yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] itagizade:
Testing PE 12 Beta. I should acknowledge that it works quite good. Not much bugs were discovered, this is the second day I use it. Sound, Mic, Rotation, GPS. Most apps work without problem(didn't tested games). LED, Camera, fast change, Mobile Data, Calls work. Didn't test VoLTE, because it is not by my carrier. System itself works flawless by now. Gonna test it further.

One thing that bugs me is that there is no Android Update section. Is it because ROM is in Beta stage?
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] Speedo1320:
PE 12 beta change recovery from Orange/ TWRP to stock PE recovery?
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] itagizade:
There is an image, but I didn't flash it, at least for now.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] Manelit:
How can i get access to the PE 12 Beta?
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] freeman94:
i also have installed the PE 12 beta, but there is problem, after I flash it I can't get access to any recovery, no TWRP, orangefox, it freezes on the TWRP screen / Orangefox screen and nothing happening.

Try flashing multiply times twrp and nothing.

I think I am screwed as if the rom break somehow I am not able to restore or do anything.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] itagizade:
Main website, where you download ZIP archives.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] itagizade:
You still can flash Stock using MiFlash, or XiaoMiTool V2. It should fix the problem.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] itagizade:
Well,

PixelExperience 12 ALPHA 20211108-0647 Unofficial Polaris Build

Dual SIM selection fix, Cpuset/SchedTune Assist drop, and optimization profile settings fix.

jjpprrrr.com

This behavior is predicted, although he is Polaris dev, the kernel used in our ROM is from polaris.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] freeman94:
Ok thanks for anwser

"Keymaster is bumped to 4.0 for encryption, and cust partition is mounted as /metadata. You WILL NOT be able to boot TWRP/OrangeFox on PE12. "

So basicly i screw it myself as i read recomended PE recovey but ignored it and use twrp as its love :)

Now i will try flash PE recovey and see if it works and no freeze, and if work use it to updated future android 12 Pixel builds and then hopefilly new twrp will be release and will be fine

am i uderstend it correct or the PE recovey also will freeze and I am out of luck?

EDIT: So Yeah, i flash the PE Recovery provided in beta 12 build and seems to boot to it very fast and no freezes inside so, to everyone that want to test PE 12 Beta just install it via PE Recovery, don't be like me
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] itagizade:
So, iiuc it is modified TWRP, am I right?
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] freeman94:
No, its just recovery designed to flash Pixel experiance software hassle free

TWRP is way better have lots of options and besicly its way to go with recovery

But for now, if u want test beta android 12 you need to use it, or you can just wait for new twrp that will be designed to support it, but dont know how long its gonna także.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] Manelit:
Used the latest orange fox and it's working fine apart from Bluetooth always falling, stop running
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] cl.ement05:
What about Bluetooth ? Is it working correctly ?
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] itagizade:
yup
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] mattcri:
assuming the hdr bug is still here, it is possible to reapply the color profile without rebooting like in lineage os?

battery life is decent?
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] CarlosGilberto:
Did anyone manage to camera any camera on PE12? Tried last BSG but its crashes.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] itagizade:
Stock one works.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] Manelit:
bluetooth problem was mine..everything is working fine! i use it as my daily and have nothing to point out
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] freeman94:
I am using MGC_8.1.101_A9_GV1x_ENG.apk

And its working flawessly, but then newer version 8.4 with is designed for A12 from MGC is crashing.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] cl.ement05:
Does someone here tried A12 beta with Magisk installed ? Does it work with V23.0 or did you install the canary update that brings A12 support up but removes MagiskHide ?
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] toonbrime:
I hope to update the cameras in the next build a12.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] CROrION:
BSG gcam works perfect.

doupla tap to wake screen doesnt work.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] toonbrime:
when I had 11 android, then I still had a choice of cameras, but now it is not. Some modules, such as an infrared lens and a telescopic lens, are simply not registered in the system.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] homerli38:
Use Gcam 8.1.101 Arnova8G2, works perfect
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] IGorMcLven:
After a sideload installation, I experience extreme battery drainage :c
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] LiufengWong:
Two SIM cards

Photo widget
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] CarlosGilberto:
Yes, same like 40% over night.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] maxihouston:
The same, before was slowly.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] cl.ement05:
I am running A11 October build and I am experiencing the same battery drainage issue
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] CarlosGilberto:
Yeah i dont know about A11, i did not try Pixel experience with A11 cause i did not thought that it was worth going from miui 12 to pixel experience with android 11 even more when i need call recording and on pixel i would need to root and magisk hide and all that stuff cause of baking apps.

