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[Elephone P8000] icavak:
How did you root?

What did you use to root? I've tried Towelroot, DingDong Root and KingoRoot but to no effect.
[Elephone P8000] DwHernan:
Did you try the root tutorial in elephone's forum? (i can't post links yet)
[Elephone P8000] blueflash:
Have you tried this guidehttp://bbs.elephone.hk/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=6616&extra=page=1&mobile=2
[Elephone P8000] jacksparao:
I used this

I used the above steps
[Elephone P8000] jokespot:
Here is the comparison in build quality that I mentioned in the previous post.
[Elephone P8000] icavak:
Still need help rooting :(

Thanks for the link. A bit stuck using the flash tool. Loaded the drivers, opened the flash tool, located the scatter file (MT6752) and pressed download. Plugged my phone (which is off) yet nothing has happened. Tried with a Window 10 laptop and a Windows 7 laptop.
[Elephone P8000] jacksparao:
Driver

I think you have not loaded the drivers, please restart the device once you install the driver.. It was happened to me before but I fixed the same.. I suggest you to try in Win 7
[Elephone P8000] Kamran9558:
I think I am one of those unlucky ones who have no LED in their phones. I am totally gutted as I really like the build and fluidity of the phone. I spoke to Gearbest and they gave me a link to a page from elephone which asked me to enter my email and it said that I will receive a discount for Vowney :( Really disappointed with this. How on earth can a manufacturing process miss something like that?

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This Link takes me to the Elephone P3000 product info page

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This Link takes me to the Elephone P3000 product info page
[Elephone P8000] icavak:
Link for discount

What was the link you were sent?

Also here is the link for root: bbs.elephone.hk/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=6616

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I've tried multiple times - installed and reinstalled the drivers but still nothing works. Do you have to restart before using the tool? Is this the only way to do this?

Also my computer is now on test mode. Did this happen to anyone else?
[Elephone P8000] Stainy:
Heads up for rooting (maybe?). I read someone else just installed SuperSU from playstore, so I thought I'd give it a go. It worked like a charm for me, maybe it will for others
[Elephone P8000] fullrespect:
Anybody tried to use TWRP recovery ? Anybody already ported it for EP8000 ? For me TWRP is the best way to install supersu and root any device. For example I rooted my Zopo ZP700 that way.
[Elephone P8000] ferbulous:
Is the offscreen gestures feature now included in the latest update for p8000?
[Elephone P8000] charliepie:
Don't think offscreen gestures work yet, I am using flyme rom atm.

Have not tried TWRP yet but CWM seems to install supersu just fine though I have noticed a problem with restoring a nandroid backup(of stock rom) where it renders phone storage as 0.00b so basically unusable! However it restores flyme fine.
[Elephone P8000] samusalo:
SuperSU seems to install just fine from Google Play Store. No custom recovery needed :)
[Elephone P8000] charliepie:
That's good to know, I didn't even try to do it that way:)
[Elephone P8000] kalya1:
you can install it , but does not give you root access . (check !)
[Elephone P8000] samusalo:
I can confirm that it works 100% and gives root access.

You need to open it and install it by choosing "Normal". Then reboot the phone. After that it works 100%.
[Elephone P8000] DJGibbon:
Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be the case for all phone. Just received mine, installed SuperSU from Play store, and I get the usual "There is no SU binary installed and SuperSU cannot install it" message. Instant quit from there :/
[Elephone P8000] jacksparao:
Select normal

Even I rooted my phone in same way, please click normal after you install the supersu and install the busybox too..

This method will work on Stock OS only.
[Elephone P8000] DJGibbon:
I never get the chance to click "normal" :)

I run SuperSU and get the following message

[IMG="SuperSU"]http://i.imgur.com/Rtfhy00.png[/IMG]

Then I click "OK" and SuperSU closes . . .
[Elephone P8000] jacksparao:
ADB Commends

Are you aware of Adb commends if yes, can you try adb shell ? I can suggest you.
[Elephone P8000] Perseus:
For you, here's a suggestion. Review my earlier post of Rooting. Please install Towel Root from I'm throwing a party and you should come **GS5 ROOT THREAD**

When you open and click "Make it rain" or something like that, (Forgot exact words) the app may appear like its stuck. Just leave the phone alone for 20 minutes to half an hour. Reboot after that. When done booting, try supersu again like you did before.
[Elephone P8000] DJGibbon:
I've already tried Towelroot - says phone not currently supported...

I've used adb a little in the past - will check whether it connects on my laptop tomorrow. Another option might be to try flashing the stock ROM again?
[Elephone P8000] Satbeginner:
Hello, I use the stock Elephone P8000 rom 20150725 and was able to root with Supersu from the playstore.

Un saludo,

Satbeginner

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Hi, I just got mine (in Spain). It is a gold version, and the notification LED is working.

Un saludo,

Satbeginner
[Elephone P8000] Perseus:
Yeah Reflash Stock before trying again.
[Elephone P8000] Satbeginner:
Sorry, I forgot the speaker question: only one for music and the back. The row of small holes.

For phonecalls there is a small speaker at the top of the front.

Un saludo,

Satbeginner
[Elephone P8000] Satbeginner:
P8000 battery

Hi,

I have my P8000 two days now, and this test:

Use the phone to only 1% battery left and let it die.

After that I charged it with this tester in between the usb cable.

It dit not do the fast charge, but there was 4115 mAh put into my p8000 battery.

So that is very close to the specs.

Un saludo,

Satbeginner
[Elephone P8000] jman0:
I rooted my P8000 using Kingroot: http://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/one-click-root-tool-android-2-x-5-0-t3107461
[Elephone P8000] charliepie:
Lucky bastard! You got a gold one with a working LED!!

How long would you say the full charge took? 6 hours or so I'm guessing? Nice little charging gadget you have there by the way.
[Elephone P8000] Satbeginner:
The charger is just a 5V powersupply, with a maximum current rating.

It is the internal electronics inside the phone that control the actual charging current it will draw from the charger.

Obviously the charger must be able to deliver this current.

Usually the usb data lines are used to inform the phone about the charger connected.

So the phone can know if it is connected to a PC usb port, or to it's charger.

Android uses a different way if doing this than Apple!

My little tester seems to interfere with the usb signals, because my tester only showed a 0,5A - 0,6A being drawn from the charger, so the charging took between 6 - 7 hour.

When my battery goes down again I will test with just the original charger and cable.

With a different currentsensor I saw a maximum current around 1,1 - 1,3A.

If the current with nothing extra in the circuit will be around these values, the total charging time is expected to be 3 - 3,5 hour.

I will tell the results tomorrow. :)

Un saludo,

Satbeginner
[Elephone P8000] DJGibbon:
Flashed the 15/08 ROM and all is well with the world - SuperSU rooted successfully. Weird! Thanks for your help . . . .
[Elephone P8000] Perseus:
And the Kernel if the phone is powered on. Otherwise bootloader.

Just a small addition.
[Elephone P8000] charliepie:
Great posts guys, I've learned quite a bit more about the charging cycle and what a great set of usb tools you have in your collection!
[Elephone P8000] Satbeginner:
Hi,

Do you have a link to this 15-08 rom?

I thought the fota 20150725 was the latest?

I found it on XDA :)

Thanks,

Satbeginner
[Elephone P8000] -Tiz-:
Question: Do both SIM slots support LTE (not simultanteously)? For instance, if I have 2 LTE SIM cards from different providers: can I switch to the active card either in Slot 1 (1st provider) or slot 2 (2nd provider) and use LTE?

Thanks!
[Elephone P8000] charliepie:
I think you can though I have not tested this, the specs say that one slot can be 3g/4g and the other will be 2g so I think you can toggle them from the settings without physically having to swap the cards in the slots.
[Elephone P8000] n1tro:
The p8000 can not switch back and forth for LTE between sims. The second sim slot only does 2G. The only phone that I had that allowed me to switch was the BLU Win HD phone
[Elephone P8000] dinkydong:
Not true. I have a LTE card on SIM1 and 3G on SIM2. I can toggle between the 2 and get 3G with SIM2 and 2G on SIM1.
[Elephone P8000] Satbeginner:
64GB micro-SD card gets corrupted in P8000 (solved, I hope)

Hi All,

I use the newest ROM 20150815 (can be found at XDA... :) ) and also with the previous ROM (FOTA 20150725) my 64GB microSD card got corrupted after every reboot.

This card is 100% OK, I used it in other devices, it also passes without any problems the HW2test cardcheck at full capacity.

I tested my P8000 sdcard-slot by putting in a smaller, 8GB card. This was working OK, so I got the idea the problem was size related.

I partitioned my 64GB card with "Minitool Partition Wizard" on a Win10 PC to have just one 32GB primary partition.

