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I made an order on the 26/6 where it said that stock was available, a DHL order was created on the 27/7 that stayed on Shipping information received. Contacted DHL after a few days to see where my order was and they said it was never picked up.
Contacted OnePlus Live support, where i found out they did not have stock that's why they did not proceed and was told to wait 48 hours. I did.
After 48 hours my order was still not moving, contacted them again, opened a ticket and been trying to find out where my order is, finally they said that the order was lost and after 1 week of live support and support tickets they tried to resend me the order.
After 3 days that the new order stayed in pending and avoiding my question on "when will the new order be shipped" i opened a ticket in paypal asking for my money back.
It only took them 24h to hold the new order and asking me to close the dispute and as they put it "The system will automatically unhold the order upon ending PayPal dispute. Then the order will be shipped out based on the ETD (estimated time of arrival) you saw when you placed this order."
Thanks but not thanks, after i read https://www.reddit.com/r/oneplus/comments/4twljv/oneplus_three_package_has_arrive_but_without_the/ I will never trust OnePlus again.
#NEVERTRUST rather than #NeverSettle.
I post this here, maybe it will manage to save someone the time and money from dealing with OnePlus and their support deparment.
So why instead of going through all of this misery, didn't you just buy one on Swappa??? There are brand new, never used or opened, as well as lightly used, tested phones, often for the same or less money than ordering one.
I just bought one there; in fact, I have bought my last four phones there -- not a single problem with any of them. Very easy and trouble free way to get a new phone.
Wow I was thinking of buying this phone and canceling the Axon 7 since everyone says this has better performance, but after that story no thank you and the other one who essentially got robbed no thanks. Loving ZTE.
some people unfortunately have some bad luck and bad experiences, just b/c this happened to him does not mean it will happen to you, some people just dont have things go right for them, i don't think u should not get the phone off of his bad luck, that is just the way life works, somethings works for people and somethings don't, i had a great experience, i work for at&t mobility and i encounter people who do have such bad luck and we can't do anything for b/c of certain circumstances and yet for some others we can work wonders for. I think it just so crazy how life is on how somethings work out for some people and somethings just go so wrong for people. You just gotta find out what works great for u
it's strange that it was marked as "in stock" because I ordered mine on June 21th (shipping to France) and before I paid it was clearly marked that estimated shipping date was for June 30th, so 9th day later, plus 7 days for DHL shipping.
Anyway I had to go in another country for 2 weeks and sent it to my parents home.
In the end they sent it on June 27th, so 3 days ahead of estimated shipping date and DHL was long as it was told.
On your invoice, what is the "estimated dispatch date"? their stock may differ by continent but for Europe stock was already low.
Anyway you don't need to warn European buyers as it's not possible to order op3 for most European countries, until end of September I think.
This could have been the 2nd OnePlus 3 i ordered from them. The 1st one came within 3 days when they first announced it. Everything went just fine and i was pretty pleased with the phone itself.
In this case i had to go through the process with their so-called "Customer Support", which is one of worse situations I've ever been through and person after person I've talked to in order to solve this was giving me the same answer "Wait 24/48 hours more". This was going more than a week.
@Le_Zouave It said in stock that's why i continued from them and not from any other website, better of getting the product from the source - i guess. Plus, In the ticket when finally the decided that my order was not send, i asked if it would be send "NOW" proceed, if not refund me 'PLEASE', they continued with the 2nd order which stayed pending for 3 days.
@zulu657 I would have bought it from any other website that supported shipping to Cyprus - my country, but since it showed "in stock" and i my previous device came within 3 days i thought "why not".
Point here is, If everything goes as it should then you might get the products you ordered, IF anything goes wrong and you have to solve it with their Support center, then i feel bad for you.
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Read this before ordering.. [OnePlus Support horror story]
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Nah man, already bought 3 phones from this company and they're pretty chill
Mine was fine. Enough said. Scare tactics. Are you paid by a competitor?
Also got mine within 3 days. I was really surprised at how fast it was delivered. On the other hand I have been waiting for a delivery from America (I'm in Austria) for nearly a month. Sometimes the packages get held in customs and can stay there for weeks. Either way a bit of patience if all you need. No point getting all worked up over something so petty. First world problems, am I right? Lol
But still...
This phone is a beast...
Nevermind the cs. All cs are almost the same they are like robots programmed to say what they are about to say.
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@GeneralDisaray2 not paid by anyone. Just sharing my 2nd OP3 experience with all of you.
@camdadeye291 First OP3 i ordered as soon as it got announced came in 3 days, was as surprised as you. But as soon as i had to contact their support center for my 2nd order to solve my issue it all went to hell. Plus i would not call losing 500€ a 'first world problem'.
@marc_ecko28 The phone itself is one of the best i ever owned, that's why i ordered this 2nd one along with more cases.
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To answer all,
@GeneralDisaray2 not paid by anyone. Just sharing my 2nd OP3 experience with all of you.
@camdadeye291 First OP3 i ordered as soon as it got announced came in 3 days, was as surprised as you. But as soon as i had to contact their support center for my 2nd order to solve my issue it all went to hell. Plus i would not call losing 500€ a 'first world problem'.
@marc_ecko28 The phone itself is one of the best i ever owned, that's why i ordered this 2nd one along with more cases.
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Like I said a bit of patience is all that is needed, I'm sure it will be resolved. Still a first world problem.
For me all went smooth, even came earlier than estimated time, shipped to Croatia and in ten days after placed order I got it. No problems or anything whatsoever.
i bought total of 3 oneplus.3 never had issue. one phonr was even in my hands 2 days after payment which is insane
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genoxide said:
I made an order on the 26/6 where it said that stock was available, a DHL order was created on the 27/7 that stayed on Shipping information received. Contacted DHL after a few days to see where my order was and they said it was never picked up.
Contacted OnePlus Live support, where i found out they did not have stock that's why they did not proceed and was told to wait 48 hours. I did.
After 48 hours my order was still not moving, contacted them again, opened a ticket and been trying to find out where my order is, finally they said that the order was lost and after 1 week of live support and support tickets they tried to resend me the order.
After 3 days that the new order stayed in pending and avoiding my question on "when will the new order be shipped" i opened a ticket in paypal asking for my money back.
It only took them 24h to hold the new order and asking me to close the dispute and as they put it "The system will automatically unhold the order upon ending PayPal dispute. Then the order will be shipped out based on the ETD (estimated time of arrival) you saw when you placed this order."
Thanks but not thanks, after i read https://www.reddit.com/r/oneplus/comments/4twljv/oneplus_three_package_has_arrive_but_without_the/ I will never trust OnePlus again.
