yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sgarbi1971:
[MENTION=5106992]hackerpower[/MENTION]

You have greatly helped beginners, then ask you for help.

I have a device purchased in China with version 1528, only turned on and updated to 1528, no root, nothing.

How do I install your Nandroid (ROW)? Can you give details?

I believe that:

First I have to use FlashTool to put the TWRP, but then what do I do? Root? or just put your Nandroid? Or have to put the entire ROW ROM?

In TWRP how I do?

Thanks in advance.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brhooma:
International ROM is way better and and more feature-rich than lemoncehelo . it has almost identical features to the vibeui 2.5.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jerres:
I'd use the ADB method (which can be found in the OP of the original thread, http://xdaforums.com/android/development/ufficial-thread-lenovo-k3-note-t3102997) to flash the TWRP custom recovery and then flash the ROW ROM through TWRP. Hackerpower uploaded the ROW ROM in TWRP restore format. Apparently the OP in the original thread isn't updated, so here you can find the things you need:

https://www.reddit.com/r/lenovok3note/wiki/rootcustom for TWRP recovery, take the one that says 'TWRP 2.8.7.0 (by cheshkin & SevenMaxs)'.

https://www.reddit.com/r/lenovok3note/wiki/stockroms for the ROW ROM.

Of course you can also use Flashtools to flash the ROM, but with the method mentioned above, you'll obviously also get custom recovery which can be used to flash SuperSU (rooting your phone) and easy to use backup and restore features. After you flashed TWRP recovery, I'd make a backup so you can always restore your phone in case of an error during flashing the new ROM.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x-rules:
Hello all,

It is really a pleasure to see such techie people at one stop.

I am an absolutely noob and fortunately an owner of K3 Note. I just rooted the phone through KingRoot, flashed a custom recovery (TWRP) and installed a custom rom (Limenchelo). Now, I need to install the Lenovo K3 Note (Indian Version ROM) or i think that's what you are calling ROW ROM. Can somebody help me out on how to do it?

Thank you everyone out there!
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
Please do tell me which features does the Indian rom has that Limonchelo doesn't...?

I posted a few posts back a TWRP backup of the Indian ROW rom updated and rooted, look for it (always backup first).
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Scorchgid:
I have asked in another thread but I figured I'd ask here as well.

I am unable to flash recovery Every time I do I get

FAILED (remote: download for partition 'recovery' is not allowed)

If I try to use OEM Unlock I get

FAILED (remote: Unlock operation is not allowed)

I don't know what to do to fix it. [MENTION=5106992]hackerpower[/MENTION] suggested SPF tools but I am not sure what to do with it.

I have installed recovery on it in the past but since installing a new rom (through lenovo update application) I am unable to reinstall recovery.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shrihari123:
I get the same problem also man.. Try using cellular data.. I get the notifications that way. With WiFi I don't get the notifications. Maybe one of the bug of the ROW ROM might get solved with future updates or might not. In the meantime use cellular data. I do lots of WhatsApp and that's what I do. For browsing I just switch to WiFi. Chill relax. It will get solved or there will be some other ROM which solves it. Let's wait and see.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jerres:
Did you run the code below to unlock the bootloader?

fastboot oem unlock

What does it say when you run this command?

fastboot oem device-info
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Scorchgid:
In regards to the first command

fastboot oem device-info

>fastboot oem unlock

...

(bootloader) Start unlock flow

FAILED (remote: Unlock operation is not allowed) finished. total time: 5.053s

In regards to the second command

>fastboot oem device-info

...

FAILED (remote: unknown command) finished. total time: 0.006s
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
All k3 note have unlocked bootloader!

Flash recovery through SP flashtool!

You're unable to flash recovery through fastboot due to a file in stock rom that blocks it and reflashes stock recovery at boot.

Sent from Hacker's K50-t5
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Scorchgid:
Okay and I could I have some instructions to Flash recovery through SP flash tool.

Because A I am finding instructions to remove the battery and plug it in. In which case it does nothing till I put the battery back in.

