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Phones › Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by Gptech(m): 12:40pm On Sep 24

SPOLO:
but again na the display which note 17 uses Gorilla Glass 7i makes it more durable over note 15 which is Scratch/drop-resistant glass..

I believe you are better off with the note 15. Durability of display is more than what is written on paper.

Modified:Both versions of the phones you are comparing are the 5G variants not officially sold here in Nigeria.

Phones › Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by Gptech(m): 8:15pm On Sep 15

Draxy:
Are those Naira or the size of the screen

Yes, that's their cost.

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Phones › Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by Gptech(m): 10:33am On Sep 13

Draxy:
I’m looking for a Xiaomi or POCO smartphone with 1TB storage. Does anyone have any recommendations or know where I can get one at a good price?

Phones › Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by Gptech(m): 6:51pm On Aug 31

Crumbian:
Guys, I have a redmi 9T that I've trying to upgrade since I bought it. I recently discovered the reason why it won't accept the OTA update is because the phone is actually a Chinese version of redmi 9T which is called redmi note 9 4G. It is a phone meant for the Chinese market but global rom was somehow flashed on it.

Now, I need your suggestions on what to do to be able to upgrade it to at least android 11. There's nothing wrong with the phone I just need the wireless debugging which is not available on android 10.

Any help will be much appreciated

Use your phone like that oooo, you have been advised.

Phones › Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by Gptech(m): 6:47pm On Aug 31

PuZZyNegro:
My own Oppo reno8 is lying dead right here on my table. I've gone to OPPO service center at Ikeja but they couldn't help me.

Avoid Oppo phones if you can

All those service centers, many of them don't even know what they are doing. I think apart from being overpriced, the quality of Oppo phones are on par with Xiaomi.

Phones › Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by Gptech(m): 10:18pm On Aug 28*

MrWaters:
Buy the new Redmi Note 17 5G 8/256. Mi 13pro is old phone of 3-4 years ago.

You mean Redmi note 13pro, because there was never a Mi 13 pro.

Modified : I see, you actually meant Xiaomi 13 pro. The Redmi note 17 pro you are referring is no match for the Xiaomi 13 pro. As a matter of fact, I currently use a Xiaomi MI 10 which is far superior to the Redmi note 17 pro in every area except in the battery department. The Xiaomi 13 pro is a better buy by a mile provided you can get hold of one that has not been compromised. Just know you are getting the battery replaced very soon, that's the only con.

Warning! If you currently own a Redmi note 13 pro, the Redmi note 17 pro will feel like a downgrade. The Redmi 17c is already a downgrade from the 15c, 14c and 13c.

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Phones › Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by Gptech(m): 4:18pm On Jul 07

chadbasin:
Can you please help me with the link for poco f2 pro charging board?

https://a.aliexpress.com/_EyYiewA

Just select your phone model before placing the order.

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Phones › Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by Gptech(m): 10:07pm On Jul 06

Buchika:
Thanks a lot, any headup on the AliExpress link where to get the genuine one

New For Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 11E 12 13 Pro Plus 4G 5G USB Charging Port Dock Charger Connector Board Microphone Flex Cable
https://a.aliexpress.com/_ExJwqH4

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Phones › Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by Gptech(m): 4:05pm On Jul 06

Buchika:
Please Xiaomi gurus, my redmi note 12 4g charging port is giving me headache, it selects chargers like hell, the followcome 33w Xiaomi charger and cable hardly charge it.

I am asking if I change the charging port, would the turbo fast charge still work with the aftermarket charging port

Just order for the charging board from Aliexpress and replace it to avoid stories. It's less than $3.

Pets › Re: My Little Eagle � by Gptech(m): 1:38pm On Jun 05

Either a Sooty falcon or Grey Kestrel according to Google search.

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Phones › Re: Which Phone Can I Get With ₦300-400k? Camera & Battery Life Important by Gptech(m): 2:55pm On Jun 02

vandertommy:
All of una bad pass politicians.

So wetin come warrant this insult now? Do I look like a seller to you? Instead of you to buy the said phones in bulk and start selling you are there throwing insults up and down.

Phones › Re: Which Phone Can I Get With ₦300-400k? Camera & Battery Life Important by Gptech(m): 8:58am On Jun 02

vandertommy:
All these phobe vendors no go Kee person sha. I bought my pixel 7 for 280 and pixel 8 was 300. That like a month ago

Google pixel 8 for 300k or you meant Google pixel 6?

Phones › Re: My Redmi Phone Fell And The Screen Is Damaged by Gptech(m): 8:04pm On May 30

searchng4love:
Thank you

Uwc.

Phones › Re: My Redmi Phone Fell And The Screen Is Damaged by Gptech(m): 7:42pm On May 30

searchng4love:
I want to replace my s21 fe, looking at poco F7, and Mi 14T your advice please?

Poco F7 of course especially in terms of performance.

