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[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  Questions & Answers] frcraig:
my situation is a bit different. I registered a mi account, bound the phone number for my Mi Mix to that account, applied for unlocking permission, waited 3 days then flashed the global rom to replace the China rom. No problem until I dropped and broke my Mi Mix. I have now purchased another new Mi Mix which has the China rom and I want to flash to global rom again. This new / replacement phone has the same phone number / sim card as the first phone. Do I sign in to my mi account on the new phone and apply for unlocking permission? Or should I set up a brand new mi account for the new phone. On the miui forums people are telling me I can unlock the new phone with my existing account but I would have to wait 30 days to unlock. Others on the miui forums are telling me to register a new account so I only have to wait 3 days. Any suggestions?
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  Questions & Answers] tlayn:
Same account. Did this on my two MiMax2 phones.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  Questions & Answers] JohnTheFarm3r:
I'm a part of Miui Device Team and I'm curious who told you such a thing as waiting "30 days"? Maximum what could happen would be 360 hours, which is 15 days. Also, the waiting time for the permission is removed, so technically, you would now wait maybe a day or a two, maybe not even that. Don't create a new account unless you need to. Try applying for unlocking with the old account and see what happens. :)
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  Questions & Answers] frcraig:
It was an Miui Device Team member on en.miui.com who provided the following advice:

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Hi [MENTION=706422]craigr[/MENTION]B , The unlock permission is binded with your MI account and can be used with any Xiaomi Devices that has a locked bootloader, Unfortunatly you will have to wait 30 days in order to unlock it using the same MI account.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  Questions & Answers] burcinkarabacak:
hello

for second phone how many hours did you wait ? when you try to unlock bootloader did it unlock or wait some hours ?

sincerely
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  Questions & Answers] cooldude20000:
Tried unlocking two phones one was fine the other was stuck at wait 30 days and try again
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  Questions & Answers] rezakaze:
I do the same things and its work flawlessly
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  Questions & Answers] robocopvn:
And yes, I don't even know that flashing a stable ROM will reset the 30days count down, I just did it this morning, on my 20 day :(
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  Questions & Answers] robocopvn:
From the 2nd device forward, we have to wait 30 days for each. After unlock my redmi note 5 pro, i have to wait 30 days more for unlocking my Max 2
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  Questions & Answers] elifeb:
absolutely no wait time/ or less even, if account is not changed to a new one. Problem occurs mostly if device wasnt bond to mi account at least 72 hours before the try, and that mistake sure has been giving many headaches. Now i have got myself in the crazy situation that a friend broke his device screen, has bought another, but some data wasnt sinchronized with cloud, and needs them. would be all fine and easy if it was bind to a mi account, usb debugging is off, bootloader locked, oem unlock state close, I tried all known methods, no success. Maybe there is a workaround, but .... sure not an easy way, if there is. ADB commands - all out of discussion, fastboot with locked bootloader does not allow booting to twrp either. sideloading update still work in EDL mode, so i guess that could be the only way with an "update.zip" which patches all above mentioned settings to enabled, if posssible, i dont know how to create one . Device is Redmi note 9 Pro .
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2  Questions & Answers] borachoayo:
Not sure if this is the right forum, so i apologize ahead for the nuisance 🙏🏻 (first time here)

My question is: i have 2 devices connected to my Mi Account. If I unlock the other device, would it affect the other one? Or not for as long as I don't enable its oem unlock? Thank you.
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] nepya1009:
Mi4i device stuck at mi logo (Came to know this is called Bootloop, Note that not flashed or installed anything on device automatically this issue happened) .As non technical person i need help from you guys to get my device alive. I need to save all my data in the mobile so Googled some topics and came to know that for this i have to flash TWRP in fastboot mode where we can able to save the data . Can anybody help me on this?

Really appreciate your support ....!!!!
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] Mukulkathuria008:
Go to fastboot then flash twrp from link below :