Inside Minitool Partition Wizard I formatted this partition to have a Fat32 filesystem.

Now the card worked OK in my P8000, and stayed OK after a reboot.

To increase the usable size of my 64GB card, I repeated the procedure above, but now I made the first partition 60GB, and let the rest (+/- 2.5GB after formatting) unassigned.

Again I formatted this primary partition to use a Fat32 filesystem inside "Minitool Partition Wizard", and yes, my P8000 now seems to see and use this storage.

Also, when I perform a reboot the card no longer gets corrupted, so it looks OK. :)

One minor glitch: When I choose to "Erase SD card" from "Settings/Storage" I get a full 64GB card again, and this one WILL be corrupted after a reboot.

So far I did not find a way to re-size the card when placed inside the phone......

My guess: I think Elephone needs to check this part of their ROM-software, so it accepts real 64GB cards...

Un saludo,

Satbeginner
[Elephone P8000] Jakimzinho:
P8000 extremely hot

Anyone with a extreme heating of the phone?

When i do a simple task like going to fb or make a call for 10m, the phone turns even unconfortable to hold. plus 60 degrees for sure.

I dont know if its a factory setting or a hardware problem.
[Elephone P8000] jacksparao:
try

Try factory data reset
[Elephone P8000] n1tro:
Strange. My second sim is greyed out with 2G selected.

For 64gb card, I had to format mine to fat32 and rebooted for the phone to see it.
[Elephone P8000] geekyboy12:
This may sound like an Uncle Buck style grilling, but I have a few questions:

1) How is the phone now?

2) How long did it take to arrive?

3) I tried to buy one from GearBest, but after my credit card went through, they asked for a photo of my passport and credit card, although they recomended blanking out information. I promptly declined and cancelled my order. Does the Elephone website ask for the same things?
[Elephone P8000] Satbeginner:
First impressions after one week P8000

Hi,

I have the phone for 5 days now, and today I installed the second update I got this week.

The first one come as FOTA, the second one I flashed using the spflashtool today.

They fixed the 3rd party camera problem, I do not have thermal problems.

I tested the battery capacity, and it really is just over 4000mAh.

I posted the results of my test on here as well.

A Russian owner got similar results..

I like the build quality very much, the batterylife is great.

With my usage I get almost 2 full days out of it.

GPS is really very fast and very sensitive, I easily see 8 satellites indoors!

I ordered with coolicool.com on June 16, but they have very poor customerservice.

However, I managed to have them send the phone from their Spanish warehouse instead of the China one, so that is the reason I have it now.

I paid with PayPal, so there were no weird transaction questions.

I would never ever send copies of passports, creditcards, etc.

Hope this helps,

Un saludo,

Satbeginner
[Elephone P8000] Satbeginner:
Hi, a quick question:

what size is your 64Gb sd-card reported in settings / storage ?

I ask, because my card always got corrupted when its usable size was over 60Gb.

Thanks, un saludo,

Satbeginner
[Elephone P8000] n1tro:
My 64gb card shows up as 62.4gb under storage menu.
[Elephone P8000] Satbeginner:
Thanks, but it is strange.

When I use the full capacity of my card, I get 62.4 as well, but......... when I choose restart after a long press in that situation, my card gets reported as corrupted at reboot.

Now I have reduced the partition size to 60.0 Gb and everything is and stays ok.

Maybe my card has problems in the last few Gb.

Anyway, thanks for your answer,

Un saludo,

Satbeginner
[Elephone P8000] ferbulous:
Would there be any problems applying OTA update when rooted?

Or should I unroot before updating?

Also, has anyone tried xposed tweaks
[Elephone P8000] freddy5:
xposed works without problems.

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[Elephone P8000] jacksparao:
No update

If your phone is rooted and changed the recovery, I don't think you will get the update..
[Elephone P8000] ferbulous:
Hi, thanks for the confirmation.

what recovery are you using to flash the xposed file?

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I'm still on stock and still haven't got the latest update. I'm planning to manually flash 15th august update later.
[Elephone P8000] jacksparao:
its manual update

You can see the down, the posted its manual update..
[Elephone P8000] ferbulous:
Yeah, I noticed that

Can we still flash the firmware update directly from custom recovery like CWM?

http://chinagadgetsreviews.com/how-to-easily-root-elephone-p8000-with-stock-android-lollipop.html
[Elephone P8000] freddy5:
Yes, I used the same tutorial by bbs.forum

http://bbs.elephone.hk/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=6616

cwm based-Recovery 6.0.5.1

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[Elephone P8000] ferbulous:
Ok, got it

I'm guessing we'll need to manually update with flash tool whenever new update's up when the phone's rooted + custom recovery.

Does flashtool erase your personal data/apps on p8000 everytime you need to update it?
[Elephone P8000] ferbulous:
Hi, which xposed zip file did you flash?

Apparently the one that I grab from this thread is only for android 5.0 (sdk 21)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3034811
[Elephone P8000] freddy5:
right, we have LP 5.1

[UNOFFICIAL] Xposed for Android 5.1 - v71 / 20150816 / SDK22

http://xdaforums.com/xposed/super-alpha-posted-permission-xposed-t3072979

best regards

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[Elephone P8000] ferbulous:
Thanks man, it's working fine for me

Here's hoping they'll include offscreen gestures for the next update
[Elephone P8000] charliepie:
yes the flashtool will wipe your phone(but not external sd card).
[Elephone P8000] ferbulous:
Elephone P8000 (FULL REVIEW) MTK6753, 4165mAh, 13MP Camera, Touch ID, 4G, And...

Can we use flashtool to update without wiping the phone apps/settings? I noticed there's option for firmware upgrade on flashtool settings (other than download mode)
[Elephone P8000] charliepie:
That's a good question, I guess in theory it should work but something tells me that in practice it might not! The internal partition is not sub divided like on some roms , perhaps someone knows more or has tried to use firmware instead of download mode?
[Elephone P8000] IMTLD:
I have One M7 and the camera is the worst I have ever seen especially with the purple color in low light conditions. I saw the device and really licked it, big screen FHD and fingerprint and super battery, after some searching I found some problems and wanted to verify them

1- the camera is mediocre and relatively bad

2- there is no Gorilla Glass panel?!!

3- the performance is very similar no my M7<<so why buying a new one

I read this review

http://www.androidauthority.com/elephone-p8000-review-634638/
[Elephone P8000] -Tiz-:
If the display size of the M7 is ok for you, why buying a new one? The P8000 is not better, just cheaper. I do not worry too much about the lack of Gorilla glass. Other manufacturer's glass like Dragontrail is also scratch resistent. As regards the camera: the latest ROM seems to support third-party apps like camera FV-5. Maybe the focus performance and the denoise algorithms are better with this camera software. Moreover, the camera performance can depend on the lens. Maybe some owners have a decentered lens and therefore complain about soft corners.

Overall, I am looking forward to this no frills phone. All the important stuff (display, battery, gps, connectivity (LTE, WLAN, dual SIM!), 3 GB RAM) seem to work very well. Hopefully, the second batch will be delivered soon. I have ordered from geekvida for less than 130 EUROS. It will be my workhorse.

Other interesting phones like the Redmi Note 2 or the Lenovo K3 Note do not support European LTE bands and are therefore useless for Europeans.

Last but not least, the P8000 supports custom ROMs. I am quite sure that developers will support the phone (i.e. we will hopefully have access to the latest android versions/security fixes). Maybe even some additional features like camera RAW support will be developed.
[Elephone P8000] Satbeginner:
I love my P8000

Hi, I have the P8000 for a week now, and I love it.

I read the review you mentioned, and I feel it is written from a USA point of view, and maybe with one of the first releases of the p8000.

I ordered my P8000 in the presales (16th of June with Coolicool.com), but I managed to have my order changed to Coolicool-Spain.

So I got mine just last week, send from Madrid.

I have a Gold P8000, with the notification LED working.

Yes, I installed the Fota upgrade to 20150725, and I flashed the 20150815 rom, and imho it is a great phone.

I use the FV-5 camera app and I am really happy with the pictures.

I will add some of my pictures later.

Battery life is great, I get two days with my type of usage. (Wifi on, BT on, 3G data connection, etc.. whete I live no 4G yet..)

It has the fastest GPS I ever had in a phone, and very sensitive as well. I see an easy 8 satellites indoors.

Even when it had gorilla-glass, I am going to put a screenprotector anyway.

Here a zip with the originals: View attachment P8000-pictures.zip

Un saludo,

Satbeginner
[Elephone P8000] Stevethegreat:
Is it the Grey version? (edit: I see now it is)

Reports say that Grey Elephone p8000 has one of the worst cameras in 2015 (costs cutting?) and better be avoided

However the reports also say that (first gen) Gold version has one of the best cameras.

