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    Customising The Lockscreen - How Can I Increase Lock Pattern Size?

    OK, second question, that might help me work out the answer to the first, myself - where is the source to these versions of miui available? If I could examine that I might be able to work out how myself. I know I really should change some media files, because some of the system apps don't come...
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    Customising The Lockscreen - How Can I Increase Lock Pattern Size?

    I have customised my Redmi Note 2 by editing system/build.prop to change screen density. This is great, but it does make the lock pattern too small. Can this be changed? For instance, is there a 'com.miui.lock' file I can customise and put in /system/media/theme/default/, like I do with...
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    Aqua, Cancro, Hermes, Latte: What Do All These Names Mean?

    Thanks. I was looking for it before I signed up for an account, and the list of ROMS by device is an image. So it was reduced to a thumbnail, and could not be viewed unless I signed in. As the text seemed to label it as just a changelog, I saw no reason to investigate further. Now I am logged...
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    Faq - All Things Miui

    Apps are provided to you in a Java-like language. When you install an app, your phone compiles that app into instructions for the davlik "virtual machine", which runs on the phone. This compiled code is what is stored in the davlik cache. Google is in the process of replacing the davlik engine...
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    Aqua, Cancro, Hermes, Latte: What Do All These Names Mean?

    I went into the ROMs DOWNLOAD section to download a ROM, and found that there were many roms, all with cryptic codenames like armani, ido and HM2014813. So I looked around the forums for a post that told me what these meant, but drew a blank. Searches didn't help. Strikes me this is something...