[Xiaomi Mi 5 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] suleyman290:
best for my mi5

Hi, I got over from Xiaomi.eu weeklies to this awesome ROM, everything is nice!

Never used anything other than MIUI, tried LOS 14 once in summer, was disappointed and went back to MIUI after 1,5 day. (overheating, battery draining and other issues).

Here on other hand everything seems perfect, phone works flawlessly, no lags, glitches or anything.

Google camera with portrait mode, apps not closing in background in 5 seconds, more fluid facebook/instagram/chrome feeds without MIUI lags, deleted Bluetooth icon from notification shader with UI Tuner . These and much more small things make this ROM better than MIUI and any LOS. I will stay with this ROM.

But, everything has its "buts". There are few things I'll mention, that doesn't work properly.

1) LED notifications.

On MIUI blinking timing was perfect, you just choose color for any app from within the app and it works as you need it to. Led blinks very slowly, just notifying about something.

On LOS it is complex, in settings you can choose app and add notification led for any app, with its own color, blinking time (short-long, in ms.). But lacked optimization: for example, in MIUI you can choose LED to be purple for private messages, and white for group messages. in LOS it doesn't work so well.

Here in Pixel Experience, on first 4 reboots Settings crashed when I tried to choose a color for a notification. Finally I was able to choose a color, but now it was blinking rapidly fast like it is hurrying somewhere and was discomforting me. And for now there is no option to choose its blinking speed. If I just add app to the menu and doesn't change it blinks slowly (as i need), if I choose custom color for an app - it changes to Custom and light doesn't turn off at all.

So, please, add an option to choose timing for LED blinking, either force them to be slow all the time (even with custom color) or let choose timing for each.

2) Google Feed, scroll left, - is empty and doesn't fill with any news, Feed option doesn't work and greyed out. No big deal, so just turned off. But would be neat to use.

3) Battery draining - is a thing. it works a lot better than LOS14, not draining battery in front of your eyes, but still much more drainy than MIUI by xiaomi.eu. Eventually after 3-4 days of testing default (I just turned off background for fb/messenger/instagram) settings I will start playing with "greenify" or other android toys to play with battery saving. But I would love Pixel Experience to have predefined all settings to be balanced both in battery draining and performance as it is done by xiaomi.eu guys.

4) Multitouch in games. In regular usage it is not noticed, but I tried to play a shooter (CriticalOps), and it started to behave abnormally:

There are always 2 fingers on screen, left thumb for movement always on left half of screen, right thumb is always on right half of screen, scrolling to see around(a-la move camera) and click on different buttons. in Pixel Experience it kinda lags, when I move and see around simultaneously it starts to move camera in accidental angles, turns around. for example, if I move forward (keep left finger in middle of left half-screen) and see left and right (move finger to the right, left from the center of right half-screen), - then when I take right finger off the screen I am in the position where I look back, not forward. (in other words: I see forward, 0°, look right, 90°, then look left, -90°, and turn back forward, 0°, but when I take fingers off, the camera turns 180° and I look back).

It's like using cheap unresponsive touchscreen phone which has phantom touches or when using cheap charger. on MIUI this bug was not present. On LOS bug was not present too (but device turned really burning hot).

Screenshot from Google app's Feed and LED settings attached.

If needed any log or smth I am happy to collect.

But overall, it is very nice and refreshing experience after frustrating LOS and usual MIUI9. Definitely recommend.

upd: Also a small X on top of second sim is discomforting. I use data on 1st card, second is only for calls,there wasn't X at first, in settings both data on sim1 and sim2 was on, and it appeared after I turned second sim's data off.

Is there a way to remove that X sign on the second card in notification shader? .attached as 3rd screenshot.