1. Does it have Google services on the Chinese version so we can use the Play Store?
2. What issues does the CN rom have when you're using it outside of China? Does it support 5G in your place?
3. How has the battery been with light usage (social media, YT, music, reading) and heavy usage (gaming for hours, high brightness most of the time)?
4. If you were to flash the Global rom version in the CN version, can you receive OTA's?
5. How great is the display? Do you feel the 1440p LTPO 2.0 difference? Is it readable under direct sunlight?
6. How good does the cameras, both rear and front, take photos?
7. Is the Steel Black version more durable than the Paper White?
8. Has anyone tried underclocking the CPU in exchange for more battery?
Thank you for those who will reply. I hope the future buyers or owners of this device will use this a guide when it does have answers.
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1. Does it have Google services so we can use the Play Store?
2. What issues does the CN rom have when you're using it outside of China? Does it support 5G in your place?
3. How has the battery been with light usage (social media, YT, music, reading) and heavy usage (gaming for hours, high brightness most of the time)?
4. If you were to flash the Global rom version in the CN version, can you receive OTA's?
5. How great is the display? Do you feel the 1440p LTPO 2.0 difference? Is it readable under direct sunlight?
6. How good does the cameras, both rear and front, take photos?
7. Is the Steel Black version more durable than the Paper White?
8. Has anyone tried underclocking the CPU in exchange for more battery?
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1. Yes
2. Haven't experienced anything so far. Don't have 5G
3. Light usage has been at least 6hrs SOT but Accubattery says 10hrs SOT estimated. I'm running 120Hz and have underclocked my CPU and GPU with FKM. I don't game so I can't give any info about that.
4. Yes
5. It's works fine under sunlight. 120Hz is a must for me now that I've experienced it. LTPO2 preferred since it can drop the refresh rate to save battery
6. I don't take photos often but with GCam it works good enough for me
7. Most people use a case so I doubt this matters
8. Yes, see 3.
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BLUuuE83 said:
1. Yes
2. Haven't experienced anything so far. Don't have 5G
3. Light usage has been at least 6hrs SOT but Accubattery says 10hrs SOT estimated. I'm running 120Hz and have underclocked my CPU and GPU with FKM. I don't game so I can't give any info about that.
4. Yes
5. It's works fine under sunlight. 120Hz is a must for me now that I've experienced it. LTPO2 preferred since it can drop the refresh rate to save battery
6. I don't take photos often but with GCam it works good enough for me
7. Most people use a case so I doubt this matters
8. Yes, see 3.
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On 2, do you not have 5G because your country or sim doesn't support it, or is it because the phone doesn't let you have 5G?
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On 2, do you not have 5G because your country or sim doesn't support it, or is it because the phone doesn't let you have 5G?
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I'm not on a 5G plan but I don't see why it wouldn't work since it has all the bands needed for 5G
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On 2, do you not have 5G because your country or sim doesn't support it, or is it because the phone doesn't let you have 5G?
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Yes, its support 5G, in my country 5G work almost fine
BLUuuE83 said:
I'm not on a 5G plan but I don't see why it wouldn't work since it has all the bands needed for 5G
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for you to use 5g, u need 5g plan, also 5g sim
if your network provider provides 5g
if not, your phone will use 4g
your phone will not use 5g, if your mobile provider doesn't provide or support 5g
i have 5g check photo
BLUuuE83 said:
1. Yes
2. Haven't experienced anything so far. Don't have 5G
3. Light usage has been at least 6hrs SOT but Accubattery says 10hrs SOT estimated. I'm running 120Hz and have underclocked my CPU and GPU with FKM. I don't game so I can't give any info about that.
4. Yes
5. It's works fine under sunlight. 120Hz is a must for me now that I've experienced it. LTPO2 preferred since it can drop the refresh rate to save battery
6. I don't take photos often but with GCam it works good enough for me
7. Most people use a case so I doubt this matters
8. Yes, see 3.
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Hi I just got the device and it's heating up real good. I just got it out the box and fiddled with the settings and it heat up badly. It's currently updating, but I wanted to ask how you underclocked your CPU and GPU? Is it rooted? If yes, how did you root it? If not, how did you do it?
