Hi everyone.
Are there two different versions of Redmi Note 3 Pro?
Following situation:
In Germany, LTE-FDD is used. In China LTE-TDD is used.
I've bought the phone from Gea*rbest. The Description on the website says
4G: FDD-LTE 1800/2100/2600MHz
There was a sticker on the backside of the phone and there was only LTE-TDD listed. Also on the package of the phone is LTE-TDD listed.
So, LTE will not work in germany and Gea*rbest sent me a wrong version?
In a few days, my Telekom LTE contract will be active. Till then i can not see if LTE is working or not.
I'm a bit scared it wont work because ive already unlocked the bootloader and flashed a custom Rom and a new Kernel
Sorry to say that but the phone does not support most of the Telekom LTE antennas in Germany because they are sending on Band 20 (800Mhz). You would need the special edition for this. I too live in Germany but use O2/E-Plus and don't get LTE at all.
crckmc said:
Sorry to say that but the phone does not support most of the Telekom LTE antennas in Germany because they are sending on Band 20 (800Mhz). You would need the special edition for this. I too live in Germany but use O2/E-Plus and don't get LTE at all.
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Thanks for your reply. I live in Hannover and the Telekom LTE Map shows, that the Band 3 (1800MHz) is very good in this city.
Shown here: https://www.t-mobile.de/netzausbau/0,25250,15400-_,00.html
"4G/LTE mit bis zu 150 MBit/s"
So from this point, i will not have any problems with LTE.
The question is: Will LTE generally work, because of the TDD-LTE standard. In germany, FDD-LTE standard is used.
Some specs from the phone showing that it supports TDD and FDD. Others only show TDD. So i'm not sure if there are different versions of the phone.
I think if you see the network "Telekom 4G" and can connect to it you will have LTE. I just did a scan and can see "Telekom 4G" and "Vodafone 4G" so if you live in an area with Band 3 support all should work! Lucky you but I think thats what I get for being a cheap ass and don't want to pay 40€ per month to the Telekom
hehe, thanks
Hopefully u r right and i can use LTE.
It was an offer. 6GB LTE for 9,99EUR/month. But its only Traffic Contract. As second Sim i will use Congstar 9ct./min and sms. I write 2 or 3 SMS a month and phonecalls? Maybe 10 Minutes a month. So i won't come over 12EUR/month.
So, its also affordable for a "cheap ass"
yes you're right but i wanted it all and yourfone had the best offer with their "volksflat" for 8€
I have some hope left that we can unlock Band 20 too on our devices if we get ahold of a dump from a special edition (kate) device.
OK, LTE is working, my contract is active
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lucky you
But even without LTE I love my RN3 Pro its a really good phone for little money. Did you order @gearbest?
Yea i like it too hopefully it will last long.
You are right, got it from gearbest.
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Do you still have stock firmware installed? If so I would advise you to clean flash MIUI directly from Xiaomi or one of the custom roms from here.
My device came with unlocked bootloader and everything was screwed up so that i couldn't even install a custom firmware from TWRP.
After cleaning up with MiFlash and reinstalling TWRP it worked fine.
So I'm guessing they flash a custom firmware of themselves.
Yes, it was a shop Rom installed. My bootloader was unlocked too. I installed hexagon Rom and dominator kernel. Everything fine till now, no bugs recognized.
Now i See that cm13 is official from TheStix one hour ago. Some bugs. For the future very interesting
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why you buy a phone from china and dont know nothing about?
Nothing? It was just the fdd and tdd thing. And i didnt know that germany and China are using different Standards. And it seems that these Standards dont matter, because LTE is working.
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Well, the beauty is that the Snapdragon 650 can handle both LTE FDD and TDD.
Don't know about the Mediatek version.
Hoschie1983 said:
hehe, thanks
Hopefully u r right and i can use LTE.
It was an offer. 6GB LTE for 9,99EUR/month. But its only Traffic Contract. As second Sim i will use Congstar 9ct./min and sms. I write 2 or 3 SMS a month and phonecalls? Maybe 10 Minutes a month. So i won't come over 12EUR/month.
So, its also affordable for a "cheap ass"
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me in france i have 4euro 20gb
but with my xiaomi with SFR (vodafone) i have no 4g at all not even in the city because they only use 800mhz even if there antenas have 1800 and 2600mhz so yeah f=ckedup. but with bouygue telecome its fine in the city 4g all the way on 1800 and 2600mhz and H+ outside that fine
paul_damian said:
Well, the beauty is that the Snapdragon 650 can handle both LTE FDD and TDD.
