[Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 [Snapdragon] ROMs, Kernels, Re] Gurkirat_Singh:
Really need help, so please bare with me with girls/guys for this long post.

It's never been this difficult for me to install a custom OS on my phone but I don't know what's happening.

FIrst some constants -

I've temporarily unlocked my RN3.

For some reason I wasn't able to unlock with MIUI 9 installed (kenzo_global_images_V9.2.4.0) but was able to do it with MIUI 7 (kenzo_global_images_V7.1.8.0).

So after spending so much time in unlocking the device temporarily, I again got kicked in the nuts.

After that as usual I flashed TWRP recovery, and got ready to install the best custom OS, but simply couldn't.

The only success I had with was this OS(also I gave it first try as only this said VoLTE supported) and now this post is closed, my great luck right :-

https://xdaforums.com/redmi-note-3/development/rom-cyanogenmod-14-0-xiaomi-redmi-note-3-t3459382

I could have been happy with that until this OS started showing problems. What kind of problem, well here they are -

# Lots of features missing, like the nougat game, the account switch feature won't work and starts the phone's vibrating motor and it won't stop until the battery is disconnected when you switch the account.

# When I'm playing music if I'm on lock screen (without unlocking) the sound starts screeching & gets wierd.

# and a lot more.....

# But still I kept it on and tried it off for a while, the ram management was absolutely much better.

# However as I started installing more apps, it started getting ****ed up like -

*HQ Trivia app always kept crashing, after being in a game for sometime, didn't happened in the beginning after OS installation.

* While playing C.A.T.S. & PR Legacy Wars, it crashed the whole system, the system restarted from boot animation, maybe once like from MI logo.

**HQ crashes happened much more, like everytime rather than CATS or PR which crashed maybe cause of over load or over heating but not sure.

So I just couldn't work with it anymore.

Other than that when I tried installing other OSs they either won't install or won't work.

I don't remember the exact error, but maybe it was Error 7 while trying to install following OSs and they won't even install -

https://xdaforums.com/redmi-note-3/development/rom-nitrogen-os-11-01-2017-t3536211

https://xdaforums.com/redmi-note-3/development/rom-lineageos-15-0-t3671562

In other cases the OS was installed but got stuck on boot animation -

https://xdaforums.com/redmi-note-3/development/rom-lineageos-14-t3542491

https://xdaforums.com/redmi-note-3/development/rom-resurrectionremix-5-8-0-t3507433

I tried different ways to make these OSs work, like installing these with/without SuperSU, lazy flasher or Gapps. But these didn't worked in any way. And BTW CM 14.1 worked in every way.

SOLUTION I could think of -

Only thing I could think of was to unlock the phone officially, which is also BTW not going great. First I figured out how to do it, then I started having classic error "Device not bound with account". And by doing this/that I was able to overcome that error. But now I have to wait 72 hours.

At this point I don't even know that I'm going to try it, took me long enough to report this. But I'm not stopping that's for sure, it may take time but I just want to overcome this.

WHAT I NEED from you guys -

As you guys read my case, I want you guys to think deeply where I did wrong and point me to it. But don't reply quickly, as what you might suggest, I may have already tried it, so take your time and give me a good solution.

Otherwise I just have to use like MIUI 7 with root privileges if I'm able to find any,

AT LAST, THANKS FOR READING THIS POST GUYS & GIRLS.