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[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] kelvintisw:
In such scenario. Does a factory reset helps?

Have you tried factory reset?
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] omer919:
no it doesnt help

yes I tried many times
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] omer919:
Im happy to report that I finally fixed my problem!

I successfully installed 9.6.6.0.OEDMIFD ! at the beginning I was on xiaomi.eu 8.9.6 (antirollback)

ask me questions about the installation if you want
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] jorgeepelos:
How do you solve this crashes. Can u tel me please? Thanks

Enviado desde mi MI MAX 3 mediante Tapatalk
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] omer919:
I used my Mi Max 1 (hydrogen).

I flashed it to 9.5 via fastboot

flashed TWRP

I copied the whole cust partition from it using file explorer in twrp

on my Mi Max 3 I deleted everything from the cust partition in twrp except cust_variation which I modified and wrote "is" instead of "cn"

I copied the whole cust partition from the Mi Max 1 to the Mi Max 3 and wiped every partition again (except system, vendor)

enjoy
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] lukxxxx:
yes please tell us step by step how did you do ?

thanks
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] omer919:
Thread updated with a link to a guide!
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] omer919:
The future updates of the global rom:

Xiaomi is working on a global update V9.6.7.0.OEDMIFD ; I think this version will fix cellular, will update the phones security patch

They are also working on V9.6.8.0.OEDMIFD ; this version will introduce Antirollback to the global version. People who already have antirollback will be able to flash this rom via fastboot without bricking their devices

They are also working on V9.6.7.0.OEDRUFD ; this will be the first russian rom for Mi Max 3

They are also working on China Stable V10.0.1.0.OEDCNFH ; This will be the first China Stable based on MIUI 10 for Mi Max 3
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] 4z4:
I will stay on China Stable (9.6.11.0.) until there is Global Stable available.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] jorgeepelos:
Good info. Thanks

Enviado desde mi MI MAX 3 mediante Tapatalk
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] weareborg:
Omer919 thanks for your updates. But, I have to confess I’m more confused than I was before. If I buy a ‘global rom’ On AliExpress and then follow your instructions in the other thread, I’m good? Or, given my ineptitude at flashing roms... should I just wait until someone provides a link with a 100% stable official global rom? Sorry, I know there are pages and pages of info here.. a lot of it goes over my head to be honest!
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] cobben:
This is interesting, a MIUI localized to the RF?

The Russian Federation seems to want to close down the internet, rather like China does. If you have watched the Telegram blocking fight.

Where did you find this, if I may ask?

It would be a departure from Xiaomis current structure, with China, and then Global roms for everyone else
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] dogiex:
Mi 8 got russian rom too.

http://en.miui.com/getrom.php?r=346&m=yes&app=false
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] cranedly:
From being told we had a fake rom, to now being told it was not fake at all, 9.6.4.0 was for all intense and purposes a fake rom that had nothing to do with Xiaomi. Finding this out made me want to change to a proper rom, a made in china rom, so i changed by flashing a stable china rom, that just got an update to 9.6.12.0. by OTA which i think is anti rollback. So if i had just stayed with my so-called fake rom and updated by OTA it seems my phone call problems would have been rectified. And i would be on an official global rom with updates OTA. Am i right so far. If this is the case, i think i have been well and truly hoodwinked by this company, if only someone could have told me that my rom was in fact a prelude to an official global rom, and that in a week or two i would get an update by OTA, i would never have attempted to flash my phone, i had no idea what i was doing, i did it wrong the first time i tried, and my phone would not come out of fastboot mode. i believe my phone would then be outside of its warranty, as i tried to mess with the rom, so the seller would have washed his hands of it, Xiaomi would probably not want to know about it either. I would have had a 300 euro brick on my hands, but i persevered, and with help, i found a way to do it right.

All this hastle could have been avoided had someone from xiaomi given us a hint that this was not in fact a totally fake rom.

Are they allowed to get away with this, is this normal procedure, what about the guys who totally bricked their phone after trying to replace this so-called fake rom, do they just have to suck it up and put it down to a misunderstanding, for weeks forums like this one have been saying that this rom is fake, that rom is fake, it will do damage to your phone in the long term, get rid of it now or you will regret it, i took heed of those warnings, and i could very easily have thrown my phone in the bin because something went wrong with flashing a rom. Some how i think this will be my last Xiaomi phone.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] rathian:
The bottom of the story is, some reseller in China pulled some strings and connections inside xiaomi to get hold of unreleased 9.6.4 global beta to flash on a forced unlocked phone in order to make a quick buck selling to overseas buyers.

In all honesty, I dun think xiaomi could do much to stop these under table dealings. The only result of this is xiaomi restricting bootloader unlock hours to 720hrs in order to prevent resellers from flashing, buying xiaomi time to launch max 3 globally properly.

