This is most likely due to lack of local market needs compare to other bigger such as US or India. Currently only Nubia 5S Mini, which is a trimmed down version of the Z5S Mini available officially in Amazon, and rumors of Nubia availability in India around October.

Besides I already provided you ways of getting one through facebook, which you could get through online instead of waiting only if you really like the phone.

The price is consider reasonable, which could still save couple more if order online from oversea sites. Those that want less hassle could consider getting it locally

Finally my long waited Z7 Max arrives

Bought over 10 phones from China and never kena tax once . Not bought from reseller, grab from official flash sales at jd.com. As for review will try within these few days

Bought from official flash sales at jd.com, or you could choose to buy from reseller from tmall, taobao, ali express and etc

This post has been edited by sniperwolf: Aug 27 2014, 05:45 PM

Definitely it wont ship directly to Malaysia address la, as common ship to warehouse 1st then only forward back to Malaysia, where the agent kick in for such work

Nice seeing that the Z7 users had increased after didnt check up on the forum for 1 month+

A normal taobao agent which I usually associate with while purchasing stuff from taobao or tmall

As for gapps installing, it dont actually need root access for doing it. Just go find and download Z7 Max one key recovery program (一鍵Recovery), connect your z7 max to pc through usb, fire up the program and choose to temporary boot into cwm recovery mode an its done. The phone will reboot into the chinese cwm where you could navigate and install gapps from your micro sd card. Since I personally dont use apps which need root access, therefore I also didnt bother much with rooting the phone. This work for Z7 mini too, just make sure to get the correct one for your phone, and also the gapps zip file that fit your android version.

Default out of box, the phone only has default factory recovery, and wont even have gapps or root access. If your phone has those, means its not a virgin anymore when reaching you, already being molested by the reseller As for z7 max/mini accessories, there plenty of it over taobao. Bought a cheapo leather case, a ranvoo transparent white tpu and glass sp, total for less than 60 rmb only, which is roughly around rm30 only while doing my 1st purchase around late July.

For those which want a larger space for your system partition, it could be done through program like Paragon Partition Manager, just go google and you should able to find some answers bout it, much easier for those which could read chinese.

Too bad ZTE still dont intend to bring in the Nubia series like Huawei did with Honor. All those 5 upcoming phone are just its mid - low range phone.

This post has been edited by sniperwolf: Oct 12 2014, 06:54 PM

Are you really sure that the honor 6 that will going to be release is single sim? From what I know, single sim version in China is the TD version where FDD version is dual sim.

Already know since day one zte Malaysia upload those phone outlook on their fb. There only 2 phone with circle home button and none of their outlook match any existing nubia model

This post has been edited by sniperwolf: Oct 16 2014, 10:14 PM

Go grab the update zip file which is bout 700+MB and should able to update through update with disk

If you could read chinese, all are available in nubia official forum, with latest official rom as well as available 3rd party rom

Nubia Z7 Max/Mini Rom Compilation List

Official rom is available at the top most purple box, where you could just follow the link and should able to get the update.zip without any trouble.

Rumors that 1.52 will be released by next week

This post has been edited by sniperwolf: Oct 23 2014, 10:18 PM

Totally not happening at all for now through official channel. Even the 5 zte phones that suppose to launch today also gone dark without any updates at all on their fb page.

Waste time and gas if putting hope on zte Malaysia. If want Nubia phone or even other zte model, better get it directly from China instead.

Old v5 selling for almost rm700, while I could get the new v5 max from China at 1k+ rmb, with accessories and shipping cost reaching here only rm600+ max

This post has been edited by sniperwolf: Oct 27 2014, 04:19 PM

No problem, as we should help each in this tiny z7 community

After each update, a reflash of gapps is needed. If you dont root your phone to flash custom recovery like me, you could try out the following program, which the download link is available at the end of the 1st post

Z7 Max 1 Key Custom Recovery


Once you run the program on your pc, it should show something like above screenshot, but most likely in some alien language due to language encoding problem. Make sure you have your phone drivers installed on your pc and connected to the pc while doing so

option 1 - install necessary drivers
option 2 - flash chinese recovery
option 3 - flash back official recovery
option 4 - temporary boot into chinese recovery
option 5 - flash chinese recovery in fastboot mode

choose 4 and your phone will reboot into chinese recovery, and then you could install your gapps package zip file through the cwm chinese recovery mode.

I didnt have a z7 mini with me yet but I guess the phone settings should be bout the same as Max. In mobile network settings, there should be option to enable lte or disable it, where once enable, lte will be available in prefer network type, which just choose the 1st option with most network type will do.

I didnt see anything at my Max box or back of my phone with td lte there at all. The phone cover on has nubia and nubia site url at bottom right corner. Z7 series is not similar to majority chinese phone out there which separated by TD or FDD version, since the phone itself support both network type, only 1 phone release for each z7 model.

This post has been edited by sniperwolf: Oct 30 2014, 09:05 AM

Its available? From what I know its more like a paper launch and still not available up till now.

For official 1.62 rom just grab it from nubia service download area
http://www.nubia.cn/service.php?sid=5

Throw it into your sd card and then select update by disk, fota wont work once gapps had been installed or rooted. As for custom rom, you need custom recovery such like cwm to flash it.

This post has been edited by sniperwolf: Oct 30 2014, 10:11 PM

1. rooting is not necessary for installing gapps. If you get from local reseller or certain international site such like aliexpress, the phone most likely is rooted and installed with gapps. If you want something brand new sealed and untouched, get from china site such like taobao or tmall.

2-3, azeem already provided you with answer. For my own usage, Maxis LTE and Umobile 3g with my Max has no problem at all. Wifi signal also stronger compare to my previous phones.

If the 0.5 inch larger aint a big deal for you, get Max instead of Mini. Between mini and honor 6, if battery life is a major concern for you, honor would be better with a larger battery size. Mini would be better if you are a flasher which like to flash rom frequently. I personally dont quite prefer onscreen home button in honor 6

Download the original ROM from Nubia site and flash it like how you flash cm lor. I lazy to flash nowadays and prefer a stable official ROM.

Also mini has better back cover option compare to max due to the lack of nfc

Even with better looking metal one All price from 30+ rmb to around 90 rmb yuan only. Protective or bumper case is totally not required. Just swapping back cover is good enough already for z7 mini







This post has been edited by sniperwolf: Nov 4 2014, 09:07 PM

Which is why mini is selling at a much cheaper price, less than rm1k. Glass feel type is the earlier pc material alike reinforced glass back cover

This post has been edited by sniperwolf: Nov 4 2014, 09:19 PM

I think its pretty common nowadays already ma, dont think anyone would still go for those film type anymore since glass sp is so darn cheap. Still got 1 more extra backup one left since I ordered 2, and 2 film type one as freebies.

This post has been edited by sniperwolf: Nov 5 2014, 06:31 PM