Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro
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- Used for 2 years
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- 13 Aug 2021
Looking for a phone that's not so expensive? This isn't the worst choice.
It comes with good battery life (at least for the first year or so, it depends on how you use it). The camera is nothing impressive and rather mediocre despite having a 64 megapixel lens. Performance is fine but the software is not.
Xiaomi has not optimised these phones for apps like Instagram making it feel rusty and cheap to use features.
The biggest issue I have experienced in using this phone for 2 years is that its UI bugs out often and results in glitches, freezes, apps not responding and more. Recently the speaker volume despite being set to max started reducing when watching YouTube. It does heat up particularly when fast charging.
Overall it's functional to use. Its large screen can give you an immersive experience (if you have large enough hands to reach the ends). The LCD does seem inferior at times but not that much of an issue unless you're looking for luxury features in a budget phone.
Samsung's A51 is a considerable option if you're looking at this phone.
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- RN8PRO pubg bug
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- 12 Aug 2021
Note 8pro, 10 Aug 2021Like it or not company always take away performance of the ... moreYeah as always, but I don't think that Helio G90T can't handle android 11 because it's not a low end proc maybe miui 12.5 just had a lot of bugs like when the miui 12 came out so many users that updated there phone on the latest miui 12 experienced a lot of bugs too but time goes by the bugs are minimized. A major update always comes with a bug while time passes by, bugs minimized because of stability improvements (minor) updates. Hope that before this coming sept they release a new minor update for the bugs. Let's hope for a better and optimized miui guys! cheer up!
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- ML90
- pwb
- 12 Aug 2021
It's the first device I've had where a major update from a company hasn't deliberately slowed down my device to make me buy an upgrade. The worst was when I owned an iPhone 4 and updated to iOS 7 and basically made it unusable.
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- BIJO
- FSr
- 12 Aug 2021
Timi, 07 Aug 2021I bought this phone over a year ago and I'm still very... moreAfter updation (12.5.1.0) your phone is working same as before ?..
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- Note 8pro
- s8L
- 10 Aug 2021
RN8PRO pubg bug, 08 Aug 2021I bought this nov. 25 2020, I don't have any problem a... moreLike it or not company always take away performance of the device with updates so people feel the phone is slow and buy new one. Just like apple
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- RN8PRO pubg bug
- sxr
- 08 Aug 2021
I bought this nov. 25 2020, I don't have any problem at all except small bugs that's it but when I updated my rn8pro to miui 12.5.2.0 (stable) global this august 4 I encountered a lot of bugs the big thing for me is when I play pubg. Before the update pubg is smooth without hiccups & render is normal but it goes back again to 55 to 60(fps), but now I experience some hiccups. In one game there's 2 to 3 times that I encounter the game freezes up to 2seconds. Hiccups while playing is random the worst I experience is when I push a squad then it freeze like 1.5 sec I almost die in the game. Hope that this will be resolved as soon as many users reported bugs about this update. Btw I tried a lot of tricks in the settings and tried to repair pubg but the hiccups wont disappear.
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- Fappenist
- xCD
- 08 Aug 2021
I have a problem with my phone my sd card not recognizing after the update, Xiaomi was sucks or lack of experience, Samsung was better
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- Fappenist
- xCD
- 08 Aug 2021
I have a problem with my phone after the update my sd card not recognizing, Xiaomi sucks
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- Timi
- nmM
- 07 Aug 2021
I bought this phone over a year ago and I'm still very happy with it! I recently updated to Miui 12.5, and it's smoother than ever!
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- halgurd
- nFY
- 07 Aug 2021
Anonymous, 27 Jul 2021After updating to 12.5.1 1. Gallery having problem to in... moreI have redmi note 8 pro, I have updated recently to android 11, I have no any issue, but it is faster and more responsive, I think screen resolution is brighter as well.
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- halgurd
- nFY
- 07 Aug 2021
I have redmi note 8 pro, I recently got android 11 here in UK, this is really a very good phone by Xiaomi, the nly shortage is about network bands, it has 11 bands, if it had had 16 or 19 global bands, it would have been much better for network reception, it is still goodas the global version, but because of lack of some global bands; such as band 26, 41, 66, 12, 17, 66,it struggles for network reception in some places, despite thatI I am still staisfied because all its specs are very good, battery, camera, screen resolution, speed.......
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- uncle168
- t7v
- 07 Aug 2021
my oem lcd screen rom cannot be updated by miui 12.5 or android 11 unlike stock paanel from xiaomi meaning you can't diy lcd screen anymore with this update as the touch screen function will be disabled.
i hope xiaomi can fix this by allowing legacy rom on miui 11 as i can't downgrade to the previous version and can only use the phone with a mouse.
i've send my feedback to xiaomi but no replies.
i hope for an option to roll back the update so i can use the touch screen again.
this iis a known problem on xda forum.
so when you diy lcd don't update the miui or the touchscreen will not work.
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- BAF
- mAP
- 07 Aug 2021
ML90, 06 Aug 2021Are people using the stable update who are reporting all th... moreSame here I have updated and I have no problem.Phone is faster and more responsive plus baterry is a bit better.
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- ML90
- 3HG
- 06 Aug 2021
Are people using the stable update who are reporting all these issues because I haven't had a single issue since updating
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- big mom
- IWV
- 04 Aug 2021
so my friend bought this phones few month ago, surprisingly this phone get 2 android updates
cmiiw afaik redmi phone usually get 1 android updates
I hope my redmi note 9 pro get 2 android updates too
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- Kopuavcmpa3
- 0Eg
- 04 Aug 2021
With MIUI 12.5 full screen gestures stopped working. Its the same story with RN8 pro and RN9 pro. Please fire your developers immediately Xiaomi, thank you.
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- Victor
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- 03 Aug 2021
Will custom rom fix these problem after update to patch 12.5.1?
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- uncle168
- t7v
- 03 Aug 2021
after miui 12.5 update, my touch screen doesn't work anymore. i've diy replaced the lcd 6 months ago and it was working until after the update it doesn't register any touch. i had to connect a mouse via usb c to use my phone. is xiaomi following apple disabling third party parts like lcd and battery? then i might as well buy iphone or galaxy. xiaomi is becoming greedy.
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- HonestOne
- vgM
- 02 Aug 2021
Been have this phone for almost years. Don't have any issue of this phone still work good even when Im playing genshin. No battery issue cus i Never update anything. The reason battery life is draining maybe because you usually charging while playing game or playing the phone for social media and any etc. I feel the charging slowing though. Maybe cus its almost year so the charger from the phone become old. But as best as i could review give this 8.5/10 for a phone.