Redmi Note 8 Improve your WiFi speed

Hopefully, this tip may help you out and improve your WiFi speed when Bluetooth is turned on. Now let's get on with it.

1. Go to your Notification Shade and Long press the 'GPS' shortcut icon ( which brings you to the Location settings).

2. Tap on 'Scanning'.

3. Disable Bluetooth scanning.

Previously, it maxed out at about 1.5 to 1.6MB/s when bluetooth is turned on. After turning off 'Bluetooth scanning', WiFi speed could max out at about 3.6MB/s or 28.8Mbps. Result does fluctuate to a low 1.8MB/s and goes back up, but never unusable WiFi speeds.

Remember, Redmi Note 8 has only 1x1 MIMO ( single stream client ) WiFi. Do not compare it to another device which has 2x2 MIMO ( two streams client ) WiFi. Even the Redmi Note 6 Pro has 2x2 MIMO.

V11.0.9.0.PCOMIXM update is available for Redmi Note 8 Global

Redmi Note 8 Global just got it's May security patch update with V11.0.9.0.PCOMIXM. The other models in the Redmi series like the Redmi Note 8 Pro, Redmi Note 8T, Redmi 8 and Redmi 8A all got their security patch earlier.

Release notes for the V11.0.9.0.PCOMIXM, are updated Android Security Patch to May 2020 and increased system security. There's no mention of any bug fixes.

The file size for incremental update is about 422MB. If for some unknown reason, your phone couldn't apply the update after rebooting. Do not worry, just re-download the update and most likely the file size will be 2.0GB which is perfectly normal.

You can download the full ROM from this link ( which is an official link ).