Installing Turkish Rom on Global Redmi Note 9s - Redmi Note 9S / Note 9 Pro (Indian Model) Question

Hello every one,
I saw following thread on xda where MIUI 12 is available for Note 9S (aka Note 9 Pro in India, I guess).
https://www.xda-developers.com/down...ing-out-several-xiaomi-redmi-mi-poco-devices/
(Serial No.15)
My query is since it is not available in my country (Pakistan), Can I flash the Turkish Rom using Local Update Method?

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saadtariq73 said:
Hello every one,
I saw following thread on xda where MIUI 12 is available for Note 9S (aka Note 9 Pro in India, I guess).
https://www.xda-developers.com/down...ing-out-several-xiaomi-redmi-mi-poco-devices/
(Serial No.15)
My query is since it is not available in my country (Pakistan), Can I flash the Turkish Rom using Local Update Method?
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Probably not.
Turkis version is a global market variant with NFC and 64mpx camera. You have a Indian variant with 48mpx camera and without NFC

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triovi said:
Probably not.
Turkis version is a global market variant with NFC and 64mpx camera. You have a Indian variant with 48mpx camera and without NFC
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as per google it is 48 mp

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I suggest you ignore Xiaomi model name and use model code, download an app like devcheck and see if you have curtana model code, then check if curtana is the one those roms are for. It's safer in my opinion

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the-_-ghost said:
I suggest you ignore Xiaomi model name and use model code, download an app like devcheck and see if you have curtana model code, then check if curtana is the one those roms are for. It's safer in my opinion
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Yes the Redmi Note 9s Global or Turkey is a curtana device.
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I'm using the Turkish 12.0.1 ROM (QJWTRXM) on a global 9S (QJWMIXM), it works fine. Make sure the firmware you're flashing is for curtana, and you should be good.
(Edit: I should probably clarify that this is a fastboot ROM I installed by unlocking the bootloader, flashing and then re-locking. If you want to install it as an OTA update and keep all of your data, I'm not sure whether that would work. It probably won't brick anything even if it fails, at worst it should just reject the update because of a mismatch.)
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Limezero said:
I'm using the Turkish 12.0.1 ROM (QJWTRXM) on a global 9S (QJWMIXM), it works fine. Make sure the firmware you're flashing is for curtana, and you should be good.
(Edit: I should probably clarify that this is a fastboot ROM I installed by unlocking the bootloader, flashing and then re-locking. If you want to install it as an OTA update and keep all of your data, I'm not sure whether that would work. It probably won't brick anything even if it fails, at worst it should just reject the update because of a mismatch.)
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How are you finding MIUI 12?
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gsmyth said:
How are you finding MIUI 12?
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It's hosted on Xiaomi's servers, there are a bunch of websites that collect the links.
https://mirom.ezbox.idv.tw/en/phone/curtana/
The one I used specifically is this (TR, fastboot):
https://bigota.d.miui.com/V12.0.1.0.QJWTRXM/curtana_tr_global_images_V12.0.1.0.QJWTRXM_20200922.0000.00_10.0_global_c851afa45f.tgz

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Limezero said:
It's hosted on Xiaomi's servers, there are a bunch of websites that collect the links.
https://mirom.ezbox.idv.tw/en/phone/curtana/
The one I used specifically is this (TR, fastboot):
https://bigota.d.miui.com/V12.0.1.0...M_20200922.0000.00_10.0_global_c851afa45f.tgz
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Sorry I meant how do you find your experience so far with the miui12 rom?
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gsmyth said:
Sorry I meant how do you find your experience so far with the miui12 rom?
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Oh. It's fine, I guess. To be honest there's not much they changed from MIUI 11, even the new control center is disabled by default. I don't use any of the stock apps or the battery/storage stats, the camera UI is slightly more annoying, and everything else is the same. The Google Now/Assistant/whatever panel on the leftmost homescreen was also replaced with Mi bloatware, though I don't use that either and it might be something specific to the Chinese/Turkish ROMs that will be fixed in Global.
And you can have apps in floating windows which is... a thing, I guess. I'm sure it will be useful someday, it's just kind of gimmicky since video players, chat apps and things you'd want in floating windows can usually do it already on their own, with much better UX.
To be honest the only reason I use MIUI is because it has the best "iPhone knockoff" launcher you can't get anywhere else, which is even more hilarious with the navigation gestures and the control center. They knew what they were doing, but it's honestly quite nice.

