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Few questions to Mexican users!

Hi! I'm waiting for my X to arrive. I've got a couple of question for my fellows mexicans
Any Mexican user with your X purchased from motomaker with lollipop?
Telcel had liberate the update? (For the models purchased directly from the store)
What model is your X? 95 or 97? (pure edition or not) and where you purchased it...
Did any of you had your Motorola stuck at the "Toluca-limbo"? How many days did you waited?
De antemano: gracias. Espero que me puedan resolver mis dudas...
Pd: Alguien de Izcalli

Hi , the model that motorola sells on Mx is the xt1097 , if you've purchased the phone straight from motorola website you can buy it unlocked (without telcel chip) , i dont know if the update depends on telcel , but its quite easy to force the update if you follow the tutorials on this forum .
My moto x got stock in toluca for 4 days , and beforr that it was delayed for more than a week so it took forever for it to arrive to me .... But im very happy with the phone so far....

Which Note 5 version for France ?

Hello,
I would like to import the Galaxy Note 5 in France but I need to know which version has the good frequencie in France ? There are the SM-N9200 from Asia, the SM-N920I from America and the SM-N920C from Maghreb.
I found the America version on the "T dimension" website
I found the Asia version on "ValueBasket" website
Do you have any idea ?
Thank a lot
Sorry for my english

You need to check which bands your chosen carrier uses and compare them to the ones used by the phones on a specs page.
Do understand that even though bands match there might be complications

From what I read on a French forum, a visitor bought one from a shop on ebay Singapore ; he took the SM- N920I and it is imperative to take a unlock region. He received today ; All seems to work perfectly..
Sorry for my english, i am french. Thank's to Google traduction.
D'après ce que j'ai pu lire sur un forum français, un internaute en a acheté un en provenance d'une boutique de Singapour sur ebay; il a pris le SM-N920I et il faut impérativement prendre un région unlock. Il l'a reçu aujourd'hui; Tout à l'air de fonctionner parfaitement.
Désolé pour mon anglais, je suis français. Merci à google traduction.

twoesse said:
From what I read on a French forum, a visitor bought one from a shop on ebay Singapore ; he took the SM- N920I and it is imperative to take a unlock region. He received today ; All seems to work perfectly..
Sorry for my english, i am french. Thank's to Google traduction.
D'après ce que j'ai pu lire sur un forum français, un internaute en a acheté un en provenance d'une boutique de Singapour sur ebay; il a pris le SM-N920I et il faut impérativement prendre un région unlock. Il l'a reçu aujourd'hui; Tout à l'air de fonctionner parfaitement.
Désolé pour mon anglais, je suis français. Merci à google traduction.
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Hello Twoesse !
Thanks for your answer.
Do you know where can I buy it ? Can you send me a private message with the French Forum ?
Thx
Bonjour à toi Twoesse !
Je te remercie pour ta réponse sur le forum. Est-ce que tu pourrait me donner plus d'information concernant la personne qui a acheter le Galaxy Note 5 ? Sur quel site internet l'a t-il acheté ? Qu'entend tu par une version région unlock du Note 5 ?
Est ce que tu a le lien du forum en question ?
Merci infiniment pour ton aide !
Karl

I believe that doesnt have all the lte bands used in europe.
I also looked at it.
I-ve decided to wait 2 weeks . Theres a rumour a new device is coming to europe in IFA Berlin.
I can wait 2 weeks.

Karlitodok said:
Hello Twoesse !
Thanks for your answer.
Do you know where can I buy it ? Can you send me a private message with the French Forum ?
Thx
Bonjour à toi Twoesse !
Je te remercie pour ta réponse sur le forum. Est-ce que tu pourrait me donner plus d'information concernant la personne qui a acheter le Galaxy Note 5 ? Sur quel site internet l'a t-il acheté ? Qu'entend tu par une version région unlock du Note 5 ?
Est ce que tu a le lien du forum en question ?
Merci infiniment pour ton aide !
Karl
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Here is the purchase link : http://www.ebay.fr/itm/New-Samsung-...419ae6fe53&clk_rvr_id=887546786155&rmvSB=true
The name of the french forum is : hfr , heading galaxy note 5 ; You will have the pleasure to see me.
Voici le lien d'achat.....
Le nom du forum français est hfr, rubrique galaxy note 5; Tu auras le plaisir de m'y retrouver.
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siriom said:
I believe that doesnt have all the lte bands used in europe..
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The person who imported the Note 5 does not raise this issue . To be continued...
siriom said:
I also looked at it.
I-ve decided to wait 2 weeks . Theres a rumour a new device is coming to europe in IFA Berlin.
I can wait 2 weeks.
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Me too. By cons I was not aware about the rumor of a possible new device ......

