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  • megane-kunEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    I have a similar device (Redmi Note 11 5G) and while I haven’t gone full de-google, I’ve done a bit of removal.

    I had to go through a bit of ADB though:

    • Install ADB on my desktop.
    • Enable developer mode on my phone. You may have to make a MI account for this.
    • Connect the phone (already with developer mode enabled) to the desktop (with ADB installed)
    • Run the ADB shell and connect to the phone.
    • Start erasing stuff from the ADB shell.

    I’ve followed a guide like this (please don’t take it as a recommendation to follow this particular guide), and a list like this of Xiaomi bloatware (again, not recommending this particular list).

    Sorry kung redundant na yang info na yan sa iyo. Good luck, ka-Xiaomi! 🤣

    • Pancit CantonEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      I recently removed most Google system apps using ADB, and after updating from MIUI 13 to 14 the other day, those apps appeared again. Haha

      • megane-kunEnglish
        5•1 year ago

        Aray! Shit. Di pa ako nag-uupdate from MIUI ko and that’s the kind of shit that makes me wary of updating.

        Mukhang kailangan mong ulitin yung process ah.

          • megane-kunEnglish
            5•1 year ago

            Oh hell no!

            HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

            Maybe this weekend check ko. Mej naka-reserve na ang braincells ko for work. Iilan na lang sila at mukhang overworked na rin.

            • Pancit CantonEnglish
              3•1 year ago

              Gusto ko na mag Pixel 7A at install calyxOS. lol

              • megane-kunEnglish
                3•1 year ago

                Kung may pambili ba eh, why not? Good luck!

                Samantalang ako, di ko pa tapos hulugan yung phone ko, kakabili ko lang kasi eh (roughly nine months ago). I thought it’d be a decent phone (and it has decent-enough specs for my usecases), but I never thought I’d struggle so hard to de-bloat and remove ads from its apps.

                • Pancit CantonEnglish
                  1•1 year ago

                  MIUI EU is decent replacement for bloated MIUI Global ROM, at babalik ako this week after some hiccups I encountered on previous EU ROMs.

                  And yes, Redmi Note 11 is a decent phone. I have this for a year na.

                  • megane-kunEnglish
                    2•1 year ago

                    Hm, thanks for the idea. I’m really not comfortable dealing with replacing ROMS (and especially dealing with custom ROMS), but I’d at least give it a look.

                    The biggest worry I have in replacing my ROM (from Global to EU) is I’d brick my phone in the process and no means to put it back to the last working config.