Hello everyone, I'm not sure if anyone has made a thread with this exact tutorial but today I'm hopefully going to teach you how to downgrade to android 10 without unlocking your bootloader.
1- download the recovery firmware with the exact same version you are currently running on your poco x3 nfc, and download the version you want to downgrade to and then move those two files to your poco x3 sd card or local storage... https://xiaomifirmwareupdater.com/archive/miui/surya/
2- go to settings/about phone/miui version and then press the miui logo a few times, this will unlock some extra features that we need.
3- press the 3 dots on the top right of the screen, and then choose update package, and select the recovery firmware of the version you're currently running, after it prompts you to install the package don't accept it nor cancel it, just go back to your home screen and enter the file manager of your phone, and rename the file which has the version of the firmware you want to install, to the same name of the file which has the version of the firmware you're currently running.
4- go back to the update page and accept the update prompt, it should now trick the device into installing android 10.
5- after it's finished it'll reboot into the stock recovery, from there you'll have to wipe data, and that's all.
I got my phone a few days ago and have to wait 7 days to unlock my bootloader, and on the newest miui update there seems to be an issue with gestures, they make the device really laggy for some reason, rolling back to android 10 was the only option for the time being, so I found this way to do it without unlocking my bootloader
This will hard reset the device? How about the miui version still version 12.5 or lower?
Nazri786 said:
This will hard reset the device? How about the miui version still version 12.5 or lower?
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yeah it will hard reset, I downgraded from 12.5.2 (android 11) to 12.0.8.0 (Android 10)
Will be trying this method and see if it will work for me
You guys,
Watchout, you are playing with DRM L1 Keys !!!
Check this guide for more information !!!
this downgrade method messed up my drm widevine certificate
I have successfully downgraded my poco x3 nfc from miui 12.5.1 A11
to 12.08 A10.
Concerning the widevine I still have it at L1
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I have successfully downgraded my poco x3 nfc from miui 12.5.1 A11
to 12.08 A10.
Concerning the widevine I still have it at L1View attachment 5431941
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You better stay locked in A10 !!!
Once you unlock the bootloader, your DRM will drop to L3.
I give you 1 million dollars if you stay in L1 (bootloader unlocked) after downgrade to A10 !!!
Congratulation
gringo80 said:
You better stay locked in A10 !!!
Once you unlock the bootloader, your DRM will drop to L3.
I give you 1 million dollars if you stay in L1 (bootloader unlocked) after downgrade to A10 !!!
Congratulation
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I guess you owe me 1 million dollars, I unlocked my poco x3 today and flashed Dot OS 5.2 android 11, and I got L1
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I guess you owe me 1 million dollars, I unlocked my poco x3 today and flashed Dot OS 5.2 android 11, and I got L1
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I told you A10 ... not A11 : read again my comment !!!
Try now to install an android 10 custom rom or MIUI 12.0.8.0
LOL ... funny guy !
gringo80 said:
I told you A10 ... not A11 : read again my comment !!!
Try now to install an android 10 custom rom or MIUI 12.0.8.0
LOL ... funny guy !
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I updated to android 11 and downgraded to android 10 (and unlocked/relocked bootloader) so many times that i can't count (always done via fastboot with MiFlash), i currently am on A10 12.0.7 and still working everything fine with L1. You probably done something you shouldn't do if you had problems with widevine certification
fonz93 said:
I updated to android 11 and downgraded to android 10 (and unlocked/relocked bootloader) so many times that i can't count (always done via fastboot with MiFlash), i currently am on A10 12.0.7 and still working everything fine with L1. You probably done something you shouldn't do if you had problems with widevine certification
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Show your proof !
gringo80 said:
I told you A10 ... not A11 : read again my comment !!!
Try now to install an android 10 custom rom or MIUI 12.0.8.0
LOL ... funny guy !
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after unlocking my bootloader I flashed miui 12.0.8.0 which is android 10 and then flashed Dot OS over it, and it's still working fine, you probably did something else
You are now in A11 wich is compatible with your TrustedZone in your current firmware so you have L1 back again !
Do you understand what i wrote here ???
Have you read my guide too ???
I told you, flash an android 10 custom rom not A11 to see if you will keep L1 !!!
Then why you downgrade to A10 in OP then flash an A11 custom rom : that makes non sense !
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Show your proof !
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That's not a custom rom and you have locked your bootloader !
Don't you read "CUSTOM ROM & BOOTLOADER UNLOCKED" !!!
i had a custom ROM with android 10, TOO, but now i am on stock and i won't flash again a custom only because you say it, i have no time to waste, LOL. You are just giving bad informations, i have poco X3 since day one and never heard of this problem, you're the first mentioning it, you cannot admit you just did something wrong
Hi thank you for this guide
I'm just a little confused at step 3, do we rename the current recovery firmware to other name too and then proceed with renaming the downgraded version firmware to the same name of current recovery firmware?
sorry for bad explanation but I hope you get what I'm asking
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Hi,
I just bought this phone, apparently is just 3 weeks old.
I attached picture with build name.
Can you tell me if it is Chinese version or Row.
I think it is 4gb version
If it is Chinese can I install ROW image?
I tried fallow tutorial for rooting kit kat on this phone but no luck with twrp, error : "pmt is ready and layout has been changed"
Is that because I used twrp for ROW? (twrp v2.7.1.1_p780_row_kk_corrected)
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Hi,
I just bought this phone, apparently is just 3 weeks old.
I attached picture with build name.
Can you tell me if it is Chinese version or Row.
I think it is 4gb version
If it is Chinese can I install ROW image?
I tried fallow tutorial for rooting kit kat on this phone but no luck with twrp, error : "pmt is ready and layout has been changed"
Is that because I used twrp for ROW? (twrp v2.7.1.1_p780_row_kk_corrected)
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Hi. Yes that is the error for using another type of TWRP.
Your firmare is CN for sure!
There are some tutorials for flash ROW version!
Link: here one of them!
I'm sorry for stupid question but just to be clear, for Chinese version I can install ROW software?
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I'm sorry for stupid question but just to be clear, for Chinese version I can install ROW software?
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Lets be clear! On CN firmware can be installed any software(apps)
On CN firmware cannot install ROW custom zip file firmware.
To do that you must change base firmware by flashing desired firmware with SP Flash Tool.
stympy
i flash p780 row s228, how can i flash twrp now because still doesnt work ?
also explain something again , so if im now on stock kitkat ROW if i want to flash custom image (muiu ROW version ) , it is ok to do? but if i want to flash MUIU CN version then i have to flash first stock kitkat CN?
damtom85 said:
stympy
i flash p780 row s228, how can i flash twrp now because still doesnt work ?
also explain something again , so if im now on stock kitkat ROW if i want to flash custom image (muiu ROW version ) , it is ok to do? but if i want to flash MUIU CN version then i have to flash first stock kitkat CN?
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Hi. Look what you have to do:
1. go there and install TWRP and root your phone! after rooting go and download openrecovery-twrp-2.8.4.0rev2-p780row.zip from here! install and reboot to recovery again! this is an updated recovery for ROW!
2. Download MIUI from here! copy firmware on sd card not internal memory! And yes you must have an sd card!
3. install from market reboot manager from Ju. Grant root rights! Now reboot to recovery.
4. In recovery go to backup and do a full backup !
5. after backup is complete go to wipe! swipe to wipe! if you dont know what to do, do not go to advance wipe!
6. after wipe go to install! look for the zip file firmware, select and swipe to install!
7. after instal reboot to system!
8. wait about 8 to 10 minutes to reboot and voila MIUI is installed!
9. Good Luck!
Hi but I already tried this with twrp and I get error : "pmt is ready and layout has been changed"*
damtom85 said:
Hi but I already tried this with twrp and I get error : "pmt is ready and layout has been changed"*
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In my post are 3 scatter files for P780 with 4 gb and 2 scatter files for P780 with 8 gb.
You must do the same perocedure with all one by one.
Sometimes SP Flash Tool v3 is working with all , sometimes he dont. I don realize why yet.
If SP Flash Tool v3 is not working try SP Flash Tool v5. Repeat the procedure with SP Flash Tool v5.
All the tools are there!
Good Luck.
Ok finally flash tool v5 finally worked for me,
I'm on life v07_ul but back camera doesn't work for me o this image as my phone is 08.2014,
I want to go to Alice project now which is CN based, how I do that, what I have to flash for that to work? Can I do it through twrp or it has to be flashtool?
Thanks Stympy
damtom85 said:
Ok finally flash tool v5 finally worked for me,
I'm on life v07_ul but back camera doesn't work for me o this image as my phone is 08.2014,
I want to go to Alice project now which is CN based, how I do that, what I have to flash for that to work? Can I do it through twrp or it has to be flashtool?
Thanks Stympy
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Hi. You must change first firmware to CN.
I reccomend to flash first Baralajbi firmware.
Root with my post.
Then you are free to flash Alice Project.
Good Luck.
Can you give me exact baralajbi software, I just make sure that I don't want to loose IMEI number or WiFi or BT Mac adress
damtom85 said:
Can you give me exact baralajbi software, I just make sure that I don't want to loose IMEI number or WiFi or BT Mac adress
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Here is the link!
Thanks Stympy,
Hi Stympy, thanks so much for help so far.
I'm on Alice project 9.0, very nice image very fast, camera works perfect, loads of languages.
But can you help to find update 9.0.1.zip. Alicerom.ru is not available anymore and I don't want install 9.1.2 update because dialer doesn't work properly.
damtom85 said:
Hi Stympy, thanks so much for help so far.
I'm on Alice project 9.0, very nice image very fast, camera works perfect, loads of languages.
But can you help to find update 9.0.1.zip. Alicerom.ru is not available anymore and I don't want install 9.1.2 update because dialer doesn't work properly.
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Here ! I think this is the file you want !
I have updated the drive too!
Good luck!
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/*
* Your warranty is... still valid?
*
* I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards,
* thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please
* do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this ROM
* before flashing it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if
* you point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you.
*
*/
CarbonROM is an aftermarket firmware based on the Android Open Source Project. (They) are dedicated to fast, stable, and feature-filled roms, honesty and communication with (their) users, and openness with (their) code. (They) like frequent builds, with the very latest and greatest hardware support and fixes. (They) strive to not only provide you with the best rom we can build, but also to give back to the Android community and our fellow developers. For (them), this is about creating something (they) can be proud of and hope you will enjoy.
IMPORTANT:
-First of all, the ROM has been tested on the T1-A21W (Wi-Fi variant), not on the T1-A21L (LTE variant). If you own the LTE variant, which i repeat has not been tested on it, i higthly recommend you to take a backup of your ROM and take the proper precautions. If you installed it on the LTE variant please let me know about your feedback and any other bug not described below.
- The ROM still need some big things to solve like the camera and the Play Store issue, so i would only recommend you to install the ROM if you do not mind to have the mentioned bugs.
Gapps:
- OpenGApps.org
Select ARM and 4.4. I recomend you to choose the Pico variant.
Requirements:
-T1-A21L or T1-A21W device
-Unlocked bootloader
-A custom recovery: Philz Touch Recovery
- Take backup of your EFS & IMEI and keep it safe (Require root/Optional and Hightly recommended): [url]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ma.wanam.efs[/URL]
- Take precautions
FAQ:
Q: Is this Android 5.X, 6.X, 7,X or 12.X??
A: No, it is based on Kit Kat (4.4.4).
Q: Why Android Kit Kat?
A: It is easy to port and i am not currently able to make the kernel source work in order to get a more upgraded Android version.
Q: Can you implement X, Y or Z feature, mod or app?
A: Nope.
Q: Does it have any bug?:
A: Mentioned below.
Bugs:
This may vary on next builds, if i continue supporting the ROM.
- Camera not working.
- Light sensor not working.
- CarbonROM personalization menu disappears on some specific conditions. To solve it go back and enter again.
- After installing any gapps package Play Store does not connect. Seems to be an issue related to the framework. This issue may desappear to you, for some strange reason, after 1 day.
- "Perfomance" menu crashes as it is not adapted for our devices.
- Maybe something else i forgot.
Screenshots:
Soon...
Installation instructions:
- Download the latest build and GApps.
- Take a nandroid bakcup (Hightly recommended).
- Wipe System, Data, Cache & Dalvik cache.
- Flash ROM.
- Flash GApps.
- Reboot.
- Enjoy!
Download Link:
- https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=817550096634794440
Changelog:
- Beta 1 - 08/17/2017: initial build
Credits:
- CarbonROM for the great work on this ROM.
- eloygomez from HTCMania as the ROM is based on the one he ported.
Contributors:
- @mustang_ssc
Created: 08/25/2017
Reserved.
Good news bro. I find that t1-a21l is the same model as its Chinese variant t1-a23l, whose OTA EMUI3.1 ( android 5.0) has been available. You shall download and install its 4.4 rom from Chinese Huawei site and see if you can upgrade through OTA.
BTW, I have tested your rom on my LTE variant, and it works just fine!
Again, thanks for your work!
tenderVeteran said:
Good news bro. I find that t1-a21l is the same model as its Chinese variant t1-a23l, whose OTA EMUI3.1 ( android 5.0) has been available. You shall download and install its 4.4 rom from Chinese Huawei site and see if you can upgrade through OTA.
BTW, I have tested your rom on my LTE variant, and it works just fine!
Again, thanks for your work!
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Oh didn't know that about the t1-23l, that's great!
I'll try to port the rom, it should not be a problem as they should be the same device.
mustang_ssc said:
Oh didn't know that about the t1-23l, that's great!
I'll try to port the rom, it should not be a problem as they should be the same device.
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Thanks! I have tried on my device and succeeded to update to emui3.1. Please let me know if you need boot.img, system.img, and recovery.
tenderVeteran said:
Thanks! I have tried on my device and succeeded to update to emui3.1. Please let me know if you need boot.img, system.img, and recovery.
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Oh, yes please, send me the link for the whole ROM firmware if you have it. I search it but i had no luck to find it.
mustang_ssc said:
Oh, yes please, send me the link for the whole ROM firmware if you have it. I search it but i had no luck to find it.
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It's only available through OTA... Since I'm at work right now, I will upload them for you once I get home. You may check DM tomorrow... Sorry for that!
great job
hello mustang...Good job on this..you have actually given the opportunity to the likes of us who loves tech but don't always have the resources and needs to meet up our curiosity...i have actually installed the Carbon Rom for the t1-a21l LTE ..and its actually quite good.......except i have been trying to root it or say trying to install supersu but not successful,still trying it tho...like you said camera isn't working.trying to work my way around it thou...no pre installed music player also its a tab/pad hands-free/speaker mode shouldn't be an option only if you are using an earpiece device or headphone.i think charging is slow,still observing it..certain apps freezes and stops......but overall great job.....looking forward to an update fixing the bugs soon.............thanks bro...big ups to you and know your work is appreciated from afar.
Pls i need help for hwt1a21l stock rom..i cant find my backup and am stuck using carbonkk rom....i need help in getting my device back to its original state...thank anyone
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hello mustang...Good job on this..you have actually given the opportunity to the likes of us who loves tech but don't always have the resources and needs to meet up our curiosity...i have actually installed the Carbon Rom for the t1-a21l LTE ..and its actually quite good.......except i have been trying to root it or say trying to install supersu but not successful,still trying it tho...like you said camera isn't working.trying to work my way around it thou...no pre installed music player also its a tab/pad hands-free/speaker mode shouldn't be an option only if you are using an earpiece device or headphone.i think charging is slow,still observing it..certain apps freezes and stops......but overall great job.....looking forward to an update fixing the bugs soon.............thanks bro...big ups to you and know your work is appreciated from afar.
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Hi, thank you for your words. The charging speed is the stock one as we use the stock kernel and i don't think i will work on this rom anymore for the simple reason that i have a completely stable Lollipop (EMUI 3.1) rom, so i can use it as base to try to port other Lollipop roms
sparz21 said:
Pls i need help for hwt1a21l stock rom..i cant find my backup and am stuck using carbonkk rom....i need help in getting my device back to its original state...thank anyone
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Did you take a backup? If so it should be available on the sd card or internal memory and you should be able to access through the restore menu from the recovery.
Anyway, you can flash the flashable stock rom from my thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/huawei-mediapad/development/rom-emui-3-0-light-mediapad-t1-10-t3609602
mustang_ssc said:
Hi, thank you for your words. The charging speed is the stock one as we use the stock kernel and i don't think i will work on this rom anymore for the simple reason that i have a completely stable Lollipop (EMUI 3.1) rom, so i can use it as base to try to port other Lollipop roms
Did you take a backup? If so it should be available on the sd card or internal memory and you should be able to access through the restore menu from the recovery.
Anyway, you can flash the flashable stock rom from my thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/hu...nt/rom-emui-3-0-light-mediapad-t1-10-t3609602
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Thanks a lot.....i have been able to restore the stock rom from the link you sent....i really love the carbon rom,something about it that compliments me wish you can continue with it..but also looking forward to new roms coming up......so i could like call you my mentor from a distance...really would like to learn more about all this...big ups to you......and please keep me updatd on upcoming roms...:good:
Hello mustang.how are you its been a while..how has it been going so far with roms and softwares..trust great........been hoping to hear omething good from you about hwtia221l if there is any update.....pls let me know thanks alot.iting in anticipation
mustang_ssc said:
Hi, thank you for your words. " i have a completely stable Lollipop (EMUI 3.1) rom "
Hi Mustang.
I'm currently running your Carbon ROM 4.4 but I would like to use the tablet T1-A21L for my son and Google's Family Link can only run on Android 5+ (Lollipop).
Since you said you managed to run a stable EMUI 3.1 (Android 5 Lollipop) for the device, could you share the steps you would have taken.
I looked for the Stock EMUI for <t1-a23l> in FirmwareFinder as it was mentionned that OTA to EMUI 3.1 eexisted for this compatiblee hardware.
However I cannot find it.
Any chance to explain how yo got Lollipop to run on this device ?
Thanks.
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matthieumaindrou said:
mustang_ssc said:
Hi, thank you for your words. " i have a completely stable Lollipop (EMUI 3.1) rom "
Hi Mustang.
I'm currently running your Carbon ROM 4.4 but I would like to use the tablet T1-A21L for my son and Google's Family Link can only run on Android 5+ (Lollipop).
Since you said you managed to run a stable EMUI 3.1 (Android 5 Lollipop) for the device, could you share the steps you would have taken.
I looked for the Stock EMUI for <t1-a23l> in FirmwareFinder as it was mentionned that OTA to EMUI 3.1 eexisted for this compatiblee hardware.
However I cannot find it.
Any chance to explain how yo got Lollipop to run on this device ?
Thanks.
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Hello, sorry for the late reply.
Check this post: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=82458167&postcount=50
About the "completely working EMUI 3.1 ROM" (twrp flashable): It was indeed a working build but there was some issues for the installation that i needed to solve that whether didnt allow to install it correctly or it didnt boot, to solve this i personally had to make some workaround. I didnt realease it as it was not ready for public usage and never found a way to fix the installation issue.
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Hello every one,
I saw following thread on xda where MIUI 12 is available for Note 9S (aka Note 9 Pro in India, I guess).
https://www.xda-developers.com/down...ing-out-several-xiaomi-redmi-mi-poco-devices/
(Serial No.15)
My query is since it is not available in my country (Pakistan), Can I flash the Turkish Rom using Local Update Method?
saadtariq73 said:
Hello every one,
I saw following thread on xda where MIUI 12 is available for Note 9S (aka Note 9 Pro in India, I guess).
https://www.xda-developers.com/down...ing-out-several-xiaomi-redmi-mi-poco-devices/
(Serial No.15)
My query is since it is not available in my country (Pakistan), Can I flash the Turkish Rom using Local Update Method?
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Probably not.
Turkis version is a global market variant with NFC and 64mpx camera. You have a Indian variant with 48mpx camera and without NFC
triovi said:
Probably not.
Turkis version is a global market variant with NFC and 64mpx camera. You have a Indian variant with 48mpx camera and without NFC
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as per google it is 48 mp
I suggest you ignore Xiaomi model name and use model code, download an app like devcheck and see if you have curtana model code, then check if curtana is the one those roms are for. It's safer in my opinion
the-_-ghost said:
I suggest you ignore Xiaomi model name and use model code, download an app like devcheck and see if you have curtana model code, then check if curtana is the one those roms are for. It's safer in my opinion
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Yes the Redmi Note 9s Global or Turkey is a curtana device.
Sent from my Redmi Note 9 Pro using XDA Labs
I'm using the Turkish 12.0.1 ROM (QJWTRXM) on a global 9S (QJWMIXM), it works fine. Make sure the firmware you're flashing is for curtana, and you should be good.
(Edit: I should probably clarify that this is a fastboot ROM I installed by unlocking the bootloader, flashing and then re-locking. If you want to install it as an OTA update and keep all of your data, I'm not sure whether that would work. It probably won't brick anything even if it fails, at worst it should just reject the update because of a mismatch.)
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I'm using the Turkish 12.0.1 ROM (QJWTRXM) on a global 9S (QJWMIXM), it works fine. Make sure the firmware you're flashing is for curtana, and you should be good.
(Edit: I should probably clarify that this is a fastboot ROM I installed by unlocking the bootloader, flashing and then re-locking. If you want to install it as an OTA update and keep all of your data, I'm not sure whether that would work. It probably won't brick anything even if it fails, at worst it should just reject the update because of a mismatch.)
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How are you finding MIUI 12?
Sent from my Redmi Note 9S using Tapatalk
gsmyth said:
How are you finding MIUI 12?
Sent from my Redmi Note 9S using Tapatalk
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It's hosted on Xiaomi's servers, there are a bunch of websites that collect the links.
https://mirom.ezbox.idv.tw/en/phone/curtana/
The one I used specifically is this (TR, fastboot):
https://bigota.d.miui.com/V12.0.1.0.QJWTRXM/curtana_tr_global_images_V12.0.1.0.QJWTRXM_20200922.0000.00_10.0_global_c851afa45f.tgz
Limezero said:
It's hosted on Xiaomi's servers, there are a bunch of websites that collect the links.
https://mirom.ezbox.idv.tw/en/phone/curtana/
The one I used specifically is this (TR, fastboot):
https://bigota.d.miui.com/V12.0.1.0...M_20200922.0000.00_10.0_global_c851afa45f.tgz
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Sorry I meant how do you find your experience so far with the miui12 rom?
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gsmyth said:
Sorry I meant how do you find your experience so far with the miui12 rom?
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Oh. It's fine, I guess. To be honest there's not much they changed from MIUI 11, even the new control center is disabled by default. I don't use any of the stock apps or the battery/storage stats, the camera UI is slightly more annoying, and everything else is the same. The Google Now/Assistant/whatever panel on the leftmost homescreen was also replaced with Mi bloatware, though I don't use that either and it might be something specific to the Chinese/Turkish ROMs that will be fixed in Global.
And you can have apps in floating windows which is... a thing, I guess. I'm sure it will be useful someday, it's just kind of gimmicky since video players, chat apps and things you'd want in floating windows can usually do it already on their own, with much better UX.
To be honest the only reason I use MIUI is because it has the best "iPhone knockoff" launcher you can't get anywhere else, which is even more hilarious with the navigation gestures and the control center. They knew what they were doing, but it's honestly quite nice.
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Oh. It's fine, I guess. To be honest there's not much they changed from MIUI 11, even the new control center is disabled by default. I don't use any of the stock apps or the battery/storage stats, the camera UI is slightly more annoying, and everything else is the same. The Google Now/Assistant/whatever panel on the leftmost homescreen was also replaced with Mi bloatware, though I don't use that either and it might be something specific to the Chinese/Turkish ROMs that will be fixed in Global.
And you can have apps in floating windows which is... a thing, I guess. I'm sure it will be useful someday, it's just kind of gimmicky since video players, chat apps and things you'd want in floating windows can usually do it already on their own, with much better UX.
To be honest the only reason I use MIUI is because it has the best "iPhone knockoff" launcher you can't get anywhere else, which is even more hilarious with the navigation gestures and the control center. They knew what they were doing, but it's honestly quite nice.
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Great, thanks for sharing your detailed findings!
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do we really need to lock the bootloader again im mi flash tool when flashing turkish rom from global rom? i heard locking the bootloader will cause problem such as bootloop and worse Hardbrick. pls clarify
samcess said:
do we really need to lock the bootloader again im mi flash tool when flashing turkish rom from global rom? i heard locking the bootloader will cause problem such as bootloop and worse Hardbrick. pls clarify
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I locked it personally because SafetyNet (and by extension the things that rely on it) won't work with an unlocked bootloader, and I haven't installed Magisk. I don't see how the act of locking the bootloader itself could cause any problems, the people reporting those usually installed something through recovery or tried to flash a curtana ROM on a joyeuse.
You also can't really "hard brick" a properly designed phone by flashing software on it, unless you're doing something ridiculous like overvolting the CPU or the battery and frying it (if that's even possible). Even if you were to overwrite the entire nand chip with zeroes or random data, it SHOULD be possible to just flash the stock firmware back onto it with EDL or fastboot. The issue here is that the wrong firmware can also overwrite/break the bootloader and fastboot (somehow, I haven't seen this happen on any other phone in my life), and EDL mode on recent Xiaomi devices requires a patched firmware or you to pay someone a couple bucks for their authorized account.
The EU version miUi12 for curtana is available in Mi servers for download.
Why is there a need to release Turkish an Russian specific rom? Translation ?
the-_-ghost said:
The EU version miUi12 for curtana is available in Mi servers for download.
Why is there a need to release Turkish an Russian specific rom? Translation ?
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That one's flagged as a "beta" and is only available as a recovery variant, fyi. You might have to install the MIUI 11 EU fastboot ROM first and update it with that.
There's a Russian and an Indian version too, even though both of those languages are present in all of the ROMs. It probably has more to do with local regulations and what's preinstalled on each ROM (India might have a Flipkart APK, Netflix might not be available in Russia or Turkey so that region doesn't get it, the EU has regulations that say you have to let your users choose their browser and search engine, Russia might specifically have an embargo on a company, etc.) If you're really interested in the differences between the ROMs you could wait until 12.0.1.0 is released for all regions, extract all the files you can from the system/cust/recovery/userdata/etc partitions in the firmware and run a diff tool on them. It could literally be as simple as "one of them has a Netflix.apk inside and one of them doesn't".
For what it's worth, the filesizes between the ROMs are wildly different (RU 3.8GB, TR 3.5GB, IN 3.0GB) and I'd be willing to bet most of that comes from 50-100MB preinstalled APKs.
That makes sense.
They could do a slim/no apps global version. I am debloating it anyways, would save me a lot of time
So I was bored and decided to do just that, and... pretty much. I haven't delved into the boot image or the system partition yet because I can't be assed to compile the tools and copy everything over to a Linux VM, but I can't imagine there's anything substantially different between the two, like completely different radio and camera drivers or something. Interestingly, abl.elf is different, which I think (?) is the actual bootloader binary, though it might just be a new version (one of the ROMs was compiled two weeks later). Another fun fact is that the flashing script has almost twice as many files to flash as earlier Xiaomi images from 2013-2014. Even the partitions are getting bloated.
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That makes sense.
They could do a slim/no apps global version. I am debloating it anyways, would save me a lot of time
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Yeah, I wish. The EEA (European) ROM is probably your best bet, since it has the most consumer protection laws to adhere to. I think it even comes with ads disabled by default, or it has to show you a prompt or something.
good for share !!!
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Now we have a full-featured 2.8 inch Android 11 smartphone in the format of a classic push-button phone released, having a touchscreen, GPS, BT5.0, IR remote control, dual-band Wi-Fi, two cameras, and all this with MTK A22 chipset. Obviously, QIN F21 Pro is the best in its class.
Unfortunately, QIN F21 Pro is positioned by the manufacturer as a phone for students, hence they closed (and keep closing in the new versions of the firmware!) loopholes and ways to install own third-party software, so there is no standard ability to install any apk locally or through adb, and in the native Chinese market there are only educational programs for China.
The only way to install your own software is the APK renaming and its substitution via PC at the moment when it is being downloaded by the official App Market.
So, guys, any ideas of how to make this phone unchained? It has big potential indeed, so having Google Services would be great, but the bootloader is locked, the FW is signed, MTK flashing tool refuses to flash unsigned paritions.
You can upload the firmware, if you do not have a sucker with uni android tool software
achakian0000 said:
You can upload the firmware, if you do not have a sucker with uni android tool software
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I wish i had full firmware dump available. Unfortunately, just the OTA update.zip
Can you upload the system folder?
You can read the firmware from the device with uni android tool!
I wonder, I've read that this device is rootable (there seems to be some guides on chinese forums about this) I just couldn't find any info regarding if it has a unlocked bootloader? Would LineageOS be possible on this? Global version is coming later this year, according to this video.
Ive ordered 2 cracked Chinese units with the mtk6761 with unlocked bootloader + root + playstore.
The rumored Global version will be using the Unisoc T310 soc with its bootloader cannot be unlocked and very secured based on 2 years old phones running it
Jbazt_katuforzs said:
Ive ordered 2 cracked Chinese units with the mtk6761 with unlocked bootloader + root + playstore.
The rumored Global version will be using the Unisoc T310 soc with its bootloader cannot be unlocked and very secured based on 2 years old phones running it
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Iv such unit, rooted, open for install, and with full gplay functionality, but its hard and long process for each device seperatly.
Iv tried a few GSI's, without success tho.
Jbazt_katuforzs said:
Ive ordered 2 cracked Chinese units with the mtk6761 with unlocked bootloader + root + playstore.
The rumored Global version will be using the Unisoc T310 soc with its bootloader cannot be unlocked and very secured based on 2 years old phones running it
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Unlocking unisoc bootloader was always a problem because you Need the rsa4096 private key, and generate a unique signature.bin for each device by its own token.
Y8765 said:
Iv such unit, rooted, open for install, and with full gplay functionality, but its hard and long process for each device seperatly.
Iv tried a few GSI's, without success tho.
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when it comes ill try to backup the firmware making a scatterfile via box so it could be flash using mtk flashtool. maybe you could try that. theres also lots of turtorials how to backup MTK firmware and create a scatterfile with that if the device can boot to preloader mode
cool! does contacts syncs properly? does it has a custom TWRP already? can it boot recovery via adb or other root advanced reboot app?
Jbazt_katuforzs said:
when it comes ill try to backup the firmware making a scatterfile via box so it could be flash using mtk flashtool. maybe you could try that. theres also lots of turtorials how to backup MTK firmware and create a scatterfile with that if the device can boot to preloader mode
cool! does contacts syncs properly? does it has a custom TWRP already? can it boot recovery via adb or other root advanced reboot app?
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The root is normal.
Pre-installed.
Iv made it with a friend, device dont have twrp, iv full backup of the firmware, she will not worked without unlock BL, unless you have the vbmeta keys to re-sign them
Device is android 11, so it dont have a regular recovery partition to replace with twrp of course.
Y8765 said:
The root is normal.
Pre-installed.
Iv made it with a friend, device dont have twrp, iv full backup of the firmware, she will not worked without unlock BL, unless you have the vbmeta keys to re-sign them
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the seller said its unlocked bootloader. i dunno maybe just have to wait untill it arrives.
have you tried something like this
https://www.reddit.com/r/androidroot/comments/loh3nl
would you mind sharing your root+playstore firmware backup so those who bought the chinese version could try to flash it on theirs?
at the moment its not for sharing
About the tools you wrote, im using my own special once
Y8765 said:
at the moment its not for sharing
About the tools you wrote, im using my own special once
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you know this site has the spirit of sharing the ideas and solutions so users alike could maximized their devices as much as possible right?
Jbazt_katuforzs said:
would you mind sharing your root+playstore firmware backup so those who bought the chinese version could try to flash it on theirs?
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Do you know how to flash firmware?
achakian0000 said:
Do you know how to flash firmware?
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Do you have full firmware? Can you enter factory flash mode? There are many tools on the internet how to bypass mtk soc securities for dumping and flashing full firmware. Its funny Chinese not sharing the proceedure how to do it when it will help a lot to a Chinese company to sell their phones. I talked to the seller, and he/she said the technician wont teach them how to globalize the phone. They want to send them EVERY UNIT asking money just to remove the phone's Google restrictions. What a greedy way of thinking. Xda should bann those kind of people here .
The phone with google services could kill all past and future kai OS devices. The world deservers that upgrade to every over priced kai OS dumb phones to become not so dumb.
Jbazt_katuforzs said:
Do you have full firmware?
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yes
Jbazt_katuforzs said:
Can you enter factory flash mode?
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I could not flash because need a suitable DA
Jbazt_katuforzs said:
There are many tools on the internet how to bypass mtk soc securities for dumping and flashing full firmware.
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Can I link to the guide?
Jbazt_katuforzs said:
Its funny Chinese not sharing the proceedure how to do it when it will help a lot to a Chinese company to sell their phones. I talked to the seller, and he/she said the technician wont teach them how to globalize the phone. They want to send them EVERY UNIT asking money just to remove the phone's Google restrictions. What a greedy way of thinking. Xda should bann those kind of people here .
The phone with google services could kill all past and future kai OS devices. The world deservers that upgrade to every over priced kai OS dumb phones to become not so dumb.
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very true!
Jbazt_katuforzs said:
Do you have full firmware? Can you enter factory flash mode? There are many tools on the internet how to bypass mtk soc securities for dumping and flashing full firmware. Its funny Chinese not sharing the proceedure how to do it when it will help a lot to a Chinese company to sell their phones. I talked to the seller, and he/she said the technician wont teach them how to globalize the phone. They want to send them EVERY UNIT asking money just to remove the phone's Google restrictions. What a greedy way of thinking. Xda should bann those kind of people here .
The phone with google services could kill all past and future kai OS devices. The world deservers that upgrade to every over priced kai OS dumb phones to become not so dumb.
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You need to learn to respect peoples wishes , no one ows you nothing , for start.
Because of the colture of over sharing , you got used that everyone will do the job for you.
do you agree that i can choose either to share or not , something i worked a big amount of time on? good.
now for the process , first unlock BL (there is a free solution mtkClient on github), then disable vb meta's signatures ( google that as well ), after that , you need to edit the super.img manualy ( search for super.img's tools , im sure youll find a few ) for removing the restrictions , because of android 11 copy.past restrictions within the device.
NOT A DUMB PHONE ANYMORE!
The portability, stealth ability, and simplicity of a dumbphone + all the apps of a smartphone with 4/64 max variants. THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS!
It came with bootloader unlocked, with magisk and with playstore but need to tweak a bit to fix the crappy T9 input and store certification which is not a big deal.
get it here, I vouched this store have it. BUY HERE
Y8765 said:
You need to learn to respect peoples wishes , no one ows you nothing , for start.
Because of the colture of over sharing , you got used that everyone will do the job for you.
do you agree that i can choose either to share or not , something i worked a big amount of time on? good.
now for the process , first unlock BL (there is a free solution mtkClient on github), then disable vb meta's signatures ( google that as well ), after that , you need to edit the super.img manualy ( search for super.img's tools , im sure youll find a few ) for removing the restrictions , because of android 11 copy.past restrictions within the device.
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yes you are right but the foundation of knowledge how you learn to do that stuffs might be a collective contribution from the open free community just like this site. Did you write the program to unlocked it? Did you spent countless hours coding and debugging for the soulution? but yeah you have your own reasons and i will always respect and understand that. We all have our differences on opinions, values, ways, and traditions on how to do stuffs.
People buy the phone and what if the phone suddenlly crashed? the seller/company might not release aftermarket technical support for the phone leaving owners in the dark and potentially waste their money without a means to restoring it back to a working state.
thank you very much for the process.
I have encountered a strange problem, I am a T-MOBILE user using 10T, when I use mobile data to use WeChat, as long as the screen is turned off or after a period of time, WeChat will be disconnected to indicate that there is no network, but it is normal for other APPs to use the network . As long as I disconnect the mobile data on the WeChat interface and then turn it on again, it is normal, but the fault remains after the screen is turned off. (There was no problem using it before, but it only appeared in the past few days.) Later, I tried to replace my wife's SIM card (the same as T-MOBILE) and the fault remained. Then I replaced my friend's AT&T SIM and the problem didn't reappear. I want to solve why T-MOBILE's SIM card cannot be used on WeChat on 10T (but there has been no problem before. It just appeared suddenly these days), is there any way to solve it, change the frequency band?
I'm having similar problem with T-mobile after the latest update. I toggle airplane mode and everything works fine until I turn off screen.
Haven't been able to find a solution
It seems that it should be a system problem. I hope that an update will be released soon to solve this problem. Especially for Chinese, WeChat is too important! I want to downgrade, but ONEPLUS has not unlocked the boot, and MSM TOOL. I have always been a loyal user of OnePlus, (6, 7PRO, 8T and 10T) expressed disappointment with OnePlus.
