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Should I install the wrong rom to the wrong phone? (mujico.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ok, i have a stupid JKM-LX3 Y9-2019 and im trying to get rid of the phone provider bs. I have already tried with the vanilla options in HiSuite and no luck, it keeps giving me the same rom.

So I want to try my luck installing be it the JKM-AL00 or the JKM-TL00 wich are the Chinese versions of the phone.

Leaving the spooky things about pooh probably living inside the rom, my major consern is the posible difference in drivers, especially because there's a difference between my 3GB RAM phone and the Chinese versions with 4GB.

SO, should I try my luck?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Disclaimer: this was a long time ago so things might be different now

I flashed the "international version" of Cyanogenmod on what turned out to be the AT&T version of my first android smartphone (Samsung Galaxy S2) and nearly bricked it.

The install froze but I knew I should never interrupt a flash, so I left it there for about 2 hours until the battery died. However, the flashing process also replaces the battery manager firmware, so it was not possible to charge the phone until I flashed the correct ROM, and I couldn't flash the ROM because the battery was dead.

Thankfully, that phone had swappable batteries so I solved it by buying a second one online (and waiting for shipping). But today's phones' batteries are usually soldered onto the board, so if it happened today I'd be SOL.

I personally wouldn't chance it unless someone with the same device confirmed it was OK