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[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] anzhaki:
Yep pie OS definitely consumes more battery than oreo and I'm almost tempted to role back to oreo just to have more battery life.

I'm currently using lineageos by 33bca it's very stable, I recommend you to give it a try. The only thing I hate is that the ram management is really awful (both with stock and custom rom), most of the time the phone has to reload the applications even if I only have 2 applications opened.

Are you having some problem with sim/network? Because I saw in some post a fix to use after downgrading from pie to oreo.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] rapttorx:
I never upgraded from Oreo to Pie. Looks like i made the right choice.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] courfazor:
Seems like more of the same issues I have experienced, it is simply not good enough for what would be expected of day-to-day use. I think we got exactly what we paid for with this device, sadly, and from what I know the Pie update already released to for example S8 and it is working perfectly well and stable for those. But, again, much more popular and well-financed device than our cheap A2 Lite.

For me this has been the easiest device to downgrade. Xiaomi hosts the OTA officially, OEM unlocking simply by an easy command no phone or e-mail verification just like the Pixel(Probably Android One related), and they made the script to downgrade it for you. I had much more trouble before on other devices. like Samsung using ODIN, Xiaomi with MIUI and similar, having to go through a verification by e-mail to unlock at HTC etc etc. I do not get what you are on about?

Also, why is it a pain without patches or fixes? It is much better than what you get with Pie so far, at least that is for me. There is way more lacks of patches and fixes for Pie than for Oreo ...

Remember, this was the last version released just before the May Pie update, it is very recent in itself only by some 7 months ...

I really wanted to try the custom ROMs, but I have banking apps that complain to me if my device is rooted or similar, and refuses to run. These are important apps for paying for goods and services that you need in order to go about your life normally. I can get around it using Magisk Hide, but I would rather not :)

SIM/network problems actually worked fine on Oreo and Pie (official ROM) for me all the time. I can use 4G LTE band20 perfectly and other bands to access internet, and it immediately connects to 2G/3G(3G being closed in my country soon for 4G and 5G improvement) for calls when it needs to. Coverage is also well in my country. My company use Ericsson base stations and not Huawei ones, but not like that matters.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] NeoZX58:
pixel experience, AOSiP and Lineage are the best custom Roms so far, but, my issue is from RAM management in android Pie (custom or stock).. after hours of use the phone becomes unusable... :/

nope, if you only do this, you don't have RIL, can't record videos from camera and only one sim works...

i told you because i did it, you need a several fixes for sim, modify files in the official OTA to flash more files and need the modem pie img and flash it too...
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Azatecas:
i agree that the android one program wont ever give us a solid flawless build, after all it is ment for lower to mid range devices that will be quickly overlooked after release , i must admit this a2 lite is the best phone i have had so far even with the instabilities but thanks to the xda community i have been able to make the device truly mine and how i like it. i had to get this device after my nexus 5x broke during in a motorcycle accident, it was all i could afford and it performs well for my needs, i did install twrp and Butterfly for Daisy to fix the GCam mis focus issues, eventually i gave in and installed magisk to manage tge kernel with arduitor and increase battery life. i never had the luxury to run Oreo on this devixe because as soon as i got it i unlocked the bootloader and when it restarted it booted into the updated pie partition and i decided to run with it. i dont think xiaomi or Google will actually fix any bugs but we are on XDA and DIY is always an option.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] courfazor:
Not good. I think this was the same massive lagging issue I experienced, I just did not know it was due to bad RAM management. Is this a fix that needs to be done to the ROM directly or only the kernel? I am not familiar with custom ROM/kernel development that much, but I have experienced some kernels on devices working much better than others like ElementalX.

I am able to record videos from my camera perfectly, it works very stable. I used this version of Oreo just some months ago and it worked great. I have the version with 4GB RAM and 64GB eMMC. I think the reason I experience no issues is because I only use one primary SIM for 4G and calling in SIM slot 1, and do not have a use for the 2nd SIM slot :) so for me, it is perfect, but too bad for the people that actually needs this feature like you :( About updates to RIL I assume the firmware used for modem/calling, which for me works so any updates are not that needed for me to have it working perfectly.

