I'm running MIUI on my Mi4, and I have hardly any background traffic. It sleeps like a baby and I get insane battery life.
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Where are you located? How long did shipping take? Also, I see that it's on their site for pre sale, are they shipping pre sales?
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Not the guy you were asking, but my one was pretty fast after they processed the order using. I bought the 16GB, 2 GB RAM model and used DHL as the shipping agent. Shipping itself took about 3 days to get to Sydney, Australia, but processing was 2 days. When I say processing, I mean the amount of time it takes for Geekbuying to get the package to the shipping agent. According to the DHL tracking service, Geekbuying sat on my phone for 2 days before DHL picked it up for delivery, which pissed me off, but I could understand from an efficiency perspective. So, all things considered, it was still pretty fast and within the advertised 3-5 days.
Also, a bit about the phone itself: I quite like the phone so far; buttery smooth experience for the most part and nice build quality to go with it. Even MIUI which I thought I wouldn't like that much is a pleasant experience from an aesthetic point of view. However, the main letdown is the battery drain. Android System put an equivalent strain on my phone as WiFi - 16% used, which translated to something like a 30%/hr battery decrease just from light browsing/Reddit. The battery drained 10% overnight as well, which I thought was abnormal. I attributed this to some of the quirks of MIUI and the bloatware on it. I just disabled a bunch of apps and took some battery saving measures. Hopefully, I'll get some increased battery performance.
Also, the RAM usage on this phone isn't too impressive either; an average of 500-600 MB RAM free after a fresh restart, which means during normal usage I get about 300 - 400 MB free. Not impressed. This was the very first thing I checked after I booted my phone for the first time as well, so I don't imagine it will get better down the line. One other thing that annoys me is how small the notification icons are. They're absolutely minuscule for me. Even squinting I had trouble determining what app it was.
One of the things MIUI did get right was the aesthetics overall - the notification shade especially. It'll take some work getting there, though. For example, changing the wallpaper was a chore for me as it could only be changed through the Themes app, and not through their stock Gallery which made no sense.
Overall, I think the software side of it lets the phone down severely. I will have little hesitation flashing to a CM or AOSP ROM. Since I don't live in China, anything to do with the Mi market is bloatware as far as I'm concerned. The bloat Geekbuying put on it is annoying as well, but I didn't hold that against Xiaomi.
Sorry for the surprise wall of text. Tl;dr: Good delivery service from Geekbuying. Phone hardware is nice, but software isn't so nice. Battery drain for some unknown reason that's been known to occur on other Xiaomi phones. Nice aesthetics. 7/10 rating overall. 9/10 with the battery issue fixed.
