do you have to cancel tariff.

I just ordered and it was £19.99 sim won't be activated until you top it up if you want to when you receive it.

so will I only be charged for the tariff if I put it in

is it like new or perfect says both,confusing for me.

Thanks op

Are these cheap to sim unlock?

presumably can use a giffgaff sim straight out of the box?

purchased one of these for my daughter as her first phone for when she starts seniors. have some heat :smiley:

anyone know what courier it's delivered by?

Can someone please provide link for unlocking code. Thank you.

sounds pretty good for a kids phone

oos

All gone online, there's click & collect stock somewhere if you can find it...

Do you need to keep a sim card in this?
I'm wondering if it could be used as a small tablet/MP3/video player etc. Or does it need a sim to stay active?

sold out

OOS round Sheffield / Donny / Barnsley too :disappointed:

well someones never turned a phone on without a sim in have they lol

99% of phones will give you and insert sim message when you try it

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ask for the question you cant use these without sim in, tho you can always get around that if you have an old expired (old cancelled contact or PAYG older tan 6 months) sim around those work fine to get past the message for insert sim, and as they both dead would be free of harassment from the network

pity its oos now

Hot from me, ideal mp3 player or internet radio gadget to hook up to a Bluetooth speaker for the garden.

thanks!

Out of stock

Damn, would have had one.

Still available for click and collect!

Thank you.

What are you on about?? As I said before and as has been said below, these CAN be used WITHOUT a simcard being inserted as can ANY phone

Yep, its back in stock today.
I was able to select click and collect (any manchester area store) or select home delivery. I picked click and collect and I've just paid, it says it will be ready for me on Friday.

I ordered one and it was delivered today. I was very impressed for £20. I wish I ordered 2

I ordered one, but am out of the country at the moment, does anyone know if they are dual sim?

They are single sim.

Thanks

OoS.... and has been for several days now - i checked almost every hour

In Stock now.

In Stock now. But be quick.

website is so slow I'm about to give up

Thanks ordered another

About to order for a spare phone, is there anything better for £20-£30?

No.

If you stretch to ~£40 and go for a Chinese phone, you can get better specs.... but then you've got the risk of customs charges, long delivery times, dodgy firmware, and non-existent warrant/support.

Side note:

it's available for delivery again.

Just ordered 2 and looking into getting them rooted. Can someone who has received theirs post the exact model number? Thanks.

Product Name is Lenovo Vibe B
Product Model is A2016a40
http://lenovomobilesupport.lenovo.com/gb/en/products/phones/vibe-series/vibe-b
http://lenovomobilesupport.lenovo.com/gb/en/products/phones/vibe-series/vibe-b/pa4r

Thanks. There's nothing much on XDA but I found this on Youtube, it looks like it involves flashing a hacked bootloader (although it seems to be for the dual SIM version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aLpy1qbn8s
I've added this info to a thread at XDA https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help/to-root-lenovo-vibe-b-t3544148

UPDATE - DO NOT TRY THIS on this phone - it results in a non-booting OS. Now to try to flash a stock bootloader & ROM with SP Flashtools!

Amazingly still in-stock at 8pm.

Ordered :smiley: - Having issues with an S8+ and using a 8" Huawei Media Pad T1 Pro as a phone right now, it's driving me nuts! Keep meaning to buy a backup phone.

thanks - have been wanting a spare phone after mine had a close run in with a basin of water at the weekend (survived, after a bag of rice!).

I know this phone is cheap. But I just read on a review that it doesn't have a proximity sensor, brightness sensor and there is no AF on the camera? beginning to think about paying a bit more for something else. Shame the LG K4 isn't £19.99 at the moment.

damn it - i checked and must have just missed again!! ffs.... :disappointed: OoS again online :disappointed:

still OoS.... :disappointed:

In stock again now but only for collection from your local store.
So you pay on line (not reserve) and have delivered to your local store rather than home.
This is what I did last week and I collected it on Satuday. Very happy with it as a back up/holiday phone. It runs a lot faster than I expected, good (but not amazing) screen. Camera is rubbish but everything is fine, can't complain at that price :smiley:

Well, one of the two I ordered arrived today....... with device protection enabled..... so it can't be accessed without a login from the previous owner's Google account.

Good one O2.... nice QA procedure YOU DON'T HAVE.

Fortunately there's an exploit to bypass this security 'feature'... but really? as a paying customer, should I be having to do this?
Even the most amateur of ebay sellers will usually ensure that a 2nd hand device they sell will actually be usable by the purchaser.

Though having worked in the mobile phone sector a few years ago, I don't know why I didn't expect this sort of incompetence - if there's one industry where you fail upwards, it's the mobile industry.

Just got mine, absolutely incredible value for £20. Will do me for now till I get my new phone and perfect as a backup phone or if I go hiking I can just swap sims over.

Anyone tried logging into Amazon underground app store?
In the app, when I navigate to the sign in page, I get a 'toaster' message stating:

"Please check your internet connection(1)"

The app then backs out of the sign in page.

