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Zumadzay:
I've been here since day 1, as a guest tho. I recently had to register.
I knew how virtually every active member here came.
Protein0 could have been a better tech tuber but he gets too loyal to what works for him so he will be promoting his favourite rather than review.
He was dragged to this thread by the likes of akinis, Dam5reey in a Xiaomi Vs gionee argument like that.
He was using gionee m5 then and dragged it out with xiaomi guys. He was challenged to get a Xiaomi phone to compare with his gionee then make submissions. He took it up out of his believe in gionee. The rest is history today
Even you, no be redmi note 3 be your first phone? Bookiemart got it for you. Noobody used to be kazzonline.
The likes of dustmalik, GrandMufti, toluwanimi, Gptech... At times, I read posts from some newbies here and laugh.
This thread didn't start as what it is today but then utility is adaptive and that is why "we were where we're we were" today

Zumadzay:
This mikeycharles is a confused fellow
Check his below threads

He thinks the duty of this thread is to defend the brand among other laughable claims
https://www.nairaland.com/4922621/should-buy-xiaomi-phones

Xiaomi a total fraud
https://www.nairaland.com/4963086/xiaomi-airdots

But he knew that was a reason android authority rates xiaomi high
https://www.nairaland.com/4926732/5-reasons-why-should-buy

Just compare these 3 threads and imagine them coming from just one person. This virtually is the height of confusion.
Henry007 is not confused in my opinion.
What I see is a budding tech tuber who perhaps place premium on the money he will make over the sensibility of his opinions. Most renowned tech tubers will ask their viewers to comment on videos and align with convincing ones in subsequent videos but Henry isn't concerned about what majority keeps saying. Very funny.
He actually started as Tecno/infinix agent, I don't know if he was paid like others who flooded NL back then. But he was gifted one tecno phantom 8 then and taken to the launch event. Many e-stans were recruited then. They had multiple accounts. They will open threads and start using those accounts to create good impressions for tecno and infinix. Spartacus11 was one of them I think.
You can check Henry007 & spartacus11 early threads and posts to verify this claim. They both entered this thread to bring it down. They entered leagoo, gionee and others' threads too. 95% of phones Henry reviewed in 2017 were tecno and infinix. He did a phone award and the awards were given to either a tecno, infinix device or iPhone X. Infact, he claimed he dropped iPhone for a tecno phone then. He did the publicity job well then
At a point, they stopped paying them as you can hear less tecno, infinix noises in recent times. That was what probably made them truthful. Spartacus11 used Xiaomi phones and recommended them to people after the bashing of yesteryears, Henry007's dieing tech tubing career got revived in 2018 because he actually reviewed more non transsion devices in 2018. Let him dispute this fact. All thanks to the lay offs.
The moral of the story is that, no matter what, don't sell the fact for loaves. Stay with the truth and loaves, even bakeries will follow you pants down
For mikeycharles, he came to the conscience-selling party late. Common online warrior, he won't be recruited as because the company isn't what it used to be. But he has added obvious confusion to his own ways. He doesn't even know what to do. My advise to him will be that, he should strive to make his reviews first hand experiences. If he can't afford to buy those devices, borrow from people for days to feel them till you grow it. Henry started by copy/pasting gsmarena or write the info on their videos. Mikeycharles bought oukitel c8 one time like that, when he sold it, he should have used the money to buy another small phone for review.
For those calling for review bans, I think dragnet should come to clarify if that's possible so far phones being reviewed are xiaomi. Sharing the reviews of non xiaomi here is the only out of place thing, as far as I'm concerned.

lavenderjade:
Share d rom link

AgentPein:
I don't use telegram bro, isn't there any other way around

DLifeless1:
Damn! Guys I went to hell and came back unburnt, ama never doing all these modding stuffs again.
Remember its not being up to 2 months I bought my redmi 6 pro with the Chinese ROM, that curiosity kicked in and I decided to tinker with my phone, I just wanted to unlock the bootloader only but after unlocking it, rooting and installing custom recovery and co started calling.. that was how I mistakenly wiped all my system files that the recovery wrote no OS to boot into; it actually means that am in the soft brick gallery but I had little luck, my bootloader is unlocked and all drivers are intact and even USB debugging was on though I don't know whether it will have any effect. My phone now cycles between fastboot to twrp recovery and noting more. I didn't want to install any custom ROM cos of its bugs. I started searching, saw one rom that they said it is global MIUI v10 but flashable through recovery, I tried, it failed because the recovery wrote that it is for Ceres or so which is redmi 6 not 6 pro. Hmm! I've entered panic mode, went to xiaomi site and saw Indian global flashable through fastboot, downloaded and when I tried flashing using miflash tool, mismatch error, I went online and saw so many stuffs about editing the flash_all.bat files, didn't see any need taking such risk since most people reported the method bricked their phone. All these ROMs are not less than 1.5GB, oooh! Less I forget, I read you should first rename the .gz file to extension of .tgz, since I've not modified my laptop folder view, I did so to enable me change extensions cos extracting the .gz file with WinRAR will give you another file that needs extraction, simplest method was using 7zip but didn't know then. I later on found the original Chinese ROM both the fastboot and recovery and voom I went to download, my laptop wouldn't connect to the hotspot, I had to beg my sister to help me with her phone, she obliged but she doesn't have ucweb cos I trust that browser like hell and her phone's ram is 1GB meaning I have to stay in that app less I risk closing it or corrupting my downloads.
I started downloading the fastboot ROM which is 2.44GB, I literally plugged the phone and never removed my attention from it and it took helly years to finish and also downloaded the miflash tool v2018, had them thrown into my system and zapped them out; meaning extracted them via WinRAR. I put my dead phone in fastboot, my system recognized it since I had my adb drivers ready, imagine I had to uninstall the 2017 version of miflash tool just for the sake, the new 2018 version is a portable app not installable......
Straight I tried flashing, and the first error was that the tool couldn't find the flashing files, chei! I wanted to die but I checked the file path and like me, I love using weird symbols for filenames so I extracted the flashing files to my desktop and retried, vaam! Another bloody error, "flashing system error" I sweated on my tongues but no lele... I went to Google and saw terrible things but the most terrible was that it was likely the downloaded firmware was corrupt, I shouted God forbid inside my heart... I saw another thing, that during extraction, some files can get corrupt.. so I went back and reextracted it but this time with 7zip.... I tried flashing again... It was moving and progressing, wasting time... In my heart I was making progress.. already my bladder was overfull and overrunning so I needed the toilet, so I said if I go to the toilet and on my way back, I'll peep to my phone to check if it has rebooted which signified success but I came back from the toilet, it was still moving... Immediately I unpaused the movie I was using to distract myself, I discovered my dead phone was already booting, I flew up, went to my sister's room and woke her, this was around 2 am and kissed her cos if not that she lend me her phone, what would I have done, maybe today I'd still be feeling miserable..I had 443 niara in my sim. I'll thank ifeco pipipi who gave me 640naira and aniiii who gave me 1k to resubscribe after my system gutted down my previous 11 gig , I just resetted the system and was reinstalling some apps like chrome cos I hate edge that hates idm and I needed idm to download efficiently and I forgot to put it in metered connection cos of anxiety, that was why I opted to use my sister's phone and manage the 2k sub prudently.
So praise da Lord somebody.
No vex say I dey disturb, we have different things that tickle us and mine is electronic gadgets, I can't just do without them.
Just ignore the typos, am in the toilet.

papiforreal:
How can I flash the dummy img file. Yes it's note 5 ai.

papiforreal:
Also check the attached pic.
If I type adb device while the phone is on, it shows the id of my device. But if I am on fastboot and type same command on cmd, it just return "list of devices attached" as response, without listing any.

Meklex:
I decided to go with Havoc os.

I am reading through the Twrp flashing process and I want to ask if I should flash lazy flasher? My device is redmi note 5

maclawrence02:
I pray this decision to ban ads entirety does not come back to haunt us. 1 ad per day per seller would have been the perfect solution.

Meklex:
what about it?

Israellionel:
This One Nko?

ORIJIN201:
Thanks, after waiting for 360 hrs, those modafvckers slammed me with another 360hrs... Who does this bs? Can't deal with this crap. I'm putting up this device for sale, and this is likely to be my last xiaomi device. I've unlocked the bootloader of a sony and Htc device in the past, and it was done in a twinkle of an eye. All their apps are filled with ads, and they are telling me they are protecting me? By collecting my data just because I fvcking patronized you? You won't grow this way!!!

ORIJIN201:
Hey guys, after waiting for 2 weeks, I would be able to unlock the bootloader of my Note 5 AI tonight. I haven't really found a concrete way of installing a rom after unlocking the bootloader. As someone who has done it first hand, I would need your input on how you went about it. Pls, and pls, I'm not a noob in anyway, so don't come and lecture me on how unlocking a device's bootloader and flashing a custom rom is bad for me and the device. Coming from a Pioneer HTC one series, Samsung S series and Sony Z series user. Thanks for your input!

rash7:
Everyone has contacted, if you haven't been contacted, quote me.

collins6381:
budget 30k.
I love Xiaomi.
is there a phone for me?

alawi5k:
Patiently wait for note 6prime

fibonacci2526:
Hahahaha, owo cooperative. lollllll

Ifedith:
Contact pls

Ifedith:
I use redmi 5. Why do I need redmi 3s room, and what room should I get. Global or Chinese room.

Ifedith:
who is in Lagos island or near ajah or Lagos as a whole, so you could help with this test point edl flashing stuff to wake my redmi 5. pls save a soul....07031080287. jboixx repairng anybody who can help, I'm losing money fast without my phone ...help !

lanre316:
You have a fundamental human right to be an ignorant dunce but it's totally uncool to display your ignorance on a public forum like nairaland, on a Xiaomi thread for that matter. Chai!

mbuaba:
did so nothing happened snap yours for me to see

maltharzaer:
One of the links you sent is written in Russian or something and the other I'm not sure what to do. Can you guide me on the procedures and particularly for Xiaomi ROM.

maltharzaer:
Thanks Akinis09.
I really would appreciate if you have an idea of anyone who ports ROM in Kaduna (that's if you stay around). Grateful.

Anney272:
Redmi 5 plus(4/64gb) for quick sale in lagos. 65k only. 08189802858

maltharzaer:
Hi Nairalanders.
I am a lover of Xiaomi UI and would appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction to getting Custom ROMs in Kaduna. I saw some articles on XDA Forum but I am too chicken shxt to port ROMs. You can reach me thru: 08081647497. Cheers!

fibonacci2526:
I don't have a problem with tecno/infinix using MTK chipset but what I have a problem is with their pricing. Way too overpriced. How can you be quoting close to 35k for a phone with 1gb ram and a mtk6580m chipset in 2018. Ridiculous.