Xiaomi phones have become awful

[Javfly33]

I remember 4-5 years ago I had a xiaomi cost me about 150-200$ but for that price the performance and battery duration was pretty flawless compared to other mid-high phones . I bought another one after that that wasn´t that bad either at all.

But my god, the last one I´ve bought. Is absolutely ridiculous how fucking bad it is.

About 6 months after buying it I get an update of the last OS and things just work awful.

1. Lag is usual when opening lots of apps or doing visual transitions like opening the keyboard, opening the camera...etc.
2. Most of the times when I start the phone (I usually shut it down at night), the system just stalls LOL. It says 'system is not responding'. So you can either touch 'accept' and the screen will go dark or either ignore it and it will just freeze.
3. Brutal lag in the camera app
4. The alarms. The FUCKING ALARMS. Like how difficult is to at least make the damn alarm app at least be the one that works fine. Well that is not the case neither. I actually missed a fucking appointment in work due to the alarm one day just not working. THANK YOU XIAOMI FOR YOUR GREAT PHONE.
5. Calls. Sometimes I get a call, it starts ringing but the app UI does not come up in order for me to be able to receive the call. So it just keeps ringing and ringing but there is no way for be to accept the call. Hahaha great xiaomi, great. Keep working like this. Your software devs are doing a great job.
6. Alarm second round: Today at 6:10 on a SATURDAY suddenly the alarm starts ringing, but oh surprise! Now as like happened with the calls, the ability to stop the alarm is not there HAHAHA. What a fucking joke. There is no way to stop the alarm. I enter the alarm app to see if I can deactivate from there, but turns out there´s not a single one scheduled. The fucking phone just decided to start the alarm at 6:10 on a Saturday morning and there´s not even a way to stop it. GREAT XIAOMI! GREAT WORK IM SO HAPPY WITH YOUR PHONE lmao. So basically I have to shut off the phone to make it stop. 
7.  

DO NOT BUY LOW END TIER XIAOMIS THEY ARE COMPLETE UTTER GARBAGE

Edited March 24 by Javfly33

[Leo Gura]

Why would you buy a Chinese Communist phone?

[Extreme Z7]

1 hour ago, Javfly33 said:

DO NOT BUY LOW END TIER XIAOMIS THEY ARE COMPLETE UTTER GARBAGE

Fortunately for me, I own a mid-tier Xiaomi phone. (Not a joke btw)

[mmKay]

Which one specifically are you talking about? I've been using mostly xiaimi. Getting adds in system apps is ridiculous. 

[Alexop]

I own a mid end Xiaomi and it works well since 3 years. Now that I have more money, I'll probably buy something better like a oneplus or smth. I want to add that Apple sucks even if nobody asked me.

[Yimpa]

2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Why would you buy a Chinese Communist phone?

To get to the other side! 

[Yimpa]

1 hour ago, mmKay said:

Which one specifically are you talking about? I've been using mostly xiaimi. Getting adds in system apps is ridiculous. 

Apple also has ads in their own system app. For example, in the Settings app, setting up a brand new iPhone alerts you to sign into iCloud, enable Apple Pay, and upgrade your iCloud storage plan if you ran out of the free storage!

Y’all take government for granted

Edited March 24 by Yimpa

[Bobby_2021]

Android Phone companies are playing a dangerous game by squeezing out their low end phone market customers. If you pander them to buy a premium Android phone, they might as well switch to, hate to say it, an iPhone. 

I have been getting ads in system apps too. Reported it to the customer care and they said to bring the phone physically to their office for "physical inspection". Wtf. All their phones have ads in their system apps.

A part of the problem is thag people simply accept whatever is shoved down their throats. A large enough group of people protesting is more than enough to get these companies to change their minds. But slaves be slaves. 

I will never buy any apple product though. Screw capitalism and all those who enable it. 

15 minutes ago, Yimpa said:

Apple also has ads in their own system app

Unreal. Why do people even put up with this?

They are slowly moving to "You will own nothing and you will be happy" kind of great reset. 

Edited March 24 by Bobby_2021

[Leo Gura]

There are no ads on Samsung phones.

[CosmicExplorer]

Many low end phones have bad, old chips that are slow and not power efficient. 8gen3 is now on par with apple A17 in terms of power efficiency but it's only installed in high end phones. 7gen3 and dimensity 8300 are almost as good and there are some ~285$ phones with it

https://www.socpk.com

 

Edited March 24 by CosmicExplorer

[shree]

43 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

There are no ads on Samsung phones.

Because they are 3 times more expensive.

Xiaomi keeps their prices low by giving you ads. They can be removed by using a software.

@Javfly33

Your experience is based on one specific model? Is it maybe a software issue?

 

You can remove ads on any Xiaomi phone by using a software in 30 sec.

[MAHAVATAR_-_BABAJI]

7 hours ago, Extreme Z7 said:

Fortunately for me, I own a mid-tier Xiaomi phone. (Not a joke btw)

Why not Just get a Samsung or an iPhone and work a job to pay for it?

Edited March 24 by MAHAVATAR_-_BABAJI

[Leo Gura]

Wouldn't you be better off buying a used previous-gen Samsung phone?

A Samsung phone from a few years back will still be great.

Edited March 24 by Leo Gura

[shree]

22 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Wouldn't you be better off buying a used previous-gen Samsung phone?

If you are experienced enough to change the battery so you have a full capacity, yes. Changing a battery in phones these days is a pain in the ass.

22 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

A Samsung phone from a few years back will still be great.

Only if you are okay with using an older version of Android and no more Security updates. Also, they all became sluggish with time, even a clean system reinstall, doesn´t help much.

Edited March 24 by shree

[Leo Gura]

Security updates are a bunch of BS. Never updated any of my phones in 15 years.

And Samsung phones never slow down.

Edited March 24 by Leo Gura

[LSD-Rumi]

I just buy renewed samsung phones from Amazon. 
The one I bought for like 140$ is Samsung s10e, and omg it is amazing. It has a very fast chip and works flawlessly. It has been with me for 3 years now without any problem.

[Extreme Z7]

14 hours ago, MAHAVATAR_-_BABAJI said:

Why not Just get a Samsung or an iPhone and work a job to pay for it?

It cost me around 350$. It's sort of a more mid-high tier, I guess.

It's the POCO F5 if you want to check it out.
Pretty good specs, Stereo speakers, but the kicker for me is it still had a 3.5mm headphone jack.

[mmKay]

14 hours ago, shree said:

If you are experienced enough to change the battery so you have a full capacity, yes. Changing a battery in phones these days is a pain in the ass.

 

I've heard Europe passed a bill for all new phones to have a mandatory removable battery to allow for basic maintenance work and reduce electronic waste and elongate smartphone life use

Not sure how accurate am I on this 

[Javfly33]

On 24/03/2024 at 7:07 AM, Leo Gura said:

Why would you buy a Chinese Communist phone?

lol

On 24/03/2024 at 8:13 AM, Extreme Z7 said:

Fortunately for me, I own a mid-tier Xiaomi phone. (Not a joke btw)

Well yeah it is mid-tier maybe its ok

On 24/03/2024 at 8:29 AM, mmKay said:

Which one specifically are you talking about? I've been using mostly xiaimi. Getting adds in system apps is ridiculous. 

It´s the Redmi Note 12. The 'HyperOS' update fucked everything in the phone imo

On 24/03/2024 at 9:42 AM, Yimpa said:

To get to the other side! 

lol

20 hours ago, shree said:

Because they are 3 times more expensive.

Xiaomi keeps their prices low by giving you ads. They can be removed by using a software.

@Javfly33

Your experience is based on one specific model? Is it maybe a software issue?

 

You can remove ads on any Xiaomi phone by using a software in 30 sec.

It´s the Redmi Note 12. The 'HyperOS' update fucked everything in the phone imo

17 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Wouldn't you be better off buying a used previous-gen Samsung phone?

A Samsung phone from a few years back will still be great.

yeah probably, ive heard good things about samsung

[shree]

18 hours ago, mmKay said:

I've heard Europe passed a bill for all new phones to have a mandatory removable battery to allow for basic maintenance work and reduce electronic waste and elongate smartphone life use

Not sure how accurate am I on this 

On 24/03/2024 at 4:51 PM, Leo Gura said:

 

Yes, I also heard about this. I hope it's true. 

How cool would it be to have removable battery in a modern smartphone.