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[Mi 3 General] djbosanac:
Hello,

I dont know if my topic fits here in the category (General)

But i have a fuw questions about my new smartphone (Xiaomi Mi3 WCDMA version)

Because i have always used a Google phone (android) MIU5 is a hole diffrent OS.

So my question is there a possible way to install Google Play, and that is very stable on it?

Because i know xda-board is a very advanced board if it is something about phones, so if somebody can help me out here.???

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My Xiaomi Mi-3 Review.

New phone:

Since Xiaomi had released the Mi-3, there was an outbreak.

With the specifications and the low price Xiaomi had set an smartphone that is not only in China so populair but abroad the country to.

And you can see it with sales they made everytime the new stock was out.

In serval minutes there was a bunch of them sold out. The biggest one was more than 100.000 units in less than 90 seconds. You can see how populair the phone was. Because the new version with the latest highly clocked Snapdragon800 in it. Xiaomi set up an new variaty of people to there market.

Xiaomi is still out of stock in the most versions, and will be for a fuw moths.

Design:

The design of the Xiaomi Mi-3 is one of the most beuutifull phones ever made. The roundings the buttons the ultra-thin magnesium alluminum alloy gives the phone a very nice look. The roughness of the phone with his big 5 inch screens feels so nice in your hands. You dont have trouble with using one hand (only if you have big hands)

Hardware:

Xiaomi haves two versions of the Mi-3. The tegra4 TD-SCDMA only can be used in China, and the Snapdragon WCDMA an European/American/others parts of the world. Both CPU’s are diffrent clocked. the Tegra4 is clocked to max with 1.8Ghz, and the Snapdragon800 is clocked 2.3Ghz. The driffrence in the speed of the phone is actualy the same. Both versions are smooth tasking. There is no lag or something bothering you. With his 2GB on both version you are for now a happy guy. You can play the latest games on your phone as you want. With the new amazing LG Full-HD resolution IPS screen it makes the so beuatifull. The colors of the phone pop out. The angles on the screen are nice, somebody next to you will not having trouble to not see the screen.

Software:

Mi-3 is running on two diffrent android version. The tegra4 runs at an 4.2.3 android. And Snapdragon800 runs on an 4.3 newer version of the android. When you recieve your phone you can choose if you want to use it in chinese or English. If you choose english you still will see some chinese signs at the screen. This is one thing that the developers dont have chainged. But i cant hurt. You will not recieve Google App store on it, you must download it by your self. Xiaomi is very smart if you wanna use Google services, you must have an Xiaomi account, and trough the account you can download google installer. And from there you can use any google app you want.
[Mi 3 General] error0x0000034:
Yes, it is possible!

I don't know if this is the right category for you question, but I'm not a moderator so I don't need to know that actually.

What I know on the other hand is that you can easily install Google Apps (GApps) on your Xiaomi Mi3. You won't need any experience with flashing gapps from internal storage or SD-card, it is easy as pie!

Once you have your phone open the MIUI Store and search for "Google". The developer Eric Xiang has put together an excellent Google Installer app. The name is in Chinese, but just search for it in English and you will find it. The installer will take care of everything else.

If that doesn't work, you should try rooting your device and flashing Gapps manually.
[Mi 3 General] djbosanac:
thank you in advance.

The GAPP store is in english right? Not chinese.

Hope i will can fix it. Uhm are there customroms made for the XIAOMI or not? So i can try that to if it doesent work for me...
[Mi 3 General] slekkas:
How do you like the phone so far?
[Mi 3 General] top115:
check out my review

The playstore runs absolutly perfect!

check out my video review of the mi3 wcdma (snapdragon 800) version:

[YOUTUBE]MylTKt8gKKU[/YOUTUBE]

and let me know if you like it!
[Mi 3 General] vespa.truccata:
and yet another one by a friend of mine:

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[Mi 3 General] djbosanac:
I have the phone for about 3/4 days right now.

And the MIUIV5 launcher, if you using it for the first time. Its a little bit strange.

But after using it for a while, you learn fast and see how powerfull the launcher is.

The 1ste you always do is install gapps on your phone.

I Had to make some questions an supported boards, to get it work. But now i am pleased with the usage of the phone and the powerfull hardware whats in it.

Love the phone for now, will definitly stay at the MIUI community.

One thing: i hope they can fix an Android Stock 4.4 Kitkat OS with multi-lang....

