Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 is not updated firmware. Pros and cons

To begin with, I want to explain the purpose of the article: assistance in the decision of the "Kosyakov", with whom he met himself. First of all, it is intended to hold the owners of the Chinese version with a stitched modem.
Here you need an explanation. At the moment, 3 versions of Redmi Note 2 are present on the market:
1) European (with European WCDMA 3G and FDD-LTE)
2) Chinese (with Chinese TD-SCDMA 3G and TDD-LTE)
3) Chinese with a stitched modem (simultaneously with European and Chinese communication standards) is my option.

Introduction(or why Redmi Note 2)

This summer has rehearsed untimely (not without my participation) fee in my Xperia ZL. Nothing thinking, I decided to replace the device. But, since ZL himself was rather distressed: 3 times in a row visited the service last fall and broke less than six months later - and for a number of other reasons, I decided not to refer more to Sony.
I have long heard of Xiaomi, their quality and support, but until 2015 they released only relatively expensive devices, and I didn't want to spend much. That is why I am so pleased with the appearance of Redmi Note 2.
If you faced the question of the reason why I took the Chinese version with a stitched modem, the answer is the same: the price. He cost for as much as $ 20 cheaper than the European version, and differences are minimal.

Packaging and equipment

The principle of Xiaomi packaging is efficiency, it looks like this: a cardboard box in which instructions, warranty, battery, charger and a USB cable are hidden. No frills in the form of headphones / OTG or protective film It did not find it.
But, I must say, the seller has tried and put an adapter from the plug with a rectangular cross section of the pins on the Russian, with a round.
Also, the parcel went to Russia by mail through the mail of Finland, while the wrapper of several layers of foamed polyethylene withstood everything and retained even the transport of the box. Thanks again to the seller.

Appearance

Phone body - classic monoblock, "brick" with a silver inscription "MI" at the bottom of the lid. I am a simple man: I see the "brick" - I think the "smartphone", I see the bends and patterns - I think "Installation".
The thickness of the body is 6.2 mm at the edge, 8 mm in the middle, the most important is observed on the chamber - 8.6 mm. Width: 76.3, with buttons - 76.6. Unfortunately, there was not enough for the length of the caliper, but, with the help of its ruler (it is longer than the maximum width of the sponges due to the fastening), it turned out about 151.8-152.
Want to know how "this smartphone will" be in hand "- take ASUS Zenfone. 2 Ze551ml - Brother "Twin" Note 2 differs only by the thickness of 2 mm and the location of the buttons.
It is necessary to take into account that despite the thin plastic of the cover, the body is quite durable, I managed to drop it onto the concrete floor without any particular consequences. Also, in this key, I want to allocate a slightly protruding "hardware" of the display, which takes on the blow when falling on flat surfaces.
Three physical sensor buttons (left - right: Menu, Home, back) are located below the screen, conveniently highlighted in red and have a backlight. On the right end, the silver buttons for on and adjusting the volume are located, the USB is at the bottom, and on the top face - the 3.5 connector and the IRDA window (yes, you did not seem, the real infrared adapter). Also, on the front panel you can see the camera and the telephone speaker and it is impossible (because they are hidden) - lighting sensors, approximation and signal LED. On the lid, by tradition, there is a camera, flash and rear speaker grid. Pleasant trifle: under the grille there is a small "tubercle" so that the speaker does not stop when the smartphone lies with the display up.

Characteristics

Redmi Note 2 became one of the first owners of a new middle class chipset from MTK, Helio X10, heir to the 2014 champion, MT6595, with 8 Cortex A53 energy saving cores operating at a frequency of 2/2.2 GHz for standard / Prime version and GPU PowerVR 6200. Also The device has 16GB NAND memory (also, there is a variant from 32GB), from which the user is available 12, and 2GB LPDDR3 RAM, 1 of which is usually eaten by the system.
Thanks to this configuration, the device gives 46+ thousand points in Antutu.

Results of synthetic tests

The most recent version of the system at the time of writing the review is Android 5.0.2 in the MIUI branded shell, which has its advantages and cons, discuss which I will not, because This is a matter of taste and does not apply to this review. I will only note that she fell like her soul.
FullHD display 5.5 "(480 DPI), performed using OGS technology, without an air layer, has protection against scratches and a simple oleophobic coating.
GPS works with 3 satellite systems: GPS, GLONASS and Beidou, - at the expense of which grasps it rather quickly and quite accurately determines the location.
Cameras: CMOS 13MP Behind (F2.2) and 5MP ahead (F2.0), - professional quality, naturally, will not give, but completely replacing the average 21MP "Soapon".
Also, the camera is capable of shooting 720p slow-motion video with a frequency of 30fps, if you speed up to normal - will be 60fps. As it turned out later, maybe 120, but about it below.
Sound ... What is the sound? - Encunning speakers - loud, sound clean, audible - clearly, without interruptions.
The fact that it is not a player is understandable from the fact that this is a smartphone. (Your captain is obvious)

Pros and cons

And finally, we go to "wicked flights"

Pluses Xiaomi Redmi Note 2:

1,2) a small price with very good characteristics;
3) strong and light housing, thoughtful design;
4) good cameras;
5) Excellent GPS reception;
6) 2 sims;
7) Support.

The advantages of the Chinese version of Xiaomi Redmi Note 2:

1) An even lower price;
2) heats up less.

Disadvantages of Xiaomi Redmi Note 2:

1) creates in 3 places the lid with strong compression;
2) 1 radio module (LTE works only in 1 slot);
3) it is impossible to just take and install root;
4) the lack of Google Apps;
5) Miui defines subscribers only on "+7", but not on "8".

Disadvantages of the Chinese version of Xiaomi Redmi Note 2:

1) Curve firmware from the seller
2) a little less powerful, and the most tricky, with which I encountered is the curve of the firmware of the incomprehensible version from the seller, it is directly infected with advertising.
Here, as they say, you want cheaper - I'll be able to do it yourself. We flash on the official firmware.

I. Enchant TWRP.

Taken from here:
Download .
1) Install the ADB and USB VCOM drivers in the ADB - Drivers and USB VCOM - DRIVERS folders.
2) Turn off the smartphone.
3) You need to simultaneously press and hold the "sound" and "on" until the device starts uploaded.
4) FastBoot boot, plug the USB cable.
5) Run "Recovery-Flasher (Run Me) .Bat".

II. Start the firmware

1) Download the firmware (weekly - rutted, stable (monthly) - no).
- English site (from above - stable, from below - weekly).
- Chinese site (from above - stable, from below - weekly, updated more often than in English).
- Russian site with localized firmware.
2) Copy the file to the smartphone.
3) Turn off the phone.

5) Wipe section, spend on the left - right through the Swipe to Factoy Reset strip.
6) Section Install, select the firmware file, spend on the left - right through the Swipe to install strip, then click Wipe Cache / Dalvik and then - Reboot System.

III.Connect mobile Internet

Actually on tele2, perhaps some other providers. Tele2 provides Internet in VSP format (Virtual Service Provder) at Rostelecom's capacity, maybe therefore without roaming and does not work.
1) Lower the "blind", we make swipe on the right-left, at the bottom we find the gear and press, the settings section opens.
2) Go to SIM Cards and Mobile Networks, turn on Data Enabled.
3) Go to Overseas Roaming, turn on overseas Data Roaming.
4) We go to the desktop, open the Tools folder, open downloads there, press 3 points in the upper right corner, select Settings.
5) In the Download Size Limit paragraph, set the value unlimited and click OK.

IV. Start Google Apps.

1) go to the site
2) Select Arm64, Android 5.0 (you can watch the current version in the ABOUT PHONE settings), and Micro (or any other package, I have enough this).
3) Download and boot into the phone.
4) Turn off the phone.
5) Loading in TWRP (clamp "Sound +" and "On").
6) Install section, select the Gapps file, spend on the left - right through the Swipe to install strip, then click Wipe Cache / Dalvik and then - Reboot System.

V. Start root

Taken from here:
Here it is necessary to make a reservation that if you installed the "Developer" s "(weekly) firmware - then the root is already installed, begin with paragraph 6.
But if the "stable" version is installed - there is another matter here.
We do as follows:
1) Download the firmware SuperSU binar from here:

2) Transfer it to the phone.
3) Turn off the phone.
4) Loading in TWRP (clamp "Sound +" and "On").
5) Install section, select the supersu.zip file, spend on the left - right through the Swipe to install strip, then click Wipe Cache / Dalvik and then - Reboot System.
6) Install from the SuperSU market.
7) Go to the Tools-Security-Permissions-Root Access folder, turn on SuperSU access (you have to click on "Allow" several times)
8) Start in SuperSU-update the binary, if required, reboot.

VI. Dead "Raw" - Photos

Taken from here:
We need:
1. Phone with the ability to enter engineering menu.
2. .
3. Computer with Windows OS and installed Adobe Photoshop. With Camera Raw (must be default).
Instruction:
1) We enter the phone to the engineering menu combination * # * # 3646633 # * # * and go to the Hardware Testing tab, choose Camera.
2) I exhibit the Capture Type - Processed Raw, the rest - leave as it is (in fact, you can change, and play with the settings) and click Start Preview. We take pictures.
3) Run Adobe Photoshop and drag into it raw file.. In a dialog box exhibit the following parameters: Resolution 4192 per 3104, 1 channel, 16 bits, IBM PC, and clamp approx.
4) We get a black square Malevich. Select the filter is another - custom, in the dialog box, we change the average value by 64 and click OK.
5) We get a C / B. Next, save as and choose Photoshop RAW format.
6) Download the RAW2DNG.Zip file and unpack. All here are already spelled out need settings in the ini file. Corresponding to this folder our saved and processed in Photoshop RAW. Next, we take our RAW and dragging it on Raw2dng.exe and wait until the same DNG file appears in the folder. All this file is ready for further processing in Photoshop.

