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MIUI 7 already ported to 70+ non-Xiaomi devices

Yash GargAugust 28, 2015

A fact that not a lot of smartphone enthusiasts know is that Xiaomi, for the first year of its existence, was a software-only company. It was only on their first anniversary that Xiaomi announced a phone! In fact, in the recent MIUI 7 global launch, Hugo Barra started off with the line ‘Xiaomi is a software company…’.

Xiaomi has revealed that the newest iteration of its MIUI ROM has already been ported to more than 70 non-Xiaomi devices. Which is impressive, because not even 10 days have passed since the official international introduction of MIUI 7 (more about which you can read here).

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The ROM has been ported to not only the Nexuses, but also phones like the HTC One M8, Galaxy S5, etc.

You can go ahead and flash the ROM on your phone right away, or request for the ROM to be ported to your phone if that hasn’t happened already.

You can check if the ROM is available for your phone here.

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RRRobert
August 28, 2015
Porting a ROM towards another brand/model is one thing… making it to work without major bugs or limitations is another. I’d wonder how many of these early releases actually work flawlessly.
Ever since I owned a Mi2S I’m a big fan of MIUI, but Xiaomi’s persistent neglect of other markets outside the China and India (o.k. and maybe the other BRIC countries) made me decide to aim my interest to other Chinese manufacturers… Such a pity.
- Burs
  August 29, 2015
  I’m pretty much happy with performance on my not-officialy-supported Jiayu S2. Not saying it works flawlessly (it’s beta afterall), but it’s light years ahead of Jiayu stock rom. Would be even better if they soon release CM like they promised…
- Chico Migraña
  September 1, 2015
  My Z5s runs pretty good with MIUI ROM, even I have a kernel to double tap to wake

Burs
August 28, 2015
I’m gonna try updating my Jiayu S2 this weekend. Been postponing it throughout this whole week. Hope V7 will give it a new life, or at least delay getting rid of it until I find a new one 🙂
Gdi
August 28, 2015
Would be nice to see a ported/official ZTE Nubia Z9 mini Version of MIUI 7

RRRobert
August 28, 2015
Porting a ROM towards another brand/model is one thing… making it to work without major bugs or limitations is another. I’d wonder how many of these early releases actually work flawlessly.
Ever since I owned a Mi2S I’m a big fan of MIUI, but Xiaomi’s persistent neglect of other markets outside the China and India (o.k. and maybe the other BRIC countries) made me decide to aim my interest to other Chinese manufacturers… Such a pity.
- Burs
  August 29, 2015
  I’m pretty much happy with performance on my not-officialy-supported Jiayu S2. Not saying it works flawlessly (it’s beta afterall), but it’s light years ahead of Jiayu stock rom. Would be even better if they soon release CM like they promised…
- Ricardo A.
  September 1, 2015
  My Z5s runs pretty good with MIUI ROM, even I have a kernel to double tap to wake

Burs
August 28, 2015
I’m gonna try updating my Jiayu S2 this weekend. Been postponing it throughout this whole week. Hope V7 will give it a new life, or at least delay getting rid of it until I find a new one 🙂
monkeytree
August 28, 2015
Would be nice if a little smartphone company called Xiaomi was that fast. Took about year before MIUI 6 stable was available for Redmi 1s. In fact just before MIUI 7 was released.
- bojan radovanovic
  August 29, 2015
  And we, users of Mi4i, should be happy if they make good and stable version for us in a year or so…
- ultrametric
  August 30, 2015
  You are kidding right?
  They have a super fast release cycle, one new release every week!
  If you think that is slow, try to find a company that is able to keep up with this speed. You will hardly find any!
  - JVG
    September 5, 2015
    So fast that they have not been able to update their flagship i.e. Mi4 to lollipop even after 11 months of it’s general release. 😛
Gdi
August 28, 2015
Would be nice to see a ported/official ZTE Nubia Z9 mini Version of MIUI 7
monkeytree
August 28, 2015
Would be nice if a little smartphone company called Xiaomi was that fast. Took about year before MIUI 6 stable was available for Redmi 1s. In fact just before MIUI 7 was released.
- bojan radovanovic
  August 29, 2015
  And we, users of Mi4i, should be happy if they make good and stable version for us in a year or so…
- ultrametric
  August 30, 2015
  You are kidding right?
  They have a super fast release cycle, one new release every week!
  If you think that is slow, try to find a company that is able to keep up with this speed. You will hardly find any!
- JVG
  September 5, 2015
  So fast that they have not been able to update their flagship i.e. Mi4 to lollipop even after 11 months of it’s general release. 😛

Sanjay Pillai
August 29, 2015
- Burs
  August 29, 2015
  - Marius Cirsta
    August 29, 2015
    - Burs
      August 30, 2015
      Hmm.. You’re right. And wrong 🙂 Now I’m a little bit confused. My MIUI V7 runs on kitkat for sure, and the link below also shows huge disappointments from users on MIUI official forum:
      en.miui.com/thread-144431-1-1.html
      It seems that devices initially sold with kitkat stay on kitkat (because of potential bricks while repartitioning emmc), while others that came with lollipop out-of-the-box have MIUI V7 based on lollipop. That’s my theory. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
  - ultrametric
    August 30, 2015
    No this is not right!
    It depends only on the phone. Xiaomi never upgrades the Android Version of the phone. They see MIUI as independent from the real Android Version.
    - JVG
      September 5, 2015
      When we open a shopping cart, we select android as os and not MIUI as a skin and as far as I know they haven’t said such a thing officially.
- lucian
  August 31, 2015
  here is list, my Mi 4 is still on 4.4 so my next phone will be nexus or something with CM
Sanjay Pillai
August 29, 2015
- Burs
  August 29, 2015
  No. Unfortunately, MIUI V7 is still based on kitkat.
- Marius Cirsta
  August 29, 2015
  As far as I know MIUI 7 is based on Android 5.0, Lolipop.
- Burs
  August 30, 2015
  Hmm.. You’re right. And wrong 🙂 Now I’m a little bit confused. My MIUI V7 runs on kitkat for sure, and the link below also shows huge disappointments from users on MIUI official forum:
  en.miui.com/thread-144431-1-1.html
  It seems that devices initially sold with kitkat stay on kitkat (because of potential bricks while repartitioning emmc), while others that came with lollipop out-of-the-box have MIUI V7 based on lollipop. That’s my theory. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
- ultrametric
  August 30, 2015
  No this is not right!
  It depends only on the phone. Xiaomi never upgrades the Android Version of the phone. They see MIUI as independent from the real Android Version.
- lucian
  August 31, 2015
  here is list, my Mi 4 is still on 4.4 so my next phone will be nexus or something with CM
- JVG
  September 5, 2015
  When we open a shopping cart, we select android as os and not MIUI as a skin and as far as I know they haven’t said such a thing officially.