yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[K3 Note General] Fexo:
Video of Indian Version

http://indianexpress.com/article/te...-to-launch-k3-note-on-june-25-under-rs-10000/

In this video you can see that the Play Store is already installed and that there is an icon with "Google" on it which must contain most of the Google apps.
[K3 Note General] jimmyln:
With reference to my previous post on spyware APK, it seems like the Limonchelo ROM is affected. as well. The spyware APK is located at

/system/app/LenovoServer/LenovoServer.apk

.

At this point, I'm inclined to believe many of the custom roms (besides AOSPv3 and Limonchelo) here are infected as well. To see if you are affected, install a package name viewer app like this one and look for "com.system.analytics.cpa".
[K3 Note General] Fexo:
Is this anything to do with the Lenovo Experience that you can choose to participate in (or not)?
[K3 Note General] aariss:
How about "VibeUI by Xancin Moded Flashtools" ?

http://www.movilesdualsim.com/tema/vibeui-by-xancin-moded-flashtools.101236/

Anyone willing to try ?

Android 5.1 or VibeUI 2.8 on 1526 Dev ROM

http://phonedl.ota.lenovomm.com/dls/v6/VIBEUI_V2.8_1526_7.80.1_DEV_K50-T5_WC06.zip

http://club.lenovo.com.cn/lefen/bbs/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=222939&extra=page=1
[K3 Note General] hackerpower:
Hi guys,

I have discovered a bug when using Greenify with Xposed framework.

Everytime you restart your phone all the checkboxes under experimental features get unchecked and i have to recheck them all again.

Is there anybody else with this same issue?

LiMoNcHeLo NovAMoD MDSTeam VibeAosP rom already has Dolby Atmos

Don't like it very much, not very user friendly or should i say, impossible to set the equalizer as i want.

I'm now trying to find a decent music player and equalizer/sound mod...

The sound through the loudspeaker is excellent, but in the headphones it doesn't come out very loud nor sharp, it seems a bit muffled.

Needs modding!
[K3 Note General] jerasimo:
It's not "a more international".. It is the International row version! Lets hope that dolby atmos is only a software. And that the phones are the same. So we can flash the row firmware too. I just cant wait to flash it! Have you seen anywhere the exact name of the indian version. Is it k50-t5 too?
[K3 Note General] superforever360:
Is it may because this ROM is base on VIBEUI 2.5 the original ROM?

Anyone can confirm the stock ROM also have this apk?

I have just deleted it anyway and need a reboot.
[K3 Note General] narithlot:
does the rom come with gapps?
[K3 Note General] zeeshanonlyme:
Hopefully i will be getting the K3 on next weeks flash sale. One question though. Why isnt there a dedicated thread for the K3?

And how is the audio output from the phone speakers?

Thanx
[K3 Note General] narithlot:
i just brought this phone from ebay and cannot wait to get, but i was wondering how do i flash a custom rom? is it like all the others with custom recovery? backup - wipe- and,- then flash?
[K3 Note General] goose25:
So if we do have this" infection", what is the best course of action?
[K3 Note General] superforever360:
Scanned with avast, malwarebytes, avg. So nothing special only reported USB debugging, root, unknown source. Limonchel rom here.
[K3 Note General] sinapcs:
I didn't test these roms and I will not because after 2 weeks of rom testing finally I am happy with limonchelo.

I think this limonchelo rom is ported from elephone P6000. because it's default bluetooth name is elephone P6000 and it shows the battery capacity 2700mAh in apps like cpu-z or battery monitor widget.
[K3 Note General] superforever360:
According to the developer thread it said "Source of the original ROM: http://www.nanjs.cn/post/58.html" which is the original Lenovo VIBEUI 2.5.

http://www.movilesdualsim.com/tema/limonchelo-novamod-mdsteam-vibeaosp.104741/
[K3 Note General] aariss:
Maybe add the site in hosts file & point to 127.0.0.1

Yup...

This hp is not so glamour so this is its dedicated thread. Speaker is loud enough...

Which ROM ? All custom ROM come with GAPPS...

Yup... even when u turn on the hotspot also show elephone P6000...

But that rom is new version of vibe_ui which is 2.8 and loaded with lolipop 5.1
[K3 Note General] bazabaza:
As has been indicated earlier in the thread. This is a system file and therefore it is not removable unless you have system (root) access. (if anyone knows better I defer to greater knowledge) If you have root access there are several apps that will do it. I use titanium backup because you can identify the app freeze it and see if it causes an issue, then delete it. I did this and there was not unwanted effects as far as I can see.
[K3 Note General] blastoise91:
Does Lemonchelo have Dolby?

I remember that Sensation rom have that and sound is better then AOSP.

I'm downloading Lemonchelo now to try :)

Edit: there is dolby, i see on spanish forum.
[K3 Note General] geminihc:
sorry for the newbie questions. i currently have CWM on this but want to install TWRP or CWM Philz version, can i get any versions of these and flash it in fastboot? or does it have to be a specific version made for k3 note?
[K3 Note General] arefin_sajib:
i installed the CWM following all the steps

but when i boot to recovery

it boots into stock recovery Recovery

i flashed again 2 times the recovery in fastboot mode.

it says OK.

but still i gets stock recovery

Mine is build version is 2.5_1511_5.444.1_ST_K50_T5
[K3 Note General] rugalcs:
If you are flashing it with the uncletool, you are having the issue because the recovery file name must be "recovery.img". Any other name will look ok when flashing but it won't flash anything.

So, rename any custom recovery, like CWM, TWRP or any other, to recovery.img, and place in the root folder of your flash memory.

Good luck!

Enviado desde mi Lenovo_K50_T5 mediante Tapatalk
[K3 Note General] blastoise91:
Limonchelo is great, sound is great :)

Just one question. Long press on home button opens Google Now and I want to open recent apps.

Recent apps are opened on double tap on home, I want to switch those.
[K3 Note General] waj1234:
Recent apps open with left menu button
[K3 Note General] chat1978:
I apologize for the double post from the other thread but I just realized that this thread exists and has more traction.

So here is my original message.

Thank you
[K3 Note General] blastoise91:
I don't won't to work like that. I'm using always as home long hold.
[K3 Note General] waj1234:
Lemonchelo for me long hold home gives google now and menu is recent apps?
[K3 Note General] blastoise91:
Yes. But when you turn off menu for recent then double tap on home is recent.

I have some feeling that AOSP is liiitle smoother then this rom.
[K3 Note General] monakh:
As noted already, it has Atmos but to me that's pretty much a gimmick. Coming from a Jiayu S3.

Edit: On a different note, the stock (international) ROM was horrid (don't recall the build number). My phone, weirdly, came ROOTED, directly from Hong Kong (it was sealed). I ran the ROM for a couple of days but it had browser hijacking built-in, not to mention who-knows-what malware. I got rid of it in favor of Lemonchelo. I did remove the LenovoServer.apk using ES File Explorer. Thank you to the fine poster who pointed that out. I have become paranoid though so I am running DroidWall (like I used to a few years back). Only white-listed apps are allowed outgoing access to the Internet.
[K3 Note General] jerasimo:
To install CWM go to first post. Maybe it look a bit confusing but is simple.

Than you can:

1. Flash Gapps and Root

2. Flash other CWM that can flash the rom. And then flash the rom. (If you refer to Cuoco92's rom, you can find the CWM you need to flash the rom on his thread too)

Now if you ask me what is the best to do:

Stock is not an option, because after every ota update you have to reinstall cwm and gapps. And there are chinese apps and parts of the rom that is extremly hard to delete even for devs.

Custom roms have their problems too (Its normal after all) but betwin the 2 are better.

The real solution for this phone is the ROW(international) firmware that is coming with the Lenovo k3 Note India.
[K3 Note General] waj1234:
It does not bother me which way round it is but I find lemonchelo smoother but the whole rom slows down after a few days use. Not one rom is actually very good overall and I am on the brink of selling it and trying a different phone, probably a mainstream model and stay away from chinese market phones as they are all the same.
[K3 Note General] okahdidi:
There is a new ROM on needrom.com which is aosp 5.1
[K3 Note General] chat1978:
I'll try to find my way around.

What is the difference between cuoco92's and Lemonchelo . They both sound Italian!

I have heard also about this aspect of India. That would be great.
[K3 Note General] xsirxx:
Ok I think I have the same problem as some others now. I accidently put on 2.8 which is AOSP 5.1 and it included a new recovery. WOOPS!!! Now when I try to flash CWM I get remote: download for partition 'recovery' is not allowed). What the heck do I do now? I cant get CWM on so I cant downgrade to 2.5. Ideas?
[K3 Note General] jerasimo:
Am using cuoco's 1.4 rom and am ok, dont know about lemonchele (maybe it's even better ). Am using phone on work and i dont have time to play with roms. Thats why i need international rom, to get rid of gapps reinstalation after every ota... and alot of staf like that.
[K3 Note General] arefin_sajib:
No brother

i didnt flash with uncle tool

i flashed the recovery as the mentioned way via fastboot

it says ok

but when i boot to reocvery i see stock recovery.

where is the problem
[K3 Note General] aariss:
What rom are u using right now ?

U can follow step in below site depend on ur current rom now (vibe_ui or custom)

https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3571148

U got the error msg when flash via flash_tool.exe ?
[K3 Note General] xsirxx:
No I get that error when trying to flash CWM with fastboot. I cant get that crap flash tool to work! arrg! But now that fastboot wont flash it, im kinda screwed.

EDIT: To add, i am downgrading inside of their OTA app. We will see if that lets me in.
[K3 Note General] aariss:
Then u don't have any other options...

U need to make ur flashtool is working & flash it via there...
[K3 Note General] waj1234:
Try flashing 1522 with flash tool rather than cwm and try again. Sure an older rom will flash.
[K3 Note General] jerasimo:
Trick

After fastboot reboot imediatly go to recovery. Dont let the phone boot normaly
[K3 Note General] geminihc:
thanks! hope more people can chime in if this AOSP android 5.1 is stable and can be used as daily rom... any signs of spyware in this version?
[K3 Note General] chat1978:
Most of the link on that page are dead.

So I managed to install the TWRP and then a cuoco's rom. This is the one I could find VIBEUI_V2.5_1522_LENOVO_K3_v1.2_cuoco92.zip

Once the rom booted I noticed two things

A continuous crash from google apps

There is an OTA update for 1.3

I tried installing the update but the updater crashed. I copy the file to the sd card and did the same from TWRP.

Current the version is VIBEUI_V2.5_1522_7.162.1_DEV_K50-T5_cuoco92 but the google apps are still crashing
[K3 Note General] jerasimo:
Go here: http://www.androidiani.com/forum/lenovo-modding/467838-lenovo-k3-note-firmware-cuoco92.html

Recovery > doenload cwm

Firmware > download 1.4 (is after the images)

Flash cwm

Reboot recovery

Wipe cashe , data, davlik

Install 1.4 cuoco92.

Never had problem with gapps
[K3 Note General] arefin_sajib:
OK TRYING.

is there any adb command to go to recovery direclty from fastboot ???
[K3 Note General] chat1978:
I suppose cwm or twrp doesn't make a difference. Besides I have the twrp provided on the above link.

I did the wipes

I'l try once more the 1.4

---------- Post added 27th June 2015 at 12:24 AM ---------- Previous post was 26th June 2015 at 11:40 PM ----------

I installed successfully VIBEUI_V2.5_1522_ST_LENOVO_K3_v1.4_cuoco92.zip

Something weird has happened. With the same google account, the applications that I had purchased are now appearing with a cost.

I have a tablet with the same account that reports everything correctly.