I updated to 13 EU beta and everything seems to working properly
Thanks @saulh972, I tried it too and updated to 13 EU beta for one of my customer mobile, it working and customer satisfied for the solution. Thanks
I also tried to upgrade to the European version of Android 13 beta, but my 10T is the international version (CPH2417), how to upgrade to the European version? If I want to flash back to the international version at that time, can I?
hang688 said:
I also tried to upgrade to the European version of Android 13 beta, but my 10T is the international version (CPH2417), how to upgrade to the European version? If I want to flash back to the international version at that time, can I?
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There's an update apk. that needs to be installed in order to update. Not sure about flashing back I figured once the NA 13 comes i would just flash that.
My concern is that once you flash the European ROM, you can't flash back to the US ROM. I can only use 8T now, I hope OnePlus can update the system as soon as possible to solve the current problem. I don't think my next phone will be a OnePlus. Thanks for your help.
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My concern is that once you flash the European ROM, you can't flash back to the US ROM. I can only use 8T now, I hope OnePlus can update the system as soon as possible to solve the current problem. I don't think my next phone will be a OnePlus. Thanks for your help.
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The GLO beta is out
I have upgraded to the beta version of GLO Android 13, and the phone model has changed from 2417 to 2415. I don't know if ONEPLUS will release the beta version of the US version of Android 13 or the full ROM of the official version of Android 13. And I noticed that the beta version does not have the option to check for updates, and when the official version of Android 13 is launched, it will not be able to update online. Then I need to flash back to Android 12 and clear all data. If I don't launch the full 2417 ROM, I can only use the 2415 ROM all the time.
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I have upgraded to the beta version of GLO Android 13, and the phone model has changed from 2417 to 2415. I don't know if ONEPLUS will release the beta version of the US version of Android 13 or the full ROM of the official version of Android 13. And I noticed that the beta version does not have the option to check for updates, and when the official version of Android 13 is launched, it will not be able to update online. Then I need to flash back to Android 12 and clear all data. If I don't launch the full 2417 ROM, I can only use the 2415 ROM all the time.
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Check to see it the app is disabled.
settings>apps>disabled apps
hang688 said:
I have upgraded to the beta version of GLO Android 13, and the phone model has changed from 2417 to 2415. I don't know if ONEPLUS will release the beta version of the US version of Android 13 or the full ROM of the official version of Android 13. And I noticed that the beta version does not have the option to check for updates, and when the official version of Android 13 is launched, it will not be able to update online. Then I need to flash back to Android 12 and clear all data. If I don't launch the full 2417 ROM, I can only use the 2415 ROM all the time.
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on the GLO version just turn on developer mode and then you can get local install just like you could in the Oneplus old days on the NA version
Do not upgrade the C11 version. When I woke up this morning, the system automatically upgraded, and now the same problem occurs again. Are the engineers of ONEPLUS really eating ****?
hang688 said:
Do not upgrade the C11 version. When I woke up this morning, the system automatically upgraded, and now the same problem occurs again. Are the engineers of ONEPLUS really eating ****?
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Having the exact same issue here, SAME PHONE, SAME CARRIER, SAME ISSUE. Here's little bit about my timeline:
1. On Nov.5, I received my 10T, I get on hand and play around with it for little bit and at this time the we chat it's still working.
2. On Nov.6, the second day I have the phone, I updated it to whatever the latest version of oxygen 12, and since from now my wechat stop working when using cellular.
3. Two or three days after, I decided to install the GLO version of OxygenOS 13 open beta 1, and at this time WeChat is working again.
4. Yesterday, Nov.22, my phone has installed an auto update to open beta 2, and now my WeChat can't not run under cellular AGAIN!!???
I wonder WTH has the op software team done and I wonder did they really care much about their customers experience, not even mentioning that a weeks delay on my shipping and that out-date & misleading of that trade-in guide sheet. I wouldn't buy any of op phones again in NA if there are any other better options even like vivo or iqoo.
hang688 said:
Do not upgrade the C11 version. When I woke up this morning, the system automatically upgraded, and now the same problem occurs again. Are the engineers of ONEPLUS really eating ****?
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BTW I still have my old OnePlus 8 in hand so I test it out with the same sim card and running WeChat on that phone for a while and it's working fine. So this might be an issue just to specificly the 1+10T users with T-Mobile cellular network.
There is a way that can temporarily resolve the problem, which you can set up an identical APN in the setting, with only one small chang that you will need to allow both iPv4 and iPv6 active for the same time. I'm not a tech dude in this but yea that's the only solution I found for now. If you need help just reply my msg here and I will send you the figure in here or through WeChat.
How did you solve the problem? Please give me tutorial. Thanks!
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There is a way that can temporarily resolve the problem, which you can set up an identical APN in the setting, with only one small chang that you will need to allow both iPv4 and iPv6 active for the same time. I'm not a tech dude in this but yea that's the only solution I found for now. If you need help just reply my msg here and I will send you the figure in here or through WeChat.
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How did you solve the problem? Please give me tutorial. Thanks!
hang688 said:
How did you solve the problem? Please give me tutorial. Thanks!
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Simply add this apn to your network setting, just make sure for APN protocol (APN协议 in the pic) you want to set IPv4/IPv6, not IPv6 only.
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How did you solve the problem? Please give me tutorial. Thanks!
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This could temporarily resolve the problem, but sometime the phone itself will switch back to the default APN which is what you don't want and annoying. If for some reason the WeChat didn't work again just go check back the APN setting and switch to the APN above.