RedMi Note 11. Just received it for Christmas and boy was I crying the first time I booted it. 1 Gb of bloatware must most importantly: impossible to uninstall chrome.
That is ok if any other browser can co-exist beside it… Boy was I wrong again. Some links from apps don’t even care about my default browser, they just open chrome cause hell yeah.
This is sickening me, Google is beginning to really disgust me. Someday I’ll root this mf to get rid of ALL the bloatware
obligatory ‘consider grapheneos’
Graphene only works on certain pixel phones. They have no plans of supporting anything else and expects people to buy a phone to install graphene on, not the other way around
thats why i said ‘consider’, not ‘definitely use’
the device support is a security limitation, with pixel phones being one of the only phones that support bootloader locking/unlocking. dont blame GOS, blame hardware manufacturers.
grapheneos is not for everyone, but it is CERTAINLY worth looking into, especially if you already jabe a pixel or are getting a new phone anyway.
any degoogled rom is better than stock android. (im not just here to shill GOS, i simply prefer it)
And OP was very explicit that they didn’t purchase the phone, it was given to them and they have no say on returning or changing it. And given that it is one of the cheap mid tiers Redmi, they don’t sound like they have pixel money. So, good suggestion in any other case, but useless and unactionable here.