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JamesBoeing737MAX @sopuli.xyz

My love - hate relationship with Xiaomi (reliability)

I adore Xiaomi's build quality (especially Redmi 4x's metal case and liked the haptics on 11 lite 5g), they are the only cheap devices with decent specs (good SDM CPUs, IR-reciever, now discontinued sdcard slots, bootloader unlocking (for LineageOS with decent privacy (and DivestOS when it still existed)), decent durability and modularity (I ocasionaly repair phones).

**But of course this is just too good to be true, so let's just start with the drawbacks: **

My first personal experience with Xiaomi was the mi 11 lite 5G, which I got as a Christmas gift in 2021. It was the best phone I ever had (both on paper and my subjective perception). Well, let's just say, that perception changed not much after the waranty; first I started experiencing random reboots and after a few months the serious issues started appearing (random connectivity problems). I tried to reflash it and it had no effect. Later all the issues started to rapidly escalate: WiFi now only works if the phone is in warm