All this work is due to efforts from RedmiDevs founding members. They did the full device bring-up.

What is GSI? – GSI means Generic System Image. It is a general system image meant for no particular device. Treble enabled Android devices have a capability to run GSI. For more information and download link for GSI check this link.

Xiaomi Redmi 4A Hardware vs. Treble Implementation

Xiaomi Redmi 4A is an A-only Android device. This means that regarding the GSI images used, you need to get ARM64 and A-only system images.

How to Install Project Treble ROM on Redmi 4A & 5A

Before starting the installation procedure, keep in mind that we are not responsible for bricked devices or corrupted SD cards. You are doing all the steps on your own risk.

• Reboot your Android device into Recovery (You can use TWRP or CWM). Here you can download TWRP for Redmi 4A: https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=674106145207489212
• Format: System, Data, and Cache.
• Install the Treble flashable zip package. Here you can find the direct download link. The zip contains:
  • Kernel (a boot image)
  • Custom Partition (a compressed vendor image)
• Install the GSI system image you want to use. Here you can find more info on how to flash a generic system image (GSI) on Project Treble supported devices: https://www.xda-developers.com/flash-generic-system-image-project-treble-device/
• Reboot your device.

Important Notes

• The current minimal (required) firmware version is MIUI 8.3.29 Global Dev. If you are using an older version you may experience installation problems. Here you can download the latest dev package directly from Xiaomi. Flash it prior installing LineageOS. Alternatively, you can download and install one of the newest custom packages containing firmware only. Keep in mind that you are doing this on your own risk.
• G-Apps can be flashed on clean installs only.
• Formatting data (all user data including the internal storage) is obligatory, if MIUI was previously installed and the Android device was encrypted.

Working Features

• VoLTE (AOSP ROMS don’t have the needed patches to get it working. However, most other GSI ROMS have them)
• Camera (with and without flashlight)
• Audio (Playback and Record)
• Telephony (Data and Calls)
• Video Playback
• Bluetooth
• Sensors
• Wi-Fi
• GPS

Known Bugs

• Encryption when coming from a non-treble ROM does not work. That’s why you need to remove encryption when coming from a non-treble ROM.
• Wi-Fi Mac Address is randomly generated. You will keep it the same as long as you are on LineageOS.
• Sepolicy is permissive.

Version 2.0 Changelog

We now have a 2.0-version available, which is unified with Redmi 5A. Here are the main improvements.

• Included new power-off charging animations (it can show percentage)
• Updated Camera to the latest CAF tag
• Updated Kernel to the latest CAF tag
• Fixed call issues over Bluetooth
• Updated screen off gestures
• Added a full RGB LED

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New Official Release – TWRP 3.2.1-0 for Redmi 5A

The Xiaomi Redmi 5a has 5.0 inches IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen display. Further, it has a display of 720 x 1280 pixel resolution. Moreover, it has 1.4GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 processor with 2GB of RAM. The Redmi 5a has 16/32 GB internal storage. It has a dual camera with 13 megapixels back and 5 megapixels front camera. Further, it has non-removable Li-Ion 300 mAh battery. What’s more, it runs on Android 7.0 Nougat and it will soon get Android 8.0 Oreo update.

Now let’s find out what TWRP is and how to install TWRP Recovery for Xiaomi Redmi 5a.

What is TWRP?

Team Win Recovery Project (or TWRP in short) is an Android Custom Recovery initiated in 2011 with full touch UI. The recovery brought in and made a new trend of Touch-based recoveries. Further, it adds customization support and other huge and amazing features to the AOSP recovery code. With that said, it makes it one of the top Android Custom Recoveries available till today.

On the other hand, the GUI is fully XML based. And this allows you to modify each aspect of this recovery according to your wishes (of course, if you have the required knowledge of XML and Android).

How to Install TWRP on Redmi 5A

There are two methods for how to install the TWRP Recovery for Xiaomi Redmi 5a. First, download TWRP from the following link. Then perform one of the following methods.

