Pro 6 Plus global is officially deadOkay, I apologize if I look salty, because I am. Today I have found something that literally blew me away. I mean really, I am still shocked by the whole incompetence of the development team responsible for 6.3.0.0.
Now, you see, I was really waiting for this update because I thought it would be a major one, just like chinese 6.3.0.0A which brought us a lot of new features comparing with 6.2.0.0, but not just for the sake of those feature, but mainly because it upgraded the OS version to 7.0. Now, this is still not the ideal situation in the 2018, when majority of high-end devices already have Oreo and even 7.1.2 is considered outdated, but we should blame Samsung for that rather than Meizu. I was waiting for global update to finally bring us the normal working gapps more than anything else. I want to finally be able to use things like location sharing in Telegram or using Uber on 7.0 which is impossible since the google maps API is not working properly in third-party apps on 7.0. I was hoping it will be fixed in the coming global 6.3.0.0. Except, it wasn't. Not just that, we did not get Android 7.0 in the update at all, it is still 6.0.1! The most prominent update mentioned in the changelog is that App store is now working properly and is less power-hungry than before. The App store which nobody ever uses on the global firmware except maybe for downloading GMS once in a lifetime of a phone! That's a serious update worth major version raise! I mean, I want to ask those people who were developing it: what the actual hell were you doing all this time? It took half a year for you to roll out a couple of bug fixes and you call it a major update? You know, if something kills Meizu more than anything else, it is incompetence. Those who made this so-called "update" are definitely completely worthless as developers, but the major responsibility is still on the Meizu directorate, namely the people who made the desicion to outsource the development of the global firmware to this particular Indian development team. This decision is what killed this model on the global market. As for me, I will never consider any Meizu phone for a purchase in the future, no matter how cool and awesome they will be. I see now how you consideer us global users, as something so irrelevant that it is not even worth to allocate a proper chinese team to work on the global updates, just let some garage Indian firm do the work! Thanks for your care Meizu! | |
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meizu where is 6.3 G , 6.1 is ***ing bugged , I reboot my phone 3-4 times every day, now I try 6.7 beta , if pro 6 plus don't receive updates , I return it back
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Edited by Oberonmeister at 2018-04-30 00:49
Just install yourself a Chinese rom man. Everyone knows globals are just garbage, I used to wait for a 6.3.0.0 because I thought it will solve the problems, but it didn't solve anything except App Store behavior which nobody cared about anyway. Just try the latest Chinese beta of the Flyme 7 and feel the difference - it is night and day... | |
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Edited by mitlaw at 2018-04-30 19:19
Yes Flyme 7 is a big step forward, but for a normal user is hard to get Google&CO in latest Flyme and even if you are a skilled user is imposible to get a full compatibility of Google dependent apps. Meizu update policy is a mess, even for chinese software, I have a Pro 6 Plus (128 GB), and is a very god device, had Pro 5 too, but without a proper rom&update those devices are only expensive bricks. At least, if Meizu don`t have god developers it must to allow bootloader unlocking, to permit independent firmware develop. HEI MEIZU, LOOK AT ONEPLUS, ELSE YOU FOLLOW LETV/LEECO!!!!!! Meizu Pro 6 Plus is my last Meizu device and now is for sale. | |
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This is not entirely true. Meizu has decent Chinese devs and the last Flyme 7 betas prove that. The problem is that Meizu is not using their own devs for the development of the global roms. Instead, they outsource it to some Indian garage devs who seemingly knows shit about development according to the results. But the main responsibility is still on Meizu itself because all this alongside with the fact that they never even announced the registration for global ROM beta-testing, tells us just how little they care about the global users. I mean, look at M6 note users - they got nougat and their 6.3 is overall much better than ours simply because they had open beta-test. Why didn't they do the same for Pro 6 Plus owners? I would be first to apply! Well, now I care even less about Meizu. I'm planning to get a V30 this fall when they get cheaper.
Meizu could potentially save their global market by unlocking the bootloader for global devices to make it possible to use customs, but they wouldn't because of their stupid policy, something about safety and their services that they can only guarantee you the quality services if you use them... Well, I've never used them and have no intention to do so. Needless to say, majority of those services are simply not present in the global ROM anyway alongside with NFC because Indian devs probably weren't able to adapt them so they just removed them completely. | |
never buy a meizu again!!!
shit company!! | |
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me to, never buy meizu again, I go back to xiaomi, rom support is terrible in global .
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Oberonmeister create on 2018-04-30 00:47 how can we try the Flyme 7 beta? | |
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Edited by Oberonmeister at 2018-05-01 10:29
Use the official site. Stupid forum parcer wouldn't allow to post a proper link, so here you go: https://www.flyme.cn/firmwarelist-101.html . Click on Flyme 7 button and then blue button to download. On upgrade from OS it will enable data wipe and you will not be able to uncheck it, so in order to avoid it place the update.zip in the root folder of your phone's sd card partition, reboot into the recovery mode and flash it from there if you want to save your data and avoid reinstalling everything from scratch. I did it and can confirm that everything works fine except some google maps API issues I mentioned earlier. Note that you have to allow all the google services to work in background in the settings to make them work properly with paid apps and to get notifications. These are Chinese shenanigans you have to accept if you wish to try the better side of Pro 6 Plus. Also, you may downgrade back to global at any moment, just remember you gonna have to make a full wipe due to the lack of backwards compatibility between the versions. | |
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i'm returning my device.
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