I recently bought myself a Redmi Note 3 Pro Special Edition (Kate) for its ability to run an official build of CM13 and, importantly, because Kate offers Band 20 support - a major advantage for UK usage.
As you may realise, getting CM13 onto Kate is somewhat more complex than getting it running on Kenzo. This is due to both the bootloader not being able to be unlocked officially and also because the Radios in Kate are different to those in Kenzo.
After figuring everything out over the weekend, I managed to flash the Official Nightly CM13 onto my Kate device & everything ran perfectly!
I wrote up the process in my Blog in quite a bit of detail, so feel free to have a read if you wish to install CM13 on your Kate edition of the Redmi Note 3.
@mwarner mmm online you can find an version of CM13 for kate
http://blog.yam.com/amjads/article/171744431
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Naphtha said:
@mwarner mmm online you can find an version of CM13 for kate
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My tutorial is very thorough - every step is taken into account, taking a phone as it would be out of the box running MIUI to having a fully working CM13 installed. If it wasn't complicated, I wouldn't have written a tutorial .
Thanks for the info though - the text and the ROM is all in Chinese but may be of use to someone.
Thank you for work. I will trying it till my kate comes. Doesn't band 20 and 8 work?
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mwarner said:
My tutorial is very thorough - every step is taken into account, taking a phone as it would be out of the box running MIUI to having a fully working CM13 installed. If it wasn't complicated, I wouldn't have written a tutorial .
Thanks for the info though - the text and the ROM is all in Chinese but may be of use to someone.
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I don't believe is only in Chinese. Usually CM is multilanguage.
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A very well written and comprehensive guide, thanks! I've been seeing so many support requests all over the place that i'm still a bit hesitant to flash CM13. Have you noticed /ANY/ issues with hardware support? Dual sim, cameras, FP-reader? Is there anything that works worse on CM than MIUI7 stable?
Thanks again for a good guide, subscribed to your blog too
Sujejsjejej said:
Thank you for work. I will trying it till my kate comes. Doesn't band 20 and 8 work?
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The Special Edition (Kate) phone supports the following bands:
LTE B1/2/3/4/5/7/8/20/28 ( 2100/1900/ 1800/ 1700/ 850/ 2600/ 900/ 800/ 700MHz)
Kenzo does not support Bands 2, 20 and 28.
kissamopo said:
A very well written and comprehensive guide, thanks! I've been seeing so many support requests all over the place that i'm still a bit hesitant to flash CM13. Have you noticed /ANY/ issues with hardware support? Dual sim, cameras, FP-reader? Is there anything that works worse on CM than MIUI7 stable?
Thanks again for a good guide, subscribed to your blog too
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I must admit that the Note 3 is not my main phone - a Xiaomi Mi Max contains my primary SIM at the moment - so I have not tested it as much as I would like.
At this point (only having had the phone on CM13 for a few days) I have experienced one bug where I used the fingerprint sensor to unlock & the device unlocked, but to a black screen. Turning the screen off with the power button and then unlocking again with the fingerprint resolved this. I have only seen this once, but I did see it.
Generally, everything seems to work well - performance is great (smoother than MIUI) and both cameras and the fingerprint sensor work as expected. I haven't tried Dual SIM, or indeed a MicroSD card in the device, so I can't comment on this.
The bottom line is that it is a little too early for me to say whether I would use CM13 on the Note 3 if it was my primary phone. A safer bet is to use MIUI and set the phone up to turn off some of the oddities of MIUI. I posted about how I set up my phone here:
http://mikestechlife.blogspot.com/2016/10/guide-to-setting-up-xiaomi-miui-phone.html
On my main Mi Max I use Xiaomi.eu weekly on MIUI 8 with it set up as outlined above. CM13 only has partial supported on the Mi Max, so I don't want to go down this route with my Max.
That's quite the tutorial! Lots of good information there.
