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I've got zero expectations, they made POCO F3 and F4 with same SoC but F3 is EOL, and F4 still gets updates.
Considering they neglected it in ideal conditions, how can we believe them to support less convergent set of devices?
Anyway, anyone can tell me why should we care about Android updates except for security? I'm totally bored by Android 14, not even one interesting thing in release notes. Maybe taking sharing menu out of OEM hands and updating it through Play Store, but seeing how they did something like that in Chrome makes it rather intrusive feature.
MIUI is even more boring, from MIUI 11 to 14 on POCO F3 I have noticed no changes in the skin, they added widgets for China-only but these see useful, just nice to look at. I love widgets, but c'mon.
POCO F3 here
Android skins were always a mistake
Change my mind
(Galnet) MIUI at one point used to be the ROM to install back in the day.
Now, typing from this Mi 11 meme it's a whole different kettle of fish. Security app is what I would call snake oil leaning for towards spyware, then all the other uninstallable apps from MIUI are tracking apps / dupes.
To be honest though being able to uninstall YouTube should be a given but Google won't allow that either, even though it's a "website".
Yes, so much yes!
I never dabbled in ROM installation, but I really felt the bad things going on with the MIUI once I tried it, it's such a shame because the hardware is so good for the price and it's funny that it wouldn't have cost them more to put a stock Android, that would have most likely worked better, but then they wouldn't have got their hands on that sweet sweet data...
@ladfrombrad @QuazarOmega Root + trackercontrol + adaway does wonders
I got rid of the ads already systemwide with NextDNS, though I never had them in system apps (maybe a regional thing?). About root, I prefer to stay away from it for the security implications, but if I had a simple button to install DivestOS on this phone I would click it immediately
Not only security implications, it's also the time sink and apps crying about Safetynet being unable to be passed I find the Pihole + browser extensions / Tampermonkey etc somewhat of a sweet compromise.
I keep getting nagged by someone to try either AdGuard or NextDNS on my Pi but also.....lazy/busy at work :(
I think that's a fine setup!
Also, isn't Pihole the nerdy way to do it? I thought NextDNS was the lazy route XD
PoCo F3 here too, yup, always have been. The worst is modem crashing when changing bands/tower.
Never had that thankfully, sounds extremely bad! But it's got its fair share of other annoying bugs
Xiaomi's update rationale and schedule is all over the place. Sometimes a phone that doesn't get updated for over a year gets an update, while some get quarterly updates for 2 years, some 3, and some 1.5 years before getting 6 months of silence then one final half assed update. XD
Why do you think the F3 is EOL? It's still receiving updates. Most likely it won't be updated to Android 14, but it probably will get MIUI 15.
On xiaomi blog they mentioned it will not get MIUI 15.