Hi everyone,

Hope this is the correct thread to post.

My Redmi 5 plus been acting weird recently.

App button will not respond sometimes, need to press few times.

But the main issue now is yesterday, i notice my home screen (the first page of your screen) is flashing/refreshing in intervals of about 1 seconds+

All my app icon buttons has no response after i press it, and the home screen continue to refresh/flash

I try to press multiple times on Google Play store - manage to go in if lucky

I try to swipe my phone multiple times, as it show next page app icons, just first row, it stops, and go back home screen.

Bottom middle button (the system UI button - not the hardware button) and long press it, can go google search

Drop down pull down menu from above for setting etc- can function

Just the home screen now considered stucked


Any solutions?
Will update the system clear this issue?

I tried remove sim card & sd card, and reinsert...still same
I tried reboot or turn off, still same
I tried clear cache - still same

Thanks.

can throw away ady.... i got one mi max 2... initially very nice, smooth, great to use, but after their latest UI updates, drain my battery like mad.. then after that, no more updates to correct the problem.. and then they discontinued the mimax line.... better to buy samsung.. my galaxy A6, bought in year 2018 just got android 10 update...

I am using Redmi 5 Plus as well, it is still working fine albeit getting slower. Are you perhaps using any Theme? If so, try removing it and use default one. My MIUI is already updated to latest.

xiaomi already like this since their old era, i know it since mi 3

they never update android version, only miui version

my mi max 1, this phone launch in 2016 and xiaomi discontinue update on it on somewhere around 2019, so it's normal lor 2-3 years like that

xiaomi say they discontinue it based on user base count, small user base phone are very likely to get discontinue faster

my mi max 1 also lag and slow but luckily no bug

but i use it as spare phone for gps now, already upgraded to p30 pro during its launch

Did you try "wipe cache partition"?

Battery swell from inside and cause screen to be unresponsive.

Did you install any app recently?

It doesn't seem likely, but may be your phone got injected/infected with some trojan, virus, mining bot, etc...

If so, maybe to uninstall and see what happes. Last resort, maybe a factory reset will clear the issue.

Another option, maybe try installing a different launcher (app) can fix the issue, since launcher basically takes over your home screen?

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You seems to misunderstanding the whole things.
Miui are no different than ColorOs, emui or OxygenOs-its just a "fork" of the vanilla Android os, provided as stock operating system by the manufacturer.


Till date, all the provided next Gen MIUI come with next Android build.

As for mi max, it's the only mi series with least support cycle (even against mi2 decades ago. The userbase of MI max series was indeed smaller than any MI series exist till date.

Yes. Aside swelling battery, kaput digitizer is the only possible culprit happen to your phone.

I have it change two times on my friends phone, also facing the same issues.

Redmi Note 3 had battery swell that caused screen unresponsive and home button not working.

maybe you are not miui fan since the old miui 4

xiaomi never update the android version of the phone even when push out new miui

unless the phone is absolutely new and is flagship model, else you will rarely see android version is getting updated on the phone

Thanks for heads up!!
Yeah, been stop using xiaomi somewhere between mi5 and last year's redmi note 7.my first was mi3 too.


Upon inspection, different phone have different android fork indeed. What a weird practice.

Appreciate it.

this is how miui gain its user base back in the old time

usually those new features that come in new android version

they backport the features to make the features work base on miui version instead of android version

so even if the xiaomi phone running old android, but with latest miui, it will get the features

this is really uncommon practice from miui back then until now

bcoz that old time google rarely release android updates and difficult to port it to the customized android (miui), developer from that time will have a lot of works to do to port the updates and fix bugs that causes to the customized android (miui)

so miui stick to the base android version for that phone, then fix bug and add features on its own without relying on android updates

but now android updates getting better so story is slightly different but the base principle of miui is still the same

No themes, all default
I just updated to miui 11 - still same issue

how do i do that?

not sure what app recently installed, but definitely uninstalled coz those app i find useless

ok, will try install some different launcher...any recommendation?

digitizer? sounds like a hardware

Ok nvm.

Installed POCO launcher...works alrite now...no more refreshing crap

but if i chosse back the system launcher, the issue remains.

i guess the system launcher app is corrupted

anyway to manually reinstall the system launcher?

root cause: xiaomi pushed out new launcher last night
solution

pull down, top right corner go into setting
manage app->find launcher

uninstall update

settle

ya i did that too even after using POCO launcher....

it worked too

but funny thing is i dont even update any MIUI since last year

wonder how it crept in...my notification always show available system update but i never bother to click it..

anyway thanks