Xiaomi, you suck at email (but you have built a very nice phone)

[droidsometimes]

So, got my Mi Mix 2 yesterday, and because I'm gonna unlock & liberate it with LOS (MIUI = eww imho), I created an account over at account.global.xiaomi.com.

But no confirmation mail arrived.

So I went and checked the logs of my mail server, and, the mail from Xiaomi got rejected, because of a misconfigured helo greeting. (my mail server doesn't like non-resolvable helo greetings - a best practice to combat spam)

But because my mail server is also a polite mail server, it gives a temporary error (450) in that case, which a. makes the sending server try again and b. gives me a chance to whitelist false positives.

Alas, that mail system hasn't tried again since, and it's now 12 hrs later.



So, first impression of XaaS (Xiaomi as a service): Meh!


End of rant, I feel better now.

 

[MrColdbird]

Welcome to the club. The initial xiaomi setup is always a pain... Which is why moving to AOSP ROMs is always my first step on these as well.

Best of luck.

 

[droidsometimes]

Well, to be fair, I finally discovered the Resend link on the account creation page, hidden in plain sight. :angel:

And in the meantime I was able to create an account, figure out the necessary steps to get to the actual unlock process (learn some chinese, firewall piercing, I'll spare you the gory details), and am now waiting for 72 hours to pass.

But yeah, so far, exact opposite of unlocking other devices.



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[linlinlin1992]

Honestly, too dramatic lol.

Am a Chinese here. Do you really need to learn some Chinese to unlock the device? Sorry but that somehow is quite funny to me.

Just tried. Haha, it's true that it keeps jumping to the Chinese version page, though all you need is to click the most obvious button. Hmmm, I can't believe XiaoMi still struggle with this given that it has quite a few overseas markets already. Maybe should post a feedback to them.

 

[droidsometimes]

Yeah, parts of the accout website system have room for improvement - I really needed Google Translate, because nothing was obvious to me, it all looked the same, and I did not find a way to switch to english.
Ultimately, the search function saved my life.

Just going to Developer Options - Mi Unlock Status on the phone would have saved me some hassle (has instructions, even in german), but the LOS installation instructions don't mention that, I only found out later.

Oh well, live and learn. I managed in the end. Makes the whole thing even more satisfying I guess.


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