Android 12 debuted yesterday and to be honest, there are no official lists communicated by individual companies that refer to the models that will be updated. Xiaomi for its part confirmed that the whole Mi 11 series will be updated, as well as the Chinese K40 series. The older models though? For the moment we know nothing, but there is no need to lose heart. The first custom ROM based on Android 12 has arrived for Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro, the Chinese Redmi K20 Pro communicates it to us XDA Developers which also confirms a certain stability in use. Let's go see the details.
Will Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro receive Android 12? We do not have the certainty, but for the moment we can be satisfied with the download of a custom ROM!
A custom ROM based on Android 12 is now available for Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro, courtesy of senior member XDA abhishek987. The great news though is that the AOSP ROM in question appears to be pretty much stable for the most part, albeit with one big caveat. The state SELinux is set to permissive in the initial build.
Brackets: what is SELinux? SELinux defines access controls for applications, processes and files on a system based on security policies. It is a set of rules that tell SELinux which items can be accessed or not, so that the allowed access policy can be applied. (Red Hat).
As for the themes, the developer has adopted the solution of dynamic theming open source from the developer kdrag0n as Google has yet to fully open source its theme system for the Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro. That said, how to install android 12 on Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro?
Since this device has multiple regional variants, it is recommended that you run the flashing of the latest MIUI firmware of the stable channel specific to the region we are interested in before installing the Android 12 based AOSP ROM. However, we keep in mind that a permissive SELinux environment is by no means meant for a smartphone to be used as a main terminal. The reason is purely of a security nature.
No! Absolutely he will not officially receive android 12 because he came out with Android 9, so for the old Xiaomi policy he is only entitled to 2 Major Updates ... 10 and 11 but not 12! With the next new phones it seems that politics will change ...