Xiaomi smartphones often live in the balance between love and hate on the part of users: love from the so-called geeks and hate instead of those who do not know how to put a hand on a device and panic attacks him when he hears about Root, ROM, modding etc .. Among the Xiaomi smartphones that also give a hard time even the more nerd, we find the We are A1, device for which the topic of modding should not be approached lightly, because of the partition that has had a lot of trouble to many people who with a single wrong operation they found themselves with a paperweight in hand.
With this premise, mainly aimed at advising you to deal with the modification operations both on the A1 Mi and on any other device with caution and awareness, today we will talk about an instrument that helps us and which allows operations to be performed using ADB or Fastboot via a simple and intuitive interface. Do you think I'm joking? I assure you no, and the miraculous instrument bears the name of Xiaomi Mi A1 Tool made available by XDA community.
The images above clearly show us the operations we can perform through the Xiaomi Mi A1 Tool, such as install the drivers (available versions 1.4.3 or 1.3), unlock and lock the bootloader, obtain Root permissions through Magisk, install the GCam (Camera2API will be enabled and then the Google Camera Arnova will be installed) or flash the ROM Stock (the tool downloads and extracts the Stock ROM from the Xiaomi servers) but also install extra modules for Magisk, restart in TWRP recovery or in Fastboot, install MiXplorer and more.
Furthermore updates will be enabled via OTA, performing a simple operation that consists of the arrival of the OTA notification to go to the management of Magisk and restore the images. Then you can perform the OTA update and re-install Magisk without losing the previously installed modules. This fantastic tool is also accompanied by the news that The 8.0 Oreo Android-based kernel has finally been released and that you can find , promising. Xiaomi had already proceeded to release a first version of the kernel, but apparently this new availability will make life even easier for all the various modifiers that gravitate around the Xiaomi Mi A1 and that starting today prepare some really interesting custom ROMs.