But it was actually working well enough for me too on some of the builds, but I do agree that it is probably not a phone that was meant to be supported for long. Another person I know has the A2 model, and he says it has been working perfectly well for him for all this time even on latest Android Pie. I do not know if there are much differences between them, but I do know the A2 is a much more popular device. Personally I prefer the A2 Lite just for the audio jack, and I still like the legacy MicroUSB. People would call me mad for this, but haha, that is just who I am.

I am afraid this device is not nearly as popular to get enough DIY effort into making a custom ROM/kernel, I am certainly not anyone who knows enough to get into development of it. I hope it will go well and that somebody will take the challenge, or maybe it has already happened?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Azatecas:
i actually think the mi a2 lite is more popular than the regular A2, it has more features and a better battery for a cheaper price so it is more accessible to more people and therefore more reach developers. Butterfly for Daisy is a great Custom Kernel that fixes some issues including the GCam focus issue among other things on Pie, i highly suggest you read that thread to see if it offer solutions to some of your issues with the device. im still running stock Rom with the custom kernel and everything works great. others have reported Resurrection Remix/Puxel Experience/ and Lineage Os bring additional stability and fixes in coordination with the kernel. i havent found the need to try a custom rom yet but development is very active on the device. however it is a low end phone and QA is not as good so some devices might be lemons straght out of the factory and not perform as good.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] kitaco:
I have almost no issues with my Mi A2 Lite. No slowness except what I expect from a $159 phone, GPS works, bluetooth works albeit I hate that they removed AAC, WiFi is perfectly fine and maxes out my connection with bluetooth on. Only thing I don't like is how crap calling is, but I figured that would be the case when I bought it at again, $159 and knew some American bands were missing. Battery life is 8-11 hours of SOT with regular usage. I use the IR blaster to control my stereo receiver, FM radio is nice. Glass has some light scratches, but again I expect that for $159.

I have a brand new never opened Oreo Mi A2 Lite in my desk drawer still in the box that I haven't felt the need to pull out yet. I think as someone else has pointed out, there may be two hardware revisions because mine is fairly flawless.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] gatomestre08:
I downgrade my Mi A2 Lite to Oreo V9.6.6.0.ODLMIFF (August 2018) and was surprised how good and perfect is this version, looks like I have an new Smartphone. Now Bluetooth works perfect, Gcam Autofocus is accurate, fine RAM mannagement, battery life is great, only miss FM Radio.

Mi A2 Lite was arruined by Android Pie.

Shame on you Xiaomi, I'm very disappointed with the crap updates that we received from you, seems like your only purpose is for the users buy an new one device.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Eddie_53:
For the ram management... open your kernel 'tweaker' app and disable 'Adaptive Low Memory Killer', it seems to like killing apps on background, even with enough ram to spare... It'll make no magic, but definately helps :highfive:
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Rev10eight:
Sorry, needing Help.

Could you please post a tutorial for this, or a good noob Xiaomi step by step? I have unlocked my phone a few months ago. I don't remember how I did it. I have since moved to another phone. I have installed twrp and had it rooted with majisk. a factory reset took care of majisk. I would love to go back completely to stock oreo.

I only need one slot on the sim so this should be ok.

Your directions for install sound good but seems like something might be missing. I'm new to the xiaomi devices. They seem way more comlicated than all the Samsungs I've had.

PLEASE, and thank you:good::good:
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Nxkealen:
All your data on phone will be lost , take back-up on PC if necessairy.

For full stock rom , download Miuflashtool zip. extract and install on your PC, download stock rom for your phone on your PC and extract it , boot into fastboot and connect your device to PC ,in flashtool click on refresh, your device should appear ( numbercombination 225cc80.... or something like that) click browse in the left corner and select the extracted stock rom file, hit flash and wait till you see succes in green on the right . Your device will take about 10 min to boot . You're now on stock rom, locked bootloader, no root and stock recovery . I flashed my device MiA2 lite) yesterday with latest Pie stock rom after I had bootloop

bricked it. I don't now about oreo stock rom , there could be issues with network connection, video playback and swapped simcard because of anti rollback protection.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Rev10eight:
Thank you so much.