1. Xiaomi only support bootloader unlocking on Chinese Developer firmwares. There is NO Chinese firmware available for Kate - only Global ROMs. It is therefore impossible to officially unlock a Kate phone.
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Not true, at least in my experience. I've officially unlocked my Kate using global dev MIUI8 v6.10.13. Followed these steps.. This particular MIUI release comes with a setting in the dev menu to check for unlocked bootloader and other things.
Now, I'm hoping I wasn't an exception, and officially unlocking Kate has now become just as easy for everyone.
Also, there's a ROM that's quite CM13-like and officially supports Kate and its radio. I come from a 2013 Moto G running CM13 nightlies and I don't miss CM13 after using this for a few days in my Kate. The experience is almost the same, and at least on my Kate, everything's running fine.
Too bad that Xiaomi is playing part lottery when making the phone, seems they can't be bothered to update their sources for all the part providers they're using. I guess we can't complain much when a phone of this caliber is so affordable.
I noticed that Xiaomi.eu have produced a build for Kate this week:
https://xiaomi.eu/community/threads/6-10-27.35843/
Cheers bud great tutorial.
I was using the latest Global Dev Rom and after the first boot loading TWRP it gave me a prompt for password. I could not access storage. Just fully wiped the device with TWRP/Advanced/Wipe Data and did the install. CM13 just booted on my device with a locked bootloader.
Biggie ups!
Does this work with cm 14 too?
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There is a developer ROM for kate? Would this not work for official unlock?
http://en.miui.com/download-301.html#449
Kate bootloader can be unlocked officially, I did it with mine on official global dev rom.
adamdabadboy said:
Kate bootloader can be unlocked officially, I did it with mine on official global dev rom.
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how?
iakoboss7 said:
how?
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go to en.miui.com/unlock/ and apply to unlock
Use updater to flash global dev rom
Settings -> additional settings -> developer options
enable OEM unlocking
mi unlock status -> register phone
enable usb debugging (not sure if necessary)
reboot into fastboot mode
use mi unlock tool to unlock bootloader
last time i tried the "mi unlock status -> register phone" it faild (and i tried many times and did allot of restarts). i tried it on 6.10.13, what version did you use?
Thanks for the Tutorial. When i flashed the rom with Alka Recovery, i had the error message Encryption was interrupted and can't be completed. With the ZCX Recovery it starts normally.
Has anyone tried this with CM14 or a 7.0 rom?
iakoboss7 said:
last time i tried the "mi unlock status -> register phone" it faild (and i tried many times and did allot of restarts). i tried it on 6.10.13, what version did you use?
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I used 6.10.13, I'm not sure why you had that problem
hello there
i recently bought Leeco Le Pro 3 Elite in banggood.com as the specifications seemed good for the price..later got the product few days back with Android M..i saw there were lot of custom rom available and tried to install on my device..poor me later found that i bricked my device with all oem locked again..tried many ways but all were in vain..later i tried with oone flash tool and managed to install recovery just to find that it is different software and device wont boot normally..
At present device can only go into fastboot mode
Please help me revive the product..as i dont want to return because i got it after 15days of order along with half amount customs duty
harshaloves said:
hello there
i recently bought Leeco Le Pro 3 Elite in banggood.com as the specifications seemed good for the price..later got the product few days back with Android M..i saw there were lot of custom rom available and tried to install on my device..poor me later found that i bricked my device with all oem locked again..tried many ways but all were in vain..later i tried with oone flash tool and managed to install recovery just to find that it is different software and device wont boot normally..
At present device can only go into fastboot mode
Please help me revive the product..as i dont want to return because i got it after 15days of order along with half amount customs duty
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There was someone over in the AICP 8.0 custom ROM thread who managed to get that x720/727 ROM working in his x722.
