Redmi 5 plus bought in china and brought to Europe; put a standard android - Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 / 5 Plus Questions & Answers

Hello, I'm a noob in modding a phone, but I want to try
Some years ago a friend of mine bought a redmi5plus in China and brought it in Europe; he put on it a global MIUI and registered it with a MI account.
Now he sold me his phone, and correctly disassociated it from his account.
What it would be nice to do is to remove the MIUI global, and put a stock android OS, like android 8.1 (with google apps), because I want to give it to my father, and he's a bit old, he learned the standard android and can't fit with the MIUI one (he still asks "where the hack is the menu button with all my apps?" and similar).
So, a pure OS, no MIUI, no non-google-basic apps.
Since I'm quite a noob (ok, I have a computer science degree but I've never touched a phone), could you please help me on learning how to do this?
(or if there's a guide on how to do that, what are the OS list i can mount on it, no problem, just link me)
edit: specs are:
- model: redmi 5 plus
- android version: 7.1.2 N2G47H
- MIUI version: MIUI global 9.2 | stabile 9.2.6.0(NEGMIEK)
- band base: 953_GEN_PACK-1.129634.1.131253.1
- kernel version: 3.18.31-perf-g439dbb6
Thanks!

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First you must unlock the bootloader with waiting
https://en.miui.com/unlock/download_en.html
The unlock tool will tell u how long.
Then u need a recovery like
https://forum.xda-developers.com/re...t/recovery-orangefox-recovery-xiaomi-t4054193
This work for orangefox too
https://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-install-twrp/
After you flash over ADB, you must flash again the orangefox.zip in recovery.
And roms look in the right section
You can find many guides at xda

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joke19 said:
First you must unlock the bootloader with waiting
https://en.miui.com/unlock/download_en.html
The unlock tool will tell u how long.
Then u need a recovery like
https://forum.xda-developers.com/re...t/recovery-orangefox-recovery-xiaomi-t4054193
This work for orangefox too
https://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-install-twrp/
After you flash over ADB, you must flash again the orangefox.zip in recovery.
And roms look in the right section
You can find many guides at xda
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Thanks so much man, at least now I know the right steps to do!
Hope everything will be good, tomorrow I'll try.
p.s.: is it necessary orangefox or just TWRP is enough?

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tiec7 said:
Thanks so much man, at least now I know the right steps to do!
Hope everything will be good, tomorrow I'll try.
p.s.: is it necessary orangefox or just TWRP is enough?
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Is your choice what recovery u use, I like orangefox.

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joke19 said:
Is your choice what recovery u use, I like orangefox.
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ah i see I think I need a lightweight one, because this phone will be used by my father
Do you think it's possible to install a standard android 8.1 ? does it exist as a rom?

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tiec7 said:
ah i see I think I need a lightweight one, because this phone will be used by my father
Do you think it's possible to install a standard android 8.1 ? does it exist as a rom?
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No, but you can make miui that it look like stock with a theme and a customer launcher.
Maybe you can use the Xiaomi eu rom.
Google it. It's nice
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joke19 said:
No, but you can make miui that it look like stock with a theme and a customer launcher.
Maybe you can use the Xiaomi eu rom.
Google it. It's nice
Sent from my Mi Note 10 using XDA Labs
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mmm i had a look but i think i'll try evolutionX ( the one in this post: https://forum.xda-developers.com/redmi-note-5/development/evolution-x-4-4-redmi-5-plus-t4122467 )
is there a small guide on how to do the steps to install it? =)
Until now I just disassociated this phone from the old account (was my friend account who gave this phone to me) and I just looked into developer settings and i saw that is already unlocked (don't exactly know what does it means but is it, if there's some explanation of those things in some guide...)

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ok, i tried to install it without success, the phone now goes in black screen and stays there.
I installed TWRP with
fastboot devices
fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
boot twrp.img
this step was ok, if i do it from a command line connecting my phone in fastboot mode to the pc, it starts.
then i went on "install" and installed the zip file
EvolutionX_4.5_vince-10.0-20200714-0943-OFFICIAL.zip
from here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/redmi-note-5/development/evolution-x-4-4-redmi-5-plus-t4122467
after that, i rebooted the redmi 5 plus and boom, black screen after some seconds of "mi" screen.
can anyone help me?

