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[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] HewettBR:
Yeah if we can have the us from with root and deviated that would be nice. Wifi calling is a plus for T-Mobile but I have good enough service with band 12 that it's not necessary
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] hondajohn88:
I don't think there's band 12 at my house, but there is where I work...but that's 55 miles from home, so I'll have to check that Monday. I can't recall if I got band 12 when I was at work with the US ROM, but I think T-Mobile needs to activate that for different phone models due to e911 calling or something like that. Correct me if I'm wrong though.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] bulls4ever:
At work I'm on band 2. Home mostly on band 2, but I've been connected to 17 for short time before moving to 2. I'll bite the Chinese rom
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] HewettBR:
It's for volte data would still work. The phone is certified with T-Mobile though so band 12 is good to go
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ascertion:
I believe boot.img is the kernel. It seems the bootloader may be imbedded in the System.img. also, just figured I'd let you know that your phone number is showing in one of the screenshots.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] hondajohn88:
Ah, thanks... I'l take those down :eek:
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] bulls4ever:
going to update to chinese version soon. has anyone able to update only the bootloader and keep everything else?
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] zoid_99:
Good.. no great news. Hopefully I can do this from a OTG USB drive (usb OTG adapter should be here tomorrow).
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] losteagle:
Great news, for Grossoshop ROM I can confirm it's a great ROM without Chinese stuff and with OTA updates.

It's developed by our BB72 modder (i'm Italian) that have a great experience on Leeco phones. In the last update 18s supports API Camera 2 also for use with compatible apps.

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[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] samsungandriod:
google play is very easy to install if you can read chinese, or get someone to help. as the native 720 rom has LeStore, from there, you can see the google play services, etc, and install is easy. i had mine came in as 019s rom, then i downgraded to Chinese version x720 017s, not OTA to 018s. with google play everything installed now. works beautifully.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] losteagle:
Bootloader it's already unlocked after 19S update, the problem, I suppose is the cripted data partition.

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[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Veidas:
No its not. Its only temporary until restart
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] bricky23:
If anyone try this with att. Please let us know about the LTE after flashing Chinese version
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] hondajohn88:
TWRP Restore:

This morning I restored a backup I made and it restored fine. Before I made the backup, I removed the screen lock pattern & fingerprint. This is IMPORTANT, because I assume just like other TWRP restores, it'll ask for password & not remember it, rendering your backup useless.

To restore, I booted into TWRP, factory reset & wiped all but internal storage & USB storage. Then selected the backup from internal storage.

I also restored a backup using OTG & USB which also worked fine.

An odd note: After the phone booted back up, the fingerprint stored in the phone wouldn't work after I set a new screen lock pattern, so I had to delete the fingerprint, reboot & add it again.

Other than that (and the usual gmail sync problem after restore) there was no drama to restore.

I'm looking into getting the bootloader extracted, but the problem of getting it into a stock phone remains. There's no factory ROM to put it in and I don't think it can be flashed over a locked bootloader.

Anyway, I'll see what I can do.

Also, I can't seem to get Wi-Fi calling to work on GrossShop ROM even though the option is turned on. At least the icon doesn't show up and I don't know how to verify that it is or isn't working.

If anything else strange or notable pops up I'll report it.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] bulls4ever:
1 more day for OnePlus 3T announcement... I will hold changing my phone as I think the OnePlus will be the one to go.

It is just too bad LeEco Is missing the biggest opportunity to come to US with big impact: great hardware, nice looking phone and great price and fully unlocked. It this were fully unlocked it would instant become the #1 Chinese phone in USA.

I was actually rooting for LeEco to succeed...
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Veidas:
Stop talking nonsense.. us version was already unlocked. And its all about price, oneplus 3t will have same hardware, but smaller battery and better camera. And $480 pricetag. So yeah
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] killer23d:
This is the US, if LeEco wants to survive, they will have to follow GPL. This is a Snapdragon chip and I am sure it will be a lot more straight forward than the MTK variant. Still, LeEco doesn't need to release everything, they can keep the proprietary ones like sensor and fingerprints to themselves.

I am still on the fence about this phone because of my sour taste with the Le 1 last year. I can grab a Mi 5S for the price but I don't get full US band support.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] nabzord:
i hope you are right. i guess they could get away with copyright infringement of GPL when not selling in the US.

yea xiaomi not having US bands and selling in the US?? what the heck, so many US consumers would complain of no cell service
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] samsungandriod:
i guess you are talking about different stories such like Xiaomi which does not have a real office presence in the US. and Xiaomi's phone bought into US were mostly from the online shop. and the US has different 3G and 4G band compare to the rest of the world. Thus why many phone models ( not only xiaomi) do not work in US. However LeEcoPro3 does, and LeEco is officially enters the US market, which means it will have all the copies rights things 'fixed' before they even considering to selling their phone in the States. And their phone models will be fully compatible to all or at least major US bands. If you take a Lenovo's Moto brand, there are upgrade, after sales support, firmware download etc. for the LePro, i believe it will all be happening. Otherwise, they wont bother to spend Millions to enter the market and then get themself in trouble later around. and their goal is not the phone itself, it is the their Eco system. as LeEco was initially founded as software company. their business model is more like Amazon rather than a hardware phone company.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] killer23d:
Like I said earlier, they only need to disclose the kernel source that uses GPL. Anything else like sensors and baseband drivers are built in house are not required to be disclosed. I learned that first hand when MTK shut down the github repository for the Le 1 a year ago.

Also, keep in mind that LeEco is not a charity, they are here to make money. They rely on their ecosystem to make money for them with the EcoPass, contents (its not free to license) and other accessories. Judging from the way they pulled the sources of the Le 3 on their site, I don't suppose they really want people to start removing the intended features from their phones.

The launch in India was a big mess, people complained it's all bait and switch because of poor logistics, broken web site and customer service is useless; I saw the moderators removing threads that told bad things about them; the way LeEco in India makes me feel like in China, where you can do whatever you want until you get shut down and silenced. Let's hope I am not going to see another LeEco India in USA.

I am Chinese and I often hang around the LeEco China, India and USA forum now, I have to say LeEco is not as open/transparent as the CEO YT Jia says.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] benjmiester:
For anyone who ordered a US variant in the US (obviously :P) How long did it take to arrive?
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] MallocVoidstar:
It's not on sale yet. November 2nd.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] killer23d:
I bought a Le Max 2 instead for $220 which I think it's great deal for 4GB/32GB. Even in China, they are selling the Pro 3 for around $300-320, so the $299 flash sale in US is really not such a great deal.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] bmac6996:
Just noticed, and I need confirmation. Is the back and multitask button flipped? As in the the back button is on the right? Can you change that in the stock rom?
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Tikerz:
Not sure if I should pull the trigger on the flash sale. It's just sitting there in the cart....
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] toanau:
Just ordered. $325 not a bad price. Now hopefully there is some developments for this phone
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] ExTREmE99:
just ordered both a S3 and Pro3. get back to you when I get them. there's a 30 day return policy with free return shipping so win-win!
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] rivethead23:
Ordered a Le Pro 3 just now. I feel it's a deal for the price and at worst I'll return if its problematic.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] fuzz_33594:
I bought one. Delivery within a week. If I like it, I'll give my 6P to my son to replace the M8 he has. If I don't, he gets the Pro 3, but -based on TK's review - it looks promising.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] glenroebuck:
does the use version have play store?
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] andy88de:
Yes of course
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ascertion:
Some people on Slickdeals are claiming their Le Pro already shipped from the flash sale this morning. Mine shows pending shipment. Wonder if they're shipping by location instead of time purchased. I placed my order ~3 minutes after the flash sale started.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] kostik83:
From their support: "While we are in the process of restocking our inventory, please come to claim our LeRewards starting from 11/3 and get ready to purchase it on the next flash sale day (11/9)."

There will be many flash sales ;)
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Linux23:
ordered one too. $300 for a top tier phone is a no brainer. had my money on the Pixel XL but close to $800 for a 32GB phone was hard for me to swallow. Had the Pixel's came in the same price range as my 64GB N6P, I would have been all over that.

i'm just hoping this company does right by it's customers and provide timely updates, especially since i'm getting used to Nouget now. :P
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] daweeze02:
My 3 shipped. I literally watch the count down then had my CC already stored so I purchased within minutes of the sale starting
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] hondajohn88:
I ordered mine this morning as soon as the "buy now" button appeared and tracking says it shipped already, but no tracking number yet. I'll keep you posted when it arrives.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Tikerz:
Or you can leave your fingerprints in the backup and delete locksettings.db in /data/system/ after the restore using the TWRP file manager.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Saikou0taku:
I imagine Android Pay is a no-go though?
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] hondajohn88:
I believe he means unlocked bootloader.

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True that. It gave me the "not secure" message.

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I haven't tried that before. Prolly woulda saved me a bunch of time for those moments I made a backup & forgot to remove the screen lock lol :eek:
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Saikou0taku:
I believe someone else in this thread got TWRP on stock, so perhaps that could be a temp, and then we could use that temp unlock to do a permanent unlock?
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] bulls4ever:
I guess you can't read... "Fully unlocked". It's carrier unlocked yet. Not bootloader. Can't root.

If I install x720 I may lose fast LTE as it will be missing bans 17 for att.

At 480 I'd have better camera, bigger ram and fully unlocked and lesser battery and lesser bands.

If I have to lose the bands to unroot the level then it loses the biggest advantage.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] dr4stic:
This is a fantastic find. I had planned on just attempting to flash the bootloader and some of the other required files (after a bit of assisted research). I've been avoiding anything permanent without research because I've been unsure if I was keeping the device. I still have a little over a week to decide, but this news bodes well for me keeping it.

Can you tell if you've lost any functionality in terms of supported LTE bands and other? If the bootloader works, it may have been the case that there was truly little necessary to flash.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] hondajohn88:
It appears that I have not lost any band functionality. Here's a couple of screen shots while listening to voice mail, one call will Wi-Fi on and one with Wi-Fi off, and it appears VoLTE is still working as well as Wi-Fi calling. At least I think I see a Wi-Fi/phone icon during the call with Wi-Fi on. I have yet to test for band 12, but that must wait until tomorrow.

On a side note, I was thinking that if the kernel used in the Chinese Rom doesn't cause any lost functionality of the phone, it could be a base for CM & AOSP Roms. I think I read that the Chinese kernel source is available, so I need to verify that.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] boonesmi:
if you want to test wifi calling just put the phone in airplane mode then turn wifi back on. that way if you can make a phone call you "know" it was over wifi
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] bulls4ever:
I'm on at&t. There's the phone HD icon. I turned the airplane mode and tried to make a call... Only emergency is available
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] dr4stic:
If your test pans out for me as well, I'm fairly sure the hardware is identical and everything interchangeable. It seems both models use the same board ID in the device tree, so I imagine that the 720/727 model number is just cosmetic.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] boonesmi:
the HD icon has nothing to do with wifi calling, but it does mean volte is working

edit to add: that was one of the first thing i did when i got the S3, put it in airplane mode, turned on wifi. after about 30 seconds the wifi calling icon appeared, and was able to make a test phone call.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] DxTcmix:
Looks like my Le Pro 3 is going back, the Camera is too underwhelming, and the notification problems are not acceptable. Got approved for PayPal Credit so I got the Axon 7 on the way. Will keep an eye on these forums and see what happens on this device.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] hondajohn88:
I just tried the same thing on my wife's stock Nexus 5x...turned on airplane mode, turned on Wi-Fi and tried to make a call, but it wouldn't do it either. Settings have Wi-Fi calling enabled, but no go...pop-up told me to turn off airplane mode to make a call...so maybe they're all not supposed to make calls on wifi in airplane mode?
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Veidas:
You wont loose any bands by installing x720 rom, stop imagining problems.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] wpbear:
I have 5x and can make Wi-Fi calling on airplane mode with Wi-Fi only.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] dr4stic:
And you're an expert at this? Do you understand how any of this works? Have you looked inside that chinese 18s OTA zip? There are firmware updates to the modem, bootloader, etc. You could very well end up losing access to bands. It replaces the NON-HLOS.bin (the radio firmware), emmc_appsboot.mbn (the bootloader, I think), the xbl, and the list goes on and on...
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] boonesmi:
you usually have to wait a little while before the wifi calling icon appears (once it appears you can make calls) with the leeco S3 it was about 30 seconds (which is pretty quick)
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] bricky23:
Your on at&t and have full LTE? With the 720 Chinese ROM installed?
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Veidas:
http://forum.le.com/in/index.php?threads/leeco-aio-toolkit.16089/page-3

This guy claims his toolkit can unlock US le pro 3
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Gytole:
Yeah, the 720
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] brianf2:
I have been using the ZTE Axon 7 for a few months now. I ordered the Le Pro 3 to check it out. I agree that the camera is not good. The lack of stabilization and no 4k video are deal breakers for me. I am sending mine back as well. You will be very pleased with the ZTE Axon 7. Better screen, better camera, dual sim or SD card expansion plus I expect better support. I wanted to like Le Pro 3 but other than the 821 chipset and battery life it is not as good as the Axon 7.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] suhridkhan:
Add volte, wifi calling and a 100$ less price to that list.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] losteagle:
The LE Pro 3 can record 4K video, just select in video resolution the correct option. For videos i recommed Open Camera app which is able to recorder in 4K/30fps at 42Mbps.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] zoid_99:
Continuing my journey to try and unbrick my Le Pro.

To recap I attempted to install the TRWP image on my temporary unlocked US Pro3. The Pro3 refused to boot into the TWRP recovery due to how the locks itself back. I was able to install the Chinese version of the recovery and that worked. Later I botched a root attempt and messed up my system to where it would only boot to the Chinese recovery or fastboot mode however I could no longer "fastboot oem unlock-go" due to the flag no longer be set to allow this. Well the only think I can do is attempt to install a system via the Chinese recovery I have with a locked bootloader. That's where I am now.

I received my OTG adapter and put the Chinese 720 update.zip on a USB thumb drive. Start the recovery and it sees the update.zip and starts to install and then I get some chinese symbols and the word corrupt. So it appears that I can't install this update.zip for some reason? I'll try and find another copy but I don't think this one is really corrupt, probably just not compatible. Will leeco release a update.zip for the 727? who knows. For now I have a $300 brick.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] hondajohn88:
Which Chinese ROM version did you attempt to install?
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] zoid_99:
I believe that it was LE_ZL1_LEX720-CN-5.8.018S-fullota.zip (I renamed it to update.zip so I lost the real name). I'm in the process of downloading one called LE_ZL1_LEX720-CN-FN-WAXCNFN5801811021S-5.8.018S.zip which I think may be the same. I'll try that one and see what happens.

Thanks.

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It's ALIVE! LE_ZL1_LEX720-CN-FN-WAXCNFN5801811021S-5.8.018S.zip installed and it booted. I now have a 727 that is running the 720 firmware.

Thanks everyone that helped.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] HewettBR:
Boom. Anyone actually try the toolkit mentioned prior?
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] losteagle:
[MENTION=1119693]zoid_99[/MENTION]

Great news ! The last ROM you downloaded come from Leeco repository it's full. ;)
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Veidas:
Since you are running 720 firmware now, you can perma unlock bootloader?
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] zoid_99:
That appears to be the case. Just rebooted to the bootloader and:

fastboot oem device-info

...

(bootloader)	Device product name: [le_zl1_whole_netcom]

(bootloader)	Device tampered: false

(bootloader)	Device unlocked: true

(bootloader)	Device critical unlocked: true

(bootloader)	Charger screen enabled: false

(bootloader)	Serial console enabled: false

(bootloader)	Serial hw output enabled: false

(bootloader)	Display panel:

OKAY [ 0.083s]

finished. total time: 0.083s
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Veidas:
So that just confirms it. Everyone who want to root flash chinese firmware as update.zip, unlock bootloader, install twrp and do whatever you want :)
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] suhridkhan:
I am gonna give it a shot when I go home from work. The dev is saying he has added support for the US 727 model...
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] hondajohn88:
Excellent news! Give the GrossoShop Rom a try, it's been working great for me. It has a nice reboot option set in settings that allows booting normal or into recovery, bootloader & such.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] brianf2:
Interesting about 4k video. Every review I read said it could not do 4k. I guess just the Leeco camera app can't. Oh well mine is at Fed-ex now on its way back to them. I much prefer the ZTE Axon 7.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] hondajohn88:
At least on the x720 Rom, both LeEco camera & Google camera can.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] zoid_99:
Yes, that my be the easiest path if you have a OTG adapter. I have TWRP installed and am now downloading the GrossoShop Rom. This may be a great mod platform after all.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] wpbear:
Looks like that won't be needed anymore. The previously mentioned toolkit was just updated to bypass the USA model protection and works to fully unlock USA bootloader now. http://forum.le.com/us/index.php?threads/unlock-bootloader.3682/page-4
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] Veidas:
300 dollars for snapdragon 821 with huge ass battery and unlocked bootloader? Sign me up lol. Now we just need more devs, and some source would be nice
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] zoid_99:
Does it work? Has anyone tried it on a 727? I have a Mac so I can't test without creating a virtual image to install it on.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] bulls4ever:
No, I have not yet done it. Will either do it or return in a couple of days
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] hondajohn88:
Sweet! Now we just need a full US version Rom to go back to if we want.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] bocondo:
This is a great news... Did anyone tried yet? In office right now, can't wait to try once I reach home.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] HewettBR:
Same here although I'm not holding my breath
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] dr4stic:
It's monday :) Have you had a chance to verify Band 12 re-existence post chinese rom install?
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] bulls4ever:
did not work for me
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] bricky23:
Do you still have LTE? Which carrier?
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] zoid_99:
Yes, T-Mobile band 4. We don't have band 12 in our area so I can't test that.
[LeEco Le Pro3 Guides, News, & Discussion] hondajohn88:
I've walked around the parking lot a little bit this morning & only got band 4, but I'll do a little more checking today at lunch & report back after that.