How come MI 11x is Poco F3? Both are different models.
The Mi 11X is how Xiaomi sells the F3 in India. If you look at the spec sheet, they are exactly the same, down to the dimensions - the only difference is the colors. Plus, they have the same device tree and codename (alioth), so all the custom ROMs, stock ROMs, recoveries, kernels, etc. work the same on both. The only thing that varies is the firmware (i.e. baseband, etc). Why they did this when they went on to launch the F3 GT in India under the Poco brand itself, I have no idea. Xiaomi often shuffles its devices between the Mi/Poco/Redmi brands and there doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason why they did it for any given device.
This is highly unlikely as ram management in stock Miui
Strongly disagree. Over the last 10 years, a consistent issue I've had with MIUI is memory management, to the point where I would budget an extra gig of memory when considering Xiaomi devices as compared to others. When I got the 11X, I had heard that things had gotten better, so I thought it would be fine to go with the 6GB model, and to its credit, it was fine for about a year, at which point it was so bad it got in the way of my daily usage and I had to go custom ROM. It's not just me either, there are plenty of people with the same complaint online.
on custom roms its awesome but depends which custom rom you are on as these days even a school passed kid comes with his own custom rom and his own attitude so always choose the rom which has a wider active support.
Would suggest to give a try by totally unrooting (if rooted), wiping everything from recovery, flash an older mi rom and setup the phone. Then perform ota update till the latest version and then flash custome recovery and check the performance.
I've had these issues on stock, rooted, non-rooted, BL locked, BL unlocked, and at least 3 different custom ROMs across both Android 12 and 13. It's definitely better on custom ROMs, in that multitasking is actually somewhat doable, but not ideal. I realize that it's probably something about my usage pattern that MIUI doesn't work well with, but I never had any of these issues on my OnePlus 6, which had both OxygenOS (lighter) and more RAM (8GB). Given that my issues are lesser but still bad even with custom ROMs, I'm guessing memory capacity is the limiting factor.
If you are into Samsung I would say dont touch custom roms or say goodbye to warranties due to Knox fusing.
I'm not into Samsung, specifically because of Knox. If it weren't for Knox, I'd probably be fine with a Samsung - OneUI is way better than TouchWiz, which was half the reason I avoided them.
And 100+ broser tabs on a phone? Kidding right?
Wait 'til you hear how much I have on desktop
Then you might need those 16gb+ ram phones but doubt the app will support so much as it will eventually crash!
I've had browser loads like that for at least 5 years now - it's usually not as much of a problem on mobile as on desktop because mobile browsers will aggressively cache to disk and evict tabs from memory if required. Even now, with all those tabs, the browser is taking up less than 400MB of memory. As an experiment, I've even tried force stopping the browser and freezing its processes, and I still have issues with keeping multiple apps open.
Anyway, after all this I think the Moto is probably not going to work. I can get the 12GB versions of the Poco F5 Pro or the Xiaomi 12 Pro for about 40k, so I'll probably go for one of those. I wanted to avoid spending that much on a phone, but given the responses in the thread and my experiences over the last year or so I'll probably be thankful for the extra headroom in a year or two. Thanks for the help everyone.
