You mean the new one? I’ve been using a 3rd party launcher since day one (Nova Launcher Pro) and I’m using gesture navigation, everything works perfectly, same as if I were using the default launcher.

A maybe battery drain related difference between 11 and 12 is, that the cleaning widget on 12 is cleaning automatically. I can see it “wiping” on its own. Don’t know if that makes a huge difference but it can’t hurt trying.

really? what launcher are u using?

4,5h on LTE and on standby for the whole day is not bad for 3300 mAh battery IMO.

But it doesn’t change a fact that now I get about 60% of that, which is bad.

I’m using poco F1, currently in doubt if it necessary to upgrade to 12

Am i the only one who’s been experiencing the screen randomly locking?

You think they are biased? Toward whom?

their camera reviews are as reliable as Oem’s own marketing campaigns.

I ran into a similar kind of problem but on MIUi 11, (i use a K20 Pro, some system app was always running in the background consuming a lot of battery, you should check in the battery usage section , maybe you’re having the same problem, after I factory reset my phone, everything went back to normal.

What? 😀 Did you even tried roms like DerpFest or Havoc?

Yep. And Microsoft Launcher too.

Great 😍 Thank you! Looking forward to it.

Because MIUI has far more functionality than stock?

I think the gestures limitation is because of Google. Google’s new Android 10 gestures only work with stock launchers on every brand of phone, so I guess Xiaomi reverts to their own gestures on any third party launcher.

In my experience super wallpapers work with third party launcher

You can turn it off in Settings -> Notch & status bar -> Use new Control center.

I always set all 3 of the animation scales to 0.5….
Makes the phone seem more snappier
But in miui 12 even that doesn’t work.
The animations still look kinda slow.

And also they should add more options like 0.25 or 0.75 something like MASIK rom

Same for me

I had an app (baconreader) that previously showed a white screen for a quarter of a second before coming up with the dark design.
Now when opening there is no white screen anymore, so this is really an improvement.

Im not sure but spotify looked bad on miui 11. Now the widget follows the colour of the album colour on lockscreen and noti shade. Really neat!

Well…yeah…still got back for a “clean” android. Cepheus is a great piece of hardware so why killing that potential with miui?

Side note, you can download it via mi website.

How can you change it back?

Despite me using the phone mostly as it is, iOS is still too restrictive to me. I don’t like people telling me “i choose decision A for you, it’s the best and you’re going to be happy with it”. I know they’re probably right, but i prefer to have options.

Also, the people who bought xiaomi probably cannot afford iPhones. my choice at the time was either getting a refurb iPhone 8 or mi 9T. There’s just so much that xiaomi offers i just can’t take iPhone 8.

The design is good. Yes it ~~copied~~ “inspired” by iOS. But that doesn’t mean that it’s a bad design.

I’m really not a fan of having notification and quick settings in different panel

* MIUI switching to the stock persistent Media Notification is by far the best change. Not only does it look great; it also has extra functionality like the seek bar.
* Battery seems the same, maybe even better when the phone is on standby.
* Forced darkmode is really cool. Tinder Dark Mode!
* A ton of stuff like the new animations, Super Wallpapers, the new app switcher, etc, won’t work unless you use the stock launcher. That’s fine, but I’d rather keep using Nova.
* Floating window feels useless and gimmicky.
* I’ve noticed that Reading Mode doesn’t activate anymore depending on the time of the day like it used to. Anyone else having this problem?
* Dualshock 4 *still doesn’t fucking work* with the PS4 Remote Play app.

Thanks

I found that settings for default apps were lost. Had to set it new.

The thing that bothers me about MIUI 12 is the fact that getting from the control center to the new notification panel takes two swipes. I assume that’s not that big of a deal?

Spotify looks sooo good now in notifications and lock screen.
Control Center would be better to use from right side pull.

I have the exact opposite it seems, my battery drain significantly increased, by like 30% at least.

Mobile data and location is always on, wifi and bluetooth almost always off. I even use dark mode everywhere I can.

Very interesting.

I liked the old hold swipe to switch better

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Alleged-MIUI-12-Phase-2-Phase-3-and-Phase-4-roadmap-raises-further-questions-on-update-timelines-here-s-a-list-of-all-purported-Xiaomi-and-Redmi-devices-under-each-phase.478904.0.html

That thing is not there in the indian version I don’t know why.

9t pro
1: battery drain is cut in half – 70% remaining instead of 35% – it is awesome – with activ superwallpaper
2: nothing but smoothness
the rest: i agree

+ better bluetooth connectability on tws+ earbuds

Why my mi9 still dont have miui 12 update ?

I’m experiencing zero of these issues. My phone is faster than ever even with the super wallpapers

I’m from malaysia 🙂 it hasnt come to me too, but i manually downloaded it. Idk why xiaomi havent released it yet maybe theyre tuning things out? If youre too eager to try u can manually dl it. But to me, it’s fine to wait a lil there arent much groundbreaking things that makes u wanna say bye bye to miui 11. It’s mostly aesthetical improvements

I’m a global mi 9 user. I manually downloaded it maybe if a version is available u can try it as well?

Gotta agree on this. They will need to do refinements to smooth out things. Right now i think miui 12 eats plenty of ram and processing. Theyll need to do something

Yes i can! If this helps, maybe you’ve been swiping from the notification panel? I’ve swiped down whenever a notifications from a messaging app pops out and it works! Maybe give it a try again some other time

I’m not too sure but i’m someone who games a lot and the battery life to me seems just the same whether it’s miui 11 or 12. I’ve tried reducing gaming on a single charge and the results seems pretty similar to me. Battery on the mi 9 IS really small tho kinda wish it was bigger

Anyone else facing issues while revoking permissions for Xiomi apps like Calendar, Cleaner? I’m not able to deny any permission after the update

For me battery life on Mi 9 is just… bad.

I get 3h of SOT on LTE where I used to get at least 4-4,5 on MIUI 11. I thought this might be caused by Super Wallpapers so I just use normal one but it’s not really helping. It’s just impossible to make it through the day without charging. Sure, this version looks great and I love all the features but I’m starting to think about installing Pixel Experience ROM and check if anything changes. Or maybe clean install could help but that’s just not a way it should work…

“Floating window is super fun”

Have you tried it swiping down from a notification? I can’t do it, and I practiced on the tutorial!

You commented like you wanna be exactly opposite of what OP said.

You can change control centre back to normal.
For everything else, it is far more unique than ios.
You can change themes which will change icons, notification style and even boot animation as well as boot sound.

Yeah sometimes i completely forgot about that. But it’s a great addition nonetheless!

I like the super wallpaper wish there is more options though, dont mind the new control panel.

Did you not buy ios because of the ui or price? If me i’d take ios any day because of the refinements. Theyre too expensive though

1. superwall paper, not fan of it.
2. floating window, don’t care.
3. control center, ugly for me.