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Mate 10 China re brand success!!

Omg was this not a simple process, finally running L29C636 on the mate 10, fully re branded, the China firmware wasn't bad but too much chinese
Managed to brick it in the process, FRP locked, Bootloader locked, after a long night crying in my sleep we finally manged to unbrick and do it properly, or I should say he did lol
All thanks go to FUNKYHUAWEI, jesus this ain't like it was on the Mate 9, that was s, so simple, FH is finding a way to simplify it but that might not happen, you really gotta know what you're doing here but with FH's help...he made it look easy, very happy now, I'll rebrand to C432 when thats available lol, I feel much better about doing it again

Great news! Where can we find the instructions and the International firmware? Thanks!

SAVVAS. said:
Great news! Where can we find the instructions and the International firmware? Thanks!
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Funkyhuawei support, go to their site

Hi. Once you've rebranded, do you get the updates associated with the new "brand" you converted to? Thanks!

mscion said:
Hi. Once you've rebranded, do you get the updates associated with the new "brand" you converted to? Thanks!
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Sure.

Serious question. I understand many want to rebrand Chinese ROM to international L29 ROM. But why? My understanding is that you can change AL00 system language to English and you can install Google Play (and services). You can even uninstall all the Chinese bloatware apps via Huawei's Application Store manager app.
So what are the pros and cons? Surely there will be more updates too with the AL00 ROM considering Huawei is a Chinese manufacturer?
So why debrand? Why not just stick to AL00 and do all the above? What am I missing?

tboy2000 said:
Serious question. I understand many want to rebrand Chinese ROM to international L29 ROM. But why? My understanding is that you can change AL00 system language to English and you can install Google Play (and services). You can even uninstall all the Chinese bloatware apps via Huawei's Application Store manager app.
So what are the pros and cons? Surely there will be more updates too with the AL00 ROM considering Huawei is a Chinese manufacturer?
So why debrand? Why not just stick to AL00 and do all the above? What am I missing?
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You cannot remove all the chinese things from china firmware that's why.

What "Chinese things" though? How do they affect day to day use? Thanks.

podgeandrodge said:
What "Chinese things" though? How do they affect day to day use? Thanks.
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You will get Hiboard instead of Google's version of that board. Hivoice instead of Google Now. Since the yellow book is filled with Chinese contacts, the dial pad shows up predictive Chinese contacts from yellow book whenever you dial. The Music and Video app has Chinese online content. And maybe because of the new "AI" introduction you might face China based AI pop up tips. You can turn off the Hiboard, but you can't replace it with Google board in a way you get the same swipe left shortcut. You can't remove nor replace the Hivoice (swipe up shortcut). The Music and Video app you can only get around by hiding the app and using alternate app from playstore. The Chinese Yellow book problem in dial pad also could not be resolved, however not sure if its different on the Oreo + EMUI 8. Most bloatware can be deleted but a couple of them cannot be. So those who wish to use the Chinese rom be sure you can adapt to these. Also not sure if 3rd party NFC payment apps will work.
Up to now I have brought Huawei phones from China because Huawei releases these phones internationally a couple months later, it is priced cheaper and more faster rom updates. So i didn't take much issue to the problems stated above. But this time i might go for the local version of Huawei itself as the release date here is not far off and the price is as cheap as the official price in China (getting from re sellers in China would increase price by 100-200$) and if i get 4-6 rom updates a year (https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-9/help/how-rom-update-year-t3696371) that should be more than enough for me.

podgeandrodge said:
What "Chinese things" though? How do they affect day to day use? Thanks.
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I can't remember all but one of them is the chinese yellow page in dialer.
And one more thing not sure if they fix the notification bug in mate 10 cause in mate 9 all chinese firmwares has a bug that won't allow notifications like WhatsApp and Facebook to appear till you open the application itself.

gm007 said:
And one more thing not sure if they fix the notification bug in mate 10 cause in mate 9 all chinese firmwares has a bug that won't allow notifications like WhatsApp and Facebook to appear till you open the application itself.
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That is more to do with changing the settings that makes selected apps to close when phone is in sleep and also maybe toggling notification permissions. Also there is toggle in wifi settings which turns off wifi when in sleep.

gm007 said:
Sure.
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Hi. Thanks. Just to be clear. Does that include OTAs. Or are updates handled via FunkyHuawei? If you happen to know, can one simply purchase the rebranded Mate 10? Thanks again!
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tboy2000 said:
Serious question. I understand many want to rebrand Chinese ROM to international L29 ROM. But why? My understanding is that you can change AL00 system language to English and you can install Google Play (and services). You can even uninstall all the Chinese bloatware apps via Huawei's Application Store manager app.
So what are the pros and cons? Surely there will be more updates too with the AL00 ROM considering Huawei is a Chinese manufacturer?
So why debrand? Why not just stick to AL00 and do all the above? What am I missing?
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All the replys are quite accurate. From my experience with the Mate 9, another thing I noticed is that there are some features that work only if you know Chinese language. For example, you can set the phone to answer a call, hands free, by voice but you have to say "answer" in Chinese. I could never figure a way around that.

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That is more to do with changing the settings that makes selected apps to close when phone is in sleep and also maybe toggling notification permissions. Also there is toggle in wifi settings which turns off wifi when in sleep.
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It's not about settings,the notifications bug in Chinese firmwares is true and you cannot do anything about it,you can check by yourself the mate 9 forum.i don't have the phone anymore but i remember correctly.
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Hi. Thanks. Just to be clear. Does that include OTAs. Or are updates handled via FunkyHuawei? If you happen to know, can one simply purchase the rebranded Mate 10? Thanks again!
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All the replys are quite accurate. From my experience with the Mate 9, another thing I noticed is that there are some features that work only if you know Chinese language. For example, you can set the phone to answer a call, hands free, by voice but you have to say "answer" in Chinese. I could never figure a way around that.
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When you rebrand the phone you will get the ota specified for the region u rebranded to,so no worry about that.

Once rebranded the phone acts like a genuine phone from the region it's rebranded to. Ota updates work normally. You can use volte, WiFi calling and so on

According to O2 in the UK, Volte only works with phones with O2 firmware so it's no point rebranding specifically if you want Volte and you will use an O2 SIM card.

Hi, did you by any chance managed to achieved root as well ? Saw funkyhuawei post on reddit regarding rooting mate 10.
And root is indeed all i need on any android phone. Including this. LoL
Btw, unfortunately, there's no VoLTE option on 636. My carrier has VoLTE and worked out of the box with my s8 and pro7, but not this phone

otonieru said:
Hi, did you by any chance managed to achieved root as well ? Saw funkyhuawei post on reddit regarding rooting mate 10.
And root is indeed all i need on any android phone. Including this. LoL
Btw, unfortunately, there's no VoLTE option on 636. My carrier has VoLTE and worked out of the box with my s8 and pro7, but not this phone
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Yeah root only works. I had volte and wifi calling on mate 9 oreo beta. But not mate 10 at the moment. How do in an update

how about volte
lawtq said:
Omg was this not a simple process, finally running L29C636 on the mate 10, fully re branded, the China firmware wasn't bad but too much chinese
Managed to brick it in the process, FRP locked, Bootloader locked, after a long night crying in my sleep we finally manged to unbrick and do it properly, or I should say he did lol
All thanks go to FUNKYHUAWEI, jesus this ain't like it was on the Mate 9, that was s, so simple, FH is finding a way to simplify it but that might not happen, you really gotta know what you're doing here but with FH's help...he made it look easy, very happy now, I'll rebrand to C432 when thats available lol, I feel much better about doing it again
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dose it support VOLTE in EURO? because C636 for Asia market !

warea said:
You will get Hiboard instead of Google's version of that board. Hivoice instead of Google Now. Since the yellow book is filled with Chinese contacts, the dial pad shows up predictive Chinese contacts from yellow book whenever you dial. The Music and Video app has Chinese online content. And maybe because of the new "AI" introduction you might face China based AI pop up tips. You can turn off the Hiboard, but you can't replace it with Google board in a way you get the same swipe left shortcut. You can't remove nor replace the Hivoice (swipe up shortcut). The Music and Video app you can only get around by hiding the app and using alternate app from playstore. The Chinese Yellow book problem in dial pad also could not be resolved, however not sure if its different on the Oreo + EMUI 8. Most bloatware can be deleted but a couple of them cannot be. So those who wish to use the Chinese rom be sure you can adapt to these. Also not sure if 3rd party NFC payment apps will work.
Up to now I have brought Huawei phones from China because Huawei releases these phones internationally a couple months later, it is priced cheaper and more faster rom updates. So i didn't take much issue to the problems stated above. But this time i might go for the local version of Huawei itself as the release date here is not far off and the price is as cheap as the official price in China (getting from re sellers in China would increase price by 100-200$) and if i get 4-6 rom updates a year (https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-9/help/how-rom-update-year-t3696371) that should be more than enough for me.
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I have the 115 C636 ROM and it has the Hiboard instead of the Google Now.. Is there anyway to enable google board instead?

raspdeep said:
I have the 115 C636 ROM and it has the Hiboard instead of the Google Now.. Is there anyway to enable google board instead?
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I haven't used EMUI8.0 however for all previous versions, you cannot replace the Hiboard. You can only disable the Hiboard via home screen settings. I don't know if it can be done after rooting though.

