Pocophone F1 - The new flagship killer?

MarkR

While I'm here, I thought i'd be daring and have my phone nude. And of course dropped it.

What's the average repair price?

abarkie

MarkR wrote: »

Don't xioami have their own backup / transfer option?

Found it. Mi Mover

Only copied only 79 apps out of 156?

Anything else I can use?

Atlantic Dawn

Perhaps of interest to anyone planning on buying one, supposed to be available from noon tomorrow, Xiaomi Pocophone F1 128GB Smartphone + Mi Band 3 £204, assuming you would need Parcel Motel to get it delivered here.

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/round-4-pocophone-f2-128gb-mi-band-3-204-app-redmi-note-6-pro-64gb-5000mah-powerbank-114-app-at-mi-uk-3266728

Julez

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Perhaps of interest to anyone planning on buying one, supposed to be available from noon tomorrow, Xiaomi Pocophone F1 128GB Smartphone + Mi Band 3 £204, assuming you would need Parcel Motel to get it delivered here.

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/round-4-pocophone-f2-128gb-mi-band-3-204-app-redmi-note-6-pro-64gb-5000mah-powerbank-114-app-at-mi-uk-3266728

Lost my OnePlus 5 over the weekend, so think I'm going to go for this. Anyone ordered from Xiaomi directly before? Any issues with Parcel Motel or payment validation?

the heathen

Julez wrote: »

Lost my OnePlus 5 over the weekend, so think I'm going to go for this. Anyone ordered from Xiaomi directly before? Any issues with Parcel Motel or payment validation?

Been trying for the last 30 mins - declining my cards

nike319

the heathen wrote: »

Been trying for the last 30 mins - declining my cards

Same here

Julez

Anyone try with revolut maybe? I havent got a phone so can't even top it up

blackwave

Did anyone get sorted with this after and what steps did you take?

funnyname

Is wifi calling available on this?

sydthebeat

funnyname wrote: »

Is wifi calling available on this?

Nope

abarkie

Anyone's notification light not work?

Any fixes / tests for this?

sydthebeat

abarkie wrote: »

Anyone's notification light not work?

Any fixes / tests for this?

new system update this morning

MIUI 10.3.6.0 PEJMIXM

fix: screen didnt always light up for notifications

https://miblog.co/pocophone-f1-global-10-3-6-0-pejmixm/

johnytwentyten

Git a mi otg cable delivered this morning, used it to hook up 2tb external hard drive to phone, it recognised that there was a device connected right away but took an age to show it's files, tried transferring movie from my phone, didn't work, disconnected and reconnected and tried again, worked but took ages to transfer,

Anyone know why this is? It seems that Poco doesn't support NTFS, I'm not sure if the hard drive is formatted to NTFS but confused as to why it would transfer the file one minute, then nothing the next time I tried, the phone also shut down during two different attempts

johnytwentyten

johnytwentyten wrote: »

Git a mi otg cable delivered this morning, used it to hook up 2tb external hard drive to phone, it recognised that there was a device connected right away but took an age to show it's files, tried transferring movie from my phone, didn't work, disconnected and reconnected and tried again, worked but took ages to transfer,

Anyone know why this is? It seems that Poco doesn't support NTFS, I'm not sure if the external drive is formatted to NTFS but confused as to why it would transfer the file one minute, then nothing the next time I tried, the phone also shut down during two different attempts

Anyone with s similar issue? My redmi note 3 worked with the hard drive no bother, that only worked off fat32 so can't see that being the issue

defox

Anyone get this type of discoloration in the screen. The phone wasn't dropped or any misuse. It's 8 months old and purchased through Amazon. I assume it's covered under the xiaomi 2 year warranty. Any advice appreciated...

sydthebeat

It's called 'screen burn'

Haven't had to deal with it myself, but might be something here...

https://android.gadgethacks.com/how-to/fix-screen-burn-your-galaxy-s8-prevent-from-happening-again-0177379/

McMurphy

I see there's a software update available, not sure what it entails, anyone else get it?

73bc61lyohr0mu

defox wrote: »

Anyone get this type of discoloration in the screen. The phone wasn't dropped or any misuse. It's 8 months old and purchased through Amazon. I assume it's covered under the xiaomi 2 year warranty. Any advice appreciated...

Phones with LCD screens rarely get screen burn, that's way more common on OLED. That mark on the screen is pressure. Something is pushing behind it, more then likely the battery. Batteries expand over time and I saw this countless times when I worked as a phone repair technician for 3 years..

johnytwentyten

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

I see there's a software update available, not sure what it entails, anyone else get it?

Downloaded it yesterday, just a security update more or less, phone fine afterwards, just follow the prompts

MSGSM

Would people recommend this phone? Looking for an upgrade from a Vodafone Smart Ultra 7.

johnytwentyten

MSGSM wrote: »

Would people recommend this phone? Looking for an upgrade from a Vodafone Smart Ultra 7.

I would definitely have recommended the phone
last week, but the problem that I mentioned on here with transferring files to an external hard drive is an issue for me, if that doesn't bother you then this is a great phone for the price

sydthebeat

johnytwentyten wrote: »

I would definitely have recommended the phone
last week, but the problem that I mentioned on here with transferring files to an external hard drive is an issue for me, if that doesn't bother you then this is a great phone for the price

With cloud storage I wouldn't think there is much demand to go straight from phone to hard drive.

johnytwentyten

sydthebeat wrote: »

With cloud storage I wouldn't think there is much demand to go straight from phone to hard drive.

True, but I like to download movies to watch back when I can, just plug it into the tv and away you go, get around it with bubbleupnp though

johnytwentyten

Hi,

Anybody know why it is that no matter what I do, I can't set VLC as the default video player on my Pocophone?
I have gone into settings and tried it there, I've clicked on videos and tried "open in another app" which works on that one occasion, but next time around it's back to mi video,
I've even removed mi video altogether using the tool spoken about on this thread, and for some reason which I can't understand it still seems to open on mi video!!
I then re-installed mi video and when I clicked to watch something, mi video asked for permission to access my files, I denied permission and tried using VLC, in this instance it wouldn't play at all,
Any ideas?

Mark Hamill

Anybody having the charging issue were you have to reboot the phone to get it to charge? The battery itself seems fine, it's not dropping too fast or anything and once it starts charging it will charge fine, but charging cables aren't recognised until I reboot the phone (even for data transfer to a PC).

I've googled and tried:
1) rebooting, connecting to pc and changing charge setting to data transfer and back again
2) turning off "MIUI optimisations" in the options and rebooting
but have had no luck.

McMurphy

Anyone with this phone fancy trying to install the Amazon app from the play store, and see if you run into any problems?

I couldn't update my app, uninstalled it, and now I cannot reinstall it.

Even tried side loading it, but no joy.

Cheers

sioda

Used mine this morning works fine.

McMurphy

sioda wrote: »

Used mine this morning works fine.

Yeah, mine was working fine, it just wouldn't update (but the play store kept pushing an update to it)

Now I can't get it to install again.

johnytwentyten

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

Anyone with this phone fancy trying to install the Amazon app from the play store, and see if you run into any problems?

I couldn't update my app, uninstalled it, and now I cannot reinstall it.

Even tried side loading it, but no joy.

Cheers

Have it already, but installed it there now in second space with no issues

McMurphy

johnytwentyten wrote: »

Have it already, but installed it there now in second space with no issues

Mmmm.


Very strange.

McMurphy

So problem solved, and I only discovered what was causing it by accident.

It seems I installed Amazon India from an earlier trip which I must have forgotten about, and the two apps (Amazon India and UK) seemed to be clashing somehow:o

Anyway, uninstalled the Indian one and everything's grand again.

banie01

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

Anyone with this phone fancy trying to install the Amazon app from the play store, and see if you run into any problems?

I couldn't update my app, uninstalled it, and now I cannot reinstall it.

