It’s called ads.

There’s ads all over Samsung Pay, Samsung Health, Samsung Themes, etc. So yeah. Btw, I have an s10 plus so I know what I’m talking about.

samnang sucks. everybody knows that.

Exynos is just plainly bad tho. I don’t get why Smasung would still use it over the Snapdragon one since they are vastly different in performance.

the qualcomm s10 plus is better but exynos is straight garbage

Recommend installing miui EU

Not sure if it me but picture looks a lot better
No ads
No bloatware

Plus you get miui 12

Thanks! Please give me the invite. It’s nice to have a peace of mind.

Yeah Samsung’s Exynos chips are hot (literally) garbage. Unless you live in the States, I don’t think you can get a Snapdragon Samsung model that easily. I also switched from my Samsung to my Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro with a SD855 and it’s so buttery smooth.

Agree, i am personally using HavocOS, works fine for me

I went from Stylo 5 to the 9S. No fucking lag at all switching to apps. I didn’t realize it but I had like 8+ apps running in the background at once and I pressed the button to clear them, but the thing is there’s no need. I can run SEVERAL battery draining apps that slow my phone down normally and see no issues.

Literally my only issues are with the battery bar cause it doesn’t fill up and it’s slowly just getting lower and lower the longer I have the phone lol. Oh and the Google keyboard fucking sucks now that I’m actually using it on a bigger screen – need to find a decent ad free keyboard that is similar.

The phone itself is nothing to bitch about because it’s far superior to my old one. I’m gonna be testing it out tomorrow for doing doordash and when I do it’s gonna be interesting cause I have to take pics when I leave food at the door and on my old phone my camera took a few seconds to open and it would take like 5-10 seconds to hit send because the phone would lag, so I’m looking forward to using this phone for it.

Gotta unlock bootloader first. Look for guide on XDA developers. Backup all data before you do anything. One bootloader is unlocked, it’s a fairly straightforward process which is written down for you on the Xiaomi.eu website

It was my first doing it
You may have to wait a week to unlock

Don’t get scared
It actually really easy

Pretty much copy and paste

It has a bad price/performance reputation value that’s only because of the bad s Series the a series offers great values

It’s trash because of the price

You just go through xiaomi apps and their settings, and switch off “show reccomendations”, and no ads whatsoever.

I agree. Especially the battery life. I can easily not charge it for 2 days. I had a samsung galaxy s7 and i can’t imagine not charging it at least twice a day. The camera is great during the day, but as soon as night falls or its cloudy and you’re e.g. trying to take a nice pic of your cats the quality is bad. Especially if they move at least a little. That’s the only aspect i think is better in flagships such as samsung. Otherwise this is not a big problem as you said, considering the price. The phone is unbelievably good for the price and i couldn’t reccomend it more.

*Faster than s20

settings > passwords & security > privacy > ad services

Thanks a lot, i appreciate it

Another one that might help. The post is by the dev and comes under 9s/Pro/Max/ProEU thread
https://xiaomi.eu/community/threads/guide-how-to-install-xiaomi-eu-rom-for-redmi-note-9-pro-eu.56014/

i got note 8 pro, there’s nothing better than that phone.

(all of my family owns mi/redmi phones) my dad’s got the 9 pro (he had the redmi8) and he says it’s like a tablet, even if he has big hands it’s still a problem putting it in his pockets or things like that.

also the note8pro is the miui12 flagship device

I changed from redmi note 4x to redmi note 8 pro and it’s so much better.

Still using the OG Mi Mix. Love it!

You’re a little hyped up but the hype will be gone as soon as the worst ROM of all times MIUI starts to bug you. MIUI is filled with bugs, lags and all you can imagine. Full of bloatware you need to uninstall even if you know how to do that. Ads you need to manually disable. Not to mention all of the apps are Chinese apps and are spying on you and using your data. And your device will NOT have a long update support. You trade a shitty ROM for a good hardware is the way things are operated in Xiaomi headquarters.

Glad to know it suits your taste! I’m a bit scared of notches and holes, I love my all-screen Mi 9T, looks clean!

Also on Pixel Experience Plus right now, I like it better than MIUI, less bloated, but some bugs here and there that are annoying so I might try MIUI 12 again soon (maybe the EU variant).

Well, that was the case before the Mi 10 series mostly, but it’s not literally true anymore.
The Redmi series still has a nice price/value though.

It’s also great for emulation if you’re into that.

For me it just doesn’t feel smooth and updates are all over the place. It’s tolerable for sure though.

I have to use an exynos S10+ 😭😭

I love my xiaomi note 9 pro as well and as far as I know it is cheap because it comes with small and subtle ads (ex. when installing an app there is a small ad at the bottom of the page), that’s how xiaomi offers their phones at a cheap price. That’s actually very smart.

720g? wait h- I can’t even have smooth frames on honkai impact with that

Yet, China suppresses their uighur minority,and does loads of other horrible stuff like
Maybe it’s not their fault that they “mismanaged” the covid-19 pandemic in its early stages but CCP still deserves to be boycotted for its actions.
Subjects to look into:
Hong Kong https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-china-49317695
The genocide of Uighurs that’s happening right now in China
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/04/887239225/china-suppression-of-uighur-minorities-meets-u-n-definition-of-genocide-report-s

A galaxy m31 on my home and it’s working fine. No issue. Everything is smooth. Oneui is a better skin. And everything stays in RAM. 6gb performs like a 6gb.

Have you experienced any battery drain on the rn9s?

yeah when I first bought it but now i don’t have any problems at all

> Even a technically on paper worse camera than on my old phone and it still produces better photos.

You should then try gcam mods…

Was shocked when I bought my first Xiaomi device last year as well, the Redmi Note 8 Pro. The phones are amazing.

for around a month since i got it, nope.

good device but they have to fix the raise to awake feature.

that happens to me too on the rn8pro, no clue why

I have a Redmi K30 with Chinese Rom, there are some issues with Google Map and Foodpanda and other location sharing apps. There is no global rom available. European verison will work for me ? I live in Asia.

I don’t use that app but going in I do see there is an ad there. I guess I see that as an “app” rather than an integral part of the OS.

I have an old Samsung here, looking at it, there is this “Galaxy Gift” app that is basically just a huge bundle of ads it seems, “Galaxy Apps” which certainly has ads. “Samsung Music” promotes Spotify. “Smart Things” I think has ads for the various things you can add to it. There’s also this “EZY Rewards” thing I hadn’t seen before that is an explosion of ads. Disabling that now.

So it has bundled apps which has ads, like every phone. But it doesn’t have ads in the actual *system*. But neither does Xiaomi, that I have seen- I have heard though that some people may see these, but I haven’t.

I don’t think this is really any different than what any other Android OEM, Google or other app maker does.

With Xiaomi, I don’t get ads in the settings, the OS, any of the integral system apps. I don’t get ads anywhere I would not expect ads, and in fact I get zero ads as I don’t use that one app that does have them!

They do have a release for the 9S, but it’s not MIUI 12. It’s still on MIUI 11.

Don’t rush into the latest version just because it’s the latest. Stick with 11 for now.

you’ll be surprised with how many people needs more than 128gb. I do agree with your statement about apple phones though, right on.

People buy flagship phones for the little things you don’t get with budget phones – Build quality, Higher res or higher refresh rate screens, wireless charging, flagship camera, better software (yes, many android flagships has MUCH better software than xiaomi, and better support aswell).

I don’t think they’re idiots…

1. about the 128gb storage; one example is one who chooses to keep years worth of videos and photos locally. One of my friend is one of them, he uses 120gb++ on his 256gb phone.

2. I’ll admit budget phones are getting better and better; hence why i use one. The redmi note series now uses gorilla glass 5, you’re right. But minor things like the frame, which is plastic rather than most flagship’s metal frame. These seems little, and it is, but it adds to the experience. It does feel premium, but people who buy flagships wants the best of the best.

3 and 4. 1080p is standard… yes. But people who buy flagships again, expect more. Take the Galaxy Note 20 for example. It comes with a 1080p 60hz screen, people goes nuts about it. About the refresh rate: people don’t buy 90 or 120hz displays for it’s response time mainly, many liked it because the smoothness. Basically, a 120hz screen will be twice as smooth as a 60hz screen on little things such as animations, scrolling, etc. This seems little but it polishes the whole experience, making the phone seems smoother and it’ll feel faster. Not bike shedding in my opinion.

5. about cameras: Yes your phone comes with 64mp. But it is proven that megapixels aren’t everything. If you compared a 108mp sensor of the mi note 10 for example with the 12mp on the iPhone 11 pro, In most cases the iPhone takes better shots. 4 cameras? For me the count of cameras don’t matter. Let’s say you have a main sensor, then 3 sub-par quality cameras for wide angle or telephoto. It’ll not make good pictures. About GCam: yes it does improve your photo quality. “gcam gets you much closer results” correct, but that’s the problem. “closer” is not the same as the real deal. People buying flagships care about these little quality step-up. For the price you can buy a camera you said, and you’re right. But people who uses flagships don’t want to think about that, they wanted the best of the best package. They want quick access to their cameras, and probably don’t want to carry another one.

6. (already addressed)

7. Software: “The bloatware while annoying is easy to disable” I don’t think that’s a premium experience. It’s easy yes, but flagship users shouldn’t have to think about any of that. Let’s compare MIUI with One UI for example. MIUI has a lot of little problems: laggy animations, messy updates, incompatibility with some apps, ads, spam notifications, list goes on. MIUI has themes, but so do One UI. The quality of themes is much better on one ui. MIUI has some great themes yes, even you said ones that mimic the iPhone; correct. But it mimics the iPhone. See, that’s again the problem. The quality is so much lower than the real one. Flagship users wanted the best, not close to best. No software is perfect yes, but you gotta admit MIUI is behind compared to others. Software is the most “personal preference” thing here because people has different taste here..

Welp, this is fun.. don’t take this seriously.. It’s just my opinion and it is of course not 100% correct for all. I respect yours, too.

edit: reddit messed up my numbering, sorry.

Lineage OS

Its a hassle I still haven’t done it but I’m bound to do it someday when I’m not too lazy. There are detailed guides on xda and probably on YouTube as well. I’m positive the phone would improve significantly after installing it. No more Xiaomi spyware and bloatware to slow down your device.

I think it breaks warranty but you can lock th bootloader again I think.

Also you need to do it slowly not to mess anything because you can brick your phone if you fuck up.

Normally you’d be right, if we were talking about APSC or full frame. But when it comes to the tiny ass sensors on phone cameras, yes, megapixels matter. Also yes the number of cameras matter because of the variety of focal lengths and strengths they offer–TOF depth or night mode, beyond just wide angle / macro / telephoto to name a few. The obsession with many cameras isn’t simple bikeshedding like everything else is because theoretically it’s supposed to cover the wide range of lenses that might end up in your DSLR bag.

Again, you’re wrong about the screens. I was actually waiting for you to make a point about AMOLED vs IPS because there definitely is an argument to be made about the rendition of blacks. But anything about “smoothness” i assure you is just a placebo. Or perhaps what you are thinking of is the soap opera effect which as a cinematographer is something i strive to avoid.

And yeah maybe its not a premium experience to have to turn a few things off at the start of a new device. You will always have to configure something. Its no less annoying then having to register for google play and choose whether and where to back crap up… And most if not all of your complaints are unfounded. I have never had a problem with laggy animations, spam, ads or incompatibility. And you say its a bad thing that it mimics an iphone… I say its a good thing because it mimics the aesthetic with none of the drawbacks on functionality. I essentially had iOS 14 before it even existed because iphone users are only just now getting features that have been on android for a while. I don’t have to admit that its behind because its not… I’ve owned other androids and iphones and this is the experience i prefer.

If you’re having these issues, no offense but maybe you bought the absolute cheapest xiaomi phone and you got what you deserve. You can’t compare something like the Redmi 6A to a flagship certainly. But anything from 200-300$ or even less than that in some cases you certain can, and it holds its own quite well at a fraction of the price.

Ah thats interesting. Your phone actually may be bugged. My friend has the note 7 pro which is what i was originally going to get because it was such a solid experience and so far above what i had at the time. I can’t imagine there is such a huge jump between the note 7 and the note 7 pro… Your problems may actually be software related. Just to give you a little perspective, i have been amazed at how quickly and smoothly i can switch between high performance apps instantaneously with no lag. It caught me off guard at one point where i just ended up opening up everything on my homescreen just to see if it would falter. It could also be down to the theme you’re using… I use one of the iOS themes because of how clean it looks and how familiar it is to me.

Yeah that explains it. Whatever you’re using is definitely not optimized.

And yeah like i said… I’ve literally opened every app at once just to see what would happen and still no lag.

Im late, but try Swiftkey Keyboard Way, way, way better than the built in one.

I have This phone, but i like the software.No ads, no bugs and many great features, I DONT GET HOW MANY PEOPLE HATE IT?! No lags, like 0 lags. Please tell me why everybody hates MIUI

i think you need to change the settings on SK. You just need to turn it on in settengs and check predictions on ” Typing”. works pretty well with mine but it doesnt let you remove it, which is pretty mad cuz i font want predictive text.

Or maybe you went on incognito mode, where it doesnt pick up whatever words you used.