What things are to be done after buying MI smartphones

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Guys shed some light in this department. 🙏🙏🙏

Bhai if you want 100% assurance then simply go to xda forum & install a custom rom for your phone model, many Indian devs there so always have support for Indian specific issues like jio volte, paytm phonepe app not working etc. If don’t want to try custom rom then follow some miui ad blocking guides there.

There is a Java utility from xda developers or git. Take that and uninstall the apps you don’t need. For what it’s worth, I suggest to google the apk name before removing, understand what it does. If you decide it’s of no use, then uninstall it. Not all features are wanted by everyone. You can also do the same via command line through adb without the need for that java utility. But this utility lists only those apps that are safe to remove. A few apps are tangled with miui, and when you remove that, os gets crashed.

If you choose command line option , there is another thing I would suggest. Start with a freshly reset phone, after you remove each app, restart atleast 2 times to ensure you don’t break anything. If you happen to break, recover and repeat the process by excluding that particular app which broke the OS

Aaj ke din Dussehra Puja Karo phone Ki 😂

Unboxing my redmi note 9 pro today 🤩😀

Which phone exactly? Poco barely needs anything to be done, but Redmi phones need a lot of debloating which will take half an hour.

throw in dustbin, lmao

In my case immediately after unboxing my Poco F1 I started the bootloader unlocking process. Thankfully it was almost instantaneous. Flashed a custom recovery followed by crDroid which is pretty much the best ROM for F1. It had already been on the market for more than a year so custom ROM development was quite mature and so a multitude of quality ROMs were available. CrDroid was so good that I didn’t feel the need to try any other custom ROM. MIUI was on my device for maybe a few minutes at most and that garbage is never ever coming back. However one might try to polish a turd it will still remain shit.

Custom Rom and then say CKMKB

I am using redmi 6 for past 2.5 to 3years
It works good but only some crashes now and then.
If you don’t want warranty you can change the default miui to some stable mod ROM.

But again these modded os also have many issues.
For normal use and with scréen guard and bumper case your phone easily comes for 3years

All the best

Find my device is the culprit it causes phone to crash
If possible remove it

Hii @bikidas2060 bro if u want to remove ads from MIUI then check this thread – https://www.desidime.com/discussions/how-to-rem...

Also there are umpteen complaints about MIUI updates after 1 year or so being buggy, lower in performance and battery backup. For ex. F1 users are reporting 5-7 hours SoT in recent MIUI updates which is abysmal whereas in crDroid I am averaging 11 hours plus (down from 13-15 hours in the first 8-9 months).

The compromises are related to your usage statistics and not security
Companies use the data acquired for their upcoming plans/launches and this is the cost you pay (+Ads) for getting a budget phone
You could prefer to share your usage data with google/microsoft/samsung/xiaomi and that’s your choice!

If you wanna get rid of bloatware (Useful Apps to some*) or Ads, then you can get over to XDA and use debloater scripts to disable system apps
& if you prefer to get rid of the skinned OS and flash a custom rom from XDA or Telegram (from a new developer* – usual case for new phones), its just one more compromise like getting chinese phones because they are cheap

If you want to install custom rom go to https://forum.xda-developers.com/poco-...ro
Else if you want to uninstall or disable system apps download this tool https://github.com/Szaki/XiaomiADBFastboo...ls

Few users of m2 pro/note 9 pro have observed dust settling under camera lens after few days.
Let us know whether u also observe this after few days

@bikidas2060 are you going to install custom roms or fine with miui?
after removing all apps i don’t see any ads or annoying notification but with each miui update mi going to slow down the phone.

Checkout this –

Here’s an article that sheds light on how shitty MIUI is https://www.notebookcheck.net/MIUI-12-update-ba...

Winter is coming .Play games for 10mins on it ,then use it as a pocket heater .

@Gaurav_G

Ganga me snan kar le

Ya, maata pita ka ashirwad le le

Ya, wo phone ab kitna me mil raha ye dekhna band kar de

Ya, jo bhi man aye kare

does banking/payment apps work fine with custom rom?

Throw it to dustbin 🗑

Thanks @bikidas2060 and @LIMBO
Will try this in few days

@bikidas2060 you can try pixel experience almost all banking apps work perfectly. If you face any problems with custom rom i can help.

Quite likely. For instance MIUI 12 for Poco F1 was widely regarded as buggy but in custom ROMs it wasn’t the case. Heck even A11 ones which are still a WIP and a little away from maturity are less buggy!