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Hi I just got the device and it's heating up real good. I just got it out the box and fiddled with the settings and it heat up badly. It's currently updating, but I wanted to ask how you underclocked your CPU and GPU? Is it rooted? If yes, how did you root it? If not, how did you do it?
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I unlocked the bootloader following this guide:
[Chinese and Global Version] Unlock bootloader, updated
I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards, etc! I have not tested the global unlock, Global version unlock thread. Make sure you make backups before unlocking the bootloader, as this operation will wipe all user data and apps...
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I needed to update to the latest version before deep testing would work
I installed the global ROM with the Magisk patched boot image with this guide:
[Chinese Version] Install RMX3301 Global stock firmware from Chinese
Disclaimer: I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards, etc! Warning: This procedure didn't work for some! Please test at your own risks! Additional warning: do not relock your bootloader once your global rom is installed. You risk...
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Magisk will come preinstalled as "Alpha"
After that, I just installed Franco Kernel Manager and limited the maximum frequency of all the core clusters
I also installed the global rom which is a much better experience.
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What the title said. Does anyone not have the issue where screen is draining the battery even when its off? Also I read a lot of people complaining about 4-6h SOT time, so much that I'm beginning to think that's a feature not a bug. But the idle screen usage thing is weird. If you don't have that issue could you post a screenshot of your screen usage? Everyone is showing at least 70% and that I assume is too high. On my current phone its nowhere near that much with max brightness and actually on. I currently own an LG Optimus L7II (P710) and it's near the end of its life span, so its time for a new phone. Yes RN2 screen is bigger but its not that bigger to cause such a huge drain.
I'm preparing to buy this phone (Prime version) and I've only found it in one shop in my country (where on their site says 2.0ghz 32gb internal memory version, but afaik if its 32gb its prime and should be 2.2ghz, so error I guess, I'll call them to confirm), so I'm trying to gather as much info about it and whats gonna be an issue with the phone. I'll be happy if it gets through the day with about 3h actual light gaming or chatting in viber. I occasionally only play PokemonGO when I go out for a walk or cycle for 2-3h, and some card games at home, nothing too heavy. Not that I'm able on my current phone anyway. lol
Also a side question if I may, whats the deal with the kernel? The source is needed to fix issues like the battery drain and make truly custom roms, right? Are they ever going to release the source code? I'm guessing the answer is maybe, we don't know yet. Just thought maybe someone has an insight to share about previous Xiaomi phones and kernels.
Xiaomi RN2 is the only phone out of 3 that have the things I want(Min => 2gb RAM, quad-core, 3000mAh removable battery, gyroscope, gps, sd-card slot, and under 250 euros), and the only one in my country barely available. So I'm freaking out a bit over this battery drain issue.
EDIT: Crap, the only shop I found it at, at reasonable price doesn't have it. Only Note 3s, and I don't want note 3 cause of built-in battery. Guess I'm stuck ordering online and paying 30% custom fee... So instead of 150$ it'll be 200$ and no warranty.
Anyone?
@ChrisBunny You wrote it little complicated Do you want to see this? My battery was not fully charged.
Ekran- Screen
mario_R said:
@ChrisBunny You wrote it little complicated Do you want to see this? My battery was not fully charged.
Ekran- Screen
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Thanks for the info. It looks like your screen is not using as much as people reporting it uses 60-70% of battery, if I'm reading it correctly, while yours is using only 16%. I'm gonna call the phone shop in a bit (waiting for them to have their morning coffee lol) and see if they still have the phone. Then I just hope mine doesn't drain too.
@ChrisBunny I forgot to say about Core clock. Your shop has wrong information about CPU frequency. Prime version has 2.2GHz (exactly 2.1x GHz) and non-prime version has clock 2GHz (exactly 1.95GHz)
mario_R said:
@ChrisBunny I forgot to say about Core clock. Your shop has wrong information about CPU frequency. Prime version has 2.2GHz (exactly 2.1x GHz) and non-prime version has clock 2GHz (exactly 1.95GHz)
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Yeah that's what I figured. I found a couple ads for the phone, so I might still get it, it just won't have any warranty.