Don't know about the Mediatek version.
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Yes, the specs on the xiaomi website saying FDD and TDD. But the Package and the Sticker on the backside said only TDD. That was confusing
But know i see it can handle both and i am happy
reggiexp said:
me in france i have 4euro 20gb
but with my xiaomi with SFR (vodafone) i have no 4g at all not even in the city. but with bouygue telecome its fine in the city and H+ outside that fine
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In Germany, mobile Internet is very expensive. But The last 2 or 3 month the prices are getting better. Here is chart from april which shows what u got for 35EUR in the EU. That is saying everything
http://dfmonitor.eu/images/headline_chart1.png
Is there a major difference between the x820 and the x829 version? From what i could find on the internet the x829 is the version for the US and i'm not sure if it has bootloader unlocked, considering the 64 gb ROM i would risk buying it, but if lte wont work in Romania on this version, and there's no way to instal another custom rom thats a no buy, please tell me your thoughts
P.S. sorry for the basic language i'm not a expert in this field
razvan1000 said:
Is there a major difference between the x820 and the x829 version? From what i could find on the internet the x829 is the version for the US and i'm not sure if it has bootloader unlocked, considering the 64 gb ROM i would risk buying it, but if lte wont work in Romania on this version, and there's no way to instal another custom rom thats a no buy, please tell me your thoughts
P.S. sorry for the basic language i'm not a expert in this field
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You can look on this site: willmyphonework.net
There you can choose brand,model,country and your provider.
Website mentioned does not help, as you can't select variants.
As far as I know (I have ordered it myself) X829 is USA version, so it DOES NOT HAVE BAND 20. I would skip on this one if your 4G/LTE carrier is emitting via B20 frequency.
Here in Montenegro, 2 out of 3 carriers have 4G and both use bands 3 and 7, so I am covered and don't really care about B20.
There is a tool that unlocks bands, yet nobody confirmed that it actually works.
As far as custom ROMs are a concern, they all are interchangeable , means all ROMs can be used on all variants, X820, X821, X823, X829...
voolandis said:
Website mentioned does not help, as you can't select variants.
As far as I know (I have ordered it myself) X829 is USA version, so it DOES NOT HAVE BAND 20. I would skip on this one if your 4G/LTE carrier is emitting via B20 frequency.
Here in Montenegro, 2 out of 3 carriers have 4G and both use bands 3 and 7, so I am covered and don't really care about B20.
There is a tool that unlocks bands, yet nobody confirmed that it actually works.
As far as custom ROMs are a concern, they all are interchangeable , means all ROMs can be used on all variants, X820, X821, X823, X829...
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Yeah you're right. I didn't think about that
voolandis said:
Website mentioned does not help, as you can't select variants.
As far as I know (I have ordered it myself) X829 is USA version, so it DOES NOT HAVE BAND 20. I would skip on this one if your 4G/LTE carrier is emitting via B20 frequency.
Here in Montenegro, 2 out of 3 carriers have 4G and both use bands 3 and 7, so I am covered and don't really care about B20.
There is a tool that unlocks bands, yet nobody confirmed that it actually works.
As far as custom ROMs are a concern, they all are interchangeable , means all ROMs can be used on all variants, X820, X821, X823, X829...
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Cheers mate ,now i know what to look for, not so many informations on the internet about the phone variants...
what are your thoughts overall on the phone did you encounter any of the problems with the screen flickering or fingerprint scanner?
Thank you it will work it uses band 3 and 7 just like in montenegro so no problem there
razvan1000 said:
Is there a major difference between the x820 and the x829 version? From what i could find on the internet the x829 is the version for the US and i'm not sure if it has bootloader unlocked, considering the 64 gb ROM i would risk buying it, but if lte wont work in Romania on this version, and there's no way to instal another custom rom thats a no buy, please tell me your thoughts
P.S. sorry for the basic language i'm not a expert in this field
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I have x820 working perfectly in Lithuania, you can check your Country's LTE supported bands on this link; http://willmyphonework.net/ and hardware for all version of max 2 is the same, you can always switch between roms.
