I've had Xiaomi devices for years now, along with Oppo and Vivo devices. I've now got a 13 Ultra and 14 Ultra, and I've got to be honest - the 14 Ultra is being returned to the retailer. Why???
HyperOS is simply a mess! It's removed a bunch of features that were in Miui 13 & 14 and has resulted in a ROM which makes draconian decissions for the user - a lot of which are simply horrendous!
Here's 2 cases in point: -
- WHY is it I can't have more than 3 notification icons any longer??? This used to work perfectly in Miui. It's even more annoying due to things like VoWiFi displaying TWO icons in the notificaton area - completely unnecessary!!!
- WHY can't I turn off the persistent location service notification reminder??? (the green dot next to the battery). Yes, I know which of my apps are constantly accessing GPS and I've allowed that. Now I want to turn off the icon so that Netflix, Youtube / any other full screen video displays propery; and more to the point - I want to avoid unnecessary screen burn in by constantly displaying a pointless green dot!!
I defy anyone to come up with sensible reasons for either of the behaviours above. Alas, I've also been unable to find any hacks or workarounds to modify this behaviour, and until that is possible, HyperOS remains a fairly useless, unusable OS. SHAME!
HyperOS is simply a mess! It's removed a bunch of features that were in Miui 13 & 14 and has resulted in a ROM which makes draconian decissions for the user - a lot of which are simply horrendous!
Here's 2 cases in point: -
- WHY is it I can't have more than 3 notification icons any longer??? This used to work perfectly in Miui. It's even more annoying due to things like VoWiFi displaying TWO icons in the notificaton area - completely unnecessary!!!
- WHY can't I turn off the persistent location service notification reminder??? (the green dot next to the battery). Yes, I know which of my apps are constantly accessing GPS and I've allowed that. Now I want to turn off the icon so that Netflix, Youtube / any other full screen video displays propery; and more to the point - I want to avoid unnecessary screen burn in by constantly displaying a pointless green dot!!
I defy anyone to come up with sensible reasons for either of the behaviours above. Alas, I've also been unable to find any hacks or workarounds to modify this behaviour, and until that is possible, HyperOS remains a fairly useless, unusable OS. SHAME!