Is it the rom or something else? Something that google needs to take care off?
[K3 Note General] aariss:
How about here...
[K3 Note General] arefin_sajib:
Bro i cant boot to recovery

I dont understand

how to press the three buttons

i pressesd and hold all the three butons at the same time

when the mobile is off.after pressing and holding all three buttons i felt a beep and saw mobile hasjust turned on nothing else.

Please tell me how to press the buttons .

i didnt understand
[K3 Note General] aariss:
Search utube on how to enter cwm / twrp...
[K3 Note General] jerasimo:
After flashing recovery.img

Type fastboot reboot

Now imediately after presing Enter, get the device and hold vol up+ down + power. And maybe even remove usb cable with your tooth.

There should be a comand too but i dont know. Maybe fastboot reboot recovery
[K3 Note General] hackerpower:
Don't know...

The audio output from the phone speaker is excellent! True hifi!

PS: I paid 192€ for mine shipped from Spain to my country Portugal. Have it since last Tuesday.

Sent from Hacker's K50-t5
[K3 Note General] arefin_sajib:
Thanks a LOT

finally done after seeing a youtube Video
[K3 Note General] chat1978:
Although I had some restarts, today after the last restart it got fixed.

The only difference was that I added a SIM on SIM port 2
[K3 Note General] geminihc:
i'm getting bootloop back to recovery after trying to restore a TWRP backup (compressed). anyone had this issue, and how to fix?
[K3 Note General] jimmyln:
This is a known problem, you have to use CWM if you want backups that can restore properly.
[K3 Note General] aariss:
So far no fix available till now...

U kenot restore backup frm cwm/twrp...
[K3 Note General] jimmyln:
After using Limonchelo ROM for a few days, it seems to have really bad slowdown/freezes at random times. Chrome + Google Play Music seems to be all it takes to slow the phone to a crawl. Not sure if I'm doing something wrong, because others seem to have no issues with this rom. It might be of my Xposed modules, but I highly doubt it. Anyone facing similar issues with Limonchelo?

Anyway, going back to 5.0 AOSPv3 for now. From what I read on the Chinese forums, 5.1 AOSP has a few problems, such as:

1) Slow app opening

2) Really soft speakerphone volume
[K3 Note General] okahdidi:
Aosp 5.1 is pure Chinese, no English
[K3 Note General] ctibor:
Thanks a lot!

I'll try it later since my phone has not rooted yet.

Cheers!
[K3 Note General] WearySky:
No RDS support in the FM Radio app, as far as I can tell.
[K3 Note General] xancin:
Hello ...you work in all sites....Its very good to see you here...Uf my english is to bad
[K3 Note General] dreambo:
You are welcome here, dear Spanish friends :)
[K3 Note General] FeyoMx:
Oooo my Master, good to meet you here. in English we are equal. if it were not for the blessed translator [emoji12]
[K3 Note General] okahdidi:
Plz at that fastboot recovery.IMG section,it tells me waiting for device and that's how it remains like that forever. How many minutes does it take to root?
[K3 Note General] aariss:
Around 2 secs…
[K3 Note General] okahdidi:
Plz my own stops at the fastboot mode,from there it tells me waiting for device and it does not move again. It just tells me waiting for device. Plz what's wrong
[K3 Note General] aariss:
Uninstall lenovo usb driver

Restart pc

Install lenovo usb driver

http://www.mediafire.com/download/6rro42jzbelfe3i/LenovoUsbDriver_autorun_1.0.13.exe

Restart pc

Disable antivirus

Try again
[K3 Note General] jerasimo:
Stable

Hi. Is there any stable rom (bugfree) i can flash? Stock rom is nice but.. No 100% translation, many chinese app and some things like weather not detecting my location are very frustrating! Anyway. I have heard that Xancin have released some nice roms. Is there any official Xancin thread where can i find them? Thx
[K3 Note General] FeyoMx:
you can find all your work at home
[K3 Note General] okahdidi:
Plz can someone post a link to lenovo PC suite possibly for k3 note. Thanks
[K3 Note General] okahdidi:
Rooted. Thank u
[K3 Note General] okahdidi:
Incorrect password
[K3 Note General] aariss:
Sim2 support LTE... :good:
[K3 Note General] WearySky:
Yes it does. But to be clear, if you enable LTE data on SIM2, SIM1 will only allow 2G. Whichever SIM has data enabled, the other one is limited to 2G.

