Too much ram!

Just bear in mind this phone (and other Chinese bought phones) has FDD-LTE:1800/2100/2600MHz so 4g wont work on o2 and will be patchy on Three and Vod

4G Frequencies...
EE uses 1800MHz & 2600MHz
o2 uses 800MHz
Vod uses 800MHz & 2600MHz
Three uses 800MHz & 1800MHz

FDD-LTE:1800/2100/2600MHz

Wow, don't know why this has been downvoted.. this is an excellent phone and I have one. Don't know about aliexpress, but the phone is top notch. Paid £120 for mine last year and is still going very strong, have just loaded another ROM on it so it's now running Android 6.0, have never had a problem with mine at all and there's loads of ROMs if you have bugs with a different one. Heated :smiley:

Great spec! Full HD screen, 2GB RAM etc. :o Shame the screen is 5.5" though, my fingers are too short for phones over 5". Plus I don't need another phone of course :smile: Heat!

Wow, don't know why this has been downvoted.. this is an excellent phone and I have one. Don't know about aliexpress, but the phone is top notch. Paid £120 for mine last year and is still going very strong, have just loaded another ROM on it so it's now running Android 6.0, have never had a problem with mine at all and there's loads of ROMs if you have bugs with a different one. Heated :smiley:

Great spec! Full HD screen, 2GB RAM etc. :o Shame the screen is 5.5" though, my fingers are too short for phones over 5". Plus I don't need another phone of course :smile: Heat!

Just bear in mind this phone (and other Chinese bought phones) has FDD-LTE:1800/2100/2600MHz so 4g wont work on o2 and will be patchy on Three and Vod

4G Frequencies...
EE uses 1800MHz & 2600MHz
o2 uses 800MHz
Vod uses 800MHz & 2600MHz
Three uses 800MHz & 1800MHz

FDD-LTE:1800/2100/2600MHz

meh, not iOS device

Seriously tho, what's the battery life like this? I'm a heavy user

I have this as my main phone. It's alright. The T760 GPU is slow on full-HD, so higher-end games are quite slow - despite it getting around 45K (if I recall correctly) on Antutu. It's also laggy from time to time, and mine has some suspect Chinese software on it that can't be removed without rooting etc. Screen is lovely and it's well made in all other respects. Most of the ROMs out there have at least one thing wrong with them, so I've not really bothered tinkering with it that much. I'd recommend at this price.

Too much ram!

Me and my daughter both bought the Elephone P8000 at launch and they have been fantastic phones with all 4G sims working correctly, mine is now a backup phone because i have a SGS6 Edge.

Looks like it comes with a numpty alert app.

Yes... alixpress, where HUD has a grey area on chinese stuff that has no warranty. Ah well its good to see some Lenovo Phones back on here again, lets see what the discussion will be.

1. Does it have google play - maybe if you ask them nicely.
2. Warranty - ahahahaha, yeah bout that return postage tho.
3. Chinese spyware - probably, so they will know how much you love visiting HUD.
4. Import tax - maybe yes, depends, well who knows.

This is the Mobile equivalent of a punt at the bookies.

I have read you can't get Google Play Store is this true if so no good to me.

Here is the biggest discussion thread on roms: xda-developers

I haven't tried any 6.0 roms yet, but of those I have tried, I preferred the greeshan cleaned up VibeUI, scroll down to second from bottom for the one I prefer: greeshan

There is a 6.0 greeshan rom but I just haven't bothered trying any yet, I thought I'll wait a bit longer as it runs so well on 5.1 anyway.

Don't let the rooting and adding a ROM put you off.
I followed this lads step by step instructions.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g4PQqRXSUa4

Very simple to do.

All good but the seller has poor reputation with low number of orders so far, its important to stick with good sellers when its comes to China shopping. Aliexpress started puting pressure on sellers for a while now to get better general reputation of the site a lot of fakes simply disappointed from site. There is about 5 good sellers with phones when it come to ali and this isn't one of them.

That is so true
I have only ever bought from focalprice, everbuying and gearbest.
No problems with them so far....

I'm on mobile at the moment Matt... Will post the rom link tomorrow for you

Rooting and flashing looks pretty straight forward and I am very tempted to get this to replace my Note 2 .

The hardest part for me was getting TWRP onto the handset using SP Flash Tools, mainly because the driver wasn't playing nice, I had to reinstall it a couple of times to get it to see the handset and start flashing TWRP. Once that was done it was straightforward to do everything else.

Ours worked on o2

Is it dualsim? Need one to replace my a830.

A few points; the official ROW ROM (for non-Chinese markets) is very clean and is easily flashed to the phone with SP Tools (but follow instructions!). This has had a recent update to the official 6.0 MM ROM. battery seems to run out a bit faster, strangely, as it was supposed to improve battery life. You can now choose for the SD card to be an integral part of the memory or separate (if integral, you can't see it with Windows). A few bugs such as the scheduled power on and off- switches off fine, but not on! There was a minor update to fix things switching on automatically.

Major thread here

http://forum.xda-developers.com/k3-note/general/organized-thread-lenovo-k3-note-k50-t3158522

Worked fine for 10 months so far (2 phones).

Also, with O2's 4G roll out of different bands it occasionally picks up 4G signals.

have one but the screen has went, shows double vision. No chance or not worth sending back to china

this method to root is simple and the one i used successfully

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4PQqRXSUa4

Is there a ROM available that's close to stock Android?

