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[Elephone P8000] G-GFFD:
The big problem is: Apparently there are some different Versions of the P8000. Some taking good photos - and some taking bad photos (Irregardles of the Photo App used) . Especially there is a rumour that the black ones of the second batch have a far inferior Camera built in . . .

It's great that you post photos taken with the P8000 for comparison here! But please include following details: Color of the Phone, does it have a working LED?, App used to take the photos and OS version. If known, also tell us from which batch the phone is.

cheers!
[Elephone P8000] Stevethegreat:
The photos are not mine's but Satbeginner's.

He owns a batch 2 Golden version, using FV-5 camera... (he told of those in previous posts of his)...
[Elephone P8000] Satbeginner:
P8000, front camera sample shots

Hi,

no problem, people helped me out when I was looking for solutions on XDA, so, my pleasure to help you finding the information you are looking for! :D

This time I took the pictures, using the Front-Camera, but I used the Stock App, because FV-5 cannot switch to use the frontcamera.

There are some indoor-shots, and some outdoor ones as well.

View attachment P8000-Front-Camera.zip

Un saludo,

Satbeginner
[Elephone P8000] Satbeginner:
Hi,

my P8000, Gold, Blue notification LED working, ROM version 20150815 (by means of SPFT).

There is no obvious serialnumber inside the phone, but on the box it says the 2 IMEI's, and a second, small barcode: ELE-P8000(G) 100082.

Un saludo,

Satbeginner
[Elephone P8000] elzafira46:
Hi, me P8000 grey, Led notifications blue, rom 20150815, in box model ELE-P8000(B) 100080

I used cámera fv5...

With rom 20150725.......

With rom 20150815....

I think i have a worst camera.....

ELZAFIRA46 TAPATALKEANDO NOT4LEFANO
[Elephone P8000] jackfacespoon:
1) Can't answer because...

2) Hasn't arrived yet!! I think they've had a few issues with stock because it keeps popping in and out on ElephoneStore, where I bought mine from. Their pro-active communication is non-existent so I emailed three times, and they have replied each time, although with meaningless padding generally - it's just taken a long time and they know it. They have now confirmed that they've dispatched my unit, and sent a tracking number (I paid an extra £7 for tracked delivery which I'm pleased about) but that tracking number won't work until Singapore Post process it properly.

I ordered it on the 31st of July, expect it to be another couple of weeks to be honest.

3) Paid with PayPal, no funny business. I would have done exactly the same in your situation!
[Elephone P8000] dinkydong:
You are getting yours shipped out from Singapore?
[Elephone P8000] jackfacespoon:
Yep, I guess so. I initially went with the official Elephone Store because Coolicool's EU warehouse didn't have the p8000 when I looked. Now, considering how long it's taken, I should probably have waited, but who knows.
[Elephone P8000] MUG3NHC:
Maybe try Zuk Z1:)
[Elephone P8000] Perseus:
Thanks for sharing. It does seem to confirm that low light processing is taking a beating. To be expected with China phone.
[Elephone P8000] -Tiz-:
Can someone please confirm the width of the phone? Is it indeed 76.6 mm (as specified on the Elephone homepage)? This would still be a normal size for a 5.5 inch phone. However, some people say it's 77.6 mm (e.g. elephone store)

Thank you.
[Elephone P8000] kezmdor:
I would say it is 76.6 mm but do you really care about 1 mm more or less?

The width is no problem at all for me but the length or height whatever you call it is huge.

Gesendet von meinem Elephone P8000 mit Tapatalk
[Elephone P8000] Satbeginner:
P8000 dimensions

Hi,

Mine (gold) is exactly:

Width 77,6 mm

Height 155,4 mm

Thickness 10,5 mm

Weight 213 grams
[Elephone P8000] Satbeginner:
P8000 change lockscreen image, with fingerprint still working (root needed)

I found a way of changing the lockscreen of the P8000.

Mind you all: it was

not my work

, I just found this solution on the HTC-mania forum and also on the Elephone BBS forum.

As it turns out, two users, both "thor2001" and "Pacomeyo" claim to have found this way of changing the lockscreen independent from each-other, if "copying" was the case or not is not for me to decide. I do not want to be in the middle of this cat-fight, so every reader may decide for itself who was the first.

