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[Elephone P7000] grambram:
Gear best

I have ordered P7000 from Gearbest on May 20th, still no dispatch and they closed my tickets on support. Now I can't open new ticket, it continually says I put in the wrong security code. If I don't hear from them I will open Paypal dispute. Already had to do that at Dealsmachine for another phone ordered the same day and received refund.

This is my last message from Gearbest:

"Dear Graham,

Thank you for your message.

We will send it as fast as we can.

Please kindly wait it to be shipped.

Please feel free to contact us anytime.

We will always be here for your service.

This ticket would be closed.

If you have any further question, please feel free to contact with us and submit a new ticket."
[Elephone P7000] Elephone1:
Maybe you can offer me your order number to track.
[Elephone P7000] Deepflex:
Perfect phone

But i waiting 3.10.65 kernel, or kernel source, for development :fingers-crossed:
[Elephone P7000] keteflips:
Agree ?

Enviado desde mi Elephone P7000 mediante Tapatalk
[Elephone P7000] clipsalx:
How do I add more display screens in the default ROM? Thanks
[Elephone P7000] benzso63:
I just received this Elephone P7000, pretty decent quality. When i plug my tmobile lte sim card there, it shows 3G on the upper right . I thought the phone support LTE 4G according to their specs. Am I wrong ?

Also trying to root the phone using their instructions, its not working lol.
[Elephone P7000] DonaJuanita:
Where's the best chinese shop to buy Elephone P7000 guys? What would you suggest ?

Everbuying doesn't have it, it cancelled my order.
[Elephone P7000] benzso63:
I bought mine from http://www.elephonemobile.com/

They shipped out my order on July 4th and received it yesterday from DHL.

Email seller at service@elephonemobile.com to make sure the color you want have it in stock first before place order.
[Elephone P7000] DonaJuanita:
Thank you, I just e-mailed them (I want the Gold colour).

Did you also receive free leather case in the colour of the phone, the tempered glass screen and 2 years of warranty (do they give this in a piece of paper or what)?
[Elephone P7000] Borat2:
i bought gold color from to2c, it came pretty fast. The tempered glass and case are inside the retail box. I think all phones come with those accessories from the factory.

I updated to 0629 with the Ele flash app, very easy.

The charger is getting very hot and I still have some screen flicker. The very thin lines flicker (for example in the settings menu),. Any solution?
[Elephone P7000] DonaJuanita:
The to2c.com site doesn't load.... I also read some pretty bad reviews about them....

P.S.: Any other site you got your Elephone P7000 from??

I have asked 3 sites and none of them has it in the Gold colour that I want...
[Elephone P7000] benzso63:
Are you able to get 4G LTE? Which country are you in ?

I was complaining that to the seller. He said only SIM Slot 1 has LTE, Slot 2 has 3G.

Now SLOT one is using a stand sim card size. Mine is Mico SIM. Pain in the butt !

I doubt that Sim1 will get LTE in the United States.
[Elephone P7000] hector2001:
Updates :

- after Elephone1 contacted Gearbest.com , I got a reply telling me the P7000 would be shipped in 1 or 2 days.

- after a few days, as no news and my order always in "processing status" I contacted Gearbest.com using live chat.

- the guy told me (one more time) to wait 5-7 days more............ and told me I could ask for coupons !!

I don't want candies or anything else, I only want to get the phone I have paid 200 US $.

I ordered my P7000 since 20th of May and I am getting sick with them.

Will wait 1 week more, after that, if nothing happen, I will request a refund.
[Elephone P7000] DonaJuanita:
I contacted elephone.cc and they said they have Elephone P7000 in stock (free DHL delivery too)!

For those who are waiting, ask for a refund and get it from there. I am waiting for my refund too :)

Can I ask? I have ordered using DHL as delivery method before, and I had to pay 40 GBP in customs tax. How to avoid this? Have you also experienced that?
[Elephone P7000] El_Nino9:
dhl will always put customs on it.

thats why people use other slower methods.

some sites use netherland post and when it comes from there its quicker than other services. however, pay your taxes. whats wrong with that?
[Elephone P7000] DonaJuanita:
Well, there is absolutely no reason to pay 40 GBP extra just because you use one particular method (DHL). You can use another method and not pay them, it is DHL's issue as you clearly state here. The retailer claims £156 price inc. VAT, how come I get to pay for the extra taxes too?

