Once again, we have Xiaomi prepping its customer base for the MIUI 10 update. To that end, there are several important things to keep in mind.

Which Xiaomi Devices Are Getting The MIUI 10 Update?

The Chinese company will be applying the MIUI 10 update to its Mi 4c. Keep in mind that this device is around three years old, so the update certainly makes sense. However, keep in mind that the Mi 4c isn’t the only Xiaomi device that will receive the MIUI 10 update. Global ROM is currently running through some data tests, and this is expected to be completed by the 24th of January. Even so, a number of Xiaomi devices are already getting an indication that they are ready for the dramatic update. Among the devices already receiving such news are the Xiaomi Mi 8 and Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S.

Currently, the Redmi group is the only range of products from Xiaomi that isn’t on the to-update list. However, it is generally expected that these devices will receive a separate announcement at some point in the near future.

The following devices are going to receive updates:

• Mi8
• Mi8 SE
• Mi Mix 2S
• Mi Mix
• Mi 6X
• Mi6
• Mi5
• Mi Note2
• Redmi Note5
• Redmi S2Y2
• Redmi Note 4X
• Redmi 5A
• Redmi 5s
• Mi Note3
• Mi Max
• Mi Max2
• Mi 5X
• Mi Max Prime
• Mi 5c
• Mi 4s
• Mi 4c
• Redmi 4x
• Redmi Note5A
• Redmi Note5A P
• Redmi 5
• Redmi 5+

These are the devices currently expected to receive the upgrade. With this essential update, users will have the latest version at their disposal. All of the devices, particularly the newer ones, are expected to work just fine with this update. There is no question that this is a pretty great time to have an Xiaomi device.

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What you should know about Oreo update?

Unfortunately, while there are some appealing improvements on the table, as far as this update is concerned, there are also some bugs. These bugs and annoyances are such that you just might want to wait, before downloading Xiaomi’s Android 8.1 Oreo update. There are a number of reasons as to why this should be the case.

SMS Bugs In The Oreo Update

Is the bug in the Oreo update so severe, it shouldn’t be released at all? Xiaomi believes this to be the case. The specific problem involves the SMS side of things. If you swipe your message app away from your recent apps screen, you will delete your entire SMS archive! The entire history will be completely wiped out. The second serious bug with the Oreo update involves the SafetyNet failing. This feature is designed to make it easy for a developer to use an API to determine certain issues with a device.

Between these two noted failures, you can begin to see why the bug has been so intensely criticized.

Thankfully, while this is certainly a problem, there does seem to be some sort of solution in play. Acting quickly, Xiaomi made the decision to pull the update from the public. This certainly makes sense, since these bugs make the update largely useless, even with the improvements it still offered. While the company has not specifically indicated the date of the next update, there is no question that such an update will arrive before long. Those who own the device will simply have to wait for the opportunity to download an actual update.

Remember that the Mi A2 is going to becoming out very soon. If you need an indication of when this update will be released without bugs to the public, you can certainly look to the release of that device. It seems logical, after all, that the company will want to make sure everything has been addressed, before that new device is released to the world at large. For now, Xiaomi should perhaps be praised for handling this situation with such acute professionalism.

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Although some features of the new update will only be available in China, however, the ones available globally are good enough to make the users stick to Xiaomi. Every MIUI update has focused on performance improvement and it is no different this time.

Here is the list of 5 hidden MIUI 9 features:

How to use Split screen on MIUI 9 ROM?

Yes you’re reading it right as split screen is now available with MIUI 9 updates. To get to it you will have to follow the following steps:-

• Tap the recent button.
• The background running apps open.
• At the top, there’s a new shade with “split screen mode” written.
• Tap on it.
• Drag the apps from the list of background running apps that you want on the split screen, and voila!
• The apps which do not support split screen are marked with a clear badge.

MIUI9 Improved notification panel

A lot of work has been carried out on the notifications panel by the company. Here are some features that are added to the updated notification panel:-

• Quick reply option has been made available at the drop down notification panel.
• Notifications from each app are bundles so you will not get numerous notifications from one app.
• Unimportant notifications are automatically filtered and muted.

Brand new image editor in MIUI9

Yes, the inbuilt image editor went from ‘just useful’ to “whoa, amazing”. In the new update a brand new image editor has been added to the gallery app and getting used to this editor will need some repetitive usages. On learning how to use, users will be able to:-

• Removing unwanted items from the images.
• Adding interesting elements to the images.
• Make use of better and updated filters.
• Better beautification of pictures.

Improved home screen and lock screen

A lot of work has been put in here as a lot of engaging features has been added. Here are some of them:-

• Vertical scrolling off widgets, similar to that of stock Android is made possible in the new update.
• In order to be able to bet a bird’s eye view of the app drawer, a miniscule view of all the pages is available.
• Previously messy settings panel has become more compact with improved settings management and navigation.
• The default launcher can now be customised.
• The flash button has been added to the lock screen, which undeniably is really useful.
• Also, all the connected devices can be seen on the lock screen itself.

Mi Drop

Mi drop is a file transfer feature and is amazingly useful to transfer files of any type. This is one of the best-underrated features due to the fact that it could only be found once, one checked through the underlying utilities.

This, however, is changed in the new MIUI 9 update, the Mi Drop has been brought to the frontier, with a spot on the home screen itself.

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The original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), a few years back took an initiative to focus on premium designs and building materials accordingly. The previous year, the attention had turned to quality of the camera and this year, 18.9 aspect ratios and slim bezels have been in the limelight.

What are these AI-Driven Apps?

Another brilliant aspect which is gaining importance ever passing day is that of artificial intelligence (AI). It is a well-known fact that one of the top companies in the smartphone industry i.e. Xiaomi is now expanding its business furiously not only in China but in India as well. The flagships of Xiaomi can definitely take it up a notch in 2018 in the field of Artificial Intelligence.

Xiaomi is one of the most promising brands launching amazing products, packed with powerful features and that too under prices which are reliable. Xiaomi CEO, Lei Jun recently shared his views about the potential of AI in the smartphone industry at a talk titled as “Opportunities for Xiaomi in the AI era” that took place in the Fourth World Internet Conference in Wuzen, China in 2017. In his speech, Lei mentioned that all of the present day internet companies will turn into AI companies and also suggested that the company’s line up of 2018 smartphones will have ‘AI driven apps’.

This might have been in reference to Xiaomi Mi7. He also mentioned that in the upcoming decade the major focus of Xiaomi would be on its AI capabilities. As per sources Xiaomi Mi 7 might be the first Xiaomi smartphone that would be powered by the upcoming Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 chip.

Artificial intelligence based technology is not absolutely new to smartphones. The first AI featured product launched by Xiaomi was the AI enabled speaker that was introduced earlier this year in July. One of the best sellers Xiaomi Mi Note 3 has artificial intelligence powered AI beauty feature. The feature that allows camera to automatically remove skin imperfections and other unwanted spots while clicking selfies.

However, most of this feature is dependent on servers that are cloud-based. Hence an active internet connection is required for usage of these AI-powered apps to process which on a certain level definitely poses security risks.

This is exactly the problem on which the company is now working on. In order to bring a remedy to this issue, the makers of smartphone chips have started integrating the components of artificial intelligence optimized neutral networking in the system-on-chips itself. For instance, Huawei had made a recent announcement of a Kirin chip along with a ‘neural chip’.

Recently Google has collaborated with Intel in order to make an image processing core. With such advancements from the competing brands, it can safely be presumed that Xiaomi might have something impressive for all of its users very soon.

Source: http://news.mydrivers.com/1/558/558126.htm

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How to fix not coming notifications issue on MIUI 8 / 9

So basically, many of the background apps as well as sync services are killed by the OS when the phone is idle in order to extend battery life which in turn causes the problem with push notifications. In order to negate this, the notifications will be required to be prioritized and the autostart needs to be enabled for those apps which aren’t showing the notifications. Here are the steps that you can take if you’re unable to receive push notifications on your Redmi 4X smartphone:-

Disabling restrictions

1. Click “Settings”
2. Click on “Manage apps battery usage”
3. Select the apps you want to receive push notifications from and select “no restrictions”.

Prioritizing Notifications

1. From the home screen, click on the “settings” icon.
2. Once, the settings box opens, navigate to the “Notifications and status bar”.
3. Select the “app notifications” option.
4. Select the app that you need to prioritize.
5. Make sure that the options of “Lock screen notifications”, “Floating notifications” and “App icon badge” are enabled.
6. Finally, toggle the “Priority” option.

This should fix the problem with the push notifications, however if you are still not receiving certain alerts, you might need to enable auto start. Following are the steps to enable auto start feature:-

Enabling Autostart

1. Open “Settings”
2. Click on “Permissions”
3. Click on “Autostart”
4. Choose the apps that you want to automatically start.

Turning autostart feature causes the apps to be unaffected by the battery management of the operating system. In case you cannot find a specific application on the menu list, then you may try disabling the battery saver mode.

Disabling the battery saver mode

1. Click on the “settings” icon.
2. Click on “Battery & performance”
3. Click on the “Manage apps battery usage” option
4. Under the “power saving mode” select the “off” option.

Turning off the “battery saver mode” prevents the operating system from killing the apps and allows them to run unrestricted in the background.

Locking apps in the app overview/recent apps plane

1. Open the apps
2. Press the recent apps or the overview button.
3. Find the apps you want notifications from and pull down on them to lock them so that they never get cleared.

Developer option privileges

1. Click on “Settings”
2. Click on “about phone”
3. Keep taping on the MIUI version tab for about 8 times
4. A short message will appear on the screen saying “you are now a developer”
5. Head back out to “settings”
6. Click the “developer” option
7. Scroll to the bottom and turn off the “memory optimization”

These steps are derived after a lot of trial and error, however, it isn’t known if all the steps are absolutely important, the last step did the trick for me after trying out all the previous steps. You can even try the last step first and see if the push notifications start coming in. If it doesn’t work then try all the steps one by one.

Additional Note – If none of the above-mentioned methods work then you might consider re-installation of the global MIUI ROM.

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