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[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syabilng:
Hey guys,

I flashed the latest update from here. I can't seem to flash CWM anymore. I'm new to this. Someone mentioned trying the unlock oem to unlock the bootloader but I can't achieve this.

Help anyone?

EDIT: Managed to flash 1536 update and installed Google Play along with root. Used SPFtool to do everything.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpoD:
It's not that hard. Follow the tutorial here (correct the link with because i am newbie and i do not have permission to post links) youtube. c o m/watch?v=y3TQH-zHvwo

No more than 3 minutes to do it.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] benjamingdelacruz:
Hi, this is a rather odd question but...

On my K3 Note I noticed that the second sim card slot is slightly raised in comparison to the other. This means that when placed on a flat surface the phone is not perfectly even. Can anyone confirm if this is the same on their phone and thus is a design feature, or if it is some kind of defect unique to my phone? Thanks :)
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psarogen:
I'm currently on Nexus rom but I'm really missing some vibe ui features. What is the best vube ui based rom in your opinion?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vonuzu:
The latest stable. And believe me I've tried them all... And it has good battery life. Just give it a 5or 6 days and you'll see.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psarogen:
Can you please give me a link for the latest stable? Can I install with TWRP? I prefer not to use SPFlashtools
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vonuzu:
Here is the link http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=659110

Download from mega it is fastest (circled in red)

And yes you can install it with twrp just need to edit the update script.. Check out this thread for how to do that.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psarogen:
I can't find that in the thread, I mean the instructions. Maybe it's a problem with Tapatalk. Thank you by the way.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vonuzu:
Here http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=62329785&postcount=190
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psarogen:
So I just change the contents with the quoted text? Thanks for all your help btw. I still think that this should get written in the OP.

One last thing.. How much slower can you say the 1535 rom is in comparison to the Nexus one?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fireballos:
How can I update VIBEUI 2.8?

Hi,

please could anybody help me? I use VIBEUI 2.8 (K50a40_S117_150705_ROW) and I see a possible update. I download it, but when I try to install, the phone restarts into TWRP, tries to install something very fast, I see some red lines but too fast to read and when I boot my phone again, nothing changed.

Where do I find the downloaded file on my phone to install manually? Or what am I doing wrong?

Thank you very much!

Greetings from Vienna,

Fireballos
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mickey78:
Ho god
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psarogen:
You can't OTA with a custom recovery.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vonuzu:
You need to have stock recovery for ota update.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vivicious:
Is there a way to set a priority for your network type? Right now my phone keeps automatically connecting to 3g even though I have access to 4g and when I manually connect to 4g via MTK Engineering Mode it actually works. My settings are set to 4g/3g/2g(Auto) and 4g is also in my preffered networks.. Anyone have an idea?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ftechno:
i cant use smartlock from xiaomi miband in vibeui rom. any ideas or testers ??
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fireballos:
Thank you psarogen and vonuzu!
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxlakis:
If i am correct if we are rooted even if we unroot and install stock recovery OTA updates dont work.Am i right?Has anyone tried dirty flashing?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tbmiso:
I need K50-T5 nvram.img

Pls, can someone send me I nvram.img for Lenovo K3 K50-T5. I dont have a copy of nvram.img
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] melihtas:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzTR-g8eXl1BYVJZOVBDOVVIbE0/view?usp=sharing
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] velechit:
same problem here...

I also have the same problem. Unfortunately I do not have option

To use the built-in file manager as it does not support network and

Other protocols like ftp smb etc.

Any other solutions please?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rohitdhamal:
Problems Since Root!!

Hi Folks... I have finally succeeded in updating the K3Note Indian version even after an OTA update. A unique method developed by me at the end of the day paid off and no I am rooted!! I am no trying to save the battery power but seems a tough task. I need help in that now... anybody up?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbaker6212:
I'm running the latest India ROW ROM now (S121 build) that I got from S112 and OTA updates... and it's OK, but still some things not working.

The proximity sensor does not work and double-tap to wake is broken now. As I said the ROM situation for this phone is a joke!

---------- Post added at 01:12 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:05 AM ----------

What, am I these companies QA department? You buy a product assuming that the software it comes with has been tested. Research does not seem to help since nobody online seems to report on everything or do full tests. I'm running the latest stock India ROM with OTA enabled and some advertised features are still broken. The proximity sensor and double-tap to wake do not work.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tbmiso:
Thank you!

---------- Post added at 07:16 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:57 AM ----------

Thanks!
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
If you want to continue choosing sh*tty roms so that you can continue to complain that's your choice.

Open your eyes and use your brain! VibeUI is the only official Lenovo K3 Note rom and it only comes in CN and EN.

The so called "official" row (very few languages, badly translated) indian rom is a mix of VibeUi with AOSP and it has horrible performance, Bad RAM management, cpu throtling, etc.

