Ive seen thousands of people complain about crappy standby battery , extremely buggy software , bad ram management. But in my past 8 months of using xiaomi (switched over from samsung) i havent seen any of these problems , im using a poco x3 nfc on miui 12.5.1 and so far its been a great experience for me. is it just me who thinks this way? Update: okay it is a bit shit compared to other custom ROMs , currently on a year now.
2nd year:Wow this post is still gaining traction?
Been using solely Pixel Experience the past year ish , brilliant experience.
2024 edit: HOW IS THIS POST STILL GAINING TRACTION?? ps. on a Poco F6 with miui 14 and no complaints
Well bully for you. I hate it, it is utter garbage and frequently makes me wish my phone would explode. MIUI sucks. Xiaomi is a terrible brand
I hate that I can’t mute notifications without muting calls too as they share the same volume bar.
There is no 80% limit to charging the battery.
The settings app is very clunky.
Animations are inconsistent and app icons look very dated.
The system is full of bugs.
There are a lot of pre installed apps I can’t remove.
I just bought a xiaomi 12 pro (coming from Huawei mate 20 pro) and its such a downgrade experience i dont even know where to begin. You as user have no control and customization is absolutely minimal.
I really like how the dropdown top menu looks (iOS vibe) and that got me interested along with phone specs, but man such a disappointment. I updated the phone to HyperOs 14 today and then installed Nova launcher (which is a must) and the phone instantly got hot, slow and became practically unusable.
Ill stick with my mate 20 pro until it dies ( which i know wont happen any time soon as I have had it for 7!!! Years already and the only app not available is instagram. Still on android 9 doing everything anyone else does and zero, complains.
take the custom ROM pill fellow xiaomier
Not on my end. Xiaomi decided to fuck us Redmi Note 10 5G/10T/Poco F3 users over at MIUI14. Refresh rate issues all the time, 90Hz is basically unusable. Still no update to fix the lag.
4th year on my NFC as we speak , battery’s been shit but other than that all good
If your Xiaomi isn’t a flagship, get ready for planned obsolescence only after 2 years of usage
Alright I’ve updated my redmo note 11 6/128 to the latest update available (android 13) hopin to fix some problems I’ve had before that I’ll list later on. It only got shittier with no improvement whatsoever in sight. My problems were the following:
1.the phone wouldn’t charge for some reason when i had it plugged
2.charging speed slowly got worse even though the phone has only been with me for 9 months
3. Sometimes the phone would still give me the connected to charger sign on the battery even though it’s unplugged
4.A lot of times(more than the normal functioning times) the fast charging doesn’t work at all keepinf in mind that i always plug it to the brick and cable that came with the phone and I’ve also noticed that this problem is always followed by the previous problem mentioned
5. After the update multiple system apps’s interfaces like music and gallery have been significantly degraded with some minor bugs and noticeable slowness in processing on those specific apps
6. The phone would sometimes heat up a lot even though i have never used it on heavy duty or pushed it to it’s limit and the only games I’ve played were pgr and Minecraft which are really silly to be pushing the 680 chipset to it’s limits🗿
Really thinking of switching to a custom rom better than shit UI because it’s driving me crazy.
Any suggestions are welcome with open arms
yes. yes, it is
Redmi 10 5g whatever. My experience. The ear speaker didn’work. So i couldn’t hear call unless i went for loud speaker. Update fixed it and now the refreshrate drops at random times for a minute or two. Calls don’t pop up anymore. So i have to wait till after the notification.
Yes it fucking is, I’m currently on Redmi 9 because I’m poor and it is the worst phone experience ever!!! MIUI on this phone is so horrendously bad because it lags as fuck and it’s fucking unstable, it often lags for no reason when I’m going thru ig stories and it doesn’t respond to anything, I hope I’ll get rid of this stupid phone as soon as possible!!!
For clarification, I’m not a homeless guy or whatever, I’m just a poor student
MIUI 14 to be changed:
[ ] Default volume should be ringing/notifications, not media, and should be media while playing media, as it was on Sharp S3 … What do I need the media volume keys for, when I’m not listening any media?
[ ] Adb should be able to hide navigation bar, as it was on Sharp S3, now adb works but does nothing, and I’m not able to use FNG properly
[ ] Splitting screen should be easier, either permitted in Fluid Gestures, or with a button in toggle bar, as it was in Sharp S3
[ ] One-hand should be full screen and in the toggle bar, as it was in the Sharp S3, not half screen and in a complicated touch assistant always in the wrong spot
[ ] The Xiaomi community app does not work, it’s impossible to give yourself a name, after welcome page, so where is this community?
[ ] You cannot use Accubattery app or any other battery health controlling app
[ ] You cannot use different fingers for different actions, like launching apps, when unlocking the screen, as it was on Sharp S3
[ ] Automatic display luminosity control doesn’t work properly, it’s always too dim
[ ] App menu on my old Sharp was made by pure app icons horizontally at the bottom of the screen. Why do we now have this useless and cumbersome list of full screens?
[ ] On Sharp, split screen with 2 apps with just 1 gesture, on MIUI 4 gestures, and if I want to change one of the 2 apps, on Sharp 1 gesture, on MIUI start all over again, 6 gestures
[ ] Why can’t you move the mobile data and the WiFi toggles in the control center?
[ ] Why can’t you change the toggles positions in the control center when using the old layout for control center and notifications?
[ ] Keys and Gestures don’t work properly. For example, the menu key, once set on recent apps, leads to home …
[ ] Why can’t I chose which SIM to send SMS from? And need to change SIM at each contact?
