**** The Official Chinese Phones Thread ****

CK61938 said:
Ah, I saw that one earlier. The extra shipping cost did put me off. I would probably take a risk of getting it from here. Thank you though :)
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£160 is definitely a good price. Like I alluded to earlier, I paid £190 for mine (inc. postage) and I'm happy with my purchase.

You'll just be waiting a few weeks for your new phone unfortunately. :p
 
exhashdotdot said:
£160 is definitely a good price. Like I alluded to earlier, I paid £190 for mine (inc. postage) and I'm happy with my purchase.

You'll just be waiting a few weeks for your new phone unfortunately. :p
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I know. But hey I have had this LG G4 for 3 years. What's another few weeks? Lol. :D
 
CK61938 said:
Ok, I am on the Aliexpress site where they have a sale on for the Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Global. I'm looking at the 4GB/64GB version in black with a flip case added in coming to under £170. Not sure how much customs will be on top of this. But who thinks this is a deal and a half? Weird thing is that I am on Three SIMO and I heard Three and Xiaomi have partnered up. But no idea when we'll start seeing their phones being offered by Three. So do I bite the bullet and get the phone outright and get a cheaper SIMO elsewhere (looking at Plusnet) or risk waiting to see what Three will offer with Xiaomi phones? HELP!!!!!

Missus is advising I get the phone outright and get on Plusnet SIMO. She's on their 3GB data which is only £8 a month. Can't grumble I suppose.
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Do you have a link to the seller?
 
UPS tracking update: "Stanford Le Hope, United Kingdom, The receiver must pay the duties or taxes due on the package."
Damn :(

Looks like I'll be paying a bit more for my new Note 5 then.
Anyone have any idea how much?

Not sure why it's with UPS either, as I selected DHL shipping
 
gsf600y said:
UPS tracking update: "Stanford Le Hope, United Kingdom, The receiver must pay the duties or taxes due on the package."
Damn :(

Looks like I'll be paying a bit more for my new Note 5 then.
Anyone have any idea how much?

Not sure why it's with UPS either, as I selected DHL shipping
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VAT plus zero duty should be. Not a so big deal. I released my VKworld S8 without paying any duty fee - just the original shipping fee, the value of the smartphone + VAT, a DHL fee for needed documents in order to release it at the customs and a broker fee. But it was worth it.
 
scrivz69 said:
Boot in to recovery and clear cache mate, if not re flash it with mi flash tool.
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C:\adb>fastboot boot twrp-3.1.1-0-gemini.img
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 0.551s]
booting...
FAILED (remote: unlock device to use this command)
finished. total time: 0.573s

oh dear, what now?
 
neocon said:
C:\adb>fastboot boot twrp-3.1.1-0-gemini.img
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 0.551s]
booting...
FAILED (remote: unlock device to use this command)
finished. total time: 0.573s

oh dear, what now?
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I have just realised it says twrp. If you are using adb command boot into fastboot type fastboot oem unlock to unlock the boot loader and try again if not I hope you had a back up, using twrp you should have[/QUOTE]
 
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scrivz69 said:
Is your boot loader unlocked?
if not boot into recovery, hold volume up and power and clear cache.

I have just realised it says twrp. If you are using adb command boot into fastboot type fastboot oem unlock to unlock the boot loader and try again if not I hope you had a back up, using twrp you should have
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CK61938 said:
Ok, I am on the Aliexpress site where they have a sale on for the Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Global. I'm looking at the 4GB/64GB version in black with a flip case added in coming to under £170. Not sure how much customs will be on top of this. But who thinks this is a deal and a half? Weird thing is that I am on Three SIMO and I heard Three and Xiaomi have partnered up. But no idea when we'll start seeing their phones being offered by Three. So do I bite the bullet and get the phone outright and get a cheaper SIMO elsewhere (looking at Plusnet) or risk waiting to see what Three will offer with Xiaomi phones? HELP!!!!!

Missus is advising I get the phone outright and get on Plusnet SIMO. She's on their 3GB data which is only £8 a month. Can't grumble I suppose.
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I got my Redmi Note 5 global version 4/64GB from eGlobal Central for £162.99 using discount code JAN5TD, they are based in Hong Kong and ship via UPS or DPD with no customs charge.

https://www.eglobalcentraluk.com/xiaomi-redmi-note-5-4gb-64gb-dual-sim-black.html
 
gsf600y said:
UPS tracking update: "Stanford Le Hope, United Kingdom, The receiver must pay the duties or taxes due on the package."
Damn :(

Looks like I'll be paying a bit more for my new Note 5 then.
Anyone have any idea how much?

Not sure why it's with UPS either, as I selected DHL shipping
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That sucks. But from my experience, I was pretty sure my package was shipped from China to UK via UPS, and then shipped via DHL to my house. So it could be that the seller (i.e., the UK redistributor) is the one paying the duty. The UPS package probably has a bunch of phones in it for different people.

[edit]. Yeah, my UPS tracking contained 5 packages
 
gsf600y said:
UPS tracking update: "Stanford Le Hope, United Kingdom, The receiver must pay the duties or taxes due on the package."
Damn :(

Looks like I'll be paying a bit more for my new Note 5 then.
Anyone have any idea how much?

Not sure why it's with UPS either, as I selected DHL shipping
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20% VAT I would guess.
 
exhashdotdot said:
That sucks. But from my experience, I was pretty sure my package was shipped from China to UK via UPS, and then shipped via DHL to my house. So it could be that the seller (i.e., the UK redistributor) is the one paying the duty. The UPS package probably has a bunch of phones in it for different people.

[edit]. Yeah, my UPS tracking contained 5 packages
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Yes, I think you're right.
I paid for DHL, but was given a DHL and UPS tracking number.
The UPS one mentioned paying customs, but the AliExpress seller said "don't worry about it".
The delivery to my front door appears to be DHL.
 
Not sure if I'm wrong on this, but the price of phones and plans seems to have gone up significantly in the last few years.

I got my Samsung Galaxy S6 back in 2015 just after release for 33 a month - 8gb data and free spotify. I've looked around now for a similar deal for the s9 (taking into account that I'll need to pay for spotify), but nothing comes close - this has led me to look at chinese phones.

Sadly, although the specs look great (even for the cheaper phones like the redmi note 5), the cameras don't match up, even to my 3 year old phone.

Currently considering looking at the more expensive chinese phones, although I do worry about warranty issues (as I've used my Samsung warranty a couple of times and it has been easy).

Anyone made a similar move? Any thoughts around the warranty on more expensive phones?
 
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