yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Barnlord:
alright, sounds easier than a couple of years ago when I flashed galaxy s2 for the first time. I was using CWM recovery all the time, is TWRP better, cause I can't select so many backup options, there is only backup to sdcard. I think I should archiv the same ?! And there is only the wipe options I mentioned, is that good enough or should I better use TWRP recovery?

Thank you so much hackerpower!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
No problem glad to help. Which recovery do you have? There are many recoveries out there that don't backup and restore properly. They seem like they have backed up everything but when you are going to restore nothing happens. Believe i learned the hard way, twice. I only post those two recoveries because they're the best IMO and fully functional.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Barnlord:
Currently i have the CWM recovery posted by kangel installed (i still cant post links cause i have less than 10 posts) but i will install the CWM recovery from rootjunky which you linked.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
Install twrp, that cwm is full of chinese and it's not 100% functional.

That's why it isn't posted under recoveries.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Barnlord:
Okidokey, will try that. thanks again so far :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dazboi:
Lenovo k3 note

Hi

I should probably start by saying I'm new to all this, take i easy...

i have just rooted my k3 note with cwm installed. I am having a lot of issues with the stock os and im looking to install the limenchelo rom. Will it just be as simple as booting into cwm doing a wipe, then installing the rom via cwm?

THANKS IN ADVANCE!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
Yes, you're correct, as easy as that.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -EM-:
Hello

I have a few questions about lenovo k3 note

1. How can I move the apps from the phone storage to sd?

2. How can I check for firmware update directly by the settings as all android smartphones use to have?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
1. stock roms don't have that option only some custom ones.

2. that feature only works on stock roms. system settings/about phone
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G3ca7a:
LEnovo K3 Note (K50-T5) Indian ROW ROM

I flashed The Indian ROM and now my phone is called K50a40 :)

About the ROM :

- It has lags from time to time (never experience that with the stock one).

- It has less avalable RAM than the stock ROM.

- All Google apps are system apps (I don't like this). & some of them are stock apps too.

- Six themes and seven lockscreens in Theme Center (with no access to download more, like with the chinese version of Lenovo Launcher)

- The Antutu benchmark is ridiculously low (38 076) compared with the stock ROM (46 153) - if somebody knows why, please do tell!

- I'm not shure what to think about it ... for me it solved the problem using widgets with other launchers and I have now my native language but .....

- The last update "117" installed bunch of apps like Asfalt 8, US Browser est. .... I don't know how that's a system update but .... whatever.

Does someone know if the last update to stable version of the Stock ROM 2.5_1530_ST has the problem with the widgets while using other launchers and from where I can download it??

Thanks!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -EM-:
I'm using stock ROM (or at last I think so), still I can not find the update option.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sunnythai:
The difference?

Please you tell me what different between

LiMoNcHeLo 5.1 MDSTeam MoD and LiMoNcHeLo NovAMoD MDSTeam VibeAosP :confused:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k@iserex:
The one is 5.0 based and the other is 5.1 based. I dont like limonchelo, it lag pretty heavily, I think aosp v4 is better whit adjustments on performance cpu governor, 20 for swapiness and noop as i/o scheduler. Its much smoother and its close to aosp standards but whit less features then stock based ROMs.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lebobobo:
Cannot read micro sd

after flashing a new rom. I got this message. I try other micro sd still not working. Btw. My micro sd is working fine in other phone or pc. Already formatted it. Still no luck. I flash another rom. Still got this message
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] balji3489:
Thanks alot guys!

really loving the development for this device :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arifin.riad:
If I change my stock recovery to cwm, then how can i install OTA updates?

I tried manually to flash the ota zip file using cwm,but it failed?

Is there any solution?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abhilekhg:
How to mitigate the heating issue?

I am using rooted S117 Indian ROM but still facing heating issue with moderate usage. Any fixes?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
No, the recovery tells you that because you did a full wipe before flashing the rom instead of a factory reset, but no harm there, reboot and wait for the phone to initialize (in chinese) and enter system.

