**** The Official Chinese Phones Thread ****

Seems MIUI 14 is imminent on the POCO F2 Pro. It's already out if you run the EEA or China versions. Just waiting on global now. Not sure how long it will be. When it arrives on the MIUI downloader app, any ideas how long it would be available via OTA update? I just want to try it quickly and see if it fixes the Android Auto wireless issues without factory resetting my phone. If no joy, will go with a custom rom. I see it also available on xiaomi.eu roms as well but no idea what this means and what is involved to move to that. I assume it would be another unlock the boot loader jobbie, which seems to me like you then have to factory reset anyway.
 
Yes wireless it did throw a wobbler on MIUI13 a few weeks back but i think it was a setting i changed with data usage.
The MIUI settings for data always seem back to front to me,once i changed it back it began working again.
 
I'm amazed wireless aa works!.. never worked on miui 13 and all the reports say it's broken on miui 14.
The issue was when the signal changed from say 3g to 4g the signal would drop to the cars head unit and not resume.
Have you not had any issues at all? Or are you always in a strong 4g area?
 
Strong 4G most of the time,i can't remember the last time i saw 3G on my phone.
The only issue i had was self inflicted when i changed the data settings.Then a few weeks ago it stopped working while the car (BMW) updated it's software.
 
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MIUI 14 Global is now available via normal over the air update for Poco F2 Pro. I'm going to try it to see if wireless AA works any better. By better...I mean at all.
 
Make sure mobile data is turned on in the settings.It's back to front in my opinion but under restrict data usage,mobile data needs to be ticked.
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Jut had a bit of a panic whilst trying to flash Pixel OS.

So good news is that I was able to successfully unlock bootloader but that's when it went downhill. So I followed the steps here and downloaded the files I needed (which included flashing the TWRP in the post rather than the official one) and put them on the root of my "Internal Storage". Using adb I was able to flash recovery to the TWRP provided and then booted into it. All good. I then noticed that in TWRP my internal storage was 0mb and it wouldn't let me view the files to flash the ROM etc. A bit of googling and I found this guide. Followed it and after step 8 my internal storage was somehow wiped (I'm 99% I formatted Data and not Internal Storage). Oh crap. Booting back into fastboot made the phone show in Windows but Internal Storage was indeed blank and I couldn't copy any files to it or view any files on it. At this point I had a bricked phone as the phoned failed to boot into anything other than TWRP.

I then thought I would try flashing the official ROM back to my phone to fix it and worry about Pixel OS another time. Have done it before with other phones when I've tried custom ROMs but then put it back onto MIUI either due to problems or due to selling phone. Downloaded the official fastboot MIUI rom and the miui rom flashing tool. However it wouldn't flash and kept coming up with an error. saying it couldn't find a file or folder (presumably due to Internal Storage being empty) Oh crap again. Anyway managed to mess on in TWRP in fastboot mode (Think I had to turn on ADB mode) which made it work. Phew. After what seemed like ages the phone finally booted into MIUI and I have a working phone again.

I was stressed :D

Anyway I downloaded the EU rom (V14.0.2.0.TKFEUXM) and it was bloated with loads of Games and Apps that I can't remember having there the last time. All removable but they really shouldn't bundle them into the ROM. What I've noticed is that my phone is reporting I'm using a Global ROM. Shouldn't it say Europe? I can't remember what my phone said before trying to put the custom ROM on it. MIUI version is listed as what I downloaded.

I may yet give flashing Pixel Os another go but not today...
 
maj said:
Jut had a bit of a panic whilst trying to flash Pixel OS.

So good news is that I was able to successfully unlock bootloader but that's when it went downhill. So I followed the steps here and downloaded the files I needed (which included flashing the TWRP in the post rather than the official one) and put them on the root of my "Internal Storage". Using adb I was able to flash recovery to the TWRP provided and then booted into it. All good. I then noticed that in TWRP my internal storage was 0mb and it wouldn't let me view the files to flash the ROM etc. A bit of googling and I found this guide. Followed it and after step 8 my internal storage was somehow wiped (I'm 99% I formatted Data and not Internal Storage). Oh ****. Booting back into fastboot made the phone show in Windows but Internal Storage was indeed blank and I couldn't copy any files to it or view any files on it. At this point I had a bricked phone as the phoned failed to boot into anything other than TWRP.

