Root MIUI XJ can't change lock screen from slider?

[thebillington]

I have MIUI XJ and have downloaded some custom lock slider themes from here.

I pu them in the correct place on my SD card and wen into Theme Manager and applied the theme. When i change the theme however my lock slider remains as the standard MIUI XJ one, and won't change off of this.

Is there another setting I need to change to allow me to change the slider?

Any help much appreciated. Thanks.

 

[GingaB]

Dont just leave it on the sd card try moving it to "themes" before applying it directly from "edit theme settings"

Here is the step:

put the mtz file in.. sd card/MIUI/themes

then on your phone go to menu/settings/personal/themes/edit theme settings/lockscreen

you'll find the lockscreen there. Simply apply it.. Done!

 

[thebillington]

I had it in the right place, just I didn't have the right ROM...

That was only for MIUI xD MIUI XJ doesn't have support for Custom Lock screens yet. Or if it does I couldn't find the Update

I put MIUI on instead, very happy with my custom lock slider.

 

[GingaB]

eh? What you on!!? I have XJ rom and Ive installed countless custom lockscreens without any hitch!

 

[thebillington]

Really? Well I tried everything with MIUI XJ and it wouldn't work. Installed normal MIUI without changing anything on the SD card, and it installed without a glitch.

 

[GingaB]

Whats normal MIUI? I have 2 themes running on my phone and that hasnt affected adding custom lockscreens. Which ones did you try adding?

 

[thebillington]

MIUI as in the one on the MIUI website. MIUI, Redefining Android – MIUI Android Developers <The one there fo GSM Desire.

And I tried installing the 5 point unlock screen. The one with Browser, Contacts, Camera, Messages and Home Screen.

 

[GingaB]

Ahh I see. Its really strange Mark Huk's MIUI works for you cos alot of peeps esp me reported various problems on it. Meanwhile XJ's rom has been running flawlessly for me and it certainly has been getting rave reviews from alot of folks on XDA. I guess you phone just refuses to play nice with XJ's version....

EDIT: It just occured to me you may be on old version?? Are you on latest v1.7.1?

 

[thebillington]

Well I've been running XJ happily since the start of June. This is the first issue I've had with it. I'm gonna try this for a while and see if I like. If no then I may try Redux or something

 

[GingaB]

Ive edited my last post.. Read it

 

[thebillington]

Yeah I was on 1.7.1 I always install the updates as soon as they're out

 

[GingaB]

OK. Let me ask you another Q. Does the lockscreen show up in the "theme" section at all?

 

[thebillington]

Yeah it did. I was attempting to change just the lockscreen, however when applying the theme it just returned to the default lock slider.

 

[GingaB]

Perhaps the lockscreen you downloaded was faulty.. Redownload it and try again?

 

[thebillington]

I've switched to the MIUI ROM from the MIUI website now, and I'm using the exact same download and it's working

 

[GingaB]

Oh yeah sorry I forgot about that. Maybe you should wait till tomorrow v1.7.8 is out....

 

[GingaB]

If tomorows release doesnt fix tha problem on XJ MIUI Id suggest you to head over to xda and post your problem cos XJ gives brilliant support compared to Mark Huk over at MIUIandroid...

 

[thebillington]

Okay, thanks for the tip! Will give it a go

 

[thebillington]

Woke up this morning and as you said, MIUI had an error... already! Extremely disappointed with it, it mixed all my widgets up after ONE restart. Gah.

Went back to MIUI XJ but decided I needed a fresh start, so downloaded the 1.7.1 version and installed from fresh. Working great The custom slider is working now as well. No idea what the problem was :/

 

[GingaB]

Lol Im not surprised you encountered problems on MIUI it was just a matter of time! Anyways I am glad the lockscreen is working for you now. BY the way are you using a theme??

 

[thebillington]

I am using a plethora of themes... I prefer to mix and match the best bits

 

[GingaB]

Yeah I do the same thing.. Thats the best thing about MIUI you can mix and match any themes and make it look uniquely your own

 

[SUroot]

I may try Miui just for the lock screen and status bar. I'll still run go launcher though.

MAY.

Also considered trying a Sense 3.0 rom, but I am really proud of my huge data partition right now.

 

[GingaB]

Haha Been eyeing up MIUI lately eh? Thought it wasnt to your taste! Alot has changed since you last tried it.. MIUI has simply moved onto another level it keeps on surprising me every week! Not only you can change lockscreens and status bars you can even add extended setting mod found on MIUI forum. It gives you option you to hide carrier name, clock, battery and usd debug. I could go on n on.....

 

[GingaB]

Forgot to mention there is another cool mod that allows you to add app launcher on MIUI without losing the features of MIUI launcher. Havent tried it myself but apparently it works well.....