Gaming in mi5 is worse - Xiaomi Mi 5 Questions & Answers

Im using Xiaomi mi5 for a long time. when i first downloaded PUBG mobile my expectations was high. But when i started playing the reality is worse. The game is lagging all the time in my phone. And still now i can't play a single match of PUBG mobile without lagging in my device. Though it has Snapdragon 820 chipset and 3 gb of ram but it can't handle this game. Why?? My friends are playing in there note 4x or other low end device smoothly. My rom is global stable 9.6 with latest update. And rom is totally free. But my ram performance is poor. I can use only 700-800 mb out of 3gb of ram!! The biggest question is what should i do now?? I used all the tricks and methods that are available in YouTube and Google. Should i go for Chinese rom?? Should i root my device and use custom rom?? What should i do for play PUBG mobile in my Xiaomi mi5 device without lagging and heat issues. Please suggest.... ??

Played Pubg moblie with RR oreo darkness
here's the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1et7UJfSQlIuUvkGLlCst60sLgXEEuJ16/view
Getting 60fps with high setting with no lag whatsoever and ram management is also far superior for example I tried playing asphalt 9 and pubgM simultaneously and they both were in memory hope it helps you. if still don't want to flash custom ROM you can try GFX tool from play store to reduce the screen resolution and other graphics settings of the game without rooting your device.

I've been having this problem since the day PUBG released. Anyway, I've tried many ROMs and kernels with PUBG performance as the sole requirement. I've found that any custom ROM based on Oreo had serious battery drain issues. Only MIUI has acceptable battery on Oreo, but still unacceptable performance on PUBG. To overcome this issue I installed LOS 14.1 with MrMathematica's kernel. This is the only ROM and kernel combo I think is perfect for battery life, PUBG performance and overall stability. Can be used as daily driver definitely as well. This does give me better PUBG performance with less overheating than Oreo ROMs, but I wouldn't call it a major upgrade on the graphics front. I manage to get stable fps on smooth/medium settings for almost throughout the match. Overall fps stability and its duration is still much much better than MIUI Global. Hope this helps!
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I also would like to point about the poor thermal management and throttling issue on Mi 5. Compared to a similar device (oneplus 3), the performance is worse on Mi5. My friend has a one plus 3 and Mi5 always feels inferior in PUBG to me.
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Also, I wouldn't recommended using GFX Tool. I did see MAJOR improvement on using this, but that was short lived. Heating is the culprit here. Every time I used GFX Tool on the many different ROMs I tried, I invariably went back to using the stock game settings. Stable medium fps for longer is still better than high, fluctuating fps and overheating.

ctushar97 said:
I've been having this problem since the day PUBG released. Anyway, I've tried many ROMs and kernels with PUBG performance as the sole requirement. I've found that any custom ROM based on Oreo had serious battery drain issues. Only MIUI has acceptable battery on Oreo, but still unacceptable performance on PUBG. To overcome this issue I installed LOS 14.1 with MrMathematica's kernel. This is the only ROM and kernel combo I think is perfect for battery life, PUBG performance and overall stability. Can be used as daily driver definitely as well. This does give me better PUBG performance with less overheating than Oreo ROMs, but I wouldn't call it a major upgrade on the graphics front. I manage to get stable fps on smooth/medium settings for almost throughout the match. Overall fps stability and its duration is still much much better than MIUI Global. Hope this helps!
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I also would like to point about the poor thermal management and throttling issue on Mi 5. Compared to a similar device (oneplus 3), the performance is worse on Mi5. My friend has a one plus 3 and Mi5 always feels inferior in PUBG to me.
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Also, I wouldn't recommended using GFX Tool. I did see MAJOR improvement on using this, but that was short lived. Heating is the culprit here. Every time I used GFX Tool on the many different ROMs I tried, I invariably went back to using the stock game settings. Stable medium fps for longer is still better than high, fluctuating fps and overheating.
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can u share me all the file needed sir? like los, kernel and anything. pm

Mi 5 not that worse
actually mi 5 not that worse like u think, that make lag every where when playing PUBG its thermal trothling from ROM its self, many rom make mi 5 temp keep cooling while playing game and that make for some game that need more performance become lag ( choppy ) . im just use MIU MS rom and do little trick with replace 2 file thermal config on system/vendor/etc with custom thermal file that someone here build on xda ( u can search on this forum about cust thermal throttle mi 5 ). u will get no lag for playing pubg with hdr and extreme mode ...but if u dont care about batterylife and want to know truely performance about mi 5 u can install cosmic os ... that rom will show u truely performance when playing hard graphic games

I found that it's quite important not to charge the phone at the same time and to remove the cover if you have any so that the phone can cool down better.
Also, The new MIUI 9.6.x.x is not very good...go back to 9.5.x.x until they come up with a good stable Oreo MIUI. The weekly Oreo seems much better at this moment.

whithyfang said:
actually mi 5 not that worse like u think, that make lag every where when playing PUBG its thermal trothling from ROM its self, many rom make mi 5 temp keep cooling while playing game and that make for some game that need more performance become lag ( choppy ) . im just use MIU MS rom and do little trick with replace 2 file thermal config on system/vendor/etc with custom thermal file that someone here build on xda ( u can search on this forum about cust thermal throttle mi 5 ). u will get no lag for playing pubg with hdr and extreme mode ...but if u dont care about batterylife and want to know truely performance about mi 5 u can install cosmic os ... that rom will show u truely performance when playing hard graphic games
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Hello, I am from Russia and therefore I will use Google translator. I wanted to ask you about two files (config temperature) whether you can share them or throw off a link to the resource where they can be taken.

