New Mi 5S Plus - essential first steps

[drishinbalz]

Hello,

I will getting the Xiaomi Mi 5S Plus tomorrow.

What are some of the first things I should be doing? I feel like I will not like the MIUI too much as I have used stock android on my old Nexus and more recently Cyanogen on my OPO. I plan to install Cyanogenmod on the phone as soon as they release it.

I believe I should do the following to prepare for that so that I do not need to start from scratch in the future (unsure of order and how to do it, some advice and guides here would be helpful, as well as an explanation of the purpose of each step):
- install custom recovery (I'm 99% certain I need to do this to install another ROM)
- root the phone (I don't think this is necessary, but allows me to do other things e.g. use Greenify)
- unlock bootloader (not sure what the purpose of this is)

Are there any other steps I should take?

Thanks in advance!

 

[kojoti75]

Unlock bootloader-twrp-miui eu rom - bingo
No need for greenify
Also ex Nexus use here

Sent from my MI 5s using Tapatalk

 

[drishinbalz]

Unlock bootloader-twrp-miui eu rom - bingo
No need for greenify
Also ex Nexus use here

Sent from my MI 5s using Tapatalk

Can you please explain what you mean a bit more?

No need to root?

What is mi ui EU rom? I have intl version of the device (Hong Kong). Does this make a difference?

Thanks!

 

[mtbkule]

Without unlocking the bootloader, you can't install any custom recovery or custom ROM, just the official Xiaomi releases.

The eu version have less chinese apps and some minor changes compared to the global version. You can check the differences in their website.

Once you have unlocked the bootloader and install twrp, becoming root is pretty easy.

 

[Grillox]

Without unlocking the bootloader, you can't install any custom recovery or custom ROM, just the official Xiaomi releases.

The eu version have less chinese apps and some minor changes compared to the global version. You can check the differences in their website.

Once you have unlocked the bootloader and install twrp, becoming root is pretty easy.

I can't find any TWRP version for Xiaomi Mi5S Plus. Where can I find it?

 

[claudioita]

Unlock bootloader-twrp-miui eu rom - bingo
No need for greenify
Also ex Nexus use here

Sent from my MI 5s using Tapatalk

I have Global Rom, is it different from MIUI EU ROM? Needed the change?

I live in Italy

 

[uncomment]

Mi 5s Plus Forum

I have Global Rom, is it different from MIUI EU ROM? Needed the change?

I live in Italy

MIUI EU here

en.miui.com/forum-116-1.html

 

[flipp0]

I also use Xiaomi EU. It works great. If you want the UI to look slightly more like a Nexus or Pixel try the "Pixel N" or "Android N" themes.

 

[claudioita]

I also use Xiaomi EU. It works great. If you want the UI to look slightly more like a Nexus or Pixel try the "Pixel N" or "Android N" themes.

Is it much better than the standard Rom?

Link?

 

[gnazio]

I can't find any TWRP version for Xiaomi Mi5S Plus. Where can I find it?

It should be here:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=385035244224387312

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I have Global Rom, is it different from MIUI EU ROM? Needed the change?

If you are talking about xiaomi.eu, yes it's different.
It's based on official China ROM and as you can see the release of official Global ROM is lagging behind china rom for both mi5s versions. For example stable for Plus is 8.0.4.0 for Global (I guess just one release) while it's 8.2.2.0 for China.
It's cleaned from Chinese apps, it contains many European languages (including Italian) and gapps.

---------- Post added at 08:46 ---------- Previous post was at 08:46 ----------

Is it much better than the standard Rom?

Link?

https://xiaomi.eu/community/forums/xiaomi-mi5s-plus.149/

 

[sutudaubu]

I'm on 8.0.4.0 of Global Rom and I must admit that this is the first phone which makes me so satisfied. I'm gonna stay close to later products from Xiaomi as long as they keep doing this way. :laugh:

 

[claudioita]

I don-t understand the different ROM-s.

I now have 8.0.4 Global Stable.

It seems tha a 8.2.2 Global Stable should come out since 20 February (but did not come out)

Then there is a 7.3.9 Global Beta released March 10
http://en.miui.com/thread-534687-1-1.html

But why Beta is a LOWER number (7.3.9 to 8.0.2)???????????

Very confusing

 

[sergey1977]

I don-t understand the different ROM-s.

I now have 8.0.4 Global Stable.

It seems tha a 8.2.2 Global Stable should come out since 20 February (but did not come out)

Then there is a 7.3.9 Global Beta released March 10
http://en.miui.com/thread-534687-1-1.html

But why Beta is a LOWER number (7.3.9 to 8.0.2)???????????

Very confusing

beta ver number show date of release year.month.day

 

[DrTorretz1]

hello guys. im am strongly considering buying this phone and i just wanted to know if you guys think its worth it to get the 6gb version or is 4gb ram more then enough? i do play alot of games of my phone but on my current one i never seem to use that much ram honestly. please give me your honest opinions

 

[claudioita]

hello guys. im am strongly considering buying this phone and i just wanted to know if you guys think its worth it to get the 6gb version or is 4gb ram more then enough? i do play alot of games of my phone but on my current one i never seem to use that much ram honestly. please give me your honest opinions

4GB is a lot of Ram in my opinion.

Think if you need 64 or 128 of storage in your phonbe, and make your decision based on that.

As far as I know, for my usage (and I am a heavy user) 4GB of RAM is enough nowadays

 

[Siocha]

I am on global ROM. I cannot send MMS picture messages! I have allowed permission in Gallery. Before vthat it said "unable to send as too many unsent multimedia messages", now it says failed after trying to send for a few minutes. Can anyone help. I have been on to my provider, 3 in Ireland and they say all VPN's correct and must be a otobky with the phone. Can someone help me please?

 

[claudioita]

I am on global ROM. I cannot send MMS picture messages! I have allowed permission in Gallery. Before vthat it said "unable to send as too many unsent multimedia messages", now it says failed after trying to send for a few minutes. Can anyone help. I have been on to my provider, 3 in Ireland and they say all VPN's correct and must be a otobky with the phone. Can someone help me please?

I can't helop on the subject, there is a particular reason you send MMS, nowadays it seems surpassed by tons of apps that do a better job (whatsapp and the like)

 

[Siocha]

Problem sending MMS picture messages on Xiaomi Mi 5S Plus

I can't helop on the subject, there is a particular reason you send MMS, nowadays it seems surpassed by tons of apps that do a better job (whatsapp and the like)

Thanks for trying to help. I have now resolved the problem!. The reason phone was not sending was because of 3G signal only at my home. When I tried in a 4G area not far from my location a picture message flew through. Many thanks re whats app .I use same and there is no difficulty sending pictures on it as I Have good broadband 240 megabytes boosted to almost double that with an Asus rt -87 u router and an Asus AC -66 extender. Regards!

 

[Robstir]

TWRP

I can't find any TWRP version for Xiaomi Mi5S Plus. Where can I find it?

https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-5s/development/recovery-twrp-3-0-2-0-t3480133

5s and 5s plus are both here.