Custom Roms For Xiaomi Mi 3 (cancro)

Custom Roms For Xiaomi Mi 3 (cancro)

Xiaomi mi 3 the one of the best if not the best budget smartphone with high end specs for the year 2013.This device got an immense response from the public but many buyers were  let because of the invite system. Xiaomi mi 3 is powered by a snapdragon 800 chipset with 2gb of ram.The device comes with 16 or 64 gb internal storage.The rear camera is 13mp which captures decent photos while the secondary camera is kept at 2mp which is also decent for selfies to be posted on social media networks.

One of the reason why an android user should own a xiaomi mi 3 or their other devices is their openness towards android development community.They give the freedom for their users to root their devices and you will not void warrant by doing so.The device comes with Miui rom which is one of the best and beautiful custom roms available in android development community. Xiaomi mi 3 shipped with android 4.3 with miui v5and later got updated to miui v5 with kitkat underneath and soon the device will get  updated with android lollipop.

Since xiaomi encourages us to root and play with custom roms you might consider shifting to a custom rom after you fed with the miui.Xiaomi didn't release the kernel sources for over a year and all the custom roms which were built with out those sources had issues with kernel wake locks and sensor problems but some developers fixed them in their roms.If you  are in search of stable custom roms for xiaomi mi 3 and could not find them then you are on right place in this post we will share you custom roms available for xiaomi mi 3 cancro.The first thing you should make a note is that the device code name cancro.

Custom roms for xiaomi mi 3 (cancro):

1.Blisspop rom for mi 3 (cancro):

Blisspop is a lollipop based rom with cyanogenmod 12 as a base.This rom offers all the features that cyanogenmod 12 has to offer and also there are lot of added features from other popular roms too.This rom offer wide range of features only status bar to lockscreen.Status bar tweaks include notification count,network speed indicator,double tap to sleep ,brightness control and weather in status bar header.The recent panel has a button to clear all the tasks and omni switch is present is present as an alternative to traditional recent menu.

Gesture any where is also available which could make it easy for you to launch apps with gestures instead of returning to home screen and app drawer to launch apps.In addition to this app circle bar is also present which makes it too easy to launch apps with just a swipe from the edge of the screen.You can enable soft keys too if you like them and also set the dimension  of the navigation keys.
You can adjust the back light duration of the button and now you you can do various things with the just home key kike accessing a call with just a tap on home key , wake the device and also you can set custom action for double tapping on home key and there are lot more features to explore by flashing this blisspop on xiaomi mi 3.
Download blisspop rom for xiaomi mi 3 cancro

 Installation instructions:

1.Download the rom and place it in internal storage.
2.Reboot to recovery and make a backup of the existing rom.
3.Wipe data,cache and then system.
4.Flash the rom and then gapps.
5.Reboot and for few minutes as initial boot will take time.

2.Unofficial cyanogenmod 12 for xiaomi mi 3:

Cyanogenmod is one of best roms available in the android community.As cyanogenmod need the kernel sources for the official build and xiaomi  didn't release kernel source for long time cyanogenmod doesnot support mi 3 but unofficial roms are available for mi 3.These unofficial builds will have all the features of the official cyanogenmod  and also some added features too.The main feature of the cyanogenmod 12 is the theme engine which could take customization to a whole new level.But this rom is currently unstable for daily usage so you might skip this one.

Download cm 12 for cancro

Installation guide:

1.Download the rom and transfer it to internal storage.
2.Do a nandroid backup first.
3.Wipe all the reequired partitions.
4.Flash rom and then gapps if needed.
5.Reboot.

3.Temasek unofficial cm 12 for mi 3 cancro:

This  rom is based on cyanogenmod 12 with added features.Features o this rom includes weather in status bar,double tap to wake the device,cyanogenmod theme engine for customization,press home key to unlock the device and lot more.
Download temasek cm 12 for cancro

Installation instructions:

1.Download the rom and gapps and place them in the internal storage.
2.Reboot into twrp or cwm recovery and make a backup.
3.Wipe system,data and dalvik cache.
4.Flash the rom and then flash gapps.
5.Reboot to system.
Must read:How to install twrp recovery on xiaomi mi 3

4.Glade rom for mi 3 cancro:

This rom is also based on cyanogenmod 12 with cherry picks from other roms.Features of this rom include network speed indicator for the on going traffic info. If you are facing any wakelocks either from the system apps or the installed apps you can block them with inbuilt  wakelock blocker.Other features of the rom include ambient display,media scannre,left clock,lcd density ,disabling screenshot sounds.As this is a cyanogenmod based rom we will have theme engine for customization and all features of the cyanogenmod are available.

Download  Glade rom for mi 3 cancro

Installation guide:

1.Download the rom and then gapps in the internal storage.
2.Reboot to the twrp recovery . make sure you are using the latest recovery and do backup of the existing rom first.
3.Wipe the required partitions and then flash rom.
4.Flash gapps if needed and reboot.

5.Cyanogenmod 11s mibacon for cancro:

One plus one is one of the best devices that you can buy at affordable price.The device comes with a cyanogenmod 11s which is specific to oneplus one only.Now the rom is available for mi 3 device too.This rom offers all the features of the cyanogenmod with minor changes in the ui like the lockscreen.Rom is fully deodexed and zipaligned for improved performance.
Download Cyanogenmod 11s for cancro

Installation Instructions:

1.Download the rom and transfer it to internal storage.
2.Reboot to  recovery and make abackup first,
3.Flash the rom in any one of the systems.
4.Reboot  and wait for few minutes before confirming it as a bootloop.
Must read : How to install cwm recovery for xiaomi mi 3

6.Aosp rom for mi 3:

If you are fed up with all the roms with heavy features then the best thing is to have a rom with little features which we use in day to day life.Aosp is the android open source as you know its how google want android to be.This rom is based on android 5.1 lollipop with no extra added features over source.So you will have a stable and fast rom.
Download aosp rom rom for mi 3
Installation instructions:
1.Download the rom and transfer it internal storage.
2.Reboot to recovery and make a backup.
3.Wipe data,cache,system and flash the rom with gapps.
4.Reboot and wait for few minutes for initial boot.

Final words about custom roms for xiaomi mi 3:

These are some of the custom roms available for xiaomi mi 3.As xiaomi delayed the release of kernel source the development is quite low when compared with the other android devices.These are actually stable for day to day usage with little or no bugs.As xiaomi released the kernel source the development might speed up and may catch with other devices.If you want to try a stable rom other than miui then we advice you to go for blisspop rom as it has vast developer support and they might have updated their build with the released kernel sources.Before flashing any one of the roms above keep in mind that we and developers are not responsible if your device is bricked.Happy flashing.