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[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] shadow78:
You are lucky then. Sounds like you have the official global version... I wouldn't mess around with it. Eu.xiaomi only got beta roms till the official global not been released.

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I think the answer is depends on:

- what version you are on from eu. If you are on 8.8.30 then anti rollback is probably enabled so I think you cannot install the global becuase its a lower ver number.

- if you are on an earlier version where anti rollback not been enabled I don't think you would have any problem

Somewhere here I was reading that you could check if anti rollback is enabled or not in fastboot. If you whish to do this do a bit of a research to find the post how to...

I'm also waiting for the official global like most of us here, but even when its released I won't lock my BL, just keep the device open for every possibilities.

Flashing an update is not hard via twrp normally wouldn't affect anything just like an ota. Anyway that's my opinion but I'm sure there are more clever people here who wouldn't agree with everything above :).
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] tuddu:
Question: I have the bootloader unlocked (coming from the fake rom previusly installed) and now I have the China Stable 9.6.12.0 installed. Since this version seems to have introduced the ARB feature, may I install thebGLOBAL VERSION which is going to be released by Xiaomi and seems to be the version 9.6.6.0? Do I risk to brick since it's a lower release than mine...
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] shadow78:
I think you know the answer already...:cool:
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] chris tre:
My bootloader is locked, I have official 8.8.9. Works perfectly after install all google apk and removed all china apps.

When available i will upgrade my mi max 3 with global version directly with the official recovery tool... With,.. "choose update package "
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] giannis_ch:
So, after installing China Dev 8.8.9 over fake ROM and choosing "clean all" instead of "clean all and lock" in MiFlash, is there any disadvantage to staying with an unofficially unlocked bootloader while waiting for the global version?

Is there any reason why I should lock it and wait for permission (360 or 720 or 1440 hours) to unlock it officially?
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] chris tre:
I don't it's my choice... I read that it can generate an issue if you want to flash twrp...

You can try to flash the recovery 8.8.9 directly in the phone. Like my last post.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Zillawill:
Yeah was surprised myself, was bought from a UK seller too so only took a day to arrive, have tried buying 1 from aliexpress since launch and kept getting sick of wait time
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] weareborg:
Curious, which UK retailer did you use?
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Zillawill:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GLOBAL-V...hash=item1cb719960f:m:mZOwlJa1rd2L6jv7TQjGUCQ
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] limsandy:
Hey guys..... check out what I did to my Mi Max 3, with great instructions from another user "tombassi".

It's only 2 pages, I recommend read the whole thread before beginning to flash your phone.

https://xdaforums.com/mi-max-3/development/stucked-fastboot-mode-t3834371/
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] The-b:
I don't know that after you flash to the official Global Rom and left the

bootloader unlocked you can receive the OTA updates from Xiaomi .

So do you need re-lock the bootloader again after flashing to receive the OTA's or can you let it unlocked ?
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmarco:
It seems that grossoshops has the mi max 3 with international rom on board https://www.grossoshop.net/it/xiaom...onale-4-64gb-nero.html?search=xiaomi mi max 3
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] vlatrax:
https://en.miui.com/thread-3768997-1-1.html

WTF ?
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] tuddu:
I don't think it' s an official release, otherwise why so many problems with the GSM radio resulting into phone not receivong and not dialing, so that everybody moved to China or EU. But let's see here if any of the survived owners with the fake rom has received any OTA on their phone...

Inviato dal mio MI MAX 3 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] heartofalion:
From other posts it seems that one needs to have a locked bootloader in order to receive OTA updates.

However there's a catch. Some phones got their internal system software screwed up due to vendors using unofficial unlocking tools. This mean that if you flash your phone the first time by doing a 'clean and lock' you could brick your phone.

The solution is to flash your phone first by using the 'clean' option only by using the official global rom and then after that flashing your phone again with the 'clean and lock' option.

This should get rid off the mess that the vendors made by using 3rd party unlocking tools.

However, there is one slight problem. When you want to flash your phone the second time, you won't be able to enable all the required USB options in the developer settings in order to flash the phone for a second time. However someone in this thread posted a solution for that.

So it's possible to get your phone completely official by flashing the global ROM onto it, but you have to do it right.

I suggest everyone to read this entire thread first before doing it, otherwise you risk bricking your phone.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] healer25:
I have this version from goldway. while booting 9h9be it says its unlocked. I wait for global fastboot flash
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] shadow78:
Xiaomi.eu released a MIUI 10 Stable and MI Max 3 is part of it. I'm a bit sceptic not sure what to expect and don't want to screw my device with a buggy firmware, specially if ARB is enabled. If anyone flashed it just report back pls.

