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It was gifted to me by my wife a poco x 3 pro.
One of the best phone i ever own i changed his screen 3 times. batteries 3 times. But today i wake up and it was turned off. tried to turn it on nothing.
i hoped it was a faulty battery from the last repaire. But, the repaire shop told me it was the processeur. He told me he could revive it for like a day or two to have time to do all the backup i needed.
I am a little sad. even the new phones doesn't apeal to me.
what do you guys recommand to me as a new buy ?

Poco X6 5G users, please help!

I accidentally messed up some settings on my Poco X6 5G and now things aren’t working/looking the way they were before.

If anyone here uses the Poco X6 5G, could you please DM me or comment? I need to compare a few settings and get them back to normal.

Thanks!

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Hi, I noticed that POCO phones are having a pretty huge sale in my country(malaysia) recently. Does anyone know if there’s a particular reason for it? Could it be because a new generation is coming soon and they’re trying to clear the current stock?

I’m currently using a POCO F5 and thinking about upgrading to either the F8 Pro or X8 Pro while they’re discounted. But the sale also makes me wonder if I should just wait a little longer and see if there’s any news about the F9 series first.

Would you guys upgrade from the F5 to the F8 Pro/X8 Pro at the current discounted price, or just keep the F5 for now and wait for the F9?

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Hi everyone,

I’m going on a longer vacation (around 3 weeks), and my Poco F3 battery is getting pretty bad. Battery health is around 68%, and I usually have to charge it after coming home from work or again in the evening.

I was thinking about replacing it with a Nohon BM4Y from AliExpress. The problem is that if I order it there, it probably won’t arrive until after I’m back from vacation.

I found two sellers on Amazon that have batteries available for delivery tomorrow, but neither has particularly great reviews, and they are not Nohon, so I’m a bit hesitant to trust them.

My options seem to be:

Buy one of the Amazon batteries with questionable reviews and replace the battery before I leave.

Order the Nohon BM4Y from AliExpress and just use my current battery + a power bank during the vacation.

Forget about replacing the battery for now and just buy a good power bank.

What would you guys do?

I’d rather keep the F3 for a while longer, so I’m mainly looking for the safest/reliably solution

i could also buy a new one, since my current poco is 4 years old. I also need an esim card for the trip.

Had it from late 2020. Now, battery drains like there is no tomorrow..

Hey, I'm having a really weird camera issue on my POCO X8 Pro and I'm trying to figure out whether this is a software/HyperOS issue or an actual hardware failure.

The camera suddenly stops working completely. The stock Camera app doesn't work, and CIT says:

> Get the empty or null camera ID!!

I checked dumpsys media.camera and it reports:

Number of camera devices: 0

Number of normal camera devices: 0

The really weird part is that the camera provider keeps appearing and disappearing every ~5 seconds:

CameraProviderEvent: Camera provider has been presented!

CameraProviderEvent: Camera provider has been removed!

CameraProviderEvent: Camera provider has been presented!

CameraProviderEvent: Camera provider has been removed!

...

This just keeps repeating.

I also captured the actual camerahalserver crash. The important part is:

Fatal signal 6 (SIGABRT)

name: camerahalserver

Abort message:

'[onGetTorchStrengthLevelLocked] Cannot setTorchLevel after setTorchOff - 0:2

(onGetTorchStrengthLevelLocked){#652:vendor/mediatek/proprietary/hardware/mtkcam-android/main/hal/devicemgr/depend/CameraDeviceManagerImpl.cpp}'

The stack trace points into the MediaTek camera HAL:

/vendor/lib64/mt6899/libmtkcam_devicemgr.so

NSCam::CameraDeviceManagerImpl::onGetTorchStrengthLevelLocked()

/vendor/lib64/libmicamera_adapter.so

adapter::AdapterDevice::getTorchStrengthLevel()

/vendor/lib64/libmicamera_aidl_device.so

mivi::service::AidlCameraDevice::getTorchStrengthLevel()

/vendor/bin/hw/mt6899/camerahalserver

Another interesting thing: the flashlight toggle sometimes becomes available for about a second, but tapping it doesn't actually turn the flashlight on. Then it disappears again.

I also checked the running processes while the issue was happening:

ps -A | grep camerahalserver

→ no output, because the HAL server had already crashed.

I've already updated the phone, but the problem came back.

The phone is currently on:

Android 16 / HyperOS 3.0.303.0.WPJMIXM.008

I've also tried the usual camera troubleshooting, but the camera isn't merely crashing — Android is reporting zero camera devices at the framework level.

So I'm wondering:

Has anyone with a MediaTek POCO/Xiaomi phone seen this specific Cannot setTorchLevel after setTorchOff / camerahalserver crash before?

Does this point to a broken camera HAL/software bug, or could a hardware fault cause the MediaTek camera provider to repeatedly register and disappear like this?

I'm trying to determine whether I should keep troubleshooting software or just send the phone to service.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Who here has personally tested the IP rating on these phones specifically the Poco X8 Pro. And was your device okay or was there some damage on the phone. Because I'm scared if I accidentally submerged my phone on beaches it will be damaged. Please do tell your experience's

I have a POCO X8 Pro Max (2602BPC18G) running HyperOS 3.0.303.0.WPLMIXM.C11.

My phone has an EID and supports eSIM, but HyperOS treats the eSIM as SIM 2. I can add another eSIM profile, but I haven't tested with a second active eSIM yet.

Xiaomi's European pages say the X8 Pro Max supports eSIM + eSIM, while other regions say only nano SIM + eSIM.

Has anyone actually used two eSIMs simultaneously on the X8 Pro Max? If so, which ROM/region are you using?

I need to hear opinions from people who bought it when it was released 5 months ago, or at most 3 months ago. I need honest opinions, as it's not the same as watching a YouTube video from someone who only used it for a month or 12 days to record the review. I'm very interested in knowing:

- How it performs in everyday apps like social networks (Trauma with my Redmi Note 8 that after 2 years Instagram stopped working smoothly, in the section to upload posts it would stay gray for a few seconds and some various bugs that are the fault of the phone and the app).

- How optimized is it for a variety of games? (I'm traumatized by my Poco F4, which in its first 3 months wouldn't run Free Fire at more than 60 FPS when any other phone in that price range could, or Minecraft where I had to activate a thousand settings to unlock 120 FPS).

- How have the updates been lately? Were there any significant changes or just security patches?

- Did someone put a screen protector on it? And if so, does it affect the fingerprint reader? My mom had a Samsung phone that, when she put a screen protector on it, made the fingerprint reader unusable.

- Is the camera good within social media apps? For example, taking a photo with filters within the Instagram app or recording a TikTok within the TikTok app. I need to know if the quality is good or bad within them since it's very different from using them within the system camera app.

- How does it behave in terms of global warming?

- And most importantly, how has the battery performed? Has it degraded quite a bit as those YouTubers who treat Si-Ion technology as something diabolical have said? (hahaha), Has it been recalibrated with an update? Because at first I saw posts saying it was performing like a 6000mAh battery.

I really love Poco's hardware, currently using the F3 , that aside form the battery runs like new.

What I don't like is how Xiaomi (and not only Xiaomi) copy Apple design, so your android phone that you spend hundreds on it feels like a cheap clone of an iphone.

Google's material UI is very good and has personality, I don't know why people don't criticize Xiaomi for just following apple on everything it does. People that want iphone probably have an iPhone, its not expensive to buy one second hand if you really want an iphone.

So, my point is that I don't know if my next phone will be a Xiaomi /poco, I don't want an OS that is basically iOS but worse (design-wise).

Really wish Xiaomi could be like samsung or nothing and bring something new to the table instead of copying Apple's work but way worse.

I'm trying an iPhone 12 mini and boy the experience on iOS is on another level (saying this as very much an apple hater to be fair).

What do you think ?