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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jazzespresso:
you are dangerous man! (in a good way):cyclops:, let me know what you will come up, we will take all the improvement on this tablet!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skarpass:
any genius can fix brightness issue? only temporary solution funny tablet :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KainXSS:
did anyone see an increase on antutu, quadrant, or 3Dmark since updating?

edit upon rebooting the crazy bench scores went away but seriously had 22K on 3Dmark unlimited, 45K+ on antutu, 24K on quadrant for some reason, wish It would have kept running like that :(
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skarpass:
sorry never did on this device
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirxdroid:
God battery life is awful on these tablets :(
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jazzespresso:
I don't know, but [MENTION=3576981]KainXSS[/MENTION] may come up some crazy hack. Actually I am still on TABS8-50F_USER_S000143_1409291652 (the one comes with device when you buy) and did not updated, and never run into brightness issue.

can you tell me what kind of brightness issue you are having?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skarpass:
display dim when watching any video, found temporary solution always I need pause and then close app.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dalrym05:
I have noticed the brightness dimming since day one on all 3 builds. Only recently I have been messing with ways to fix it. I have noticed it dims when the battery temp hits 90degrees f. So far I have read an app keep screen will prevent it from dining but it doesn't and neither do the threshold tweaks. So far the best solution for me is to under clock the tablet using SetCPU. I have booted idle frequency to 665 when screen on and set a max frequency of 1597. So far I am charging my tablet brightness is blinding browsing white bright web pages and my temp is staying below 90 and used to sit around 94 while charging.

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I have not played simcity yet as I just did this but I play that game constantly on here with to low of brightness so I'm hoping the impact on under clocking won't affect gameplay to bad. I think if I'm not charging I won't have any heat brightness issues anymore. Just a bit more info. My brightness while charging would never even look like it was half ways after using for just a few minutes. Now it truly is blinding. Just keep the battery temp below 90degrees. Until we get some aosp custom Roms at least.

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One more update. I have used xutilities in exposed to change all the auto brightness value to the max level even though this doesn't have a sensor figured it couldn't hurt. On reboot I have found my brightness slider is all the way down and can't be moved but its obvious my brightness is locked to max. Gonna try a few more setting in xutilities and will post back. I'm determined to find a workaround as its making me think of returning the tablet after unroofing. Silly kids rooting doesn't void warrentys unless you brake it. ????

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U"workaround". I have found a way to keep brightness at complete maxx and no underrclock. Using xutilities in exposed modules turn on brightness mod and just set the min brightness all the way to 255 and reboot. Your screen is now locked to max brightness. The downfall is to adjust your screen brightness it requires you to go back in xutilities and turn the setting back down and reboot to be able to dim again. I'm sure someone smarter then I vcan throw together an e posed module that can do what we need. Don't be scared your brightness slider is unusuable while brightness is maxxed out.

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Here's a better fix. Get rootdim from play store grant it super permissions and select the lock check box o. The left and use this to adjust your brightness now. It will hold it I garuntee it. No other mods needed. If you use brightness slider in pulldown it will disable rootdim and you brightness will adjust itself again until you open rootdim. This just made me keep my tablet. So much better. Bright whites finally.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dalrym05:
Battery dint last long when addicted. I read so many forums people complaining about battery life but it's just being used..... This tablets battery is muc better then my LG g3 and that never dies on me. My laptop battery never lasted more then a couple hours so tablets lasting 5 or more isn't bad
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirxdroid:
I have a Nexus 7 FHD also and my kids play the same games on both. The N7 battery is vastly superior, by a big margin.

Now I'd be curious whether this is typical of the Intel CPUs or just a problem with this particular Lenovo model or perhaps the software.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilhaiti:
I'm betting it's software, because tablets with similar specs have better battery life
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigl34461:
i did the exact same thing with the build prop. when i rebooted the phone it got stuck at the lenovo logo. when i try to reinstall stock rom with flash tools it just doesnt work. Can someone help me please
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theoblackhawk:
I got this one and it's perfect. No problems so far with it. :good:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/ELTD-Smart-Cover-Lenovo-S8-50-50/dp/B00NCSWYEC/
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ciarlatano13:
I picked this tab up a week ago, and I have to say I am very impressed so far. Great performance and screen for a $179 tab. Battery life has been better than anticipated after reading the comments, and I am getting ~6-6.5 hours of web browsing and music apps, got through two movies starting at 81% battery with no problem, so not an issue for my uses.

