How to update Xiaomi Mi4 to Android 5.1 Lollipop

After carrying out the complete analysis of the Xiaomi Mi4 in which I promised you that I was going to show you how to Root it without losing the official guarantee as well as the possibility of change the original Mi Recovery for the CWM Recovery much more functional, simple to use and with extras such as the ability to flash two ROMs at the same time, now, once the Mi4 Rooting tutorial is done and while I continue to investigate how to have two ROMs installed at the same time, I am going to explain the correct way to update the Xiaomi Mi4 to Android 5.1 Lollipop using an AOSP Rom, that is, a pure Android Rom.

Despite this being an AOSP Rom, that is, a Pure Android Rom that has nothing to do with Xiaomi Rom, this has been put together by a Miui developer, a certain Ivan, which has made it based on the original Stock. By this I mean that in addition to including native Miui applications such as FM radio or Mi Remote In addition to the Authenticator or file transmission, the Rom works perfectly in every way and is more than valid for the most normal use in our day to day life. So now you know, if you want to prove that the latest version of Android rolls in this sensational Xiaomi terminal, I advise you to click on «Continue reading this post» since I am going to explain to you in great detail the correct way to update Xiaomi Mi4 to Android 5.1 Lollipop.

Requirements to bear in mind

The necessary requirements to be able update Xiaomi Mi4 to Android 5.1 Lollipop Using this sensational Rom AOSP are as follows:

• Having a Xiaomi Mi4 or Mi4 LTE with the CWM Recovery flashed and updated to version R11. If you come from the previous tutorial where I taught you to Root the Xiaomi Mi4 and flash the CWM Recovery, first you must update your version of Recovery to R11 by downloading the CWM R11 zip from this link.
• Having an backup nandroid backup of the entire operating system just in case.
• Having backup of our applications and data since in the installation process we are going to delete them all.
• Have USB debugging enabled from developer options.
• Battery charged 100 x 100.

Required files

You can download the necessary files below:

• Rom Android 5.1.1 Lollipop AOSP By Ivan with the Gapps already included v5.5.20
• SuperSu

The files We copy them to the internal memory of the Xiaomi Mi4 and we restart in Recovery mode to follow the steps that I will explain below:

Rom flashing method

In the video just above these lines I explain the process of falsifying the Rom step by step. Just tell them thatThis same tutorial is valid for all Xiaomi Mi4, Mi3W and Mi3C models, that is, everyone known under the pseudonym of Canker

Note:

Attention to a new post that I am preparing in which I am going to show you how to have two Roms installed and fully functional at the same time in the Xiaomi Mi4.

Source - Miui.com