Xiaomi is notorious for including ads inside their mobile device. We hate it every time we open settings on our Xiaomi Mi 10 Lite and there’s an ad waiting for us. Fortunately, there is a way to remove ads by installing a ROM that has a built-in adblocker.
To install this ROM on your Xiaomi Mi 10 Lite, follow these instructions.
Unlock your phone by following the instructions from Xiaomi website
Activate adb and type adb reboot bootloader, or press Power + Vol-
Download fastboot package for Mi 10 lite
Unzip fastboot package and execute flash-all.sh (linux) or flash-all.bat (windows)
Pre-installed apps in ROM for Xiaomi Mi 10 Lite
MicroG core apps: GmsCore, GsfProxy, FakeStore.
NLP backends for MicroG : DejaVuNLPBackend (default), MozillaNLPBackend, AppleNLPBackend, RadioCellsNLPBackend, Nominatim Geocoder.
App stores : FDroid (with F-Droid Privileged Extension) and Aurora Store.
Browser: our own fork of Firefox (with Qwant as default search engine, many other ones added, telemetry disabled, parts of telemetry code removed) instead of Lineage’s default browser Jelly.
SMS: QKSMS instead of Lineage’s default SMS app.
Email: p≡p (Pretty Easy Privacy).
Camera: our own fork of Open Camera, with a few tweaks.
Maps/navigation: Magic Earth GPS & Navigation (the only one free but not open source).
Keyboard: OpenBoard instead of AOSP keyboard.
PDF: Pdf Viewer Plus.
Personnal notes: Carnet.
{Ad/Malware/Data leak}-blocker: iodé.