And B although it does flash (see attached picture)

[IMG="Spftool K3 note"]http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3408342&stc=1&d=1437147303[/IMG]

Still booting to stock recovery
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
1. To start flashing in SP Flash Tool, you have to connect turned off phone while holding Vol + (no need to take the battery off)

2. Which version of SP Flash Tool are you using?

3. Which recovery are you using/flashing?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Scorchgid:
1. Tried that no different results.

2. 5.1436.00.000 (I've been trying other version also)

3. I don't know as the file is just called recovery.img
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uan:
1. get twrp recovery and extract the .rar file. download here: https://userscloud.com/j2d8swzh18h9

2. get supersu .zip file, save to phone. download here: https://download.chainfire.eu/696/SuperSU/

3. open spftool. click scatter loading > select MT6752_Android_scatter.txt from \K3_Note_TWRP\

4. click download

5. switch off phone. remove sim & sd card

6. connect phone to pc. spftool will start flashing

7. flashing successful when the green circle pops up

8. disconnect phone. DO NOT POWER ON. enter recovery (vol up + vol down + power)

9. install supersu .zip file

10. reboot system and verify supersu app is properly installed

11. install your preferred recovery via flashify
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jerres:
Out of curiosity, is this the case with phones from certain vendors or it's not like that?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lsiung:
Help me please .....

Dear friends,

I received Lenovo K3 Note 1 month ago, I buy via ebay.

I just realize my phone just quad core not octa core. :(:(:(:confused::(:(

Somebody can help me please.

thanks alots before.

Asiung
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Scorchgid:
This worked thank you very much!!!
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
No need to remove sim and sd card. The problem was from the recovery he was using obviously. Also if i connect my turned off phone to flash nothing happens, i have to hold vol+ before connecting.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eyjeylovessoonkyu:
BootAnimation

Good Day, just wanna ask for a boot up animation compatible/usable with this device. I'm specifically looking for the default Lenovo boot animation( the one the says "for those who do", the one with red bars on the lower right side of the Lenovo logo on the middle).

When I first got the device I was seeing that kind of animation, but since the phones modified ROM is so bloated i decided to flash the latest official Vibe UI 2.5 which is in CN/EN language, and the Lenovo animation was overwritten with the VIBE UI Animation(which shows a lot of Chinese characters). Luckily, the phone is already rooted(pretty much got rid of some Chinese apps and replaced them with English 3rd party apps, and gapps are also flashed), the only Chinese thingy that I notice is the boot up animation of that VIBE UI 2.5.

Please help me on this mates, If you guys need more info, I'll gladly provide :) Thank you in advance.

----------------------------------------------------------Problem Solved-------------------------------------------------------------------------
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shrihari123:
That is seriously strange!

That is something strange man.. I don't why its showing like that. I am no expert but I am sure someone out here will help you. We got such awesome guys supporting so don't worry. Try to install a custom ROM or the ROW ROM and then check. That is some absurd error. Try to post the same in the official thread Lenovo K3 note [CWM/Root].
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lsiung:
Help Me Please

Dear friends,

I received Lenovo K3 Note 1 month ago, I buy via ebay.

I just realize my phone just quad core not octa core.

Somebody can help me please.

thanks alots before.

Asiung
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jerasimo:
It looks like photoshop to me. But if it isnt no problem. The 8cores of this device are only marketing! You will se a benefit only in benchmarks becouse i real life 4cores are more the enough. So if the ram and gpu (cores) are the same.. Dont worry and be happy!
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlightGod:
:good:
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NewproK3:
Lenovo K3 Note mirrorenabler without Root

Hi, Im trying to mirror my phone screen to my Smart TV without any external dongles I know this can be done on most Samsung phones however I'd like to mirror my Lenovo K3 note's screen to the TV.

I have tried many apps available in the play store but they only manage to cast multimedia on TV. I've come across Mirrorenabler app on this forum which requires root and idk how to root and if i do root would i able to unroot ?