But on android 12, we have some big and nice changes, so i thought it was worth to give it a try and it seems a really good rom, really fast and fluid but the battery drainage is a big thing.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] szabonight:
After I ran a system update - I noticed Magisk stopped allowing/giving Root.

So I downloaded the latest Pixel Exp and extracted Boot.img then put that on my phone then ran Magisk and patched it via Magisk. I then Boot into Recovery and installed the now patched file to Boot. The Ran Magsik and it installed root. Everything's now working.

Just sharing my exp...
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] cocolol2014:
Use PE12 since one week , everything works. And it is way over previous edition regarding battery management.

Plz donate to maintainer
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] cl.ement05:
PE11 or 12 ?
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] zavorrax:
Hi, all

Just installed PE11. I love It, but I have issues with Google Photos.

It seems It Is not able to find new pictures, and It crashes when i try ti open the picture I Just taken with gcam

May it have something tondo with the ****ty "scoped storage" stuff? I can't find a way ti set Google photo as the system gallery...
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] Staschme:
Hi, did you have to format data to upgrade to pe12? or is it possible to dirty flash?
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] kubula420:
On the original miui, the phone loses coverage or the internet does not work, I have installed this room and the coverage is ok, but the phone is restarting, can I do something about it? HELP HELP
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] kubula420:
2 months ago I had the screen in my mi 8 replaced with a non-original TFT so that the screen sticks out and maybe the antennas broke down, etc. The problem appeared only a week ago and is getting bigger
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] speedgeil:
Clean install with format data, system, dalvic, cache. Magisk and ROM flashed via orange fox. No issues, no exaggerated battery drain.

Seems all to work fine after 24h.

Thanks for lifting my old smartphone over to Android 12!
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] zavorrax:
for the records, I have solved the issue following the instructions in this page: https://www.xda-developers.com/android-11-google-photos-trash-fix/

long story short, to give google photo the role of system gallery I have issued this adb command:

adb shell cmd role add-role-holder android.app.role.SYSTEM_GALLERY com.google.android.apps.photos

And after a reboot (you know... when in doubt reboot...) pictures started showing up in photos.

Z
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] cl.ement05:
What version of Magisk are you using ?
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] speedgeil:
The latest stable from git hub
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] cl.ement05:
Oh ok nice !

The version you're talking about (V23.0) isn't supposed to support Android 12 but is also the last version to be packed with MagiskHide
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] speedgeil:
Didn't see that. I just flashed it and everything seems to be smooth. I noticed no issues so far.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] cl.ement05:
Just to share my experience,

I installed PE12 after wiping data

No excessive battery drainage issue

For those wondering, yes Magisk V23.0 works well on Android 12 so basically there is a way to keep MagiskHide

So far, no issue. Everything is smooth
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] CarlosGilberto:
How did you install it? I used PE recovery method like its recommended on the PE page...

I wonder if the installation method has anything to do with the battery issue? Cause i did a clean installation, but my battery is the original battery, is just that on miui it does not drain as much as it was draining on PE 12 over night.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] cl.ement05:
I formatted /data and sideloaded the zip file just like you did

Some days ago, I was on PE11, I had the same battery issue. My phone was loosing like 50% per night.

2 days ago, before sleeping, I accidentally turned airplane mode on and I put my phone down without noticing it.

8 hours after, I had lost only 8-10%

After that, I supposed the battery problem comes from cellular network/bluetooth/wifi.

The night after this, I turned wifi off to test if this was causing the drain but after a night, I had lost 50% again.

So I guess problems comes either from Bluetooth either from cellular. So I recommend you to try disabling one of these to figure out where the battery drain comes from
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] minax007:
@GiaSen is there a mirror download page available?

I can't access the official site due to "DDoS protection by Cloudfare" protection.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] GiaSen:
Nope, try to wait some seconds, or use a VPN, something idk, probably cloudflare blocks your connection
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] minax007:
Thanks for your fast response. I am trying since a couple of days and have even tried to access it via a proxy server - but it always shows the same message from cloudflare. It does not forward to the Pixel Experience download site.

In the past I had access to the site.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] Dawid67:
Hello guys. I installed PE 12 yesterday and now I can't boot on TWRP anymore (stucked on TWRP splash screen). I tried several builds of TWRP (3.4..x.x Mauronofrio and the last one, and even the las orange fox).

Someone can help me ?
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] cl.ement05:
"Keymaster is bumped to 4.0 for encryption, and cust partition is mounted as /metadata. You WILL NOT be able to boot TWRP/OrangeFox on PE12. "

https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-official-11-0-12-0-dipper-pixel-experience-aosp.4244675/post-86001369
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] Dawid67:
Thank you for your fast response. I'll flash magisk with adb tools then...

