Please read this thread thoroughly and carefully. Do this at your own risk. The following had worked for two of the same devices. I've made this guide partly for my own notes and because other guides out there seemed incomplete.
Aim of this guide is to have an unlocked bootloader so that you can use Alka recovery to enable root, busybox and Xposed on stock Miui. Alka is a good recovery to use since it's already patched (boot.img) so that it can flash Miui recovery ROMs (OTA?) as well as CM based ROMs. It also has the ability to backup the entire phone (EFS partition). I would strongly suggest backing up all partitions and moving it to your computer or SD card after. You may choose Cofface TWRP if you're never going to try CM based ROMs. Helpful links from other guides will be posted at the end.
Debloating is a big thing that I do to stock ROMs. This essentially prevents the ROM from running the apps, slimming the ROM and hopefully extending daily usage. There are few things that broke though. The only thing I could care about is that I'm not able to change the wallpaper via the Settings (lockscreen + homescreen) anymore. The rest that broke are the features that I don't use such as Cleaner (sponsored by Cheetah), dual apps and etc. Debloat accordingly, be cautious as I won't be necessarily explaining what each item does.
Prep work
Using MiFlash tool to flash another Miui ROM (China to Global, skip if you already like your Miui version)
Flashing TWRP (Alka) & Root
Flashing Xposed
Changing DPI
ROM Debloating
Aim of this guide is to have an unlocked bootloader so that you can use Alka recovery to enable root, busybox and Xposed on stock Miui. Alka is a good recovery to use since it's already patched (boot.img) so that it can flash Miui recovery ROMs (OTA?) as well as CM based ROMs. It also has the ability to backup the entire phone (EFS partition). I would strongly suggest backing up all partitions and moving it to your computer or SD card after. You may choose Cofface TWRP if you're never going to try CM based ROMs. Helpful links from other guides will be posted at the end.
Debloating is a big thing that I do to stock ROMs. This essentially prevents the ROM from running the apps, slimming the ROM and hopefully extending daily usage. There are few things that broke though. The only thing I could care about is that I'm not able to change the wallpaper via the Settings (lockscreen + homescreen) anymore. The rest that broke are the features that I don't use such as Cleaner (sponsored by Cheetah), dual apps and etc. Debloat accordingly, be cautious as I won't be necessarily explaining what each item does.
Prep work
Using MiFlash tool to flash another Miui ROM (China to Global, skip if you already like your Miui version)
Flashing TWRP (Alka) & Root
Flashing Xposed
Changing DPI
ROM Debloating
