[Xiaomi Mi A3 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De] batata004:
This is a freaking terrible ROM. Say goodbye to all your privacy, your audio, your internet usage... changing DNS? Not easy. Many privacy features are unable in this ROM.

It even tracks your daily steps, it enables your microphone every 10 minutes (you can debug it and check yourself EVEN without consent), it randomly enables bluetooth for short period of time and this probably happens to try to track me more precisely checking surrounding bluetooth enabled devices (keep another device synce with your phone - like arduino - and disable bluetooth on your phone, you will see your arduino will log lots of activity on your smartphone even without you ever activating bluetooth), even magnetometer of my phone was activated 8 times in 4h interval for NO REASON, no other app installed that could use it.

And if I would talk about abnormal network usage this post would get HUGE. Using wireshark with no apps allowed to use network, along 4h, my wireshark logged 920 external requests, almost 300 for HTTP (yeap, not encrypted). I checked the IPs and they are mostly chinese and malaysian (???).

Chinese goverment IS BEHIND THIS ROM, exploiting you.

Have you ever guessed why your XIAOMI MI A3 smartphone, which participates in the ANDROID ONE program, does have a good and stable stock android 10 version??? How can the MIUI be muuuch more stable??? SIMPLE: they made it on purpose, so they could sell a ton of MI A3 marketing it as a phone that you can use "pure android" so later they force people to use MIUI, tracking people mics, pictures on the phone, contacts... I HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE, but I have nothing to give to a dictatorship like China.

And have you ever wondered why the PIXEL EXPERIENCE ROM or any other reputable ROM for this device has NOWHERE close the number of people interacting compared to this ROM? Because people are stupid, ignorant and they are easy to manipulate.

Use this ROM, or any other MIUI ROM, at your own risk and BE 100% ASSURED THAT EVERYTHING you say near your phone is being sent over the network, probably unencrypted. Photos, messages sent on whatsapp, telegram... their end-to-end criptography is worth 0 if you have a ROM like MIUI on your phone spying you all the time, bypassing the sofisticated cryptography.

You can say google tracks me too. YEAP. I am 100% sure. But at least if I monitor my network usage, gps, magnetometer, mic activations, bluetooth... over 24h period on a pure android phone (like Pixel L) you can COUNT ON THE FINGERS OF YOUR BOTH HANDS the amount of requests and unintenional usage of those sensor, drivers, wifi... Also, I trust A TON MORE on Google than on any chinese company, actually, I dont even trust any chinese company. Google at least is pretty clear about its intention, selling adds, using your data to improve its AI algorithm...

I am reallly pissed A LOT after using this ROM for less than a few hours an seeing lots of people here saying this ROM is great and such .Of course it's great, when it's free and there is a company behind it, you are the product, you are the one being sold - ignorant people.

NOTE: I did NOT set up any MI ACCOUNT on my phone and I only installed 2 other apps that I use to log sensors/hardware usage on the phone (that I built myself and that I use on my company to homologate devices). I DID NOT GIVE ANY CONSENT to Xiaomi to track me, to enable by default their bloatware (like Health app that started counting my steps even without me ever opening that app).

Google wanna steal my data to show me relevant ads on products that I might be willing to buy? GREAT! If I dont like that, I can point my DNS elsewhere (like to my own pi-hole) to block undesired requests. I can also use UBLOCK to block those ads.

Google wanna steal my photos (on google photos) to optimize its AI recognition? GREAT! If that improves the facial recognition on GCAM and on Google Photos itself to group pictures by person, GREAT! I am all in!

Google wanna read my emails without my consent? GREAT! If it is gonna provide me with good AI tools to "fast reply" mails (and it works great on gmail!). Great, great, great!

Google wanna track my voice on my mic from minute to minute? GREAT! If that will help personalize my speech recognition to fast typing mails without even touching a keyboard. Even better when that AI stuff learns to understand better what I say when I am in a crowded/noisy place and want to ask google something and it filters that noise out and provides me with good answers. Great, great, great.

I have nothing to hide, but if you wanna track me, at least give me something back. Wanna sell my data but give me better user experience "for free"? GREAT, sign me up.

But HEAVILY TRACKING ME, sending my data using unencryypted connection to china and other countries, with NO BENEFIT to myself other than being raped by a company that could later use that data against me in unintended ways? No, big no. And you, stupid people, should stop saying "I think this ROM is the best" without even knowing how ignorant you are.