Monat: August 2017

After the firmware and app update more than one week ago, Xiaomi yesterday pushed another app update on android devices.

Now we are at 1.8.1.14363 which adds new filters to the app.

I as user have still to decide to take pictures with really poor image quality but exif data in the newest version or going to the old 1.6.3.xxx version with good quality of the photos but without exif. As I mentioned in a few posts before they changed something on the compression for photos and videos. the last version I could identifiy where the issue not appears was 1.6.3

This is really frustrating what Xiaomi is doing here. Please Xiaomi again, take first care for the really flaws in your software and after that you can add gimmicks like filters and such things for playing around.

Today I got the message that there is also a new firmware getting rolled out.

Tests are done so far here are my results after the latest app and firmware:

• video drift is gone! the video stays now stable
• exif data seems corrected also (google maps accepts the photos the same like from my theta s)
• crumpled video and photo still exists (may I have a confirmation from someone about this issue)

What I found out until now is that the photo quality is still crumpled… but xiaomi now includes more exif data to the photos which lets google maps inteprate the photo with correct orientation. I am still testing. The next thing will be video and the bad drift… Maybe xiaomi found finally an exit out of their app crisis.

Thanks to Mic from 360rumors.com