Hi all, as the title, what is the best? At the moment I use miuimix, great rom but I'm not very happy for its battery management because I use a lot of time 4g and dual sim, and my signal is not very well, with mi 9. Until two months ago I used Huawei p20 Pro and signal was very good. What you can advice?
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Custom rom development is lacking on p20 Pro camera is obviously one drawback any other reason not to go with mi 8 I want to flash pixel experience as soon as I get the phone I'm getting it on three UK as a upgrade to my honor 8 any input would be much appreciated!
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You wont be getting any luck with the P20 costum roms since Huawei somehow made the BL impossible to unlock. Camerawise the P20 pro is better in comparision to the Mi8 already excelent camera. The rest is pretty much the same. If costum roms is your priority then between the P20 or Mi8 I'd go for the Mi8.
Also the price. The Mi8 is much cheaper than the P20 Pro.
Hi all, I can take the P30 [non-Pro] for the same price as Mi 9, and I am not sure which one to take. If you were me, which one would you take and why? I would love to hear you opinions.
Mi 9 > P30
P30 Pro > Mi 9
But price tag is huge mark there, I would go for Mi 9. It'll definitely have better Custom ROM support too
yhh Mi9 considering it will have more ROM support and its better than the non-pro P30
I know benchmarks aren't everything, but the MI9 beats all Huawei phones including the P30 Pro.
Secondly, Huawei no longer offer a bootloader unlocking service whereas Xiaomi release the full source code for their ROM on day 1. This is evidenced in the amount of activity on XDA for the Huawei, which is very little.
If you take a look at the Huawei forum, you'll see that they say nice things about issues, but nothing ever happens. I waited 4 months and gave up. Now my P20 Pro is on eBay.
And lastly, on the funny side, here's a video on Huawei support
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz1JWzyvv8A
Keep Smilin'
Steve
So I am willing to buy a new phone and the Mi A2 (4gb/64gb) and Redmi note 7(3gb/32gb - the one with SD 660 and 48mp camera, a.k.a. Redmi note 7s in India) are almost identical in price in my region .They both fit perfectly into my budget and are great devices. So I am confused about which one to choose. Hence I request you guys to help me in deciding which one to buy.
- With Mi A2, you'd be disappointed with the battery life.
- There's a bug in Mi A2 which causes slow eMMC write speeds in the 4 GB, 64 GB variant. Before I moved to a Mi A2, users warned me even so much as to completely avoid buying the A2 since it was so frustrating for them.
- I bought Mi A2 a week ago and haven't experienced this issue. However judging on the ranting of affected users, try to avoid Mi A2 if you can get other similar device in same price.
- Camera wise Redmi Note 7s is far better than Mi A2.
- With Redmi Note 7s, you'd be disappointed with the amount of multitasking in the stock MIUI after a few months. For current uses, 3 GB RAM is adequate enough, but MIUI bloatware consumes a lot of RAM.
- Custom ROMs will offer quite good multitasking on Redmi Note 7s. So i'd say go for the Note 7 (better camera + better battery + no eMMC issue).
For me I will absolutely chose MI A2...
Because I hate notch
Just had to make this decision a month ago
I got the A2 and I don't regret a thing .. btw the camera sensor on A2 is better than the note 7 just .. just the battery for the note 7 .. every thing else A2 win
Mark7Aymn said:
Just had to make this decision a month ago
I got the A2 and I don't regret a thing .. btw the camera sensor on A2 is better than the note 7 just .. just the battery for the note 7 .. every thing else A2 win
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Do you think the battery is manageable? What has your experience been like?
Not the best .. avg 5 hours and I play pubg a lot using havoc latest version
have you ever tried miui? do you like it or would you rather have a stock-ish android experience? it boils down to just this...
if you hate miui you're stuck with it on the redmi note 7 till good custom roms show up, and even then, xiaomi makes you jump through hoops to unlock it and get the custom rom up.
other then this, the redmi note 7 has better hardware, same cpu, better battery and i'd argue a better camera as well. not that either of them takes stellar pictures. i personally cant stand miui any more so ... i would either wait for official custom roms for the lavender or the mi a3.
i am currently using an a2 and im perfectly happy with it - i think it's onenof the best xiaomi devicees i've owned in terms of headaches caused but it's hard to recommend 1y old devices...
l.e. and yep, the battery on the a2 barely gets me through the day with 5-7h sot. it's not great.... the note 7 with a good custom rom and proper mods should easily last 2 days, i was getting that on the redmi note 4 with its 4000mah bateery. and yet, considering how long it took me to unlock, fijd a good lineage, set it up, i think the 1day battery is a small price to pay to get a stock android from the getgo with no worries that the maintainers siddenly drop support...
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if you want miui (it does have some nice features) -> redmi note 7
if you want stock android: either wait for the mi a3 or get the the a2. unless youre willing to waste time and effort to go the custom route on the redmi note 7.
Just install Hex kernel, it fixes the slow eMMC write speed. You will need to unlock bootloader to do that.
laviniu_c said:
have you ever tried miui? do you like it or would you rather have a stock-ish android experience? it boils down to just this...
if you hate miui you're stuck with it on the redmi note 7 till good custom roms show up, and even then, xiaomi makes you jump through hoops to unlock it and get the custom rom up.
other then this, the redmi note 7 has better hardware, same cpu, better battery and i'd argue a better camera as well. not that either of them takes stellar pictures. i personally cant stand miui any more so ... i would either wait for official custom roms for the lavender or the mi a3.
i am currently using an a2 and im perfectly happy with it - i think it's onenof the best xiaomi devicees i've owned in terms of headaches caused but it's hard to recommend 1y old devices...
l.e. and yep, the battery on the a2 barely gets me through the day with 5-7h sot. it's not great.... the note 7 with a good custom rom and proper mods should easily last 2 days, i was getting that on the redmi note 4 with its 4000mah bateery. and yet, considering how long it took me to unlock, fijd a good lineage, set it up, i think the 1day battery is a small price to pay to get a stock android from the getgo with no worries that the maintainers siddenly drop support...
l.e2:
if you want miui (it does have some nice features) -> redmi note 7
if you want stock android: either wait for the mi a3 or get the the a2. unless youre willing to waste time and effort to go the custom route on the redmi note 7.
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I personally don't like miui but still i can manage till stable roms come out. Btw do you think the difference in storage and ram should be considered while making the decision cuz its 4gb/64gb (a2) vs 3gb/32gb (rn7) for the same price?
yes. do not get the 3/32 rn7. it might not even be the global version... and 3/32 is definettly not future proof... it does have expandable storage but you'd sacrifice the second sim. and 3gb ram is still bad.
just wait a couple weeks, prices for it should come down a bit.
I bought Mi A2 Yesterday only and I'm happy with it. I didn't buy RN7/7s because of miui and it takes a lot of time to unlock bootloader. And i mostly prefer stock. And battery backup of Mi A2 is enough only for me. Plus RN7/7s is soo thick i don't like at all.
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kradNZ said:
Just install Hex kernel, it fixes the slow eMMC write speed. You will need to unlock bootloader to do that.
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When will i go through this eMMC slow?
poran123 said:
I bought Mi A2 Yesterday only and I'm happy with it. I didn't buy RN7/7s because of miui and it takes a lot of time to unlock bootloader. And i mostly prefer stock. And battery backup of Mi A2 is enough only for me. Plus RN7/7s is soo thick i don't like at all.
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When will i go through this eMMC slow?
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People report experiencing slow clearing of cache data. Eg, when clearing Chrome's browser cache.
For day to day use you probably won't notice it.
yep, it only shows when you delete lots and lots of very small files. such as the chrome cache. wish there was a way to permanently disable it...
So i've been with x3 pro for a few months, overall great phone, good quality, but i've been missing some root on the phone and mi 11 was my first choice but went to oppo because mi 11 was out of stock, but now i receipt a proposal to trade x3 pro for mi 11, what you guys think, i've seen some benches, i think i can get good with mi 11, but need some outside opinion
i sold my x2 pro for the mi11. x2 pro had no root and too many software bugs. haven't looked back.
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So i've been with x3 pro for a few months, overall great phone, good quality, but i've been missing some root on the phone and mi 11 was my first choice but went to oppo because mi 11 was out of stock, but now i receipt a proposal to trade x3 pro for mi 11, what you guys think, i've seen some benches, i think i can get good with mi 11, but need some outside opinion
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On the paper, X3 Pro is more Premium, more interesting (more RAM & Storage) and it was more expensive, we can compare more X3 Pro at a Mi 11 Ultra than a Mi 11.
BUT... in fact, X3 Finf is boring with ColorOS and absolutely no Root / Dev.
Mi 11 purpose MIUI Custom (Xiaomi.eu / MiuiMix / OneOS) and AOSP roms arrive (from LineageOS source/trees), so my advise is simple, if you want retrieve Root and are a AOPS addict, move on Mi 11.
Becareful, battery life is bad on MI 11, it has the worst battery life compared to others 888 powered smartphones
Pho3nX said:
On the paper, X3 Pro is more Premium, more interesting (more RAM & Storage) and it was more expensive, we can compare more X3 Pro at a Mi 11 Ultra than a Mi 11.
BUT... in fact, X3 Finf is boring with ColorOS and absolutely no Root / Dev.
Mi 11 purpose MIUI Custom (Xiaomi.eu / MiuiMix / OneOS) and AOSP roms arrive (from LineageOS source/trees), so my advise is simple, if you want retrieve Root and are a AOPS addict, move on Mi 11.
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Having x3 pro does feel good, with a premium quality like you said, but the low customization regarding root and other stuff, is a key feature missing, i personally yould like it to have more development, because sometines i miss having some rooted stuff i had back at my mi 8, i would get an mi 11 ultra, but where i live its not yet available or dont send it here
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Becareful, battery life is bad on MI 11, it has the worst battery life compared to others 888 powered smartphones
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My battery lasts all day honestly, if with heavy SOT, leaving at 8.30 am with 100% it went down to 20% at 23pm, and farily i used it a lot
Wahoux said:
Becareful, battery life is bad on MI 11, it has the worst battery life compared to others 888 powered smartphones
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I get 6-8 SOT.. no complaints at all.. though with rapid battery charge who cares..
Wahoux said:
Becareful, battery life is bad on MI 11, it has the worst battery life compared to others 888 powered smartphones
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get around 6 SOT which I dont consider bad
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I have a few old Android Phones like Huawei P20 Pro, Xiaomi Mi 8 and recently upgraded to a Redmi Note 11 and Huawei P50 Pro, i need two working phones as i use sim cards, because i travel a lot and don't want to use the sim tray all the time changing sim cards. Thanks for this great forum
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Hello i am new to this forum, i have been reading it for a few weeks now. I am just a normal guy and love to go deeper into how things work etc.
I have a few old Android Phones like Huawei P20 Pro, Xiaomi Mi 8 and recently upgraded to a Redmi Note 11 and Huawei P50 Pro, i need two working phones as i use sim cards, because i travel a lot and don't want to use the sim tray all the time changing sim cards. Thanks for this great forum
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