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Should I buy or not?

Hi guys
I'll try to make this short. I lost my Redmi Note 5 Pro (which I loved) and now I need a new phone. I stumbled upon the Honor 7x while searching for an alternative. You should know that I never bought a Huawei phone, I only used high end devices from Samsung, OP, LG and recently been using Xiaomi phones. I had a very bad experience with the Redmi Note 4 with its MTK SoC, since I LOVE flashing custom ROMs and doing all sort of new stuff with my device (rooting, xposed, theming..etc).
How is development doing for this device? Will I be able to easily unlock my bootloader, install TWRP and flash custom ROMs?
Also, how is battery life? and does the Kirin SoCs overheat and thermal throttle like MTK while gaming?
How is the overall smoothness of this phone (on official ROM)? No lags or some lags?
I'd really appreciate it if someone of you could provide some useful inputs based on your experience with this phone.
Thanks!

If you're type of person who loves to flash mods like Gcam,ViperForAndroid.prefer having tons of ROMs, smooth Gaming Experience Then a big No. Considering Honor 7x on Oreo is treble enabled you can surely flash gsi and Openkirin gsi yet none of them having VOLTE. Development on Kirin Soc is just bare bones. Speaking of EMUI is pretty good if you prefer Customs Skins over stock android. Speaking of battery gives Average 6-7 SOT.
Suggestion: if you're in hurry then get zenfone max pro else wait for Mi max 3, Nokia X6 , Mi A2 they are launching soon in indian markets.

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If you're type of person who loves to flash mods like Gcam,ViperForAndroid.prefer having tons of ROMs, smooth Gaming Experience Then a big No. Considering Honor 7x on Oreo is treble enabled you can surely flash gsi and Openkirin gsi yet none of them having VOLTE. Development on Kirin Soc is just bare bones. Speaking of EMUI is pretty good if you prefer Customs Skins over stock android. Speaking of battery gives Average 6-7 SOT.
Suggestion: if you're in hurry then get zenfone max pro else wait for Mi max 3, Nokia X6 , Mi A2 they are launching soon in indian markets.
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Omg I love the Asus zenfone max pro! It seems such a great device for the price of less than 200$. But I can't seem to find it anywhere aside from flipkart or ebay (overpriced). I'm not an indian so I can't order it from flipkart. Do you know if it will be sold in the future on aliexpress or another international website?

OnePlus is the way to go. Get the 5T or the 6, both are very fine devices. Heck, even the OP3 (and 3T) are still good today.

If you like to tweak devices then this is for you. This phones hardware potential is ridiculous. The silicone is just a great piece of engineering and you can install some ROMS. Developers will make more because they know how good the hardware, not to mention the great price tag.

TouchOdeath said:
If you like to tweak devices then this is for you. This phones hardware potential is ridiculous. The silicone is just a great piece of engineering and you can install some ROMS. Developers will make more because they know how good the hardware, not to mention the great price tag.
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You mean sources for this device are now available for devs to create custom ROMs?

Silvers91 said:
You mean sources for this device are now available for devs to create custom ROMs?
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I'm not sure if sources are available, but Huawei is normally pretty good at releasing such things.
According to this URL: https://consumer.huawei.com/en/open...Type=openSourceSoftware&pageSize=10&curPage=1
If you search 'BND', you'll see "7X,BND,EMUI5.1,Android7.0"
What I meant originally was, the Honor 7X is an INCREDIBLE phone at an incredible price, lots of customization/tweaking options. I personally have lineage OS beta 4 installed.
To answer some of your questions:
How is development doing for this device? Will I be able to easily unlock my bootloader, install TWRP and flash custom ROMs?
Also, how is battery life? and does the Kirin SoCs overheat and thermal throttle like MTK while gaming?
How is the overall smoothness of this phone (on official ROM)? No lags or some lags?
I'd really appreciate it if someone of you could provide some useful inputs based on your experience with this phone.
Thanks!
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1. I'm not a developer so I don't know, there are only a handful of custom OS you can download ATM.
2. Huawei provides you with a bootloader code to easily unlock the bootloader.
3. The trick with TWRP is you need to beable to install a TWRP that does decryption. Reason being is the Honor 7x, I don't know if its the entire phone.. it probably is... but I know for a fact some parts are encrypted, and you can't make a TWRP backup unless your TWRP can handle decryption. I tried to install a TWRP with decryption thats suppose to work for our phone, but I got some kind of error (I didn't write it down, but the error basically meant that it didn't work). The TWRP with decryption thats available was made for another Huawei phone thats suppose to work for the 7x. One thing you could try, would be to decrypt the phone, and then see if you can make a TWRP backup. Theres a few ways to do that: 1. TWRP>Format Data. 2. fastboot erase userdata 3. Theres probably a GUI way to do it in Settings>Security&Privacy>Encryption&Credentials>Encrypt Phone.
4. Battery life, Its way better than the Honor 5x. I haven't had my phone for very long, so I can't tell you the real world battery results. My battery menu says I have 7 days left of battery if that tells you anything. My Honor 5x got 4 days max, and this phone I know beats it... so my estimate is 5 days of battery for my usage. I'm pretty sure that Oreo has made improvements as far as battery. I looked at catlog in realtime, there wasn't hardly any activity going on unless you did something. On my Honor 5x there was always activity going on regardless.
5. I haven't played any games yet, So I don't know about SOC temps while under load. I've read on other posts that Kirin SOCS temps are good. Right now mines sitting at 29 celcius, which is excellent!
6. On official ROM, I only played with it for a short while, it seemed smooth. Now its not as smooth as iPhone, but I felt like it was just about as smooth as an android is gonna get.

Need some Information regarding Redmi note 5 AI

Hey guys, I need your help. I wish to buy Redmi Note 5 ai 3/32gb (money is an issue otherwise I would've gone for 4/64gb) within a month but I need some information. Could you please provide me information?
1. How much SOT do you usually get with Android Pie based custom ROMs with or without custom kernels?
2. Would I face any lag or Fps drops with 3gb variant while playing Pubg and Heroes Evolved (Mobile Legend like game)?
3. With what graphics requirement do you can play pubg?
4. Does Note 5 ai support QC3.0? I know Xiaomi ships it with qc2.0 adapter cable but I have QC3.0 adapters from my previous device and I will buy qc3.0 cable if it does.
5. How much time does it take to charge from 15% to 80% with stock charger?
Thank you, I really appreciate your answer.

Rhine Septimus said:
Hey guys, I need your help. I wish to buy Redmi Note 5 ai 3/32gb (money is an issue otherwise I would've gone for 4/64gb) within a month but I need some information. Could you please provide me information?
1. How much SOT do you usually get with Android Pie based custom ROMs with or without custom kernels?
2. Would I face any lag or Fps drops with 3gb variant while playing Pubg and Heroes Evolved (Mobile Legend like game)?
3. With what graphics requirement do you can play pubg?
4. Does Note 5 ai support QC3.0? I know Xiaomi ships it with qc2.0 adapter cable but I have QC3.0 adapters from my previous device and I will buy qc3.0 cable if it does.
5. How much time does it take to charge from 15% to 80% with stock charger?
Thank you, I really appreciate your answer.
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1 . Gaming+normal usage i usually get 5-6hr+ s0t .
2 . With HE i never face any fps drop ,60fps mode. On pubg custom gfx setting 60fps+hd , there tiny lag sometimes .
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4. Qc 2.0 confirmed .
5. 2hour++

Redmi Note 5 AI has quick charge 3.0
Less than 1hour 15mins to charge from 15 to 80%
With WI-FI browsing we can get 10+ hours SOT
With 4G browsing 7+hours SOT can be achieved easily with two days battery life

lawong said:
1 . Gaming+normal usage i usually get 5-6hr+ s0t .
5. 2hour++
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Its way to low than what I wanted. I guess I may end up waiting for Redmi note 7 as redmi note 6 is just a Redmi note 5 with an ugly notch. Thank you anyway.

SunilSuni said:
With WI-FI browsing we can get 10+ hours SOT
With 4G browsing 7+hours SOT can be achieved easily with two days battery life
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With Android 9.0?

Rhine Septimus said:
Its way to low than what I wanted. I guess I may end up waiting for Redmi note 7 as redmi note 6 is just a Redmi note 5 with an ugly notch. Thank you anyway.
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Try mi max 3 , it has massive 5500mah battery

Rhine Septimus said:
With Android 9.0?
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That's my usage in MIUI 10.0.1
Take a look at these threads
https://forum.xda-developers.com/redmi-note-5-pro/review/screen-time-t3749678
https://forum.xda-developers.com/redmi-note-5-pro/review/charging-speed-t3749677

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Try mi max 3 , it has massive 5500mah battery
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Community development is a major concern. And holy money

SunilSuni said:
That's my usage in MIUI 10.0.1
Take a look at these threads
https://forum.xda-developers.com/redmi-note-5-pro/review/screen-time-t3749678
https://forum.xda-developers.com/redmi-note-5-pro/review/charging-speed-t3749677
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not ugly memeui. I am asking for Pie based custom roms.

I dont think your expectations are realistic when buying a phone for 140usd.. Games run just fine, not at best settings, but good enough. Battery is amazing, and if 6hours of gaming in 1 charge is not good for you, then no device will be good enough, because its a good result. Well except for tablets, or something like mi max 3.

Incogn said:
I dont think your expectations are realistic when buying a phone for 140usd.. Games run just fine, not at best settings, but good enough. Battery is amazing, and if 6hours of gaming in 1 charge is not good for you, then no device will be good enough, because its a good result. Well except for tablets, or something like mi max 3.
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What you're telling $140, its $220 approx while purchasing in our country. 6 hour nonstop gaming is definitely OK but someone mentioned he got 6hour sot with gaming+light usage, that's what bugging me. And I mentioned Android pie custom roms. I saw battery life starts to get deteriorated with newer android version than the phone's original Android version.

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What you're telling $140, its $220 approx while purchasing in our country. 6 hour nonstop gaming is definitely OK but someone mentioned he got 6hour sot with gaming+light usage, that's what bugging me. And I mentioned Android pie custom roms. I saw battery life starts to get deteriorated with newer android version than the phone's original Android version.
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Well its your country tax then, but that doesnt change the fact that phone cost 140usd in all eshops. And yes, battery life with custom roms is not as good as stock, not by much, but worse. But its only logical, throughout 10 years of flashing custom roms it was always the same story no matter which phone. As i said before, if this phone is not good enough in this price for you, then i doubt that any phone will be, because atleast in europe, nothing comes even close to price/performance/quality of RN5.

Thread closed at OP's request

When A Good Phone Dies.

So my P2 decided to commit Hari Kari and fried it`s charging port and "something" else(new charging port and checkover still resulted in a dead phone).
What should I buy next?
After the battery life of this phone(even after 2 years still managed 2 days and 10-12 hours of SOT) I don`t think I can face going back to "ordinary" phones, so what are my choices other than the Moto G7 power?
Many thanks to the Devs that kept my phone going longer than Lenovo expected
A few I can think of
 @mikeioannina @Subham @celoxocis @advaithbhat @VladSor @darshan1205 @saikiran001
Heartbrokenly posted on an LG G2 with AEX ROM

My condolence

Treboeth said:
What should I buy next?
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Something in Samsung?

What was that xaomi duplicate of the P2?
Buy another P2.
Battery was maybe busted, below up with the first charging port. 2nd charging port doesn't blow up cos battery already gone.

Treboeth said:
What should I buy next?
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Redmi K20/pro
Asus 6z
Realme x
Or wait for other phone
But Dont Buy midrange Samsung EXYNOS Phone's

Good alternatives of 7T

Hello. Do you know good alternatives to this phone for similar money? I have chosen this phone for myself, but I should look on possible alternatives

wolftskyi said:
Hello. Do you know good alternatives to this phone for similar money? I have chosen this phone for myself, but I should look on possible alternatives
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Asus ROG Phone 2

If you can, go to the stores and try a few...

I were considering between:
VIVO IQOO PRO
REALME X2 PRO
AXON 10 PRO
OP 7T
I went with 7T. What's the major benefit of most above models? larger battery. On the software side, OnePlus leading the way.
So how I can beat the battery issue? if my usage wont let me enjoy the phone til end of the day, I get 2-3K Mah lightweight battery pack with me, I will barely feel it and it will let my 7T live stay alive until the deep night hours

i won't buy thus till unlock without being paid off comes out like the 6t

Question What about Nokia G50?

Hey,
i had a few years ago a Xiaomi Mi A3 with Android One and it was a very good stable system.
A few years later i bought the Nokia G 50 (cheap, big battery and Android One).
I still have the G50 but its realoy crap.
The display turns randomly off and calls the emergency.
Because the display is of i cant stop the call and the restart with the keys didnt work than.
So i have to explain "Sorry guys, i have a ****ty phone."
Because of these i bought me a xiaomi mi 11 lite 5g ne and wanted to install LineageOS but now i have to wait a week to unlock the bootloader (wth?)
Does someone have an idea how I can make the G50 a little bit better that I can use it in these week without calling the emergency?
Also the battery is really ****ty when its cold and also the GPS doesnt work reliably.
There is no custom ROM for the G50 and also nearly no thread about these phone.
But maybe from you have/had the same phone and the same problems and have a solution?
Thanks
Greetings
Saphira

Saphira269 said:
Hey,
i had a few years ago a Xiaomi Mi A3 with Android One and it was a very good stable system.
A few years later i bought the Nokia G 50 (cheap, big battery and Android One).
I still have the G50 but its realoy crap.
The display turns randomly off and calls the emergency.
Because the display is of i cant stop the call and the restart with the keys didnt work than.
So i have to explain "Sorry guys, i have a ****ty phone."
Because of these i bought me a xiaomi mi 11 lite 5g ne and wanted to install LineageOS but now i have to wait a week to unlock the bootloader (wth?)
Does someone have an idea how I can make the G50 a little bit better that I can use it in these week without calling the emergency?
Also the battery is really ****ty when its cold and also the GPS doesnt work reliably.
There is no custom ROM for the G50 and also nearly no thread about these phone.
But maybe from you have/had the same phone and the same problems and have a solution?
Thanks
Greetings
Saphira
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Take it to Nokia Care if it is under Warranty. They must fix it. This is all I can suggest.