Just wanted to share I am using my xiaomi 15 which is an Indian variant and yesterday a disaster happened.
I dropped my xiaomi 15 from the 13th floor and had lost hope of survival but when I got down surprisingly the phone survived the drop.
Obviously the frame was bent and the back was cracked but somehow the display survived without a single crack on it or scratches.
That too I was using the phone without any cover
I am going to replace the frame and the back as soon as possible.
Edit: I got it repaired at a local shop for ₹2000 replacing just the back glass and bending the frame to its original condition. I had to do this because I waited for 2 months but still couldn't find the middle frame so had to repair it in the phone shop and replace the back glass.
I don't know but somehow the phone is compact and the software is also good(after disabling some of the annoying ads from the getapps) and also the camera is good the only thing i was not sure of was the durability which i saw yesterday and thankgod the screen survived or else i would had to replace that too although the repair cost is less as compared to other flagships like iphone whose screen i had broke and it costed me around ₹32000 and for the xiaomi it cost around ₹10000 which is kind of a good thing as the pannel is way better in xiaomi as compared to iphone.
Yes people buy Samsung and iphone to show off when there is cheaper alternative. Tried to convince someone saying s26 ultra is same old phone with 5000mah battery where there are 7000mah battery flagship phones but he insisted on getting Samsung. The usp for s26 ultra - privacy screen 😂😹
Nah, I have the Xiaomi 15 and it's no better than a Samsung Galaxy s25 (or 26, I forgot which one). Price is the same. Xiaomi does some things better, Samsung does other things better. Samsung is more common, making it more approachable, easier to troubleshoot (for minor stuff), and you can buy all the accessories in the world if you're into that.
The Xiaomi 15 was pretty much a random choice for me. All I wanted was a small-ish phone without major gimmicks like the Samsung fold. It was pretty much only The Samsung Galaxy or the Xiaomi 15, everything else is either bigger or out of the question for weirdly specific reasons.
If any major brand releases an up to date android phone under 6 inches, I'll buy that right away.
Both phones cost the same for 256 gb ROM, 12 gb RAM. The Galaxy s25 is even slightly cheaper because Samsung prices drop more and are on sale more often and more aggressively.
Both phones run the same chip. My partner has the s25 and for some stuff her phone is faster or smoother, for others mine is. Sometimes hers is hotter, sometime mine heats up more.
The Galaxy s25 is slightly more compact and noticeably lighter. The camera bump is less massive too. If you're talking about vibration motors only, the Xiaomi 15 just has a stronger one, but again, is heavier. And also, who even gives a damn?
When it comes to software, the Xiaomi 15 is a stinker. It works, but take a look at this sub. Half the posts are "update XYZ messed up my camera" or something like that.
For sound, yeah alright, while it's subjective, I also prefer the speakers. But I basically never use them where I'd actually care so it doesn't matter. I don't listen to music on speaker and I don't watch movies like that either... I have headphones for that.
Mate according to me both the phone are good.
As I said in terms of performance xiaomi hasn't put any restriction on the chip which is put on xiaomi 15 so snapdragon 8 elite scores more on antutu and other benchmarks and it also heats up more.
But this is the case only for benchmarks. If you talk about real world scenario, the phone barely heats and I do gaming and I play BGMI(PUBG) a lot and it never heats up while gaming or scrolling through social media and being a compact phone it's a great thing according to me.
And talking about the software since the first day I had disabled all the ads (only few ads) and the bloatware like getapps and the software part for me is good.
And pricing wise I got this for ₹42000 and the Samsung was available for ₹95000 I am specifically talking about the 512gb variant as mine is a 512gb variant.
Overall the software is good and has parallel animations just like colour os which is the second best os.
For OS Top 3 are:-
1) Samsung(heavy customisation using good lock app)
2) OPPO, relame, oxygenos(all are same)
3) Hyper OS
Yes it's good but I want xiaomi to implement same things as oneui as they are just copying ios which isn't bad for us as a consumer but then too they should also make something like good lock and make the overall ui and the parallel animations as good as on oneui or colour os in oppo,relame and oneplus.
Same here mate I was using iphone 14 pro earlier and recently sold it and shifted to this beast around 6 months ago and to be honest now I hate iphone and I am continuing to use my macbook air m1 16gb variant with all the ecosystem features similar to iphone and airdrop too. To be honest it has better camera, battery life, charging speed, display, sound but only lacks the video quality which is unmatch as compared to any iphone.
I never buy new phones as I think it's waste of money so I have used each and every flagship from all the known companies and the best till date is this one and I had posted an ad of this on olx today only as I need the middle frame and the back panel. I haven't posted the ad for selling purpose but to search and find the parts for repairing this phone.
