[Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] ghst7:
android 9 havoc os 2.9 unofficial team phenom​

opengapps for android 9 pico package

working gcam PMGC_7.0.009_Full_Version_v8.apk

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known bugs: sometimes while answering calls the screen will not turn off automatically.

Since the time I first posted this thread this has been the "definite" ROM that I've used for the last 2/3 years, honestly it just works, it has decent performance, battery life is good and everything that I needed to use in this phone just works with this ROM, including GCam and the pictures look good, this ROM from all the ROMs is also the one that offers the most options for customization, just take a look on the screenshots, all those customization, colors, icons, transparency and opacity is done in the system native settings, the only 3rd party app that I've installed was nova launcher and a icon pack.

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android 11 havoc os 4.19 official​

flamegapps for android 11 - basic package

working gcam - MGC_8.1.101_A9_GV2b_MGC.apk

*notes - you need to install google photos in order to see in app recent pictures for gcam.

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This ROM offers way less options regarding customizations, still this ROM has the most unique and cool looking "clock lock-screens" take a look on the screenshots, this ROM is officially supported by the havoc team and is the latest stable so I expect to have an havocOS for android 13 sometime soon and I'm looking forward to it, meanwhile this ROM is probably the best ROM if you don't want to use android 9, it has good performance and as far as I can tell everything works but I haven't tested this ROM as much as I did havocOS2.9, GCam works but as I said I haven't' fully tested so I don't guarantee that GCam works 100% in every situation.

android 13 - banana droid (BananaDroid-Tanduk-lavender-OFFICIAL-20221226-Vanilla.zip)​

partially working gcam - Gcam_6.1.021_Advanced_V1.7.190716.1800.apk

notes: It doesn't work at first and it does not work with custom config files, after installing open the gcam app and grant all the permissions, close the app and wait for a few minutes(unknown amount) after a period of time and/or reboot it should work for taking pictures and may or may not work for recording videos.

flamegapps for android 13 - basic package

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android 13 is the android version that offers the least amount of customizations, you can barely change colors or add transparency.

Besides the gcam not working, android 13 ROMs runs super fine on the note 7, Iv'e tried a bunch but most of them are build-bots ROMs that are not worth to mention, I can say this:

Project Elixir - Cute looking ROM with pinkish looks and feel, it only comes with a ROM-GAPPS version so it is full of google bloatware and a little slow because of it, ultimately don't think is worth the hassle.

crDroid v9 - banana droid is based on this ROM, super smooth close to AOSP, no bloat, perfectly for a daily driver if you don't care about GCam not working.

Banana droid - very close to crDroid, great performance and overall I like the extra icons/styles they included in the ROM, specially the "Airoo battery icon style", both this and crDroid are "officially" supported by their projects so I expect them to receive updates and maybe OTA?

There is a common thing between a13 ROMs, just FYI the notification LED does not work, I don't really care about this one so it doesn't bother me, android 13 im comparison to past versions is the one to offer the least amount of customization possible, so all a13 ROMs kind look more or less the same, I really don't like this, basically nowadays you can just change wallpapers and maybe the icon pack for customization, really sad to see this since past versions offered so much control over our ROMs.

Also be aware that some ROMs, like banana droid, do claim that they out of the box pass safetynet and support L1 for DRM content, however during my use they didn't, I didn't try to make this work nor installed any patchs or mods to address this issue as I mostly also don't care about this. I did used bank applications and had magisk hide in use, Netflix didn't even show in the playstore for me, however I don't use DRM protected apps so I never really cared about this.

In conclusion I still think that HavocOS 2.9 is the best daily driver ROM, HavocOS 4.19(a11) is the second best rom and the although a13 with Banana droid and crDroid are very promising and have probably the best performance out of all of the ROMs the fact that they don't quite work with GCam is a dealbreaker, the difference in pictures quality between GCan and any other stock camera app is too big to be ignored.

edit: for future reference if anyone is going to try this, to install android 9 ROMs you need to use an older version of orangefox, I used OrangeFox-lavender-stable@R10.1_02.zip and for andoid 11 and 13 I've used OrangeFox-lavender-stable@R11.1_3_A12.zip.