Hi all !
My Mi 2s seems old after 3 years old (two batteries KO, the phone stills fast as the first day ), and then I will buy another Xiaomi.
The Mi 5 is a very popular smarthpone, has a lot of ROMs and kernels in comparison to his announcement date, but the Mi 5s has a bit of improvement (Snap 821, LPDDR4 at 1866Mhz, Sony IMX378, 3200mAh battery ect...) and has the same hardware of the Google Pixel (821 and IMX378), but at first look seems not popular as the Mi 5 for the marketing.
In your opinion, if I can buy Mi 5 and Mi 5s at the same price (version 3/64), wich of those has more chance of still supported from developers of custom roms like Cyanogenmod ecc..?
Will be possible a porting of some features or ROMs of Google Pixel to the Mi 5s?
I don't want to buy a phone like the Xiaomi Mi 4S, wich don't have any custom rom!
So thanks for the attention, have a good day!
The point that you've made with the marketing is why I don't think the Mi5s will have a lot of ROMs. This and the fact that Xiaomi released the kernel source for the Mi5 6 months after its release, so even if there will be, it's not gonna be so soon.
As of now I'd recommend you to stick with your current phone for some time and watch the progress of each phone's development section, but if it's custom ROMs you care about, you should probably choose the Mi5.
Even though the Mi5s has slightly better hardware, it's still soon to talk about its development.
I think that the Xiaomi MI5s won't have a succes like to the MI5 and the MI5 has an official cyanogenmod build and Mokee build and some plenty of port ROM wich work great like RR, OMNI ROM, SLIM ROM,...
Mi 5s Development didnt start yet, xiaomi will release it's source Code after a few month maybe a year. For now i think mi 5 has better development
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It's possible?
So.... yesterday i broke my mi max 4gb, 128gb rom (helium) and i found this.... it's possible?!?!?
https://www.geekbuying.com/item/Xiaomi-Mi-Max3-4GB-64GB-Smartphone---Gold-393023.html
that's just a placeholder, there is no confirmation about any Max 3 so far
Its not available yet
the site is for pre-order you can't get the mi max 3 yet because xiaomi haven't released it yet
Be patient, about month to present a new model. Last years it was on 25 May.
ronnie72 said:
Be patient, about month to present a new model. Last years it was on 25 May.
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looking forward to what the MM3 will bring to the table hardware specs are looking VERY promising indeed!
however, MM3 owners will then have to wait again for kernel sources to be released and custom roms to be developed. so its always the decision between matured dev community or the latest hardware
@jbmc83, How long have max and max 2 waited for kernel sources ? Max 3 will have one big adventage : project tremble.
jbmc83 said:
looking forward to what the MM3 will bring to the table hardware specs are looking VERY promising indeed!
however, MM3 owners will then have to wait again for kernel sources to be released and custom roms to be developed. so its always the decision between matured dev community or the latest hardware
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I don't give a f. I will buy as soon as it's out.
Tomek0000 said:
@jbmc83, How long have max and max 2 waited for kernel sources ? Max 3 will have one big adventage : project tremble.
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Mi Max 1 took about 5 months from phone release to kernel sources release. For Mi Max 2 it was about 6-7 months.
Project Treble you mean, yeah Still hoping that it will be ported to MM2 as well, things are looking promising for that actually
ekin_strops said:
I don't give a f. I will buy as soon as it's out.
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lol, to each his/her own! im sure it will be an awesome phone, even with "just" stock MIUI rom running on it
jbmc83 said:
Mi Max 1 took about 5 months from phone release to kernel sources release. For Mi Max 2 it was about 6-7 months.
Project Treble you mean, yeah Still hoping that it will be ported to MM2 as well, things are looking promising for that actually
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Is this release initiated by xiaomi official ?
I am not sure if porting treble to MM2 is possible because of intel soc in old and qualcomm in new.
Tomek0000 said:
Is this release initiated by xiaomi official ?
I am not sure if porting treble to MM2 is possible because of intel soc in old and qualcomm in new.
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inofficial. redmi note 4 was the very first phone where treble functionality was ported. hardware is almost identical and the partition table needed for porting treble is also there on MM2. we would just need a dev to actually fill the vendor partition with the necessary drivers
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jbmc83 said:
inofficial. redmi note 4 was the very first phone where treble functionality was ported. hardware is almost identical and the partition table needed for porting treble is also there on MM2. we would just need a dev to actually fill the vendor partition with the necessary drivers
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So close, but yet so far.
Dan Ger said:
no need to worry now as xiaomi promising release kernel only 3 month after launching
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huh? when did that happen? and is that for all devices?
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i do read the news, but i cant possibly read EVERY news article there is thats why im asking
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So you dont read the news huh?..
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Introducing of Mi Max 3 is delayed to July.
https://www.gsmarena.com/xioami_ceo_mi_max_3_to_arrive_in_july-news-31187.php
Mi Max 3 on TEENA (chinese FCC) : https://www.news18.com/news/tech/xi...89-display-and-dual-rear-cameras-1785739.html
weird design if u ask me. bigger battery and display is great but those round display corners, ugh...
pierro78 said:
Mi Max 3 on TEENA (chinese FCC) : https://www.news18.com/news/tech/xi...89-display-and-dual-rear-cameras-1785739.html
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jbmc83 said:
weird design if u ask me. bigger battery and display is great but those round display corners, ugh...
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same screen area as 6.8 1920x1080 p8max, asus z3 ultra
narrower, taller screen (dislike the narrower format, good for holding and maybe looks but not for viewing pages)
EDIT the above is based on 6.99 diagonal...if it is a 6.9 diagonal then it will have a smaller screen area than the above two models (albeit with better band coverage am sure, and upgraded h/w and improved s/w)
A while back I had read somewhere that a 6.98 (not 6.99) was the threshold for the highest diagonal size for phone versus tablet classification (anything greater was a tablet per the carriers etc) So maybe this a 6.98 or 6.9 or something else ...maybe even smaller.
as long as the display area is not smaller than the mi max 1&2 its fine by me
mac231us said:
same screen area as 6.8 1920x1080 p8max, asus z3 ultra
narrower, taller screen (dislike the narrower format, good for holding and maybe looks but not for viewing pages)
EDIT the above is based on 6.99 diagonal...if it is a 6.9 diagonal then it will have a smaller screen area than the above two models (albeit with better band coverage am sure, and upgraded h/w and improved s/w)
A while back I had read somewhere that a 6.98 (not 6.99) was the threshold for the highest diagonal size for phone versus tablet classification (anything greater was a tablet per the carriers etc) So maybe this a 6.98 or 6.9 or something else ...maybe even smaller.
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jbmc83 said:
as long as the display area is not smaller than the mi max 1&2 its fine by me
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A 6.6 diagonal for the 18/9 format is maybe the limit at which it just gets to be about the Mi max 1/2 total screen area (narrower though) (but smaller than the honor note 8 pro 6.6 diagonal with the 16/9 format)
Huawei is supposedly working on a Mate 20 pro at 6.9 diagonal
https://www.gizchina.com/2018/06/11...en-from-samsung-destined-for-the-mate-20-pro/
so maybe the max 3 will be a 6.9 not 6.99 (anyway speculation will end soon in a couple of weeks or so it seems)
So if it don't have play store we can just add it anyway and when a global rom is out we can just flash it over there is no hardware differences ?
Xiaomi just announced the Pocophone F1 and they said that they will release kernel source code on 29th August. How is this even possible?! The Mi8 is their flagship of this year isn't it? I hope they will release it for us with the Pocophone kernel.
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Also they started beta tester recruitment on MIUI official forum and there is written that Pocophone supports Dolby. I think that Mi8 is like Mi Mix - a Concept phone. Oh, and it has stereo.
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Hello guys i know this is threath about Mi A2 but i cannot decide and maybe someone can help?. I am on Mi A2 about year now. I pretty happy with it. Camera is awesome with gcam, Fast, great battery but i wanna upgrade.
And i am chosing beetween Mi 9 SE, Mi 9 Lite, Mi A3, Note 8 Pro. On Note i am not sure about MediaTek because MediaTek cannot use gcam but maybe basic camera is great i am not sure.
I am looking for great camera in that price range, i dont gaming much on phone, just camera and social networks so lot of multitasking.
What you choose from those or maybe another Xiaomi device?
Thanks for any advice
Olmaik said:
Hello guys i know this is threath about Mi A2 but i cannot decide and maybe someone can help. I am on Mi A2 about year now. I pretty happy with it. Camera is awesome with gcam, Fast, great battery but i wanna upgrade.
And i am chosing beetween Mi 9 SE, Mi 9 Lite, Mi A3, Note 8 Pro. On Note i am not sure about MediaTek because MediaTek cannot use gcam but maybe basic camera is great i am not sure.
I am looking for great camera in that price range, i dont gaming much on phone, just camera and social networks so lot of multitasking.
What you choose from those or maybe another Xiaomi device?
Thanks for any advice
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I would go with Mi 9 SE
MI 9T, new fast 730sd, 6GB RAM, super amoled, big batery.
Well Mi 9T Is awesome but in my country is out of my budget.
In this case go to Mi 9 Lite, 4030mah battery, super amoled, 3.5mm jack/sd card.
But Mi9 lite it's just ~ 10% faster than A2.
Your choice, my advice it's better to wait some time.
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Basic camera isn't great, that's why you upgraded to gcam on the a2 also.
All of the models mentioned by you have miui but the a3. So prepare for bloat and jibber, unless you're used to miui.
The only one to one equivalent is the a3 (mostly os wise) but careful with that, despite the amoled it's only 720p and the pixels are so big they scratch your nose.
Go pixel 3a imho if you want stock android of course. Price/quality ratio is great and you'll have your gcam (natively).
If not, whichever floats your boat.