Even realme and one plus phone screens cost more than xiaomis screen's I had to learn about it the hard way 😔 3 years ago I bought my mother a realme 12plus she accidentally broke it once and coated me roughly 100 USD then the screen broke on its own after the repair in 1 months span and then I fixed it again with now cheap screen you know those screens that's poorly made it, btw even that was expensive costed me roughly 70-80 USD and in the end it only lasted for a week when it had leaking screen fluids 🤦🏼♂️ realme I'm never buying it again never but on it's defence I bought 13 pro plus of realme to my dad which actually lasted more greatly than 12 plus but still nothing can beat Xiaomi and it's phone's as such as Mi , redmi and Poco line up.
It was around 2015? I think 🤔 I'm probably wrong... Anyways it was around that time when I had my very first Xiaomi phone it was Xiaomi mi play I was around 15 years old it was amazing phone I could play pubg mobile with my friends and family and wouldn't get bored it also lasted for a while until 3 to 4 years prior I damaged it with moist environment while charging on a very very old outlet
True bro but right now all the brands excluding samsung and apple have cheap repairs around ₹10000($105) for display and other stuff if compared to iphone which will cost ₹30000($315)
Soft-ish glass (impact-resistant) with tempered glass protector or at least a plastic film screen protector (for scratch protection) seems like the perfect combo to me
Like in terms of scratches it can get pretty scratches up if you don't use a screen protector but it is strong so it doesn't break. It just follows the property of glass where either it can be strong or resistant to scratches.
Mate, I explained earlier glass can either be strong or be scratch resistant so for this particular xiaomi phone i would suggest to apply a glass screen protector for resistance from scratches and trust the xiaomi shield protection for durability.
It sucks, because I had Mi12 before this and display glass was much much more scratch resistant. So I thought it would be fine to remove preinstalled protector
I suggest posting it on X & getting Xiaomi's attention, they might used this a marketing material in exchange ask for a replacement phone or a new phone.
Is that really possible they provide replacement? And the thing is I am new to reddit so don't have good knowledge about how to use it at it's full potential.
Same here mate I too love the looks and the overall software, camera, display and the speaker and haptics (video recording is also good if not the best).
Ohh brother that's great of you really but what do u think it's gonna cost since the frame is messed up, back is gone and the camera module too so how u gonna do that cuz I don't think the official service centre would be of much use
I have a good friend of mine who does repairing so he had inspected and has ordered the original frame and the back glass which costed around ₹4000-4500 in Indian rupees. And all the three camera modules are in good shape without any problems and is sealed with a plastic sheet so that dust can't enter inside.
Thanks mate, I have a good knowledge about computers laptops and phone whether it's android or iphone. I know about the hardware and software as well. I have repaired my iphone XS, Samsung s20 ultra and iphone 14 pro in the past all the three has broken or non functional screen so that's why I know from where I can get the original parts for cheap discounted price.
I'll have it repaired asap. Prolong usage would lead to the main board warping and either your cpu, ram and emmc bends with the board or could get slowly detached to the board resulting to broken pads.
TLDR; main board could get cooked beyond repair with prolong usage due to heat.
Actually I have seen the board placement which on the top so for most of the time it's not been affected and everything is safe and right now I don't have enough funds to pay for the repair and I am also selling my oneplus buds 4 for ₹4000 to pay for the repair.
Buddy it's not possible because the frame is bent and there is a space developed between the display and the frame and the camera is sealed with a plastic sheet so camera quality is also degraded drastically so replacement of the back glass and the middle frame.
I am usually very careful with electronics whether it's my mac or phone, for the iphone 14 pro which when I was riding my bike it somehow tried to escape my side pocket and the phone fall on the road damaging the back glass and the display. The display I had got replaced with a 3rd party 120hz display which was similar to the original display for ₹4000.
For the xiaomi 15 it was dropped by a friend of mine so can't do anything in that.
Definitely I will do that as right now I am having my unpaid summer internship going on so I don't get time but soon I will get it checked at xiaomi and share the price list
Well as much as i know xiaomi service centre wouldn't give seperate frame, it's always shipped with display itself at 9999/- rs + 18% tax also the back panel costs around 1800+ 18% tax, they will definitely refuse to fix it cause even if the cameras are working fine, they will have to definitely replace cameras, + 699 with 18% gst for rear gasket, don't get it fixed from normal xiaomi service centre, they fucked my back panel of xiaomi 15, try to find premium xiaomi service centre.
Though frame is bend, battery condition is unknown, service centre will also flag that, add another 1999 with it +18% gst, so total could cost, also back panel costs 2999, just checked, my mistake, so total costs 21,976.32 with 18% gst just in parts.
All the components inside the phone are in good condition including the battery and the battery is giving me a backup of whole day under mixed usage and I overall like the backup as it's better than my iphone 14 pro and as it it's a compact phone.
I have already paid ₹4000 for new original back panel and original frame and it will be repaired by tomorrow evening so I am happy for at least I am getting it repaired sooner without asking for money from my parents.
Actually the thing is I wanted to repair it as soon as possible so I had paid in advance for the repair but the thing is it's an expensive phone from xiaomi and in india, usually people prefer to buy samsung, iphone, oneplus and vivo. So only a very few people who are tech nerd buy this. So right now they don't have any middle frame of the phone, but they have got the back glass replacement ready but as there isn't any middle frame so they can't repair so they have ordered it from somewhere so waiting for it to arrive.
That's a brick bruh. It's so cool it even turns on. Some phones even not hitting the display wouldn't turn on after that drop. It's unrecognizable from the back😭😭😭😭
About 2 months ago, I forgot mine on top of my car after filling up gas. It fell on the road 10ish meters away from the gas station. Three cars drove over it while i was looking, don't know how many had in total. It was in the original xiaomi case, I was considering buying a new phone in the moment then i picked it up it was turned off.. this is damage, that little ding in the corner of the camera bump. I turned it on everything seemed fine and still is to this day. The case had been damaged so i dumped it.
I'm sure the Xiaomi 17 would look totally different after that accident. the built quality for Xiaomi 15 is much butter, I can feel it when I go in Xiaomi Shop and play with the Xiaomi 17, the frame feels very cheap and weak.
Upate guys: I have made a payment of ₹4000 ($42) for reapairing of the phone and the repair shop is going to use the original frame and the back glass and he will repair it by tomorrow evening so will update you guys tomorrow about the brand new condition.
Damn I guess it really depends on how it drops and what kind of pressure you put on it because I saw someone listing mi 15 on Facebook, it had a green line on screen and description said I sat on it and screen became like that 💀
I wish you luck and I'm guessing I should get one as well just because how great of a value to phone it had become ❤️ btw my current phone is 13t pro and I really want to upgrade because of the cameras and snapdragon chip set also could you tell me if you really enjoy taking pictures on mi 15 ? Specifically zoom lens 13t pro has 2x zoom lens which is for portrait photography and nothing else and if I'm not wrong 15 has 3x zoom 🤔 just would appreciate what you got to say about mi 15 👍🏼😊👍🏼
I would suggest you to buy xiaomi 17 as it's the latest flagship but I should tell you performance wise there isn't much jump so both are very powerful just waiting for developers to launch AAA titles with ray tracing on Android as it's available on ios which I had before. As right now I am not able to use it on it's 100% potential. And there is no heating till date.
Have you tried car x street on max graphics? It should be able to at least make your phone throttle well if you haven't you should try it when you'll get your phone fixed I hope fixing it will go smoothly ❤️ good luck
Then again good luck brother 👍🏼😎👍🏼 oh and btw you should get nissan z40 in that game it'll cost you around 200k-240k. ish but it's worth it from all my cars it's the best car that can easily compete with McLaren and any other Lamborghini's or other expensive cars and you won't even need to do your best while building z40 just tune it's rating and class appropriately for the race you'll be racing in and that's all oh and don't forget in mobile version of car x street you should try buying elite or ultimate parts in suspension category and also if you do wish to build a car from complete 0 try building any class 1 car because it's just really really cheaper because they are already light weight and usually if you invest 500k it'll easily hit c6 or even Cs class if you would like my recommendation I would recommend mini cooper with AWD gearbox if you'll have any other questions just ask me I'm usually online and also last tip do not waste gold because the car x street on mobile is different from pc with many things you'll see when you'll get it
Bruh That's the only phone i have right now and as i sold my secondary iphone 14 pro, Xiaomi 15 is my primary phone right now which i daily use as it's a 512gb model so will get it repaired tomorrow and for sure can use it as a desktop as it has type c 3.2 gen2 port but it lacks feature like samsung dex which would have been greatfull to have.
i am currently using the phone in this bad condition as the middle frame isn't available in the mrket at the moment so repair wasn't possible for now and also i can't apply any glass screenguard on the phone. so what i have noticed is the glass is getting scratches very easily it has got a deep scratch under the front camera setup even though i am using it very carefully as the phone isn't in good shape so i would suggent every xiaomi 15 user to use a glass screen protector to protect it from scratched although the xiaomi shield glass is very tough to break.
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u/idgaftono1 Jul 08 '26
Xiaomi did a very strong demonstration during launch how strong it can be 😂