Hello everyone, after many years I switched from Huawei to Poco F3 and went back to playing with rooting for a while The first thing I did was wait a week and unlock the boot loader, after which I installed twrp-3 -5-1-20210702 and the latest version of Magisk is installed from recovery. Everything ok with root and recovery on my MIUI global 12.5.6 stable ROM. However, I have some questions:
- I was a long way behind with the TWRP part, so I ask you if I want to try to install a custom rom how I do the backup the current system? I remember backing up boot + system + data, is that enough to roll back in case of problems? I saw many video and read many guides but most are confusing me
- The xiaomi account I don't know at what point became unusable, I can't even take it off the phone, nor can I use it to sync data to the cloud. It's normal? I see that the finddevice process consumes a lot of battery and I wanted to either remove the account or at least make it work, maybe it consumes less.
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Hi, my oneplus 3 has been really laggy and slow after updates and a year of use. After looking into solutions, factory resets and custom roms seemed to fixed these problems.
My oneplus is rooted and I've got lots of data (the apps, my note pad and my precious photos.) I know I can just reinstall it or restart my photos from google photos (but it's got no mass download so it's gonna be a pain restoring it all.)
So I'm just asking for a Good custom rom to install for OnePlus 3 without losing any data and my root. Thanks! :fingers-crossed:
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Hi, my oneplus 3 has been really laggy and slow after updates and a year of use. After looking into solutions, factory resets and custom roms seemed to fixed these problems.
My oneplus is rooted and I've got lots of data (the apps, my note pad and my precious photos.) I know I can just reinstall it or restart my photos from google photos (but it's got no mass download so it's gonna be a pain restoring it all.)
So I'm just asking for a Good custom rom to install for OnePlus 3 without losing any data and my root. Thanks! :fingers-crossed:
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You need not lose anything if you follow the advice given for flashing custom ROMS. Choose the ROM, go through the instructions, read atleast the last couple of pages of the thread (more if possible) and flash the ROM.
As to what is good, each person's requirements differ, so the best thing would be to choose a few ROMs based on the features you want, read their threads and choose. You can flash a different ROM if the chosen one doesn't perform according to your requirements.
Instead of factory resetting, try a clean flash of OOS 5.0.1 itself first.
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Hi, my oneplus 3 has been really laggy and slow after updates and a year of use. After looking into solutions, factory resets and custom roms seemed to fixed these problems.
My oneplus is rooted and I've got lots of data (the apps, my note pad and my precious photos.) I know I can just reinstall it or restart my photos from google photos (but it's got no mass download so it's gonna be a pain restoring it all.)
So I'm just asking for a Good custom rom to install for OnePlus 3 without losing any data and my root. Thanks! :fingers-crossed:
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Currently I'm using z- unleashed and for 8.1 oreo it is the most stable and smooth rom and talking about your data your internal memory will be safe and use titanium backup to backup apps.
If I am in a class of 1 in terms of rank stupidity please feel free to delete this post. :silly:I got sick of the updater nags. With a couple of previous Xiaomi phones I got away with finally saying yes to the OTA update which would inevitably fail after which the nags would stop for a good long while.
Not this time. I now have Miui 11 (which I did not want and which has a completely broken feedback function, btw) but lost root, magisk, and exposed.
I should also note that another Max 3 user posted here that permitting the OTA update bricked their device, so I guess things could be worse.
About to see if I can re root using the same method as before the update.
Sorry if I wasted anyone's time on the blindingly obvious.
Update: The Miui 11 OTA update completely broke screencasting on my phone. While previous updates crippled native miracast you could still use it within apps such as media players prime video etc. Not anymore. The new casting and widi settings see devices but do not connect successfully while apps with casting ability see no devices at all. If I can't get around anti rollback I'll have to buy a new phone.
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Update: The Miui 11 OTA update completely broke screencasting on my phone. While previous updates crippled native miracast you could still use it within apps such as media players prime video etc. Not anymore. The new casting and widi settings see devices but do not connect successfully while apps with casting ability see no devices at all. If I can't get around anti rollback I'll have to buy a new phone.
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Don't worry about anti-rollback unless you go back to rom that has no anti rollback. I go from miui 10 global to miuieu 11 P beta to miuieu 11 Q beta then back to miuieu 10 P stable. Now I settled on miuieu 11 P stable, yes miui 11 Q is very buggy. A few of my app don't work properly.
[Fix] Root on latest MIUI 11 build !
Just update Magisk Manager to 20.2 !
What's with a screen when charging, it keeps turnin on? Happens after MIUI 10 install...
Since the first version of Android Q, I could never do it Root, I can't make Magisk work, whatever I do.
I install it without problems, but when restarting it is not installed, I never have root.
Try 20.1 and 20.2, it still doesn't work.
I have a Mi Max 3 6/128
I installed the latest Miui 11 OTA update last night - taking a full Orangefox backup beforehand. After reboot, the phone was full of ads suddenly and it took me a while to figure out that root had been removed. I soon discovered that Orangefox had also been removed and replaced with a clunky-looking version of TWRP. I reflashed Orangefox and Magisk - coming back to recovery inbetween-times and it booted fine but the ads were still there so I tried to install Xposed via Magisk and that seems to have pretty much soft-bricked it. I can get into Orangefox where it said 'No Rom' which didn't seem like a good sign. I tried to re-flash the full backup I'd made with Organgefox yesterday (and this not really understanding Orange fox that well) but that hung at 'System image' - so I tried to flash without that and that succeeded but it's still totally bootlooping.
I'd very much appreciate some advice:
1. The Orangefox backup I made was with all the boxes ticked - i.e back up everything. I have the dim idea that trying to simply restore all of this won't work (it certainly doesn't seem to work). What parts of the full backup should I try to restore?
2. If I install the latest Global Miui 10 ROM - which is still Android 9 - using the Miui repair tool, will this brick the phone because of ARB? Or is it safe to do this?
3. Will dirty-flashing the latest Miui 11 rom via OrangeFox likely make something I can at least boot up and get some data (it turns out that 'SMS backup and restore' hasn't been working for weeks so I don't have a pile of work texts that I really wouldn't like to lose)?
4. Any other suggestion most gratefully received. Thanks in advance.
(Thinking about it, this thread is for the OTA breaking the MI Max 3, not my particular woes with restoring an Orange Fox backup - so, with apologies, I'll post in the Mi Max3/Orange Fox thread.)
PS: Flashing the OTA again fixed it, short term: no root is better than no phone.
So I've read enough posts to get this first - GLOBAL ONLY I got my phone on Amazon its a global unlocked NOTE8PRO. Any of you with something else like China or India try this method and brick your phone don't cry to me over it. After trial and error, bricking my device and paying some guy in Spain 30EUR to unbrick it (thanks brother you rock) I thought I'd share my final experience and how you can get your GLOBAL RN8P to a stable place to install the ROMS available at this time. I will include at the end my thoughts on the 2 ROMS I installed and used over the past week. Honestly if you're on a global version I'm not sure it's worth it although as I type this I kinda want to flash Pixel Experience again, I really liked it. But more on that later. I compiled this guide from sources here, if I don't give you credit I apologize in advance please just let me know.
First let's make sure we don't brick this mofo.
Hit the MEGA thread if you haven't read it then you shouldn't be flashing your phone, and do this from a clean install of MIUI-V11.0.6.0PGGMIXM and do yourself a favor and get it from Xiaomi or a reliable source, not everyone on here has good intentions. There are some "official" ROMS out there that have been played with and will break your phone.
1. Do it how you want I did this from fastboot. Dump the official MIUI global ROM in a folder, and (I'm on linux box so adjust yourself if you're sadly using Windows) I executed this command from FASTBOOT in the MIUI ROM folder with ADB and FASTBOOT installed for my system.
./flash_all.sh (I think its flash_all.bat for Windows)
This going to wipe your stuff out, have it backed up. I'm dedicated to Google and GDRIVE I don't care I get everything back when I wipe including sms and phone records etc, but to each his own.
It's going to wipe and restore to factory image on that ROM version and you're going to go throught setup again, tedious (I say that having done it 4 times this week) but none the less it is what it is. After you are up and running on that ROM version keeping in mind if you're going to flash a new ROM like PE then don't set it up all the way because you're going to do it all over again anyways move to the next step.
2. From the MEGA thread flash this and reboot. Read the thread download the files and do what Agent_fabulous (awesome guy btw) says. Reboot. Make sure you can reboot to SYSTEM and all is well, don't worry about recovery or bootloader yet.
Code:
fastboot flash preloader preloader_begonia.bin
fastboot flash lk lk.img
fastboot flash lk2 lk.img
3. OK kids we're almost there, now you need to install TWRP and there are MANY versions floating around. Honestly the official version sucks IMHO. go to this thread and download TWRP and do exactly what it says in the thread. Assuming you're device is unlocked already and if its not then come back later follow EXACTLY steps 2 and 3. From there you will update MAGISK after the reboot and be fully rooted and pass SaftyNet checks.
You are stable and rooted. All you do next is enjoy your rooted device and or install a custom ROM. If you do install a custom ROM - READ READ READ and FOLLOW directions I hate to add to the confusuion but there are so many threads on this phone (becasue it sucks to MOD it) and it's frustrating because all of it assumes you know everything or they just don't give you all the steps and you end up bricking your phone. I have never by the way rooted or flashed a phone in my life before this one.
At this time all the custom ROMS need to be flashed after flashing the Indian Vendor image, this is in fact the only way I know and it worked for me everytime. So at this point if you're flashing a new ROM first flash the India Vendor image then flash the new from all from TWRP. But in my experience just follow what it says because Agent_fabulous and friends may crack this tomorrow and it won't be the same. What I am giving you is a VERY stable platform to start flashing ROMS from or just to be rooted and happy. As an FYI from this you can install RIRU and EdXposed if you want to do that, I wasn't impressed other than dark mode in GMail on A9 and ad-blocking in YouTube, I get the ads in YouTube but Google no dark mode in GMail on A9? WTF??
Happy rooting and ROMing.
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Hi, I would want to ask you some questions. Is it completely fine to flash ROMs? And by it, would it help out fix battery usage? Eg: Android system. Pretty much why I am looking forwards by flashing custom ROM's. And, have you tried Pixel Experience on the global version of redmi note 8 pro? I am looking forward to it.
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Hi, I would want to ask you some questions. Is it completely fine to flash ROMs? And by it, would it help out fix battery usage? Eg: Android system. Pretty much why I am looking forwards by flashing custom ROM's. And, have you tried Pixel Experience on the global version of redmi note 8 pro? I am looking forward to it.
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Given how aggressive the battery optimizer is on stock, I doubt you'll get more juice out of it.
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Hi, I would want to ask you some questions. Is it completely fine to flash ROMs? And by it, would it help out fix battery usage? Eg: Android system. Pretty much why I am looking forwards by flashing custom ROM's. And, have you tried Pixel Experience on the global version of redmi note 8 pro? I am looking forward to it.
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It's fine to flash ROMs I felt PE was way faster the audio was better over Bluetooth and it was pretty stable. Battery improvement was negligible.
@dcindallas glad you had such a nice experience. have you tried flashing miui 12 on it? seems there are some beta versions for it. seems to bring a lot of eye candy, privacy and performance fixes. give it a go.
@dcindallas hi, can you please add a portion for updating miui rom through twrp (when new version available) the procedure. thanks.
I've not flashed anything but custom ROMS I had to wipe go back to A9 stock ROM due to Pixel Experience dropping wifi constantly.
Well, I appreciate all the effort going into this thread and this device. Thru all the reading I've done on this simple project with different advice, it almost seems there's too much info on it. Anyway, I'm having a dickens of a time with it, just getting it to load up TWRP! I thought I followed all the directions.. y'know... hold this button, dont hold this one, release this one, then repress that one... but I got a bootloop just from flashing TWRP. I had to re-flash the whole MIUI (an older one even) with Mi Flash, the only one I could find that had a flash-all script in it.
I'm a little gun shy, but I'd sure like to give it a go again.
I flashed twrp-3.3.1-0-begonia.img, then rebooted. Any advice why I bootlooped? Was it the TWRP version or did I mess up the button press?
Cheers
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rodagola said:
Hello everyone on xda, please bare with me. Here's my story
I own a Redmi Note 8 pro, chinese rom model. It was running miui 11.0.3 over android 9 If I recall correctly.
Ok so... I was tired of some of the china apps pushing their notifications over and over and auto installing stuff, so I looked up how to apply adb commands to remove such bloatware, which was a fairly simple process. I copied and pasted a list of safe stuff to delete I found around some forums.
then... there were some other packages I checked out using an app called "app inspector", which directly tells you which app is under which package (totally useful for this purpose).
I tried to be careful not go overboard since I don't have any root access, or custom recovery, and wasn't really planning to have these, just wanted to keep this as my simple daily driver cellphone, but also perform this little maneuver to get rid of some bloatware.
little did I know, I was about to somehow softbrick it. More info: I did not use a screen lock method other than the "swipe up".
Ok, so I uninstalled some packages I cannot remember exactly how they went, but they had the terms "xman" and "yman" on them I think, I wasn't so sure about them because I looked them up on the web yet they didn't appear anywhere. I think they went something among the lines of "com.android.miui.xman". I also uninstalled 2 or 3 more, but after googling, they seemed unsuspecting.
Anyways, I'm aware there's a command to reinstall the packages because they're still on the phone's ROM image. That is in case I had to restore anything back to normal. Turns out I later rebooted the phone and when it launches the lock screen, I keep swiping up but it won't take me over to the actual MIUI launcher. The screen is frozen on the lock screen.
I'm not freaking out at this time because I still tried to connect the device to the pc, and it still shows as connected, I then go to the adb console and type "adb devices", it is still recognized, however, it says next to it that it is unauthorized... damn it. So now I might not be able to run the commands that allow me to reinstall the exact packages that are rendering the phone softbricked (I guess), plus I'm not really sure which package caused this.
After about a minute or two on the lock screen, the phone takes me to the "redmi-recovery 3.0",
which displays 3 options:
Reboot to system: which basically forms a loop
Wipe date: godforbid... really don't want to do it since I likely had many files not backedup
Contact miassistant: not sure what to do with this, says "pcsuite.mi.com" at the bottom
on the miassistant option you can apparently sideload stuff, idk how to go about this, maybe it allows me to install a slightly upgraded ROM, which in turn will work the same as if it was an OTA update (so it will keep my data as it was instead of wipe)? Because the point is not to erase my user data!!
I'm not sure how to feel or what to do without losing my pictures, notes and documents
I have hopes this situation can be turned around back to normal, and like the title implies... I'm WILLING to PAY you through paypal or something to WHOEVER offers to guide me through in the best way possible. Please if you have the knowledge/experience don't hesitate I'll also be grateful timelessly.
I'm not an expert at these scenarios so I might as well ask on xda where most are really skilled! Thanks in advance to those amazing souls
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tldr;
If you can boot into fastboot mode you can just flash a official MIUI fastboot ROM:
Xiaomi Firmware Updater (where you can download official MIUI ROMS): https://xiaomifirmwareupdater.com/
This is the current hard unbrick method: https://telegra.ph/Installing-Redmi-Note-8-Pro-firmware-via-SP-Flash-Tool-01-21
It should also work in your case and there's even a video guide.
This is another video guide for fixing a hard brick:
Both methods above will format your phone though (afaik all data will be lost).
Compass.
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are these the kind of roms that you unzip and have the BL, AP, CP, CSC files? I could try that, but I've heard installing home_csc will not override/wipe my personal data. If this is what you meant, can you confirm? Or do you reckon these linked video tutorials would not wipe the data?
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Nope, it doesn't.
If you can boot into Fastboot, flash the ROM using Mi Flash, otherwise, use this tutorial:
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Compass Linux and juliusjr have told you the method, so I will just add supplemential infos.
In your case, I think simple upgrade will do the trick, dirty flash is applicable both via fastboot flash (mi flash) and recovery flash (the mi assistant method). If you want to stop the ads, I will recommend you to unlock your bootloader, move to global, root, and use an adblocker (a bare minimum config, in trade of some bangking apps being blocked).
I don't know the corresponding version for miui china rom, but in global rom, prior 12.0.0.7 (the one with the early 2021 security update), you can dirty flash back and forth while keeping your data.
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rodagola said:
Hi, thanks for your info, I would like to try the mi flash tool as I've been told before the stock recovery thing has less chances of working. However, I had dev options turned on before but didn't manage to turn on the "OEM unlock" option, will flashing original ROMs work this way? or did I need that option toogled on? That's my last doubt, and thanks a lot. Btw, the China ROM this Redmi N8P had never ever showed me any ads, but thanks a lot as well for such input
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You still have a locked bootloader? (How do I know? You will see "Unloked" on the bottom of the screen everytime your device reboots and showing mi logo if your device is unlocked)
Hmm, mechanically it work like normal ota update. Full recovery update will ony erase nessesary partitions (system, boot, and some other things) while keeping your data intact. So doing this to your phone technically safe. You can do this with MiFlashPro, do a recovery update using a recovery rom (the 2 gigs one) greater than your current MIUI version. But please bear in mind that I have never done this before to a locked phone. A same distribution version IS A MUST (i.e. global with global).
Oh and it will need you to log in to your xiaomi account. My guess is you need the flash permission open for your account (if you have unlocked your phone you shouldn't have a problem). I have never flashed with an account that never have been used to unlock a bootloader, so I might be wrong.
If your phone is bootloader unlocked, Mi Flash is the least demanding and it can retain your data with "save user data" in the bottom right corner option on, regardless your miui version (but I think there will be some problem with installed apps if you downgrade from A10 to A9).
Hope this help.
Hi everyone, im here bc i encountered battery issues cause to process called logd. I have a poco f3 by june and i was really satisfied for the duration battery of this phone but then this process started to appear and slowly became stronger and stronger. I thought it would leave alone by itself so i didnt gave it much importance; In the last weeks it became exaggerated as u can see in the photo, it consumes more than the screen. I tried to search on google and some people recommended to reset the phone than other people who reset the phone said that it doesnt go away, so im going to ask to you. There's a way to deactivate this process without rooting or reset? what would you do in this case? I was also thinking about changing rom bc as i saw it is very common on poco's phones.
another problem I encountered si that often when i turn off the phone it gets stuck in the boot with the logo POCO for minutes and minutes.
Unfortunately.. imo the solution is just with unlocking your bootloader.. then install another MIUI version rom..
What MIUI version rom you've used currently..?
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Unfortunately.. imo the solution is just with unlocking your bootloader.. then install another MIUI version rom..
What MIUI version rom you've used currently..?
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Im on 12.5.7 i never touched anything, clearly stock
sangonomiya kokomi said:
Im on 12.5.7 i never touched anything, clearly stock
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yes..i think it's just a software issue..rom bugs
So my advice to fix your problem..you must unlocking your bootloader first, then after you can try flashing another version rom, MIUI official, Xiaomi.EU, or another AOSP cusrom (but this process will also erasing your data, so do a backup your important data first before doing unlock process)