The Xiaomi Redmi Note 9s was my top choice for phone to buy until I today read the Forbes article about Xiaomi spywware (different from bloatware… it's send user behaviour data to Chinese servers about not just web use but even music, folders, status bar, app use…
Questions:
1. Do European firmware also have this problem?
2. Will community ROMs like LineageOS solve this problem?
3. Can modified hosts file solve this problem?
The problem is with Xiaomi browser, you can use another browser you trust (Firefox, Chrome, etc.) and forget the concerns. However, Xiaomi released an statement two weeks ago explaining the data collected and a way to disable it. (https://blog.mi.com/en/2020/05/02/l...onse-to-media-coverage-on-our-privacy-policy/)
If you are very concerned about your privacy, yes, a custom ROM will help, because most customs ROMs are built over open source projects and focused on protect your data and privacy. Note that the Redmi Note 9S is new on the market, so the community development isn't mature enough. Maybe you can choose the Redmi Note 8, with more time on the market and with more community development available. Another alternative are Xiaomi Mi A2 or Mi A3, they have the advantage to have Android One, so you get rid of Xiaomi Services -and possible spying- out of the box.
xsam123 said:
Maybe you can choose the Redmi Note 8, with more time on the market and with more community development available. Another alternative are Xiaomi Mi A2 or Mi A3, they have the advantage to have Android One, so you get rid of Xiaomi Services -and possible spying- out of the box.
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Excellent suggestions, @xsam123, thank you!
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I'm having issue trying to reset my device to use Google Parental controls (Google Family Link) - doesn't seems to allow me to add children even though the device meet the requirements.
Currently using Pixel Experience 8.1 ROM, but I tried Lineage OS 14, as well as MIUI 8.2.1.
It seems to complain that Update is required and please try again.
Anyone having similar issue?
Bump. No help guys?
Hi, I need to turn of the duty cycling of the GNSS (GPS) chip on my mate 20 pro. I was under the impression that it should be an option in the developer settings in Android Pie, as it is in other phones, but there is no such option for Mate 20 Pro.
Does anyone know why and better yet how to solve it? I must turn off the duty cycling for my research project. Thanks!
hey do you find the way to turn off?
fh2018 said:
Hi, I need to turn of the duty cycling of the GNSS (GPS) chip on my mate 20 pro. I was under the impression that it should be an option in the developer settings in Android Pie, as it is in other phones, but there is no such option for Mate 20 Pro.
Does anyone know why and better yet how to solve it? I must turn off the duty cycling for my research project. Thanks!
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hey do you find the way to turn off the duty cycle on mate 20 pro? i cant find the option in the developer option either. but i can find the option in S10 .
Huawei P30 Pro EMUI 9.1
Hello did you find a solution to your problem? I am an owner of the Huawei P30 Pro with the latest release of EMUI 9.1. I can’t find how to disable the duty circle on GNSS raw data measurement (there is no option under the android developer settings on my Huawei Device). In some smartphones duty circle can automatically disabled when you call android GNSS raw data API. Does the Huawei supports this feature or we can not disable duty circle on Huawei smartphones at all? Thanking you in advance.
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Hello did you find a solution to your problem? I am an owner of the Huawei P30 Pro with the latest release of EMUI 9.1. I can’t find how to disable the duty circle on GNSS raw data measurement (there is no option under the android developer settings on my Huawei Device). In some smartphones duty circle can automatically disabled when you call android GNSS raw data API. Does the Huawei supports this feature or we can not disable duty circle on Huawei smartphones at all? Thanking you in advance.
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hello I communicated with the engineer of huawei only to know the EMUI doesnt support disabling the duty cycle. Are you trying to use the carrier-phase for RTK or PPP ?