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ok, i've managed it: i followed these guides: https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/how-to-fix-unable-to-mount-data-t3830897
now, I installed havocOS but I just realized there's no camera app. why? how can i do to have it?
edit: no wifi and no mobile connection!! without any of the roms I tried!
someone has any idea?

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duplicate

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tiec7 said:
ok, i've managed it: i followed these guides: https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/how-to-fix-unable-to-mount-data-t3830897
now, I installed havocOS but I just realized there's no camera app. why? how can i do to have it?
edit: no wifi and no mobile connection!! without any of the roms I tried!
someone has any idea?
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Flash orangefox, install the last global firmware, reboot to the recovery, format not wipe the data partition, reboot again and then your rom
https://xiaomifirmwareupdater.com/firmware/vince/
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joke19 said:
Flash orangefox, install the last global firmware, reboot to the recovery, format not wipe the data partition, reboot again and then your rom
https://xiaomifirmwareupdater.com/firmware/vince/
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the problem with no SIM and no WIFI was exactly the firmware. I didn't even know a phone had a firmware!!
Thanks!!
Now it works with EvolutionX; absolutely no chance of working with
- crDroid
- MSM Xtended
- coltOS
- resurrection remix
- HavocOS
with all of these it gives me a misterious "error 7" during install. Do you know what is this error?

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Ok, i solved.
I was absolutely CERTAIN that the ROM I wanted to install was the one made for my redmi 5 plus,
(filename is Havoc-OS-v3.7-20200726-vince-Official-GApps.zip )
so what i did was
- I went to META-INF\com\google\android inside the zip file with winrar
- unzipped to desktop the updater-script file
- since my phone is TOTALLY EMPTY, i changed those lines:
* removed line
Code:
run_program("/tmp/install/bin/backuptool.sh", "backup", "/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/system", "ext4");
* removed line
Code:
run_program("/tmp/install/bin/backuptool.sh", "restore", "/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/system", "ext4");
* then, since I read a lot about that but no one ever posted the result, i tried changing this line
Code:
block_image_update("/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/system", package_extract_file("system.transfer.list"), "system.new.dat.br", "system.patch.dat") ||
abort("E1001: Failed to update system image.");
with this line:
Code:
block_image_update("/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/system", package_extract_file("system.transfer.list"), "system.new.dat.br", "system.patch.dat");
and i re-inserted this file draggin and droppin it in the winrar window, where the old file was; DO NOT CHANGE THE NAME OF THE ZIP or it will be thrown an error on the zip name;
- wiped system, dalvik, cache, data (if it gives some errors, reboot and retry; if still errors, i formatted data in ext2 then re-formatted in ext4 )
- installed the modded zip
everything went ok.
I am anyway really disappointed by this community, not a single help in 3 days, just "follow guides". Just thanks to joke19 who at least tried to help me giving me some basic info.

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tiec7 said:
Ok, i solved.
I was absolutely CERTAIN that the ROM I wanted to install was the one made for my redmi 5 plus,
(filename is Havoc-OS-v3.7-20200726-vince-Official-GApps.zip )
so what i did was
- I went to META-INF\com\google\android inside the zip file with winrar
- unzipped to desktop the updater-script file
- since my phone is TOTALLY EMPTY, i changed those lines:
* removed line
* removed line
* then, since I read a lot about that but no one ever posted the result, i tried changing this line
with this line:
and i re-inserted this file draggin and droppin it in the winrar window, where the old file was; DO NOT CHANGE THE NAME OF THE ZIP or it will be thrown an error on the zip name;
- wiped system, dalvik, cache, data (if it gives some errors, reboot and retry; if still errors, i formatted data in ext2 then re-formatted in ext4 )
- installed the modded zip
everything went ok.
I am anyway really disappointed by this community, not a single help in 3 days, just "follow guides". Just thanks to joke19 who at least tried to help me giving me some basic info.
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Me too. Nobody push the thanks button in this thread.
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