GFX tool
I am using the same device. I use PUBGFX+ tool and it runs great!!!

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Phone heating up when playing PUBG mobile

Hey guys, I have been playing PUBG mobile for about 2 months now on stock, rooted OOS stable.
I have had the phone heating up after 1 game that it becomes uncomfortable to hold. I play with my case off to improve heat dissipation. I tried lowering clock speeds to about 1.8GHz to reduce heating, but it didn't help.
Also, I notice significant lag and frame drops in my third consecutive game, possibly due to thermal throttling. I never play when I am charging my phone.
Fellow PUBG players, what do you guys do? Do you use a different ROM/kernel? Do you adjust settings Within the game?
Thanks in advance.
vvaklnprm said:
Hey guys, I have been playing PUBG mobile for about 2 months now on stock, rooted OOS stable.
I have had the phone heating up after 1 game that it becomes uncomfortable to hold. I play with my case off to improve heat dissipation. I tried lowering clock speeds to about 1.8GHz to reduce heating, but it didn't help.
Also, I notice significant lag and frame drops in my third consecutive game, possibly due to thermal throttling. I never play when I am charging my phone.
Fellow PUBG players, what do you guys do? Do you use a different ROM/kernel? Do you adjust settings Within the game?
Thanks in advance.
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I hate the thermal throttling that occurs on this phone. I used to use GFX Tool to reduce the graphics settings for PUBG in order to prevent it, but even that isn't working now. The phone heats up like it's been put inside an oven, and I need to take off my TPU case for it to not overheat and shut off. Even Redmi Note 3's don't heat up as much or get throttled like this phone does. Simply irritating.
Saamyo said:
I hate the thermal throttling that occurs on this phone. I used to use GFX Tool to reduce the graphics settings for PUBG in order to prevent it, but even that isn't working now. The phone heats up like it's been put inside an oven, and I need to take off my TPU case for it to not overheat and shut off. Even Redmi Note 3's don't heat up as much or get throttled like this phone does. Simply irritating.
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my frnds 3 of there redmi note 3 heats way more than our one plus 3t. maybe you guys need to do a clean flash of OOS. pubg is a heavy game ofcourse it will make our phone heat alot bt its ok no shutdowns or over heating here. i am on nougat as oreo lags + overheats so i suggest you guys to downgrade to nougat OOS 4.5.1 if you want the best gaming and battery performance
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I hate the thermal throttling that occurs on this phone. I used to use GFX Tool to reduce the graphics settings for PUBG in order to prevent it, but even that isn't working now. The phone heats up like it's been put inside an oven, and I need to take off my TPU case for it to not overheat and shut off. Even Redmi Note 3's don't heat up as much or get throttled like this phone does. Simply irritating.
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My friend is using redmi 5 and he has no issues even when he plays with the charger connected. Absolutely no overheating at ALL.
vvaklnprm said:
My friend is using redmi 5 and he has no issues even when he plays with the charger connected. Absolutely no overheating at ALL.
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Same story here. It's incredibly sad that a flagship $400 phone struggles to play a game at medium graphics when a $200 phone doesn't. Superbly embarrassing.
Saamyo said:
Same story here. It's incredibly sad that a flagship $400 phone struggles to play a game at medium graphics when a $200 phone doesn't. Superbly embarrassing.
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I have decided to try out some ROM + kernel changes. Will update here if I find any improvements.
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I have decided to try out some ROM + kernel changes. Will update here if I find any improvements.
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I've given up on it at this point. I've tried out completely stock OOS, stock Lineage, heavily modified Lineage/RR/Omni and yeah nothing seems to work. I'm just sick and tired of this phone just after a year of owning it. This sucks.
i play pubg on my op3t omnidragon rom
i use pub gfx+ tools it reduce lag
the phone gets hot and the game lag when I'm in a room that has a hot temperature and it's summer
can someone agree that downgrading to nougat is better for gaming?
Phones are not suitable for gaming. End of story.
None of my phones were able to keep going without throttling significantly.
It's down to basic physics.
Well, OnePlus 3T is not optimized for PUBG. Or let's PUBG didn't optimize the game for older devices. If your device has Snapdragon 835 or 845 PUBG will run smoothly. Or if you have 6xx series chipsets that was released in 2018 they would run smoothly too. TBH PUBG will be better in a tablet than a phone. Get tab S3 or S4 or even latest iPad which is a lot cheaper can handle game flawlessly. But OnePlus 3T has become a old man now.
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Well, OnePlus 3T is not optimized for PUBG. Or let's PUBG didn't optimize the game for older devices. If your device has Snapdragon 835 or 845 PUBG will run smoothly. Or if you have 6xx series chipsets that was released in 2018 they would run smoothly too. TBH PUBG will be better in a tablet than a phone. Get tab S3 or S4 or even latest iPad which is a lot cheaper can handle game flawlessly. But OnePlus 3T has become a old man now.
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This is what I don't understand, our chipset is just barely 2.5 years old, and it is a flagship chipset. Why then do they ignore optimizing for a flagship?
i dont understand why you guys are babbling on. just revert back to nougat and see the difference . pubg runs super smooth with no overheating in nougat. Oxygen os oreo is not all that well optimised thats why games lag inoxygen os oreo. revert back to nougat and you will again see the true potential of our device
I agree. I'm running Sultans Lineage OS by denser and it runs great.
jokerpappu said:
i dont understand why you guys are babbling on. just revert back to nougat and see the difference . pubg runs super smooth with no overheating in nougat. Oxygen os oreo is not all that well optimised thats why games lag inoxygen os oreo. revert back to nougat and you will again see the true potential of our device
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What he said
jokerpappu said:
i dont understand why you guys are babbling on. just revert back to nougat and see the difference . pubg runs super smooth with no overheating in nougat. Oxygen os oreo is not all that well optimised thats why games lag inoxygen os oreo. revert back to nougat and you will again see the true potential of our device
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I just flashed sultan's los 14.1 and the game runs smooth as butter with no abnormal heating
vvaklnprm said:
I just flashed sultan's los 14.1 and the game runs smooth as butter with no abnormal heating
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I even reverted to Sultans latest build as (as opposed to denser, no offense to him) as I preferred it for my small reasons. But big shout-out to denser for maintaining sultans great work.
Use mcd kernel.. I can play pubg without any lag and thermal throttling
When temp rises just decrease the fps... ?
How to get back nougat can any one send
Anybody who switched to STABLE OOS PIE 9.0.2 can you please share your results for pubg gaming? (try using PUB GFX TOOL from play store/ xda and set it to 720p, SMOOTH, 30FPS AMD VULKAN).