Here I just give a more simple explanation for the less experienced users how to do it, therefor I still keep my English description in here.

First find/make your new lockscreen image. This must be a 1080x1920 jpg-image, called "lockscreenwallpaper.jpg".

Have this file prepared to replace the old (the old-school vinyl phonerecord) image.

The lockscreen image is "hidden" inside the "systemui-res.apk" file on the phone.

This apk can be found in the /custom/app-res/systemui-res/ directory.

You need "root" to copy this file, eg. by means of ES-File-Explorer.

First copy the original "systemui-res.apk" to "systemui-res.apk.ORG" to keep it as a backup.

Email the "systemui-res.apk" file to your PC, eg. using email, or by copying it into the SD-directory in the phone, and than copy it to your PC when the phone is connected to your PC.

Although it is and .APK file, the internal structure is actually a .ZIP file.

So, on the PC you can open this with WinZip.

Inside the .ZIP structure you can find the file "lockscreenwallpaper.jpg" in the subfolder "\res\drawable-xxhdpi-v4".

Save the original file "lockscreenwallpaper.jpg" to eg. "lockscreenwallpaper_ORG.jpg", and put the "lockscreenwallpaper.jpg" you prepared earlier into the .ZIP structure.

Save the .ZIP file, so now it contains the new lockscreen image.

Copy this changed "systemui-res.apk" (now containing both the old AND the new lockscreen) back to your phone in the /custom/app-res/systemui-res/ directory.

You are almost there, now we have to change the access-rights back to rwxrw-rw- (also sometime called 644).

This can be done in ES-File-Explorer on the phone by changing the properties of the file.

Now restart the phone, and you are done!!

Un saludo,

Satbeginner
[Elephone P8000] pacomeyo:
Thor2001 user copy of my post in HTCMania without even thank .what I find distasteful
[Elephone P8000] Satbeginner:
Hi,

As it turns out, two users, both "thor2001" and "Pacomeyo" claim to have found this way of changing the lockscreen independent from each-other, if "copying" was the case or not is not for me to decide. I do not want to be in the middle of this cat-fight, so every reader may decide for itself who was the first.

Un saludo,

Satbeginner
[Elephone P8000] blueflash:
Thanks to you both for that will be trying this out

Now has anyone any tips on editing the .theme file s so we can mix match icons sets and clocks.

Or even just convert .mtz to .theme.
[Elephone P8000] thor2001:
I used a similar way to easily modify it.

I didn't copy ANYTHING from your post, hence the BIG difference between my manual and your sloppy sentences.

Despite of that, do YOU know the meaning of "threshold of originality" ... ?!

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Correct your wording ...
[Elephone P8000] Satbeginner:
Just updated my posts, but there is no need to get nasty about somebody's use of language.

It may very well be that none of us is a native English speaker......
[Elephone P8000] thor2001:
[MENTION=4539183]Satbeginner[/MENTION]

It's okay now, thanks.

May we all have fun with our P8000 for a long time. :)

Remember, we're all on the same side.

Regards
[Elephone P8000] cle900706:
hello all, may i ask some questions regarding this phone? still considering to purchase it or not

1)is there still any other major software bugs?

2)can the phone make sdcard as primary storage? (installing apps to sdcard)

thanks!
[Elephone P8000] s7yler:
ROFL we talk about 1mm difference, you will NEVER ever notice that anyway! or are you Ant-man? :confused:
[Elephone P8000] s7yler:
According to Elephone they just fixed the "incorrect" aperture in the exif info. So I think it is just software fixed...
[Elephone P8000] -Tiz-:
The phone is rather large. One-handed operation is difficult. In such a situation, 1mm can make a difference (depending on the size of your hands). Can you still use the phone with one hand?

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According to this review, it can not. http://www.notebookcheck.com/Test-Elephone-P8000-Smartphone.148587.0.html

But maybe a third party app or a custom rom will help.

The review also mentions problems with the SDcard slot. It does not seem to work reliably.
[Elephone P8000] charliepie:
I would say 77.6 though I can't find my calipers so this is with a ruler, the buttons do stick out another mm but I didn't measure at that part of the phone
[Elephone P8000] Kamran9558:
I have my phone rooted on the 20150725 ROM and wanted to update to the latest one. I havent got any OTA update possibly due to being rooted. I just noticed an option in the wireless update app on the phone through which you can update it locally by downloading the ROm on the phone manually. Has anyone tried that?
[Elephone P8000] s7yler:
Do you experience any problems with the current ROM? if not I suggest not to upgrade.
[Elephone P8000] Kamran9558:
well, I do he camera bug for third party apps. other than that nothing major. Are there any major bugs in the new update?
[Elephone P8000] s7yler:
Yeah as far as I have seen, more people have problems with the newest build. Crashes, lag, worse batterylife and reboots etc. So I would just stick with the current firmware. The camera bug for third party apps is not so important. More important is that the phone is stable.
[Elephone P8000] -Tiz-:
What about the encryption bug? I understand that the P8000 cannot use Android's encryption feature (i.e. if you lose your phone, all your private data may be exposed). Has this issue been solved in the latest ROMs?

Also the Stagefright vulnerability should be patched.

Moreover, Notebookcheck says that the phone is running hot and consumes too much battery when idling. http://www.notebookcheck.net/Elephone-P8000-Smartphone-Review.149361.0.html Not sure which ROM version they used.

Looking forward to a stable custom ROM. Also looking forward to my P8000 which has still not been delivered ... :)
[Elephone P8000] motoesport:
This phone have notification led??
[Elephone P8000] -Tiz-:
[MENTION=6918254]motoesport[/MENTION]: No and yes. Depends on whether the phone is from the first or second batch.

[MENTION=535343]all[/MENTION] Has anyone found spyware pre-installed on the P8000? Background: https://public.gdatasoftware.com/Pr...lware_Reports/G_DATA_MobileMWR_Q2_2015_EN.pdf It appears that more and more resellers install spyware/modify innocent apps in order to generate extra revenues.
[Elephone P8000] motoesport:
:)

1.Second batch have notification led??

2.P7000 or P8000 is better??
[Elephone P8000] bluecup:
1. Yes, have second batch device, grey one, has LED.

2. P8000 has a bit slower CPU, not noticable, but P7000 bends while P8000 is quite hard
[Elephone P8000] drsaidalavi@gmail.com:
Which Xposed ARm for Elephone P8000?

Hello,

I am new to this forum,

Today I got my Elephone P8000. As I was using Xposed frame work in my previous LG g2, I want to root it and install Xposed. When I went to Xposed frame work page for Lollipo 5.1 , it confuses me as it shows the following sdks to download

1.	xposed-v73-sdk22-arm.zip

2. xposed-v73-sdk22-arm64.zip

3.	xposed-v73-sdk22-x86.zip -

I want to know which is the best for Elephone P 8000

Kindly help me
[Elephone P8000] Rizera:
Stock ROM battery management?

Hi, guys! My P8000 is almost arriving here, so I'm eagerly curious to know, how is the Stock ROM battery management?

Reason I ask is because I have a P7000 using the stock ROM, and even though everything is pretty fluid, the battery drains like crazy in sleep mode, and takes ages (around 5-6h) to charge completely regardless of the charger I use.

Thanks!
[Elephone P8000] Satbeginner:
Hi, I use rom 20150815 elephone rom, and get almost 2 days out of 1 charge. Does not heat at all, I am happy.

Un saludo,

Satbeginner
[Elephone P8000] Ranel_S:
Hi!

Is here anybody who has received his/her phone from GearBest? I ordered it 6-th June from presale, but now i am getting really weird responses like first they said, their quality deparment is testing it, but latest is that could you wait more 5-7 workdays.
[Elephone P8000] Sparks89:
I think you need to use the arm64 version :)

Sent from my Elephone P8000
[Elephone P8000] -Tiz-:
My phone has been shipped today. Yay! Looking forward to get my hands on it ...
[Elephone P8000] stonedpsycho:
I got mine off ebay for £140. There are a few UK sellers. Quick delivery also.
[Elephone P8000] Stevethegreat:
Any chance for a CM Rom?

I guess without the bloat of the Stock Rom + some good drivers (that hopefully the released sources have given us) this phone can give even better performance/battery, no?
[Elephone P8000] vladoots:
I understand that CM12 already works on it, with plenty of minuses, of course - no fingerprint function(s), a crappier camera and many others. All of which can be ironed out, sure.

But I don't get where did you pull the ”bloat of the Stock Rom” out from. There is no bloatware in it. They kept it almost vanilla. At least the version I have contains no more than three visible pieces of their software: the launcher, the OTA (wireless) update app and the fingerprint part (which isn't 100% Elephone). The rest is 100% Lollipop, from Google. Nothing contains any malware of any kind - I've checked and re-checked many times over. The performance it gives approaches and even surpasses that of Note 3 as far as I'm concerned. Battery-wise it beats the living crap out of any highest-end Samsung device. What more can you ask from it?

It does an admirably great job as it is - no small feat for a cheap phone if you ask me.

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I have received it two days ago. Ordered on August 17th from GB. Your delay might have something to do with where you live or with some peculiar transaction problems.
[Elephone P8000] Stevethegreat:
To be fair I don't own the phone. I only got interested because of the released sources which in turn may mean awesome support from the community. If we get that part (awesome support) then I'll most probably buy it...

As for the "bloat" part, I assumed it because most Chinese makers tend to put their own services in their phones so that to accommodate their Chinese users. While those may be useful over there, they act as bloatware over here, which is why I requested a clean rom.

If this phone's rom is indeed clean then that's news to me because in all the reviews I've seen it seems that it runs a custom skin (and I assumed a couple more services underneath). If that's not the case, so much for the better (still custom roms would be welcome).
[Elephone P8000] vladoots:
The skin you are referring to is the bloody launcher. Which can be disabled and/or replaced. The only extras integrated by Elephone that I could see were, as I said, the OTA update part, the fingerprint part (only partially Elephone) and a theme part - which is a Lollipop feature with merely an Elephone URL (like the homepage of the default integrated browser) and exclusively on-demand user activation. That's FAR from bloatware. And nothing has malware in it, as was/still is the case with many OEM manufacturers, including some big names - Chinese or otherwise.

Plus, it comes pre-rooted - all you have to do is to install SuperSU.

Custom ROMs can be better, but not necessarily. They are usually loaded with heaps of features that can only add to the battery drain. So much for optimization/performance.

No, this official stock ROM is one of the best I've ever seen, and I've seen quite a lot. Cyanogen itself has more bloatware than it. Believe it or not.
[Elephone P8000] Stevethegreat:
Like I said I don't own the phone, I talk from past experience. One is that stock roms are -more than often than not- bloated and (secondly) chinese roms doubly so. If this phone is the exception (like I've also said) so much for the better.

Still quality custom roms are more important than stock roms because they can extend the longevity of a phone to up to half a decade. My old Galaxy S is still usable because of the community, I doubt Elephone would support this phone for more than a year, in fact my personal prediction is 6 months and then nothing (possibly no Android M), which is why I find community support of utmost importance and I would never buy a phone without released sources... So yeah, the first proper port of CM (or any other AOSP based rom) would trigger me to buy this phone...

Good luck with your purchase :good:
[Elephone P8000] vladoots:
Thank you, sir!

A bit over five years ago (early summer, 2010), I bought one of the very first Galaxy S. Which received only one friggin' ”official update” from Samsung. The dev. community greatly enriched my experience with the device afterwards, granted. But I bet you anything to nothing that it didn't reflect on its longevity. I just loved the gizmo. Anyway, this P8000 is its replacement, just so you know. :)

BTW, the stock ROM is AOSP-based, in case I wasn't clear enough.

Cheers! :)
[Elephone P8000] Stevethegreat:
Yeah I gathered that. My expectation is that it won't be updated for long though, which is why I hope that the community will support it properly.

As for my ol' S. It's old alright and bit long in the tooth but the mere fact that my father enjoys every bit of it (his first smartphone) means that the community worked miracles.

Any other phone I would had given away before long and it would lie useless somewhere, instead I was able to give it to someone who enjoys it. It's not for grunt work. But with CM11 it's still plenty fast for simple things + he can install any game he wants :p
[Elephone P8000] Rizera:
Hola, Satbeginner.

Would you be kind enough to post your battery stats before putting your phone to charge? That would be absolutely excellent.

Un saludo,

Rizera
[Elephone P8000] alexnor9:
4G LTE

Has anyone in the US managed to get 4G LTE working on this phone? I have a AT&T sim card and I can only get 2G speeds at the moment... Any help would be appreciated.
[Elephone P8000] vladoots:
From what I've read (I'm not from the US), the P8000 comes in two series (something else than the ”batches” which covered the notification LED or lack thereof). Series A (aka ”networks A”) is rather ”euro-international” - meaning Europe and the rest of the world minus many (but not all) American countries, while series B is more North-America oriented (not just the US, plus some South-American countries).

As series B is coming out only about as we speak (or very soon), if you already have the phone it is definitely series A and it won't give you LTE, not even 3G, in the US (for AT&T). Check the compatibility for yourself here: http://www.willmyphonework.net/

You may arrange some sort of a replacement with the seller (and you should start writing them now), or better still write to your telecom provider to expand their operating frequencies (best of luck with that!). :)

Let us know how it works.
[Elephone P8000] BlueFlame4:
Hey vladoots,

can you point to a thread or something that contains this CM12 build? Thanks! :)
[Elephone P8000] hvillemoes:
FlyMe 4.5.3 update

I updated from stock rom (july 25) to FlyMe 4.5.3 yesterday.

I used the stock ROM localupdate function, which worked fine.

The FlyMe 4.5.3 is running fine, seems more stable than stock and smoother.

The camera works with OCR and barcode sw (once it was hanging, 10+ times not)

SuperSU works fine too and is the only preinstalled app in the image.

No fingerprint reader, but for me that only worked 5 out of 10 times in stock, så no big loss.

I am using KK Launcher on both - it gives me the best customizability with more icons per page.
[Elephone P8000] vladoots:
If I could've, I would've. Honestly.

But I can say it was in an elusive place on the official Elephone forum, one of the most crappiest places on the web since the beginning of web time.

I was interested in that port myself, so when I finally got the phone (some weeks later), I rushed there for the link. Nowhere to be found in their mesmerizing ****ty algorithm.
[Elephone P8000] Julwh17:
You also could just download a lockscreen app from Google Play. I use Next Lock Screen. Much easier I think. ;)
[Elephone P8000] ferbulous:
Has anyone able to move apps to sdcard? Because I don't see this option available in the apps settings

Apparently you can still do this on android 5.1 for elephone p4000.
[Elephone P8000] vladoots:
Not really, and I'm not sure that's even possible in Lollipop. I'm aware of some hacks for other phones, but not for this one. For P8000, the next best thing is to set the SD card as ”write disk” from the start. Theoretically, most of the stuff will go there.

To do that: enter system settings, tap ”Storage” and select ”SD card” as Default write disk. (default is ”Phone storage”).
[Elephone P8000] gz5ztg:
Has there been any mention of an upgrade to Android M when it arrives for these? I really like the idea of the fingerprint reader for using with 1Password but I imagine that is only going to happen when it gets baked into the OS.
[Elephone P8000] seadersn:
new update from elephone for our P8000 :)

http://bbs.elephone.hk/thread-7743-1-1.html
[Elephone P8000] Satbeginner:
P8000 ROM version 20150907

I just flashed that version (20150907) and it looks OK.

I already had CWM recovery, so I skipped recovery, I also did not flash 'userdata' , so it was like an update to my phone.

Just optimizing ART after the reboot, and I was ready to go.

One small thing: I had to change my lockscreen back to what I had, but that seems normal, since it is inside a system-apk.

Un saludo,

Satbeginner
[Elephone P8000] Sparks89:
What additional features / fixes does this version give?

Sent from my Elephone P8000
[Elephone P8000] Satbeginner:
http://bbs.elephone.hk/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=7743&extra=page%3D1&page=1&mobile=2

Here is what Elephone has to say about it.
[Elephone P8000] Sparks89:
Pretty much nothing them, 3rd party camera app was fixed in previous version...

What is the boot fix?

Sent from my Elephone P8000
[Elephone P8000] Satbeginner:
On some Facebook groups people say the weather/time widget is fixed. (This could cause a bootloop)

And the stock launcher3 now has a better homescreen with an app-drawer.

To me it seems it is a bit 'snappier', and maybe the Wifi is a bit faster.
[Elephone P8000] dsjoyce:
So now that people have been using it for a while, what are your impressions Are you happy with your purchase, is it all around a nice experience? More importantly, is it stable and fast? I'm tossing up between this and the new moto g 3rd gen, which is a less powerful phone, but is by all reports really nice to use (and will get regular updates).