Xiaomi Note 3 now R1899

Lament said:
Fck, i'm still waiting for the phone to be delivered and reading about issues like these are quite worrisome :(
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I have not had sales regret for selling my S5 this week. The power management on the phone is super aggressive in the standard setting, but you get outstanding battery life. I reckon if you disabled all power saving, all of these issues would vanish. The phone is superb - you'll love it.
 
Lament said:
Fck, i'm still waiting for the phone to be delivered and reading about issues like these are quite worrisome :(
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FlashSA said:
I have not had sales regret for selling my S5 this week. The power management on the phone is super aggressive in the standard setting, but you get outstanding battery life. I reckon if you disabled all power saving, all of these issues would vanish. The phone is superb - you'll love it.
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Don't panic, I don't have any buyers remorse either. The phone is great just need to tweak the settings.

Finding it hard to be faithful to my iPhone and only keeping me back is the apple watch pairing.
 
FlashSA said:
I have not had sales regret for selling my S5 this week. The power management on the phone is super aggressive in the standard setting, but you get outstanding battery life. I reckon if you disabled all power saving, all of these issues would vanish. The phone is superb - you'll love it.
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Thanks!!
I'm currently on a G3 and its A real POS. I had a S5 and I would say it's probably the best Android phone I have owned. If you say this is better than the S5, then I'm quite excited. My biggest issue with the S5 was the poor battery, but compared to the G3, the S5 had superb battery life
 
Lament said:
Thanks!!
I'm currently on a G3 and its A real POS. I had a S5 and I would say it's probably the best Android phone I have owned. If you say this is better than the S5, then I'm quite excited. My biggest issue with the S5 was the poor battery, but compared to the G3, the S5 had superb battery life
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Only the camera was a downgrade coming from the S5. I loved the S5, which had much better battery life than the S4 I had before. But this 4000mah Xiaomi is insane! My phone is used for business. On the S5 I would start the day on 100% and some afternoons would require a top up at my desk charger before even getting to the end of the day.

Today I was on the phone for several hours in the car via bluetooth. I was also away from wifi for most of the day so battery usage from the sim's was higher than normal. When I got home this evening, I had 60% left with well over 4hrs screen on time. Mind blown!
 
FlashSA said:
Only the camera was a downgrade coming from the S5. I loved the S5, which had much better battery life than the S4 I had before. But this 4000mah Xiaomi is insane! My phone is used for business. On the S5 I would start the day on 100% and some afternoons would require a top up at my desk charger before even getting to the end of the day.

Today I was on the phone for several hours in the car via bluetooth. I was also away from wifi for most of the day so battery usage from the sim's was higher than normal. When I got home this evening, I had 60% left with well over 4hrs screen on time. Mind blown!
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I don't take lots of photos so the camera won't be a real issue for me.
My biggest issue with every single phone i have ever owned has been the poor battery. It frustrates me to no end when the battery is dead halfway throughout the day. Or when I'm on my way somewhere while using the GPS and the phone dies after an hour.
So if this phone actually last a single day on heavy use, this phone will be my driver for many years to come.
 
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New OTA update on Developer ROM available this morning
 
brucem said:
Did you manually install developer version? Is it Lollipop or Marshmallow?
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Manually flashed when I got the phone. It's on Marshmallow (6.0.1)

You can download the full ROM here. Make sure you get the Developer ROM for "Redmi Note 3 Special Edition". Then you just copy the ROM to your phone's storage, and using the Updater app you can navigate to the zip you downloaded and flash that. Easy peasy
 
Pakka said:
Manually flashed when I got the phone. It's on Marshmallow (6.0.1)

You can download the full ROM here. Make sure you get the Developer ROM for "Redmi Note 3 Special Edition". Then you just copy the ROM to your phone's storage, and using the Updater app you can navigate to the zip you downloaded and flash that. Easy peasy
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Brilliant, thanks!
 
Anyone rooted their device yet, if so - which rooting option did you use?
 
brucem said:
Anyone rooted their device yet, if so - which rooting option did you use?
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I have,however I used the EDl flash method to load the latest developer rom with MiFlash.
I just replaced the recovery with a different one from the downloaded rom.

Source
 
iDoS said:
I have,however I used the EDl flash method to load the latest developer rom with MiFlash.
I just replaced the recovery with a different one from the downloaded rom.

Source
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Great - were you able to keep all apps and data or did you need to wipe it?
 
I'm considering paying a little more and getting the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 Pro. The regular Redmi Note 4 is only about R 1850.00 and the Pro which includes 64 Gb and and upgrade to 3 Gb RAM, is R 2450.00 delivered. That sounds like a good deal, taking into consideration the Redmi Note 4 has some advantages over the Redmi Note 3 - faster 10 core processor and better ergonomics. What do you think ?

My ultimate phone - which I will get, when it is finally released, is the LG V20. Like the Samsung Note 7 - top end smart phone, (with no explosive battery) but a removable metal back so the battery can be changed out - that is a massive plus to me, as I would hate to be on a hike in the mountains and the battery runs out and cannot be switched for a fresh battery.
 
surfs-up said:
I'm considering paying a little more and getting the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 Pro. The regular Redmi Note 4 is only about R 1850.00 and the Pro which includes 64 Gb and and upgrade to 3 Gb RAM, is R 2450.00 delivered. That sounds like a good deal, taking into consideration the Redmi Note 4 has some advantages over the Redmi Note 3 - faster 10 core processor and better ergonomics. What do you think ?

My ultimate phone - which I will get, when it is finally released, is the LG V20. Like the Samsung Note 7 - top end smart phone, (with no explosive battery) but a removable metal back so the battery can be changed out - that is a massive plus to me, as I would hate to be on a hike in the mountains and the battery runs out and cannot be switched for a fresh battery.
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Where you get those prices? Seem way too low
 
Heres another guide from Reddit to help if the XDA one doesn't make sense (Flashing from EDL mode to get custom recovery(TWRP) then using that to flash SuperSU)

Link

Lastly REMEMBER to flash the correct rom for the phone.It would be the Note 3 special edition

Head over to this link for more info - Note 3 KATE
 
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