[Xiaomi Mi Note 2  ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] N3OMOD:
So, it has been a while since I got time to spend on “tweaking and testing” this ROM: only recently I had some spare time to do a couple more tests.

Just a premise for new-readers:

I have been using this ROM for months now, on my everyday device.

Twiddling with Versions / Kernels

Now since the second update I never did a proper “clean” installation: I just flashed the new version of RR while doing only a CACHE WIPE.

I didn’t had time to spare there, so I went through the “dirty update procedure”. (I know, I Know, bad habit…)

Things worked out good (actually better than I hoped) but I got a couple of minor problems, same as widely discussed here in the previous topics:

-	General Slowness on Animations and some minor operation

-	Low Volume for Loudspeaker

-	Some various problems with Camera, including not being able to use any version of Google Camera

-	Occasionally recharge was slow even on QC 3.

Then I started playing (very quickly and very roughly) with Kernel Profiles, installing different kernels end ending up choosing the CrazyAqua one.

I did a lot of research on camera apps (you can read the results in previous posts) but Google Camera porting has never worked.

Also, no matter how I messed around with build.prop or Viper4Android, the audio levels were never “that good” as they are with stock MIUI.

The Turning Point

As often occurs, the turning point was the point-of-no-return when I had a “camera crash” while trying yet another google camera porting: as usual, the app froze and crashed, but this time even after a reboot I was not able to start any camera app.

It seems I had trigger a permanent “soft” failure for the Camera.

To my demise, the error survived even a Factory Reset (TWRP Wipe) so I had no chance: I decided to make a FULL WIPE

(cleaning also SYSTEM and DATA)

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...and here comes the surprise

However, I didn’t went straight for RR: I decided first to give another try at official MIUI so I installed the Xiaomi EU version of MIUI 9.

Needless to say, everything worked fine but I cannot stand anymore MIUI limited features after experiencing RR.

Therefore, I did another FULL WIPE and installed again RR from this thread.

And here comes the surprise:

-	Google Camera (and also some ports I could try) works fine(*)

-	The audio levels, especially from the loudspeaker, are now much higher than before

-	The “slow charging” issue is now vanished

(*) still can't figure out why recent ports of "NX1" and "Pixel GC" are not working.

Still, I noticed some general slowness (as discussed before) and so I went again for the CrazyAqua kernel that solved this issue.

In the meantime, I also noticed a couple of other things that may help new users (or even previously distracted ones, like me):

-	The “Telephony” and “Contacts” integrated apps are based on Google ones but they are old versions. So terminate and disable them before installing the most recent one from Play Store. You will notice a greatly improved stability and a better voice quality during calls.

-	In addition, the “default” camera app is outdated (based on cyanogenmod one) but don’t try to disable (or even worse, remove) it: just ignore it. I discovered that

when removing or terminating the cyanogenmod camera app it is impossible to run any google camera porting.

Finally, among the things that now works correctly, there is the Fingerprint Sensor: now it is possible to wake and unlock the phone just by touching it, without any need of extra modules from Magisk.

In conclusion, If you are having those problems and tried everything without any luck, my advice is to perform a FULL WIPE followed by the installation of stock MIUI before doing again a FULL WIPE prior to installing this ROM.

I hope the development will continue as soon as StoneTrapper has some spare time to dedicate to the project.