Chinese Android Phones 2 - Read First Post!

Elephone P6000

Seems the battery is working as it should now, using the old charger off my Huawei and a 3M cable from bargain alert forum(so they do work ok)

Lasted 22 hours and a bit (three yesterday to now)
Got to 1%, turned on the torch and in a minute went dead
Says just over two hours till it’s charged

wolfyboy555 wrote: »

My girlfriend had picked up a cheap Lenovo before but she lost it yesterday at slane so looking for a replacement. Her budget is 100ish. Would that P6000 be a good option. I don't know much about android as I have an iPhone myself. I saw this link a few pages ago:

http://www.to2c.com/elephone-p6000-2gb-ram-16gb-rom.html

Is that the cheapest place to get it?

Also with the last phone she had trouble with the internal storage being portend so she had no room on it for many apps so I was hoping to get one that doesn't need much fidgeting about with to be fully functional. Thanks.

Good phone with battery problems on some of them.

jeffk wrote: »

Can't fault the phone at all, well apart from the battery issues.

But can easily be fixed and have to keep saying five hours charging gets me twenty two hours.

5 hours charge is still bad, you should try a new charger.

5 hours charging for 22 hours? That's awful by any standards.

What's your screen on time? You'd want to have it on 6-7 hours for it to drain that fast.

No matter what cable/plug combination (including the original ones)

I get the same speed

Charging Speed(Triangle1%)
3minutes 48mnutes

Even on this forum some say the same

http://bbs.elephone.hk/thread-4039-1-1.html

I don’t get screen time? I stopped charging at 1500 and the next day at 1720 ish it went dead.

Second email to Etotalk,

Please wipe the battery status as below:
1. Maske sure the phone is rooted.
2. Install root explorer.apk into the phone.
http://www.4shared.com/android/OpQMZ4S4/RootExplorer.html
3. Power off the phone, fully charged.
4. Run Root explorer on your phone, delete the file "/data/system/batterystats.bin"
5. Use the phone normally until power off automatically (Please don't charge the phone in this process)
6. Don't power on, charge the phone fully.
7. Power on. Then the battery should be correctly.

RossieMan wrote: »

That's what battery calibration apps do.
If it works it's a very simply problem.

IF, Ive tried that myself and various apps that do the same.

I get the feeling they expect you to jump through hoops before considering there might actually be a fault with phone and/or battery

Muahahaha wrote: »

Got a Xiaomi Redmi Note yesterday via Parcel Motel, cost £109 delivered which seems a bargain for the piece of kit. But I'm not sure if I should be worried- I've been trying to install Google Play but in the browser I keep getting Security warnings about websites certificates, they keep flashing up, even on sites that I trust like BBC, Google, etc. I press OK and they flash up again many times before the browser crashes. Any way to turn these off?

What rom version do you have installed? Easiest thing to do would be to update to the xiaomi.eu rom which has all Chinese removed and play store pre-installed.

http://htcfanboys.com/download/acid/?action=list&folder=76903

Where did you buy it from? Loads of fakes going around of the Redmi Note so best to make sure its genuine first.

Kilboor wrote: »

The Lenovo would be the better option considering the price, battery and screen resolution.

That said the Mlais does have 1gb more ram but it is a relatively unknown phone and 2gbs of ram is more than enough atm.

I would buy the Lenovo.

I can't post links yet but check out Mrwhosetheboss on youtube, he has done a review of the Lenovo where he has nothing but praise for it

The only thing I would add to this is to make sure to get a tempered glass screen protector for the Lenovo, as it doesn't appear to have gorilla glass. Even at that, I'd get it ahead of the Mlais based on screen res, battery, manufacturer and price.

Maybe also look at the Jiayu S3 and the Meizu M1 Note, they have the same chip set and should be fairly close price wise. Both have gorilla glass and a 1080p screen.

Steven Numerous Flare wrote: »

People are continually complaining about the charge from DHL. An Post charge 6euro.
Processing parcels and dealing with customs takes a persons time and company resources.
No company that wants to stay in business can afford to do work for free.

You pay a delivery charge already

satguy wrote: »

My Post from a few days ago



I did buy it a few hours later, It was €74 + €9.78 for that DHL ( DHell ), and I got €3 off a coupon ,, so round that up to €80..

