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Difference in China version vs international version?

Where I live there's both for sale. Is there a difference when it comes to custom Roms? Are they both compatible with the same ROMS and kernels
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iXanza said:
Where I live there's both for sale. Is there a difference when it comes to custom Roms? Are they both compatible with the same ROMS and kernels
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The difference is in the lte bands. Better look, what bands you need in your country.
In term of custom roms, both are same.

Ribery771 said:
Yep, The difference is in the lte bands. Better look, what bands you need in your country.
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That's it? Both version supports my bands
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iXanza said:
That's it? Both version supports my bands
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Thats it. They are completly the same, they just use different bands.

Ribery771 said:
The difference is in the lte bands. Better look, what bands you need in your country.
In term of custom roms, both are same.
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Can you flash the china version(a3010) with the rom that exists in the all thread in this forum? Does it fit in?

nrprtama said:
Can you flash the china version(a3010) with the rom that exists in the all thread in this forum? Does it fit in?
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Yes, i have a China variant of the 3T, came with Hydrogen OS but i flashed Oxygen OS over it, dont need any alterations in the recovery or any other special permissions, just follow this instructions:
http://downloads.oneplus.net/oneplus-3t/oneplus_3t_oxygenos_3.5.4/

What's the easiest way to check the band on a phone? I think I've got a Chinese phone instead of EMEA

iXanza said:
Where I live there's both for sale. Is there a difference when it comes to custom Roms? Are they both compatible with the same ROMS and kernels
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As a Chinese, I can clearly inform you that there is no difference between the China version and the international version.
You can flash HydrogenOS or OxygenOS anytime。
作为一名天朝本土人士，鄙人可以妥妥的告诉楼主，国际版和中国大陆版无差异可以互刷氢和氧ROM，第三方定制的ROM也是通刷的，随你喜欢想刷哪个就刷哪个。

Is it possible to reflash to get north Americans bands?
I have two op3, one I ordered directly from op+ the other from Amazon.. I'm in Canada. The first place one works fine, the other doesn't with working Sim.. I noticed the one that doesn't work has Chinese writing after the English on the back label..
Long story short, is it possible to change the software of flash the Chinese one so I get it to work?

Dreamaz said:
I have two op3, one I ordered directly from op+ the other from Amazon.. I'm in Canada. The first place one works fine, the other doesn't with working Sim.. I noticed the one that doesn't work has Chinese writing after the English on the back label..
Long story short, is it possible to change the software of flash the Chinese one so I get it to work?
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Hardware is different between US, EU and China, you can however run HydrogenOS and OxygenOS on all variants but it won't change the modem channel support as it's hardware restricted.

Dreamaz said:
I have two op3, one I ordered directly from op+ the other from Amazon.. I'm in Canada. The first place one works fine, the other doesn't with working Sim.. I noticed the one that doesn't work has Chinese writing after the English on the back label..
Long story short, is it possible to change the software of flash the Chinese one so I get it to work?
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pitrus- said:
Hardware is different between US, EU and China, you can however run HydrogenOS and OxygenOS on all variants but it won't change the modem channel support as it's hardware restricted.
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Does this mean the guides to unlocking additional bands here on xda won't work? I was reading up on these. I believe It's UMTS BAND 4 I'm missing. Is there any way I can run a command or query the device somehow to compare the difference between my working op3 and the defunct one?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guide-unlock-aditional-bands-qualcomm-t2877031
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3/how-to/guide-unlock-additional-lte-bands-t3519563

Does anyone know if OnePlus 3T (A3010) Chinese Version works with Canadian frequencies? I am looking specifically for Windmobile.

feimummy said:
As a Chinese, I can clearly inform you that there is no difference between the China version and the international version.
You can flash HydrogenOS or OxygenOS anytime。
作为一名天朝本土人士，鄙人可以妥妥的告诉楼主，国际版和中国大陆版无差异可以互刷氢和氧ROM，第三方定制的ROM也是通刷的，随你喜欢想刷哪个就刷哪个。
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So the new Flyme 6 A3010 version will work on my A3003 OP3T?

