are you sure about that dodgy rom then?

or just thinking it's a possibility

It was due like 3 days ago but still.

no one has mentioned getting a 5X that was legitimate thus far :/

@penguin I know the feel about roadtrips btw

well imo i think you won't receive a 5x with a diff motherboard

my dad wants to travel the great ocean road completely from melb to adelaide and I'm rapidly gathering anime to watch on the way through

just gonna be a bitch to get the rom fixed worst case scenario

some people get the "tiffany" loader, which isn't so fucked and means I might be able to load the A1 port, some others got the "oxygen" loader which buttraped them since it locks a portion of the eMMC, and others managed to get the "tiffany" one with the A1 port on it??

in any case, I'm gonna get it refunded if it has an illegitimate bootloader on it.

Hahaha @Droidbot I'm in Brisbane. Trips to North QLD in THE SUMMER.

We have no family or reason to go up there. Makes me want to kms.

it might be super hard to load a rom

if you have a fucked up bootloader

aye :/

you can't

that's the thing

it might be impossible to unlock it

the oxygen loader is unlocked

but has problems loading roms

oh yeah, some come unlocked and ends up bricking you if you load it
others can allow a specially modded version of TWRP to be installed and therefore allow some official ROMs but it's hit-or-miss

scary

i have no idea what is going with xiaomi phones anymore

Yup. Geekbuying do a lot of scummy shit too, such as selling refurbished devices as brand new, fake battery banks, etc.

Surprised they haven't been sued by Xiaomi for knowingly doing this shit.

Xiaomi released like 16 phones in 2017.

at least you bought it with paypal

i'm wondering how's the a1 port like

@z3rk everything works

since they are similar devices, could you actually get official updates too

from google

but you have to flash mia1 firmware onto mi5x

Yeah. If they don't work with me via email I'll have to force it through paypal support with heavy evidence and proof of bullshittery.

for fingerprint

ye

and goodix fp doesnt work

haha fuck goodix honestly

straight up fuck goodix

wtf is goodix?

thank fuck i received my phone with a proper rom and proper fpc scanner

@penguin there is two fp scanner types

goodix and something else

Fpc

the goodix has literally no kernel sources

or anything