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[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] Turbine1991:
This isn't a rant, just things which I've noticed of considerable concern.

Hi, just a full disclosure. I bought a K20 Pro Chinese rom from Aliexpress, waited 3 months and watched a lot of reviews. I'm english speaking, so none of these issues were brought up in the video's I watched.

1) The speaker at the bottom is too easy to cover, as a right hand user. I cannot comfortably watch videos in portrait mode without accidentally concealing it.

2) The camera reflects its own infrared on closeup images of shiny objects.

https://imgur.com/9iCMfut

3) The display is not sharp. This clarity is comparable to the Galaxy S3, you can see the pixels individually and quite vividly. This makes icon edges appear blurry. I'll put this down to the low resolution, as compared to my 2k display of the Galaxy Note 5.

https://imgur.com/rExaM1Z

4) The display is very thin. Having come from the Galaxy Note 5, I'm used to a wider phone. But this is much to small to consume media in vertical form.

5) The battery life isn't great. It lasts a day, and only a day with medium use.

6) Gestures in Android 9 are broken. Specifically the 'recents gesture' and the 'go back'. I only had about a 10% success rate with the 'recents gesture', it just didn't want to work. Whereas the 'go back' gesture works a bit too well and I was constantly going back accidentally as you can swipe from either side.

7) MIUI is not good. I personally do not find it enjoyable to use.
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] EighteenXVIII:
Three months is a long time. I was getting impatient and got it after 30 days. I'll say I agree with the speaker being easy to cover, that being said you can just turn the phone upside down.
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] thiagodark:
1) just turn device upside down.

2) weird thing indeed

3) pretty okay for the price, not best display ever, but not uncomfortable to me..

4)there's a choice here, if you make it too wide, you make it hard to use with a single hand...

5) pretty great here, I don't know what you call "medium use", but here I'm getting all day long (lasting around 25% in the end of it) with 7 hours of screen on... I consider it as hard use. It is not great compared to what, exactly?

6)never used it, can't opine...

7)I used to be a vanilla guy, miui stock is just awful for me. But, xiaomi.eu rom is pretty great, I believe you could give it a try. It is just what miui should be...

Cheers
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] Docxsido:
I wasn't pleased too when i went from Galaxy s8 to one plus 5t about the display but you will get used to it believe me , it's a good display you will not notice any pixel after some time , almost every phone nowadays comes in FHD+ except high end Samsung , besides it's 6'4 inch it's really big

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And you're completely wrong about the battery life maybe you have a faulty unit because the battery is amazing I'm getting 7 to 9 SOT
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] superandroid2011:
In my opinion:

1) Agree with you, but although I always (almost) use headphones it doesnt bother me. But, you can flip the phone to avoid this scenario...

2) Never noticed.

3) It is really not an ultra sharp display, but it is far from S3, which was ~300ppi, K20 is ~400ppi. Amoled pentile will hardly give an sharp display on FHD+ displays.

4) You are a long time whitout upgrading, thin phones are a trend since 2018. Last decent 16:9 phone was Huawei Mate 10.

5) Luckily you didnt buy other phones as this one have a great battery life on today standards.

6) It is necessary some time to get used and increase accuracy on gestures.

7) Having had mainly Samsungs, LGs, Motos, Huaweis and Xiaomis, I think MIUI is on par with EMUI (Huawei) and better than Samsung/LG/Moto.

Edit: Item 5. According to GSMArena, battery on K20 stands ~45% longer than Note5 for video playback. ~15% more for talking time, and ~25% more for browsing.
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] xPandamon:
I don't know if the K20 Pro is different from the Mi 9T Pro but i can't agree on the unsharp display. Maybe with a magnifying glass but it is as sharp as any other phone i had before including my P30. Same for the battery life, i can easily hit 10 hours SOT in a day without having to charge it. Tried gestures, works well for me. The thin display isn't as good for videos, yes but overall it's quite nice to use/ handle. Also i'm okay with MIUI. It looks pretty nice and got some good customization options and it's certainly better than EMUI. But i can agree on it being a bit weird to use if you're used to stock Android.
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] Turbine1991:
Thanks for your positive feedback.

Someone suggested that I just rotate the phone 180 degrees to avoid covering the speaker, how does one enable this rotation in miui?

A suggestion was made about miui.eu, I plan to flash this when the 7 day unlock period expires.

Regarding the battery, it's just not revolutionary. Sitting around the 1 day mark. Has anyone had any positive battery life improvements using a custom kernel?
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] Aimara:
hmmm no way its comparable , fyi i still have mine retired S3 , a sammy user since galaxy S , size wise k20 pro its pretty standard , note series i is always consider a bigger size phone , similar one perhaps might be mi max ? battery seem good so far , sorry but older sammy phones model, battery life always fail me , gestures , never use , maybe i am old school , miui does take a while to get used to , just throw in a poco launcher ,never like miui messy home screen , and the price you paid for a sd855 , not sure what country you are from , a samsung comes with exynos chipset most of the time , cant expect top quality hardware in all aspect ?
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] lordkiller347:
1. This issue isn't exactly exclusive to the K20 Pro, many devices have bottom firing speakers, not really and issue for me. I am also right handed and I rarely cover the speaker when using it in landscape.

2. You can avoid the infrared reflection issue by switching to manual focus.

3. Imo the display is fine. You are just coming from a phone with a QHD display (you should have done your research before buying)

4. The display is supposed to be taller and the fact that its taller make its naturally narrower for its size (6.39") The aspect ratio (18:9) on the K20 Pro is is used on all modern flagships now as it is better suited to the portrait content that is consumed on a smartphone. and as for "This clarity is comparable to the Galaxy S3" either your device is faulty or you're just talking crap. The galaxy S3 has a pixel density of 306 ppi and the K20 Pro's display has a pixel density of 403 ppi which is more than a noticeable difference

5. Most people have reported great battery life. I have gotten 2 days on a single charge before and in some cases getting over 10 hours of screen on time unless you game then of course it wont last as long.

6. I haven't had any issues with MIUI gestures, they work perfectly fine for me.

7. I love MIUI, this is my first Xiaomi device. When I first ordered the device I didn't think I'd like MIUI and thought I would end up switching to a custom rom like Pixel Experience or Lineage but I learned to love it. MIUI has the best gestures, it looks awesome, it is well optimised and performs great with great battery life.

I did a considerable amount of research before buying. Some of the issue you have stated were mentioned like the bottom firing speaker, the display being FHD+, the infrared reflection wasn't an issue on your note 5 because the note 5 doesn't have laser autofocus (which can be disabled) this isnt really an issue its just an extra feature on the K20 Pro which you don't have to use.

The K20 Pro is far cheaper than any other current flagship out there, so you cant expect it to have all the same flagship features. They obviously had to save money in some areas, for example the display is FHD+ unlike some Samsung, LG, Sony and OnePlus devices which have QHD Displays, Gorilla Glass 5 instead of 6, no wireless charging, the type-c port is only USB 2.0, no IP rating when this devices has been proven to be considerably water resistant
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] Robbo.5000:
+1 to all of this except 7.

MIUI does have some plus points, but for me, nowhere near enough to compensate for it's bad points. The only thing I miss is MIUI gestures.

I bought the phone knowing I'd be going to custom ROMs as soon as the bootloader could be unlocked.

With a good custom ROM, I cannot fault the phone for it's price point.
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] MrSaltman:
I gotta say that I think the battery life is absolutely insane (I came from a jailbroken iPhone X, but had tons of Xiaomis etc before). I charge it every evening but sometimes I just dont, because I got 60+ % and it jsut doesnt feel right.

I use the MIUI 11 ROM from xiaomi.eu, and I really loved MIUI since MIUI 6/7. I enjoyed some extra features(really great dark mode, always on display, dual apps, ...) and the visual look of it. As far as I know there are already quite a lot of roms with stock android for the phone.
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] lordkiller347:
You say it doesn't compensate for its bad point. If you're gonna say something like that then maybe you should enlighten us on what those bad points are.
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] Robbo.5000:
My main issues are

Data Harvesting - on a worse scale than Google

Ads - which are convoluted to turn off, though it's supposed to be easier in MIUI 11

Bloatware - There is an immense amount of bloat, most of which cannot be removed. Compare the running services of a freshly booted phone running MIUI with, say, an AOSP ROM and see the vast increase MIUI is running, the majority if which you have no idea what or why.

It was developed to be, and still is to some degree, an iOS clone.

There were others and if I were to revert back to MIUI I'd remember what they were.
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] NZ Razer:
Do you own the indian variant or chinese? Apparently the indian has a lower quality display, that could explain why some people aren't finding that themselves, because I own the chinese and its pretty damn clear; Even comparing it to friends S9/S10's and latest iPhones.
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] Rhoban:
The screen doesn't seem pixelated to me. Perhaps you're used to higher resolution displays. I've upgraded from the OnePlus 5 and haven't seen a reduction in image quality.

Gestures work fine for me. I didn't need an adjustment period, they were pretty intuitive and back works pretty much every time (with no accidental back swipes), while recents works like 9/10 times.

I don't have a problem with covering the speaker. When watching YouTube I grip the phone by the middle section with one hand, I don't hold it with both hands like when you play games.

Battery life isn't extraordinary, but it's decent compared to my OnePlus 5.

You can debloat most MIUI ROMs using the Xiaomi ADB/Fastboot tool.
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] Turbine1991:
Looking forward to trying miui 11. It's not officially available yet to Chinese rom users outside China.
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] MrSaltman:
xiaomi.eu is the way to go
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] peter0010:
Okay, real talk

point 5 is straight up trolling?

I have to charge mine like once in 2 days and you're talking about not great battery life - what the hell

A full charge gets me like 11 sometimes even 12 hours SoT with medium/normal usage (youtube, spotify, browsing, mails etc. - basically everything except games).

Do you game all day long or what?

what battery life do you expect anyway? Theres not many devices which can even last that long as the K20 Pro/Mi 9T Pro does (with somewhat similar pefomance obviously)
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] _ray_:
OP must have a defective unit (battery, display). There is no way the display is 'poor' quality, compared to my 6T its much sharper and vivid. Battery life is also one of the best I have seen (less than 2% discharge overnight) I have been playing games on Dolphin, PPSSPP, etc and a full charge can easily last 4+ hours, and that's using emulators which are extreme battery hogs. Xiaomi have been pretty transparent about how and when they collect our data by giving us optout options nearly everywhere, which is something I cant say about other shady companies out there who are in the same line of business. Besides, data harvesting and adds can easily be tackled by debloating/flashing EU rom, where the 1st done doesn't even need root.

Finally coming from OOS the MIUI can be a pain to use but now I am beginning to like the features that it offers, for example, full-screen mode and gestures which I never thought would make my life so much easier. All in all this phone has been a wonderful upgrade for me and I couldn't be any happier.
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] Aimara:
whats weird is many of mine country already gotten android 10 update , i didnt received any
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] lordkiller347:
Xiaomi have a tool you can use to remove pretty much all of the Chinese bloatware including miuidaemon which is what is responsible for Xiaomi data collection. I have not encountered any ads in MIUI at all. It has been far from an iOS clone for a long time now. You have clearly done little to no research on this device or MIUI
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] Robbo.5000:
Do you have a link to the "official" bloatware removal tool.

Try using any tools you like to remove bloatware from a clean MIUI install, then check all the apps including system apps and see how big the list is.

Then do the same with, say, a clean LOS install. Then come back and tell me you can remove the bloat, and that you haven't only removed the small amount of visible bloat.

If you believe that muiudaemon is the only thing collecteing data, then you carry on believing that.
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] lordkiller347:
monitoring network traffic isn't exactly complicated so finding out what is sending you data isnt exactly difficult. MIUI has better performance and is more stable than LOS and flashing LOS will stop you from using apps that don't run on devices with unlocked bootloaders like banking apps and gpay as well as it potentially causing issue with encryption and in my opinion a custom rom isn't worth losing encryption as not being encrypted massively reduces security. Pretty much all of the apps I never touch i have removed with the xiaomi adb tools. If you dislike MIUI so much the why the hell did you buy a Xiaomi phone? if you actually researched the device before buying you would be aware of the bloatware it ships with and what MIUI is like. Xiaomi phones don't really have that much more bloatware than Samsung phones...
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] Giocarro:
I bookmarked this page with a few tools for Xiaomi MIUI devices:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/wiki/tools#wiki_xiaomi_adb.2Ffastboot_tools_by_saki_eu

Hope this helps you guys to get the best of this device!
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] Robbo.5000:
I knew exactly what I was buying when I got the phone. I bought the phone because it is absolutely the best value for money. I knew exactly what MIUI was before hand, my wife has a Note 6 Pro and doesn't care about such things so is happy to keep MIUI, and I knew I would be replacing it as soon as the 7 day wait was over. I've been sticking custom ROMs on my phones for nearly 10 years, so I wasn't bothered that it came with MIUI.

I have a custom ROM on now and it is still fully encrypted. With a little bit of inconvenience I'm able to get any apps working that I want. The only real security issue now is if someone physically gets hold of the phone, they will be easily able to install anything. Otherwise it's just as secure as it was. I couldn't say if MIUI has the same bloat as Samsung, I've not owned one since the original Galaxy S (i9000). But having removed everything I could, that was deemed safe to remove, I was shocked by how much 'stuff' was still on the phone when looking at all the system apps. Things that I had no idea what they were or why they were there. (We're not talking a few more than normal, but dozens and dozens and dozens of things)

As for performance, I'm not sure it's better. But another thing that I wasn't happy with was the very aggressive memory management. This is something I've seen others complain about and it's something that is completely unnecessary on a phone with 8GB RAM. But it certainly made the phone seem to have worse performance as apps would constantly no longer be held in memory and needed to reload data.

In the week of using MIUI I had 3 or 4 bugs which is more than I've had in 4 years of using CyanogenMod/LOS on various OnePlus devices.

You like MIUI, that's fine, many people do. I'm not denying that it had some good, unique features. But there's no getting around the fact that it is divisive. There's probably just as many people that don't like it, with valid reasons not to, just as there's valid reasons to like it. If you want to, you can defend MIUI as long as you like and I'll be happy to counter your defence.

Or you can accept the fact that many people don't like it and accept that their reasons for not liking it are just as valid as your reasons for liking it.
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] ntmalol:
You missed delayed or lack of OS and security updates (from xiaomi). Coming from OnePlus5, I think I have made the biggest mistake getting this phone. Should had paid a little more and went with OnePlus7.

Yes, I know there are lots of good people making custom ROM for this device, but for how long will they maintain it? Ultimately they will have to stop maintaining it. Even xiaomi.eu have stopped supporting devices which are more than 4 years old now.
[Redmi K20 Pro / Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro Questions & Answe] Robbo.5000:
There's a good chance LOS will support the phone long enough for most people, should it go official.

This phone is becoming popular enough that it could well have 1 or 2 long term maintainers for it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] ErickF:
I thinking about getting this phone but have a question about the auto brightness feature.

If anyone has used the oneplus 7 pro they should know that the auto brightness on the phone sucks and its annoying to have to manually adjust almost every time.

Does this phone have a ambient light sensor that works correctly? Does the auto brightness work like previous notes? Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] winol:
Yes, it works at least better than my note 8, it learns about your preferences over time, and does it really fine
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] ike__1985:
You can disable it, I do.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] mike2518:
It's perfect on this phone really.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] liamR:
Most of the time the brightness is spot on. But I had some occasions when in a dark room the brightness was too high and I had to manually decrease it also sometimes when I put the phone in my car mount (wireless charger and it's sunny outside) and open maps the brightness stay too low and I again have to adjust it manually. It could be something that only me experience but I still haven't found the reason it happens.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] Nastrahl:
Sometime it's a bit slow to auto adjust the brightness but it's working fine overall.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] ErickF:
Thanks guys. Bought it and so far it works just like the old Samsung phones I've had. So far so good. Funny how the smallest issues bug you so much that you change the phone. Lol
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] blackhawk:
Best solution. Saves the battery and headaches.

Been running manual for 6 months, no regrets.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] XxReApErxX:
I hate it when I'm playing a game and the brightness goes down... I'll try to leave it on manual

Enviado desde mi SM-N975F mediante Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] Nastrahl:
Use Bixby Routine for it to keep it a the preferred level, or to disable it completely

while gaming.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] johnbcutton:
Hi,

My Athena runs WM6 with ROM 2.21.405 and Radio 1.50

Activation of WIFI in COM Manager => OK

Connection to WIFI access point => OK

Get IP address => OK

Open web link on IE => NOT OK with error "The page cannot be found. Check the name and try again"

Doing a soft reset doen't help

I tried accessing the Internet from my PC through the same WIFI access point and it works fine. The router/WIFI gateway is from EDIMAX

Thanks a lot for your help

John
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Pantaloonie:
Try - Start, settings, connections, wifi, network adaptors tab.

Under 'My network card connects to' ensure it says 'The Internet' and not 'Work'.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] johnbcutton:
Pantaloonie,

It says "The Internet" and not "Work" so the problem does not come from here.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] pdajoy:
If am not wrong, you need to check

Start/Settings/Connections/Wi-Fi/ click and hold on to your network name/Edit/Next

does your Authentication in Athena match your router setting?

In Athena, there are few choices,

Open, Shared, WPA, WPA-PSK, WPA2, WPA2-PSK

Normally Open is selected, otherwise set your router to match.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] johnbcutton:
pdajoy,

WIFI is not secure, there is no WEP encryption. Authentication is set to "Open" on the Athena but it doesn't work.

Thanks
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] pdajoy:
Is your network name shown in Configure Wireless Networks page?

If yes, then tap on it, should brings you to next page,

If your network name hidden, tick the option box, otherwise blank,

Leave Device to device connection un-ticked, Next

Authentication: Open, stay,

Try -Data Encryption, WEP

Try -Key is automatically provided, tick and un-tick, Next, Finish, Connect.

Correct selection for the above is important.

If still unsuccessful,

you may need to verify your Athena with other available unsecure wireless link.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] pma1504:
I’m wondering if there’s a way to get >10 seconds shutter speed on our galaxy s10, any trustworthy app would be appreciated