When updating your Xiaomi to a new version of Miui, you have to cross your fingers that the update does not arrive with bugs or bugs that hinder performance, the experience of some applications, among other things.
Xiaomi tests every update before distributing it, but in the end it is softwareso may have bugs that go undetected until some time after release. While Xiaomi upon learning of a bug immediately sets about fixing it, it is normal for it to take a while with so many phones.
But if the update makes it difficult to use the cell phone, it is recommended to revert that Miui update. That is, go back to the version that did not give you problems.
And that is precisely what we are going to show you in tutorial: how to make a downgrade for to revert to a previous version of Miui on your Xiaomi, Redmi or POCO phonein a few simple steps and without being necessary to be a Root user.
How to revert to a previous version of Miui on your Xiaomi, Redmi or Pocophone
If after updating your smartphone you notice any bug or bug that was not there before, the solution is to download and install the previous version. Therefore, it is important that you know which version you currently have, you can see it here Settings ⇨ Phone info ⇨ MIUI version.
After you write down the version of the update that is giving you problems, you will have to download the version before that, from Downmi; a website that hosts (almost) all versions of Miui 11 and 12 for different mobiles with official downloads. The steps are simple:
- From your mobile, go to Downmi and select the phone model you have.
- Then, choose the ROM version (or region).
- Finally, choose the version prior to the update that the phone currently has. And then tap the button Download (download from the official Miui source).
Once downloaded, you have to name it as follows: ‘update.zip‘ (without the quotation marks). Then you have to move that file to the root folder folder of your phone. Once done proceed to install the update following these steps:
- Go to Settings ⇨ My device ⇨ System update
- Once there, click on the three dots icon (it is located in the upper right corner) and then click on ‘Select update package‘.
- Of course, you must now select the ‘update.zip’ file you downloaded to start the update (or rather, the restoration of the old version).
wARNING! If any of these options do not appear to you, you may need to enable them by performing the following steps: go to Settings ⇨ My Device ⇨ System Update ⇨ Press 10 times on MIUI number 11.
To go back to Miui 11 from Miui 12, does it also work?
Unfortunately, the above tutorial does not work to return to Miui 11 or return from Miui 11 to 10, since if it works (which is not certain) it is quite likely that the mobile does not work as it should. the reason? The risk that the downgrade do not perform is high , as companies cap the software so that you can not go back so far back , as new bugs could come out.
The easiest way if you want to downgrade from Miui 12 to 11 , or from Miui 11 to 10 would be via TWRP.
We leave you this video tutorial where he explains step by step how you would have to do it.
