yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
Already tested this TRWP and it's working 100% with it i can mount the sd card and also the internal storage.

2.8.6.0 was prettier but it had a few bugs and many chinese characters. This one is faster and simpler. :good::highfive:

Catch the link in my sig...
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fexo:
ROW ROM!

This guy has got some nerve!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/291503632616?clk_rvr_id=859037404502&rmvSB=true

Absolute, final post!
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
It's for suckers...
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GeorgiUzunov1990:
So every rom out there is infected, that's bad. I'll actually get my hands on my new K3 Note in about two months, so hopefully there will be some mature roms at that point...

What's that ROM ? AOSP V3 ?

Is there a clean AOSP build of 5.1 available ?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
Sucker rom :D

The screens seam to be from AOSP V3 :o
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] limon08:
hello i try to flash my lenovo k3 note with stable 1524 version but after sometimes its doing nothing now its continuously restarting.....

Did i brick my phone? What to do now?? Please help :'(
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dicentim:
Change physical button functionnality

Hi,

I've just installed the Limoncello rom, it seems great so far and I have one question :

howto change the functionnality of phone's settings button (the one on le lower left corner of the phone).

By default when I press this button it displays last apps used and I want to use it as a settings button.

I succeeded to change it on my former rom (AOSP v3) but I can't remember how I did it, I think I used Android settings but I can't find the option on Limoncello ROM.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Best regards.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] S.thanawat:
Setting > Display > Menu key for recent task list
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KaiZenBG:
Hello, I have a problem with my K3 Note.

At first, I rooted it according to the first post, and installed Limochello.

I didn't like it very much, because it looked like pure android, and I've been MIUI user for years.

So, I tried to go back to VIBE. I installed the official rom you posted, and almost immediately got an update.

I updated, but now the UI is horrible. Lot of chinese apps, no Play Store, I cannot even add Google account.

Also, recovery got lost in the process, now I have Lenovo recovery. This recovery won't install limoncelo.

Also, when I try to do all from the begining from the first post all works, except in the end it restarts again in Lenovo recovery!!!

I'm stuck and cannot use my phone.

Any suggestions?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dicentim:
Thanks a lot, you're my hero. Have a nice day !
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Marian075:
Restoring / writing serial number SN

[MENTION=5106992]hackerpower[/MENTION]

As I wrote previously

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=61601281#post61601281

while flashing stock ROM I had formated my NVRAM and lost serial, IMEI, wifi (and maybe also BT) numbers. I have no backup done before :(

After using several tools (mobileuncle+IMEI Tool) I managed to restore both IMEI , "some" wifi mac address (obviously from P6000), BT is also working, but the serial number is still 0000000.

Following turkish forum

http://akilli.be/forum/konu-k3-note-root-multilanguage-rom-google-play-cwm-recovery-imei-repair

I tried to use SN write tool (part 3 B) but with no success. Maybe because I´m on LiMoNcHeLo NovAMoD MDSTeam VibeAosP and mentioned DB files are for stock .... 1518 ? I don't want to flash the stock rom again.

I tried also IMEI&SN Writer V1.5.3. but the connection fialed.

http://xdaforums.com/lenovo-p780/development/lenovo-p780-imei-rewrite-t2668678

[MENTION=5106992]hackerpower[/MENTION] - do you have another DB files to this LiMoNcHeLo rom? I downloaded these - BPLGUInfoCustomAppSrcP_MT6752_S00_K50T5_LTG_V29_1_ltg_n and APDB_MT6752_S01_L0.MP6_W15.15 but the phone has not been recognized.

Second question - I'm missing the dimm screen functionality in LiMoNcHeLo's rom, some kind of Night mode. Is it anywhere in the menu?

THX
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Waiting4mail:
After flashing the recovery, don't let it restart and pull off the battery. Now re-insert the battery and boot into recovery by holding Vol up + Vol Down + Power. Hope it works.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dicentim:
Any Limonchelo Rom user managed to get LED notification with 3rd party sms app like Go SMS ? Everytime I choose this app for sms the "unread message" in android settings turn into grey and I can't select it.... :(

Thanks
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
http://xdaforums.com/crossdevice-de...ange-wifi-bt-imei-serial-mtk-android-t3058850

BTW my SN is 00000000, i think you only need your serial number to update via OTA.

Have recovered the IMEIs with chamelephon and fixed the NVRam Wifi error with the files available here in XDA: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2730486

Have tried everything and can't get my SN back, as soon as i get an answer from Spain i'll answer you.

No, it only was present in the VibeUI official rom. In limonchelo you have to dim it yourself in quicksettings.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] richsaxon:
may be of interest?

whilst searching through ebay for k3 note, I came across this:

LCD Display Touch Screen Digitizer Assembly Part For Lenovo K3 Note

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/371361199230?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

:good:
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Marian075:
Thank you. I restored my real IMEI's not just randomly generated by Chamelephon. I also followed the same thread restoring WIFI mac address, so ours are now same? :confused:

On some forum I read that an user has had problem installing navigation app when his phone had no serial number. So I was courious how to write my original s/n to avoid such situation.

Another question is - why ROMs downloaded from vibeui. com

vibeui.com/vibeui/rom?key=k3 note

have so strange/unusable scatter.txt files? How can I flash it with Flash tool?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
I'm almost solving the SN problem. I know the SN is printed in the seal behind battery, but in the program i have to inject it to the phone it says the SN has 18 characters. I can only find a 15 character number. Waiting on feedback from more people.

I wrote my real IMEI numbers in chamelephon app not generated.

Also haven't been able to use VibeUI roms to flash, invalid scatter file. Guess i'll have to find another version of the SPFlash tools.

No problems with navigation app without serial number.

MDS (spanish) team is almost releasing new improved 5.1 roms.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Husk4197:
Waze issues

So I got my phone and promptly followed the tutorial on the first post and rooted my phone.

Then I wiped and installed limonchelo rom. Everything on the phone works.

I do have only 1 problem with this phone. Waze doesn't display themaps properly.

Anyone know if this is a problem with the waze app itself or is it os related?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
You just needed to install a custom recovery via fastboot, limonchelo is already rooted.

I use Google maps and have no problem.

Sent from Hacker's K50-t5
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akosimeko:
Anyone can help me with this.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
Try this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2730486
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rollcage0:
got stuck in limbo :(

(its my dad phone)

hi so yestarday i installed the "aosp-k3note-5.1.0" rom and it all went fine but worked slow.

so today when i got home my dad told me he just installed a new rom from romnation BUT he downloaded it stright to the phone and installed it without erasing anything(date/cache/davlik)...

so when he tried to use it it will gives errors like gaps stoped working and all kind of stuff that made the phone useless...

so i downloaded "VIBEUI_V2.8_1526_7.80.1_DEV_K50-T5" rom and gapps64 and went to the CMW and this time i erased the date cach and davlik and installed the rom and after that the gapps

and now i cant get past the welcome screnn becuase as soon as i choose english or chinse it will give me "wlan has stopped" and return to the language menu...

so now im stuck becuase i cant use adb to root it and SP tools dosent work too(i tried to keep it pluged for an hour and it still wont do anything with ot without the battery)

what can i do?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marko.milioner:
Do not update to 1527!!!!

Can someone please help me, I'm desperate. I was using the dev version of the official vibeui rom (1526). Then today I've got an update for a new version (1527) which migrated to android 5.1. Everything was ok untill I tried to flash cwm recovery. so I can flash gapps again (standard procedure because after update they usually stop working). In the adb I've got an error (FAILED:(remote: download for partition "recovery" is not allowed). So I could no longer flash gapps and they stopped working. Some google apps worked (like youtube) but google play and gmail always give errors. Tried installing google play and play services apks manually and it didn't work (installed succesfully but nothing got better). Also tried rooting the phone with KingRoot no luck either. I also would like to warn everyone running official dev rom not to go for this update. Seems that Lenovo has added a tough root protection here!
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rezarac:
Important Additions (including for win8)

Ok. So none of the instructions for any of the software in the links (and of course the OP here) are written by native English speakers, making this a heck of a job. In addition, there are a number of crazy new issues which may make this task even harder. So, here are my findings regarding ROM flashing (no need to read this if you only were interested in root nad are happy with the stock Chinese ROM):

1) You need Mediatek VCOM drivers to flash a new ROM (ie the optional step 2 in OP) via SP Flash Tool.