That was super simple and super quick. I am back to stock Pie, unrooted and and the boot loader is locked again. I used OREO and the phone works fine. Make sure you disable update or it will update to pie. I need to redo it to go back to oreo.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] wenna.speedy:
I want to downgrade. What about second sim slot OREO error ??? What version is the best? And what version havent bluetooth/wifi/gps issue? I dont remember what version I was at last on oreo.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Android One is like Lineage OS in terms of Operating System. Stock rom is Android One, it doesn't matter if its official Oreo or Pie, its still Android One. If you don't like it, switch to custom roms like Lineage OS or AOSP/RR/any other custom rom. Maybe they won't fix major bugs, but neither will custom roms fix those bugs.

Most of those custom roms have issues with Whatsapp camera being green or not being able to take photos normaly, not able to record video in UHD or 60fps or something like that. For myself, I am on stock pie June update with Magisk/TWRP/ButterFly undervolted kernel and its working great. Not playing any games on phone, doesn't get hot, SIM card signal is great, 4G works great aswell, GPS is accurate, camera is also good - not using gcam, battery life is good. Only issue I have is recent apps not showing until I reboot phone, this happens sometimes. For me that is only bug I found right now, otherwise, stock is way to go.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] BlueMoonRising:
Well I don't know what I'm doing wrong then because I've had none of these issues, are the people having these problems messed about with rooting and custom roms by any chance?
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] bla.tiga:
Can we install original stock rom just using twrp without any pc involved

I have my phone bootlop into twrp and doesnt have any access to pc
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] a1291762:
Twrp should give you adb. you should be able to boot to fastboot (hold vol down when starting).

Stock images are setup for fastboot. Miflash uses the same images.

In theory you can probably flash those partitions from twrp (eg. Using dd) but I don't know of a complete guide. I'm fairly sure there's no easy process.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] AlexEC2:
I'm glad i found your post because i also feel the same about my Mi A2 Lite. I was a Xiaomi "fan" (I had a Redmi Note 3 during 3 years that i was very happy with), but i am very disapointed with my purchase. Almost 1 year after getting the phone i am tired of the experience i have with it, not reaching by far the standards i was waiting by switching to android one. Here's some problems that i have with it :

Wifi captation is terrible. It takes forever to detect wifi access points and sometimes i need to manually launch a scan to connect to my home access point

Sometimes the wifi randomly disconnects/reconnects for no reason, even if i have full signal strengh, even next to the router

RAM Management is terrible, my old Redmi Note 3 phone with 3 gb was by far more performant than my mi a2 lite with 4 GB. Apps reload all the time, it feels like if you open more than 2 apps, they will hang and reload because of the lack of ram. I refuse to think this is an Android One problem

Overall performance is very poor. I experience frequent hiccups, hangs and lags in the interface when i'm opening apps, multitasking or even performing basic tasks. It's random. I have disabled animations and tried most optimisations i can find (disabling background autorisations, reducing animation scale in developper options...). The most incredible thing is that my girlfriend that has a Mi A1 with exactly the same processor than my Mi A2 lite has buttery smooth performance, like it's day and night. So there's no excuse

I have also found bugs since the Pie update (that now have been fixed but occured for months) , like the settings app crashing when changing the ringtone (seriously ?). Overall, what my experience told me is that Android One doesn't gave you any guarantee of performance and stability. The only thing you will have is clean Android, very good compatibility with all the google services and apps, and timely security updates. But that's all. I feel like it's a pain for Xiaomi to maintain this phone because of the android one label and they do the minimum possible.

I don't want to downgrade either because of the security updates and anyway some other things on this phone are disapointing and related to hardware (like very poor fingerprint scanner performance and recognition), poor network reception or the wifi speed limited to 100 mbps.

