Not really. No warning. Just wanted to know if the experience is worth the while phone + watch.

I still prefer having less apps and app drawer than everything on home. There are some really stupid apps like Mi pay which break OS if you try to remove them.

I have mi 9t pro and i can’t understand whats the case with ads or notifications? No ads and every notification is heard. Only issue is that most apps don’t show up on AOD.

mi music is bloatware?

I had no idea, I’ve been using it for ages with no problems

Ditto. Pixel ROM/Experience is way better than stock MIUI. My phone was almost useless with MIUI, getting almost 0 notifications.

Exactly the same! 9T Pro. 8/256. Maximum satisfaction 😎

Nah it’s better now that I have pixel experience Android 10. It’s clean no bloatware 😀

That makes sense. But for others like me, the notch is not even visible with an OLED display. I barely ever notice it’s there. Granted, I’m almost never using the selfie camera, so the notch is not needed for me, but otherwise still wouldn’t use that extra screen real estate.

You can probably change region and won’t see any ads. Not seeing any ads here in Lithuania. All is great except for not having Face ID working.

Other than other reasons listed in this thread, for me personally there are two reasons to hate MIUI: lack of pill/horrible full screen gestures and problems with notifications (which is due to aggressive battery saving). I’ve mostly disabled battery saving and I still sometimes spend days without notifications from apps like GMail, Messenger, Instagram. A year before most of the problems I had were with not receiving notifications at all. Now it’s very unpredictable – sometimes I get them, sometimes I don’t. It’s definitely a problem with MIUI, not hardware – installed Pixel ROM and never missed a notification. The only reason I’m on MIUI is I couldn’t get some apps like Swedbank, Google Pay work on a phone with unlocked bootloader (somehow it detects that and stops working even without rooting it).

I like it too! Upgraded from an honor 8 lite to a mi 9T, only thing I’m a little dissatisfied with is that it haven’t got the Android 10 update yet.. Downloaded MIUI 11, but it’s sadly still running on Android 9. Well we’ll, hopefully it comes within a few months!

Enjoy!

> and I love this MIUI thing…really don’t understand the hate

Same, i’ve been using many phones and i love MIUI so much, even when i had SD660 it worked perfectly.

Will you pair your phone with a Mi Band anytime soon?

i dont get the point too, well everybody on /r/xiaomi spamming poco launcher here and there, but you can use literally every launcher and poco isnt even the best one. One of my friends asked me if those huawei watch will work with xiaomi and im just starring wtf bro? we are not apple.

MIUI 10 was good, 11 is just awful. The design is terrible.

That is true, but it’s really easy to stop as well by just using an adblocker or DNS filter, and many people don’t care really. Plus debloating is much, much easier than flashing a ROM is and a lot harder to mess up, as well as you don’t lose any data. Much easier for someone to download Java and the debloat tool than it is to unlock their bootloader, download SDK Tools, download a compatible firmware and vendor, a ROM, flash TWRP and the ROM and potentially stuff like GApps or Magisk which are needed in some ROMs.

Also those permissions make complete sense, you can scan a QR code to connect to WiFi or for a link to a web page, so or course it needs to be able to connect to the internet, just restrict any background data access if you’re that worried. As for personal information, it’s likely to be your shopping/spending habits if you use it for scanning those, which is fairly normal and something pretty much every company does if you use the internet.

Mi 9t pro doesnt have wireless charge and mi9 has it. Mi 9t pro isnt the upgrade to mi 9. Its bassicaly the same phone with a different buyer in mind.

>Xiaomi makes a profit with the **data collection** and ads in MIUI, as their phones are dirt cheap.

First of all I am not a fan of any brand. I just purchase bang for buck devices available at the time i buy a phone. Afaik every brand out there collects data. Everyone including samsung, apples, moto, oppo etc. Xiaomi uses that data for targetted advertising purposes similar to google and other companies. They don’t sell data. If they were they wouldn’t be on many countries atleast not in Europe. I am against the advertisements on ui. But data tracking is always there in all phones. It is just a matter of who spies on you. Yeah you are right the only way to get rid of tracking is custom roms for any device out there. Only google will have the data unless microg is used. Now i have debloated the phone and especially those apps like analytics, miui daemon, msa etc and many other shits.
All my previous devices were rooted and running custom roms. But i don’t get that stability with roms nowadays atleast for my note 7. Everything has some annoying bugs.

Ok. Fine. Android purists are those who prefer stock android over anything. Can see those guys bashing custom skins.

While i was talking about miui in the comments, enthusiast community was referred to stock android not the tech enthusiasts…

Well said, but you forgot to mention the main reason people hate MIUI – Xiaomi makes a profit with the data collection and ads in MIUI, as their phones are dirt cheap. Some regions may not see ads, but they sure have a lot of personal data collection! This not only voids your privacy, but also slows down the phone a bit with all the bloat and affects battery life. Sure, you can debloat MIUI but if you’re going through that much effort, it’s best to stick with stock Android 🙂

For example, I saw this today!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomemes/comments/e9lmgy/no_i_dont_think_you_will_remember_to_always_read/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

While I agree, MIUI _feels_ good (I love the notification bar!), Xiaomi makes a profit with the data collection and ads in MIUI. Some regions may not see ads, but they sure have a lot of personal data collection!

