What's going on guys MOTz here and welcome to another video in this video I
will be demonstrating eSIM capabilities on the Xiaomi Mi 8 and as you guys can
see I have taken the SIM card out of the SIM tray so this phone currently
has no SIM card and if I go in the settings sim cards and mobile networks
you will see that this phone says it has no sim card now in case you guys do not
know what a virtual SIM card does is that it simulates a sim card on a phone
and lets you connect to data or voice services on phone networks so to start
off what you will need to do is you'll need to have Wi-Fi enabled first on your
phone and you'll need to download this application called eLinking now one
thing I would like to mention is that this app might not be available to play
store depending on which region you're in and as you guys can see the app it
says it's not available for me in Play Store but if I search for the APK on
google i will be able to download so in this case yeah it says for Play Store
this item isn't available in your country but if I go back I can download
the APK from this APKMonk and download APK and then you just have to click on
download and install it in my case I've already installed the application
so it's called eLinking and one thing I also would like to mention is that you
need to go in settings before you install the application and you need to
set the region to Malaysia on your phone if you do not have the region set to
Malaysia this application will not work
once you have done that open the application again and you'll need to
create an account which I've done already
now I've also purchased the service already but in case you plan to purchase
roaming you need to select roaming and then whichever region you're in so right
now I'm in Canada so I selected Canada and then unlimited data and then I
selected buy for one day and that's what I did with the service really so once
you have purchased it you will be able to get available service for Canada
region for in this case it's in SIM card 2 - which is what I've set it to and then
I just have to click on connect
I can select SIM card 2 slot
now once I've done that or even before I can actually disable Wi-Fi to show you
guys and as you guys can see it actually goes through Xiaomi SIM activation
service and you guys should be able to see that now it's on 4G and the Wi-Fi is
disabled now I do get an error as you guys can see that it can't activate SIM
card but I haven't had any issue so far but it might be because I'm just going
for the data service that they have now once it's enabled I can show you guys
that I can open any web page I want so let's try YouTube
now in this case it thinks I'm in some other country so let's try another
website let's try bbc.com
and as you guys can see it's totally legit the data service is working just
fine and without SIM card
so Xiaomi phones do have eSIM enabled it's just that they have not made
it available to the whole market yet or their customers and we can actually do a
speed test as well to show you guys how fast it is
so it's taking a bit more than usual
and there we go
so currently it's connected to Bell Canada
and the maximum I was able to get is 7.4 Mbps as download speed
now the download speed and upload speed is not that bad however the latency is a
bit higher now going back I also want to show you guys something else so if you
go in settings sim card and mobile networks I see that it has SIM card
enabled here right now partner il one thing I had to do was I had to add
knowroaming as an APN here so all you have to do is you have to click on new APN
and then in the name you enter knowroaming, the APN also goes knowroaming I'm
not gonna save it because I've already done that but in case you do try to use
this application called elinking you'll have to do that as well
and that's it guys if you guys have any questions or if you have any kind of
troubleshooting that you want me to help you with just leave a comment and I'll
be happy to help you guys thank you for watching this video and I hope you find
it useful