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Zenfone 2,Android 6 official ... reviews and bugs

Hi there
Lets talk about our experience after the MM update.
Me first...the system is smooth...
I think there s battery improvement(little)....maybe I feel wrong.
Three bugs...1.my approximity sensor was not always working properly...after the hard factory reset,I ve not seen that bug any more....2.google messenger does not have the new message notification on its icon....3.chrome address bar is sometimes not reachable(when some page is oper,I cannot click on the address to edit it,I have to make a new tab

Update
Another bug... wile incoming calls,sometimes the phone cannot take data from contacts....it starts with number,after some seconds,it shows the name of the contact

Bug on ZE550ML/Z008
Hi,
I did the update to MM 2 days ago.
First by just updating: very smooth, battery not really improved, even with doze, as my phone had already an excellent battery life in LL (2 days "normal" use) BUT:crying: got 2 freeze, no way to power off except by holding down power button at least 10s.
Then, I did a factory reset from MM and re-installed all my app with titanium backup.
Still smooth BUT 1 freeze again after some hours.:crying::crying:
I already got those freeze when testing the beta. So still not solve
Back to LL for me as it was extraordinary stable for me.

Thanks for feedback guys. I hope you report all of these to Asus to let them the chance to fix those bugs.
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The addition of Facebook app let alone the Facebook messenger to a devices System which had/keeps having horrible battery life reviews is crazy. System apps can launch themselves, they will be never "patched" (less downloaded bytes) and God forbid, if a major security issue happens in that application, it will have very bad consequences as users _hate_ updating things.
I am waiting for first meaningful, suitable for daily use Cyanogenmod releases with the MM kernel and I am off to Cyanogenmod. If I buy another device, it will be stock Google Android, will never touch anything which has a BYTE changed from stock Android.

Returned back to stock .184 from AICP using shakalaca's pre-rooted image, then updated to
.194 using full firmware zip that pushed into internal memory, then updated again to MM .134 using the same method, and finally did a factory reset; everything works so far for me. Disabled a lot of junks and no problems.
Ilgazc said:
The addition of Facebook app let alone the Facebook messenger to a devices System which had/keeps having horrible battery life reviews is crazy. System apps can launch themselves, they will be never "patched" (less downloaded bytes) and God forbid, if a major security issue happens in that application, it will have very bad consequences as users _hate_ updating things.
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You could disable startup for these apps thanks to Asus' own auto-start feature. Or, if you hate it, you could disable it at anytime. (I disabled Facebook and Instagram app, but leave Messenger enabled because I've some importance over it)
phyniks said:
2.google messenger does not have the new message notification on its icon....
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You need to manually give notification access to Messenger app via Unread counts badge preferences on ZenUI Launcher for the badge to shown properly.
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Thanks krasCGQ,the messenger is now ok
The launcher is still V2
Is there any advantage on updating to V3?(performance,battery,etc)

phyniks said:
Thanks krasCGQ,the messenger is now ok
The launcher is still V2
Is there any advantage on updating to V3?(performance,battery,etc)
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I tested v3 when I was on AICP, but I haven't update the stock launcher yet to v3. I need to do some more testing...
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Very smooth, none of the slowdowns that I used to get on L from RAM management / memory leak issues. Haven't encountered any bug yet except for being unable to factory reset, which always fails when it goes into recovery and tries to erase user data.

The phone seems like a totally new phone , i am amazed by the transformation

timbernot said:
The phone seems like a totally new phone , i am amazed by the transformation
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are you talking about zenfone?!!

My ZE551ML's antutu benchmark runs around 60k score only when running LP, but now on MM:
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phyniks said:
are you talking about zenfone?!!
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expand please ........???

hmmm,i've seen a guy here saying that he did got back to LL from the last MM coz he had some freeze issues,well,i have no idea what the hell u had installed on your phone that coused that,for sure it has to be an app that cause that issue,not the OS itself,many do talk and have no idea of what they r talking about,first of all after u install a new version,make a factory reset,after that,stop doing a recovery from that titan whatever is name and install the apps 1 by 1 and find out the 1 that causes that issue,don't blame the OS coz u don't know what are you doing or using,yes it runs very smooth and faster,i dunno why some do say that they don't see improvements on battery,did u thought that all you have installed on your phone is causing that ? to many apps using internet (facebook,instagram,buzz,games etc) ? all the internet use make battery run down very fast in case u didn't know,another yes,the new firmware comes with lot of bull****s app,like facebook,messenger,that crappy useless manger that claims to kill apps for more memmory (actually it is just a theory claim,not actual thing that it does,i can give an explanation to that),iread and i think a few more that i never used and never will,but yes,u can very easy deactivate them,which i always dowith all i hate,which i really think they should be optinal apps to download from google play,not to come by force preinstalled,i do use the phone pretty much,and just normal on internet,those parts do make battery go down pretty fast,but in standby...2 days easy,in 8 hours (night) standby it only droped the battery down 3%,i doubt it was the case in LL

Feels fine, despite possible OS problems (Android draws most of battery). Anyway, a better experinece.
BTW - Just seen that this is a 32bit MM 6.0.1. How can the system utilize full 4GB of RAM?

