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[Android General] VFansss:
I'm very angry.

I didn't updated since I've rooted R27.

I didn't installed/updated anything since months and yesterday suddently everytime I open a browser (both Chrome or even Firefox with adblock and ghostery that I usually use) something open automatically a strange page with fake google searchbar, ads and shopping link.

Everytime I press home and then open a browser it will open another tab of that crappy site. If I press home firefox home firefox home firefox it will open 3 tab with that site. Same things with stock chrome.

What was the problem?

Leagoo Launcher.

Changed to Nova Launcher and now work like a sharm.

Very ashamed of that.

I was happy how stock firmware was good overall but now I will never buying Leagoo if they put suddently and silently crap on my phone.

Someone advice me a good custom firmware to flash? I'm reading last pages catching some advice... some Cyano would be very good to try.
[Android General] Gioggiolo:
UPDATE:

I solved by installing nova launcher. It opens the hidden setting "Home" and i can select "Ask Always"

QUESTION:

Hello, i'd like to use a different launcher on my my elite 5 (ROM Stock R33) but I can't find a way.

Is it because of R33?

There is no options called "Home" in the All options.
[Android General] Sr4l:
Hey, I have R33 running and use Google Now Launcher. I just installed it and used the old launcher to start it. Then you'll be ask what starter should be the default. I guess this way should work with other launchers too.

Same here. "Leagoo Share" has some sort of "Ads load" after a silent updated outside the OS Upgrade or Playstore. Affected was every app. After unlock the ads where shown time to time. I am really pissed.

I removed the "Appstore" (not Playstore), Leagoo BeatyMakeup, Leagoo Launcher, Leagoo Share and some others I cant remember right now. Surprisingly the phone is still running.
[Android General] mrsrikanth:
Can somebody please let me know the radiation(SAR) value of this elite 5? you have to dial *#07#. I am using oukitel ROM and not able to figure out the value. I heard all Chinese phones have huge SAR values which causes cancer.
[Android General] ppsc44:
Hello,

links for instruction and video have benn removed and/or expired.

Can please somebody make them working?

Thank you !

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[Android General] Blesssed:
Plzzzzz helpppp plz plz plz

My notification LED is not working properly for notifications in leagoo elite 5, only for charging. It was not working at all for notifications, even when i put my phone on charging white its power off not any charging notification show. now Red color ramdonly blinks with or without a notification. Plz help because i miss very important and urgent sms and missed calls notification and its really annoying
[Android General] Hastaloego:
hi my elite 5 doesnt vibrate anymore. does this phone has a vibrate battery or a vibrate motor ?
[Android General] ciencio3:
II bricked my Elite5, too. I tried Kingo Root, since there was no way to make Sp Flash to flash the TWRP, but the phone never boot up again. I'm stuck at the green leago logo.

I've tried your way but windows seems to not recognize the phone and does'nt install any driver.

How can I solve this?
[Android General] ciencio3:
Bricked Elite 5

I definetely bricked my phone.

I tried to flash other roms via SPFlashTool but it seems that there's non way to get it boot again.

Reading from the info in the factory menu:

MSBoard is hct6735m_35gu_1

Build time 2016 1010

kernel version 3.10.65+

SW version R36_1010

Does anyone have a stock rom like mine (R36_1010) so that I can try to flash it?

Do you know any different method to flash the rom other than SPFlashTool?
[Android General] ishtiaq786:
is there any solution to fix camera issue in YunOs rom..???? someone please help to resolve it.....it is good rom
[Android General] xionbunny:
I know this thread is really old but I had no idea where else to ask, is there any chance in hell of android 6 or 7 being ported to this device? thanks
[Android General] genesisalgor:
No chance at all
[Android General] VFansss:
[EDIT]
[Android General] mannemeric:
Solution for successful flashing of a Leagoo Elite 5 is kindly requested

Dear all, I’m a newbie on this xda forum. Hope, someone could contribute to solve the software problem currently occurring on my phone LEAGOO Elite 5 (bought mid 2017). Due to some problem with bloat ware, I wanted to flash the original stock ROM means of the SP Flashing Tool Version 5.1708.00 (package with firmware) which I retrieved from another web site.