Most webshop are pre-selling the X829 and will ship fom Feb 28, let's wait a few days to have them in hand and have actual experince on whether they have B20 and if they can be unlocked. (I want to know also if they do)
razvan1000 said:
Cheers mate ,now i know what to look for, not so many informations on the internet about the phone variants...
what are your thoughts overall on the phone did you encounter any of the problems with the screen flickering or fingerprint scanner?
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Phone is still shipping, so I can't tell you yet
voolandis said:
Website mentioned does not help, as you can't select variants.
As far as I know (I have ordered it myself) X829 is USA version, so it DOES NOT HAVE BAND 20. I would skip on this one if your 4G/LTE carrier is emitting via B20 frequency.
Here in Montenegro, 2 out of 3 carriers have 4G and both use bands 3 and 7, so I am covered and don't really care about B20.
There is a tool that unlocks bands, yet nobody confirmed that it actually works.
As far as custom ROMs are a concern, they all are interchangeable , means all ROMs can be used on all variants, X820, X821, X823, X829...
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Sorry man, but are you sure that I can use a x820's rom on x829 version? Because there is an awesome x820 rom by cuoco92
Hello in an German Forum a user told that all Roms are working for the X829 and the LTE Band 20 have been unlocked
And than he said he was mistaken, 'cose his phone was x820, not as he belived x829
There's no proof b20 is gonna work - yet.
kinetiq said:
And than he said he was mistaken, 'cose his phone was x820, not as he belived x829
There's no proof b20 is gonna work - yet.
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In some german forum, not here on XDA as you problably think of. I know of our case also.
that would be very fortunate, if true
kinetiq said:
that would be very fortunate, if true
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Yes, he got his Phone last friday. He wrote, the unlock with the DFS-Tool is done like the manual description. He can't test the LTE-Band, because he havn't a SIM with LTE. He is waiting for a new SIM to test the x829. DFS-Tool shown a unlocked B20
link it here, bitte
Has anyone tried the x829 in the US CDMA carriers like Verizon, if it works on them it will be e killer deal!
I've been looking for a budget phone and I've seen this phone being mentioned as being good for the price. It is listed on geekbuying.com and trying to ask the live support about the differences between x820 / x821 / x829 models is getting me nowhere. I keep being told the x829 is just a 'newer' version with bigger storage. The only other differences I've seen from their specs list is that the x829 doesn't have band 20 support (uk networks). Anything else that I should know about before buying? Also, is the fingerprint sensor as bad as people make it out to be?
Thanks
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cheezing said:
I've been looking for a budget phone and I've seen this phone being mentioned as being good for the price. It is listed on geekbuying.com and trying to ask the live support about the differences between x820 / x821 / x829 models is getting me nowhere. I keep being told the x829 is just a 'newer' version with bigger storage. The only other differences I've seen from their specs list is that the x829 doesn't have band 20 support (uk networks). Anything else that I should know about before buying? Also, is the fingerprint sensor as bad as people make it out to be?
Thanks
*edit* nvm should have used the search feature
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Maybe I'm wrong but I think that x820 has all bands built in but x829 has not the 800 mhz band.
Hey together,
does someone know if Xiaomi brings support for 5G DSS? Different tests showed that the devices are not able to pick up 5G at frequencies of 1,8 and 2,1 Ghz as it is used in Germany for example.
3,5 Ghz signal is working just fine.
Xiaomi also once said that the devices are able to work with DSS, but the providers didn't order this. (Why would someone order a functionality that is already there and cut off for no reason? I mean not only Germany uses sub 3,5 Ghz frequencies).
What about your devices in your country? Anyone able to pick up sub 3,5 Ghz signals with DSS?
(Using MIUI 12.0.1 Global)
Thanks!
This is something I'd love to know as well. I bought a SIM card specifically to test 5G which is on 2100 MHz in my area just to find out that it's not "unlocked". Kinda sad, hope this changes soon.
Same here, doesn't work with newest xiaomi.eu beta Android 11 also
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Something new here?
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Don't work here. N78 work but this is it. Xiaomi support is lying, they told me "it works with the last update" but with the same sim card I get 5G on a P40 but no 5G with Mi10. .
Dear bro,
Does Xiaomi 10T pro can support NR SA ? NR5G Mimo 4x4 ? and 5G CA N1/3/28 to N41/78 ?
The phone manufacture for ASIAN market ( Viet Nam, Lao, ThaiLand...)
Tks a lot