Xiaomi Poco F5
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- Anonymous
- Sr6
- 22 Sep 2023
I-M-R-A-N, 21 Sep 2023i used poco x3pro. it died in my hand for no reason(cpu mot... moremy poco x3 pro still works like first day. Even battery still works OK even after all these years of heavy usage.
My poco x3 NFC on the other hand died in my hand. motherboard has no sim error. How to fix it?
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- Anonymous
- Sr6
- 22 Sep 2023
no sd card slot? DEAL-BREAKER!!!
no ips panel? DEAL-BREAKER!!!
otherwise good phone :D
Look! It even has 3.5mm audio jack! WOW!!!
still shortage of sd card slots???
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- J9W
- 22 Sep 2023
SS POCO, 22 Sep 2023Actually i tested it various conditions. From 100% to 20% w... moreI have 120hz only turned on for games i think as there is no point to hold the screen on 120hz for just browsing internet. I think i get like 10 hours SOT from 100% to 30% by just reading manwha. Well actually i think i got even more then 10 hours
I actually dont use more then 1 app or browser at the same time open too. As the phone is fast enough to load pretty much all fast enough that it's not really a point to hold them open in the background and waste battery life with it.
For example Asphalt 9 game start up on my 8GB RAM F5 faster then the game opens on my windows 10 desktop with 16GB RAM and installed on a SSD. Well my desktop is also over 10 years old on Haswell i5
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- SS POCO
- Px4
- 22 Sep 2023
Anonymous, 16 Sep 2023I'm getting over 6hrs SOT at 120hz on mine, what'... moreActually i tested it various conditions. From 100% to 20% with casual use(such as facebook,youtube,reddit and some COC) i got almost 8 hours of sot with 120 Hz on.The duration is almost 36+ hours and its accountable also.
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- Sky
- y6V
- 22 Sep 2023
hmm, 22 Sep 2023The phone you got probably is missing B20 band for European... moreYou're correct that it's from Asia. I don't live in Europe and and there's a lot of competitive options available in stores here. I got the Global version actually so I think it's not missing any bands. There were lots of bloatware... but manageable and useable once you purge them all.
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- J9W
- 22 Sep 2023
I-M-R-A-N, 21 Sep 2023i used poco x3pro. it died in my hand for no reason(cpu mot... moreYou better buy more education for your self.
Why go to phone comments and start to talk some crazy conspiracy theories ?
Motherboard issues i have seen on every brand and even on there flagship phones like Sony, Huawei, Samsung and even iphones.
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- J9W
- 22 Sep 2023
Sky, 20 Sep 2023Got the 12/256 combo for ~$300.
Coming from a Realme ph... moreThe phone you got probably is missing B20 band for European carriers as there is no way you get this phone for 300 dollars in Europea with global rom on it.
When the cheapest is like 380 euro and that is for 8GB ram version and when you talk about more bloatware you seen before as that means your phone must be for the Asian region or something
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- JimmyTheGreatest
- SH7
- 22 Sep 2023
I-M-R-A-N, 21 Sep 2023i used poco x3pro. it died in my hand for no reason(cpu mot... moreI would never buy a phone manufactured in India, irrespective of brand. They simply don't have the culture of safety control measures you find in places like in the EU, North America or Japan... Maybe things will change in the distant future, but for the meantime, I much rather pay a 100 euro more and buy the "same" phone in the EU, because I can be more than 90% sure that it won't burn down my apartment or blow my head away. I honestly don't understand how people dare bringing consumer electronics manufactured in India into their homes.
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- Anonymous
- bxd
- 22 Sep 2023
I-M-R-A-N, 21 Sep 2023i used poco x3pro. it died in my hand for no reason(cpu mot... morejust dont let the phone heats up, dont charge while using the phone and immediatly charge the phone if its at 50%
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- ThePit
- msu
- 21 Sep 2023
I-M-R-A-N, 21 Sep 2023i used poco x3pro. it died in my hand for no reason(cpu mot... moreI'm bored of all this bitching about xiaomics and poco phones, this F5 will not die with the base.The poco x3 had this bug but I had it and I recently sold it and the next owner is happy to use it. But for example when iphone had the exploding battery and even other brands could have problems there why don't they whine that oh I won't buy such a brand again because I don't trust it.xiaomi is not a worse phone than other brands.
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- I-M-R-A-N
- YUU
- 21 Sep 2023
i used poco x3pro. it died in my hand for no reason(cpu motherboard dead) half a year ago. since then poco is a BIG NO!!! for me.
i was planning to buy note 12 turbo.
but that one scares me too. xiaomi brand.
any thoughts should i buy note turbo or poco f5.
the motherboard dead issues concern me.
cheap phones dying after a year of use actually makes them expensive in the long run.
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- Anonymous
- XWd
- 21 Sep 2023
I don't know why miui gets all the hate. been using miui for more than 4 years, and it doesn't have more if not less bugs than other skins like oneui or OnePlus or whatever but nothing major. and miui has not lagged on me for even once. it's a decent skin over the stock android with very very useful features like second space, dual apps, floating windows (miui14 now does two apps simultaneously, how awesome is that!), built in app lock, battery features, double tap to sleep and wake, both WiFi and hotspot runs simultaneously and many more features.
People buy very low end Xiaomi devices and complain about miui which I admit that full on miui does lag and have horrible memory management on low end devices but then again why would you buy 150-200 euro Chinese phones and still complain!
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- Anonymous
- nU2
- 20 Sep 2023
RamairoZurich, 19 Sep 2023Hello, I was thinking of buying a new phone and I feel that... moreYou can get this and install custom ROM for more Motorola like experience.
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- Sky
- y6V
- 20 Sep 2023
Got the 12/256 combo for ~$300.
Coming from a Realme phone, I'm used to some bloatware but there was a lot that came with this phone, and had to remove most of them and the phone is finally useable. I honestly didn't know that a lot of people hate MIUI (I'm OOTL since I have 0 idea about Xiaomi stuff) but so far it has been stable for me.
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- Lb7
- 20 Sep 2023
Spanky, 18 Sep 2023The phone has one of the best/fastest chipsets available at... moreI know the chip what i meant about laggy is the software is it stable or not
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- Spanky
- nD@
- 19 Sep 2023
RamairoZurich, 19 Sep 2023Hello, I was thinking of buying a new phone and I feel that... moreI can tell you from my personal experience of ~3 years of using MIUI that it is a VERY stable UI. My main criticism would have to be that there are some translation errors for my native language, with minor parts which seem machine translated. Also, it takes a bit of adjusting, especially the Settings menu, when coming from a stock or near-stock Android, as the placement of some of the options is different and a bit confusing at first. However, I consider that the complexity of MIUI is a good thing, with lots of parameters to tweak.
As for the battery, there are lots of factors which can influence its performance, including, but not limited to: temperature, screen refresh rate, screen brightness, signal quality (the better the signal, the less electrical current is being used), using the GPS, using 5G, background tasks, the type of content which is being displayed and so on. For day-to-day intents and purposes, I’d say to trust the GSMArena battery tests.
Go for it!
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- J9W
- 19 Sep 2023
RamairoZurich, 19 Sep 2023Hello, I was thinking of buying a new phone and I feel that... moreThe MIUI issues people talk about is more of there own preferences. When they have been on Samsung OneUI for long period of time then all UI for them sux. Or being on oneplus or something. The fact that the poco is Chinese is already a problem for some people so they need to defame it.
Battery drain is also something that is for people who abuse the phone by having 10 apps open and do heavy tests that drain battery on every phone
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- Anonymous
- 6p}
- 19 Sep 2023
Guys is there any issue with latest software update (miui14.0.6.0)?
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- RamairoZurich
- 8xP
- 19 Sep 2023
Hello, I was thinking of buying a new phone and I feel that the Poco F5 is close to my ideal of a near-perfect phone. I don't care about the build design, the waterproof certification, the quality of the speakers, the quality of the cameras (I would even remove them to save price if I could). What I do care about is that it has a good battery, a decent AMOLED screen, good performance, that it has the 3.5mm jack and that it has the fingerprint detector on the side. I feel that the Poco F5 meets all these requirements (except in the battery section, since I have read quite diverse opinions, from the fact that it lasts more than 10 hours of active screen to the battery draining super fast), but what I find brakes is the operating system. Is Miui really that bad and buggy? Or did it simply become a meme to mock the flaws of previous versions of Miui? I come from Motorola, which has a mostly clean system, but I wouldn't mind if the system was highly customizable. What would bother me would be if it failed all the time. So far the only bugs I've heard are that pocket mode doesn't work and the notification bar when listening to music looks a bit bad, as if it doesn't let you see the commands to change music correctly. Are these the types of errors I can find? Or are there more serious things that cause the phone's fluidity to be lost?
As for custom roms, I have no knowledge on the subject and I have heard that the cell phone can have a hard brick and become unusable. Also, I don't know what the security issue is like with that type of things (emails, passwords, Google services, streaming services, banking apps, etc.)
Thank you for reading
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- J9W
- 18 Sep 2023
Anonymous, 18 Sep 2023hey guys, can you tell me about the cons of this phone and ... moreLook the F5 up from a site kimovil and in there are people in all languages commenting pros and cons and you can press translate on each comment
All these pros and cons are same for each phone and brand comments where people have diverse view points of cons and pros to each brand phones comments.
Search videos of the phone from youtube to see there advertising point of view of pros and cons. You can also search the phone name and cons for videos where they talk about them that is when the con really is a con for the phone.
In the end of the day it's what you want from the phone.
I wanted performance even tough i dont play games a lot but i need performance.
Also i wanted to have 3.5mm jack for sure cause i have something 10 years old wired headphones i have used with my previous phones.
Also i wanted AMOLED screen cause i have never had one for anything so for experience sake i needed it.
I have all of that from this F5 8GB RAM 256GB Storage phone
There is also 5GB virtual storage RAM but i have it turned off. If it helps in any way for performance then maybe after 4-5 years i can turn it on.
Camera is good middle class camera and well i dont do much pictures at all ever.
I use it more as a tool for magnification glass to read small text or something.
So you just need to understand what is your budget and what you desire to have on your next phone. F5 is a good choice if camera is not a priority and want performance for games that last you for 5 to 10 years then Poco F5 is for you
All phones have pros and cons but for 400 euro phone you cant expect it to have all the bling as they need to cut the cost on a lot of things so you can have the flagship performance on middle class priced phone