yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[K3 Note General] aariss:
Yes… to avoid this, once flash completed, dun select reboot now…

Instead take out the battery, insert back & on it manually…
[K3 Note General] rob4x4:
It will be a while before I can test it. I live in a mobile blackspot. I get my mobile phone calls/sms through the Three In Touch app that delivers it via the internet. It works on that but it isn't using the mobile signal to receive the calls, just the wifi.
[K3 Note General] okahdidi:
That's what I did
[K3 Note General] bazabaza:
The Chinese/ English choice is stock recovery, so CMW is being over written at some point.

I think that you need to install CMW, Root as per instructions, Flash new ROM, reboot normally, then install CMW again and root again, then, reboot manually to CMW again, and then reboot from CMW. You should then be able to flash gapps without an issue
[K3 Note General] 00sand00:
Just flash recovery and on first boot immediately enter cwm and flash gapps. I even did not install root now have stock rom which updates Ota

Cwm will get automatically rewritten after boot if you have stock rom
[K3 Note General] okahdidi:
What stock ROM is that,can u give me link plz
[K3 Note General] waj1234:
Mine has come with VibeUi_V2.5_1511_5.444.1_ST_K50-T5 installed from Gearbest. My bank app wont work as it says its rooted but no su app is installed.

Anyone who has this version installed manage to get a normal rom installed with update center etc? Or do I have to do as stated in 1 post?
[K3 Note General] bazabaza:
You could flash it using a flash tool. Bit more risky.

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new OTA update wont flash using CMW unfortunately
[K3 Note General] waj1234:
Not sure which is best one to install to be honest. This seems to work ok though at the moment.
[K3 Note General] aariss:
Just go to settings - about phone - system update

Latest now is 1522

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Any rom below 118 has shorter battery duration…
[K3 Note General] waj1234:
No system update in my about section?
[K3 Note General] aariss:
How about inside device info ?
[K3 Note General] waj1234:
Nope nothing. Had a custom rom on an older lenovo that was flashed by coolicool and that was same. Think I will have to do the lot
[K3 Note General] suspect008:
whats the back camera aperture?

hello everyone,

Can you guys share your back camera photos exif details aperture?

I took pics using stock camera, camera fv, google camera, and camera zoom and in "QuickPic" gallery, picture details is shown as aperture is f2.4. but specs page its f2.0. can anyone light some knowledge about this? I think i saw somewhere that they used 2.4 at beta roms and should be fixed by updates. Im on 1522, anyone having this issue? And I see a lot of noise in pictures.
[K3 Note General] piskr:
Currently the latest rom is 1524.

http://bbs.ydss.cn/thread-559542-1-1.html
[K3 Note General] waj1234:
Developer version? How is that installed though, via cwm or the flash tool?
[K3 Note General] okahdidi:
Which person is using a ROM that has OTA Updates
[K3 Note General] piskr:
CWM or TWRP. Be sure to make nandroid first for worst case scenario. Anyway, enable ADB debugging and you can always flash original ROM through flash toll.

Procedure (you'll lost all data, custom apps, settings, except those on sd):

ROM Install :

Step 1: Download the custom ROM copied to an external SD card root directory

Step 2: the shutdown state. While holding down:

– Power button + volume button up, to enter the recovery mode.

– Wipe Data / Factory Reset -> delete all user data

– Wipe Cache Partition -> Wipe cache

– Advanced -> Wipe Dalvik Cache

Step 3: Return to recovery main interface Install zip from sdcard -> choose zip from sdcard -> Select your ROM

Step 4: After flash completed restart the system, first boot takes a while. you may want to flash a 64b Gapps and SuperSU after.
[K3 Note General] neverhood11:
Yeah v28 works...thank you. So I`m staying with 1533 for now..

One other thing...the clock widget with weather...I can`t locate my city. I tried different cities, but no success..is there any way to fix it?
[K3 Note General] Honusnap:
Move to a known city ? :D
[K3 Note General] k@iserex:
To be specific move to China [emoji6]
[K3 Note General] neverhood11:
Haha yeah :D

But...in one of the roms I tried, the widget worked well for my city..so there must be non-china version of the widget.
[K3 Note General] k@iserex:
In row rom native clock/wearher widget is working for the whole world.
[K3 Note General] IndianTigers:
Is there any custom rom available for Lenovo k3 note K50a40 (Indian Version)? Kindly help me !!
[K3 Note General] k@iserex:
Really? That is your question? You are among the community where everything evolves around custom ROMs, people are chatting about it, posting stuff, flashing stuff, doing extensive list of all the available ROM, custom or official and you barge in like everything from that point has been erased from forums and only your question stand the ground forever. I mean yeeahhh :) ?
[K3 Note General] mickey78:
Oh I love that answer!