See what I mean?

Anyway, I asked and they replied that if they declare it as a gift which costs $30-40, they will not tax it.

Has anyone been lucky enough to experience this?

P.S.: elephone.cc does not have another option of delivery other than DHL/EMS.
[Elephone P7000] El_Nino9:
That's because DHL do their job a lot better than others? there isn't an extra tax as you say. it's called VAT. which currently in the UK is at 20%. mate i'm not being funny i'm just saying that anything outside the eu over £15 is subject to it or gifts above £36. then you also have duty depending on the item. there should be no charge for duty with items below £135. between £135-£630 is 2.5%.

i have read forums that state DHL are strict and usualy catch out false declarations. but with every other item its hit and miss.

if you use lazy postal services some people just dont care.

you should always purchase things outside the eu with a thought that you will be stung by customs when caluclating.

heck they even add a handling fee usually when they have to do that sort of thing. i bought a pipo x7 from the far east which i wanted quickly so paid for DHL and had to pay 11 quid on top despite it being declared as 35USD. didn't care as they don't seel it here. wanted a full windows box to plug to the TV.
[Elephone P7000] DonaJuanita:
I do get your point, but I'm so sick and tired of this usual £40 that is almost unavoidable by DHL........

I would choose another option as a delivery method, but they only offer this one currently @ elephone.cc, as previously stated.

I guess if they declare it as a $30, how would they ever know if this is true or false?
[Elephone P7000] El_Nino9:
customs have the rights to open any package.

a quick search for how much an elephone p7000 can clearly see it's 100usd less than what's decalred.

remember, it's the buyers responsbility and never the sellers.

so you got excited about your product and couldn't wait with a retailer that kept lying.

you could have gone with EMS.

mate, it's done now. you got the phone that you wanted maybe at a price slightly more, maybe not. but you're getting it so enjoy the device.

could have got it from amazon uk via a uk seller for a bit more than what elephone.cc sold it for. could have done a lot more. possibilities are endless.

once again just enjoy your device and hope it isn't as much as that. depends on the person that checks the declaration
[Elephone P7000] DonaJuanita:
I have not bought it yet, as I am still waiting for my refund from Everbuying which cancelled my order, claiming it is out of stock :/

EMS also is quite risky with customs tax. To be honest, only flat-rate shipping is safe enough.

I am just thinking, it's the only place this is available yet in the colour I want it, and it offers the free DHL delivery.

How can I possibly be lucky to get away with the taxes? I am just asking people who have succeeded in that, I am not trying to reverse the system.

I have just calculated the custom taxes in Greece which I currently am for the summer holidays, it is at 23%!!! So for 229 USD that it costs, I would pay 50GBP. Insane it is
[Elephone P7000] DIMON113:
I was order my P7000 from elephone.cc.

Seek and tired with story WE ALREADY PACKED YOU ORDER AND SEND OUT NEXT WEEK.

Also they offer refund.

Looks they so smart. Get lot of money like credit for 1-2 month with ZERO interest.

I send them mail like this:

IF YOU WANT TO DO REFUND - TAKE CALCULATOR. YOU SEAT ON MY MONEY MORE THAN ONE MONTH. I PAY BY VISA CARD. INTREST ON VISA IS 19.9% PER YEAR. INTEREST FOR THIS MONTH 4.48$US.

NEXT MOMENT. PAYMENT WAS IN US DOLLARS. I HAVE TO CHANGE MONEY TO US DOLLARS TO PAY. IF I GET REFUND AND PUT MONEY BACK TO CREDIT CARD ACCOUNT - I LOST ANOTHER 14.89 US DOLLARS ON EXCHANGE RATE.

IN THIS CASE REFUND MUST TO BE 249.36USD INSTEAD 229.99.

I DON'T PROVIDE CREDITS WITH ZERO INTEREST.

I think this is only one way to teach them provide ACTUAL INFORMATION.

They selling AIR!!!
[Elephone P7000] El_Nino9:
but the device goes as cheap as 159usd with the rest being "free gifts" as the market tends to do. how do they diffrentiate?

you should be glad that phone got canceled. hold off longer and wait for reviews and see bug fixes.

waiting to really see if p7000 sources are released. if so i'd risk it.

i'm trying to resist Zenfone 2 but just keep following its amazing progress.

if elephone do release the info and we do start getting comminity builds of other "flavours" i'm in. P8000 isn't on the list becuase 4G only works on EE and 3 in my country. and i'm on Vodafone and O2 lol.

also have many users confirmed battery capatacity as real? or is it fake?

i don't care about black bezel. first it should function as a phone, then other things are important but each user is different. my only advice would be try antelife as you can ask for netherland post.

i haven't used them but have heard theyre "reputable" and i'm not affiliated with them for clarification purposes.
[Elephone P7000] DonaJuanita:
The flash sale is over, so the retail price is 229 USD, not 159 USD (or 156GBP).

Elephone P7000 has received good reviews concerning hardware, the software was the bad thing (brightness and things like this). They offer weekly updates atm, and CM 12.1 (yet in beta mode, but it will upgrade to stable soon). They should be fixed, all the bugs. It also offers Lenovo VIBE UI (beta again), we should be okay afterwards.

P8000 indeed does not offer 4G for giffgaff, which I have. This is why I did not order it. Battery capacity should be true (as P7000's is), but the CPU is downgraded in my opinion, so P7000 is better.

At the moment, only elephone.cc seems to have it in stock in Gold colour.

I ordered it, so I asked EMS instead of DHL (should be better) and to declare it as "sample" with a cost of $15 max. Let's see how that goes....
[Elephone P7000] MrEdgar:
My grey P7000 which I got on flash deal on may 13th still hasn't shipped, they told me after several e-mails they are expected to ship on July 15th. Really sucks, wish they would do something about it. Just to let you know about the stock on elephone.cc :)
[Elephone P7000] El_Nino9:
the flash sale is still on. saw it last wednesday and this wednesday might be the last one???(non in gold i know)

i read a user(who i think was lying) saying he read somehwere that there was a recall on some elephones. this was on the comments on gizchina.

i'm sorry to burst your bubble regarding firmware update. check elephone's history out on their website. they keep firmware stuck at beta stages for a lot of their devices. P7000 might be their first devce which they don't and i hope so. need a manufacturer to show these rip of manufacturers how it's done (moto g-after 1st gen 3g)

the only way is release the souce code and help community build when they get stuck like sony do with blobs when required to support closed source drivers.

it's really simple, release code, release device, let community start builds for CM/MIUI/AOSP/OMNI/PAC etc

when they have issues, then use their paid staff to support. and only support a device for 3 android releases/18-24 months. after that say we can't support it as we are busy supporting newer devices but your devices is capable and you can carry on using it or upgrade to our new device and continue enjoying our hardware and support.

heck if they care about the environment, ask their customers to ship back their old devices to local address where they will refund you a few quid for recyling. good devices can be sold online and reused.

going way off topic

back to topic

Gold version will be limited stock.

not a lot of people usualy go for a "gold" looking phone. your choices will be limited.

let us know if you get stung.

the 1 thing i would say is when items are falsly declared and if they break in transit, i.e. squashed box leading to smashed screen, the postal service only compensate the value decarled. i.e. $35usd if that's what they right and the retailer will say it's your fault too. those are risks involved.
[Elephone P7000] DonaJuanita:
I am not aware if the flash sale is still on, but nevermind about this.

I surely want this in gold colour, it was what attracted me at first. Really beautiful and good specs. Let's hope they will not cancel my order once again, this is so time-consuming. I just want the damn phone, you know.

Elephone has actually released CM 12.1 for older devices and hopefully it will keep P7000 updated (even if it is for a year, it should be okay with us). Cyanogen 12.1 is open source, can we not find the source code within it , since it is available for the P7000 (mind me if I am asking silly questions, I am not really familiar). Let's just hope they keep up with it.

Well, the retailer can go f*ck themselves, they only offer DHL, they can pay for my taxes if they want to. If they are not willing to offer a flat-rate shipping instead, it's their fault and totally their fault. I am sick and tired of these Chinese staff they get - not being racist here -, regardless of where they come from, they are uneducated, you can barely understand their English, and they are always trying to steal your money. It is a full month's of pure swearing till they give your goddamn money back. So yes, I'm gonna make it a hell for them if it arrives in a poor condition. PayPal dispute which clearly states the full value, and let them handle the pain. Sorry to sound mean, but if they offered better services, their reputation would be better.

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Pfff, I hope they will not do the same for me!!

Bellends!
[Elephone P7000] giorss:
I got my gold P7000 on friday 10th... I got it by flash sale, I feel lucky. Less than a month, in Italy with our strange post service it's a miracle. I got it by Singapore post.

20150617 build same day I got the flash sale!

It seems very nice, I think it fits well with my use.

ok... it's hot when I use programs, but not so impossible to handle

Let's test and see
[Elephone P7000] tontonfraguer:
Hi all,

I already received the P7000 in gold version last week. Ordered at 159.99$ and get the full box with all the gift (smart cover, tempered glass and another screen protector)

Good phone but they need to free the source code if they want us to have good and stable rom.

Games are not smooth as they should be on a device with 44K on antutu benchmark.

The CM rom in beta for now doesn't support the finger print.

Need to get a good rom for this P7000 otherwise, i really not recommand you to buy it.
[Elephone P7000] Cuz80:
SIM card

Hi guys, unusual question maybe.

Does any of you know how to insert the primary SIM card?

I'll explain: the SIM2 slot tells you to put it face down with the half corner on the bottom right.

Having said that, how am I supposed to place the SIM1? I've tried but it doesn't read it.

And it's the same SIM that works in the secondary slot.

Thanks for the help!

Edit: Also, the phone does not recognise my sd card. The same card was working fine on a Samsung Galaxy S4. And actually when I put it in earlier today it kind of worked for a second then didn't recognised it anymore.
[Elephone P7000] Elephone1:
Hi, does the sim card still not recognised on your P7000?
[Elephone P7000] Cuz80:
I don't know how to insert it. Still not detected
[Elephone P7000] Sp1tfire:
For the people who want to cancel their order of Elephone P7000, Oppo is running a pretty good promo on their Find7. Priced a bit higher, but definitely a better quality phone for that buck. I bought it from Oppo Europe store.

Sent from my LG G3-D855
[Elephone P7000] scabbie1980:
That is a good deal....
[Elephone P7000] Elephone1:
the right way to put som card

You can try as the picture show:)
[Elephone P7000] Cuz80:
Thank you for the help. I managed to get it to work.

One more thing: is there a way to move apps to SD card? Or do I need root and sdfix?

If I now choose SD card as defaults storage will the apps I install now be installed on the SD card? What about the pics?

Thank you!
[Elephone P7000] benzso63:
I received mine days ago but just found out I can't use 4G, unfortunately tmoile 4G LTE in California don't support it. I am out of luck. If anyone wants to buy it let me know. Its brand new. I tested it with my tmobile sim no luck with 4G only 3G. Phone is also rooted.
[Elephone P7000] xdiable:
No Chinese phone except the Siswoo Longbow has the LTE bands used in the US.
[Elephone P7000] jerico9:
Hi peeps. I've been looking at the P 7000 for the past 2 months. I know they had a load of problems with stock etc, and by the looks they still are. Now they have the P8000 on pr-order and it looks amazing! My original was the cubot x10 now the x11 is due also.

Does anyone think its worth waiting for the P8000? especially with it being priced at £130.00. I mean £130 for that spec of device? Thats a bargain. Even if taxes where added, its still under £200 for a device which looks and holds its own, compared to the high-end flag ships of Samsung, Sony and HTC.

So any help where the best place to buy them to the UK? and should I hold for the P8000 considering the amount of stock issues they have had with the P7000. The battery is off putting and the heat issues on the P7000
[Elephone P7000] hector2001:
I am requesting a cancel and a refund from gearbest.com

I guess we will have the same story with the new P8000 : pre-order from all around the world, we pay, they get the money straight away, we wait for ages and get nothing or something for the few lucky ones...

It was a very bad experience with gearbest.com (i don't recommand this web site), I will look for the "known" brands.
[Elephone P7000] samteeee:
Greetings:

I wanted to cancel my order(White one) but the seller delayed and delayed!

Yesterday out of nowhere DHL showed up on my door step!

Anyways I can't keep it Bcuz I went ahead and bought a Moto x couple of weeks

back, couldn't wait anymore.

If anyone interested in a white one, PM me, I'll give you a good price. I live in Canada.
[Elephone P7000] DonaJuanita:
I ordered mine on Elephone.cc on the 13th of July, it was shipped a few days ago. Cannot complain at all!

Let's see how it works in my hands!!!

P.S.: Pray that DHL does not ask for taxes. I am skint.

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P7000 has a better processor and GPU. P8000 is far worse in my opinion.