But....and there is always a but......my big concern is the seeming possible lack of support going forward from Lenovo. The fact that they pushed an update just a couple of weeks ago is a good sign, but the fact that they made a case for it and seem to have discontinued it (still some stock on gray ones in the Lenovo shop, but you seriously have to dig for it) doesn't sit well. Who discontinues accessories on a newly launched product?

I have a week to return it, so need to weigh the options. One of the big reasons I went with this piece was the 64-bit capability made it look like an update to Lollipop would be certain, if not direct at least in a custom ROM....now I'm not so sure.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RaawrItsTomi:
So I'm on my s8-50f right now and I'm wondering if this tablet has a notification led :)

Probably not but asking just in case
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jazzespresso:
talking about custom ROMs, remember this is intel device 64bit, do you see a lot of development custom ROMs here in XDA for other intel device tablet? not really, right? this goes the same for this tablet too. Unfurtanately, not many developers are on intel device 64bit devices makes custom ROM development hard...

I paid $149 for this device, because of specs, I decided to keep it and not having custom ROM did not really change my mind too...but for some people having custom ROMs options very important, if so, then you should return it
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MiyagiSan:
True. Good price, decent spec for the price (similarly with the 64-bit Intel Nokia N1).

Major reason I didn't buy one was the lack of AOSP custom rom development. Very important...

ASIDE: Recently some devs issues a fix for a major stability issue - the FPBug - to produce a stable kernel for the Galaxy S2/Note2/etc years after Samsung botched it, dumped it and left it's users to lump it. Ironically, had Samsung been more open, this fix might have been found while the devices were still current thereby helping Samsung itself....the EMMC brick bug was even more spectacular....
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ciarlatano13:
I understand what you are saying. But, a custom ROM is not the end goal - simply getting it to Lollipop is. I would actually prefer an official release to a custom, but if custom was the only option, so be it.

That said, I did wind up ordering a folio direct from Lenovo (ordered the IVSO from Amazon, nice enough but the material on the hinge doesn't appear it will last too long). I received an update the next day showing that the folios are currently in production and would be shipped within the next 30 days. It did calm my fears that Lenovo released and immediately abandoned the device. I am probably a bit paranoid about this as they did it with a notebook I bought a couple of years ago.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WildVenom:
Reviews finally!

Guys some decent reviews are out:

1. goo.gl/xZqS5s

2. goo.gl/uFLxh2

Sorry can't post direct links (requires more than 10 posts)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lolwatpear:
I really like this device, especially for watching videos and reading books, but it's pretty sad that my Moto E feels smoother most of the time. Just another case of a really bad Android skin.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WildVenom:
Tip

I don't know whether many have noticed or not but hardware decoding of videos produces unpleasant results.

When I am using MX Player and H/W Decoder for video playback, the video becomes whitish i.e. low contrast, washed out colours and grayish blacks. But when I am using S/W Decoder the video becomes livelier i.e. much better contrast, saturated colours and deep blacks.

Even if the video playback is supported natively (using H/W decoding) I would suggest you to still force it to use S/W decoding. I have made the setting in MX Player such that it always uses S/W Decoder. This phenomenon can be seen on the inbuilt video player also, which uses only H/W decoding. The downside is that S/W Decoding is a more expensive process, you will consume more battery with respect to H/W Decoding.

In short if you want higher quality video playback use the S/W Decoder! :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RaawrItsTomi:
Is the battery life any better on the updated software?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] td030981:
I haven't installed the update yet.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] new-andy:
Its same for me. No change.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icanttinkofaname:
Does this change if you toggle the Intel smart video in settings?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WildVenom:
No, I have checked it. The Intel Smart Video setting does not have any effect, the results are the same whether its on or off.

I have included some pictures. The screenshots do not show this change :confused:. So I took some shots with my mobile. The first one is of the inbuilt video player, second is of MX+H/W and third of MX+S/W.

Does anyone else see this phenomenon?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] new-andy:
Heating at upper side

This tab is heating at top back during charging as well as usage. Is this a issue that need to be take care? Also utorrent app not working and giving error file not found, though its downloading on t torrent. But t torrent is giving quite slow download. Pls help.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jazzespresso:
most of tablet does heat up when charging, even my galaxy tablets do that....also many has thermal protection, which gives warning if device way too hot, did you get that? if not, then I would not be worry about it.

another thing about heating is if some background apps running which may cause overheating...also keep in mind, utorrent (constantly seeding/downloading) may cause some issue at least in my experience..I actually never use my android devices to download torrents....
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] new-andy:
Thanks for suggestions. I will keep in mind.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dalrym05:
Um why can't we get a real section for this tablet? All these questions and problems would be answered and resolved easier if we had a thread. I don't understand why there isn't one yet. There are so many old threads and topics for old crap phones that can be deleted and replaced. Who uses a droid incredible? Know one.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jazzespresso:
it is because XDA opens official thread based on how popular the device is...

You may (or may not) find my thread useful, go here:

Lenovo TAB S8-50F - Stock Firmware ROM/Root and Support
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamiecatch:
Dpi change

Sorry to go over this again. Ive just bought an s8-50 from pc world and have updated and rooted, i will change the dpi tonight to 240, but one question i want to ask.

Does dpi affect games playing correctly?

The reason for the question is i took a tablet back because of battery fault does not matter what make but it was running Rk3188 chip and one of my boys games he played on that was Sonic4 Ep1 which worked well. Ive put a fresh install of the game on the S8-50 and when it starts sonic is missing all of his face and he is hovering off the ground. Ihave uninstalled and reinstalled but its always the same. Has this got to do with the dpi? Is it kie some of the tegra device where they have there own versions of the game?

Could some one please try this or give any help.

Thanks

By the way all the other games from thr previous tablet play fine
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] poussinou69:
Hello,

Can we install a permanently custom recovery plz ?

I know we can for a temporarly CWM but i'd like a permanent.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] salespalace:
i believe that xposed is leading to soft reboots. is there any xposed compatible with our intel cpu?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaolin95:
Well I am in the club!

I own a Xperia Z Ultra which I love but I wanted a bigger screen. I considered replacing the Ultra with a Z3 tablet as my "phone" but wanted to get a similar size device to carry around a few days to see if the Z3 could replace my Ultra.

I dont see myself carrying a 8" device as my phone right now...maybe 7.5" could work but for now I stay with the Ultra...

The pleasant surprise was...how good this little tablet actually is! Performance really surprised me and the screen is damn nice. Granted, blacks are a bit on the light side, certainly not as deep as my Ultra and of course no comparison to my wife's Note 4, but damn sharp and nice colors.

Sounds is very nice too. After witnessing the lagfest of the Galaxy S 8.4, this device is like a steal..specially since I got it $119 (open box but totally like new). I know I can root, etc the Galaxy to remove all the junk but just saying.

I doubt we will get a lot of dev going on but at least rooting is here so I will enjoy this little tablet a lot. :good:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jazzespresso:
DPI change should not affect on the games, remember that this tablet originally come with 240 DPI, but some strange stupid reason Lenovo change it 320 DPI with one of latest stock updates.

however, some games don't play nice on this tablet, it is nothing to do with DPI, but mostly intel CPU and hardware limitation that comes with tablet itself.

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xposed compatible with our intel cpu - it is YES and NO, but it still does works (somehow), it is just some of exposed apps causes soft reboots. It is usually xposed apps that does heavy system modifications....I really did not test all xposed apps which one causes soft-reboot and which one does not...and I know someone reported that Greenify does causes soft-reboot too, check with [MENTION=6273025]Eduardomb[/MENTION], how to resolve greenify issue (http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=58889027&postcount=27.

There's not much xposed update as far as intel devices goes (this tablet), just hope @rovo89 may able to address some of the issues using xposed on our tablet without fear of soft-reboots, but I know he just released xposed lolilop (5.0), so I don't have high hope that he may have time for it..

Anyway, I strongly suggest to be very careful using xposed modules/apps, so do backup first, and try xposed app, give couple days and make sure it does not causes soft-reboot..and repeat this for other xposed app.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] salespalace:
I installed xposed 2.61 and did not enable greenify, no soft reboots so far.

there's no custom roms for our s8?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jazzespresso:
there's one I am working on it recently, I don't know if this is truly considered as "custom" ROM, but it will be based on stock ROM - deodexed, pre-rooted, intd, zipaligned, and some ported apps will be included...

Obviously, there's not a lot of developers support this tablet, it is quite challenging to put out a custom ROM for it., of course testing the custom ROM is another challenges I am facing...

of course, there's never going to be a custom kernel for this, which is sad...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaolin95:
Sounds like a custom rom to me! :)

I wish more people gave this tablet a shot. It is in my opinion a hidden gem. After removing the junk and adding Nova Launcher, it runs extremely smooth and performance (benchmarks and real life) are a lot better than they should for the price. :good:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] poussinou69:
My impressions after 1 week of use are globaly good. After rooting and cleaning, nice performances and nice screen. Lacking in my opinion some custom settings like a battery %, the possibility to put the buttons bar on the right side when in landscape., a light sensor for auto brightness and a permanent recovery. The battery life is not great but installing Greenify and turn off Bluetooth and Localisation when not used can help.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mackhenri:
Software that is modified for better performance + features is Custom.