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Phones › Re: My Redmi Phone Fell And The Screen Is Damaged by Gptech(m): 3:19pm On May 30

searchng4love:
Gptech tell me what I don't know

Naso e b oooo. I have a Xiaomi Mi 10 here. The display is far superior to your average Redmi note 15 series. It's same with Samsung, when you put any A series side by side with even an old s20, you just cannot unsee the difference. Amoled like LCD is just the display technology, there are other factors that affect how good a phone's display will turn out to be.

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Phones › Re: My Redmi Phone Fell And The Screen Is Damaged by Gptech(m): 10:35pm On May 29

searchng4love:
That's very affordable compared with the nonsensical Samsung S series

The screen of the S series are expensive because they are not essentially thesame as those in Redmis even though they are both Amoled displays. I know Samsung charges more than others but all Amoled displays are not the same. Even the screen on Xiaomi series are far more expensive than those on Redmi series.

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Phones › Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by Gptech(m): 12:23pm On May 28

Kaveco:
I changed my Xiaomi 13 screen in March and have been unable to use my on-screen fingerprint.

It says "Couldn't add fingerprint, try again" when I try to add my fingerprint in the settings.

I have tried to calibrate it via the CIT menu in settings. It gives a "PERFORMANCE CHART ERROR" in the 2nd step (BLACK FLAT). I have tried everything I know to pass this step, including reinstalling HyperOS and wiping my phone. Still, nothing.
I've attached two of the three errors it's shown me.

If there's anyone in Lagos that can fix this, I am willing to come there.

I think the issue is with the screen, in some, fingerprint won't even work if you use a screen protector. If you have a screen protector on, remove it and try.

Phones › Re: My Redmi Phone Fell And The Screen Is Damaged by Gptech(m): 12:08pm On May 28

fineboynl:
I changed the screen.

It was a huge price. Something left my pocket just like that

How much? Though it looks like original, know it's not as rugged, so treat it like uncooked egg.

Phones › Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by Gptech(m): 9:23pm On May 23

Chimatesky64:
Is it ok to swap Xiaomi 15 ultra to Samsung s26 ultra?

Depends on the reason for swapping.

Phones › Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by Gptech(m): 8:07pm On May 18

oloriooko:
Thank you for the response
I have Poco M4 Pro and bro I enjoyed the lasting battery of the phone and been using it for more than 5yrs, it's due for a change
I want a brand new device with long lasting battery maybe of POCO or any Xiaomi series or any other brand but I want something 16/512gb
Am online 24/7 but not a gamer
About budget don't worry just kindly give me options
thank you

Watch out when the Poco X8 pro max goes on sale here or contact any of our vendors if they have it. Battery life is the highlight of that device.

Edit: I just checked now, Macbeyland has the spec you want for 720k

Phones › Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by Gptech(m): 10:14pm On May 16

Deesmo07:
Hello all. I need your help, pls. I just got a Redmi Note 14, I'm enjoying everything about the phone except one thing - the glossy screen which I find reflecting and glaring. I've removed the auto brightness, set it at the barest minimum, applied dark mode, reading mode, put "privacy" tempered glass protector, but still... Any help in this regard would be highly appreciated.

Are you sure you took off the transparent peel before placing a screen protector on the phone?

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Phones › Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by Gptech(m): 10:31pm On Apr 18

Ayemileto:
My mum travelled back to Lagos yesterday to return both phones. The seller refused to refund her, and after many back and forth, he gave her new ones (He replaced only the phone, like, he took new phones from other cartons and gave it to her )

She mentioned a whole lot of resellers from different states are at the store to buy Redmi phones for selling, and they all gathered together to convince her nothing's wrong with the phones and I don't know what I'm saying. In fact, the seller called me, and after re-explaining the same message I've sent him on WhatsApp (which he ignored), he told me I'm saying nonsense .

The 2 new phones have the exact same issues as the previous ones. The bootloader of both is unlocked, which shows they are both compromised.

The guy decided to install and activate WhatsApp on one of the 2 new phones to show my mum it works, but I know he probably just applied a patch to trick WhatsApp, and the app will stop working in a few weeks after a few playstore/WhatsApp/Redmi OS updates.

Well, I'm planning to create a new thread to alert people to this fake Redmi phones in circulation. I also intend to write a mail to FCCPC, SON and Redmi alerting them to the issue of compromised phones being sold by these sellers.

Hopefully, the agencies I will write to will act.

As suggested, screenshot the about section of the phone let's see the rom version and kernel. I don't think the phones are fake otherwise they won't run on HyperOs, I think they are mostly used Chinese version phones.

Phones › Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by Gptech(m): 12:22pm On Apr 15

luvyaself95:
I need Mi 11 Lite 5G NE OEM battery.

Check out Nohon batteries from Aliexpress.

NOHON BM53 BM55 BM58 BP42 BP46 Battery For Xiaomi Mi 11T 10T Pro 8 9 SE 11 Lite Ultra 14 13 12 12S 12X 6 5 5S 5X 6X Mix4 Bateria
https://a.aliexpress.com/_Ey6JemG

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Phones › Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by Gptech(m): 9:33am On Apr 15

Ayemileto:
Yes, they repackaged them and sealed them.