OnePlus 3T Chinese Version

Hi guys, I would like to know if the One Plus 3T chinese version has exactly the same software of the international one with all languages and google apps.
Thanks for the reply

No, the Chinese version has a different OS called hydrogen OS and doesn't come with Google Apps as it's not allowed in China.. However, if you get the Chinese version, you can easily flash the international Oxygen OS without any issues

Is the hardware of / in the OnePlus 3T (A3010) the exact same as the international version apart from the different network bands?

burnsyboo said:
Is the hardware of / in the OnePlus 3T (A3010) the exact same as the international version apart from the different network bands?
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Yes it's exactly the same hardware. You can sideload OOS 3.5.3 from OnePlus and it will be just like A3003 and A3000, minus the network bands of course.

r.spanish said:
Yes it's exactly the same hardware. You can sideload OOS 3.5.3 from OnePlus and it will be just like A3003 and A3000, minus the network bands of course.
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Thanks for the reply.
Was wondering since I have purchased the A3010 variant, hopefully I'm guessing we will be able to do what dev's were able to do on the OnePlus three and unlock the network bands eventually.

Can anyone confirm the bands in A3003 and A3010 ?
I've purchased the A3010 Chinese version and currently with Vodafone in AU.
Vodafone's frequency bands are:
2G/GSM: 900MHz
3G/UMTS: 2100MHz(B1), 900MHz(B8), 850MHz(B5)
4G/LTE: 1800MHz(B3),850Mhz(B5)
Am i totally covered?

A3010 Chinese version
2g：gsm 850/900/1800/1900
3g：cdma evdo bc0
3g：wcdma b1/2/5/8
3g：td-scdma b34/39
4g：td-lte b38/39/40/41
4g：fdd-lte b1/3/5/7/8

Network Coverage
You can do a quick check here :
willmyphonework #net
sorry URLs are blocked ...but you can make out...
sLy` said:
Can anyone confirm the bands in A3003 and A3010 ?
I've purchased the A3010 Chinese version and currently with Vodafone in AU.
Vodafone's frequency bands are:
2G/GSM: 900MHz
3G/UMTS: 2100MHz(B1), 900MHz(B8), 850MHz(B5)
4G/LTE: 1800MHz(B3),850Mhz(B5)
Am i totally covered?
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I'm currently have OOS 3.5.4 running on chinese version oneplus 3t (a3010). I need this version of phone to properly run on my country network. So far no problem.

I would like to flash the international OOS rom to my Chinese OnePlus 3T. Could you please point me to the right place for the step by step instruction?
Many thanks for your help.

hknick said:
I would like to flash the international OOS rom to my Chinese OnePlus 3T. Could you please point me to the right place for the step by step instruction?
Many thanks for your help.
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I'm running the latest update 3.5.4 on my A3010 3T. The original firmware I flashed was (3.5.3) OnePlus3TOxygen_28_OTA_027_all_161122 which you can find by searching google for the zip. I just sideloaded it so no root is required. Got the OTA to the latest version (3.5.4) and everything has been working well. No battery or signal problems after the update either. Phone is a beast, benchmarks are also pretty impressive

logansrun24 said:
I'm running the latest update 3.5.4 on my A3010 3T. The original firmware I flashed was (3.5.3) OnePlus3TOxygen_28_OTA_027_all_161122 which you can find by searching google for the zip. I just sideloaded it so no root is required. Got the OTA to the latest version (3.5.4) and everything has been working well. No battery or signal problems after the update either. Phone is a beast, benchmarks are also pretty impressive
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Thank you, do you have any step by step instruction on how to sideload the firmware to the phone? I am new to this.
Thanks in advance

hknick said:
Thank you, do you have any step by step instruction on how to sideload the firmware to the phone? I am new to this.
Thanks in advance
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There are two ways. You can sideload it from recovery which is what I did in the end or it looks like it's possible just from the update menu too. Here is the original thread I wrote about it. https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3t/help/hydrogen-os-2-5-1-to-oxygen-os-3-5-t3510511
And as it says basically do the same as here but with OOS
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3t/how-to/rom-h2os-2-5-oneplus-3t-released-t3511443
As long as you flash the full ROM (it should be around 1.4gb) you should be fine.

