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Hi xdaforum users,
I'm a newbie here so apologies in advance as I'm not into modding phones or have done rooting before, so my knowledge is limited. I am looking to get an overall understanding about getting a device from another region.
So currently I'm interested in the 7x and have a few questions in regards to the device as it is not released in my country, nor will it ever. Only Huawei is available and not its Honor brand in my country.
So here are the questions:
- If I can use it in my country, will I be able to receive OTA updates, security patches, etc even though I wont be in India and in another region?
- As the device is setup for India market, Google Play store be set by default to India region. How can it be changed to support my country upon first set up of the device?
- The Indian model is BND-L22 which was rebranded from the BND-AL10 version. Research online have some retailers selling a Global version of the phone which receives OTA updates, etc, now which model version of the 7x is this?
Thanks in advance for the knowledge sharing, it's much appreciated.
BND AL10C675 is the Indian variant.
antares* said:
Hi xdaforum users,
I'm a newbie here so apologies in advance as I'm not into modding phones or have done rooting before, so my knowledge is limited. I am looking to get an overall understanding about getting a device from another region.
So currently I'm interested in the 7x and have a few questions in regards to the device as it is not released in my country, nor will it ever. Only Huawei is available and not its Honor brand in my country.
So here are the questions:
- If I can use it in my country, will I be able to receive OTA updates, security patches, etc even though I wont be in India and in another region?
- As the device is setup for India market, Google Play store be set by default to India region. How can it be changed to support my country upon first set up of the device?
- The Indian model is BND-L22 which was rebranded from the BND-AL10 version. Research online have some retailers selling a Global version of the phone which receives OTA updates, etc, now which model version of the 7x is this?
Thanks in advance for the knowledge sharing, it's much appreciated.
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If you are looking for budget midrange devices, Honor 7x is very good. However for a person interested in rooting and flashing custom roms, this phone is a strict NO NO as of now.
The main reasons are so many variants with different firmware which can brick if flashed on another variant (which I did on my honor7x and had to get motherboard replaced before service centre could flash original stock) and lack of stock roms on all the variants.
Lack of any service centre in your country is another disadvantage if you are into flashing etc.
Now coming to your questions:
1. The indian variant is not BND-L22 but BND-AL10C675 which currently has zero firmware support or downloads from honor although two OTAs have come so far. No faceunlock yet. Only gyroscope was enabled etc..
2. Google play store should work anywhere if you buy the Indian version. I guess the Chinese version lack playstore. Indianversion and International versions have it.
If you are into flashing roms etc. and would like to get a device from India, I would suggest two phones in similar price range which has plenty of ROMs to try and excellent hardware.
1. Oneplus X
2. Lenovo Zuk Z2 plus
I have personally used both and have flashed innumerable ROMS on both. In fact, the OnepusX stock firmware had a kernel issue, it randomly rebooted, which I could fix usinga boeffla kernel and AOSP rom.
Both come with topend snapdragon 800 series (801 and 820 respectively) and blazing speeds.
I gave away both (still near me, used by my brothers) and went to Honor only because of 18:9 aspect ratio. The fingerprint reader too is the fastest in Honor7x. Far accurate and faster than Mi A1.
Infact most the features we get only after rooting and custom rom are pre-built into the honor stock firmware. 90% of the bloatware that came can be uninstalled too like games etc.
You may ask then why I tried custom ROM on honor 7x, that's because I am an enthusiast. I love these developers who try to bring future into the present (For eg. last dec itself, I was using oreo 8.1 on oneplus X).
All the best!:good:
Thanks for response, yes the Honor brand has caught my attention, more so over the others. Sorry to hear about your 7x, atleast its all working again
I e-mailed honor support and got this information in regards to some of the questions to get an idea. I'll summarize.
As quoted by Honor support in italics:
7X Model Version for India:
- Honor 7x >> Bond-L22B (32GB), Bond-L22C (64GB)
(I believe it says BND-AL10 on the box, what does your device box and phone say?)
OTA Updates: and Google Playstore:
- we are sorry to inform you that you will not get OTA software update of Indian devices in out of India
- you may contact to respective country support for information regarding load Google play store.
- we are unable to provide any software updates from India to South Africa and Google Play Store would be set on by default to India.
(Yes Playstore is international, however as above they say its set to India, then in my country I will not be able to get apps native to me. Is there any way of changing region on the playstore for my region?)
For me, I'd prefer to keep the original firmware all be it of a region that the device will be kept up to date with, no matter where in the world I am as well the correct region playstore.
Thanks for the other suggestions of devices, however if I was to decide on another device it would have been the honor 9 lite. lol of which I would be left with the above questions still.
ROMystic said:
If you are looking for budget midrange devices, Honor 7x is very good. However for a person interested in rooting and flashing custom roms, this phone is a strict NO NO as of now.
The main reasons are so many variants with different firmware which can brick if flashed on another variant (which I did on my honor7x and had to get motherboard replaced before service centre could flash original stock) and lack of stock roms on all the variants.
Lack of any service centre in your country is another disadvantage if you are into flashing etc.
Now coming to your questions:
1. The indian variant is not BND-L22 but BND-AL10C675 which currently has zero firmware support or downloads from honor although two OTAs have come so far. No faceunlock yet. Only gyroscope was enabled etc..
2. Google play store should work anywhere if you buy the Indian version. I guess the Chinese version lack playstore. Indianversion and International versions have it.
If you are into flashing roms etc. and would like to get a device from India, I would suggest two phones in similar price range which has plenty of ROMs to try and excellent hardware.
1. Oneplus X
2. Lenovo Zuk Z2 plus
I have personally used both and have flashed innumerable ROMS on both. In fact, the OnepusX stock firmware had a kernel issue, it randomly rebooted, which I could fix usinga boeffla kernel and AOSP rom.
Both come with topend snapdragon 800 series (801 and 820 respectively) and blazing speeds.
I gave away both (still near me, used by my brothers) and went to Honor only because of 18:9 aspect ratio. The fingerprint reader too is the fastest in Honor7x. Far accurate and faster than Mi A1.
Infact most the features we get only after rooting and custom rom are pre-built into the honor stock firmware. 90% of the bloatware that came can be uninstalled too like games etc.
You may ask then why I tried custom ROM on honor 7x, that's because I am an enthusiast. I love these developers who try to bring future into the present (For eg. last dec itself, I was using oreo 8.1 on oneplus X).
All the best!:good:
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Hey Rom,
Any thoughts on the responses I received and pasted in the above thread from Honor India?
Thanks
Just wanted to let you guys know after the recent update made available through the updater (Miui v9.2.13.0.neimiek)
Provides a lot of solution to the bugs including the low earphones and the 2x zoom
But most importantly it provides the indian varient the fix to the 8600 error while binding account so all of the users who are wondering if the update is worth it
Then to those who are still on android nougat i would say you you should go for it. :good:
Welcome to the Lenovo Z6 Pro community!
To make it short, this phone has great hardware, but not so good software and support from Lenovo, hence the low price. If you recently received it, here is in a nutshell what you should know about ROMs :
- There are 2 type of official Stock roms which are subject to official OTA. They can always be flashed to upgrade or reset phone by using Qfil even with locked bootloader ; making the Z6 Pro virtually unbrickable :
o Chinese Rom: the most up to date (11.1.105 is Android P; 11.5.x is Android Q). High performance and stable, kept up to date; but only English available for system; need to use apps for more languages and bypass notification restrictions.
o Global or RoW (rest of the world) 11.0.405: Considered a cheap initiative outsourced to a third party to sell phones internationally. It has not been updated for a while and possibly won’t be anymore. It is Android P based, but stable and includes many languages.
- Then there are now very good custom roms thanks to Lucchetto! First really good and stable of them is RevengeOS. Obviously, they require unlocking BL and installing TWRP. Many guides available to help doing that. More custom roms are available: Havoc, AICP, CRdroid, LineageOS, Pixel experience plus… available here + and on telegram group.
All have all hardware features working including all 5 lenses thank to stock Cam app ported to Custom roms also by Lucchetto!
For more info, read threads here, join Telegram group or ask question here.
Enjoy, be grateful and stay safe!
bought the above unit quite some time back in 2018. using row 11.0.405
recently request to Lenovo to unlock bootloader, till today no unlock code arrived
Any one in here (XDA) Please produce an unlock bootloader to this Lenovo Z6 Pro
thanking you'all in advance
Excuse my English but I am not native, I use a translator.
Hello, I have a Redmi 7 that I bought, but it has a modified version of the software by the phone company, they blocked a SIM slot. I imagine that for that the software change. So I was in the MIUI Global version 10.3.8 (PFLLMCR), I was wondering if I can change this ROM for a global .EU version for example to have official MIUI 11 (or 12, which is already missing).
Could you make this change despite the different software version without problem?
Hi together
I have a question about the Vivo update philosophy.
I have the X80 Pro Global Version with Funtouch OS from Thailand (Firmware Device W20, Asia Global)
I had buy the X80 Pro early July (in Thailand), and get a
"System Update" PD2185F_EX_A_12.0.11.11.W20.V000L1 with Android Security Patch 01. June 2022
I had read from users with the W30 (EU Version), this had get the August Security Patch. But my phone dont show a new system update, System have already the newest Version.
Than i contact Vivo Thailand Support and ask, why i dont get any security updates by the top model from Vivo. Support had push my IMEI in the updateprocess and later tell me: go setting->system update->*->trial version and there i found a
"Trial Version" PD2185F_EX_A_12.0.12.2.W20.V000L1 with security patch August 2022
Whats the different between a System Update and the Trial Version of a System Update? And why Vivo add the security patches to a trail version and dont push a normal system update (same as the EU Version W30, this dont have the trial option)?
If i dont activate the trial option, i will always stay on June security patch.
strange, no official system update with August security patch, but when I installed the trial version, I saw this update today (but again as a trial).
"trial version system update" PD2185F_EX_A_13.1.10.6.W20.V0001 (5,91GB) Funtouch OS 13
its not the closed Beta-Version Option.
What you think, is this Trial Update a stable Version of Funtouch OS 13, the first officional rollout?
And maybe by the Asian Global it will come always only a Trial Version, earlyer, as for the "other" global version get a "normal" system update?
I'm confused
Trail is usually very stable or the version before the final release.
I also bought mine there in TH. It's trial version not trail. Trial is not official/final build but close to it.
Thanks for the feedback, but why does the W20 only get security patches in a trial version?
The W30 has e.g. now get the september patch in an official update but on the w20 there is no unofficial update with september patch .
Are we, as W20 users, the early birds and should we always install the trial version manually since there will be almost no official update?
@arvinsko do you have already install the 13.1.10.6 update?
Vivo is probably currently distributing Android 13 as a test version. Also for the w30 model in Europe.
@morpheus620 download 70% , before downloading do you get a officional update with the september patch by your W30?
I have also a question about 5G, with a Thai SIM i can chose 5G network preference, but with my Swiss SIM (Salt Mobile Provider) i dont have this option. @arvinsko where you use the W20 now and you get 5G with the local provider?
I got the picture from Facebook. Is not my Vivo.
update for asian region with september security patch update
this is Android 13. Test Channel or stable Update ?
morpheus620 said:
this is Android 13. Test Channel or stable Update ?
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test channel