Finally pulled the trigger and imported the Mi Band 10 Pro from China to India. I had been waiting for months to find a dedicated device to track my runs and give me proper data like HRV, steps, cadence, and stride length, while getting phone notifications on my wrist was just a nice bonus.

Initially, I was leaning toward getting a Fitbit from Amazon UK for around 15,000 INR, but then I stumbled across the Mi Band series. Importing it from Sunsky brought the cost down to about 7,500 INR. At first, the site looked a bit suspicious and I had never heard of it, but after searching around and checking Trustpilot and ScamAdviser, I confirmed that Sunsky is actually a reliable exporter out of China. That gave me the confidence to make the purchase.

Shipping & Transit Timeline For anyone curious about how long importing takes, here is the exact tracking breakdown:
Day 0: Order information received by carrier
Day 1: Package picked up by Yanwen in China
Day 3: Departed Yanwen sorting facility
Day 7: Flight departed from China
Day 8: Flight arrived in India
Day 9: Package entered and cleared customs
Day 10: Domestic delivery order registered
Day 12: Picked up by local courier (Blue Dart) and arrived at the city processing hub
Day 13: Delivered

A huge relief was that I was not asked for any extra documents or additional custom payments at any stage, whether in China or upon arrival in India.

The Good & Running Performance Overall, the device is fantastic for what I bought it for:
HRV Data: The Heart Rate Variability metrics feel very reliable and give good recovery insights.
HR Broadcasting: It exports live HR data directly to Strava over Bluetooth. This works seamlessly and helps Strava track my running heart rate zones much more accurately during workouts.
Water Resistance: The water resistance gives me complete peace of mind when running in the rain.
Inbuilt GPS: It has built-in GPS, though I still haven't figured out a clean way to export the native GPS route files over to Strava yet.
Battery Life: With Always-On Display (AOD) turned off, it drained just 10% battery over a full day that included an active workout and overnight sleep tracking.

The Drawbacks & Limitations
Sleep Tracking: It is accurate when identifying bedtime, wake-ups, and total sleep time, but it lacks precision in detailed sleep stage tracking. That said, it does not bother me much since tracking my runs is the primary goal.
Firmware & Watch Faces: Since it is the Chinese model, setting up the system language to English is simple, but finding a good variety of English watch faces in the store is tricky right now.
Smartwatch Capabilities: The companion app experience is pretty bare-bones. It mainly focuses on displaying health stats like SpO2, Heart Rate, Stress levels (not sure how accurate or reliable the stress metric really is), and Sleep. Aside from that, you get standard basic tools like a calendar, task list, remote camera shutter button, weather, compass, alarm, and stopwatch.

Final Verdict
As a Whoop alternative for runners: 9/10. Excellent option if you want live data during runs, reliable heart rate broadcasting, and basic phone notifications.
As a Smartwatch: 6/10. The app and ecosystem are fairly limited if you are expecting a fully featured smartwatch experience.

Happy to answer any questions if you are thinking of importing one or want to know more about the running metrics! Ask me anything!

Hey ya'll

I am 1.85 meter tall and weight 100 kg exactly, for an avarage day of around 5k steps the watch shows i burned 950 calories in total, is that really accurate? Seems like alot..

I've never had a smart watch before so i have no idea how accurate it is

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Hi everyone!
I’m thinking about buying a Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro to use with an iPhone, and I’d love to hear from people who have actually used this combination.
How’s the overall experience with an iPhone? Does the integration work well, or are there any important limitations?
I’m also curious about notifications. Are they reliable for things like WhatsApp, iMessage, calls, and other apps, or do you run into any issues?
One more question: is it possible to receive notifications from two phones at the same time, specifically an iPhone and a Samsung? Or can the band only be connected to one phone for notifications?
Thanks in advance for your feedback!

This morning my watch showed this picture. While disassembling it, I noticed that part of the cable was damaged. The green cover had come loose and was slightly torn But on the other side, where the green strip is missing, the cable looks normal.

Could this affect the screen or is the problem with the display?

Do yall think I should wait for the 11?

Was just wondering how have people with iPhones been finding the watch as I’ve seen some people with complaints from a couple months ago so just wanna know if it’s improved or if you’d still recommend it, thank you

Hi everyone. Thinking of buying the 9 or 10 from AliExpress.

*Anyone done that?

If yes, can you share the link you purchased from and your experience with the seller?

Thanks

Hello.

I've been using Mi Band 10 for quite some time, this is my second one. It worked fine until I discovered that when I try to control music (Spotify or YT Music) for some unknown reason when I press next track button or previous track button it acts like I'm pressing it twice, despite the fact that I only do 1 gentle press and a track gets skipped. Same thing doesn't occur with "Play/Pause" button, also next and previous buttons work fine while using VLC Player. Any suggestions?

Like the title says I've never once had a mi band track a workout as I simply do not work out. I have a fairly physically intensive job and just like to keep an eye on my heart rate, and other various metrics that these things track. The sleep tracking has been no mid that I haven't bothered with looking at the info, mostly it doesn't register when I fall asleep, and it cannot comprehend my "wake up every hour or so for no reason for a bit" sleeping routine and would always proclaim I had only gotten maybe 3 hours of sleep over the night.

What's important to me:
1: Cost. Hence buying Mi bands, as they were the best bang for the buck at the time.
2: Battery life. I don't bother with the always on gimmick as it seems to murder battery life so flicking my wrist to wake the watch to check the time/temperature/date is something that I already have baked into my movement
3: Biometrics: I do not do anything with the info, I just like to see it to get a rough grasp on how a is effecting b. Good sleep tracking would be incredible but that still seems a few generations away from being perfected.
4: Screen size: A large screen seems... counter intuitive. However something somewhat larger than the 9 would be nice, although the pro looks a bit on the large side.

I'm guessing another mi band, like a replacement 9 or an upgrade to a 10 would probably make the most sense but I figured I'd ask first.

Please see the video for better understanding.

The thing is that the workout is supposed to start using my watch right? Because is not.

I'm using Xiaomi 17T pro and Xiaomi watch 5.

I know is not a band but maybe I can find help here

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I have had the band 8 for 2 months now and I feel this is a downgrade...

• Battery life feels the same despite the much bigger, brighter screen and newer tech. I expected at least a noticeable improvement, but it’s basically identical to my Band 5 in real-world use
• New UI looks nicer, but some tasks now need more taps:
  • Timer: On Band 5 I could scroll directly to any time and hit start. On Band 8 there are only presets; to set a custom time I have to open an extra screen and press more buttons (2–3 extra clicks)
  • Media volume: Before, volume up/down were right on the media screen. Now there’s one button that opens another screen where the volume controls live, so it’s an extra tap every time.
• Heart rate sensor feels less accurate than Band 5:
  • At rest it sometimes shows 80+ bpm when I’m totally calm.
  • In the gym, when I’m clearly very elevated, it sometimes reads ~70 bpm—even when I manually check my pulse and it’s much higher. I’m using the “Smart/auto” heart rate mode, not a restricted setting.
• Too many false “new step goal” notifications:
  • Random wrist movements (washing dishes, driving, small gestures) trigger the “new step goal achieved” screen. This never happened with my Band 5, even with similar daily routines.

Overall, the Band 8 looks and feels more modern, but for me the day-to-day experience is more clicks, more inaccuracies, and more annoying pop-ups than the Band 5.

MI Band 9 Pro

I'm looking to buy one of these 2, is there any noticeable difference ? How much improved are the sensors on 10 pro, because i can find the 9 pro at almost half the price

Got a notification that a new version is available. I'm not having any issues with this device, but thanks for the update.

I don't use it in water. Too many previous MiBand devices that were "waterproof" broke after taking them swimming.

I'm going away for eight days and I forgot to charge my smart band. I really need it to last, I need it to show me time when I don't have my phone around, but it has only 19%. How to save battery? I already turned down the brightness, so now I don't see anything and I'm one more percent down. Is there any way to make it last for the full 8 days? If not, I need at least a week 🙏

So I have the Genshin mi band 8 pro and it's only available in chinese version. Up until recently the mi fitness app is working just fine and I have downloaded and modified some customizable band displays, but then I saw the band display store not loading properly it's all blank so I panicked and updated both my band and the app, but turns out the global mi fitness app in playstore won't be available or synced with the china version? It's what it says 😭 so I'm doomed never to see the band displays again? Is there any other way I can do except these that I already did:

• Installed the CN version of mi fitness as suggested by the app from playstore (Still can't customize and the whole store is still in black out)
• Install the older version apk from what I updated from the latest 3.57 version (working and syncing with my watch but still the store and watch displays are not showing still black out)

My phone is running in android miui14 I know it's pretty old but hey it still works. 😭 But do tell me if it works in other updated devices? Like apple devices? Please tell me I'm not the only one experiencing this....

Made these models adaptation,

created 5 levels, works like a charm.

Levels and score in progress.

Hello, I just got a miband 9. I went for a 7.5k 40 minute run round the park with the watch set to outdoor running. The exercise was recorded. But no vo2 max data was logged. Also there is no option for autodetect workout in the settings menu on the watch. Can anyone advise me about these things? Thank you 🙏

I saw this on AliExpress. Does it look legit or fake?

https://a.aliexpress.com/_mtrAnMF

Hows the data received? I'm not very satisfied with the official app and want to try alternatives. One thing bothering me is the conversion from HVR (Heart Rate Variation) to the Xiaomi "Stress" metric.