VII. Signing 120fps

Taken from here:
! Attention! It turns off slow-Motion function in the standard application.
Download .
Take the media_profiles.xml file and put it on the device in the System / etc, set the rights RW-R - R--. Return the camera to normal mode can be removed by media_profiles.xml. I plan to buy +26. Add to favourites I liked the review +25 +61

Detailed instructions for firmware smartphone Xiaomi. Redmi Note 2 on a new Russified, custom firmware.

From the firmware version 5.10.15 Xiaomi began signing its firmware with a unique encrypted key. And this leads to the point that, through the standard (x mi), the recovery will be swallowed, it does not matter what method, only original English-Chinese firmware! When you try to flash any other firmware through it - an error will occur signature Verification Failed!

Custom TWRP Recovery Firmware

Download drivers for pc communication with phone Xiaomi Redmi. Note 2 - mtk_usb_al_0.9. 7, download and then install.

If you want to flash Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 on a custom firmware or to a Russified firmware, you first need to install custom recovery in your smartphone.

Download the program Flash Tool or Flash Tool for Linux and Castoma Recovery TWRP_RECOVERY itself for Xiaomi Redmi Note 2.

Stock (Original Recovery) Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 - Stok Recovery for Flashtool

Unzip the contents of the archive to the folder on the "C" disk.
Run the program on behalf of the administrator, click the button with the scatter-loading inscription, specify the Android_scatter file in the folder where the custom recovery unzipped.

A red boot band appears, then yellow and ok sign.

Everything. Remove the cable, insert the battery. Press simultaneously two buttons (ON / OFF and VOLUME +) until white Mi icon appears on a black background. We let go, wait. On the first screen, that Mount appeared before the Never Show This Screen During Boot Again offer, check the tick, follow the swipe and that's it. Reboot System Everything works.

NVRAM removal through TWRP2.8.7.0- Bilingual Edition

We go into the recovery in one of the ways.
1. Specify the power (On) and the volume + at the same time, as soon as the logo appears, release incl, volume + hold. Your recovery will boot.
2. Property update-\u003e We click three points at the top (...) -\u003e Select "Reboot in Recovery"

We go to the backup-\u003e put the NVRAM tick, other daws can be removed-\u003e and shift the slider into the right.

Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 Firmware

Official Global Firmware - MIUI_HMNOTE2Global_5.11.12_3EEEC798F4_5.0

Copy the firmware file on an SD card
We go into the recovery in one of the ways.
Method # 1. Click simultaneously the power button and the volume +, as soon as the MI logo appears, release incl, volume + hold. Loading in the previously installed recovery.
Method # 2. We are looking for an update icon on the desktop, go -\u003e click three points at the top (...) -\u003e Select "Reboot to Recovery".

If you view information from forums dedicated to Xiaomi devices and working with them, you can find information about the firmware of devices. For Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 Firmware Need to correct errors and bugs, optimize its language and work installed programs. This is an important and useful thing! Let's find out what kind of types of firmware for Note 2 exist, we will determine with the places of their habitat, as well as with the advantages of each version.

Xiaomi.com - already out of the name it is that here are official firmware for the Chinese and global market. In their firmware, wrench google services, as well as extensive language packagewhich includes Russian.

The following option is xiaomi.eu, an international unofficial project in which users offer independently translated into many firmware languages. The assembly system represents the written scripts written by manually, the use of APKTOOL programs.

At official in Russia, the Fan South Site Miui.su mainly use other people's firmware taken on other sites. And in the network, feedback on the work of these guys often begin with a complaint about the problems of work of Miui.su firmware. The site provides Ukrainian and Russian translation of the system.

Another applicant for the search for a multirom.me firmware. This is a Ukrainian-Russian project, unofficial. They involved innovative system B.A.R.S. For patting, translation firmware. Thanks to this innovation, the percentage of the emergence of translation and working errors of the system is reduced. The size of the translated application is less thanks to the optimization. Russian + Ukrainian - the languages \u200b\u200bof the transfer of the system.

Miui.Ru is another place where the user will find the firmware of the Redmi Note 2. There are no unusual firmware here, the versions developed by other people are presented. Basically, this is a forum site on which users share their impressions about working with Devay Shaomi, as well as accessories acquired for it. For example, questions are solved. case for Redmi Note 2 Or other versions the device is better, and where they can be purchased.

It is important to remember that downloading firmware from an informal source risky! You can download such a firmware that will harm the device or will dismiss it. You can read on how to install the downloaded firmware, you can read on the site from which it was downloaded, or on the forums, if you beat other users and their advice.

Accessories that are important for the owner of the Xiaomi smartphone

What do you know about the security of a mobile device? How can I implement it fully without significant cash costs? It can be done easily if buy Case for Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 , as well as the screen protector. According to the format, the type of material used, design and other criteria case for Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 It may be different, the main thing is that it is compatible with the device parameters, the location of its buttons. And then protection against pulp, chipping and cracks, scratches will be unsurpassed. Glass and film protect the display of the smartphone, fragile and susceptible to external negative effects. Make your favorite smartphone better, and high-quality firmware and accessories-supplements are important tools for implementing such an important goal!

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