The corresponding SP FT settings on tab <format> were “Auto Flash Format” and “Format whole flash except Bootloader”, and on tab <download> “Format all + Download”. All 11 lines showing on the corresponding table were ticked on. The following download procedure (with battery) means of the scatter file of the firmware package and subsequent flashing procedure was promising O.K. After disconnecting and booting, the phone showed a blackish screen (lit up in the background).

The <read back> procedure on the corresponding SP FT tab showed only the “MediaTek Preloader USB VCOM (Android) (COM6)”.

I’m currently lost.

As I don’t like to throw electronic stuff away I still hope that there is an "easy" solution to the software problem I have unfortunately created.

Hope this is the right place to post my request. Thanks
[Android General] rojertee:
Links are not working

Above links are not working.
[Android General] Eleiyas:
why do you need the uncompressed photos exactly?

also, nothing seems to support my phone, so I'd prefer not to muck about with xposed just yet.
[Android General] ferbulous:
Just needed to see the full raw quality

I've seen pictures taken from 13mp cameras by other china phones and they turned out worse than I expected

Good luck rooting the phone, should be no problem once you got twrp up and running.
[Android General] Eleiyas:
do you mean the actual RAW file or the original photo file? either way I'd have to host it somewhere and probably lose a bit of detail...
[Android General] ferbulous:
Oops, I meant just the original photo files. Flickr or imgur image hosting should be ok.
[Android General] pratikmore:
Twrp recovery : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3jWykV-dHRGS0xQcHNNdEd0LUU/view?usp=docslist_api

Keep sp flash tool and recovery in one folder with scatter file.

Just open sp flash tool and select scatter file then it will detect recovery image. Click download option in sp tool. Switch off your phone and connect to PC, it will detect phone if drivers are present. Then it will flash recovery. Just move into recovery and backup your stock ROM. Then flash SuperSU v2.46.zip and you have successfully rooted your phone.
[Android General] Eleiyas:
thanks for all your help, you've been so helpful. i do have a bit of an issue tough... i turned off the phone, clicked download, plugged in the phone and i heard the windows noise which means "usb connected", but then my phone boots into a battery charging mode/screen and i hear the windows noise for "usb disconnected", all the while, the flash tool just seems to be idle with all the buttons greyed out...
[Android General] pratikmore:
Download driver installer,which required when you are flashing files through sp flash tool.

Download:

https://yadi.sk/d/jKNRjOOQfPeXq

Remember first click download button then connect your switch off phone.
[Android General] Eleiyas:
i had already downloaded those drivers and installed them correctly and flash tool is still timing out... is it because im on windows 10?
[Android General] pratikmore:
Try on windows 7... I am using win 7.
[Android General] Eleiyas:
i think its something to do with a driver "MT65XX Preloader" that doesnt get installed properly because the phone boots into battery screen too quickly

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ok, I managed to install it after like 4 hours of mucking about with the drivers and stuff :p

thank you very much [MENTION=4131700]pratikmore[/MENTION]
[Android General] Eleiyas:
[MENTION=4638690]ferbulous[/MENTION] xposed framework (v22 arm), which is the only one that would even install, gave me bootloop.
[Android General] ferbulous:
Thanks for testing out

I take it you flashed the v74-sdk22-arm.zip file since the android version is still 32 bit although the processor is 64 bit

Looks like deodexing the rom is probably required to get xposed working normally

Were you able to restore back your backup with twrp?

Did you apply the latest ota update before flashing the framework files?
[Android General] Eleiyas:
arm64 version did not want to flash, it immediately threw up an error saying it was wrong version. arm normal was indeed the version i flashed.

my phone had no updates to do about 2 days ago, so i doubt it would now; yes i was able to restore using a backup i had made, luckily :p
[Android General] ferbulous:
Well, the good news is twrp works for your rom. So it's gonna be difficult to brick it unless it's hw failure [emoji28]

There's a all in tool for deodexing your rom based on your twrp backup if you're still up for it

http://xdaforums.com/chef-central/android/kitchen-superrs-kitchen-t3202296/post62845957

Also, how long does it usually take to fully charge it? Is it usually around 2-3 hours?
[Android General] Eleiyas:
ill give it a go if you let me know what deodexing is :3

and yes, charge time is usually a couple of hours

on a side note, i was hoping to flash a new rom like cyanogen, but it doesnt look compatible (like everything else when it comes to unknown chinese-make phones)
[Android General] ferbulous:
Most stock roms are odexed, if you check in /system/apps

All the apps has this odex file in each app folder

Basically deodexing merge the odex with apk which allows for more customization.

I deodexed the rom for vk6050s (another mtk6735 device) and I was able to get xposed working after that.
[Android General] Eleiyas:
and how exactly do i do it with the app you sent me?
[Android General] ferbulous:
It's quite easy actually now there's all in one tool for that

You're gonna have to use linux for this

http://xdaforums.com/chef-central/android/kitchen-superrs-kitchen-t3202296

It's pretty straightforward, instructions/usage are included in the readme

You'll just need to copy your system.ext4.win and boot.emmc.win from your twrp backup into your project folder.

Once this done, you'll just need to flash the deodexed zip file that's built using this tool

Be sure to do a factory reset/cache wipe, it's basically like flashing a new rom.

As always, backup everything just in case.

Btw, is the recording only limited to 720p only? Not full hd?

Can you post some video samples?
[Android General] Eleiyas:
if i can get the deodex thing to work, what version of xposed should i flash?

also, where would be the best place to upload a video sample?
[Android General] ferbulous:
Based on the antutu benchmark result, they're using the 32 bit version of android 5.1 . So you'll just need to flash the same framework file as before.

Not sure why leagoo didn't just use 64bit version of 5.1 instead.

You could upload the full clip in mega or mediafire. Youtube compression might alter the original video quality a bit.

If you're not sure about it, I could help deodexing using the same tool

Just upload your twrp backup files (except userdata) to mega/any filehost you prefer and I'll grab them from there.
[Android General] Eleiyas:
that might be easier, but ive already installed a linux virtual machine and download the stuff, im now trying to transfer my backup from the host windows to my vm, which isnt going so well - i might take you up on that offer, but my backup folder is like 1.5gb
[Android General] ferbulous:
Since you've already got everything set up, might as well just proceed with it. If you still got a problem you can just forward the backup files to me.

You could copy the backup files to windows first, then move it to your vm instead of copying it directly from the phone to vm.
[Android General] Eleiyas:
thats what i did, but even though i have drag and drop enabled in virtual box, it doesnt seem to work and i cannot seem to connect any usb device without it throwing up errors...
[Android General] ferbulous:
Can you just copy the backup files to a usb drive, then select the usb drive from the devices tab in the vm settings?
[Android General] Eleiyas:
tried that and threw up an error saying the device couldnt be connected because it was handling another query (when it wasnt, it was idle) -- i checked the virtual box forums and it seems this bug is happening to a lot of people and no one knows how to fix it

by the way: my backup folder is already 50% uploaded, so ill send the the link in a minute
[Android General] ferbulous:
That's odd, I actually couldn't get drag and drop feature working so I just copied the files from my usb drive. Also, I'm using the 32 bit version.

Maybe you could changing to this one assuming you're using the 64 bit version.
[Android General] Eleiyas:
well, i gave up on that, so here:

https://mega.nz/#!4tJX2aDC!PP7JSOMo9uZ99EPQ58SrWyY5xkK0dxV7yL-7hLCxZM0

wow... i restarted virtual box just to give it one last attempt and guess what, drag and drop now works x) well, the file's there if you want to muck about with it :)
[Android General] ferbulous:
Thanks, here's the deodexed file

https://mega.nz/#!xpxDxRZS!BU_C71nzoyOoZqVoQUgfhurCeYGoDaiLCgtAxxKZ5rs

As always, have the backup ready before flashing it
[Android General] Eleiyas:
oh wow, you still did it for me, thanks! luckily for me too, this VM wont even open now ><
[Android General] Eleiyas:
I wiped cache and Dalvik - forgot to do a factory reset on my apps though:

your deodex rom installed fine and went through the "android is optimising apps" and the phone booted fine

then flashed xposed again and got the same bootloop i did the last time i installed it
[Android General] Eleiyas:
forget this post, i managed to fix it.

after managing to recover my original OS, I then installed the deodexed rom and then tried flashing xposed again.

after rebooting multiple times during "optimization of android apps" it did actually boot into the os :)
[Android General] ferbulous:
Excellent! I forgot to mention that you need to be patient a bit when it starts optimizing android apps since it's bound to take some time during first boot. It depends on how many apps installed not to mention leagoo's got some bloatware here and there.