Can this be done without rooting and if not can apps like kingroot and super-root be used to root and unroot the phone ? pls help
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B2Pi:
LimonChello

I finally got around to installing LimonChello. I even removed the virus that comes on it. Of course, since a hacked or modified version of TiBackup is there, I can't put my own licensed version on. Also, for some reason, there's an odd browser (MaxThon) installed in the system, which has a run at startup attribute. No thanks, back to my de bloated stock.

I do wish that the CM and/or AOSP would get moved around a little farther to production level.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
You don't know how to remove system apps?

And disable auto run of apps at boot?

Use sd maid or xposed module to do all that.

Every rom out there has to be heavily modded to be something decent IMO.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbaker6212:
Gizchina K50-t5 K3 Note ROM tutorial

This may be redundant for this forum but just FYI if there is anything new here or errors/corrections that are needed.

Gizchina K3 ROM tutorial: gizchina.com/2015/07/19/tutorial-stock-rom-cwm-google-play-lenovo-k3-note-k50-t5/
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B2Pi:
Of course I know how to do that. Removing all of TitaniumBackup was beyond me (preventing me from installing my own). My issue is why these things are there. I'd like a simply clean ROM
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
There's no such thing as a perfect rom, but if you want a "clean" rom as you say, get the official indian rom (K50a40_S112_150610_ROW) from my index thread (check my sig).
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NewproK3:
Anybody ??
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WearySky:
Sounds like you got a counterfeit. Might want to try to get your money back.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbaker6212:
Except for programmers and tweakers, I think this whole ROM subject is just absurd. Lenovo is dropping the ball big-time for not having more control over the quality of the software their vendors/partners are shipping with their phones. It's gotta hurt their reputation, if not sales. Do they actually expect the majority of their customers to be able to, or WANT to, learn about all this ROM, flashing, rooting, backup/restore bull****??? These are not gadgets for nerds, they are phones - consumer electronic products sold to the general public. Lenovo needs to pull their head out of their ass. [/rant]
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WearySky:
This phone is primarily aimed at the Chinese market. Out of the box with the stock stable ROMs, it's perfectly usable for the vast majority of Chinese users. "The majority of their customers" (ie in China) don't need to bother with any of that nonsense, because they don't need Google Apps, they don't need to root it to remove all the unusable Chinese apps (because they're actually usable for them), etc etc. Which is why when they launched it outside of China (in India), the stock ROM is similarly without need of rooting, flashing, custom ROMs, etc. It's virtually bloat-free.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbaker6212:
So these sites that are and were selling outside China, prior to the India release, was without the consent of Lenovo? The thing that is annoying about this is that these vendors don't tell the user about any of this. They make claims like "comes with the latest multi-language ROM" and everyone assumes that this is a real/formal and stable OS release, not some garbage they whipped up themselves. It's really deceptive. I think a lot of people would not have bought these phones if they knew the state of the software on the phone - and especially that it does not OTA update. And all these supposed reviews on Youtube are even worse. Most of them are nothing more than sales/marketing spam - deceptive at best. I think people need to start leaving negative messages on all of these "unboxing" videos. They're just retarded. Who cares? Give us some real reviews. Test the actual features and functions and stop hiding the flaws and misleading people.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] technievimal:
Why the lenovo K3-note getting too heat & zooming of images not done. . .?

:rolleyes:
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
Well it seems you just woke up now to the real world, welcome!

[MENTION=5456708]WearySky[/MENTION] already said everything.

But think this way, if you were a company of smartphones and someone bought like 1000 phones from you in China and then put them on their site for sale and said this and that about it what did your company had to do with it? The one that is selling the phone to you with false statements as you say is the online shop and not you/your company.

BTW 88% of the internet content is SH*T or fake, wake up, use your brain and research, research, research, research, research before you buy something online. Check the foruns of people that already have and use the equipment you want, etc.

Even major companies, that rip off their customers because of high profits and advertisements, that claim their OS is perfect and without flaws (bloatware) and that get lifetime OTA updates, have major hardware/software problems (Apple/Samsung, etc).

Live and learn.

---------- Post added at 10:41 ---------- Previous post was at 10:38 ----------

[/COLOR]

You'll have to translate what you mean better than that.