For all these reasons i'm considering a Pixel 3a and i'm glad i found your post, so i feel less alone now.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] vess_csm:
My colleague and I both have Mi A2 Lite and we have 0 problems under Android 9.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] Durotan:
My problem is about WiFi and browsing speed on a 2.4 GHz WiFi network which is very low when BT and GPS are active. If you deactivate GPS or bt the navigation speed returns to normal. No problem with the 5ghz WiFi band.

I have already reported the problem several times but to date I have not been helpful. The only thing that was said to me is that they are aware of the problem and that they will solve it as soon as possible. The fact is that I have been reporting it for almost a year. I have also brought the phone to assistance twice, reporting the problem and you are limited to a software update without investigating the problem
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] marstonpear:
Green WhatsApp camera issue is not ROM related, it's related to Camera2API being enabled. If you enable cam2api on stock, you will get green camera issue there as well. As for the recents issue, you can go to settings>apps & notifications>See All Apps> 3 dots on top > show system and then find Quickstep, that's the stock launcher introduced with Pie, you can force stop it and then go home by tapping the home button. You don't need to reboot it every time. Cheers.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] perfect_:
I personally didnt liked Android One because its so empty. I expected performance from heavily debloated phone but reality is not like that. The most important thing for me is there is no joy to use Android One phone. I cant feel its soul. I mean Android One is like Walking-Dead phone. Google should start thinking about it. 2 system updates and 3 years security updates is good but thats not enought to create a soul.

If anyone want to check Hardware Revision here is the key

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[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] celrau:
Hehe, you're so right here. Bad graphics.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] slimshady76:
This thread is so full of subjectivity issues. You guys don't like pure Android? Fine, there are at least 5 different corporate customisation layers in the field. Even Motorola inserts their thin slice of differences over pure Android. Even more, the very same Xiaomi has MIUI. Now, some guys out there (such as myself) like the pure Android experience, and we don't go around buying stupid MIUI backed phones and posting our sour thoughts about them in the Android One-backed subforums here.

Lack of soul? this one realy went over the top. So you can't stomp the latest bloated theme on your phone and that's considered lack of soul. Oh my my.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] celrau:
Talk about subjective issues? Read above. I like Miui, it's got style, unfortunately it is not open source. I bought daisy because it can be easily unlocked and flashed with a decent custom rom. You can argue that this is off topic but the rest...
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] slimshady76:
See, that's precisely my point. I know I LIKE pure Android. That's why I've been buying A1 phones since day 1, with the notable exception of a Samsung, which taught me I don't like they customisation layer. Now I'm not calling that, or MIUI, or EMUI, or any of the other customisation layers a fault. To each their own. Calling A1 a "flaw" or to tell it "lacks a sould"? meh. To each its own.

If anything, the main issue we have as Xiaomi customers comes from, well, being Xiaomi customers. The company allocates most of its development resources to MIUI, and the A1 phones come in a second, third or whatever order of priorities they have. That's the reason I'm keeping this phone until updates are done, and then I'll probably jump to Nokia. But then again, I'm NOT bashing on A1 phones, they exist because pure Android is a thing, wether you like it or not. And on a different level, it HAS to be a thing, in order for the many customisation layers out there to have a baseline to be compared against.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Guides, News, & Discussion] RFMC:
SIM card slots swaped

Hi,

I have 2 SIM cards from different operators

I did the downgrade process using XiaoMIFlash tool.

I got the SIM card slots swapped. Slot 1 became slot 2 and slot 2 became slot 1.

Then I changed SIM cards order in the slots, just becauseI am used to that order (Internet use, voice use, etc...)

Not sure if this will become a problem or not. Doesn't look good, but I still have to use it a bit longer in order to understand the extension of this issue.

