Xiaomi

1. $179
2. 64MP camera with OIS
3. 3 android OS updates & 4 years of security updates.

My grandfather has an old redmi note 9 pro which was slowing down so much and was having a lot of issues with call connectivity.

Outgoing calls won't connect and incoming calls would hangup automatically, so It was kind of impossible to use the phone for calls.

I unlocked the device and flashed a few roms based on android 13 and android 14, but all of them had the same issues with calls.

So if it is a hardware problem, will Xiaomi service centers accept it ?

Hey, got new phone, new miui and i don't see "call recording" option, read somewhere that this is because i got a global version or something like that is there any way to bring it back?

Chinese ROMs come without support for many languages. Even when using English there are still things which are in Chinese.

The people selling the devices on AliExpress are selling then with a "global rom". The issue here is that the rom doesn't exist officially. So no updates are available and you don't know what's actually inside it.

xiaomi.eu provide a modified version of the Chinese rom with language support and some other things. The issue is they charge for this through patreon for any mediatek devices. You have to keep paying if you want security updates. This is immoral and probably illegal as they don't own MIUI or Android and copyleft is designed to prevent this kind of thing.

To add insult to injury they started offering some mediatek roms for free. When people stopped paying the patreon they removed them from the download sites.

Shame on them and shame on the AliExpress sellers. If anyone knows a good course on building android roms and reverse engineering them let me know. Maybe I can fix this situation.

I have Redmi Note 12 Pro and I would like to have VLOG option inside my camera. Is there a way to install that feature? I tried to install/update camera to the latest 5.2 version, but it seems that version is incompatible. Do I need to root the phone?

This seems like the cheapest way to get a 5G portable hotspot device.

Hello!

I'm not sure if this question fits here, but I want to find a suitable custom ROM for my Mi 10. I'm looking for a (possibly officially) supported ROM with great custombility and privacy. I tried to do some of my own research, but found outdated sources.

I'm currently running Android 13 with MIUI 14.0.2