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I own a Xiaomi product (not a phone) Xiaomi phones have the same problem as all Chinese phones: If you can't put Cyanogen mod on it, it is close to useless.

by tiatia 10y ago

morsch 10y ago
I put CM on the two Xiaomi phones I own, but other people are quite happy with MIUI. It's seems to be fairly polished and is updated regularly. Not sure how it can be described as useless.
- Laforet 10y ago
  I don't get the poster above either, the success of MIUI is what propelled Xiaomi into their hardware business after all. There was (and probably still is) a decent following in the west maintaining many community ports of MIUI.
kyriakos 10y ago
Cyanogen is not the only choice. Unlike most chinese manufacturers Xiaomi's MIUI is decent and is regularly updated.
- tiatia 10y ago
  I was less worried by the feel and look and update policies. While both are issues, I am worried about privacy issues.
  - kyriakos 10y ago
    if i am not mistaken the source is available?
tdkl 10y ago
MIUI > AOSP/Google Android, but that's my opinion. They even fixed the shitty non existant backup/restore situation on Android, hence why Titanium Backup&Restore is the best selling paid app for years. Built in solution backups apps with data (also overrides backup permission set in manifest) and all system settings. You can run it periodically, save in desired storage location, locally or in MI Cloud. After I had to reflash cousins phone which had a vendor MIUI installed, the restore did everything and was almost a 1:1 copy. Not to mention updates, my budget 135€ device has January 2017 Android security update and is updated weekly. It has it's own funny things though, like expanding notifications with two fingers only and a bit fiddling to allow apps to run in background and receive notifications, but this whitelisting isn't anything different that other Android vendors have done to save battery.
- aembleton 10y ago
  You also can't change the launcher.
  - Max_Mustermann 10y ago
    Of course you can, I'm running Nova Launcher.
    - aembleton 10y ago
      I take it back. I had to check what my last Chinese phone was. It was a Letv 1s running EUI. I thought it was MIUI. I found the software a bit frustrating but I can tell you the build quality was the best I've experienced in a phone. Mind you, all my phones have been sub £200.

I own a Xiaomi product (not a phone) Xiaomi phones have the same problem as all Chinese phones: If you can't put Cyanogen mod on it, it is close to useless.

by tiatia 10y ago

I own a Xiaomi product (not a phone) Xiaomi phones have the same problem as all Chinese phones: If you can't put Cyanogen mod on it, it is close to useless.

morsch 10y ago

I put CM on the two Xiaomi phones I own, but other people are quite happy with MIUI. It's seems to be fairly polished and is updated regularly. Not sure how it can be described as useless.

Laforet 10y ago
I don't get the poster above either, the success of MIUI is what propelled Xiaomi into their hardware business after all. There was (and probably still is) a decent following in the west maintaining many community ports of MIUI.

kyriakos 10y ago

Cyanogen is not the only choice. Unlike most chinese manufacturers Xiaomi's MIUI is decent and is regularly updated.

tiatia 10y ago
I was less worried by the feel and look and update policies. While both are issues, I am worried about privacy issues.
- kyriakos 10y ago
  if i am not mistaken the source is available?

tdkl 10y ago

MIUI > AOSP/Google Android, but that's my opinion. They even fixed the shitty non existant backup/restore situation on Android, hence why Titanium Backup&Restore is the best selling paid app for years. Built in solution backups apps with data (also overrides backup permission set in manifest) and all system settings. You can run it periodically, save in desired storage location, locally or in MI Cloud. After I had to reflash cousins phone which had a vendor MIUI installed, the restore did everything and was almost a 1:1 copy. Not to mention updates, my budget 135€ device has January 2017 Android security update and is updated weekly. It has it's own funny things though, like expanding notifications with two fingers only and a bit fiddling to allow apps to run in background and receive notifications, but this whitelisting isn't anything different that other Android vendors have done to save battery.

aembleton 10y ago
You also can't change the launcher.
- Max_Mustermann 10y ago
  Of course you can, I'm running Nova Launcher.
  - aembleton 10y ago
    I take it back. I had to check what my last Chinese phone was. It was a Letv 1s running EUI. I thought it was MIUI. I found the software a bit frustrating but I can tell you the build quality was the best I've experienced in a phone. Mind you, all my phones have been sub £200.