There have been some recent CyanogenMod releases which look pretty good. You should check on Needrom for reviews and then download from the link that I posted above 9as you need to register with them).

http://www.needrom.com/category/lenovo/serial-k/k-50/

I have this phone and found that the Three network is generally very good on this phone (as good as phones bought in UK)

Best ROM I have found (and pretty much vanilla Android)

http://www.needrom.com/download/nexus-8/

Between hackerpower's thread over at XDA that has been mentioned (http://forum.xda-developers.com/k3-note/general/organized-thread-lenovo-k3-note-k50-t3158522) and http://www.needrom.com/category/lenovo/serial-k/k-50/

Should be all you need to get going, if you still have problems then head over to you tube.

I have had this phone for a year and has been a solid performer when you consider the price.

Thats interesting, I did vote heat on this. Were you able to use the phone straight off without too much faffing, load up all your apps etc.

You need to get a good case for one of these as I found out to my cost when it slipped into the sink :disappointed:

I forgot to add that you can get 4G as well with Three on this phone, which I was worried about before I bought it!

As I recall the phone came with a load of spyware and really wasn't in a good state software-wise when it first arrived, but rooting and flashing custom recovery and custom rom wasn't difficult (easier than with my last phone where you had to unlock the bootloader).

There are a plethora of roms out there for this phone, and a lot of "unofficial" support. If you are comfortable messing around phones this one is a bargain for the price

​Hi. can you please tell me what ROM you're running for Android6 and if it's running glitch free. Thank you

I second to that. My Honor 7 has no problem with 4G

The official one works fine (if you don't need root). Only glitch that I (and my son) have found is the scheduled on and off- the on does not work. The GPS is vastly improved as well as you can get Glonass- went from 12 satellites to 22.

The fact that it's an excellent DEAL! :smile:

http://www.needrom.com/category/lenovo/serial-k/k-50/

Link above to lots of ROMs for this device, need to register to download but no big deal, doesn't take long.

http://www.needrom.com/download/s422-lite-rooted/

Link to the ROM I'm using at the moment... for noobs, don't forget to make a backup before you flash a new ROM, just in case you want to go back to it, everyone has different tastes and uses different apps on phones so won't be the same experience for all. Update TWRP version before flashing.. very easy to do.

Awesome phone. Loaded the Cuco92 1610 ROM and it's made the phone even better. Even the camera is usable indoors :smiley: For the price it's a steal even when I bought mine for £97

Great find,heat

wouldn't get another lenovo phone after the usb port stopped working on my k900 the problem effected so many people but try finding a phone shop that will fix a lenovo phone and they have no uk service centres

what MTK means? I saw Samsung MTK..is fake???

what MTK means? I saw Samsung MTK..is fake???

Yeah? I didn't try that one, saw it and considered it but waited a little bit, and then saw the slick ROM I posted above... will add that to my growing database of ROMs that I have and give it a try some time.

What would import tax/duty be on these? About £30-40?

Er....wot's a ROM? :confused:

£0.00 with a bit of luck.
I've seen a £140 tablet declared as £20.
Not mine, mind.
Phew. :neutral_face:

This or the VSU6?

Has it got NFC ?

No NFC in the K3 Note.

List the 5 good Sellers on there please?. :-)

An 'Image' File of some sort ...

Eg. an ISO Image of your Windows OS CD/DVD as a Software Backup method of your Hardware Disc, in-case your original gets scratched, etc?.

A ROM Image of a SNES Game that will run on your MAC, your Windows PC, your LINUX PC, etc etc via a respective compatible Emulator/Emulators (similar in principle to that of VM - Virtual Machine Software) in which to play it in ...

So there's not 1 universal/generic terminology for the 'ROM' word, but you get the picture?. :-)

But the one closer to what you asked is in my first definition though ..... lol. :-)

No, it doesn't have NFC... but that's not a reson to downvote if that was what you were implying?

ROM is Read Only Memory and is a very common term, it's just been taken over somewhat by the modding community to label a "rip" or "image" of a phone/tablet memory partition that can be written/saved etc to another phone/tablets memory in essence. It also refers to a game module "cart" image too.

Thank you.
< Pretends to understand all that. :confused:

Personaly GoldwayHK second phone on the way, then as well Eternal Team(ET), Fantasy, I think Rainbow as well good store would have lots of transaction with high score. For Example Goldway has 110K sales with 98,8% score that is really good for aliexpress.

This store has 36K salles and only 94.1% scoree considering that if you dont leave any feedback within 2 months they get 5 star - ts really shady store.

Thanks for the info :smiley:

Might get this for my lil sister, will it get marshmallow?

Already has it, see here.

446 pages bro!

Is the marshmallow official and supported?

Easier than learning Chinese and reading the official forums bro.

To answer your second question, yes, VibeUI is the official release from Lenovo, Marshmallow came out of beta with the first stable release recently. Though when I eventually can be bothered to flash my phone to Marshmallow, I will either go with the cuoco or greeshan releases, they are both based on the official VibeUI, but cleaned of Chinese software that is useless to us, more languages added, pre-rooted and Gapps installed (Google Apps, if you go for the official VibeUI, it has not got Google Play by default and you have to install this manually, cuoco and greeshan have pre-installed this). Cuoco is a cleaner release, with very little added, however greeshan adds a few useful utilities such as Titanium Backup Pro in the last version I installed, and (at least with the last version) the English language pack seemed a little better.

A word of warning for anyone using this phone in the UK, Dont update to the official stock ROW Marshmallow ROM if you are using Life Mobile, it will break your mobile data connection.
I have this phone, and it runs fine on the International Stock ROW ROM (Lollipop), however upgrading to Marshmallow stopped my mobile data from working. Downgrading back to old Lollipop ROM fixed the issue. I have reported this to Lenovo via their forums.

Just install gapps when you flash it to another rom