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In today's post, we will look at some of the major differences between the two most popular custom android skins  - Xiaomi's MIUI 12.5 (Indian version) and Samsung's One UI 3.1 Both Xiaomi and Samsung offer smartphones with great specs and hardware at various prices, but both devices' software experience is totally different. Samsung's One UI and Xiaomi's MIUI both have custom Android skins, and both the software runs on the latest Android 11 version. Also, read - MIUI 12.5 update tracker   Volume Panel Samsung's OneUI and Xiaomi's MIUI both offer customization of almost everything in the UI, and after updating to the latest, both the OEM's have changed their Volume panel design.  Talking about  Samsung , the new volume panel UI looks quite decent as it has a greyish color feel and has all the volume controls like System, Notifications, Ringtone, and media. It also has the live captions option, and settings option to limit

Xiaomi has been continuously releasing the new MIUI 12.5 beta builds and with almost every new release, they are consistently adding new features, fixes, and optimizations.  Read, more -  Ways to remove ad recommendations or Pop-Up ads in MIUI 12 Xiaomi is one of the  OEM's  that constantly releases new alpha updates almost every day to provide an enhanced and seamless User experience by fixing bugs and a lot of optimizations also at the same time add new features to their MIUI software.  Xiaomi has started the MIUI 12.5 stable builds for the Global variants, and to keep you updated with the global build releases we have a dedicated MIUI 12.5 update tracker  that will get updated after every new release.  With the release of 21.5.21, 21.5.22, and 21.5.24 builds, Xiaomi has added a bunch of new features, fixes, redesigned Screen recorder, and some other Optimizations.  Redesigned Screen Recorder Latest V1.9.9 Screen-recorder update brings redesigned pop-up menu. The updat

 Xiaomi's  MIUI 12.5  update is an intermediate update based on MIUI 12, and also the updates based on MIUI 12.5 are being rolled out as per the schedule for the eligible devices. Read, more - Xiaomi.EU MIUI 12.6 Rom Review MIUI 12.5 update brings several UI improvements, optimizations, and feature additions like  Privacy protection  enhancements, new  Super wallpapers , new animations,  reduced  system core usage, power consumption, and core scene memory to make the whole UI lighter, faster, and smoother.  In China, Xiaomi has been continuously releasing the new MIUI 12.5 beta builds and with every new update, they are consistently adding new features and fixes.  Xiaomi has already started the rollout of MIUI 12.5 for its eligible devices, and below are the list of Redmi and Mi devices that have received the MIUI 12.5 update along with the Android 11 update: MI series MIUI Version Status Mi 11 Ultra Global

Custom ROMS are so popular nowadays as they provide more smoothness, better performance, and on top of it, they are based on AOSP.  Also, read - Pixel Experience May 2021 Android 11 Plus Edition Rom review   Xiaomi.EU is a ROMs that is not based on AOSP but at the same time is one of the most popular custom ROM. It comes with almost no bloatware and has the only essential system and Google apps. Moreover, there are no system ads present in this EU ROM. The gesture control in this EU ROM is super smooth with no lags observed.  Xiaomi.EU ROM has better optimizations, more smoothness, and has many additional features too like the new control center UI, an always-on display for non-AMOLED devices like Poco M2 Pro, and a lot of other features.   As Xiaomi is rolling out MIUI 12.5 update for its eligible devices , Xiaomi.EU has already rolled out the MIUI 12.6 version for most of the devices. Special Features Apart from some common features like game turbo, video tool

  Pixel Experience ROM, an AOSP based custom ROM, aims to provide smoothness and performance rather than adding new customizations. Pixel Experience is also the most preferred ROM amongst users as It also brings stability and gives a decent battery backup.  Also, read - Bliss custom rom review Android 11 Poco f1 Pixel Experience comes with a Pixel launcher and has some essential Google apps pre-installed along with some pixel goodies to enhance the Android experience.  Just like Pixel Experience, there is a special edition of Pixel Experience and that is the  Pixel plus edition of Pixel Experience, and today we have an unofficial Pixel Experience ROM but this rom is very much smooth and can be used as a daily driver.  It is based on Android 11 which has the latest security patch of May 5th, 2021 . The review has been carried on Poco M2 Pro and below are the download links and some compatible devices list:  Pixel Experience Android 11 regular and Plus edition build is availa

 In the previous update(21.4.28), Xiaomi had mentioned that they'll be suspending the development version internal test build and the public test build for a week.  Also, read : DotOs v5.0 Android 11 custom rom review miui 12.5 new beta update Xiaomi has been continuously releasing the new MIUI 12.5 beta builds and with every new update, they are consistently adding new features and fixes.  Now, as the days are passing, Xiaomi is also focusing on fixing the bugs rather than adding new features as MIUI 12.5 still has plenty of bugs left.  Recently, Xiaomi has released a new MIUI 12.5 beta update(21.5.7) which brings desktop widgets and some other fixes, and the complete changelog for the same has been given below:  LockScreen - Fix the lock screen problem when the notification bar is pulled down. Adaptive Model: Redmi K20 Pro Search - Added desktop widget to provide the personalized search service. - New visual upgrade, optimized search experience. File Manager  - Fix the problem of