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[Question] rooting a xiaomi phone in 2026 (feddit.org)
submitted 6 days ago by FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org to c/android@lemmy.world
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So for months now I am owning an POCO F7 Ultra24122RKC7G usually the first thing i do is rooting the shit out of it, but since the last time i rooted a phone is a very long time ago (my previous was the poco f3 which died because of a spicy Pillow in the end) I just learned after I got this one that Xiaomi changed the process to a fuckin raffle of some sort... (See this dam screenshot)

So I forgot about it till today, where google just suddenly started its gemini shit and reminded me "you still got bloatware here!"

So my question is: is there any way To unlock it without this fucked up waiting times which never seems to work even if I got only Exactly at that given time Xiaomi tells us?

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[-] yuman@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago

*mi phones used to be the go-to for the enthusiast; stellar hardware for an awesome price and a wide custom ROM support base. none of those things is true anymore.

as you can tell from https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/#xiaomi the support is lackluster. the way I heard it the dude who was in charge of publishing kernel sources quit/got fired (?) and now there's a backlog and they ain't super-enthusiastic about keeping up. the unlock process was a shit-show even before they tightened the ~~torture~~ rules, now it's downright masochistic to participate in that scam, with additional limits per year, evermore extending "wait periods", mandatory mi account, etc.

my advice, go get the F3 if you ain't tossed it and replace the battery, it's fairly easy.

[-] FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago

I still got thr f3 and replaced the battery only to realized that it already have some other hardware issues :(

sigh OK then trying thr torture method it will be.

this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2026
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