Hi,
I got one of those great phones a couple of days ago. The Chinese premium dual sim - EVA-AL10. It works with my mobile provider, but I have an issue with the mobile internet. It would not show the configuration SMS and when I attempted manual configuration it will not save the APN if I change the default MCC and MNC. The default phone values are MCC 204 and MNC 04. The technical support of my provider (Bob in Bulgaria) instructed me to enter MCC 284 and MNC 01. But if I do this, when I click save the configuration is not there. If I create it without changing the default values it saves, but if I change them later on save the configuration disappears as well. The support told me this could mean the telephone is locked or incompatible with networks outside of China, but they were not sure what the problems is. I am using the original Chinese ROM. The seller offered to flash something they called international version ROM, for the additional languages they said. I refused in order for the them not to unseal the box. I wonder if this "International" ROM is going to solve my problem, but I cannot find it anywhere? Or do I need some kind of unlock code or firmware? Any information is much appreciated!
My phone build number: EVA-AL10C00B151
Baseband: 21.198.00.00.031
Hi,
I received that very same model yesterday. I live in Spain and have no problem using it with 2 different operators here. I guess at least it works with some operators outside china.
Although I have no problem with my voice or internet access with either of the 2 SIMs, I am actively looking for an international ROM to flash it. As you may know, there are some non-removable chinese apps, being the more annoying the one that tries to update things with the chinese version of the program (HiApp). Voice detection is chinese oriented so some funny things happen when trying to activate the function Like when they force you to read the activation words in chinese, or the chinese words for answering the phone or others
My model is EVA-AL10, Android 6.0, EMUI 4.1 and compilation number EVA-AL10C00B168.
Ask your "seller" to explain you exactly "which" ROM they are going to use and that is in fact compatible with the capabilities of your hardware. Thing is I've been looking for an international ROM for this model since before I bought it but I wasn't able to find one. Make sure they do not use a ROM compatible with european models but which do not support dual sim. I think it is supposed to be released a version for european market but is still not released (EVA-L29). forum.xda-developers.com/p9/help/eva-l29-stock-rom-eva-l10-t3387185/page2
Best of lucks!
Seb
What do you mean by "unseal the box"? Your provider wanted to flash the international version firmware for you. That is an official one therefore won't void your warranty. Moreover some chinese resellers like Alibaba do flash international version for phones sold outside of China. You can let the customer support of your provider to flash that version.
Hey,
My problems with data turned out to be, because the operator was instructing me to configure my Dutch sim instead of my Bulgarian one Figured that out, now internet access works great. Very nice phone! The seller would not give me any information about what ROM they were going to install. If you find an international version (after it gets out), please let me know.
I don't trust Chinese sellers too much. Better to use Chinese ROM than to have a phone that was thrown around a couple of months as demo device in some Chinese store.
Could somebody list all the chinese apps, which are installed out of the box? I just want to compare it with my Honor 7 (also chinese version)
Hi there.
I'm also purchased the Chinese version of P9 plus VIE-AL10, dual sim.
It's working just fine with both my operators (voice, internet, SMS, MMS and wifi) but I can't register my phone with Huawei ID cause supports only Chinese area phones. There are many apps needing Huawei ID to work and without it, are unusable...
So, I'm looking for a solution, if there is any.
My phone Version # is VIE-AL10C00B176
and I live in Greece.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Nicholas.
hI! I use this model EVA AL10 in India...The phone works flawlessly despite China specific firmware and the chinese language in the stock browser and other Huawei is only a minor annoyance. i was horrified when the android wear apps from Playstore AND HiApp refused to pair with my phone....i get a message ...use an android wear in china device! its such a shame...the only option seems to be rooting the phone and installing the international rom everyone keeps talking about...please help
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Hi,
Apologies if this has been answered- I could only find answers for Windows 7.
