• u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    11 months ago

    Happened to me today. Turns out MIUI optimized the Clock app.

    I allowed it to autostart, I disabled battery optimization, I locked it in recent apps.
    It may still occur.
    But hey, I only woke up 30 minutes later. “Something isn’t right.”

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      11 months ago

      I loved how my xiaomi went EOL after a major update that broke receiving calls, also the battery saver thing.

      Never buying anything off them again, especially after GDPR notifications on everything, like why the fuck do you need this data (I know. Xi Jinping wants to know the good furry fetish porn)

      /rant

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        11 months ago

        just don’t use the official ROMs? this applies for every device btw, OEMs are not to be trusted

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          11 months ago

          Unfortunately not all features are always available on those ROMs.

          One example is GrapheneOS and Google Wallet which I cannot use due to GrapheneOS not being considered “certified software” by the app and therefore not being trusted.

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            11 months ago

            spoof safety net or sth
            there are ways to get gpay to work. also you may have more luck with lineageos and full system install of official, proprietary google services instead of graphene (but of course you’ll be sacrificing your privacy)

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          11 months ago

          some phones just dont have custom roms, e.g. A32 5G, or have broken custom roms, e.g. Calls dont work on the A42 5G.

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            11 months ago

            Don’t buy such phones. Personally though I’m never again buying a phone where I can’t install GNU/Linux.

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                11 months ago

                A32 5G costs anything from $150 to $300. Trust me, I know what it means to be on a budget - I’ve never owned a phone that costed over $250. However, at that price I’d much rather get something like OnePlus 6 - an old phone with amazing community support (in fact, the new OnePlus 6 I bought from China costed $150) and specs that frankly are probably going to be better than newly released “budget” phones.

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                    11 months ago

                    They aren’t readily available here either, so I’m ordering it online. Unless you want to tell me you have less online purchase options than people in Russia.

                    I’ve read your comment history and you said you live around Balkans, fwiw back when I was in Montenegro in 2017 I ordered Zuk Z2 from Aliexpress, it stays well supported to this day, you should be able to do something similar.

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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        11 months ago

        Sounds like my Moto G5s Plus. I updated it to Android 8.1 and it started having issues like lagging, completely freezing up, randomly restarting, battery drain, overheating, etc.
        Oh, well. It ran PixelExperience 11 just fine. It also allowed me to use the notification LED that Motorola disabled in software for reasons unknown.

        Edit: I just like this part from bootloader unlock license agreement on what doing so may cause:

        Cause the Device to overheat, explode and/or catch fire, exceed SAR values, exceed safe volume settings, and otherwise be unsafe, including creating the potential to cause serious bodily injury, including death