Hi,
Question of the day. My old Wileyfox used to kick into wifi mode whenever it found my home or work network. But my new Note 4 seems to stay on my 4g data signal even though the Wifi is on and in reach. I have to click a manual connect in Wifi settings. Is there a way to make it connect to Wifi networks automatically when they are in reach?

Yeah I noticed the ones that would hide it but like u mentioned dust will gather under it. This case n protector has held up nicely for me up to now with a few drops and bangs. Alot longer than my s7 did anyway.

Some tempered glass ones like this listing< also only fit up to the edge of the curve to prevent the edge 'halo' effect. An alternative would be to get ones with the coloured border< as the 'halo' effect will be covered by the coloured section. However, over time dust/lint will probably get caught under the lifted edges.

Not really noticed the fingerprints or oil on the screen but I admit they do scratch very easily. Cheap enough at 3 quid for 6 so I just change mine every month or 2. Only down side is that they only fit up to the edge of the curve. But happy with that as I hate them lifting on the sides/corners.

Have you noticed any increase in fingerprint smudges and oil accumulating on your screen? I got those film protectors for an older Redmi. Definitely the same seller/brand. But mine were awful. The lack of oleophobic coating made them far more susceptible to oils and dirt. Having to wipe the screen frequently left them with hairline scratches. They were also very thin. If it weren't for the sticky back, I wouldn't have been able to distinguish the backing film, from the protector film itself. Not sure if they've improved the quality since then though.

Thank you for your input:-)

I got it from amazon mate but can't recommend it as it didn't fit very well.
I just use a normal protector now with that case I linked in last post.
6-Pack Savvies Screen Protector for Xiaomi Redmi Note 4X

Hi, can you please advise where you got your glass screen protector from? Thanks in advance.

On another note, has anyone found a glass screen protector that fits these phones? Tried 2, both for the Note 4x, and neither adhere to the edges of the screen. Due to the curve I guess

Got mine through. No fee's for me!

ok thanks. Yeah, paid for it, hope phone is all intact

No looks like I got lucky! To be fair having used the phone I would've happily paid for the fees!

Banggood declared the majority at $22 value. 20% VAT = Approx £3.40 + £8 handling fee.

Hi, Did you have to pay anything? I ordered mine on 8th, and received Royal Mail note that I need to pay £11.53 to get it delivered...ridiculous! anyone else had to do this? I believe it went through customs. Can I claim that anyway?

Mine arrived today not opened it yet

Mine arrived yesterday, great phone, good upgrade from a Samsung Galaxy S5, fingerprint reader works well, lovely screen and great battery life

Ordered mine on the 7th. pleased with delivery time, price and phone.
any case recommending

Ordered mine on the 7th, not arrived yet.

What day did you order dave? Waiting frantically... i ordered on 8th and tracking says received at Heathrow

UPDATE: Scrap that tracking has updated to say delivered to my local post office so got through customs :smile:

arrived today - no import duty issues.
cheers

I've gone for the Doogee myself. Slightly more at £108 but has arguably a less good processor but an on-paper better camera. The battery life sold the Doogee for me. Was very tempted by the BL7000 too..

Its £124 today. The coupon code has expired. Its a good price at about £115 to £125 but unlikely to get for £99

Just noticed its expired!

paid 110 couple of weeks ago and this is a bargain of extreme proportions, great phone works very well

Same here.

Mine didn't track, so I have logged a claim.

Thanks for that. Apprecise the help and guide.

Explanation here<. You should also look for "Note 4X" if buying screen protectors too. If you look at Banggood's case listings for this phone, it will include Note 4X in the title. Example here<.

to2cnews.blogspot.co.uk/201…m=1

See the comparison, the Redmi Note 4 Global Version uses the same chassis as the Redmi Note 4X as they have the same CPU.