I then thought I would try flashing the official ROM back to my phone to fix it and worry about Pixel OS another time. Have done it before with other phones when I've tried custom ROMs but then put it back onto MIUI either due to problems or due to selling phone. Downloaded the official fastboot MIUI rom and the miui rom flashing tool. However it wouldn't flash and kept coming up with an error. saying it couldn't find a file or folder (presumably due to Internal Storage being empty) Oh **** again. Anyway managed to mess on in TWRP in fastboot mode (Think I had to turn on ADB mode) which made it work. Phew. After what seemed like ages the phone finally booted into MIUI and I have a working phone again.

I was stressed :D

Anyway I downloaded the EU rom (V14.0.2.0.TKFEUXM) and it was bloated with loads of Games and Apps that I can't remember having there the last time. All removable but they really shouldn't bundle them into the ROM. What I've noticed is that my phone is reporting I'm using a Global ROM. Shouldn't it say Europe? I can't remember what my phone said before trying to put the custom ROM on it. MIUI version is listed as what I downloaded.

I may yet give flashing Pixel Os another go but not today...
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Really is a faff isn't it. I've got all this to go through with my POCO F2. I just want to get on pixel experience basically. I'm on MIUI 14. It's taken me the last hour to unlock the boot loader due to a number of issues. The latest unlock tools for me have a bug where you can't select a country on the country code to get your text verification so you have to add it to your MI account just using a computer. Did all that, got it to the point where I could finally click to unlock, goes through it all and then fails with no useful message. Checked the logs and it is complaining account being verified still despite that I'd done all the steps. Googled and saw someone else had the same issue and basically had to change his region on his xiaomi account to be US instead of UK, because the global rom doesn't let you do it if you have UK selected. Tried again, still failed, but the actual unlock tool program logs give a message now to wait 168 hours. The unlock tool UI does not display this, it just silently fails with a red cross.

Next step will be bricking my phone. I mean....flashing my phone to pixel experience in a week and then finding out what stuff I didn't backup properly. :)

I guess it will all be worth it in the end as I just can't justify hundreds on a new phone with specs not really better than this. Battery still strong enough so I'm going to run it another year.
 
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jaybee said:
Really is a faff isn't it. I've got all this to go through with my POCO F2. I just want to get on pixel experience basically. I'm on MIUI 14. It's taken me the last hour to unlock the boot loader due to a number of issues. The latest unlock tools for me have a bug where you can't select a country on the country code to get your text verification so you have to add it to your MI account just using a computer. Did all that, got it to the point where I could finally click to unlock, goes through it all and then fails with no useful message. Checked the logs and it is complaining account being verified still despite that I'd done all the steps. Googled and saw someone else had the same issue and basically had to change his region on his xiaomi account to be US instead of UK, because the global rom doesn't let you do it if you have UK selected. Tried again, still failed, but the actual unlock tool program logs give a message now to wait 168 hours. The unlock tool UI does not display this, it just silently fails with a red cross.

Next step will be bricking my phone. I mean....flashing my phone to pixel experience in a week and then finding out what stuff I didn't backup properly. :)

I guess it will all be worth it in the end as I just can't justify hundreds on a new phone with specs not really better than this. Battery still strong enough so I'm going to run it another year.
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Oh I had lots of fun trying to unlock my bootloader. Every youtube video or tutorial showed it working straight away or if not then to wait 168 hours. Simple right? I just couldn't get as far as that 168 hours part as it kept thinking I wasn't signed into my Mi Account when I was. Thankfully someone on here found a fix but it required creating a new Mi Account but set as US rather than UK. They really need to look into the process as it doesn't work as intended.

MIUI is a lot better than it used to be but is still far too bloated for my linking. Adverts built into the ROM and enabled by default shouldn't be allowed either. A more stock Android feel on the Note 10 Pro would be the perfect phone for performance vs price but alas it will have to wait for now.

Good luck when you attempt to flash a custom rom!
 
silverblack said:
I just used that xiaomi de bloater app to remove everything from the Poco F3.
My only gripe with MIUI is the notification settings and aggressive battery saving.
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What bloat? I've always been on global on my poco f2 and not noticed much bloat? I don't get ads - I think I recall turning off a load of stuff when I first got it - and the built in apps you can just not use? Do you mean deleting all the built in apps?
 
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What bloat? I've always been on global on my poco f2 and not noticed much bloat? I don't get ads - I think I recall turning off a load of stuff when I first got it - and the built in apps you can just not use? Do you mean deleting all the built in apps?
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I uninstall all the apps they let you uninstall but a lot cannot be so use the de bloater app.There is also a lot of ad tracking software that runs in the background that cannot be switched off or disabled.They replicate nearly every google app that i don't want or use.But i do like MIUI for there settings.At least with Xiaomi you can use the debloater app you can't do that with say Samsung phones.
 
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