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i think... your words make no sense...!?
I'm still using my trusty old Redmi Note 3 Pro since i can't find a better phone.
Running it with Android 7, no Google apps and all apps from F-Droid.
MIUI is quite good (especially the lighter version found on Pocophone) but i prefer AOSP Android especially since it's much better when using low dpi (i want my interface small).
I have tried a few Chinese phone vendors and they all had quality issues. Xiaomi, on the other hand, provided me with an aluminum body phone that has clearances (the gap between two parts) like an iPhone, a great camera, the best reception I have ever had, a superior display, 8-12 hours screen-on-time, and great specs for just 100€ including shipping. Even the speaker is great.
Only the software is/was lacking. I used MIUI 8 for a few months and it was quite ugly (horrible UI, bugs, and default apps) and there were some spyware apps I could not disable. Now I'm on LineageOS without gapps.
Stock /Android/, not stock ROM, they are different.
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It's a phone, right? SMS is a standard protocol right? I'm not forced to use crappy companies' proprietary software like wechat or QQ shit right? I don't have to force my colleagues to use Line or Facebook or Telegram right?
You think we should email each other instead?
Do you laugh at people who make phone calls in 2018 and think they should be using wechat calling?
Make no sense? I think you mean 'unreasonable'? Don't use Baidu translation...
Xiaomi treat Chinese users as crappy cunthead, why can't Mifans face the reality?
Which part are you replying me for? How do TV and Router have anything to do with group SMS conversation?
I quote the wrong post, I aimed to reply this you posted:
yeah... make no sense
and I'm not a mifan
Mind you, I didn't explain anything other than stating the fact that it can be flashed to global ROM just as usual. To me I don't care what advertisement they make. If xiaomi produce a good phone, it will be in my choice. Operating system is a different story to me.
People buying computer usually don't care what operating system it carries. If my new computer comes with Windows 10 and I don't like it, I can replace it with Linux if I want. When it comes to phones, why would people care that much about the OS if we can unlock the BL and put w/e we want into it? (Yes I'm aware of the BL security issue, but still.)
Nope, I care about advertisement. And it's not only about Xiaomi phone, and Xiaomi TV box. You can see how hard work users should do to remove ad from Xiaomi TV box:
https://www.zhihu.com/question/54992021
It's not only a 'unlock' can solve. And Xiaomi didn't tell their customers about the advertisement before.
What's more I didn't focus on ad but the discrimination to Chinese and international customers. Why should Chinese customers have to make effort to remove ad but int'l customers can enjoy a pure firmware with their buying? Should Chinese customers born with advertising tolerance?
It's true to some extent, after all, foreign gods won't see advertisement like low-end Chinese customers.
Wow, you accuse me of a lot of things I've never said.
Who the fuck is talking about WeChat?
It's a standard protocol, yes, but you shouldn't use it as your main communication channel, it's old and outdated.
"Cheaper", you pay less money for more hassle. For example, in UK, Mi Mix 2S (6+64) is sold with discounts at 379GBP = 3312CNY. In China, Mi Mix 2S (6+128) is sold at 2699CNY. You want a cheaper phone? You get the ads instead. Would you say the higher price for international market is a discrimination to non-Chinese?
It's not my main comm channel. That's why it took me a month to hit that pain point when I hung out with my colleagues and our business partners and our common comm channel was a group SMS chat apart from emails and slack.
@2: I have MIUI and no ads on my two global ROM 'Mi' phones.
@1: I am curious about the data transfer issue. How you check that? I noticed that some apps on my 2ndary Mi phone does that, For example Dianping (a Chinese restaurant app) sends information every Minute.
So, how to check, and how to block such apps when they are not in use.
I've got a Redmi Note 4 with MIUI 9 and it kind of looks and feels better than stock. But then MIUI 10 came and boy... how do I unsee it?
What I dont get is why all these big corporations like Google and Mi constantly break what isn't broken with their unending redesigns. I dont want new eye candy, dont have time or desire to retrain for new UI, just leave my phone be... no way.
Mi A1 user here
I stick to custom ROMs as with my previous Xiaomi phone, Xiaomi is simply ridiculous in terms of software updates and I lost all trust after they managed to release an update that killed LTE (notorious band 20) in Europe.
@gol3m You didn't try ZTE Axon 7, I assume? Or some Nubia phone?
"Regular" ZTE phones (which are just "ZTE") are also generally better than their RedMi counterparts.
Didn't understand what you mean by this, but if we're looking for a "Chinese Apple", it isn't Xiaomi. It's either ZTE or Huawei.
Huawei phones are also good, BTW, but I don't know their product line well.
Besides that I have also seen numerous chinaphones, as I'm far from the US and they are popular here. 5-6 years ago there were a lot of vendors like Jiayu, Zopo, THL, etc., who were also making as good or even better phones than Xiaomi. But Xiaomi's overall strategy was better, hence they have survived on an extremely competitive market and became so well-known.
@dergelbe I don't have any, but a couple of months ago we've had a kind of shitstorm all over the internet here because of those ads in apps and settings. Here's an example:
Start from checking this thread on Xiaomi forum and googling AnalyticsCore.apk
Blocking won't be easy, as these "features" are built-in. If you want, I can also try to find a link to a more detailed article about this matter, but that article isn't in English.
As for the checking yourself, get an absolutely new Xiaomi phone (not A1/A2, probably), set up a Wi-Fi network and install packet sniffer, make sure no other devices are connected to that router. Power the phone on, connect to the network above and enjoy the logs.
Again, I bought (and ended up keeping) my Xiaomi because it had the best price:quality ratio (with the quality being very good). If I had seen a better Huawei or ZTE phone, I would have bought that.
I got a Xiaomi Redmi 6 Pro and I had the MiUi by default but as a launcher, I use POCO Launcher
In my POCO F1, I'm using MIUI 10 from https://xiaomi.eu .
I use a Stylo2 and I like it. Can't complain for the price, except I can't root it or anything. That kind of pisses me a bit, and it is stuck on Android 5.1.1. No option for an upgrades since the carrier is douche.
redmi note 4 user(?) I'm currently on an s9
but you can install xiaomi.eu MIUI, it has the debloat and stuff like that
Using Mi A1 at the moment, very nice phone. I'm running the stock ROM though I've rooted it.
It just works, much like my Thinkpad
Had a Redmi 5A and hated MIUI, so flashed Pixel Experience
Now I have an A2 Lite with stock Android (and cam2api) and I love it
You must be thinking of AOSPExtended. AOSP is just stock Android
A2 Lite is actually better than the A2 IMO