Huge thanks to the forum operators. Here is some feedback both for the programmers/operator and for the community.
I use mi3w and have recently updated to MM. I am very grateful for making the process easy by including the twrp in the first ROM. Just flashed twice and was done with the merged partition business! I cleared the cache and and dalvik cache only, not data.
I am using this ROM (6.5.12) and is my second MM rom, first one being the first MM rom.
I think the first one was better,faster,smoother than this current one.
I don't like the new gallery and the logics behind it. I used to have cloud only images shown on the gallery with a optimised version automatically. Now it is different. Now it also needs to download the optimised version again, even though it was in my phone. It is also impossible to delete photos from the phone while leaving it on the cloud, unless using a file manager. Plus point now I can sync any folder to cloud. I really don't like the chrome tabs merged with multitasking. Just noticed you can reverse that from chrome settings. I expected huge leap in performance but miui 6/7 performs so well it probably can't get better. Yet, with the MM system of pre compiling and ART VM, there should have been some improvement in performance and battery life, but none!
I loved the miui permission system but now MM permissions took over and it is so lame and retarded compared to what miui came up with ages ago(opinion).
My esfilemanager can't see USB otg dongles. Ever since updating to miui 7, I noticed that the information shown on battery usage is wrong. It still is.
My phone is a capable machine (sd800+2gRAM+fastMMC) able to run without lags and hiccups but unfinished ROMs like this make you think you need to buy a new phone :-( (I AM NOT BLAMING THE DEVELOPERS AT XIAOMI.EU)
some questions for everyone
1)Which miui version is the best in these both categories: battery life and smoothness?
2)can the old gallery app be used in the current ROM? How?
3) Who else thinks it is a good idea to have a separate thread/projectfor making ROMs that are based off a certain version of miui but updated to enhance performance and iron out bugs, but not adding features.
4) does anyone know of any hacked miui music with local search enabled (and no cloud like current one)?
Thanks.