Why MIUI...

I'll write a lil about my lately flashed ROM called MIUI, developed by some Android@Desire fans in China... which soon further ported to many other phones as well.... 

Mind you, this post contains geeky stuffs and design of a phone platform as well... anyone aint interested... time to hit the back button of your browser...

Now for those who are interested.. i'll keep this more-picture-less-talk post the way it is... Let's get started.

 First thing about desire is the internal memory.. one of the weakness of HTC Desire. It does not have more than enough spaces for you to put as many apps you like... even tho rooting helped... eventually, the space is going to be full if i keep adding in apps and games.... Even tho there is A2SD apps which could move PART of the data of your app to the SD card, still some are left on the internal memory and will soon fill up..

So first thing about MIUI is, it supports A2SD+. A2SD stands for Apps to SD Card Plus... meaning your apps will be installed on the SD card instead of internal memory itself... It moves the Delvik (dont ask me why is it named like that but it really is called Delvik) cache to the SD Card.. i gave it a 500Mb, android apps are small so they dont take much.. 500Mb is just enough to contain many many many many... many apps... basically when i install an App now, none of it will be at the internal storage.. not even PART of every app.. instead... the WHOLE app will be installed on the SD card A2SD Partition leaving internal memory FREE.. 

Picture above... 

Next...

 HTC Sense stock ROM comes with 7 home screens, MIUI can add home screens... see the plus sign there? That is to add home screens... even after the page is full with 9 home screens, swipe to the left... and you can add more... another page of 9 Home screens... the little home buttons are to determine which home screen will be your main home screen.. the one that is lighted Orange.. is my main... 

My Main Home Screen...

Launcher settings : Classic = typical swipe animations... left and right, fade = screens fade when another approach, Spin = pages animate spinning as if the track ball is the center of a wheel, Page Turn = flip it like a book, Stack = one page on another before disappearing, Rotate = pages turn and poof, the next one comes, Cube = see pictures below... 

 Cube animations when home screen is swiped to >>>

Cube animations when home screen is swiped to <<< 

No bluetooth on PC? no USB cable? need files from your phone? 

Introducing, MIUI FTP service... In fact, all the screenshots here are taken from my phone through FTP... this way i do not have to mount my card...

The proof on my browser... =) that's my SD Card...  

Musics on the go... lock screen's miui music player is better than the stock Sense Rom... Sense has it docked, MIUI lets you double touch the clock on the lock screen to bring up the player... press play... and it'll be like this... The player inside on the home screen (not on the lock screen) has auto download lyric .lrc file support...  

Do note that there is phone and messages on the left and right of the lock bar respectively... this is because it lets you unlock and goes to phone, or unlock and goes to messages, or just unlock (drag the clock down)... cool? when there are messages/calls, the lock bar will have notifications on specific pictures : either phone or message...  

The music when it is paused...  

The music player when the clock is not double touched when music is playing...  

Quick power controls on notification... 

It has Wifi, data plan, auto rotation, brightness, volume, GPS, torchlight, AutoSync, CPU, Lock, Bluetooth, Vibrate, Flight mode, reboot, and power off... 

Lastly, it supports theming.. a feature smartphones have ditched.... i think..

How i capture these pictures? MIUI has the feature of capturing a screenshot when pressing the down volume button and the menu button... fantastic...

The bottom line is, MIUI kinda unlocks my Desire at its best... So far so good.. I'm lovin' it...
There are alot more features... and i mean ALOT more... but these are the ones caught my attention...

Anyway, anyone needs help on flashing rom on android phones, i might be able to help.. till then....

Thanks for reading.

Y.K.Lim.