[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] dtroup64:
I never update anything myself. Wouldn't know how. MIUI does the updates and I just make it useable on Verizon. Here's the full changelog from MIUI. The Video stuff won't apply to us as we don't use the MIUI Camera.

MIUI ROM 3.10.18 Full Changelog

[System]

New – When you are trying to connect to a password-protected Wi-fi network, touch the Status bar to go to network login interface (10-16)

[Phone]

Optimization – Recording menus revised in Contacts (10-15)

Fix – Do not disturb mode will not change across time zones (10-15)

[Contacts]

New – Increased support features for vision impaired users (10-15)

Optimization – Contacts take up less space in list view (10-14)

Optimization – When you change details for a contact their corresponding group settings change automatically (10-14)

Optimization – USIM card now supports the use of two numbers and two mailboxes (10-15)

Fix – When choosing a recipient, cannot search company or other info (10-14)

Fix – Customizing a ring for a contact made the Contact details page quit (10-14)

Fix – Tags for Contact details were not displayed clearly (10-14)

Fix – Deleted contacts would still appear under smart groups (10-14)

Fix – Error would occur when marking phone numbers (10-14)

Fix – Sometimes, when importing contacts from a Vcard, the app would quit (10-14)

Fix – App would quit when user was deleting a group from list display (10-14)

Fix – When editing contacts on the SIM card, the merge contacts function was displayed (this function is not supported for SIM card contacts) (10-14)

Fix – When adding a new group, another new group with the same name is added (10-14)

Fix – Contacts without numbers can be stored on SIM card (10-14)

[Lock screen, Notification shade, Status bar]

Optimization – The status bar can transparently display items (10-15)

Fix – When viewing content in full screen, the Notification shade would roll back up automatically (10-16)

Fix – Applying a wallpaper would cause memory leak (10-17)

[Gallery]

Optimization – When battery life is below 40%, automatically syncs photo history with MiCloud (10-15)

Optimization – The interface for scanning a QR code automatically hides the title (10-15)

Fix – Removed cloud albums start up popup (10-15)

Fix – In Guest mode, when user opened gallery, the regular user interface would be displayed momentarily (10-15)

Fix – Photos that were protected from being deleted could still be edited (10-15)

[Music]

Optimization – When play music in horizontal display, user's library is not displayed (10-16)

Optimization – New interface for MiSound configuration (Add sample illustrations for headphone type and added general headphones Settings) (10-16)

Fix – The numbers for song time on the “Now Playing” interface would display incorrectly (10-16)

Fix – When listening to music online, when user touched “Play random”, player would always start from the first song (10-16)

Fix – When listening to Music on the music widget, when user touched the ”Like” button there was no notification (10-16)

Fix – On the Settings page for MiSound "Xiaomi in-ear headphones" was displayed on two rows (10-17)

[Browser]

New – Customization on Useful pages interface (10-16)

New – Useful pages localization settings (10-16)

[Data usage]

Optimization – Ways to recalibrate and correct data usage numbers (10-16)

[FM Radio]

Optimization – When closing and opening the Radio, it records whether it is in headphone mode or speaker mode (10-15)

Optimization – Expanded the range of supported frequencies (10-15)

Fix – After FM Radio app was closed the auto-search function wouldn't respond (10-15)

Fix – When playing, if user's headphones became disconnected speaker would start playing (10-15)

[Recorder]

Fix – User interface was displayed incorrectly (10-15)

[Blocklist]

Fix – When adding a name to the blocklist manually, user could enter symbols (not just alphanumerics) (10-16)

Fix – After user viewed info on the blocklist, the count of blocked calls and texts in the Notification shade would not reset (10-17)

[Video]

New – New search experience (10-15)

New – Recently played list displays corresponding images for shows (10-15)

Optimization – Details page displays number of comments (10-15)

Fix – Instantly refreshes the numbers for “My videos” (10-15)

Fix – When the user hasn't picked a source, and played has picked a source, associated images wouldn't update (10-15)

Fix – Sometimes, user play list history list view would quit (10-15)

Fix – The individual numbers for Recently played in “My videos” and those for “Recently played” didn't match (10-15)

Fix – After the player would automatically begin playing the next episode, app would go back to the wrong interface (10-15)

Fix – After user touches manual search field, default keyword (placeholder) would not disappear (10-15)

Fix – Sometimes, recommended keyword would not appear when user was searching (10-16)

Fix – Sometimes, the next episode in a series would not begin playing automatically after the previous episode had ended (10-17)

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Not low for me, but if you want, just use a kernel that will allow sound optimizations. I use Faux Kernel, and it comes with Boeffla sound. I can up the volume there if I need.