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What ROMs exist for your Xiaomi and how do you recognize a "cooked" or "fake" ROM?

Xiaomisti friends have come to clarify once and for all what ROM typologies exist and how one recognizes, therefore, one Official ROM from a so-called "cooked", "custom" or "Phony".

How many of you have already purchased from sites that ship Xiaomi devices with those that are called technical jargon "Fake" ROMs? Well, after you start explaining how to replace them, let's see how to recognize them!

 

1

Fastboot ROM and Full ROM: what's the difference?

Many of you will not care about this distinction, but it's always good to do it, as it often happens that there is confusion about which ROM to use with the MiFlash or SPFlashTool tool.

Fastboot ROM
Le FASTBOOT ROM are .tgz files to be unpacked before the flash through SpFlashTool or MiFlash. To install them, the phone must be in EDL Mode (Emergency Download Mode) or in Fastboot Mode (with bootloader unlocked). Fastboot ROM Download for all Xiaomi devices

FULL ROM
Le FULL ROM are those installable ROMs via Updater or via recovery. They are .zip files and should not be unpacked.

 

Of these two types of ROM, of course, you will find ONLY Official Chinese and Global ROMs

Short speech on this first distinction. There is nothing to add. Let's move on.

2

Official ROMs Global and China

Let's start by recalling that we have already covered this distinction long ago and that you will find in detail all the differences between the various versions of ROM in this article:

The differences between the various branches and versions of MIUI -


But first things first.

In addition to what has already been said, today we want to point out the links to be able to verify directly what are the latest releases released and, especially, which ROMs exist for your Xiaomi smartphone.

Not all Xiaomi phones are reached by the development of the Global ROM!

All of you, hopefully, will know the official Xiaomi website. Well, inside the site, there is a section dedicated to Download for all Xiaomi devices and more!
In fact, the MIUI ROMs are so appreciated that they are required by the owners of other brands!

xiaomi download rom

Within this section (as you can see from the image above) you will also find your Xiaomi smartphone and, by clicking on it, will open a page where they will be shown all the latest ROMs currently available for the selected smartphone.

Everything is very simple? But let's take an example!

As you can see from the two images shown in the slideshow, while for the Mi5 there is the "Global" section which shows the two "international" ROMs, for the most recent Mi Mix the China section is the only one that exists, which confirms that for the Xiaomi Mi Mix they do not exist - yet for poco hopefully - the Global ROMs.

How do you do it for downloading them? Just click the green button "Download Full ROM"And it will start downloading automatically.

 

3

How to Recognize a "Rough" or "custom" ROM

We come to the main point of this short guide: how we distinguish an official ROM from one that has been "cooked".

If we have reached this point of the guide, we will surely have learned to check the availability of official ROMs (2 point).

But what does a ROM make up?

Characteristics of the ROMs

  1. going to settings ⇒ device information ⇒ MIUI version, you find one of these "clues":
    • the version code ends with two zeros (eg xxx0.0);
    • it is reported that you have a Global but the code contains the China CN identifier (eg Global Stable with MAACNDI code for Mi5);
    • you have a xiaomi.eu ROM without having requested and unlocked the Bootloader (xiaomi.eu ROMs can only be installed after unlocking the bootloader and installing a Custom Recovery)
  2. you find a Global ROM (previous to 8.1.0) containing the Italian, but in reality your device has not yet received the Italian on Global Stable

 

Obviously, if you find a "do-it-go" ROM, we always recommend replacing it with an officer so you can receive OTA updates and have as few bugs and bugs as possible.

To know how to replace ROMs you just have to keep track of us because we will soon publish the guides for the correct replacement of these ROMs valid for all Xiaomi devices!

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Marco Rossano
Marco Rossano

Management engineering student, passionate blogger in the Xiaomi world and, more generally, technology. In leisure time, besides writing guides for Xiaomi devices, I have three passions: football, music and cycling :) Write me: https://www.facebook.com/yugin89

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Andrea
Andrea
5 years ago

hello, I have a MI5x with fake rom, from the adb it tells me that the bootloader is unlocked but if I try to flash the twrp from fastboot (always with adb) it gives me the error: "error: cannot load twrp.img".
Unfortunately for this device the global official was not made, how can I install a custom rom?
thank you

Gaia
Gaia
6 years ago

Hi I just bought xiaomi me max 2 on gearbest you know if i have a rom out of the way ??? Attach photos thank you milleeecomment image

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admin
6 years ago
Reply to  Gaia

It's quiet, it's an original ROM

ferrvittorio
ferrvittorio
6 years ago

But what issues do you have for a rom? And bloatware or some Chinese string?

Fabio
Fabio
6 years ago

X marco Rossano. Consider that I tried both with flash me, the recommended version, and in download mode. No other oddity I can not go to fingerprint (however never set one). If I go to make a call it's like I have airplane mode.

Fabio
Fabio
6 years ago

Hi. I have a problem with a pro note 3 .. Purchased on geekbuying .. I tried various rom, dev and global, SIM signal missing .. i need to do? I followed the various guides present .. no.

Pasquale Cerqueto
Pasquale Cerqueto
6 years ago
Reply to  Fabio

* # * # 4636 # * # * and set in wcdma information

Cristian Martina
Cristian Martina
7 years ago

So all devices that come with fake ROMs have the bootloader unlocked?
In my case, yes.
I put the Global Dev through MiFlash and blocked the bootloader.
Is it as if I had a normal RedMi Note 3 Pro?
Can I unlock it officially?
Just do not run into problems like Cyanogenmod with BL unlocked unofficially.
Thank you.

Simone
admin
7 years ago

The phony (also called custom) has the EDL unlocked, sure you have not used that to put the global dev?
Anyway, to answer your question, YES, with the global dev you can unlock with the official method (in truth, only the method exists).

alex
alex
7 years ago

excellent article, very clear and comprehensive! just one question: do you know when Italian will arrive in the global MI5S? thanks

Simone
admin
7 years ago
Reply to  alex

Unfortunately we do not know but it is really missing poco 😉

alex
alex
7 years ago
Reply to  Simone

ok thank you very much, but since the Italian is on the global developer, just download the package and install it from the Updater app to switch from global stable to developer?

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