#NEVERTRUST rather than #NeverSettle.
I post this here, maybe it will manage to save someone the time and money from dealing with OnePlus and their support deparment.
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At first, my phone took longer than stated but I didn't logon to XDA and write a negative review about the situation. Nothing is guaranteed in life except taxes and death! Stuff you order on Amazon Prime - not guaranteed to get to you the next day. The game you purchased from GameStop or Best Buy - not guaranteed to get to you by the stated time and date. The phone you bought from OnePlus - not guaranteed to get to you by the date and time given. I think you missed the part where OnePlus halted sales of the OnePlus 3 due them not being able to meet demand - due to the devices popularity? Guys, please don't be phased by this account of "bad luck". What happened to this guys is not guaranteed to happen to you.
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speedyjay said:
At first, my phone took longer than stated but I didn't logon to XDA and write a negative review about the situation. Nothing is guaranteed in life except taxes and death! Stuff you order on Amazon Prime - not guaranteed to get to you the next day. The game you purchased from GameStop or Best Buy - not guaranteed to get to you by the stated time and date. The phone you bought from OnePlus - not guaranteed to get to you by the date and time given. I think you missed the part where OnePlus halted sales of the OnePlus 3 due them not being able to meet demand - due to the devices popularity? Guys, please don't be phased by this account of "bad luck". What happened to this guys is not guaranteed to happen to you.
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The phone did not take longer, it never came since the 26/7. Actually, it was never packed but they just created a DHL ticket for pickup and that's it. I did not post this to inform people about OnePlus' lack of stock, but to share my experience with their Support deparment.
I had delays with products that i ordered from the Internet, but as soon as i contacted the company they handled it, like any company that respects their customers would. OnePlus support did not.
What i saw from their support department is keep the customer waiting. At least that what they showed me. It was not with 1 guy of their support, but with most of them, only 2 guys that i spoke with in live support actually came clear and i respect that.
The order was made before OnePlus came out in public and halt the sales, but that again plays no role as again I'm saying that my issue is not with their lack of stock, but with their lack of support and respect for their customers.
Was it bad luck? Yes. Will this happen to anyone else? Hope not. But in the case it happens and you need to contact their customer support, I feel bad for you.
genoxide said:
The phone did not take longer, it never came since the 26/7. Actually, it was never packed but they just created a DHL ticket for pickup and that's it. I did not post this to inform people about OnePlus' lack of stock, but to share my experience with their Support deparment.
I had delays with products that i ordered from the Internet, but as soon as i contacted the company they handled it, like any company that respects their customers would. OnePlus support did not.
What i saw from their support department is keep the customer waiting. At least that what they showed me. It was not with 1 guy of their support, but with most of them, only 2 guys that i spoke with in live support actually came clear and i respect that.
The order was made before OnePlus came out in public and halt the sales, but that again plays no role as again I'm saying that my issue is not with their lack of stock, but with their lack of support and respect for their customers.
Was it bad luck? Yes. Will this happen to anyone else? Hope not. But in the case it happens and you need to contact their customer support, I feel bad for you.
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Have you received your device?
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Have you received your device?
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Nope. I opened a case with Paypal for a refund 4 days ago.
I still wouldn't go as far as to say that this is appalling service. It's just a classic case of bad luck. Not every company has made their millions abiding by the book. If companies didn't make mistakes, they'd definitely be something wrong.
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Per the advice of senior XDA moderator I'm creating this thread for *All Things* Huawei Honor Note 8 phone. This phone does not yet have a dedicated forum, so you can discuss here anything from development topics, such as rooting, bootloader unlocking (there is a working method already), custom roms/recoveries to exchanging opinions about performance or accessories for this phone, which you like.
Honor Note 8 is currently released in mainland China only. However, Honor stated the phone will have international release soon.
Please note, this thread is *NOT* for Huawei Honor 8, which is completely different phone. Stay on topic and have fun. :good::laugh:
http://www.honor.cn/products/mobile-phones/honor-note8/
6.6 inch Super AMOLED display with 2560 x 1440 (2K) resolution
HiSilicon Kirin955 chipset with Mali-T880 MP4 GPU
4GB RAM (Premium Version)
Up to 128GB ROM (Premium Version) and up to 2TB expendable storage
4500mAh Battery
Dual SIM
Primary camera: 13 MP, f/2.0, autofocus, OIS, dual-LED (dual tone) flash, Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, HDR, panorama. Video recording [email protected]
Front camera: 8 MP
Fingerprint
USB Type-C
Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, WiFi Direct, hotspot
Bluetooth v4.2, A2DP, EDR, LE
GPS: A-GPS, GLONASS/ BDS (market dependant)
FM radio
Marshmallow 6.0.1 with EMUI 4.1
First post by me
I have an old Galaxy Note 3. I'm in the USA on Verizon. I've been drooling over the Honor Note 8 since I first heard of it. It's exactly what I want. I cannot get a straight answer online on several questions.
1. Will it work now on Verizon? Most say no, some say yes.
2. Will it come to the USA soon? Again, I'm getting different answers on this.
3. Are there 'tricks' I can learn to force this phone to work well on Verizon now very well, or should I just wait?
I'd prefer to stay on Verizon, but I'd switch to AT&T, Sprint, or T-Mobile if I have to in order to use this phone.
I'm not a tech wiz, so I'll need some help here. If you can answer my questions and guide me, I'd sure appreciate it. Thank you very much.
Proud Owner of the Huawei Honor Note 8
Hi All,
So having lived in China for a while and having owned and used Huawei phones in the past (my last Huawei Phone was the massive Mediapad X1), I can testify to the quality and advantages of huawei smartphones.
First, I've had this phone for about a week. I ordered it off of aliexpress. I'm pretty familiar with making purchases from chinese websites and getting technical support from chinese companies and sources so i was pretty confident with making this purchase (I can read/write mandarin). Phone arrived super fast and I was happy with the purchase.
Right now I'm working really hard to root my device. I have already unlocked the bootloader using the dc-unlocker method and it worked perfectly (btw, its cheaper to download the app and pay only 1 usd instead of 4 euros). I'm literally scouring the internet and all the chinese websites for news on different roms, but very little luck thus far. I have downloaded some different versions of the operating system (ver. B017 only, as B018, B019, and B020 are not yet available as far as I've seen) but these versions are not boot versions. So no luck there.
I've also spoken directly with Huawei regarding when they will release the updated factory versions of the operating system for download from the EMUI website. There is no confirmation that they will even release them however, as the answer I received was that Huawei wants to move to a system in which all updates are OTA. I was a bit upset to say the least but we'll see what happens in the future.
For now just enjoying this awesome phone. feel free to ask me any questions.
-chris
JohnnyF118 said:
I have an old Galaxy Note 3. I'm in the USA on Verizon. I've been drooling over the Honor Note 8 since I first heard of it. It's exactly what I want. I cannot get a straight answer online on several questions.
1. Will it work now on Verizon? Most say no, some say yes.
2. Will it come to the USA soon? Again, I'm getting different answers on this.
3. Are there 'tricks' I can learn to force this phone to work well on Verizon now very well, or should I just wait?
I'd prefer to stay on Verizon, but I'd switch to AT&T, Sprint, or T-Mobile if I have to in order to use this phone.
I'm not a tech wiz, so I'll need some help here. If you can answer my questions and guide me, I'd sure appreciate it. Thank you very much.
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1. You can check on a site called willmyphonework.net
2. You can buy it on ebay
3. Don't know
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toasty32 said:
Hi All,
So having lived in China for a while and having owned and used Huawei phones in the past (my last Huawei Phone was the massive Mediapad X1), I can testify to the quality and advantages of huawei smartphones.
First, I've had this phone for about a week. I ordered it off of aliexpress. I'm pretty familiar with making purchases from chinese websites and getting technical support from chinese companies and sources so i was pretty confident with making this purchase (I can read/write mandarin). Phone arrived super fast and I was happy with the purchase.
Right now I'm working really hard to root my device. I have already unlocked the bootloader using the dc-unlocker method and it worked perfectly (btw, its cheaper to download the app and pay only 1 usd instead of 4 euros). I'm literally scouring the internet and all the chinese websites for news on different roms, but very little luck thus far. I have downloaded some different versions of the operating system (ver. B017 only, as B018, B019, and B020 are not yet available as far as I've seen) but these versions are not boot versions. So no luck there.
I've also spoken directly with Huawei regarding when they will release the updated factory versions of the operating system for download from the EMUI website. There is no confirmation that they will even release them however, as the answer I received was that Huawei wants to move to a system in which all updates are OTA. I was a bit upset to say the least but we'll see what happens in the future.
For now just enjoying this awesome phone. feel free to ask me any questions.
-chris
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Helllo,
I have two questions:
1. What's the audio output like through the headphone 3.5mm jack?
2. What's the camera like?
Racerdude said:
1. You can check on a site called willmyphonework.net
2. You can buy it on ebay
3. Don't know
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Helllo,
I have two questions:
1. What's the audio output like through the headphone 3.5mm jack?
2. What's the camera like?
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To answer your questions:
1. The audio output is excellent. Crisp with perfect amount (not too much I hate that) of base. The volume goes loud enough (using the jack) to hurt my ears, and that's hard to do.
2. The cameras on Huawei phones are usually very good to excellent. This particular phone does not sport Huawei's top camera (I think that might be the Huawei P9 plus or the Mate 8. But again, those phones are much smaller and focus on high quality cameras. This phone's advantages are its size, screen quality, CPU and memory. The camera is very good but definitely not top top quality. It doesn't focus instantaneously for example like some galaxy cameras, but I think it's good enough. I'm not THAT into photography.
3. ALSO**** just so everyone knows, I bought this phone because I wanted to use the latest CAT6 4G LTE speeds in Brazil (where I currently reside) and in China. I'm American though btw. The version I bought in its current form from China does NOT support the LTE bands commonly used by AT&T. Its bands are (1,3,7,38,39,40,and 41). Thus, 3G is the fastest speeds you would get in the US with AT&T. But it will be 4G in Europe, South America and China. If the phone is sold in the US market, Huawei changes the LTE bands to suit the target country's market, so I'm sure the bands for any US or International version of the phone will have different bands.
-chris
JohnnyF118 said:
I have an old Galaxy Note 3. I'm in the USA on Verizon. I've been drooling over the Honor Note 8 since I first heard of it. It's exactly what I want. I cannot get a straight answer online on several questions.
1. Will it work now on Verizon? Most say no, some say yes.
2. Will it come to the USA soon? Again, I'm getting different answers on this.
3. Are there 'tricks' I can learn to force this phone to work well on Verizon now very well, or should I just wait?
I'd prefer to stay on Verizon, but I'd switch to AT&T, Sprint, or T-Mobile if I have to in order to use this phone.
I'm not a tech wiz, so I'll need some help here. If you can answer my questions and guide me, I'd sure appreciate it. Thank you very much.
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Some corrections/clarifications to what Racerdude and toasty32 said. First, no one will be able to answer questions about Verizon, because Honor did not announce this phone for US market yet, and it also did not pass through FCC certification. Having said that - most likely the answer is No, it will not work on Verizon. Typically, what Huawei, ZTE and other Chinese manufacturers do when they bring phones to North American market - they don't strike a deal with carriers and they don't release carrier branded phones, like Samsung, Apple, LG and others do. If you want to take past behavior of Chinese manufacturers as an indication what Honor will do - they will just release GSM only (no CDMA, hence no Verizon or Sprint) US version of Note 8, with all North American LTE bands enabled, and let people decide whichever GSM carrier they want to use it with. Honor just did this exact thing with Honor 8 phone in US a couple of weeks ago.
What toasty32 said about this Chinese version working in Europe and South America is not completely true - this Chinese EDI-AL10 version has only one overlapping TDD-LTE band 38 with some of South American carriers (most don't use it), and some European countries support LTE bands 3,38,40 so in some Euro regions 4G will be spotty at best, and in many places won't work at all. Here is the list of operating LTE frequencies by country and carrier
US T-Mobile requires LTE bands 2,4,12 (and optional band 17 used by AT&T because FCC requires them to support roaming)
US AT&T requires LTE bands 2,4,5,17 (and optional band 12 used by T-Mobile because FCC requires them to support roaming)
bootloader unlock
toasty32 said:
Right now I'm working really hard to root my device. I have already unlocked the bootloader using the dc-unlocker method and it worked perfectly (btw, its cheaper to download the app and pay only 1 usd instead of 4 euros).
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I've used dc-unlocker before and had to pay 4 euros to read bootloader code. Do you mind explaining what you meant by this, what app are you talking about and how to pay only $1 USD instead, to unlock bootloader?
JohnnyF118 said:
I have an old Galaxy Note 3. I'm in the USA on Verizon. I've been drooling over the Honor Note 8 since I first heard of it. It's exactly what I want. I cannot get a straight answer online on several questions.
1. Will it work now on Verizon? Most say no, some say yes.
2. Will it come to the USA soon? Again, I'm getting different answers on this.
3. Are there 'tricks' I can learn to force this phone to work well on Verizon now very well, or should I just wait?
I'd prefer to stay on Verizon, but I'd switch to AT&T, Sprint, or T-Mobile if I have to in order to use this phone.
I'm not a tech wiz, so I'll need some help here. If you can answer my questions and guide me, I'd sure appreciate it. Thank you very much.
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i've done some research into this and followed up with some other threads with people who bought the phone. Forget the different phone frequency websites, this phone will not get you what you want in the US. No LTE. Some carriers like tmo will get you 3g/3.5g hspa+ but that's the best you'll get and not a smart move. I'm also desperately waiting some any big phone to come with US compatible bands but as it seems now, we're still waiting..
Hi everyone, i write from Italy.
I always loved big smartphones and this would be one of the best right now.
Unfortunately, i think that Honor won't bring in Europe.
I talked to their FB page, and they wrote me :
"Hi Marco, we don't have official news to launch the honor note 8 in Europe. If we have any plans, we will announce at once on our page, thank you - If you buy it from China, Well.. Then the warranty and post-sale service would not apply elsewhere but China" .
I'm a bit disappointed actually, i really don't understand why this amazing phon is sold just in China and they said " We don't know either" ... GOOD
Guys, on the web i saw that the camera sensor is the Sony Imx 278. (Same of P8/Mate S/G8) ...i'm a bit disappointed because i didn't love this camera sensor in the past...what do you think ?
Can you guys update from which seller in Aliexpress you bought from?
I paid for the phone last week and it has been 7 days but no update from the seller. Today I cancelled the order but Aliexpress have rejected it stating Seller has the phone in stock and order cannot be cancelled. The sad thing is Seller is not responding has 40 days (33 now) to ship the order (I did not see this while ordering). I ordered because seller was the Highest/most reputed seller while sorting and had DHL shipping. Any ways to resolve?
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Ori...2722895630.html?spm=2114.13010608.0.56.UCIAcX
Edit: Avoid this seller at all costs!
cashif said:
Can you guys update from which seller in Aliexpress you bought from?
I paid for the phone last week and it has been 7 days but no update from the seller. Today I cancelled the order but Aliexpress have rejected it stating Seller has the phone in stock and order cannot be cancelled. The sad thing is Seller is not responding has 40 days (33 now) to ship the order (I did not see this while ordering). I ordered because seller was the Highest/most reputed seller while sorting and had DHL shipping. Any ways to resolve?
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Ori...2722895630.html?spm=2114.13010608.0.56.UCIAcX
Edit: Avoid this seller at all costs!
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I'd tell Aliexpress to F*** OFF and do a chargeback with your credit card company. People should be allowed to cancel orders, for items which havent shipped, at any time. I'd also recommend to never buy from that marketplace again. Use places like Amazon, or at least eBay, where things are controlled more tightly and these US headquartered businesses will not screw you over without explanation.
My experience with AliExpress and UPDATE on ROOTING
Hi All,
So to answer the question regarding Aliexpress....I purchased from this store/seller here:
.aliexpress.com/store/1802347?spm=2114.13010608.0.126.x0uHsw
and in particular, this product:
.aliexpress.com/item/Original-Huawei-Honor-Note-8-4G-LTE-Mobile-Phone-Kirin-955-Octa-Core-6-6-2K/32714180113.html?spm=2114.13010608.0.129.x0uHsw
I used singapore expedited shipping (super cheap) as it was one of the few options I could use to get expedited shipping to the US considering there was a lithium ion battery being shipped internationally.
I cannot stress how pleased I was with both the seller and the service. I understand that Aliexpress may have a bad reputation because it is a foreign/chinese website and doing business internationally is almost always more difficult that doing business domestically, but that being said, I do want to be fair, and when I do have a good experience, I'll promote it. Like any mass seller website ebay or otherwise there are going to be good merchants and bad ones. Luckily I found a good one.
cheers,
chris
UPDATE:
I was able to finally root this phone with the help of some Chinese programmers (from bbs.xxroot.com <--- the Chinese equivalent of xda developers haha). More details to come.
toasty32 said:
Hi All,
So to answer the question regarding Aliexpress....I purchased from this store/seller here:
.aliexpress.com/store/1802347?spm=2114.13010608.0.126.x0uHsw
and in particular, this product:
.aliexpress.com/item/Original-Huawei-Honor-Note-8-4G-LTE-Mobile-Phone-Kirin-955-Octa-Core-6-6-2K/32714180113.html?spm=2114.13010608.0.129.x0uHsw
I used singapore expedited shipping (super cheap) as it was one of the few options I could use to get expedited shipping to the US considering there was a lithium ion battery being shipped internationally.
I cannot stress how pleased I was with both the seller and the service. I understand that Aliexpress may have a bad reputation because it is a foreign/chinese website and doing business internationally is almost always more difficult that doing business domestically, but that being said, I do want to be fair, and when I do have a good experience, I'll promote it. Like any mass seller website ebay or otherwise there are going to be good merchants and bad ones. Luckily I found a good one.
cheers,
chris
UPDATE:
I was able to finally root this phone with the help of some Chinese programmers (from bbs.xxroot.com <--- the Chinese equivalent of xda developers haha). More details to come.
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Just wanted to point out that Aliexpress has bad reputation not because it is a foreign/chinese website, but because that reputation is well deserved. I personally got scammed for over $300 by that site years ago, and I personally know several people, who got screwed as well. Also, if you do a bit of internet research then like you said - you will discover that marketplace has a bad reputation, and for a good reason - there are plenty of people's testimonies of fraud. Aliexpress is nothing like eBay - scam/fraud rate is orders of magnitude higher.
If you want to take the time and post the root guide for the rooting method you used - I'm sure it'd be much appreciated by a lot of people here, who have or plan to buy this phone. Also, you didn't answer my question from earlier post about how to avoid paying 4 euros to dc-unlocker for unlocking the bootloader.
How can Honor put the same camera of Huawei P8 (Just sufficient) in a phablet with 4gb of Ram DDR4, Kirin 955, QHD Screen....c'mon..
toasty32 said:
Hi All,
So to answer the question regarding Aliexpress....I purchased from this store/seller here:
.aliexpress.com/store/1802347?spm=2114.13010608.0.126.x0uHsw
and in particular, this product:
.aliexpress.com/item/Original-Huawei-Honor-Note-8-4G-LTE-Mobile-Phone-Kirin-955-Octa-Core-6-6-2K/32714180113.html?spm=2114.13010608.0.129.x0uHsw
I used singapore expedited shipping (super cheap) as it was one of the few options I could use to get expedited shipping to the US considering there was a lithium ion battery being shipped internationally.
I cannot stress how pleased I was with both the seller and the service. I understand that Aliexpress may have a bad reputation because it is a foreign/chinese website and doing business internationally is almost always more difficult that doing business domestically, but that being said, I do want to be fair, and when I do have a good experience, I'll promote it. Like any mass seller website ebay or otherwise there are going to be good merchants and bad ones. Luckily I found a good one.
cheers,
chris
UPDATE:
I was able to finally root this phone with the help of some Chinese programmers (from bbs.xxroot.com <--- the Chinese equivalent of xda developers haha). More details to come.
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Damn. That was my preferred seller. While ordering, it showed processing time of 5 days, so decided to skip it and went with the Highest rated seller (Who has/d not mentioned processing time in the listing) and whose feedback was filled with positive reviews about quick shipping.
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Just wanted to point out that Aliexpress has bad reputation not because it is a foreign/chinese website, but because that reputation is well deserved. I personally got scammed for over $300 by that site years ago, and I personally know several people, who got screwed as well. Also, if you do a bit of internet research then like you said - you will discover that marketplace has a bad reputation, and for a good reason - there are plenty of people's testimonies of fraud. Aliexpress is nothing like eBay - scam/fraud rate is orders of magnitude higher.
If you want to take the time and post the root guide for the rooting method you used - I'm sure it'd be much appreciated by a lot of people here, who have or plan to buy this phone. Also, you didn't answer my question from earlier post about how to avoid paying 4 euros to dc-unlocker for unlocking the bootloader.
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Have purchased more than 75 times from AliExpress (atleast 20 expensive items) and this has been my WORST experience for me. Everytime, Orders were shipped either next day or 2 days after and I generally order expensive items thru DHL/Fedex and have had it with me within 10 days. On the contrary, had very bad experience with ebay- both as seller & buyer- and have completely stopped using it (Lost close to $1200 while selling).
Order Update: Seller has mailed me apologising for delay and stating he will ship ' asap' but Still no commitment- (He replied after I bombarded him with messages)
@chris- Do update with the root method. Am so happy that it has been rooted as one of the reasons I tried cancelling the phone (other than obvious delay) was that you mentioning no root and someone mentioning about it not being launched in Europe
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Have purchased more than 75 times from AliExpress (atleast 20 expensive items) and this has been my WORST experience for me. Everytime, Orders were shipped either next day or 2 days after and I generally order expensive items thru DHL/Fedex and have had it with me within 10 days. On the contrary, had very bad experience with ebay- both as seller & buyer- and have completely stopped using it (Lost close to $1200 while selling).
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This sounds a lot like Aliexpress advertisement. I bet it's because you sell there yourself, and want people to use it. I'm glad it allegedly works fine for you, but I myself and a lot of people I know would never go near it. Regardless, this is kind of off topic stuff, not related to Honor Note 8, so I suggest we move on.
If anyone can post a root method, or free/chip bootloader unlock method - that'd be very much appreciated. And if someone car figure out a way to mod NVRAM and unlock additional LTE bands in this Kirin955 chipset - that'd be a home-run!
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This sounds a lot like Aliexpress advertisement. I bet it's because you sell there yourself, and want people to use it. I'm glad it allegedly works fine for you, but I myself and a lot of people I know would never go near it. Regardless, this is kind of off topic stuff, not related to Honor Note 8, so I suggest we move on.
If anyone can post a root method, or free/chip bootloader unlock method - that'd be very much appreciated. And if someone car figure out a way to mod NVRAM and unlock additional LTE bands in this Kirin955 chipset - that'd be a home-run!
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Just to clarify I used to sell in Ebay not AliExpress and I have no relation/business whatsoever with AliExpress !!
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This sounds a lot like Aliexpress advertisement. I bet it's because you sell there yourself, and want people to use it. I'm glad it allegedly works fine for you, but I myself and a lot of people I know would never go near it. Regardless, this is kind of off topic stuff, not related to Honor Note 8, so I suggest we move on.
If anyone can post a root method, or free/chip bootloader unlock method - that'd be very much appreciated. And if someone car figure out a way to mod NVRAM and unlock additional LTE bands in this Kirin955 chipset - that'd be a home-run!
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So it sounds like it's been a while since you've actually used AliExpress. If that's true, than I have to say that it has changed and improved a LOT from 5 or even two years ago (not perfect of course). I hate to sound like an advertisement as well though but I do want to be fair. I think you should probably try it again to see for yourself because you're missing out on a lot. But your decision.
In regards to unlocking the bootloader: A little while ago DC-unlocker had a promotion on their website because they had just released their android app on the play store (play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dc.huaweibootloadercodes) and I remember seeing that there was a discount in prices for people who used the app. I took the bait, clicked the link and downloaded the app. Opening up the app on my phone I saw that there was the option to purchase a DC-unlocker account directly for $0.99. This as opposed to buying credits directly from their site. I purchased it and it worked. You guys should definitely try it.
Finally, it cost me a bit to finalize the rooting of my phone (50-100 RMB) especially because I downloaded some software tools from bbs.xxroot.com that they developed to unroot it. Also, it took a LOT of conversations (in mandarin haha) and several painful mistakes to figure out how the hell to root my phone. I am going to describe in a future post exactly what I did in detail but I'm not sure how much it will help people. I'll keep everyone posted.
cheers,
chris
P.S. please click thanks if you guys find my posts helpful! thanks.
So I'm pretty sure I'm hated at bbs.xxroot.com right now. But I succeeded....
check it out --> drive.google.com/file/d/0By2RD6aSQhsNb1NqRnFEd2VMcDA/view?usp=sharing
gonna work on trying to unlock additional LTE bands (if possible).
cheers,
chris
The Midnight Black OnePlus 5 will be shipped out immediately after you've ordered it.
OnePlus announced at the start of the year that one of its resolutions for 2017 was to tackle shipping delays by making its products available for immediate dispatch, which sees the company shipping a phone mere hours after you've placed the order.
Just got one today
I don't mean to be rude, but this isnt really a forum contribution since every oneplus owner got this email.
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I don't mean to be rude, but this isnt really a forum contribution since every oneplus owner got this email.
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This is good information for non Oneplus owners though. First time OnePlus prospective purchasers may not have signed up for an account yet.
Sounds like they are having a hard time moving units after jello effect so they are sending emails to people trying to get them to buy. If anyone wants to buy one they can see on the site themselves that they are available if they had interest to buy one.
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Sounds like they are having a hard time moving units after jello effect so they are sending emails to people trying to get them to buy. If anyone wants to buy one they can see on the site themselves that they are available if they had interest to buy one.
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This assumes people keep track of news like this.