2) Get the above drivers by searching the web for "MT6752 VCOM" (there are different drivers for different processors. The link I came up with is: www (dot) 4shared (dot) com/get/THPrHzDxce/USB_VCOM_Driver (dot) html

3) Install dirvers by going to Device Manager -> Action -> Add Legacy Hardware -> Select Manually (Advanced) -> Have Disk -> Browse to "ini" files downloaded in the previous step.

3) If you're on win8/64bit, your PC won't let you install said drivers. So get to the charms bar (win + C) -> Settings -> Change PC Settings -> Update & Recovery -> Recovery -> Advanced Startup (Restart Now) -> Troubleshoot -> Advanced Options -> Startup Settings -> Restart -> Disable driver signature enforcement (probably option 7). Now the driver install error will simply be a warning. Whew.

4) Flash Tool will now recognise your phone and be able to flash that ROM... but BEFORE you try that...

5) In Flash Tool, ensure you go to Options -> Option -> Download, and tick the box "DA DL All with Checksum."

You can now finally (!) go ahead with flashing that custom ROM. It's great btw, haven't found a rootkit in it yet and it's thankfully free of the horrendous language that was in the stock version.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
You only need to use Spflshtool to flash a stock rom, for flashing a custom rom you just need to flash via fastboot a working recovery copy your rom .zip to your internal storage/sd card, enter recovery and flash it.

You kind of complicate everything and make it a big deal, its so simple.

Don't forget that is very common when you flash a new rom that you lose your imeis or/and serial number and sometimes get a corrupted NVRam, so you get an NVRam wifi error. Thank Mediatek for that.

BTW all are fixable, besides the serial number i'm still working on that.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marko.milioner:
Important notice for anyone with vibeui 1527!

If you installed latest dev version of the vibeui rom you should know that Lenovo locked the bootloader in this version. To unlock it follow the steps.

1. First go to developer options and there check "Enable OEM unlock" and enable usb debugging

2. BACKUP!!!!!! The following method will erase all your apps and data (return the phone to factory settings)

3. Reboot to bootloader using adb

4. If windows still recognizes the device (you can check by typing "fastboot devices") in the cmd enter command "fastboot oem unlock"

5. It will unlock the bootloader in few seconds.

6. My device didn't automatically reboot so I had to pull out the battery and turn it on manually.

7. Wait for your phone to start. Don't worry if it reboots few times!! It's completely normal and it's not a bootloop.

When you get to the home screen you're unlocked your bootloader. Now you can flash any recovery the way it's done in the first post in this thread. Someone with more experience should post this to the main topic as I don't have 10 posts. Some people may find this very useful.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rezarac:
Well for some unknown reason the recovery provided couldn't (wouldn't) do it (I have rooted a bunch of other phones before so I doubt the reason is too trivial). The additional info may be useful to someone so I posted it. Any specific ideas why the new ROM seems to be performing more than 1.5x better on a few benchmarking apps? Heck of an improvement...
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uan:
Greetings. My first post here. New owner of this device for 24 hours now. Decide to buy after looking at the good specs and of course, cheap price.

I believe my unit is from China. Luckily it is the same with the international, not like xiaomi's.

Long story short:

1. My unit come with 'tampered' rom, with all the crap ware (i love wallpaper?). Flash the official rom, but wtf cant enable widget on google now launcher.

2. Decide to flash limonchelo novamod and this rom is great! Except for the blue download notification icon :p. Ive enable soft nav bar and disable capacitive key. Just hate the non illuminate key.

Question: Where is the battery usage setting? Ive play with battery app where there is option to view the battery usage.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Carnival.Corpse:
Facing the same problem.

I did factory reset in my stock VibeUI Chinese rom & after restarting it's saying "Wlan has stopped" & im stuck in the welcome screen.

Have u found any solution?

Or any kinda solution? Anyone? :crying:

This isnt helping as i cant even get into my phone. Stuck at welcome screen after factory reset.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
What couldn't the recovery do? And which recovery?

What is the NEW rom?

I'm not a Psychic :eek:

Very easy:

Settings/Power manager/ Power Consumption Details :highfive:

So have you tried flashing a working recovery via fastboot? and after that flashing a new rom from the recovery?

If you can't even get your phone in fastboot mode, just flash a stock rom with spflashtools and you'll go from there.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ork0:
Hello all, i also bought this k3 note and so far im lovin it :)

im using it with official rom vibeui 1525 but it has some minor issues. can you reccomend me a stable rom for k3 note ? i see some of you using that limonchelo rom is it stable and got any major bugs or errors?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] taffy444:
did you find a solution

I have exactly the same problem did you find a solution , i love the phone but vibe sucks big time , i want to get back to factory defaults but fastboot keeps hanging on locked boot loader.

i have tried the OEM option and various tools but still no luck.

would be great if you could help.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Carnival.Corpse:
OK. Got my phone running again. Thanks a bunch.

I tried flashing it beofre with spflashtools but it still wasnt happening. May be i was doing something wrong.

But finally i was able to flash it with official K50-T5_USR_ST1516_5.654.1_1504152228_MP6V3_CN rom.

Itz woking smoothly now. :victory::good:
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cutry:
I have LiMoNcHelO installed, eveything is fine except one thing. I can't move apps from local storage to SD card.

Link2Sd says something like this:

linker could not load library "libsigchain.so" from LD_PRELOAD for "/system/bin/sh"; caused by library "libsigchain.so" not found...

Tried with another app, message from AppMgr III:

The internal storage of this device and the primary external storage are the same, so moving app is unnecessary

MoveToSDCard says something similar:

No need to move. SD Card share the same disk with OS

Any chance to get this working?

Tried with two SD Cards, mounted properly, but no go.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johhnycash:
Custom roms - wifi and 3g/4g ULTRA slow when downloading from play store?!?!

Own k3 note for few days, and wanted to give custom roms a shot. Phone came with 1520 rom, I installed twrp 2.8.6.0 and tried the following roms: aosp_v4_xancin(5.0.1), sensation_xancin(5.0) and limonchelo_mdsteam(5.0). Roms pretty much work fine, but when trying to install apps from play store connected to wifi or 3g/4g downloads are ULTRA SLOW. Like kilobyte per minute, when installing it says 2h remaining and it just stays like that. No speed improvement. On the other hand web browsing is working normally, no slowdowns there as much as I can tell. So it does not make sense why is play store so slooooow. Anyone experience that?

In twrp I did wipe, used first 4 options as in video youtube com/watch?v=g4PQqRXSUa4

1520 rom does not have that issue, play store is downloading fast, 3g/4g or wifi.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
I have plenty of space in internal storage, only use it for apps & photos. Have 32gb sd card. To do what you want go to settings/storage/Default write disk, and choose the sd card.

Don't forget that you'll lose all the apps installed in the internal storage, so back them up before and restore them to the sd card after the reboot.

Never had such problems.

Sent from Hacker's K50-t5
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cutry:
Everything is fine for me on LiMoNcHelO with wifi .
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Carnival.Corpse:
I've come across a new problem after flashing the rom.

Sim isnt getting recognized even if the sim is already inserted.

It used to work before & other phones recognize the sim but my Lenovo K3 note doesn't!! :crying:

Have anybody faced anything like this?

Update:

So, i've found out that my imei no. became invalid after flashing & thus no network. There r numerous videos & suggestion to restore imei but none of them works. Most of them r based on mtk 65xx soc.

But they dun work on 67xx soc.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbaker6212:
Lenovo K3 Note (K50-t5) proximity sensor - please help

My phone came with a strange multi-laguage ROM installed. Everything works fine except the Proximity sensor. Any help/advice? Could this be an issue with my ROM and should I change it? Here is what I have found...

VIBEUI_V2.5_1520_7.128.1_CC_K50-T5_WCA2.zip (Android 5.0)

VIBEUI_V2.5_11520_5.827.1_ST_K50_T5 (Android 5.0) <------ the one my phone came with; multi-language

VIBEUI_V2.5_1524_5.955.1_ST_K50-T5_WCA8.zip (???)

VIBEUI_V2.8_1526_7.80.1_CC_K50-T5.zip (VIBE 2.8, Android 5.1)

By the way, I read that the proximity sensor setting is in under "character settings" but every time I attempt to run that it stops and reports.... "unfortunately, settings has stopped"
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Netscout:
email problem

I have same problem.

I tried different mail clients but no solution yet.

Installed 1527 DEV ROM stability good.

Can you offer another apk or program for hotmail supported (calender and contact).
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alienzdator:
Read this post

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=61712323&postcount=513
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johhnycash:
Again, did first 4 wipe, installed limonchelo again and now it works too. Weird :D
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
Only one app worked for me: Chamelephon

Just insert your IMEIs in the indicated fields, hit Apply new imeis, restart and you're done!

Everytime you flash a new rom, there goes the IMEI's...and sometimes you can also get a NVRam Wifi error.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fadox:
Hi guys, i received this phone today. When using the camera it is a bit slow (specially when using the flash) and it doesn't have the best quality. I have the original rom, does it work better in a newer rom such as limoncello or AOSP V4???
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
The camera works perfectly on Limonchelo

Sent from Hacker's K50-t5
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Carnival.Corpse:
I've tried Chamelephon, MobileUncle, Official mediatek tools like Maui Meta or whatnot but nothing works. Saw countless Youtube vids & did exactly wat they did but IMEI still invalid.

My K3 Note has become a 5.5" tablet without any cellular connectivity! :(
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
Strange...chamelephon worked for me without problem.

Are you sure you have root acess and that you gave the proper permissions to the app?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suspect008:
Indeed it is very useful, my friend has updated to 1527 and lost root recovery and play services. and asked for my help. I bought the device for him.

I saw about bootloader thing and its all fine with me. Im familiar with ADB and fastboot. I just wanna know, which gapps you used for 5.1 and does everything works fine? cuz with 5.0 it was only minimal gapps worked for me. and which recovery you are using? CWM posted here or anyother more reliable you found. if so can I have the link to download please. thank you very much. I prefer to stay in stock as it seems the most bug free rom for this device.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
It's not the most bug free rom, it's the rom with worst performance, camera quality and the most bloatware/malware.

Which custom roms have you tested to say stock is the most bug free?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suspect008:
Dont take it in wrong way,

I have not tried any customs. I like the updates. and I used the device for 2 3 weeks time with vibeui upto 1524, and after debloating myself, I never had any problems here mentioned except for ram leak(but its manageable with recent app cleaner) and LED colors not working. but hell of a debloating. about the camera, I used camera fv-5 and all is pretty well I would say.

and As of my friends impressions who uses the phone now, with 1527 Lollipop 5.1 ram issue seems fixed and he says its more pleasant to use.

do you happen to know how to help me on my previous post. would I be able to flash the same CWM used with 5.0 without bricking. I see that you have TWRP.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Carnival.Corpse:
I have root access. Pretty sure! :D

Anyway, I've finally recovered my lost IMEI thanks to the following post:

http://xdaforums.com/android/help/lenovo-k3-note-imei-null-t3095014

Thanks hackerpower for ur reply & help. :)
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anidempo:
Sony Xperia C4 Rom on Lenovo K3 Note

Hello Devs,

Since Sony Xperia C4 and Lenovo K3 Note have the same hardware, can I use the Sony UI (ROM) on the K3 note. If yes, can anyone share the process ?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vedran77:
phone is not booting up after flashing - Lenovo K3 Note

hi,

is there maybe update for ROM you posted?

K50-T5_USR_ST1511_5.444.1_1503111505-Lang-EKL3

i did root but after flashing with SPF Tool, it doesnt boot up.

any sugestions?

tnx!

no need, problem is solved :)