I need your opinion about this phone

Hello guys,
I've considered buying MiA2 this month for my daily driver. Previously I used Pocophone f1 and sold it immediately after 1 month usage because I'm so tired of that stupid touch issues. And I also already used Redmi Note 5 (whyred) before, I bought it in first week release. And I'm not really satisfied with the performance (it's underclocked version of 660) that's why I upgraded to poco.
Currently I'm using my old s7 edge, and it's really not optimized for pubg mobile.
The MiA2 battery life won't bother me, even tho it has 3000mah. I always use greenify and it also has qc3.0 so that won't be problem.
I play pubg in my free time, so tell me about the gameplay performance (if you use gfxtool or such thing for 60fps) because I've seen everywhere that SD660 and adreno 512 is capable and optimized for this game.
The only thing I scared is the touch issues, I want to know about the touch responsiveness and touch latency on this phone. Is it good? Normal? Or there is problem and it's kind of laggy and not responsive to swipe, scroll or typing fast?
It's really annoying issue on poco, you can't type fast, you can't swipe or scroll freely without lags, and you can't play games because of the unresponsive crazy touch. I hope there is no such thing on MiA2
fyi, I also root my phone. So root or twrp to fix some problems is okay for me as long there is a fix for the problem.
I want to know your opinion, thanks
In my opinion don'y buy this phone for PUBG, it doesn't even run stable 60fps and idk if it's the same problem you mentioned with the Poco, but I'm having touch and responsiveness issues myself. Get something with a SD8xx.
KreeeKz said:
In my opinion don'y buy this phone for PUBG, it doesn't even run stable 60fps and idk if it's the same problem you mentioned with the Poco, but I'm having touch and responsiveness issues myself. Get something with a SD8xx.
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That's why I made this thread, I saw videos on youtube showing touch problem also exist on this phone.
By the way, thanks for your reply :good:
ferdieses said:
Hello guys,
Currently I'm using my old s7 edge, and it's really not optimized for pubg mobile.
The MiA2 battery life won't bother me, even tho it has 3000mah. I always use greenify and it also has qc3.0 so that won't be problem.
I play pubg in my free time, so tell me about the gameplay performance (if you use gfxtool or such thing for 60fps) because I've seen everywhere that SD660 and adreno 512 is capable and optimized for this game.
The only thing I scared is the touch issues, I want to know about the touch responsiveness and touch latency on this phone. Is it good? Normal? Or there is problem and it's kind of laggy and not responsive to swipe, scroll or typing fast?
It's really annoying issue on poco, you can't type fast, you can't swipe or scroll freely without lags, and you can't play games because of the unresponsive crazy touch. I hope there is no such thing on MiA2
I want to know your opinion, thanks
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I use gfx tool and get a stable 60 fps on balanced graphics. The performance of this phone is pretty solid and can play any games at almost max settings. There's no problem in touch responsiveness and the stock OS feels great. I'd have gotten the poco f1 if I simply needed pure gaming performance. The difference between normal day to day usage experience of Mi A2 and poco f1 is negligible. Typing, scrolling and basic touch functions are great. I'd recommend this phone to you if you can overlook a few bugs like the proximity sensor.
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KreeeKz said:
In my opinion don'y buy this phone for PUBG, it doesn't even run stable 60fps and idk if it's the same problem you mentioned with the Poco, but I'm having touch and responsiveness issues myself. Get something with a SD8xx.
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I never had any touch and responsiveness issues whatsoever. Might be a software bug. Try a factory reset and see if it fixed it.
[email protected] said:
I use gfx tool and get a stable 60 fps on balanced graphics. The performance of this phone is pretty solid and can play any games at almost max settings. There's no problem in touch responsiveness and the stock OS feels great. I'd have gotten the poco f1 if I simply needed pure gaming performance. The difference between normal day to day usage experience of Mi A2 and poco f1 is negligible. Typing, scrolling and basic touch functions are great. I'd recommend this phone to you if you can overlook a few bugs like the proximity sensor.
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Oh nice to know that, so you're using stock pie?
And about that proximity bug, is there any fix yet?
ferdieses said:
Oh nice to know that, so you're using stock pie?
And about that proximity bug, is there any fix yet?
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I am using stock pie and the proximity bug is kind of a hit or miss situation. It works most of the time, but when it doesn't it's really annoying. The placement of the sensor is a little odd and I don't think it is simply a software issue. Although in pie, it's much more better than Oreo.
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I never had any touch and responsiveness issues whatsoever. Might be a software bug. Try a factory reset and see if it fixed it.
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From what I see on forum, most people fixed it by doing a factory reset just like you said. Well, I hope it's true
[email protected] said:
I am using stock pie and the proximity bug is kind of a hit or miss situation. It works most of the time, but when it doesn't it's really annoying. The placement of the sensor is a little odd and I don't think it is simply a software issue. Although in pie, it's much more better than Oreo.
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Ahh I see, then it's not the software problem anymore. It's just the placement
ferdieses said:
Hello guys,
I play pubg in my free time, so tell me about the gameplay performance (if you use gfxtool or such thing for 60fps) because I've seen everywhere that SD660 and adreno 512 is capable and optimized for this game.
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I personally never had any major issues with this phone, i'm really enjoying a great cheap phone. The closest competitor in Brazil, hardware wise, is roughly double the price, which is the Moto Z3 Play running the SD636. I Had the CPU Maxed out bug but Xiaomi solved it on the 2nd October Update. Since then the device is running great, but heavy gaming isn't good. Regular games like Clash of Clans, Temple Run 2, Clash Royale, etc will run absolutely fine, but heavier titles like PUBG will struggle. It's definitely playable, but not the smoothest experience. For that you should look into the OnePlus 6/6T or anything else running an SD835 or SD845.
Even though it's a 3000mAh battery, It performs admirably, and people are saying it get's even better on Pie, which I didn't receive yet.
did you try the lineage build on the poco? same touch issues?
laviniu_c said:
did you try the lineage build on the poco? same touch issues?
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Same, whatever custom rom based on oreo and pie including Lineage. Nothing's changed, and it's only get worse on MIUI beta where they said they fix it in that firmware update. Some said on Lineage 16 it's better but not fixed, the problem still there.
And I sold it immediately, xiaomi and poco team seems like they don't even care about that problem.
Well I just hope that this MiA2/6x got the fix for the issue. I hate notches, this is one of the few 660 without notch.
Anyone using Mi6x? Is it good as the A2 besides the Android One and MIUI?
ferdieses said:
Hello guys,
I've considered buying MiA2 this month for my daily driver. Previously I used Pocophone f1 and sold it immediately after 1 month usage because I'm so tired of that stupid touch issues. And I also already used Redmi Note 5 (whyred) before, I bought it in first week release. And I'm not really satisfied with the performance (it's underclocked version of 660) that's why I upgraded to poco.
Currently I'm using my old s7 edge, and it's really not optimized for pubg mobile.
The MiA2 battery life won't bother me, even tho it has 3000mah. I always use greenify and it also has qc3.0 so that won't be problem.
I play pubg in my free time, so tell me about the gameplay performance (if you use gfxtool or such thing for 60fps) because I've seen everywhere that SD660 and adreno 512 is capable and optimized for this game.
The only thing I scared is the touch issues, I want to know about the touch responsiveness and touch latency on this phone. Is it good? Normal? Or there is problem and it's kind of laggy and not responsive to swipe, scroll or typing fast?
It's really annoying issue on poco, you can't type fast, you can't swipe or scroll freely without lags, and you can't play games because of the unresponsive crazy touch. I hope there is no such thing on MiA2
fyi, I also root my phone. So root or twrp to fix some problems is okay for me as long there is a fix for the problem.
I want to know your opinion, thanks
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I never had any issues with PUBG. It automatically detected and set to medium texture and I even played in HD and it worked flawlessly. I never had a single lag or freeze. The performance is solid. Go for it.
My opinion is that the phone is overall great. Not the best value for the money and I'm certainly not happy with the state of custom development or lack thereof. But a SD660 should be good for gaming (which I don't care about), the phone is snappy in day to day usage and the battery is decent. Cameras are also pretty good.
The thing is that it's just not what I wanted or thought it was going to be like and if I could choose again, I'd probably choose the Note 5 Plus (SD636) or the A2 Lite at the time that I've bought it, and definitely the F1 had I waited 2-3 months more.
Never the less, I'll keep on using it because there is simply nothing wrong with the phone, it's just not the best value.
@ferdieses
I've had the Mi A2 since launch (the 6GB/128GB variant) and, because I never had high expectations (e.g., flagship performance/features), I'm generally happy with it.
The first few months were hit and miss with stability issues (CPU frequency/eMMC slowness/battery life) but the Mi A2 is at a point where it works well enough to recommend. Everything about it is far above average but not quite excellent (e.g., 7.5/10).
The only caveat is cellular connectivity. In Canada, it works okay. In the US, it's hit or miss but in Asia, its intended territory, it excels.
mrumais said:
I never had any issues with PUBG. It automatically detected and set to medium texture and I even played in HD and it worked flawlessly. I never had a single lag or freeze. The performance is solid. Go for it.
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That's what I thought, SD660 is good for pubg. Even not all SD835 devices optimized for that game.
ILA said:
My opinion is that the phone is overall great. Not the best value for the money and I'm certainly not happy with the state of custom development or lack thereof. But a SD660 should be good for gaming (which I don't care about), the phone is snappy in day to day usage and the battery is decent. Cameras are also pretty good.
The thing is that it's just not what I wanted or thought it was going to be like and if I could choose again, I'd probably choose the Note 5 Plus (SD636) or the A2 Lite at the time that I've bought it, and definitely the F1 had I waited 2-3 months more.
Never the less, I'll keep on using it because there is simply nothing wrong with the phone, it's just not the best value.
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Ahh I see, you're right. It's not the best value, but it's not bad either.
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@ferdieses
I've had the Mi A2 since launch (the 6GB/128GB variant) and, because I never had high expectations (e.g., flagship performance/features), I'm generally happy with it.
The first few months were hit and miss with stability issues (CPU frequency/eMMC slowness/battery life) but the Mi A2 is at a point where it works well enough to recommend. Everything about it is far above average but not quite excellent (e.g., 7.5/10).
The only caveat is cellular connectivity. In Canada, it works okay. In the US, it's hit or miss but in Asia, its intended territory, it excels.
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I live in Asia so cellular connectivity won't be problem. It's a good phone but not the best. From what I see most Xiaomi devices suffers from issues on the first few months, it's usual thing for Xiaomi and that's kinda sucks.
Nexus S -> galaxy S2-> Nexus 4 -> LG G2->oneplus one, and now Mi A2 128GB 6GB ram.
What can i say...
Nexus S 350 euros (second hand)
Galaxy s2 360 euros (new)
Nexus 4 almost 500 euros (second hand)
Lg g2 190 euros (second hand)
Oneplus one 64GB (second hand) 230 euros
Mi A2 128GB 6GB ram 230 euros (new)
So the OPO was with me from beginning of 2015 up to a week ago. Went from COS, to CM, to Lineage OS, had to change firmware files for modem and such, data would stop working, random reboots when using waze, etc. Loved the opo, and if it wasnt these issues, mainly the lack of battery life and the rabdom reboots, i would have stayed with it one more year.
Back to now, Mi A2, is a Nexus, or a pixel for the "poors", we will have the updates thats sure, and sure it wont take 6 months like skinned android. So thats great. And one of the things im most looking for.
SD660, is great, but the gpu... It's nothing special. Expect medium settings.
Ram? More than enough. Now where it may lose most of it speed is in the emmc department, emmc 5.1 is fast! But nothing like UFS wich is basically equivalent to a good sata ssd.
I dont regret my purchase, its way faster than the opo althought it also had emmc 5.1, the screen looks great, camera had me impressed, battery life ? (65GB of apps and games?). Better than this, there is the F1 but... Plastic? Iphony android? Almost 100 euros more for half the storage (which is ufs on the F1), infrared for faceunlock (could not care less for that),a "better'" camera and SoC.
If gaming is your main point, go F1! Or since you had a bad experience, go 6T?
If gaming is secondary like for me it is... Got a 1070 Ti at home, no need to game on the phone ? for me, my phone is listen to music, mail, messages, take random pics and browse the web.
And you prefer updates, build quality, and saving some money to buy cases, a powerbank, a QC 3.0 charger,... Go Mi A2 ?
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One more thing i need to had... I like modding my phone and such, but i got into a time of my life that ain't nobody got time for that ?
So i apreciate updates and right off the bat clean android.

MIUI Custom Kernel or MIUI Based Custom Roms

As the title says, my mix 2 lags and drops fps hard in heavy games like pubg, i tried game boost app from pocophone it helped a little bit and now it became useless. Phone doesnt get hot a lot, i try to play in smooth extreme fps but fps drops a lot, i think it is kernel related or due to miui. I have tried global stable and beta miui 10. It is just the only problem i have with the device. Are there any other kernel that is compatible with miui? Are there any good miui 10 based custom roms that performs good in games and gets better battery when on light use? I dont really want to change roms(aosp ones because i had 5t before and tried almost every single one. Im a guy who fell in love with miui since 2013-2014. Thats why i got mix 2 and i wasnt expecting that bad performance on the same snapdragon chipset. Like i have said its either rom or kernel issue.)
Im also open to suggestions. I have used several pubg graphics tools and the results i got are with those apps. It is even worse with default graphics options. Also i would change the kernel if possible with EAS as they perform better in balanced tasks.I own mix 2 for 3 days and im satisfied with it. But that performance issue really bugs me out. I could play the game at hdr with 60fps on my old 5t. It wouldnt get that hot. I can say the heat is the same i get with mix 2. Animation transitions are ok, i dont get any stuttering in any apps or in system, it happens with heavy games.
This thread can be a discussions thread of gaming in miui.
Miui kernel or other
gsser said:
As the title says, my mix 2 lags and drops fps hard in heavy games like pubg, i tried game boost app from pocophone it helped a little bit and now it became useless. Phone doesnt get hot a lot, i try to play in smooth extreme fps but fps drops a lot, i think it is kernel related or due to miui. I have tried global stable and beta miui 10. It is just the only problem i have with the device. Are there any other kernel that is compatible with miui? Are there any good miui 10 based custom roms that performs good in games and gets better battery when on light use? I dont really want to change roms(aosp ones because i had 5t before and tried almost every single one. Im a guy who fell in love with miui since 2013-2014. Thats why i got mix 2 and i wasnt expecting that bad performance on the same snapdragon chipset. Like i have said its either rom or kernel issue.)
Im also open to suggestions. I have used several pubg graphics tools and the results i got are with those apps. It is even worse with default graphics options. Also i would change the kernel if possible with EAS as they perform better in balanced tasks.I own mix 2 for 3 days and im satisfied with it. But that performance issue really bugs me out. I could play the game at hdr with 60fps on my old 5t. It wouldnt get that hot. I can say the heat is the same i get with mix 2. Animation transitions are ok, i dont get any stuttering in any apps or in system, it happens with heavy games.
This thread can be a discussions thread of gaming in miui.
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You can use a different kernel (like skizo or placeholder) or swich to AOSP roms and try NFS-injector (optimized for PUBG only).

