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Well, mine showed up eventually. It was delivered while I was away so I'm not sure how long it took. Customs was £14.

Ah mine lasts for 2 days on pretty heavy usage. WiFi is always on and GPS. I lose about 5% overnight at an estimate.

This is what I 've got. Will do reset tomorrow, hopefully it will help, Thank you!

settings->about phone you are not doing anything wrong, battery drain is most likely system related. if you have the same version of the system, do the factory reset, should help.

Thank you for your reply. How do I check the ROM? It's showing as android is the biggest drain of the battery at 13.5%, the rest are 1apps at 1-2% each. Scanning always available was switched of, so it must be something else I am doing wrong :(

Just a tiny island! (cheeky) Its not just us that needs band 20, there are lots that need it to get full coverage. How much its used is another story as the networks restrict VoLTE use for example to a limited selection of phones.

Turns out that band 20 is a bit niche and we're not very important as a country

I think they have just posted the wrong spec at the bottom of the page, the title and pictures both say global version, so it probably is the global version.

Dont ask why "some" and "models" is one word; I have edited it twice, and put several spaces between the two words, but it keeps reverting.

As I have tried to explain many times, Global means OS ROM other than Chinese, and the inclusion of the Google Play Store; then they have two physical versions of some models, with a lower spec for the Chinese mainland market.. This could be a flashed Chinese version, as the genuine Global version of the snapdragon powered phone HAS Band 20 (I have one sat next to me); either that, or the sellers has posted the wrong spec list (which happens a lot, as most of them cannot actually read English). They dont currently have the Chinese ROM version for sale, so I cannot check to see if it is the latter. Until recently, customs werent an issue, but my last phone via this seller was stopped by customs, so they might be cracking down. On the other hand, the charge was £4, plus £8 handling fee from the Post Office.

Tax fraud? Go away, you sad case.

Crossbow, gone for this last week. Will see how we get along with the bigger screen when the mobile arrives. Thanks

Wouldn't buy a Xiaomi phone from AliExpress ever again- they are useless at resolving issues. Avoid!

If you ever buy another Xiaomi, I'd recommend an Android One model, like the Mi A1 (or the upcoming Mi A2). They have (& will have) pure Android (no skins, overlays or bloatware of any kind) with regular updates directly from Google for at least 2 years.

I really wouldn't recommend this phone. I've had it for more than a year. After about 7 months the audio jack quit working. The mic only records garbled sound if you take videos (voice messages are still okay) and the screen cracks quite easily if you don't have it in a case. There are sometimes software issues and there's something called Kika Keyboard inside that you can't uninstall and sometimes goes on update request sprees. I also had a problem with the SC weather app you don't seem to be able to uninstall.

Mine goes blocky. On mi mix 2. Honorary view 10 perfect. Mi goes blocky just rotating screen

I have a xiaomi MI 6 and a redmi note 3 and have no problem mirroring unless the streaming source is bad use it quite often to watch live sport through mobdor

Does WiFi display mirror go blocky on this? Like every other miui phone

You must be lucky or an imposter selling for AliExpress.. Most people like me are not.

That flash sale just keeps on going! The phone has actually been as low as 106 quid recently and as much as 145. Got to time it right lol. A LOT of phone for the money, no Band 20 but has NFC. Camera gets v positive reviews. PS, yes, exact same phone! https://www.kimovil.com/en/where-to-buy-sharp-aquos-s2?gclid=Cj0KCQjwn-bWBRDGARIsAPS1svvOFe_hNulwJ8F3Z6_LqHAN3tfwXxoBvrwOY0lKHGYpMnn4qJFENR0aAijlEALw_wcB

Second phone arrived today, £14.85. I'm sure they make it up as they go along!

I ordered the 5 plus with a mi band £140 middle of Feb it was in the uk 17 days later and has been returned to sender i have to wait another 5 days before the order is cancelled before i can get my money back

Yeh apparently They have got Stricter a few months ago , before it was random picking parcels,. Now they are taking time checking all or if not most of the parcels.