Keep me updated if the phone works well.
Why order from USA ? There are orders available from UK...
Within european union is always better...
I have no doubt he can make calls or send sms. What i doubt is if he has full 4g capabilities.
Thanks.

Do not worry, when I have news, I'll post.
Would you have a link to order from U.K.?
Thk.

Most mobiles for European use should have LTE bands 3, 7, and 20 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LTE_networks_in_Europe).
e.g. the SM-N920I does not have B20, so not ideal.
Need to check release list for Note 5 - http://forum.xda-developers.com/not...lease-list-t3182714/post62427847#post62427847
e.g. the Note 5 32GB offered on ebay UK right now is the SM-N920I - I wouldn't buy that for use in Europe... but they're selling anyway lol,
btw that's the same thing for the ebay link above from France.... missing 800MHz LTE band for Europe, still have the shorter range bands left, but I wouldn't risk getting potentially worse LTE coverage.
another useful link, subject to error ofc... http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=8687&c=samsung_sm-n920i_galaxy_note_5_lte-a_64gb_samsung_noble

Can i use a unlocked N920A or N920T in german with lte band20 800mhz ?

I figured as much . Your phone works , you send sms and get calls but your lte coverage is gonna suck.
Personally Im getting the lg 4 pro.
It has everything .
LG G4 Pro is supposed to blow the Note 5 out of the water by including all that Samsung has left out: Expandable storage up to 128gb, removable 3,500 mAh battery and also including Quad HD 5.8″ display, Snapdragon 820 SoC, 4gb RAM, whopping 27 megapixel camera with OIS and 8 megapixel selfie camera. Oh and it also has a stylus pen.
Why give samsung money after this fiasco ?
Personally im getting this as soon as its out which is probably after IFA in Berlin

The asian phones (n9208) are missing band 20 though they do have 800Mhz its different bands. In the UK band 20 is used by Vodafone and O2, while EE use bands 3 and 7 and Three uses band 3
In france it seems that its a bit more mixed up with the networks using multiple bands each,
must say I'm tempted by the LG G4 pro or whatever it will be called, especially if its released as a Nexus device.

From what I've found, the recommended phone given European frequencies (both 3G and 4G LTE) is the N920C.
There is a whole thread (in French) dedicated to that topic on the frandroid forum (can't post the link as guest, sorry)
From what I've seen on T Dimension, the N920C has these frequencies:
Cellular Networks: GSM850/900/1800/1900 (same on all models)
3G: UMTS 850(B5)/900(B8)/1900(B2)/2100(B1) <-- in France, both bands 1 (2100 MHz) and 8 (900 MHz) are used, see "Fréquences de téléphonie mobile en France" on Wikipedia
4G: LTE 2100(B1)/700(B17)/850(B5)/ (B4)/1800(B3)/2600(B7)/1900(B2)/900(B8)/700(B12)/800(B26)/800(B19)/800(B20)
Or in order, bands 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 12 17 19 20 26
In most of Europe (and France is no exception), you only need bands 1, 3, 7, and 20.
The only other model that I've found with band 20 is the N920A, but for 3G it lacks band 8 (900 MHz).
Hope this helps!

920C and 920CD (dual) are the models compatible with any european LTE/4G band (b3/b7/b20)

Band Restrictions 4G LTE Mexico

Hi everyone i was looking into the Mi 5X and thought it was a good phone an i decided to buy it but before doing it i realized that it is not 4G compatible with my country
Is there anyway that i can eliminate the restrictions from this device so i can have all frequencies available?
PS: sorry for bad english

Hi bro. I was about to do the same thing, but I was awared of that problem (I also live in México), so I've been doing some "research" on google and I have some bad news. Xiaomi has never released an international version of their "MI" main line, even the Mi6 doesn't have one and it was released 4 months ago, so it is not a recent problem. So this, many people have tried to unlock another bands than stock supported since mi5 first release, with no success, they realized it is a hardware issue rather than software. Back to mi4 it was posible due to some qualcomm software restrictions that were easily bypassed, something not posible with newer SoCs.
So, in a few words, as far as I discovered, if it doesn't stock support a band it will never do since is a hardware restriction, at least not with current qualcomm SoCs. Its a shame that in middle 2017 we still have problems with network bands, I don't remember we had this long lasting issues with 3G

unfortunately no carnal, we'll have to stay with H+ if you want the phone in México

Have you tried to unlock the bands using this tool DFS Studio? More instructions on how to achieve it can be found in this thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/le-max-2/how-to/guide-unlock-bands-leeco-le-max-2-fix-t3439154
Not sure if it works on the Mi 5X, but it may be worth to try it out.

Valiste verga carnal, acaban de lanzar el A1, que es un 5X con todas las bandas LTE y Android stock puro.
Tough luck.

CharlieBros said:
Valiste verga carnal, acaban de lanzar el A1, que es un 5X con todas las bandas LTE y Android stock puro.
Tough luck.
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Please write in english, it's annoying for others to read when you write in other languages in this forum and it's also a violation of the rules.

GethPrime said:
Have you tried to unlock the bands using this tool DFS Studio? More instructions on how to achieve it can be found in this thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/le-max-2/how-to/guide-unlock-bands-leeco-le-max-2-fix-t3439154
Not sure if it works on the Mi 5X, but it may be worth to try it out.
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As far as I know that's just for unlock the SoC for more bands support, but unfortunately that's not enough. There's some hardware requirements the phone must have for correct signal reception, and SoC support is just one of them. He can try it, maybe SoC restriction is the only limitation, but honestly I doubt it

LTE B5 with AT&T Mexico
Hi bro!
Some folks in Puebla report that their Xiaomi's are with LTE service on AT&T, and there is a rumor about AT&T Mexico enabling LTE @ B5 in major cities.
Then maybe you have your problem solved without recurring to Soc/Kernel hands on!
Good luck, hope this works for u.

Samsung A71 Simlock

Right so, i have bought a A71 but it has a Simlock on it. It is locked to EE. Is there any possible way to unlock it for FREE, as this device is second hand and EE charge a fee for unlocking a phone. Is there any alternatives how i can unlock my phone?

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Right so, i have bought a A71 but it has a Simlock on it. It is locked to EE. Is there any possible way to unlock it for FREE, as this device is second hand and EE charge a fee for unlocking a phone. Is there any alternatives how i can unlock my phone?
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If its 6.months old EE will u locked for £9
If under 6 months some ebay sellers might be able to get you a code for a out £50
No free options as far as I know.

Buenas a mi me pasa lo mismo lo compre en claro argentina, y una sim está bloqueada hay forma de descubrir para usar las dos sim al mismo tiempo dualsim
Translation: Hello to me, the same thing happens to me, I bought it in Argentina, and one sim is blocked.

Question Snapdragon SM-G9980 (China) in Europe

Hi good people!
Did anyone had experience with the Chinese Snapdragon variant in Europe?
Are there any features lacking in comparison to the Exynos variant?
What will not work?

hello,
just got my china one, g9980zhu2aubb.
samsung phone don't have antispam (hiya) option, and samsung pay don't work
still in test.
maybe someone knows if we could flash it with eu firmware?

Isn't Hiya 3rd party app? It cannot be installed?

dezzan said:
Isn't Hiya 3rd party app? It cannot be installed?
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yep it can, but samsung smart call (missing in mine) had it free.
instead you'll have to buy hiya or try google dialer. (i dont like his giant favorite bubbles)
maybe someone could share a tips to get samsung phone with hiya for chinese phone.

Why is Samsung Pay not working - I asked UK Samsung Customer service and they said it should work since it is a service enabled in China
"I won't be able to confirm these issues as you are the first one to have mentioned this to me. As far as I know, Samsung Pay is supported on this following countries: US, UK, Australia, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam. You can consider where the device was manufactured for you to be able to use Samsung pay."

I think it's dependent on your regions csc.

I live in Shanghai and bought a china version of the ultra, it doesn't have hiya, rather it uses a local tencent or baidu equivalent to control the spam calls. The samsung browser also doesn't let you select a default english search engine like bing or google, you can only set chinese ones. I got fed up with it and flashed the Hong Kong firmware, and the hong kong version fixes these issues, including having hiya.
Edit: And another thought, the chinese firmware uses bixby home on the left screen, so no samsung free or google discover. The hong kong firmware has these so another reason why I decided to flash (but now the discover feed has stopped showing anything and i can't figure it out....)

Seems like it's not worth experimenting with China's Snap

dezzan said:
Seems like it's not worth experimenting with China's Snap
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So which version did buy?
I'm also thinking of getting the HK but afraid I will lose volte or 5g among other stuff.
Wdyt?

I didn't buy it yet - I can still get Snap version from a reseller for less money than Exynos - which was unthinkable with S20 and Note 20 series last year

dezzan said:
I didn't buy it yet - I can still get Snap version from a reseller for less money than Exynos - which was unthinkable with S20 and Note 20 series last year
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seems getting the HK version is bit risky no>?

Oh wow. I didn't even realize that those countries listed above all have NFC Local/Mobile Pay terminals. That's specifically what's needed with the S21 series as Samsung has removed their MST Pay functionality... =(. So now it's basically Google Pay with less features...

Berserker900 said:
seems getting the HK version is bit risky no>?
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It is not just risky, it is straightforwardly missing important features
If I meter Snap positives like better gaming and photo experience against all that is lacking.... meh, not worth it

dezzan said:
Hola buena gente!
¿Alguien tenía experiencia con la variante china Snapdragon en Europa?
¿Falta alguna característica en comparación con la variante Exynos?
¿Qué no funcionará?
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IIm From Spain and I had recive 9980 snapdragon version and I doesn't have any problem.only Samsung pay that I couldn't download in play store but when I went to the Samsung store I could to do and run perfectly. Buy without any dude.

Is it possible to change the rom of the s21 ultra G9980 version (CSC: TGY) to a European Rom G998B – ( CSC : ITV) ??
È possibile cambiare la rom del s21 ultra versione G9980 (CSC: TGY) con una rom europea G998B – ( CSC : ITV) ??

ROBERTO.LANZIERE said:
Is it possible to change the rom of the s21 ultra G9980 version (CSC: TGY) to a European Rom G998B
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ROBERTO.LANZIERE said:
Is it possible to change the rom of the s21 ultra G9980 version (CSC: TGY) to a European Rom G998B – ( CSC : ITV) ??
È possibile cambiare la rom del s21 ultra versione G9980 (CSC: TGY) con una rom europea G998B – ( CSC : ITV) ??
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I don't kmow but i have a 9980 version and apparently works ok. But if you will get tell us how it works. Thanks

ROBERTO.LANZIERE said:
Is it possible to change the rom of the s21 ultra G9980 version (CSC: TGY) to a European Rom G998B – ( CSC : ITV) ??
È possibile cambiare la rom del s21 ultra versione G9980 (CSC: TGY) con una rom europea G998B – ( CSC : ITV) ??
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No you can't. 2 difference models and can't be flashed.

Ivanbani said:
I don't kmow but i have a 9980 version and apparently works ok. But if you will get tell us how it works. Thanks
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Have you managed to test it more thoroughly?
Reported issues so far on this and other threads:
1. VoLTE doesn't work
2. Samsung pay - Chinese version - works on HK one (yours)
3. antispam blocker not working
4. default search engine can't be set to Google
5. left home screen can't be set to Google Discover
What are your experiences with these features?

dezzan said:
Have you managed to test it more thoroughly?
Reported issues so far on this and other threads:
1. VoLTE doesn't work
2. Samsung pay - Chinese version - works on HK one (yours)
3. antispam blocker not working
4. default search engine can't be set to Google
5. left home screen can't be set to Google Discover
What are your experiences with these features?
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Hi I have g9980 also HK Variant.
1. VoLTTE works
2. Not sure, Samsung pay is not supported in our country.
3.. Anti Spam works.
4. Google is the default search engine. No need to change.
5. Google discover & samsung free is there and it works.

Just to clarify what i wrote previously, the mainland china version cannot set the search engine to google, nor is samsung free or google discover available on the left screen(it's bixby home), and the anti-spam is china only.
However, once you flash the mainland china version with the hong kong TGY firmware, you can choose any of the english search engines you prefer, google discover and samsung free will be available on the left screen and the anti-spam will use hiya, not the china only spam crap.
So if you don't like messing around and flashing firmwares, I suggest buying the Hong Kong version of the phone. If you can get a good deal on a china version, you can get that and flash the Hong Kong firmware and no problem.
If you buy the China mainland version and do not flash the TGY firmware, i would very much not recommend buying it.
In my case so far, i think the phone is fantastic and worth every penny.