I use the Redmi Note 10 Pro, imo the best phone to have! Great camera, gorgious screen, good speakers, strong wifi and gps signal! And i have no issues with miui, i read stories here about it that make me think “do these people actually own a xiaomi device???” . . . My experience with it is good, my previous redmi was the 9T, but i wanted a nice oled panel which i have now! I was an iphone user since 2007, owned nothing but iphones before, but these Redmi phones actually made me prefee them! I like xiaomi devices more than iphones!
😭😭😭
The worst bug for my phone is sometimes when listening music with earphone/earbuds, the sound will leak from the second speaker
What if im watching something not appropriate and the sound leaks everywhere,, it’s hard enough to be caught listening to bubble gum kpop in public 😥😥😥
yeah me too. lol. idk why xiaomi kept messing up their. miui13 is stuttery on my end and battery is kinda worse
I agree that MIUI 12.5 is really good, but now that I’ve updated to MIUI 13 i really regret it.
Use custom rom 👍
From MIUI 12. It’s very bad
Yup, having my 2nd (and last) Xiaomi.
It’s the worst thing in the world. The phone just fills up with invisible files that will just eat all the space. It’s fundamentally broken.
No, only MIUI 12, 12.5 is extremely bad. A lot of bugs when update to MIUI 12, 12.5
i found it ok untill i tried custom roms. Miui is actually very pathetic for me (experience of 4 mi phones) . my old phone runns smoother than miui on a good phone (at 60hz for comparision). MIUI needa more baking. For some its not noticable but if you want consistensy , MIUI fails to do that, it lags lot behind one ui / oxygen / pixel.
Xiaomi cram so much features into miui and they don’t like to optimize from device to device.
Flagship enjoy these but even mid range suffer.
There are some really ennoying problems with MIUI. One of them is that MIUI is not working well with Android Car. When Android Car starts a dialogue by asking more questions, only the first answer is processed. It is well reported on the Android car forum, and all those talking about it are …Xiaomi owners!
Another problem prevents you from using a fundamental function: unlocking when you are at a specific location, or connected to a spécific wifi network, or…etc.
Therefore, the added MIUI layer is very irritating, and **my next phone won’t be a Xiaom**i. That said, it is a good phone, but I just don’t understand why they “break” Androis basic functions.
Everyone loves to hate MIUI. It’s more of a cultural thing than a technical one.
IMHO, changing Android and giving it another name is neither clever, nor cool. So I find the whole thing unnecessary, no doubt.
It is, however, not a bad OS. In fact I’ve had an amazingly low amount of problems in the past 2 years of usage. 2 or 3 times I had mystery battery drainage. A handful of times it crashed. That’s it. Show me a better phone (for this price or any price).
Talking about Mi 9T European, as I know there are differences between phones.
I honestly like the MIUI than the stock custom rom because of the design. But of course….. when it comes to the speed i would definitely take custom rom. MIUI is great with Android 10 its fast, so many features, the themes are properly working, but like after the update to Android 11, Im not saying that it is bad but the bugs makes them worse.
I have redmi note 8 pro. Updated miui and
Banking app fingerprint not working.
Ethernet cable connection not working.
Auto click apps not working.
Battery time is lower.
Some error massage flashes for one milisecond from time to time. Antutu score is 50000 lower.
Nothing but disaster!
I have been using xiaomi fones for almost 3 years now but i never had any problem, no lag, no speed problem so far, but after this update miui 12.5.1 i am having a really bad experience in terms of lagging, wifi connectivity, ram management, apps opening time. untill they fix the problem the only way to fix this is to turn off the app optimization from developer option then the phone will work great without any problem but the apps will misbehave like asking permissions again and again every time you open the application. miui 12.5.1 is not stable it has many issues that need to be fixed.
The bubble bug(not just on messenger) on MIUI 12.5 is enough for me to think about installing a custom ROM on my poco x3 nfc. Let’s not get started about the unoptimized dark mode. Yes it is bad and sub par! None of the android UI I have used have such shitty user experience!
So you should charge it before it drops to 20% and not more than 80%?
so from 40 to 100 is bad for the battery?
thanks for the info
Charging battery over 80% will degrade battery capacity especially if charging it to 100% or overcharge. When charged to 100% from under 20%, battery will use 1 cycle. Battery start to degrade after 500 cycle.
I don’t but on another post people is telling that they are experiencing the phone going deep sleep too quick so they miss notifications until they wake up the phone all come in at once so guess it’ll vary for everyone.
Well, it also depends on the phone. I own a redmi note 7 and a redmi note 8 pro and the 8 pro suffers from bugs much more than the RN 7. Also MIUI 12.5 on the RN8 pro was great in the early days but then new and old bugs appeared e.g. delayed notification (known issue on every MIUI on this phone and others too), randomly unresponsive touchscreen (needs long press power button to force restart), Mi file manager now is slow and sometimes won’t open PDFs and shows duplicate files that don’t exist, download app doesn’t show a download since MIUI11 (issue never fixed for the RN 8pro). However MIUI 12.5 is smoother than 12 and I hope that next apps and (saddly rare) system updates could return a better experience on RN 8pro.
P.S. Strangely the RN7 always looked snappier to me even though it’s older and has a weaker hardware.
>You have to configure too many permissions to avoid messenger apps being closed forcefully, etc.
You you don’t.
First most popular messenger apps are whitelisted so they should just works. On my phone I didn’t touch anything and I get Whatsapp notifications no problems.
