{"id":729,"date":"2011-05-31T18:27:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T06:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/?p=729"},"modified":"2011-05-31T18:27:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T06:27:33","slug":"updating-miui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/updating-miui\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating Miui"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"8781ca4f97038dd0d58a1ad8af045721\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-6411751809866006\";\r\n\/* BlogHorizontalSlim *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"6442664612\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Miui is an excellent custom Android ROM. They come out with weekly updates, and I specifically get all mine from miuiandroid.com. It&#8217;s surprisingly easy to upgrade your phone to the latest version, and even a novice can perform the upgrade (Yes, even if you got somebody else to put Miui onto your phone initially)!<\/p>\n<p>Before we begin, a few things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>This upgrade is non-destructive, you shouldn&#8217;t lose your data or game-progress<\/li>\n<li>If you run into issues, you can always go back to a previous version<\/li>\n<li>If programs are force-closing on you, make sure you&#8217;re running the default theme and try again, as themes quite often cause instability<\/li>\n<li>Upgrading is actually really quite easy, and usually only takes about 2 minutes<\/li>\n<li>You must ALREADY be running Miui<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Right, now lets get upgarding!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To start with, you&#8217;re going to need to go to http:\/\/www.miuiandroid.com and click on &#8220;Roms&#8221; up the top. Choose the ROM for your phone, in my case it&#8217;s the Samsung Galaxy S (i9000).<\/p>\n<p>Because Miui initially comes from China, the ROM is in Chinese, so there&#8217;s two parts to it: The main ROM, and the English language pack. Grab both.<\/p>\n<p>Save them to your computer, then copy them across to your phone. Don&#8217;t bother putting them into any folder, just straight onto your phone \/ SD Card.<\/p>\n<p>Now if this is the first time you&#8217;ve upgraded MIUI, download &#8220;ROM Manager&#8221; from the Android Market. This is a free download. You won&#8217;t need to re-download it every time, just this once.<\/p>\n<p>Once in, fire it up, and choose the second option from the top &#8220;Reboot into Recovery&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This will shut down your phone and put it in to &#8220;Recovery Mode&#8221;. Don&#8217;t worry, it&#8217;s not as evil as it sounds.<\/p>\n<p>Now, you should be in Recovery Mode, here&#8217;s all you need to know about Recovery Mode:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Volume Up will move the selection Up<\/li>\n<li>Volume Down will move the selection Down<\/li>\n<li>Power will choose the current selection (Think of it like the &#8220;Enter&#8221; key)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, choose the 5th from the top &#8220;install zip from sdcard&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, select &#8220;choose zip from sdcard&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scroll right the way to the bottom and select the .zip files. If you can&#8217;t see them, check in the &#8220;external_sd&#8221; folder.<\/p>\n<p>You want to flash the one labelled something along the lines of:\u00c2\u00a0miuiandroid-I9000-1.5.20.zip<\/p>\n<p>This is the main ROM. It&#8217;s named &#8220;miui&#8221;, followed by the phone model (i9000 in my case), followed by the version (Date-based).<\/p>\n<p>After this, you want to go back through the same process, but this time flash the English language pack. This will be labelled something like:\u00c2\u00a0miuiandroid-1.5.20_I9000-EN-PACK1b_2.3.4<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> The dates of both the ROM and the Language Pack\u00c2\u00a0<strong>must<\/strong> match up.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes there&#8217;s another &#8216;fixup&#8217; release of the language pack, in which case it&#8217;ll be labelled &#8220;1b&#8221; or &#8220;1c&#8221; for example. This is fine, nothing to worry about.<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve flashed both the ROM and the Language pack, choose &#8220;*****Go Back*****&#8221; and then &#8220;reboot system now&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it, you&#8217;re all upgraded, there&#8217;s nothing more for you to do but sit back and wait for the phone to reboot. It&#8217;ll probably take a bit longer than it usually does, but that&#8217;s fine, it&#8217;s always slower to boot the first time after flashing an upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>That was pretty painless, wasn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>If this has helped you in any way, please leave me a brief note, say hi, or give me any other feedback.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chill.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miui is an excellent custom Android ROM. They come out with weekly updates, and I specifically get all mine from miuiandroid.com. It&#8217;s surprisingly easy to upgrade your phone to the latest version, and even a novice can perform the upgrade (Yes, even if you got somebody else to put Miui onto your phone initially)! 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