I've just bought a Windows 8 phone in China (Nokia Lumia 620), and no matter what I do (hard resets, changing accounts, changing regional settings), my Marketplace account is always locked to China. This means I can't download tonnes of apps, and I can't actually pay for any apps as I don't have a Chinese credit card. I've just returned to the UK and this is driving me mad!
Any help gratefully appreciated.
The only fixable software issue I can think of that could be causing this is the region associated with your Live ID (Microsoft Account). I assume you've already changed the phone's regional settings. It's possible the Store will reset in a day or so of being in the "new" country, but I doubt it.
More likely, your ROM was customized for China and will need to be re-flashed. I believe Nokia provides tools for doing this. It will wipe the phone, of course, but you should be able to install a European ROM instead.
GoodDayToDie said:
The only fixable software issue I can think of that could be causing this is the region associated with your Live ID (Microsoft Account). I assume you've already changed the phone's regional settings. It's possible the Store will reset in a day or so of being in the "new" country, but I doubt it.
More likely, your ROM was customized for China and will need to be re-flashed. I believe Nokia provides tools for doing this. It will wipe the phone, of course, but you should be able to install a European ROM instead.
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Thanks for the help- I've changed all the possible regional settings, but still no dice. They haven't yet suggested re-flashing, but we'll see.
I'm just infuriated that Nokia don't publicise this and claim that it's easy to change marketplace. Their customer service is shocking too (rant over).
I've moved over from using the Google line for the last 5 phones, to the P20Pro - I'm just learning about debranding which it seems is to make your phone seem like it's from a different region, is that correct? Why would I want this and is there a list comparing the regions?
(If it matters, mine is from Rogers in Canada)
edit - i guess its more Debranding than Rebranding.
If you using Canada phone in Canada there is no need to debrand/rebrand it except in case if there is some provider logos,or apps or some other limitations (no help with sim lock). Also some region updates are faster than others
Monday I updated the FW of my US unlocked Note 8 (N950U1 / SD-version) with N950U1UEU5CRG6.
After the update I noticed that in Settings - About Phone, My Phone Number is listed as UNKNOWN. I am using the phone in The Netherlands with provider Hollandsnieuwe (=Vodafone). I am certain that the actual phone number was correctly displayed prior to the FW update.
Not sure if related, but Find My Phone/Device does no longer work via Samsung or Google. Is does work through Bitdefender Anti Theft...
Anyone has this or other issue after the update? Thoughts?
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Monday I updated the FW of my US unlocked Note 8 (N950U1 / SD-version) with N950U1UEU5CRG6.
After the update I noticed that in Settings - About Phone, My Phone Number is listed as UNKNOWN. I am using the phone in The Netherlands with provider Hollandsnieuwe (=Vodafone). I am certain that the actual phone number was correctly displayed prior to the FW update.
Not sure if related, but Find My Phone/Device does no longer work via Samsung or Google. Is does work through Bitdefender Anti Theft...
Anyone has this or other issue after the update? Thoughts?
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Hi, on my 2 Note8 dual sim, it is said : phone number⇒ unknown. And this from the beginning (on every firmwares). I'm in france using two french sim cards in the phone and i bought my phones on samsung shop. Until now, no problem, everything works great.
My branded, but unlocked 950F, as I paid for it the full price to use it as a prepaid phone displays the same, unknown number, since day one, I bought it directly from the major carrier in Mexico which is Telcel, everything works fine, all services and VoLTE
You mean like this seeing on my screenshot? This number is only visible if it's saved into your SIM card. Since a while, the carriers/operators don't write longer the numbers into the SIM card
So if you don't see it now, you never saw it before!
But there was an xposed module (if I remember right on android 4.4.2) where you can change this (showing) number.
(It don't changed your registered phone number!)