Ordered two of these the last time they were on offer and one arrived a couple of weeks later, after I collected from the post office with a £12.85 customs charge, and the other one has been in the UK since the 8th. Never had this with any of the stiff I've ordered from China before :/ Anyone else had any similar experiences lately?

In daylight the camera is fine, it's low light where it suffers.

Yep. Typically Xiaomi phones are 16gb ROM / 2gb ram, 32gb / 3gb and 64gb / 4gb.

Some shops say the Redmi note 4 is 3gb, others 4gb Ram. Does it come in both variations?

Mine one works perfect as well.

My redmi note 4 has issues with screen too. Although it wasnt cracked and touch still worked the display had gone. Now the phone is completely unresponsive except the red blink on right top of the screen when on usb charging mode. Thats all. I contacted Xiaomi but they wanted me to send it to Poland as the warranty is still on. I am concerned for the data more than the phone itself but they want me to wipe all data and send it. I would like to ask, have you done the screen replacement yourself? If yes can you recommend a link where I can buy a replacement screen as i am planning to do it myself. I am concerned to buy the right one as note 4 and 4x are quite similar. Thanks

Apart from calls i primarily use my note 4 as a sat nav,and it has yet to let me down

Probably £12

Called royalmail and they holding my order because there is custome fee on it, ordered on the 6th of March arrived at Heathrow on 5th April and arrived yesterday at my local royalmail delivery office, called today and thy say that i will get a card with custome fee to pay

Have a look at these tips: How Google Camera HDR+ Improves the Image Quality of Xiaomi Budget Phones Title for video below: Redmi Note 4 : Improve Camera Quality Drastically !! (100% working)

I owned this phone since July. Brill phone, but camera Let's it down. Unless anyone has any tips to improve it.

I had no idea I managed to find one on Amazon for just note 4 But all in all brilliant phone personally I have the 4 gb 64gb and I love it I paid a fraction of the price I would have paid for another Samsung infacy the price to fix my own s7 edge was costing me 10 pound more. Insane phone for the money battery is lovley .. A good buy!!

Called royalmail and they holding my order because there is custome fee on it, ordered on the 6th of March arrived at Heathrow on 5th April and arrived yesterday at my local royalmail delivery office, called today and thy say that i will get a card with custome fee to pay

Just a small info that should embarras a lot of 'high end', 'reputable' ' non China phone' manufacturers - Xiaomi just released a new miui 9 stable for 21 of their phone models, some of them are 4 years old ( yep, without crippling them down or killing battery life).Ok ,it's heavily modified android 7, not Oreo but still, unheard of.

Should I stay with my Moto X Style (I love it) or ditch it and buy this?

i take it this doesnt do nfc/android or apple pay payments ? which one does theres a few xiaomi phones on hotudeals just now ?

Wondering why my battery life had halfed recently. Thought the battery was dying after a year. Let's hope they do fix it in the next update

I dont know why they continue to use these cpus as they over heat in seconds and that makes it basically unusable. Even some of the sellers on aliexpress tell you to pick something else.Puzzling why they then continue to sell them if they advise against buying them. If you use battery saver and/or an app to throttle the cpu way down it will work but of course slowly compared to a snapdragon version. So no point if they are the same price.

I have this phone which I ordered from banggood for the price it's an OK Phone, Good points Battery is fine Cameras are ok Screen is nice I've not encountered any software issues and I had a few updates since I've had it Bad points No quick charge No USB type C Average cameras but then again who buys a phone for the camera!

Do yourself a favour and don't buy this buggy piece of junk. Technically it's faster than the snapdragon version, for about 30 seconds until it overheats and throttles itself to be much slower, the battery life is also half that of the SD version, also no real updates either official or unofficial, stuck on Android 6, the SD is on 7 and has plenty of unofficial roms on 8.1. MTK are junk and best avoided. The SD version is fantastic though, great phone, only paid about £130 for my 4GB/64GB one last June as well and has occasionally been cheaper.

Here we go again, another comment ready to be reported for a sispensio

Gentle_Giants facts are 100% correct.

Pretty good turnaround time after opening a dispute. Still waiting for the refund to card but seems to have settled pretty quickly.

I did get a refund . All pretty quick once messaged them . But open a dispute and they deal with it quick

I sent a message to the seller but had no replies. I've now also opened a dispute. Let's see how good it is!