I just got a call from DHL to say my phone will be here today, and that there is a charge of €32 owed.

That is 23% customs and the outrageous fee the DHell add on.. Next time I buy a phone, I would just get standard postage, and leave out DHL.

DHL admin fee is 10e so looks like you were overcharged. Should have been 29 something.

Anyone gotten their hands on the Lenovo K3 Note yet?

spix wrote: »

What rom version do you have installed? Easiest thing to do would be to update to the xiaomi.eu rom which has all Chinese removed and play store pre-installed.

http://htcfanboys.com/download/acid/?action=list&folder=76903

Where did you buy it from? Loads of fakes going around of the Redmi Note so best to make sure its genuine first.

thanks for the link. How would I check its not fake before I flash it with a new ROM?

Muahahaha wrote: »

thanks for the link. How would I check its not fake before I flash it with a new ROM?

Easiest way is to show where you bought it, if its a known seller it will be genuine. Other than that, install cpu-z to confirm specs are as they should be. If there was a cpu-z already preinstalled make sure to remove it. Check that Mi Recovery is installed by turning off phone and then turning on by holding down vol+ and power button. If it comes up with different recovery it's likely fake.

Is it the 4g version with snapdragon 410 or the 3g with mtk6592?

satguy wrote: »

I paid €9.74 to DHL already, they seem to have a very high detection rate as regards the customs, and if they are adding on €12 per package, it seems the more they report to customs, the more they earn.

I have used just the normal post in the past, most get through just fine, once I had a phone nabbed by customs, I was able to pay the dues online, and An Post only added a charge €6 ,,

Can you pay AnPost online? As far as I am aware you can only pay (in cash) to the postman when he delivers the package.

I would imagine that most parcels that come via DHL would be above the 22euro ?? threshold also, as it would hardly be worthwhile paying for DHL delivery on anything of a lower value. So I would expect that almost every parcel they handle would be likely to be subject to a charge, which may not be the case with AnPost as a lot of the items would be low-value with free carriage from the sellers.

Finally got my Jiayu S3 from geekbuying, took them an age to ship it but once they did it got here very quick. Have to say though it was packaged really badly. I ordered an extra battery & charger, tempered glass screen and a silicon cover. The cover wasn't in any packaging and was just stuck to the phones box with tiny bit of bubble wrap and cellotape, as a result the cover is damaged and doesnt sit on the phone properly, the whole package was just in a DHL bag and not boxed at all! Will need to order a new cover as the rear cover of the phone is very smooth and phone is really slippy and easy to drop!!

Phone itself so far after playing with it for the last hour seems very good, came with Google Play store pre installed.

First time having a chinese phone and have never rooted a phone or anything like that before. Is it worth doing and is it easy enough to do? Is there a way to check for malware/bloathware and remove it if there is?

A friend mentioned not using a chinese phone for doing online banking, is that something I should be concerned with?

Sorry for all the questions!!

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Xiaomi have an app for testing. I think. Might be antutu either, google for the apk

Yeah I downloaded the app and unfortunately you're right- its a fake. I verified it twice to be certain. I bought it from a Chinese ebay seller with almost 10,000 positive feedbacks with 99% satisfaction so I've emailed him now with the test results to see what they say. In any case I'd suspected it might be fake earlier today, when I got it I charged to full and barely touched it in the last 48 hours yet when checked today the battery was at 12%. Then when charging again it took almost 5 hours to get to 96% which again seemed very slow.

I wanna return the phone, anyone know what my rights are in terms of posting it back? Are they obliged to pay, especially given the phone was fake and I didn't get what was ordered? Paid via Paypal if that makes a difference.

Digital Solitude wrote: »

I've a Xiaomi Mi3 for example, can be used perfectly with no custom ROMs, massive community behind it, 5" 1080p screen and a powerful snapdragon processor. Antutu score is about 35000. €250 for a 64gb new

I've a TCL M2U for example, can be used perfectly with no custom Roms, NO COMMUNITY behind it, 5.5 in screen, dual sim, 4G, and a powerful MTK processor and a microSD slot. Antutu score is about 39000. :P