Hi Guys,
I recently bought a Xiaomi Mi5s Phone from Banggood, for about AUD$367 delivered, which was a pretty good deal. I eagerly awaited the arrival of my new phone. Then the problems began, I was constantly being bombarded with rubbish banner ads, redirection to bogus websites, random apps installing on me etc. etc.
I tried doing a factory reset, but within 3 minutes of restarting, the ads came back. Frustrated, I tried to find a solution, but it seemed beyond me. Finally, after searching through the Xiaomi Miui forum, I found that others had the same issue and they suggested 'Flashing the ROM to a stable, official ROM'. Being a bit of a tech gumbie, I was reluctant to do this as I've read it can lead to your phone turning into a brick.
I eventually plucked up the courage and went through the process, which was actually very simple as follows:
- Download an official operating system ROM (you can find these in the forum, or I can show you).
- Transfer it on tho the phone's internal memory
- Update the phone through a system app. called Updater.
Job done, now it works like a charm, with zero adds.
If you are concerned your own phone has this fake ROM on it, check the ROM details under "Settings>about phone" once you have your ROM number, search the forum and see if anyone has flagged it as fake. Apparently, BANGGOOD may not even be aware, as the phones may have shipped from a Chinese supplier, who may be responsible.
This has been a public service announcement.
has been that way pretty much for all Chinese phones really, I don't use them unless I flash a new rom in 'em, don't want them to spy on us on top of big brother now do we?