[Xiaomi Mi 9 Questions & Answers] doggydog2:
Memories of a flash operator

Hi [MENTION=5169444]AndroPlus[/MENTION], all apps visible in full screen settings screen actually. For example, "ES File manager". the setting can be changed but it's not saved.

tilt / handwave / pick gestures don't work. Functions work only with 'New notifications' choice which doesn't make sense. Also have no idea what 'pulsing' means i think it's displaying AOD which overrides display of actual notificaiton!). If vibration is chosen, it will make noise with any slight movement, inconsistent with actual doze action. Pick gesture will turn on AOD forever! That's supposed to shut down after a while? Handwave via crDroid or phh settings or both cannot be reproduced. When full AOD is on, fingerprint circle is on and is semiactive, this is a known glitch, i'd turn it off.. it wastes time reacting to finger. Overall this area is a complete mess.

Btw i have to restart recovery after resizing otherwise the paritition is 'busy'.

Flashing memories 20190429: Failed to switch from MindTheGapps to OpenGapps (standalone flashing, combo, delta flashing by creating own package, floko web site cheatsheet ---- all tricks failed), without deleting data. I want faceunlock too as the current fingerprint is pretty bad (needs 2 long presses to login).

FlokoROM 20190429: added 3 volume vibration settings. Added "Smart pixels". Nice but that disables the fingerprint! Fp won't read through such pixels, and i had a hard time to login with keyboard. The respective setting also disappears from the config app most of the time. update: can't login in any way.. this is it: no faceunlock, then crippled fingerunlock, then no fingerunlock, and now no passwordunlock.

Flashing memories 20190430: AndroPlus v02 kernel giving me 2x worse battery life, so i quit using it for now. Not a single success with different usage patterns detected in dozens of tests. Interestingly it prevents deep dozin' too. FYI FDE/LKT like magisk plugins improve battery life but cause bootloops.

Flashing memories 20190501: randomblame's TWRP is the only one to put opengapps, but needs fastboot -w on every attempt. then switched back to chinese TWRP beta8 as it's superior

FlokoROM 20190501:

- ISSUE cannot inject TORCH (unique)

- IMPROVED charging LED now works (byebye last arguments for XiaomiEU)

- IMPROVED changelog updated

- ISSUE smart pixels corrupt fingerprint, first time screen impact is invisble, after reboot screen is with stripe pattern and fp stops working

- ISSUE only one time password entry per session possible (ouch), no action after Enter key on 2nd entry, basically just boot kbd can enter password, this bug will lock you out later when pwd is asked and after the great Lockdown function

- ISSUE fingerprint is too sticky, green circle is there when it shouldn't be, conflicts with other unlock methods, often fp becomes completely unresponsive until reboot

+ IMPROVED actually fixes two touches to even without patch v5

+ faceunlock works with UNOFFICIAL opengapps, however its unlockaction is unnoticable so i tend to unlock again which is not a good idea, i recommend set remove lockscreen after authorization in Floko settings. Also conficlits with fp and relocks many times

+ IMPROVED new CORRECT notch cutout (Display cutout=Immerse), excellent, OnePlus style although it looks like a poor overlay only and conflicts with notification bar to create some ugly corner effects

- ISSUE getting asked to choose SIM card nonstop (this looks like Phone services cannot be disabled by firewall)

- ISSUE often lose notifications and access to edit/settings from notification menu, hmm can't find why, this sucks, also systemui_loop when setting Style (Quick Settings tile style)

- glitchfest: after all 'User interface' section is full of bugs be careful changing settings here, causes systemui_loops

- glitch: Rounded corners\statusbar extra padding could be set to 8 for better impression of ROM (statusbar items are cut by default)

- new: Display\Prevent accidental wake-up which is duplicit to Pocket lock, hmm which one spends less battery.. tested: no battery impact

+ IMPROVED full screen apps settings are now remembered, but cannot be set at runtime in the bottom bar

- ISSUE brightness control is poor, fails outdoors

- ISSUE battery standby -1.5%hr on wifi, -4%/hr 3g

- ISSUE searchsettings is really slow.. suggestions after like 5sec, search hit also slow

- ISSUE set USB controlled by device, and it's forever gone, can't change back

-> actually can't recommend 20190429+ as systemui and login system is broken

Flashing memories 20190505: after installed randomblame kernel i didn't get the boot authenticity error, but got much worse battery drain, and no matter what cannot rollback to other kernel.. sad

FlokoROM 20190506:

- IMPORTANT USB flashdrive still not working, dialog to change control betweet device and 'this computer' broken, no notification of drive assigned, also doesn't appear in file manager........also reproducible in v20190421, search settings for "USB" to find the hidden dialog

- IMPORTANT fingerprint needs 2 touches again (we're back to the old system) w/patch, update: later fp completely broken even after reboot

- no more SIM card questions!

