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Root [ROM][FINAL]MIUI 2.4.21: Patching things that bugged me

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indrora

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It's MIUI time again. I decided to start spelunking through the innards of the most recent MIUI rom posted (just "MIUI_2.4.20.zip") - to fix some things that bugged me.

What works
  • Everything but HDMI out, really.
  • Touch to focus is in the camera. Sometimes it can be picky (set to Auto-Focus!)

What I've changed
  • Drag-to-dismiss is gone, like it was in the first MIUI rom for the Triumph.
  • An up-to-date Play store that doesn't vanish when you touch it
  • Google Services
  • Cleaned house on some built-in apps
  • Included an MIUI4 theme
  • Includes a terminal!
  • Includes the F-Droid market
  • Translated some more strings deep in some zip's.

Things that I know don't entirely work
  • Some notifications look horribad.
  • Voicemail number is *86.

    To change this: Settings → Call Settings → Other Call Settings (settings) → Voicemail Settings → Voicemail Number
  • Wifi tethering
  • USB Tether always says the USB is connected.
  • Music is slow first start. Let it churn, its looking at all your music.
  • Gallery occasionally FC's for no reason when scrolling through images. (this might actually be my fault. I have a thousand photos on my SD card.)

Future ideas

  • AROMA installer (To choose if you want Gmail and such)
  • Clean up the horrible patches I made.

Screenshots



Installation

Wipe data/cache & install. Works great with Sideload, too!

GApps are included!

Download
 
Glad to see someone continue with this. I wasn't a big fan of MIUI, but I know there were a large number of people who were.

You might want to hit up g60 to see if he'll set you up on the MTDEV site.
 
Due to some inconsistencies in the underlying MIUI framework, I'm going to leave this as-is.

There are a selection of fixes however you can apply to make things "feel better":

Pull the following from the MTDEV-CM7 2013-03-03 rom:

  • system/app/LatinIME.apk
  • system/app/Camera.apk

Now, push them over ADB to /system/app and from a shell (or the file manager with root access) destroy/freeze MiuiCamera.apk

If your battery time goes through the floor, try freezing /system/app/Updater.apk -- It started consuming battery a *lot*.



The LatinIME doesn't do the right dictionaries (as it was from the chinese MIUI rom from what I can tell). I installed Hackers Keyboard to get around this but was kinda unimpressed overall.

The camera fix is due to a bug where MIUI's camera would set the EXIF CreationDate parameter to 2002-12-08 (dec 8, 2002) at 00:00 or 12:00. Don't know why, but it did. I tried finding where it did that, but was unable to.
 
So i have this rom and its great except that when i get an incoming call and i try to answer it just force closes it. What can i do to fix that?
 
triumphsuk said:
So i have this rom and its great except that when i get an incoming call and i try to answer it just force closes it. What can i do to fix that?
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The first thing would be to backup what you have and reload the ROM to see if it's a problem with the ROM or is it localized to your phone.
 
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