Wrong info ignore this. Mi max 3 is not available
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] lucaxxaa:
What is solution ? I don't see it

Inviato dal mio MI MAX 3 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] omer919:
Recovery Global 9.6.6.0 was released

Link: here

if you have anti-rollback, dont go to this version or you will break your device because its anti is 1!

Ill add more info about global antirollback soon
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] jorgeepelos:
Can install it with twrp doing first factory reset?

I have last miui 10 xiaomi.eu

If i brick phone, can i fix installling fastboot rom via miflash?

Can you tell me that questions please?

Sorry for my bad english. Thanks

Enviado desde mi MI MAX 3 mediante Tapatalk
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] lucaxxaa:
Last xiaomi.eu 8.8.30 have antirollback, then you can brick phone...

Inviato dal mio MI MAX 3 utilizzando Tapatalk

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There is one zip noverity to flash before global, for not lose twrp ?

Inviato dal mio MI MAX 3 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] jorgeepelos:
Then i have to stay on xiaomi.eu rest of my life?

Isnt possible go back from xiaomi.eu to new global stable?[emoji17]

Tell me please. Thanks

Enviado desde mi MI MAX 3 mediante Tapatalk
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] heartofalion:
The solution is on page 23 of this thread, posted by Tuddu.

However that issue might be unique to the dev version of the Chinese rom, not sure. Perhaps it will work well with the official global version.

Either way I'd like someone to confirm that the option 'clean and lock' will not brick your phone after you first flashed the official global rom using only the 'clean' version.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] omer919:
Good news for those running V9.6.4.0.OEDMIFD

It turns out this rom is real! download: here

I dont understand why xiaomi and sellers posted that this is fake so many times...

Anyways, I suggest to update to 9.6.6.0 to fix the cellular bugs
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jassmon999:
No one here said it was fake anyways ?
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] heartofalion:
Do you have a source from Xiaomi that confirms that it is real?
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] omer919:
look at the download link.....

as long as the sellers used that link, its real
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] shadow78:
Right I think this recovery ROM is faulty. Unable to install in any way. The second rom you published the "fake" global stable is fine to flash without an issue...
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] omer919:
What do you mean faulty? People installed this rom via ota just fine

you cant flash this from china rom or xiaomi.eu and ofcourse not from anti-rollback
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] heartofalion:
The link doesn't work. I'm not sure though if a rom is real just because some sellers are using it. There is all kinds of stuff circulating on the internet. Especially in terms of roms.

I'd prefer an official link from Xiaomi.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] shadow78:
Who installed it? I haven't seen anyone reported this image is OK to install. I only see some people received this version as an update from 9.6.4.0. Have you tested it yourself?
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] chris tre:
I wait the global version 10. Coming soon...
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] omer919:
Its the recovery rom ;-; unfortunately its basiclly only usable for those who have 9.6.4.0 installed and they can use it using the updater app

http://ru.miui.com/thread-14549-1-1.html This Rom is Official

Unfortunately I cant find fastboot version of this rom so you cant install it as of now
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] shadow78:
Anyway many thanks for your time and effort sharing this, even its currently unusable for me. I hope its more useful for others. :good:
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] heartofalion:
If rom 9.6.4.0 is real, then why do those phones have their bootloader unlocked though?

I'm not convinced just quite yet. I would like to see an official statement about it from Xiaomi.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] coolgen1:
If some 9.6.4 users are getting 9.6.6 via OTA then surely it must be Xiaomi official if OTA?

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Thanks for all the information Omer.

I read on the other thread that only some 9.6.4 users are getting the OTA update to 9.6.6...I guess Xiaomi must be rolling it out depending on what region your are in.

If you can't wait, what is the correct method to download the above update? Is it 'Method 1: System update' or 'Method 2: Recovery update' from the Xiaomi flashing guide http://en.miui.com/a-232.html ?
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] panospc:
Βecause they are Chinese variants of Mi Max 3, there is no other way to switch to global ROM. I guess Xiaomi doesn't allow to use a chinese variant phone with global ROM on locked bootloader, this is why they left the bootloader unlocked.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] heartofalion:
Does this mean that people who previously bought the phone will never be able to lock the bootloader if they flashed their phone to the official global rom?

A locked bootloader is important, because some apps like banking apps and Netflix require/demand a locked bootloader for security reasons or else they won't work.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] panospc:
I'm not 100% sure but judging from other recent xiaomi devices, I think the answer is no, you can only lock on chinese ROM

Some examples from other recent xiaomi phones:

Mi 8: http://en.miui.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=3406188&extra=&highlight=relock&page=1

Redmi note 5: http://en.miui.com/thread-3768258-1-1.html

Mi Mix 2s: http://en.miui.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=3768293
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] heartofalion:
So that means no OTA, no banking apps, no Netflix and no Google Pay for us?

I'm a bit disappointed.