Second if by some reason users still have problems getting notifications from messenger apps all they have to do is: long press, go into general app settings and turn off MIUI battery optimisation, turn on autostart. That’s it.
They were selling dirt cheap , with possibly lowest profit margin, because they’re not US company and they could, and importantly to establish strong presence in the market. Now that they’re second largest in the world, I bet the prices are never going to go down again. I love my Mi9T Pro, but I doubt I’ll ever again be able to buy that much phone for 370$.
I have a redmi 9 and my experience with miui is fine, sometimes there are some bugs but for battery management is excellent, i do a charge and it last 1 day
I know, thats what I do. Still sucks that permissions get reset when toggling MIUI opt.
Still running strong on my Mi Mix 2, my phone is still working perfectly.
It’s good for all non tech users.
It has a 1 click restore to default for a lot of things
For rest of us it is like fighting to set anything apart from default is a losing battle.
Work profile is untested.
exactly. it’s like these people don’t understand how businesses work.
if they want to make money, they will make money, whether you like it or not.
Like they say about Google services – If you don’t pay for the product, you are the product they’re selling.
Yes! I thought it was a basic Android feature, but then trying it on a Samsung and nothing happened, ny mind was blown.
Lmao I thought I was the only one with the tapping the time to access the alarm. I’m so used to it that I get annoyed everytime I forget that it doesn’t work in OneUI.
I’m using (own both) Redmi note 9 & Poco X3 Pro both which MIUI 12, honestly MIUI is not bad at all, I like it a lot, it just heavy on resources (Xiaomi needs to work on that at least) and some times can be a bit buggy (but generally I tend to have a god quality/experience with MIUI overall). I am not sure why folks do not like MIUI.
If you come from stock you are gonna hate it.
Data is only erased once the unlocking process is completed to 100%. Usually before the wait time, it processes only till ~50-70%.
if you buy it, just remember not to update it
if you really need to update it, remember to always factory reset first,
also pay attention to charging temperature, from my experience, updating to newer version probably change the kernel ans the fw which later causing the charging temperature high and lead to battery swelling problem,
fast charger from the box in xiaomi = short battery life expectancy
Hey thanks.
I’m so pissed off at them. If MIUI had a face I’d slap it hard with this phone.
Loved my Xiaomi A1 and A2, which were Android One – vanilla Android with no bloatware.
I’ve returned one Xiaomi with MIUI and my current 9S is running ArrowOS custom ROM.
It’s not cognitive dissonance – I just don’t like MIUI and crapware like Xiaomi cloud.
it is depend on the users itself,
I’d like to remove all the app that i don’t want,
I’d like to give permission to app that running in background,
I’d like to make an app only active in planned hour,
I’d like to have more easier interaction,
or i just want minimalism, if i can get rid any of non android system for a while then it was good enough,
I believe your Poco X3 is very well supported for 3rd party ROMs, which I find to be a significant improvement.
MIUI isn’t *that* bad and it has some cute features, but I find it just a bit cumbersome to navigate and vanilla Android is snappier. I don’t like the Xiaomi bloatware, Xiaomi cloud and backup for example – admittedly there is less of this on Xiaomi compared to Samsung, but vanilla android is just better.
Same. Coming from an Android one phone I like everything extra MIUI gives me. I’m quite happy with it.
Could you pls explain the 20/80% charging pls? I usually charge mine in the morning from 40/60% to 100%, is that wrong?
thanks
Vanced can run with optimization on. You just have to turn it off to install it then turn it back on.
My Redmi note 8T was my first smartphone. So nothing to compare it with but I can’t really complain.
Facing same issues, same device. Here, take an upvote.
MIUI is shit.
I use miui 12.5 on my x3 nfc too. It’s actually very good. Sure it does have a few bugs here and there but the features offered is why i use miui
It’s not that bad. I’m on my first miui phone (Poco F3) and will never go miui again, unless they fix it in miui 13
The issues aren’t significant, but I want a phone that works, not one that shits me.
Bugs that annoy the hell out of me:
1. Have to use Poco Launcher for gestures and Poco Launcher is NOT my preferred launcher, and it’s buggy
2. Took me two solid weeks of my alarm never working before I managed to get that sorted – this is NOT something anyone should have to go through
3. “Good enough” approach to key features. This is ok for things you hardly used but NOT bloody good enough for everyday features that just don’t quite work how they should
It sometimes lags and the storage fills up out of nowhere unlike my old phone one plus 5t…
we have 3 xiaomi device at home and i say global rom sucks so bad. buggy laggy full of ads good thing mine are cn rom dont encounter any of that sht. note 10s and mi 11 lite and mine is k30 ultra
I’m gonna be a Xiaomi and miui user user forever. Using mi 9T pro now. Miui 12.5.
I am also using Poco X3 but I am on 12.0.2. Does updating to 12.5.1 get the feature horizontal recent apps.
I really want this feature.
PS: I use POCO X3 NFC
I mean u can say it’s bad. Like initially it was good then suddenly all the bloats and ads came up. Now the RAM management is a joke and this recent Android 11 update (miui 12.5 idk abt that) has made the full screen gestures useless. Plus it has all this warnings and shit and unlocking the bootloader is a pain in the ass (u have to wait for 1week or so to get it unlocked) . And not to mention it kills background apps for example custom notifications shade (albeit u can lock it in the background) it just makes customization harder.
So ig it’s bad. Custom ROMs like pixel experience has better performance and battery life
It’s surprisingly easy. You unlock the bootloader (no more wait times either, just download the program and unlock immediately). Make sure to backup everything as the internal storage is wiped.
Then download the respective recovery for your phone, flash it and boot immediately to it as MIUI will overwrite it if you boot to MIUI first.
There, flash the ROM you downloaded. I chose Pixel Experience as I wanted a stock, lightweight ROM with some useful features. Works perfectly and I pass SafetyNet as well.
About camera sensors, I have a Redmi Note 7, so really only one sensor. But it works fine with gcam.
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I would say that MIUI is the worst among all the popular brands, and here’s why.
First, let me address your case. Poco X3 is one of the latest phones by Xiaomi and you having a great experience is normal. I had the same experience with my K20 Pro too (when it was new). But time passed, and a year later, Xiaomi slowly started fucking their updates.
The latest 12.5.1 update was the worst. Full-screen gestures do not work, battery life is reduced to half, the UI is laggy, the themes app does not work well, fonts cannot be downloaded and the entire experience is totally ruined. Plus the update takes forever to come. It is not only on my phone. This update has ruined the software experience for me as well as 3 of my friends. Also, guess what? They removed the updater app in this latest version. Now, I cannot revert to the older version directly even if I want to. It is like, they intentionally provided this update to annoy K20 Pro users.
What I want to say here is, give Xiaomi some time for messing up your POCO X3 too. If they do not change their way of providing updates, that is sure to happen.
They make great phones, not a single shred of doubt on it. I love my K20Pro and I am pretty much sure it will last me for years to come. I do not even mind the ads as this is needed for MIUI to keep going. But, and this is a BIG BIG BUT, their software ruins everything. Literally everything. I do not know how they do it but, they are super good with making software feel terrible. My 30K (INR) phone feels like a cheap 10K (INR) phone. Only if they had decent software then they would be the best phones in the world for the price segment they come in.
I’m done ranting. I hope some people can relate to this.
How do you do it and can you use all camera sensor within the camera app?
When my Redmi Note 9 kept on updating, some features are gone, like dual app and second space. Also, some apps can’t be added to floating windows anymore
Battery is great, camera app need HUGE improvement as im one of those point and shoot type of person. And autofocus is extremely slow or non existant from time to time. Also when i click on the shutter button (is that wat its called?) Sometimes it takes 5 to 10 sec to even capture the pic and the view finder (inthink thisnis wat they call it) gets laggy when it happens but when it works it works! Also does AI auto choose macro for you if it detects a close up pic?
(I take alot of close up pics for reporting purposes so i need to get as much detail as i can on close up) without the macro it doesnt even focus at all not even if im to put my finger in the frame . The auto focuz spazzes out frantically.
bad ram management well, welcome to android.
I haven’t had any major issues with it so far (2 years). The only common complaint is the aggressive memory management.
I really don’t know what people are doing but muy two year old phone still has great battery life.
Satisfied with it, although it could be better.
No. It’s surprisingly ok – coming from iPhone 8 plus to Mi11 and miui 12.5 was ok.
I use poco X3 Pro and it’s been performing amazing
The software is honestly my favourite Ive tried so far and if youre still doubting on it, you can flash a custom software that are bug free and much smoother + they can be llike stock android or “polished” miui. You can find tutorials on how to do it or a lot of people here can help you as well.
MIUI is great imo, I have a Mi 9T pro and it worked great with very few bugs. I think the majority of people that complain have phones that are 3+ year old or are lower midrange phones.
I just flashed xiaomi eu rom and honestly the difference is barely noticeable in performance, but thats because its supposed to be a polished version of miui, when for me it was already fairly polished.
I like it a lot!
Yeah, didnt mention my old phones, some redmi ones, sorry for that.
bro what. 2019 wasnt 4 years ago
Battery longevity is on you, if you charge between 20 and 80% it should last for way longer than you’d even want to keep the phone.
That’s why Prius batteries last for such a long time, they never get charged up fully and they never get discharged fully.
Ram management is very easy to adjust to your liking, even on an app to app basis so I don’t see how that’s a problem.
Getting notifications on xiaomi is brutal.
I Love miui
Everyone in the comments saying ‘at least it’s cheap’ and I almost bought 11 ultra for eur 1250 😐 I mean it’s a great phone but if you’re all saying software is \*that\* bad I have some thinking to do.
People love to hate on it but I’ve only had 1 bug so minor I legit forgot what it was in 3 years so far of having Xiaomi phones.
Just keep in mind that the people that have good experiences don’t tend to share them but the people that don’t tend to do.
Couldn’t have said it better.
It’s not unusable, but it’s not great. I’ve flashed my phone to Pixel Experience and I couldn’t have been happier.
I already know how to disable. you can even do it in the initial setup.
everyone complains about the ads but like, how do you want Xiaomi to profit when they sell their phones with very minimal margins?
Ads can be easily disabled. Google it, follow steps, 5 min job.
It really isn’t. Upon millions of users and 100k users thay know how to post, there are 1000 that had a problem and posted for help or in frustration. Others 99k that don’t have problems have no reason to post.
For me I got no problem, only dark mode that is glitched on some app like a book reader (why ?)
I just got the Poco F3 and I love MIUI. Maybe I’ll change my mind if Android 12 takes too long to release or if it releases with a bunch of bugs.
As a xiaomi user in the past 3yrs, YES it is definitely BAD.
If it wasn’t for the sanctions on my god damned country I would have chosen other brands like iphone samsung ….
It makes all kinds of troubles from simply connecting to wifi to other kinds of issues.
tbh, besides the ads, it’s become my favorite android port. I was kinda glad that I broke my OnePlus 8 Pro, because I switched to a Mi 11 and im a lot happier with it.
everyone praises OxygenOS for being similar to stock but… it’s abnormally bland and lacking.
