How to Make the Internet and System Better at Xiaomi: A Complete Guide

Xiaomi’s modern smartphones are famous for their excellent price-performance ratio, but over time, even top-end models can start to work slower. Android-based MIUI shell offers users huge customization options, but by default many settings are focused on data collection or saving charge at the expense of performance. To make your gadget “fly” like on the first day of purchase, you need to perform complex optimization of the system.

In this article, we will examine not only standard cleaning methods, but also hidden functions available through the engineering menu and ADB. Deep customization allows you to disable unnecessary background processes, remove aggressive advertising and redistribute CPU resources.

Before we start taking drastic measures, it is important to understand the current state of the device. Often the reason for the slow operation is not system constraints, but a banal lack of space or outdated software. HyperOS and earlier versions of MIUI require proper care to unlock the full potential of iron.

Basic cleaning and memory management

The first step to speed up your smartphone should be to review the space you occupy. An embedded drive that is more than 85-90% full causes significant delays in reading data. The system starts to run slower because it lacks space for temporary files and cache. Use the standard Security app or third-party utilities to delete junk files.

Special attention should be paid to the cache of messengers and social networks. These applications tend to accumulate gigabytes of temporary data, which not only take up space, but also slow down the indexation of files. Regularly cleaning the cache in the section Settings → Applications → Application Management works wonders. Don’t be afraid to delete the cache – your personal data and correspondence will not be affected.

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Use the Cleanup feature in the standard Security app once a week, but don’t rely on it completely – deep folder analysis is best done manually once a month.

For those who want to maximize performance, there is a possibility of forced freeing of RAM. However, it is worth remembering that Android is designed to keep applications in memory for quick start. Blindly removing all processes can lead to the opposite effect - the system will waste the processor's resource to restart the desired programs.

• 🧹 Remove unused apps that hang in the background and consume resources.
• 📸 Transfer photos and videos to cloud storage or to your computer, freeing up internal memory.
• 🔄 Reboot your smartphone at least once a day. 2-3 Day to Reset System Errors and Clean Up RAM.
• 📉 Turn off automatic app updates in the Play Market, leaving this action to the Wi-Fi network or manual mode.

Optimization of the interface and animations

The visual aspect of MIUI is often criticized for being redundant, but it is the animations that create a sense of smoothness, and the paradox is that to increase the subjective speed of the interface, these animations need to be accelerated or disabled, rather than improved, which makes the system's response instantaneous, although it deprives it of some polishing.

To access hidden speed settings, you need to activate the developer mode. To do this, go to Settings → About Phone and quickly click 7 times on “MIUI Version” or “OS Version”. Once the message about successful activation appears, a new section “Developers” will appear in the menu.

In the developer menu, find the section related to drawing. There will be three scales: "Window animation scale," "Scale of animation transition," and "Duration scale of animator." They are set to 1x by default. Change them to 0.5x or completely disable. Changing the animation scale is the easiest way to make the interface responsive.

⚠️ Attention: Turning off animations completely (value 0) can make the interface twitchy and less understandable. 0.5x.

Additionally, you can find the "Background Process Limit" option on the same menu, set the "No More than 4 Processes" or "No Background Processes" limit if you want maximum gaming performance, but for everyday use, it's best to leave standard values so that notifications arrive on time.

Combating Advertising and Systemic Garbage (MSA)

One reason Xiaomi smartphones can seem “heavy” is the background activity of advertising services: The MSA (MIUI System Ads) system consumes Internet traffic, CPU time and battery even when you can’t see pop-ups.

To start, turn off ad personalization. Go to Settings → Passwords and security → Access to personal data. Find msa on the list and turn off the switchboard. The system will ask you to wait 10 seconds before confirming, which is a mandatory procedure. If you fail the first time, try again, servers sometimes do not respond instantly.

Way to disable recommendations: Settings → Home screen → Settings → Disable “Recommendations”

You also need to clear your system apps of embedded advertising, and go to the settings of each standard application (Music, Video, Explorer, Downloads) and find "Get recommendations" or "Show ads" and then deactivate it, which not only removes visual noise, but also reduces the load on the network and the processor.

• 🚫 Shut down the service. MSA in the section "Access to personal data" to stop system advertising.
• 📵 Remove the “Receive recommendations” box in all Xiaomi system applications.
• 🌐 In the Mi Browser, turn off_push_notifications and news feed in the settings of the main page.
• 🔍 In the “Security” application, turn off receiving updates and promotional mailings in the settings of the application itself.

Network settings and speeding up the internet

Users often confuse slow operation with poor Internet connection. To make the Internet better on Xiaomi, it is not enough just to have a good tariff; you need to set the DNS and network priorities correctly. Standard settings of the provider are not always optimal for response speed.

In Android 9 and above, and in current versions MIUI, The “Private” function is available DNS». Use of fast-tracking DNS-Servers like Google or Cloudflare can significantly speed up site openings and reduce ping in games. → Connection and sharing → Private DNS and select "Host Name of the Provider" DNS».

Enter the address dns.google or 1.1.1.1. This action will redirect your DNS-requests through secure and fast servers, bypassing the provider's limitations, and it also increases privacy because the provider doesn't see which domains you're visiting.

Another important aspect is mobile data: in some regions, the 4G/LTE network can be overloaded, forced switching to LTE only mode or, conversely, allowing 3G/2G to save battery, is done through a hidden menu, but for maximum speed it is better to leave the “preferably LTE” mode.

Hidden functions and engineering menu

For advanced users, Xiaomi provides access to an engineering menu where you can configure the radio module and other communication options. Be careful: changing unknown parameters can lead to unstable phone operation.

In the menu that opens, select Phone Information. You can find "Configure your preferred network type" here. Make sure you select a value that supports LTE (e.g., LTE/TD-SCDMA/CDMA/EvDo/GSM/WCDMA). If you have trouble switching between towers, you can try resetting your network settings in the same menu.

Also worth mentioning is the Memory Extension feature, which has been introduced in newer versions of the shell, which uses some of the internal memory as RAM. If you have a phone with a large ROM (256 GB or more) and 8+ GB of RAM, it's better to turn it off. Internal memory is slower than RAM, and activating expansion can even slow down multitasking.

⚠️ Note: Do not change the parameters in the engineering menu unless you are sure of their purpose. You can reset the radio module settings, but the wrong configuration (frequency) can lead to loss of signal.

Removing Systemic Garbage Through ADB

The most radical, but also the most effective way to make Xiaomi faster is to remove system debris (bloatware) through the computer. Many preinstalled applications (Google TV, Mi Video, some Google services) can not be removed by standard means, but they continue to hang in memory.

For this you will need a PC, USB-cable and minimum set ADB-On the phone, turn on the debugging. USB And you can connect the device and you can have commands to delete the packets, like the command to remove heavy services from Google:

adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.videos

This method allows you to cut out everything from the system, turning heavy MIUI into lightweight and fast Android. However, remember that removing critical system components can lead to "bricking" or cyclic reboot. Always check the name of the package before removing it.

• 💻 Install Android platform tools (SDK Platform Tools on a computer.
• 🔌 Put the debugging on. USB and allow access from this computer on the smartphone screen.
• 📦 Use pm uninstall commands to remove unnecessary system applications.
• 💾 Save a list of deleted packages so that if necessary, they can be restored by the cmd package install-existing command.

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Comprehensive optimization, including memory cleaning, disabling advertising and setting up DNS, can extend the life of a smartphone for 1-2 years without losing performance.

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