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This assumes people keep track of news like this.
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Well if you come to xda and have interest in buying one I'm sure you would put in an order already or be checking the website to see when it becomes available immediately. If you wanted one it makes 0 sense to wait for one to be available immediately on the site to buy though.
I see they too privilegiate India market, ok India means big sales, but please do not at the expense to make feel non India users as second class citizen in Xiaomi's ecosystem.
There are things that should not ever happened:
1 discriminate features as QC4 when is a thing they can enable worldwide at no expense.
2 Pie update, when it initially seemed a progressive rollout, now seems another "India exclusive" Grace.
I do not have nothing about Indians they're my friends, but I feel this strategy from Xiaomi it's simply unfortunate and at large will have a cost for Xiaomi.
If there are people from Xiaomi here please provide us your version on this history.
because India is xiaomi biggest market after china
I dunno if Xiaomi is doing anything that other makers do. Samsung and LG devices I have had over the years always had staggered rollouts. I have waited weeks for updates to hit my Pixel from Google too.
I have no idea why quick charge would be enabled in some markets and not others. It's a trademarked technology so I would believe that they would have to pay Qualcomm to use/license the trademark and tech.
I bought this as a budget device and my expectations are as such. That said, my expectations have been exceeded for the most part as the experience has been similar to devices that have costed me much more. I suggested you look to another manufacturer, but I think you will find similar issues elsewhere.
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I dunno if Xiaomi is doing anything that other makers do. Samsung and LG devices I have had over the years always had staggered rollouts. I have waited weeks for updates to hit my Pixel from Google too.
I have no idea why quick charge would be enabled in some markets and not others. It's a trademarked technology so I would believe that they would have to pay Qualcomm to use/license the trademark and tech.
I bought this as a budget device and my expectations are as such. That said, my expectations have been exceeded for the most part as the experience has been similar to devices that have costed me much more. I suggested you look to another manufacturer, but I think you will find similar issues elsewhere.
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Pixel updates are always global, as long I know Qualcomm do not charge to enable features in their soc.
Samsung updates use to be smooth progressive, only carrier customized devices delay, and actually they global rom are the first to update and market specific the latest, 180 degree approach from Xiaomi's global last.
Motorola has similar approach to Xiaomi but they start with they smallest markets as policy to avoid damage spread in case some inadverted bug, it's Clever, but Xiaomi's IMHO it's just bad advertising, India people do not eat discrimination, they want good timely service but not to feel sorry for that.
Most likely they want to check if there will be problems, so they push the update only for India, their biggest market, and two small countries in EU, Netherlands and Belgium.
They will wait a few days for customers feedback, and if there is no problems, they will push the OTA update all over the world.
This is how I see it, it doesn't mean that this is what is happening.
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Most likely they want to check if there will be problems, so they push the update only for India, their biggest market, and two small countries in EU, Netherlands and Belgium.
They will wait a few days for customers feedback, and if there is no problems, they will push the OTA update all over the world.
This is how I see it, it doesn't mean that this is what is happening.
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That makes sense for Netherlands and Belgium, quite small markets, but if they just want to re-check for problems, why they start with their's most sensitive market?
As you said, if they started only with belgium and netherlands, and then follow biggers markets to end with India and China, I'll say Ok, that's the way motorola does (and others), conservative, not funny but justified. this is the opposite of non-sense.
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I see they too privilegiate India market, ok India means big sales, but please do not at the expense to make feel non India users as second class citizen in Xiaomi's ecosystem.
There are things that should not ever happened:
1 discriminate features as QC4 when is a thing they can enable worldwide at no expense.
2 Pie update, when it initially seemed a progressive rollout, now seems another "India exclusive" Grace.
I do not have nothing about Indians they're my friends, but I feel this strategy from Xiaomi it's simply unfortunate and at large will have a cost for Xiaomi.
If there are people from Xiaomi here please provide us your version on this history.
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They just rolled out the update to the global variant of MI A2. Some user of XDA from Hong Kong reported having recieved it.
I can't believe people are so angry that India is getting the Pie update first. I personally have zero problems with India beta testing the Pie update for the rest of us.
The level of teenage drama and temper tantrums here is incredible. To the OP, are you seriously asking the "Xiaomi" people who may visit this website to explain why they love India and "hate" the rest of us? Really?
Do you think you will personally be able to guilt Xiaomi into explaining why India is getting the Pie update first?
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I can't believe people are so angry that India is getting the Pie update first. I personally have zero problems with India beta testing the Pie update for the rest of us.
The level of teenage drama and temper tantrums here is incredible. To the OP, are you seriously asking the "Xiaomi" people who may visit this website to explain why they love India and "hate" the rest of us? Really?
Do you think you will personally be able to guilt Xiaomi into explaining why India is getting the Pie update first?
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I have no complaints on Indian, neither I think they are actually "lucky", my complaint are on Xiaomi's immature tricks to approach the Indian market at the expense to allow non sense discrimination, I've meet Indian people and IMHO are the among the less discriminative in the world (despite few exceptions, all populations have exceptions).
Would be good some Xiaomi's official to explain their approach to India (I feel it's dumb), given they don't care to have a public change log about updates, chance to see here (even at Xiaomi's forum) an official apology are close to Zero, these are things to expect from Samsung, not Xiaomi.
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I rather wait for a stable update than get it among the first and full of bugs. Anywhore, people are confirming the slow read write bug on pie, so if this and the budget pixel phone are true, I'm preparing my jetpack and going bye bye.
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I have no complaints on Indian, neither I think they are actually "lucky", my complaint are on Xiaomi's immature tricks to approach the Indian market at the expense to allow non sense discrimination, I've meet Indian people and IMHO are the among the less discriminative in the world (despite few exceptions, all populations have exceptions).
Would be good some Xiaomi's official to explain their approach to India (I feel it's dumb), given they don't care to have a public change log about updates, chance to see here (even at Xiaomi's forum) an official apology are close to Zero, these are things to expect from Samsung, not Xiaomi.
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How is "discrimination" even a factor here? You're not getting your PIE update when you want it so you're gonna stomp your feet and claim discrimination?
Xiaomi doesn't owe you a thing. They are a company trying to deploy a major update to our OS in a manner that doesn't piss off people like you. I'm sure if you received your update today and it didn't work as you wanted it to, you be stomping your feet saying "Xiaomi hates me because they released this piece of crap update and didn't test it first!! Off with their heads!!"
Talk about immature tricks....you're whole post is an immature trick to get an major phone manufacture to answer to you....it's laughable.
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How is "discrimination" even a factor here? You're not getting your PIE update when you want it so you're gonna stomp your feet and claim discrimination?