So there are two P8000 (v1 an v2)...
[Elephone P8000] s7yler:
I have both, and in terms of batterylife the P8000 is MUCH better than the M7. The M7 has something like a real 2000-2300mah battery I believe and runs dead after 8 hours, even just in standby mode with the screen off. In standby the P8000 can go on for several days, the battery is minimum a real 4000.
[Elephone P8000] Satbeginner:
Gold version, second batch. (With the notification LED working, just one color, blue)
[Elephone P8000] Stevethegreat:
Great to know! Does this mean that the Gold version retains the good camera of the first batch?

Also can you post photos in low light (external environments in night, or inside rooms during the day) and test photos for the selfie cam?

I'm really interested to this phone, but the rumours that Elephone cuts costs and equipped the second batch with bad cameras turned me away ...
[Elephone P8000] alpine101:
The FV-5 app of course can handle the Android 5 'Camera2' interface, though not many manufacturers are yet supporting it. It removes control of picture quality from them by allowing a lower level interface to the RAW output from the camera. So the app can handle all the noise reduction, colour balance etc in the way it wants. Manufacturers don't necessarily like this because providing poorer noise reduction on their cheaper phones is a useful price differentiator for them...

I have FV-5 on my S2, but unfortunately the version of Android 5.1 on the phone doesn't currently provide the RAW interface.

Have you tried it on your P8000?
[Elephone P8000] -Tiz-:
The funny thing is that Satbeginner's camera has the specified aperture 2.0 (see Exif information). By contrast, s7yler's phone only had a slow 2.8 aperature. Maybe Elephone has just faked the exif information. But it is also possible that the camera is different. If we had two phones at the same place (one with aperture 2.0 and one with 2.8) we could use the same (manual) exposure time and then see whether there is a difference. If yes, the cameras are indeed different. If not, the exif info is faked.
[Elephone P8000] G-GFFD:
I asked in the official Elephone Forum about the worse camera in the second batch, two users reassured me that it's not the case . . .

http://bbs.elephone.hk/thread-7061-1-1.html#.VdifyZRaNVg

Of course I'm trusting XDA way more.

****, I'm awaiting a grey one from elephone.cc, they told me it will be shipped next week. I was so excited, but a bad camera is definetly a no-go.

Also as I ordered it 2 weeks ago and they will ship it only next week - does that mean it's already one from the 3rd Batch? Those from the 2nd Batch should all already long have been shipped & arrived at their Users, shouldn't they?

Should I cancel? What are my chances?
[Elephone P8000] icavak:
Tried using Kingroot but it didn't work
[Elephone P8000] Satbeginner:
P8000 does not support raw-format with camera

Hi,

According to FV-5 version 2.76.4 it does not..

Un saludo,

Satbeginner
[Elephone P8000] Satbeginner:
Will add some later tonight :)

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Hi all, I read in the release notes of the rom 20150815 that one of the things fixed was: showing the proper camera info.

So now the question isL is f/2 real, or just an 'adapted' value....

Is there a way I can check??
[Elephone P8000] Satbeginner:
Hi all,

After flashing the 20150815 rom, I just used SuperSu from the play-store....

Quick and easy, and it works....

Un saludo,

Satbeginner
[Elephone P8000] Gs2dci:
I too have done me wonder and without any failure
[Elephone P8000] Satbeginner:
Pictures just after sunset P8000

Hi,

here some pictures I took just after sunset, no flash, just pictures.

Camera-App FV-5 V2.76.4, P8000-ROM 20150815.

View attachment P8000-after-sunset-pictures.zip

Un saludo,

Satbeginner
[Elephone P8000] IMTLD:
I want to change my M7 because I look for

Bigger screen with FHD resolution, better camera cuz mine is the worst I have ever seen, fingerprint sensor,better battery.

I found everything in P8000 but after knowing that the performance is almost identical to M7 I think I should look for another phone.

Thanks for the photos, the camera really seems very good, and most of all the battery life is superb, but I think I should look for a phone with better CPU and GPU though the battery life is really tempting!!
[Elephone P8000] Stevethegreat:
They actually seem pretty good!

So what's the big fuss about camera quality? Maybe using the built-in camera software has a hard time in taking good pictures. Is that it?

Also (and I know I'm asking a lot). Can you also upload selfie (cam) shots? I use it for skype calls so its optics is kind of important to me. Obviously you don't have to be in the selfie shot (just take a photo of some random object).

Much appreciated mate. Your posts are truly enlightening :)