Paranoid Android Quartz 5 - Xiaomi Redmi 5

Vishalcj17 · Apr 16, 2020

We are very excited to announce the release of Paranoid Android Quartz, based on Android 10.

On the first launch, you’ll notice a clean setup with a beautiful wallpaper from Hampus Olsson, who teamed up with us again to create several beautiful pieces of artwork. Hampus is a multi-disciplinary artist whose design stands for itself and we’re glad to have him onboard. We also added further UI touches that we believe enhance the overall user experience. You can find all of the Paranoid Android wallpapers and many more in the Abstruct app, included in our builds.

Our builds are based on the Code Aurora Forum Android base, which is optimized for Qualcomm platforms and has a higher degree of performance, battery life, and functionality compared to the Android Open Source Project platform. The Paranoid Android team and contributors are focusing on squashing existing bugs, and implementing and improving features, performance, and stability. We are dedicated to providing a user experience with the stability that you can expect from stock ROMs with best-in-class performance and features to help you get the most out of your device.

Device-specific issues
You tell me.

Note: Custom kernels are NOT supported!

Download
Get the latest Xiaomi Redmi 5 build Download

Changelogs

Code:

Official Quartz 5 release. [Release 2]

Keep an eye on our Twitter account, @paranoidaospa , as we will be posting about new features getting included in the release builds, as well as links to betas for those devices that will get them.

Requirements

Your device has to run on Oreo firmware. Download
You need to use devDoge's version of TWRP. Download

Instructions

Reboot to TWRP
Install PA zip package
Reboot
Gapps are included.

Instructions, If you are coming from MIUI Oreo

Install TWRP given in the thread
Reboot to twrp
Wipe everything including internal data and format storage.
Install PA zip package and reboot

Important / Useful links
Paranoid Android Twitter
Paranoid Android Channel (Telegram)
Paranoid Android Community (Telegram)

Paranoid Android source code on GitHub
Paranoid Android code review
Kernel source code

Help us improve PA by submitting detailed bug reports with logs. Learn how to take logs here.

#StayParanoid!

XDA:DevDB Information
Paranoid Android, ROM for the Xiaomi Redmi 5

Contributors
Vishalcj17, xboxfanj, herna
ROM OS Version: Android 10
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.x
ROM Firmware Required: Oreo (8.x)
Based On: CAF

Version Information
Status: Stable
Current Stable Version: 3
Stable Release Date: 2020-06-12

Created 2020-04-16
Last Updated 2020-09-29

Vishalcj17 · Sep 30, 2020

Paranoid Android Quartz 5 is out!
This update includes the following device specific changes:

Fixed up idle drain fully.
Staging for kernel 4.9
A whole new tree made from scratch/
Surface flinger offsets from Pixel 4a.

OTA will work. Those in Quartz 4 will recieve OTA updates gradually!
More on our Blog!
Read here

Paranoid Android Quartz 4 is out! (Release 2)
This update includes the following device specific changes:

Hotfixes regarding issues that were there in Quartz 4 release 1.

I'll recommend a clean flash. Also backup your persist partition from recovery incase you lose your sensors.

Paranoid Android Quartz 4 is out!
This update includes the following device specific changes:

Switched to CAF's implementation of Bluetooth. (Connects even faster now)
Switched to CAF's audio configs. Now, Audio quality should be better as they have been tuned. Specially the mids and bass.
Introduced AudioSphere effect by dolby.
Updated media configs from LA.UM.8.6.r1-04400-89xx.0 and removed the slow-cpu tag.
Updated prebuilt thermal from daisy.
Reverted a commit that was causing speed issues while connected to wifi.
Added two new boosts which are mentioned in CAF's Boost Framework, i.e, panel-veiw and pre-fling boost.
Stopped balancing MDSS and kgsl-3d0 IRQs
Modified the thermal config. Increased the max frequency for thermal throttling and the temperature threshold to 46C. (Celsius)
Increased the Charging threshold by 4 degrees. (Celsius)
Removed unnecessary overlays that caused animation breaks and jerks.
Updated Common blobs from LA.UM.8.6.r1-04400-89xx.0

Kernel side changes :-

Added power saving flags to all panels.
Fixed Idle drain (it should be 2-5% because of gapps).
Using GCC-10.
Avoid RCU CPU stall warning and RT throttling.
Fixed severe lag when a device wakes up from deep sleep.