Guess the joke is on you...
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbaker6212:
Which VIBEUI ROM version specifically are you talking about, oh wise one? Does the proximity sensor work with it? And double-tap to wake?

---------- Post added at 04:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:23 PM ----------

Btw, in the beginning of this super long index thread I see a list of ROMs and a number of them labeled as VIBEUIxxxx. None of them have labels "good" or "sh*tty". If you know this, and are in charge of this thread why not mark them as such and save time for those poor saps, like me, that unknowingly bought a phone that came with a bad ROM? That's much more helpful than your ego-centric and frankly immature comments like "Open your eyes and use your brain". Everyone is not a root junky who enjoy spending time reading through these mountains of forum posts. They just want to have a stable, functioning phone, and get on with their life.

---------- Post added at 04:57 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:37 PM ----------

And another thing. From what I read in various places, the India ROW ROM (with OTA enabled) *is* a stock ROM as shipped from Lenovo. It is therefor logical for a (person using their brain) to assume that this ROM is not sh*tty. Grip!
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] odegeorgela:
Hi!

I flashed the Limonchelo Novamod, and it's smooth and everything works, except for that when somebody calls me, the phone only shows the caller number and not the name of the contact, eventhough I have added these in my contacts. Can somebody help me please?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Motime:
Can't access internal storage files

Hello, I have just recently received a second lenovo k3 note phone, the first one I was able to root and install a custom recovery and rom using Jin Lins guide on youtube using king root and flashify without any issues:

The second phone I have received has given me a few problems. At first I tried the same simple guide above, but as I opened the file browser software to install flashify and king root, all the file explorers gave me errors that they couldn't find an application to open the apk files etc.

I then decided to install custom recovery and root the phone through the more traditional super SU guide by root junky on youtube.

Everything worked fine, I rebooted into CWM, I went into the install from zip option, here I was supposed to find the super SU zip that I had placed in the internal storage of my phone, but I didn't find it and CWM kept giving me a can't mount SD card error.

I then decided to try TWRP instead by flashing it img file through command line, and again, when I goto the install section, it lists a bunch of folders but I cannot find the rom and super SU zip files I had uploaded to the internal storage which are visible through file explorer. When I try and back up the device, I recieve various can't mount errors of storage and sd card. Also I actually ended up running the application check root and it seems the phone might already have been rooted.

The native software on the Chinese phone is horrible and I would love to use some faster stock rom, any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have screen shots but XDA won't let me post them so early.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbaker6212:
Try the latest supposedly stable VIBEUI 2.5 recently updated on NeedRom. I just installed it and it looks OK (so far). Has gapps and OTA via an installable app. Proximity sensor and double tap to wake does not work but we will see after it finishes the OTA update to VIBEUI 2.8.

As it is at v2.5_2511 it's pretty clean of bloatware/garbage. Looks good. Fingers crossed on the OTA.

http://www.needrom.com/download/k50-t5_usr_st2511_5-444-1_1503111505-lang-pk4-china-aliexpress/
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Motime:
Okay I will try this, this flash tool seems really nice... Can I just use this instead of custom recovery to flash other roms like cynogen mod or limonchelo etc? I am not interested in saving any date so that is not a worry.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbaker6212:
Perhaps you can. But it's my understanding that at least some ROM's are best installed using their own specified tools. I would use whatever is recommended by the guys who created the ROM or people with experience installing it. I am far from an expert on all things rooty/romy.

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Well, my OTA finished and it's up and running now on Android 5.1 VIBEUI 2.8 build 1535 ST (stable), but.... it removed gapps so now I have to re-install that. Plus a few other negatives.

1. A few more Chinese apps that you cannot remove. 2. The proximity sensor still does not work 3. Double-tap to wake still does not work. Overall it seems pretty good but I really would like some way to wake the phone (turn the screen back on) without using the on/off button. There are ways to turn the screen off without using the button, but I haven't found how to turn it back on without it.

Now, back to trying to get gapps back on it.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Motime:
Thank you, using flash tools to go back to stock rom fixed all the issues, now I am wondering which is the best rom to use as an english user? I have tried AOSP and Cynogen mod, also tried limonchelo, cannot seem to make up my mind though, what do you guys think is the best option?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psarogen:
My proximity and dttw are working on 1535.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hkyu2010:
Where to download the latest TWRP 2.8.7.0 English?

How to get reached to the link that was shortened by you, so that one could download and try the latest TWRP 2.8.7.0 English? This question is asked because at least two versions (i.e. TWRP 2.8.7.0 by chechkin & SevenMaxs and TWRP_2.8.7.0_AtlonX2_Material) of it were downloadable from the Internet at the moment of time. Which is the correct one that you're mentioning here?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] odegeorgela:
So I found out that its the country code which is causing this, numbers without the country code (+358) shows the caller's name as supposed, but if the country prefix is in place in the contacts, then only number is shown in incoming call without the country code. Is there some way to easily fix this, or do I have to manually edit each of my numbers and remove the country code?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
Well obviously you shouldn't had bought this phone! I guess the iphone would be a more suitable choice.

Yes, in India it's the official rom, but i'm not from India and if you had red some more you would have concluded that it's still sh*tty and it has a poor performance.

If you can't spot the difference between an original VibeUI rom and a VibeUi based rom, well there's nothing more to say.

Just search google for "vibe ui k3 note".

BTW everything works on all latest official VibeUI ST and DEV roms. Don't know what you're doing to your phone but here, double tap to wake and proximity sensor always worked on all VibeUI roms, even on the older versions.

There is no spoon feeding here and you're not a baby so don't act like one. Quit complaining and do something about it. With the time you have spent complaining, if you had spent it reading and using your brain you already would have your phone flying and with everything working like mine is.

BTW my thread is not this one it's the one on my sig.

And you can check my sig to see everything that i have running on my phone "oh dumb one"

And it has links and everything...how thoughtful :angel:
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] odegeorgela:
ok so which two region lines? the current lines (with values) are:

debug.hwui.render_dirty_regions

false

ro.lenovo.region

row

ro.lenovo.region

otfp

ro.product.locale.region

ES

ro.product.locale.language

es

Which lines to edit, and which values should I replace with? (I come from Finland)

Please and thank you!
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
The last 2, replace ES (Spain country code) with your country code.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B2Pi:
Shutting down cell bands

Can anyone recall a link to a procedure that allowed one to shut down cell bands that are not in use? It would save battery. I know I found it sometime in the middle of July or so, but can't find the link now (It may have linked to an italian page).

Cheers
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vonuzu:
I think you can do it with the engineering mode.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] odegeorgela:
Do I have to do a factory reset afterwards (as I read somewhere) or does a normal boot suffice? (Cause if that's the case, the editing of these doesn't seem to do anything.)
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
Yes i also think it's useless, but some Russian users said that after changing those values they would catch glonass in their gps, amongst other things. I never changed anything and everything works.

I can't remember on which rom was this.

Sent from Hacker's K50-T5
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] odegeorgela:
Well the only "solution" I found for the missing names was to change all my contacts to the national format ("solution" cause this is not a real solution but just avoiding the problem).

On an unrelated topic: do you know how (or if it's even possible) to delete the stock messaging app in novamod? Cause I have taken textra in use (as per recommendation) but every time I boot my phone, the stock messaging app notifies me about a new SMS, but I can't delete or mark the message as read... It's quite annoying.

I went on to try to freeze it with titanium, but couldn't find the app in the list...

So if you can, some help would be much obliged!
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
i don't remember but it should be possible to delete or freeze it. when i was on novamod i had textra and didn't had no such problems.

Sent from Hacker's K50-T5
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] QuicSilver:
can any one please upload the LiveWallPaperPicker app folder? thanks in advance, i am on AOSP ROM ported from K3 Note on my Lenovo A7000, the live wallpaper picker apk is not in the ported rom, thanks in advance
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] odegeorgela:
Btw, which rom do you consider is the best at the moment?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbaker6212:
You really are an ass. What, your mother did not love you when you were young?

Just because you are a ROM/root monkey does not mean everyone is, or wants to be - spending stupid amounts of time on this and/or other forum, and loading various software on a *consumer* electronic device that should come already loaded with *working* software.

And lots of what you say simply is not true. There are lots of other people who have similar problems with their phones even with stock ROMs.

Eg., I now have the very latest "stock" and stable ROM... VIBEUI 2.8 1535 - that was updated via OTA - and while it works pretty well, there is still lots of things that do not work on my phone. Namely, "black screen unlock" - none of them, and "double tap screen on". The rest of the "character settings" work. And... the proximity sensor still does not work.

This is not my phone. This is the software. I tried Cyanogenmod 12.1 and my proximity sensor was working with that. Could I, and others just have gotten flaky phones? perhaps. I'm still not convinced that it is not the software.

Now, just dispense with the intellectual masterbation or STFU.

You don't like my (supposed) complaining then just ignore my posts.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hari31964@gmail.com:
Did Rooted K3 note gets official OTA Updates?

Hello Guys,

Today i want to ask something very strange and many users need the information too.

Actually i bought k3 note 2 days back and it was like awesome but it was consuming an amount of 1 . 3 GB RAM continuously and allowing free RAM of 700 to 800 MB free RAM

I updated to latest version through OTA update to android 5.0.

So i thought of deleting some default apps like Play books, youtube, play games, play newsstand, Drive, google+, etc..

For that i need to root...but my doubt is will i get OTA updates if i did software root and not flashing....using root software apps like Unlock root pro, Vroot, root genius, SRS root.