It’s not that bad, it’s worst.
But that’s ok, every stock UI usually is horrible. Android gives us the possibility to customize the operating system as we want, with Custom ROMS or with 3rd party launchers and apps.
What’s really bad about Xiaomi is the fact that they are destroying their best feature, the possibility of using system gestures with 3rd party launchers. Samsung and all the other brands let you do it, but Xiaomi doesn’t and blames it on Android. The future is not bright for Xiaomi with this mindset.
I think Ill try LineageOS first. I had it on my old Mi 4c and it was good then and I saw it matured a lot in the meantime.
Dont know about after that, have to read more about others.
I found that out just few hours ago. In a week I say goodbye to miui.
For some reason a lot of people have mentioned data gets deleted when requesting unlock, even some tutorials say this. Glad its not the case.
Redmi 4, 5, note 6pro, note 7, note 8t, 9c. Never have I seen any such issue with our devices.
MIUI doesn’t have any issues that don’t exist with other brands. 99% of the issues you read here are the user’s fault.
People really should learn not to dirty update.
That is correct. Then people starts having other bugs and blame Xiaomi for them when it’s them who disabled MIUI optimization in the first place.
No
Your data doesn’t get deleted as soon as you make the request. It gets deleted after unlocking the bootloader.
“Until they started to copy ios”
Lol. They have been heavily inspired by ios since day one. I remember the same ios thing being said about redmi 1s running miui 5 in 2014.
Idle/standby battery life is very bad on my nearly brand new Poco X3 Pro but apart from that I have less complaints than I’ve had with any other Android rom. There’s bloat for sure but I don’t feel like my pixel 3 had any less bloat with the supppsedly vanilla Android rom, at least after I got rid of all the preinstalled Xiaomi apps on the Poco. Definitely think MIUI has room for improvement but people saying it’s unusable are capping hard
I don’t mind Miui on my Poco X3 NFC at all
Yes
Im a new poco f3 user, running with nova launcher… No problems. Phone is super smooth. Love it.
Shit on Redmi, great on regular Mi devices. Seriously, I really don’t recommend buying any budget Redmi devices. At least in my experience, the software on Redmi devices is VERY buggy and glitchy.
Turn MIUI optimization off. Reboot. Set your energy settings. Done 🙂 Also use blokada 4 loaded with the Xiaomi list to save some more battery drain.
I have read that disable it basically breaks MIUI
I have just got the redmi note 10 pro. I can’t say miui is any worse than anything else I’ve had on top of android. I’d say it’s actually quite good. The battery life easily lasts two days of heavy use. It got to over 90 hours with light use.
In terms of the interface I find it fine. I actually like how much control you have over things so that you can literally just turn them off. I turned off all the Google nonsense and a lot of the xiami nonsense and now the phone has three home screens with my apps and widgets organised. No horrible Google discover or adverts popping up.
I have not as yet experienced any bugs.
Is it the best? I have no idea. Is it bad ? I wouldn’t say so. Runs fine and you have slot of control.
My previous phone was the Motorola g7 power. I thought that was fine too. Probably less bloatware on that and Motorola had some nice additions. (So not a loyalist to any brand).
Yeah, when you pay for MI phone you expect it to able to answer calls. I have Mi10T pro. I have tons of missed calls and screen freezes
Ok I just did it. Now I wait 7 days. Cant wait to switch to another rom and not to suffer from background apps being closed.
yes bad, live with it.
Very bad I found it the worse so far and I sued them all it’s so frustrating that I gave away mi mi 11 ultra
I have edited the post. I have confirmed myself just now that the request doesnt delete data. But since I saw this mentioned too many times, I left the part about this being a possibility.
I can’t help you regarding this matter as I don’t have knowledge relating to it. You should probably ask this on that post so they can help you
Hey dude did you Fix the microg battery problem i Wanna know because i have the dame problem
Okay, I finally decided I’ve had enough of MIUI so I backed up everything and did per instructions to unlock bootloader: you were right, it didnt delete my data, but I have to wait 7 days to unlock it. Finally, cant wait to move on.
You’ll come across more people with MIUI problems, than people without problems on the internet.
The people with the problems want their problems to be solved of course. So that’s why they complain/ask about these problems.
But that’s probably around <2% of the users. If not less. Why would regular people without any problems post on forum sites to express their positive experience? Almost no day-to-day user of any electronic device does that
tbh for most it is fine…with several hiccups in animations and sometimes visual bugs here and there…but ofc some will get unlucky and have major bugs happen as well. My whole fam uses xiaomi phones with different models for quite some time now (+/- 3 years) and never had one of those major problems
I confirm
I have unlocked rn3p, rn4x, mix 2s, mix 3 and poco f3
Actually it has become one of my favourite Android skins among all the manufacturers. Right up there with one plus and Pixel. I love that this has so many features and overall runs EXTREMELY smoohtly on my Mi 11. No arguments hands down amazing.
I like it. This will be a good opportunity to know why people bash it do hard. I usually read it more like a meme than literally.
Show me a perfect phone and I will show you a perfect ROM….
I like it, it has good features such as Dual App. I hardly ever encounter bugs in my 1 year of usage. I also like it because it’s similar to ios
Unlock bootloader deletes data(it’s like that in every android). Sending request does nothing
It’s not bad. Folks tend to buy their phones straight from Chinese seller with wonky software.
Battery is amazing, just yesterday I had ~10h SOT with 20h standby. Haven’t noticed any major bugs so far etc.
If you need to keep app alive, just use padlock and disable battery optimisation for the given app.
Mi10t pro
Isn’t that bad, but Custom ROMs are just better.
I know it’s not perfect, but I like it. There are features that I love, but there are many more features I don’t use and sometimes feels like too much
It’s not as bad as other ppl describe it I hv an amazing battery life with my poco X3 pro I HV 9 hours of screen on time and I’m left with 7% with a normal usage combined with a heavy usage
I tried that. This blur effect is working though not as good as the original MiUi 12 blur.
Some of the complaints (most I think) are about beta versions. They’re a heads up for the developers to fix. I haven’t experienced any of those issues in my 3-4 years with Xiaomi and Poco (always using MIUI)
I don’t know what factors impact on that, maybe a region for which phones are made for(shipped).
I have Mi 11 lite 5g, and before 1 month i had Poco x3 nfc, and most honest i didn’t encounter at any bugs and problems at all almost, and now mi 11 works like a charm, from huge speed and stability, to great battery life, and i could say to my ex. Poco phone as well.
But i have seen a lot of people complain on poco x3 phone, for various reasons..
MIUI isn’t great but it would have been really good if they didn’t fill it up with ads and bloatware.
Oh ok. Disabling that fixed the aggressive app killing for me (on a K20 pro) .
Question: When making a request to unlock bootloader, does your data get deleted then, or is it deleted after the bootloader gets unlocked ?
With this comment trust me you don’t want to be on this subreddit
MIUI is not that bad, MIUI For Poco also just has visual bugs and broken animations
In my opinion it’s not that bad,but if you want to do tweaks,root etc it’s pretty pretty bad.
No mam, it s great actually.
I heard from some people that it doesnt delete their data, but every guide on how to unlock bootloader, and even the official app says that all data will be erased.
People on either side swear it does / doesnt delete their data.
So you unlocked your bootloader the normal, official way, and request left your data intact ??
No, I don’t have any problems with my POCO F3. Here is standby battery time on my stock POCO F3 EU without any battery savings turned on: [https://imgur.com/a/V7e7wyH](https://imgur.com/a/V7e7wyH)
Im from SEA, Rn8pro user. based from my experiences its quite buggy. Last update chat head usually freezes up the phone and would need a restart else, you are forced to downgrade the app itself. Current update no more chathead got replaced with “bubble” with a different bug lol.
Considering all the features it has, it’s pretty good. I change phones a lot, and I’ve had Samsungs, Oneplus, Pixels, and a few Xiaomi.
I really like my Mi 10T Pro with MIUI 12.5 on there, I’ve had zero issues with it, apart from the miserable screen (watching HDR content sucks, and sunlight visibility is woeful) – so I’ve just ordered a Poco F3 which seems to be basically a 10T Pro with AMOLED and a slightly faster CPU.
It’s aight, mind you I came from Huawei’s ui of over 4 years so jumping into latest MIUI wasn’t that bad.
MIUI 12.5.1 is mostly good. However having experienced MIUI 10 and aosp I can’t say it’s the best thing out there, it still feels off: it’s not as fast as it could be, the ram management is too aggressive and there are still bugs
It’s not that bad.
Yeah, scrolling screenshots are also broken for me but only in a few apps
Yes and no. It is buggier than other android skins but nothing that makes the phone unusable, still way better than One UI. As for the others, I honestly didn’t really have problems with RAM management and the standby battery life is great on my Redmi Note 10.
One thing that annoys me about miui is push notifications and notifications in general. This excessive battery saver power is unbearable and you need to do a lot of chances in order to make apps notify you. If the fix that with an update(if this can happen) that would be cool
in a word, great hardware with a silly software.for instance, I used to have a 4000 mah Huawei phone and believe me it lasts longer than my xiaomi 5020 mah phone due to a better optimization and less bloatwares.. with Huawei I never had ads or missed notifications or standby battery loss or unnecessary os home calls every second
Battery backup sucks
IMHO…
People want to complain out of cognitive dissonance. These phones are extremely cheap and performant. Instead of being happy with this fact, they try to find stuff that is bad about it. They just cannot accept that something this good and cheap exists.
Using an Mi 9T since almost 2 years with max 5 crashes, no lags whatsoever. By far much much better and much cheaper and much more durable than any phone I’ve ever had.
There might be some bugs / battery drains every once in a while. I can remember having had that once or twice with my Xiaomi. But this was fixed before it could annoy me. And. Usually annoyed very very very easily.
This is an awesome discussion. As a long time MIUI user (starting Mi 5, Mi 6, now on Mi 10T Pro), I think it is really about choosing your poison.
Currently also using OneUI, which is not bad, but when you are used to something, and not getting it, it feels like an itch.
A simple feature I use a lot is accessing Alarms and/or Calendar via the pull-down notification and simply tapping on the time or the date.
It’s not bad, never seen the issues you mentioned.
But I’ve always run Nova launcher on top of any Xiaomi I’ve ever owned and it’s been perfect
It’s not, but that reaction is just normal and expected, you’ll almost always see the “bad” side of something more, since people will always come to complain about a bug and etc, but nobody will come here to make an appreciation post that everything is going good.
In my personal experience MIUI is just fine, I’m running my Mi 10 for around a year now and have encountered very little bugs, all is super fast and smooth, and it sure is like that for more people other than me and you, but the posts will make it seem otherwise.
i really like miui tbh
i have done the battery recalibration two times in the 3 months. It got better.
i will try clearing the data. thx
I’m new to MIUI myself. While not disastrous, it has some really annoying things about it. For example Android PiP does not work for me, even with navigation bar enabled and yes I have done everything and still no success. I did manage to get it working once but then the phone just restarted itself. Another thing is how messy is the setting. It’s all over the place and some of them are in sub-menus that don’t make sense. I also tried once to use the OTG and the phone just restarted itself… There are more, but I don’t feel like typing. At the end of the day, while I am NOT regretting my purchase, but I’ll never buy another Xiaomi again.
Not really. I’m quite happy with it on my end.
In [xiaomi.eu](https://xiaomi.eu) you cant disable miui opt, thats true, BUT, the devs fixed the limitation in miui opt that made it impossible to instal split apk files. So you dont even need a reason to turn it off in the first place.
I love MIUI.
I just read today that Xiaomi has gained the most marketshare in Germany – in front of Samsung and Apple.
yes
Thoose are disabled.
I think no. Samsung UI does have bugs. But it’s waay less compared to miui. Samsung’s ui looks quite clean aswell. They also guarantee 2 years of ui upgrades and OS upgrades as well. also. Oneui doesn’t come riddled with ads and their UI is much more stable and secure than miui. It’s the best ui only falling behind stock Android and ios. although I have to say that in terms of simplicity and user friendliness miui is really great
Notifications are sometimes a little buggy and background apps can be closed a bit over-enthusiastically. I can see why these issues would be deal-breakers for some.
For me, it’s not so bad, considering the price difference.
Better than Samsung that’s for sure
I didn’t need Sai to install it.
This is probably the best answer somebody can give to sum it up 😂
I am waiting for MIUI 12.5.1 to come to my poco x3 nfc because MIUI 12.0.4 i have rn screwed my phone big time and if this update doesnt fix most of my issues I have since mu phone updsted to miui 12 I will probably go to custom roms. I love MIUI design and it was awesome out of the box, but once it updated my phone doesnt feel as smooth at all.
Have you tried disabling “Miui Optimizations” from developer options?
Idk why but miui was always laggy to me. If i open a app animations stutters and it feels like i am using a crap phone (which is not). I even thoguht “am i thinking too much of it?” but then i switched to LineageOS and yeah i noticed Miui is a crap.
MIUI 12.5 is actually really good. Battery life improved alot compared to the last version. UI looks sharp and classy, i like it.
Deja Vu🤔
Older versions of miui are amazing, try miui 10 or 11 and don’t worry about “omg security updates nooo smaller number :(((” it doesn’t matter, you can use xiaomi.eu if you want a better miui experience but im on stock miui 10 rn and so far i haven’t noticed a single lag or bug
All my previous phones were stock (Nexus S, Nexus 4, Mi A2) or stock-ish (Nextbit Robin) Android and they’re all running different roms at the moment.
I got a Poco F3 2 weeks ago and it’s rough. I’m trying really hard to give MIUI a chance but there are many things/bugs I don’t like.
\- DND doesn’t have the complete countdown menu, only that slider with limited option that is only available if you turn dnd on through the volume slider… Why?
\- Sometimes, notifications don’t trigger a sound/vibration even though the apps are configured to. It has happened at least with the gmail app, the twitter app and the discord app.
\- Sometimes music would start while the phone is in my pocket. I turned off AOD and face unlock and that helps a bit but still happens at least once a day.
\- Not really sure why we need to select auto-start for apps to work with android auto
\- Even Mi Fit doesn’t properly work to send notifications to my Mi Band 3 (even if it’s set to autostart and no battery saving)
and a thousand other little things that are annoying.
The hardware is great though. Phone is super quick, screen is beautiful and the camera is not that bad.
miui optimization isn’t fixed on xiaomi.eu iirc, in fact you can’t turn miui optimizations off in eu so you’re stuck with SAI or some other method to install microg
Yes
I’ve had 11 for a couple of months now. I just tried, and the scrolling thing works fine for me (X3 NFC)
People came here to complaint so no wander. If MIUI is great and has no problem they dont post and appreciate about it.
Redmi note 9 on 12.
My camera sometimes freezes up – has done it about 4/5 times since I got the phone 6 months ago
That’s it. I think certain phones has it worse than others, or some people are just unlucky.
I’m happy with my phone, battery life is awesome and it performs awesomely if I consider how much I paid for it.
Is the best but is far from the worse my experience is fine with my RN10 pro but before the MIUI 12.5 update my phone had a system crash problem the phone will go haywire then crashes once per day and any random time but now it’s fixed and another small update on my phone fixed my speaker problem when it’s on 12.5 but mostly I don’t see many bloatware as from my experience mostly but you can always just delete most of the apps and it’s quite smooth now with the 120 refresh rate and battery for me can last a whole day with some noal use but half day if with heavy gaming
It’s all of the things you mentioned, plus unnecessary bloat and advertisements in core system apps. Whether it’s a problem depends entirely on you. If you get over all of these things you get a fairly decent ROM with some premium feel to it due to it being inspired by some other mobile operating system.
Yeah I really hope xiaomi invests some of its profits into miui, as I strongly believe its the worst OS amongst popular brands.
Im considering unlocking by bootloader and instaling custom rom, but I dont like the waiting period.
Edited the part about data being deleted when requesting unlock. It only gets deleted after the unlock.
I’m a Google boi, and I’ve literally faced only bugs throughout my time with MIUI, and I really wanna install PE but I fear more bugs that come with custom ROMs. What a hellhole.
I’m also German and get similar battery life on my Mi 9t pro. We seem to use a lot of apps that conflict with battery saver and also require WiFi or Bluetooth to be active.
For example
* Covid Warn and Contact app (location & Bluetooth)
* Sync software Garmin Sports watch (Bluetooth & location)
* Lots of messengers, WhatsApp, Threema, Signal and more
Also, the phones are not the newest ones anymore, so battery capacity is around 80-85%.
The update period now is only quarterly updates, our phone is old iron by now.
What I don’t like is that the German version has some typos that never got fixed since the Android 10/MIUI 12 update. I have stopped reporting them because…why?
Concerning MIUI, I do not use or even dislike the most innovations that came with MIUI 12.
* New Notification Center – impractical (can be turned off)
* Floating Windows – on a 6.5″ display? Does not give me true multitasking, so I never use it.
* Floating notifications – mostly annoying so I manually restricted the apps that are allowed to create them to only the important messaging apps.
* Video toolbox, Game mode, dual profile for Apps (2xWhatsapp), second user profile (personal / business). I do not need those.
The apps by Xiaomi usually lack features I want, so I have a different music player, calculator, calendar, note apps etc.
I like
* Navigation gestures (but I liked them better in MIUI 11)
* MIUI Launcher (I prefer Launcher without App drawer)
* Xiaomi Gallery (and it’s photo editing effects)
* Camera app (a mode for parallel photos of front & back camera would make it perfect, something similar is only available in video mode and not on all phones)
* Super Wallpapers (although I tend to switch wallpapers often)
While you can apply themes to your Xiaomi phone very easily, most of them are hard to read or cheesy. The most professional design is the “Classic” design already installed.
I do run the Xiaomi.eu ROMs, but I’ve always loved MIUI, even before they made phones.
Its not as bad as many are saying, but its not good either.
Ram management is terrible, background apps would close for no reason even though I have 6 gigs of ram (poco x3 nfc) and are nowhere near filling it.
First time using, you have to disable a bunch of ads on system apps, but no big deal.
Apps like Vanced tube cant be installed without disabling miui optimizations (stupid limitation thats fixed on xiaomi.eu rom). Leaving this option disabled introduces a bunch of bugs, and re enabling it resets all permissions. Very annoying.
Full screen gestures do not work with third party launchers, since the android 11 update. This is xiaomis fault, not android 11, as other brands dont have this issue.
Inconsistent updates. The great 12.5. update has more features in China, than it does on Global roms. This one really annoyed me.
On MIUI 12 and later, it is impossible to use 3rd party themes, and Xiaomi is actively making sure you use their Theme store.
Some people have reported that request to unlock bootloader deletes phone data (unlocking deletes data too, but I am talking about the request to unlock). For some reason, this part doesnt happen to everyone, or it used to happen, but doesnt now. I edited the post to correct this as I have just sent a request to unlock my bootloader, and the request itself didnt erase my data. Weird. Still have to wait 7 days for it to unlock.
And a bunch of random annoying bugs that you may or may not experience. Its a surprise.
Edit: added the part about bootloader and added my experience with it.
No problem whatsoever. It’s been 4 years now, so… (Mi 9 Lite since its been released, soon to be upgraded for Mi 11 Lite 5G)
It depends on personal preference. When I received the android 11 update for my Redmi 9, boy I was so excited & it is disappointing as hell. I mean, it broke the “scrolling” feature in screenshots, the focus mode is now useless & many other bugs which won’t stop like the bubble chat feature etc.
Bruh thats very bad battery life.
If you didnt reset factory settings in between updates, try this.
1. Go to battery and performance app, and clear its data
2. Next time your phone has a low battery, let it drop to zero and turn off, then charge it to 100%.
You only do these steps once and if they work great, if not, doing multiple times isnt gonna change anything.
This got my battery life better coming from android 10 to 11, as without these steps, my battery life plummeted after the update.
Hey bro you can change grey control center to transparent. I read a post regarding this matter yesterday & voila it works. Here’s the post link [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/ox903k/gray_control_center_temporary_fix/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
I’ve been using Redmi 6 for like 3 years now and haven’t got any problems with miui so :d
Xiaomi MI9T Pro with Global/European ROM, MIUI 12.5, Android 11. I use it since August 2019.My problems with MIUI:MIUI is constantly reseting some energie saving settings. Apps that need to be set to “Not optimised” like microG or the german corona alert app need it.
Every now and then my lockscreen background and AOD clock gets reset to default.
Apps get closed very fast. Bad ram management.
Every 3 Month i get a security update. So some bugs will disapear after 3 months.In the first 6-12 months i got every month an update. Some introduced battery drain and new bugs.
Bugs. Visual stuff that only disapears after a restart.
Battery life with my phone is definitly not that great like other user reported it. With MIUI 10 and Android 9 i had 6-8h display time. After the update to MIUI 11 and Android 10 it got worse. 3-5h. MIUI 12 and MIUI 12.5 with Android 11 didnt change the battery life.
Xiaomi is good in offering good hardware for cheap and offering thousend of different devices but the software quality is poor.
As a rule, every custom ROM runs smoother and faster than stock MIUI. Another disadvantage of MIUI is its unintuitive and intrusive interface. You have to configure too many permissions to avoid messenger apps being closed forcefully, etc.
The experience is different for different people but Ram management is not good and it’s buggy. My device is Redmi Note 8 on 12.0.2.0. The grey control center looks ugly and full screen navigation gestures are so laggy(more laggy while using device in landscape).
It’s not as bad as some people said,but it’s not as good as most people expected