I will be more vigilant next year when buying the Mi Max 4 or the successor of the Pocophone. I'll buy them from Gearbest next time, as they seem to offer the official global versions of the phone.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] psygnosi:
That's a bummer...:confused:
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] shadow78:
I have actually installed this "fake" ROM yesterday over teh the EU 8.8.9. For me it's working better than the beta ROM was. Much snappier less lag. The only thing I'm missing is the face unlock. Otherwise no issues on calls like others stated. Will wait for EU to release the miui 10 stable. I'm happy to stay on this at the moment..

I seen others were complaining about Google pay wouldn't work if the BL unlocked. Best of my knowledge the phone doesn't have NFC. I this this isn't relevant...
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] panospc:
Try to set the region to Vietnam or Malaysia
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] opasha:
I have root with magisk 17.1 on 8.8.9 EU with unlocked bootloader. Google Pay works for me even though you're right that it's not really a big deal since we don't have NFC. Use magisk hide for Google Pay Send and Google Pay.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] shadow78:
Doesn't let me change the region. Its on China and when I want to change just jump back to the same screen.. Not crashing as such but doesn't give any options either to change just jups back to the additional settings screen.. Not sure what would cause this I may try to flash the rom again see if it helps.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] steberg:
Just got mine today, bought it in Sweden and it came with global rom 9.6.7.0

Now I will have to wait 720h before I can unlock it. Stupid!
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] shadow78:
Whats to point of unlock it if its on global? Unless you want to root etc. I would probably be more happy to have it on the original global instead of messing about with it. There is a saying which I think true on most cases: if there is something working you shouldn't break it. :)
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] shadow78:
Right I have to admit when I'm wrong. As I said above I installed the stable 9.6.4.0 earlier on a top of the eu 8.8.9. However it was quute quick and sleek people were complaining about my voice quality over the phone. So I thought just flash the eu rom back. Well I was wrong. Tha hard bit followed this.

After I booted into recovery I realised the stable rom reverted back to stock recovery. About some reason its encripted my internal storage as well so when I flashed twrp back I didn't have access to my storage, even tried all passwords I was using in the rom. Only option I had left to wipe the sorage (I do not recommend this to anyone)

After this my device was simply bricked. Could not do anything even a fastboot flash was failing with crc error on the internal storage.

Somehow I did manage to flash chinese 8.8.9 via fastboot (I think I selected clean install). But even so when I installed twrp back I had various errors when I tried flashing the eu 8.8.9. Either the vendor or the system partition was unavailable for mount.

I have done a bit of research and found that you can change the file system within twrp. After I went through the process I was able to flash the eu rom back. Now the phone works again and I'm on 8.8.9 again, but I DO NOT recommend anyone to try to flash either the "fake" 9.6.4.0 or the 9.6.6.0 cause if you decide to revert you may brick your device just like I did.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] dogiex:
Unlocking bootloader let's you flash TWRP (custom) recovery, root and custom roms for example Xiaomi.eu rom. That is good enough reason to unlock [emoji6]

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When you are trying to flash Xiaomi.eu rom and coming from Official MIUI do these steps:

- Unlock bootloader officially

- Flash TWRP

- Boot to TWRP

- Wipe, Format data and answer yes (this will format data partition to remove official rom encryption) Note that this will delete everything from the phone so make backups if needed.

- Reboot TWRP

- Transfer Xiaomi.eu .zip file to phone

- Install it in TWRP

- Reboot to system and have fun!
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] shadow78:
I know the advantage of unlocking the bootloader I have about 10 years behind me flashing custom ROMs. These days though I cannot really see the need of it if I have a phone which working fine I don't touch it.

You probably asking now what am I looking for here then? Well I bought the max 3 and only the Chinese version was available by then.

Back in the golden age everything was simple, we had no anti rollback ****e, this is just starting to be more and more complicated and just and additional hassle...

I wish I had this information earlier. But still don't understand why did the fake rom encrypted my internal storage. Thanks for sharing.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] cranedly:
Good advice from the above posters, all this TWERP, FLASHING, ROMS, BOOTLOADERS, TREBLE, STABLE, BETA. It gives me a headache, i managed to flash to china stable, and even that was a learning curve for me, only with the help of a fellow poster on miui.com could i even attempt it, but as i could not make phone calls, i had to give it a go, thankfully, after a one or two false starts, and a fastboot that would not go away, i now have a working phone, and i think i will leave it at that, global rom or no global rom. But it is good to know that there is fantastic help on forums such as this. I just hope that Xiaomi do not mind international buyers using a china rom on their phones.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] The-b:
If this is the official Global why there's nothing mentioned official on

http://en.miui.com/download.html

There is still no Official Global ROM for this phone yet.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] jorgeepelos:
Hi. Please can you tell me how do you installe the global rom over the beta rom miui 10?

Im on 30aug xiaomi. Eu(antirollback) and if i update to global(fake) released yesterday i got brick. Please can u tell me[emoji57]

Thanks

Enviado desde mi MI MAX 3 mediante Tapatalk
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] samkatta:
We need to confirm this matter, is the Mi Max 3 having the same problem as the other recent models mentioned and it will not allow re-locking of bootloader after putting global firmware on China version phone? This is very important to many.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] shadow78:
This has been answered before. You cannot install an earlier version if ARB already on your device. I was on an eu rom 8.8.9 which does not have ARB yet.

Thats why I'm not installing the new releases madly. I suggest you to read next time before you do anything. Now the only way forward to install any later release or just wait till EU will release the stable 10 for max 3.

This has also been answered. You cannot lock the BL after you installed the Global. Please guys read the forum before asking otherwise if you keep asking the same question it wont be answered..

Don't get me wrong I'm happy to help if I can after you done your bit to find your answers.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] chris tre:
Try with edl point of touch. My phone was bricked. For me you can flash all rom with this process. No anti rollback.

https://en.miui.com/thread-3667214-1-1.html
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] mikejasonsmith:
Does anyone have a step by step guide to go from the fake global to EU ROM?

I've flashed twrp but it won't stick so can't get very far with the guide.

Thank you
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] dogiex:
When you flash TWRP you need to boot to recovery (Vol+ during boot) right after flashing it. If you go to system, it will most probably overwrite the recovery to default Mi-Recovery.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] mikejasonsmith:
Can you flash nitrogen ROM via mi app???
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] samkatta:
Thank you for your reply.

I know it was answered before but without previous evidence on the Mi Max 3 till now, that is why I asked "we need to confirm" as previous answers were not conclusive and as the user I quoted said "I'm not 100% sure"

Thank you again.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] mikejasonsmith:
Did you flash using twrp or mi suite?
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] omer919:
I created a custom EXPERIMENTAL V9.6.6.0.OEDMIFD FW-LESS official global rom

NOTE: I havent tested it! this is highly EXPERIMENTAL and might brick your device! Im not responsable for any bricks that might happen while flashing this rom, please know that before trying this!

ONLY DO THIS IF YOU HAVE ANTIROLLBACK ENABLED!

Download: here

Installation instructions:

1. Go to twrp on your device and wipe everything! (system,vendor,internal .....)

2. Change your data partition to F2FS

3. Reboot to twrp and format userdata

4. Flash China Stable 9.6.12.0 via Fastboot

5. Flash twrp and reboot to it

6. in TWRP wipe everything (system,vendor,internal .....)

7. Change your data partition to F2FS

8. Reboot to twrp and format userdata

9. Reboot one last time to TWRP and copy the fw-less rom to your internal storage

10. flash the fw-less rom

11. wipe cache/ dalvik

12. reboot and enjoy!

Please tell me if it doesnt work, and it does work please provide us pictures!

Credits: yshalsage

Thanks and have a great day!
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] thaineth:
I wonder why there is no word of Xiaomi at all. The must have noticed our frustration about the ROM in forums.

I'm in doubt about buying this phone. Is it good to buy one in a box stated Global Version? (as one of the pictures in this forum showed) Or is it better to wait?
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] limsandy:
I'm grateful I didn't stumble upon much problem when flashing my mi max 3 with "fake" ROM. Perhaps you can detail your steps to unbricking your phone from changing the file system, etc.... (for users who were unfortunate to brick their phones).

I am now on China stable 9.6.11 and I have applied for the official bootloader unlock. I still have 500+ hours to go, but I have a question for the masters here. ;)

Should I install Global stable ROM first then apply the bootloader unlocking through the miflash unlocking tool (will erase user data) or the other way around (unlock bootloader first then install Global stable ROM)?

BTW, Global beta ROM for Mi Max 3 is out, guys! I don't have the link but a Google search will get you there. ;)
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] shadow78:
I haven't done anything special if someone google these things normally there is a forum comment or a video on youtube about it. All they need to do is research the problem, don't panic, and try to resolve the issue.

I think you need to unlock the BL first from a china rom then install global.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] omer919:
Can someone be brave and try this so we can all enjoy the rom?
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] quincyquinn:
Do you own this phone why can't you just flash it yourself....????
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] omer919:
Yep, I just did and it worked
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] kelvintisw:
Hmm......:silly:

If it worked.

Does it mean that the Mi Max 3 is now fully converted to official Global rom running 9.6.6.0 and that the Mi Max 3 will have no problem receiving official Global rom OTA/updates as time goes on?
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] omer919:
Well the flashing worked, Im on the setup page of MIUI 9.6.6.0.OEDMIFD

The problem is I can only choose China region which makes my device crash over and over again.

If you know the fix please tell me
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Guides, News, & Discussion] quincyquinn:
Well now you know it works