Do I get the global one? Iunno if I'm okay with Chinese fingerprints.

np their fingerprints have been burned off by the toxic conditions in which they work

tbh it's pretty comical they have a guy who just opens the factory sealed boxes and installs a rom for you, then puts everythign back and tapes it up.

But there's no point getting the Chinese one, yeah? It's not like they could mess that up.

I can't be bothered doing it myself.

i mean I'm sure they got the dude set up with an adb station and it's ez, but are you gonna want to put a different rom on it regardless once you get it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Probably not immediately.

is it a phone?

Yeah.

Every other phone I've had is trash by comparison though, so I can't imagine I'd be bothered

lol fair but their 'official global rom' might be loaded up with weird ass weaboo bloatware or something

wat phone is it

Xiaomi Redmi Note 3

I imagined the official global rom is just what Xiaomi actually use.

are you in the usa

Nope

have you watched this

https://youtu.be/jhi-pS7jZ80?t=1m35s

kind of a weird UI

looks good tho

I'll probs replace the launcher. He said there's still Chinese in some places. Would it be that he just has the Chinese ROM?

I'm not sure, he wasn't really clear...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/redmi-note-3/how-to/rom-qualcomm-base-rom-redmi-note-3-pro-t3346350

>I don't know if you can trust the Chinese search engine, if someone's watching
>Instead, you should use the Google keyboard to search with Google through Google Chome.

lol then you know for sure someone's watching

i just use nsa keyboard with nsa search

save some tax dollars

cut out the middle man

according to that xda thread there's some performance and radio improvements from using AOSP 5.1.1 instead of the MUI one

Overall I've got the following impression of this firmware:
1. Switching from 3G -> 4G is more reliable than on any MIUI rom. First of all I don't loose internet connectivity during the switch (with MIUI I always do) and secondly it founds 4G networks almost instantly, and for MIUI it took minutes.
2. I've tried to flash open gapps stock - it basically made them unusable (was unable to create account), but open gapps mini worked ok for me. Though got a problem with black home screen and very slow phone until I've changed home launcher back to trebuschet.
3. Battery usage also increased in my use cases. I usually got 25% battery/8h, but now it's more like 35%/8h. Though it may be related to the fact that all messangers, etc syncs as often as they want, and with MIUI I never was able to properly receive all push notifications, etc for most of the apps.
4. According to some benchmarks, it seems that this rom is a tiny bit faster. (geekbench results increased by 7% for example). Though that doesn't really matter for me.
5. I usually have more RAM available and apps killed less aggressively.

The thing about messenger sync is concerning. Would that just be because play services wasn't installed?

I think he's saying that the push notifications were shit on the original MUI

MIUI

the new AOSP ROM has worse battery life, he's saying, but he thinks the battery life is worse because he's actually getting all his notifications

but he also doesn't sound like the most scientific motherfucker

so I'd say your mileage may vary on that account

but it looks like it's super easy to unlock the bootloader and flash AOSP whenever you want

so I'd say get it with the OFFICIAL WORLDWIIIIDE and if it sucks dick, just flash the AOSP

Well I was just gonna use the MIUI one. 'Cause lazy.

But I might change if push wasn't working

ya i mean, use that one