Root Quick question about MIUI and prerequisties

[matt.burns21]

So, on November 16th, I gave myself a birthday present and made the jump from .340 Froyo to .605 GB thanks to the beautifully crafted sticky at the top of this forum.

Anyhow, I have tried out Liberty, Shuji and am currently on aPex RC4. Like stated previously, I am running .605. I made myself a stock rooted nandroid backup whenever I rooted .605.

So, in summary:

I am running .605 on apex rc4
My baseband version is BP_C_01.09.13P
My kernel is 2.3.32.p-g34b306d tkwp89@ca25rhe81 #2

With that said, I want to try out the ICS MIUI, which is a 2nd init rom and that has me scared.

So, to my question, if I restore my stock nandroid backup, and flash the MIUI ICS rom over stock, will it work "out-of-the-box"? I do not know if I needed to do anything special as the 2nd init lingo has me confused.

Any help with this matter would be awesome. I didn't know if I had to do anything special since MIUI ICS is 2nd init, so I figured I would ask here and see what everyone had to say.

 

[colchiro]

You're already on 605 so you should be able to format system, data, cache and clear Dalvik cache and flash it.

I was a little intimidated at the thought of 2nd init, but it's no big deal.

You'll probably want to run a different launcher program tho.

To boot into recovery, just reboot MIUI and press the volume down button when the blue led lights.

 

[matt.burns21]

Doesn't the stock MIUI ICS launcher work effectively? Throughout my whole rooting and romming process I have stuck by ADW consistently, will that work on MIUI?

Thanks again for the quick reply, I appreciate it. I'm going to flash it now to see how it goes.

 

[Metfanant]

Doesn't the stock MIUI ICS launcher work effectively? Throughout my whole rooting and romming process I have stuck by ADW consistently, will that work on MIUI?

Thanks again for the quick reply, I appreciate it. I'm going to flash it now to see how it goes.

The stock MIUI launcher is very "iPhoneish" so ADW will give you the Android feel again

Also welcome to Gingerbread...you're only fashionably late to the party

 

[matt.burns21]

Haha, thanks for the welcome. I was just waiting awhile for the sticky that was up top, and was happy with apex on froyo, saw no need to change.

But I checked back and saw how easy it was with just a simple SBF and the root tool, that it seemed easy enough, and made the jump.

Thanks for the advice though, I'm about to flash MIUI now, pretty excited. Just have to make a backup of my Apex setup since I like it a lot.

Will let you know how it goes!

 

[matt.burns21]

Wow... I am speechless. It's so crazy fast. Fastest initial boot up of any ROM I have ever flashed. It's so snappy and quick. And I've only spent 5 minutes on it! Can't wait to get to know this ROM. I think I found my daily driver until I get my upgrade in 2013