yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[K3 Note General] shrihari123:
Updated to K50a40_S117_150706_ROW! Seems very stable

Hey guys! Have updated to the K50a40_S117_150706_ROW. Seems like the ROM is stable but I don't find any difference from the previous versions.

It is the official firmware for the Indian model K50a40. And i wonder why i did not get any bloatware after the update also. First of I flashed the K50a40_S112 version and I did not get any bloatware. I did this in phonepad ####682# and selected as IN....(chinese something) and I got the pre installed apps for India like FLipkart , games bloatware, evernote, etc. I uninstalled all the bloatware apps and updated it to K50a40_S114 version and from there I didn't not get any bloatware. Anyway I noticed few bugs like whatsapp, youtube, gmail and other app notifications were not showing in the notification when I was on WiFi. It would work on mobile data. And I find the same issue still there in the latest update also. I wonder these would be solved in the future updates. I found the same issue in the Limonchelo ROM as well. So that's it I'll keep posting any difference if I find from the previous versions.
[K3 Note General] raperot:
Anyone please?
[K3 Note General] shrihari123:
Don't worry about the SAR value. The SAR value is the highest when you turn on all your radio communication things like Bluetooth, GPS, etc etc. The SAR value would be significantly lower when you use a single sim. So don't worry about that. Its not going to affect you in anyway unless you turn on all the radio settings and use dual sims and stick your head to your mobile for 10 long years.. No one does that. SO nothing to be worried off. All nowaday devices like Iphone, Xiaomi, OnePlus everything have a high SAR value of more than 1.3 and its measured only when all the radio settings are turned on. Its the maximum possible radiation the device can emit. So an average day it would be way lower something like 0.6 to 0.8 so dont worry
[K3 Note General] belmethos:
For the sar value , i still havent found any satisfactory answer why Chinese version is 0.29 ish and Indian version is 1.59 . it is the same phone.

I keep GPS and Bluetooth on all the time, and talk that way so it is the actual usage for me. Minus dual sim.

Also I plan to buy the phone to my 12 year old, so if you can give some references for the explanations you made i would appreciate it.
[K3 Note General] dude_creative:
Do you find any improvements in gaming in s117? for eg Asphalt .
[K3 Note General] shrihari123:
Not much of improvement on high end games

Yeah it is the same phone and only software version differ and hence 2 variants. But hardware everything the same. Check this video man. At the end he would explain you about how the SAR value is defined.

https://youtu.be/6BjuVNTxdOI

You can get an idea from the information. He would mention about SAR at the last part of the video.
[K3 Note General] hackerpower:
If i'm not mistaken cuoco roms have their own ota update system, you can't update with the stock update system.

Yes you have 2 OTA update options in that rom.

Can you turn on the flashlight in quick settings?
[K3 Note General] raperot:
Yes, flashlight is working fine.

So how do I update this ROM
[K3 Note General] Cyberdyne:
Don't you read my Posts? If you want help, you should read and do what people tell you!

Official OTA do not work and that is good! If they would work you would have a official chinese dev ROM with oll that chinese bloadware!

I told you to update to CioCos 1529 ROM!

With 1529 you get CuoCos OTA updates which work.

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I told you! Dirty-flash! Just read what I have written.
[K3 Note General] raperot:
Hi mate, I tried the dirty flash but its not working.

I guess I will have to do full flash
[K3 Note General] hackerpower:
Don't have that problem on Limonchelo Novamod.

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Try this one: https://cloud.mail.ru/public/DFay/2jcSniRyC :good:

Why don't you check my index thread :confused:

No, no problem with the russification, but you will have to edit build.prop to your region, ask me later through PM.
[K3 Note General] FeyoMx:
I find it helpful to share them around here the existence of VISNU LEMONADE ROM is based on the S117's build K50a40 without all the useless apps in the West. Works in perfect harmony the Viper4android and Dolby Atmos, Xposed V67 and some other niceties.
[K3 Note General] dude_creative:
Dont worry , it is there in Android. But you have to root the phone. :good:

I have already done it , and my fps is > 30.

Download the below tool (GLTools xda free edition)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2604723

Install it and choose the game app,

1. Enable custom settings

2. Downscale Texture - make it 0.5x

3. Tick Fake GPU - make it Mali-T628 (GL_RENDERER) , ARM(GL_VENDOR), OpenGL ES 2.0 (Fake GL_VERSION). Now the game will choose the best resolution for this GPU .

4. Rename /system/etc/.tp/thermal.conf to thermal.conf.back

Reboot

Now your k3 note will rock with more FPS. Mali T628 is the closest lower GPU belonging to Mali and works well. Try Mali-450 MP (GL_RENDERER) also if u need more fps
[K3 Note General] shrihari123:
That's cool! Good to hear! Thank you I ll try it soon.
[K3 Note General] itzikd1:
hey guys, i see this rom was suggested:

https://translate.google.es/transla...lemonade-22-07-2014.107124/&edit-text&act=url

is this the best rom out there? i use phone for whatsapp/gps/basic news app/boom beach game and alittle music sometimes.

will this rom suit me?
[K3 Note General] hackerpower:
Almost every ROM will suite those needs, now it's just a matter of your taste. Check my index thread and choose.
[K3 Note General] Bidyadhar:
Hello If there is any dev then pls reply....

I have ported AMIGO OS 3.5 from gionee elife S7. Everything is working except the error "Cant connect to camera"..

I have tried init.rc fix and replaced the following files from stock..

libcam.camadapter.so

libcam.camnode.so

libcam.camshot.so

libcam.client.so

libcam.hal3a.v3.so

libcam.halsensor.so

libcam.iopipe.so

libcam.jni.lomohaljni.so

libcam.metadataprovider.so

libcam.paramsmgr.so

libcam.sdkclient.so

libcamalgo.so

libcamdrv.so

libcameracustom.so

libcameraservice.so

libcamera_client_mtk.so(both lib and lib64)

still not working.. pls help me I want to upload it but cant do it due to the above error
[K3 Note General] HypoTurtle:
Just checked the P6000 AmigoUI Port and: regarding the libs...

libcameraservive.so and libcam.jni.lomohaljni.so are left as Stock S7 files while:

libcam.device1.so, libcam.exif.so and libcam3_hwmode.so are replaced.
[K3 Note General] Bidyadhar:
Shall i replace only the files u mentioned or my list+the files u mentioned????Can u pls give the libs for camera??pls..
[K3 Note General] anujyadava:
hi can u share the stock recovery for k3 indian version and the exact method to flash it back as i am also unable to do OTA update.my phone also rooted with CWM recovery.

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hi

can u share the link for K50a40_S112 version of row rom and exact method to flash this rom.also will i be able to update to s114 and s117 with row rom.

secondly ,i am on s114 row rom,rooted and CWM installed,how can i update to s117???

please help
[K3 Note General] shrihari123:
Yeah you can update to s114 s117 from s112. Wait if yo want to flash from s112 I ll give you the link and the exact instructions to do so. You can actually update from s114 I think but you need to flash stock recovery and unroot your phone. If you want more help on that you can check the previous posts on the same thread you posted your query. If you want to better do a clean flash of s112 and then update from there I ll give you the link and the instructions

Hackerpower has all the ROMs in his thread he created. You can check his signature. The link for that is

http://xdaforums.com/android/development/organized-thread-lenovo-k3-note-k50-t3158522

You can go there and see ROM flashable thro SP flashtool. S112_ROW is there in that link. Download that from there.

The instructions are given clearly by Jimmyln. I ll quote his instructions. Follow that.

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I've wrote some instructions for the wiki, decided to post them here too:

SP FlashTool download: https://mega.co.nz/#!B4ATlDQb!KLFbwS...pwimQ6JlXCkWrA

Instructions:

Unzip both FlashTool and ROM.

Install Lenovo drivers.

Run Flash_tool.exe (right click the file, choose "Run as Administrator")

For scatter loading file, choose the MT6752_Android_scatter.txt in ROM (found in target_bin folder). Wait for files to be added.

In the dropdown menu below scatter loading file, make sure "Download Only" is selected.

choose Options-> Option-> Connection -> USB -> High Speed

choose Options-> Option -> Download -> DA DL All with Checksum (make sure it's ticked)

Turn off your phone completely

Press the download button

Connect your phone into the computer via USB cable.

The process will start and a red progress bar will appear after color purple, yellow.

And green circles display

Finish!

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For lenovo drivers just plug in your mobile and you get lenovo software there. You get driver installation application.. Select it and install it. It would take 10 mins for the flash to complete and after booting it would take another 10 mins for the initialization and everything.. And after you do that type ####682# from phonepad and select your region. You're from India? You can select IN..(Chinese something)

And then you ll have everything fresh and update to s114 and s117 from there.

And if you think this a very tedious process, you can just flash back stock recovery alone then unroot. I don't know the process of unrooting. I never rooted it. So check back the previous posts and see if there's a way to unroot. So assume you found a way and you flash stock recovery alone in flashtool. Deselect all and select recovery alone. Then it's gonna be less time cnsumong. And you can update directly to s117 from there and you can do like this everytime you get ota update. You can choose either way. Make sure you find a good unroot method.
[K3 Note General] HypoTurtle:
In addition to your list (Add the blue, remove/leave the red)
[K3 Note General] dude_creative:
The 296 mb update is not worth at all considering gaming. cpu underclocks to 1.1 ghz after 5 mins of asphalt 8. don't trust anyone who says it improves gaming. Only workaround for now is deleting thermal.conf and using gltools.
[K3 Note General] JackSparrow17:
Ya its worst update....Affected wifi and performance and phone getting heated....Any way to get more themes for phone...?
[K3 Note General] hackerpower:
How about changing rom, that's not the only rom out there.
[K3 Note General] dude_creative:
yes sir.. but even limonchelo is based on stock and i observed thermal throttling like stock. heavy gamers notice easily.

so i just renamed the thermal config file. Unless mediatek improves the driver for mali t760 there is nothing we can do other than emulating like gltools.

thanks for all your good work. I'm using the twrp recovery u posted, better than cwm.

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Not discovered any wifi problem yet.. maybe depends on router.

The inbuilt themes themselves are ok for daily use. search for vibe icons in play store
[K3 Note General] Bidyadhar:
Bro I dont think there is issue with drivers of mali T-760 coz my a7000 ran all games smoothly without issues... U can see other devices like gionee elife s7 and xperia C4 ran all games smoothly
[K3 Note General] meangreenie:
The governor is probably set aggressively, causes the cpu to 'yoyo' up and down causing lag.
[K3 Note General] hackerpower:
It's a shame there isn't optional kernels for this phone.

The only thing i complaint about is the quick and excessive heating of the phone after just 5 mins of demanding/intensive use.

Why don't you use no frills cpu app and set the clock speed always to maximum? No drops there, but you'll run out of juice fast.

I use interactive/noop
[K3 Note General] shrihari123:
Yeah I agree with you that it still has the issues but didn't you find any improvement in running asphalt 8 at the very low settings? before the update it couldn't even run at the very low settings properly. I didn't say that it improved very well. It's obviously still very laggy. I feel its underclocking the CPU after it gets heated. Anyway I might be wrong. I don't run heavy games much on this device. So I think I haven't tested this phone vigorously on high end games. I shall consider deleting my post then. Sorry for that.

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I too face the wifi issue. You're not facing it? It's the notification which is getting affected when on WiFi. Don't get the notification properly like gmail, whatsapp and other apps which should give notifications. I don't face the issue on mobile data. When i turn on wifi, i get the notifications but the issue I face is only after an hour or so. After like 2 hours, the notification doesn't show up when its on Wifi. It's a very strange issue, I don't know what is the problem and i tweaked Wifi settings also but still I get the same problem on Wifi. No notification after like 2 hours or so.

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Don't compare this with a7000. That one has a 720p screen not a 1080p so for a7000 the stress on GPU would be obviously low and hence better gaming for a7000 and for the other 2 devices Xperia C4 and gionee elife s7 if it can run games smoothly, then our device should also run smoothly as you say. Agreed with that.
[K3 Note General] belmethos:
Someone said Wi-Fi modern should be at always when screen off instead of smart for notifications.
[K3 Note General] anujyadava:
thanks a lot shrihari123.your link as well as instructions worked fine.

firstly i tried to flash recovery only and unrooted phone by supersu full unroot method and tried to install OTA which failed after getting into recovery.

then i did a fresh installation of the complete row rom and changed th region as defined and it worked perfectly.thanks again
[K3 Note General] dude_creative:
Correct, later I installed Nova 3.. Noticed good impovement in fps, so they did something to the gpu. It's anyway too much nice fullhd device for 10k :)
[K3 Note General] chat1978:
I'm stuck and I can't find what I have done wrong.

I'm with Limonchello and I know I could use the Data from the first sim.

I'm rooted and have DroFirewall install to control which apps get to access my dataplan.

Last couple of days I have noticed that I don't have any data. I have tried everything

Disable the DroFirewall

Check out the restricted background data

look around

I'm sure I'm missing something trivial. Any ideas?
[K3 Note General] shrihari123:
I said that but after tweaking in the WiFi settings I still find that issue there.. Seems very strange. Couldn't figure out what the prob is. Get the notifications when i switch on but when i just keep it on after like 2 hours i just don't see any notifications showing. Notice that isn't the case with mobile data. Strange. Anyway not a big issue for me

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Glad I could help! Cheers! :)

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yeah for 10k Rs. I loved the device. Really worth it. Anyway am not gonna do much of tweaking from now. Just use the phone for my purposes. Take care! Cheers! :)
[K3 Note General] meangreenie:
Can the governor tuneables from the p7000 be copied to the k3 note?

It would depend if the p7000 is using the ineractive governor.

The k3 note does have ondemand which i know how to tune pretty well from over the years, but the version on the k3 note doesn't have the 'down_differential' tuneable which is the key tuneable for getting rid of the cpu 'yoyo' effect. Unfortunately i don't know how to tune the intractive governor tuneables.
[K3 Note General] Anami101:
Hey guys, which is the lightest ROM with the most free RAM? :)
[K3 Note General] chat1978:
Today I did one more restart and suddenly I had data with the firewall on.

I had find this a few times already so I don't know if it was just luck.

Really curious. I think next week I'll migrate to ROW and hope that there won't be anymore problems.

My question is, should I keep the twrp recovery? Can you update the new versions of the same Rom through twrp without losing the applications and their data?

Is it in practise the same as an ota update? You just need to wait for someone to upload a zip?

Another question, if you are not rooted how do you get the same experience as with a firewall application? I know this feature restrict background data, but I'm not sure it does exactly the same thing and configuring this for each app looks like a job with a lot of effort.
[K3 Note General] alienzdator:
Hi hackerpower,

I saw in your Index thread, there is a patch for Limonchelo. May i know what is the bug that the patch will fix? Is it the charging image while turn off the phone?
[K3 Note General] hackerpower:
It has ondemand. See SS attached.

Limonchelo Novamod IMO

You have that patch and one for gps not picking up glonass, both fix chinese bugs.
[K3 Note General] hackerpower:
SS
[K3 Note General] superforever360:
Is there anyone tried both lemonchelo and ROW, I have one flashed with lemonchelo.

Just bought another one, thinking whether I should flash it with lemonchelo or ROW?
[K3 Note General] moonk:
please help if you have any idea, I am on Orange Romania and the highest speed of data I am getting is H+ .. i have never seen my phone on 4G or LTE yet ... I am on ROW rom with last update (117) ... any idea what is the issue? :(
[K3 Note General] alienzdator:
does your sim card support 4g? u need a sim card that support 4g network in order to get 4g signal.

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Thanks for the reply. Another thing, does adaway module in xposed works in your phone? Because, ads still appear on my phone while running apps even though i updated the adaway ads list to the latest version.
[K3 Note General] hackerpower:
I use adaway apk or MoaAB not the xposed module. No ads here. But in some apps like MX player ads still appear when with internet connection because they are not blocked/considered spam, they're there to support the devs.

But nothing appears when browsing.
[K3 Note General] dude_creative:
What is the band of the 4G supported by your provider?

k3 note supports following bands.

LTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 7(2600), 38(2600), 39(1900), 40(2300), 41(2500)

Try using below app and choose LTE only

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tapbase.LTEswitcher
[K3 Note General] Bidyadhar:
Guys its very good to see that vibe 2.5 1529 build almost completely fixed gaming issue..
[K3 Note General] dude_creative:
Dude you mean this ROM ? VIBEUI_V2.8_1529_LTT_LEMONADE

how to see the Vibe ui version?
[K3 Note General] Bidyadhar:
No bro thats unstable as its android 5.1(Vibe 2.8). I am taking about VIBE 2.5(android 5.0)

VIBEUI_V2.5_1529_5.1063.1_ST_K50-T5_WCBD*:

https://cloud.mail.ru/public/Cvj7/3U5rjvc6s/ST/VIBEUI_V2.5_1529_5.1063.1_ST_K50-T5_WCBD.zip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMLrW84qN58&feature=youtu.be

U can see i have uploaded a small video on asphalt 8 gaming on high settings on this rom.Tonight I will upload video for modern combat 5 which is too running awesome.Thanks lenovo for such awesome rom.
[K3 Note General] Hazelberg:
When I try to follow your guide on page 1 it does not work.

I get into Lenovo-Recovery even after flashing the cwm recovery. What did I do wrong?

It happens after I have followed all the steps and should go into cwm mode to flash super SU.

Please help!
[K3 Note General] JackSparrow17:
In official recovery what is diff between format data and wipe data?
[K3 Note General] asidorowicz:
Is this a chinese or ROW rom? Does it need to have crapware removed first?
[K3 Note General] hackerpower:
And what about heating issues?

I already tried that rom but i can't remember what i didn't liked about it.
[K3 Note General] Bidyadhar:
Its chinese rom but its a stable build.It has 5-6 bloatware but can be uninstalled directly.It doesnt heat quite a bit,But huge improvement in gaming
[K3 Note General] slm99:
Hello can you give me scatter file for this rom, the scatter file in this rom showing invalid in sp flash tool.
[K3 Note General] dude_creative:
Nice video mate.. If it runs like this Without any manual tweaks it must be a nice ROM .

will test myself tomorrow including FPS :)
[K3 Note General] ftechno:
hi, this week i will get the phone. so please what is the best rom (custom or official ) for the k3 note? i am talking about minimum minimum bugs and best performance. thank you
[K3 Note General] anujyadava:
You can use row rom or (LiMoNcHeLo NovAMoD MDSTeam VibeAosP) rom
[K3 Note General] hackerpower:
That rom is to be flashed through recovery.

Check my index thread.
[K3 Note General] arpanghoshal3@gmail.com:
I bought a lenovo k3 note actually lenovo k50a40(Indian variat of k3 note) and rooted it successfully and I am using the rooted phone for a week without any problems. Today I saw lenovo is giving a system update named "K50a40_S114_150618_ROW_TO_K50a40_S117_150706_ROW" , the update is quite big about 296mb (I think this update is only for the Indain variant of the phone)..... Now I am worried about one thing since I have rooted my phone will updating uroot my phone. Is there any risk that my phone will be bricked. I have made an andriod backup from cwm but I heard someone who installed a custom ROM but when he tried to restore the phone from the backup it went into a bootloop and he had to face alot of problems to restore it so I am worried that I may not be able to restore from my backup successfully if anything goes wrong... please advice me is it safe to perform this system update(if my phone gets unrooted it does not matter I will root it again)....
[K3 Note General] arefin_sajib:
i cant set network mode to 3G only in any chinese firmware(1511,18,24,26,28,29)

indian firmware offers this option but indian fimrware performacne is not so good

is there any app or any way to to do this ???????????

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any sw update will unroot your phone

yes

twrp and cwm that were made earlier cant restore back ups

but there are now some cmw and twrp which can do this
[K3 Note General] anujyadava:
U won't be able to do software update untill and unless u unroot it first and flash stock recovery in it
[K3 Note General] slm99:
I have installed this rom, plz tell me which google apps I should use with this rom.
[K3 Note General] dude_creative:
Lenovo clearly messed up wifi and hotspot in s117... it sporadically works as per its wish. after 2 days only i could be able to feel it. None of the workarounds are permanent.. Those who are in s114, pls stay there till new update comes
[K3 Note General] dude_creative:
Bro one more thing. Does it have the wifi/hotspot problem of s117?

My download is in progress !!
[K3 Note General] Bidyadhar:
Bro u can flash this minimal gapps using recovery

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934550850

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No Bro I havent faced any issue with wifi in this rom.I am using wifi with no issues till now.U may get Nv ram error which u can fix from [MENTION=5106992]hackerpower[/MENTION] index thread.And pls do tell the improvement in gaming and recommend this rom for gamers.
[K3 Note General] k@iserex:
I prefere cucos92 ROM based od ROW 1229, you can find it on index thread.
[K3 Note General] DonnPedro:
+1
[K3 Note General] itzikd1:
do you have links to this roms?