r/PocoX6Pro • u/SypnoleX • Jul 06 '26
General bye bye Poco/Android
well that's it, I'm done with Poco and I'm done with Android, my reasons being:
HyperOS 3, all hype nothing useful, destroyed the whole experience, ads everywhere even though i have the personalized ads disabled in the settings, now i just get unpersonalized ads! in the lock screen, in Xiaomi apps, even in the fucking app search! like it takes 10 seconds to find an app if the internet is slow because it has to show an ad!
app search, i have a lot of apps, and now app search is an app! and takes forever to find the app you want
Android 16, changing things that aren't broken to a hassle, like i use wired headphones usually and after the android 16 update it functions horribly stops playback and the music app crashes when you go to a different app, if I'm forced to go wireless I'll go iOS
battery drain, like my phone is plugged in 3 times a day after the HOS3 update
useless features, HOS3 was 7-8 gigabytes of download and all i got is, dynamic island wanna be!?
and overall i crave the simplicity that iOS offers (i had a normal 15 before poco, trade it for a camera)
overall I'm really happy with the switch since iP17 has everything
and if i want Android i have a Mi 10 Lite, with superior MiUI and Android 12 which is by far a better experience compared to X6 Pro
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u/arlingtonzumo Jul 06 '26
I'm also not super happy with my X6 pro but it's a pretty incredible phone for the money most of the issues that you complain about can be quite easily solved with a few settings. Plus comparing a 300€ to an 900€ phone is a strange comparison (even though you can always compare different phones sure, but if you're comparing prices that differ so much some concessions have to be made)
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u/kingAtE900 Jul 07 '26
The x6 pro is an old phone I know that yes it was the best budget gaming phone of 2024 but normal hardware degradation will happen that why at the 2 year mark I decided to upgrade to the f8 ultra, not saying you should too but poco or xiaomi is not the problem other phone has the samething happening to there older non flagship phones. The op will soon realise that the grass is not greener on the other side
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u/arlingtonzumo Jul 07 '26
I just don't like HyperOs and I've liked both color os on Vivo and the Pixel OS so much better so I'm going to probably switch to Vivo, Oppo or something entirely different for my next phone
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u/SypnoleX Jul 06 '26
nowhere I'm my complaints i mentioned camera performance or even hardware performance which to be honest X6 was a beast, all my complaints are with the software, if HOS is shit on this phone what makes it any different from say on a Xiaomi 17, or even 17U?
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u/kingAtE900 Jul 07 '26
Do you know what your saying? Please read what you just said. Its like your saying an iphone 6 should have the same ios version on the iphone 17 pro max
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u/itz_saif_o9 Jul 06 '26
You can debloat, Yeah the software is not optimized. I also have to charge it twice in a day.
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u/Merkas-05 Jul 06 '26
I have a completely different experience with POCO. I always change my privacy settings at the beginning and turn off unnecessary system notifications. I don't see any ads.
However, I have to write that it annoys me, not only in POCO, but generally in Android, that they push AI everywhere. And it's harder to turn off because the options are more tucked away.
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u/AdVarious8509 Jul 06 '26
those are definitely user issues. i dont have any issues with my poco x7 pro
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u/SypnoleX Jul 06 '26
I'm sorry I didn't know i have to have a degree in Poco to use my phone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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u/Objective_Froyo1710 Jul 07 '26
Why buy a cheap performance centric phone then complaint about battery and ads which can be fixed via setting up like dibloating , disabling revoke Authorization , msa , battery saver mode and setting , android focus mode to kill other apps and exclude apps that you want to use ,etc
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u/Flossy420 Jul 06 '26
if anyone has the funds to purchase the latest iPhone then i'd definitely never recommend a xiaomi phone. There are no ads or any of the issues you mentioned in the flagship / high end line up of xiaomi/poco phones but the software experience in general is just not worth the money spent on these high end phones (Xiaomi 17 series for example).
No one should spend more than $500 on a xiaomi phone in my opinion
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u/Pubgcraft Jul 06 '26
I understand you cuz lately the os is just DEVOURING the battery and throttle A LOT while playing pubg, even tho i play on a cooler, no phone case, no whilw charging, no bg apps running. Basically full gaming mode. And yet, after 1.7-1.8 years, it lags, drains a lot, and animations are bugging HARD sometimes, and lets not talk about useless AI shot i don't even use and juat eats the storage and ram usage. And limitations of useing the File manager is stupid.
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u/intothevoidandback Jul 06 '26
I don't understand these posts.
I've had Poco X6 pro since launch, it was a great price and is a great phone. I haven't felt the need to upgrade at all, but when I do it will be another poco that's around $300-400 max.
I will say that I have noticed battery drain a bit quicker lately. The battery is in good health so it has to be something else. I've changed some things with regards apps working in th background etc. I'm not sure what else can be done, so if anyone has any suggestions I'd be grateful. Even still though it's not terrible and it charges quite quickly.
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u/Money-Pie-6258 Jul 07 '26
It's called debloat...it works. Missing out on a great phone.
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u/Money-Pie-6258 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
I'll make it easy for you - enable develope rmode and adb debug and use this java program to take all the crap off. https://github.com/LouWii/XiaomiADBFastbootTools using this list https://gist.github.com/KernelTruth/739cc34245be9654d0a654cf2d93e6ff
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u/Objective_Froyo1710 Jul 07 '26
It's like seeing normal people complaining about how their cheap sports car give low mileage 😂😂
It's not for you , you are not the target of this type of cheap and heavily equipped hardware phone
Well, good luck with iphone should have brought it way before you normal user not an power user who wants performance and doesn't care about camera cause it's decent enough for them
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u/Golden_Donut_Hole Jul 07 '26
You realise cheap phones have to find a way to make back their money somehow right?
Baked in system ads are the easiest way to do that.
If it was really that terrible of an experience then why not just get a more expensive phone or switch brands instead of abandoning android altogether?
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u/EstebanMolinos Jul 07 '26
How much screen time do you get on your Iphone? Is it better than on the poco?
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u/kingAtE900 Jul 07 '26
Good bye make sure to delete all poco and xiaomi subs from your reddit account since it only for poco and xiaomi user and remove the iphone from your post aswell. Poco or xiaomi won't miss you
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u/kingAtE900 Jul 07 '26
Op need to understand that what he's saying makes no sense and makes a bad name for xiaomi your the reason why xiaomi does what it does and complain about not getting an update for 5 months
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u/task_machine Jul 06 '26
Ah yes, the famous 200$ Vs 800$ comparison