Replacement for Xiaomi Stock MIUI that can still OTA/less maintenance for non-techie

umirza85

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So I've gotten an Mi 5s Plus for my wife but she wants a more up to date version of Android than what Xiaomi is releasing (current is MIUI 8.5/Android 6.0.1) as they take forever to update.

Obviously I don't want to be tech support moving forward, and I'd like her to be on the latest version of Android. I just really want this to be a set and forget sort of thing, so assuming it would need to be a base ROM of some sort from a major releaser, hopefully there is something released with everything working.

Does anyone have any suggestions for what ROM i could use on her phone so that she doesn't have to worry about updates as she will just receive them OTA?

As with myself she also will require the phone to be NON-ROOTED for her work, along with banking apps (which I'm assuming you can always remove root/lock the phone after installing the ROM).

I don't mind if its a version of MIUI or not but I'd like it so that all the features of the phone still work which I'm assuming would be MIUI.

Thanks for any help.
 
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bmg002

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Have you tried the global developer ROM? It is quite stable from my testing and is updated nearly every week. It is Android 7.0.
 

umirza85

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Is the global developer rom certified so that Android Pay works?

Also I'm assuming the updates to this are OTA, if I miss a couple weeks can you just update to the most recent one?