[Device Reviews and Information] challenger78:
I don't think you need one, Gorilla 3 is strong.

---------- Post added at 07:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:13 PM ----------

I use the Google Now launcher, it is the most stable, maybe you could try it?

---------- Post added at 07:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:22 PM ----------

So quick update from my experience so far.

First about the supplier, gearbest. I ordered from them a week ago from their EU warehouse (I live in UK), received the item within 2-3 days (was shipped from UK apparently as well), then I wanted to return it based on what I read here, and they told me to send it back to China (not good), only by normal Post Office, no courier options... But the Post Office does not allow batteries shipped to China apparently.... So anyway, called the credit card company, and to cut the story short, I decided to keep the phone and see what happens (I gave up on getting any money back from them, would be too long process and uncertain, moral of the story if you want to order from them, delivery fast (from EU warehouse) but if you want to return for any reason, forget it... maybe you can send it without the battery for partial refund..).

Now about the phone. In general, my impression is good. Looks and feels of good quality build. It is very fast, I ran several Antutu and most of the time I got around 43k, highest was 45k. Came with July update, so I did 1 OTA to Aug and one more to Oct version. Camera/wifi/external ROM work fine (I put a 64 G samsung extra memory in). Speakers are not the best ever, but hey, for this price, can't complain.., tried Skype calls with video and sound, all good. I still haven't tried it with a SIM card, so I can't comment on that.

Also, using Google Now launcher as I think it's the most stable. Battery life, again without SIM, is good (SoT > 4h so it's fine) - using Amplifier, but I need to monitor this for a few days, to see how it performs when I have SIM inside and with more apps + tweeks. Note, I didn't calibrate battery, just used as is. Also I didn't activate or test the fingerprint scanner yet, so again can't comment on that either. The capacitive buttons at the bottom are not illuminated, unfortunately, would be better if they were for the dark (anyone knows a fix for that?).

Thanks to the advice in this forum I rooted it and re-installed the official Oct ROM (downloaded from ulefone site), and xposed v74-21 with installer 3 alpha4 posted a couple of pages back. I confirm the v75 is unstable. v74, some modules work, some don't, so use with care.

Over all, I think either I got lucky and got a stable phone, or the Oct update fixed most of the problems you guys mentioned earlier (few weeks/months ago). Or maybe it will start freezing or having screen issues later, I don't know, but so far so good, the phone is decent for the money and doesn't feel horrible or something as I was afraid it would be.

I tried to find information about overclocking the phone by building a new kernel for it, but then I discovered that it's impossible without the Media Tek drivers :/ Oh well... Still set all cores to 1.69 GHz and governor noop, so will monitor and see how it works with those parameters. Also got the kitchen, might try to build a Android 6 for this phone when it gets out, if it's not too hard and I have free time.

I hope this helps someone here, will post again in a few days with update.

Cheers