I could test it for you mate.

Let us know whenever its ready. Cause something is better then nothing
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jazzespresso:
I still need to figure out how to put together flashable zip, that's the hardest one since this is no other custom ROM for this tablet to see a sample or take as base...ohh well I will try and see...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blinkin:
Bought the LTE version and so far so good :) it's a bit laggy in Hearthstone and gets a bit warm but other than that no complaints. Root from the Russian friends worked without problem.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaolin95:
Has anyone gotten a request for root access from "com.lenovo.ue.service" ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mac231us:
Hi I am in the U.S. I am not sure if you are in the U.S or not but would like to know where you bought the s8-50lc the LTE version. Thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jazzespresso:
Yes. com.lenovo.ue.service is Lenovo's User Experience app, which is actually one of bloatwares that comes with tablet.

Funny part of is that, when you rooted your device, this guy pops up and ask for "root", and you ask your self "a lenovo system stock app asking for root?" what the heck? almost like they say go head root your tablet, so that our app can get root privileged..

what scary part of it that, it ask a lot of additional permissions, and collects some sensitive information..in fact if you go root --> data --> data and look for com.lenovo.ue.service\shared_prefs, you should see following entry in shard_data.xml file, as you can see that it has root.flag = true....I believe this is being sent to Lenovo so they can keep track how many of their devices actually "rooted", that would be my wild guess, but something is fishy for sure...

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' standalone='yes' ?>

<map>

<boolean name="root.flag" value="true" />

<long name="preMobileSize" value="0" />

<string name="subscriber_id">unknown</string>

</map>
​

when I realized that way back, I just freezed it using titanium backup app.....I was almost going to remove it but thought may be system needs this strange app...so freezing would be good bet here...

hope this helps
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaolin95:
Yes it is very fishy that they do that after you root your device. Never seen that before but of course, DENIED. :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jpzsports:
Just recently picked up this tablet and loving it so far. Just had a couple small issues and was curious if anyone has some suggestions:

1. When I swipe up the home button to access Google Now, I get a blank Google app with just a search box and no cards. But when I go to the Google app from my app drawer or swipe up from the lock screen, I get the Google app with all my cards. Any ideas?

2. Google voice search seems to be misinterpreting a lot of the voice searches I do. I tried doing a voice recording and it comes out clear so I think the microphone is fine. But compared to my phone, the accuracy of my voice searches is much lower even when I speak clearly and slowly.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toy187:
Yeah, without even checking what it really was or did, as soon as I noticed that it was a stock Lenovo app I denied the root permission as well!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jazzespresso:
#1. That's accepted behavior since it points to Google Search as default, not Google Now app. You can use GravityBox xposed or Gesture Navigation xpose to change to Google Now (cards) app if you like.

#2. Google Voice search is not perfect out of box, you need to 'teach' it, means go to Google app --> settings --> voice --> click on Languages --> pick your prefered launguages, and go back and now click on OK Google Detection --> and train voice model... there are also several other options such as From any screen to detect Google Search. There are some good articles on Google Voice Search, check it out on the internet.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RaawrItsTomi:
What on screen times do you guys get?

I always get 3,5 - 4 hours of onscreen time

Sometimes 5 and once I had 6,5 (lowest brightness, only using chrome)

I'd like to know if this is adequate to the battery used in our tablet
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KainXSS:
Does anyone know where I can get a replacement back cover for the tablet(as in the plastic back part) my nephew took mine out its case(don't know why -_-) and dropped mine and broke one of the edges on the back so yea. Since I have to replace the back cover anyway I went and did a copper mod to mine(superglued 26 gauge copper plate to back cover) since mine kept getting very hot emulating games, still need to get the correct tape to prevent shorts but so good so far.

There is a copper tape pad on the back that does a good job though so I wouldn't recommend anyone else do a mod like this, not to mention it puts pressure on the screen.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jazzespresso:
ohhh man! that's really hard to get replacement back cover for this tablet...you should call Lenovo support and see if they can send you one. They may even do that for free since recently they screwed up big with super-fish fiasco and they need good pr now...I would just call them up...it won't hurt giving a try :p