Xiaomi Mi3 Owners Thread - tips, tricks, updates and everything eles

unaaine wrote:

You could try Phone Wizz 087 1223112 on Moore Street. I was in there a couple of weeks back getting a Samsung repaired for my son and Alex (a genius at repairing the unrepairable) saw my Mi3 and he was at the very least familiar with the phone. He mentioned in passing that he had someone in recently who had hard bricked (?) their mi3. He's unlikely to have one in stock but maybe he could source one? Hard luck on the screen.

Cheers, I'll look into it thanks!

gadgetlite.blogspot.ie/2014/08/xiaomi-mi3-redmi-series-to-get-android.html

Dunno if it's been posted but Lollipop was confirmed for the Mi3, the SDK was out Friday so they've probably started coding already

George Rancid Literature wrote: »

My screen broke on Saturday.
Junior is teething and chewed on the corner. All was well until it fell and cracked.
I ordered a new screen and frame from eBay for €49.
It was 79 from xoami shop with the same delivery time.

The casing is super soft be very careful taking if off around ports

Speaker issue on my mi3 ended up being a software problem not hardware which is very susprising.

Has disappeared after ota update to miui global KXDMIBH34.0

George Rancid Literature wrote: »

I got my screen today for my mi3.
Called phone wizz and it will cost €20 to fit it
Just hope it works

Don't feed it to the chiseller this time!

How long did delivery take?

I've just ordered this from Xiaomi online shop. How long does it generally take to deliver? Are they reliable?

Thanks

George Rancid Literature wrote: »

2 or 3 days but as its the weekend now,middle of next week.

Thanks. I'm buying it for the wife - are there any things I should to do to make it easier for her to use or are there some neat features I should show her how to use? I ask because she is not very tech savy, and I'm not a whole lot better when it comes to phones in particular!!

Got it today (ordered it Friday), impressed with the fast delivery. Interesting brown cardboard type packaging. Happy to see that's one area where they might be making savings to ensure a quality phone is available for a good price.

Does this phone lock to the first sim that is inserted?

kifi wrote: »

Got it today (ordered it Friday), impressed with the fast delivery. Interesting brown cardboard type packaging. Happy to see that's one area where they might be making savings to ensure a quality phone is available for a good price.

Does this phone lock to the first sim that is inserted?

Dear god do not put an empty sim card adapter into the sim slot.

Is xiaomishop the best place to get an Mi3 before Christmas? I know other places are cheaper but if I go for it I need it by the 16th of December at the latest.

Got my refund off Aliexpress from the singles day scam I got caught for so don't have time to order from China. Just ordered off Xiaomishop.com. Pretty much payed double for what my original order from Aliexpress was so was a costly lesson. Payed 155 euro with discounts I had but just had to fork out 270 euro but at least I'll have it in time for Xmas.

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Finally got my Mi3, only bought it back in September...

Electronic Partner in Galway fixed the SIM slot for me for €80

Think it was fair enough after inspecting the phone myself

Anyways! Delighted with it! Can anyone recommend AOSP for it?

I've been running an AOSP KitKat ROM by a Xiaomi developer called Ivan (who it seems is doing this with some sort of blessing from his employers) for a few months now - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=92484482&postcount=233

It's up to version 4.11.4 - http://en.miui.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=59408&highlight=aosp%2B4.11.4

I find it really good, happy with it as a daily driver. Battery life isn't quite as good as with the last version of MiUi v6 dev rom that I had running, but I can get 2 days out of it with light to moderate use, and a full day and a bit with heavy use. So still pretty good, or at least it seems so to me, after my old Galaxy S3.

The camera app on it is Google Camera, unfortunately not a patch on the MiUi camera app. I've tried loading the apk for the former from a few different sources, but I've not gotten it to work. The closest (free) alternative to the MiUi camera app that I've found is: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2665714 Almost as good the stock MiUi app, except a bit slower to focus, and I haven't figured out how to get it to work as a proper default camera app, for things like opening it from the lock screen wide a left to right swipe, or going from it to the gallery directly.

Other than that, it kicks the hole off of MiUi, or at least the versions I was running up to early October. Much quicker and smoother, and none of MiUi's RAM-hogging. Version 4.11.4 has been as stable and bug-free as any ROM I've ever run, stock included. It's like a Nexus 5 in disguise, except better.

It doesn't look like it's getting any more updates, though, as Ivan has been working on a Lollipop AOSP ROM - http://en.miui.com/thread-68280-1-1.html. I haven't tried it yet, as it seems to suffer from a number of bugs, especially from random reboots. There's only been the one version so far, I suspect he's waiting for Google to sort Lollipop out themselves first before he goes at it again. I'm a bit "meh" on the whole Material Design thing, and the thread on here about Lollipop is full of complaints about various issues, so I'm happy to wait a while.

I haven't tried anything else, as any of the other ROMs I've read about on XDA seem to suffer from the same issues which arise from not having access to kernels. The Mi3 kernels are supposedly being released in Q1 2015, according to no lesser source than Hugo Barra, which should make a massive difference to the availability of stable custom ROMs. Xiaomi released the kernels for the Redmi 1S today, so hopefully he'll be as good as his word.

Never mind I got it AOSP here I come