It feels Xiaomi is purposely killing it’s Android One lineup so as to force users to choose the MIUI ones. Maybe because MIUI gives them the ad revenue which stock Android won’t.

This is exactly how I feel, the MIA1 was really well recieved especially in the west as people much prefer a nice clean Android over a bloated chinesey effort.

When they realised that their Android One could possibly overshadow their MIUI handsets they began gimping the MI A series into oblivion and bury it for good!

So sad as they could have been a real competitor in the Android One space given their exellent hardware.

Both of which are done by geeky people which is quite a small minority of the audience which Xiaomi caters to.

My father used to use Mi Browser until the day I told him to switch to Chrome. Also he had all the ads enabled by default which I had to disable myself. Otherwise he would have never understood how to do it himself

You’re correct that there are guides out there to do all this. But considering Xiaomi sells millions of devices, how many of the users do you think actually would personally go out and do that?

Considering majority of the people need a cheap smartphone just to use WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, or click photos or play some simple games, they don’t even bother about the ads and just ignore those.

Also disabling ads on MIUI is not that straightforward for a simple person. You need to disable it at multiple places (remember the “Receive recommendations” checkbox in all the Xiaomi apps?).

As a owner of a Mi A2 Lite I’m definitely moving away from Xiaomi for my next phone.

I’ve enough brain to do this kind of stuff. But what I don’t have is time and readiness to take the risk – to do such kind of work. I intend use my phone without extensive tinkering (root, ROMs,…..etc).

– Just an average guy you see in the crowd

are there any recent android one releases from any oem? android one is a failure as well.

All Nokia smartphones which sell quite well in Europe

well other than nokia. they dont even have a os.

If I was you, I’d avoid Huawei

The Huawei AppGallery doesn’t have way too many apps for it to be a viable alternative to Google Play (just going from my head, note that I’m European) – these apps are missing – Public transport app, banking app, school’s app, Google Pay, and every single app relying on Google Play services. That compared to how often you need support is a much bigger downside

Think about Samsung devices or the new OnePlus Nord if it’s available in your region

The Pixel lineup has stock Android, which is essentially Android One.

This is deleted because I wanted to. Reddit is not a good place anymore.

oh then what skin does nokia have? =)

As a former Mi A2 user i do have to say, Android One is a joke…

If I’d buy a Huawei I’d go with an older model that would still have Google Services, for example the P30 lite would be an upgrade on this phone and still has Google Services. But this is still and hypothetical case, I won’t get a new phone as long as this one works fine. Never really looked at Samsung, their advertisement is always so focused on the top tier phones that I end up not knowing anything about the range I’d willing to buy, but I’m sure they must have something similar to P30 lite.

I bet you’re in EU? EU devices have Google apps instead of MIUI for some reason.

Forget Xiaomi’s Android one. Even more now that there’s the OnePlus NORD.

As an owner of a Mi A1 I’m quite happy and it’s hard for me to say if I’ll be moving away from Xiaomi for my next phone.

Actually I moved from Xiaomi A2 lite to S10… However I was so disappointed by the battery, I returned the Samsung and ( really unwillingly) bought Xiaomi note 10 pro. Immediately installed Nova launcher and now it looks and behaves more or less acceptable.

Yeah that’s one thing I can’t complaint about, the battery is great!

Got a pixel 3xl after A2. Fuck A2 and it’s bugs man. I was too patient for too long

> But people who want Android one are mostly people who would also unlock the bootloader.

Nope. I just want a stock android and I don’t need root – same goes for the phones I’m picking for my employees. Had to switch to Nokias because Xiaomi literally doesn’t want the A-Series to survive.

Battery life was not affected on Mi A2, charging speed was

He didn’t say that you said it. He is replying in a thread and the OP did say it. It’s reasonable to think that your reply is in agreement with the OP and that he is replying as part of the thread just like you.

Honestly I am exactly the tech savvy type user you are talking about. Back in the day I was all about making custom ROMs with PPC kitchen and the Android SDK. I loved the control it gave me over customizing. Now that manufacturers have embraced the stock Android experience I find fewer reasons to tinker. Hotspot hacks used to be the rage, but now that I am older with more disposable income AND carriers offer hotspot as part of their plans, I have no need to edit the build.prop file.

