Redmi Note 4 International availability - Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 Questions & Answers

Hey,
did you get the phone already? Where did you get it from and how long did it take? Are you happy with the reseller you choose? Please share your experience .
I got mine from Gearbest, shipping was fast (very fast), it came over the weekend, service was good. All in all I am happy. How are you?
That's the one I got:Mod Edit

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TheUltrametricSpace said:
Hey,
did you get the phone already? Where did you get it from and how long did it take? Are you happy with the reseller you choose? Please share your experience .
I got mine from Gearbest, shipping was fast (very fast), it came over the weekend, service was good. All in all I am happy. How are you?
That's the one I got:Mod Edit
Haven't purchased yet but may be purchasing from the below link. It may be a bit more expensive but I believe they ship from Europe rather than China and so won't have the potential extra customs charge. Would also prefer the black/gray metal model but it seems to be slightly dearer everywhere so silver would do.
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I bought mine from GearBest also. Crazy thing is, if you purchase with their app, you get an additional 30% or so off. I got the 3GB RAM \ 64 GB storage, Gold colored for $218, compared to the website which was $255.
Shipping was fast, I paid an extra $5 for DHL express, and it came in under a Week.
All in all, a really good experience for shipping something like this to the middle of the U.S.

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I got my (for my wife to be honest) from TopOne store on AliExpress. 3/64gb silver and with DHL shipping was 203$. The best thing is that they ship to England first and then to rest of EU so there is no custom fee's for importing! Can say only good things about TopOne store: very good comunication with seller, checking devices before shipping (you can choose not to also if you want sealed phone package) and pretty cheap price.
Edit: Also bought Redmi Note 2 around Christmass last year and em very satisfied with phone considering what did cost back then (130$+20ish$ for DHL)

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mikey33rs said:
I got my (for my wife to be honest) from TopOne store on AliExpress. 3/64gb silver and with DHL shipping was 203$. The best thing is that they ship to England first and then to rest of EU so there is no custom fee's for importing! Can say only good things about TopOne store: very good comunication with seller, checking devices before shipping (you can choose not to also if you want sealed phone package) and pretty cheap price.
Edit: Also bought Redmi Note 2 around Christmass last year and em very satisfied with phone considering what did cost back then (130$+20ish$ for DHL)
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TopOne is good yeah.
But!!!! I personally hate it when Chinese re-seller open the boxes! Xiaomi does a quality check and I trust Xiaomi more then any Chinese reseller.
The problem is: When opening the box, they install a manipulated fake-MIUI version and bloatware.
Meaning: First thing you must do after getting the phone from TopOne (and similar shops) is -> perform a clean flash and do a factory reset. (Sucks IMO.)

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Very much true but, as I was saying, you can tell them when buying as a note, not to open. I told them to open box, check the phone and dont touch software and I got tested RN4 with, what it seems to be original china ROM. If I'm not mistaken they also write it on description about opening box (in case of buyinf as a gift or similar) and I got PM as soon as I payed the phone asking what to do and explaining about shipping.
Anyway, whereever you buy you have to read description and google few opinions about seller.
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mikey_rs said:
Very much true but, as I was saying, you can tell them when buying as a note, not to open. I told them to open box, check the phone and dont touch software and I got tested RN4 with, what it seems to be original china ROM. If I'm not mistaken they also write it on description about opening box (in case of buyinf as a gift or similar) and I got PM as soon as I payed the phone asking what to do and explaining about shipping.
Anyway, whereever you buy you have to read description and google few opinions about seller.
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that's nice.

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TheUltrametricSpace said:
that's nice.
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Where abouts are you? Did you pay extra for courier delivery or express? As your delivery was very quick. I'm looking for sellers who deliver from an Eu warehouse (I'm in the UK). You end up paying extra but I'll probably pay it in customs if it comes in from China.
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gsmyth said:
Where abouts are you? Did you pay extra for courier delivery or express? As your delivery was very quick. I'm looking for sellers who deliver from an Eu warehouse (I'm in the UK). You end up paying extra but I'll probably pay it in customs if it comes in from China.
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I bought mine on Deal X. I got it after 2 weeks. It was shiped from China to Germany, and the delivery was free.

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Bought Grey 3/64 from flosmall it is arrived in fourteen days without custom fees.

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arna1958 said:
Bought Grey 3/64 from flosmall it is arrived in fourteen days without custom fees.
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Where abouts are you? Did you pay for any Eu customs insurance or any particular delivery method?
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gsmyth said:
Where abouts are you? Did you pay for any Eu customs insurance or any particular delivery method?
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I'm in Italy
This is my order detail
Cover 3.99$
Note 4 212$
Custom insurance 6$
S.F. Express 18$
Discount 15$
After shipment they send you the tracer and you can chek where it is.
About the track is better to use 17Track site. I don't know, but it is updated in faster way then SF Express
The note 4 is arrived with the original china stable rom, so nothing strange.
After the first switch on I got a rom update.
Yesterday I flashed the global rom.

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arna1958 said:
I'm in Italy
This is my order detail
Cover 3.99$
Note 4 212$
Custom insurance 6$
S.F. Express 18$
Discount 15$
After shipment they send you the tracer and you can chek where it is.
About the track is better to use 17Track site. I don't know, but it is updated in faster way then SF Express
The note 4 is arrived with the original china stable rom, so nothing strange.
After the first swithc on I got a rom update.
Yesterday I flashed the global rom.
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Thanks, did you get a discount code online or have you shopped with them previously?
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gsmyth said:
Thanks, did you get a discount code online or have you shopped with them previously?
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That was my first purchase from them.
The discount was related to China golden week.

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I got my Redmi Note 4 from fastcardtech and I was quite pleased with how they handled things. One thing I didn't like is that they chose the shipping for me ( NL post even though I chose something else). Other than that the phone came sealed, no tampering , nothing. It had the Chinese ROM with MIUI 7 and I did an OTA to MIUI 8.
When you also consider that I only paid $155 for the 16 GB version I'd say it was a pretty good deal.
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I got my Redmi Note 4 from fastcardtech and I was quite pleased with how they handled things. One thing I didn't like is that they chose the shipping for me ( NL post even though I chose something else). Other than that the phone came sealed, no tampering , nothing. It had the Chinese ROM with MIUI 7 and I did an OTA to MIUI 8.
When you also consider that I only paid $155 for the 16 GB version I'd say it was a pretty good deal.

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arna1958 said:
Bought Grey 3/64 from flosmall it is arrived in fourteen days without custom fees.
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do you have no issues, without LTE band 20?

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Can't tell if this is too good to be true? Very cheap for the 64gb model, there's an extra few quid to pay for shipping and that's if it doesn't get stopped for customs, but even then it's still cheap. Anyone bought from To2c.com?
Sorry price was cut off, it's £127.
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cyber8607 said:
do you have no issues, without LTE band 20?
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I have vodafone and I don't have problem with b20.
I can say that also I'm not on 4g the download is very fast.

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I ordered from gearbest it cost me $200 along with DHL service of 11.49$, seller not yet shipped my phone i hope he will do this week and it will come to me at weekends...

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Different ROMs?
Hello friends, I am new to the Xiaomi/MIUI topic, so please be patient with me.
I am about to order a Redmi note 4. I stumbled upon different offers from geekbuying and flosmall. What I wonder about is, that geekbuying particularly advertises one version as International Global ROM with Google play pre-installed and OTA updates capable.
I know that Google play is not available in China, but that - in general - I can install it afterwards.
Flosmall does not say anything about the MIUI version or Google play or OTAs.
Would I run into problems when I order from flosmall, then be able to update OTA and install Google play? Or would everything run smooth and easy?
Thanks in advance