I was this close to buying the Xiaomi 15 but then I learnt that it doesn’t support gesture navigation with third party launchers. And I cannot live without my dear Niagara launcher.
Sorry but why? Why are we going the restrictive iOS route? Thank goodness I learnt about this stupid limitation beforehand.
Literally everything else about the phone is perfect, or something I am willing to live with (like poorly managed thermals). I would buy it now if this wasn’t the case.
It was like that for years, they want you to use the default launcher so they could push you ads and their services.
Sadly, when it comes to Chinese ROMs, only OnePlus still lets you unlock the bootloader easily.
With Xiaomi, you now need to reach Level 5 on their Chinese community app — which takes nearly a year — and you also need a Chinese ID and bank account.
So yeah, I’m basically stuck on the CN ROM on my Xiaomi 13.
The worst part? RAM management is awful. You have to manually give full background access to every app just to get notifications. Global ROMs with Google handle this way better.
Other than that, CN ROMs are fine — but definitely not ideal for most users.
8~12GB on these ROMs aren’t future proofing at all
Just learn how to use the stock launcher, it’s great.
No ads absolutely no issues with hyperos on xiaomi 14 though don’t need third party launchers. Had vivo phone previously it didn’t allow notifications screen to change on third party launchers do can’t complain about Xiaomi.
Same, but I still use niagra nonetheless even if I cant use circle to search and split screen.
Dogshit response
Piss off mouth breather, it’s the only response to this.
My face when im trying to flash a partition a boot.img file but this son of a bitch of a phone bricks because i didn’t pull a discord mod in xiaomi community:
Well good luck pushing me ads when I never buy the phone I guess. I really hope someone from Xiaomi is reading this and taking it as feedback.
There’s nothing to learn about it. It’s my preference to use Niagara. If I was so interested in getting locked in I would go for iPhone instead.
Just learn how to use the stock launcher mate, it can’t be that hard for you.