- IMPORTANT login system: less mess, well fp circle stays sometimes, and ouch lockdown still locks me out

- ambient doze effects still bad, overreacting but at least AOD screen turns off after few seconds. still u will have screen turning on nonstop when moving

- IMPORTANT automatic brightness doesn't work at all, prepare for shocks outside as you won't see anything and won't be able to find brightness toggle

- User Interface Style settings still produce systemui restart loops, notch cutout lazy solution is corrupting notification bar

- Notifications work update: after longer time than usual, it's broken again

- low priority bug, Power Menu\Lockdown=Off when enabled

- NEW: lockscreen shortcut, old feature is back, icons are too small to see but it's nice to have. Apps launch with monster delay.

- default apps - no camera there but it's working

Flashing memories 20190508: still couldn't revert to stock kernel, and had to rollback Xposed as Xposed YAHFA/SandHook 0.4.1 causes issue: on each boot, OS reboots once before Floko logo would show up. Interesting info.

FlokoROM 20190511:

- USB flashdrive still not accessible, think only if you unlikily change USB control to 'The Device'

- fingerprint ok

- lockdown ok but fp will sometimes shine with green circle after login (not a showstopper)

- start using pickup doze effect as i like it, it's overreacting to small movement, but i have phone on the desk so it shouldnt trigger nonstop. another disadvantage of any ambient feature is it confuse user when to login with fp (i don't care i can't but lockscreen looks similar to AOD so i tend to touch fp

- auto brightness is back, reacting slowly

- no systemui loop

- notifications work

it looks like very good build unlike 20190429 to 201506, only minor glitches.

FlokoROM 20190518:

- almost the same, still no USB, still fp circle stays sometimes, ... but nothing serious

- auto brightness ->lighter bit faster but overall still slow

- longterm test of pickup doze effect proved this is not working well, it produced many wakelocks, screen on 33% of time while in pocket. And also made unwanted calls etc. Again "User interface" settings not recommended mostly. But AOD or AOD on new notification works well. Avoid any doze effects like pickup, hand gesture etc, and any Style changes.

FlokoROM 20190519_1:

- fp circle is turned off AFTER kbd login. Nice fix.

- fp on AOD works with pickup gesture :o that's first time we have AOD fp login theoretically. since this doze effect is waking up the phone upon slight movement (but not on real pick up movement), it's very possible you can have it working most of the time when phone in hand (not on desk). well, the price is high: battery drain, unintented wakes, so i will pass

Flashing memories 20190526: tired of switching between TWRPs to install gapps, returned to Mindthegapps.. faceunlock is a bad thing anyway. Still no decryption in any TWRP up to date.

FlokoROM 20190526:

- only this is new: language quick switch. You can cycle between your languages from quick settings. Can be handy.

- and Omniswitch is now officially a Recents choice, i don't like this app and kept it disabled because it was always active when unused (!), but i tested it again now that the mechanism changed, and happy to say it's not in memory when not selected

- fingeprint circle does NOT disappear after alternative login, contrary to what i said before

- ambient brightness still slow and still sometimes i can't see screen when double tapping on dozed phone when outside

this needs further testing but i experienced lot of bad behaviour with previous release and i think it's the same:

- actually have big problems with phone in pocket.. it will nonstop dial number, and i dont know how the heck it even reaches the dialer. Probably swipes up then goes to emergency. 'Prevent accidental wake-up' in Display settings, or 'Pocket detection' in floko setting don't have impact (except extreme battery drain for the latter).

- even notifications are sometimes missing, something that was "fixed", and even had problem with kbd login! so i was locked out again

i'm not happy the annoyances are back, but kind of rare unlike in that past, so i won't roll back. It seems changes are now OnePlus7 focused, hope Mi9 will get some love!

Flashing memories 20190602: lot of new TWRPs, some promise gapps install without resize but it doesn't work and encryption neither too (see atachment).

FlokoROM 20190602:

- nothing new, all problems as above

- noticed new Google settings on-device sharing, looks like yet another privacy theft, turned it off

FlokoROM 20190609:

- longterm noticed auto rotate stops working LATER.. and it autolocks for no reason every 5min, not nice during watching youtube. this ROM needs to be restarted daily. all previous glitches remain.

- new patch v6

- no fingerprint at all(ooops)

- 3 new quick settings (Profiles, One handed mode, Night Light)

- new "Q Style" battery icon, good, but it's still small (the goal is to see charging status in car... this icon is slightly bigger but still will be invisible from distance)

- and a new charging animation (again, too subtle - far from what MIUI offers)

Flashing memories 20190615: failed to run GSI with newer base global 9.5.30 20190530 MIUI with flokoROM 20190602, 20190613_2, 20190615. Perhaps the very restrictive randomblame's kernel is the cause again and i'm not deleting the data. so now i'm too stuck and this heads to data reformatting and possibly trying other ROMs.

FlokoROM 20190615:

- longterm i also noticed any keyboard stops working, and home button stops working and double tap to wake up sometimes not reacting

- no visible changes, fingerprint works