The complaints of hundreds of Cubans for blocking of Chinese mobile phone company Xiaomi have yielded results this weekend. “They are already unlocking all Xiaomi phones in Cuba. It passed unique number ui, connecting to a wifi network with internet, and in a while, it was automatically unlocked,” the programmer explains on his BacheCubano channel. youtuber Erich Garcia.
Canal Carib also echoed the news and noted that the fear of many customers of this company was that to recover their mobile phones they were allegedly charging “between 1,000 and 3,000 pesos” in private workshops. The official channel stated that most of the claims for the lock came from owners of the Redmi Note models September (Global), 9 S, 10, 10 Pro, 9A (IN), 9C, 10 T, and the X3 Pro Global ).
While specialists were mobilizing to investigate the source of the problem, the first advice that Garcia gave to Twitter to Xiaomi users were: “Do not upgrade the system; install firewalls and ban system upgrade; verify that the mobile is global, not regional; go to a workshop to unlock bootloader and consider global custom ROM flash.”
“They are already unlocking all Xiaomi phones in Cuba. It passed unique number ui, connecting to a wifi network with internet, and in a while, it was automatically unlocked”
XiaomiAdictos shared information about the incident and explained that the terms and conditions of the company informed customers that they could not export any products to Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Sudan and the Crimea region.
“As we can read through Reddit, Xiaomi has started blocking some of its latest smartphones which are in the territory of Cuba. The same goes for the people of Syria, who have begun to receive in theirs smartphones a message that makes it impossible for them to use the device, “he said in one of his posts.
Xiaomi’s official website says in the section on exports that “the contract and all products are subject to applicable export control laws, including, but not limited to, U.S. export control laws and those of the client’s own jurisdiction “. He adds that “the customer may not export any product purchased from the seller to any country, territory or region if so prohibited by export control laws.”
In a few years Xiaomi managed to place itself at the top of the world market and is very popular in Cuba. According to the data provided on the page Statcounter, Xiaomi is the second most popular mobile phone brand in Cuba, surpassed only by South Korean Samsung.
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