Even tried side loading it, but no joy.

Cheers

My wife has it and it's working fine on hers...
The sheer volume of bloody Prime deliveries and my burgeoning friendship with our postman would testify to that...

But I checked, just to be sure ðŸ‘

Snotty

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

So problem solved, and I only discovered what was causing it by accident.

It seems I installed Amazon India from an earlier trip which I must have forgotten about, and the two apps (Amazon India and UK) seemed to be clashing somehow:o

Anyway, uninstalled the Indian one and everything's grand again.

Did you set your region to India to get the facial recognition to work at the start?

TitianGerm

Anyone have a random beep/message tone sound on their pocofone even though there's no message/notification?

Nemeses2050

TitianGerm wrote: »

Anyone have a random beep/message tone sound on their pocofone even though there's no message/notification?

I do get them when the system apps are updated, you get a beep/message tone.

TitianGerm

Nemeses2050 wrote: »

I do get them when the system apps are updated, you get a beep/message tone.

Thanks for that. There is no icon on the screen to show anything was updating so had no idea what was going on.

leche solara

Received big update yesterday to MIUI 11 - alot of changes to get used to. I can no longer control the sound made when a message (SMS) is received. Has anyone else experienced this? If so have you found a fix?

droidman123

leche solara wrote: »

Received big update yesterday to MIUI 11 - alot of changes to get used to. I can no longer control the sound made when a message (SMS) is received. Has anyone else experienced this? If so have you found a fix?

If you go into "manage apps" then click on the messaging app the options are there

leche solara

droidman123 wrote: »

If you go into "manage apps" then click on the messaging app the options are there

Thanks found it, its hidden well

sioda

I had a notification of the update but it's disappeared

McMurphy

Anyone know how to disable the sim lock on my new gomo SIM card?

I have been searching just about everywhere I can think of under settings but it's just not popping out at me

Edit, scratch that got it.

Bahanaman

Johnny Dogs wrote:

Anyone know how to disable the sim lock on my new gomo SIM card?

What's the coverage like with gomo?

abarkie

leche solara wrote: »

Received big update yesterday to MIUI 11 - alot of changes to get used to. I can no longer control the sound made when a message (SMS) is received. Has anyone else experienced this? If so have you found a fix?

Are you / were you on MIUI 10.3.8.0?

I have pressed for update, but it says no update available?

How did you get the update?

McMurphy

Bahanaman wrote: »

What's the coverage like with gomo?

No complaints so far, and my work takes me all over the island.

leche solara

abarkie wrote: »

Are you / were you on MIUI 10.3.8.0?

I have pressed for update, but it says no update available?

How did you get the update?

Received a notification that it was there. Asked me did I want to download over mobile data or wait until I had wifi. I accepted the mobile date option. Its a large download - almost 2 gigs.

babybuilder

leche solara wrote: »

Received a notification that it was there. Asked me did I want to download over mobile data or wait until I had wifi. I accepted the mobile date option. Its a large download - almost 2 gigs.

Any idea on how they are rolling the update out?

abarkie

leche solara wrote: »

Received a notification that it was there. Asked me did I want to download over mobile data or wait until I had wifi. I accepted the mobile date option. Its a large download - almost 2 gigs.

Got the update today.

Different look but hey ho

babybuilder

abarkie wrote: »

Got the update today.

Different look but hey ho

Got it today. Looks ok

sydthebeat

Got it too... Not such a big difference really.

60 seconds had my sound settings back.

The bigger rounded app shortcuts look like a regression rather than progression. Nice touch though having the settings wheel turn after closing it.

McMurphy

sydthebeat wrote: »

Got it too... Not such a big difference really.

60 seconds had my sound settings back.

The bigger rounded app shortcuts look like a regression rather than progression.

Yeah I'd agree with most of this, the app icons on my home screen look like a backward step tbh, the default notification sounds are bizarre tbh.

Anyone got a definitive list of the new features?

Nice touch though having the settings wheel turn after closing it.

What's this?