Duty Cycle
Yes I am trying to develop an app using the kernel of the RTKLIB open source library for PPP and RTK purposes. I have already tested this with XIAOMI MI8. I am also interesting in buying the new Xiaomi Mi 9 with Qualcomm 855 in build gps chip. Did you ever test the Xiaomi Mi phones? I also have already test the mate 20 pro for dual frequency carrier phase measurement. In order to implement the L5 frequency on this model, you have to update to EMUI 9.1. But this issue with duty cycle is critical so I can not support this model also with the P30 Pro.
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Yes I am trying to develop an app using the kernel of the RTKLIB open source library for PPP and RTK purposes. I have already tested this with XIAOMI MI8. I am also interesting in buying the new Xiaomi Mi 9 with Qualcomm 855 in build gps chip. Did you ever test the Xiaomi Mi phones? I also have already test the mate 20 pro for dual frequency carrier phase measurement. In order to implement the L5 frequency on this model, you have to update to EMUI 9.1. But this issue with duty cycle is critical so I can not support this model also with the P30 Pro.
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hello. Thanks for reply. I wonder how you turn off duty cycle of mate 20 pro? My mate 20 pro has already been updated to EMUI 9.1 But I still cant find the option:"Force full GNSS measurement" .
I dont have access to XiaoMi 8. Would you please send me a Rinex file made by xiaomi 8 ? Thank you.
Xiaomi Mi 8 Rinex File
Yes for sure. Here is a link with a Rinex File from Xiaomi Mi 8 that i have recorded today with Rinex On App.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14v-Li2Ip-d9-z3iJ-Bj_tu2tZdVI7LXm/view?usp=drivesdk
Hello,
I know, it's an old post !
Finally, is there a way to avoid duty cycling on P30 and othe huawai phones ?
Just found out my new honor 8x' gallery app do not have Discover tab, just photo & album. Seems like other huawei or honor phone have it? Any clue? EMUI 8.2.
Same here: I have never seen on my phone.
Inviato dal mio Honor 8x utilizzando Tapatalk
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Seems that this is common among honor 8x user.
I did search on Chinese huawei forum, below are the finding:
1. Some say it have discover feature, just need time to generate the discover photo, with some criteria, including with huawei ID, sync to cloud, turn on geotag.
This mean some user actually get Discover features.
2. There is one post suggest to re-login huawei ID, reboot the phone, clear data & cache of gallery.
There is no clue the person who post this had solved this issue or just general suggestion.
3. One interesting post mention currently this feature open to some models only.
I have no idea how this guy have this information and maybe he mean some of the honor 8x models (honor 8x have few different models name) only have it. Hopefully this feature could roll out to all honor 8x in the future.
I recently bought a Pocophone with the idea of installing LineageOS. Actually, I was looking for models where I could install it, since I want to remove google and vendor bloat apps.
Just after unboxing it, I went to check how to unlock the bootloader, and I faced a really cumbersome process:
- Register an account, providing email, phone and wait an SMS to confirm.
- Login your phone and wait 72h with the phone powered on and Synced with MI cloud (wtf?)
- Download an unlock tool that only works in Windows. I'm a Linux user so I had to setup a VirtualBox VM to proceed.
I didn't want to use my brand new phone and add all my contacts and stuff and then Sync everything to Xiaomi servers. To me this looks like a data collection policy to get as much as they can from Google et al. forcing users to Sync with a long enough wait time window.
Why don't use a more user friendly process like Motorola and others do???
I totally regret choosing Xiaomi, and now I'm going to try to sell it just because of this.
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I recently bought a Pocophone with the idea of installing LineageOS. Actually, I was looking for models where I could install it, since I want to remove google and vendor bloat apps.
Just after unboxing it, I went to check how to unlock the bootloader, and I faced a really cumbersome process:
- Register an account, providing email, phone and wait an SMS to confirm.
- Login your phone and wait 72h with the phone powered on and Synced with MI cloud (wtf?)
- Download an unlock tool that only works in Windows. I'm a Linux user so I had to setup a VirtualBox VM to proceed.