Also - has anybody had any success doing a full backup of the K3? I've tried nandroid backups, but when you restore them it just gets stuck in a recovery bootloop (will only boot up to recovery on reboot). I'd appreciate any help if anybody has figured that out yet.

Also, the stock developer ROMs at VibeUI are pretty good, IMO. More feature rich than the AOSP-based ones, and easy enough to de-bloat after rooting with something like TitaniumBackup.
[K3 Note General] turnipz:
Does anybody have a list of software to disable, I dont want to disable necessary system software but I want to remove Lenovos bloat.
[K3 Note General] A Wild Willis:
Hi Rooted and installed cwm but i tried to flash sxposed for arm64 and bootlooped and my backup will not work. everything restores except for android_secure.img now i have acces to my recovery and bootloader but i am in a bootloop is there anyway to flash a rom in my state. Thank you for the help

Edit ok so i found this download for a stock restore but have no idea how to use it.

http://chinagadgetsreviews.blogspot...android-kitkat-442-stock_14.html#comment-form
[K3 Note General] okahdidi:
Plz go to vibeui.com and download the latest ROM. Maybe u flash thru spflashtool or via cwn
[K3 Note General] A Wild Willis:
ok il try thank you
[K3 Note General] waj1234:
I am also getting slowdown with lemonchelo. Laggy and apps slow to open and close. I hope there is a decent row rom out when india one is for sale. Otherwise it will go up for sale:D
[K3 Note General] hackerpower:
No slow to open or close here, i don't know how many apps you are running at the same time or what you have done to it but my phone flies with this rom :confused:
[K3 Note General] waj1234:
Not done anything to it or have loads of apps running. Its sluggish though was fine at first. Maybe have a bad flash.
[K3 Note General] jimmyln:
Did you have Xposed installed? Because my experience was exactly the same as yours: smooth initially, sluggish within a day or two.
[K3 Note General] waj1234:
No nothing like that but I did unroot so I could use my banking app
[K3 Note General] rob4x4:
Still using ASOP v3 with xposed framework and gravity box installed. No noticeable slow down but I power off at night and reboot in the morning. Looking forward to v4. ?
[K3 Note General] aariss:
Have u tried below :-

http://www.movilesdualsim.com/tema/vibeui-2-8-5-1-ltt-mdsteam.105668/
[K3 Note General] chat1978:
Is there a link

I'm using the VIBEUI_V2.5_1522_ST_LENOVO_K3_v1.4_cuoco92 and there are some problems.

Often the phone doesn't react to the power button. This happens when, after pressing the button, the screen appears and immediatly shuts down. Then it gets in a endless cycle that takes some time until you get access to the phone.

Additionally, some applications have issues. I suppose it is the rom because they are working fine on android 4.4

ING for Belgium will not install

Smart Launcher 3, cannot configure a widget

Windows 8 Launcher Pro crashed often

Additional to the above I have some problems probably with the lolilop version.

I remember that you could click on a battery and get into the battery stats detail. With the graph etc etc.

Either I'm blind or that option is gone. Also, I can't really find an equivalent to the data monitor from Android 4.4. Where you would set a day in the month to monitor the usage. e.g. I get the invoice on the end of the 2nd of each month.

Overall, I would say there are a lot of problems. This rom is highly suggested. I don't dare to think how bad the stock rom was.

It seems that a lot of modding will be still required.

For that reason, I need to understand what you are doing when switch roms but you maintain your installations. It took me almost a day to install what I needed and configured everything.