Any sensor is working for me. I did a clean installation, flashing last LL firmware. Than I put MM firmware on internal storage.
MM is working fine and smooth. But no one sensor is working.

Another app

eudigorodrigo said:
Any sensor is working for me. I did a clean installation, flashing last LL firmware. Than I put MM firmware on internal storage.
MM is working fine and smooth. But no one sensor is working.
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You wouldn't happen to be from Brazil would you?
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Ilgazc said:
The addition of Facebook app let alone the Facebook messenger to a devices System which had/keeps having horrible battery life reviews is crazy. System apps can launch themselves, they will be never "patched" (less downloaded bytes) and God forbid, if a major security issue happens in that application, it will have very bad consequences as users _hate_ updating things.
I am waiting for first meaningful, suitable for daily use Cyanogenmod releases with the MM kernel and I am off to Cyanogenmod. If I buy another device, it will be stock Google Android, will never touch anything which has a BYTE changed from stock Android.
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I don't know where you got the idea that a system app wont get updates. Facebook will still get updated through the play store just like any other app.
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tomsag said:
Feels fine, despite possible OS problems (Android draws most of battery). Anyway, a better experinece.
BTW - Just seen that this is a 32bit MM 6.0.1. How can the system utilize full 4GB of RAM?
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i have no idea where u saw that is 32 on ur phone, in mine say 64

appollokillers1 said:
i have no idea where u saw that is 32 on ur phone, in mine say 64
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Screenshot please. You sure you're looking at OS and not hw
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ZUK Z2 PRO Android 7 confirmed 2017!

Hello,
Now it's fully official.
Android 7 will be released officially on January, 28 2017
m.gsmarena.com/zuk_announces_android_70_nougat_update_plans_for_the_z2_pro_and_z1-news-22050.php

The Chinese character 內測 in the image means "test internally".

The 7.0 test internally was OTA today. Maybe the stable one will be released before Chinese new year (about five weeks later).

on print screen is missing dark theme... I hope they would include it..

For those who would like to update here is the link to the forum to try 2.5.335ST version.
http://zukfans.eu/community/threads...ion-updated-link-for-2-5-335-st-version.1801/

looks almost the same after got updated to ZUI2.5...

does 7.0 on the update brings manual controls on the camera?

cheeze.keyk said:
does 7.0 on the update brings manual controls on the camera?
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Yes, yes it does. This is also known as the ZUI 2.5 update, by the way.
Welcome to the party, however late.

Terminator.J said:
Yes, yes it does. This is also known as the ZUI 2.5 update, by the way.
Welcome to the party, however late.
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Thanks! though i dont own a ZUK Z2 Pro, I'm just curious bout this device, how about the camera quality did it improve in Nougat? :good:

cheeze.keyk said:
Thanks! though i dont own a ZUK Z2 Pro, I'm just curious bout this device, how about the camera quality did it improve in Nougat? :good:
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I didn't have it before 2.5 was available, so I never tested it on the older builds. It's a decent camera, although you really want to be on stock ZUI to take advantage of it.
Realistically, if I had to choose again, I would probably save the money and get the regular Z2 instead; the custom ROM scene is much better, longer battery life, and no issues with the Z2 Pro camera's OIS getting physically stuck due to Camera2-based drivers not knowing how to deal with it properly. And no worrying about missing U-Health, since it doesn't have the finger sensor.

EMUI 5 (update and downgrade) for Chinese Honor 8

Open Hicare and click on update, apply and go to settings and open updater.
To downgrade: Install HiSuite in Pc. Downgrade through pc.

Nice someone have any ideea when this will come for FRD-L09 too ?

Sheldd said:
Nice someone have any ideea when this will come for FRD-L09 too ?
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February
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shook187 said:
February
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Have u checked with Huawei firmware finder ?
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Honor said so, I've seen in an article on GSMarena

dinoypeter said:
Open Hicare and click on update, apply and go to settings and open updater.
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Thanks for the tip. I just upgraded it yesterday :

supamike said:
Thanks for the tip. I just upgraded it yesterday :
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How it's treating you?!

CronaMell said:
How it's treating you?!
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Quite well for the moment, I am pretty happy with it, I didn't have any big issue yet

supamike said:
Quite well for the moment, I am pretty happy with it, I didn't have any big issue yet
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:good:

CronaMell said:
:good:
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My first observations after upgrade:
- system is smooth and fast, but the fact is that it was such before upgrade as well;
- smart battery saving leave you less options as before; you can't use it with screen off time adjustment any more; my impression is that with no battery saving you achieve less uptime than before and with smart battery the same as before but with more restrictions;
- overall color specter moved toward blue and a lot of white; light color letters on white background are sometimes difficult to read;
- safetynet (indicator of secure applications like Android Pay and Pokemon) fails wit the last upgrade; it passed with MM and first N upgrade 336;
- still no trace of wifi calling.
Camera is subject to more deep and demanding analyze which may follow latter.
Overall I'll be glad to get safetynet back and wifi calling sometimes soon.

piskr said:
My first observations after upgrade:
- system is smooth and fast, but the fact is that it was such before upgrade as well;
- smart battery saving leave you less options as before; you can't use it with screen off time adjustment any more; my impression is that with no battery saving you achieve less uptime than before and with smart battery the same as before but with more restrictions;
- overall color specter moved toward blue and a lot of white; light color letters on white background are sometimes difficult to read;
- safetynet (indicator of secure applications like Android Pay and Pokemon) fails wit the last upgrade; it passed with MM and first N upgrade 336;
- still no trace of wifi calling.
Camera is subject to more deep and demanding analyze which may follow latter.
Overall I'll be glad to get safetynet back and wifi calling sometimes soon.
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That's comprehensive, thanks

Perfect, bit I think I have no look, so for my al10 there is any another way to get thi b356 update?
Iaa85 from Brazil with Honor 8

iaa85 said:
Perfect, bit I think I have no look, so for my al10 there is any another way to get thi b356 update?
Iaa85 from Brazil with Honor 8
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other guy had al10, he did what i did, u have to be on the latest software, and then register on hicare

I also upgraded to 5.0 and then I did a factory reset to set all from the beginning...It seems to me that battery runs out a bit faster (first thoughts) and I agree with all written before this post....
I fell in love with new quick tools panel quickly, so dont feel about downgrading so far))
I will wait till our russian coleagues make up a clean EMUI 5.0 (without bloat and perhaps with some customizations) as they did for 4.1 (author: greatslon at 4pda)
Or maybe our honor devs will give us some cure in new builds...

Got a new upgrade yesterday, the version B368.
This time the change log is in Chinese so I have no idea what it is about. At least it still works fine, no complain so far

supamike said:
Got a new upgrade yesterday, the version B368.
This time the change log is in Chinese so I have no idea what it is about. At least it still works fine, no complain so far
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It says something like:
This update optimizes the system and stability and makes the phone run more smooth. It repairs Taobao app text dialog box on order to prevent blocking input method. It also repairs the problem that call recording can’t add the specific contact. Further, the problems that outgoing call can’t be placed and phone can’t be connected to WIFI are fixed as well. Removed error that Talkback can’t be used. Fixed HuaweiShare autolaunch after WIFI download rate is reduced. Fixed issues with 123006?? and banking (shopping??) apps like Taobao. Power consumption is optimized in order to extend battery life. Screen brightness parameters optimization.
The translate is result of mutual efforts of me and GoogleTranslate and it is far from perfect.
My first impressions after update:
The system is stable and ready for the transition from beta to the production version. It is responsive, smooth and fast. No substantial deficiencies could be detected. There are still some glitches that should be improved though:
1. In order to make the outlook white as a snow (combined with sea blue) the producer made some application text hard to read (white on the bright)
2. Using the power saving mode gives you insane 6 hours of SOT. But the mode fixes screen on when passive to 30 secs time and it can't be adjusted. What could be really annoying in some situations. I would have easily sacrificed 1 hour of SOT if I had option to turn off the screen manually.
3. SafetyNet (connected with payment and other safety apps) fails after every upgrade. Thankfully so far I had it back in a few days and I hope that it will happen this time too. I think that the failure is connected to beta status of the upgrade: Google might consider upgrade as a test version of the system (safe applications don't work on the rooted phone, custom recovery, unlocked bootloader or test versions of the system). I don't understand the mechanism on which the functionality suddenly returns: is it by Huawei's intervention, Google app upgrade or simply recognizing the upgrade as real, not test version.
Finally, there is an improved custom ROM for AL10 and AL00 (HRT-Kangvip) if someone with rooted phone wanna try: http://club.huawei.com/thread-11821416-1-1.html (use GoogleTranslate).

binuralka said:
I also upgraded to 5.0 and then I did a factory reset to set all from the beginning...It seems to me that battery runs out a bit faster (first thoughts) and I agree with all written before this post....
I fell in love with new quick tools panel quickly, so dont feel about downgrading so far))
I will wait till our russian coleagues make up a clean EMUI 5.0 (without bloat and perhaps with some customizations) as they did for 4.1 (author: greatslon at 4pda)
Or maybe our honor devs will give us some cure in new builds...
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It will come shortly. Maybe this month.

supamike said:
Got a new upgrade yesterday, the version B368.
This time the change log is in Chinese so I have no idea what it is about. At least it still works fine, no complain so far
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next time use google translate app to translate text in pictures. battery is better on this update as well as performance. i aslo noticed that the camera takes better photos in nougat as compared to 6.0

supamike said:
Got a new upgrade yesterday, the version B368.
This time the change log is in Chinese so I have no idea what it is about. At least it still works fine, no complain so far
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Where r u based mate.
I have read that were getting out update sooner rather than later
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johnhux7 said:
Where r u based mate.
I have read that were getting out update sooner rather than later
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I am in China, I already got 3 updates since I bought it (3 weeks ago).
That's why I can't really compare with marshmallow as I didn't use it much.
I just found out they still didn't fix the bug when we use the fingerprint to slide photos in the gallery. It works but it's not as smooth as before.

Some questions before buying:

Hi! I want to buy the phone next month and I would like to know some things about it:
1: I know this is a new phone and there is no custom ROMs but you can root it and install TWRP?
2: I see that you can update it to 8.0. Should I update it after or I should stay with 7.1?
3: How is the battery? How much up time you get?
4: How is the performance? How old is your phone and how is the performance after you use it for a while?
5: How good is the camera?
So I should get this phone if I want to have a good balance between performance and camera quality?

Before posting this, you could've checked the other threads for the Mi A1. Also many reviews to be found everywhere.

vraciu' said:
Hi! I want to buy the phone next month and I would like to know some things about it:
1: I know this is a new phone and there is no custom ROMs but you can root it and install TWRP?
2: I see that you can update it to 8.0. Should I update it after or I should stay with 7.1?
3: How is the battery? How much up time you get?
4: How is the performance? How old is your phone and how is the performance after you use it for a while?
5: How good is the camera?
So I should get this phone if I want to have a good balance between performance and camera quality?
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1. Yes, I'm rooted but have not yet install twrp since I have to be unrooted for that
2. I didn't see any 8.0 update yet
3. Very good, for me last whole day heavy use without gaming, almost 6h sot
4. I've got it few days so cannot say, it's still new so no one can tell yet
5. Camera generally ok, in daylight very good, low light only if you are patient and have steady hands, otherwise there is Google HDR+ camera port, with it the photos are excellent.
Btw, most of the question are covered in various topics.
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NITRO_100 said:
1. Yes, I'm rooted but have not yet install twrp since I have to be unrooted for that
2. I didn't see any 8.0 update yet
3. Very good, for me last whole day heavy use without gaming, almost 6h sot
4. I've got it few days so cannot say, it's still new so no one can tell yet
5. Camera generally ok, in daylight very good, low light only if you are patient and have steady hands, otherwise there is Google HDR+ camera port, with it the photos are excellent.
Btw, most of the question are covered in various topics.
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Is Google Camera HDR+ port working on mi A1 ? Can you share the link please? Thanks in anticipation

drkhalidomer said:
Is Google Camera HDR+ port working on mi A1 ? Can you share the link please? Thanks in anticipation
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Obviously. I got it from here https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5/themes/google-camera-hdr-t3655215, there are many versions of it, so you must take your time and play with various versions and see which fit's you best.