Please reply me soon and let me know the information......Thank you
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theowl61:
Hi everyone. Does anybody has a link for a stable cyanogen ROM? Please!

---------- Post added at 08:59 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:46 AM ----------

I saw a cm ROM but the data and proximity sensor weren't working.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] babbababosch:
I just got this phone and I'm wondering what to do since there is too much information to read it all.

can somebody please summerize which guide to follow and what rom to use which is stable and free of bloatware (I really liked cm on my previous phones, but sounds like its still buggy)
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
What are you doing here on XDA really?

You do know what this forum is about, right?

I'll tell you what is not, it's not a call center for stupid consumers like you to come complain. I don't work for Lenovo.

So F U and F your presumptuous ignorant attitude.

Sent from Hacker's K50-T5
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbaker6212:
[MENTION=6922655]psarogen[/MENTION], thanks for the info. Is yours from installing the dev ROM of 2.8 1535 or did you get as OTA updates from VIBEUI 2.5 as I did?

It's really strange to me that the proximity sensor does not work because it did when I tried Cyanogenmod 12.1 - so I know it's not broken in my phone. At this point though, I have no idea how to get it working or how to diagnose it.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psarogen:
I did a fresh install of 1535 stable using the stock recovery.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbaker6212:
Can you please send the URL to where you downloaded it from so I can make sure I get the right one? thanks!
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psarogen:
https://mega.nz/#F!DkxVWSbZ!5TlqY7Ge_YuvKzSn7X52Wg

Everything is here. Just go to the ST folder to find the stable Chinese 1535 rom
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] multimedias:
I decided to update from Vibeui_V2.5_1512_5.495.1_ST_K50-T5 to VIBEUI_V2.8_1535_5.128.1_ST_K50-T5_WC23. I installed CWM recovery and I installed SuperSU. I read about this ROM VIBEUI_V2.8_1535_5.128.1_ST_K50-T5_WC23 and it seems it requires TWRP Recovery so I installed it. I made a Backup of Vibeui_V2.5_1512_5.495.1_ST_K50-T5 and before the installation of VIBEUI_V2.8_1535_5.128.1_ST_K50-T5_WC23 I did a Wipe of Dalvik Cache, System, Data and Cache. During the installation of VIBEUI_V2.8_1535_5.128.1_ST_K50-T5_WC23 and in the start I am being shown an error that says " Error Executing updater binary in zip" . Do you have any idea what I'm doing wrong?

PS. Because of Backup (~4GB) I only have 1,2 GB free disk space. Is it possible that could be the problem?

I tried the ROMs of DEV and still no success. It seems the problem comes from the TWRP Recovery 2.8.7.0 . Here is the exact error I am being shown by TWRP Recovery 2.8.7.0 -

Device or resource busy update.zip package_dev_ariant is 1441608118, devices curent_dev_variant is 1435005003

This package is for "aio_otfp"devices: this is a "K50"

E:Error executing updater binary iz zip'sdcard/VIBEUI_V2.8_1537_7.232.1_DEV_K50-T5_WCA1.zip'
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vonuzu:
You need to edit the updater script in order to flash the rom via twrp. Check this or the index thread for how to to that.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djreedoo:
[Q&amp;A] [OFFICIAL THREAD] Lenovo K3 NOTE [CWM/ROOT]

Hi,

I have the same problem and I don't know what's the line to edit in the updater script. It's hard to find a thread about this. Could somebody help? Thank you
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vonuzu:
Post 190 in the index thread. ;)
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] temitimx:
Bro should I delete everything in the updater script, and replace it with the one in post 190. Thanks in advance
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vonuzu:
Nope, edit the one in the rom and delete the lines in the beginning until those numbers and in the end until the numbers.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] temitimx:
I must admit it looks confusing :confused::crying: could you please just upload your own update script, i know it would sound awkward. But please just help me out. thanks in advance
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vonuzu:
Wait, ill see if it is still on my pc.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vonuzu:
I think this is the file i used for 1535 st (the rom im curently using)
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vonuzu:
I think this was the ffile i used for 1535 stable.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
It's easy to edit any updater script, just delete everything until the first "show progress...", you will get a few error messages in the end but no harm done.

Sent from Hacker's K50-T5
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superspeedz32:
Is there any update on the Bluetooth audio streaming issue with the stutter/delays?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Djreedoo01:
Thank you very much for the editing script.

I've done it but when trying to install the dev 1537, I still have an error "E: error executing updater binary in zip '.external_sd/VIBEUI_V2.8_1537_7.232.1_DEV_K50_WCA1.zip".

Damned!!! What's wrong?

I can backup and restore the rom I'm using without any issues!

Im' using TWRP 2.8.7 recovery...
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vonuzu:
Look in my script and edit yours.