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Guide to Install Android 5.0 Lollipop on Xiaomi Mi 3W [AOSP ROM by Ivan]

Mayur Agarwal by Mayur Agarwal
May 16, 2020
in Android, How To's

The wait is finally over for Xiaomi Mi 3 users (almost) as ‘Ivan’, the popular developer at Xiaomi has released a working Android 5.0 AOSP ROM for Mi 3. The ROM is based on the latest Android 5.0 Lollipop OS but it is not a final version and contains some bugs. The Lollipop ROM with build version 4.12.9 is available only for Mi 3W (WCDMA variant). The ROM by Ivan comes with minimal apps, thus offering users a Nexus like pure Android experience on Mi 3. It supports English language and seems pretty stable. As there are no Google apps included, you need to flash the appropriate Gapps file separately. Interested users can follow the below stated step-by-step procedure to flash Android 5.0 Lollipop on Mi 3W. The official Android 5.0 by Xiaomi will reportedly be released by Q1, 2015. So, either wait or better taste it now!

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Supported device: Xiaomi Mi 3 WCDMA

Known Bugs (as on 2014.12.9) –

– Video cannot be saved
– NFC does not work
– Random auto reboot (Workaround given below to fix this issue)

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Screenshot_2014-12-09-18-18-41      Screenshot_2014-12-09-18-27-13

NOTE: This procedure won’t delete your media such as files, photos, music, etc. All other settings, apps and data will be deleted. It’s recommended to backup your important data.

How to Install Android 5.0 Lollipop AOSP ROM on Xiaomi Mi 3 –

Step 1 – Install CWM recovery 6.0.5.1 (R11) by furniel and donbot (For Mi 3W and Mi4W). Download here (Mirror – Direct link)

To install CWM on Mi 3, open the updater app, press menu button and then click “select update package”. Select the ‘CWM_recovery_r11_cancro.zip’ and install it.

Step 2 – Download the required files:

  • aosp-cancro-4.12.8-kQ1vi7iZhK-5.0 (Lollipop ROM for Mi 3) – 245 MB
  • gapps-lp-20141109-signed.zip (Gapps package for Android 5.0) – 155 MB

Then transfer both the above files to the root directory (/sdcard) of your phone.

Step 3 – Flashing Android 5.0 Custom ROM on Mi 3 using CWM Recovery

  • Reboot into CWM Recovery (Go to Tools > Updater > press Menu key and select ‘Reboot to Recovery mode’)
  • Important – Go to ‘advanced’ and make sure ‘active system’ is 1. If active system is 2 then change it to system 1. (Use the defined touch controls at bottom of CWM screen to make your selection).

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  • Select ‘Wipe data/ factory reset’ and confirm to wipe. (Wiping may take sometime)
  • Select ‘Wipe cache partition’ and confirm.
  • Go to advanced and ‘wipe dalvik cache’.
  • Go to ‘mounts and storage’ and select ‘format /system1 (active)’ option to format it. Then format /system2 as well.

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  • Go back and select ‘Install zip’. Select ‘choose zip from /sdcard’, then 0/ and then choose the ‘aosp-cancro-4.12.8-kQ1vi7iZhK-5.0.zip’ file. Then install it to System 1.
  • Install Google Apps for Android 5.0 (GAPPS) – Go back and install the ‘gapps-lp-20141109-signed.zip’ file to System 1.
  • Now go back and make sure to Wipe data/ factory reset and Wipe cache again.
  • Reboot your phone by selecting ‘reboot system now’. (Choose No when it asks to fix root permission and to root the device.)

P.S. We’ve tried this guide on Mi 3W (Indian version) and the ROM seems to be working fine without any issues of random auto reboot. Let us know if you’ve any questions!

Source: MIUI Forum

UPDATE: There is an easy workaround to fix the reboot issue in Ivan’s Lollipop ROM for Mi 3. To do so, download and install the Wake Lock – PowerManager app from Google Play. Open the app and enable the “Partial_Wake_Lock” option. Then go to its ‘Options’ and enable the ‘Autostart on boot’ option. We’ve tried this and can assure that your Mi 3 won’t reboot automatically. You can check the phone uptime from About phone > Status > Up time.

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Comments 31

  1. Meer says:
    8 years ago

    How to restore the apps which are in. Bak format please reply Thank you for the amazing tutorial 🙂

    Reply
  2. Akshay says:
    8 years ago

    i want to try it.
    please tell me if have any bug

    Reply
    • Mayur says:
      8 years ago

      It might reboot randomly though chances are very rare and you can’t record videos. You can try it.

      Reply
  3. Bayu Thira says:
    8 years ago

    can someone mirror the link ?

    thanks before…

    Reply
  4. Nitin says:
    8 years ago

    How to root his rom? Why to format System 2?

    Reply
  5. Xiaomi Banned says:
    8 years ago

    Now that Xiaomi is banned from selling products in India, I hope that doesn’t affect their update schedule for Indian devices. They are already late. MIUI 6 should have been released by now. Maybe now they’ll release MIUI 6 with Lollipop for Mi3 (India version)

    Reply
  6. Nils says:
    8 years ago

    I’m using it daily with wakelock and not a single reboot. Great rom 🙂

    Reply
  7. Shashank says:
    8 years ago

    Can’t install CWM …it says Update install failed…
    Detail logs:
    script aborted: assert failed: getprop(“ro.product.device”) == “cancro” ||
    getprop(“ro.build.product”) == “cancro”
    assert failed: getprop(“ro.product.device”) == “cancro” || getprop(“ro.build.product”) == “cancro”

    Reply
    • Mayur says:
      8 years ago

      Re-download the CWM recovery and then try again.

      Reply
      • Shashank says:
        8 years ago

        Tried…but it is still same…

        Reply
        • Vishwas says:
          8 years ago

          Download The R8 recovery and flash it using the updater app!

          Download The file which is written- “CWM_recovery_r8_cancro_4.4.zip ”

          Link:
          http://en.miui.com/thread-19405-1-1.html

          Reply
    • Yash wani says:
      8 years ago

      Use cwm r8 4.4 instead of r11.
      It will work.

      Reply
  8. Saif Ullah says:
    8 years ago

    AOSP ROM is really awesome. I am using from 2 weeks. No bugs at all and really fast performance.

    Reply
  9. saurabh says:
    8 years ago

    I had rooted my Xiaomi mi3 custom android 4.4.4. Can I update my mobile through these to Android lollipop.

    Reply
  10. Mehul Chaudhari says:
    8 years ago

    I had installed this rom…..
    awesone performance with android 5.0…
    i had notice only one bug that video recording is not working…..

    Reply
  11. Prat meh says:
    8 years ago

    This ROM has a lot of issues,and it has rebooted a lot for me in the past two days since i have installed it.But performance is awesome so dont want to revert back to MIUI.Any suggestions?

    Reply
    • Mayur says:
      8 years ago

      I’ll update the guide with a workaround to fix the reboot issue.

      Reply
  12. bhavesh says:
    8 years ago

    I unable to install CWM recovery zip file from updater. Have u any other method to do that?

    Reply
    • Mayur says:
      8 years ago

      Rename the recovery file to update.zip and place it in root directory of phone. Then install it using the Mi recovery.

      Reply
  13. Siddhesh says:
    8 years ago

    Can’t install CWM …it says Update install failed…
    Detail logs:
    script aborted: assert failed: getprop(“ro.product.device”) == “cancro” ||
    getprop(“ro.build.product”) == “cancro”
    assert failed: getprop(“ro.product.device”) == “cancro” || getprop(“ro.build.product”) == “cancro”

    Reply
  14. Xiaomi says:
    8 years ago

    Hello WEBTRICKZ

    I want to install aosp, could you please tell me what bugs you r facing?
    Is it good choice to come AOSP from MIUI?
    some of my friends who were installed AOSP saying that camera app is not working properly is it rite or only some ppl r facing it

    Thanks In Advance

    Reply
  15. Mi3User says:
    8 years ago

    Thanks for the files Mayur… Mi3 site download links are too slow…

    Reply
  16. xiaomifan says:
    8 years ago

    Do you experience a lot of difference in the battery backup?
    How many hours does is buy in a single charge on the basis of your usage?

    Reply
  17. Vj says:
    8 years ago

    Phone is waking up if back button is long pressed often while in packet. it completely drains the battery. Is there any fix?

    Reply
    • Mayur says:
      8 years ago

      For that you can enable on-screen keys and disable capacitive buttons (and their backlight) but that requires root for which you need to reflash the Lolliopop ROM. Check Rooting in this thread: http://en.miui.com/thread-68451-1-1.html

      Reply
  18. Nash says:
    8 years ago

    Why isnt the mi3 phone manager detecting the device after the update?

    Reply
  19. satish says:
    8 years ago

    Unable to ‘CWM_recovery_r11_cancro.zip’. in mobile can anybody help me out

    Reply
  20. abhay says:
    8 years ago

    problem to take photo in HDR mode after this update. how to get back android 4.4.4 previous version after this update. anyone suggest ! thanks in advance.

    Reply
  21. Kim Vexborg says:
    8 years ago

    Just installed this on a Xiaomi MI4 (which shares the same internals as the MI3), and everything works absolutely fine.
    Haven\’t encountered any problems yet (fingers crossed that I don\’t).
    Followed the instructions above.

    Reply
  22. Vinodhkumar says:
    8 years ago

    Hi,
    Please tell me how to restore the apps/others after upgrade to Lollipop? I dont have option in settings->backup&reset

    Reply
  23. pinosh says:
    7 years ago

    In my phone only having internal storage … Plz give me a solution

    Reply

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