The only time I was really "burned" was by my overlooking the LTE Bands on an ASUS ZenFone AR (three different region specific models with the same model number} & I got stuck with a 20% restocking fee.
I hear ya on the last sentiment, I need to get back to window shopping instead of chasing the unicorn.No worries, it happens.
I'm careful about using well known and well reviewed outfits to buy from and never had a problem in the buy department with any cell phone. My problems back then were with making the play store work on a phone that was set up to prevent the play store from working at all costs. If you look at the Find 7 as an example and were there at the time you would have seen many many people go down in flames with their Chinese variants trying to get the play store to work. It could be done and by my reckoning being a rom guy going back to the original Windows Mobile before android ever came out it wasn't particularly hard, you just had to be able to follow instructions and read up before you jumped in. I might even go so far as to say easy. On the other hand a mistake could brick you and that mistake was a great deal easier to make than on the global version which much like any bootloader unlocked phone you buy now wasn't very easy to brick. The kicker there was that there was little extra cost involved in buying the global version but it was a lot less likely to bite you in the rear end.
At any rate as you state the variants sold outside China are much better bets but I'm not betting. I'm using on a phone that was the latest greatest only a few months ago, I don't need the phone, I just dig it. I'll buy and sooner rather than later if it turns out the phone can be unlocked and I can have my way with it. If not it's just one more pretty face that turned my head but wasn't meant to be.
I'll try and fire up the r15 tonight and check. Did you get a email from Mike saying they're waiting on a DHL tracking number for the oppo find x? I did. Should be here next week I assume. Can't wait.I hear ya on the last sentiment, I need to get back to window shopping instead of chasing the unicorn.
We'll see how it goes with the FIND X....
Yes sir, got the email with pics of the package.
Yes sir, got the email with pics of the package.
My guess is we should see delivery on Wednesday.
That's great news,perhaps we won't need an OPPO account for anything............Got good news. First off no go on the vivo account on oppo phone.... But after you install Nova or whatever 3rd party launcher you want, just do the pm uninstall command and remove com.oppo.launcher and now you have the launcher you want and everything works fine. So there is hope
Justin
Yeah, it's ironic that the stock theme on this phone likely lacks any color..... :laugh:
yes it is but u still have to swipe up to unlock.
can you elaborate on this please? is it this command? pm uninstall -k --user 0?Got good news. First off no go on the vivo account on oppo phone.... But after you install Nova or whatever 3rd party launcher you want, just do the pm uninstall command and remove com.oppo.launcher and now you have the launcher you want and everything works fine. So there is hope
Justin
thanks! i tried it. well it partially works. basically if you press home it goes to blank screen.. have to lock and unlock device for nova to come again.
Yes both double tap to wake and rise to wake is present on the find x :good:
