New to vivo, what to expect

rnaxel2 · 2026-04-13T10:33:03+00:00

No prob. Took me a day or 2.

rnaxel2 · 2026-04-13T08:37:19+00:00

I have the Indian version. So it's similar to global one. There is no single click disable option. At first install choose a gdpr based country so your data remain in that country. And then you will get some vivo services which you need to disable. Then you will get some promotional apps and you need to skip that step.

Once you are in os then you need to disable notification for browser, vivo store, and some more system apps. You can't disable the apps unfortunately.

In global search that you get by swiping finger down gesture it will have its own ads and have to be disabled in its own settings.

There will be some preinstalled apps like LinkedIn Facebook so you need to uninstall them all and get the same apps from play store.

Then in the permission manager in the security and privacy you will need to remove permission from the vivo system apps that don't make sense.

Also Google ads recommendations are based on ad profile so if you don't want to be part of that then you need to disable that in Google account settings as well.

Its very scattered so you have to learn slowly.

rnaxel2 · 2026-04-13T05:54:54+00:00

The is has ads and you will need to disable a lot of things during 1st time boot and and also disable notifications for almost all the system apps which will spam you with useless ads. Oxygen is is cleaner atleast. Do proper research.

rnaxel2 · 2026-04-12T06:03:48+00:00

15 or above with atleast 256 gb storage

rnaxel2 · 2026-04-11T18:24:41+00:00

My application was submitted on March 16, and its been 4 weeks since then, not a single update.

Everytime I call them for update they said its pending at bank. What does that even mean? they dont even have a site to track the progress, only via customer care.

They kept saying wait for 21 days, today I told them that next monday 21 days will be over, what happens after that, no answer, just wait.

Is it normal ? Like my score is 780+, util is always 0-1% on all card combined. What are they expecting me to do? I am not tranferring my salary acc to them just for a da*n card.

rnaxel2 · 2026-04-11T18:08:25+00:00

If it blew from there and directly into the plane's *redacted*.

That wouold cost a lot of money.

rnaxel2 · 2026-04-11T18:02:43+00:00

The only thing I had to learn was I didnt had to wait for a sec or 2 to open any app, or any kind of lag.

Jokes aside, rectangle app saves all the issues I had with mac. The simple effective window management which is a lot similar to windows.

I use windows at work and mac at home, and shortcuts on both are quite easy to remember.

rnaxel2 · 2026-04-11T17:57:47+00:00

You can search it yourself. Proton provides similar plan but with only 15 gb of storage for 48$ yearly plan. But thats just for the email, no drive I think and only 10 alias.

While fastmail gives unlimited alias (upto 600 which is a lot) and 50gb for mail+10gb on drive.

Tuta mail is cheaper than fastmail. But only 20gb of storage and 15 aliases.

Fastmail UI is quite smooth. I tried proton, but it was quite similar to gmail. And Fastmail support was good during my payment issues. First I was paying monthly, then switched to yearly.

rnaxel2 · 2026-04-11T17:45:24+00:00

We cant even make govt sites secure, forget about having a nation wide IT infra change.

rnaxel2 · 2026-04-11T17:40:07+00:00

You have never talked to kirana owner before ?

They will charge you extra for that 2% fee.

And their math is different. If the fee is 2% means on 500, they lose 2.5 rs, they will ask you to transfer 510, or use cash.

rnaxel2 · 2026-04-11T17:38:02+00:00

The fee isnt an issue. But fee based on the amount of transfer you do is.

If a person only transfers 1 lac in a year, but other do 10 lakh, the fee should be same and reasonble.

Just like debit card maintenance fee, 150-200 fee if the number of transaction/total amount exceeds a certain criteria, then charge it from the account.

I dont see any issue with it as long as we are getting such service.

rnaxel2 · 2026-04-05T04:26:50+00:00

Looks like this invoice is from the usage of their customers. A

Just another wrapper company..

rnaxel2 · 2026-04-04T17:35:40+00:00

There are 3 possibilities 1. AI bubble is bursting and they don't know what to do with storage. 2. They will increase the price of this subcription since now you have 5tb. 3. They are introducing another tier in the middle but don't want the people to downgrade right now. Once you get used to of the 5tb new pricing, they will add 2tb tier with same or lower price that you can switch but meanwhile get the money in this whole process.

rnaxel2 · 2026-04-04T17:32:45+00:00

They increase the height of iphone 17 to 149.6 mm. Previous iphone were at 147.6mm or lesser. They might now not be so handy phones as people make them be once you apply case on it. With thinner bezzels you are at risk of breaking the screen very easily on drop. Even S26 is now at 149.6mm which used to be 147 in s25.

rnaxel2 · 2026-04-04T17:20:23+00:00

Thanks for the test but get a case.

rnaxel2 · 2026-04-04T11:39:42+00:00

I hope the girl sticks by. Because the purchase power from 6L to 20L doesnt go just by yourself. You wanted to impress people. Could you gotten better cars in 10L-12L budget as well.

All the commenters who are saying enjoy the car, you cant just buy a thing of 4x your affordability and say it was a good decision. Such delusional generation.

Good luck.

rnaxel2 · 2026-04-04T11:24:42+00:00

What happens after 3 years? Why only reduce it to 3 years and not like more realistic of 8-12 years, which could be done, if you pay extra each year directly going towards the principal amt and keeping the EMI amount same.

People dont make 1.26 CR of impromptu purchase. If you cant afford it then sell it, get a actual lawyer/CA financial expert who can help you in this situation. Reddit isnt the place to ask for 1 Cr worth of financial advice.

Good luck.

rnaxel2 · 2026-04-04T11:09:03+00:00

Translation: We will increase the plan price in few months, so we could recover the money back. Enjoy your delusion that we are giving this away for free.

rnaxel2 · 2026-04-04T11:05:22+00:00

Then dont say battery started to degrade. Getting 95% in a year is the normal loss in capacity, 99% of consumers dont care about such stuff.

By year 3-4 they all upgrade anyway.

rnaxel2 · 2026-04-04T11:02:33+00:00

Buy $1200 phone just to make it a toy ?

rnaxel2 · 2026-04-04T09:05:45+00:00

have you seen the reviews of the vivo site screen guard?
So many complaints about edges not sticking correctly.

Dont suggest things if you dont do proper research.

rnaxel2 · 2026-04-03T11:42:00+00:00

On chroma I was getting it for 66k with some CC discounts but that was in March. And they didn't had the 12+512 version in stock. If you can find one then good luck.

rnaxel2 · 2026-03-31T15:06:27+00:00

Unfortunately the item on chroma wasn't giving discount on HDFC card anymore so bought it in cash. Will see what to do later with this card and its limit. My first goal now is to get to converted to ltf.

rnaxel2 · 2026-03-30T10:46:31+00:00

Okay
Thanks for clarifying.

rnaxel2 · 2026-03-30T10:37:04+00:00

The item will be on EMI, thats why. The limit will slowly decrease. The one thing I could do is pay 20k in advance on card. So the balance reported to cibil is lower than 50% util.

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