[EVO 4G Android Development] jlmancuso:
So I have been using this ugly stock miui launcher for one reason. I heard from that the jelly bean miui really sucks some juice. These shots were after a 1 1/2 hours of almost constant use. As you can see in the pictures my signal sucks when I am inside, I am using wifi and this phone is active. At the rate I am going the battery will last about 8 hours for an 3500 mA extended battery. Now that might sound steep but under the same conditions other jb roms can be as little as 4 hours. Now for real world life I would say the average stock battery should run 8 or more hours with normal use and decent signal.

Now there are special feature in the MIUI that are not in the normal MIUI that you might want to know about. First off if you remember DND well that has changed to Firewall and for those new to this here is what it does.

You can setup multiple types of filters for calls and text

You have a white list, black list, plus anti-stranger mode (non address book block)

anti-private mode (privite numbers are filtered)

keyword spam filter. All these settings effect call, sms, and mms

Once the filters are set then you can setup a blocking schedule with a start and stop time or all day

You can also manually turn it off and on

There is built in screen capture by a toggle or keystroke combo

You can lock the screen buttons (home, menu, back, search)

There is a guard mode that requires a password to see gallery, sms, mms, call log and some other things

You also have built in 2way call recording with any kernel

You place the call click on the tools option on the dialer and you have multiple options on of which is record

It also comes with network assistant to monitor data usage

You can set a limit and then it will automatically block data usage when that limit is reached along with notifications when you are close to your limit

A built in backup program which saves all your apps/app data, settings, permissions, sms, mms, call logs the works

MIUI's superuser app call permissions managers it allows root access

but also monitors all the apps permissions such as sms, call, phone state, call monitoring, contacts, call logs, positioning (course and fine position), and phone id

You for each thing you can allow, ask, or deny access for each app

Then you have themes which unlike other roms you can mix and match parts such as

lockscreen, wallpapers, icons, status bar, boot animation, sms app, dialer, fonts

With sounds and wallpapers you can even use your own off the sd card or music player.

Oh yeah lets not forget since it is based off an miui.us build there is the miui.us toolbox

Status bar settings

center clock

hide am/pm

single bars (for non fans of having both 1x and 3x signal bars like in the old donut and cupcake days)

Custom carrier label

custom carrier logo (if you dont want a lable how about a picture)

change colors of

clock

carrier lable

signal bars

wifi icon

battery icon

or set all above to one color

also reset back to white

launcher settings (for stock launcher only)

hide status bar

hide icon text

resize widges (custom widget sizes)

There is a cpu tuner with typical features

abd over wifi

battery calibration tool

android id tool

invoke media scaner option

screen dpi

and this thing call fan-nav that i have not figured out yet

oh and this crazy desktop mode thing for the stock launcher you have to see the video of this it is weird

So talk about a feature packed rom. And if your not a fan of that ios style launcher you can just load on your favorite launcher and still get almost every feature of miui.

All this and more can now be found on a server near you!!

Peace,

Love, and

Happiness