Xiaomi must optimize the 660 chip.

i bought this phone last week, i am not satisfied with this phone, it gets hot when browsing, lag when playing games(because of the unstable high speed clock), i checked using the aida64 app and the big cores clock speed easily reach 2.2 ghz speed. that was unnecessary, even after turning the battery saver mode, the cores still easily touch 2.2 ghz. i already discussed this on the indonesian mi community, but then i got bullied, people saying it was my fault, not the phone. but there was many thread that complains about lag when playing games and bad battery life. i supose that was because the bad management of cpu cores.
note : i bought this phone in indonesia, with TAM (official) warranty
my rom is currently on the 10.3.6.0(PFGMIXM)
3+32GB model.
Rifaldi34 said:
i bought this phone last week, i am not satisfied with this phone, it gets hot when browsing, lag when playing games(because of the unstable high speed clock), i checked using the aida64 app and the big cores clock speed easily reach 2.2 ghz speed. that was unnecessary, even after turning the battery saver mode, the cores still easily touch 2.2 ghz. i already discussed this on the indonesian mi community, but then i got bullied, people saying it was my fault, not the phone. but there was many thread that complains about lag when playing games and bad battery life. i supose that was because the bad management of cpu cores.
note : i bought this phone in indonesia, with TAM (official) warranty
my rom is currently on the 10.3.6.0(PFGMIXM)
3+32GB model.
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It's very commom for any Snapdragon device to reach top clock speed when in use, download CPU-z and do a little scrolling to see that.
The lag in games you're getting is most probably because of the 3GB RAM of your variant not the CPU as SD660 can handle most mobile games with ease.
About battery life, how much SOT are you getting? RN7 should handle at least 6hrs with some heavy gaming included.
And about temperature, how much degrees is your device peaking at? Anything below 38ºC should be fine.
And lastly, about mi community......well, most people there look like VERY inexperienced users, i wouldn't take them as a parameter to prove your point.
Gonime said:
It's very commom for any Snapdragon device to reach top clock speed when in use, download CPU-z and do a little scrolling to see that.
The lag in games you're getting is most probably because of the 3GB RAM of your variant not the CPU as SD660 can handle most mobile games with ease.
About battery life, how much SOT are you getting? RN7 should handle at least 6hrs with some heavy gaming included.
And about temperature, how much degrees is your device peaking at? Anything below 38ºC should be fine.
And lastly, about mi community......well, most people there look like VERY inexperienced users, i wouldn't take them as a parameter to prove your point.
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3gb of ram is good enough for gaming unless ur playing a heavy game while on youtube and facebook at the same time. the problem with this phone is the aggressive thermal throttling, once the phone reaches 40°c the phone becomes noticeably slower.
my advice to OP is unlock ur bootloader flash some custom rom, custom kernel and root ur device until you find the performance/battery ur looking for.
aron11195 said:
3gb of ram is good enough for gaming unless ur playing a heavy game while on youtube and facebook at the same time. the problem with this phone is the aggressive thermal throttling, once the phone reaches 40°c the phone becomes noticeably slower.
my advice to OP is unlock ur bootloader flash some custom rom, custom kernel and root ur device until you find the performance/battery ur looking for.
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3GB of RAM has not been fine for some time now, there is a lot of games you wouldn't be able to multitask with any other application with only 3GB.
Few examples: TES Blades, Fortnite, PS2 emulation.
Also what are you doing to reach 40° on your device? As for mine never passed 38° and I live in a hot country(Brazil).
I Agree with installing a custom Kernel to improve your performance overall, but right know the best optimized ROM is still MIUI as many threads here suggest.
Gonime said:
3GB of RAM has not been fine for some time now, there is a lot of games you wouldn't be able to multitask with any other application with only 3GB.
Few examples: TES Blades, Fortnite, PS2 emulation.
Also what are you doing to reach 40° on your device? As for mine never passed 38° and I live in a hot country(Brazil).
I Agree with installing a custom Kernel to improve your performance overall, but right know the best optimized ROM is still MIUI as many threads here suggest.
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thats my point, 3gb is enough for games as long as you dont multi task. and this phone is mid range.
im in Philippines, room temperature here is about 37° heavy games like pubg makes my phone temperature skyrocket reaching up to 45° especially with thermal mod.
btw MIUI has the worst ram management for this phone. its closing background apps like no tomorrow, but on any custom rom its actually quite decent.
Rifaldi34 said:
i bought this phone last week, i am not satisfied with this phone, it gets hot when browsing, lag when playing games(because of the unstable high speed clock), i checked using the aida64 app and the big cores clock speed easily reach 2.2 ghz speed. that was unnecessary, even after turning the battery saver mode, the cores still easily touch 2.2 ghz. i already discussed this on the indonesian mi community, but then i got bullied, people saying it was my fault, not the phone. but there was many thread that complains about lag when playing games and bad battery life. i supose that was because the bad management of cpu cores.
note : i bought this phone in indonesia, with TAM (official) warranty
my rom is currently on the 10.3.6.0(PFGMIXM)
3+32GB model.
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Im on the same boat with you bro.
Just Dont bother the hardcore mi fans, especially indonesian mi fans, i know they are jackass sometimes (well Not all of them)
Yes the firmware is really not optimize, battery usage is really inconsistent (typical not optimize firmware)
All we can do is wait for the new OTA.
Strangely the PRO variant get more updated frequently (check official mi website)
But for us indonesian, we are stuck with NON PRO version if we want to use Official waranty hardware.
Good luck
here's how one maximizes their chipsets potential.
1. unlock thy bootloader
2. install custom ROM and kernel
3. ...
4. profit
Gonime said:
It's very commom for any Snapdragon device to reach top clock speed when in use, download CPU-z and do a little scrolling to see that.
The lag in games you're getting is most probably because of the 3GB RAM of your variant not the CPU as SD660 can handle most mobile games with ease.
About battery life, how much SOT are you getting? RN7 should handle at least 6hrs with some heavy gaming included.
And about temperature, how much degrees is your device peaking at? Anything below 38ºC should be fine.
And lastly, about mi community......well, most people there look like VERY inexperienced users, i wouldn't take them as a parameter to prove your point.
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aron11195 said:
3gb of ram is good enough for gaming unless ur playing a heavy game while on youtube and facebook at the same time. the problem with this phone is the aggressive thermal throttling, once the phone reaches 40°c the phone becomes noticeably slower.
my advice to OP is unlock ur bootloader flash some custom rom, custom kernel and root ur device until you find the performance/battery ur looking for.
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Gonime said:
3GB of RAM has not been fine for some time now, there is a lot of games you wouldn't be able to multitask with any other application with only 3GB.
Few examples: TES Blades, Fortnite, PS2 emulation.
Also what are you doing to reach 40° on your device? As for mine never passed 38° and I live in a hot country(Brazil).
I Agree with installing a custom Kernel to improve your performance overall, but right know the best optimized ROM is still MIUI as many threads here suggest.
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aron11195 said:
thats my point, 3gb is enough for games as long as you dont multi task. and this phone is mid range.
im in Philippines, room temperature here is about 37° heavy games like pubg makes my phone temperature skyrocket reaching up to 45° especially with thermal mod.
btw MIUI has the worst ram management for this phone. its closing background apps like no tomorrow, but on any custom rom its actually quite decent.
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sampit76 said:
Im on the same boat with you bro.
Just Dont bother the hardcore mi fans, especially indonesian mi fans, i know they are jackass sometimes (well Not all of them)
Yes the firmware is really not optimize, battery usage is really inconsistent (typical not optimize firmware)
All we can do is wait for the new OTA.
Strangely the PRO variant get more updated frequently (check official mi website)
But for us indonesian, we are stuck with NON PRO version if we want to use Official waranty hardware.
Good luck
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vexa said:
here's how one maximizes their chipsets potential.
1. unlock thy bootloader
2. install custom ROM and kernel
3. ...
4. profit
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Thanks for all your reply, i apreciated it. probably i will wait until miui 11 released, and if the phone still gets hot i will install custom rom and use EX kernel manager to disable input boost and limit the cpu.
for bullying in the mi community, i guess its just troll account ? or the xiaomi guy ? every thread about battery gets bullied by those person only.
5. Find out many bugs and instabilities
6. Start realizing custom roms are not mature yet
7. Go back to stock ROM ?
kennyk09 said:
5. Find out many bugs and instabilities
6. Start realizing custom roms are not mature yet
7. Go back to stock ROM
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not true .. i've been using PE (and revolutionX) and Havoc since mai.
After being on EvolutionX for more than a month, i switched to MIUI EU (coz i missed it) but then went back to trying havoc .. 2 weeks now ZERO problems no heat/lag whatsoever
kennyk09 said:
5. Find out many bugs and instabilities
6. Start realizing custom roms are not mature yet
7. Go back to stock ROM
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ever try miui.eu or masik?
these are very stable, miui-based custom ROMs with zero bloatware and better RAM management.
still a better ROM for people who want better performance / battery life on their xiaomi devices, but too afraid to live on the edge with AOSP ROMs.
AFAIK, that's called thermal-throttle/ing. When RN7 reach its peak performance and certain heat, to prevent overheat normally our device will slowing down its performance and it caused lags and fps drop for sure
I also encounter this problem when playing pubg even with smooth-ultra setting
Rayquaza said:
AFAIK, that's called thermal-throttle/ing. When RN7 reach its peak performance and certain heat, to prevent overheat normally our device will slowing down its performance and it caused lags and fps drop for sure
I also encounter this problem when playing pubg even with smooth-ultra setting
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and thermal throttling can be disabled by using a certain magisk module. although not recommended when ur playing for long period of time. i play max 3hrs highest temperature reached 45°c.
kennyk09 said:
5. Find out many bugs and instabilities
6. Start realizing custom roms are not mature yet
7. Go back to stock ROM
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It happened to me, custom roms aren't good for gaming then switched back to MIUI, when I play phone gets 45 C max, my battery gives 6 hours of straight online gaming, I'm on MIUI Global 10.3.5, Evira kernel 3.8.
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660 wasn't designed for battery efficiency. Still waiting for Franco Kernel, it might fix the issue. My Redmi Note 4x can last up to 10hrs SOT while my Redmi Note 7 can only reach 5hrs even with custom ROM+greenify installed.
The ****tiest phone i ever have, my another phone with 636 even perform better than this. Too many frame drop
rifrish said:
The ****tiest phone i ever have, my another phone with 636 even perform better than this. Too many frame drop
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lol get a good pc if you want to game with high fps.
just bought this phone since my Nexus 6p's battery died and it's really good. im constantly getting up to 10h+ of sot with normal usage.
nardow said:
lol get a good pc if you want to game with high fps.
just bought this phone since my Nexus 6p's battery died and it's really good. im constantly getting up to 10h+ of sot with normal usage.
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Nope. With moderate use I barely get 7, mostly 6. I got this sot by using apps like line, wa, instagram, youtube, browsing, downloading tons of file and one match playing pubg and pes.
I reach 8 to 9 hours sot only if i using wifi and playing videos constantly, minimum social media and no gaming.
Ofc people used their phone different each others. But, im sure they are having same battery drain. People talk about this so many times and everywhere. Ur case having 10+ sot like only happen 1:10 of all lavender users.
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rifrish said:
The ****tiest phone i ever have, my another phone with 636 even perform better than this. Too many frame drop
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Its true continuous gaming on this phone (with stock miui) is bad. You will get smooth gameplay only in short term, like a one match pubg. Then it will start to lag because of heat. We need to keep the phone temp as cool as possible when used for gaming to get less frame drop. Example, playing close to a fan or inside a room with air conditioner on.
Rayquaza said:
AFAIK, that's called thermal-throttle/ing. When RN7 reach its peak performance and certain heat, to prevent overheat normally our device will slowing down its performance and it caused lags and fps drop for sure
I also encounter this problem when playing pubg even with smooth-ultra setting
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Yes, thermal throttle where the main reason. Its limit cpu whenever temp -read by system- reach 43/44 degree. A temp read by system are mostly not indicate the real temp. Besides, we have clockspeed max at 2.2Ghz, making our phone faster to heats up easilly. Thats why thermal throttling the cpu in such early time. (Its ruins gameplay, isnt it? :v)
If we look inside thermal-engine.conf on lavender, it use two sensor for detection and two step for throttling the cpu. First step it will limit clockspeed by 1,5Ghz and 1,9Ghz. Second step it will limit clockspeed by 1,1Ghz and 1,4Ghz. Because the temp gap between these step are only 1°, so mostly thermal-engine will going to limit clockspeed by 1,1Ghz and 1,4Ghz. Imagine play pubg with that clockspeed, lags and frame drop will occurs oftenly.
I've seen Mi 8 Lite with the same chipset playing pubg continously without any frame drop. I took its thermal-engine configuration and compare them with lavender.
Interestingly there are specified profiles for gaming and pubg are missing on lavender. Thus, both thermal-engine are really different. A same chipset should having same thermal at least. But, this show us that lavender thermal thingy are not being optimized yet while mi8 lite does already.
kennyk09 said:
5. Find out many bugs and instabilities
6. Start realizing custom roms are not mature yet
7. Go back to stock ROM
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Lol. Agreed XD
Im gonna Re-Unlock my bootloader for the third times and use custom rom when they fix Hals. Till then i stay on miui hoping miuidev did an improvisation with next update.

Question Disappointed / Laggy performance in Pubg

Hello everyone,
I've upgraded from OnePlus 7 pro to Mi 11 ultra thinking about it's great specs but even with SD888 i can sense a lag in the game, it's unable to handle Pubg, game lags,
I've tried from smooth to UHD with extreme refresh rate, in OnePlus 7 pro with SD855 i was able to play HD with extreme refresh with no problem.
Anyone knows how to fix it? What is your review on gaming?
gurnoorme said:
Hello everyone,
I've upgraded from OnePlus 7 pro to Mi 11 ultra thinking about it's great specs but even with SD888 i can sense a lag in the game, it's unable to handle Pubg, game lags,
I've tried from smooth to UHD with extreme refresh rate, in OnePlus 7 pro with SD855 i was able to play HD with extreme refresh with no problem.
Anyone knows how to fix it? What is your review on gaming?
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My experience in gaming Mobile legends is amazing, I keep going with UHD max graphics and performance and my device handle to beat at least 94% of others, imagine if I drop refresh rate and graphics a little bit.
a quick question, how many games and hours you played on pubg with the device?
for me, the first 2 times I played mobile legends the phone was overheating and device was lagging little bit. but after that, battery is way better, never over heats, and amazing performance. so basically, it is just learning the device power consumption.
in summary, be patient and it will be way better in a day or 2.
may I ask which rom version you doing? hope not .Eu!!
forgot to mention, everytime I factory reset device I face same issue. so it is a thing that you should not worry about. just machine learning.
hassanaliyeh said:
My experience in gaming Mobile legends is amazing, I keep going with UHD max graphics and performance and my device handle to beat at least 94% of others, imagine if I drop refresh rate and graphics a little bit.
a quick question, how many games and hours you played on pubg with the device?
for me, the first 2 times I played mobile legends the phone was overheating and device was lagging little bit. but after that, battery is way better, never over heats, and amazing performance. so basically, it is just learning the device power consumption.
in summary, be patient and it will be way better in a day or 2.
may I ask which rom version you doing? hope not .Eu!!
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Hope not eu? Why this?
My eu stable version never lags at all.
BigDisplay said:
Hope not eu? Why this?
My eu stable version never lags at all.
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If it was Eu, then all I said above does not apply to him. As the experience I shared was of stock rom. And I had bad experience with EU rom specially gaming and ram management. I totally agree with you that it never lags and sooooooo smooth, but other things are also important.
Thank you @hassanaliyeh , I'm on global miui 12.5.2.0 , I don't play games a lot, it was just for a hour. I'll try it again today.
I tried some GFX fix tools but it didn't worked.
gurnoorme said:
Thank you @hassanaliyeh , I'm on global miui 12.5.2.0 , I don't play games a lot, it was just for a hour. I'll try it again today.
I tried some GFX fix tools but it didn't worked.
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No worries, you do not have any issues then, just give it a few hours and days.
Enjoy

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