Edit : Magisk flashed successfully. Now the only thing which seams to not work is my Voice Video Mail app (Android 12 problem and Google phone app does'nt show me the voicemail tab)

Edit 2 : It seams that it's no more possible to switch on/off the camera light with the power button (sad because it was a very good thing)
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] najabi:
Hi @GiaSen

Would it be possible to merge Qualcomm Audio code from https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/frameworks/av/ to be able to offload hardware dsp decoding, allowing native 44.1/48 samplerate playback instead of android software mixing?

This url was given to me by polaris kernel developer, @jjpprrrr (scherzo). It would be cool to have this feature on Android 12 and close the circle of porting this great phone. Thanks.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] GiaSen:
I've followed the issue on github, and as he said, I can't merge qualcomm code ROM side, since there are non-qualcomm devices as well
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] gefrost7:
A little help. maybe check your public IP address on Project HoneyPot. maybe your IP was blacklisted due a trojan/malware attack or spam or mistakenly blacklisted. I've same problem for past 2 week, then I check my IP on that site, I was blacklisted. Then I make an appeal there.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] minax007:
Thanks for your reply.

Meanwhile I have managed to download the file via a different proxy server :)
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] najabi:
Could you perhaps make a custom build for a test?

Isn't there any other driver for some hardware merged upstream into the rom side in a way that doesn't affect the other phones?

I mean, there are Qualcomm and Mediatek devices that share the ROM side as well. All hardware is configured on the kernel/device tree, none on the rom side?
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] GiaSen:
I'm sorry but don't have time to test this, I have exams to do

btw that thing you're talking about is done in framework, so we can't do in other ways
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] cl.ement05:
I am also having battery drain issues and I figured out it comes from Mobile Network Standby (at least for me).

So until the issue is fixed, you can turn on airplane mode to have good battery life again (turning off mobile data doesn't change anything). You can turn back on Wifi and Bluetooth, it shouldn't affect battery life
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] CarlosGilberto:
Yeah just like we(me and some other ppl) reported, the drain is pretty huge... Like 50% over night in 6 to 8 hours.

Idk if it has something to do with my mi 8 being chinese model and not global one? With that TD-SCDMA network mode that is only for china? And is suppose to drain more battery if you are not in china?

I forgot to check the network modes that the phone was set to when i was on pixel 12! But i am probably wrong here, just guessing tbh! So maybe @GiaSen can share some light on this, besides this the pixel 12 rom for our phone was amazing!(really smoth and responsive) I really hope we can find the source of the problem for a fix, cause i really cant wait to go back to pixel 12.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] GiaSen:
that's an interesting point, mine (and testers) are all global devices and no one experienced that issue, I would ask you and @cl.ement05 to pm me on telegram and send logs about that
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] CarlosGilberto:
Thx for responding so fast :D ill contact you there tomorrow if its ok? Cause right now i am on xiaomi.eu stable rom and today i dont have the time to install pixel 12, but tomorrow i can! I am from brazil so its GMT-3 for me and right now is 15:32 or 3:32 pm.

What time is the best one to contact you there on the telegram group?

Another question, does it matter which rom we flash on our phones via fastboot before flashing pixel? Global or chinese? I really like to do a complete clean install when moving from miui to another different rom, so i always flash the lastest chinese stable via fastboot, i let my phone finish booting then i turn it off and flash the recovery to flash the custom rom.

Yeah, when buying this phone in 2018 i made a mistake of buying the chinese model thinking that it would not have any issues in the future but from what i can see, thats not the case! Never doing this mistake again, my next phone will be global model.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] MertKaya:
Latest version doesn't seem to let me connect to public Wifi network of my University. Which is such a deal breaker. Also TWRP got stuck at splash screen after I installed the 12 version of PE. The Wifi issue is related to Google instead of this ROM I guess, is there a way to bypass it.

There is the post I opened about it: https://xdaforums.com/t/just-instal...asks-mandatory-domain-in-my-uni-wifi.4376059/
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] GiaSen:
Don't worry PM me or write to telegram group and tag whenever you want, I'll read when I can

Btw you don't need to flash chinese ROM before PE since Chinese Firmware is included in PE zip and flashed with the rom
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] GiaSen:
The issue was there on 11 as well, here you have the fix (I did too)

No option to choose "Do Not Validate" under "CA certificates" when connecting to PEAP/MSCHAPV2 WiFi (Android 11)

I can't connect to campus WiFi anymore after installing latest ROM with december 2020 security patches. The configuration is PEAP/MSCHAPV2. Under CA certificate, we usually choose "Do not vali...

android.stackexchange.com
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] GiaSen:
and yeah you can't use TWRP on pe12, there is pe recovery link in ROM changelog, as I wrote there you can't use TWRP since we changed encryption method and our twrp doesn't support it yet
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] MertKaya:
I installed 11 Plus version and TWRP works fine now as you said. Do you know how can I modify this file /data/misc/apexdata/com.android.wifi/WifiConfigStore.xml When I look into Android/data location there is no misc file in it. I am currently rooted so idk why. Sorry I am very unexperienced in complex Android phone stuff.

