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[K3 Note General] Rockstar.garvit:
Need to clear up my mind...

Can we take nandroid backup of a STOCK Firmware???

Im asking cause i have learnt from my old galaxy fit that we can't backup stock one...
[K3 Note General] stone_henge:
Please refer to these two links. There are multiple roms for k3 note. Different roms have slightly different installation processes.

INDEX Thread for K3 Note

Needrom page for K3 note

You can backup any rom you want.

PS> sorry for late reply. I have a lot going on so can't visit here often.
[K3 Note General] ChrisDG:
My K3 Note does not boot anymore

Hello,

I installed TWRP then did a Backup (Boot, Data, Systel, Nvram).

Then I choose Reboot System, installed Root.

And the phone does not boot !

What can I do ?

Thank you.
[K3 Note General] dortego63:
working great with Windows 10 x64
[K3 Note General] Blablablaaah:
Can I flash the twrp from flashify directly or do I need PC? Thx.
[K3 Note General] stone_henge:
You probably has a marshmallow rom. Marshmallow roms need to flash patched boot image for custom recoveries. Go to the index thread of k50 note for the patched boot images.

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If you are rooted, you can do that. Without root this tutorial is the only way.
[K3 Note General] ah96haur:
Only works for me when USB is plugged while holding volume up, else SP flashtool won't start and not responding.
[K3 Note General] Grigoris0r20r:
I'm on ROW S327 at the moment. Will this method work for me? Thank you!
[K3 Note General] Rockstar.garvit:
I want to install twrp with stock marshmallow firmware so do i need to do this too ?

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Do i need to unlock bootloader before flashing recovery? If so,

How to unlock bootloader (marshmallow stock firmware).:confused:
[K3 Note General] wendelloca:
Dear all,

I have done these steps but my lenovo doesn't turn on. It only shows the welcome page of Lenovo. Please, could you help me?

best regards
[K3 Note General] Rockstar.garvit:
It seems to me that you have stock marshmallow...

Flash patched boot.img from the index thread..
[K3 Note General] santajulia.ego:
Hoooooooo stone_henge you are so amazing dud, i miss it that point, i install it the twrp, and my phone stoped in the lenovo window and nothing more, tnx good all of you are here XAD RULES!!!! i patching my phone and VOILA!! rebooting and run normaly ^.^ tnx again
[K3 Note General] ADOLFOHERNANDEZ:
Not likely, BUT if you, after installing the TWRP got tempted to do the root process within the TWRP, the phone will got stuck in the bootloader, at least that was my experience, good thing is that as soon as I get the TWRP installed, and before anything else I did a full backup, cause if not I've be doomed :D. Cheers
[K3 Note General] awanje:
I just follow it and my phone is now not turning on. Dont know why.
[K3 Note General] Rajendran Rasa:
Twrp recovery working?
[K3 Note General] net_freak:
Did all steps phone not turning on

I followed all the steps but phone is not turning on. I tried pulling out a battery nothing works.

Edit: recovery working now but which boot img should I download there 2 boot image in drive folder.
[K3 Note General] Pranavpai754:
Can I flash this twrp on lenovo k50-t5???
[K3 Note General] skxjp:
i know its a bit late but i got my phone into a bootloop but managed to get it working again by clearing cache hold power and volume up until menu shows then follow directions
[K3 Note General] Vaalu007:
Use SP Flash Tool:good:
[K3 Note General] pranav5:
Hi guys can someone help me . I want to flash TWRP but very confused about it and there are 4 patched IMG in the index page which should I choose
[K3 Note General] stone_henge:
It depends on which rom you have installed. Use the one which has the same rom version or has a old version.
[K3 Note General] Shoaibsic10:
I am currently using Marshmallow stock ROM in K50a40 model. Can i use this method to install TWRP?
[K3 Note General] Aditya781:
will this method erase my data? Is there a way to flash recovery without losing any data?
[K3 Note General] poisonousoxygen:
THANKS

Thank you sooo much. My device was bricked and the custom recovery had also disappeared. ADB and Fastboot could not recognize my device and I could not find a proper ROM with scatter file which is compatible with SP Flash Tool. This link helped me get TWRP back and now I am flashing AOSP Nougat 7.1.1 Stable2 ROM for K3 Note. I hope it is successful and I can use my device once again.:crying:
[K3 Note General] Bablu21june:
bro my phone lenovo k50-t5 stuck in lenovo logo.... please help me its unable to boot
[K3 Note General] Bablu21june:
please help me how to flash patched boot img.................. my device successfully got twrp recovery ... but since then it isnt booting .. please help me
[K3 Note General] papgiorgo:
Lenovo K3 Note

Thank you very much for the very useful guide that you've provided.
[K3 Note General] Ayush#gamer:
Hi,

Is there any another method for installing custom recovery in Lenovo k3 note.

If yes, then please help me.
[K3 Note General] svs36:
No doubt TWRP is best and it's in english. But the CWM recovery for k3 comes in chinese langauge. Did anybody sorted it out ?
[K3 Note General] jndrad:
Does this work with nougat ?
[K3 Note General] Qazi arafat:
Install TWRP by SP Tool failur

#Sir,

I m Lenevo K3 Note K50-t3s user. Recently I try to install TWRP recovery by SP Tool following this process https://xdaforums.com/k3-note/general/sp-flash-tool-tutorial-to-install-twrp-t3346041 but not success.

#Pls #Help me to install TWRP recovery & VIBEUI_V3.5_1621_7.62.1_DEV_K50-t3s_WC66355725 rom by SP Tool or TWRP recovery. #Pls #Help
[K3 Note General] Ayush#gamer:
I have tried this way, after completing the process it says completed but no recovery is installed and after 4-5 booting my phone got bricked and I have to flash stock rom again.
[K3 Note General] Haze_Ryder:
I dont know if i can still ask you this( as this thread seems to be old).

My k3 note has android m version s327,while the patched boot image is of s422.

can i still use it?

your reply would help me a lot .And might give me the final push into installing a custom recovery ( and perhaps a custom rom).

Please forgive me if any of this was inappropriate,

I am new here.
[K3 Note General] stone_henge:
Hello there.

First of all, it's completely okay that you asked for help.

To answer your question, yes you can use it. But there's patched boot image of s327 around. So you should patch that instead of incorrect version. Though I don't think that s422's patched boot img will do any harm. But it's never hurts to be careful, right?

Also, as for installing roms, make a complete backup (via TWRP) and then do anything you wish with that device of yours as you wish. Try new roms, tweak them and play with them. You will always have backup to undo things so don't worry.
[K3 Note General] stone_henge:
Sorry that I am a little late to reply to these comments, but it might help someone else.

I think the post already covers the basics.

The best way to do this:

1. Copy your rom to phone memory

2. Flash TWRP using SP Flash Tool

3. Boot into TWRP and install the rom file

4. Reboot device

NOTE: You'll need to edit the "updater-script" inside rom file to flash it via recovery. If you don't know how to, just search a little in xda as it was explained plenty of times.

Hi. Your problem is common and happens when you flashed a rom with errors or if you flashed other things (i.e. gapps/supersu/xposed) along with the rom without booting it first. So try again, follow the processes carefully and exactly as it is said and you'll be okay.
[K3 Note General] Haze_Ryder:
Thank you so much.

Your reply gave me the final push to root my phone.

And now thanks to you (and the developers who made the software),its rooted.

Thank you.
[K3 Note General] @ki:
can you please tell me how to patch my boot.img......myself.....instead of using wrong one.....me too on s327......and can't find one......
[K3 Note General] stone_henge:
Sorry I have never patched a stock boot.img file myself, so can't help you there...
[K3 Note General] sandyjswl:
Worked!!!

Thanks a lot. This worked for me. BTW i was on marshmallow but i did not had to install the patch. Thanks again..
[K3 Note General] kpkadiya:
where i install sp tool & twrp recovery in phone or pc ?
[K3 Note General] Tomolin:
BUGS

I know i am digging.But the spflash tool do not process at all,speed always be the zero.Then it end up to time out error.By the way it's Marshmallow using.Did anyone find this problem?
[K3 Note General] venkateshy:
You can see tutorial through youtube search manish.m channel
[K3 Note General] Tomolin:
That won't work,got custom recovery installed from another way though,thanks.
[K3 Note General] kandolkandol:
I've just installed K50-T5_USR_ST1614_5.294.1_1604011150_mp1V2.39_CN and I downloaded S422_Patched_boot.img to flash with patched boot image for custom recoveries. Could sb tell me how to do it? My next move will be repair IMEI on my yellow. I tried via SN Write Tool but it doesn't work. Could sb tell me the easiest way to fix IMEI?
[K3 Note General] Tomolin:
try unlock oem lock
[K3 Note General] kandolkandol:
OK I did it. If u have K30-T5 (MarshalRom 6.0) it will works. Instruction below.

1. Copie K50-T5_PATCHED_BOOT_1621_DEV.RAR file to your device

2 Flash TWRP 3.x via SP Flash

3. Enter to the installed Recovery Mode

4. Choose instal that file what I've wrote above

5. Swipe to confirm Flash

6. Reboot system

I want to fix my IMEI now. I'd like to use SN Writer but I don't know which file MD1DB, and APDB should I select on Marshmallow.
[K3 Note General] aK_mr3'ofive:
flashing TWRP using SP Flash tool showing error

"PMT is changed for the ROM! ......."

And according to the solutions i googled, I've to format the Flash except the bootloader then flashing will work but that will erase my ROM & IMEI :(

Help!!!!
[K3 Note General] mayurchhapra:
Yes, I tried this, but after that My phone is not Boot. One black screen arrived after Lenovo LOGO. :(
[K3 Note General] Ayush#gamer:
SP Flash tool need to be installed in PC and through SP Flash tool TWRP is flashed.
[K3 Note General] nidheeshv:
you can use this method to install TWRP or any other recovery,

Before proceeding download a stock and TWRP recovery from the link below

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2I...tpUmFCRWM/view

this is the stock recovery,extract this recovery and paste the contents to a folder named STOCK

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2I...k3M2Vrc1E/view

this is the TWRP recovery,extract this recovery and paste the contents to a folder named TWRP

1.install adb and fastboot on ur laptop.(am using ububtu 16.04)

2.make the phone to go to TWRP

3.plug in the usb

4.open terminal and type adb devices

5.see if device is detected ,if detected do the following

go to the STOCK rfolder u created and open terminal there.and type the following

adb reboot bootloader

fastboot devices

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

fastboot reboot

6.Now ur device will have stock recovery.

7.again repeat the above steps instead of STOCK use TWRP recovery.

8.your device will boot up with TWRP recovery build in

hit the thanks button
[K3 Note General] gulabr:
TWRP

i tried above link to download twrp but the file has been corrupted ....please share me a link to download TWRP
[K3 Note General] nidheeshv:
go to this link and select the twrp recovery

https://guidebelajar.blogspot.in/2015/12/guide-to-root-and-install-cwm-twrp-lenovo-k3-note.html

thanks to Asyraf Singh
[K3 Note General] Mustaaa:
I followed the steps in the first post but my phone won't start up now? What did I do wrong? I here it vibrating when I press and hold the power button and it also charges but no screen or no booting at all?

I'm on Android 5.0, the stock rom on the phone since I got it
[K3 Note General] Salvadorfreeman:
The first time I used SP flash, it worked.

Now, when I load a scatter file, I get a message saying wrong or absent DA file.

Where to find the DA file?

Then I deleted the history.ini file, and it accepted to load the scatter file.

The flash completes, I get the green OK message.

But when I try to boot the phone (volume up + volume down + on/off), I just get the Lenovo logo.
[K3 Note General] aiman181:
please help me...

Hiii... please help me, why did i get this BROM ERROR:S_DL_GET_DRAM_SETTING_FAIL(5054)

:(:(:(
[K3 Note General] amritchaitanya:
Phone Bricked

i ran the sp flash tool and after step 10, when i connected the device, it showed an error telling that there is some difference between "something" which i failed to read. i accidently clicked somewhere and that window was gone. so i again clicked "download" but nothing happens.. and now my phone doesnt even switch on. but when i connect it to my laptop, it is being detected as 'Mediatek PreLoader USB VCOM" in the task manager. someone pls help
[K3 Note General] Sahaj Desai:
The index thread boot images link shows Error 404 not found!!!
[K3 Note General] stone_henge:
Then comment there, not here...

(duh)
[K3 Note General] Sahaj Desai:
Never mind. Flashing is done...
[K3 Note General] Periyasami:
Thanks for your clear guide. Are you mentioning K3_NOTE_MM_6.0_1610_3.40.1_v16_ROW_D_CUOCO92 for MARSHMALLOW (Android OS 6.0) rom patched boot images.

Also, I couldnt find the screenshot for illustrated steps

Looking your suggestion, thanks.
[K3 Note General] Suddaz@d:
The link is not working file is missing help please.........

Flash patched boot.img from the index thread.. IS MISSING PLEASE HELP
[K3 Note General] Brokentactics:
Virus?

Why does google drive detect a virus in "SP_Flash_Tool_exe_Windows_v5.1452.00.000.zip"?
[K3 Note General] POQDavid:
Dose anyone know if there is a working twrp-3.2.x for K3 Note cause not sure if twrp-3.1.1 would work with android 8.1 ports
[K3 Note General] poyensa:
I have recently used this twrp-3.1.1-3-aio_otfp.img from RC [MENTION=4948627]daniel_hk[/MENTION] to install his omnirom 8.1 and had no problems
[K3 Note General] Harshit21:
I have a Lenovo K8 Note and therefore the TWRP version is different. I will also be needing a different scatter file. Can you please help me with it?
[K3 Note General] POQDavid:
Hmm do you know how i can fix this

https://xdaforums.com/k3-note/help/lenovo-a7000-plus-sim-android-1-7-t3846398
[K3 Note General] shankar skr:
Hey sorry to annoy you with this after long time ,did you ever find a solution to this?

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did that work?
[K3 Note General] stone_henge:
Hi. This is just to notify everyone that I am not maintaining or replying to comments in this thread anymore.

K3 note was one of my most favorite phone of all time, and will always be, but it's way too old now. I am using and doing 'research' on other devices now.

So please pardon me for not replying to you. And sorry because I don't even have time now to re-upload the files mentioned in my post. But you can always find help regarding issues on tons of other places!

:highfive:
[K3 Note General] qounik:
When i Plug my phone to USB SP tools does nothing, Please Help!!!
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saarxee:
I installing OTA UPDATE for my MIUI rom and now I have bootloop, recovery mode dont working but have download mode.

I have very important data on my device! If I flash kdz at now, all my data was removed!

Help!
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vishal11in:
Sice recovery mode is lost i am afraid you wont be able to save the data. You can still try by switching it off. Power it on and release power button and as soon as you see lg logo long press the power button until it shows yes or no option
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Game_Maker:
Yeah do you use all ways to enter in recovery? Try to reflash the rom....it's strange
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahmedkh25:
Hello,

I want to enable hiddenmenu on my phone

I have root permission and when I tried to change hiddenmenu from OFF to ON, I didn't find the career folder on /efs/ .. is there another way to activate it?

On the other hand, I'm looking for a way to enable LTE band on my phone .. is it possible or not ? (Does my phone support 4g?)

Thanks!
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahmedkh25:
Screenshot:

http://imgup.nl/images/2016/03/27/Screenshot_2016-03-27-11-02-21.png
[Huawei Watch] Aydie:
I just purchased this watch yesterday and have been trying to download music to with no luck. I never used the watch before the update so I don't know what it was like before but I tried going through the Google music application on my phone and have the add music to wear setting checked but there's nothing on there. Then I tried selecting music straight from the watch to sync and selected a bunch of songs and now I don't know if it's working.
[Huawei Watch] foo:
Have you selected some songs to copy to the watch in the Google music app? The "add music to wear" setting alone is not enough.
[Huawei Watch] Aydie:
I finally got some songs on it. I didn't realize how complicated and non intuitive the process was going to be. I just came from a Samsung gear s2 and it was so simple to add music. None of the music I had saved s on my phone already was transferring, just new music I re-downloaded from the Google play store.
[Huawei Watch] galaxys:
I'm using WearMedia from Playstore to copy and play my music mp3s on the watch (stand alone)! Very cool :cool:
[Huawei Watch] foo:
Not only new music. As I stated before, you can select songs to be copied on the watch, but you have to select them. Not all of your songs will be copied to your watch.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] megagodx:
In their quest to make TouchWiz seem "friendly", we've seen a lot of legitimately useful features get axed for no logical reason. I speak for for the US Snapdragon variants, I don't know if all the same applies to the Exynos.

- They took away gloves mode. My gloves no longer work on the Galaxy S6 or later models because of this, I have to resort to buying poorly insulated, expensive touch gloves again.

- They took away lock screen animations and the option to even have lock screen effects and animations enabled.

- They took away the ability to hide your apps in the app drawer. For privacy reasons I liked this feature, I could often lend people my phone without worrying about them snooping around.

- They limited the normal power saving mode mechanism. I liked having the option lower the processor frequency and keep the brightness uncapped by deselecting dimming. Now you have to do both.

Is there any other important or relevant feature to someone that they cut out? And does it peeve you that they have done this?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] markwebb:
Gloves were never an issue for me. The phone suits me just fine and the issues you highlight i never used nor cared about. Can't you use guest mode for the phone when sharing?

Moreover, I use a third-party launcher like Nova which has more customized features and is far better than the TouchWiz Launcher and you can hide apps in the app drawer.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] megagodx:
I don't like the anesthetics that Nova tries to emulate from Google's stock Android. I prefer that of TouchWiz. Just because you don't care about using gloves, doesn't mean others don't who live in cold places or places where the Fall, Winter and early Spring are particularly cold, such as Chicago. I'm simply talking about the software out of the box from Samsung.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] markwebb:
Well, you gave your opinion and I gave mine. Sounds like you need to buy another phone. That's all I can suggest.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] megagodx:
This is silly logic, I like the phone, more than anything on the market. However, this is a forum for open debate and discussion. There's nothing wrong with a conversation with what Samsung may not be doing right. Maybe you should get off the forums if you can't understand that opinions come also come in the form of criticism as well and not strictly reverence.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] dannejanne:
The more they remove from TouchWiz the happier I'll be. Now it's actually usable without being put off. First Samsung phone that got me interested thanks to the toning down of TouchWiz.

If you are willing to work for it you can easliy make Nova look pretty much exactly like Samsung ****ty launcher. Better than complaing about stuff anyway. Research before buying. Good stuff.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] markwebb:
I agree: am quite pleased by the slimmed down iteration of TouchWiz (my last Galaxy was the S4). Seems to have enough features to make it "special" and fun, if one is put off by stock Android (which I happen to prefer and love).

I did my research before buying this phone and knew what to expect. Nova truly is a better launcher with more power than TouchWiz and like you say, can pretty much mimic TW with added speed and fluidity.

Honestly, and I know this will throw many "fanboys" (I count myself as one, btw) into throes of an aneurysm, I can live w/o root on this phone as I find this phone to be speedy, has enough customizations and the camera is top notch. Never thought I would say this. :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] M@rs:
Try the elta icon pack with Nova launcher. With a bit tweaking it still has the TouchWiz feel, but with some goodies.

For the glove problem, there is a kind of special glue available on amazon which adds touch ability to normal gloves.

But i agree, the reduced function of powersaving mode is a step backwards. It was a really useful feature.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] bkeaver:
Op what were you trying to accomplish with this thread if you snap at people who are actually giving you alternative options. We all get the glove thing but seriously those options are gone and it's not like Samsung is going to read your thread and say" oh crap we left those out! Let's re-add them".

Seriously tho, unless you use 3rd party apps and launchers your not going to get those features on this phone anytime soon.

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And btw. Don't take what I'm saying out of context. I'm really not snapping at you at all[emoji4] and if it sounds that way I just wanted to let you know I'm not.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] alex128002:
Thanks for info
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] nkhah123:
They remove the lockscreen effect ( animation ) because of the latest update marshemellow ..
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Devhux:
For gloves mode, I'm wondering if it's a different touch controller that allowed it in previous phones. For all we know it's not even possible on whatever controller they are using in the S7.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] designgears:
What?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] JasonJoel:
I agree... I would hardly call effects and animations 'useful features'.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Averix:
Samsung just can't win with TouchWiz. People moan and complain it's slow and has too much bloat. Then they remove some of that, making things faster and leaner, and people complain it's gone. TouchWiz will never be as barren or simple as stock launcher because they add OEM distinctive features. However, I'm glad to see them removing some things that seemed overkill to me. They may be looking at stats like how many people actually hid an app in their drawer. My guess is, not many. So, instead of leaving that in there, they pulled it. It's a balancing act for them and making changes will never make everyone happy. Personally, I'm not bothered.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] the Doctor:
+1

I like this approach--make some of these features optional apks.

Samsung has an optional 'advanced' UI for the Galaxy S7, and it's kind of a mess. | Android Central