?
[K3 Note General] SteveCoops:
Facebook Messenger is unreliable for me on 1534 too. So I uninstalled it and tell people to use WhatsApp :)

The dialler and SMS apps have bits of Chinese in it which is annoying - anyone recommend any replacement diallers?
[K3 Note General] neverhood11:
Any chance to download it somewhere?
[K3 Note General] stephendt0:
As far as I'm concerned, VibeUI can suck a fat one. Using this Nexus 8 AOSP ROM is so much faster and more reliable, with a lot less engrish. I'm super happy with my K3 Note now, whilst every VibeUI ROM got on my nerves after a while.
[K3 Note General] xcen3x:
I use TruePhone it has very good dualsim support
[K3 Note General] SteveCoops:
My phone's auto upgrading to 1535 at the moment...
[K3 Note General] k@iserex:
I gotta say that Im leaning torward this opinion also. From all the ROMs I have tried this Nexus ROM is really the best in the department of performance, fluidty, cleanness, pure AOSP design language, completely debloated whit SU and minimal gapps out of the box, for now everything is working very nice, it doesn't scale down the CPU so aggressively, performance is the same when you get bellow 15% battery, RAM management is way more better then official ROMs or custom ones for that matter, wifi works perfectly fine, all apps work out of the box, its very stable, battery life seems maybe a bit less then on ROW ROM but its not a con, there is no micro lag when you do the scrolling or swiping in apps or its at its minimum, notifications works the best of all ROMs and they are 100% there for the apps I use, titanium backup works 100% , for now its seems nearly perfect!

What is not working: DT2W, external SD card is chosen to be default for installing apps, easily fixable, xposed seems to not work at all, no LED notifications besides when charging.

So to recap, FOR ME this is the best ROM out there. I suggest everybody to try it out see for it self's. I'm not switching from this one. Try it, its a one flash away :) ?
[K3 Note General] SteveCoops:
The upgrade broke my Google stuff inc the launcher so spflashtool to get CWM back on, then reflashed the slim_mini_gapps and all good again!
[K3 Note General] neverhood11:
Just testing it now... Google Play services stopped working after installing..all you need to do is wipe cache of google play services.

Gaming is much better then 1534, even better then 1533...testing with Soulcraft, in 1533 was lagging a lot after couple of minutes playing. In other custom roms couldn`t play it at all. In 1535 still smooth after 30 minutes of playing..
[K3 Note General] SteveCoops:
Didn't think of trying to clear the cache so I went a bit nuclear on it :)

Not sure what built I last run AnTuTu on (think it was S121 ROW) but 1535 gives about 500 more points - the storage I/O has doubled from 1011 to 2146. The other scores are all pretty similar.
[K3 Note General] neverhood11:
Antutu score was higher in 1533 but as I wrote before, gaming is better now.. Didn`t have any other problems so far..
[K3 Note General] chat1978:
I have a problem with limonchello.

My setup is two SIM cards. First is normally from Belgium and second from Greece.

My country of residence is Belgium.

Yesterday I landed in Greece and the only data I could get was edge.

I thought to change the roms. First one is now from Greece but still only edge connection.

If I disable the second SIM from Belgium I can't even click on the preferred network connection types, to change from LTE only to other variations.

That means that somehow my phone thinks that the Belgium one as the only capable for lte. Regardless of position. Also if I change the preferred network type then the Belgium one gets disconnected although it is on roaming functionality.

Same Greek SIM card worked last year with 3g. This year it won't even do that.

I've searched everywhere on the phone and I can't find a more relevant setting. I even looked into mtk tools but when I click on other network types it doesn't change it.

Please help me out with ideas because I don't want to spend vacation with this slow internet

Sent from my Lenovo K50-t5 using Forum Runner
[K3 Note General] digitaldr:
Is there any prospect of an ASOP ROM with working dt2w and working notification led (not as important to me)?
[K3 Note General] chat1978:
Short update, the problem was fixed after removing the Belgium sim and booting. The role of the lte capable SIM is now given to the Greek SIM.

Btw it doesn't matter in which location it is or whether you have the Belgium sim also working.

Currently it's as if I never changed the ports. First Belgium second Greek.I suppose when I get to Belgium I'll have to remove Greek, boot , make sure the lte"right" is given to the Belgium sim and then re insert the Greek SIM to complete the transition.

At least I hope that will happen.

Sent from my Lenovo K50-t5 using Forum Runner
[K3 Note General] mike_1983:
Hi

I have installed the cwm recovery/supersu and installed Nexus AOSP Rom however when I get to the end of the setup screen its saying Unfortunately Setup Wizard has stopped working and it goes back to the start again, I can't start the phone!

Thanks
[K3 Note General] Scorchgid:
Try the following no guarantees btw

Go into recovery, wipe / factory reset

Regards flash rom

Make sure you're able to connect to a wifi point
[K3 Note General] mickey78:
Hey guys with Nexus ROM can you confirm if the dialer included in the ROM can be used for Internet calls ? Hopefully you know what I mean but if they are not using the ****ty Lenovo dialer there may be an option in there for "Internet calling" or "SIP calling". Thanks

For those who know what I am talking about, if you know in what ROM to get that please talk!! :)

Thank you all
[K3 Note General] Scorchgid:
As far as I can see and I've been looking I do not believe you can. You may be able to do it with a third party app from google play but you'll have to do research for that yourself.

I believe the lenovo official rom had it.
[K3 Note General] mickey78:
Yeah right now I use Zoiper which work pretty well but I was looking for a full integration so it works with my Pebble watch when receiving calls.

No the official 153* serie uses Lenovo dialer which does not include voip.
[K3 Note General] skek:
I'm trying to root my k3 note following page 1 steps, but in the last step phone boots in "lenovo recovery" and not in cwm.

any idea?

my rom is VIBEUI_V2.8_1530_7.131.1_DEV_K50-T5 (lollipop 5.1)
[K3 Note General] mike_1983:
I tried something similar but tried what you said anyway and it didn't work. I was able to get it working by flashing another rom, going through the setup and then not wiping and just flashing the nexus rom, it said optimising apps then started up, I went to erase phone in settings just to see what would happen, it started the setup again and crashed again. I found one other person mention this problem on needrom but no one answered him/her.

Any other good roms to use other than nexus?

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Did you flash the recovery.img in the folder "Minimal ADB and Fastboot" that you should have downloaded?
[K3 Note General] k@iserex:
He has. He is not pushing proper button combo to get into custom recovery, that's all. Its a common mistake that many users do, which is kinda weird of all the tutorials, pictured and videos explaining what needs to be done and how.
[K3 Note General] Scorchgid:
I tried the Lemon rom which was okay. Think it's listed in the index thread.

It has xposed with gravity box pre installed

The only issues I remember was it crashes if you try to play facebook videos and what I personally didn't like a lower resolution.
[K3 Note General] rohitshakti:
I have recently bought lenovo K3 note. I have put in a 32gb micro sd card in it but ES explorer is not showing the sd card details. But in storage it is there.:confused:

I also tried connecting OTG, it mounted but I was not able to see that too in the ES explorer.:confused:

This phone is not rooted.

Please help....:rolleyes:
[K3 Note General] hackerpower:
which rom do you have?

do you have write permissions to external sd card?

Sent from Hacker's K50-T5
[K3 Note General] okahdidi:
It's technical but it works, just follow the instructions carefully.

1. Flash the ROM via sp flashtools.

2. Once done,flash cwm or twrp, once successful, pull out the battery. Fix the battery back and boot to cwm by holding the vol up n down keys and power button.

3. Navigate to SuperSU and flash, once successful, don't reboot, just pull out your battery and insert back and on your phone. Do what u want with the phone rooted.

4. Once done,flash back only lenovo stock recovery,once successful, reboot right away to recovery mode by holding the vol up and down keys and power button.

5.Once it goes to recovery, just reboot directly from the recovery.

6. Go to SuperSU and uninstall completely,if not successful, go to storage and change location to SD card,after the phone reboot, uninstall it,if not successful change to phone memory under settings/storage. Once it reboot, go to SuperSU and uninstall, it will uninstall, then just reboot your phone,u will no longer see your SuperSU app.

7. Now go to system update and update via ota. It won't fail.

8. Follow the instructions Carefully and come thank me later.

9. Good luck
[K3 Note General] rohitshakti:
As told above, this phone is not rooted and the stock ROM is installed....

Do i need write permissions to external sd card (normally it should work)....as in other phones....

Please tell me for my knowledge, how much RAM were you able to release in the ROM made and installed?

regards
[K3 Note General] wanthom:
I tried many ROMs, but I have one BIG problem with wifi. Wifi is connected normally. After little time wifi connection stop work, like wifi lag. When I turned off and on wifi connection on K3 Note, wifi work again for some little time. I tried Cuoco92 ROMs, ROMMaestroXancin, and some other ROMs with same problem.

I tried it on another wifi network, with same problem. It is not problem of router, other devices work with wifi with no problem.

Maybe it is hardware problem, or I do something wrong?

Please help.
[K3 Note General] rohitshakti:
Yes this is a proven problem in Lenovo K3 note....
[K3 Note General] Klotz_66:
use row rom 121 indian, deinstall original mailclient, which interfers with gmail (forceclosing), uninstall all apps like truecaller and others and an android.partner.tc app, which could be a rest of bloatware from truecaller. after this procedure: k3 works great here in germany (hsdpa+ t-online). no flaws at all, i got some sometimes before i uninstalled android.partner.tc and the mailclient. the 5.0 system isnt so fast like the optimized chineserom above 1533, i dont care, tried spiderman from the indian rom for a minute, fluent gameplay, no lags. dont setup the deep powersavings, these caused flaws in my indian rom (only in english language). k3 rulez, using whatsapp, hangouts, facebook, even notification-led works.

Gesendet von meinem LIFETAB_S831X mit Tapatalk
[K3 Note General] Pe3ball:
Hello. Just to inform you today Lenovo finally released 1535 stable vibeui 2.8 and it is of course Android 5.1 !
[K3 Note General] aariss:
Cannot wait to try...

Hope they solved the issue with intl code + number...
[K3 Note General] Rakesh251:
is there any one have link for this rom:confused:
[K3 Note General] Pe3ball:
Yes here it is http://4pda.ru/pages/go/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fyadi.sk%2Fd%2FaI1NyFVBingHU

If it has slow speed just register and add it to yandex disk. Enjoy. ;)
[K3 Note General] okahdidi:
To you only.
[K3 Note General] wanthom:
okahdidi: I dont understand what you want to say... To you wifi works fine?

I have TWRP recovery with Cuoco92 ROM, and I want to try this new 1535 ST ROM, but recovery dont allow install it.

I dont understand differences. Is simple way to change it?
[K3 Note General] k@iserex:
Here we go again! Let's all repeat after me:

You need to clean the updater script inside the .zip file. If you don't know what I'm talking about this ROM is not for you.

But mehhh, it really should be under every single post as a safe measure. Go figure!
[K3 Note General] hackerpower:
Posts that ask the same thing over and over again i just ignore them, go figure.

Sent from Hacker's K50-T5

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No problems here on VibeUI

Sent from Hacker's K50-T5
[K3 Note General] SteveCoops:
Upgrading now. Still Chinese writing all over the place though!

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No problems with Wifi on my 1535 VibeUI either.
[K3 Note General] Honusnap:
Someone flashed this ?
[K3 Note General] Pe3ball:
I will in a while.I shall post my impressions ;)
[K3 Note General] SteveCoops:
Argh forgot it wipes the phone and resets everything... loads of bloatware again with the stable 1535 and no Google play services.

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SP_Flash the CWM recovery, reboot with three buttons, install Slim_mini_gapps.BETA.5.1.build.0.x-20150820.zip, reboot and Google play is back working. Now just need to install everything again.

Does anyone have a list of what I should remove bloatware wise? I blindly remove things then things like dialler or SMS or camera stop working.
[K3 Note General] Scorchgid:
No we just have terrible memories!
[K3 Note General] okahdidi:
There are no WiFi problems on official ROMs
[K3 Note General] kavena78:
How to flash the official ROM 1535. Through custom recovery or stock or sptool?
[K3 Note General] Anami101:
Can you tell me how to fix the internal and external storage issue, mate? :)
[K3 Note General] Anami101:
Hey, man, can you tell me how to solve the internal and external storage issue?
[K3 Note General] aariss:
Of course, this isn't row rom...

Agreed... Mine no issue on row rom too...

cwm/twrp...
[K3 Note General] k@iserex:
I have changed a setting in storage options from SD card to phone storage, its working...
[K3 Note General] raghuM:
So will this method work for the Indian version(k50a40)?
[K3 Note General] Anami101:
I did that too but apps like WhatsApp and Twitter are still using SD card to store data. Weird. :(
[K3 Note General] hackerpower:
Terrible memories = Lazy
[K3 Note General] mike_1983:
I'm using the cuoco92 1.12 ROM does anyone know if its spyware free? I imagine it is?
[K3 Note General] k@iserex:
Yeahh, its not like the info is gone, so its more of a lazyness...
[K3 Note General] vonuzu:
What issue? Do you mean this?
[K3 Note General] aariss:
Yes... When I'm on vibeui, contact unable to recognize due to address book is 11 digit.

Chg to 11 also failed maybe due to my contacts start from "+" in front
[K3 Note General] goose25:
Where is this menu accessible from? I have tried inputting '####682#' into the dialer, but nothing happens.
[K3 Note General] paddypm:
rooted vibe ui 2.8

Hi

I am on vibeui v2.8 1532_7.160. Please advise which is the latest rooted Vibeui 2.8 rom. Is it 1535 and where can I find the download.

Cheers

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Also, please advise if secured zone is working in 1532. The option is not available in my k3 note. I have v2.8 1532_7.160.
[K3 Note General] vonuzu:
Change it to recognize by 7

Go in the dialer, go to the last option found, and than call settings. Select recognize by 7.
[K3 Note General] goose25:
Awesome. I can't believe I didn't notice that last tab before. Thank you!
[K3 Note General] rohitshakti:
What is this release shared above :

https://yadi.sk/d/aI1NyFVBingHU

Has lenovo officially released android 5.1 in India for K3 Note ?
[K3 Note General] jumaxas:
UP VIBEUI_V2.8_1536_7.222.1_DEV_K50-T5 http://www.vibeui.com/vibeui/rom?key=K50

But GAPPS not working...
[K3 Note General] vonuzu:
Use 5.1 gapps.
[K3 Note General] jumaxas:
FIX problems with this gapps only:

These 2 gapps are known to work https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934548933 (minimal) http://fitsnugly.euroskank.com/?rom=banks&device=gapps (full).

Thanks user: gtr33m
[K3 Note General] E.U.A:
I use this one and works perfect.

https://github.com/cgapps/vendor_google/tree/builds/arm64
[K3 Note General] DanielDEV:
I had the same problem. You just need to install mini slim and than wipe it with titan.
[K3 Note General] ArusChandran:
Files Missing !

The two files SuperSu and Minimal ADB & Fastboot + K3 Note Recovery (CWM) is missing inMEGA. Can somebody please share it?
[K3 Note General] stephendt0:
The Nexus 8 ROM (http://www.needrom.com/download/nexus-8/comment-page-8/#comment-189958) is really close to being perfect for our device. Super fast, no bugs (apart from DT2W and LED) and good battery life. I'm wondering if anyone with some experience with ROMs would be interested in implementing some fixes I've found permanently into this ROM? If so let me know and I'll whip up a dedicated thread for this ROM :)
[K3 Note General] Yerry:
Does Glonass work?
[K3 Note General] achmav:
Here there is all you need plus TWRP 2.8.7.0 by Cuoco92

https://mega.nz/#!BsIiiR4S!oAnzLFzC4HAW-4s6XH0yVz0NMDOcSqI73N4JLRHOSQE
[K3 Note General] ArusChandran:
It says 'Temporary Error" while trying to download through my browser. :(

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Can you share it in DropBox ? Mega server is highly unstable unlike DropBox.
[K3 Note General] achmav:
All files for modding K3 note

Here is everything you need ;)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_B_GG_tubpfRFYyRmZ3eEo3LVk/view?usp=sharing

Tanks to kangel
[K3 Note General] stephendt0:
Yes, but there are some other issues with the ROM.
[K3 Note General] almir1984:
Where I can find Lenovo Theme Center for this phone.
[K3 Note General] fakapocket:
struggling with K3 note

Friends,

I am new to this forum as well as ROM world... kicking myself for selling Redmi1S as this forum could help me to stick into it with all new ROMS... anyway, went for k3 Note and unfortunately, brought it from China.

Now, my problem is I got the phone on August... VIBE UI with 5.0... tried to root it with iroot, king root, ADP, PADNET,fastboot - etc... all went into failure... fall in love with Limecello ... JinLin edition.. but did not able to root it...

I am from India but Based out of Saudi Arabia due to a IT project... All of a suddent, in late August my phone was updated OTA into VIBE UI with 5.1... I loved it... I am feeling helpless as there is no contacts in the phone, whatsapp is also affected, chinese dialer, Absence of google play services

Interestingly google map, GMail, Chrome is working out of the lenovo store...

I badly need Google store ... I can still work out with chinese dialer but like this, as my mexican friend criticizes me... its piece of **** without any resale value.

Also, I am too old and too busy to invest 8 hours behind my phone... I never did any customization before... please guide me with patience ... I badly need ur help...:eek:
[K3 Note General] RAM LILA:
Cool & very help full..............:laugh: