China vs international vs UK Rom.

[shinshoryuken]

There seem to be a few variant of the ROM depending on the region. Major difference base on what everyone is saying there is that the Chinese rom is horrible and the global/UK rom is better.

Well I have a OPX China version coming this week. It was a decent deal that why i went for it instead of the other version. So how screwed am I?

Is the China version really crippled? Is there a way to at least make it similar to the global rom? I know google play need to be installed and some app needs colorOS apps need to be removed.

How about notification and ram management? And major difference compare to the global ROM? Thanks for any feed back.

 

[Crowbar Asdfghjkl]

People complained about not being able to add a custom launcher. But you could always use adb to remove the coloros launcher to force the device to use the custom launcher. Also, all global variants are exactly the same, there really is no distinction between them.

 

[haotingliu1990]

My GF is using chinese edition and I am using AU edition, and both of us are in US, so I think I am able to tell you something.

Chinese edition is really for China(I am a Chinese so I know it). It will be perfect in China, but a disaster anywhere else in the world. You can always install google play in the original store and also uninstall some stock software and replace the launcher with adb. But three things are hard to change:
1. The background task is limited to 5.
2. Only the white listed app can auto start, other than the app in the list, only 5 are allowed.
3. G assistant can't work well, and G feed for Nova launcher as well. You will never be able to use ok google or hey google.

And for global version. The background management is worse than what I did with Brevent. And there is no great animation when you do super vooc charge. Other things are perfect.

Oppo is working on allowing bl unlock and Wuxianlin bet her own weibo account for it, so you will be able to flash global version soon.

 

[shinshoryuken]

Thank you for the great input!
I guess the China version is really crippled

Can you change the texting app to 3rd party and/mms like textra?

Whats the point of the 8gig of ram if they won't utilize it.



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[barrygeorge001001]

I keep thinking that if someone can find the variant identifiers in the roms we can make the phone think the international or eu rom is the Chinese one and spoof it into allowing it to install.

 

[riz157]

My GF is using chinese edition and I am using AU edition, and both of us are in US, so I think I am able to tell you something.

Chinese edition is really for China(I am a Chinese so I know it). It will be perfect in China, but a disaster anywhere else in the world. You can always install google play in the original store and also uninstall some stock software and replace the launcher with adb. But three things are hard to change:
1. The background task is limited to 5.
2. Only the white listed app can auto start, other than the app in the list, only 5 are allowed.
3. G assistant can't work well, and G feed for Nova launcher as well. You will never be able to use ok google or hey google.

And for global version. The background management is worse than what I did with Brevent. And there is no great animation when you do super vooc charge. Other things are perfect.

Oppo is working on allowing bl unlock and Wuxianlin bet her own weibo account for it, so you will be able to flash global version soon.

Thanks for that very useful. If I may ask couple of questions.
Can you please confirm global version doesn’t restrict notifications? You receive notifications as any other Android phone.
Can you get notifications on lock screen?
Default launcher is easy to change

 

[shinshoryuken]

Thanks for that very useful. If I may ask couple of questions.
Can you please confirm global version doesn’t restrict notifications? You receive notifications as any other Android phone.
Can you get notifications on lock screen?
Default launcher is easy to change

China restrict to 5
The global version it 9

Blame ColorOS.

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[riz157]

China restrict to 5
The global version it 9

Blame ColorOS.

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Global version limits it to 9 notifications!! Really nooo
Some say notifications aren’t limited but receive like any other normal android phone, is that not true?

 

[lofty2304]

True

 

[riz157]

True

That’s a relief as the whole reason me for getting rid of the Chinese version and buying the global version was due to the terrible restrictions .

 

[shinshoryuken]

That’s a relief as the whole reason me for getting rid of the Chinese version and buying the global version was due to the terrible restrictions .

I head otherwise...come join the telegram group. For you can have feedbacks from others.

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[riz157]

I head otherwise...come join the telegram group. For you can have feedbacks from others.

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How do I join that group?