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Limezero said:
Oh. It's fine, I guess. To be honest there's not much they changed from MIUI 11, even the new control center is disabled by default. I don't use any of the stock apps or the battery/storage stats, the camera UI is slightly more annoying, and everything else is the same. The Google Now/Assistant/whatever panel on the leftmost homescreen was also replaced with Mi bloatware, though I don't use that either and it might be something specific to the Chinese/Turkish ROMs that will be fixed in Global.
And you can have apps in floating windows which is... a thing, I guess. I'm sure it will be useful someday, it's just kind of gimmicky since video players, chat apps and things you'd want in floating windows can usually do it already on their own, with much better UX.
To be honest the only reason I use MIUI is because it has the best "iPhone knockoff" launcher you can't get anywhere else, which is even more hilarious with the navigation gestures and the control center. They knew what they were doing, but it's honestly quite nice.
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Great, thanks for sharing your detailed findings!
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do we really need to lock the bootloader again im mi flash tool when flashing turkish rom from global rom? i heard locking the bootloader will cause problem such as bootloop and worse Hardbrick. pls clarify

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samcess said:
do we really need to lock the bootloader again im mi flash tool when flashing turkish rom from global rom? i heard locking the bootloader will cause problem such as bootloop and worse Hardbrick. pls clarify
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I locked it personally because SafetyNet (and by extension the things that rely on it) won't work with an unlocked bootloader, and I haven't installed Magisk. I don't see how the act of locking the bootloader itself could cause any problems, the people reporting those usually installed something through recovery or tried to flash a curtana ROM on a joyeuse.
You also can't really "hard brick" a properly designed phone by flashing software on it, unless you're doing something ridiculous like overvolting the CPU or the battery and frying it (if that's even possible). Even if you were to overwrite the entire nand chip with zeroes or random data, it SHOULD be possible to just flash the stock firmware back onto it with EDL or fastboot. The issue here is that the wrong firmware can also overwrite/break the bootloader and fastboot (somehow, I haven't seen this happen on any other phone in my life), and EDL mode on recent Xiaomi devices requires a patched firmware or you to pay someone a couple bucks for their authorized account.

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The EU version miUi12 for curtana is available in Mi servers for download.
Why is there a need to release Turkish an Russian specific rom? Translation ?

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the-_-ghost said:
The EU version miUi12 for curtana is available in Mi servers for download.
Why is there a need to release Turkish an Russian specific rom? Translation ?
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That one's flagged as a "beta" and is only available as a recovery variant, fyi. You might have to install the MIUI 11 EU fastboot ROM first and update it with that.
There's a Russian and an Indian version too, even though both of those languages are present in all of the ROMs. It probably has more to do with local regulations and what's preinstalled on each ROM (India might have a Flipkart APK, Netflix might not be available in Russia or Turkey so that region doesn't get it, the EU has regulations that say you have to let your users choose their browser and search engine, Russia might specifically have an embargo on a company, etc.) If you're really interested in the differences between the ROMs you could wait until 12.0.1.0 is released for all regions, extract all the files you can from the system/cust/recovery/userdata/etc partitions in the firmware and run a diff tool on them. It could literally be as simple as "one of them has a Netflix.apk inside and one of them doesn't".
For what it's worth, the filesizes between the ROMs are wildly different (RU 3.8GB, TR 3.5GB, IN 3.0GB) and I'd be willing to bet most of that comes from 50-100MB preinstalled APKs.

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That makes sense.
They could do a slim/no apps global version. I am debloating it anyways, would save me a lot of time

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So I was bored and decided to do just that, and... pretty much. I haven't delved into the boot image or the system partition yet because I can't be assed to compile the tools and copy everything over to a Linux VM, but I can't imagine there's anything substantially different between the two, like completely different radio and camera drivers or something. Interestingly, abl.elf is different, which I think (?) is the actual bootloader binary, though it might just be a new version (one of the ROMs was compiled two weeks later). Another fun fact is that the flashing script has almost twice as many files to flash as earlier Xiaomi images from 2013-2014. Even the partitions are getting bloated.
the-_-ghost said:
That makes sense.
They could do a slim/no apps global version. I am debloating it anyways, would save me a lot of time
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Yeah, I wish. The EEA (European) ROM is probably your best bet, since it has the most consumer protection laws to adhere to. I think it even comes with ads disabled by default, or it has to show you a prompt or something.

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good for share !!!
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