Xiaomi India — Redmi Note 3 (32gb, purchased in October 2016)

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560079

Updated my redmi note 3, 32gb phone to miui 8.0 when i got the phone. Rebooted it when prompted.
1)added fingerprints and it worked like a charm.
2) i kept trying to add offline wallpapers for the lockscreen, from my library to add to the list of available wallpapers but it would fail to add it despite selecting the pictures multiple times
3)tried selecting pictures manually as the lock screen wallpaper directly from the library. It would add it but only briefly. It would automatically change because of that carousel, which remains permanently on despite turning the feature off no less than a hundred times.

THEN UPDATED TO 8.1.1

1) initially the fingerprint sensors were acting funny. It would simply refuse to unlock the phone despite a dry sensor, dry finger and appropriate contact of sensor and finger. Other times it would open seamlessly. The phone started prompting me some permissions for apps I've already responded to when i updated to 8.0...therefore i thought the fingerprint issue was due to an all new update and there was an issue with the old fingerprints. So i decided to delete those stored fingerprints on settings and add new ones. To my short tempered fury, once i deleted them, when i tried to add fingerprints again, it would prompt me to give the unlock pattern I'd set. Once i entered the pattern, settings would say "fingerprints couldn't be added"...this went on for several more attempts. Then finally, settings crashed and i was redirected to the home screen. Left without fingerprints from now on.
2)still can't add nor delete pictures in the offline section when i want to select wallpapers for lock screen and home screen.
3)that carousel still doesn't shut the f off .
Update has been nothing but more problems.