Method#1

Code:
fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.2.1-0-riva.img

Method#2

Boot to OLD TWRP > INSTALL > Select Image > Navigate to twrp-3.2.1-0-riva.img > Select it & Swipe to Install

Version 3.2.1-0 Changelog:

• Default to TWRP restore rather than adb backup restore to fix restore on fresh TWRP boot (jlask)
• Better Android 8.0 compatibility in ROM trees (Dees_Troy)
• Fix inconsistent SD Card naming (DevUt)
• Fix missing library in android 8.0 (nkk71)
• Miui fixes (cryptomilk)

Version 3.1.1-0 Changelog:

• Updated TWRP source code to AOSP 7.1.2 (Dees_Troy) Updated TWRP source code to AOSP 7.1.2
• Backups will now include adopted storage keys (Dees_Troy)
• Fixed rebooting when no OS is present (Dees_Troy)
• Fixed line wrapping in the GUI terminal (_that)
• Fixed an adb restore issue (bigbiff)

Version 3.1.0-0 Changelog:

• Vold decrypt on several select HTC devices, TWRP will not try to use the system partition’s vold, vdc binaries and libraries to decrypt the data partition (CaptainThrowback and nkk71)
• Support POSIX file abilities backup and restore to fix VoLTE on select HTC devices and perhaps other issues (Dees_Troy)
• Support new Android 7.x xattrs for back up and restore to fix data loss after a restore (Dees_Troy)
• Adb backup to stream a backup directly from or to you PC, see documentation here (bigbiff)
• Support for FBE decrypt and restoring and backing up FBE policies (Dees_Troy)
• Better indicate to the users that internal storage isn’t backed up(Dees_Troy)
• Try mounting both f2fs and ext4 during decrypt (jcadduno and Dees_Troy)
• Numerous improvements and bug fixes by too many people to mention
• Improve automatic determination of TW_THEME (mdmower)
• Support new Android 7.x log command (Dees_Troy)
• Timeout during FDE decrypt (nkk71 and Dees_Troy)
• Update recovery sources to AOSP 7.1 (Dees_Troy)
• TWRP app install fast during reboot (Dees_Troy)
• Shut off backlight with power key (mdmower)
• Minimal setcap and getcap support (_that)
• Tweak MTP startup routines (mdmower)
• Support for AB OTA zips (Dees_Troy)
• Boot slot support (Dees_Troy)

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Download Official crDroid ROM for Xiaomi Redmi 5A (Riva)

crDroid ROM Feature Overview

Here are the essential features of the crDroid ROM.