Both cases will fit but cases for the Helio Note 4 will have different cutouts compared to the Snapdragon Global Note 4 or 4X

£7.60 pending

Can anyone else confirm this is the case - that for this phone we dont order the Note 4 case or screen protector?

I have this one:



Be sure whatever you buy that it's listed as for the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4X otherwise it won't fit properly. The cases listed as for the Note 4 will be for the Helio CPU (non Band 20) phone which is the mistake I initially made...

Has anyone had TCB track on this?

11bgnote4 is also no longer working

eit - but 11bgnote41 is as per the other thread

Seen a Redmi note 3 and I was impressed with it. For the money when compared to so called premium phones this one as a note 4 is defiantly worth a punt.
Yes the camere on the note 3 was nt the best but then again wasn't cap.

For the price i think it is worth it.

brought mine with 11bgnote4 took it to £105.89 hopefully topcashback too 7%. (£97.87 fingers crossed) If you have a Halifax clarity credit card that does not charge for currency exchange, buy in dollars works out about £102.67 Not used bang good before so fingers crossed all runs smoothly.

How about import tax ?...some websites say that there is no duty on mobile phones some say there is.

>> thegorilla
>> Code: "11bgnote4" is working for me.

Bought using this code too! Thanks!

Which version of Android is officially available on this phone and is the phone kept upto date with the latest updates?

code works for me
ordered....total is 105.89

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Code: "11bgnote4" is working for me.

Coupon now invalid. Expired deal.

The site now says "this coupon can only be used 1000 times". The game is up, folks.

As a previous poster of Doogee deals on here (which went very hot due to price) and as someone who has had a Doogee (X5 Pro) which was perfectly acceptable for the crazily low price, I would urge you to go Xiaomi. a much more established, reputable brand who support their phones with updates. How big are Xiaomi, you may ask? They are only 7 years old, and in late 2014 they applied to the financial community for funding. The response was so huge that the company were valued at 46 BILLION Dollars! Which at the time was 15 BILLION dollars more that Sony Corporation and 13 times Motorola's valuation!! They are big, basically.

It's fashionable for reviewers to say Xiaomi phones are great value and fantastic in terms of specs:cost , but they hate miui and stock Android is the best .So with the A1 I suppose the draw is that you get the hardware benefits coupled with the geek's wet dream of stock Android, or 'vanilla '! Being a Google device it will get Android version updates very quickly, which really matters to some in a ' p***ing contest ' sort of way and others who feel they have a hard life if they don't have the latest Android version on their phone ,and some who think they might be more attractive to women with Oreo .
On the other hand Miui is apparently the best of the UIs ,most used and with versions available for other brands . Much is made of it being a 'heavy' skin ,ram hungry and laggy - however I have just seen a video of a oneplus 5 v mi 6 with miui 9 (which RN4 will get soon) in which the Xiaomi narrowly lost - if that matters . Crucially though , up to miui 8 at least , all the phones received software updates so the ' experience ' was similar regardless of device and even old and less expensive phones received updates.
Xiaomi pretty much wipes the floor with the budget and mid range market , fares not so well at the high end - but even there ,it is almost as good as the competition but a lot less expensive .

​Yes

So generally speaking has it received good feedback?

I didn't even know about xiaomi until recently now I'm close to buying one. It's just a matter of whether I buy this one or the A1 that's due out.

Something that matters to me is being able to use dual screens. Do you know if any of the xiaomi's support this feature?

It means the coupon code can only be applied X times per day. God knows why they do it like that. Bloody Chinese!

This has close to stock Android with a couple of extra features. Inferiority is subjective.

Tried to apply the coupon code and it said the daily limit has been reached...Does that mean they have a set amount at this price.?

What is the Software User Interface like on these? A big deal is being made about the new A1 and how it comes with google software. It almost leads me to believe that the software on these is inferior?

I agree and have posted similiar, but I would also like to know if your a representative of the company the "MiUk" in your username.

If so, can you give us Hotdeals uk a discount code lol

Got a Xiaomi phone in the family. Very impressive for the price point. Punches well above its weight.

I've been using this one for the last few months and can recommend it. I purchased from a different seller and was £9.99 (now unavailable)
Side buttons work well and the back doesn't gather fingerprints due to the matte finish. The case fits perfectly even with a tempered glass or screen protector on.

It is a top brand. One of the top 5 world wide . It's just the company's in the UK rip us off. Think Xiaomi are making the next nexus

If you guys had to compare to quality to a well branded phone what would it be? And how is this design when actually faced with it.

Thought you might like to see it with your own eyes rather than take my word for it , and I only had to copy and paste it ,which on reflection was a waste of time as I have just written this reply :thumbsup:

That's what it's like with the youth today, something's either amazing or rubbish.

Thanks. I can't for the life of me work out why you didn't just write the answer, though.

For the benefit of others, the answer is YES. This phone has an electronic compass. Right, the last one to the north pole is a poopy head.

Honestly I would not call it rubbish.

I've compared Redmi Note 4 (snapdragon) camera to two phones for now.
Huawei P8 lite (this should be called rubbish)
Moto X force (top spec camera of 2015)

Redmi takes a lot better photos than P8 lite but only slightly loosing with X Force.

Maybe not the best camera on the market but definitely far away from rubbish. And it costs only fraction of any other similiar sped phone on the market.

I know a lot of people are buying these. Anybody recommend a case/cover for this model. Ta.

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Yep I don't need a phone either but I keep looking :raised_hand:

Does this beast have an electronic compass? I do a lot of walking and I need to know which way I'm facing.

The phone is £117.83 today and no voucher or code will apply according to the agent I spoke to. I decided to buy anyway as it's a bargain at this price.

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Is it better to pay by Credit Card or Paypal, or does it make no difference? I'm just thinking Paypal might offer better/easier protection via its dispute system.

I know. The 4X damienace linked to doesn't banggood.com/Xia…alI

This one has band 20.

Think it comes down to bands... No B20 with this from what I've been reading.

Ok so after poking fun at one of these, I was swiftly told they don't feel or look cheap. So they have my attention mainly because of the battery life. I'm currently waiting for the LG V30 to drop. So i'm tempted to just buy this just to see for myself, how long does the delivery take roughly?
Also what's the difrence between this and this...banggood.com/Xia…mal


I think this is a little better design.

I feel your pain but seems yours is worse :grin:

Thanks for credit of this deal

Tell me about it. In the last three years, mine killed a Nexus 5 with boiling water, drove off with an lg g2 on her car roof, lost it. Dropped a ZTE Axon Mini down the toilet. And 2 days later lost a Vodafone SU in a pub, though the pub actually found it the next day so she's still go that.

Thats what she's currently got. Good phone but she's knackered the mic. Don't ask me how :thinking:

So that's why I want to get her a new phone as a present bit then it kills me to see the money wasted when she doesn't look after it.

Its a running saga in our house :grin:

Get her a 2nd hand Vodafone Smart Ultra

Might be time to upgrade my swift!

Realising you've had loads of experience with Xiaomi, may I ask for your opinion. I am tempted to pay ~£70 more and with the Mi A1 get a dual lens optical zoom camera (camera quality is v important to me), type c usb, stock android with quick updates, 1gb more ram and double the storage (losing 1000mah in battery capacity in fairness). Seems well worth the extra, unless I'm missing something? Thank you :smile:

Saw a couple of reports saying that Xiaomi started to compromise by using cheaper parts.

Had one of these in black for 4-5 months. Better than the £150-£200 phones on the market at that price for sure. Replaced it with a refurbished Nexus 6p recently but wouldn't hesitate to recommend the Note 4. Think the Mi A1 looks good too and even though the RRP is like £188 it will probably be heavily discounted like the Note 4 was a month or two after release. Pure Android part of the Google One program has to be a plus without the need to flash a rom. No idea if there's a Note 5 on the way but I've seen the lower spec Note 5A which is basically the Note 4X reiterated and updated. Hopefully they release a higher spec Note 5 too.

Had a look and it should be out now. For some reason all the info I was getting was regarding the Indian release date (today)! I couldn't find out if that was a snapdragon version or not - lots of conflicting info floating around.

Just received a pre-order email from Geekbuying at £181, so twice the price of this.

They've always shipped their lower end units with lower end cameras and will continue to do so if they have any sense - why would they put a mid range camera module in a budget handset and undercut their more expensive phones? Changing that setting doesn't improve the camera (you should always check the settings to see what the factory shipped them out with) which has always been a let down on the Note 3 and 4, but for the money, you can't complain one little bit, it's a great phone with a less than great camera.

Code not working

missed it will wait until tomorrow

Here's a plan... go check the dollar rate...then check your conversion rate....then check if its more, less or the same.
Report back here when you are done.

Got mine running on 3 with no problems

Is this better than the samsung galaxy s6 I currently have?

Calling all experts .... do you think the Doogee BL5000 is a slightly better phone for the price ? (eg 64GB storage, 4GB RAM, bigger battery ...)

So would this be the same price tomorrow?

The phone comes with 2 differnt cameras on the back one is a Samsung or you get Sony. If make pic high quality there good cameras

spoke to live chat and they say the code is refreshed to 500 units at midnight chinese time which is 5pm tomorrow ..this looks like it went live early

I keep getting a message saying daily limit reached for this coupon.

Is this a common problem and will it work again tomorrow.

Took so long to set up a Banggood account that by the time I got through to purchase the code limit had been reached. Missed again.

kimovil.com/en/…als is the place to watch

I was on live chat last night and they told me it would go live at midnight china time.. which is 5pm..looks to have gone live earlier ....

What time did this deal go live ??

Code invalid. Will try again tomorrow. What is the best option to select to avoid custom charges etc?

the daily limit for this code has been reached. Please try again tomorrow

Whats the camera like

How does this compare to Samsung S7 and Pixel XL

Missed £104 and have now very happily purchased at £98!

Expired

can u use same aps as android ? Cause it says it has its own OS

Sorry if this is a stupid question!

Does this phone work on UK and USA networks? and is it 4G?

thanks
Matt

Bloody hell. This is a bargain. Asked before but will the band work with EE and 3 networks?. Think I'm going to buy at this price

Any idea how long before they drop the Note 5 or whatever they'll label the replacement? Seems like the price is coming down and down but might edge a little lower when they announce the newer model? A LOT of phone for the money though so heat from me

Mega.... ORDERED:-) Anyone recommend a good case/cover?

Global Edition Xiaomis all have Band 20 - 800MHz LTE. Do not mistake it with often advertised Global Rom which is a global software, (as opposed to the Chinese one)

What's the craic with this global edition? I have a Redmi Note 4 which has 64gb ROM and is decacore? Or are they just trying to rebrand a basic version to shift it?

Great price.

Just to confirm, no NFC on this is there?

Had mine since March, on EE ,fine. Tempted to get another just as a spare at that price. Note 5 out October

Good Lord, Xiaomi is quickly taking control of my home. Ordered for youngest son. That means of all my immediate family only I don't own a Xiaomi phone (although my phone is a ZUK Z2). Beast of a bargain is this. Heat added.

I want to get it for my OH but she has a bad track record of looking after her phones.

would this work out any cheaper if I changed my currency to something else? got one of those prepaid cards that does the currency conversion. just wondering if I choose to pay by dollars, will it work it out at a better exchange rate and work out cheaper? please?

Ordered another for the missus for Christmas...

It'd be rude not to for less than £100. Ordered.

Ordered. Thanks

looks good. thank you
where did you get the code from?

This is a good price... Don't need one but tempted :smile: