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Installing a custom ROM on Xiaomi Redmi 2

Before proceeding, make sure you have backed up all your important data to another device.

Custom Recovery

Most custom ROMs require a custom recovery. In this section, I will provide the

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• DAVDroid - Sync contacts/calendar
• Etar - Calendar
• F-Droid - Collection of FOSS apps
• Hermit - Turn websites into light apps
• K-9 Mail - Email client

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How to flash MIUI Fastboot ROM from Linux

• Download the fastboot ROM suitable for your device from the MIUI site and extract the downloaded archive [edit: MIUI page is dead. Use Xiaomi Firmware Updater]
• Download and extract the Android SDK Platform Tools
• Make sure adb and fastboot (components of platform-tools) are in your

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# qpdfview synctex vim synchronization
# for qpdfview (Settings > Behavior > Source editor)
vim --servername vimtex --remote-silent +%2<Enter>zz %1
 
# for alias in .bashrc
alias vimtex='vim --servername vimtex'

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Say, you want spotlight to find MacVim. Doing

brew linkapps macvim

creates a symlink in /Applications. But Spotlight seems to ignore it. Instead, remove the symlink

rm /Applications/MacVim.app

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#!/usr/bin/env python
from __future__ import print_function, division
import requests
import getpass
import sys


def get_login_data():
    '''Asks the user for the username and password. Returns a dictionary to be
    passed to the /account/login post request.

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Install build dependencies

$ sudo apt-get build-dep vim

Clone git repo

$ git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git

Change to src directory

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import sys
import os
import numpy as np

def read_deal_vec(filename):

    if not os.path.isfile(filename):
        print('File not found!')
    else:
        with open(filename, 'rb') as f: