Sometimes owners of Xiaomi smartphones face quite an interesting problem when charging their devices. The message “No photo selected“appears on the screen and does not respond to deactivation attempts. Here is a request for help from one of the users experiencing this problem:
Hi. While my Redmi Note 8 is charging, the message “No photo selected” appears and moves randomly on the screen. How can I deactivate it? I run on MIUI 11, a world rom in stock. Changing the MIUI theme gave no results. Thank you!
The message is supported by a screenshot which illustrates the device screen. Similar complaints are received from owners of Mi Mix 2 phones and a number of other Xiaomi models.

Our team concluded that the screen saver is activated in the system, but no image or other image is selected. This is why users can see the message “No photo selected“. The trickiest thing is that there is no screen saver in the phone settings. What should we do? A third party application”Screensaver widget“from Google Play Store come and help us.

Open the downloaded app and go to “Screen saver settings“;

In the “When to start” section we define “Never” and save the changes.


The matter is resolved. Find another way? Share it with us in the comments. It will probably help someone.