Hello Everyone,
After a fair bit of reading and research I'm really interested in importing a Xiaomi Redmi 4 Prime from China to the UK. There's still unanswered questions that I have and I thought it would be foolish to proceed before asking a community like this that have much more experience than I do. My 2 questions are essentially:
1. Should I look for one with the global ROM or not?
- I wouldn't say I'm particularly 'techy' so initially I'd be reluctant to flash a new ROM, fearing it could go wrong. It would take quite a lot of learning on my part. I would like to be able to receive updates regardless.
- If the consensus is to go with the global ROM, which sites could I trust with this? i.e. if they say it's the global ROM, it actually is. (also see question 2)
- If the wide consensus is I need to learn to flash rather than the global ROM, which ROM should I buy it with? I definitely don't want to mess about with the bootloader.
2. Which site should I look to import from? I don't want to sound like a girl buying a car but.....I want black/grey one.
- I heard some good things about banggood but they don't have any in the right colour.
- Could I trust established places on AliExpress? link: (edit apparently i can't post a link as i don't have 10 posts yet - this is Xiaomi MC store on AliExpress) note: supposedly official ROM
- There's also some on a well known auction site (edit can't post link) note: looks like non official ROM
both these seem to have very strong feedback. are fake phones something to worry about with places like this?
- I'm also aware that some places with their custom ROM's make it impossible to flash a different ROM and I wouldn't want that, as regardless I may learn to do it at some point down the line.
I hope I've posted this in the right place and right type of forum. Apologies if not.
Sorry for all the noob questions here and I really appreciate any input. Thanks in advance.
After a fair bit of reading and research I'm really interested in importing a Xiaomi Redmi 4 Prime from China to the UK. There's still unanswered questions that I have and I thought it would be foolish to proceed before asking a community like this that have much more experience than I do. My 2 questions are essentially:
1. Should I look for one with the global ROM or not?
- I wouldn't say I'm particularly 'techy' so initially I'd be reluctant to flash a new ROM, fearing it could go wrong. It would take quite a lot of learning on my part. I would like to be able to receive updates regardless.
- If the consensus is to go with the global ROM, which sites could I trust with this? i.e. if they say it's the global ROM, it actually is. (also see question 2)
- If the wide consensus is I need to learn to flash rather than the global ROM, which ROM should I buy it with? I definitely don't want to mess about with the bootloader.
2. Which site should I look to import from? I don't want to sound like a girl buying a car but.....I want black/grey one.
- I heard some good things about banggood but they don't have any in the right colour.
- Could I trust established places on AliExpress? link: (edit apparently i can't post a link as i don't have 10 posts yet - this is Xiaomi MC store on AliExpress) note: supposedly official ROM
- There's also some on a well known auction site (edit can't post link) note: looks like non official ROM
both these seem to have very strong feedback. are fake phones something to worry about with places like this?
- I'm also aware that some places with their custom ROM's make it impossible to flash a different ROM and I wouldn't want that, as regardless I may learn to do it at some point down the line.
I hope I've posted this in the right place and right type of forum. Apologies if not.
Sorry for all the noob questions here and I really appreciate any input. Thanks in advance.
