[Xiaomi Poco X2 Guides, News, & Discussion] iamfarhanansari:
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Note: Miui kills the background apps and stops them to run properly.so u will face problems in running the following apps and mods

To fix it you have to remove all restrictions for all the apps

To do so:

1.Go to app info and the battery saver and select "No "Restriction

2. In the app info setting check the Autostart option

1️⃣ Tips

◽Enable Developer Options

Go to Setting/About Phone

And tap "MiUi Version for Poco" 7-8 times

Now devloper options is enabled

Go to Setting/Additional Setting

And u will find developer options

Note : Developer Options will be Required for some of the following Tricks.So u have to enable it.

◽️ Change Display Size

Enable Developer Option and

Change smallest Width to 420

Using small Display Size Makes Things a little bit Smaller

You can see more contents in the Screen

◽️ Change Animation Scale

(You Can Also use Quick Setting App to change Animation Scale.You just need to add animations tiles in quick settings

and from quick settings click on tile and choose your preffered animation scale)

Change Animation Scales to Make your phone a little bit faster

Use Adb and Run Following Commands

adb shell

settings put global window_animation_scale 0.75

settings put global transition_animation_scale 0.75

settings put global animator_duration_scale 0.75

Note:Recommended Animation Scale is 0.75 But You can use custom animation scales

I know there is an option of changing animation scales from developer options in settings

But you can only set animation 0.5 or permanently disable it

2️⃣ Tricks

◽️ Enable Round Google Search Bar Widget

First add the google search bar on your home screen

Then open google app

Click More/Customize Widget

Customize it acc to your likings

Done

Note:if you do not find Customize widget option in google app Update Google app to the Latest Version

◽️Some Chrome Browser Tricks(UPDATED)

See this Post

Tip: To Reduce Popup Messages and Webpages in any browser, dont just click any link, long press and open in new tab. This will definitely reduce popup messages

3️⃣ Themes

There are a lot of amazing themes available on the internet(in the form of .mtz files)

But they are not on MiUi theme store app

So we can Download them and install manually

◽Install Custom themes(.mtz files)

1.Download and install Miui Theme Editor

2.Download .mtz files (u will find the links to download .mtz files in a text file in the Miui Themes Editor Zip)

How to Install the MiUi theme editor :

1. Install the miui theme editor apk

2. And copy the com.mixapplications.miuithemeeditor folder in android - obb folder 3. Done

How to install Themes

1. Download the .mtz files of the themes

2. Open The MiUi Theme Editor App

3. Click Browse and then locate and select the .mtz file

4. Then click Start

5. Then Click Next

6. Then Finish

7. Then install

Then go to the Themes app and the My page - themes and Apply the themes

U may see two themes installed U will be able to install only those which has (Apply me ) Text

Note: If u see any ad just close it

Themes:

1.Colour Os Themes

https://xdaforums.com/poco-x2/how-to/customizations-mods-tricks-root-poco-x2-t4154385/post83608983

4️⃣ Mods and Apps

◽Enable Status Bar Gestures

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tombayley.statusbar

Features:

•Enable Swipe on Status bar to Change Brightness

•Double tap on status bar to lock screen

Note:

Install the app and set the battery saver to no restriction and

Enable Autostart to get it working properly

◽️ Quick Settings App

Download here

Add Quick settings tiles like adaptive brightness/Caffeine

If you give adb permissions via pc

You can enable/disable Heads-Up

Turn on reading mode

Turn on Immersive mode (Expanded desktop)

Change animation Scale

And many other quick setting icons

◽️ Youtube Vanced(ad free Youtube premium)

See this XDA thread

Download Here

Features:

Enable PIP mode

Save videos for offline play

Enable Background Play

Swipe Controls for Volume and Brightness

Enable Dark and Black themes

Remove Ads

And much more

How to install:

First go to developer options in the settings and scroll down to the bottom

And turn off MiUi Optimisation

Download latest Youtube vanced managet apk

Install apk

Open Vanced Manager app

Give permissions if it asks

First install microg

Then install youtube vanced

Done

Open youtube vanced and login

Now you can unistall vanced manager

And turn on MiUi Optimization

(Note: disabling MiUi optimization will reset your app permissions .so u need to enable the permission for the all the apps again. Whatsapp will not show contacts name so go to app settings and enable all the permissions like contacts,telephone,camera etc )

5️⃣ Apps

◽Home Apps

• LawnChair V2 Launcher

Best Pixel launcher Mod

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.deletescape.lawnchair.plah

• Customized Pixel Launcher(CPL launcher)

Most customizable Pixel Launcher Mod

XDA thread Link

Play Store Link

◽️Gallery apps

As all of u know our phone don't have a gallery app

Google photos is there but most of us only use it for photo backup

So i was searching for a simple gallery app with modern design

I found these

•Camera Roll - Gallery

•Asus Gallery

•Sony Album

◽️Music Apps

•Sony Music

•Retro Music

◽️ File Manager

•MiXplorer

MiXplorer (Mix of Explorers) is a fast, smooth, beautiful, reliable and fully-featured file manager with a simple and intuitive user interface.

This app has no ads, is and will always remain completely free.

Apkmirror Link

Xda Labs

•Solid Explorer

Powerful file manager and cloud manager with root explorer

◽️Download Progress++

Show download progress on status bar

◽️Rotation App

Many of us use our phone while charging

And our phone have usb port at bottom

So we can use this app to set our phone rotation to reverse portrait and use our phone while charging

We can also force set any app rotation

# More

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Note:All of the above Works Without Root

But some of them needs adb permissions via pc