These UIs are so popular that some brands ship their phones with this software pre-installed, like OnePlus ships the phone with Cyanogen mode whereas all phones except recent launch of Mi A1 all phones come with MIUI. If you a contemplating to buy a new Android phone or flashing an existing phone with one of these ROMs or UIs, I will help you make an informed decision and help to pick one among these three- stock Android not-customized pure Android by Google , MiUi and CyanogenMod.
If you are a user who is very concerned about data security, phone's stability and doesn't bother too much about doing really complex tweaks to your phone, you should pick stock Android. Stock Android is tested by Google's Android team rigorously before release and comes with stable, smooth, well-tested and secure software with minimal chances of your phone becoming unstable.
It gives you simple, easy and smoother user experience, but at the same time, the level of customization in terms of themes and skins is close to nil which is deliberately done to prevent any external piece of software breaching into the security and stability of the stock Android system. It is highly smooth, comes with almost all default Android's Google services, and is fairly easy to use with much fewer options to play with.
MiUi, on the other hand, is a very different eco-system, which comes with fairly user-friendly features. But contrary to stock Android, the development cycles of MiUi are much more frequent, probably fastest among the three UIs, we are discussing. Also with fast-changing codes and features, things change at a great pace and you need to keep yourself abreast with these improvements to make the best use of it.
So, if you are someone who is not bothered much by some level of instability, and doesn't keep top-secret information on your phone as it may be affected by security vulnerabilities more often than competing UIs , MiUi is the ROM to go with. It is rich in features and we have played with it on some of the Xiaomi devices. It is a very intuitive UI, but as I mentioned earlier, there are some trade-offs which you have to live with.
CyanogenMod is the most capable and most power-packed UI among these three as it gives users more privileges and flexibility compared to the other two UIs. Also, the options of tweaking with settings and capabilities, and advanced configurations of the phone are much more doable on the CyanogenMod compared to other two UIs. But with the strengths, there are also some weak points which include: a steeper learning curve and un-noticed features of the CyanogenMod, which many users would never know.
CyanogenMod is not as intuitive and simple as MiUi, which have more user-friendly interactions with the users on the visual and functional level.
It best suits the users who are power-users and thrive to do more advanced changes and customizations to their phones. It is more stable compared to the MiUi and offers much more advanced controls. Hope it helps you make up your mind. If you still have some doubts, feel free to discuss with us in the comments section below and also tell us what would you prefer by giving the valuable vote. We use cookies on this website. To learn in detail about how we use cookies, please read our full Cookies Notice.
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You would have to extract CM zip, and flash images on respective partitions, but it is quite tedious and perhaps dangerous — John K. Chapz Chapz 3 3 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. You can flash a ROM from a. What matters here is what ROM is it that you're trying to flash in stock recovery. Consider clearly explaining your point. I don't think so, the stock recovery has signature checks which prevent any unsigned zips to install, while custom recoveries install any valid zip installation package.
At least all my tries installing custom ROMs using stock recoveries failed with that error. And since we are talking here about CyanogenMod, I presumed there is no need to mention stock recoveries. Well, actually you just need custom recovery. The app allowing root is optional, and makes it only slightly easier. By installing custom recovery, you already have root access from the recovery console, not from system until supersu is installed , however rooting is the full process: Bootloader, Recovery, Supersu — John K.
TheBro21 - good point! I actually prefer the first root, then recovery as I kind of noticed the computer flashing being problematic sometimes. You can just install recovery with the click of a button with root first — John K. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. However, if there are multiple results, your device may have more than one build of CyanogenMod available to it.
If this is the case, check the "cm-xx. This indicates the CyanogenMod version number, so make sure to download the newest one in other words, the one that starts with the highest number. Now that you've got the CyanogenMod ROM files downloaded, the actual installation process will be exactly the same as it always has been. Of course, you'll need a custom recovery like TWRP to flash CyanogenMod, but as long as you've got that covered, we've outlined the entire ROM-flashing process in detail at the following link:.
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