OTA will work. Those in Quartz 3 will recieve OTA updates gradually!
More on our Blog!
Read here

Paranoid Android Quartz 3 is out!
This update includes the following device specific changes:

Fixed major UI/UX lags and removed Coral's Stune settings, using CAF's setting now.
Update perf configs from LA.UM.8.6.r1-04400-89xx.0
Removed Custom VSYNC offsets which caused jank. Now HWUI graph reduced by around 50%
Bumped up the display saturation by 10%
Changed the default display config (Kinda to vivid mode)
We are using CAF's boost framework now.
Battery should be better, by atleast 20%-25%
Fixed camera crash.
Switched to OSS GPS hal.
Totally fixed screen recorder crash and lags.
Memory management is tuned, specifically for 2GB devices
Updated Graphics, GPS, Postprocessing, perf-iop blobs from LA.UM.8.6.2.r1-07100-89xx.0 And added thermal hals from stock oreo.
Building LibVulkan.
Resetting read_ahead for dm-0, dm-1, dm-2 to 128.
Gaming performance should be even better. On my tests, I hardly notice lags on 720p, HD, 60FPS (Set from GFX tool)

Kernel side changes :-

Using GCC 9 now, will do GCC 10 by next build.
CPU-Idle should be even better (idle drain should be lower)
Tuned up genirq. this is basically load balancing, which should be better and more battery efficient.
Disallow ashmem memory from being remapped
F2FS performance should be better, introducing rapid gc for android.
Adjusted ion system heap pool orders
improve page migration heuristic
Backported LMK account for unevictable pages.
Set CONFIG_HZ to 250.

More on our Blog!
Read here

OTA Updater is also fixed up this time, so for Quartz 4, it should be good!
..........

Paranoid Android Quartz 2 is out!

This update includes the following device specific changes:

Fixed heating issue while charging.
Fixed IOP Hal spam in logs.
Updated Display and perf stack from LA.UM.8.6.2.r1-06600-89xx.0.
Fixed Night light.
Removed low ram flag for 2gb devices (Causing PIP issues)

Kernel sided:

Upstreamed to lastest caf tag LA.UM.8.6.r1-04200-89xx.0
Fixed deepsleep issues on some devices.

New users can download from link in the first post.
For existing ones, OTA will be available gradually.
..........

Paranoid Android Quartz 1 is out

Quartz 1 is now available for this device! Please have a read to the next post on our blog.

Read here

Please do a clean install, we hope you enjoy this stable release!

NOTICE: Google apps are present in these builds, there is no need for external zips to be flashed

#StayParanoid

Vishalcj17 · Apr 16, 2020

*Reserved

Shotg1 · Apr 16, 2020 at 4:45 PM

Does support f2fs?

Vishalcj17 · Apr 16, 2020 at 4:47 PM

Shotg1 said:
Does support f2fs?

Yes.

Shotg1 · Apr 16, 2020 at 4:50 PM

Vishalcj17 said:
Yes.

Do i need to format data? I know encryption is part of official pa

Vishalcj17 · Apr 16, 2020

Shotg1 said:
Do i need to format data? I know encryption is part of official pa

Yes, format and change if to f2fs

Ivancos01 · Apr 16, 2020 1 0 0

Is it compatible with redmi 5 plus?

Shotg1 · Apr 16, 2020 at 11:47 PM

Vishalcj17 said:
Yes, format and change if to f2fs

No im actually using f2fs, if i dont like encryption is it ok not to format?

aaronjasper49 · Apr 17, 2020 at 1:13 AM

Installed it

Camera force closes everytime
Here is the logcat

Thank you for developing this rom?

Shotg1 · Apr 17, 2020 at 2:23 AM

aaronjasper49 said:
Camera force closes everytime
Here is the logcat

Thank you for developing this rom

Just change camera used gcam ot works perfectly

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Anyone know how to removed app suggestion in paranoid android launcher?

Shotg1 · Apr 17, 2020 at 3:38 AM

Lockscreen pin is too big,

Vishalcj17 · Apr 17, 2020 at 5:35 AM

aaronjasper49 said:
Camera force closes everytime
Here is the logcat

Thank you for developing this rom

Please use Google Camera or Google Camera go by Parrot043.

Vishalcj17 · Apr 17, 2020 at 5:36 AM

Shotg1 said:
Lockscreen pin is too big,

Thank you.
The team will take that into consideration.

Shotg1 · Apr 17, 2020 at 5:38 AM

Vishalcj17 said:
Thank you.
The team will take that into consideration.

Thanks. Pretty smooth... Thats why i like pa for stabilization

Vishalcj17 · Apr 17, 2020 at 5:39 AM

Shotg1 said:
Just change camera used gcam ot works perfectly

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Anyone know how to removed app suggestion in paranoid android launcher?

If you want to, then uninstall "device personalisation services" app

Vishalcj17 · Apr 17, 2020 at 5:40 AM

Shotg1 said:
Thanks. Pretty smooth... Thats why i like pa for stabilization

Thank you

Shotg1 · Apr 17, 2020 at 5:56 AM

Vishalcj17 said:
If you want to, then uninstall "device personalisation services" app

Already debloat

Vishalcj17 · Apr 17, 2020 at 7:01 AM

Shotg1 said:
Already debloat

Umm. Use another launcher if you wish to.
For now, this was the only option to remove it.
Will see in the near future

aaronjasper49 · Apr 17, 2020 at 7:33 AM

Ok thanks

Vishalcj17 said:
Please use Google Camera or Google Camera go by Parrot043.

Also would suggest to add face unlock, thank you

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