You can start grabbing these tweaks in the download section to test it out

Youtube adaway - remove those annoying ads obviously

Minminguard - if adaway's not enough to remove ads in apps, this should help

Gravitybox - modify everything in the stock rom ui
[Android General] skojt:
I managed to install the drivers by disabling the requirement of digital signatures.

I'm grateful that you guys discuss recovery and xposed. I'm pleased with this phone- it's cheap, has the LTE bands I want, dual sim and external storage (64 GB works fine).
[Android General] Eleiyas:
although it all seems to work great now, i do seem to have discovered a problem.

although i receive calls fine, i do not seem to be receiving texts now...
[Android General] ferbulous:
Have you tried other messaging app like hangouts?

What about clearing the cache for the default sms app?
[Android General] Eleiyas:
stopped all messaging apps, cleared data, going to try now...

still not receiving... going to try leaving my phone without battery and sim for a bit and see it it flushes.

on a side note gravitybox is not for use on modified roms - leagoo os is a modified rom, so is it worth the risk?
[Android General] ferbulous:
It might still be partially compatible, probably not all settings can be modified. Kinda like samsung's touchwiz.

The worst that could happen is getting stuck at bootscreen (again)

Is your messaging app working now?
[Android General] Eleiyas:
no it's still not working.. i can send and receive calls, i can send texts and i can access 3g, only thing not working is receiving sms. my carrier is getting some tech guys to look at it.
[Android General] ferbulous:
I take it there was no problem receiving text in the stock rom?

I've read how in certain devices message app crash after deodexed, but yours is still working well.

Maybe you could try adding another sim (same/different carrier) and try sending text to that number?

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I'm still unable to get the mediatek drivers installed in linux.

Appreciate if you have some thoughts to resolve that.
[Android General] Eleiyas:
no problems in stock rom and i too find it weird that if the message app was the problem, i wouldnt be able to send messages either...

i would try with another sim, but i have none
[Android General] skojt:
What have you tried? According to this thread, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1463986, one doesn't need any special linux USB drivers in order to use flashtool. It's a serial interface and linux handles those easily. I can try it in a VM tomorrow.
[Android General] skojt:
Linux dmesg preloader

The linux drivers were recogniced by the linux kernel. I didn't install flashtool.
[Android General] ferbulous:
Interesting, will try again on my vm later

Just that nothing pops up under adb devices

Also, I followed this guide

http://www.mtkroms.com/2015/03/tool-how-to-setup-adb-and-fastboot.html

Btw, what's the longest SOT that're you're getting from elite 5?
[Android General] skojt:
Preloader

Sorry, these preloader drivers are only activated when one wants to use flashtool- when the phone is powered down and one wants to flash the recovery image.

Have you enabled "usb passthrough" on your vm- so that your VM sees the phone

adb will use this device (available when the phone has booted):

/var/log/messages

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Unfortunately I was unable to get adb working with my phone using a linux environment in Virtualbox so I'm not sure I can be of any further help.
[Android General] Eleiyas:
just a little update from my end. Lebara (my carrier) has tech guys working on me not receiving messages. funny thing is, I should of received my messages straight away when they were sent (about 2pm), I ended up getting them all at 1AM this morning... seems to me there is massive lag on my carrier's end, not a problem with my phone :)
[Android General] ferbulous:
Good to know it had nothing to do with deodexed rom

Do you where to get the full firmware zip from leagoo?

I visited their website (leagoo.com) if it is their official website, but I don't see any links for the roms firmware

Is the gravitybox tweak working with leagoo ui?

