XPost: comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: Jeff@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 18/02/2026 17:54, Maria Sophia wrote:   
   > Jeff Layman wrote:   
   uckily for you, this PSA hits home as Xiaomi's Themes app is optional.   
   >   
   > You can bypass Xiaomi's theme ecosystem entirely by:   
   >   1. Generating your own solid-color wallpaper   
   >   2. Setting it through the system wallpaper picker   
   >   3. Which bypasses Xiaomi's theme catalog   
   >   4. Which also bypasses Xiaomi's cloud sync   
   >   5. And bypasses Xiaomi's analytics   
      
   Not sure I can. According to "Settings" I have only one entry which has   
   that term, and that is just "Wallpaper". Opening that brings up the   
   limited wallpaper palette, and trying anything further opens the "User   
   agreement and Privacy policy" popup which I have to agree to before   
   proceeding.   
      
   However, searching in "Apps" shows ten which have wallpaper in the name.   
   Three are com.android:   
   wallpaperbackup   
   wallpapercropper   
   wallpaperpicker   
      
   four are com.miui:   
   miwallpaper.overlay   
   miwallpaper.overlay.customize   
   wallpaper.overlay   
   wallpaper.overlay.customize   
      
   There are three further apps:   
   Live Wallpaper Picker   
   MiWallpaper   
   Wallpaper Carousel   
      
   According to the App Manager, all are System apps except the last which   
   is a User app. Also, according to the App Manager:   
   MiWallpaper   
   "Removing this might make it impossible to set a lock or home wallpaper,   
   resulting in a black solid wall paper". That wouldn't be a problem, but   
   it continues "Note: it may also result in longer boot times (~15   
   seconds) because the system tries to call MiWallpaper during boot ".   
      
   The App Manager could not fetch for the package info for com.miui.   
   miwallpaper.overlay, so I couldn't check anything about that. I didn't   
   try with some of the others.   
      
   It looks like Xiaomi have locked down rather a lot of the wallpaper   
   stuff for reasons of their own. All the wallpaper apps seems to be in   
   data folders I can't access too (perhaps I could with adb), but it   
   really isn't important enough to waste any more time on.   
      
   --   
   Jeff   
      
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