According to Bluebox , Xiaomi MI 4 may have preinstalled malware

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 2em; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">Data security firm Bluebox has discovered preinstalled malware and a host of other issues with a Xiaomi Mi 4 device the company tested. Scarier still, the phone seems to have been tampered with by an unidentified third party.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSpNmHZJRrSF-K3CdFbVWo0ZWLYiujFv4t_L5euauHmP14X1YNRe6OBcmHUQH-HzhXWz5FfrKGVnDE3IP5QSSHdltex_CS0tjbTwVav3XmFDi7ZPClaCXWzJ3acU3yhuIir4t3tzXtdyE/s1600/mi4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSpNmHZJRrSF-K3CdFbVWo0ZWLYiujFv4t_L5euauHmP14X1YNRe6OBcmHUQH-HzhXWz5FfrKGVnDE3IP5QSSHdltex_CS0tjbTwVav3XmFDi7ZPClaCXWzJ3acU3yhuIir4t3tzXtdyE/s1600/mi4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 2em; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 2em; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">Bluebox first </span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline-width: medium;">issued a report on Thursday</span></span><span style="color: #444444;">, after reaching out to Xiaomi and not getting a response.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 2em; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">When the researchers first received the phone, they made sure it was legitimately a Xiaomi device using Xiaomi’s “Mi Identification” app. Upon further testing, security researchers found that there were several malicious applications preloaded onto the smartphone, including adware that disguises itself as a verified Google application; trojans, which allow hackers to gain control of the phone; and other high-risk software.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 2em; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">Furthermore, the device was “vulnerable to every vulnerability we scanned for,” wrote Andrew Blaich, Bluebox’s lead security analyst, in a blog post.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 2em; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">Blaich also said that Mi 4’s operating system is a non-certified version of Android and is therefore subject to a number of flaws. Some of the bugs and security holes his researchers discovered were specific to old Android software, not its current release, leading them to believe that the OS was a mashup between the new KitKat 4.4.4. and an older form of Android. Other issues within the API build made the researchers unsure whether the device was meant for testing or consumer use.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 2em; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">There was also suspicion that the device may have been tampered with, because some of the apps held signatures that differed from the manufacturer’s signing key.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 2em; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">On Friday, the firm finally heard back from Xiaomi.</span></div><blockquote style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.4444444444; margin: 0px 46px 2em; outline: none medium; padding: 11px 22px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">“We are certain the device that Bluebox tested is not using a standard MIUI ROM, as our factory ROM and OTA ROM builds are never rooted and we don’t pre-install services such as YT Service, PhoneGuardService, AppStats etc. Bluebox could have purchased a phone that has been tampered with, as they bought it via a physical retailer in China. Xiaomi does not sell phones via third-party retailers in China, only via our official online channels and selected carrier stores.” — Hugo Barra, VP International</span></div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 2em; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">Barra went on to say that the company was investigating why it took Xiaomi so long to respond to Bluebox’s initial message. He also said that customers should only purchase Xiaomi products from Mi.com and the select verified stores that the company works with. However, Blaich seemed unimpressed by the response.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 2em; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">“If it’s this easy to modify the device in the retail chain, it could also be modified in transit, even when purchased from mi.com,” he wrote, and then referenced a <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline-width: medium;">recent article from Der Spiegel</span></span> that demonstrated how U.S. intelligence officials are able to intercept computers before they reach their destination and load them with malware — a more modern form of wiretapping. The thought being, if Xiaomi smartphones are already getting hacked at the retail level, they may be vulnerable to more complex attacks.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 2em; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">Within the report, Blaich notes that the more popular a device is, the more frequently it’s attacked. Xiaomi already has <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline-width: medium;">100 million people on its MIUI platform</span></span> and has <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline-width: medium;">plans to launch in the U.S. this year</span></span>, which means the number of Xiaomi users is only going up.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 2em; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">source: <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2015/03/07/security-firm-finds-pre-installed-malware-on-xiaomi-mi-4-smartphone/">VB</a></span></div></div>

According to Bluebox , Xiaomi MI 4 may have preinstalled malware

Data security firm Bluebox has discovered preinstalled malware and a host of other issues with a Xiaomi Mi 4 device the company tested. Scar...

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Mi Bluetooth Game Controller : Pic

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><ignore_js_op style="word-wrap: break-word;"><img aid="161295" file="data/attachment/forum/201409/22/113407b4yhr9l044y4y6k0.jpg.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_161295" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201409/22/113407b4yhr9l044y4y6k0.jpg.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201409/22/113407b4yhr9l044y4y6k0.jpg" /></ignore_js_op></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br /><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Xiaomi unveiled a new game controller today that's designed to work with the companys own Mi Box and Mi TV and all Android phones & tablets. The not-very-snappily-named Xiaomi Bluetooth game controller will go out to the first 300 buyers for the special price of just 1 RMB (US$0.16) on September 25. No word yet on the regular price, which games will work with all those extra buttons, and which of many protocols the Bluetooth gamepad supports. The layout will be more familiar to Xbox users than fans of the PlayStation.</div><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br /><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><ignore_js_op style="word-wrap: break-word;"><img aid="161296" file="data/attachment/forum/201409/22/113602tbj7ibob7f7u7to9.jpg.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_161296" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201409/22/113602tbj7ibob7f7u7to9.jpg.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201409/22/113602tbj7ibob7f7u7to9.jpg" /></ignore_js_op></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><ignore_js_op style="word-wrap: break-word;"><img aid="161838" file="data/attachment/forum/201409/23/045325ntqgi9l3s9qeueqm.png.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_161838" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201409/23/045325ntqgi9l3s9qeueqm.png.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201409/23/045325ntqgi9l3s9qeueqm.png" /></ignore_js_op></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br /><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">After initially starting out three years ago with a minimal line-up of one or two phones, the upstart brand soon started to diversify and pile on more products and accessories. The line-up now covers things like wi-fi routers, battery packs, and a set-top box.</div><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br /><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><ignore_js_op style="word-wrap: break-word;"><img aid="161297" file="data/attachment/forum/201409/22/113612zvsq0svixwxo3n66.jpg.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_161297" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201409/22/113612zvsq0svixwxo3n66.jpg.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201409/22/113612zvsq0svixwxo3n66.jpg" /></ignore_js_op></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><ignore_js_op style="word-wrap: break-word;"><img aid="161839" file="data/attachment/forum/201409/23/045350gxngfxxe5b8nrxax.png.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_161839" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201409/23/045350gxngfxxe5b8nrxax.png.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201409/23/045350gxngfxxe5b8nrxax.png" /></ignore_js_op></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></div>

Mi Bluetooth Game Controller : Pic

Xiaomi unveiled a new game controller today that's designed to work with the companys own Mi Box and Mi TV and all Android phones & ...

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Redmi Note 4G Single Sim Vs Redmi Note 4G Dual SIM : Specs Comparison

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #444444; empty-cells: show; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; table-layout: fixed; width: 721px; word-wrap: break-word;"><tbody style="word-wrap: break-word;"><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td class="t_f" id="postmessage_1765158" style="font-size: 14px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><ignore_js_op style="word-wrap: break-word;"><img aid="291842" file="data/attachment/forum/201503/06/111800v46o3t5tf4thak7o.jpg.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_291842" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201503/06/111800v46o3t5tf4thak7o.jpg.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201503/06/111800v46o3t5tf4thak7o.jpg" /></ignore_js_op></div><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />Greeting MIUIers!<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />It's been a while since I write a thread in forum. Today I'm going to share with you the specs comparison on the brand new Redmi Note 4G Dual-SIM with the Redmi Note 4G Single SIM. The Dual-SIM Redmi Note 4G is surely bringing convenience for those who using two SIM cards. The best part is, the price of it is still the same as the Single-SIM Redmi Note 4G with 2GB RAM! How can it be so good?!<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />Before you judge, let's together see this overall review on the specs comparison between these two Xiaomi phablets, shall we?<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><table cellspacing="0" class="t_table" style="background-color: red; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); empty-cells: show; table-layout: auto; width: 683px; word-wrap: break-word;"><tbody style="word-wrap: break-word;"><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;" width="25%"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: white; word-wrap: break-word;">Specs</span></span></div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;" width="35%"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: white; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Redmi Note 4G (Single-SIM)</span></span></div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;" width="35%"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: yellow; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Redmi Note 4G (Dual-SIM)</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div align="left" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">      <span style="color: indigo; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />      <span style="color: purple; word-wrap: break-word;">Basic Specs</span></span></span></div><table cellspacing="0" class="t_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); empty-cells: show; table-layout: auto; width: 683px; word-wrap: break-word;"><tbody style="word-wrap: break-word;"><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;" width="25%"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Processor</span></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;" width="35%"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;">Quad-core 1.6GHz</span></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;" width="35%"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">Quad-core 1.2GHz</span></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">CPU</span></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8928</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 MSM8916</span></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">GPU</span></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">Adreno 305</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">Adreno 306</span></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">OS</span></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">Android 4.4, MIUI 5</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;">Android 4.4, MIUI 6</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><div align="left" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">      <span style="color: navy; word-wrap: break-word;">Memory Capacity</span></span></div><table cellspacing="0" class="t_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); empty-cells: show; table-layout: auto; width: 683px; word-wrap: break-word;"><tbody style="word-wrap: break-word;"><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;" width="25%"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">RAM</span></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;" width="35%"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">2GB </span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;" width="35%"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">2GB</span></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Internal Memory</span></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">8GB</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;">16GB</span></span></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">External Storage</span></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;">Support up to 64GB</span></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">Support up to 32GB</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><div align="left" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">      <span style="color: darkgreen; word-wrap: break-word;">Connectivity</span></span></div><table cellspacing="0" class="t_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); empty-cells: show; table-layout: auto; width: 683px; word-wrap: break-word;"><tbody style="word-wrap: break-word;"><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;" width="25%"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">SIM 1</span></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;" width="35%"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">Support 4G (FDD-LTE), 3G (WCDMA) and 2G (GSM) networks</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;" width="35%"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">Support 4G (FDD-LTE), 3G (WCDMA) and 2G (GSM) networks</span></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">SIM 2</span></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">-</span></div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;">Support 2G (GSM) networks</span></span></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">4G FDD-LTE</span></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">Band 1 (2100 MHz)<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;">Band 2 (1900 MHz)</span><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />Band 3 (1800 MHz)<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;">Band 4 (AWS)<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />Band 7 (2600 MHz)</span></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">Band 1 (2100 MHz)</span>Band 3 (1800 MHz)</span><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">3G</span></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">WCDMA <br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />Band 1 (2100 MHz)<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />Band 2 (1900 MHz)<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;">Band 5 (850 Mhz)</span><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />Band 8 (900 Mhz)</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">WCDMA<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />Band 1 (2100 MHz)<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />Band 2 (1900 MHz)</span><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">Band 8 (900 Mhz)<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">2G</span></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">GSM (<span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;">850</span>/900/1800/1900MHz)</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">GSM (900/1800/1900MHz)</span></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">GPS</span></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, AGPS</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, AGPS</span></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Bluetooth</span></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">BT4.0LE</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">BT4.0LE</span></td></tr><tr style="word-wrap: break-word;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">WLAN</span></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">802.11 a/b/g/n/<span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;">ac</span><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />Supports 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 237, 245); font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">802.11 a/b/g/n</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><div align="left" style="word-wrap: break-word;">From the table above, we can clearly see that Single-SIM Redmi Note 4G still has more pros than Dual-SIM Redmi Note 4G. For CPU and GPU, I did not highlight one of them with red color because both have their own pros and cons. It's up to you all to judge which processor chipset is better.</div><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><div align="left" style="word-wrap: break-word;">Read more info about Qualcomm Snapdragon Chipsets here:<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="https://www.qualcomm.com/products/snapdragon/processors/400" style="color: #336699; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Snapdragon 400</a><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="https://www.qualcomm.com/products/snapdragon/processors/410" style="color: #336699; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Snapdragon 410</a> <br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">[Verdict]</span></span></span><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><img alt="" border="0" class="zoom" height="19" id="aimg_aXY7P" src="http://en.miui.com/static/image/hrline/1.gif" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" width="182" /><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></div>If you decides to switch from Single SIM to Dual SIM, you should be well known that your processor will downgrade a little bit (From 1.6GHz to 1.2GHz). If you did not use your phone for heavy gaming or frequent web browsing, this will not affect you much. But if you do, you should consider this again. For OS, we can update our Single SIM Redmi Note 4G to MIUI 6, so it's not really a problem.<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />For the memory capacity, I am surprised with the 16GB internal storage provided by Dual-SIM Redmi Note 4G! If you were like me who only use 8GB SD card as external storage, we don't need any external storage anymore as 16GB Internal Storage is more than enough. <img alt="" border="0" smilieid="118" src="http://en.miui.com/static/image/smiley/comcom/3.gif" style="word-wrap: break-word;" /> But if you are a hardcore user who utilize massive storages for your apps and media files, then you might not like Dual-SIM as it only provides up to 32GB external storage. It totally depends on what kind of user you are.<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />For the network connectivity, we can clearly see that Dual-SIM Redmi Note 4G has limited band supports on 4G FDD-LTE. But if your telco service provider has the exact band that supported by the phone, it would not be a much problem for you to enjoy your 4G Internet speed.<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />For battery, screen, camera, video recording and sensors, both Redmi Note 4G have the exact same specs. Hence I do not include them into the comparison tables. <br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;"><u style="word-wrap: break-word;">Battery</u></span><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />3100 mAh</span> <span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Lithium-ion Polymer Battery</span><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;"><u style="word-wrap: break-word;">Screen</u></span><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />(720p) HD Resolution</span> <br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">5.5 inches screen</span><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;"><u style="word-wrap: break-word;">Camera</u></span><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />13MP rear camera<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />5MP front camera</span> <br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Aperture f/2.2</span> <br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;"><u style="word-wrap: break-word;">Video Recording</u></span><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />1080P Full HD recording with rear camera</span><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">720P HD recording with front camera</span><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;"><u style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Sensors</span></u></span><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Gyroscope</span><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />Light sensor</span><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />Accelerometer</span><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />Proximity sensor</span><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Electronic compass</span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>

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Xiaom is launchi REDMI 2 in india on 11 March-15

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Xiaomi has a new contest in India, held via the official Facebook page. There you must find three words into a word puzzle and then you automatically participate for winning one of the three gadgets.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img height="376" src="http://cdn.gsmarena.com/vv/newsimg/15/03/xiaomi-india-new-device/gsmarena_001.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(217, 205, 204); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 2px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The puzzle has words such as 'Quick Charge', 'Wide angle', 'expandable', 'matte' and 'Cortex'. These should suggest the Redmi 2, since the Redmi 1S is out of stock already, while the Mi Note Pro is yet to be released later this year.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hopefully Xiaomi doesn't make exclusive the Redmi 2 to Flipkart as it did with the previous Redmi 1S smartphone. The Redmi 2 is already available in China and it is about time Xiaomi launches it in India as well.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The contest ends by the end of March 11. This means the announcement should happen in a week or so. Meanwhile you can learn more about the Snapdragon 410-powered Xiaomi Redmi 2 fromGSMARENA.COM  <a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_redmi_2-review-1202.php" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">dedicated in-depth review</a>.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_to_launch_a_new_device_in_india_should_be_redmi_2-news-11449.php"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Source</span></a></div></div>

Xiaom is launchi REDMI 2 in india on 11 March-15

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Xiaomi sold out 61.12 million sets of Mi phones and App Store has achieved 12 billion downloads in 2014

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Xiaomi App Store released the yearly report of 2014 today. It is great news that <span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;">Xiaomi sold out 61.12 million sets of Mi phones and App Store has achieved 12 billion downloads in total throughout the last year. </span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">According to UMIndex, an Android marketshare analysis institute in China, Mi devices have been very active in Android market in the last 12 months. <span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">There are 5 Mi devices in top 10 active Android devices list</span> </span>and Samsung devices only manage to take 4 seats. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><ignore_js_op style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><img aid="271082" file="data/attachment/forum/201501/30/170252a7grt0kp873trp3s.jpg.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_271082" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201501/30/170252a7grt0kp873trp3s.jpg.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201501/30/170252a7grt0kp873trp3s.jpg" /></ignore_js_op><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Based on the analysis of 2014, the most popular apps go to categories of video, tools, and social networking. The apps that witness rapid growth go to categories of work efficiency, photography, and shopping. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"></span><ignore_js_op style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><img aid="271081" file="data/attachment/forum/201501/30/170251q2uc2qpognvgejkk.png.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_271081" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201501/30/170251q2uc2qpognvgejkk.png.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201501/30/170251q2uc2qpognvgejkk.png" /></ignore_js_op><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei', Tahoma, Helvetica, SimSun, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">Xiaomi App Store gains a big rise in downloads from 2 billion in the beginning of 2014 to 12 billion at year end</span></span>. There is no dbout that the online market is undergoing a drastic change, and it is a good one.</span></div>

Xiaomi sold out 61.12 million sets of Mi phones and App Store has achieved 12 billion downloads in 2014

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How to track Lost Phone !

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><img aid="272293" file="data/attachment/forum/201502/02/094311ti3enc3o2eci2yeo.jpg.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_272293" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201502/02/094311ti3enc3o2eci2yeo.jpg.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201502/02/094311ti3enc3o2eci2yeo.jpg" /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Calm Down!!!! you are here either you have lost phone or you want to keep yourself prepared for the apocalypse day. Oh man don't ask, do you know that adrenalin rush that slowly manifests itself in your body when you realize that something is not were it's supposed to be? The classic scenario is when my Mi3 Phone isn't in your pocket or laptop bag. I start slapping my pants where all the pockets are but... ah nothing!!!! Eventually, I find it below the paper stack or on the floor or sofa or any other place. My nerves calm down and I can go on with my day. The point is, what if I not that lucky and it's <span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">stolen </span>or <span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">lost</span>? I'm not talking crazy. We realize that there are such apps <span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">AFTER </span>it got lost or stolen. How unfortunate if you ask me and accept the sour truth that the phone is gone for good.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Truth be told I'm not 100% satisfied with <span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Android Device Manager,</span> but rest assure this could also be a way to retrieve the device back<span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">. </span>One the brighter side it's a bliss for MIUI ROM installers. One Mi  Acct is all you need and you could head to "<a href="https://i.xiaomi.com/#home" style="word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">My XIAOMI Cloud Service</span></a>" and with few clicks you might have your device located. There are a few ways to remote control and track your phone even if you haven't installed a recovery app before it vanished.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Let's have a look at the various ways to get your Android smartphone back!</span><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><img aid="272288" file="data/attachment/forum/201502/02/093202sjhs2uku33sh3s2h.jpg.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_272288" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201502/02/093202sjhs2uku33sh3s2h.jpg.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201502/02/093202sjhs2uku33sh3s2h.jpg" /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Basic Requirements:</span></span></span><br /><ul style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">My device is still connected with my <span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Google account.</span></span></li></ul><ul style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">Device has access to the <span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">internet</span>. <span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Note</span>: If the device is in Aeroplane mode or Switched Off this would not work.</span></li></ul><ul style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">Allowed Android Device Manager a.k.a ADM to locate my device (although it's turned on by default).</span></li></ul><ul style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">Allowed ADM to lock my device and erase its data remotely (turned off by default).</span></li></ul><ul style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">ADM is a Google's official and easy-to-use tool to track my phone. Not to forget that I don't need to install an app to be able to track my devices unlike shown in Movies. James Bond anyone?</span></li></ul><ul style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></li></ul><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">On the Phun side: Truth be told... I always wondered how to switch on other people smart mobile cam remotely and see what they look like. Well that's possible is it? I have seen this in some movies though.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Besides tracking, letting my phone ring and wiping phone data (which has to be enabled manually), ADM doesn't offer more options to remote control my phone. Hopefully, Google will work on that and offer more features, such as  taking pictures in case it got stolen and I would like to know who took it. Not too much to ask eh?</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">In case there’s no laptop around when I lose my device, I can also use my friends Mi phone to track it. Instead of using the mobile browser, I can also use the ADM app. Head to Google Store <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.adm" style="word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">HERE</a> for a copy. All I have to do is sign in using the guest mode and add Google account credentials. Now I should be able to track lost device, let it ring or wipe its data. <span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Reminder: </span>If you device is in Off state or Aeroplan mode or without Internet connectivity, this would not yield results. In that case, simply keep trying to track it until it (hopefully) connects to Google’s services again.</span><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><img aid="271214" file="data/attachment/forum/201501/30/180134wpc0ahepdcpx9loe.jpg.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_271214" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201501/30/180134wpc0ahepdcpx9loe.jpg.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201501/30/180134wpc0ahepdcpx9loe.jpg" /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">In case it got stolen, it’s possible that the thief has disconnected my device from Google Account. If that happens, neither ADM nor any other tracking tool will be able to locate the device, since it’s necessary to be logged into Google Account. This doesn't apply to previously installed tracking apps but in this scenario there are none on the phone.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><img alt="" border="0" class="zoom" height="1" id="aimg_h962b" src="http://en.miui.com/static/image/hrline/4.gif" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" /><img alt="" border="0" class="zoom" height="1" id="aimg_EqPpT" src="http://en.miui.com/static/image/hrline/4.gif" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" /><img alt="" border="0" class="zoom" height="1" id="aimg_grrXw" src="http://en.miui.com/static/image/hrline/4.gif" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><img aid="272294" file="data/attachment/forum/201502/02/095249emccx0wcw8x89qaa.jpg.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_272294" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201502/02/095249emccx0wcw8x89qaa.jpg.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201502/02/095249emccx0wcw8x89qaa.jpg" /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Requirements:</span></span></span><ul style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">Device connected with Google account.</span></li></ul><ul style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">Device has access to the internet.</span></li></ul><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">This could be a complicated way to track my phone. That being said, I need to <span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">install </span>the tracking app '<span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Android Lost'</span> on my phone and activate it by sending it an SMS (this can be done from any phone). The question is "How to install something when I don’t have my phone currently? Remember I have lost it already. No worries! that’s very easy. For starters I can install any app on all registered devices directly from browser through the Google Play website. Simply navigate to the Android Lost app and click the install button. Not rocket science eh?</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">The remote installation process of <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.androidlost" style="word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Android Lost</span></a> is very straigh tforward and only requires that phone is still connected with Google account. However, in case of theft, I have to <span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">hope </span>that the thief doesn't disconnect from Google account. That's a lot of if's and hope's. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">And then the games begin:</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Step 1:</span> <span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Install Android Lost remotely</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Install the Android Lost app remotely via Google Play in browser and it will be installed on phone remotely. As already mentioned, the phone still needs to be connected to your Google account. Otherwise, this won’t work. Almost forgot!!! the device needs 2g/3g/4g data connection or WiFi.