Instead of blaming xiaomi for this mess (which they did not intend to happen), blame resellers for selling China only phones to global customers like u who want to have it in ur hands fast.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] coolgen1:
Yes, I would like to know this too. If 9.6.6.0 is official why isn't it available on the Xiaomi download site as you say. I'm not sure the russian link above indicates official or another custom rom?

Post #50 on this thread https://en.miui.com/thread-3768997-5-1.html claims 9.6.6.0 is another fake and he can't make calls with it. This thread indicates only a % of users in russia are getting this via ota.

Given this, it doesn't sound safe for anyone on the original fake 9.6.4 to move early to 9.6.6.. Or am I missing something here?

Appreciate if someone could clarify and confirm this please?
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] omer919:
Xiaomi is taking its time on publishing this rom on its english forums...

this is 100% real. the download link is from xiaomis website...

He cant make calls because the modem of 9.6.6.0 is still broken, thats why my guide for installing this rom is even more useful because you will still use your modem from china rom allowing you to get calls normally.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] omer919:
Xiaomi have been doing so many mistakes and bad things lately...

All the moderators and admins on official forums said this was fake and even sellers told their customers via PMs that this is un-official

it turned out it wasnt fake, early not stable release... the modem is completely broken on this version so no calls for you
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] omer919:
the problem with buying a global rom on aliexpress is that it might not be the global version.

it might be the chinese version flashed with global rom

if thats the case, the rom wont work good, the seller will have to touch the phone, they might keep their mi account on the phone locking you out of installing anyrom if you dont know the password, your modem wont work good.

We arent sure when will the cellular work again on global stable roms but im sure they are working on a fix.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] omer919:
For all those who want to install global rom with a working modem (for calls and cellular, internet etc.) please follow the guide: here

if you dont have Anti-rollback yet: Instead of installing 9.6.12.0 install 9.6.11.0
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] coolgen1:
The download link path address starts: bigota.d.miui That is xiaomi website?

So you are saying that 9.6.6 didn't fix the well known problem with the broken modem in 9.6.4 If that's the case, can you believe the OTA rollout of 9.6.6 will go much past the initial part rollout in Russia?

Seems to me the best thing for ppl on original global 9.6.4 is to either flash the official china rom or wait for the official global rom from the xiaomi download site.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] dogiex:
bigota.d.miui.com is xiaomi's rom download url, yes. But to say it is stable rom is wrong if it is not released officially. It is more likely closed stable beta rom and linking to those roms is not wise to do.

Just wait patiently for the official release or flash china stable rom meanwhile [emoji6].
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] coolgen1:
thanks Dogiex
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] shadow78:
Well the only people you could blame is the seller and yourself.

- The seller because they sold a phone probably stated global, but the global version is officially out only about a week now.

- Yourself is because you bought a phone without actually reading about it. If you could do your research before your purchase you would probably save yourself from all of this.

Back to other things in your comment.. Because you had this "fake" global rom on your device your seller unlocked your BL unofficially to install the rom over the Chinese version. Therefore you would't have OTA anyway. If your BL is unlocked OTA would not work. To get OTA working you would need to flash the Chinese rom back and lock your BL, or sell your device and buy a genuine global version.

I hope this helps to understand..
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] coolgen1:
So how are the Russians with unlocked BL getting the 9.6.6 OTA? Or do you mean OTA to official version when it comes out?

I bought mine from a Xiaomi shop In Cambodia (I think not official) and they insist I will get OTA updates and if it doesn't when official is released, to bring the phone back under warranty. So, that's what I think I'll do as a first resort coz if I muck around with china roms and run into problems like brick, I'll be voiding the warranty.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] shadow78:
I don't know how they getting update, probably they have the global version? Put it this way if you have an unlocked BL OTA wont work. But this applies to many other android smartphones not general to xiaomi.

You can check easy if you BL is unlocked. When you powering on the device it will say unlocked at the bottom under the mi logo. Also if the box of the phone was english saying global on it you have a genuine version. If it was chinese you probably have the same like many of us here...
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] mikejasonsmith:
I got my 6gb version Friday and it had the global ROM 9.6.4. It immediately updated to 9.6.6.

The bootloader was unlocked so can only assume the seller forced it on the handset.

Now, I changed from a 4gb version which had the China ROM on it. Difference between the two is the global ROM is smoother but the radio signal seems a bit weaker.

My question is how would I flash the official global ROM when it is released? Or should I bother?
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] panospc:
Is the modem broken or does the chinese variant has different modem and is not 100% compatible with the global ROM?
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] maokun:
Where did you get that info?

