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[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] Whitcomb:
Hello,

i am thinking about buying a Xiaomi mi a1 but currently i heard a lot of bad things:

- Excess battery drain

- GPS issues

- Sound and calling issues

- Crashing Apps

- Fingerprint bugs

- Mobile data freezing issue

- Ambient display iusses

And a few more.

What is the current situation ? Can you guys still recommend this phone ?

Or maybe do you know a better alternative device ?
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] TrueMS:
I agree with battery drain issue, but everything except battery works perfectly for me, gps ok, sound and calling good, no crashing, fingerprint fast as lightning, mobile data never freezes for me and ambient display works fine. Im using stock april ROM.

Edit: talking about battery, I just dont know, I have a feeling that sometimes it drains and sometimes Its just okay, im a medium user, actually if I use my phone only for calling and some chatting - I have 40% left with 5,5 hours of SOT.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] TrueMS:
Posting my battery stats.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] Socotroco:
I get around 7hs of screen on time from a single charge. Not everyday I spend such much time with phone but on weekends I get around 7 or 7.5 hours.

The phone works well.. .it's not a top of the line phone, it's not a flagship (I came from a Galaxy S7, it burned itself). The camera app has to be changed to GCam if you want decent pictures.

So far, after the this month update, the one that provided April Security Patch Level, the only issue I'm facing is the Fingerprint bugs... half of the times that I want to unlock my phone it doesn't read correctly my finger and I end up using PIN to unlock it.

This wasn't an issue until this update, the fingerprint sensor and unlock was 100% accurate, never a miss... but Xiaomi fuc**d up with this month update.

Regards,
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] kudos1uk:
100% stock with April update.

No Battery issue, no fingerprint issue, in fact.... no issues at all, amazing phone.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] TrueMS:
I agree, but the battery could be a bit better, but it is 3000 mAh battery, not the 4000 like Redmi 4x and others.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] robgee789:
I love my Mi A1 mate no issues whatsoever
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] 5amar31:
I only had issues with idle drain which is now solved with April update for me at least. If I clear all apps from recents before sleep then I get 0% drain at night otherwise 1%. And fingerprint bugs? What does that even mean?
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] JockeSve:
I have no idea where You got that list from as I don't recognize any of the issues at all!

I'v been using this phone since mid Nov -17 and travelling across Europe and Northern Africa several times without any hassle what so ever.

Of course there are "better" phones but as such, absolutely nothing to complain about.

There will always be people crying, whining, yelling and demanding for fixes, features and "issues" but quite many of those people "forget" to mention what they did before the "issues" started...

Unlocking, rooting, forcing updates and so on.

I don't get panic is a patch/update/fix is delayed a week or two or if I don't have the latest OS at same time as Nokia or Pixel phones...

This is my first "China phone" (6-7 earlier of various brands) I decided to let be original as long as ever possible and it just works.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] WittePens:
Mobile data keeps falling away to the wrong frequencies. No real fix for it yet...

https://c.mi.com/thread-413908-1-1.html
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] skoogee:
I have no issues from the above list.

battery drain is very normal and and better than expected with my heavy use and it lasts from the time i disconnect from the charger in the morning until i get back to the charger late at night. camera is way better than expected (specially after enabling HRD+ using google camera) finger print never failed me and did not notice any mobile data drops that annoys me. sound is very clear during calls and the speaker is loud.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] jhs39:
There's a larger amount of overnight battery drain than with my other phone (Essential PH-1) but the SOT is more than respectable and the fingerprint sensor is a lot more responsive than the one on my PH-1. The camera is only average which actually seems to be by design. Xiaomi phones normally take very good pictures but Google didn't enable the camera 2 api on this phone. Maybe Google doesn't want an Android One device to become competition for Google branded phones. I'm in the USA (which is not an official market for this phone) and pretty much the only issue I have encountered is that the MI A1 works way better on T-Mobile than AT&T. This is a really solid device for the price but at $200 it isn't intended as competition for flagship phones. But it is both fast and smooth and has pretty impressive build quality so I have no complaints.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] kloony11:
Hi guys, I use face unlock as my main unlock method but often the phone struggles when my beard grows a little long. Is there a way to get the phone understand both looks? I have the less secure option already enabled but would be good if the phone can learn that facial features can change over the weeks.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] koilmaker:
Let me start by saying my Mogul (Bell) has ALWAYS LOCKED (found satellites) with ALL of DCD's ROMS from the day he started creating the ROMs for the GPS. All the "GPS" radio's have worked and am lucky never to have a problem except one: Not Finding GPS/Satellites after the Mogul Sleeps or being able to get it working again without a soft/hard reset everytime!!!
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I have been using only DCD's ROMS and currently have radio 3.35.04 and DCD 3.01 installed. I am using Garmin XT and GPS Tuner. I get the same results with every GPS software I have tried.

Here are brief details:

After hard/soft reset - if its within a few seconds and I catch it quickly, there are no problems, both the AGPS and the software are working fine.

After 2-? Minutes - if I let the unit go to sleep, and awake it via the Power button, the gps program is looking for satellites. Sometimes it finds them, most of the time not. It wont find them in ANY program, even GPS Viewer and/or any other navigation program.

After Many Minutes - not only are the satellites gone, but now the navigation software cannot find the AGPS with any program OR method.

Sometimes a soft start fixes it, sometimes only a hard start will do the trick.

I have tried as much of the "forced start" software that I could find, but to no avail.

I also changed the com port to 5 thinking that there maybe is a conflict with 4, (you have to make sure the com port setting in all of your GPS software is also changed unless the software does this automatically) but the SAME issues stated above occur.

I have loaded and reloaded probably 20 different configurations of my software even to the point where all I had loaded was the bare DCD rom (no options or unnecessary OEM's) and JUST my Navigation software. Same issues......

I hope I am not the only one and hope that the contributions to this thread will fix this issue.

Please.....Keep this thread focused on this issue only - Keeping the GPS alive!!! ( no Where did you get this or that program? How did you install it?)​
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] thecalip:
keeping the gps alive will kill the battery.

yea, i have teh same issue as you. soft reset is the only way i get gps working.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] koilmaker:
Maybe a better way to phrase it would have been to make the GPS available without having to do a soft reset every time.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] illuminarok:
We don't want to keep GPS alive indefinately! We just want so if we accidentily press power button while navigation is happening, we not have to reset the phone.. because this is a little inconvenient. If I am driving down the road and I hit my power button, now I have to pull over and reset my Titan because otherwise I have no GPS navigation ability and that's not a good happening, you know? We just want so if navigation software is active, not kill GPS, then when shutdown GPS navigation software, shut down GPS gate properly so when want to relaunch GPS navigation software, not need to reboot Titan.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] JaZzMaN251:
I'm sorry to post in a rather old post.

But I'm having the same problem with my Samsung i780.

When I already used my GPS after turning on my phone and put it back to sleep, it can't find a valid GPS signal when waking it up.

After a soft reset, the GPS signal is found very quickly.

Any fix for this?
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] kflipproductions:
yeah, the fix is GC's aGPS fix. I never have to soft reset my device to get a lock ever.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] JaZzMaN251:
I don't use aGPS, just the internal GPS receiver.

Will it also fix the problem then?

>> edit:

It's not that the GPS doesn't work after accidentally pushing the power button. It's more like when I use the GPS the first time after turning the phone on, everything works fast and good. But when I close the Navigator software and turn it back on in -let's say- two hours, it doesn't get a signal from the GPS. I don't use aGPS.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] unL33T:
I only use Google Maps and TomTom7. If I make sure the phone doesn't go to sleep while Google Maps is tracking GPS all is fine. However, if the phone goes to sleep while Google Maps is using the GPS it will not work again, in any program, until I soft reset. If I bring the phone out of sleep fast enough, it's fine. If the same happens with TomTom though it takes a few seconds to fix itself and then everything works just like it did before.

I'm not sure why it works fine with TomTom and not Google Maps though.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] tommvee:
I found that if I use the GPS toggle program and leave it on. It finds the GPS signal after sleep mode. It is a small today screen plugin. I also have attached the latest version of Google maps. If i am using the GPS with Google maps it doesn't stop when the phone goes into sleep mode. See if this helps.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] eastvanchinaman:
i use the same gps toggle program that tommvee suggested using and it works great. i wasn't originally having problems finding GPS satellites after waking from sleep mode, but was having to wait up to 5 minutes before garmin xt could find my location. after installing the gps toggle .cab, doing a soft reset, activating the gps toggle and letting it run in the background for a few minutes, both garmin xt, and googlemaps can now find me in about 30 seconds. i do believe however, that you'll have to reactivate the gps toggle after restarting the phone but it will stay running while your phone is in sleep/standby mode.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] unL33T:
I am also using aGPS but still have problems if I accidently hit the power button in Google Maps and forget to turn it back on. My power button is very sensitive so even brushing it as I set the phone down will put it to sleep. It doesn't click anymore like the other buttons do :/

As for the battery usage, I only use GPS in my car where I have the phone plugged in 90% of the time.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] RedRamage:
Where can I get GC's GPS fix?
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] unL33T:
I think there's a link to the How To in the Titan wiki.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] piwaf:
Any pointers on shutting down the gps gate? I could try a utility for doing the shutdown manually.
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Manpreet singh shergill:
Hi,i was using zui 2.5 for sometime

But when i flashed magdisk the camera started to show error and crashes whenever i starts vidio recording sayinh that,"check if recorder is using"
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] strongst:
Only magisk? Very strange. Magisk should have no impact on any camera unless you install some modules that have :rolleyes:
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Manpreet singh shergill:
No sir,i haven't installed any module just flashed magdisk to access root and i have tried 3-4 times but every time same result
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] mOrLoCcO:
Hi there.

I've tried several Oreo custom roms and I always get the same problem...

I can receive all calls, but no one can hear me!!!

Can someone guide me to solve this issue?

Thanks in advance.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] aditya214:
Update

Is there any update on this issue bro.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] al13nas:
Hello Everyone!

At first, I thought it was just me but after searching I find that a lot of other owners on Reddit and even here face similar issues. I don't have more than a normal amount of apps installed. I don't use a 3rd party launcher either. The memory utilization log clearly says that the Android OS is eating up most of the RAM (1,2gb RAM).

I am using Nougat (7..1.2) right now with custom ROM by LineageOS ...My phone gets really slow , app switching slow and sometimes i get crashes (randomly).

Android OS usage is 1,2 GB and Facebook,Messenger,Instagram 150-200mb each..

My previous Roms were PureNexus (7.1.2) same problem after 6months,Google Pixel2 Rom for 3 days (8.1.0) same..

My question is : Is it me or Android is claiming lot of memory for better managment and allocation..? and if anyone using a stable rom without facing the same ram issues..

Thanks! :)
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jd1639:
There's an old saying that free ram is wasted ram. Android does a good job of managing ram so you're never going to see a lot of free ram. You have nothing to worry about.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] al13nas:
I dont need a lot of free ram.. i just need a smooth feel ( no crashes , lagging etc)
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhilipL:
Hi

I don't think you will get a smooth feel with newer versions of Android and the Nexus 5X with it's 2GB of RAM, which even at launch was criticised for not being very much, as most apps are unloaded as they move to the background to free up memory, so each time you launch an app it has to load from scratch. I was always seeing the Hangouts splash screen for example, it never stayed loaded after any amount of time, and these extra delays in loading apps is what causes the feeling of lag.

I've now just moved to a Pixel 2 with 4GB of memory and can see the difference straight away in that apps I can switch to instantly as they are not reloaded each time.

Regards

Phil
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ezman604:
I'll give you the whole story so bear with me. First off, I'm very new to the Android OS and tinkering with phones and tabs. I'm a computer network administrator and pc mechanic. I'm mainly a hardware guy though, no programming experience at all. But I'm not afraid to jump right into the inner workings though, especially if it's already broken. :)

And that's probably why I find myself in this position today with this device.

I recently bought this Tab 7.7 to use as a display for my new drone. When it arrived I tried to download the flight control app and it refused to install. No error messages, it just did not install. In looking, the unit was on Honeycomb 3.0. My guess was it was WAY behind in upgrades so off I went to make it bigger and better. I downloaded a zip file for Lollipop 5.1 onto my SD card and was able to load that. Upon reboot I had a screen and an OS. I went into settings and saw where it had upgraded. Success, right? Well, then I went into Wi-Fi settings to add my network. The keyboard would not come up on screen. So I did a bit more research and tripped over the fact that I needed to also load a GAPPS file to add the apps and drivers back. THAT is when I went down the rabbit hole.

The install did not go well and I somehow wound up with no OS at all. Probably after thinking I was following the correct process of resetting and clearing caches before installing the new files. Then this 3 day journey of learning began. I have downloaded Odin, Notepad++ to edit files, Minimal ADB and Fastboot, Samsung KIES and all manners of ROM builds and GAPP files. As of this moment I have absolutely no OS on the unit. Upon turn on it goes directly into the CWM Recovery v6.0.4.5 screen. I am able to boot it to the download screen and Odin can SEE the unit. But I can't get any further with that program other than seeing the unit listed as detected. I'm not able to get anywhere with KIES. No detection or anything.

Now I'm admitting I messed this unit up. I'm not blaming any written procedure or ROM developer. I'm not stupid but evidently don't know all I NEED to know about this process. So I'm here asking for guidance. I really would like to revive this unit and get it back to where I can use it as my monitor as originally planned. But one step at a time. Please give me the correct steps to do to get an OS reloaded and revive this unit.

I'm thinking that my best bet would be to use a TWRP image file to rebuild it. But I need the step by step process for that to make sure I do it correctly.

MANY thanks for this board and the help AOT!!!

Dave
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ezman604:
Being the impatient type as well as a DIY'er, I pressed on with trying to revive it myself. I downloaded TWRP as a zip file and added it to the SD card. Booted and installed from the zip file. Screen said it loaded successfully. I rebooted and tried going into recovery (holding power and volume up) expecting it to go into the TWRP console. Instead it went into the regular CWM Recovery screen. Oh well, another frustrating dead end for me. I'll just set it aside until I get some good instructions from someone that knows what they're doing. Best I do that rather than brick it. I can at least access the recovery screen. Odin sees the unit but I cannot find the right file to load from there.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ezman604:
Okay, I'm truly stopping now. Another dead end. I was able to find a couple of files for restore using Odin. Loaded one and now I boot into Android system recovery <3a> instead of the CWM Recovery screen as before. I tried loading a recovery image from a zip file and it failed signature. That seemed to be telling me the tab is now not rooted. So I downloaded SuperSU to the SD card and tried to load it. No joy, it fails signature too.

Arrrggghhhh.........
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ezman604:
Can't even shut it down.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ezman604:
Told you I'm impatient. Now have used Odin and installed TWRP 3.0.2-0. Going slowly now. Taking it one step at a time. This is the first positive step I've had so far in 3 days.

:silly:
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ezman604:
Baby steps. LOL

Used TWRP to flash SuperSU. Now the unit is rooted and rebooted to TWRP. I still have no OS on there as of yet. I'm guessing my next step is finding a good stable ROM file and use TWRP to flash onto the tab.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ezman604:
Downloaded OmniROM Marshmallow 6.0.1 (https://androidfilehost.com/?w=file...69dc16313bf0332c8794621c6c7f505edf855e0d499d8) and the Open GApps ARM 6.0 stock file (http://opengapps.org/).

Will try to flash those through TWRP and hope for the best.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ezman604:
Joy...at last. The downloaded OMNI 6.0.1 worked when loaded using TWRP. The GApp file failed. Will try another one to see if it works.

https://xdaforums.com/android/software/app-minimal-gapps-gapps-lp-20150107-1-t2997368
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ezman604:
Booted to TWRP and was going to install the GApps file. I had left OMNI 6.0.1 on the card too and by mistake selected it. Dooohhh......

I'm an accident waiting for a place to happen. LOL

So, after REloading Android 6.0 I proceeded to load the gapps base file. Reboot and all appears to be going smooth. Apps updating and such. After about 2 minutes I get a message onscreen that unfortunately setup wizard has stopped. Hit okay but the message persists to pop up.

So.....

I guess I'll take a short break then do a wipe and reload of the OMNI and the working gap file and see what happens. At least I got to see it actually boot and let me get into setup. I went to add my Wi-Fi network, added the credentials but it never connected. Something else to look into.

More fun ahead....but at least I'm moving forward now.
[Galaxy Tab 7.7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ezman604:
A happy camper. Because I was able to revive this tab and because I had the patience to figure it out myself. And my wife swears I have no patience.

LOL

:p

So...the key was downloading Odin and the Samsung drivers on my laptop.

Then download the TWRP.tar file to the laptop.

Boot the tab into download mode by holding power and volume down button. Select yes to continue.

Connect the tab to the laptop with the USB cable. See that Odin can communicate with the tab.

Select AP and find the TWRP file location and start. After it finished, rebooted and since there was no OS installed, TWRP recovery opened.

The next thing was download SuperSU file and drop it onto the SD card. You CAN go ahead and find the correct ROM you want and download the file as well as the GApp file. Drop all 3 onto the SD card.

Then insert it into the tab and select Install. Just be very observant WHICH file you load in what order.

You will need to install the SuperSU, reboot and then install the OS ROM followed by the GApp file.

Select SD card and the SuperSU file. Wait for it to complete then reboot.

After loading SuperSU and reboot, you need to get back into TWRP Recovery program by rebooting while holding power and volume up. This time when you select Install, pick the ROM file first then pick additional files and select the GApp. This way TWRP will first install the OS from the ROM file and immediately load the apps file. Then reboot and you are done!!!

And it took 3 days of round about to figure this out.

LOL

I just downloaded my flight control app and I'm off and running with Marshmallow.

Hope this helps at least one person that is new to this whole process as I was!!!

Dave

:cool:
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] fercosber:
Hi, I have this device, and it depends on the rom that I use, the wifi works or not, with the ironman 1.2 it works for me, with the renovate 10.1 it works for me, with the batman it does not work, the infinity does not work either , I have tried with all the modems and it is still the same, I have tried with many roms and in some it works and in others not because of what hardware is not. any solution? Someone who happens the same? Thank you

Enviado desde mi SM-N950F mediante Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Barthlon:
a good solution would be to pick a rom on which the wi-fi works..
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] sp1312:
Dont post it here.. either you can rply on the thread of the rom or post in question and answer forum
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] sevsman:
Try using a different kernel with the ROMs that are having WiFi issues!

Regards

Nathan
[Nokia 7 Plus Questions & Answers] Dio-Genes:
I saw some people write there's a radio in the phone. But I can't find it anywhere. Could you please help clear it up?
[Nokia 7 Plus Questions & Answers] manus31:
I don't think the phone has a radio in it,but you can go to the play store and there are lots of radio apps that will work over your internet
[Nokia 7 Plus Questions & Answers] Dio-Genes:
Hi manus31, thanks for your reply. I was not talking about Internet Radio Apps, but FM Radio module within the phone. But it looks like there is none. Just wanted to be sure.
[Nokia 7 Plus Questions & Answers] zFr3eak:
according to gsmarena and many other review pages the nokia 7 plus HAS FM Radio: https://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_7_plus-9058.php

Unfortunately, there is no stock fm radio app. Have you already tried to download one from the playstore or somewhere else?