Bloody Ali or goldway I guess at mo opened dispute and they say have I got proof from post that i haven't got item .I said your system says stuck at entry point . Also royal mail only say opened system error no tracking so what proof do you want

Yep .Will see I'm asking goldway what they propose . But 1 message every 2 days is about par (lol)

(cheeky) Sure buy a tent get some good ones nice a cheap problem solved

Well buying a house isn't the same as buying a phone. If they can't afford a overpriced phone then they should buy a phone that they can afford, there's tons of different price ranges with phones, I don't see the need of spending so much if all your going to do with it is Facebook and YouTube, it's a waste to use a Powerful phone for Social Media You can live without a phone you can't really live without a house

Anything from a store is still gonna be around £800+. So not cheaper.

At least you’ll be able to call, text or message them on that flashy phone. Maybe not PayPal credit then but something similar, just some kind of monthly instalment plan or credit of sorts

The phone outright on PayPal credit would still be around £800+ and then the sim. That works out almost the same. I personally buy my phones outright and I'm getting the note 8 for £600 + sim only (probably get BT) then it's much cheaper. But on PP credit, not worth it in my opinion.

Ahhhhhhh, thanx for that. :-) I recall hearing a similar story in the wind to that some year's back ... (I've since forgotten that obviously). So looks like people in this Country - who do HEAVY orders from various Chinese sites that is (myself at time's included?!, lol), to be kind of more on the ball when it comes to these things then or something?. By say some weeks beforehand/that moment in time, etc ... The over excessive advertising of Chinese New Year is very much in the Media even here too like? (so a casual/slight 'nudge' in that regard, is more than just going to be ahead of us all here regardless I guess?, hehehe). :-D

Does anyone have any sort of discount codes for GearBest, for this Xiaomi phone, etc? (to bring the current more expensive cost down too), or ... Thanx. :-)

Good nuts and bolts breakdown there. :-D

I've been told the country comes to a standstill for a few weeks approx 3 so there will be delays to orders.

They should have Google services preinstalled. What I meant was Google camera from pixel 2, where it has portrait mode etc ... The pixel 2 Google camera app is awesome and the pictures can come out looking like the background is blurred but the person in the foreground looks perfectly focused....

Already got the card today with £12.85 to pay, i paid £98 for the phone on Ali express

Friend had that on a Redmi 5 Pro, he didn't want to wait for the card so just went and did it on the spot, saves waiting another few days and then going to do it. His wasn't too much as they put a lower value.

Called royalmail and they holding my order because there is custome fee on it, ordered on the 6th of March arrived at Heathrow on 5th April and arrived yesterday at my local royalmail delivery office, called today and thy say that i will get a card with custome fee to pay

I have mucked around with the settings for the camera and seem to get a decent photo. Like most reviews say, in very good lighting condition you will get good photos...but sofar havent had the missus take any photos to determine her feedback on the camera :D

Glad you got it sorted. I ordered mine for my brother but he's complaining about the camera being quite poor. I know there is a Google camera port but you need to root the device for it to work. How are you finding the camera?

Did a restart and it never came on again......dead, apart from when I plug it in the mains the white LED sometimes blinks.

I have the 32GB 3GB Ram version. Solid phone and battery is excellent. Only let down i have had, is the camera isnt that great, but i was aware of that before i bought it :) Excellent phone for the money.

I hope so. I bought one 🤞😬

I can’t comment on the phone but gearbest do deliver.

Done it myself a couple of times - meaning to use Credit card for the protection , then used Paypal out of laziness (saves filling in card no , address etc ) . Holiday deposit and set of golf clubs , luckily all went fine , but I'm more careful now . :)

Your right it wouldn't work on the because it doesn't have NFC

been reading in the meantime that AP needs nfc and this dosent have NFC does it?

Most likely should work I think it only doesn't work if your phone is rooted.

Hi, will android pay work on these phones?, seem to use it all the time lately as Im continously forgetting my wallet lol

Phone is fantastic, for under £130 you will not do better

Ordered Dec 31st :)

What date did you order? Mine is sat at Heathrow airport at the minute

Phone arrived yesterday. So far, so brilliant. It's fast and sleek. The IR blaster is cool! Hopefully no issues will arise in the coming days/weeks, right now I'm very happy with it.

