The Official Chinese Phones Thread

CK61938 · 28 Jun 2018 at 08:42

My Redmi Note 5 arrived yesterday! Well I say arrived. But I received the card through my door to say I had to pay a fee. Good job I was off work yesterday as I went to the post office depot and paid right away picked up my phone. It's certainly a great phone. Bigger than the LG G4. Feels very smooth. I have put Apex Launcher on right away. Copied pretty much everything across from the G4 so it means I didn't have to manually download and install the apps I use. Love the fingerprint sensor, very responsive. Definitely lots to play with on this phone, so I will see what other extra features are available. My only gripe is that the tempered glass that came with the phone was damaged in transit. No real issue as I have put the phone in the flip case that came with it. So will order a separate tempered glass later.

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exhashdotdot · 28 Jun 2018 at 11:20

scrivz69 said:
I line the glass up and then use tape to on one side to keep it in place, lift it up, peel the film of the glass and drop it back down, never failed yet.

That sounds like a great idea. I'll definitely give that a go! Thank you

Crizzy · 28 Jun 2018 at 13:45

Does anyone here have the Mi Mix 2s? I think i prefer this over the Mi8...

CK61938 · 28 Jun 2018 at 15:10

Just wanted to check on you guys who have the Redmi Note 5: did you change the launcher or have you stuck with MIUI? I have Apex, but I'm just reading up on the new MIUI 10 and I'm wondering maybe it's best to just go back to MIUI full time instead? Guess I should really have a play around and get used to it.

exhashdotdot · 29 Jun 2018 at 13:29

CK61938 said:
Just wanted to check on you guys who have the Redmi Note 5: did you change the launcher or have you stuck with MIUI? I have Apex, but I'm just reading up on the new MIUI 10 and I'm wondering maybe it's best to just go back to MIUI full time instead? Guess I should really have a play around and get used to it.

I think you might be confused a bit. MIUI isn't just the launcher, it's the entire Android build. You can use whichever launcher you want but you'll still be on MIUI. I use nova launcher.

CK61938 · 29 Jun 2018 at 14:25

exhashdotdot said:
I think you might be confused a bit. MIUI isn't just the launcher, it's the entire Android build. You can use whichever launcher you want but you'll still be on MIUI. I use nova launcher.

I see. Much like TouchWiz for Samsung. That makes sense I guess. I tried Nova Launcher a long time ago and I just didn't find it to be all that. Apex has served me well for the last 4-6yrs.

BigBoy · 30 Jun 2018 at 08:44

exhashdotdot said:
I haven't really found time (or the effort) necessary to install RR or lineage on my Note 5. I think part of it is because MIUI + Nova launcher is pretty good. I'd still prefer stock but Lineage hasn't even got an official build yet. Has anyone got MIUI 10 yet?

Tangentially, how do you guys deal with tempered glass screen protectors? I've bodged three of the bloody things (the screen protector which came with my phone and two tempered screen protectors). I feel like such an idiot because I can't apply these damn things properly. I always end up with dust underneath the thing, or I don't line it up properly, or the adhesive is applied unevenly...

The one I ordered is this one:

I've ordered one final one - if I bodge this one up I'm going to give up

Sounds odd but install it in the bathroom just after having a shower,it keeps the dust down so no dust in the air to get under the screen protectors

ShiWarrior · 1 Jul 2018 at 08:58

I have a Redmi Note 4, and when i used to click on a link in gmail, it would open up Chrome , but now its opening up the Browser which i hate, how do i get it back to opening in chrome?

Space Monkey · 1 Jul 2018 at 09:53

ShiWarrior said:
I have a Redmi Note 4, and when i used to click on a link in gmail, it would open up Chrome , but now its opening up the Browser which i hate, how do i get it back to opening in chrome?

General settings in Gmail

ShiWarrior · 1 Jul 2018 at 11:07

No it's not, not on my phone anyway
Where in the general settings? I've check it all several times hence me posting

Space Monkey · 1 Jul 2018 at 11:11

ShiWarrior said:
No it's not, not on my phone anyway
Where in the general settings? I've check it all several times hence me posting

ShiWarrior · 1 Jul 2018 at 11:42

I don't have that one, how odd

ShiWarrior · 1 Jul 2018 at 11:48

Version 8.6.3.200 ...

Doogles · 1 Jul 2018 at 12:03

Still got a S4 myself, thinking of upgrading to something with a decent camera, Android 8.0 and a nice 6" screen with very little bezels, Snapdragon 845 any ideas what I could get? Cheaper the better.

Space Monkey · 1 Jul 2018 at 13:07

ShiWarrior said:
Version 8.6.3.200 ...

I'm on 8.6.3.200445973

Space Monkey · 1 Jul 2018 at 13:08

ShiWarrior said:
I don't have that one, how odd

Maybe try and delete preferences and start over, maybe it's hidden the option as it's set to always use the inbuilt browser?

ShiWarrior · 1 Jul 2018 at 21:12

Space Monkey said:
Maybe try and delete preferences and start over, maybe it's hidden the option as it's set to always use the inbuilt browser?

cant find a way to do that either
i'll upload a screenshot of my General settings

Space Monkey · 1 Jul 2018 at 21:15

ShiWarrior said:
cant find a way to do that either
i'll upload a screenshot of my General settings

The settings I was referring to are in the phones settings not Gmail's, delete the defaults relating to Gmail?

Like if you stopped wanting Adobe Reader to read PDFs as default, you'd clear the settings so you could then choose what app to use instead?

ShiWarrior · 1 Jul 2018 at 22:11

in Settings , under google, i went to installed apps, then gmail, and i can not clear the defaults because it says there's nothing set

CaptainCrash · 1 Jul 2018 at 23:22

ShiWarrior said:
in Settings , under google, i went to installed apps, then gmail, and i can not clear the defaults because it says there's nothing set

I got caught out by this as well - you need to set the default *browser* back to Chrome (or whatever you want) on a system-wide basis.

Settings > Installed apps > [three vertical dots at top right (above the search bar)] > Default apps > Browser > (choose from your installed browsers).

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