I didn't want to use my brand new phone and add all my contacts and stuff and then Sync everything to Xiaomi servers. To me this looks like a data collection policy to get as much as they can from Google et al. forcing users to Sync with a long enough wait time window.
Why don't use a more user friendly process like Motorola and others do???
I totally regret choosing Xiaomi, and now I'm going to try to sell it just because of this.
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Just use a 3rd party app to sync your data or just backup them. There are tons of apps on the PlayStore.
And about the unlocking procedure, this is just a standard procedure and it is for safety measures. Like confirming that your Xiaomi Model has bounded to its real model number because there are tons of fake and clone Mi Phones on the market and registering your phone on their servers that your phone model is unlocked. Good thing though that the unlocking for Poco is only for 3 Days, other models I heard is about 1-3 months.
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Just use a 3rd party app to sync your data or just backup them. There are tons of apps on the PlayStore.
And about the unlocking procedure, this is just a standard procedure and it is for safety measures. Like confirming that your Xiaomi Model has bounded to its real model number because there are tons of fake and clone Mi Phones on the market and registering your phone on their servers that your phone model is unlocked. Good thing though that the unlocking for Poco is only for 3 Days, other models I heard is about 1-3 months.
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To start with, even for Poco F1, the wait time was 3 months. Then they shortened that step by step and it is now 72 hours. The official explanation was that since the phone was not launched simultaneously in all the countries, some retail vendors (in countries where it was not then launched) bought the phone in bulk, unlocked the bootloader and installed various apps (in addition to the pre-installed bloatware) including malware and then sold them in retail. It was to avoid this and to ensure that a genuine owner is using the phone before allowing the unlock that they devised this method.
These all sound so horrible but I am still using my phone because motorola which you champion cannot build a decent phone like pocophone offers.
oppo and vivo didnt have ubl , asus and samsung void waranty, huawei not cheap to ubl.. thank god poco only have to wait 72h, you gibe ip ur privacy when usinh android, if u dont want data colection from vendor, use apple..
Hi,
I bought a Mi Pad 5 Pro 5G and I think I can see how much I hurried up. There is no Global version. In CN ROM only English and I would prefer Polish.
What's happening? Does any of you know if Xiaomi has any plans to do something with this model?
Do I have any system alternative? Maybe a pure android ... I have not found anything on the internet for this model to be uploaded. Please help!
I'm a bit broken
(sorry for my bad english)
You can find a couple of threads about GSIs on the Pad 5 (non Pro) forum. People (incl myself) have had some success in installing some GSIs on the Pro model too. You can't use the Xiaomi pen on a GSI (or custom ROM I think), however, which is a massive downside to some people.
Yes I think the software development for this tablet is really slow. It's no-one's fault. I used to own Mi Pad 4 and they had a huge range of custom ROMs available. I optimistically assumed it would be the same for Pad 5. I was so wrong... If the stock ROM (MIUI) was half decent, we wouldn't need volunteer developers. Such a shame.
If I had read more about how bad it is with the Pro version - I would buy something from the competition, such as Samsung. A bit of money wasted because I have equipment with potential, but soft kills it. I hope that something will move with the next android, for example 13. Shame for Xiaomi for treating customers in such a way. I do not understand the lack of a Global version. I bought a device from China, paying all taxes. Feels like cheated.
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If I had read more about how bad it is with the Pro version - I would buy something from the competition, such as Samsung. A bit of money wasted because I have equipment with potential, but soft kills it. I hope that something will move with the next android, for example 13. Shame for Xiaomi for treating customers in such a way. I do not understand the lack of a Global version. I bought a device from China, paying all taxes. Feels like cheated.
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Without sounding like an asshole. If you did a little research on this forum or even google searched about the pad 5 pro before buying it, you would have avoided buying a device not suitable for you.
It was well documented that the Pro version was available only in China and didn't support all languages.