So your Xiaomi RN 2 screen uses only about 15% of the battery? That's really good if I understood correctly. How long does your battery last when you leave it alone and when you use it a lot?
@ChrisBunny
I'm fully charged now, later will post screenshot when i will get 5 or 10% on battery.
mario_R said:
@ChrisBunny
I'm fully charged now, later will post screenshot when i will get 5 or 10% on battery.
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Thanks.
Are you happy with the phone? And do you by any chance play Pokemon GO with it? I'm curious how the game works on it and how long.
ChrisBunny said:
Thanks.
Are you happy with the phone? And do you by any chance play Pokemon GO with it? I'm curious how the game works on it and how long.
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I'm happy with the phone. Speciffication for that cheap price is great. It has everything what i needed except Qualcomm processor (with Mediatek it's hard with sources so the phone can't get custom kernels, you know) Games works good. I have played pokemon for a short time- no problem with playing but nothing speciall for me so I uninstalled it.
GTA San Andreas - no fps drop
Shadow warrior - no fps drop
League of stickman - no fps drop
Gangstar Vegas - no fps drop
Dungeon hunter 5 - on some maps fps dropped but i think it's weak optimalization
Sim city - no fps drop
The sims free play - no fps drop
Thats the most (i think) advanced games i have played on my device. Don't remember more xD
mario_R said:
I'm happy with the phone. Speciffication for that cheap price is great. It has everything what i needed except Qualcomm processor (with Mediatek it's hard with sources so the phone can't get custom kernels, you know) Games works good. I have played pokemon for a short time- no problem with playing but nothing speciall for me so I uninstalled it.
GTA San Andreas - no fps drop
Shadow warrior - no fps drop
League of stickman - no fps drop
Gangstar Vegas - no fps drop
Dungeon hunter 5 - on some maps fps dropped but i think it's weak optimalization
Sim city - no fps drop
The sims free play - no fps drop
Thats the most (i think) advanced games i have played on my device. Don't remember more xD
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Thanks I appreciate the info!
@ChrisBunny
Yesterday I couldn't beat battery xD Here is my score.
mario_R said:
@ChrisBunny
Yesterday I couldn't beat battery xD Here is my score.
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Nice! Well that looks normal and good. What rom are you using?
I'm still waiting for the sellers to reply to me, I wanna order the phone already. >.<
Here's a screenie ...
DarthJabba9 said:
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Cool, 12h on idle if I'm reading it correctly, and only half the battery depleted.
ChrisBunny said:
Cool, 12h on idle if I'm reading it correctly, and only half the battery depleted.
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No, 12% battery loss in 12 hours - mostly idle time, but with some slight use (email, text, etc). Wireless and Bluetooth left on (the battery was on about 63% when the phone was switched on).
BTW: I am running a "Skinnified" MIUI 7.5.10 ROM.
DarthJabba9 said:
No, 12% battery loss in 12 hours - mostly idle time, but with some slight use (email, text, etc). Wireless and Bluetooth left on (the battery was on about 63% when the phone was switched on).
BTW: I am running a "Skinnified" MIUI 7.5.10 ROM.
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Ah that's even better! Whats your guess whats the reason a lot of people experience those crazy screen battery drains? I hope the reason is just some fluke with the rom, and not with hardware.
ChrisBunny said:
Ah that's even better! Whats your guess whats the reason a lot of people experience those crazy screen battery drains? I hope the reason is just some fluke with the rom, and not with hardware.
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I think it would most likely be a software (ie, ROM) issue (ie, something is behaving badly in the background). Many of us spend a lot of energy trying to get better battery performance from the phone - but it is all really about how the software is configured. Without the sources to the kernel code, the best that can be done is tweaking bits here and there. This is what makes the Skinny ROM guidelines from @jajk very useful (to remove Xiaomi bloat and battery hogs). This requires some effort, patience, and nerves; but it can be quite rewarding. For me, I have been far more concerned with idle time than with "screen on" time, because my phone spends most of its time doing nothing.