I would greatly appreciate a link or some tutorial or some guidelines.
[K3 Note General] hackerpower:
I accidentally formatted system under CWM and now i restore my backup but nothing happens, i get bootloop.

I only have the backup on my sd card, don't have any rom (.zip) to flash.

Only have CWM recovery working but can't mount usb storage to copy any rom.

What can i do???

Please help i'm without cellphone.

Which is the CMW recovery that restores the backup properly?

Mine doesn't work, i found out the hard way...

---------- Post added at 01:05 ---------- Previous post was at 00:30 ----------

Nevermind i didn't knew you had to hold down volume up so that spflashtool would recognize your phone and start flashing the stock rom i've downloaded.

Let's hope that by flashing a fully working CWM i can restore my backup made with the non restoring one or else i have to flash everything again and set everything again....
[K3 Note General] geminihc:
even with CWM, i cant restore. i dont think ANYONE has restored successfully on k3 note...
[K3 Note General] hackerpower:
Another problem now, i'm desperate.

I already flashed the official rom, but now i get invalid imei!!

I tried everything on the net and nothing worked, can somebody help???? please...
[K3 Note General] aariss:
Correct... Twrp also...

So far none...

Anyway I know that we can backup rom via flashtool but not sure for k3note...

I've done it for other brand hp & able to backup/restore via flashtool...

Will post it the step later & who is free, can try it...
[K3 Note General] hackerpower:
So what is the use of having a recovery?

It's now 04:24am and i was finally able to retreive my imeis with this little apk:

Chamelephon

after 5h i was victorious!!

Also if you have the Wifi NVRAm error, simply do this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2730486
[K3 Note General] aariss:
This is the step to backup/restore via MTKDroid tools...

Try it on ur own risk...
[K3 Note General] jimmyln:
On the AOSPv3 rom, I'm noticing some artifacting on my status bar icons (icons are missing, have purple backgrounds or looks really messed up). Here is a video for reference:

[YOUTUBE]gYHu4n2xSak[/YOUTUBE]

Anyone having similar issues?
[K3 Note General] rob4x4:
I've got no issues like that. Everything displays correctly on my AOSPv3 Rom.
[K3 Note General] sinapcs:
I am using this rom for a week and no slowndown yet. everyday I am playing HD games and it's like first day.
[K3 Note General] waj1234:
Maybe I had a bad flash. Will just live with it till another rom surfaces
[K3 Note General] chat1978:
Using VIBEUI_V2.5_1522_ST_LENOVO_K3_v1.4_cuoco92 I have some issues with the notification bar.

When the phone is locked, I don't see the extra notifications. I only see the two bars for the sim cards.

When I issue a remote download for the pc, I never say any notification that the app was installed on my phone.

Also, how can I actually see the usage of the battery. I'm referring to the screen with the graph of usage on a timeline.
[K3 Note General] jimmyln:
VIBE UI roms removed the battery usage graph, AFAIK.
[K3 Note General] chat1978:
So stupid! What would you suggest as replacement?

---------- Post added at 04:49 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:42 PM ----------

Also, what about connecting the phone to PC and having access to the file system(s)?

Is it a lolipop limitation or on specific to the VIBEUI rom.
[K3 Note General] okahdidi:
Lollipop limitations
[K3 Note General] alienzdator:
have u tried carliv touch recovery yet? Not sure whether it works or not.

http://www[dot]movilesdualsim[dot]com/tema/carliv-touch-recovery-3-3.102576/

https://mega[dot]co[dot]nz/#!aUtmSAIS!mCybQIKIVi6sSTBlDs7WMIs3NH-2UrWoqgmmrE1FEoM

https://mega[dot]co[dot]nz/#!fJN3kaoI!-mF-k7WE3rvB3IxErnAWU_nLiMIEibcir9wDXjlSOz8
[K3 Note General] sinapcs:
you can use "battery monitor widget"
[K3 Note General] hackerpower:
Sorry but this one works:

http://www.movilesdualsim.com/tema/cwm-by-feyomx.101372/

Ah ah :angel: