[Xiaomi Mi 5 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] 33bca:
We are launching brand spanking fresh. All new features. New team members. New everything and we have made sure that everything that we are releasing has been polished to our best.

A lot went into this version of Paranoid Android, specially on the CAF side (OnePlus / Non-nexus devices). We ship with custom in-house kernels tweaked to provide the best power-battery combo, new functionalities and designs for hardware-specific options like the alert slider and advanced controls just for OnePlus devices - so feel pretty.

The main features and enhancements that you will probably end up noticing are our custom Quick Settings tile reordering functionality, floating window support, immersive mode, the new on-the-spot interface and CM Theme Engine. There's much more to come, so sit tight!

Feature highlights

Floating mode

Immersive mode

On-the-spot controls

Quick settings re-order

Paranoid OTA (Updates)

Battery styles

Advanced power dialog

Quick pull-down

Theme engine

CAF specifics

Enhanced kernel + control

Advanced buttons control

Ambient display support

Download

Get my latest Xiaomi Mi5 build here.

This Firmware is also required Global Beta 6.9.29 Firmware

Changelogs

As we're getting back into the thread game, keeping up with threads and updating them as per changelogs can be too hectic given our schedule. However, very detailed changelogs always go up on our Google+ page, follow us for constant updates!

For Device specific changelogs, check the second post.

Instructions & requirements

We highly recommend you to follow these instructions very carefully. Users usually tend to skip a few steps and eventually fall in trouble. Are you with me? Good. Let's get this train going.

Just a few things to keep in mind first -

If you're coming from another ROM / Stock, your system data (not internal storage) and cache will have to be wiped. This includes apps, accounts, messages, call logs etc.

There's been some users complaining about different GAPPS variants messing up installs and causing a ton of issues. Upon investigating it seems OpenGapps Mini/Nano work best.

Understand that Paranoid Android is a custom ROM and it might lead to addiction as it's relatively good. We shouldn't be accused of anything just incase your cat starts drinking wine. Things get a little woozy in the Paranoid World.

Some brain might be involved if things go wrong. Not a lot though, as much to solve what's 1+1.

Okay let's get to the main bit -

Once you have all the required files - boot into recovery and wipe the bananas out of your device. Get into the wipe menu and wipe data, system, cache and dalvik cache (basically everything except Internal Storage).

Once wiped, get into the "Install from zip" menu and select the ROM zip. (pa_gemini_6.x...). Once added to the install queue, TWRP will ask you if you want to add more zips into the queue - Click on "add more zips" and select the firmware package.

Swipe the bar on the bottom to flash/install zips. Once both zips are done installing - Reboot into system and set-up your device, after you've let it settle with screen off for about 10 Minutes, do not do anything else! Please let your device settle with screen off for about 10 Minutes after the first boot, otherwise the system wont boot after a reboot!

Once you're done setting up your device - well that's when you're done. One thing though - Make sure you DO NOT INSTALL any other zip in the same queue as the ROM! Meaning, do not flash anything like Gapps, a kernel or a root package while installing the ROM. We recommend you do that AFTER you're done setting up your device.

Important / Useful links

OpenGapps

SuperSU root package

Paranoid Android Community (G+)

As always, we listen to what you have to say. Help me make PA better by submitting good bug reports possibly with a log attached. Learn how to take logs here. Submit bug reports and we'll try to iron out issues as soon as possible - it really helps a lot.

Mention me if you need any assistance and/or when reporting bugs or if you just wanna chat.

Thank you to savadam for the video guide and review below

Quick Review:

[YOUTUBE]2ZR-qXABuMI[/YOUTUBE]

Installation Guide:

[YOUTUBE]lnf-SqtSHpY[/YOUTUBE]

Cheers and #StayParanoid!

XDA:DevDB Information

AOSPA - Paranoid Android, ROM for the Xiaomi Mi 5

Contributors

33bca (& [MENTION=455439]bgcngm[/MENTION] for the work on CyanogenMod)

Source Code: https://github.com/AOSPA

Device Source Code: https://github.com/33bca/android_device_xiaomi_gemini/tree/aospa-6.0

Kernel Source Code: https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_kernel_xiaomi_msm8996

Version Information

Status: Beta

ROM OS Version: 6.0.x Marshmallow

Based On: AOSPA

Created 2016-11-10

Last Updated 2016-11-17