ChrisBunny said:
Nice! Well that looks normal and good. What rom are you using?
I'm still waiting for the sellers to reply to me, I wanna order the phone already. >.<
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MokeeOS compiled by vova.vafin. For me, his roms are better than for example Bulee. Device not overheat and have some power tweaks.
Okay, I gave you screenshots and now I can flash my lovely ResurrectionRemix
Thanks guys. After all I decided to get Redmi Note 3 Pro (the one with Snapdragon and 3gb RAM not Mediatek), there's plenty people and shops selling it. Now I'm just waiting on reply from the seller and he should send tuesday and it should arrive wednesday. Yeah it doesn't have removable battery, but from what I researched its an awesome phone and battery isn't an issue.
ChrisBunny said:
Thanks guys. After all I decided to get Redmi Note 3 Pro (the one with Snapdragon and 3gb RAM not Mediatek)
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That's a great choice (the Snapdragon SOC).
Xiaomi+MTK=mega problems with custom ROM development
my x720 died and i not sure about what to do.. ppl talk about poor battery on this phone. will it stand like 4 hours straight watching streams and still have a spare battery left with a good battery optimization rom?
Battery life is ****. Never had more than 4 hrs sot.
On aicp 8.1 right now, about 3 hrs sot.
It really depends on what do you do on a daily basis. If you value the battery more than a 1440p screen go for the pro 3 elite but if you want to get into VR, watch some high quality videos or play games you can get the max 2.
I don't have any problems with my battery even though its so small for that display and if you're into custom ROMs I don't think that you will find any for the elite version.
EDIT: I'm not quite sure if the last part is true because sd820 and the sd821 are kinda different but they use the same codename (msm-8996).
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and if you're into custom ROMs I don't think that you will find any for the elite version.
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False. Cross-device support is alive and well for all 3 versions [X720/X722 Elite/X727]
LameMonster82 said:
It really depends on what do you do on a daily basis. If you value the battery more than a 1440p screen go for the pro 3 elite but if you want to get into VR, watch some high quality videos or play games you can get the max 2.
I don't have any problems with my battery even though its so small for that display and if you're into custom ROMs I don't think that you will find any for the elite version.
EDIT: I'm not quite sure if the last part is true because sd820 and the sd821 are kinda different but they use the same codename (msm-8996).
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Heyyo, well said for x2 vs pro 3 Elite. I agree with this.
The Le Pro3 Elite does lack NFC like the Le Max 2 so if you value NFC for stuff like Android Pay you might wanna pay the extra for a Le Pro3.
The Le Pro3 Elite is officially supported on LineageOS 14.1 and 15.1 as of the end of January 2018 and same for any ROM that uses the same code base or imported the changes.
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False. Cross-device support is alive and well for all 3 versions [X720/X722 Elite/X727]
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Thank you for correcting me.
arsh1129 said:
Battery life is ****. Never had more than 4 hrs sot.
On aicp 8.1 right now, about 3 hrs sot.
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i dont play any games.. i just browse and watch vids. is it that bad for that?
collisiion said:
i dont play any games.. i just browse and watch vids. is it that bad for that?
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Both phones will suit you but you have to choose between better battery or a bigger crisper screen.
collisiion said:
i dont play any games.. i just browse and watch vids. is it that bad for that?
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If you're on a tight budget, you might want to consider Nubia M2 (SD625, Super AMOLED display, downside: Android 6 rom) or Xiaomi Redmi Note 4X (SD625, Treble LOS rom, Franco kernel available) for those purposes.
I think you can get good battery life on stock rom
Hi y'all .
Recently I got a Redmi Note 10 4/64 variant . I'm currently using my old phone Redmi 6A , while Redmi Note 10 just lies in desktops corner.
MIUI 12.0.1 , 5000 MAh and 33W .
I installed one game to try the performance , then cleared all the apps and went to sleep . In the morning , I saw more than %25 battery drained for almost no reason .
•I don't even use the phone
•Bootloader is unlocked
•The phone doesn't have a SIM inside , so it can't get signals would cause battery drain
•The phone doesn't have any apps installed besides stock ones . I only installed one game and two or three local shop apps.
•I always make sure nothing runs in the background(the way I use the phone)
Here is the graph
Edit : I can feel device's little heat even when posting this.
The phone call you see is made by my mom . I did let her borrow my phone one time , except that the phone doesn't have a SIM inside as I mentioned
Same here, Android system draining too much battery
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Hi y'all .
Recently I got a Redmi Note 10 4/64 variant . I'm currently using my old phone Redmi 6A , while Redmi Note 10 just lies in desktops corner.
MIUI 12.0.1 , 5000 MAh and 33W .
I installed one game to try the performance , then cleared all the apps and went to sleep . In the morning , I saw more than %25 battery drained for almost no reason .
•I don't even use the phone
•Bootloader is unlocked
•The phone doesn't have a SIM inside , so it can't get signals would cause battery drain
•The phone doesn't have any apps installed besides stock ones . I only installed one game and two or three local shop apps.
•I always make sure nothing runs in the background(the way I use the phone)
Here is the graph
Edit : I can feel device's little heat even when posting this.
The phone call you see is made by my mom . I did let her borrow my phone one time , except that the phone doesn't have a SIM inside as I mentioned
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Try to update to the latest version of MIUI, and check if the issue gets fixed
My mine is ok so far so good
onurbx said:
Hi y'all .
Recently I got a Redmi Note 10 4/64 variant . I'm currently using my old phone Redmi 6A , while Redmi Note 10 just lies in desktops corner.
MIUI 12.0.1 , 5000 MAh and 33W .
I installed one game to try the performance , then cleared all the apps and went to sleep . In the morning , I saw more than %25 battery drained for almost no reason .
•I don't even use the phone
•Bootloader is unlocked
•The phone doesn't have a SIM inside , so it can't get signals would cause battery drain
•The phone doesn't have any apps installed besides stock ones . I only installed one game and two or three local shop apps.
•I always make sure nothing runs in the background(the way I use the phone)
Here is the graph
Edit : I can feel device's little heat even when posting this.
The phone call you see is made by my mom . I did let her borrow my phone one time , except that the phone doesn't have a SIM inside as I mentioned
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Hi guys ,
As I am using the same phone and same varient(4/64) I can suggest some tips to save your battery.(working for both 4/64 & 6/128).
This measures can be applied in Redmi Note 10/ Pro / Pro Max also.
•You should turn off your Wifi / Mobile data when not in use otherwise apps like analytics play store etc. can run in the background and drain your battery.
•Uninstall the pre-installed apps which can be removed from your phone like Mi credit, Mi store etc. If possible change your keyboard to google keyboard(g board).
•Don't Software update your phone it may consume more memory and also cause to drain your battery faster than before.
•Go to setting search for Authorisation & revocation
And disable the permissions of apps like msa, MiuiDaemon, System apps updater, Get Apps, Updater.
•Then disable the following :
Disable it ↑
• Then open a folder and click on its name and disable promoted apps option.
I think I have covered everything. If anybody wants to add something just reply. I hope you find it helpful, if so please subscribe my youtube channel:
The road to great battery life doesn't require extreme restriction. Here you can see the power consumption results for my phone. I should mention that Wifi and GPS are permanently on. Synchronisation is also permanently enabled for Email, Messenger and Smart Life.
It consumes about 3% of the battery in 8 hours of standby time.
I use the Pixel Experience Plus ROM.
It is important not to use any functions that permanently (even during standby) monitor any of the sensors. Such as preventing waking up in the pocket.
I have disabled all automatic updates.
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The road to great battery life doesn't require extreme restriction. Here you can see the power consumption results for my phone. I should mention that Wifi and GPS are permanently on. Synchronisation is also permanently enabled for Email, Messenger and Smart Life.
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It consumes about 3% of the battery in 8 hours of standby time.
I use the Pixel Experience Plus ROM.
It is important not to use any functions that permanently (even during standby) monitor any of the sensors. Such as preventing waking up in the pocket.
I have disabled all automatic updates.