Smart Controller

Hey all - I got my P20 Pro a few days ago and removed some of the Huawei apps. One of them was the Smart Controller. I can't seem to find it on the app store and a bit of searching has shown it's a Huawei app.
Does any one have the APK for it that they could share please? I've found the APK for other models but they don't seem to work on the P20 series.
Thanks in advance.

Lixx said:
Hey all - I got my P20 Pro a few days ago and removed some of the Huawei apps. One of them was the Smart Controller. I can't seem to find it on the app store and a bit of searching has shown it's a Huawei app.
Does any one have the APK for it that they could share please? I've found the APK for other models but they don't seem to work on the P20 series.
Thanks in advance.
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You can download it from here

Thanks golcheck. That one doesn't seem to be compatible with the P20 though.

I need it too pls

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YIah-4mUiPlemQW1tWDNW_9F6Lp45M7f/view?usp=drivesdk

Reinstall
Teat and reinstall the phone from hardreset or so on
If its an huaweiapp it would be installed again all over

golcheck said:
You can download it from here
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what does it do?

Could someone please upload it again? None of these links are working.

Try this one from my device...
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C9V2hyKd7lOSIYsgYmkuAhG_Ke-QAUiZ/view?usp=drivesdk
Cheers!

Smart remote
Did some one manage to get the right p20 pro smart remote?please upload here or send to [email protected]
Thanx

P20 pro night shot

Hello all,
I just bought the p20 pro and it is working beautifully on t-mobile! My only issue is that my camera application does not have the night mode I've seen in multiple reviews (it's between aperture and portrait in the options) . If I got to more, I have a night shot mode but that was on my old mate 9 so I don't think it is the same. Can anyone clarify this? Thank you!

You answered your own question.

Place of night shot has been changed on newer firmware. You get the firmware update and nightshot will move to same place where it's on reviews.

Propulsion said:
Place of night shot has been changed on newer firmware. You get the firmware update and nightshot will move to same place where it's on reviews.
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Awesome, thank you! And sorry, my question might not have been clear in my original post. Just wanted to make sure I had the functionality is all.

Using VOG-AL00 in Europe (Spain). What works and what doesnt works?

Hi! I finally decided to register and participate.
A good friend of mine is in Shanghai right know, and I ask him to buy the P30 PRO there for me, since it´s only 590€ at the moment.
I´ll be posting my personal experience with the chinesse version on this post, but first I wanted to ask some questions.
- Chinese version is ONLY labeled as VOG AL00 right?
- What can I expect? Any problems installing google services or using other language than chinese?
- How do the chinese versions of huawei phones usually do with firmware updates?
- Anything I should know?
Thank you all!

also would like to know..
also VOG AL00 is one chinese models but there more.. for example from GSM Arena Versions: ELE-L29, ELE-L09 (Global); ELE-AL00, ELE-TL00 (China)
but I think there are more than just those 2 maybe an AL10 or something like that. I'm pretty sure if it is not going to start with L (after the dash) then it is not intl

Hi there, I bought a VOG-AL00 as well, but I'm currently in Brazil. Everything seems to work fine besides "wallets" (NFC payments does not work) and "Ok Google Voice Match". The voice match will only work when you have a Google app opened on your screen (such Maps, Assistance, and etc.).
I really would like to find some way to fix these issues, specially my NFC payments.

are there anyway to fix that problem with NFC ? I have the same VOG-AL00 model and live in Brazil whowever I cand return the cellphone to change to a global one..

matheusgomes.p said:
Hi there, I bought a VOG-AL00 as well, but I'm currently in Brazil. Everything seems to work fine besides "wallets" (NFC payments does not work) and "Ok Google Voice Match". The voice match will only work when you have a Google app opened on your screen (such Maps, Assistance, and etc.).
I really would like to find some way to fix these issues, specially my NFC payments.
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u will NEVER have google pay unfort. on china versions..

Mystic.Iron said:
Hi! I finally decided to register and participate.
A good friend of mine is in Shanghai right know, and I ask him to buy the P30 PRO there for me, since it´s only 590€ at the moment.
I´ll be posting my personal experience with the chinesse version on this post, but first I wanted to ask some questions.
- Chinese version is ONLY labeled as VOG AL00 right?
- What can I expect? Any problems installing google services or using other language than chinese?
- How do the chinese versions of huawei phones usually do with firmware updates?
- Anything I should know?
Thank you all!
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I also have a P30 Pro from China (also a VOG-AL00) with all the Chinese software on it without Play Store.
What is your experience with this phone? Is the hardware exactly the same? Any problems? Did you flash it?
Because I'm wondering if it is possible to flash it to a normal global firmware. I've included a screenshot of the device specs. I would like to use it here in Europe without the Chinese software. Any advice is welcome. Thanks in advance.

xileS said:
I also have a P30 Pro from China (also a VOG-AL00) with all the Chinese software on it without Play Store.
What is your experience with this phone? Is the hardware exactly the same? Any problems? Did you flash it?
Because I'm wondering if it is possible to flash it to a normal global firmware. I've included a screenshot of the device specs. I would like to use it here in Europe without the Chinese software. Any advice is welcome. Thanks in advance.
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No it is not.. Sell it and buy proper one

PhoneTechShop said:
No it is not.. Sell it and buy proper one
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Didn't buy it in the first place, but just installing Google play is the best option that's available I guess.

xileS said:
Didn't buy it in the first place, but just installing Google play is the best option that's available I guess.
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Google pay n location won't work

PhoneTechShop said:
Google pay n location won't work
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Google pay won't be used, so no big problem. Google Maps should work I think.

xileS said:
Google pay won't be used, so no big problem. Google Maps should work I think.
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maps as gps will work but location sharing will be off.. china based phones don't want to be tracked with usa apps .. you won't be able to share your location with friends ..

PhoneTechShop said:
maps as gps will work but location sharing will be off.. china based phones don't want to be tracked with usa apps .. you won't be able to share your location with friends ..
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Sharing location with WhatsApp will be enough, I think this should work if GPS will work normally.

How did you managed to sync Google contacts?
I'm logged in, but can't sync the Google contacts..
https://i.postimg.cc/6pwhSrZ5/Screenshot-20190925-232201.jpg
It looks impossible to get the Google Contacts synced
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Google contact sync apk, did the trick.

VOG-AL10 with Android 9.1 and 10, google play store installed with apks, everything I need is working good, nfc pay with my bank wallet application, share location and so on. I don't realy know if phone clone from a Samsung phone helped me or not.
BR,

tengo un P30 PRO VOG-L29 quieres cambia?

Question Has anyone else been able to solve this (Stuck in bootloader)

Hi,
Hope you're all having a nice day.
I have tried everything that every google search has come up with and I cannot seem to reinstall the original rom.
When I try to use miflash it says partition not found, which is an error I am seeing a lot.
The device does show up on cmd fastboot devices, so hopefully there must be a way to get around this but I have no idea.
I'd appreciate it so much if anyone could offer any help, I'm completely lost.
I'm currently stuck on the bootloader on the first image.
Thanks

Droid_Rage_ said:
Hi,
Hope you're all having a nice day.
I have tried everything that every google search has come up with and I cannot seem to reinstall the original rom.
When I try to use miflash it says partition not found, which is an error I am seeing a lot.
The device does show up on cmd fastboot devices, so hopefully there must be a way to get around this but I have no idea.
I'd appreciate it so much if anyone could offer any help, I'm completely lost.
I'm currently stuck on the bootloader on the first image.
Thanks
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Sure you've got sweet? Rounded display edges?

Droid_Rage_ said:
Hi,
Hope you're all having a nice day.
I have tried everything that every google search has come up with and I cannot seem to reinstall the original rom.
When I try to use miflash it says partition not found, which is an error I am seeing a lot.
The device does show up on cmd fastboot devices, so hopefully there must be a way to get around this but I have no idea.
I'd appreciate it so much if anyone could offer any help, I'm completely lost.
I'm currently stuck on the bootloader on the first image.
Thanks
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That's not a Xiaomi sweet phone. Redmi Note 10 Pro (sweet) don't have rounded display

Not sure, it says sweet on the picture, that's why I included it.

Droid_Rage_ said:
Hi,
Hope you're all having a nice day.
I have tried everything that every google search has come up with and I cannot seem to reinstall the original rom.
When I try to use miflash it says partition not found, which is an error I am seeing a lot.
The device does show up on cmd fastboot devices, so hopefully there must be a way to get around this but I have no idea.
I'd appreciate it so much if anyone could offer any help, I'm completely lost.
I'm currently stuck on the bootloader on the first image.
Thanks
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Did some googling, and figured that @Laptapper and @jnsson were right. There might be a chance you got swindled. I did some googling and found a few other phones that matched that design in the photo (at least from what is visible). The following is a list of devices with a VERY similar design:
-Honor X40 5G
-Vivo X70 Pro Plus
-Google Pixel 6 Pro
Can't say for certain if these are that phone, but it's worth looking into them just to be sure.

Where did you buy it from?

Thanks so much guys for offering to help!!
I bought it second hand a few years back online in Japan.

Droid_Rage_ said:
Thanks so much guys for offering to help!!
I bought it second hand a few years back online in Japan.
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Ye, that figures. I wish you luck sorting it out though

Akira_Kitsune said:
Did some googling, and figured that @Laptapper and @jnsson were right. There might be a chance you got swindled. I did some googling and found a few other phones that matched that design in the photo (at least from what is visible). The following is a list of devices with a VERY similar design:
-Honor X40 5G
-Vivo X70 Pro Plus
-Google Pixel 6 Pro
Can't say for certain if these are that phone, but it's worth looking into them just to be sure.
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thanks mate but I think it's definitely Redmi Note 10 pro. https://www.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_redmi_note_10_pro-10662.php

Is there a way I can get the old bootloader back and reinstall MIUI?

Droid_Rage_ said:
Thanks so much guys for offering to help!!
I bought it second hand a few years back online in Japan.
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Also, I checked my list again, and the only one that it could be of the three is the google pixel 6 or 6 pro. The others were made this year and thus don't fit the criteria, but it was only last year the phone was released so there's a chance it's none of these.

Droid_Rage_ said:
Is there a way I can get the old bootloader back and reinstall MIUI?
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Can't help you there i'm afraid. you'll need to find out what device it is before you fix it, otherwise you risk breaking it even more.

Akira_Kitsune said:
It's this phone mate https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1553447-REG/xiaomi_m1910f4g_wh_mi_note_10_gsm.html
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I

Droid_Rage_ said:
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if that is the exact same phone, then here's the miui replacement rom for it https://new.c.mi.com/global/miuidownload/detail/device/1900377

Akira_Kitsune said:
if that is the exact same phone, then here's the miui replacement rom for it https://new.c.mi.com/global/miuidownload/detail/device/1900377
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Thanks buddy, I'll try and see if I can get that working. I'll let you know the results. Meanwhile, I hope you're having/had a good day ... if I have, I've spent my weekend trying to sort this ... out. My own ... fault though but I guess it's how we learn.
{Mod edit: Inappropriate language removed. Oswald Boelcke, Moderator}

So, I flashed it and now the phone won't turn on. miflash said the flash was successful, the screen went black and now it seems to be dead .
Now i'm quite literally in the dark

Droid_Rage_ said:
So, I flashed it and now the phone won't turn on. miflash said the flash was successful, the screen went black and now it seems to be dead .
Now i'm quite literally in the dark
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Which ROM you've flashed?
it's not a sweet or sweetin!
If you don't find out which exactly model you will break it more and more.....
Elephone is possible....send more pictures of it with Backsite and connectors and sim holder

Thanks
Laptapper said:
Which ROM you've flashed?
it's not a sweet or sweetin!
If you don't find out which exactly model you will break it more and more.....
Elephone is possible....send more pictures of it with Backsite and connectors and sim holder
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Thanks Laptapper for offering to help out
I've figured out what phone it was, but you were right, I broke it more. Now the phone will not turn on and is recognised in device manager as Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 (COM30). It also comes up on miflash as COM30.
There's a big gaping hole in my foot right now and my apartment smells like gunpowder...

Droid_Rage_ said:
So, I flashed it and now the phone won't turn on. miflash said the flash was successful, the screen went black and now it seems to be dead .
Now i'm quite literally in the dark
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Idk what went wrong. I gave you the rom for the phone you gave me a link to. Did you link me to the wrong phone?

I don't think so mate.
Read my previous comment to see where I'm at now.
Thanks again for chipping in to try and help