The thing is we're based in Ondo state, so going with her doesn't seem feasible, but we'll see.

The one whose back cover has been changed, it's very likely the screen has been changed also. Don't go easy with sellers like this, they know exactly what they are doing.

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Phones › Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by Gptech(m): 9:26am On Apr 15

Ayemileto:
15C.

Both phones were actually sealed.

The first red flag was that both contained completely different items when the 2 boxes were opened.

The charger was different (One came with the redmi 33W charger, the other came with a generic charger).

One has a pouch, the other doesn't.

One has the protective film that's usually on the screen of new phones, but doesn't have the nylon new phones are placed inside, The other have the nylon, but without the protective film.

One came with a low battery.

Then, the IMEI on one is completely different from the IMEI on the carton.

This was what prompted me to even check the battery cycle, only to see one was already at 69 cycles and the other is still on 1.

But despite all the above, we would have still kept both phones since my siblings need to return to school.

But then, one of them installed WhatsApp, and it wouldn't activate, so she brought it to me, and that's what led me into the rabbit hole of the software side.

I also reached out to Xiaomi support this morning, they asked me to return both phones. One is a Philippines version, and it was activated November last year. The other is a Nigerian version, it was activated August last year and should be color black (the colour we got was green, which shows it has been used, and repaired before being repackaged as new).

My mum is now having to plan an unnecessary trip to Lagos because of the phones. A part of me feel like reporting the seller to FCCPC, SON and even the police because what they did is basically fraud, but that might seem like I'm unnecessarily escalating the issue when the seller haven't gotten the opportunity to correct the situation.

I am just short of words at the extent some people will go to make money. Try and inform the seller you are returning both phones and he should be responsible for your tfare. If need be the police should get involved.
You have done well in doing your own findings, people who are ignorant and fall victim to scams like this will end up blaming the company for their predicament. Funny thing is, we have been on matters like this over here, examining how extremely difficult it is getting to get original standard items here in Nigeria, smh.

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Phones › Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by Gptech(m): 1:40pm On Apr 14

Ayemileto:
My mum got 2 Redmi Phones yesterday (while on a trip to Lagos).

WhatsApp wouldn't activate on both devices, so I did some Googling and checks and finally tracked the issue down to unlocked Bootloaders.

The bootloader of both devices is unlocked, so play protect can't certify the device, and apps that requires high level security won't work.

Even the device settings can't access Xiaomi servers to check for update (which is a huge red flag).

I've told my mum she'll have to return the phones, but the question is why will sellers be selling altered phones as brand new? and is there anyway to verify a phone's genuine before opening up the carton?

To avoid issues like this ensure the phone you are buying comes sealed. For the bootloader to be unlocked it's very likely that the phones are not Global version models. Seller may have unlocked the bootloader to flash global rom. What exact model did she buy?

Phones › Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by Gptech(m): 8:46pm On Apr 13

vetrovialMan:
My birthday was on April 7 and I got it as a gift. Left it to my 17year old niece to setup and the needful because she wants my old S10e and came back to this. We've tried everything except take it to engineers and I don't want anything to void the warrantee. I'm not that tech savvy. I'm into transport.

It means your son during this time registered Xiaomi mi account for you during the setup up and also did a factory reset in the end. That's a weird thing to do. Did you get the phone new or used? If what I narrated is what really happened, then your son has the solution to the problem. Tell him to use another phone's browser to go to i.mi.com, then click sign in with xiaomi account, then click forgot password, and lastly enter the email address or phone number he used to register for the account. From there he can reset the password for you to login to your phone.

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Phones › Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by Gptech(m): 8:34pm On Apr 13

Alapereketu:
if you give engineer they'll bypass it

But the Google play store might not certified which you won't be able to use some app like Netflix on the phone

Bypass with the bootloader still locked? shocked

Phones › Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by Gptech(m): 3:13pm On Mar 29

kripen:
Please any advice on what to do, since i updated my redmi 14C the phone is malfunctioning and it can't sleep again

Hold the power button until the phone restarts.

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Phones › Re: Your 20,000mAh Power Bank Is Not Actually 20,000mAh. by Gptech(m): 1:49pm On Mar 23

Cleanmouth:
Keep deceiving yourself.
Oraimo Power Bank I bought from their official website got swollen after one year. Meanwhile my itel power bank is still working fine for years despite it's small size

There are factors that affect power banks and can make them swollen whether fake or original.

Phones › Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by Gptech(m): 11:43am On Mar 17

bennito:
@Genius and other gurus, between Poco M7 Pro 5G and POCO X7 which one is a better option. Not so much into camera.
Which device should I go for with 300k budget

Poco X7 of course.

Phones › Re: Night Shot On My Infinix Note 50 Pro Plus 5G Camera by Gptech(m): 11:39am On Mar 17

zig2ryme04:
This is a night shot I took in ikorodu even without the flash light on

The flash on your phone is meant to snap objects close to you in dark or poorly lit environment. When the distance becomes too far, your flash becomes irrelevant or even make the picture quality poorer. Flashes are not meant to be used for shots like this.

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