In running a completely clean install over wi-fi, with no SIM present.
Seems strange that Amazon underground would barf because there's no SIM... But maybe it tries to grab the IMEI as a means of associating user to device?

:edit:

Never mind, got the amazon app store (intended for tablets) working instead.

Can someone please check something on theirs, try and record a video using the default camera app, preferably somewhere quiet.

Play it back and see how it sounds, mine has an awful buzzing sound on it.

Yep, same.

Wonder if yours is as bad as mine if you try the same while its charging LOL, it makes one hell of a sound.
This happens on calls too, I have to unplug it to make a call.

I ordered one but seller on eBay unable to unlock it. He says some units cannot be unlocked

Message from eBay seller
""I am sorry we dn't know. supplier just refund us when there is no code on thier server.
we can refund or send me new imei""

It's sometimes worth trying a few sellers on ebay

Rest of the sellers charging ~£15

Tried the unlock from the ebay link posted above and I got the following:


Any ideas? Really needed to use it until my phone is repaired. Thanks all

You had any luck?

Can't seem to find anything on XDA

Not yet able to find another way

Sometimes it takes a while for the network operator to release the codes, so t may work later?

Here's a strange one, the second handset unlocked but not the first.

Mine both unlocked with this seller http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/331906802946?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Rooting update - still no success. I tried the modded bootloader and TWRP mentioned in my earlier post but this just softbricked the phone. I flashed the stock ROM for the dual-SIM version of the phone with SP Flash Tool and that brought it back from the dead. I then tried booting directly to TWRP via fastboot without actually installing it but no joy. Finally, I tried iRoot and SRSroot which also failed. SRS root claimed it had succeeded but all it did was install a lot of Chinese adware on the phone.

Anyone else?

Update - finally cracked it! Will post details in the morning.

Here's how I rooted my phone. This assumes some previous knowledge of using ADB and TWRP. I strongly recommend SIM-unlocking your phone BEFORE you do this - I used this ebay service which cost £1.99 and I received the codes 36 hours later.

Please note that although this worked on my phone, I accept no responsibility if you brick your phone doing this :wink:

1. Update your ROM to the latest version, open Settings -> About and tap on Build Number seven times to enable Developer options then check USB debugging & OEM unlocking of the bootloader.
2. Connect your phone to your PC, start ADB and type adb devices - this will bring up a prompt on your phone that you need to respond to. Type adb reboot-bootloader
3. Once in bootloader mode, type fastboot oem unlock. Hit the Volume Up key to confirm.
4. Disconnect the phone from the PC and pull the battery for at least 3 seconds.
5. Download the SuperSU flashable zip https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/supersu/download/zip/SuperSU-v2.79-201612051815.zip and copy it to a microSD card and insert it in the phone.
6. Download TWRP recovery to your PC http://www.mediafire.com/file/4hb66m26kfkw9qt/twrp.img and copy it to the same folder as your ADB (I use Minimal ADB & Fastboot https://androidmtk.com/download-minimal-adb-and-fastboot-tool ).
7. Start the phone in bootloader mode by holding the Power and Volume Up buttons together until you see white text on the screen. Use the Volume Up button to navigate to Fastboot then select it by pressing Volume Down. Connect the phone to your PC.
8. Type fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
9. Disconnect the phone from the PC and pull the battery for at least 3 seconds.
10. Start the phone in Recovery mode by holding the Power and Volume Up buttons together until you see white text on the screen. Use the Volume Up button to navigate to Recovery then select it by pressing Volume Down.
11. You should then see TWRP starting. Tick the box to agree then swipe the blue button to the right.
12. Tap on Wipe then Format Data. Do not miss out this step or TWRP won't be able to mount the /data partition.
13. Tap the Back button then Factory Reset and swipe the blue button to start.
14. Tap the back button then Install then Select Storage -> microsd card then your SuperSU file then swipe the blue button to the right to flash it.
15. Tap on Reboot System and your phone should boot to your newly rooted OS! Don't panic if the first boot takes 5 or 10 minutes. If it gets stuck, pull the battery & try again.
16. Make sure you disable System Updates as they will no longer work with the non-stock recovery. Hopefully it shouldn't be too long until there's an AOSP or LineageOS ROM for this phone :smiley:

This method works for the single SIM ROM on the O2 phone mentioned in this post and also for the dual-SIM variant.

So if you order click collect at a store that has stock (anyone find one that does?) you can then change store and get it delivered to another nearer?

Brand New is available for £29.99
https://www.o2.co.uk/shop/phones/lenovo/b/#contractType=payasyougo

I have tried few time to arrange the payment but the website keep refusing the payment even if using differen cards. Am I the only one with this issue?

I always have this problem even using different browsers. It has been like this for months. I needed to place the order by phone.

Had a wi-fi problem; phone was left idle for several days (still charged though).
Came back to it and wi-fi wouldn't connect without a phone restart.

Only happened once, just something to keep an eye out for.

Back In-Stock now. But be quick.