Playing Pokemon Go with Xiaomi phones, a series of players were “unjustly caught”

Be sure hack/cheat is the action that the gaming community as well as the game developer most annoying. But it is a fact that it exists in many games, from shooters, to strategy games to RPGs. Pokemon Go is not out of this scope, like most other multiplayer games, Pokemon Go has also introduced measures against hacking/cheat, lock account of players who they believe have violated the terms of service or used hacking tools.​

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However it seems that the developer’s rules Niantic has caused some players to be unjustly “imprisoned”. In the past few days, some Pokemon Go players have shared that they have been reported, their accounts have been banned for using hacking tools that they can do nothing about. These accounts will be locked for 30 days or permanently banned.​

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After collecting data on these complaints, Subreddit TheSilphRoad found that these bans seem to only target players using phones. Xiaomi of China, especially Series 5. At the moment, the specific cause of the problem is still unknown, but many players speculate that Pokemon Go’s anti-cheat system mistakenly recognizes some system processes in Xiaomi phones as hacking software.
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TheSilphRoad is continuing to collect more reports and is trying to contact Niantic for answers. However, the developer has not yet given an answer for this incident. Hopefully Niantic will solve this problem soon and return access to innocent players.​