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Iseedeadpixels wrote: »Sounds fake to me, sorry you got stung like that.
yeah it seems it to me as well. I contacted the ebay seller who was full of apology and blamed his supplier. At least a refund shouldn't be too difficult but I'll likely be on the hook for postage back to China :mad: I asked him to replace it with a genuine one first so will see what happensMi Recovery isn't a phone app. To check if its installed, turn off the phone then turn it on by holding down vol+ and power button.
I tried that but nothing happened. The app on the phone I downloaded was called Mi Verifitcation by Antutu, it directed me to scan a QR code on a website which then came back with the result 'not a mi device'.
Anyway the battery issues on it persist so even if I thought it was genuine I'd still want to send it back. 5 hours to charge and barely getting a few hours light web browsing just doesnt cut the mustard. Back to square one for me
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Good post Satguy, I was thinking the Chinese Android Phones thread had gone a bit quite
Well I was not expecting that thread to be so successful when I made it when I was short on cash and thinking about a Jiayu G3 a few years back, I thought a few people would tell me it was sh1te and to bite the bullet and buy a Samsung or something but it turned out to be a great little phone (apart from the old MTK crippled GPS issue), as did the Elephone and the Xiaomi note that followed, both passed on to family members who still love them to this day.Ode to a great thread..
Chinese android phones , or non brand phones as they where when this thread was started were new. Only the brave jumped in, you paid $60, crossed your fingers that customs would not charge you with importing a counterfeit fake of some big brand phone,, in fact you hoped that customs would not see the phone at all..
Back then if you did get your phone, it lasted about 4 months before dying a smokey death, most likely you were glad to see the back of it, as it was about as much use as a brick..
Now, 10,000 posts later, things are a lot better, many sites now work hard to sell very nice phones, some phones are now brands in their own right, some sites are as well known as to us geeks as Amazon or Ebay, even PayPal are happy to jump on board..
This thread has come a long way in 10,000 posts..
Unfortunately for Chinese Android Phones, while there was a bit of a golden age for a year or two there where you could save yourself a couple of hundred euro for equal or even superior performance (especially if you wanted dual-sim and/or a phablet), they have now once again been relegated to false economy territory.
This is due to the release of the greatest phone ever made and the reason I haven't bothered with Chinese Android Phones in months, equal or superior performance and build quality to all the other flagships for less than half the price with a completely superior battery. €299 gets you quick delivery of the 2014 Flagship killer which will also be the 2015 and 2016 flagship killer aswell:
The OnePlus One 64GB:
https://oneplus.net/ie/one
Absolute perfection in a device and after a years heavy use mine is identical to the day I bought it, still getting 48-72 hours a charge, screen is still glorious, runs everything perfectly, wi-fi hotspot that can encompass a whole house and serve 4 people as well as a UPC connection and router without sucking the battery dry. Run the GPS for 6 hours on a long bikeride in a fitness app like STRAVA and it only drops to 70%, I could seriously give up my laptop and get by on this phone no problem.
You should mention this in the first post OP, better to stretch to €299 on a phone that will last years with completely superior screen, GPS, battery, processor and 64GB built in than €200 on a phone that might be dead in 18 months and you have to buy your own memory for. I cant think of any other phone Id choose if offered free choice of any of them, it destroys the Nexus 6 in day to day performance and that came out a lot later. Great camera aswell which you can access quickly by just drawing a circle on the screen when the phone is off. Double tap to wake when the phone is off is another must-have feature for me in future phones that I never thought I needed.0 -
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My first and last experience with Chinese phones
Eventually settled on a Elephone p6000 from etotalk
• The list of adds on and extras to pay is unreal (cover/sd card/protector/rom/insurance/no stickers to bypass customs or try to/postage methods)
• Ordered Monday and Friday DHL got in touch, it’s en route and I owe them/Irish government €31
• Phone arrived in an unimpressive plain brown box (no Elephone branding)the phone was in a elephone bag with a two pin adaptor for a two pin plug
• Got it set up and running and was loving the phone, for a week
• Charging phone said this is taking ages, said maybe bigger battery and all that, no still slow (five hours slow)
• Went to flash back to a kit Kat rom and found out the hard way how to do it and restore IMEI numbers after much panic
• Still issues, emailed etotalk saying week old, takes forever to charge. I got back a tech minded email about some special way to charge it(take out battery, plug in charger, put in phone, then can’t put case back on)
• More issues, another tech minded email, this time about rooting phone and deleting battery stats bin file and a different special way to charge phone.
No joy again, battery would be full and if you turned off phone to put case on, it booted back up half full
• Opened a PayPal dispute, asked for refund, told no and to keep emailing them
• Another email, asking what type of charger I used and to make a video so they could see the fault, bit impossible to video a phone not charging properly (how long is enough to convince them)
• Yesterday was seven days into ten days waiting with PayPal, etotalk just said reply to email, so I wouldn’t just get a refund and they kept the case alive
• After much running around today I got the refund from PayPal, I had to get a letter head from an post to prove you can’t send batteries in post (Chinese sites only use normal post as won’t pay customs)
I’m waiting a week and getting a Huawei G7 in carphone warehouse, sim free, cost is more, but it’s a physical shop and two brand names I know and hopefully trust
Get off our thread then:D:D I know my phone takes ages to charge if I use certain chargers, were you using the elephone one or a older charger? 0 -
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Iseedeadpixels wrote: »Get off our thread then:D:D I know my phone takes ages to charge if I use certain chargers, were you using the elephone one or a older charger?
Im just leaving the feedback so others don’t get stung
Elephone, Huawei, didn’t matter, do as they say, then phone % would go all over the place0 -
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