The Official Chinese Phones Thread

zijin_cheng · 20 Nov 2016 at 00:50

I think the Mi5s went down to $270 before, but I don't remember where. HOwever, if you can find the Mi5 for $190 that's insane, buy it immediately. I just did a review of it, check it out below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6MkuNU7GEo

neocon · 20 Nov 2016 at 11:08

zijin_cheng said:
I think the Mi5s went down to $270 before, but I don't remember where. HOwever, if you can find the Mi5 for $190 that's insane, buy it immediately. I just did a review of it, check it out below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6MkuNU7GEo

I think it was GBP 190

neocon · 20 Nov 2016 at 14:58

I'm stuck trying to install TWRP.

I flash recovery.img to the phone and then reboot. But it goes straight to Mi Recovery, no TWRP menu???

BaldJedi · 20 Nov 2016 at 15:32

neocon said:
I'm stuck trying to install TWRP.

I flash recovery.img to the phone and then reboot. But it goes straight to Mi Recovery, no TWRP menu???

your bootloader unlocked?

neocon · 20 Nov 2016 at 15:36

BaldJedi said:
your bootloader unlocked?

I think it's not locked on Redmi Note 2 , right?

BaldJedi · 20 Nov 2016 at 15:47

no sure about that phone.. never used one

you using a windows machine? could be you need diff usb drivers.. check 2nd post on this thread

http://en.miui.com/thread-146299-1-1.html

neocon · 20 Nov 2016 at 16:23

I don't have root, that's probably why

BaldJedi · 20 Nov 2016 at 16:30

root has nothing to do with flashing a recovery image..

neocon · 20 Nov 2016 at 17:23

So this goes ok

C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot devices
BE7SQKHAZ9PFCAIN fastboot

C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
target reported max download size of 134217728 bytes
sending 'recovery' (12518 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.573s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.308s]
finished. total time: 0.883s

C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>

then pressing pwr, + & - leads to nothing.

pressing pwr & + goes to Mi Recovery 2.01

scrivz69 · 20 Nov 2016 at 17:26

neocon said:
I don't have root, that's probably why

You need to root after flashing TWRP, your should install supersu after booting into TWRP or try After flashing TWRP just keep pressing volume up on re boot and it should boot into TWRP.

neocon · 20 Nov 2016 at 17:39

scrivz69 said:
After flashing TWRP just keep pressing volume up on re boot and it should boot into TWRP.

Only vol+?

BaldJedi · 20 Nov 2016 at 18:29

after you flash twrp are you letting miui boot up? from what i remember miui will re-write mi recovery if it is allowed to boot up, you need to reboot directly into twrp.

if it's not the above then it is likely a driver issue. have you installed miflash? this should install the correct drivers but may still give problems!

do you have access to a mac/linux machine? no drivers needed and less of a headache

neocon · 20 Nov 2016 at 19:42

BaldJedi said:
after you flash twrp are you letting miui boot up? from what i remember miui will re-write mi recovery if it is allowed to boot up, you need to reboot directly into twrp.

I think that might be happening ...

scrivz69 · 20 Nov 2016 at 19:52

neocon said:
Only vol+?

Turn the phone off, then press power and volume + until you see the mi logo and then let go of power but keep holding volume + and it should boot into TWRP. This is the first boot after flashing the TWRP recovery.

LEK-89 · 20 Nov 2016 at 20:05

Really liking the look of the Xiaomi Mi5 at the moment but I'm currently toying between this and the newly announced OnePlus 3T for when it's released in a few days time to replace my OnePlus X which has took a bit of a dive since it's last major OTA update. However I'm unsure at this stage if the 3T would be the better candidate in comparison to the Mi5, having never delved into the Chinese phone territory in this respect before.

Also, am I right thinking that it will be better to go for the 4GB version of the Mi5 over the 3GB?

Edit - I think the 4GB RAM version is the Mi5 Pro isn't it?

Many thanks - Liam.

neocon · 20 Nov 2016 at 22:13

scrivz69 said:
Turn the phone off, then press power and volume + until you see the mi logo and then let go of power but keep holding volume + and it should boot into TWRP. This is the first boot after flashing the TWRP recovery.

It cycles reboots when I do that.

benparker · 20 Nov 2016 at 22:54

neocon said:
It cycles reboots when I do that.

Does this help? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ11v6omZPo

@LEK-89 what about the mi5s?

iBSOD · 20 Nov 2016 at 23:35

Bought a Le Max 2 phone, should be arriving tomo.

£230 for 5.7 1440P, SD820, 4GB RAM, 32GB Storage. Has a pretty good review on gsmarena.

Upgrading from a HTC One Max. Will post my thoughts when it arrives

scrivz69 · 21 Nov 2016 at 09:51

neocon said:
It cycles reboots when I do that.

That's odd, if it is just boot looping looks like the recovery has not flashed correctly.

neocon · 21 Nov 2016 at 10:43

scrivz69 said:
That's odd, if it is just boot looping looks like the recovery has not flashed correctly.

I tried China Dev ROM and had the same outcome. Previously was on Global Stable.

Can I flash an older ROM MiUI 7?

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