yes but vendor roms are those which you can't flash are full of shit apps etc.

tfw package hasn't left china yet

they all flash some form of UI on there, how chinky it is depends on the company itself

like Oukitel are known for using stock android

and yesterday there were couple people who said they received ones with vendor roms in thread

I wouldn't trust the firmware out of the box anyway

also in reddit xiaomi there have been reports

I'd at least get xiaomi eu ROM

if you don't know how to flash your own rom then you don't belong on /g/

especially with Xiaomi who make it piss simple

yes but I rather buy from seller who doesn't fill phone with shit

@Make They used to, same with Banggood (who still does it)

@Make Make you also have to understand to not take everything on /csg/ literally when there's a shitposter out there spreading lies to prop up Zuk and make Xiaomi look bad

/csg/ is full of lies

yes but I was talking also about xiaomi reddit

and flashing roms on Xiaomi phones is super easy, especially if its from MIUI to MIUI

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Gearbest has always sent out the global Miui

https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/6igacl/vendor_rom/?st=j4bahxo2&sh=c90f6a67

vendor rom=/=global rom

there's no global version of the redmi 4x on gearbest

as far as I can see

just an international version

on the Redmi Note 4 Global page they explicitly say they'll flash the global rom before shipping

they don't on the redmi 4x

@Make and this is how easy it is to get rid of it "Download lastest Global ROM from miui forum, transfer it to the device, go to Updater, click on the three dots at the corner and select Install from package, choose file"

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yes I don't have problems with flashing

I have cyanogenmod in my sgs2 for example

and you still don't seem to understand what we're saying, if they say they'll flash global rom on the store page that's what they'll do

the amount of times anons on /csg/ have a mini freakout because their phone package comes opened and it's just because some chink opened it to flash the global rom

global roms differs from vendor roms

vendor roms are outdated and you can't update them or unlock bootloader etc.

you can if it's miui to miui

how do you think the chinks flash global rom before shipping?

magic?

It's easy and fast for them

if it wasn't possible to do it easily then they wouldn't be able to handle thousands of orders a day doing this

http://en.miui.com/thread-392159-1-1.html

there are official ones and unofficial roms

you don't seem to get it what is really vendor rom