The Xiaomi lead gloats some cutting edge
firepower inside the hood alongside a plentiful 3 GB of RAM while with 2
GB of RAM on board, the previous leader was neither one of the as
sluggard. Then again, its the intensely cleaned MIUI that takes up a
considerable measure of these assets to give that rich smooth
user experience. Discussing how substantial that excellent thing goes
over the RAM, in the event that you are of an overwhelming multitasker
sort of an individual, you may be searching for some Vanilla treatment
for your Xiaomi Mi4/Mi3.
Install Android 5.1 Lollipop on Xiaomi Mi4 and Mi3
When you’ve got such a large amount of
firepower in the engine, you scarcely get anything to stress over
regarding running the most recent software. MIUI designer Ivan has done
it a considerable measure of times in the past and he does it once more.
Ivan has figured out how to effectively Install Android 5.1 Lollipop on
Xiaomi Mi4 and Mi3 Cancro devices. Hence, this will take a shot at both
the Mi4 and additionally the Mi3, spare the CDMA Mi4 4G.
Before you go through the process, you might look at the features that Google has included with the Android 5.1 Lollipop.
Top Android 5.1 Lollipop Features:
- Access the quick settings drawer from the lock screen
- Customize quick settings
- Add Device Protection
- Make calls with HD audio
- Turn on Priority Mode until your alarm goes off
- Run two SIMs at once
- Get connected more easily
- Temporarily dismiss notifications
- Change the system volume level while music is playing
- Ignore broken Wi-Fi networks
Prerequisites
- Your device must be charged up to 70% before going completely through the process mentioned below.
- Make sure that you have installed proper device drivers on your computer.
- Also, don’t forget to enable USB debugging mode of your device, Settings->Applications->Developer Options->USB Debugging mode
- You must have bootloader unlocked your device and installed any custom recovery on it, preferably CWM or TWRP recovery.
- During the flashing process, you might lose all your stored data from your device, so better you first create a complete backup of your device and save it somewhere in your PC so that you can recover them later after flashing the ROM successfully.
- After flashing the ROM if the device gets stuck on booting animation or experience boot loop then perform wipe cache partition and wipe dalvik cache for a few times before rebooting the device.
Disclaimer
The guide involved in flashing custom recoveries, ROMs and rooting your phone are highly custom and may damage your device. Also rooting your device will void its warranty and you will be no longer eligible for any kind of free device services by the manufacturers/warranty providers. Make sure that whatever you do, you are doing it at your own responsibility.
Files to Download
- Download Android 5.1 Lollipop ROM for Xiaomi Mi3 and Mi4
- Download Gaaps Package
How to Install Lollipop 5.1 on Xiaomi Mi3 and Mi4
Note: Process of Installing Lollipop 5.1
on Xiaomi Mi4 is all similar to the Mi3, so without any 2nd through,
you can follow the process for Mi4 devices as well.
- Download both the files on your PC and transfer both of them to your device’s SD card, don’t keep the file inside any file.
- Now remove your device from your PC and switch it off.
- You need to boot your device into recovery mode, press and hold the Volume Up+Power button until you see Xiaomi Logo on the screen.
- Once after entering into the recovery mode, you can’t use the touch, use Volume rocker key to navigate up and down and Power button to select any option out there.
- Select Wipe Data/Factory reset option.
- Then select the option “install zip from SD card”, it will then ask you to browse the zip file, first browse the ROM zip file.
- Repeat the same step and flash the Google Apps zip file.
- After performing the above two steps, just go to advanced menu and perform “Wipe Dalvik Cache”.
- Now go back to the main recovery menu and select reboot option.
On the follow up screen, you might be
asked if you want to retain the root access to your phone. Select Yes/No
based on your preferences.
In case you missed out on any of the
steps above or got into a mismanagement with the sequence of the steps
or stuck into a bootloop, revert back and start up from the scratch. For
further help just drop a comment below, I will try to help you if I
can.