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[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] harshtech:
Thanks for telling this site. But for best tutorial to root android try this techwhack's new post on best root apps
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] axal:
I already own this device since several mounths... you need to read the next post i done...

About Lenovo forum, nobody of lenovo staff write there, that forum is like this forum only users and advanced users, lenovo only bring support by phone
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] Gentleman_1:
This is exactly the problem. The phone support by Lenovo is inadequate. I live in Emirates where Lenovo is contracted with a private electronics shop to provide repair and support but when I call they dont know the answers to technical problems especially about software. They say bring the device in and when they check the hardware they find nothing so they say it has no problem. In contrast, some American and Japanese brands for example have a toll free number where they answer all questions and have experienced staff. The lack of email support by Lenovo is a big disadvantage for this brand.
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] Turbonanox:
hello, I have a little problem, i bricked my phone trying to restore from the qfill program, it is in download mode but I cant get out from this state, just red led turned on when I plug the phone.

Any suggestions?

Thank you all for ur attention I hope exist some solution for me.
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] JoZ3:
Try with the Lenovo Smart Assisrant
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] Turbonanox:
Hello, thanks for replying. I already tried with lenovo smart assistance but crush at 5 seconds.

Enviado desde mi hi6210sft mediante Tapatalk
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] MaoWanDong:
Wei Jianlin root king condition analysis: Hello, such symptoms may be inflammation of the 7200 RPM HDD 3gb memeory caused. Guidance: recommend taking the cleanmaster battery clean of apps for the treatment of you p hole, during treatment avoid spicy stimulation zyco:p
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] subhasmrutisahoo:
Simplest way to ROOT !!!

I did my lenovo vibe k5 plus with this method...

Download KINGO ROOT app from play store...

Open the app..

Click on root now..

Complete..

Process of rooting the phones of same model are same...

As I could do it by using this app , it is obvious that all can do it who use lenovo vibe k5 plus...
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] ashyprinia:
I'm the owner of vibe k5 I have rooted my phone with kingroot

XDA link : https://xdaforums.com/devdb/project/dl/?id=14250

Try this..

If its work than hit like..

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Download kingroot and try to root..

First enable your USB debugging or OEM from developer option..

This is the XDA link : it's work fine

https://xdaforums.com/devdb/project/dl/?id=14250

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Try this XDA link to download

https://xdaforums.com/devdb/project/dl/?id=14250

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Bittoo try kingroot I have done Root with this..

Download it only from XDA link is : https://xdaforums.com/devdb/project/dl/?id=14250
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] unnirajnair:
After rooting with king root my notification led(green) blinking and not turning off...Plz help guys
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] sanamdhiman0001:
Jst install custom rom i hav also same prblm
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] Yolfran:
Hi ,im looking everyday for a root method ,but the device its so new. Ithink we need to wait the deveolpers one o two months to unlock bootloader and root our device.Im heppy with my phone ,it has exelent features :D Please help developers :Dh

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i dont think it really works :( , it seems suspect :( specially that required downloads
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] Nehit94:
Has anyone tried iRoot or Vroot
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] bittooshubham:
Can you share the method you used for rooting please?
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] mageshge21:
Lenovo K5 plus - Stuck at booting

I received an update of 58 mb, which I promptly downloaded and started to install. While installing, it was stuck at opening package for 30 mins, and finally when it completed, now my mobile wont start up at all. It is stuck in the very first screen with Lenovo logo.

Furthermore, I tried factory hard resetting, and reset the whole data from the phone. Still this is stuck at the bootloader screen. It is my primary phone, and dont know what to do.
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] Nehit94:
Seems like a soft brick situation. Your phone needs CPR (software reset)

Unfortunately the firmware and the stock Rom is still unavailable on the web. Believe me I have looked. Fairly enough sets were sold, that alone should have been enough for the developers to post some stuff sadly none has arrived.

Wait for a while. The bootloader unlock and ROM reset ways are being explored for lenovo vibe k5 plus won't be long nw.

Art is whatever u can get away with no rules !
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] bik95122:
bmn65 post is fake, just don't believe him and don't reply him
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] bik95122:
Yes, i tried and failed......... (vroot dont support lollipop may be iroot too)

I got another method, this method is for all Qualcomm device that may or may not support this device, its worth a try but i dont want to try on my device untill working stock room out!

http://www.droidsavvy.com/root-any-android-mobile-with-qualcomm-processor/
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] Yolfran:
I tried with iRoot, but it doesn works :(
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] romulocarlos:
Hello people.

Just got this device yesterday, and need root for install some security apps in ROM, to avoid lost them after a hard reset.

So... we don't have root for now (yes, I have tried several methods, too), but in "Settings" exists a "Depelover" option, and inside we have an option called "OEM Unlock". With this, I believe we can unlock bootloader, and then, root this device.

To enable "Developer", you need to go "Settings" -> "About phone" -> "Device Info" and tap "Baseband version" or "Version Number" several times. You will see a message "You are about 'n' steps to be a developer" appearing. Just tap more times.

P.S.: my phone have Brazilian language, so the words I saw above may be a little different to you.
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] romulocarlos:
So, I have some news. I discover the way to enter recovery, and some other options. Badly, I can't get the ROM for now.

Just turn off phone. Now, press and hold VOLUME+ button and while pressing, turn on phone. When it vibrates, release POWER button, and wait some seconds (don't release VOLUME+). You are presented to a menu wich responds to touch. The main options are:

Fastboot: puts the phone in a state to flash ROMs or partitions via fastboot application. On my machine, it was recognized, and accept fastboot commands, like 'fastboot reboot' and 'fastboot devices'. I don't have tested the 'fastboot oem unlock', I have a fear with this, because is a 2 day use phone. To exit this mode, you can use 'fastboot reboot' command, or remove the battery.

Download: puts the phone in "Download Mode". On my old cel, "Download Mode" is a way to flash an entire ROM. The phone appears in Windows Device Manager, but we don't have drivers, the software to flash, nor the ROM to restore the phone yet. To exit this mode, remove the battery (maybe the software to flash the ROM resets the phone after flashing).

Recovery: opens the recovery menu. Is just like stantard recoveries for almost all phones. Here you can wipe your phone, clear the data partition, etc. It don't have a way to backup the ROM to edit it, so, we don't have a way to put a root in a ROM and reflash it. In this menu, you can use VOL+ and VOL- to go up and down, and POWER to select an option. To exit this mode, go to 'reboot device' and press POWER.

The fastboot mode can be opened the same way to open the menu, but instead of VOL+ button, you keep pressing VOL- button.

So, the main of main thing: the recovery. Via this menu, if we can install another recovery, we can backup the system partition to an image on SD card, and from here we can root this image to suit our needs (including root), and reflash it later. We can even remove bloat apps, if we like.

So, let's start search to how to change recovery partition!

P.S.: don't try to mess or play with partitions for now, because we don't have the original ROM or the software to restore the phone to original state yet (I have checked Lenovo support). If you try and something goes wrong, you will win a beatuty and expensive paper clip. You are warned!
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] Yolfran:
First we need to stract the original rom, for emergencyu cases :D if we cause a soft brick
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] romulocarlos:
See the red warning!
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] quemedishe:
I have the original rom stock.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/1...1.2_BMAIN_16G_ROW_otafull+By+GSMDevelopers.7z

I transform my K32C36 to Vibe K5.

Pass: gsmdevelopers.com
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] romulocarlos:
Thanks.

For the filename, this ROM is for A6020 A46. Mine is A6020 L36. You know the differences? Can you know if this ROM can be used on L36?
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] quemedishe:
I dont know. I used this rom in my phone for transform K32C36 to Vibe K5 Plus.

Specs are equal in both phones.
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] romulocarlos:
Ok. You used a software to transform. Can you tell the software? Maybe works on K5!
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] laiman1976:
Hello I also have K32C36 how can I transform it to Vibe K5 Plus?
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] Yolfran:
and if we rrot the k5 with the same method of the K32C36???
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] bik95122:
this phone's rom is still in experimental version so there will be more frequent updates soon so just HAVE TO wait for root (because if after root, one must not update their rom, even not by mistakenly) vise versa, there will be no stock rom until final version out.

I wonder if there will be android v6.x on this device because i checked with a app "Upgrade for Android: Go Next" it basically say Marshmallow not support "**MAY BE"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gonext.gonextupgrade&hl=en
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] quemedishe:
Apply OTA update. Select System.zip and apply update in recovery. This process take a long time.

PD: After update, the phone have a big problem, always android.process.acore is stopped. So you need factory reset. After this, the phone should work ok.

You cant.
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] romulocarlos:
There a system.new.dat file, about 2Gb size. How I can extract it contents, to drop root files on it, and make an update ROM?
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] quemedishe:
You must apply update with the blue zip that i mark in this picture.

I dont know how build a ROM with these files.
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] shivtatvam:
http://www.gizdev.com/root-method-lenovo-vibe-k5-plus/#

Working root method for k5 plus Lenovo vibe
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] romulocarlos:
Not working. Already tested. This 'Poot' forces to install several apps, but the 'Poot' itself is never installed.
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] romulocarlos:
I found the 'original' Poot apk in this thread, but it give an error about invalid qt version. Tried some solutions found on the thread and some others on the net, but none worked.

This method is FAIL to our device...
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] bik95122:
http://www.dreamytricks.com/root-android-without-computer-pc/

This 9 methods without PC i found and some of are unique, whoever bother plz check these, may possible one of this works, i really like to know these [Universal Android Root, Z4Root, Towel Root, Baidu Root, Easy Rooting Toolkit, CF Auto Root, Root Master]

all untested and not made for this device, so cannot guaranty of safety, if you really want to test, do it on your own risk
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] romulocarlos:
Some of them already tested, as sayed along the thread. I tested Baidu, both mobile and PC, and it fails too.
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] Vanilla-Ice:
is it worth it?

I was impressed by this device specs and reviews especially in a time where most brands save the upper middle specs for the 5.5" devices but now I am reluctant to buy it after I read about your issues ? do you still think the device worth buying or not ?

my other alternatives will be moto X 3rd and huawei GR3

thanks
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] romulocarlos:
For me its ok. The software is ver BASIC, buteco web have Google Play. The only thing for now is root and battery life. I cant get more than 6 hours with moderate use.
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] bik95122:
truly go for moto or k4, I am such an "@$$HOLE" while buying this i thought its lenovo K series 5 edition with addition of "plus" make me more curious (and i thought i getting "lenovo k5 Plus with vibe UI" :silly::eek:) but after using it, found it not that what i dreamed even k3 is way more better in feature then this.

whatever but this device is expected with its cost.

elsewhere, android is android, as after root, we can customize the possible features what we want according to our taste.
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] Vanilla-Ice:
Done

as if you read my mind I actually order moto G 3rd already still few days for it to arrive though I realized it would be more reliable than lenovo

but I expect that most of your trouble will be solved over time if not by lenovo then by custom ROMs developers

cheers:)
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] bik95122:
Want to know if this device going to get Android v6?

Friends I have a request to whom ever have this device please first login/sign-in to lenovo community center (or you can login/sign-in from below link).

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/K-and-...w-update-for-lenovo-vibe-k5-plus/td-p/3306576

someone has asked a question about if we getting

"Marshmallow update for lenovo vibe k5 plus"

so we all must click on "I have this question too" .

so basically if this question goes on top more possible we get the answer from Lenovo.
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] bittooshubham:
Did someone find original Stock ROM of this device?
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] romulocarlos:
Read back, there is one.

Also, you can look at lenovo-forums.ru

Use google translator
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] bittooshubham:
According to info provided by Lenovo, this device has Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 processor, but as far as I can see in build.prop, it's got MSM8916 chipset.

But, MSM8916 is chipset of Snapdragon 410!!

How's that possible? Can Snapdragon 616 have MSM8916 chipset instead of MSM8939?? (which should be there actually)

Something is wrong. If we ever want any development, we should first know the chipset.

all defconfig files are saying that it's msm8916, but proc/cpuinfo file says it's msm8939

Totally confusing!!
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] bittooshubham:
Is there boot.img inside stock ROM? can you upload it somewhere please?
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] romulocarlos:
Here you go.
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] romulocarlos:
So, I'm getting more battery life with some little modifications, without root, obviously.

I have disabled these applications, and/or return it to stock:

Android Live Wallpapers

Android System WebView

Black Hole

Bubbles

Calculator

Calendar

Calendar Local Account

Calendar Storage

com.android.providers.partnerbookmarks

com.android.providers.settings.overlay.RetailBR

com.android.smspush

com.android.wallpaper.holospiral

com.lenovo.weather.theme.dreamland

com.lenovo.weather.hotmove

com.lenovo.weather.plus

configupdater

Downloads

Drive

Email

Exchange Services

Google Play Movies

Google Play Music

Google Text-to-speech Engine

Hangouts

HTML Viewer

Lenovo Companion

Lenovo ID

Lenovo Weather

LunarInfoProvider

Maps

Market Feedback Agent

Music Visualization Wallpapers

MusicFX

PhaseBeam

Shareit

Syncit

Talkback

Theme Center

Some words: a lot of these apps I simply don't use or are useless, so, for me is safe to disable it.

And mande some configurations, too:

Screen Effect: using custom values, with Hue at minimun and Saturation at maximum

Disabled all vibration feedback

Disabled automatic date and hour

And the most important, for me: disabled automatic brightness. Let's talk seriously: Is a 1080x1920 screen, the battery have A LOT of pixels to deal with. I think the screen is the great badgirl in scene. I set brightness to about 30%, and it is perfect to almost all situations.

For me, the battery still under desire, this model really need a more powerful battery (ebay?), but I fell I'm a step beyond with these modifications. Yesterday, I unplug the phone from charger about 6:30AM, and at 2:00PM I have only 45%, with ONE call received (about 10min) and music at 10% of volume almost all the period at my desk. Today, I unplug and use same way, and now at 11:50AM I have 75% of battery. Lets see whats goes at 2:00PM again.
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] rafaumm:
Subscribed!

Just received my K5. Already noticed that Lenovo put a cheap memory module on this device, so, writing speeds are subpar and reading speeds are ok, I guess.

Since its my secondary device, I am not noticing any battery shortage, but soon I will ditch my primary phone and keep only the K5... lets see how it will go.

My major problem is that I just discovered that it does not works with exFAT or NTFS microSDs. Just FAT32. Which is killing me, since I want to use >4GB VR video files on it. A huge bum.

When I get to my PC I will give those boot files a go to see if I can spot anything at all. Maybe the ones we are looking at were repacked to a different device so it could be rebranded/remodeled/resomethig... IDK... just a random idea. :P
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] romulocarlos:
Just to update. At 2:00PM battery was on 58%. Need charger at end of day, anyway
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] bik95122:
This is not a k5 actually, this is vibe series not k series, yeah i know i am one of the fool who thought it was k5, and i am very disappointed with lenovo to mismatch device names (may be is part of their bloody business to get more sale). By the way, you can search specifications of lenovo k5, (not vibe k5 and plus) you will see the whole deference,

Speaking of file system! May be cheaper phones not support exfat, or may be not by android itself. But, i doubt about ntfs on android, if supports by some of devices, but still i dont think so you can move app and data of android on ntfs sd card. Ntfs is special designed for Windows Os, hopefully you already know this.

Still i dont know but try ext2 or ext3 or ext4, may if support, but i tried on my old phone before, and any of those not supported expect fat32, have to try on this device.
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] bik95122:
:eek: OMG! i checked that and true!!!

MSM8916 is of Snapdragon 410 that in our built.prop and it should be MSM8939v2 as specs mentioned.

ARE WE BEEN STABBED BY LENOVO! or may be just wrong, specs because levono just mentioned about Snapdragon 616, may be it supported.

But searching MSM8916 on Google shows result of Snapdragon 410 and similarly searching MSM8939v2 on Google shows result of Snapdragon 616!

For this i install an app called "CPU-Z" by CPUID, many of you familiar. And CPU-Z say this device having Qualcomm Snapdragon 615... so i thought may be somthing wrong with this app, so i install another app "CPU-X" by Pacific Developer, this one too say Snapdragon 615

Guys this is seriously something terribly WRONG!
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] bittooshubham:
Exactly bro, that's what I'm saying, files of MSM8916 can't work on MSM8939 , so either it is MSM8916 or 8939, but I'm sure about the processor that it's SD616, so I think it's given wrong in build.prop and other files..

still it's seriously confusing
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] romulocarlos:
Same here. CPU-Z, CPU-X and AIDA64 shows SnapDragon 615. build.prop says msm8916, too.

Comparing with Snapdragon 616, there's no much differences, but Snapdragon 610 is a quad-core, so, I discard K5 have this chipset. I believe is a mistake in build.prop.
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] romulocarlos:
So, no way to be a 610: http://system-on-a-chip.specout.com...-MSM8939-vs-Qualcomm-Snapdragon-616-MSM8939v2
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] romulocarlos:
I make a little mistake. The right comparsion is http://system-on-a-chip.specout.com...-MSM8939-vs-Qualcomm-Snapdragon-616-MSM8939v2

Anyway, I think I know what happening about MS8916 (Snapdragon 410) and MS8939 (Snapdragon 615/616) on build.prop. Let me be the Devil's lawyer now.

According to detailed specs PDFs I found on Qualcomm website, MS8939 is hardware pin compatible with MS8916. I suspect Lenovo used a existing board from another model, and upgraded it with MS8939. By this way, the board still 8916, but the processor is now 8939. Just like the way we do with desktop computers when upgrade only the CPU.

Now, lets see what about 615 and 616. Both are octa-core, the difference is 615 have 1.5GHz+1GHz cores, while 616 have 1.7GHz+1.2GHz cores. As you see, 616 is a little faster than 615. But, 615 have UMTS technology, while 616 have HSDPA technology. On the specs, 615 is 4G LTE, and 616 is X5 LTE. I don't know about these terms, but maybe one chip is for a location, and the other for another location, I'm not sure.

Lets pay attention with battery, again...
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] bittooshubham:
615 and 616 , both have same chipset msm8939, so no problem between these two, real problem is between 410 and 616.. you might be correct that they may have upgraded CPU but not the chipset.. but still we can't be sure

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Can you also upload recovery.img from stock ROM? Your help will be appreciated. thank you in advance. :)
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] romulocarlos:
616 is a little faster than 615, see detailed specs attached. Just like you buy a V8 car, and receive a V6. I contact Lenovo support about this, and they saw will return soon.

Recovery is also attached.
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] bik95122:
Hay that comparison say 615 is 1.5ghz + 1ghz and 616 is 1.7ghz + 1.2ghz. Our device having 1.5ghz (primary first 4 cores cluster) + 1.2ghz (second 4 cores cluster).

So we got on our hand primary cores of 615 and secondary cores of 616

So... This makes sense, and if this possible, we have basically 615, which is used primarily so all apps like CPU-Z say 615. And as you say upgraded board, so that all make sense to me (of that built.prop) and problem solved.

This is the reason why this device having HEATING issue when even moderate usage (615 is very popular in heating).

So why Lenovo claim that this device having 616? (1.5ghz+

1.2ghz

)

And can we able to modify built.prop after root?
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] romulocarlos:
After root you can do everything
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus Questions & Answers] Nehit94:
Lenovo issued a later update regarding the matter that since the heating issue wa seperaring with many devices they had to underclock the processor and since underclocking 616 from 1.7 to 1.5 it makes is 615 and all the cortex are same a53 I don't think it's a batch from 410. It's just phone can handle that much juice.

"Lenovo k5's writing cheques it's body can't cash"????

Art is whatever u can get away with no rules !