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Step 2: Activate Android Lost</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Had the device still in my possession then all I need to do is starting the app. But in this case, obviously, probably not the case if I have lost the device. So, to register my device remotely, I have to send an SMS with the text “<span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">androidlost register</span>” to my Mi3. This SMS can be sent from any phone. This will trigger Android Lost to register itself using my Google account credentials.<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />In cases like tablet, SMS might not be an option unless it's phablet. In those case, install "<span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.androidlost.jumpstart" style="word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">AndroidLost Jumpstart</a></span>" before I install the actual Android Lost app. It will jump start the registration process when Android Lost is being installed.<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Step 3: Log in to the Android Lost website</span><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />Visiting the <a href="http://www.androidlost.com/" style="word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Android Lost website</a> and sign in using Google account. After doing that, I should have access to all remote control features such as the following:<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Read the latest SMS on your phone</span><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />Force my phone to play a loud alarm with a flashing screen. Perfect!!!<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />Get the location of my device<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />Lock and unlock device<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />Wipe entire phone so no private data falls into the wrong hands.. The bank SMS's details<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />Erase the SD card<br style="word-wrap: break-word;" />Use the camera to make pictures (front or rear camera) to get a nice shot of the nice person who took your device. etc</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">In cases like tablet, SMS might not be an option unless it's phablet. In those case, install "<span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.androidlost.jumpstart" style="word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">AndroidLost Jumpstart</a></span>" before I install the actual Android Lost app. It will jump start the registration process when Android Lost is being installed.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Step 3: Log in to the Android Lost website</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Visiting the <a href="http://www.androidlost.com/" style="word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Android Lost website</a> and sign in using Google account. After doing that, I should have access to all remote control features such as the following:</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Read the latest SMS on your phone</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Force my phone to play a loud alarm with a flashing screen. Perfect!!!</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Get the location of my device</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Lock and unlock device</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Wipe entire phone so no private data falls into the wrong hands.. The bank SMS's details</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Erase the SD card</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Use the camera to make pictures (front or rear camera) to get a nice shot of the nice person who took your device. etc</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">In cases like tablet, SMS might not be an option unless it's phablet. In those case, install "<span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.androidlost.jumpstart" style="word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">AndroidLost Jumpstart</a></span>" before I install the actual Android Lost app. It will jump start the registration process when Android Lost is being installed.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Step 3: Log in to the Android Lost website</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Visiting the <a href="http://www.androidlost.com/" style="word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Android Lost website</a> and sign in using Google account. After doing that, I should have access to all remote control features such as the following:</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Read the latest SMS on your phone</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Force my phone to play a loud alarm with a flashing screen. Perfect!!!</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Get the location of my device</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Lock and unlock device</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Wipe entire phone so no private data falls into the wrong hands.. The bank SMS's details</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Erase the SD card</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Use the camera to make pictures (front or rear camera) to get a nice shot of the nice person who took your device. etc</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><img aid="272328" file="data/attachment/forum/201502/02/120315hheqia9q6ahu23ka.jpg.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_272328" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201502/02/120315hheqia9q6ahu23ka.jpg.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201502/02/120315hheqia9q6ahu23ka.jpg" /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">And then I present you "<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lookout.labs.planb" style="word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Plan B</span></a>" another tool as the alternative to Android Lost</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Requirements:</span></span></span><ul style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">Device is connected with Google account.</span></li></ul><ul style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">Device has access to the internet.</span></li></ul><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">As explained previously, if Android Lost is not working out for me, that would mean my "Plan A" did not suit the needs and if device is running legacy version of Android (2.0 up to 2.3) could have to give a try for "<span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Plan B</span>" from Lockout a try. I prefer installing the app directly from the store to the device and, if successful, Plan B will send my device's location to my Gmail address i have registered with. It will send mail(s) every 10 minutes with the current location. I can also use any other phone to send an SMS with "locate" to the device to get the location via email.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">As already mentioned, Plan B only works with devices on<span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"> Android 2.0-2.3</span>, so it won’t work with most devices. Also, the app "<span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">hasn't been updated</span>" in a while, so no guarantee that it will work to my needs. Never the less .. It was Plan B and I still have C, D, E, F.........</span><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><span style="word-wrap: break-word;"><img aid="272334" file="data/attachment/forum/201502/02/121315gbop17npp1db5o5n.jpg.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_272334" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201502/02/121315gbop17npp1db5o5n.jpg.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201502/02/121315gbop17npp1db5o5n.jpg" /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">If you are reading this means you are still not able to get hold of the device yet. Time to take long breath and think whats best for this situation. I really trying my best as this would be my last resort to get my device back.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Once again if you have read my previous <a href="http://en.miui.com/thread-78536-1-1.html" style="word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">article</a>; I had hinted on how Google keeps track of my location. Using Google Maps Location History to track my lost phone (even if it’s turned off) would perhaps yield results.