The reason why I decided to write about this is because of the effort I had to put in getting Jio True 5G in my US unlocked S22 Plus. I was able to find almost all the information regarding this but the problem was they were not under one roof. So I wanna explain how you can get Jio True 5G in your phone that you have bought outside of India.
Before starting, I’d like to bust some myths prevailing about this topic so that you can be relieved.
Myths Busted
- You can’t get Jio True 5G in phones bought outside of India – Duh, that’s what this post is all about. YOU CAN
- You need to flash Indian firmware – Not at all needed. Service centers don’t encourage it as it might brick the device which itself is a myth. You can still use tools like ODIN to flash Indian firmware but it is not needed
- You need to flash Indian CSC – CSC is Country/Carrier Specific Code which you can find next to the software version in settings. XAA for me
All the above mentioned are not at all needed. What you need to do are the following 2 things.
- Unlock all 5G bands
- Get Jio’s Welcome Offer
Unlocking the 5G bands
Unlocking the 5G bands is fairly simple but at the same time is little bit nerdy. Everyone can do it but not everyone will have the interest to take that route.
An awesome thread on how to do this is available in XDA which talks about US unlocked Samsung phone but the point is common for all the phones. You need to enable all the 5G bands and you can find the post here.
Added, this post is mostly applicable for Samsung smartphone owners who bought their phones outside of India. iPhones work out of the box and if you have other well known chinese OEM phones then you’d have bought it in India only and you’re already rocking 5G.
Once you enable the secret codes and all the bands, you can see something like:
Get Welcome Offer
For getting Jio’s Welcome Offer, you don’t have any choice but to swap your sim with your friend or a relative who has a 5G phone bought from India. Just make sure you’re in a 5G area and you can choose the Welcome Offer banner that you get inside the app.
Once you’ve done this, patience is the key. Some say you get enrolled into welcome offer immediately and some say you need to keep the sim in their phone for 48 hours. I definitely didn’t keep my sim in my brother in law’s phone for more than 8 hours.
I swapped my sim to his phone by noon and by night I swapped it back to my phone as I didn’t get the welcome offer, though we tried enrolling multiple times. And suddenly by midnight when I casually went into the Jio app, the app refreshed itself and I got enrolled to the Welcome offer.
The only clarification we don’t have is whether it took time for me as I did this on a Sunday. May be you can try this on a weekday and let me know in the comments if you got enrolled immediately or you had to wait.
So once you got the Welcome offer, you would see something like this:
In the pic below you can still see that Jio hasn’t recognized my phone as a 5G device, yet, I get 5G.
And that’s how you roll. If you have read till here, I know how excited and anxious you’re to get 5G in your phone and don’t worry you will. I can surely say I have been trying to get 5G and finding ways to do so for more than 2 weeks now and I can safely say many are still trying to do so.
Atleast Jio has mentioned in the app that True 5G works for phones bought in India. But Samsung should definitely come up and give some clarification on the bands enabled by default because I could see many people desperately waiting for 5G in the Samsung Members community.
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