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The problem is not only updates, its also QC4, in general Xiaomi is using these "special graces" as marketing tool, which is not good.
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Xiaomi doesn't owe you a thing. They are a company trying to deploy a major update to our OS in a manner that doesn't piss off people like you. I'm sure if you received your update today and it didn't work as you wanted it to, you be stomping your feet saying "Xiaomi hates me because they released this piece of crap update and didn't test it first!! Off with their heads!!"
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Sorry, I'm a Xiaomi customer I put money buying their devices, I deserve timely, fair non-discriminatory treatment, privilege updates to some Market following marketing guidelines instead technical reason is unfair.
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Talk about immature tricks....you're whole post is an immature trick to get an major phone manufacture to answer to you....it's laughable.
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You don't need to attack me, it you think all this post is immature, what do you care of?
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The problem is not only updates, its also QC4, in general Xiaomi is using these "special graces" as marketing tool, which is not good.
Sorrÿ, I'm a Xiaomi customer I put money buying their devices, I deserve timely, fair non-discriminatory treatment, privilege updates to some Market following marketing guidelines instead technical reason is unfair.
You don't need to attack me, it you think all this post is immature, what do you care of?
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Have you not received all monthly security patches on time? I've noticed I get my security patches long before the "major" manufacturers deploy their security patches. And Pie was released a week ago on the Mi A2. Generally speaking, every smartphone manufacturer (perhaps with the exception of Google) uses a phased deployment approach to updating phones so not everyone is impacted by a potential issue that may crop up. So you say Xiaomi is treating you unfairly because you don't have the update a week after releasing it to India? Since I doubt they are going to change their behavior based on your posts here in this forum, I think you have two options to get updates as soon as they're released...either become a beta tester, or move to India.
And I'm not attacking you. Sorry if it feels that way. Just calling out a temper tantrum for what it is.
Not to mention, it hasn't even been a week, its been four days.
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The problem is not only updates, its also QC4, in general Xiaomi is using these "special graces" as marketing tool, which is not good.
Sorry, I'm a Xiaomi customer I put money buying their devices, I deserve timely, fair non-discriminatory treatment, privilege updates to some Market following marketing guidelines instead technical reason is unfair.
You don't need to attack me, it you think all this post is immature, what do you care of?
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You aren't even qualified to complain. As far as I know you live in the US, where xiaomi never officially launched this device. They could have totally blocked any updates for people like you. I have had an lg phone (Unlocked US Carrier version), and they only release OTA for people with their sim card. So if anyone was to complain you'd be at the end of the line.
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You aren't even qualified to complain. As far as I know you live in the US, where xiaomi never officially launched this device. They could have totally blocked any updates for people like you. I have had an lg phone (Unlocked US Carrier version), and they only release OTA for people with their sim card. So if anyone was to complain you'd be at the end of the line.
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I'm not In the US, Xiaomi sell a Global Unlocked phone, it means I can travel with it wherever I want, take a minute a visit Xiaomi's AliExpress global store.
Carrier locked devices are another question.
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There are too many impatient people on MI A2 XDA Forum.
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There are too many impatient people on MI A2 XDA Forum.
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It's not just being impatient, it's also the question about QC4, the logic about updates is a progressive rollout starting with a random pick of smaller but representative markets and then progressively include bigger markets, this is how Samsung HTC Motorola does. This mess it's just an unfortunate advertising tactic, as the Indian as first batch are more susceptible to receive a buggy update (as seem is the case as looks like the rollout was suspended).
Then you have the QC4, Indian A2 are 1:1 global AS same hardware, QC4 is blocked to global A2 by software, neither Xiaomi need to pay Qualcomm license as (as far I've searched) is included with the SOC procurement (as was with apt-x hd later enabled -wich many morons claimed not included to lower costs-.
I love the A2, but Xiaomi still has a long way to walk to reach the global phone maker status they pursuit, current marketing tactics drag they in the opposite direction
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qc4 is a must in India, they got special bricks with A1 also since the electric grid is unstable ... i'm not sure if qc3 or qc4 matters anywhere else ... chillax mate, your throttle will resolve nothing, long life is rare. If you have a little experience in electronics, you'd know that no current above 2A (@5Vdc) is healthy for the battery. Unless ou want to cry in the same fashon in 6 months after purchase that the battery doesn't keep the charge even for a day.
QC4 is a healthier QC3 indeed .
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Verge and every other media outlet is reporting google has suspended business with Huawei. So no more android updates, on current phones google apps will get updated but Huawei cannot use android on future phones. I think it is about time they let us unlock the bootloader. Thoughts?
I am gonna stop using Google services. Switch to bing, MSN email, buy button Nokia phone
Lol. It's refund time
Presumably security updates are considered open source so users "should" get those, depending on how long Huawei take to roll them out ... ?
Way to go America, you've just screwed over Huawei users. Huawei now needs to unlock all their phones and open source their phone software. Become dev friendly and give the US of A the middle finger.
Please don't make Huawei that innocent. See who runs the company and why his daughter was arrested. See why MI5 has concerns about Huawei. See why polish internal security agency arrested one of the bosses working in polish department of huawei. Why is Huawei having so many connections with Chinese gov? This company is just a tool. I hope they get banned from Europe with theirs crap phones as well.
How come Apple does not want to cooperate with US gov? How come they always oppose FBI that wants to have a back door for the iPhones?
Why Samsung or any other company was not blamed for spying?
I am really hoping to get a refund from Three for my P20 Pro...
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Please don't make Huawei that innocent. See who runs the company and why his daughter was arrested. See why MI5 has concerns about Huawei. See why polish internal security agency arrested one of the bosses working in polish department of huawei. Why is Huawei having so many connections with Chinese gov? This company is just a tool. I hope they get banned from Europe with theirs crap phones as well.
How come Apple does not want to cooperate with US gov? How come they always oppose FBI that wants to have a back door for the iPhones?
Why Samsung or any other company was not blamed for spying?
I am really hoping to get a refund from Three for my P20 Pro...
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It is strange that only USA complains about Huawei lol
UK, New Zeland, Australia, Canada, Netherlands, Japan?????
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UK, New Zeland, Australia, Canada, Netherlands, Japan?????
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Honestly i prefer the chinese to spy on me rather than FBI.
But there is no proof that they spy on huawei phones, since all Huawei phones are shipped with EMUI europe and not the chinese version.
Why don't you go and live in China then? They have a lovely system that rates citizens based on behaviour and political preferences. What if you had different views than majority and thanks to that you would be denied a credit card or acccess to some services.
