[Nexus S Android Development] eatTHESEbullets:
Disclaimer

I cannot be held responsible for what happens to your device, face it, by this point, your warranty is out the window. By flashing this software, you agree to my assumption that you know what you are doing, and how to recover from one of those oops moments that happen to the best of us.

UPDATE: 1.7.29 Information/Changelog - See 2nd Post

What is MIUI

Core Features

MIUI HOME

Two-layer shortcuts and program icons are integrated into one-layer desktop.

Long press on an icon to enter edit mode, open Widgets and drag it to the target screen.

Drag the app you want to uninstall to the top of the trash box to delete it.

Eight kinds of flipping screens effects are available with gorgeous animations.

T9 dialer

T9 dialer is applied for smart dialing. It supports searching by contact name and phone number, and the results are listed according to contact frequency.

The default setting is to forbid any third-party app to monitor users’ calls.

Currently, there are 230301 attribution logs. The attribution data will be updated continuously, codes of foreign countries are supported as well.

SMS

Compared with native Android system, 7 major optimizations on SMS are made:

Adding contacts in short messages;

Adding names in group sending messages and automatically adding the names to Contacts;

Easier taking of numbers, urls and email addresses from short messages;

Optimization on mobile newspaper reading;

Collection of important messages;

Recommended messages for holidays;

Quick reply and view window.

Contacts

Quick location of contacts;

Faster to add new contacts;

Contacts group management supported;

Contacts' large images supported.

Themes

The third edition UI loading engine makes it faster and easier to change themes;

Partial theme customs are more flexible and comprehensive. Rich online wallpapers, ringtones, fonts and so on are available.

Camera

Faster loading speed enables you to take photos immediately.

More professional modes such as continuous shooting, timing and special effects supported.

Gallery

Faster picture browsing speed than that of native Android system;

Brand new view mode supports to view the pictures by folder path.

Music

Simultaneous enjoying and downloading massive online music. Music chart live playing and bulk downloads supported;

Automatic connection of lyrics and album covers. ID3 information editing supported;

Changing songs by swinging the phone and sleep mode supported.

Notifications

After pulling Notifications and Toggles panel down, changing panels by sliding the screen supported.

MIUI apps

File Manager, Traffic Monitor, Backup, Notes, and Torch.

Tips & Tricks

Long Press:Long press on the icon in Toggles will launch the settings for that icon.

Screen Shot:Press "Menu" key and "Volume Down" key at the same time to print a screen. The printed image is saved in the directory of MIUI in the sd card.

Hold Home or Press Home key at the first screen, you may preview screen thumbnails and add or move screens.

Delete Message or Call Log : Slide from left to right to quickly delete a message or a call log.

Edit Mode : You may hold down an icon by one hand to enter Edit Mode, and then use the other hand to slide the screen to move the icon to the target screen.

Call Activated : Your phone will vibrate when a call gets through.

Activate Music from Lockscreen : Double tap the time zone to launch the Music Player when the screen is locked.

Quick SMS/Phone Launch : In the lockscreen, hold down the icon of Call or SMS, and you can enter the responding program.

Quick Launch Torch : Hold down Home key to quickly enable the torch when the screen is locked.

Quick Launch Contact Options : Click the contact image in Calls, SMS and Contacts, shortcut menus will pop up.

Long Press Search : Long press on Search button will launch search via voice recognition.

Recovery Reboot : Click menu in “System Update” to reboot and enter recovery.

% for Battery : The battery will display the percentage of left battery capacity by Settings>System>Battery>Notification Indicator Style>Percentage.

Running Apps List : Long press on the Home button can go to “Program Manager”. Click the “Clear up” button at the bottom left to clear the extra processes in memory. And the system will inform you of the released memory and current available memory.

Note: System processes will not be cleared so as to ensure the normal running of the system.

IP Calling : . How to set IP dialing?

MIUI ROM can add an IP prefix for the called number in a strange land. You may set it in Settings>Common>Calls.

You may also long press the contact item before dialing, and choose “Make IP calls” in the pop-up menu.

Reject Call : When you are not available to answer the phone, you may slide up the panel to reject the call and to send a message to the caller at the same time.

Custom Ringtones : . How to set custom ringtones?

Put media files into the Media/Audio/ringtones directory in the SD card, (If there is none of this directory, please create one manually) and then select in Sounds in Settings.

Note: there are three directories under Audio, corresponding to the following tones:

notifications--notification ringtones

ringtones--incoming call ringtones

alarms--alarming ringtones

Supported formats: MP3, WMA, WAV, Midi, etc.

Important SMS : As for those important messages you want to add to your favorites, you may long press the message in the pop-up menu and select "Favorites". You may switch to "Favorites" tab in the main SMS interface to view collected messages.

Quick Delete SMS : How to quickly delete items?

You may slide from left to right on the item and click on the red "Delete" button when it appears.

Tether : How can I share my network to the PC or other terminals?

Firmware of Android 2.2 and above support the sharing of mobile phones to other Internet terminal in the following method:

Go to "Settings" -> "System" -> "Share mobile network", you may choose to share the Internet connection by USB tethering or setting up portable Wi-Fi hotspot.

(source: miuiandroid.com)

Just a few screenhsots of my device:

My suggestion of a clean install with minimal errors:

1) so do a full wipe again ( cache + data + dalvik cache )

2) install the ROM from CWR but DONT INSTALL language pack straight after !!!

3) after the ROMs installed just do a reboot. Once the phone boot all is in CN lang but no worries now

4) reboot phone into CWR again

5) now wipe the cache + dalvik cache. But NOT DATA !!!

6) now u can install the lang pack and reboot after

7) now u all done and u should have your MIUI full EN or another language without CN texts like in notification menu where u had a "Visitor mode" in CN, or some icons on the desktop, etc...

Here is a great tip guide from Frewys : [URL]http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13311400&postcount=636[/URL]

Cool MIUI Video from main site:

http://youtu.be/dPxGDsMO0sc

New to MIUI? View this link here for more info! ------------> http://en.miui.com/a-10.html

Need Themes? Check them out here----------->http://miuithemes.com/

MIUI ver. 1.7.29 (7/29/11) (Multiupload)

Language Pack [English](7/29/11) (Multiupload)