No need for MIUI 11, get these amazing Android 10 ROMs for your Poco F1

AmarendraOctober 27, 2019

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One of the painful aspects of owning an Android phone is that wait for OS updates. Few weeks ago, Xiaomi announced that Poco F1 will get update to MIUI 11 between 22nd of October and 31st of October. Though there are truckload of features listed in MIUI 11, many of those are only for newer phones with AMOLED display or full screen display.

If you want to get real taste of Android 10 onn Poco F1, you need not wait for MIUI 11. You can instead get one of these 3rd party Android 10 based ROMs. Please do note that you may brick your phone and make it unusable when during this process. Try this at your own risk and you cannot hold anyone else responsible if you end up bricking your phone.

Pre-requisites to installing 3rd party ROM

Download given ROM and GApps nano package.
Go through the relevant ROM thread in XDA Developers and understand what issues you may face and how to fix them if you can fix them.
Backup all data on your phone.
Upgrade to latest stock ROM for your phone. In case of Poco F1 global, 10.3.8. You can also download just the firmware here.
Unlock bootloader. Follow this guide to unlock bootloader.
Flash TWRP recovery tool.

crDroid 6 beta

crDroid is designed to increase performance and reliability over stock Android for your device also attempting to bringing many of the best features existent today

Link to XDA Thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/poco-f1/development/crdroid-v6-0-t3975085
ROM Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/crdroid/files/beryllium/6.x/crDroidAndroid-10.0-20191021-beryllium-v6.0.zip/download
ROM OS Version: Android 10
ROM Kernel: Linux 4.x
ROM Firmware Required: 10.3.8.0
Based On: LineageOS

LineageOS 17 beta

A free and open-source operating system for various devices, based on the Android mobile platform. LineageOS extends the functionality and lifespan of mobile devices from more than 20 different manufacturers thanks to our open-source community of contributors from all around the world.

Link to XDA Thread: https://forum.xda-de
ROM Download: https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=1899786940962608700
ROM OS Version: Android 10
ROM Kernel: Linux 4.x
ROM Firmware Required: 10.3.8.0
Based On: AOSP

Pixel Experience 10

Pixel Experience is an AOSP based ROM, with Google apps included and all Pixel goodies (launcher, wallpapers, icons, fonts, bootanimation).

XDA Link: https://forum.xda-developers.com/poco-f1/development/rom-pixel-experience-t3967593
ROM Download: https://download.pixelexperience.org/changelog/beryllium/PixelExperience_beryllium-10.0-20191012-1135-BETA-OFFICIAL.zip/
ROM OS Version: Android 10
ROM Kernel: Linux 4.x
ROM Firmware Required: 10.3.8.0
Based On: AOSP

Evolution X

The rom that based on Pixel Experience!
With customization from your favorite ROMs.

XDA Link: https://forum.xda-developers.com/poco-f1/development/rom-evolution-x-3-0-t3980467
ROM Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/evolution-x/files/beryllium/EvolutionX_3.1_beryllium-10.0-20191025-0455-OFFICIAL.zip/download
ROM OS Version: Android 10
ROM Kernel: Linux 4.x
ROM Firmware Required: 10.3.8.0
Based On: Pixel Experience

Resurrection Remix

First starting as a pet project of Altan back in 2012 with android 4.0.x Ice Cream Sandwich. It soon became the most popular ROM with its original Samsung Galaxy S2 thread being the most viewed thread on XDA-developers for many months. Now, Resurrection Remix is available for over 50 devices.