Edit: I found the file with filemanager but cant open it for some reason.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] GiaSen:
use mixplorer, it worked fine with root for me
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] MertKaya:
All right that fixed the issue. Thanks a lot. I like the 11 Plus look more than the 12. 12 looks a bit too simplified. Is there any downsides of 11 Plus version.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] MertKaya:
@GiaSen Sorry to bother you again. I wasn't able to get my backup apps from TWRP backup file and decided to load the whole MIUI from the backup with TWRP in order to get the apps with something like migrate app and then install PE again. It gave error 255 in the middle of backup, I tried 3 more times all of them gave the same error then I restarted the phone and it got into a boot loop. After that I reinstalled the Pixel Experience ROM but it failed to read my sim card this time and didn't find any Wifi networks so I was stuck at the setup screen. It also crashed after a restart and said Android System not responding. I tried to reinstall Pixel Experience 4 times tried reloading TWRP and PE recovery nothing get me pass that Wifi setup screen. I also tested it with the 12. BETA version after 11 Plus failed to detect SIM card and it also didn't find any Wifi networks or detected sim. I switched the SIM card slot and re-inserted it multiple times. I have been working for 4 hours I extinguished any possible way to get it work but nothing worked at the end. I will be trying to install an EU MIUI ROM as a last result to pass the SIM card installation screen. I started to think I somehow killed the wifi/network card in the phone. Am I doing something wrong. I always formatted the whole storage before doing anything so getting different results after doing something exactly same seems illogical to me.

It looks like I lost my mac address and maybe IMEI from some sort of corruption. I am going to try using my backup to restore my phone. I have a old Samsung Ace I will use it as a backup phone until I get mine fixed.

Edit at 6:16AM after a lot of efford I learned that I corrupted my efs. https://nerdschalk.com/fix-empty-im...d-wifibluetooth-issues-restoring-twrp-backup/ this stuff helped me to finally install MIUI 12.5 I am not going to install stuff on my phone for a long time after this. GiaSen I am really sorry for writing all of this stuff here, I got a bit desperate.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] gefrost7:
Interested in A12 ROM, but it's still beta, if I install now and the stable release is out, should I do clean install or not?
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] speedgeil:
After a week of PE12 i noticed a problem with the facebook app. Whenever you minimize it it will open a second instance of the app slilently when you maximize it again. So when you go to the overview by swiping up from the screen bottom, you will see several instances of the app. That somehow leads to facebook push notifications not working
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] cgrigokcek:
I'm wondering if the background is all black in the black theme. Is it black or dark grey?
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] zeras4:
can you please tell us what is the fix to his problem, please? because i recently installed pe android 11 version and i am noticing that it eats my battery like crazy. Considering that the phone itself is new, the problem should be in the rom.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] GiaSen:
I need logs to fix the issue.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] maormark:
Hi @GiaSen

I am interested in installing the latest version of the ROM (11 PLUS) and wanted to know if is stable for everyday use and if the battery issue has been fixed in this version:

PixelExperience_Plus_dipper-11.0-20211117-1755-OFFICIAL

I less want to mess around and switch versions regularly. therefore it is important for me to install as stable a version as possible.

Thanks in advance for your work.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] Speedo1320:
In this version I have battery drain issue
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] GiaSen:
no one has ever reported a battery issue, I have used it for one year and never had any issue.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] Speedo1320:
From the September release, the condition of the battery on the PE rom and is very poor.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] maormark:
I noticed that quite a few recent posts have complained about a battery issue.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] pono2016:
I just installed the PE 12 rom with TWRP and everything is so smooth, no battery issues, actually i feel its have better battery than the PE 11. Almost everything works flawlessly and the most i noticed is the output sound with Bluetooth headphones, it's much rich sounds and louder than the PE 11 like the output from wired headphones.

The only problem i found is in the stock recorder app, I can't record any sounds, i meant when i play back my recorded files it don't have any sound but it doesn't happen qhen i use the other recorder app that i download at play store. Anyone can help me? I want to use the stock google recorder app with it's feature. Thanks