No need to feel cheated, you just failed to research the specifications.
As far as development for this device, I would contact people working on Poco F4 roms. It's basically a pad 5 pro with a small screen. I'm sure they could cook something up.
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Without sounding like an asshole. If you did a little research on this forum or even google searched about the pad 5 pro before buying it, you would have avoided buying a device not suitable for you.
It was well documented that the Pro version was available only in China and didn't support all languages.
No need to feel cheated, you just failed to research the specifications.
As far as development for this device, I would contact people working on Poco F4 roms. It's basically a pad 5 pro with a small screen. I'm sure they could cook something up.
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Thanks for the info. I will look for. Regards.
Is there any way to upload the Polish language to the Chinese firmware on the CN of the Mi Pad 5 Pro 5G? Currently, there is only Chinese and English and the Global version is not available and probably will not be.
Are Google services on Chinese ROM working properly?
KJX_85 said:
Is there any way to upload the Polish language to the Chinese firmware on the CN of the Mi Pad 5 Pro 5G? Currently, there is only Chinese and English and the Global version is not available and probably will not be.
Are Google services on Chinese ROM working properly?
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Everything works with google. Just have to set the permissions correctly for Google apps.
Chrome translates perfectly and even assistant works in different spoken languages.
Download Gboard keyboard and everything will work.
mickfitz said:
Everything works with google. Just have to set the permissions correctly for Google apps.
Chrome translates perfectly and even assistant works in different spoken languages.
Download Gboard keyboard and everything will work.
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Thank you very much.
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Thank you very much.
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Make sure you set google to always allow otherwise the MIUI privacy protection will block all sorts of settings and add ons. It returns blank messages to google so you can't sign in.
This has frustrated a lot of users.
You can try an app called MoreLocale 2 (available on Google Play Store or GitHub) to use a language other than the specified ones on the MIUI Chinese ROM. It changes the locale setting. I can't remember if your device needs to be rooted or not. I haven't tried myself, but I have read a few people saying they could get Japanese available on some (but not all) apps and system menus. Polish is probably available too, but you'd better check. You need to execute some adb command to get it work.
GitHub - c-lis/morelocale: This application will change system locale and country setting.
This application will change system locale and country setting. - GitHub - c-lis/morelocale: This application will change system locale and country setting.
github.com
https://androidlover.net/xiaomi-japanese-language (Japanese website)
UmiCat said:
You can try an app called MoreLocale 2 (available on Google Play Store or GitHub) to use a language other than the specified ones on the MIUI Chinese ROM. It changes the locale setting. I can't remember if your device needs to be rooted or not. I haven't tried myself, but I have read a few people saying they could get Japanese available on some (but not all) apps and system menus. Polish is probably available too, but you'd better check. You need to execute some adb command to get it work.
GitHub - c-lis/morelocale: This application will change system locale and country setting.
This application will change system locale and country setting. - GitHub - c-lis/morelocale: This application will change system locale and country setting.
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https://androidlover.net/xiaomi-japanese-language (Japanese website)
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First of all, the device does not need to be rooted. The disadvantage of this solution is that you have to set the language again after every restart. But I found another solution:
It is even better than MoreLocal2 if you change the language in the Android language menu. The so called AOSP Dashboard is accessible via Apps like "Activity Launcher" or "MIUI Downloader" (Both on Playstore, I suggest Activity Launcher).
For Activity Launcher: Open app and search for "SystemDashboard", then open "com.android.settings.Settings$SystemDashboardActivity"
This way you get the same result as with MoreLocal, but 1. you don't have to set something after every restart, 2. you don't have an unnecessary app because you can uninstall it and 3. you don't have to assign authorizations, since everything runs in system dialogs.
* I use my Mi Pad 5 Pro with this solution.
** With "same result" I mean a mixture of English and target language. MIUI apps / system apps mostly but not always remain in English. Everything else should be in the target language if the apps support it.