#Be careful with what you accept in system apps!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomemes/comments/e9lmgy/no_i_dont_think_you_will_remember_to_always_read/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Or download poco launcher from play store.

>People see me with it and think it’s a Pixel phone

I had the exact same experience with my RN7P running PE

me too, i came from a huawei p8 lite…. what a difference

Miui is fine when you debloat and get rid of any ads.

As a “hater” of the ecosystem I have to admit that it is well developed and very useful but it lacks the customization options of stock Android. It’d be great if Xiaomi lifted some restrictions for users like myself.

>Occasional hiccup or lag, but nothing too bothersome.

These won’t happen at all on a rom like Pixel Experience or LineageOS

My thoughts exactly. I loved the Mi 5 and I love the Mi 9. Best smartphone experience I’ve ever had and I’ve tried many before I finally switched to Xiaomi.

My brother’s mi9 has call recorder option in stock call app. And root privileges doesn’t broke any proprietary applications forever, like knox on Samsung.

they can hardly do anything, so what? I can just drive to a city 100 km away and tell them all my card PIN? I mean they can’t do anything with it when I am back home. Would you do that? Also I do worry about Google/FB as well and do not use there services anymore but as mentioned in another comment for many people thats not an alternative for many people so I gave up on trying to get people stop using them.

I think you should worry more about Google/Facebook etc. than China if you’re in the West (Europe, US). China can hardly do anything with the data to harm you.

I have RN7 (4/64) – it feels smooth even without flagship soc. Occasional hiccup or lag, but nothing too bothersome. Still a great performance considering the price.

People hate it here coz of ads and unnecessary forced scanning of apps you download from playstore while showing ads.

Me too, I don’t understand the hate, I love it how simple and easy to use MIUI is and a great smartphone as well.

Interesting to see these “bought Xiaomi And WOW…” reactions quite often 🙂 maybe more and more people finally decide to buy phone based on what it offers rather than by it’s brand.
Good times 🙂

Well, notifications are still messed up in do not disturb on MIUI 11 in my Mi Mix 3, whereas on MIUI 10 it worked perfectly 🙁

Enthusiast community simply hates anything other than stock. Stock is pretty barebone. Everyone needs an additional app and from pie onwards call recording doesn’t work without root. Can’t take long screenshots, no screen recording etc. It is just missing a lot.

Edited: Enthusiast Community = stock android enthusiasts, not tech enthusiasts.

People hate mi ui because youtube retard reviewers told them so

Their userbase is rich ass teenagers and Americans who voted for trump

For some reason I don’t get any ads anywhere on my Mi 9T (MIUI 10.3.12), it’s the global version.

For me, I don’t really care about any of the better features there. Wireless charging, meh no use for it, G glass 6 – is there really any difference?, IR blaster – have rn, don’t use it often, so meh. The fact that it has a worse battery, no headphone jack and also a notch is just a big no from me. But hey, to each their own and I hope you enjoy using your phone

Fuck stock android, miui all the way.

That turns off personalized ads, but you get the same amount of them

I already updated to 11,but under Home Screen there isn’t a second home screen button

I believe you need to enable it in launcher settings. At least I had to on my Mi Mix 2S. By default all apps were still displayed in my home screen

What i find ironic in this is the section which critiques MIUI on these points is the tech-savvy kind, meaning they can use the solutions you described hence their argument loses credibility because there are simple solutions for them.
And the section which isn’t tech savvy (the core of Xiaomi post 2016, once they stopped being nerd’s choice and Moms and Uncles became their dominant user base) don’t really care and still use it just fine.

It is manufactured outrage for the sake of it. A platform doesn’t reach such expansion if it is so reviled and this MIUI is Bad narrative is ongoing since 2014 or so, it was less at first because it was a novelty and that garnered more sympathy in the nerd crowd.

As a developer it’s a security and update cycle thing

If you are saying about call recording, reply here after you get the phone and have call recording.

Thank you so much for this. You made it so easy to understand the miui without having to reading bits here and there.

you need to open the system app, then click settings, then search for ‘Receive recommendations’, turn it off

del5eted.

Aye that’s my phone. Extremely good value, even at the usual undiscounted price. I got mine at a sale for $300NZD. An absolute steal.

>love this MIUI thing…really don’t understand the hate.

People who are used to pure android doesn’t try anything else and they think it is superior to all other out there. And i was one of them. 😅😂 After trying miui it is cool and useful. Now for me stock android feels an incomplete piece of shit. I need atleast custom roms like havoc for more features. Can’t stand android one roms. Prefer primarily miui, oneui etc though. Only problem i have is bloat, a lot to uninstall after a fresh install or reset. Other than that it is fine.

I’m coming from Samsung phone, one thing you might need get used to is the notification. Xiaomi will cut off some notifications automatically unless you set them to no restriction manually. Other than that, it’s a perfect budget phone.

>app drawer

app drawer have comed in MIUI 11

it’s the same but the k20 has less bands.