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Requirements</span>:</span></span><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Device connected with my Google account.</span></li></ul><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Device has access to the internet.</span></li></ul><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Location Reporting & Location History need to be activated on the device (can be done in the Google Settings app on your device).</span></li></ul><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Unlike ADM, I'm not just going to get the device location or the thief; but point to note is that the Location History feature of Google Maps doesn't focus on tracking down a lost phone. I can use my location data to for many different reasons such as looking up past travel routes. However, it is also a good way to locate your phone. You now know where the device or thief would typically work or sleep with long hours.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Nope, I'm not having a desire to be James Bond, but here’s what I need to do. I would simply go to the Google Maps Location History and make sure the current day is selected in the calendar. Clicking on “<span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Show time stamps</span>” below the calendar to see all the times my device’s location was registered. Now scroll down and select the latest time stamp to see the last available location. Tada...</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Other than ADM, which also uses GPS for tracking, Location History only uses <span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">cell tower IDs</span> and<span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">WiFi location detection</span> to collect location data. This means that the accuracy can vary significantly. Well before that I wasn't sure i would get back my device isn't. Considering this isn't bad idea at all.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Worst Case; Let us assume I haven't lost my device but the power is completely discharged and have left it & have forgotten. Simply meaning it could be in my office or home or the pickup CAB.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">So the question... how can this tool help? assuming my phone’s battery is empty? Well, before my phone died, Google "<span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">might" </span>have saved its current location. That would mean I might be able to find it using the last reported position in location history. Not bad eh?</span><ignore_js_op style="word-wrap: break-word;"><img aid="272344" file="data/attachment/forum/201502/02/123424f76sbn96vg5st55d.png.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_272344" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201502/02/123424f76sbn96vg5st55d.png.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201502/02/123424f76sbn96vg5st55d.png" /></ignore_js_op><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">The advantage of Location History is the ability to track your phone’s location frequently over a period of time. If someone stole it, I could make out often visited places, which could be the thief’s home or workplace. That might help you and the authorities to catch the person. Although the success rate seems otherwise.</span><ignore_js_op style="word-wrap: break-word;"><img aid="272352" file="data/attachment/forum/201502/02/125036diqs6ykftf0tvfts.jpg.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_272352" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201502/02/125036diqs6ykftf0tvfts.jpg.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201502/02/125036diqs6ykftf0tvfts.jpg" /></ignore_js_op><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">My friend @volcano619</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"> have done a lot research and detailed out as how to use the Mi Cloud effectively to it's maximum capacity. I would have to repeate myself but you can refer to his thread</span><a href="http://en.miui.com/thread-55673-1-1.html" style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">HERE</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">To sum it up</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Requirements</span></span><ul style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">Device connected with Mi Account</span></li></ul><ul style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">Device has access to internet</span></li></ul><ul style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">Find Phone toggle ON under Mi Cloud Settings</span></li></ul><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><ignore_js_op style="word-wrap: break-word;"><img aid="272374" file="data/attachment/forum/201502/02/134219c5o76242tsmmx05w.jpg.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_272374" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201502/02/134219c5o76242tsmmx05w.jpg.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201502/02/134219c5o76242tsmmx05w.jpg" /></ignore_js_op><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">The only reason I'm debriefing MiCloud option in the end due to the fact that most of the device would not have MIUI Rom installed. I'm sure the Global ROM would be much faster if it could use Google API or Maps as I could not locate my device as I hoped so.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;">Closing Notes: </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">Smartphones has gone much smart as days goes by, but it doesn't beat the most intelligent creature (US) of the planet blue. The system itself is designed by us and could beat it any time any day. How ever sophisticated devices we have, it all boils done to basic common sense. I could simply reset the device to factory settings or put turn on Aeroplane mode and perhaps with evil intentions try unlocking the welcome screen security to retrieve the user data.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">If you are still reading this means, either you have completely lost almost all the hopes of retrival. I'</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">m unable to bring you cheer back in your face but note that the government has issued various notices advising people to check the list of stolen mobile handsets on various websites before purchasing a pre-owned mobile phone. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">As far as the lighthouse is concerned; if the IMEI number shared with local police department (if they care to help) and with help of your service provider they could check on the device location based on the pings with the mobile tower it contacts for connectivity. I wouldn't say far fetched. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">I would be more than happy if you could spare some time to share your success stories had you lost your device and was able to get back with or without your data intact.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">Please do share your comment</span></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><div align="left" style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div style="line-height: 30px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 2em; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><img alt="" border="0" class="zoom" height="1" id="aimg_g8ewi" src="http://en.miui.com/static/image/hrline/4.gif" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" /><img alt="" border="0" class="zoom" height="1" id="aimg_UZHlp" src="http://en.miui.com/static/image/hrline/4.gif" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" /><img alt="" border="0" class="zoom" height="1" id="aimg_aSSmU" src="http://en.miui.com/static/image/hrline/4.gif" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></div></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><div align="left" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div style="line-height: 30px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 2em; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" class="zoom" height="1" id="aimg_l77I9" src="http://en.miui.com/static/image/hrline/4.gif" style="cursor: pointer; 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word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 2em; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" class="zoom" height="1" id="aimg_ocz92" src="http://en.miui.com/static/image/hrline/4.gif" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" /><img alt="" border="0" class="zoom" height="1" id="aimg_ZSp7h" src="http://en.miui.com/static/image/hrline/4.gif" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" /><img alt="" border="0" class="zoom" height="1" id="aimg_jNUfC" src="http://en.miui.com/static/image/hrline/4.gif" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">Original</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"> Post by Iyenger on<a href="http://en.miui.com/thread-81427-1-1.html"> miuiForum</a></span></span></div>