You are right, there is no proof they spy on phones but they hold your data. Do you like to hold your data in spy hands?
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Why don't you go and live in China then? They have a lovely system that rates citizens based on behaviour and political preferences. What if you had different views than majority and thanks to that you would be denied a credit card or acccess to some services.
You are right, there is no proof they spy on phones but they hold your data. Do you like to hold your data in spy hands?
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The hell did i do other than purchasing a huawei phone that is better and cheaper than all the phones that have released? (talking about the new flagships)
I value my kidneys, hence why i don't use an iphone or the new samsung flagships (even s10E is more explensive than p20 pro in my country).
If you hate Huawei, sell your phone and buy something else. It's Trump's fault for being a jerk over a company that has done better than Apple and maybe against Samsung.
I am not a sheep about this company, but i am saying from my experience.
Trump didn't attack Samsung and Apple because they make the profit in USA, hence why Huawei is attacked. It will apply to Xiaomi soon.
In the end, everybody picks what phone they want and it is a bad move from a president to obligate people who owned their phones that wanted dearly to be trashed by restricting stuff.
I believe in Huawei that they will solve it by giving more attention to Appgallery. They may soon ditch Android for their own os. If they will do it, then i can already see my phone being extremely fluid.
But it's a matter of time. I will say it again, **** Trump.
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Also, Facebook and all apps owned by them are collecting data too but still not banned.
Take a guess please.
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The hell did i do other than purchasing a huawei phone that is better and cheaper than all the phones that have released? (talking about the new flagships)
I value my kidneys, hence why i don't use an iphone or the new samsung flagships (even s10E is more explensive than p20 pro in my country).
If you hate Huawei, sell your phone and buy something else. It's Trump's fault for being a jerk over a company that has done better than Apple and maybe against Samsung.
I am not a sheep about this company, but i am saying from my experience.
Trump didn't attack Samsung and Apple because they make the profit in USA, hence why Huawei is attacked. It will apply to Xiaomi soon.
In the end, everybody picks what phone they want and it is a bad move from a president to obligate people who owned their phones that wanted dearly to be trashed by restricting stuff.
I believe in Huawei that they will solve it by giving more attention to Appgallery. They may soon ditch Android for their own os. If they will do it, then i can already see my phone being extremely fluid.
But it's a matter of time. I will say it again, **** Trump.
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Also, Facebook and all apps owned by them are collecting data too but still not banned.
Take a guess please.
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**** trump indeed. I'm from the UK and his dumb ass is affecting me too. If it can't be resolved, then I hope Huawei release a tool for unlocking the device, so we can flash custom roms and still have a secure device.
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Honestly i prefer the chinese to spy on me rather than FBI.
But there is no proof that they spy on huawei phones, since all Huawei phones are shipped with EMUI europe and not the chinese version.
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You honestly think their whole OS is actually 4GB ? Lineage is less than 1GB ?
Think about it.
Yes for sure they will let you unlock the device ???
Basically the ban doesn't change much as Huawei's slow ass security updates appear once-twice a year.
I'm actually glad they lost the license. It's disgusting that 3 year old Galaxy S7 till March had been receiving security updates almost every month. Now they have changed it to quarterly which is still better than Huawei.
I will stick with Huawei, hope they going to over come this difficult time.
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You honestly think their whole OS is actually 4GB ? Lineage is less than 1GB ?
Think about it.
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EMUI has lots of features + the desktop mode and whatever ai things it has, hence why it has 4gb total size
LineageOS is just AOSP with a few tweaks, hence why it has 1gb total size.
But either way, the phone comes with 128gb storage so i don't need to worry about running low.
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Please don't make Huawei that innocent. See who runs the company and why his daughter was arrested. See why MI5 has concerns about Huawei. See why polish internal security agency arrested one of the bosses working in polish department of huawei. Why is Huawei having so many connections with Chinese gov? This company is just a tool. I hope they get banned from Europe with theirs crap phones as well.
How come Apple does not want to cooperate with US gov? How come they always oppose FBI that wants to have a back door for the iPhones?
Why Samsung or any other company was not blamed for spying?
I am really hoping to get a refund from Three for my P20 Pro...
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This is all about business. Huawei are getting too big for the US liking. They are fast becoming number one phone maker, beating apple, and would be ahead on 5g rollout too but for US interference. Regarding the spying, the Germans found no evidence. Poland in extremely right wing pro US now, hence blocking huawei. American companies Google, Facebook, twitter all collect data on everyone, they are also compliant to US government demands to shut down accounts they don't like. US foreign policy is nearly always about business interests. Its us left holding a huawei phone that may now be left without updates to new releases. Unless maybe there is some comprimise made.
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Yes for sure they will let you unlock the device
Basically the ban doesn't change much as Huawei's slow ass security updates appear once-twice a year.
I'm actually glad they lost the license. It's disgusting that 3 year old Galaxy S7 till March had been receiving security updates almost every month. Now they have changed it to quarterly which is still better than Huawei.
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You can't just snap and boom you got an update. But i agree with the slow updates but better later than never i guess.
Let's see if we get a new os anyway and then we will get ios-like fast updates.
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This is all about business. Huawei are getting too big for the US liking. They are fast becoming number one phone maker, beating apple, and would be ahead on 5g rollout too but for US interference. Regarding the spying, the Germans found no evidence. Poland in extremely right wing pro US now, hence blocking huawei. American companies Google, Facebook, twitter all collect data on everyone, they are also compliant to US government demands to shut down accounts they don't like. US foreign policy is nearly always about business interests. Its us left holding a huawei phone that may now be left without updates to new releases. Unless maybe there is some comprimise made.
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I am expecting Trump to buy each one of us a couple of Iphones or Samsung new devices.
stop... not affected already series huaeei device...only new modell...
androidyeah... said:
This is all about business. Huawei are getting too big for the US liking. They are fast becoming number one phone maker, beating apple, and would be ahead on 5g rollout too but for US interference. Regarding the spying, the Germans found no evidence. Poland in extremely right wing pro US now, hence blocking huawei. American companies Google, Facebook, twitter all collect data on everyone, they are also compliant to US government demands to shut down accounts they don't like. US foreign policy is nearly always about business interests. Its us left holding a huawei phone that may now be left without updates to new releases. Unless maybe there is some comprimise made.
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Poland extremely right wing ??? SAY NO MORE ???
I ensure you it is rather left wing party...
Anyway, that makes me wonder why they didn't ban Samsung? Samsung is way ahead from Apple. Why they didn't ban HSBC, Philips, Shell? Or did Donald Trump just have a bad mood and accidentally put his finger over Huawei on his to ban list?
Huawei can only blame itself.