All sifu, may i ask last time i wanna install MIUI V6 from V5.. suddenly DC and make it unable to install or it had fully DLed and unable to install automatically into my phone. Then it falled into the recovery mode.

I tried dl the ROM from MI website and put it into the phone and try to install it.
(Install update.zip to System) then it pops out '' Please Rename the update pack to update.zip and put it to the root directory of SD card'' this error msg pops out.

i go to several phone shop and asked for help, all asking for RM 50-RM80 to repair.
Is it worth to pay for it?

Any solution on this? (This phone never root before)

try change the name to update.zip?

use this

http://en.miui.com/thread-92720-1-1.html

refer this guide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwnQDMJKh0M

I had tried chg. Still cant.. zzzzz

Thanks !!
But my case is, the phone turn on and directly goes into the Recovery Mode... I connect to the PC and PC wont detect any of it. I had put the software inside my SD card also useless. Nthg had detected.

In video, that kid can still power on and PC still can detect his phone

where do you live?
stock recovery?
during recovery mode . can your access your sd card

cant access to SD card

With stock recovery, you can't access to SD card.

I have the same problem when flashing miui 7.
Use the fastboot method will do. Follow this page instruction.
http://en.miui.com/a-234.html

Note: Step 3 is important. Make sure you put your redmi1s to fastboot mode (Turn off the device. Press the Volume – key and the Power button at the same time )

This post has been edited by wsian: Oct 7 2015, 04:32 PM

How to perform Step 4????

Double click on the downloaded ROM file to decompress it. Open the file folder for the decompressed ROM pack, and copy its path on the computer.


i cant even find the file

Step2 listed all the fastboot rom. Redmi 1s is one of them.

This is the last 10 post in the thread. Upon reaching post 2200 I will close the thread and make a new one with new content and ROMs in it.


Meanwhile, let me give you my view after using Redmi 1S for 1 year and three months.
This is solidly builts, up till today, the phone is still working fine despite all the abuse I have done to it. You wont even believe how many times I have dropped this face down, corners, tarmac road or tiled floors. It didnt break. It still works fine.


Software wise, the MIUI support is not that great from Xiaomi as they're still on 4.4 but with the help of 3rd Party developers I have Resurrection Remix 5.5.7 based on Android 5.1.1 with The Beast kernel. When I have 50 or 60 apps installed, the phone obviously did not run well. Heck it'd freeze 80% of the time. I did a clean wipe and now I only install social media apps such as Instagram, Whatsapp and Snapchat for them to be fully functional. Otherwise, social media like Facebook and Twitter, I am using web apps for them. That reduced my RAM consumption a lot. I also disabled Chrome which is a RAM hogger and replaced it with Dolphin Browser with the custom HTML5 Engine. Very usable I would say.
I can listen to Spotify with Viper4Android On, surfing lowyat forum and still have 250MB of RAM left.

Battery
Battery life is simply amazing with this little apps. I can get easily get almost an entire day of usage on a single charge. I'm not going go into it much, but I'm leaving the screenshots below.


Final verdicts
The Redmi 1S is still a powerful phone for daily usage apart from the 1GB RAM. It may not be capable for heavy social media apps but what do you expect for a 1GB RAM Android phone. Watching Youtube on this is still very enjoyable without any stutter at 720P which is great. Can you use it as your daily driver still? It depends on how you use your phone. Like me, I dont feel like throwing this away yet as it still works fine. Thus I started using web apps which is perfectly fine. If you want to use social media apps, I suggest you to upgrade from the Redmi 1S as its not capable to do so. But if you're doing it like me, I dont see why its impossible. Its a great robust device and you lower the risk of being robbed since its almost worthless now.

Thats all for now. Thank you if you did read it up to this point.

I wish I have a stable daily working CM12.1 on my Redmi 2.

My report same as yours. The phone is Nokia tough. Except i'm running all stock Rom. And last month changed to MIUI6. Just today found out got MIUI V7. But not going to upgrade it at the moment. Wanted to change to Redmi2 but the price went up and not worth that much IMHO.

Get Mi3 for the same price la. Sianz

Stock ROM lag lor

I'm using for work. Not play. So no problem.

To do real work on this phone is impossible with 1S, tarak multitasking capability

got new update

nightfelix netmatrix
This phone has a hidden feature, water resistant
Went for a camp at Cameron H. last two weeks
I had lots of outdoors activities and it was raining heavily most of the time I was there. That did not stop me from bringing this phone outdoors.
However, the unexpected happened, it rained HEAVILY when I was playing football.
Heck did I care about the rain. Continue playing with it in my pocket.
When I returned to the Hostel, checked it. It was still working with lots of mud.

Brought it out the second day with rain and it cleaned it good! Water sensors not triggered.
Simply amazing.


Sent from my Redmi 1S

Oh wait. Water sensors?

The sticker that will turn red.