Xiaomi Poco F3
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- Anonymous
- SYq
- 08 Mar 2025
Vlad, 07 Mar 2025Huh? The stock ROM is barely usable. I switched to ArrowOS ... moreYeah, I would never stay with any of stock rom out there with bunches of bloats, tracking / spyware.
Then most avg ppl would say eh, just debloat it (but they don't know that normal debloating won't turn system level services off).
By the way, my camera was working fine with LOS(+microg) with gcam.
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- Anonymous
- SYq
- 08 Mar 2025
David Blue, 03 Mar 2025I honestly won't mess with the stock rom. You see, the... morelook, I didn't brick my phones.
I have few other devices with custom rom in it, using it for few years no problem.
Yes, of course, you shouldn't mess with it as you don't know much about custom rom other than hearsay from somebody else.
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- 07 Mar 2025
David Blue, 03 Mar 2025I honestly won't mess with the stock rom. You see, the... moreHuh? The stock ROM is barely usable. I switched to ArrowOS and never looked back. Literally perfect phone with an AOSP ROM (well, back in its day). But the stock Xiaomi ROM is so buggy, slow and bloated that it literally makes the phone so much worse. With a clean ROM and x0.5 animations, it is as fast and as good as a modern flagship.
My only concern is that ArrowOS stopped updates, so I am stuck at Android 12, and that Google Pay doesn't work. All my other payment apps work with absolutely no issues. I bet there are other AOSP ROMs that bring newer versions and keep getting updated though.
I am changing this phone after almost 4 years of owning it, but, honestly, if I were to replace its battery and USB-C connector, this bad boy would be good for at least 2, if not 3-4 more years. Amazing hardware. Just the cameras are bad, and even worse, the ROM I have has a broken Camera app. But, hey, it is good enough for a quick snap and I have a real camera for when I actually want to take photos.
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- David Blue
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- 03 Mar 2025
Anonymous, 23 Feb 2025As far as I watch temperature, custom ROM stays cooler. Th... moreI suggest getting a higher and newer model like F5. F3 design looks very weird to me. I watched a durability test video f3 cracks in the middle while F5 not
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- David Blue
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- 03 Mar 2025
Anonymous, 23 Feb 2025As far as I watch temperature, custom ROM stays cooler.
Th... moreI honestly won't mess with the stock rom. You see, the reason all your phone got bricked because the action you all did to yourself. Rooting your phone, install custom rom. Changing kernels etc. Your phone bricked because root and then blaming the brand. That's a compete comedy.
You wanna have other roms than the stock rom? Use VM, best example are VMOS and VphoneGaga. VMOS have kit Kat and Pie rom. VphoneGaga have android 10 and 12. All you can explore while still on your stock rom. The vm also support root and other useful root apps.
So why root your phone
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- Anonymous
- 8pJ
- 23 Feb 2025
David Blue, 15 Feb 2025But this news is more viral on the poco x3 pro. I rarely he... moreAs far as I watch temperature, custom ROM stays cooler.
Therefore, I do not think it's the custom ROM.
Of course, if you dare go asking Xiaomi sales representative, they will always say it's the custom ROM as they don't wanna be responsible anyways.
However note that climate here is hot.
But suppose if was heat, it's still inexcusable as long as they sell this phone here.
From what I think, it's not heat but is build quality issue though.
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- David Blue
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- 15 Feb 2025
Anonymous, 15 Feb 2025The deadboot issue is not limited to custom ROM as far as I... moreBut this news is more viral on the poco x3 pro. I rarely heard about f3. Probably serious intensive gaming with overheating in long time caused something like that.
If it not custom rom, it's probably the users messed up or delete something important while their phone are rooted. It's probably.
If the phone screen still on but stuck on the logo, this is bootloop. Not deadboot. Deadbooot happen when the phone completely dead or bricked.
This bootloop issue was common back to ancient Android version era to "improve" the phone's capability.
Nowadays rooting your phone is not recommended. With android 11 and up you got all features the root offer.
This is just my theory so take it easy.
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- Anonymous
- GXs
- 15 Feb 2025
David Blue, 12 Feb 2025Are you used custom rom? I heard this is the cause The deadboot issue is not limited to custom ROM as far as I can see from search.
Besides if software is the cause, it should be able to fix by thing called EDL; but it does not even load it.
Therefore, maybe some lot is bad while others are fine, maybe some quality control issue.
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- David Blue
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- 12 Feb 2025
Anonymous, 10 Jan 2025I have not experienced any issue with this phone other than... moreAre you used custom rom? I heard this is the cause
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- David Blue
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- 12 Feb 2025
Tiramisu, 03 Feb 2025I wished that I could've used this for an extra year o... moreWhat? Is this true??? Crazy... Why
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- 12 Feb 2025
mushyycorn, 11 Feb 2025which is more worth for high end gaming this phone or poco ... morePoco f4 just a design changes. F3 is better
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- 12 Feb 2025
This is Tahlreth's or Stenzek's phone, amazing developer of superb PS1 & PS2 emulator for android. Duckstation and Aethersx2. You all must try these.
Aethersx2 is dead no more updated, apparently some iPhone users sent him death threats because he don't want to make aethersx2 available for iPhone. Those stupid and crazy people don't know that even Apple made emulating console games harder by not allow JIT instructions to be use other than Safari browser. Crazy story and sad. Now we stuck with the last aethersx2 version that will never be updated, except by stenzek himself. I adore him. He should never get hurt by anyone no more. Poor guy.
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- 11 Feb 2025
dondonRO, 22 Jan 2025bought at may 21 8/256, i have no software issues with this... morevolume auto adjust has a fix. its a quick fix from google search
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- 11 Feb 2025
which is more worth for high end gaming this phone or poco f4? i also planned in mind to buying s10 lite. anyone had suggestions, maybe those who have used all the brands, im using poco x3 gt for now.
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- 08 Feb 2025
dondonRO, 22 Jan 2025bought at may 21 8/256, i have no software issues with this... morethere is a easy way to fix problem volume up, just search in google
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- Tiramisu
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- 03 Feb 2025
I wished that I could've used this for an extra year or two despite battery draining on Hyper Os but I couldn't.
Display went out, replaced it two times and that went out too 😭
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- Anonymous
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- 02 Feb 2025
Anonymous, 02 Feb 2025my dad has one and still using it. very smooth for daily us... morei dont take photos much so its fine.. just worried about wasting money if the performance from poco x6 to f3 is not significant in games and emulations.. thanks for sharing your experience.
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- Anonymous
- HjD
- 02 Feb 2025
Anonymous, 01 Feb 2025i have a poco x6 right now.. is it worth to buy a lightly u... moremy dad has one and still using it. very smooth for daily usage. not sure about gaming but it doesn't lag. great phone with shitty camera. xD
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- Anonymous
- y6V
- 01 Feb 2025
i have a poco x6 right now.. is it worth to buy a lightly used poco f3 for the performance or is it not noticeable? im planning on playing games and doing some emulations..
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- 22 Jan 2025
bought at may 21 8/256, i have no software issues with this phone except the volume button is always press it self, still great at 2025 because its has good chipset