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the pocophone f1 is a truly remarkable

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device it's got a flagship tier snapdragon 845 soc a 6.18 inch ips

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display six gigs of RAM 128 gigs of storage and a 4 000 milliamp

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hour battery and it costs just 300 us

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dollars off contract so then why weren't

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we all excited about the pocophone f1 when everyone else was a month ago the

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specs of this thing are amazing

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well it's because the included miui operating

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system is imo tarabad

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so we're going to walk you guys through how you can turn this 300 flagship

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killer into almost a pixel 3xl

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equivalent for free

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now even if you do like miui there's a

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fair bit of evidence that xiaomi is intentionally nerfing the camera on the

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f1 through software to keep their budget

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poco phone brand from competing with their higher end devices

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so Android software flashing then honestly

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i haven't given much thought to custom roms since samsung ditched touchwiz and

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cyanogenmod died a couple of years ago but lineage os which was founded shortly

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after cyanogenic's demise by a few of its core developers has been going

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strong ever since lineage os shares many of cyanogenmod's strengths like its lack

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of bloatware solid customization and regular security updates but oddly

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enough one difference is that it doesn't have the stock google apps by default

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thanks to some legal encouragement from google so that stuff will need to be

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flashed on afterward more on that later the point is once you put it all

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together you end up with what is effectively the stock Android experience

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like you would get on a pixel device and with a little bit of tinkering we

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can even make it look like the new pixel 3s so that's what we're gonna do now

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it's almost time to begin but before i do i want to put a big disclaimer this

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process is going to involve wiping it you will lose your data

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all right so with that out of the way let's get started you'll need a computer

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and a usb cable as well as a full charge on your phone's battery to ensure that

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it doesn't die during the following procedure starting in the settings app we're going

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to navigate to about phone then click the miui version or build number until

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it says you are now a developer totally for that easy what this actually

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does is unlock the developer options that we're going to need for this

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process including usb debugging and oem unlocking

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on xiaomi phones like the pocophone unlocking the bootloader requires you to

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register your device to a xiaomi account with a linked phone number after which

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there is a 72-hour waiting period before you can unlock the bootloader once your

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device is registered to your me account with the phone number download the me

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unlock app to your pc from the description we'll have that down below

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and run through the steps in the app your phone should now have an unlocked

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bootloader which allows you to flash a custom recovery firmware

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next up we'll be installing our custom recovery firmware this will allow us to

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flash our third-party os onto the device

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so we will need platform tools linked in the description so download and extract

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that then move the entire contents to a folder named adb in the root of your

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computer's c drive with those files in place plug the

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device into your pc and then hold the volume down and power buttons until you

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are in fastboot mode at this point it's probably a good idea to start

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downloading the larger files that you'll need including the 9.0 firmware and

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vendor files the latest lineage os build and twrp

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all of these are also linked in the video description

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back on the pc open cmd and now we can

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get to flashing our custom recovery firmware first up we're going to check if

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fastboot can detect our connected device once that's good to go we can move our

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twrp recovery file into the adb directory flash it and then boot to it

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back on the phone you should be booted into twrp mode so there should be a

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prompt for a password here but just click cancel and then wipe just the data

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partition go ahead and reboot to recovery and then

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we can copy over both the disable force encryption and magisk files we're going

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to install the encryption disabler first followed by magisk with a reboot in

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between now our poco f1 is rooted and

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ready for a custom rom at this point you can choose between

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lineage os pixel experience or whatever

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else you're into but we ran into some weird bugs with pixel experience so

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we're not ready to recommend it at this time since lineage os doesn't come with

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google apps you'll need a couple of extra steps here so we're going to need

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to download them separately at the link in the video description

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please note that you must use the ARM 64

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Android 9.0 nano variant this has a very

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small number of apps but the larger packages can cause issues so just grab

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anything else that you're missing from the play store later stick with nano

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please so copy over the rom files including the

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vendor firmware the lineage os build and the google apps that we downloaded just

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then and start by installing the vendor firmware followed by the lineage os file

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and the google apps lastly clear the cache and then reboot

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the phone back to Android and congratulations you now have a fully

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functional lineage os equipped flagship killer

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but you'll probably need to reinstall the magisk root app via twrp like we did

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before and then after doing that

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honestly i was pretty impressed the experience is damn close to a pixel

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phone but we can still go further

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the ruthless pixel launcher from the xda Labs app store is almost a perfect copy

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of the pixel 3 launcher and with a little tweaking can be made basically

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indistinguishable from the real thing as for the fancy pixel 3 live wallpapers

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well those can be had simply by downloading google wallpapers from the

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play store as well as a third-party wallpaper pack app that we have linked

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in the video description and bam

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from the front this thing might as well be the same damn

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phone save for the difference between the ips screen of the pocophone and the

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OLED on the pixel as for from the back well the

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pocophone's kevlar finish actually feels pretty good and non-slippery in the hand

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but it doesn't look amazing to my eye but then the pixel 3 doesn't look great from this

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side anyway so it's not like you're really missing much we both got the

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fingerprint scanner back there as for the camera by default the poco f1 has a

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pretty crap camera to be frank but

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with the ported google camera app from the pixel phone which you can install

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via the link in the video description it's it's really simple

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it can actually hang with the big guns colors tend to be a little over

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saturated with slightly lower sharpness compared to the pixel 3 xl but

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surprisingly in portrait mode it actually has better edge detection

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likely thanks to the second rear camera

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so in a nutshell there are some caveats here uh there's

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the time investment into flashing your device the ir face unlock camera doesn't

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yet work on lineage os and there's the possibility of voiding your warranty

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but this thing is really great for 300

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like really great to put that price in perspective everyone was losing their

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when oneplus launched the oneplus one for 300

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and that was four years ago since then inflation has gone up and

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phone prices in general have absolutely skyrocketed so in today's terms

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you could literally buy a pack of these for your whole family for the price of a

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single iphone 10s pixel 3 xl or note 9.

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think about that so thanks for watching guys this video

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was a little unusual for us so if you liked it hit the like button get

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subscribed or maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured at the link in the video description

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we're gonna have a lot of links in the video description also down there is our merch store which has cool shirts like

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this one and our community forum which you should totally join

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look at that it's all like pixely and stuff you know

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look at that