[Xiaomi Mi 11] kotalol:
Hi !

Little Disclaimer :

- This thread is based on my own opinion about the device and Xiaomi as a smartphone maker.
- The best thing that you can do is make your own opinion about this.

Let's start.

My concerns about Mi 11 starts with the battery which is pretty bad with MIUI. (i bought this phone at the end of January brand new, so it's not aging battery stuff)

Second is thermals, this is really something that touched my user experience here, this phone can gets VERY HOT. 40 degres on regular usage sometimes.

(most of the time you can use the device proprely, i'm talking about heat but it may not be as a concern, tho it is for components :/)

Those may be little concerns for some people, tho i picture this like that : This phone should carry me to at least 4 Generations of Android and Smartphones.

So here was my device concerns about it, it may seem stupid at first glance but those are already pretty big reasons for me.

Next is MIUI and Xiaomi Choices, and oh boy.

Let's start simple, Unlocking a Xiaomi Smartphone.

For after market selling reasons and more, Unlocking a Xiaomi Smartphone will need 1/2 weeks of waiting :

First reason is bricking, Xiaomi dosen't want people to brick their phones because unexperienced users wanted to adventure for more. (Will talk about bricking later)

Second is Modified MIUI, Some not very serious sellers were getting some Modified MIUI ROM device and selling them without knowing about it. (slight privacy concern ^^)

And really, i don't see how waiting time could help!

People are owning their phones and can do whatever they want with them, and this will not change anything... People are just going to wait then get their phones unlocked later.

And for After market selling, it is a sort of fix but someday, shady importers are gonna get around it. And if you think about it, there is way more better ways to limit this.

Now it's brick time.

I'm not gonna go much in detail about Soft Brick, because there is not much to talk about here.

EDL Brick have tho, and it's not simple stuff.

But yeah, EDL Bricking.

Xiaomi have pretty nice reputation about it 😹

First of, MIUI 13 and the Mi 11 Lineup. If you don't know, some devices we're reported bricking after installing MIUI 13, and those we're most of the Mi 11 Lineup. 🙀

For some perspective, Google got the Pixel 6 FP Sensor bricked on a Pixel Update. Not very cool but they recovered.

Samsung too got S20 screens bricked on an update, yes. lol

But bricking the full device is a whole other level, and with how poor Xiaomi's EDL Mode is (will talk about it later), this dosen't come nice together.

Also, as a DLC for this 😼, Indian Release of this faulty version also bricked Cameras.

So yeah, MIUI dosen't seem to deal very nice with it.

Tho there is a whole other problem, HOW EDL Mode works on Xiaomi Phones !

Basically, Xiaomi dosen't want you to recover from EDL yourself. Their EDL Mode needs a login that only them have.

Tho you can still get around it, some people are selling an unbrick login for your device for money, they are probably Xiaomi employees and Xiaomi probably dosen't want them to exist.

What if your phone turns off on EDL?

You need to open your device and connect two EDL Pin points TOGETHER ! Yes, warranty.

And to finish, MIUI.

MIUI is in a very bad state right now in my opinion, i found 12.5 releases pretty good but 13 is terrible. (in my opinion)

I don't like how global releases gets nothing of what chinese one has, MIUI 13 Global is reskined 12.5 on A12 but with no monet theming.

The bloatware is worse than Samsung back in the day, and results in terrible battery life.

And MIUI exclusives aren't very special, AI Enhancements for imaging are mostly limited to MIUI Apps so i don't see how it could be useful.

So here it is, some informations may be incorrect because i'm mostly what i know about it, tho it is good enough to make a proper opinion.

And remember, making yours will be much better! The Mi 11 isn't a bad device in my mind, it has the potential to please a lot of people i think!

Thanks for reading all of this.

Have a good day!

- kota.