Thursday, December 10, 2015

Miui V6 rom for samsung galaxy note 2 Gt-N7100/Gt-n7105

If you are bored of trying all aosp or cm based customs on your note 2 and want to go for different custom rom then miui is one of those roms which gives you a different experience.Though it feels like some what ios you will definitely love this rom for sure.
This miui v6 rom is compiled by a Senior member on xda named "jing95916"  we sincerely thank him for bring this awesome rom for galaxy note 2 and good thing is that it works on both Gt-N7100 and GT-N7105 variants.

Install Miui V6 rom on samsung galaxy Note 2 Gt-N7100/Gt-N7105:
Miui V6 rom on samsung galaxy Note 2 Gt-N7100/Gt-N7105

About Miui custom rom:
Miui is one of the best and awesome custom Rom available in android development community. Developer compiled it with two base roms that is omni and cyanogenmod for note 2 use any one of them.This is stock Rom for all xiaomi devices but they open sourced it  and is widely available for lot of other branded devices.After log time xiaomi has announced miui v6 with lot of changes in user interface but it still used android kitkat as a base.It might take some time for xiaomi to update miui to latest version of android but till then we have to use this kitkat based Rom.This Rom is stable for daily usage and has decent battery life too.It resembles to apple ios in many ways and will experience that you are using an ios device while playing with it.
If you want a feature rich custom rom then go for resurrection remix custom ron for note 2 you will not be disappointed.

General Features of miui v6 rom:
  1. Miui Launcher: This launcher is completely different from other aosp launchers which you are familiar with.Feature no app drawer and apps resides on home screen it self.
  2. Theme engine: miui is one of the first Rom to offer a theme engine.There are lacks of themes in mi store and some are paid versions too.With this theme engine you can change wallpapers ,boot animations,ring tones, navigation panel theme,status bar theme,lock screen theme,icons and what ever.You can even overlap individual theme elements too.
  3. Status bar: It features transparent status bar as usual.There is a network monitor too for ongoing Internet traffic.You can see your upload and download speed in status bar.Swiping down from status bar will bring you notification panel and swiping left on it will take you to quick toggles.
  4. Notifications: Notifications appear in form of "heads up" which you must be familiar with.
  5. Features a do not disturb mode too.

  6. Unlock your lock screen ( phone ) when a trusted blue tooth device is nearby which might remind you of "MI band".
  7. Guest mode: Guest mode is enabled by default and is locked in privacy protection.
  8. Permission manager: You can control permissions for individual app.
  9. Utility tool: This helps to clear cache,virus scan,permission etc.
Download Miui V6 for Gt-N7100 and Gt-N7105 from mega cm based or  mega link for omni based.
miui v6 rom note 2 gt-n7100 gt-n7105
prerequisites:
  • Backup:Backup all your data which includes apps,contacts,photos videos etc everything to computer or any cloud storage as flashing this Miui V6 rom on your Note 2 will erase all your data.
  • Battery: Charge your galaxy Note 2  to at least 90% so that you wont encounter any battery related issues while flashing this.
  • Backup Efs partitions: Backup all your efs partition of your samsung device on current ROM.If you loose signal you can just restore it back.
  • Lock Gps:Lock your gps position on your current rom.If you use this a lot then you have to lock it so that it could work even after flashing other roms.Its easy to lock gps .Turn on gps in settings and find your current location in google maps and now now have locked on to gps.
  • Custom recovery: You need a custom recovery installed on your galaxy note 2 .Without it you can not flash roms at all.
  • Downloads: Miui v6 rom  and google apps if needed.Transfer them to internal storage.

Flash Miui v6 rom using Twrp recovery: 

  1. Download Miui v6 rom and gapps transfer it to sdcard or internal storage of device.
  2. Power of the device completely.
  3. Press volume up,power button and home key simultaneously and once you see boot loader screen release buttons.
  4. Using volume down as a navigation button move to recovery and click on power button to confirm action.
  5. Your note 2 now boots into twrp recovery.
  6. Once you are in twrp  click on  backup and select all partitions which you want to backup. It might take about 5 minutes for backup to complete. Don't interrupt backup process.
  7. Once backup of your existing rom is completed click on back button.Wipe data,cache and dalvik cache and wipe system partition too.
  8. Now select Install and navigate to location where you have placed your note 2 Rom and gapps zip files.
  9. Flashing rom might take about 5 minutes or so.Once flashing is complete do a factory reset again.
  10. Now reboot to system.Wait at least 15 minutes for initial boot to complete and once done you can explore ROM features.
This is a simple tutorial guiding you to install Miui v6 rom on samung Galaxy note 2 GT-N7100 and gt-n7105. If you have any other queries please leave a comment below.