I'm guessing this is expired unless a code is needed or something? Coming up as £160.90 when I click through.

why wouldn't you ask paypal to refund item which wasn't delivered? or were you brave enough to use debit card?

still waiting for mine, it is showing as arrived in the uk but no movement for 2 weeks since then. Has anyone who ordered before christmas got theirs yet?

GEARBEST SAID:: ((freight forwarding feedback of this piece countries do not accept the goods battery, has notified the return freight forwarding, handling press back home)) i will never order from them again

((We are extremely sorry to inform that the package has been returned by your local post office because your shipping address was incomplete or the package has been unclaimed at the post office.)) they said the package was returned by my local post office when the package hasn't even arrived in the UK yet,the online tracking says so too & they said they will deduct the return postage cost out of my refund if i choose full refund instead of store credit!!!

maybe it's to do with time of the year,i will give it a week & hopefully tracking will be updated by then. @SClub maybe you are right about stock,i too ordered a miband 2 twice from them & i don't remember delivery time was too long. personally i prefer to use Gearbest over Ali Express for the fact they accept paypal which offers me better protection than my useless credit card company even though it's only for 6 months i still feel safer with paypal but i must give credit to Ali Express payment system as they won't release money to sellers unless item is confirmed delivered but this is where their good service ends if the item breaks down even 1 day after been confirmed delivered you are at the mercy of the seller where with paypal (Gearbest) you have 6 months of protection. thanks

They are probably out of stock. The Gearbest countdown of items remaining is usually made up in my experience! They tend do get stock in reguarly though, so hopefully you aren't forced to wait too long. I think the longest I ever waited was for a MiBand 2, which took just over a month to arrive. Plus the two watches I ordered in November (but the total value was less than 5 quid, so they are probably being delivered by sea cucumber or something... Good luck!

Got my refund from Paypal, great service from them. Bit the bullet and ended up getting a Moto 4X from CPW for £199 with £10 cash back which has tracked so not too bad. Ordered on Tuesday and delivered on Wednesday. Nice phone, Snapdragon 630 so not too slow just getting used to the jump from M to N and getting setup how I want it :) a few gremlins at the moment but I need to do an update when next on wifi which I think should sort them. Won't be using Gearbest again and the moral of the story is the insurance is a scam and not worth the paper it's written on. They offered me a $159 refund which translated to £115 so a fiver less than I paid and I expect it would have been even less if I'd accepted as there would probably been currency exchange charges. Not to mention the over two months they had the cash!

I'm looking at the Note 5 Pro too looks excellent for the money, not in stock anywhere yet though. I didn't realise no B20... It's not that important for me but I like having it in case I switch provider.

Banggood have a listing for the Note 5 pro, no B20 and not in stock yet but obviously coming soon. Tried to include a link but it's apparently banned, obviously not enough brown envelopes unlike Gearbest.

Not the best experience, hasn't put me off chinese sellers or phones as I've had good experiences in the past but I think I'll be avoiding GearBest in future.

Yep, after a week of being dicked about by customer support I to put in a paypal dispute. Paypals given them until 9th March to REPLY. Ugh..Alice on here never got back to me and support wanted me to accept a refund without giving the amount, I know what would have happened if I'd agreed.

Can anyone please tell me if this 4x model has the Sony camera. I currently have a Redmi note 4 with the Samsung camera lens I believe.. which is good don't get me wrong but the wife has sat on phone number 3 in 12 months so I'm looking for another phone for her🤣. Any help appreciated ta

Lots of Xiaomi threads and posters recounting their experience of not having Band 20. Proof is in the experience of using the phone. And the more tech-savvy posters have explained what B20 is and how/why it's used etc.

Unfortunately that may not be correct - no issues that they know of - they may have had a better experience with band 20. Bit like the person with free AV who argues that it is as good as a paid solution - very difficult to prove if that is correct.

Thanks, useful info :)

It's a reference to the band oasis, but I've thought that myself to be fair.