At that time I had found that thread
https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?ur...share_tid=2106490&share_fid=3793&share_type=t
That should be the correct GitHub link:
https://github.com/OXINARF/SIMNumberChanger
But it looks like there is a newer xposed module called SIMEditor - maybe that still works (when your device is rooted and xpised installed)
http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.gnufabio.simeditor
Greetings
Spoiler
Sorry for German language. The first line: Eigene Telefonnummer means "own phone number"
Don't be afraid to hit the "Thanks" button if someone helped you. It don't hurts
I've never had my phone number displayed in the information menu. As far back as the Note 3, no matter what firmware, official or custom, or even other phones. I live in South Africa. After reading @Logel's explanation, it now makes sense to me why it never showed to me, because of the way South African carriers assign numbers to customers.
OnnoJ said:
Anyone has this or other issue after the update? Thoughts?
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I know it's not the exact same model, but my N950F/DS shows my phone number there like normal. Not sure why it's not showing in your case though.
Hi I'm new to the forum I had not posted because I'm from Mexico and I do not know much English, but with the use of technology (Google Translate XD) it helps a lot (I hope you understand). I've been reading them for a long time, this forum has helped me a lot with all the cell phones I've had.
I bought the Huawei Nova 3 PAR-AL00 with Chinese firmware and I have several problems, the most serious is that I do not have 4g, in my country the 4g network is transmitted through B4 / 1700 / 2100MHz and this model does not bring it, I miss it is that in my country the nova 3 is commercialized with 4g, but it has 4GB of RAM, that's why I opted for the Chinese version with 6GB of RAM, but it was expensive to lose 4g. At the moment it only has 3g + and in some places on the road AT & T provides 4g service through band 5. I hope someday I will standardize it.
I read in several forums that Huawei limits his HW device by SW, has anyone heard that?
Other of the drawbacks that I observe in the topic of the Chinese Rom are:
- The Google assistant does not start, says that you must choose it by default and once you enter is the default and after this works the "ok google". But when it reboots or after a while it does not respond anymore.
- Hitouch will default to your Chinese store and I do not know how to change it.
-Hivoice is also your Chinese assistant and I can not change it by google assitent
-hivision: I see that you can use it with a drag gesture from the bottom right but it does not do anything
I have read several threads but everything points to the fact that we can not change the rom-global because of the problems of the boot manager.
The phone in general, I'm pretty good but the topic of rom-china if it is a headache. I have read in several forums that the update of EMUI 9 to the model PAR-AL00 has already arrived, but it has not come to me. I installed Firmware Finder to try to force the update and it appears:
PAR-AL00C00E81R1P2B53 (9.0.0.43)
2018.10.31 4.038GB FullOTA-MF 186383
However when checking firmware Access tells me that the firmware is not approved for installation.
Do you think that when the update is released, some problems are corrected? Or worse?
Hi,
I bought same phone, except I live in Europe, so I can actually use 4G. However, my problem is that I updated the phone and now I am unable to set a default launcher, which forces me to use the crappy launcher they provided me with. I hope they update the phone soon.
Also, I checked oppomarket and saw that the phone's 5G, indeed, is not supported in U.S.A.
Have the same phone, in US with T-mobile. currently getting 2G, i mean not 4G LTE, 3G, but 2G...
there is currently nothing i can do expect root the device, and add 3G/4G bands to my phone, where i don't know how.
Apart from the launcher, how does it work? you see some improvement over nougat
MtKokko said:
Hi,
I bought same phone, except I live in Europe, so I can actually use 4G. However, my problem is that I updated the phone and now I am unable to set a default launcher, which forces me to use the crappy launcher they provided me with. I hope they update the phone soon.
Also, I checked oppomarket and saw that the phone's 5G, indeed, is not supported in U.S.A.
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he problem is the bands, I was investigating and in the US, they do not use B5 for 4g / 3g I imagine that only 2g
liha22 said:
Have the same phone, in US with T-mobile. currently getting 2G, i mean not 4G LTE, 3G, but 2G...
there is currently nothing i can do expect root the device, and add 3G/4G bands to my phone, where i don't know how.
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Another option will be rebrand the device with PAR-LX9 firmware using Funky Huawei. For see if that option enables the bands for North America
I just got a new S21 Ultra dual sim Latin American variant, because no US version dual sim Samsung exists. I have a US Version Galaxy Watch 3 that pairs nicely with it, except when the health monitor app on the phone tries to open for the ECG I get an error saying that it is not available in my location. I verified with Samsung that this is because the phone is a non US variant and there is no way around this limitation (according to them), even though ECG is cleared for use in my home country (USA).
So an idea I am exploring now is to send this phone back (still in return period) and buy a UK variant dual sim S21 Ultra. My reasoning is that ECG is cleared for use in UK and apparently the health monitor app is working for the UK. I asked Samsung tech support and the agent said I would not be able to get through the health monitor "onboarding process" from a physical US location using a UK origin device. She didn't think using a UK IP VPN would help any, but she didn't seem sure. Still it seems like a legit idea to me ... the phone is from an "ECG cleared" country and I live in an "ECG cleared" country. But does logic apply with Samsung . . . I am not so sure anymore.
Do you think this idea would work?
Any other ideas of how I could end up with a dual sim S21 on which the health monitor app (ECG, etc) would work . . . that wouldnt risk bricking my phone?
Many thanks in advance for any help.
So here is a second idea to run past the experts here:
change CSC (currently set to TPA ) to XAA using method in this link:
Change CSC on Samsung Devices | Guide | iHax
Looking for a way to change CSC/Country Specific Code on your Samsung Galaxy device? Here's a quick guide on how to do it easily.
ihax.io
I actually pulled up that radio button screen to see what it currently was, but I chickened out of changing it
1) would this change make my dual sim phone a single sim phone?
2) is there a chance it would be impossible to revert back to TPA if the change caused problems?
3) any chance this change would brick the phone?
4) since I have 2 imei numbers, what is the result of making this change on only one imei?
5) do you think this change would solve the problem of not being able to start up and "onboard" the health monitor app?
Changing a csc from dual sim variant to dual sim variant shouldn't have any impact on IMEI. Almost no chance to brick the phone.
CSC just define preinstalled apps and features (ECG, call recording...)
I would say its worth the try but I can't guarantee anything
tiliarou said:
Changing a csc from dual sim variant to dual sim variant shouldn't have any impact on IMEI. Almost no chance to brick the phone.
CSC just define preinstalled apps and features (ECG, call recording...)
I would say its worth the try but I can't guarantee anything
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thanks for that. Actually Id be changing CSC from dual sim variant (Latin America) to single sim variant (USA). Do you think that would cause issues ... like break the dual sim functionality?
So I backed up and looked at this complete mess Samsung has me in trying to kludge their products into working after I paid a hefty price for them and I made a decision. Im still in the return period on everything. So everything is getting boxed back up for return (chargers/watch/phone/cables/etc). Im going to take that money and put it into a dual sim Iphone12 and Apple Watch 6 which apparently works very well in the USA right out of the box with no complicated hacks. Been awhile since I hitched myself to the Apple Wagon ... we'll see how it goes. So long Samsung. RELIEF!
so i tried the iphone for awhile and I just couldnt do it anymore. so the new iphone went to the wife, and i got a Note 20 Ultra (Tmobile brand) today and the dual sim (using esim) does work . . . BUT
1) you have to endure Tmobile unlock policy nonesense
2) the dual sim functionality isnt as finely controlable as iphone or dual sim androids. you select one which of the esim/sim will be "primary" and it will use data. so you cant have the physical sim as the data user and the esim as the primary voice/sms line.
annoying , but not insurmountable issues.
not a bad phone, but the bronze color is actually more like a pink. a big plus for some would be the expandable memory.
a HUGE con is the price . . . 1300 USD
apparently ONLY the TMobile branded us version Note 20's have the esim enabled.
Have you checked the watch does not have to be from a country that supports ECG feature not the phone?
I cannot confirm whether or not the country of the watch itself has any effect. All I can say for sure is the phone has to be a version from a country that supports the ECG feature.