I dont know why Cynogenmod doesent come for Xiaomi Mi-3, or other custom roms for it.

XDA-developers are the moest anticipated people for smartphones, i hope they will be release an Xiaomi mi-3 miuiV5 or later v6 CUSTOM ROM OR SOMETHING.

i tough there will be alot of them because it is Androind but nothing :(
[Mi 3 General] Motonick:
A nice review. I have a great apetytna this smartphone. Are you able to compare its screen with LG G2 or HTC One? I wonder if it is comparable to, or better or worse.
[Mi 3 General] djbosanac:
review: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=49086774&postcount=1

The phone by it selfs is great, but there are some issues that i must solve before you can use the phone.

My issues are:

1. 3G not working well <- not solved

2. Ram is filling quikly <- not solved

3. Google account had some problems (was my fault because did not install google contacts.apk) <- solved

If these things are solved, than you have an bad-ass phone..
[Mi 3 General] stone age:
Have you found the solution,to 3G probelm?

Seems otherwise to be a really good phone.
[Mi 3 General] Motonick:
I'm using the latest MIUI version: 4.1.24 in Polish and I have no problems from the department in both the 3 and 2G. Everything in my MI 3 WCDMA works perfectly.
[Mi 3 General] thebudsterboy:
I have the CDMA version with miuiV5. It works great. No problems encountered. I just wish I knew how to make a custom ROM. I have a developer rom and the V5 rom. Tried both and they both work fantastic.
[Mi 3 General] Motonick:
Maybe you know how to turn off the meter data. After exceeding the set limit further changes cause complications itelefon off my data transmission. I do not need to set this limit, I enclosed it with curiosity, and I have no problem.
[Mi 3 General] BrainChecker:
Yes, me too.

It's very sad that there isn't a real development community for this great phones.

In my opinion the mi3 offers the best hardware on the whole market to a fantastic price. I can't understand why there are no developers for roms like AOKP or CM or AOSP.
[Mi 3 General] iamth3man:
When it will come to indonesia?
[Mi 3 General] chrno1004:
Quick question - Is this a 4G capable phone?
[Mi 3 General] Lukapetr:
Yes it is
[Mi 3 General] se0067:
It is not. Perhaps it's successor - the rumoured MI3S - might have this feature.

Btw. I have a 64GB Mi3 and so far I am very happy with this phone; even without LTE-support.
[Mi 3 General] mrmomoman:
I am very happy with my phone. It is a 64GB Grey Mi3. The 3G on AT&T is fine but slow.

The Data speeds are not that fast but it gets the job done. I get some time out errors from time to time.

I like to be able to get the Temp that displays on the lock screen and home screen(default) to display current location instead of in China. Can't seem to get the default Maps app to work in the US even with it locking in on GPS it displays China. Google Maps works fine but a little show and sometimes has defaulted back to a Chinese location first until a signal lock happens and then it will find my current location.

Starbucks app doesn't work on my phone.

When I click on an autocorrected word that has a red underline on it the app will crash and send me back to home. Bug has been reported.

When saving pictures from the internet it doesn't default to a standard folder. It uses the cloud folder and even with sync to cloud off I have to move it to the main local folder to get the pictures available to send or attach to email.

Speedtest.net doesn't connect to show download speeds. It will show a slow upload speed.

Visual VoiceMail doesn't seem to work on AT&T's network. If I give them my old HTC One IEMI number the visual voicemail works but the DATA does not. I can live with it for now.

Anyone got the Visual Voicemail to work with connecting Data on AT&T? If so what phone did they put in the system to make it work? the HTC One does not work. Confirmed this twice.

If they release an LTE version that would work with AT&T here that would be killer!!! I really do like the phone. The size, the weight, the shape. I would love to see this one in White or Silver 64GB.
[Mi 3 General] x1123:
There will be very soon, devices squad on snapdragon 800 SoC : xperia z1, zr (?), LG G2, Note 3 and more ... mean we can start poke their code to used as "base" to start write device tree on cm / aosp/ aokp. I have also very limited skill to write android code ... :D let us learn together. Mine on stock MIUIv5 and I satisfy with the phone performance. Miui serve what we need for basic computed including archiving/extracting files. It's handy i did not need to carry my laptop anymore when travelling :)
[Mi 3 General] ColonelZap:
I just got this phone and I love it! :fingers-crossed:

[YOUTUBE]1cxrUggw3uk[/YOUTUBE]

http://colonelzap.blogspot.de/2014/04/xiaomi-mi3-review-snapdragon-800.html
[Mi 3 General] だんご９４:
Awesome phone! Loving it so far~

Use the developer version of the MIUI rom if you want root and weekly updates.
[Mi 3 General] new2city:
great phone

I have this phone over 2 weeks now, bricked it on the 3rd day(or so I thought), found out about it's dual rom organisation, rebooted and started all over again. I never thought I ccould ever be satisfied with jelly bean. The weekly updates on developer ROM satisfies my flashaholic tendencies.
[Mi 3 General] demond des:
same problem

i hv set Xiaomi Mi3 problem for me bcs only 2g hv two version

Network Standard: WCDMA/GSM (Snapdragon 800 Version)

Network Frequency: 2G:GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz

3G: WCDMA 850/900/1900/2100MHz international

Data Services: GPRS/EDGE/DC-HSPA+(42Mbps)

GPS: GPS + GLONASS, AGPS

Network Standard : TD-SCDMA/GSM (NVidia Tegra 4 Version) China

Network Frequency: 2G:GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz

3G: TD-SCDMA 1880-1920/2010-2025MHz

Data Services: GPRS/EDGE/TD-HSDPA(2.8Mbps)/TD-HSUPA(2.2Mbps)
[Mi 3 General] GSG88:
Low performance in benchmark

Hello,

I have this great phone for two days, everything runs smooth and very beautifull but i have a problem, in antuntu benchmark scores just 14138. Its there a difference between MI 3 and MI 3W ? I attached screenshots from antutu and device info.

At the device info from system its says that i have 2gb RAM and in device info from Antutu says i have just 971mb. I saw a difference at the screen resolution , antutu says its just 720p, but the screenshots are full hd. Another diference its CPU type

Its there a problem with the software (android or miui, antutu)?

IMEI: 863360022032639
[Mi 3 General] IceTea7:
Antutu Benchmark is to less. Normally it's around 34000 and not only 14000. Maybe you have got a fake MI3 with MTK chipset.
[Mi 3 General] sendevent@gmail.com:
Ensure that device is not in Battery saving mode (Quick Settings->Power settings).

Differences in system and antutu info are common thing on fake devices; antutu says that you have root access, did you flash developer rom? Versions (MIUI, baseband, kernel) on screenshots seems obsolete, maybe you just need to update.

Try to check engineer menu, fakes often does not have it:

*#*#6484#*#*

*#*#4636#*#*
[Mi 3 General] -unreal-:
hey,

why there is no CM Version for Mi3 ?

It would be incredible!

Lot of people are searching for this, more than for other devices, that also are powered by cm.
[Mi 3 General] yosscal:
I feel that you have bought a fake ...

If you bought at "Ali ...." directly opens a dispute!

This is what should the device info Mi3 a look. (here in 64Gb)

Mi3 the three operating modes.

1. Economics

2. Normal

3. Performance

You have to go in "fast access", "more", and there is much that you verified in "performance" before launching AnTuTu.

If you happen to change the mode and the score is not higher, it's definitely a fake.:mad:
[Mi 3 General] DeeFolt:
I think you have the genuine Mi3, you have to set your Battery settings into OPTIMIZE so you can have fair benchmark.

FYI: the Antutu X benchmark will be a little lower in in the latest KITKAT stable build
[Mi 3 General] Katendenka:
Well,you can also root the stable version.…For their easy repairing system.:D
[Mi 3 General] djbosanac:
The Xiaomi Mi-3 is a great phone.

The mi-4 will definitly be a beast of a smartphone for a great price.

And will have LTE support i think.

Buying it worhly.

People who wants it to Indonisia etc just PM me.....
[Mi 3 General] Psxvince:
Why do you want 4G?

Its so overrated and with my 3G conn Vodafone Netherlands i have:

15Mbit download

3 Mbit up

Fast enough for internet and watching youtube in fullhd.

I run the Mi3 now on 4.4.3 android

MIUI version 4.7.11 :good:
[Mi 3 General] nabilsilva:
Is running KitKat now or still jellybean? And are there any issues with the ui, are there any custom roms for it?
[Mi 3 General] Psxvince:
As you see above,

I run the Mi3 now on 4.4.3 android

MIUI version 4.7.11
[Mi 3 General] sam4android:
Can anybody please confirm if it supports wifi display, can i connect it to any miracast certified TV through wireless display ?
[Mi 3 General] osoriko:
great phone
[Mi 3 General] sanket.m:
specs

Excellent specs but after sales service problem
[Mi 3 General] Andromeduh:
Proud owner of MI3 here!
[Mi 3 General] sriss:
Awesome !!!!!

This phone's really cool and is really a bang for the buck :laugh:

Maybe its better after flasing Gapps :good:

Anyway its a cool phone everyone needs to try !!!!

Heard there are a lot of themes available for MiUi

Cool :)

:good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good:
[Mi 3 General] skyzo97:
does this phone can mount external hdd?
[Mi 3 General] gaara6775:
yes.
[Mi 3 General] KiranP23:
I read in this thread about google contacts

so i have few question's

1) Do i need to Install Gapp's manually to sync Google accounts or is Google sync build in with ROM

2) http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=53145083&postcount=25

a) Does the camera have 4k res ?

b) How is low light performance

3) Usable Internal memory is 12.2 gb ?

4) After Memory reserved for system and GPU , how much is max memory out of 2GB

5)FM radio need headphone cable plugged in to heard FM ?

6)Google Now installed ? or can i install it ? or does xiaomi Mi3 MI os have any similar app?
[Mi 3 General] k4mik4z:
Yeah it does, I have tested my mi3w with Sony w700b, screen mirroring works fine
[Mi 3 General] bilalvoh:
Here's some performance mode benchmarking

Sent from my MI 3W
[Mi 3 General] gamesky:
yes.. with external powered otg like these

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?&_nkw=USB+OTG+power

else you might damage your ext hdd.. (you might notice there's clicking sound on your hdd) if you force plugin
[Mi 3 General] DustinDep:
People need to watch out though as there are loads of fakes!
[Mi 3 General] Aka9413:
Bilavoh

Heres mine ;)
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] ProjectER:
Greetings,

I've been planning on buying an external dvd drive for my laptop. I found an interesting feature in samsung slim drives. For example, the samsung SE-208AB has an AV-Connectivity mode that turns the drive into a sort of external HDD! We know that android and the note 8 can already read flash drives via OTG. If this external DVD drive has this external HDD funcitonality, can we in theory connect it to the note 8 and get external DVD rom functionality? here's a you tube video connecting a samsung drive to the nexus 7.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvoyab75QgQ

As an external HDD, the drive is read with files in it so you can't really play the disc as a DVD rom (so no DVD menus I guess) but the VOB and other data files if present can be read. I know that samsung already released a dvd drive (Samsung 218bb) which android devices can detect but the problem there was that there was no app that could recognize DVD, iso formats.

but I recently tried XBMC! and XBMC can read ISO and even NRG images! Tried reading one off of the NAS via WLAN. with this app, is it possible to connect these samsung drives and read them as native roms using XBMC? has anyone tried it?

This is a real deal breaker for me. I don't think that the ASUS or Lite-on external drives have this kind of functionality. If a can get a drive that is read/write for my laptop and potentially "read" (in the least) for the note 8 then this is a no brainer purchase.

So has anyone tried this? Thanks.

UPDATE: after doing some more reading on XDA I found these threads:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2171111

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1086842

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2009186.

There are mixed bits. some say that the note 8 does not support external drives but here there is clearly evidence of external drives being read by android. So is it simply the MHL not supplying enough power in the case of the note 8? in another thread, an external drive with an external power source was suggested while another thread noted that this fried the drive and his note 10? These are all for different devices however. Just want to know if anyone has experience with the note 8 in particular. So far the only video showing this actually works is the you tube video with the nexus 7 shown above.
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] Spidey01:
I own a Samsung Mobile SmartHub <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tsst.app.opticalsmarthub>. It works but in my experience the audio quality SUCKS. Much better to just rip the DVD and stream over standard DLNA.

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Also, I've never had a USB external DVD drive work with any of my devices (as they would a laptop). Not sure if I've tried on my GN8 though.
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] ProjectER:
Oh? Thanks for the reply so iI guess video/audio/media playback has better alternatives. but what about reading and copying files off of the dvd while using the AV-connectivity (External HDD) Drive mode? Sometimes at meetings people still have discs instead of flashdrives, the note 8 is already slowly replacing my laptop but lacks this last functionality: reading/copying files off of a local disk. if it could do this than the laptop stays at home completely as the note 8 almost completely replaces it now for presentations, media serving/control and the like. I'll just bring the external disc drive. It's better than still lugging a laptop. Thanks again.
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] Spidey01:
Can't say that I've tried it in that mode. Picked up the unit dirt cheap and almost never use it because of the streaming quality. Was so disappointed I basically gave up on it lol.

Using a USB OTG cable it's possible to access FAT and NTFS volumes on USB Mass Storage devices, like flash drives and external HDDs. I'm using the one from my moms Acer A700 but they're quite cheap off Amazon. Sometimes useful. Anything that is exposed like that (class 08h / UMS) should work. Hubs, most HID devices like keyboards and mice also work via the same means. I haven't tried the drive that way, just a little ASUS unit, which doesn't function as a USB mass storage device.

USB OTG works a hell of lot better on my GN8 than my nexuses, and if memory serves tthe optical hub bridges the disc to a FAT based UMS.

At home, rather than use an external hard drive or optical discs, I use DLNA for movies and things like Dropbox/Google Drive for files. I rip my movies with MakeMKV, store them on my server machine (bigger HDDs then my gaming PC), run a DLNA server on that and point an app from my tablet at it. Least pain I've had, give or take Chromecast and video apps. I can get Chromecast to play the content via DLNA as well but where as the Galaxy Note can handle 30 Mbit/s full HD video (Wi-Fi permitting) the Chromecast really should be kept under 3 or 4 Mbit/s.
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] ProjectER:
thanks for the reply

Thanks for the reply!

so there is hope that it can access data files on the disk. Plan to use it mainly for raw data transfer at work but only for those still not keen on a flashdrive. It's rare but some still use discs...(i guess it's more resistent to viruses and malware...).

Don't plan to use the external drive really for playing media. As you already enumerated, there are a ton of options for that already, The review for that samsung wifi optical disc media hub is that its a great idea introduced way too late and executed too poorly for it to compete with our NAS's and WLAN's. I personally use XBMC for android, it runs on all devices now, android, windows, linux and even iOS i think. Then I have yatze or bubble upnp as well. I realized that with XBMC, don't really need chromecast anymore, although I use "cheap cast" with my android minipc I realized it's simply easier to send the you tube link to xbmc. Instead of having a you tube play list(for chrome cast), I can send the vid to xbmc and play it there and still play another you tube video on the note 8. XBMC now also reads Iso's and NRG's so all those dvd's ripped into images just run on it even via the wlan/upnp/network. Just my take on the whole video streaming option.

But I haven't tried this MakeMKV app you suggested. I hope to compress my stored DVD collection. Is it like handbreak? Can it compress a 4 gig dvd into a smaller MKV file? My NAS is slowly getting filled up. Anyway thanks! More power to XDA!

BTW: Since we're on the topic of streeaming, I'm thinking of starting a thread on the note 8's miracast/ALLSHARE CAST/screen mirroring. I realized that Samsung's screen mirroring is not really miracast compliant (just like the S4) in the sense that it doesn't work with all screen mirroring devices (something with HDCP and samsung proprietary software which i think is just there to "encourage" you to buy they're all sharecast dongle).

Here's the link: http://android-minipc.azurewebsites...ast-fails-to-mirror-samsung-galaxy-s4-screen/

Do you know of a fix for this? or should I start a Q/A thread for it? Thanks...
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] Spidey01:
With regard to MakeMKV, it seems to decrypt the disc and remux the content streams into Matroska (.mkv) files, or at least about as lossless as you can get off the disc. You'll get the same MPEG-2/AC3 stream off a DVD as what's on it. No compression.

I do conversions either via Handbrake on my gaming box or by directly running ffmpeg on my server with about the same options as handbrake uses. My server's faster at it, hehe.For DVD, I normally use H.264 with x264's constant quality set to 22 or 23, and convert the audios; normally stereo with Dolby Pro Logic II downmix and another stream that's AC-3 pass through. Good enough that I don't usually notice quality loss vs the original DVD. DVD's usually end up under 2GB and especially for things like episodes of The Simpsons, can be really small. Sometimes a movie is still like 3~4GB though.

Some of Samsung's devices are certified, never tried them with another dongle. Miracast's latency is high enough that it's more limited then the MHL cable, and my old GS3 tended to soft reboot when using any video output until the 4.1 update lol. One of the CM developers had posted about issues between Samsung, Google, and perhaps a few other implementations. I think they support different HDCP versions but I'm not sure of the details.