Best regards

RC
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] Will008:
As it is well known there are preset thresholds on each device to drop to the lower type of network. For example, if there is less than -125 dBm on 4G/LTE it will drop to 3G, and it the 3G signal goes to lower than -125 dBm it will drop to 2G. I know how to lock in one network through the hidden phone info menu, but I would like to know how can I edit these settings/thresholds on the Pixel 2XL. I'm guessing the values are in the radio image, but how do I actually manipulate them?

The reason being that I work in remote locations and I would like it not to switch to the slower network unless it goes to a lower value than the preset ones.

Would really appreciate anyone pointing me in the right direction.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 Questions & Answers] papoSVK:
I have my MI MIX 2 with official global V10.3.5.0.ODEMIXM. I upgraded to this version via regular OTA update about 2 weeks ago.

After factory recovery I did last day I stuck in restart loop with error.

I picked up language, region, and after that on Just a sec screen I have error Find Device closed unexpectedly and going to restart loop.

Via Mi suite 3 beta I am able to flash same firmware, but this is causing same error and loop. Older firmwares are not possible to flash because of error. (flashing firmware older the nactual firmware on phone)

Via fastboot I am not able to flash anything as phone has locked bootloader and is not assigned to my Mi account so unlock tool is not able to unlock it.

So.. what can I do to fix it ?
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 Questions & Answers] Pafpif:
hi , if you have access to fastboot look if arb is on , download this => https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=24686681827312411 and copy/paste that => fastboot getvar anti ,, if you get 4, arb is on ..... if you have under , you can flash older firmware

So if you have 4 , search '' Anti-rollback Protection and Fastboot Unlocker '' to download antirbpass dummy.img
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 Questions & Answers] papoSVK:
So

fastboot getvar anti

anti: 1

fastboot flash antirbpass dummy.img

target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes

sending 'antirbpass' (8 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.002s]

writing 'antirbpass'...

FAILED (remote: Flashing is not allowed in Lock State)

finished. total time: 0.006s

Mi suite 3.0 still says:

Sorry, I can't support the rollback to a non-newer previous version.

Push Man Brush Pack Version: V10.3.5.0.ODEMIXM
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 Questions & Answers] Pafpif:
hi you have anti 1 , you can flash older rom without brick , you have unlock bootloader

rom 10.2.2.0 =>http://bigota.d.miui.com/V10.2.2.0....XM_20190109.0000.00_8.0_global_ffb701bb41.tgz ,, you can flash ,, after that make upgrade firmware via update

ps: un flash.bat it will ask for 0 to flash ............. i did mistake ....... you can try flash beta rom , it's under pie , i flashed it to and it's stable

=> https://bigota.d.miui.com/9.5.30/ch...30_20190530.0000.00_9.0_global_6c535734e7.tgz

after flash search update normaly get 9.6.13
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 Questions & Answers] papoSVK:
I really appreciate your help, but I was not succesfull.

Bootloader is locked and unlocking via MI Unlock is not succesfull because no Mi account is bound to the device.

Flashing via Mi Suite 3 always ends like this:

V9.5.8 (pie) -> Unable to flash between different android versions. Please flash ROM via Fastboot Flashing

V9.6.13 -> Unable to flash between different android versions. Please flash ROM via Fastboot Flashing

V10.2.2.0.ODEMIXM - > ROM Package verification failed Unknown Error[2013]

V10.3.1.0.ODEMIXM -> Sorry, I can't support the rollback to a non-newer previous version.

V10.3.5.0.ODEMIXM -> Succesfull, but always get boot loop with error FIND DEVICE CLOSED UNEXPECTEDLY

I also tried to reboot to EDL with help of this srticle: https://www.xiaomigeek.com/edl-mode-xiaomi.html second option - 2. How to Boot into EDL From Fastboot Mode.

But it always restarts and goes to boot loop.

So is last try open the phone and test point method? http://en.miui.com/thread-1351514-1-1.html
[Sony Xperia XZ1  Questions & Answers] tizzi717:
I have the old firmware, what i shoud do to downgrade without losing drm keys or get stuck in bootloop or someting similar? Which flasher i shoud use?