1. Stock (Pixel) look and feel
2. Preinstalled Google Assistant
3. OMS-rootless theme engine support. (You need to install Substratum from Play Store).
4. All LingeageOS 14.1 mods and features are included
5. Status bar customizations
   • Network traffic icon in the status bar.
   • SU icon and Ticker toggle in the status bar.
   • Hide/Show icons in the status bar.
   • Hide/Show data activity arrows.
   • BatteryBar customization in the status bar.
   • Date customization.
   • Tap to Sleep in the status bar.
   • Variety of clock and battery styles.
   • Custom logo in the status bar.
6. Quick Settings customizations
   • Quick Settings header image customization.
   • Weather tiles integration in quick settings.
   • Quick Settings tiles customization.
   • Brightness slider toggle.
   • Optional brightness icon.Wi-Fi easy toggle.
   • Vibrate on touch functionality.
   • Bluetooth easy toggle.
   • Location easy toggle
   • Data easy toggle.
7. Navigation customizations
   • PIE navigation availability.
   • Navbar toggle.
   • DUI navigation (SmartBar / Fling Toggle, customizations, and animations, one hand mode).
   • Smart visualization (Pulse).
   • Dynamic navigation bar color.
8. Notifications customizations
   1. Power notification controls.
   2. Option to force expanded notifications.
   3. Toggle for immersive mode messages.
   4. Heads up Snooze option.
   5. Heads up timeout customization.
   6. Breathing notifications.
   7. Display customizations.
   8. Ambient display customization.
   9. Blur personalizations.
   10. Transparency customization.
   11. Scroll animation adjustments.
   12. Expanded desktop customizations.
9. Lock screen customizations
   • Toggle long press for screen shortcuts.
   • Lock screen shortcuts.
   • Swipe shortcuts.
   • Toggle media cover art.
   • Toggle clock, date, and alarm.
   • Toggle status bar.
   • Tap to sleep option.
   • Toggle long-press torch.
   • Customizable number of lock screen notifications.
   • Toggle power menu for secure lock screen.
   • Toggle quick settings access.
   • Hide swipe shortcuts while on lock screen.
   • On the go mode (camera overlay) available in Power Menu.
10. Recents customizations.
    • Immersive recent apps.
    • Hidden apps option.
    • Toggle OmniSwitch or Slim Recents as default recent view.
11. Sound customizations
    • Customizable charging sound.
    • Toggle screenshot sound.
    • Live customization of volume steps numbers.
    • Customizable less frequent notification sounds.
    • DND customizations.
12. Customizable toast notifications, system notifications, etc.
13. Customizable clock widget.
14. Wakelock blocker (experimental feature).
15. Partial or full screenshot selection option.
16. Toggle suggestions in settings dashboard.
17. Show CPU info overlay.
18. Toggle summaries in settings.
19. Disable force-close notifications.
20. Toggle auto-start music on headphones detection.
21. Increasing ringtone volume.
22. Quick password and pin unlock.
23. 15 new quick settings tiles (Caffeine mode, Sync, Expanded desktop, etc.)
24. Default sounds from latest Nexus.
25. Performance and stability improvements.
26. Optimized for ART platform.

crDroid developers are focused on getting more features but only if the ROM stays stable.

Known Bugs

The only bug can happen when using some third-party camera apps (like Gcam, etc.). While recording the exposure is very low. However, this is already known issue (blob problem), and soon will be fixed.

How to install crDroid ROM?

Before installing the ROM, we recommend creating a full back up of your files. Here are the download files:

• Latest crDroid Rom
• OpenGapps

If you are installing crDroid for the first time (or coming from another ROM), make sure you do the following steps.

1. Check if you are running a proper working Recovery (TWRP or CWM).
2. Copy crDroid.zip, Gapps, and Firmware to your external SD Card.
3. Boot your device into Recovery.
4. Wipe system, data, and cache partitions.
5. Flash the crDroid zip file.
6. Flash the Gapps zip file.
7. Reboot your device.

Note: Do not expect any support if you are not running a stock crDroid kernel or you have installed any mods such as Xposed. Also, make sure you don’t have modified system files.

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Unbrick Redmi 5A with locked bootloader and stock recovery

1. First of all, you should know which version of Redmi 5A smartphone you have. There are two different versions in the market right now: Global & China.
2. Download MIUI ROM for Redmi 5A.
3. Download and install MiPhoneManager: MiInst.exe
4. Allow MiPhoneManager to install all required drivers on your PC.
5. Turn off your phone, then press “Volume Up” and “Power” button, release the “Power” button after short vibration signal and keep holding “Volume Up” button, wait until your device starts in MiRecovery. As soon as you see the recovery screen release the “Volume Up”. At this point you should see three buttons. Use volume buttons to navigate in recovery menu and select “Connect with MiAssistant”. Press “Power” to confirm.
6. Your device will enter MiPCSuite.
7. Now connect your Redmi 5A device to PC via USB cable.
8. In “Device manager” you should see “ADB interface”, on the phone screen you’ll see inserted USB cable.
9. In MiPhoneManager the new window with 3 or 4 buttons should appear. If you see 3 buttons window, then you’ll need to download the MIUI ROM manually (recommended version will be displayed). If you see 4 buttons window, then you can press the first button and ROM will be downloaded and installed automatically.
10. In case you see a window with 3 buttons only, then press the first button and locate previously downloaded ROM.
11. If you’ve selected the right ROM version for Redmi 5A, then you’ll see green hieroglyphs. Press the first button once again.
12. The installation process will start and progress bar will be displayed on your phone screen.
13. After installation is completed your device will automatically reboot.

I hope that MiPhoneManager steps are clear, but if anyone can provide us with screenshots for this tutorial that would be great. You can contact us by e-mail or use the comments section below.

How to identify version of Redmi 5A – China or Global?

As we previously noticed there are two different versions of Redmi 5A:

• Global version: 2 SIM card slots and MicroSD. Comes with multilingual ROM installed.
• China version: 1 slot for SIM+MicroSD or SIM+SIM. Comes with China ROM installed which includes Chinese and English languages.

How to flash multilingual MIUI ROM on Chinese Redmi 5A?

Locked bootloader: Basically, there’s no way to install multilingual firmware on locked bootloader. Since Global ROM for MiFlash (fastboot) won’t work for Chinese version of Redmi 5A (leads to bootloop). While Global ROM for stock recovery simply can not be installed.

Unlocked bootloader: So, there’re two ways. You can flash TWRP Custom Recovery and then install any multilingual ROM version for Redmi 5A, xiaomi.eu for example. The second way is to flash Global ROM (fastboot) via MiFlash tool without locking the bootloader (Pay attention, do not use “clean all and lock” mode).

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Unlocking bootloader tutorial for Xiaomi Redmi 5, 5A and Redmi Note 5A

1. Apply for official unlock permission with your Mi-Account. Go to this link: http://en.miui.com/unlock/

   

2. After you’ve applied and received unlock permission from MIUI sign into your Mi-Account on your phone.
3. Enable “Developer options” on your device by tapping few times on MIUI version.

   

4. Go to “Developer options” and enable “OEM Unlocking”, then go to “Mi Unlock Status” and tap on “Add account and device”. “Mi Unlock Status” is available on Developer ROM versions as well as the latest Stable ROMs. There’s still a chance that you can get a device without “Mi Unlock Status” option, in this case you’ll need to flash the latest Developer Weekly ROM version first.
5. Download and install the latest version of MiFlashUnlock (unlocking with MiUnlock 1.x version won’t work).
6. Install MiFlashUnlock, open it and press “Agree” button.
7. Sign into your Mi-account.

   

8. Turn off your phone completely and start it in fastboot mode. Press “Power” and “Volume Down” buttons at the same time until fastboot logo appear on the screen.
9. Connect your phone to PC in fastboot mode and press “Unlock” button.
10. If everything was done the right way the progress bar will stop at 99% and you’ll see “Binding time is too short, less than 72 hours” or “After XX hours of trying to unlock the device” message.
11. Now you’ll have to wait until the countdown. There’s no way to skip or make the process faster. Do not change Mi-Account or flash different ROM version at this point.
12. After the required waiting period is over, open the MiUnlock tool once again and repeat steps from 6 to 9. Now you’ll be able to unlock the bootloader finally.
13. You can check the bootloader lock status by going to “Mi Unlock Status” in the settings menu.

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How to enable root on Xiaomi Redmi 5A (Riva)

1. Download and install drivers for Redmi 5A.
2. Download Platform-tools (adb/fastboot) and unpack to “C:\adb”.
3. Start your phone in fastboot mode. Turn it off, then press “Volume Down” and “Power” buttons until fastboot logo appears on the screen.
4. Connect your phone to PC via USB cable.
5. Open command window from the folder with ADB files and TWRP .img file (download TWRP for Redmi 5A here).
6. Flash TWRP using the following commands (TWRP .img file should be in the same folder with adb files):

   fastboot erase recovery
   fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
   fastboot boot twrp.img

7. Your phone will reboot into TWRP.
8. Download SuperSU 2.82 and copy downloaded archive to phone internal memory or SD card.
9. In TWRP press “Install” and select SuperSU archive, swipe to confirm installation.
10. After installation is completed, select “Reboot into system”. First startup will take around 5 minutes.

How to unroot Redmi 5A?

To remove root on your Redmi 5A device, open “SuperSU” application, go to “Settings” > “Full unroot”. The second way is to download unroot patch and install it via TWRP Custom Recovery: unSU.zip

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Latest Official MIUI ROM for Redmi 5A (Riva)

Download all the latest version of official MIUI ROM for “Riva” device. We’ll update this post as soon as new ROM version is released and available for download.

Download MIUI Global Stable ROM for Redmi 5A

Redmi 5A – Global Stable V11.0.2.0.OCKMIXM | MIUI11 | Recovery | Download

Redmi 5A – Global Stable V11.0.2.0.OCKMIXM | MIUI11 | Fastboot | Download

Redmi 5A – Global Stable V10.3.2.0.OCKMIXM | MIUI10 | Recovery | Download

Redmi 5A – Global Stable V10.3.2.0.OCKMIXM | MIUI10 | Fastboot | Download

Redmi 5A – Global Stable 10.2.2.0 OCKMIXM | MIUI10 | Recovery | Download

Redmi 5A – Global Stable 10.2.2.0 OCKMIXM | MIUI10 | Fastboot | Download

Redmi 5A – Global Stable 10.1.2.0 OCKMIFI | MIUI10 | Recovery | Download

Redmi 5A – Global Stable 10.1.2.0 OCKMIFI | MIUI10 | Fastboot | Download

Redmi 5A – Global Stable 10.1.1.0 NCKMIFD | MIUI10 | Recovery | Download

Redmi 5A – Global Stable 10.1.1.0 NCKMIFD | MIUI10 | Fastboot | Download

Download MIUI Global Developer ROM for Redmi 5A

Redmi 5A – Global Developer 9.6.27 | MIUI10 | Recovery | Download

Redmi 5A – Global Developer 9.6.27 | MIUI10 | Fastboot | Download

Redmi 5A – Global Developer 9.6.20 | MIUI10 | Recovery | Download

Redmi 5A – Global Developer 9.6.20 | MIUI10 | Fastboot | Download

Download MIUI China Stable ROM for Redmi 5A

Redmi 5A – China Stable 11.0.6.0 | MIUI10 | Recovery | Download

Redmi 5A – China Stable 11.0.6.0 | MIUI10 | Fastboot | Download

Redmi 5A – China Stable 10.3.2.0 | MIUI10 | Recovery | Download

Redmi 5A – China Stable 10.3.2.0 | MIUI10 | Fastboot | Download

Redmi 5A – China Stable 10.2.4.0 | MIUI10 | Recovery | Download

Redmi 5A – China Stable 10.2.4.0 | MIUI10 | Fastboot | Download

Download MIUI China Developer ROM for Redmi 5A

Redmi 5A – China Developer 9.8.29 | MIUI9 | Recovery | Download

Redmi 5A – China Developer 9.8.29 | MIUI9 | Fastboot | Download

Redmi 5A – China Developer 9.6.20 | MIUI9 | Recovery | Download

Redmi 5A – China Developer 9.6.20 | MIUI9 | Fastboot | Download

Download Unofficial Multilingual ROMs for Redmi 5A

Xiaomi.EU Localized ROM : Download from official link

How to flash Redmi 5A with MiFlash?

1. Install all required drivers (download links and installation tutorial can be found below).
2. Download and install MiFlash.
3. Download official fastboot ROM for Redmi 5A.
4. Unpack download ROM archive and extract files to “C:\”, so it will look like this:
5. Start your phone in fastboot mode by turning it off and pressing “Volume Down” and “Power” buttons until fastboot logo appears on the screen.
6. Connect your phone to PC via USB-cable.
7. Open MiFlash, press “Select” and locate folder with ROM files. Activate “Clean all” option in the bottom. Press “Refresh” so that your device appear in the list and then click on “Flash” to start flashing process.
8. After flashing process is fully completed you’ll see “Status – Flash Done” & “Success” messages.
9. Your device will reboot.
10. First startup will take around 10-15 minutes.

Download Custom ROMs for Xiaomi Redmi 5A

XOSP ROM for Redmi 5A

Download from Android Filehost: XOSP-UNOFFICIAL-20180212-riva.zip

How to install?

1. Boot into TWRP.
2. Wipe each partition except MicroSD and internal memory.
3. Install downloaded ROM archive.
4. Optionally flash Gapps and Magisk.

Resurrection Remix 5.8.5 for Redmi 5A

Unofficial | Developer by MURALITHARAN | Android 7

Download from Android Filehost

Viper OS ROM for Redmi 5A

Unofficial | Developer by MacTavish | Android 7

Download from Android Filehost

AOSP-CAF ROM for Redmi 5A

Unofficial | Developer by MacTavish | Android 7

Download from Android Filehost | Recent apps fix

crDroid for Redmi 5A

Unofficial | Developer by MacTavish | Android 7.1.2

Download from Android Filehost

Drivers and Tools for Xiaomi Redmi 5A

MiFlash – Software for flashing and updating Xiaomi MIUI devices | Download

MiPhone Manager – Software for managing Xiaomi smartphone (includes all required drivers for Windows PC) | Download

QDLoader Fastboot ADB Drivers for Redmi 5A – Package with Fastboot, ADB and QDLoader drivers | Qualcomm_Drivers_QDLoader.zip

How to install QDLoader HS-USB Driver & ADB Driver Lite

1. Disable driver signature verification and enable test mode on your Win10 PC by following the steps below:
   • Start command prompt and enter the following commands in order:

     bcdedit.exe -set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
     bcdedit.exe -set TESTSIGNING ON

   • Reboot your PC.
2. Proceed to QDLoader HS-USB Driver & ADB Driver Lite installation.
3. After drivers are installed successfully, you can disable the test mode by typing the following line in terminal:

   bcdedit.exe -set TESTSIGNING OFF

4. Reboot your PC.

TWRP Custom Recovery for Redmi 5A (Riva)

Download TWRP Custom Recovery by Xiaomi.eu Team from Android Filehost.

How to flash TWRP on Redmi 5A?

You must have unlocked bootloader in order to install TWRP on your device.

1. Install QDLoader HS-USB Driver & ADB Driver Lite drivers.
2. Download and unpack Platform-tools (adb/fastboot) to “C:\adb”.
3. Unpack downloaded archive with TWRP and copy “twrp.img” file to “C:\adb” folder.
4. Open command prompt and go to the “adb” folder with the following command:

   cd C:\adb

5. Start your phone in fastboot mode by pressing “Volume Down” and “Power” buttons until fastboot logo appears on the screen.
6. Connect your phone to PC and check the bootloader lock status with the following command:

   fastboot oem device-info

7. “Device unlocked true” – Bootloader in unlocked. “Device unlocked false” – bootloader is locked, in this case you’ll need to unlock the bootloader before flashing TWRP Custom Recovery.
8. Now to flash TWRP, type the following commands in the order:

   fastboot erase recovery
   fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
   fastboot boot twrp.img

9. Phone will automatically reboots into TWRP.

If you’ll need to patch the bootloader, download and install the following patch via TWRP: lazyflasher-no-verity-opt-encrypt.zip

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Upcoming Xiaomi Redmi 5A Technical Details

Redmi 5A will receive a 5-inch display. The battery with the capacity of 3080 mAh will answer the autonomous work questions. Xiaomi will also equip the smartphone with a 13-megapixel Samsung S5K3L8 camera module, which we have already seen in Redmi 4 and Redmi Note 4 devices.

The remaining technical specifications will include a Snapdragon 430 processor, 2 or 3 GB of RAM, and 16 GB of storage memory. The display resolution will be 1280×720 pixels.

According to unverified information, the Redmi 5A will inherit from its predecessor with a dual SIM slot, LTE support and a 5-megapixel front camera. Judging by the prices for the previous models of the manufacturer, the price for Xiaomi Redmi 5A device will be probably a little more than $100. In the end we should get a very affordable high-end device. Let’s hope that the guys from Xiaomi will not let us down!

Share your thoughts and comments about upcoming Xiaomi Redmi 5A device in the comments section below!

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