25th November 2024, 4 min read

Upgrading Oppo Reno4 to Xiaomi 14T Pro

Original post is here eklausmeier.goip.de/blog/2024/11-25-upgrading-oppo-reno4-to-xiaomi-14t-pro.

Today I upgraded my Oppo Reno4 smartphone to a Xiaomi 14T Pro model. The "old" Oppo was still good, but the offered price for the 14T Pro was too good to say no.

I already own a Xiaomi Tablet 6, with which I am very happy. So changing from OnePlus / Oppo to Xiaomi was an easy choice. Add to that, that the Oppo did no longer receive kernel updates, and OnePlus / Oppo no longer sell their devices in Germany due to patent trolls.

The specs.

Testing internet speed on https://fast.com:

The CPU according lscpu:

Architecture:                       aarch64
CPU op-mode(s):                     64-bit
Byte Order:                         Little Endian
CPU(s):                             8
On-line CPU(s) list:                0-7
Vendor ID:                          ARM
Model name:                         Cortex-A720
Model:                              1
Thread(s) per core:                 1
Core(s) per socket:                 4
Socket(s):                          1
Stepping:                           r0p1
CPU(s) scaling MHz:                 15%
CPU max MHz:                        2000.0000
CPU min MHz:                        300.0000
BogoMIPS:                           26.00
Flags:                              fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 atomics fphp asimdhp cpuid asimdrdm jscvt fcma lrcpc dcpop sha3 sm3 sm4 asimddp sha512 sve asimdfhm dit uscat ilrcpc flagm ssbs sb paca pacg dcpodp sve2 sveaes svepmull svebitperm svesha3 svesm4 flagm2 frint svei8mm svebf16 i8mm bf16 dgh bti ecv afp wfxt
Model name:                         Cortex-X4
Model:                              1
Thread(s) per core:                 1
Core(s) per socket:                 4
Socket(s):                          1
Stepping:                           r0p1
CPU(s) scaling MHz:                 48%
CPU max MHz:                        3400.0000
CPU min MHz:                        550.0000
BogoMIPS:                           26.00
Flags:                              fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 atomics fphp asimdhp cpuid asimdrdm jscvt fcma lrcpc dcpop sha3 sm3 sm4 asimddp sha512 sve asimdfhm dit uscat ilrcpc flagm ssbs sb paca pacg dcpodp sve2 sveaes svepmull svebitperm svesha3 svesm4 flagm2 frint svei8mm svebf16 i8mm bf16 dgh bti ecv afp wfxt
Vulnerability Gather data sampling: Not affected
Vulnerability Itlb multihit:        Not affected
Vulnerability L1tf:                 Not affected
Vulnerability Mds:                  Not affected
Vulnerability Meltdown:             Not affected
Vulnerability Mmio stale data:      Not affected
Vulnerability Retbleed:             Not affected
Vulnerability Spec rstack overflow: Not affected
Vulnerability Spec store bypass:    Mitigation; Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
Vulnerability Spectre v1:           Mitigation; __user pointer sanitization
Vulnerability Spectre v2:           Not affected
Vulnerability Srbds:                Not affected
Vulnerability Tsx async abort:      Not affected

Linux kernel after one HyperOS update according uname -a:

Linux localhost 6.1.57-android14-11-g2de3ba70f288-ab11985038 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 18 13:21:55 UTC 2024 aarch64 Android

Storage is plentiful: 12 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD. As usual, some of this storage is used for internal purposes and therefore not directly available to you.

$ df -h | grep tmpfs
Filesystem                Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs                     5.4G 3.3M  5.4G   1% /dev
tmpfs                     5.4G  38M  5.4G   1% /mnt
tmpfs                     5.4G  28K  5.4G   1% /apex
$ df -h | grep storage
Filesystem                Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/fuse                 481G  22G  458G   5% /storage/emulated

A good review of the smartphone is here: Verdict on the Xiaomi 14T Pro.

A video review of the camera of the Xiaomi phone is here:

Observations so far:

1. The fingerprint sensor is reacting very quick, way quicker than the Oppo fingerprint sensor. That's good.
2. There is no double tap to lock the phone, but you can use: Additional setting - Accessibility - Accessibility menu. With this you can activate something similar.
3. The 5,000 mAh battery seems to deplete faster than the 4,000 mAh battery of the Oppo phone, i.e., the Oppo phone lasts longer. That is unexpected and bad.
4. The Oppo phone (7.6mm) is clearly slimmer than the Xiaomi (8.39mm). It is also lighter: 209g vs. 172g.