of going with MIUI 10 Beta is because of battery life. I own this phone for a little over 2 years now, and most of the posts or videos I've seen says Nougat has better battery than Oreo, and Marshmallow has better battery than Nougat. Is it really a big difference, now that Nougat and Oreo have been released for quite a while now?
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One of the reasons I'm thinking of going with MIUI 10 Beta is because of battery life. I own this phone for a little over 2 years now, and most of the posts or videos I've seen says Nougat has better battery than Oreo, and Marshmallow has better battery than Nougat. Is it really a big difference, now that Nougat and Oreo have been released for quite a while now?
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U can install pixel experience rom oreo. I think it has good SOT.
I m on cardinal treble rom. I m getting good battery.
If u getting like 1. 5 days of battery after doing normal use on marshmallow then better switch.
If u want miui then u can install Miui Eu rom. Its lighter miui with only playstore. No unnecessary stock gapps running background. May be will offer u more bttery.
naik2902 said:
U can install pixel experience rom oreo. I think it has good SOT.
I m on cardinal treble rom. I m getting good battery.
If u getting like 1. 5 days of battery after doing normal use on marshmallow then better switch.
If u want miui then u can install Miui Eu rom. Its lighter miui with only playstore. No unnecessary stock gapps running background. May be will offer u more bttery.
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Pixel Experience doesn't have the Heads Up Stoplist feature, does it?
Imminance said:
Pixel Experience doesn't have the Heads Up Stoplist feature, does it?
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Dont know dude.
Pixel experience will give u stock android experience. Very minimal customisation.
I use cardinal aosp or aosp extended. These are my favourites. I will stay with oreo atleast for another 6 months before pie gets android 9.1 update.
Now cardinal aosp is in treble format. If u want to try it then use treble recovery. Check battery by urself. I cant tell.
I m not much into notification blocking. Neither i spend time in setting permission for every app.
naik2902 said:
Dont know dude.
Pixel experience will give u stock android experience. Very minimal customisation.
I use cardinal aosp or aosp extended. These are my favourites. I will stay with oreo atleast for another 6 months before pie gets android 9.1 update.
Now cardinal aosp is in treble format. If u want to try it then use treble recovery. Check battery by urself. I cant tell.
I m not much into notification blocking. Neither i spend time in setting permission for every app.
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Ah alright, thanks for all the helpful info and input you've provided!
Imminance said:
Ah alright, thanks for all the helpful info and input you've provided!
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Install telegram app. You will find lot of assistance there. Just search kenzo in telegram. And many group of kenzo and diffrent roms u will find.
All xda devs are very active and u can chat and get input and fast response. :good:
Imminance said:
Hey guys, I've been using custom ROMs for an extended amount of time, and I'm thinking of going back to MIUI to see if I can live with it, since I find the scrolling screenshot quite useful, and also the swiping on the hardware buttons to enter One-Handed Mode.
However, there's this thing about custom ROMs that I really like, which is the ability to add an app (example a game) to the Stoplist of Heads Up notifications, which prevents them from popping up while I am in that specific app. Is there any way to achieve the same thing in MIUI?
Thanks for any response and help
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http://en.miui.com/thread-1089598-1-1.html
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http://en.miui.com/thread-1089598-1-1.html
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Oooh thanks for pointing this out!

With this many roms available, which one to choose.

I'm now using LineageOS, which is nice, stable enough for daily.
But I'm curious about all other roms, what are the differences?
I think miui.eu is the closest to stock miui (it's a stock without ads), still contain a lot of mi-malware.
LineageOS is quite close to AOSP, but what about all the AOiSP, PixelEx, Arrow, RR, Nitro, Dot?
What are the major "selling points" of these roms?
From what I read RR is the most ...take them all... rom, that take every mod possible, but I never know about the other.
On personal level I would either prefer Lineage OS or Pixel Experience,bcoz LOS provides a lot of cool features for near stock like experience and PixEx bcoz I love pixels software experience
Well for the moment in my personal opinion i tried all rom's: went back to miui 9 or 10 beta
Installing aosp based custom roms feels like a visual downgrade for me (even the pixel one) its also full of bugs at the moment and its not as near as responsive / smooth like miui sorry
For now, using EU based MI-Globe Rom 8.10.18. Battery life is not great. Rom needs debloating.
Not using poco as daily driver.
Well it depends on user to user some prefer simple UI with good battery life and some prefer customisation with good performance personally I prefer performance over battery life and nothing comes close to stock as of now because most ROMs available for our device are not built from our device trees.
Adios2nd said:
I'm now using LineageOS, which is nice, stable enough for daily.
But I'm curious about all other roms, what are the differences?
I think miui.eu is the closest to stock miui (it's a stock without ads), still contain a lot of mi-malware.
LineageOS is quite close to AOSP, but what about all the AOiSP, PixelEx, Arrow, RR, Nitro, Dot?
What are the major "selling points" of these roms?
From what I read RR is the most ...take them all... rom, that take every mod possible, but I never know about the other.
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What sort of ads ,I don't see any .
Aimara said:
What sort of ads ,I don't see any .
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They call them "Recommendation". Huge freaking ads in their app.
NĒØRËXTÊR said:
On personal level I would either prefer Lineage OS or Pixel Experience,bcoz LOS provides a lot of cool features for near stock like experience and PixEx bcoz I love pixels software experience
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As far as I know, never tried myself, Pixel Ex contains more google apps (and pixel specific apps) than other rom, right?
Have you tried Arrow or Dot or RR.
What are the differences among them?
Adios2nd said:
As far as I know, never tried myself, Pixel Ex contains more google apps (and pixel specific apps) than other rom, right?
Have you tried Arrow or Dot or RR.
What are the differences among them?
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I'm a RR fanboy from LP days so I can tell you a bit about it. In summary, RR contains almost all customisations from every ROM available in a single package.
But then again, why doesn't everyone use RR? Because not everybody likes a plethora of options, and not everybody needs them.
Try Lineage first with pico gapps. Then, download the add-ons you need from the playstore. When you reach a stable enough condition for your daily use, re-evaluate your needs. If you think you're comfortable with not getting 10+ options of customisation on Status bar clock and happy with what you have, then you've met your match.
Otherwise, hop on mate!
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For now, using EU based MI-Globe Rom 8.10.18. Battery life is not great. Rom needs debloating.
Not using poco as daily driver.
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Does the Mi-globe rom have the volume button for Media per default or it's Ringing per default ? So when you are on homescreen when you push a volume button does it change the Media volume or Ringing/notification volume ?
Because on Global it's Media but on Xiaomi.eu it's Ringing..
miui globe rom is the most customizable rom like miui stock rom. Practically you assemble and config the rom of your own way in the globesite. Battery, speed and weekly update whitin rom. to use a different rom of the miui´s on a xiomi is not using the whole potential of the hardware....
Any cusrom with IR cam work? (Except miui based rom ofc)
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Any cusrom with IR cam work? (Except miui based rom ofc)
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Not yet.
Only miui stock roms have ir cam at the moment.
iamsubhranil said:
I'm a RR fanboy from LP days so I can tell you a bit about it. In summary, RR contains almost all customisations from every ROM available in a single package.
But then again, why doesn't everyone use RR? Because not everybody likes a plethora of options, and not everybody needs them.
Try Lineage first with pico gapps. Then, download the add-ons you need from the playstore. When you reach a stable enough condition for your daily use, re-evaluate your needs. If you think you're comfortable with not getting 10+ options of customisation on Status bar clock and happy with what you have, then you've met your match.
Otherwise, hop on mate!
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Actually, I'm quite happy with LOS without add-on.
But I'm also curious with outher roms, how much more customisation I could get out of them.
It all boils down to your preference. each rom has its own implementation of things/features which in my opinion is great since android enthusiasts can choose a rom that fits one's preference.
jurarj said:
miui globe rom is the most customizable rom like miui stock rom. Practically you assemble and config the rom of your own way in the globesite. Battery, speed and weekly update whitin rom. to use a different rom of the miui´s on a xiomi is not using the whole potential of the hardware....
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Is there any bloatware in globe, has it all been removed?
I tried almost all roms myself and in the end setteld with miui eu rom. This means a lot for me since I always flashed aosp rom onto my phone and used Nexus 5X prior to Pocophone.
Miui 10 is actually quite nice looking. And after debloating it runs fine.
To be honest, today you can swap most apps to a different ones you prefer. I personally installed Google Dialer, Contacts, Messaging, Photos, Calendar, Claculator, Notes and uninstalled all build in miui apps. Installed Google Sans font.
Because of this everyday usage is quite close to stock android, with exception of settings and few ui elements.
I personally would love to see good stock android theme for miui 10. I tried few but none of them look very good.
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Not yet.
Only miui stock roms have ir cam at the moment.
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Does IR work on miui globe rom?
tejjoshii said:
Does IR work on miui globe rom?
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Yes, it works. Of course on the countries enabled.
If your country doesn't have the ir camera, You can always switch your region to a country that has ir camera unlocked.
tejjoshii said:
Does IR work on miui globe rom?
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As mentioned above you need to select supported region, list of which was extend recently.
Added counties work on MIUI 10 beta, not sure about MIUI 9

Wifi, Calls and Xiaomi Parts not working, when installing a custom ROM.

Hello everyone, I am not a really experienced ROM user/rooter. Two months ago, I tried installing my first ROM to my Mi 8 Lite, Havoc OS. Everything worked great, until I noticed, that Wifi is not working. I also noticed calls are not functioning as well, because when I try to start one, my phone freezes, and I have to restart it. Also a message kept popping up, saying that Xiaomi Parts crashed.
I thought that it's a problem with the Havoc OS Mi 8 Lite port, so I tried installing RR OS as well. The Wifi worked on this one, but calls still froze the phone.
I have no idea what I have done wrong. Some people told me that it is probably a firmware bug, but I don't really know what I can do to fix that.
I really want to switch to an AOSP ROM, because I just purely hate MIUI, the only good thing about it for me, is the gesture navigation, but we'll get an even better in Android Q, once AOSP for q releases, so I really don't mind switching.
Can someone please help me figuring out this problem?
MartonDev said:
Hello everyone, I am not a really experienced ROM user/rooter. Two months ago, I tried installing my first ROM to my Mi 8 Lite, Havoc OS. Everything worked great, until I noticed, that Wifi is not working. I also noticed calls are not functioning as well, because when I try to start one, my phone freezes, and I have to restart it. Also a message kept popping up, saying that Xiaomi Parts crashed.
I thought that it's a problem with the Havoc OS Mi 8 Lite port, so I tried installing RR OS as well. The Wifi worked on this one, but calls still froze the phone.
I have no idea what I have done wrong. Some people told me that it is probably a firmware bug, but I don't really know what I can do to fix that.
I really want to switch to an AOSP ROM, because I just purely hate MIUI, the only good thing about it for me, is the gesture navigation, but we'll get an even better in Android Q, once AOSP for q releases, so I really don't mind switching.
Can someone please help me figuring out this problem?
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Havoc OS is a little odd. You need to be on stable miui firmware to flash rom. After rom flash latest dev firmware. All should be fine after that. Also with havoc you can use multiple gesture styles. Plus if you add the nav bar toggle in qs you can use both. Enable gestures then toggle nav bar.
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Havoc OS is a little odd. You need to be on stable miui firmware to flash rom. After rom flash latest dev firmware. All should be fine after that. Also with havoc you can use multiple gesture styles. Plus if you add the nav bar toggle in qs you can use both. Enable gestures then toggle nav bar.
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Yes, thank you, someone also told me to flash another firmware.
And about the gesture, I know I can use them in havoc, but the problem with them is that they don't have natural animations.

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