[Xiaomi Mi MIX  Guides, News, & Discussion] gocchin:
Hi Guys,

Greetings from Japan.

Change my smartphone regularly as I love gadgets and technology.

Daily drivers have included Galaxy Note 3, 5, A9 Pro, and most recently S7 Edge.

Have also owned, Xperia Z3, Z5 Premium, LG G3, G4, V10, V20, Blackberry Passport, Priv, Nexus 6P, Huawei Mate 7, P9, iPhone 6S Plus

Lots of people picking up the new Galaxy S8+ now which I considered along with the LG G6.

Been enamored with the MIX since I first saw it last year.

Price of the 6gb 256gb model came all the way down under 70,000 yen which is cheaper than both the the LG and S8+ (by a lot vs the Galaxy) so I jumped on it.

Few first impressions after a few days of it replacing my S7 Edge.

- Beautiful phone. Please note I love big phones. The finish and style is superb. As many have noted though, slipperiest phone I have ever used.

- Screen size is immersive and the screen to body ratio just awesome. I actually feel the S8+ screen is a bit to narrow and I like the resolution of the MIX. However, one negative is (and this is my personal taste), I find the colors not as punchy as I'm used to with the Amoled screens. I don't find the color accuracy as good as other high end phones. (no official testing, just by eye).

- Games and multimedia on this phone are amazing.

- Very surprised at the plug in sound quality. Currently use a Onkyo DP-X1 digital audio player which is in my opinion one of the best DAP's out there. To compare, the MIX is as powerful and the quality is much better than any Samsung phone. I don't have my LG phones on hand to compare directly anymore but I'd say its maybe a step below the DAC's on the V10 and V20. Compared to the DP-X1, slightly less clean, less punch on the low end, and a narrower sound stage but the DP-X1 will blow away any phone. Phone wise, I would not hesitate to plug in my Sony MDR-1A or Audio Technica MSR7.

- Sorry, I'll say it, camera is terrible. Many of the phones I owned in the past had amazing cameras. This does not. I think enough has been discussed on this so I'll leave it at that.

- I can't comment much on the MIUI skin/system launcher. After a few hours I threw on Nova Launcher. There are bugs with MIUI that I experienced as follows:

- Double knock to wake does not work after the phone has been sleeping for longer periods of time. If I shut the screen off and double tap within a few minutes it wakes the phone

but if I do it after say 20 minutes, it will not and I need to press the power button to wake.

- Notifications were hit and miss at the beginning. Was strangely unreliable as there were times the phone was locked and no notifications came through. I turned off a bunch of

MIUI optimizations and now they "seem" to work but will monitor.

- Speaking of notifications, when do not disturb is turned on, messages like LINE Messenger are not silenced, even I have I set to silence all with NO exceptions.

- The auto brightness performance is slow/poor. Turned it off and manually adjust brightness for now.

- I've allowed the dock to be hidden but sometimes really hard to swipe away in certain apps.

- Had to redo default apps several times as they kept getting reset.

- Setting wallpapers seems more difficult than it has to be whether it be in MIUI or Nova (which is even more buggy in this setup for wallpapers).

- Clock widgets don't work. Time does not reflect phone time (stands still) - this could be a Nova thing with MIUI.

- I've played around with the memory management and it seems MIUI does a poor job at it. When I have no apps running/open there are times the system memory and apps running

in background use up over 2gb - luckily this phone has 6gb. This worsens over time and is cleared with a restart.

- Seems like when phone goes to sleep it was no longer connected to wifi. I had to turn on the option to leave wifi and data on (Switch between Data and Wifi option) which

appears to fix this.

- and other things that are probably minor that I don't remember.

In general I love the phone for its design and hardware (except for the camera). In my opinion if it had an Amoled screen, a better, at least decent camera, and at least addressed some of the basic bugs (no matter how beautiful a phone is if notifications don't work out of the box... its unacceptable), this phone would be untouchable.

Of course some of the bugs could be just user error so feel free to point me in the right direction if this is the case.

Also I have rooted and flashed some of my devices in the past with custom roms. Let me know if you think flashing to another rom would solve some issues.

Should note the Rom it came with is MIUI Global 8.2 | Stable 8.2.1.0 (MAHMIDL).

Thanks for reading. :D