OTA still works on unlocked bt phones though.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] mikejasonsmith:
Agreed. My BL is unlocked and the phone updated to 9.6.6 within 20mins of setting it up.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] omer919:
Bugs on V9.6.6.0.OEDMIFD

1. The software navigation bar keys sometimes fail (it acts like you clicked on it (vibration) but it doesnt do its command (like going home or back)).

2. No AI features on camera + selfie portrait mode is completely broken

3. notification light doesnt work, screen doesnt wake up for new notifications nor shows them on lockscreen
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] mikejasonsmith:
I dont have any of these bugs and I have the ROM. The only issue I have is a weak radio ie the signal strength seems weaker compared to China ROM.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] cranedly:
At this stage i do not think anyone knows for sure if 9.6.4.0 is a fake rom or a prelude to an official global rom. My bootloader was unlocked, as were many who had this rom, and a good few of them got an update via OTA. So an unlocked bootloader can receive OTAs. Now i am on china stable rom still with an unlocked bootloader, and i got an update recently to the anti rollback rom.

Everything so far works fine with this rom, except the proper netflix is not available in the google playstore, their is a list of netflix type apps, but not the netflix everyone knows. With my updated stable china rom i suppose i will have to wait for an official, official, global rom with a higher number than 9.6.12.0. before i even try to change it, if i decide to change that is.

For me anyway everything worked out well, but i really feel for the people who believed what they were told about their unofficial and fake rom, and tried to put a proper rom on their phone, and ran into difficulty, and maybe even ruined their device, some of the posters on this and other forums had this happen to them, most people do not want to go fiddling about with their brand new phone, connecting it to a computer, and messing around with tools, and miflash, and roms, if you were like me, you had to search out forums like this one, to learn how to do these things, i was lucky, i managed to do it correctly in the end, but others were not.

As for buyer beware attitudes some have pointed out, yes you are probably correct, buying this phone too early, and at a good price was acting in haste, but this was such a fantastic phone, and the sellers did say it was global and receive OTAs, so i took the plunge, silly me, i have learned my lesson, for guys who are well use to tech, and computers and roms, this kind of deal would have been good, but for a novice like me, it was not. All good in the end thank god. thanks again for all who have replied to my queries, and helped me out with all of this, it has been a steep learning curve, but i am kind of glad i gave it a go.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] mikejasonsmith:
Hi mate.

Great post and valid posts. Agree wholeheartedly that slot wouldn't be possible without the talented people on this site.

I have the OTA global ROM with unlocked BL. Just wondering how you find the China stable and of you could tell me how you changed to it?

Thanks.

Mike
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] cranedly:
Hi there mikejasonsmith. I find the stable china rom to be very good, now i can make phone calls in my house, which i could not do with the 9.6.4.0. I flashed to the stable china rom via fastboot, i got all the information on miui.com downloaded miflash first then installed it, then downloaded the latest china stable rom, i got a lot of help from panospc86 on that forum. All in all i can not fault this rom, only downside, if you can call it that, is not getting netflix from the google playstore.

It is easy enough as well to add all the google services to this china rom, their are a few videos on youtube showing this, i used martijn wester video, its only a couple of minutes long, but it works. this is the link to my question and very helpful answer from panospc86 who was very patient with me, and i would not have attempted it without his help.

http://en.miui.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=3622317&page=1#pid29612697
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] mikejasonsmith:
Hi and thanks.

Can you help with some steps? Did you do it via mi suite or twrp?

Any tips? I think I will do this tomorrow as I've noticed a real difference in signal strength.

Thanks
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] cranedly:
None of that, just miflash, and downloaded the rom, fastboot rom, and followed the instructions i was given in the link.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] mikejasonsmith:
So which rom do I mi flash and which rom do I fastboot/twrp?
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] cranedly:
Ok I have not used twrp would have to find out more about it, and why i would need it, go onto miui.com the page for mi max 3 and select "rom" their are a few options, Q and A, chat. rom, tips and tutorials, each one has a seperate thread, all to do with the mi max 3, I downloaded the latest stable china rom at the time, 9.11. something or other, that one has no anti rollback, but the later one with a 12 in it, has anti rollback, it does not matter much to me, but for some it does, it just means you can not flash a rom that is older than you have installed. So i did not use twrp at all, i just needed a pc and connect it to the computer with the charging cable you got with the phone, as some people had trouble using different cables.

http://en.miui.com/forum-204-1.html

---------- Post added at 08:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:26 PM ----------

This is the china stable rom i used, you can use the later one as well, if you do not want an anti rollback rom, when you are given the option to update the latest version just dont do it, or if you dont mind, just update by OTA.

http://en.miui.com/thread-3661955-1-1.html

---------- Post added at 08:38 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:31 PM ----------
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] teddymild:
Flashing Guide - Xiaomi MIUI Official ...

en.miui.com › http://en.miui.com/a-234.html

Mi flashtool Flash fastboot rom.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] cranedly:
I tried to follow that tutorial, but you would need to know what you are doing, it gives you an idea of what to do, which is OK. i would have rathered a full step by step tutorial instead, with left click, right click, double tap, i needed to know all of this before i even contemplated this procedure. thanks for posting that link, i forgot all about it.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] mikejasonsmith:
I've done it!!!

Thanks for your help

How do I give time EU ROM from here. Just noticed my BL is now relocked
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] mockneygeeza:
Ordered the "global rom" 128gb model as stated in ad, looking back that the ad on Ali xp dot com... The "mi store" seller has changed the sales photo, showing nothing about global rom, they responded to my emails saying that it's not global rom and do I want it shipped to me sealed or do I want to wait for global rom so they can flash it for me.

I asked for it to be shipped sealed, from what I hear the fake rom they are flashing to them isn't ideal, so I'm keen to find out what rom it will turn up with as it's sealed.

I'll be back on here no doubt trying to flash/upgrade to the best version according to the rom I have.

Am I right in thinking that I can get the official global rom on my device eventually.

I really am hoping so, otherwise I will be p***ed. I'll be complaining to team Ali regardless for being duped.

In the meantime I'll try and digest all the above and the rest of the threads regarding this phone. Which I'm glad we now have, it's looking to be an excellent device, cannot wait to flash the granny out of it.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] mikejasonsmith:
I've just flashed from that to China stable. So gutted as forgot to select clean only on min flash and now have lock BL. ,,720 hours.to wait until.i can unlock.it...unbelievable...
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] teddymild:
You might want to try this https://xdaforums.com/mi-max/how-to/installing-twrp-locked-bootloader-t3406501.

It's for Mi max 1, not sure for Mi max 3.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] nijel8:
Pretty sure it'll work.

Also pretty sure this will work too just for flashing TWRP with locked bootloader without flashing full rom...

That same tool can be used to backup bootloader unlocked status(devinfo partition) and restore it in case you screwed up like above user so no need to beg for Xiaomi's permission and wait endless hours to unlock...
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] cranedly:
Good job with the flashing, i would have to say i was told to make sure and only chose the option to clean all and leave the bootloader unlocked, i would have liked to have the bootloader locked, as their are a few apps where this is necessary, a few posters told me that changing from the so-called fake rom to china stable with a locked bootloader could brick my phone, so i opted to take their advice.

The way things are going, it seems it could be that long 720 hours before a proper official global rom gets released, as some are now saying that the updated 9.6.6.0 rom is still having trouble making phone calls, i do not know what to believe now.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] erwinsie:
so because the "global rom 3" mi max from resellers are not good anyway, would it be better to buy "original" mi max 3 instead? they are slightly cheaper and probably still sealed.

hmm but the bootloader will be locked.

edit: actually all sellers in aliexpress are putting global rom word anyway so probably i will get them
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] mikejasonsmith:
Thanks for this

If I get TWRP can I flash a ROM say...EU ROM with it?
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] omer919:
Update about global rom signal issues (V9.6.6.0 | V9.6.4.0):

I checked both roms with the modem and firmware of China 9.6.12.0 and I still have signal issues (only 4G (NO LTE), weak signal in buildings and underground).

I think this means that the system it self is broken and might be fixed soon
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] dogiex:
Yes you can after format data to remove encryption you can flash EU rom.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Besterem:
Hi All,

My device is running on MIUI 10 | 8.8.3 is it safe to upgrade to global rom?

Thanks,
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] opasha:
[MENTION=7889477]omer919[/MENTION] literally just posted 3 posts above. DO NOT FLASH GLOBAL ROM (9.6.6.0). It has issues.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] shadow78:
Officially the global rom is still NOT out. The link you would need to check is http://en.miui.com/download.html

Once xiaomi release the global rom mm3 will be available in the device list and you can download the rom from there. Even posts are saying the global is out its more like a global beta with bugs. The biggest bug is the cellular problem. I would not recommend to flash any in this stage.

If you wan't you can upgrade your version to 8.8.9 but later versions introduced anti rollback which basically blocks you to flash earlier versions back. You can read all about this on this forum. Just use the search and keywords you are interested and I'm sure will bring up lots of result.

As additional flashing unnecessary is pointless I think. If your phone works on the current version without any major flow I would just stick with it. The reason I'm saying this is because you may run into issues during you new firmware install which could brick your device, and if you don't know how to handle it you would just tear your hair out braking your new device. I have installed most available firmware (without anti rollback) including the global. I'm currently on china stable but cannot really see much difference between the chinese and the eu beta. I managed to get the chinese rom working with a minimal of chinese characters here and there, but the cellular reception wifi speed etc is the same as the eu beta.

I hope the above helps in your decision..
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] coolgen1:
Good post this and link to instructions...thanks (and panospc86)