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What is the SoC ?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Q1- What is the SoC?</span></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Ans-</span>  A SoC is a </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">complicated </span></span></span><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">integrated circuit that stuff most or all </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">of the functions of a complete electronic system. Exactly what components are assembled on the SoC changes with the application. Many SoCs implant analog and mixed-signal circuit for both input/output (I/O), but most of SoC’s are digital because that is the only way to produce such </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">complicated </span></span></span><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">functions properly. Also SoC refers to </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">unified </span></span></span><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">all components of a computer or other electronic system into a single integrated circuit (chip). It may contain digital, analog, mixed-signals,memory, CPUs, specialized logic, busses all on a single chip substrate. A complicated application is in the area of embedded systems. Many SoC products can be built using industry-standard CMOS technology for better power consumption.</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">In the Simple word SoC means “<span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Something which contains more than a Simple Processor</span>”.</span></span></span></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><ignore_js_op style="word-wrap: break-word;"><img aid="274498" file="data/attachment/forum/201502/05/203906pdn4n4dye4ee09q4.jpg.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_274498" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201502/05/203906pdn4n4dye4ee09q4.jpg.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201502/05/203906pdn4n4dye4ee09q4.jpg" /></ignore_js_op></div></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Electronic module from a Hamilton Pulsar digital watch</span></span></span></div></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Q2- When was the first Soc appeared?</span></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Ans-</span> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">The first SOC </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">rationale </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">developed </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">from the $2,100 Hamilton Pulsar "Wrist Computer" digital watch </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">exposed </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">on the Johnny Carson Show in 1970. </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">contemplate </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">by George Thiess and Willy Crabtree at Electro-Data, Inc., the watch holds 44 chips and 4,000 bonding wires was seems unreliable until RCA engineers </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">diminished </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">the time </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">deferment </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">circuitry to one chip. External transistors were still required to drive power-hungry light emitting diode (LED) displays. In 1972-73 Microma and Seiko introduced low-power liquid crystal displays (LCD) that extended battery life by orders of </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">quantity</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">. Intersil co-founders John Hall and Jean Hoerni created the Seiko chip.</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">The first true SOC come out in a Microma watch in1974 when Peter Stoll </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">unified </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">the LCD driver transistors as well as the timing functions onto a single Intel 5810 CMOS chip. TI's single chip LCD watch, introduced at under $20 in 1976, started a battle of </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">friction</span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">withTimex and dozens of other semiconductor manufacturers who entered the market.</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><ignore_js_op style="word-wrap: break-word;"><img aid="272166" file="data/attachment/forum/201502/02/002836izo55rrrfkuo6mov.png.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_272166" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201502/02/002836izo55rrrfkuo6mov.png.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201502/02/002836izo55rrrfkuo6mov.png" /></ignore_js_op></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;">Q3- What is Inside a SoC?</span></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Ans-</span> Now that we know what a SoC is, let’s take a quick look at the components that can be found inside it. Mind you, not all thefollowing parts are built in all the different SoCs that we’re going to showyou later on, but in order to better understand how a SoC works, you shouldhave a general picture of what goes inside it:</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">Processors,Memory, I/O, ASIC, A/D Converter etc.</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Q4- Where is we get SoCs?</span></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Ans-</span> Systems-on-chipscan be found in many product categories ranging from consumer devices toindustrial systems:</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">• Speech Signal Processing.</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">• Imageand Video Signal Processing.</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">•Information Technologies</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">– PC interface(USB) Computer peripheries (printer control, LCD monitor controller, DVD</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">controller,.etc).</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">• DataCommunication</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">– Wireline Communication: Gigabit Ethernet, Etc</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">– Wireless communication: Bluetooth, WLAN,2G/3G/4G, WiMax etc</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><ignore_js_op style="word-wrap: break-word;"><img aid="274500" file="data/attachment/forum/201502/05/204019f4hfkk88c28kr8sl.jpg.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_274500" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201502/05/204019f4hfkk88c28kr8sl.jpg.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201502/05/204019f4hfkk88c28kr8sl.jpg" /></ignore_js_op></div></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Q5- What is the typical Architecture of SoC?</span></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Ans-</span> As an example of typical SoC showing how the software of a programmable componentcan be structuredon top of the hardware. Here, the real-time operating system (RTOS) includes aprocess scheduler. A DSP with a fixed process execution order and optimized memory communication will needfewer RTOS functions,but not so in real-time mobile applications. In other words, the heterogeneousand multifarious hardwarearchitecture of mobile phones leads to similarly heterogeneous and multifacetedsoftware</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">architecture.</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><ignore_js_op style="word-wrap: break-word;"><img aid="274501" file="data/attachment/forum/201502/05/204023dmgwjssmorgjumwz.png.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_274501" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201502/05/204023dmgwjssmorgjumwz.png.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201502/05/204023dmgwjssmorgjumwz.png" /></ignore_js_op></div></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Q6- How many Soc’s Available in Mobile Industry?</span></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Ans-</span> There are many Soc’s available in mobile Industry like, Intel’s Atom-basedsystem-on-chips , Samsung’s  Hummingbird, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon,Nvidia’s  Tegra Etc.</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><ignore_js_op style="word-wrap: break-word;"><img aid="274499" file="data/attachment/forum/201502/05/203910rtequ57a5ayfyitu.jpg.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_274499" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201502/05/203910rtequ57a5ayfyitu.jpg.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201502/05/203910rtequ57a5ayfyitu.jpg" /></ignore_js_op></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Q7-What is the advantage of System on Chip?</span></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Ans-</span> <span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">The benefits that this brings are significant in terms of speed, area and power like-</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">       Higherperformance-  Fast data transferscompared to Multi-chip design.</span></span></span></li></ul></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">       Lower powerconsumption-  Multi-chip design needsadditional drivers/ power for inter-chip and inter-board connection.</span></span></span></li></ul></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; 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What is the SoC ?

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