NITRO_100 said:
1. Yes, I'm rooted but have not yet install twrp since I have to be unrooted for that
2. I didn't see any 8.0 update yet
3. Very good, for me last whole day heavy use without gaming, almost 6h sot
4. I've got it few days so cannot say, it's still new so no one can tell yet
5. Camera generally ok, in daylight very good, low light only if you are patient and have steady hands, otherwise there is Google HDR+ camera port, with it the photos are excellent.
Btw, most of the question are covered in various topics.
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Thanks! Well i'm too lazy to search in every post from that topic and I wanted a quick answer. Oh, it says in the gsmarea site that 8.0 is planned so I think it will come soon. Or maybe there is and because you are rooted you can't see the update idk. Anyway thanks again for answers

NITRO_100 said:
Obviously. I got it from here https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5/themes/google-camera-hdr-t3655215, there are many versions of it, so you must take your time and play with various versions and see which fit's you best.
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all the ones i try force close?

vraciu' said:
Thanks! Well i'm too lazy to search in every post from that topic and I wanted a quick answer. Oh, it says in the gsmarea site that 8.0 is planned so I think it will come soon. Or maybe there is and because you are rooted you can't see the update idk. Anyway thanks again for answers
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Yes it's planned b the end of the year. And no, there isn't yet, and because I'm rooted I can still see updates (like today's october update)
robgee789 said:
all the ones i try force close?
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No fc when starting apk. Did you enable camera2 api ?

robgee789 said:
all the ones i try force close?
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You have to be rooted so you can add the following in the build.prop file-
persist.camera.HAL3.enabled=1
Restart your device and it will work.
BTW, once rooted, you can use ES File explorer to go to /system where the build.prop file is located.

MIUI Global Stable ROM v9.5.2.0 NAGMIFA Is Released For Mi 5s!

Hi all
It seems the new update 9.5.2.0 NAGMIFA is now released for everybody with a Mi 5s. It's still based on Nougat.
Release notes can be found in the attached pictures.
Most notable change, Game speed booster is now included (http://en.miui.com/thread-1089598-1-1.html) and the new notification bar which (finally) allows direct actions (like replies).
There's also a new Theme engine and some other small changes.
Official thread at Xiaomi: http://en.miui.com/thread-2398717-1-1.html
pato

patoberli said:
Hi all
It seems the new update 9.5.2.0 NAGMIFA is now released for everybody with a Mi 5s. It's still based on Nougat.
Release notes can be found in the attached pictures.
Most notable change, Game speed booster is now included
There's also a new Theme engine and some other small changes.
pato
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I don't recommend this update.
It's bad nightly update version, working much worst then 9.2.1.
For example: unimportant status bar folder is missing, all applications load at least 4x longer than before - freezing at startup for several seconds!
I've succesfully restored 9.2.1 and waiting for better one.

I haven't found any problems yet, Apps load as fast as with 9.2.1.0 or a tiny bit faster in my case.

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I haven't found any problems yet, Apps load as fast as with 9.2.1.0 or a tiny bit faster in my case.
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For my phone had also improve the Wi-Fi signal, its better now.
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Global:
System/Recovery Update http://bigota.d.miui.com/V9.5.2.0.NAGMIFA/miui_MI5SGlobal_V9.5.2.0.NAGMIFA_5b7e95093d_7.0.zip
Fastboot Image http://bigota.d.miui.com/V9.5.2.0.NAGMIFA/capricorn_global_images_V9.5.2.0.NAGMIFA_20180406.0000.00_7.0_global_b3c6e6a52c.tgz

I am pretty happy with it. For me it looks much more stable than 9.2.
Although I am a bit annoyed that they again changed how 'do not disturbed mode' works it looks like they fixed the problems I had with it. I just changed some settings back to how they were before the update and I think now it works as it should.

Is this still MIUI8?? It is stated on download page that is miui8, but version is for miui9?

It's Miui 9. The Miui version is based on the first number of the release, so 9.5.2.0 = Miui 9.

I've tested almost every ROM for our device, and I think this is the best one around, great improvement in almost everything, I found no bugs on this. I highly recommend this one for everyone

The notifications are already seen in the lock screen?

eNCHANT said:
The notifications are already seen in the lock screen?
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Yes

Updating to this version caused my battery to drain in half of the time than 9.2.1 . Any suggestions?How can I revert to previous version?

I have 9.5.2, for me it is a lettle better then 9.2. just a lettle, abttery use is same, 2:30 sscreen on, and 58% battery left 7h phone idle (from charger to now), it is like 4-5 sc on time as on old A6.0 as on 9.2 and now. 4g is better on this one (for me, Serbia). i don't like replay in notifcation but i don't care (it uses alote of space). Othere stuff is ok. For now no problems (5-6 days).
google cam port works same. if somone uses one.

Waiting for Official miui oreo, Mi 5/note 2/mix have bugs so delayed and will release again with 5s/5s Plus after bugs fixed.

Anyone experience lag? Stutter? How did you fixed it?