Sent from Hacker's K3 Note
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drakula1000:
Some time ago, I flashed cwm recovery (and old version of CM) using sp_flash tool. Right now, I use CM 12.1 by Cheshkin, and it shows total capacity 11.31 GB of internal storage. Is this a known issue? Stock ROM is showing 16 GB.<br />

Is this due to old scatter file used with sp_flash tool or it is normal for CM?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] temitimx:
Please I want to know if I can use 64gb SD card class10 on Chinese ROM. Thanks in advance
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thinkgadgetsme:
Yes you can use the class 10 64gb SD card on VibeUI v3.5. I have been using it for months.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bitoo7918:
Hi i got hard brick my lenovo k50a40 and i want to please provide link for stock ROM.

It will be great if the link was for marshmallow..

Thanks in advance plz help me guys.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thinkgadgetsme:
Please refer to the index page of this thread you will get all the necessary softwares and the ROM.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meteordust:
Serial number

Hi Mr. Hackerpower or others,

One more try, can't find anywhere an answer :D after searching around a long time.

After a mistake, not knowing what I did, I lost my nvram and serial number by format all/ download in SP Flash.

On India stock ROW rom's I can flash imei's, wifi & bt address, barcode (p/n) and serial number back on the phone using Maui Meta and SP Meta tool and showing correct on the "about phone/status" screen.

Only wondering around why only my serial totally changes to another one, from 8 digit to 16 digit number, when I flash from India ROW to a CN Vibe UI rom or Cm 12.1.

Imei etc. stays like it was and never had 0x01 nvram errors anymore in the many rom's I tried.

With stock Vibe UI LP versions serial changes to a KZAQ************ and with stock Vibe UI MM it changes to a SGAU************ number and p/n number totally disappeared. in LP & MM

I guess that the original (behind battery) serial is, mine has sticker with HA0***AH serial, or on my phone was, also stored somewhere else than the CUSTOM_SN where SP meta it writes in nvram and only readable/ used in India ROW rom's ??

Diiference between India Row and Vibe UI is another custom_sn file stored in system/bin/ in Vibe UI that looks related to this....??

Can somebody confirm that K50-T5 phones that came with official stock VibeUi rom really had the 8 digit serial, like shown behind battery, on " about phone/status" screen. Otherwise I can stop worry about it, it's not an issue only annoying :cyclops:

Just trying to find out where the serial comes from in Vibe UI stock roms.

Many thanks for an answer.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mshaw213:
Date format

Hi all, sorry to ask such a stupid question, but I've tried googling for an answer with no success.

I'm running s424 row slick from Stonehenge and whilst I have managed to configure everything OK I'm struggling to set the date to UK date format. The lock screen shows the date in UK format but if I go in to WhatsApp, Gmail or Outlook the date messages were received is in US format.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hassan.h:
Low signal reception

I am getting very low, sometimes no signal reception on both the sim card slot on my K3 note. What could be the issue? :( Can any one help me on this?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhabarocks:
K3 Note CUOCO92 Official S424 V1.26

I have installed this rom till now everything is working fine and smoothly. I have one problem though...Whenever I am switching the wifi hotspot on be it through settings or share it... The phone freezes and restarts automatically... This has happened every time I have switched on the hotspot....

Please suggest a workaround or please ota a patch for the issue.... Happens when mobile data is ON Thanks and regards
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alfymon22:
Please Can someone suggest me Proper stable roms which supports QUALCOMM QUICK CHARGE 2.0 for Lenovo K3 Note Indian Version. ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] umartopia:
I am having low wifi connectivity issue with 1623 dev. I get stable wifi speed if i keep mobile near router. However, as soon as i move lil away the speed drops drastically. I have verified that other mobile is able to get proper speed.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] preditcon:
Is K3 Note capable of being powered via provided charger but with its battery removed?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
Really? Qualcomm features on a Mediatek chip?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
Last stable rom is 1529 and it's android 5.0

1530 is a dev rom not st

That's not a problem, you just need to move the apk of the launcher to the priv app folder and bye bye problem.

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No lag here on novamod.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k@iserex:
The problem whit lag is heavily noticeable when battery goes below 15%, the soc starts to throttle big time and then phone becomes pretty lagy, its evident i limonchelo or aosp v4 and guess every stock based ROM out there. But then again it could only be me?

Thats why we need custom kernel big time, so that we can control the soc the way we want whit more options in governments and thermal department, if we had those I believe this phone could squeeze more juice of of the platform, resulting in much smoother expirience. Of course if we have full CM on board that would further improve stability and performance. Im having a feeling that there is a big potential for our phone if just we had more capable ROM and kernel devs to show off their work, we could be flying things so much better. The software optimization is of the most importance and it seems we are moving in the right direction and would love to see some love in true AOSP/pure CM and CM variants department. Guess we have to wait cos we have a popular device in our hand and it could turn out to be a beast of its own :) ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
+1
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hemeroidman:
could i just ask out of the various roms is there any which allows a micro sd card greater than 32GB (useable)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lightingboy:
Now I use official 1529 ST rom, only have English and Chinese but in English there are some chinese font in system app such as in phone book.

I need lastest rom that have multilanguage or just English is fine but remove all chinese apps and chinese font in system apps and also have best battery life.

Which rom is my best choice?

Thank you.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arifin.riad:
Lenovo K3 Note IMEI INVALID ISSUE

I use Lenovo K3 not K50-T5 .

I've lost my imei when i format my device via sp tool.

I can restore that via chamelemon/mobile uncle tool.

But this 2 methods are not temporary solution. every time i flash new rom,the imei gets invalid again.

Isn't there any permanent solution to fix the imei.

I've also lost wi-fi mac % BT .

it's showing nvram warning.

I've also facing Less 3G signal issue.

plaese help me brother,how can i these problems.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k@iserex:
Im using cucos92 ROM and its superb, way smoother then limonchelo or aosp v4 FOR ME! Just to send out the info if anybody wants to try it. It has OTA system in place which is incremental and that is also great. VibeUI really grow on me if I might say, didnt see that commin. All and all there is 1530 official out in the wild and I guess cucos gonna update soon. This ROM is based od stock DEV 5.1 and its rockinn :) ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SuperLImROmFAN:
Awesome!!! Thank you....
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MoHo.FcityBax:
ROM which is better ?

DEV?? ROW?? ST??

What is the difference with؟؟
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
I'm using 1529 ST now and i have no chinese characters on any apps.

Welcome to the mediatek world, that also happens to me. Everytime flashing a new rom, chamelephon and nvram fix.

Developer, Rest of the world, Stable.

How about using google.

Please stop posting which rom is better, try the roms and decide by yourself.

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Didn't like cuocos rom, too many unuseful things installed, change fonts, an option to have an extended power menu but through settings? 2 OTA systems in the same rom? Stock and cuocos? It has bugs and 5.1 is still too unstable and not very xposed friendly.

There's no improvement in changing from 5.0 to 5.1 for now. Only ART, nothing else.

1529 ST 5.0 is the king of the hill for now :victory:

Test it and then tell me cuocos is smoother, heats less and has best performance and battery life. :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k@iserex:
Didnt notice to many unuseful stuff apart form launcher and couple of more that are couple of clicks away from vanishing off of the phone. Well, extended power menu is there, right, it should be integrated into normal menu but then again its just couple of click away, other then that there are apps that can do the same a one click away. 2 OTAa are confusing for novice users, not for me and I always point that out in my comments, but I can acknowledge that cucos had to freeze stock OTA making it more transparent update system.

Which bugs are you refering, I hadn't had major bug that would distract me from using the phone?! Well regarding xposed, its not there for many devices including way more popular then ours so even I do like xposed modules and find them very useful I'm not using it cos this Lenovo ROM suits my preference, something I didn't see IG coming, and I was on LG G3 before K3 note, so I have a good perspective. ART does tend to improve performance on lower end devices and I can acknowledge that its not a must have feature per se but a good addition forward in developing Andros OS. Iv been reading good user experience about 1529 5.0 ST aka chines ROM for a while and I just might do a backup and flash away. In such situations like this very we have relatively many ROMs out there is of the most importance to have multirom. It would be great if somebody would consider porting the stuff for our variant.

Question, did you try to do nandroid, flash new ROM that do the full restore afterwards and did you try to restore only data portion from nandorid? I usually make use of Titanium for restoring data but would like to try to do it right there from TWRP?

Please point me to the 1529 ST ROM you are using and testing right now, so that I could tested myself, the and cheers :) ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
Didn't really understood what you asked.

You asked if i ever restored just the data partition of a nandroid backup on top of a newly flashed rom?

Yes, but with this phone not yet.

It's the official 1529 Stable it's in my Index thread man, look it up!

But in a short time i'm going to post a TWRP backup, rooted, gapped and debloated of that rom, wait a little and you'll have less work :highfive:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k@iserex:
Yes, exactly about restoring. Well, cool, post a TWRP backup as I don't like SPflash tool if that what is called :) ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vonuzu:
Can someone explain foe to flash the 1529 stable rom? Tried via sp flash tools and with recovery and both times it fails. In the SPFT the scater file is not recognised and with recovery there is some eror..?

Thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
it's flashable through custom recovery, there are script errors (because it searches for your phone model and system version footprint and it doesn't match) but it flashes without problems. You can edit updater script and delete those lines so you don't see errors.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vonuzu:
It fails. I'm using twrp, and when it shows the error it is just failing and not continuing whit the flashing.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
You have to edit updater-script inside the zip so you don't have errors.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uan:
Cannot use twrp. Must use cwm. There will be error warning, but the installation continues until complete.

1529 was nice. But cant use widget on google now launcher, and other launcher i believe.

I am now on s114 rooted.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackerpower:
This is what's inside the script, i've put in red what you should remove in order not to get errors:

[COLOR="Red"]mount("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p3", "/data", "");
get_lenovo_custom1("1436777709") == "OK" || abort("Can't install this package (Mon Jul 13 16:55:09 CST 2015) over newer build (" + getprop("ro.build.data") + "). Or lenovo can't allow to rollback.");
unmount("/data");
getprop("ro.product.device") == "aio_otfp" || abort("This package is for \"aio_otfp\" devices; this is a \"" + getprop("ro.product.device") + "\".");[/COLOR]
show_progress(0.750000, 0);
format("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p6", "0", "/system");
block_image_update("system", package_extract_file("system.transfer.list"), "system.new.dat", "system.patch.dat");
show_progress(0.050000, 5);
assert(package_extract_file("boot.img", "/tmp/boot.img"),
write_raw_image("/tmp/boot.img", "bootimg"),
delete("/tmp/boot.img"));
assert(run_program("/system/bin/dd", "if=/dev/zero", "of=/proc/driver/mtd_writeable", "bs=3", "count=1"));
assert(package_extract_file("logo.img", "/tmp/logo.img"),
write_raw_image("/tmp/logo.img", "logo"),
delete("/tmp/logo.img"));
assert(package_extract_file("uboot.img", "/tmp/uboot.img"),
write_raw_image("/tmp/uboot.img", "uboot"),
delete("/tmp/uboot.img"));
assert(package_extract_file("mobicore.bin", "/tmp/tee1.img"),
write_raw_image("/tmp/tee1.img", "tee1"),
delete("/tmp/tee1.img"));
show_progress(0.200000, 10);
[COLOR="Red"]mount("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p3", "/data", "");
!(get_lenovo_custom2("1436777709") == "OK") || format("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p3", "0", "/data");
unmount("/data");[/COLOR]

In vibeUI in order to add widgets to third party launchers you need to move the launcher's apk to the priv app folder inside system.

I flashed 1529 ST with TWRP it showed errors and it flashed without problems, it didn't stop.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanielDEV:
Hola, cm or Google's launcher? Which one should I use for fast and less "heat source"?

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Should I flash maxxaudio software or atmos dobly?(teana version phone)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k@iserex:
Well, that's for you to decide. What works for me won't work for you and vice versa. Just try it :) ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanielDEV:
Alright, thanks =]

I made a little test about the CPU "breakpoint", and I found out when the cpu temps reaches 35C(or 45C one of them) there is an " underclock" like 70% less, and goes up after a while...

Any idea how can I mod the cpu, so there won't be that big drop (like making 30% drop instead of 70)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vonuzu:
Nevermind, i used the update script from limononchelo rom and I flashed the rom successful. Hahha[emoji12]

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Now that I'm using the ST 1529 rom, witch by the way is very stable, I wish there was a way to have the lockscreen notifications.

Thats the only thing what I'm missing.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k@iserex:
Only quality kernel will allow us to do that or quality flashable script that will modify thermal files suitable for better performance and have clocks in control the way we want them to behave in certain situations. We don't have either right now, so we have to wait for some dev to figure that one up. We desperately need custom kernel and if we could have that believe me we could fly this phone up to the sky and beyond, we have the hardware and we need the software to go way beyond what is intended in the first place.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uan:
Thank you. Googling this solution for hours. I would recommend this should be in the OP :thumbup:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kyrios21:
XPOSED Success?

K50a40_S112_150610_ROW

K50a40_S117_150706_ROW

VIBEUI_S114_VISNU_LEMONADE

VIBEUI_S117_VISNU_LEMONADE

All are Android 5.0

Tried with LENOVO_K3_LOLLIPOP_5.1_1529-DEV_ROW_v1.7_CUOCO92 (Android 5.1) and turns out, it does not work with SDK22 v68 (bootloop).

I myself use stock Indian S117 with xposed-v68-sdk21-arm64.zip
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dude_creative:
rename the /system/etc/.tp/thermal.conf to some other name and reboot. this prevents throttling. but lenovo has fixed in the vibeui 2.5 1529 chinese ROM. sadly they didn't in row ROM
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJB12:
installing limonchelo

Has anyone tried the method shown by Jin Lin in his YouTube video to install Limonchelo and twrp using Kingroot and Flashify? He did it all directly on the phone without using a computer. This seems easy and straight forward, so is there a catch???

Also, would this work for other roms?

Thank you.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kyrios21:
K50a40_S112_150610_ROW

K50a40_S117_150706_ROW

VIBEUI_S114_VISNU_LEMONADE

VIBEUI_S117_VISNU_LEMONADE

All are Android 5.0

Tried with LENOVO_K3_LOLLIPOP_5.1_1529-DEV_ROW_v1.7_CUOCO92 (Android 5.1) and turns out, it does not work with SDK22 v68 (bootloop).

I myself use stock Indian S117 with xposed-v68-sdk21-arm64.zip
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanielDEV:
Wierd, because i have a custom rom, vibeui 2.8 XX29 based and it has rhe problem plus heatting issue while uding browsers.

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Do you guys know a custom rom bases on vibeui 2.5 1529 Stable?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uan:
Update: Still unable to make this work :banghead:. Anybody has successfully enable google now launcher widget on 1529?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vonuzu:
I'm using google now launcher, and i have the widgets but didn't move nothing in private app.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanielDEV:
Vibe UI 2.5 1529 ST is the best rom so far I have ever used (more than ROW,VIBE 2.8,CUOCO and etc..) lowest temps, lowerst "downclock" cpu (which cause a little lag on games, unlike other roms which cause very laggy) and fastest. rooted with trwp and gapps, LOVE it!

Any custom roms based on Vibe UI 2.5 1529 ST? or should I use just titanium backup?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vonuzu:
How is your battery life? How much Screen on time?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanielDEV:
I'll tell you tomorrow, but so far it seems to be nice, better than ROW thats for sure.

Any idea guys how do I delete icons that can't be removed by titanium backup?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vonuzu:
I froze all the bloatware with titanium.

What icons do you mean?