yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ebkbk:
This is where I need to get past... It's like there is a password but there isn't one.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] podge3:
I get the same, no idea how to fix.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ebkbk:
i know if i reboot it will start to boot the OS and fail with a password and try to factory reset and bring me back to TWRP

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what are you doing to get 9 to work if you dont have persist?

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may have the answer

1: Erase persist

"fastboot erase persist"

2: Take persist.img and flash with fastboot:

"fastboot flash persist persist.img"

...that´s it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] podge3:
Where will you get a copy of persist from?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ebkbk:
https://mega.nz/#!oURh0ARA!JvliKwO6-bvdobG1qZoXg9CrH1u0zmtLsjFuoCIBoFk
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] podge3:
Have you tried it? :fingers-crossed:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ebkbk:
My phone works great, no more persist error
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] podge3:
You are a genius :):o:D:cowboy:

I used qfil to erase and load your persist file and I now have wifi!!!

We are fixed:good:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slacko977:
and I ended up agony with wifi today, and I was frowning on persist.img and I worked wifi thanks to everyone !!!

and with helping to recover IMEI`s.

all the best i wish for all !!!

see you ! :o:o
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] podge3:
Do flashing stock with Qfil restore the recovery partition? I have never seen stock recovery on my Z5. If anyone has it, please share.

I think at this stage, its obvious that Qfil does not fully restore the phone, hence all the people reporting bricks.

I'll do up a quick guide for people who have the phone stuck on activation screen like ebkbk and I had.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sth0r:
Yes the stock recovery mode is flashed with qpst/qfil and is in all the stockroms there is uploadet on xda...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] podge3:
I don't see the recovery file in any stock ROM that I have. When I try to boot into stock recovery, I get the dead android and "no command".
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sth0r:
That is the stock recovery, there is no commands in it, it is only for applying ota updates, and that works.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] podge3:
OK, I didn't know that. I was expecting to see the usual options of reset etc etc.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ebkbk:
When the dead Android is on the screen press volume up + power.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] podge3:
Is that together or separately and for how long? I've tried every combination and can't get past the dead android.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dedezaum:
I updated for even with bootloader unlocked
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ebkbk:
Just press at the same time and release
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] podge3:
Yeah, sometimes it works and sometimes not. Thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] podge3:
Boot img for the 390 firmware now over on Russian now so you can root that version.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ebkbk:
The Motorola one is coming out ... Lenovo makes Motorola... It's going to be an Android one phone. Can we port it? The hardware seems close minus some ram and storage.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andi-onex:
i have flashed the ZUI 3.9.200ST and i have updated it manually to the ZUI 4.0.390ST (downoaded from the Russian site) , now i want to install the android 9.0 please link to to download and how can i flash it , is it with Qfill ? steps please

regards
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dedezaum:
I also left the miui for Zui, and I regret this a lot.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sth0r:
Here is eveything you need

https://xdaforums.com/project-trebl...n/guide-how-to-flash-android-8-1-9-0-t3840839
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] QTeknology:
Can you do a system dump of 4.0.390 ?

please...

write me in pm or telegram [MENTION=643323]Francko[/MENTION]76

Thanks a lot !
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andi-onex:
sorry i can't do system dump , but you can flash the 3.9.200 then just do a manual update withe the update zip file 4.0.390st
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kon®ado:
The camera on this phone is a tragedy. I do not know if it's a software or hardware fault, but the effect is weak.

Rear camera: does not catch sharpness at night when recording movies (I did it with xiaomi, it was ok)

The quality of the photos is average.

Front camera: poor picture quality, especially in low light)

Generally, this seems to be the norm in this class, but unfortunately even compared to xiaomi redmi (...) falls out worse
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ebkbk:
Stock, modded, or custom 9.0? Camera isn't bad at all, the software on the CFW makes it really bad.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] QTeknology:
I don't have Lenovo Z5...

please, you can do it easily...

1) backup your actual rom

2) wipe all

3) install stock rom

4) install ota

5) do a twrp backup

6) wipe all

7) restore your rom

I need that, I ported z5 rom on zuk z2plus and z2pro...

please...................................................
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kon®ado:
Stock, the latest firmware. Maybe changing the camera application will help? Is it rather the fault of the entire software
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andi-onex:
This is the ZUI 4.0.390 stock rom

https://mega.nz/#!SfBnHYZD!JdU9LaoBL7OYHET-KheLdlTYdiHXpFOg18DubuhF2YI
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] QTeknology:
Thanks a lot !!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sth0r:
No problemo...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xplozia:
This rom will be installed cu qfile? Already I have ZUI 4.0.390, after an update from 3.9.075. This rom can be installed without other rom/files? I want to install a clean rom.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andi-onex:
Try and see.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dedezaum:
Has anyone managed to install magisk on Zui 4.0.390?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erdogan69:
lenovo z5

hi,

İ have lenovo z5.... i wanna install stock rom... but i can install but quick settings is not continue.. because, it want to activation... wlan or cellular... but i can not open wifi or mobile.... so i do not do activation...

please help me?

edit: my imei have not.... it is gone...so i can not use mobil cellular for activation....
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yunping:
Hi guys i got a very big issue..... i used qfil to flash and end up when booting up first time. on the activation screen i cant use wifi and sim card to activate..... how can i solve this ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ebkbk:
Repair imei, possibly persist. It's in the forum here.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erdogan69:
i have got same problems...

i m working imei repair but i can not...

please help me
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sergey47:
Hello. Tell me please solved this problem? If you have decided, tell me how
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sth0r:
As he says he has a locked bootloader, he either did not fix it or he followed the imei restore guide i made, but if he needsto reflash pesist he is f*****... When he locked the bootloader he made it so that fastboot cannot help him.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ebkbk:
He can flash 075, repair imei, activate with Sim in slot 2, usb debug and enable oem unlocking... Persist.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edsmanco:
Hello folks, Can anyone help me to unbrick my z5? I don't know what I've done and Qfil is bringing sahara error.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikol900:
What about google search?

https://xdaforums.com/lenovo-zuk-z2/help/sahara-fail-help-tried-everything-t3624264

https://www.google.com/search?q=bri...r.&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edsmanco:
Yep, I tried that. Sorry I didn't mention it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jakha:
Hi guys, what's the latest version of ZUI now? It's been long without update since the bootloader is unlocked. ZUI official updates are stopped for me despite using the official ROM. Anyone knows? Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sth0r:
Iam pready sure you still get the notification.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kujangsbj:
These is link all lenovo Z5 stock rom from china/global update for Qpst https://boycracked.com/android-stock-rom/official-lenovo-z5-l78011-stock-rom-firmware/
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vickbuitenzorg:
Lenovo Z5 L78011 Global rom & Chinese rom

Lenovo Z5 L78011 Global rom & Chinese rom: All rom here https://boycracked.com/2018/10/15/official-lenovo-z5-l78011-stock-rom-firmware/

MOD EDIT: Untrusted link removed
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xplozia:
This is official site of Pixel Experince: https://download.pixelexperience.org/. In the supported devices, the Lenovo Z5 model missing. I don't have trust your linck.

:(
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dindar8755:
Hi, my friends I have a global rom, and I have a lot of problems. I downloaded ROM (L78011_CN_OPEN_USER_Q00016.0_O_ZUI_4.0.390_ST_180809_qpst), is this the original version of the company software?

How do I install this?QFIL OR QPST?

Please explain the process of doing Flash
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xplozia:
Here you found instructions: https://mega.nz/#F!ndhjkT5T!TZ2Gy-HJhJLO_j_GpaNf4A or follow the movie: https://youtu.be/347-UxU97uk
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dindar8755:
Hi friends I want official china rom

Plz help me
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sth0r:
It is descriped in some of the first pages?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dindar8755:
I will not find it. Please give me the link to download the Chinese factory rom

Thank you
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scousethief:
Hello all , i have the Lenovo Z5 with stock Chinese rom using English language. There is an issue with Snapchat were the "login temporarily failed" continually occurs. This does NOT happen on other phones etc we have tried multiple times to find out what the issue is including using Kingoroot and Superuser to UN root the phone or LOCK the bootloader but nothing works.

Personally i couldnt care less but it is my daughters phone and she might as well have a snapchat tattoo on her forehead so its time to ask the experts.......................................

Any suggestions ? The phone works perfectly fine other than Snapchat giving the Login error
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sth0r:
is it the stock or the multi language rom?

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https://xdaforums.com/android/help/help-lenovo-z5-chinese-updates-t3812110
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Twisted Mind:
Hi guys.

Got my phone also. Normal rom, so i could possibly help out with the backup. The thing is, i dont know how to do it :D

I assume, system partition and stuff backed up from twrp, but i cant find twrp for Z2. Maybe dump from adb? Dont know how to use that eiter :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vlad.spatariu:
Thanks for the intention [MENTION=9360076]Twisted Mind[/MENTION],

Maybe the guy that installed TWRP can help, in the meantime, there seems to be a tool that helps us install any rom-compatible version on the z5, similar to what the OnePlus 3T had. The problem is that the forum is in Chinese, I posted it in my last post. I'm still trying to work that angle until a better solution comes along. :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Twisted Mind:
Do you guys have OEM unlock option in developer options?