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Bro, everything is not perfect some things require improvements.
Navneeth tech said:
Bro, everything is not perfect some things require improvements.
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I've been tuning battery saving on smartphones since Android 2.1
Current hardware doesn't suffer as much from sustained discharge as it used to. Today, it is no longer necessary to turn off Wifi and GPS. But now it is advisable to reduce the CPU power in standby mode, because the manufacturer leaves the power at an increased frequency in the base to improve the phone's response.
Hello, after the MIUI 12.5.3.0 EEA Update, I'm experiencing refresh rate drops to 60hz while using the phone and it reaches 38-39c battery temperature. Before the phone stayed at 90hz just fine. Is anyone experiencing the same problem?
Yes I have noticed the same. Also when the battery gets to 30-35% it forces the screen to 60Hz. I had to reboot after fully charging for it to go back to 90Hz. Not sure if it's bug or intended battery savings.
dannejanne said:
Yes I have noticed the same. Also when the battery gets to 30-35% it forces the screen to 60Hz. I had to reboot after fully charging for it to go back to 90Hz. Not sure if it's bug or intended battery savings.
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I'm not getting the drop when the battery is lower than 35%. Did you get drops when the battery reach 38-39c also with previous firmware or only with the new one released yesterday?
Also, I don't know if it's normal, but 60hz on this phone feels a bit more stuttery than other 60hz phones I tried. Like the animations are stuttering/dropping frames more often at 60hz than 90hz
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I'm not getting the drop when the battery is lower than 35%. Did you get drops when the battery reach 38-39c also with previous firmware or only with the new one released yesterday?
Also, I don't know if it's normal, but 60hz on this phone feels a bit more stuttery than other 60hz phones I tried. Like the animations are stuttering/dropping frames more often at 60hz than 90hz
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I'm not sure I pushed the phone to higher temperature before this update. But I can't recall it happening before. And yes 6Hz sometimes feels more like 30Hz for certain animations.
Worth to note is that I'm on China stable 12.5.3 but did not notice any of this on 12.5.2.
I think I'll try to flash xiaomi.eu weekly or stable next week when I have the bootloader unlocked... I really don't understand how the animations at 60hz stutter sometimes and they seem smoother on my friend REDMI 9 with a mediatek cpu..
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I think I'll try to flash xiaomi.eu weekly or stable next week when I have the bootloader unlocked... I really don't understand how the animations at 60hz stutter sometimes and they seem smoother on my friend REDMI 9 with a mediatek cpu..
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There are people reporting the same issue on other phones too over at xiaomi eu. Also xiaomi eu has not been as smooth for me as the china stable hence why I'm on this firmware in the first place. Better optimization overall. The 12.6 weeklys has a little graphical big too that I can't stand in the notification center/control center. Xiaomi have not fixed it in almost two months.
Xiaomi eu stable 12.5 suffers from stuttering animations when opening apps frequently. Not well optimized at all compared to global stable.
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There are people reporting the same issue on other phones too over at xiaomi eu. Also xiaomi eu has not been as smooth for me as the china stable hence why I'm on this firmware in the first place. Better optimization overall. The 12.6 weeklys has a little graphical big too that I can't stand in the notification center/control center. Xiaomi have not fixed it in almost two months.
Xiaomi eu stable 12.5 suffers from stuttering animations when opening apps frequently. Not well optimized at all compared to global stable.
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I'm currently on 12.5.3 EEA firmware. Next week I can flash 12.5.3 CN like you have, the 21.7.7 CN weekly, or xiaomi.eu stable or weekly.
If I understand correctly you're suggesting the CN Stable and to avoid xiaomi.eu and the CN weekly? Does the CN version have play store already installed and all the bands available also in the global rom?
Anyway, if I'd have to flash the CN official rom should I just download the 4gb ROM and flash it in fastboot mode using MiFlash while ticking CLEAN ALL? It's my first xiaomi phone, not new to modding but I just want to be sure
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I'm currently on 12.5.3 EEA firmware. Next week I can flash 12.5.3 CN like you have, the 21.7.7 CN weekly, or xiaomi.eu stable or weekly.
If I understand correctly you're suggesting the CN Stable and to avoid xiaomi.eu and the CN weekly? Does the CN version have play store already installed and all the bands available also in the global rom?
Anyway, if I'd have to flash the CN official rom should I just download the 4gb ROM and flash it in fastboot mode using MiFlash while ticking CLEAN ALL? It's my first xiaomi phone, not new to modding but I just want to be sure
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At this point I would recommend China stable. Later on perhaps eu weekly will have it sorted. There is some cleaning to do when first installing china but after that I don't notice any Chinese stuff really. And yeah the fastboot install with MiFlash is the easiest way with clean all, don't lock! Don't forget to not lock the bootloader when flashing. Basic Google services are preinstalled and also Play Store. I only had to manually install calendar sync apk. All bands are working.
As an extra I downloaded and installed the latest stable release of the system launcher from apkmirror. So I recommended patching boot.img with Magisk app then flash it in fastboot any time you want after setting up the ROM.
After all this the system runs very very smooth.
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At this point I would recommend China stable. Later on perhaps eu weekly will have it sorted. There is some cleaning to do when first installing china but after that I don't notice any Chinese stuff really. And yeah the fastboot install with MiFlash is the easiest way with clean all, don't lock! Don't forget to not lock the bootloader when flashing. Basic Google services are preinstalled and also Play Store. I only had to manually install calendar sync apk. All bands are working.
As an extra I downloaded and installed the latest stable release of the system launcher from apkmirror. So I recommended patching boot.img with Magisk app then flash it in fastboot any time you want after setting up the ROM.
After all this the system runs very very smooth.
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just to be sure if it's a normal thing, have you ever noticed in any rom that the animations of closing/opening apps and switching apps sometimes get faster by themself? It happens if I open multiple apps and start switching between them; at some point all the animations become really faster by themself like they speed up 2.5x.
I don't know if it's intended or it's a bug, noticed it both in 12.5.1 and 12.5.3
arthem044 said:
just to be sure if it's a normal thing, have you ever noticed in any rom that the animations of closing/opening apps and switching apps sometimes get faster by themself? It happens if I open multiple apps and start switching between them; at some point all the animations become really faster by themself like they speed up 2.5x.
I don't know if it's intended or it's a bug, noticed it both in 12.5.1 and 12.5.3
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No I haven't noticed that personally in any ROM so far. I would take notice if that would happen.
arthem044 said:
Hello, after the MIUI 12.5.3.0 EEA Update, I'm experiencing refresh rate drops to 60hz while using the phone and it reaches 38-39c battery temperature. Before the phone stayed at 90hz just fine. Is anyone experiencing the same problem?
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I have the same issue... so annoying. Please post when you found a fix, I will also.
EDIT - On MIUI 12.5.3 The system goes to 60hz when the phone reaches a certain temperature. The threshold for it is quite low.
JSR_FR said:
EDIT - On MIUI 12.5.3 The system goes to 60hz when the phone reaches a certain temperature. The threshold for it is quite low.
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Yes, they need to set the threshold higher... I don't know how it is in other roms like the chinese one.
Anyway I don't have big problems with the throttling to 60hz if the treshold is higher, but I feel the phone is much slower with 60hz compared to others, the animations stutter and lose frames much more often.
I recently went from a oneplus 5 to the nord 200 when I switched to t-mobile because of the free promotion. Before I got it I did a little bit of research on the processor and storage speed and didn't expect much of a difference in performance because the snapdragon 480 seems to be fairly powerful and the nord has the same UFS 2.1 storage as my old phone.
I was pretty disappointed to find in my use the phone about 1/2 the time the phone was pretty sluggish in the general user experience and app launch times were significantly longer. May be placebo, but I disabled digital wellbeing, and all the tmobile bloatware and it may have helped a little. I remember reading oneplus heavily throttled some of their phones in recent history. I may switch back to my old phone.
I know the device is relatively new, do you guys think it will get better with software updates or is this just how it is?
I found turning on "Mobile data always active" in the developer options massively improved performance in my apps (at least where online load times and download speeds in-game were concerned)
Did you just get your phone recently? After setting up this phone for the first time, I also noticed the device was extremely slow, with all the app and software updates happening in the background. After all the updates were installed, I turned the phone off for about a day, and performance went to normal. It's not as fast as a flagship and there are minor hiccups here and there, but that's about what I expected from a 400 series SoC.
My original report was the day after I set everything up, I disabled the permissions for the launcher which did improve the responsiveness of the launcher, but application performance and launch times are still slow compared to my old device and not what I would expect from a phone of this spec.
I'm pretty confident this phone is a victim of oneplus' recently reported throttling for battery life. I was curious and compared geekbench scores (which aren't throttled under oneplus' list) and both the nord and my oneplus 5 got fairly similar scores for both cpu and compute. I tried out a browser benchmark motionmark which benches graphics performance. The nord got a 25 and the oneplus 5 got a 189... I ran the test again to make sure but got similar results.
That graphics should be coming from gpu and not cpu though....
I tested cpu and compute on geekbench, compute is a measure of gpu performance. The nord scored a little higher than the 5 in that.
I would assume oneplus' throttling would effect cpu and gpu but even if not, my oneplus 5 scoring almost 8x as high does not seem anywhere near normal
T1Coreon said:
I recently went from a oneplus 5 to the nord 200 when I switched to t-mobile because of the free promotion. Before I got it I did a little bit of research on the processor and storage speed and didn't expect much of a difference in performance because the snapdragon 480 seems to be fairly powerful and the nord has the same UFS 2.1 storage as my old phone.
I was pretty disappointed to find in my use the phone about 1/2 the time the phone was pretty sluggish in the general user experience and app launch times were significantly longer. May be placebo, but I disabled digital wellbeing, and all the tmobile bloatware and it may have helped a little. I remember reading oneplus heavily throttled some of their phones in recent history. I may switch back to my old phone.
I know the device is relatively new, do you guys think it will get better with software updates or is this just how it is?
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Same experience here, i picked up this phone expecting at least a decent experience but still get bad slow not usable for everyday tasks sometimes.
Im not expecting a flagship performance of course but this is far from decent in my experience.
I hope android 12 will solve many performance issues. Or custom fw
I'm about to throw away this phone into trash. Did not expect so weak dev community activity. The laggy interface is almost unusable if you constantly swap between apps and find them unloaded from RAM. All my text or uploaded content just disappear. It is very frustrating experience. I never had this behaviour with my 2/32 gb xiaomi.
zaooza said:
I'm about to throw away this phone into trash. The laggy interface is almost unusable if you constantly swap between apps and find them unloaded from RAM. All my text or uploaded content just disappear. It is very frustrating experience. I never had this behaviour with my 2/32 gb xiaomi.
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If you're really at your wit's end, have you considered installing a GSI? I've tried Phh's AOSP w/ gapps, and once you register your device with Google, it works flawlessly (except safetynet/drm) and is a million times faster than stock. Or I'd be more than happy to take your device off your hands.
zaooza said:
Did not expect so weak dev community activity.
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You know, custom ROMs don't just appear out of thin air. Someone has to take the time to bring up a device and make it stable, and it's not an easy task. I would say to be patient and just accept the fact that there's no guarantee that this device will get custom ROMs.
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If you're really at your wit's end, have you considered installing a GSI? I've tried Phh's AOSP w/ gapps, and once you register your device with Google, it works flawlessly (except safetynet/drm) and is a million times faster than stock. Or I'd be more than happy to take your device off your hands.
You know, custom ROMs don't just appear out of thin air. Someone has to take the time to bring up a device and make it stable, and it's not an easy task. I would say to be patient and just accept the fact that there's no guarantee that this device will get custom ROMs.
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Any disadvantages with gsi besides safety net drm? Want to try gsi but this is new to me
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Any disadvantages with gsi besides safety net drm? Want to try gsi but this is new to me
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Other than pictures from the camera being degraded compared to stock and having to install apps from the Play Store/changing a few settings in the Settings app, everything seems to work fine