[disiplus]

i ordered xiaomi note 2 for my sister and you get what you pay. the rom is completly shit. its full of ads you cannot turn of. and the battery became unusable after only half year. because i ordered it online i dont have any warrany. my sister had to buy a new smartphone. dont just look at the specs when you buy something.

[dilemma]

Xiaomi roms don't have ads. You ordered from a third party vendor that had installed their own rom showing ads. This is a problem of their distribution model -- the phones are available internationally only via unofficial third parties -- rather than their product.

[Markoff]

You can get them in major European electronics chains, no need any shady reseller. They are pricier than online but you will get clean software and two year warranty while price is still beating closest competition of Lenovo and Honor.

[disiplus]

they have ads even in official roms.

and sorry but the roms that xiaomi sells are without play services. the reason for customization. the rom is miui with google services.

[DCKing]

There are certain gotchas when importing a Xiaomi phone, one of which is being wary of replacing the software the distributor has put on it with official Xiaomi software. Clearly you didn't do that.

[disiplus]

official roms dont have play services, thats why there are those customizations in the first place.

[Markoff]

nobody stops you from taking advantage of cheap Xiaomi hardware and then installing Lineage or whatever custom ROM you like there, that's what i did with my two Xiaomi phones and will do in future also with other brands like LeEco, good luck trying to catch me in your ecosystem

though it might work on majority of population without necessary skills to unlock bootloader, install recovery and ROM

but anyway outside China there are Google services even in Xiaomi phones, so their only advantage is in Chinese market where are dozens of app stores