The Chinese firm’s first Android One phone gets a new lease of life thanks to the platform
Five years ago, the Xiaomi Mi A1 landed as part of the Chinese manufacturer’s Android One family. the device has arrived Replication of the functions of the pixel (no hardware, of course) and offered extended support thanks to Android One, which relies directly on Google plus.
This phone hasn’t received updated versions of Android in a long time, but it does have a dedicated community of developers on the platform who continue to receive new versions of the operating system, albeit unofficially. It is thanks to the platform that the Xiaomi Mi A1 Android 13 already.
Four ROMs for one terminal
Like Collected in Gizchinato be seen four ROMs developed by the platform for the Xiaomi Mi A1: Spark OS, PixelPlusUI, PixelExperience and ArrowOS.
Each of them has its little peculiarities.. For example, Spark OS is based on AOSP and offers a wide range of customization options. PixelPlusUI takes inspiration from various Android ROMs and is well optimized. PixelExperience is based on AOSP and includes GAPPS, while ArrowOS does not.
To install a custom ROM like this, you need superuser privileges and an unlocked bootloader that allows you to do so install custom recovery and flash the ZIP archivos of the ROMs from there.
If you still own one of these devices and want to install Android 13 ROM for testing, you should take this into account Some features will no longer be available. For example, the camera aplicación doesn’t work in most cases (although it perro be changed to Google plus Camera as a solution). Also VoLTE, VHF radio and depending on the ROM more or less features do not work.
From the looks of it, most ROMs are well optimized and functional. You perro access the download of the ROMs through the button that we leave you below, which will take you to the section dedicated to the Xiaomi Mi A1 developers in XDA.