I am not sure if Lenovo hid it or it has something to do with software update that i did when i got the phone.

I read somewhere that the unlcok is hidden 7 days after flashing, so update might be affecting it as well.

One thing to note is that i can search for OEM unlock in settings and it does find it, but it is not showing in developer options.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cohavio:
This is the link

mirrors.lolinet.com/firmware/twrp/jd2018/twrp-3.2.2-beta1-jd2018.img

You need to install ADB and Fastboot on you computer

put the img file in the ADB folder then open CMD as administrator navigate to the ADB folder and write this command

fastboot flash boot twrp-3.2.2-beta1-jd2018.img

you enter the ADB mode buy pressing the "Vol -" button while turning the phone on, the moment you feel the vibrate of the phone turning on you leave the power button and press it again quickly.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Twisted Mind:
hmm, just flashing twrp without unlocking bootloader might not be the best thing. I dont think i would be willing to flash anything through it with locked bootloader.

I would be fine with just super su or magisk, but the risk is still there
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aaad1:
Hey, just wondering if any of you guys installed a different launcher? (i.e. Microsoft launcher), would the phone allow it?

Also, are there a lot of Chinese? Keyboard is easy to sort out but are there any other Chinese I should know about?

I'm thinking of getting this phone.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Twisted Mind:
By installing alternate apps, you can get rid of most of chinese with just slight traces left.

I have replaced pretty much everything that came with it and uninstalled bloatware. Most apps can be uninstalled, some can be disabled.

i am using nova launcher, google contacts, google calendar, play store, evolve sms, opera, mx player, solid explorer...

I had some troubles to switch to google play store. Links were still opening in their app store. Now stopped and disabled, everything opens in google play store like it should.

There is one place where i still see the chinese, and that is the lock screen. ZUI has option called circulate to switch lockscreen wallpaper. So when you swipe while on the lockscreen, you enter circulate where you can browse through some wallpapers and mark the ones you like and delete ones you dont. There is some chinese text here and that is it.

One thing to know before purchasing this phone is that settings are really poor. There are just few basic things to set. It is not that software is bad or unfinished, there is just to few settings to adjust. I am coming from MIUI and this has less than half things to set.

Few things that i miss is rotation of soft buttons and adjusting the led notification. Phone has at least green and red leds, but you cant do anything with those. they dont light up. Only when charging. Useless.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AntuaW:
Great but I still need a proof it works, cuz it is not my phone and the owner would not allow me to flash without being sure that flashing won't brick it. Video of you entering the TWRP would be perfect or at least a photo at which we could clearly see that it is jd2018 (Lenovo Z5) model.

And the owner has the bootloader already unlocked and Magisk rooted.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Twisted Mind:
And why does he need twrp if he managed to do all that?

And also, i believe there is a way to load twrp through adb/fastboot without flashing it. maybe, he can do that and checkout if it is okay.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vlad.spatariu:
Can anyone make a copy of the camera apk for me please? Help a guy out here, this modified Android version that geekbuying forced on me has an crappy camera app. A million thanks to the guy who can extract and package it!

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You can use any tool like this one and just send me the apk

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ext.ui
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AntuaW:
First of all I was just trying to help the person who corrupted their system partition. But the owner may want it to do backups of partitions for safety. And for easy flashing of future ROMs or mods.

I tried to hot boot through fastboot but no luck for me. "Remote" device (the phone probably) responds with "unknown command", which may mean that the boot without flashing is blocked (pure guess).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vlad.spatariu:
Can anyone help me with a copy of the camera app? Thanks guys!

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@Twisted Mind, my z5 with the Frankenstein rom from geekbuying came with the bootloader unlocked and OEM unlocking in the developer tools. The menu for the developer tools has moved though, you can find it in the system tab in settings.

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@Twisted Mind, my z5 with the Frankenstein rom from geekbuying came with the bootloader unlocked and OEM unlocking in the developer tools. The menu for the developer tools has moved though, you can find it in the system tab in settings.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Twisted Mind:
Try this.

I have extracted the app through apk extractor app.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GwFrUQvHr4YiVeca1c9lK_ooF7fq5ZkW/view?usp=sharing

This is zui camera
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vlad.spatariu:
Damn it, I keep getting "there was a parsing error" each time I try to install it. Anyway, an interesting thing that I'd like to point out, which might be relevant to our friend a few posts back that soft bricked his z5.

Since our phone is a China only model, I've been looking in Lenovo's Chinese forum for a solution. We don't need to install twrp at all, they have a tool that pushes and flashes the stock ROM onto the device. The problem is that I don't know Chinese and haven't gotten passed the step where I have to introduce the password (which they have in the forum post that I linked here earlier, on page 2 or 3), can one of you guys check it out? It might be the answer to all of our headaches. Thanks. Here's hoping for a strong community around this device!

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Thanks for the effort anyway [MENTION=9360076]Twisted Mind[/MENTION] :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anathema:
somebody try to install treble rom via twrp?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adempozhari:
I need to root this phone. I am sick of all the ads i get.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] charlie_82:
Same here.

LED doesn't blink for any notifications, only when charging.

If you swipe right on the ZUI home screen, you get a very chinese dashboard with news and weather etc. But a custom launcher will fix that.

Also worth noting that a lot of apps don't have permission to display notifications by default. Google Play Music, for example, doesn't display the album art and player controls in the notification bar - you have to first allow notifications for the app for this to work.

And the quick toggles come up from the bottom of the screen (wifi, bluetooth, etc).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Twisted Mind:
i thought that toggles from bottom are oreo thing.

And to continue on notification settings you mentioned. I have to slightly disagree. NO APP has notification by default. If you install something from store, you have to enable notifications yourself.

I went mad for sms app notification and then finally realised what happened. I also had trouble with 2FA apps until i enabled them.

Swipe right can be disabled in settings and may not be the worst thing if you can personalize feed. Never tried and i use nova launcher. Never understood why others even try to use anything else :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ralfextreme:
Hey Guys have you tried this?

I just ordered mine and I will try this method as soon I receive the phone, apparently this unlocks the boot-loader and also tells you how to root the device once the boot-loader is unlocked, I hope is legit I would hate to brick my new phone :(

[IMG="lenovo Z5 unlock the bootloader"]https://imgur.com/a/IMfRYBM[/IMG]

[IMG="Lenovo Z5 how to root"]https://imgur.com/a/B3BwTCl[/IMG]
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vlad.spatariu:
I have a surprise for you all!

I kept mentioning about there being a dev tool made especially for this device on the Lenovo Chinese forums but (and no offense to anyone) I have no idea why that didn't peak any interest in this forum. In any case, I asked a very good Chinese friend of mine to download and translate the following for us:

- A step by step guide on how to root / flash the device (the doc is entitled "steps for rooting", but the tool is for flashing the stock rom, I suppose it does both).

- The flash tool in itself (QPST)

- The Lenovo stock rom image (zui 3.9)

- a translated step-by-step guide;

I'll upload them to my cloud and share a link here asap, anyone want to give them a try?

PS: It was hard downloading these files from the Chinese Lenovo Forums since you need a chinese phone number to register to their forums, but thankfully, we don't need to do that anymore!

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As promised, here's the link to the tools I mentioned:

DISCLAIMER: I am not to be held liable to anything that happens to your device! I'm just providing the tools, if things go south, remember that the risk is your own. Thanks!

Let me know how it goes! :)

https://mega.nz/#F!9953xR6a!76EEVKmW3LtjE7tYPF2Z1Q

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No offense man, but those seem like automatically-generated articles, the internet is full of them. They're meant to drive up traffic to their site. :
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scousethief:
Hi sth0r the ROM is stock or as far as I am aware it is stock (Banggood) . Play store was installed and everything was In English. I have ran root checker and it reports not rooted, bootloader is unlocked. Everything on the phone works perfectly fine.

Thank you for taking the time to reply it is much appreciated
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sth0r:
If it has playstore it is not stock, but has the hacked togehter multilanguage, there is a couple of guides for flashing stock rom.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scousethief:
Cheers Sth0r , i will have a word with her and try and prise the phone from her hands to flash the original firmware. , i dont understand what business it is of Snapchats whether the phone is rooted/bootloader unlocked etc but hey ho what can you do. I will post back when ive flashed it just so if others have this issue then they might have a working solution.

Many thanks for taking your time to find out whats happening.

scouse
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dindar8755:
Hi friend do yo test it?what happened?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dindar8755:
Hi, my friends, I flashed device. The flash was done correctly and the phone was turned on. But on the quiksetting step, I did not go to the next step, please help me[IMG="http://uupload.ir/files/oyqe_20190123_124310.jpg"]http://uupload.ir/files/oyqe_20190123_124310.jpg[/IMG]
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dindar8755:
Plz help me i test all version of roms (cn and global v4.0.390 v200 v075)but not answer

I dont know what i do