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    • malamignasanmig@group.ltEnglish
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      1 year ago

      bricked a phone by removing the default launcher. was confident everything was okay because i was toying around with the new launcher for an hour. deactivated the developer mode. then the screen went blank. rebooted the phone but the screen remains blank. could not recover through adb because of it was no longer in developer mode. good thing it was an old phone.
      it was fun though, did it again with another phone. learned my lesson- did not remove the stock launcher and left the developer mode on the second time around.

      • Pancit Canton@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Unfortunately, the unofficial LOS for RN11 is abandoned as per checking on XDA, and LOS itself is not de-Googled. It still has Google frameworks.

    • megane-kun@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      I have a similar device (Redmi Note 11 5G) and while I haven’t gone full de-google, I’ve done a bit of removal.

      I had to go through a bit of ADB though:

      • Install ADB on my desktop.
      • Enable developer mode on my phone. You may have to make a MI account for this.
      • Connect the phone (already with developer mode enabled) to the desktop (with ADB installed)
      • Run the ADB shell and connect to the phone.
      • Start erasing stuff from the ADB shell.

      I’ve followed a guide like this (please don’t take it as a recommendation to follow this particular guide), and a list like this of Xiaomi bloatware (again, not recommending this particular list).

      Sorry kung redundant na yang info na yan sa iyo. Good luck, ka-Xiaomi! 🤣

      • Pancit Canton@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        I recently removed most Google system apps using ADB, and after updating from MIUI 13 to 14 the other day, those apps appeared again. Haha

        • megane-kun@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Aray! Shit. Di pa ako nag-uupdate from MIUI ko and that’s the kind of shit that makes me wary of updating.

          Mukhang kailangan mong ulitin yung process ah.

            • megane-kun@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Oh hell no!

              HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

              Maybe this weekend check ko. Mej naka-reserve na ang braincells ko for work. Iilan na lang sila at mukhang overworked na rin.

                • megane-kun@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  0·
                  1 year ago

                  Kung may pambili ba eh, why not? Good luck!

                  Samantalang ako, di ko pa tapos hulugan yung phone ko, kakabili ko lang kasi eh (roughly nine months ago). I thought it’d be a decent phone (and it has decent-enough specs for my usecases), but I never thought I’d struggle so hard to de-bloat and remove ads from its apps.

                  • Pancit Canton@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    1·
                    1 year ago

                    MIUI EU is decent replacement for bloated MIUI Global ROM, at babalik ako this week after some hiccups I encountered on previous EU ROMs.

                    And yes, Redmi Note 11 is a decent phone. I have this for a year na.

      • Pancit Canton@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’ve already used this, and still those removed system apps appeared again after updating the ROM. Walang “gold standard” sa debloater, it’s still run its commands through ADB.