Btw, if you like spotify, you can use this tweak

Tabletmetrics, which allows you to use spotify in tablet mode. So no more random music playback and unlimited music skip.
[Android General] Eleiyas:
i saw an unofficial site with leagoo roms, but nothing for the elite 5. also i didnt try gravity box because im a bit afraid of it soft-bricking my device. i did install system UI tweaker and snaprefs and they work fine.

also, on alphagamers the admin riu modded spotify to get unlimited skips and playback and whatever :)

edit: im still not saying my message problem isnt to do with the rom, but it does seem unlikely at this point...

edit 2: Flat Style Bars Indicators module for Xposed works fantastically on the Elite 5 :D so does Flat Style Colored Bars
[Android General] ferbulous:
So the website that I went to is the official website for leagoo then?

Because there's really nothing there, even the elite 5 is listed as 'comming soon' lol

Nice, thanks for sharing the modded spotify

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That's ok, I still got it working nicely with windows.
[Android General] skojt:
Installed ok

I've also installed xposed using your helpful advice. I did get stuck in a boot-loop- but that was because I didn't do a factory reset. And I had to figure out that I should use the experimental lollipop xposed installer. Thanks!
[Android General] ferbulous:
Good to know it's working for you

There's debloating option for deodexing script, but I'm not sure which bloat apps get removed so I didn't use it.

Now, we probably just need to find the links for stock roms

Just purchased mine from bangdoo with 10% discount coupon, might take another 3-4 weeks since it gets restock at around this 11th October.

I was gonna get it from gearbest, but I really don't get why the price for the yellow version is more expensive than other color options.

Also, for the dual sim option

Does both sim slots support 4g? Or is it only the 1st sim slot, and the second one is for gsm only?
[Android General] masterwix:
Elite 5

Hello. I have a leagoo elite 5 and yesterday changed the file build.prop file and now im in a bootloop.

i tried everything,my last hope is flashing The factory ROM.

Somebody can upload the original room? .

I no have a custom recovery, ADB wont work. Only fastboot but no have permisions for write to /recovery or /system. Thanks!
[Android General] ferbulous:
You can get it from 4pda thread for elite 5

http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=676624&st=280

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B51BGY36iV27c2dZMTE0d2twUkE/view
[Android General] masterwix:
Thank you for your very fast answer, i go to check now.
[Android General] skojt:
I broke the primary slot when I tried to insert a microsim (with a standard sim-adapter). So I'm using the second slot (micro-sim) and it works fine with 4G. The simcard that uses the data-connection will be the one that uses 4G and the other card will be 2G. Conclusion: Don't use a sim-adapter and be careful.

I'm using a 64 GB card- specs says it only supports 32 GB. It has happened twice that the card has been set read-only.

The stock rom feels non-Chinese and clean- like what I assume is vanilla lollipop. It's possible to switch between the Leagoo launcher and lollipop one.

The CPU is a bit sluggish- but I'm using this phone as a portable hotspot.
[Android General] masterwix:
Thank you very much!!! you saved me!
[Android General] ferbulous:
I'll definitely take note of that, gotta be extra careful with those sim adapters

I had my doubts about leagoo elite 5 dual 4g capability when the second sim slot is labelled gsm only. So thanks for the confirmation.

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I'd recommend to flash twrp so you could have backups ready just incase if you're getting boot loops again.

What did you modify with the prop settings before?
[Android General] Eleiyas:
My sms problem has been fixed, meaning it was a problem on my carrier's side. I have run into another problem now though :/ I restarted my phone, all my contacts seemed to have been deleted, then I restarted my phone again, after adding them back into the sim and they all come flooding back and I ended up with a triple of all my contacts. This has happened twice now, so I just deleted all sim-saved contacts and saved them to the phone instead.
[Android General] masterwix:
just wanted to enable the multiuser
[Android General] alucky0:
Front facing camera

I'm looking at buying a Leagoo Elite 5, but I'm worried about the front facing camera. The last phone I bought ended up having terrible cameras on both sides and I don't want to get burned again. I know someone has already posted pictures from the rear camera, but can someone tell me how the front facing camera holds up? Thanks guys
[Android General] Eleiyas:
It was I who uploaded the pictures from the rear-facing camera, so here's some from the front-facing camera.

Decide for yourself if you think the quality is acceptable; bare in mind I have shaky hands and it was very windy when I took these pictures. If you need more samples then let me know. (Sorry about my face :p ):