https://dl.twrp.me/ferrari/twrp-3.2.1-0-ferrari.img.html

And use ADB to push your data to save in your laptop and then wipe all the data and flash new rom.
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] herobuxx:
flash twrp then plug to pc/laptop and backup whole data
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 8880810:
I'm about to buy a gently used Moto X Pure from Swappa and came here to see what's available as far as cistom roms. I'm kinda surprised by how little development is happening and was wondering if there is a particular reason. I broke my Moto G4 a week ago and its got quite a few Oreo Roms already. I'm not complaining just curious. There are a lot of roms I will miss but if there's no big obstacles in my way I may just try building my first rom here. I'm really excited for the Moto X Pure.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] autosurgeon:
Let's see it was never a flagship. It is over 2 years old...I could go on..
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 8880810:
Yeah youre probably right. Oh well no biggie. As long as it isnt a situation like Loki on some LG phones.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Optimusman:
Another reason I've realized that has not been mentioned, but even in the past as a newer device there wasn't as much development goin on as other premium devices. That reason is that when the Moto x pure was released, it was very optimized and a very stock Google Android device with a few extras from Moto that really enhanced the user experience. In other words it was a device that has no need for custom roms! And in my opinion with that being said and little things like stereo front facing speakers, was in the top 3 devices of that year! And still to this day after using the Moto z, and some other mid range Samsung devices, the pure still Rock's the house lol
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 8880810:
Yeah I'm really excited about getting one. Since my Moto G4 broke I've been using my old Nexus 5 and havent had much luck breaking the chop chop habit. I have a 8 month old baby and its been insanely useful. Looking forward to the dual speakers too. Also excited to see one of my favorite roms Validus Oreo from GRZ being developed here for Moto X Pure.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justmoto92:
It's 2018. But Moto X Pure still impress me everyday despite so many flagships out there.

1. The chop chop and twist twist gestures

2. The Stock Android with Moto experiences

3. The dual Stereo speaker

4. The great LCD (it's really good imo)

5. The phone design with curved back that fits nicely on hand, build quality and that unique Moto dimple design.

I'n still looking forward for future OREO or newer version of Android being developed for Moto X Pure (Style).
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 8880810:
I'm completely with you, I did alot of research on Moto X Pure and have had a ton of phones over the years. In my head, I see myself being very satified with it. Nexus 6 was one of my favorites (except I didnt like the amoled screen and the huge size) and this phone reminds me what was good about it but without the stuff I didnt. Plus, since coming from a Moto G4, I found those exclusive Moto features very useful and handy. Also having the FM radio built in has been nice in certain circumstances.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Optimusman:
Totally man it is 2018, and it's an older phone but the only thing that separates it from newer flagships is the battery, and the chipset! Yet I've always thought due to Moto's optimized software it offset any issues with the snapdragon808. That it performed with other 808's and even phones with the Snapdragon 810! The screen to buddy ratio is even today good, and then it was great! I was also happy to hear somebody give props to the ips lcd screen! I believe it's just as good as any AMOLED screen I've seen! And is way better in direct sunlight! I honestly have to say my favorite phone!!!
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justmoto92:
[MENTION=3731074]Optimusman[/MENTION]

Chipset wise, nothing much you can do unless with third party custom ROM optimisation. Whereas for battery, you can replace it by buying it from online, and you will be back to the "new phone" days. Cuz' thats what I did to my X Pure battery :)

Talking about screen to body ratio, before the bezeless phone became trendy, Motorola started it first with the old RAZR M Phone. And not forgetting that Moto X's front is symmetrical and proportional from top to bottom. And most of the time, I would rather stick with Moto X Pure LCD screen cuz' of natural colors and the screen brightness. It's really bright and comfortable to look at!

Did I mention that, with all these great stuffs, yet Motorola sold it at an affordable price, not those overpriced pricing! :)
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 8880810:
At what levels do you guys primarily keep your screen brightness set at? When I was on the Moto G4 I kept my screen set at about 50% brightness cause I was mainly indoors and full brightness was overkill.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justmoto92:
30% or lesser for indoor (day). Because of the battery life.

0% for indoor (night) with bluelight filter.

50%-70% outdoor (under the sun) - usually will keep on adjusting to prevent from wasting the battery juice. ;)
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Optimusman:
Brightness

I like to get get the most out of my battery, and truthfully this screen is bright as hell lol! So I usually have mine at 30-35%, and in the dark like 5-10%lol

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I disagree with you on that one friend! It was Motorola's flagship device. The screen was flagship the processor although not the top dog was still Snapdragon 8** series, dual SIM, dual front firing speakers, 21mp camera etc. The list goes on lol the Moto x pure edition was a flagship device
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justmoto92:
Yeah! It was Motorola's flagship at that point of time. Moto X Pure edition was supposed to be using Snapdragon 810 processor. But... because of the heating issue, Motorola had no choice, so they had to use the Snapdragon 808 instead. :(

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[MENTION=8880810]DerrickTight[/MENTION] Hey, saw you mentioning on your first post, that you might be trying to build your first ROM? Any chance you might start doing it? :D
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 8880810:
I'm heavily considering it but I have a lot of obligations so it wouldnt be something to hold your breathe for. Its something that requires alot of time and patience. Thats why I always say donate to your devs. It isnt easy. Time will tell though, I could use another hobby. Might make something just for me, who knows.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] schneid:
I'm with the No Need to crowd. I am rooted with Magisk and TWRPed. I always ROMed my phones to ditch the factory UI, overhead, and bloat. Other than GravityBox I am all stock. Plus it was cheap.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acejavelin:
Why is there not more ROM development? Guess that question confuses me... there are lots of ROMs (and many not on XDA, some would argue the best ones are not here)

The question should be, why is there not NEW/CONTINUED ROM development? Because this device is pushing 2.5 years old, and it is not holding up well and many people are abandoning it. The battery life is pitiful, and the battery longevity is worse, and on top of that there is no good source for "new" batteries... Not to mention that replacing the battery often required more technical expertise than many users have, and they need more parts than they expect since replacing the battery often destroys the back of the phone and requires a new one as well.

For $200-$300 you can get a new device with 3-4 times the battery life, similar processing power, and a reasonable display and camera... It is easy to see why people have been flocking away from this device for a while now. Developers have a hard time supporting a device that doesn't have consistent user base, and with Nougat, Oreo, and newer Android OS's, it is getting more and more difficult to maintain as a developer.

Your "old" Moto G4 was actually newer than the Moto X Pure/Style by a full year, so it would still see development and has a fairly active user base, phones typically have a "development life" of around 2-2.5 years for custom ROMs, people just leave the device for something newer and developers move on. Plus I would bet the Moto G4 sold at least 10 times as many units as the Moto X Pure/Style. Honestly the Moto X Pure/Style bombed (sales wise) and sold only a fraction of the number of units Moto hoped for, which probably accounts for why there was no Moto X "2016" model while Moto scrapped the old X line and gave us the new X4 last year, which is a decent phone, but in my mind is no replacement worthy of the X line.

Don't get me wrong, it is (was) a great phone... I loved mine, the only real problem was the battery life and the heat throttling, and I couldn't be tethered to a charger 2-4 times every day.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 8880810:
The main reason I have rooted and rom'd is for customization. I have a large collection of paid Sub themes too. I've been ad free for over 7 years and I wont go back to the ads experience.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 8880810:
Would you happen to remember off hand where it was that you may have seen other builds? You could PM me as to not post to links of outside competitors. I have google searched with little hits, but I know alot of Moto G4 roms were posted directly on specific peoples Google Plus.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acejavelin:
Simple Google search will suffice... Dirty Unicorns, Zypher OS and BrokenOS come to mind just off the top of my head. There is a thread here somewhere listing "off-XDA" ROMs.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justmoto92:
I have been searching awhile, so is it true that beside XDA forum there are still other website that post custom ROM ?:confused:
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acejavelin:
https://devs-base.com/
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FanboyStudios:
My only issues were the lack of battery life and the thermal throttling, other than I like this phone. ...Which to say it the worst place imho to hit me. A lack luster camera is not as bad as lack luster performance.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Just need a good kernel for better battery and thermal throttling. Personally dont care much for taking photos on my phone and I've always owned crappy photo phones except the G5 took real nice pics but I didnt really use it much.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FanboyStudios:
Yeah I don't use my camera much... but that's about to change. I'm going full time media production.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Good for you man! Have fun doing it!
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bill720:
The reason for the Pure Edition season...

Biggest reason is probably the fact that the stock rom and kernel is pretty decent on this phone. You get acceptable display calibration out-of-box and can even select an option to switch to a well-calibrated "natural" option that was found to be pretty darn good. Combine one of the best screens in the business with competent software control and you've taken away one of the biggest motivating factors for custom roms.

For aspects of the software experience that do still lag behind, namely the lack of system-wide audio equalizer, flashable modifications such as A.R.I.S.E. (which installs ViperFX) fill in the gaps. Non-A/V software tweaking needs can be satisfied through use of cutting-edge new technologies, such as Magisk and the newly-ported Xposed Framework.

At the end of the day, the short answer to your question is that there was simply little need for them.
[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Actually I probably spoke too soon. The threads here arent that active but there has been plenty of development. There's at least 3 Nougat roms I'm itching to try. Validus 8.1 is being worked on and I'm sure there will be more to come. Oreo has been slow developing across the board it seems but its picking up speed which usually means ports are on the way. Holding my breathe for OCTos.
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] dreambo:
Hi folks,

Today it's a great day for me : I have successfully patched the kernel to have a 100% working TWRP 3.2.1 for our Maze Alpha 4G.

I have port a Jemmini build for Bluboo S1 and I have patch the kernel to have a working touch panel :)

I have followed this Thead

For the Maze Alpha 6G version, you can test it and tell me please.

How to flash:

I Fastboot method (must unlock device) :

1- Reboot your phone in bootloader mode : adb reboot bootloader or phone off, press and hold at the same time POWER and Vol+ buttons

2- Connect your phone to your computer with adb/fastboot already installed

3- Unlock your bootloader : fastboot oem unlock (it will erase you data, only data)

4- Flash the recovery : fastboot flash recovery recovery_maze_alpha_4G_twrp-321.img

II SPFlashTool method (no need to unlock device) :

1- Download latest version of SPFlashTools.

2- Execute it and load the provided scatter (the recovery image must be in the same folder as the scatter and must be renamed to recovery.img) then press "Dowbload" button

3a- windows SPFlashTools users : phone off, press VOL+ and connect it to your PC (running SPFlashTool and waiting for phone connetion)

3b- linux SPFlashTools users : phone off and connected to PC , press VOL+ and POWER while your PC is running SPFlashTool (with sudo) and waiting for phone connetion.

Update : you can found here the latest version: TWRP 3.3.0 for MAze Alpha 4Ghttps://github.com/dreambo/android_device_maze_alpha/releases/tag/3.3.0

have a nice day.
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] super_sonic:
Works great on Maze alpha 4G. Thanks.

But I forgot to save original recovery...
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] dreambo:
You can get the original recovery from the stock rom designed for SPFlashTool, provided here
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] super_sonic:
Thanks. Can you share stock recovery.img, if you have it? I have recovery-verified.img from V05 but I don't know if there is a new update and if size is correct: 11,54MB. Your TWRP recovery has got a size of 14.24MB...
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] lukesan:
Can you make a small procedure on how to install it? Will help many nOOb's out.

And people need to report back issues and successes !!!! Again I see many questions and people with issues that we seniors try to help out with that end up in no more response which to me is not done and not helping others.

I have a 6GB version that I could test on but at the moment I am using it for other stuff and I can't risk bricking it this week.

Would finally love to start some stuff happening on this phone.
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] lukesan:
Ok in the process of doing so on my 6GB/64GB version.

edit : congratz I now have a 'phone' that can only go into TWRP . Should have never ever done this!

Says no OS installed ... really nice

Edit 2: after hours wasted was able to get your zipped rom on the Maze but I got no boot with that TWRP, so flashed recovery-verified.img from the 6GB rom from Alpha I had downloaded ... It would then start up but show 4GB out of 6GB. No good but at least all the rest seemed to work. All other effort to get it going back with the proper kernel etc resulted in frustration.

So now to flash the official rom back via their tool... that one got me really frustrated and was completely my fault that I couldn't figure it out. But you know angry, frustrated, must get it back to work, can do this ... After all these years of toying with phones we are so used to pressing 'power and vol+ or vol-' together to make something work. Now in the end I re-read the manual again and saw that you only have to push vol+ and NOT vol+ and power together or it wont go in the mode it should go to make it flash!!

In case this happens : The best advice I can give to people is to download the proper MTK drivers. Search for vcom drivers for MTK and you will find.

Print out the instructions and mark every step you do to the letter. The flashing itself only takes like 3 or 4 minutes
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] frumac96:
Haha I did the same exact thing..and managed to get it working after flashing it with the spflash tool but the trick is if you have Windows 10 latest version you won't be able to do this..at least I couldn't because of driver incompatibility so in my case:

1 I installed Windows 7 and installed mtk drivers for spflash tool

2.booted into twrp

2.1 if you can't boot into twrp or it doesn't turn on you can still try this

3.Start sp flash tool and download the zip the one(in case of trouble)that the moderator published

4. Load the scatter file and make sure that all of the files and the scatter are in the same folder.

5.click download and leave it like that

6.plug in your phone in fastboot if you can't try one of the following

6.1 just plug it in turned off and monitor spflash tool status

6.2 plug it in holding volume up key (just volume not power)

6.3 in twrp go to boot and boot into bootloader

And the tool should do the rest

If all else fails check the drivers one more time

After all that if you are feeling adventurous flash twrp one more time and do not factory reset through twrp ! Because that was the problem in my case and after you unlock bootloader boot your phone and go through the setup without setting the password because twrp will be locked.

Good luck.
[Maze Alpha ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] lukesan:
Wait a sec., missing a couple of things here.

1) Do you have a 6GB ?

2) In case you have a 6GB did you manage to get it working, rooted and all?

Your point 6) well I flashed mine on the latest 64bit win10 ... but.... if the phone is off and you connect the usb cable my phone tried to boot up either in twrp with no com port. Also booting it in bootloader doesn't make the comport visible so you can't flash.

The only way to make mine visible for the flashtool was to press vol+ and then connect the usb cable.

Btw I am glad someone finally responds and spreads information. A very good post! Your first 'thanks' well deserved!

I wonder where the guys are that I was trying to help. Did they throw their phones away or something? Sharing is caring I thought.

I want to root mine to alter the camera settings and the media xml file. I find it strange that our sensor, which is the same as in my wife's Xiaomi's, takes seriously bad pictures.