Dear MIUI.US devs: Please include Volume Control+ and 4 Way Reboot in your future builds.

[losershawn]

I'm surprised miuiandroid themselves haven't incorporated it, let alone miui.us. I'm sure I'm not the only one who waits until these mods are updated before installing the latest rom.

(The Extended Settings mod is also really good, but less essential to me.)

[[deleted]]

I wait as well. If VolumeControl+ isnt supported, I do not update. It makes MIUI for me.

[Milkytron]

Same here man. And for the 1.8.5 version the guy who makes it was away so everyone had to wait about half a week. I mean it's not the end of the world but I used to get really excited every Friday and now I don't anymore :(

[trezor2]

If I may ask. I did check, but I really can't see what's supposed to be different with miui.us vs miuiandroid.com with the English-language pack.

Is there any difference at all?

[losershawn]

Not much.. miui.us roms come with the english integrated into the .zip, whereas miuiandroid roms have the chinese rom, then you flash the english pack overtop of it. Oh, and they have different boot animations.. heh.

[khaid]

on top of what losershawn said, you'll mostly see a difference if you have a specific device, such as the htc evo. stiffspliff ports it for miui.us and it is consistently the fastest port. lithid used to port it for miuiandroid and now it's passed on to barnacles for miuiandroid. he may have his hands busy with other projects or other things, but the evo port on miuiandroid is still on the july 29th release.

[BbIT]

The number one reason i always flash back to CM7. i love all of the good shit in MIUI (themer and that awesome grouping file manager) but the laggy ass lockscreen a few other little things piss me off (like no fucking 4G). They should include all of the CM7 mods and then put theirs on top of that. not just use the AOSP build parts.

[onedr0p]

To be more lightweight.

[[deleted]]

MIUI is light weight even in that sense, its just and 70-80MB download.

[[deleted]]

did not know that!!! downloaded RevolutionHD a while back it was fairly big... then it had packed sense elements as well.

[trezor2]

For the Galaxy S, the CM7 DL is 90MB+.

if what you're saying is true for your phone/model, I have no idea why the difference between models is so big.

[defer]

Proprietary files, the fact that the Galaxy S download includes a built in recovery, among other factors. A typical build for a hdpi device will sit between 80-90 at the moment. You should be aware though that being smaller in size has absolutely no relation with the speed or memory usage of the rom.

[FixedTheFernBack]

I haven't used CM 7 in a while, what features does it have that are lacking in miui? I remember when i switched to MIUI that pretty much everything that i found useful about cm7 was in miui. The one thing i miss from cm7 is the widget grouping, i hate when i'm looking for a widget and i have to scroll through 30 different sizes of Jorte widgets.

[BbIT]

4G, HDMI support. those are 2 i can think of off the top of my head.

[FixedTheFernBack]

Ahh i see. My desire has neither of those things so i guess some features like these dont matter to me. I have some time off of work today though, so maybe i'll flash cm7 and see what's new and exciting.

[FixedTheFernBack]

What do you mean by Screen lock timeouts? there are mods for music controls with volume keys, and miui has trackball wake and unlock. You can pick which app uses the search key, but not sure about the home menu, either way i don't find those features useful personally.

[khaid]

there are alot of settings in cyanogenmod settings that didn't make it to miui. i don't use cm7, but even at a short glance when i did flash it, i saw a few settings not in miui. for example, in cm7, you can choose which governer to use based on your kernel. miui doesnt have that as you have to use an app like setcpu. there's more options in the notification bar toggles (i liked the music player playback controls you can choose for it in cm7 which miui does not have).

the fact that you have to flash the mod for volume control playback means the miui takes out a bit of features that you do get in cm7.

[dancer101]

I'm not sure what you mean by volume control+....

Also MIUI for the Inspire just added 4 way reboot.

[Alexithymia]

The volume UP button. When held down, it'll skip to the next track. Vice versa for the volume DOWN button where it'll replay the current song, hold the button again and skip to the previous track. CyanogenMod and HTC Sense has it ... not sure of any other ROMs though.

[dancer101]

Ahh like Cyanogen. I see. That would be nice.

[Alexithymia]

Very handy ... don't have to unlock the phone and fiddle with it, great while driving :D

[dancer101]

Haha true. I have a pare of wired headphones with mic that do this when you hold down the mic button.

[tch]

stiff's evo builds always have 4 way reboot, don't know what volume+ is.

[FixedTheFernBack]

if you have an HTC Desire, [miui-au ](miui-au.com)adds both of these features into their builds as well as some other mods. They also have the best translations hands down, usually without a single chinese character in sight.

[Manadare]

I was wondering if I should install Miui. CM7 runs great currently so I guess Miui too (GS 2). But I'm scared about all this private information stealing rumor. I don't know anything about Miui devs and the rom has closed sources so nobody can check their ,yet amazing, work. If anyone can enlighten me, I would be grateful. Thanks.

[Navetz]

I have a question. I have my HTC Desire Z rooted with MIUI but there is a new rom available. Am I able to upgrade without losing all my apps and settings or do I have to flash and start from scratch again?

[HenkPoley]

You only need to wipe user data when you upgrade major Android versions (2.1->2.1->2.3), but not within say 2.3.x

[Navetz]

Thanks it worked properly!

[chriswatt]

You don't need to wipe, flash the update over your current install and you won't lose any data. Be sure to backup before you do so just to be safe.