How to install custom ROM on fake iphone

Yep... "you get what you pay for" rings all too true when it comes to things like technology. Whether it's fake phones or counterfeit memory cards, they are never what you expect and always cost more than they're worth.

 

Every ROM is going to be created to match a specific hardware configuration, that's why they are not interchangeable with each other. Every phone model has its own, unique, internal hardware configuration. They may appear somewhat similar in appearance but internally all the manufacturers use different and widely varying components for each model. ROMs use a common Android kernel as the base, but it will also include software, firmware, and drivers that have to match those same components. So Samsung Oreo S8 ROM cannot be used in a Motorola G7 phone, and that same ROM will definitely not work in a Chinese knock-off phone.
A lot of people continue to look at Android ROMs as being similar to something like a Windows Install disc where you can just install the Windows OS on multiple computers but that's just not a reality. So if you want to keep using that knock-off phone as your daily usage phone, clean it up as much as you can but its installed OS is pretty much an 'as is' matter. And don't ignore the fact that there are serious security and privacy issues to be wary of with such a device.

 

@svim has a VERY important point! Your Dad needs to know that ANY login credentials he has entered on that phone has possibly (very likely) been sent back home to China. I can't tell you what to do - but if I woke up in your shoes and learned that my Dad was using a Chinese knock-off phone, I would immediately tell him to turn it off. Then go online using a PC and change every password that was used on it, including the Google password. Then pull the SIM and start the phone in Airplane mode, and copy any photos, documents, whatever is critical, off of it. And then smash it with a sledge hammer.

 

Was it from Wish.com by any chance? That site really should be called 'I-Wish-I-never-bought-anything-from-there.com'

 

The OP hasn't logged in here since Jan. 31 so we'll likely never find out.