New Firmware for MI4 running W10M?

[chuckdaly]

On WMPoweruser.com, there is an article about a new firmware for the Xiaomi MI4 running W10M. This news comes from a chinese site ITHome. Unfortunately it only in Chinese. It explains how to get it, but I can't read Pinyin/Chinese. I don't know if I can post a link or not. If so I will by request. Otherwise, its not too difficult to find.

 

[chuckdaly]

I had to flash the update (Found on the Miui forum), since it wasn't showing up in any OTA update. I flahsed my unit and it didn't solve the primary flaw, which is I can't play any DRM'd videos. It won't play netflix videos, videos from Microsoft's Movies & TV app will only give me audio, even if I download the video. Flixster videos won't play, nor will Netflix or VUVU video play through Edge. For this reason I simply can not recommend someone buy a Mi 4 for the purpose of using W10M.

 

[Rimil0uz]

Too bad... Did you find any more issue?

 

[chuckdaly]

Prior to this latest firmware update, I was using insider build 10586.63. It ran very well, but it wasn't perfect so here are the problems I had with the device/ OS:

• Low Volume from the speakers (Made the alarm app useless.
• Won't play videos with DRM
• Camera struggled to focus on subjects

SInce the firmware update, the volume issue and camera issues were fixed. the video playback issue remains.

 

[Randolph McAfee]

The method of flashing from android to windows is different than windows to windows. I found the solution on xda developers but I am too junior to post links. Search xda-developers for a post by ukicar entitled

Xiaomi and Microsoft release a public ROM of Windows 10 Mobile for Mi4 LTE (4G)

It contains the solution of windows to windows flashing using miflash (the regular 20150601 version; the author left off the trailing 1).

 

[Svetoslav Enkov]

New firmwares are OTA yet.