[Android General] konsti:
HI everyone, hi [MENTION=6814590]askermk2000[/MENTION] and many many thanks for sharing your TWRP version 3.0.2.3 with us.

I followed this thread on how to root the Lenovo S8 A7600 phone and downloaded the tools needed (SP Flash Tool v5.1452.00 and VCOM drivers) on my Windows 7 laptop; then, installed them accordingly. Many thanks to [MENTION=5993195]XxpikaachuuxX[/MENTION] for providing links and steps on his thread!

1. Started up SP Flash Tool with administrator rights.

2. Chose the scatter file that was inside your shared TWRP-3.0.2.3 zip file; recovery image is automatically selected.

3. Shut down phone, remove battery.

4. Made sure all boxes in list were unchecked, except "recovery" then pressed "Download" button.

5 . Plugged phone on USB cable to PC, then inserted battery under the phone, as instructed.

6. Windows made a "USB plugged" sound, then SP Flash Tool detected phone OK and flashed recovery fine (there was the green tick-mark shown!)

7. Removed cable, removed battery, waited 10 seconds, re-inserted battery.

Then, copied to my SD card root folder, via PC (card reader) the following:

a) UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.46.zip

b) gapps-lp-20150211-signed.zip from this thread (lp=Lollipop)

(I had downloaded and installed wrong Gapps for 5.1 Android, but we need 5.0 version for this ROM--silly me. I just re-flashed via TWRP the correct package).

Went into recovery by pressing briefly Power then when the short vibration was felt, pressed VOL+ and VOL- and POWER simultaneously; the pleasant splash-screen of TWRP was shown!

1. Installed the needed SuperSU; then went back.

2. Installed gapps.

3. Wiped cache and Davlik (inside TWRP) then rebooted phone i.e. "system".

4. Waited patiently as it took a few minutes to go on the main Home screen.

5. Created Google account in "Settings" then went straight to "PlayStore" to update all applications, including SuperSU.

6. Ran SuperSU and upon request, updated the binary "normally" and rebooted just fine.

NOTE: In the Wi-Fi detected lists, since my first ever boot of this phone, I get a (fake?) SSID entry "NVRAM WARNING: Err = 0x10" which is apparently easily fixed for other phones. Do you guys you also got that?

A bunch of final questions to you, [MENTION=6814590]askermk2000[/MENTION] when you have time to reply.

1) Does the stock weather display on a Home page work for you? I only get Chinese cities, location doesn't work as it says "city not found". Manual input of e.g. Europe cities doesn't show results, either.

2) Despite removing most via "Settings -> App Manager", any suggestions oh how to remove some further chinese apps that are marked "system app"? This article suggests NoBloat Free, Titanium Backup, System App Remover and App Master. I am not familiar with this approach but for example, "LenovoStore" could be removed...

3) Do you have by any chance the original, black b/g, folding (yes, boring) Lenovo animation boot logo to share? I see there's a file logo.bin for SP Flash Tools but others talk about /system/media/bootanimation.zip file... I ask if you have it, as the "Boot Animations" PlayStore app may not have the stock Lenovo boot. Perhaps flashing it via SP Flash Tool is better?

4) Will you kindly share any updates here to TWRP versions, whenever released? Do you anticipate any update in the coming 1-2 months, for example? (not sure there are bugs in TWRP-3.0.2.3, if any)

5) If there is a newer Lenovo official ROM available (than today) we obviously lose the TWRP recovery if we flash it all via SP Flash Tools; but we keep TWRP recovery if we update to the new ROM via TWRP, correct?

Thank you.