Hello everybody,
I hope I can ask here. I have a Xiaomi Redmi Pad, actually a device meant to supplement my smart phone. I use WhatsApp and browse the net, and the phone's screen is simply to small for my old eyes. Also, I wanted a tablet to use as a "pdf reader", since pdf books look quite poorly on my ebook reader.
But I hate, hate, hate the HyperOS! It is bloaty, optimizing is a pain in the backside (my Huawei phone needs exactly two clicks to optimize. The pad takes 12 to 15 clicks. It also has the impertinence to remind me that I haven't used this or that app in a while, it nags every time (every.freaking.time!!) that I don't use the default music app (it sucks, so I got a new one from Google Play Store) - it's no fun. Rather than using the pad for WhatsApp like it was intended, I take the smart phone simply because I don't want to deal with the all the crap. I find myself avoiding the thing more and more. I read my pdf books on the desktop rather than getting the pad out. That's not why I wanted the thing.
It's my first tablet/pad. I know it runs Android - as does my Huawei phone. The Huawei has its own crap, but at least you can ignore it. The Xiaomi is just awful. And since it is my first pad/tablet (and only my second smart phone, by the way), I'm not exactly an expert.
Now my questions. I'm a technical illiterate. I can put a new os on a computer or a laptop, but I have no idea how to do that with a tablet. Is it even possible?
Or is it the tablet? Was it simply a poor choice? When I bought it, they said it was a very good tablet for an affordable price - and it was quite cheap when compared with the others. Is the crappy bloatware the snag? I never cared much for bad things said about Chinese devices - as said, I have a Huawei smart phone for years and I'm perfectly happy with it. I would recommend it to anyone (Mate Pro 10, really nice thing), but the tablet? Ugh.
Is there a way, any way, to get a "normal" Android on this thing? What is a normal Android, anyway? What the Huawei has? What my old smart phone - a Sony something or other - had had? As far as I know it's all Android, and I never had any trouble with it.
If I can get a new OS for my Redmi pad, where do I get it? Or do I actually have to get a new tablet?
Thanks for listening to my whining. And please, any advice would be greatly appreciated,
Goatmilk
I hope I can ask here. I have a Xiaomi Redmi Pad, actually a device meant to supplement my smart phone. I use WhatsApp and browse the net, and the phone's screen is simply to small for my old eyes. Also, I wanted a tablet to use as a "pdf reader", since pdf books look quite poorly on my ebook reader.
But I hate, hate, hate the HyperOS! It is bloaty, optimizing is a pain in the backside (my Huawei phone needs exactly two clicks to optimize. The pad takes 12 to 15 clicks. It also has the impertinence to remind me that I haven't used this or that app in a while, it nags every time (every.freaking.time!!) that I don't use the default music app (it sucks, so I got a new one from Google Play Store) - it's no fun. Rather than using the pad for WhatsApp like it was intended, I take the smart phone simply because I don't want to deal with the all the crap. I find myself avoiding the thing more and more. I read my pdf books on the desktop rather than getting the pad out. That's not why I wanted the thing.
It's my first tablet/pad. I know it runs Android - as does my Huawei phone. The Huawei has its own crap, but at least you can ignore it. The Xiaomi is just awful. And since it is my first pad/tablet (and only my second smart phone, by the way), I'm not exactly an expert.
Now my questions. I'm a technical illiterate. I can put a new os on a computer or a laptop, but I have no idea how to do that with a tablet. Is it even possible?
Or is it the tablet? Was it simply a poor choice? When I bought it, they said it was a very good tablet for an affordable price - and it was quite cheap when compared with the others. Is the crappy bloatware the snag? I never cared much for bad things said about Chinese devices - as said, I have a Huawei smart phone for years and I'm perfectly happy with it. I would recommend it to anyone (Mate Pro 10, really nice thing), but the tablet? Ugh.
Is there a way, any way, to get a "normal" Android on this thing? What is a normal Android, anyway? What the Huawei has? What my old smart phone - a Sony something or other - had had? As far as I know it's all Android, and I never had any trouble with it.
If I can get a new OS for my Redmi pad, where do I get it? Or do I actually have to get a new tablet?
Thanks for listening to my whining. And please, any advice would be greatly appreciated,
Goatmilk
