40K+ S25 ultra dubai vs india version

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My friend is coming from Dubai and I was thinking about buying s24 ultra, in Dubai it is around 70k INR there but here in India it costs 1 lakh. What will I miss out by buying middle East version, I heard warranty will not be applicable here other than that what will be issues.
 
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kaniamutan14 said:
My friend is coming from Dubai and I was thinking about buying s24 ultra, in Dubai it is around 70k INR there but here in India it costs 1 lakh. What will I miss out by buying middle East version, I heard warranty will not be applicable here other than that what will be issues.
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Usually the shopkeepers in Bur Dubai area (which is where I am guessing you are planning to buy from) can help whether certain model with work in India without any issues or not. But I had read somewhere about samsung phones that first one needs to activate it in UAE before it can be used outside. I may be wrong though, so please do check.
 
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raksrules said:
Usually the shopkeepers in Bur Dubai area (which is where I am guessing you are planning to buy from) can help whether certain model with work in India without any issues or not. But I had read somewhere about samsung phones that first one needs to activate it in UAE before it can be used outside. I may be wrong though, so please do check.
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I will tell my friend to ask around if it needs to be activated, I read samsung pay will not work as uae version don't have upi will that feature is useful or can I get that feature
 
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This is on s24 ultra.

Call recording & india specific features were missing in samsung pay but you can flash stock indian rom and then do csc change with samfw and everything works including dual sim and esims.
Make sure to get TDRA approved version.
 
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ishanjain28 said:
This is on s24 ultra.

Call recording & india specific features were missing in samsung pay but you can flash stock indian rom and then do csc change with samfw and everything works including dual sim and esims.
Make sure to get TDRA approved version.
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Can you give me any guide to follow, it is going over my head, will i kill device if I do wrong
 
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ishanjain28 said:
I don't have a guide you can follow but it's fairly straightforward. It's difficult to screw up because you can just start over and flash stock fw again.
Ping me when you get and you need help, I can share steps to do it then
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I saw some guide on xda going to try that when I get the phone , will ping sure if I got trouble doing that
 
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It will work without any problems. However, some features like call recording will be missing.

5G has not been a problem at all on Jio and Airtel. No other glaring issues detected. A colleague in office uses it.
 
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kaniamutan14 said:
I saw some guide on xda going to try that when I get the phone , will ping sure if I got trouble doing that
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Why don't you just create a guide here detailing the steps you did.

Then what issues you faced and how you recovered.

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It will work without any problems. However, some features like call recording will be missing.
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That's a major ommission and reason I brought it up. There should be clear instructions about how to get that feature back and whether this process has to be repeated every time there is an update from Samsung. What would happen in that case?

It's all well and good to get it cheap from Dubai so long as people are fully aware exactly what they are getting into
 
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blr_p said:
Why don't you just create a guide here detailing the steps you did.

Then what issues you faced and how you recovered.

Up for it?

That's a major ommission and reason I brought it up. There should be clear instructions about how to get that feature back and whether this process has to be repeated every time there is an update from Samsung. What would happen in that case?

It's all well and good to get it cheap from Dubai so long as people are fully aware exactly what they are getting into
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I will update here and provide a guide when I get my phone and do the csc update
 
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Purchased Samsung S24 FE 5G International edition from Amazon UAE, google pay, dual sim, etc. works fine in India, phone was turned in India only, didn't face issues. Didn't try call recording though.
 
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TEUser2K1 said:
Purchased Samsung S24 FE 5G International edition from Amazon UAE, google pay, dual sim, etc. works fine in India, phone was turned in India only, didn't face issues. Didn't try call recording though.
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this is bit confusing actually.. people suggesting to get TDRA version, but in your case it was international version which is usually bit cheaper in Dubai. Some where else also i read international version was working fine in India with Gpay.
 
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