Paranoid Android Ruby Beta 1 - Xiaomi Redmi Note 8/8T

Changelog (from Alpha 1)

- Initial beta release: plenty of bug fixes, stability and performance improvements, feature additions in source

- Merged January security patch

- Updated system to LA.QSSI.11.0.r1-09600-qssi.0

- Updated vendor to LA.UM.9.11.r1-02600-NICOBAR.0

- Updated stock blobs from MIUI 12.5 R

- Encryption is fixed and enabled by default (FBE_v2)

- Included MIUI Camera from Mi A3

- Added NotchBarKiller and HideCutout

- Added pickup/proximity sensor options in Ambient Display

- Increased speaker volume a bit

- Fixed all issues related to mic

- Improved 5ghz wifi and power savings

- Increased rounded corners padding

- Upgraded widevine HAL (1.2 -> 1.3)

- Kernel fully rebased over latest CAF tag (LA.UM.9.1.r1-08300-SMxxx0.0)

- Upstreamed kernel to AOSP 4.14 common (v4.14.218)

- Switched to dynamic schedtune boost

- Switched to efficient CPU freqs

- Added wireguard support

- WALT sched backports from 4.19

- Reduced touchscreen latency

- Reduced GPU and CPU latency

- Misc optimizations and fixes

Some FAQs

Q: Should I clean flash over Alpha 1?

A: Recommended, but not mandatory.

Q: Is 48MP, portrait etc working in MIUI Camera?

A: Hell Yeah.

Q: How can I disable encryption?

A: Flash DFE after ROM

Q: I'm encrypted and now recovery can't read my internal storage. Help!

A: This is normal, because existing recoveries don''t support FBE_v2 which is introduced in Android 11.

Q: SafetyNet passes without magisk?

A: Yes.

On a side note, widevine L1 may be broken on willow (Note 8T) as it's still on Android 10 firmware. I will probably make a flashable zip to downgrade widevine HAL for willow to fix L1.

Cheers and #StayParanoid!