Applications are a fundamental part of our mobile devices. Beyond the usual options (WhatsApp, YouTube, Instagram, Telegram ...), there is a whole compendium of tools that allow us to expand the functionalities that phones come standard. If we talk about Xiaomi, the company uses MIUI, the personalization layer of its terminals.
This layer has dozens of built-in functions that go beyond Android's own functions. If we want to increase its possibilities, however, we will have to resort yes or yes to third-party applications . This time we have compiled several of these applications to install a phone from the Chinese firm.
Hidden Settings for MIUI to unlock hidden Xiaomi settings
Did you know that MIUI has a series of hidden options? How to activate these options depends on each setting. The good news is that there is an application that combines all these settings in a single interface.
The application in question is Hidden Settings for MIUI and can be downloaded from the Play Store. It has a multitude of options, such as the possibility of changing DNS addresses, knowing the usage time of the applications, managing notifications or even testing the hardware of the component-by-component terminal to check their operation .
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Blokada to block advertising on Android
Blocking ads on Android is possible with Blokada. It is a simple application that allows us to alter the DNS addresses of our Xiaomi phone to block ads within any application installed on the system. And when we say any application is any application: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera ... Best of all, it's free. And yes, it can be downloaded from the same Google store.
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WhatsDelete to see the best deleted WhatsApp
There are many applications that promise to reveal the content of deleted WhatsApp messages, but the one that takes the cake is WhatsDelete.
With more than a million downloads, the application allows us to see the content of messages that have been deleted in WhatsApp conversations, including multimedia files, such as images, videos and voice notes . Since the last updates, however, some users have reported that the tool has functional problems.
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Mint, the best alternative to Chrome
A browser created by Xiaomi for Xiaomi mobile and any Android mobile with versions equal to or greater than Android 4.4.
Mint's strong point stems from its optimization for basic equipment. In fact, the application only weighs 10MB. And if this weren't enough, Mint has a tool to download videos from any social network , as well as an ad blocker that eliminates any annoying ads in one sitting. It also has a dark mode that allows you to change the color of web pages to darker tones.
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True Caller to block spam calls
Although MIUI has exclusion functions in the Calls application, the truth is that it does not allow to identify annoying numbers or spam calls. Truecaller is probably the best application for this purpose .
Its biggest advantage is that it has a fairly generous database of spam numbers, numbers that, on the other hand, have been registered by other users. In this way, any call that matches the number registered in the database will be blocked immediately.
Notify and Fitness for Mi Band if we have a Xiaomi bracelet
If we have a phone from the Chinese firm, it is most likely that we have a Mi Band bracelet. Outside of Mi Fit, Xiaomi's native application to control the functions of its bracelets, Notify and Fitness for Mi Band is the best tool that we can install on our terminal to control a Mi Band .
Compatible with all versions of the Mi Band, it has more than a hundred functions , including customizing notifications, continuously monitoring the heart rate and obtaining more complete sleep data, among others. It has a paid version, although the free version will be enough.
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Notch Notifications for MIUI to fix MIUI notifications
If our mobile has some type of notch on the screen, it is most likely that the notifications interfere with that element. Despite the fact that this problem has been solved in MIUI 11, the truth is that it is still present in several of the devices of the Chinese brand .
With Notch Notifications for MIUI we can create an alternative notification bar to fix Xiaomi notifications , from modifying the size of the icons to changing their position on the screen. The possibilities are endless.
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Downmi to force MIUI updates
We have already spoken dozens of times about Downmi. It is an application that allows you to download the latest versions of MIUI directly from Xiaomi's servers . In this way, we can force the Xiaomi ROM update on any device. In fact, the application offers the possibility to select the version number and the type of ROM (stable, beta, global…).
In short, a must have for our Xiaomi mobile if we want to have the latest versions of MIUI.
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Google Camera to improve the quality of photos
Words are unnecessary when we talk about Google Camera. This application, directly covered by the Google Pixel software, has the most advanced image processing algorithm in the world , which has a positive influence on the quality of the images captured through the camera.
Unfortunately, its compatibility is not full with the rest of Android phones that are not from Google. To install it on our Xiaomi mobile we are forced to resort to adapted versions . In this article we collect all Xiaomi phones compatible with the GCam application.