At the very beginning of this year, Xiaomi surprised the Redmi K30 4G users in China with Android 11 update. A couple of weeks later, the device’s Indian Version, POCO X2 is getting the latest OS update.

POCO X2 users in India will get a new MIUI 12.1 version update with firmware version 12.1.2.0.RGHINXM. This update not only bundles a few bug fixes, security patches but also includes stable Android 11. It reportedly weighs 2.6GB and is currently rolling out to the device via OTA(Over-The-Air) update.

As mentioned above, the update also brings the latest January 2021 security patch along with it. You can take a look at the changelog below:

Optimizations:

• Noise could be heard when the screen was turned off in some cases
• Updated Android Security Patch to January 2021. Increased system security.
• Stable MIUI based on Android 11

With this, POCO X2 becomes the first POCO in India to get the Android 11 update. As for the Global tally, we already have the POCO F2 Pro running on a stable version. This is not the only first for the X2 in India. Back in August, it became the first smartphone in India to get the MIUI 12 update.

Now that POCO has checked the year-old X2 update mark, it’s next target should be the budget devices POCO M2 Pro, and its sibling POCO M2 in the country.

Anyway, the new update also fixes a critical creaking noise bug that occurred in certain screen-off scenarios. If you are living in India, you can try out the update by navigating to the update section in Settings. Consequently, if you are impatient to wait for the phased rollout to appear, you can download it here and install it manually.

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Xiaomi is the only Android OEM to provide weekly beta software builds for its smartphones. These builds allow users to experience new features before they are released to the general public. Currently, the beta program is limited to China as Xiaomi shut down the global beta program last year.

Just like new features, the latest Android version is first introduced in this channel. It has been more than a month since Google officially released Android 11. But already a plethora of Xiaomi smartphones like Mi 10, Mi 10 Ultra, Redmi K30 Pro, Mi CC9 Pro, Redmi K30 5G, and Mi 10 Youth Edition have been receiving weekly MIUI beta builds based on Android 11.

Now, Redmi K20 and Redmi K30 4G also join this list. These two smartphones received their first Android 11-based MIUI 12 weekly beta build today. Their upcoming builds will be also based on the latest version of Android.

Normally, it means that these two handsets (including POCO X2 which is a rebranded Redmi K30 4G) should be receiving Android 11 stable update very soon. However, it is not the case this year as Xiaomi has become slower in rolling out the Android 11 update compared to Anroid 10.

The flagship Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro are yet to receive any stable build. Same goes for Redmi K30 Pro whose predecessor Redmi K20 Pro was one of the first phones to receive Android 10 stable update in 2019.

Hece, even though the above mentioned devices are continuously receiving MIUI 12 weekly beta builds based on Android 11, we cannot guarantee if they will receive the stable update sooner.

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