Wow.... that looks rather simple. Thank you for your help.

r.spanish said:
Yes it's exactly the same hardware. You can sideload OOS 3.5.3 from OnePlus and it will be just like A3003 and A3000, minus the network bands of course.
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NO. Different hardware, as someone pointed out already. Different LTE bands.

Trey333 said:
NO. Different hardware, as someone pointed out already. Different LTE bands.
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Umm I never said they had the same LTE bands.

r.spanish said:
Umm I never said they had the same LTE bands.
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That's hardware, though. The chipsets are a little bit different, enough for someone to notice slower connection speeds.

Trey333 said:
That's hardware, though. The chipsets are a little bit different, enough for someone to notice slower connection speeds.
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The person I quoted was asking if there was any other difference hardware wise apart from the network support, I even mentioned that at the end of my post. I have the A3010 I know what the difference is.

sLy` said:
Can anyone confirm the bands in A3003 and A3010 ?
I've purchased the A3010 Chinese version and currently with Vodafone in AU.
Vodafone's frequency bands are:
2G/GSM: 900MHz
3G/UMTS: 2100MHz(B1), 900MHz(B8), 850MHz(B5)
4G/LTE: 1800MHz(B3),850Mhz(B5)
Am i totally covered?
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is 4G fully support in A3010 version??

Tanvir Rahman said:
is 4G fully support in A3010 version??
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you can check on willmyphonework. as far as i remember a3003 and a3010 have the same bands and a3000(north america model) have different bands.

4G not working in A1

Hi! 4G isnt working on my Mi9 with A1 network but they use the suported frequencies. I tried reseting APN and some other changes in developer options nothing worked. Any idea?
I'm gona try and flash the ROM when I unlock it from CN to global or EEA. which one should I chose if there is any big difference?

urbyx said:
Hi! 4G isnt working on my Mi9 with A1 network but they use the suported frequencies. I tried reseting APN and some other changes in developer options nothing worked. Any idea?
I'm gona try and flash the ROM when I unlock it from CN to global or EEA. which one should I chose if there is any big difference?
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Which variant do you have? if it's the alita / explorer / transparent edition (8/256GB or 12/256GB) then there's NO BAND 20, which is LTE for many providers. Have you checked this?
EDIT: see here, perhaps you're in an area that doesn't use band 7 and only band 20? If this is the case... No ROM you flash can alter that, it's hardware related. ONLY global devices (64/128GB) support band 20

reg66 said:
Which variant do you have? if it's the alita / explorer / transparent edition (8/256GB or 12/256GB) then there's NO BAND 20, which is LTE for many providers. Have you checked this?
EDIT: perhaps you're in an area that doesn't use band 7 and only band 20? If this is the case... No ROM you flash can alter that, it's hardware related. ONLY global devices (64/128GB) support band 20
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I have transparet ediotion 8/256gb. Checked there is no band 20 in my area but 4g works everywhere else
Should I still flash the ROM to global or eea? Can I relock it after or is it gona brick..

urbyx said:
I have transparet ediotion 8/256gb. Checked there is no band 20 in my area but 4g works everywhere else
Should I still flash the ROM to global or eea? Can I relock it after or is it gona brick..
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Do not relock bootloader after flashing rom, it will most likely brick your device. Flash another ROM if you like but you won't get band 20

May I ask, why do you want to relock bootloader after flashing a new ROM?

Will the K20 Pro being sold on Flipkart tomorrow be the chinese model?

I'm very confused.
Flipkart are selling K20 Pros in a flash sale tomorrow. Are these the same as the ones sold on other websites?
I read somewhere that Indian K20 Pros will have a different devie codename and take different ROMs. Some people say they won't have NFC, and others say it's a software limitation.

theOriginalSuperl2 said:
I'm very confused.
Flipkart are selling K20 Pros in a flash sale tomorrow. Are these the same as the ones sold on other websites?
I read somewhere that Indian K20 Pros will have a different devie codename and take different ROMs. Some people say they won't have NFC, and others say it's a software limitation.
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Any model sold in India via official partners like Mi.com/Flipkart will be the Indian Model codename Raphaelin. NFC is not of much use currently in India and its forced disabled from the software at the time being on 10.3.3.0 Future OTA's might trigger and activate it but no one knows that for sure as there was no mention of NFC during the launch, however users who have unlocked and flashed EU roms have NFC enabled so the hardware is definitely present.
The Chinese variant is not sold here and the code name is Raphael.
You may visit this thread running to mention the existing issues users have reported.

Funk Wizard said:
Any model sold in India via official partners like Mi.com/Flipkart will be the Indian Model codename Raphaelin. NFC is not of much use currently in India and its forced disabled from the software at the time being on 10.3.3.0 Future OTA's might trigger and activate it but no one knows that for sure as there was no mention of NFC during the launch, however users who have unlocked and flashed EU roms have NFC enabled so the hardware is definitely present.
The Chinese variant is not sold here and the code name is Raphael.
You may visit this thread running to mention the existing issues users have reported.
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Thanks, so just to confirm, I can flash raphael ROMs (and it'll change to Raphael in the build.prop) but I'll loose Widevine L1?

Also, are the radio bands the same?

theOriginalSuperl2 said:
Thanks, so just to confirm, I can flash raphael ROMs (and it'll change to Raphael in the build.prop) but I'll loose Widevine L1?
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Yes, but you'll need to flash a fastboot ROM with the Mi Flash Tool.
You'll lose Widevine L1 and gain NFC.
theOriginalSuperl2 said:
Also, are the radio bands the same?
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Not quite, the Chinese model appears to have a couple of extra bands available (comparing specs on the official Indian and Chinese Xiaomi websites).

Carrier Aggregation ( 4g+/ Lte+)

Hey guys,
Anyone tried flashing xiaomi EEA rom or EEA modem on other devices ( raphaelin, raphael, etc), as the EEA rom supports more of the bands required for carrier aggregation (CA) ?, we will definitely see a bump in network speeds, as the current ones aren't upto the mark, xiaomi cheaped out on CA, not buying licenses from Qualcomm. So i guess, this is worth a shot, I understand that EEA isn't updated as frequently, but still?
Thanks

The ROM has nothing to do with what bands are supported. Flashing a different ROM will not enable or disable any bands

Bands are dependant on the modem which is only editable through a specific qualcomm tool
As far as I know still 855 SoC is not supported in this tool
It is not a file you can flash through fastboot or recovery

lordkiller347 said:
The ROM has nothing to do with what bands are supported. Flashing a different ROM will not enable or disable any bands
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shouk_1987 said:
Bands are dependant on the modem which is only editable through a specific qualcomm tool
As far as I know still 855 SoC is not supported in this tool
It is not a file you can flash through fastboot or recovery
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Not bands guys, i was talking about ca, which we can enable via tool "Qxdm", but as said above, it doesn't support sd855 yet . Maybe flashing EEA modem will get us carrier aggregation? ?

Am NoobMaster69 said:
Not bands guys, i was talking about ca, which we can enable via tool "Qxdm", but as said above, it doesn't support sd855 yet . Maybe flashing EEA modem will get us carrier aggregation? ?
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This is the same tool that had been used to enable bands. It does it by modifying the nvram but the modem on the K20 Pro is locked so the nvram cannot be modified. There is already a similar tool that supports the SD855 but it doesn't work on the K20 Pro because of its locked modem