I am typing this from a Mi Note 10 Lite, I have rejected the permissions from the stock apps and uninstalled the games. I have not seen a single ad. I assume those stock apps are where I would see. Anywhere else?

Point being I don’t really have reasons to even root and etc this phone. My previous phones were pixel, pixel XL, nexus 6, oppo find 7 a few early droid phone a few windows PPC phones…I’ve been through them all, lol.

A2 owner. Same.

5% is too much, probably 1% of users are unlocking bootloader or 2% at most. We’re not representative at all.

You’re living in a bubble my friend, there’s a lot of people out there that didn’t even bother to remove the ads. And they’re a vast majority…

I am still shopping for a new xiaomi phone coming from redmi note 5. I was eyeing the note 10 lite but there hasn’t been any custom roms for it. How has MIUI been for you?

Software is fine. The UI is very close to stock, in some ways better. It handles multitasking better by using the entire screen to present the last 4 apps I’ve used, rather than the side scrolling one by one of the stock droid ui.

Finger print sensor is behind the screen so I can see a slight irregularity when the screen is on but black. Easily ignorable.

Has a neat built in feature that if you press power button 5 times it will send an emergency flare to your emergency contacts with your location and last people you’ve called.

Task bar is in the notch area and a really good implementation imo. You can set it to treat the area around the notch as a bezel or have it use the screen to put the status bar.

It even manages to avoid the auto bright issue other Xiaomi phone users seem to report.

Besides denying permissions for useful but still bloatware the one that caught me off guard is a built in virus scanner that is sort of a middle man between the Google app store fidelity that you are used to. In this instance it presents an ad screen post app install. You can turn it off tho so that’s nice.

Lastly the one UI issue for me is that with my Pixel Buds 2, when I open the case the notification bar cuts the ear buds status message in half. Basically the notification has a pic of the buds and shows the battery status of the case and was ear piece. It’s a minor inconvenience and certainly something a custom ROMs could fix. But the TLDR is that I have zero desire to change anything because it’s offers everything I need. Even 4g on T- mobile.

Wait I only see the unofficial twrp on the rom section xda. Maybe I am browsing the incorrect xda forum? Could you send a link please?

That’s not the point, everyone messes up as a one off, Samsung messed up bug time by using defective batteries in the s8, Apple messed up big time with the bending phones, and phones that lose reception when held against the ear; but every mess up by these companies is a one off that gets fixed in the next generation. The Xiaomi mess ups have been software ones that can easily be fixed in updates, instead, they’re not being fixed, and new bugs are coming out with new generations

I apologise my mistake. I did only take a quick look and saw a forum for the recovery, an EU rom and a forum for Oxygen OS. If I had actually read them I by wouldn’t have said that. Though the Oxygen one might be promising as the one camera is the only difference between the not and the lite.

No worries! I’ll probably grab it when my note 5 dies. Thanks!

MIUI nowadays is quite good. As long as they don’t begin to lock the bootloaders and prevent us from using ADB to remove their bloatware everything is fine.

In fact their whole Mi 10 lineup is great for different purposes – Note and Mi 10 alike – the Mi 10 lite has the same awesome display then the Mi 10 has – boosting up to was it like 1400 NITS? (yes it’s that high, and crazy, I think the highest I’ve ever seen).

But forget about the on-screen fingerprint sensors. They’re responsive at first, until you actually start using your phone. Unreliable as fuck. Just use faceunlock (I’m using the regular Mi Note 10).

>Another example is the Google Voice assistant, the average user does not bother with it, and simply leaves the always on stand by feature off, on the other hand, I as a power user often use this feature, so after it started interfering with calls after the Android 10 update, I noticed immediately, while the average user won’t

You DO relialize that Google was reponsible for that? Right? They did the same shit for their Pixel lineup – a quick Google will show you lots of angry customers and bricked / horribly performing phones on STABLE releases (derp).

The Android One – Google – experience.

Even MIUI firmwares are reliant on Google pulling their shit off right they just can’t fix every fire themselves DESPITE their great affords (one example: Camera quality Android 9 to Android 10 in Mi Note 10 greatly improved because of better/proper focus fix).

Android One is all about GOOGLE providing the updates, not the manufacturer itself (which does only add VERY little to the system).

Guess why they’re so slow to roll out Android 10 for all devices despite Pixel having it for ages now (with all the shit Google has done).

Source: I own a Pixel 3a and withnessed the shit myself.