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Even without any sim card the phone will make and maintain a 3G / HSPA+ connection to a random operator. This is for emergency calling. You an see it in the app Netmonster, for example. I would guess, but don't know for sure, that is how it determines location. You can disable this by...

Probably, but I don't know how. It depends I suppose on how MIUI is determining your country, they could make it quite difficult if they want to I'm sure.

The phone will make a 3G connection with any available operator even without a sim card. That's for emergency calling, and is probably how the country is determined. Did you try enabling 5G wifi without having a sim card? To use as a repeater? I have 2 Huawei pocket routers that do not allow...

Scorpio is EOL with Xiaomi and thus also with Xiaomi.eu since last fall, in case you missed that. There is a dev on XDA that has recently revived PixelExperience for Scorpio on Android 10. I haven't tried it...

I think the problem might be with some operators, who do not have a completely correct billing system that only bills you for your traffic, not networking traffic. But I am just guessing.

There is an ongoing discussion about this in a thread on the Swedroid forum. No clear solution has appeared yet. https://swedroid.se/forum/threads/datatrafik-i-usa-trots-avstaengd-mobildata-och-dataroaming-telia.177229/ In short, your device does use some data traffic without your consent...

Thanks. I don"t use the built-in camera app at all usually, though it has worked when I tried it. I use rather 2 different G -cam apps and Open Camera. None of these work perfectly in all situations, especially slow motion does not work. The G -cam apps often just crash. But they take much...

I suppose the security patch is still from October 2018? Anything new and different compared to the weekly?

I can recommend the no-root firewall Netguard. Available on Playstore and GitHub. It's really good, but of course if you need something that only works with root, it cannot do it. https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard

No, but I downloaded it and saved it on my backup disk for the future in case of need. I'm staying with the last EU weekly 9.10.10, for now at least.

Xiaomi.eu released the stable v11.0.2.0 for Mix1 (lithium) on Nov. 8. Normally it should have been released for Mi Note 2 at about the same time. The official China stable 11.0.2.0 is available. So I suppose there is some kind of problem.

This department is for Mi Note 2. You might try here, but your phone is EOL for a long time it seems. https://xiaomi.eu/community/forums/xiaomi-redmi-2-4g-lte.134/

Mi Mix1 somewhat unexpectedly just got the last stable eu V11.0.2.0, so I would suppose it should appear any day now for the Mi Note 2, as they are closely related. The official Chinese 11.0 2.0 is available at least. I'm staying on eu weekly 9.10.10 personally, just keeping track.

You might try the last EU weekly 9.10.10. In my experience a good weekly is better than any monthly. The only other alternative seems to be LineageOS. Note 2 is still officially supported on Lin.OS v16, with nightly(!) builds - but automatically generated. I have never tried it. But there is...

Would be interesting to hear how good it is, compared to the last EU weekly. I am staying on that EU weekly 9.10.10, for now anyway. Works fine, no problems.