If that doesn't work then your device is bricked, you should've read the titles better.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/le...velopment--and-mods/try-unbrick-x722-t3686191
:/ Never ever ever, under any circumstances, blindly flash ROMs without doing your due research first. ESPECIALLY with Chinese phones. There's a reason why so many XDA contributors explicitly mention that you're always flashing ROMs at your own risk. Those warnings seem to be lost on newer users to this website.
Hey guys over in the zte axon thread sorry to bug but I'm desperate lol.. I was hoping some of you guys work with a little time and tinkering can possibly be ported over to the Zenfone 3 deluxe they matchup up in specs in every way except for the ram size zf3 comes with 6/64 gb.. It even has a Oreo of course without treble and the phone is rock solid I am not a developer but I can follow instructions thoroughly so if you guys can help me develop some type of vendor partion or even a lineage 16 I will forever be grateful even if not I still will be.. Asus has also released the source code and kernel with every update if that helps anything... we also have a set of edl qfil files to fix anything so I'm willing to try whatever you throw at me Thanks hope you guys let me know something
I just bought this device and thought "YES" I will pop over to XDA and see what's cooking here. I see there's an official twrp but no roms or kernels now am not trying to be cheeky or anything like that because I haven't got a clue on how to compile anything but surely their is a fantastic dev out there that's interested in doing some work to this fantastic device.?
This fantastic device still has no official bootloader unlock. No unlock, no ROMs.
https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/bootloader
It can be unlock unofficial. This is enough to start developing something for this phone.
Whether kernel (kernel sources are open) or ROM.
Even if it is not unlocked for everyone, at least for those who have been unlocked a bootloader.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot flashing get_unlock_ability
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(bootloader) get_unlock_ability: 0
OKAY [ -0.000s]
finished. total time: -0.000s
marto2013 said:
It can be unlock unofficial. This is enough to start developing something for this phone.
Whether kernel (kernel sources are open) or ROM.
Even if it is not unlocked for everyone, at least for those who have been unlocked a bootloader.
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how do i unofficially unlock it?
skooter32 said:
how do i unofficially unlock it?
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I downgrade my bootloader by flashing older ota updare (for example december 2017), after that i flash unlocked bootloader with this tutorial - https://forum.xda-developers.com/nokia-6/how-to/guide-how-to-flash-custom-recovery-root-t3702354
See step two. In "Attached Files" is unlocked bootloader. Download from it and flash.
After all i flash rom and anything is perfect.
You can see how i root my phone in this thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/nokia-6/help/nokia-6-rooting-t3865952
It is for TA-1033 model and i'm not sure that it will work on another nokia 6 models.
Maybe unlocked bootloader work on any Nokia 6 (2017)..
Any custom ROM needs a target audience, and this audience needs an easy way to unlock. No developer will wait for 1.5-2 years until HMD provides official unlock, developing for himself and a dozen of users makes no sense. There are plenty of devices having official unlocks from the release date like Xiaomi or Sony.
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Any custom ROM needs a target audience, and this audience needs an easy way to unlock. No developer will wait for 1.5-2 years until HMD provides official unlock, developing for himself and a dozen of users makes no sense. There are plenty of devices having official unlocks from the release date like Xiaomi or Sony.
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Unfortunately, this is true.
I'm sorry I did not buy Xiaomi, and now I'm with this Nokia.
I know that the ROM development is not a easy task.but our device (TA-1021) only have a one custom ROM as how I know.
It's a shame that even samsung galaxy core prime ( SM-G360H ) got plenty of ROMs but.:crying: anyone???
Can't unlock bootloader and no kernel source. Go blame Nokia instead
WiMiOP said:
Can't unlock bootloader and no kernel source. Go blame Nokia instead
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https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int...Dbu4lQHeQVXWsYwYO3QaAmYzEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
Are u alright? Man here are the kernel source code of nokia 6 ...
I am not a developer of nokia 6 or else but source codes are available on nokia website can't you check it?
And bootloader is easily unlockable by the unlock key .
I have unlocked bootloader of my phone