P.S.: Heating issues are not present, in most reviews (including Gizchina), this was never an issue.

Can't say a word about Cubot though, I don't know...
[Elephone P7000] scabbie1980:
When you get it, put MDS Team Rom on it. It works better then stock....
[Elephone P7000] DonaJuanita:
What kind of rom is this? Does Fingerprint scanner work? Any links to check??

Thank you!
[Elephone P7000] TheAtheistOtaku:
can you link to the dev community for the ele phone, searching xda i only find forums for the elephone p6000 and the p3000s. And as far as i can tell there are no custom roms in those forums. Im not trying to be a smartass but i just want to see what the dev community looks like before i make a purchase
[Elephone P7000] freetoaster:
Is Elephone.cc the manufacturers own site?

I do no belive there are ROM's for the Mediatek devices, at least from what I have seen. There will be a community of users of this phone but I do not expect ROM's.
[Elephone P7000] TheAtheistOtaku:
ahhh so theres no dev community, just a community.
[Elephone P7000] freetoaster:
As far as I know.

Interestingly Elephone is claiming it will have several ROM's to choose from out of the box evidently - Android Lollipop, stock KitKat, Cyanogenmod, Xiaomi's MIUI, Meizu's Flyme OS, Huawei's EMUI, and Freeme OS.

Also check out this site http://www.elephone.hk/online.html for a list of all the online vendors, a few already list the P7000 and the rest should soon.

Delivery on any page I've seen seems to suggest they are currently planing to ship them out May 20th
[Elephone P7000] draxema:
Can you link me to some sites of the comunity, or just some posts. Because I have found nothing on google
[Elephone P7000] mailis:
The dev community is mostly on the forum of Elephone: http://bbs.elephone.hk/forum.php.

I say 'mostly' because there you van come across links to Spanish or Russian sites to download new roms.
[Elephone P7000] Jeffrey346:
Yes, it has an LED Notification and you can change the color based on a SMS Data Phone Call etc.

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Order direct from Elephone. They ship DHL FREE
[Elephone P7000] hitsugaya198:
P7000 LED indicator

Hi Aveenuysen, no, the phone does not have a LED indicator light, according to Elephone, the ring around the home button illuminates to fulfil this purpose. So the home button backlight is your led notification light.

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I don't believe they lied, they quoted originally a 16MP rear and 8 MP front, which was changed to 13MP rear and 5MP front on their marketing material when the phone was released. I suspect the reason for this is the maximum native pixelmap processing capability of the CPU/GPU set which is fixed at 16MP and 8MP for the setup as originally advertised. When they had a confirmed production configuration, they updated the information on their site prior to opening it for pre-order. So anybody that buys one, bought it with the correct specifications listed. The sensor is a Sony exmor imx214 confirmed with 13MP native resolution. The sensor is essentially the successor of the Sony sensor used in the Galaxy S4 (I9500) Intl.
[Elephone P7000] freetoaster:
I understand that I should have been more specific when they started selling the p3000s they claimed it had a Sony sensor, it didn't, it was only after people received them that they took that out of their marketing and specs. This is my concern. I'm sure for instance that they are lying about the size of the battery i just hope not by much.

They, and others, have a long history of inflating specs it is expected but I'd like to take decent pictures so I was hoping in this case they were right.
[Elephone P7000] hitsugaya198:
Only one way to find out. I ordered mine from the Elephone Certified store and it ships 20 May 2015. I will run Hardware sensor mapping on it and verify the specs.
[Elephone P7000] matteo2:
Are you sure also to Italy?

Inviato dal mio GT-I9100 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Elephone P7000] Jeffrey346:
If you look closely, all websites say product shipped worldwide from Hong Kong. Meaning that Elephone is shipping all pre-orders. There is also a $5.00 coupon on the Elephone site.

So yes, they are shipping to Italy..
[Elephone P7000] l3t0m:
Everybody wait till April 25! Elephone P7000 at only $160:

http://www.majordroid.com/dual-sim-phone-elephone-p7000-only-160-on-april-25/
[Elephone P7000] Jeffrey346:
There is nothing to confirm this other than this guys article with no backup info
[Elephone P7000] l3t0m:
It's published on Gizchina too:

http://www.gizchina.com/2015/04/15/...y-159-99-in-limited-flash-sale-on-25th-april/

Inside info or just rumor? I couldn't find any official anouncement but i think it's worth waiting one week to see what will happen!