The phone is getting too hot in which situation? You can't zoom which images? In which app?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WearySky:
No, these online stores are not official Lenovo resellers. Which is why if your phone breaks, you have to go to Gearbest (or whomever you bought it from) for warranty instead of going to Lenovo. Other companies *do* team up with these stores to be official retail channels (Ulefone and Elephone, for example, have both done flash sale promotions with several of the online Chinese stores), but Lenovo has not. And an unboxing video is just that - an unboxing video. Why would you think it's a review? I don't understand it, but it seems to be a thing that people like watching.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nombreestun:
I am on stock Indian rom. I had rooted, but now have unrooted, flashed stock recovery. But I am unable to update via OTA. The OTA update fails for me. Any solutions?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WearySky:
How does it fail?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veepe:
LP and rooting?

I'm thinking of getting one.

On a seller web site there's a warning

"NOTICE:Don't root K3 note with android 5.0 version, because once do it , will lead to a large number of flash back program or make it an error ,even have affect on lenovo own camera application.So we don't root this model.Thanks ."

Is this true?

LP is officially supported or is it custom rom?

Any rom without any problems (bt 4 example).

I also need a Multi language rom..

Problems with custom recoveries?

Lastly, what's the best video recording mode this device is capable, 1080/30fps?

Thanks guys.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DonnPedro:
My used ROM for K3 Note

I am also a newbie on the K3 Note. Since Saturday it's my treasure.

I got it with a V2.5_1512_5.495.1 Rom from Germany, all Languages -incl. deutsch.

First I root my phone for Titanium. (use Kingroot)

Than I test a flock of roms.

AOSP_V4_XANCIN (good one)

++[LiMoNcHeLo NovAMoD MDSTeam VibeAosP]++ (no german)

++LiMoNcHeLo 5.1 MDSTeam MoD++

SenSation_Rom

At least I'm happy with this one:

[SIZE="5"[U][COLOR="Red"]]LENOVO_K3_LOLLIPOP_5.1_1529-DEV_ROW_v1.7_CUOCO92.zip[/COLOR][/U][/SIZE]

Nice Rom. Think I use it a longer time.

By the way. I read a longer time here in the Forums for the Lenovo. It helps me a lot, to make my decision.

Her are working good people for our hobby. Thanks a lot to all.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WearySky:
If you root, it seems to break OTA updates. At least, I haven't been able to get OTA updates working when rooted. Lollipop is officially supported. The ROW rom is the best rom to use, IMO - no Chinese bloatware, supports many languages (not sure what language you need, though), and Google Apps included.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nombreestun:
The download happens and it goes to recovery there at the end of the process a big cross appears.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
Can you turn on flashlight in quick settings?

Can you install Xposed framework?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nombreestun:
Can someone please post the stock recovery of the indian rom?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DonnPedro:
1. No. I can't. It makes a little noise, but no light. After that it says

"Notification Center" wurde leider beendet.

But with "Power Toogles" on my Screen it works.

2. I Tried it with some other Rom before and it makes my Symbols dizzy.

So I don't want that with my running system. It's nice enough.

If I get bored, perhaps I will give it a try. ;)
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Barnlord:
Hallo,

I bought the K3 Note from minideal.net a fews weeks ago. It came prerooted and with gapps on it. (I managed to deactivate preinstalled apps like Youtube or Chrome, cause they were not as the original ones, which I installed afterwards)

I flashed CWM Recovery on it like described in the first post, its still rooted (I didn't use the rooting method explained in the first post, it just was still rooted after I rebooted and checked it with root checker) and everything is still working as before. (I already made a backup, I hope this CWM is not the one that wont let you restore the backup I made)

Now I was looking for an International/ROW Version for the phone but I just cant find any link where to download it. At some point I read that the chinese version of VibeUI is 2.8 but the ROW VibeUI Version is at 2.5 at the moment. I also found this site while searching the forum: ht tps://ww w.reddit.com/r/lenovok3note/wiki/stockroms There is a Flashtool format link and a TWRP Restore format link. I wanted to download the Flashtool format Version cause its the recommended one, but unfortunatley I cant get the download to start. So I downloaded the TWRP Restore format, but I am not sure if that is what I'm looking for or if I can flash it with CWM too. I read that the VibeUI is still the best, fastest, stable Version to use. The only download link I found for the VibeUI is this: ht tp://w ww.vibeui.com/vibeui/rom?key=k3%20note but that's the 2.8 Version, so its the chinese Version I guess.

(I made some spaces in my links cause I cant post outside links)

Can you provide me with a downloadlink with either the international VibeUI or International Rom for K3 Note? (Or are those the same?)

Somehow I'm little confused after all the reading in the last couple of hours.

Thank you very much in advance!

Daniel
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nombreestun:
Please someone help me -- I am on Indian rom. I have unrooted but OTA fails. It gets downloaded but after it enters recovery, it shows a progress bar but then it fails. What could be wrong?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DonnPedro:
to barnlord

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

It's all there. Thanks to hackerpower. Great Job.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Barnlord:
[MENTION=3970824]DonnPedro[/MENTION]

omg, wow, how could I not have seen this thread...

thank you so much!
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WearySky:
Here you go:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzD-ObA3Z-NjaF9fVVozRWowSjQ/view?usp=sharing

Note that I tried re-flashing the stock recovery on my rooted/custom recovery K3... And it failed miserably. Update installed, but then it just got stuck at the boot logo on reboot. So, this may or may not work for you.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nombreestun:
Thanks! But has anyone flashed stock recovery and successfully received the latest Indian OTA?

Also, if I do a factory reset, would I get back the stock recovery?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uan:
Nope. I did reflash the s112 recovery img. After the 296Mb download, failed halfway updating at recovery.

*I did reflash again from ROW s112, ota update to s114, and then to s117. Re root and restore data from twrp. Very time consuming. Not recommended.

I dont think so. It will wipe data and reset system. Your recovery remains.

If you are on cmw or twrp, why not try update using the s117 zip file. Somebody share it here (or in the other forum)
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nombreestun:
Did you get the recovery img directly from the ROW rom? I don't want to flash the cwm/twrp s117.zip file simply because it's too large -- the OTA is around 300MB but the zip file is 3 times the size.

Can I download the OTA update.zip from somewhere so that I don't have to keep downloading from within the phone in case the OTA fails?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dude_creative:
Any noticeable improvement in the OTA update of 296MB ? I cannot see changelog anywhere.

I am also rooted , with CWM.. dont want to hassle with OTA after unrooting unless it is really worth.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dominjav43:
Hi

Is there any way we can update system app Nova Launcher?
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
If you want 300MB of games/bloatware the 117 OTA is great! I will post a debloated TWRP backup of the indian rom with 117 OTA later.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nombreestun:
I tried flashing stock rom with SP flash tool but now the device is not booting up. Nothing comes up on the screen -- the screen doesn't even light up. Please help!

Update: after checking the option "DA DL ALL with Checksum" in SPF tool and flashing the ROW rom, the device booted up!
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blazeblaze456:
I am currently using Lenovo K3 Note Indian Version (K50a40 model) with Vibe UI Version 2.0

I want to ask you that is it safe to flash the rom version :"VIBEUI_V2.8_1529_7.114.1_DEV_K50-T5_WCC1" on my K50a40 (K3 Note Indian version?) This rom I have downloaded from www.vibeui.com. Is it a stable rom? Please reply.

Thanks.
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MOATTAR.220:
update failure K50a40_S117_150706_ROW @kangel

unable to update is it because i uninstalled system app , have touch recovery , rooted the phone ???
[K3 Note Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skylouros:
Hi,

It's a long time since I last logged in here and I do need to find a way to flash a ROM into my Lenovo K3 Note. I see this thread here but it's huge! My question is "is there any thread that gathers all ROMS for a specific phone along with the comments of the users"? If not, It's very difficult to follow the history of which ROMs exist, which ones have bugs or not etc. Now, I do need a ROM which has no serious bugs and is somehow not so old.

Thank you.