The Official Chinese Phones Thread

scrivz69 · 16 Sep 2015 at 20:51

You should be able to add tiles in the settings mate. go to settings, notifications, toggle positions and they should be in there.

TheBrooder · 16 Sep 2015 at 20:54

Just found out it scrolls...

neocon · 16 Sep 2015 at 21:28

Thanks, the phone looks good

Glaucus · 17 Sep 2015 at 11:08

Got an issue, tried making a call. So clicked on the phone app and it just says permission denied.

However SMS work fine send and receive.

neocon · 17 Sep 2015 at 11:54

Glaucus said:
Got an issue, tried making a call. So clicked on the phone app and it just says permission denied.

However SMS work fine send and receive.

That's on a custom rom?

Altaz · 17 Sep 2015 at 12:00

Not sure if it's allowed to be linked here, but Gearbeast have opened up a UK Warehouse which has shipping for loads of chinese phone brands, shipping is free at the moment with times of 1-2 days.

Glaucus · 17 Sep 2015 at 12:47

neocon said:
That's on a custom rom?

Its on the 5.9.9 miui developer ROM.

krooton · 17 Sep 2015 at 12:51

Altaz said:
Not sure if it's allowed to be linked here, but Gearbeast have opened up a UK Warehouse which has shipping for loads of chinese phone brands, shipping is free at the moment with times of 1-2 days.

£170 for the Nubia Z9 Mini looks a great price, well reviewed 5-incher there.

elrasho · 17 Sep 2015 at 13:07

krooton said:
£170 for the Nubia Z9 Mini looks a great price, well reviewed 5-incher there.

1080P on a 5 inch screen seems pointless to me, 5.2 inch is the perfect size imo. Shames the regular Nubia Z9 is about £280 otherwise I'd snap it up.

Im still leaning towards the Redmi Note 2

krooton · 17 Sep 2015 at 13:23

elrasho said:
1080P on a 5 inch screen seems pointless to me, 5.2 inch is the perfect size imo. Shames the regular Nubia Z9 is about £280 otherwise I'd snap it up.

0.2" = 5mm = a ppi difference of 17 between a 5" and 5.2" screen.

Didn't realise there was such a fine line between perfect and pointless

Glaucus · 17 Sep 2015 at 13:47

Sorted the phone problem. Unpinned it, pinned it back. Now works. Very odd. Just need to get my contacts over somehow. Any way to import them from outlook as windows phone backs everything up to there.

tom_e · 17 Sep 2015 at 13:50

Glaucus said:
Sorted the phone problem. Unpinned it, pinned it back. Now works. Very odd. Just need to get my contacts over somehow. Any way to import them from outlook as windows phone backs everything up to there.

http://www.howtogeek.com/201988/how-to-import-export-contacts-between-outlook-and-gmail/

Glaucus · 17 Sep 2015 at 15:29

Thanks all working now.
Looks horrible. But should probably start a new thread on icon packs, widgets and such like.

elrasho · 17 Sep 2015 at 15:38

krooton said:
0.2" = 5mm = a ppi difference of 17 between a 5" and 5.2" screen.

Didn't realise there was such a fine line between perfect and pointless

There is in my world

scrivz69 · 17 Sep 2015 at 15:46

Glaucus said:
Sorted the phone problem. Unpinned it, pinned it back. Now works. Very odd. Just need to get my contacts over somehow. Any way to import them from outlook as windows phone backs everything up to there.

Sorry been at work and just got in, seemed an odd problem, I have not had a single problem with this rom from the word go it has been flawless, anyway hope it's all up and running fine now.

Glaucus said:
Thanks all working now.
Looks horrible. But should probably start a new thread on icon packs, widgets and such like.

Sounds like a great idea to me.

edGfaCTor · 17 Sep 2015 at 18:13

Redmi Note 2 users are you using glass screen protectors and anyone using the metal back covers?

I noticed geekbuying are selling the prime for £135 and non prime £111 including 8-15 day shipping plus when you register 5% off code to add.

elrasho · 18 Sep 2015 at 11:27

Bad reviews from geekbuying, stick to gearbest or oppomart.

neocon · 18 Sep 2015 at 14:13

scrivz69 said:
Looks like another zip mate if you have no TWRP just do the same as you did with the rom, copy it to the phone and install via the MIUI updater app, if it won't install just try re naming it to updater.zip again.

Same for this TWRP have a read Edit, forget that.

That's a .rar file. Can't seem to install Google Play here.

Keyboard is missing too.

krooton · 18 Sep 2015 at 14:30

Woohoo, Lenovo Vibe Shot is much more comfortable for my hands

scrivz69 · 18 Sep 2015 at 14:53

neocon said:
That's a .rar file. Can't seem to install Google Play here.

Keyboard is missing too.

See post 603 for installing the file and the keyboard I cannot understand as I have said mine was fine. Glaucus had the same problem ask him how he got it sorted. I take it you installed 5.9.9 if you have did you clear cache and dalvik, if not do that as that can cause problems.

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