Landvo L200 / L200G

MarkR

The bargains alert thread has grown from "Hey! Look at this!" to usage and features. Thought it might be useful to have another thread about the handsets, seeing as so many seem to have bought it.

I went for the L200G model.

In case anyone is curious about what you get, I took a few pictures of the phone as I was unpacking.

http://imgur.com/a/8KEUa

You can use MTK Droid Tools to back up your room, remove the annoying boot sounds, and to install clockwordmod recovery. There is a good guide on XDA Developers you can follow to do this.

This video may also help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nvbU6Km8-M

Another user had also suggested installing gravitybox and the xposed framework. This allows you to add a lot more features to the phone. Hightly recommended.

I followed this guide.

Link

I've used the phone on Vodafone and Tesco Mobile, seems fast enough. Screen cover seems prone to scratching, but that's what they are for I suppose. Very good value phone, and well worth the money.

podge3

Thanks to Oat23 for pointing me in the right direction to change the puny 1Gb primary EBR.

Good vid here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDf6SpuOuz4#t=211

Not too complicated TBH. It took me about an hour but a lot of that time was trying to get the pre-loader driver installed & working. This eventually worked on my Win8.1 PC: http://www.mediafire.com/download/cypm22rgs2k83ji/MT6577+USB+VCOM+drivers.rar

All sorted now, I have 3Gb in my primary partition and over 3 in the other one. No modded EBR available to go over 3GB for some reason, I would have liked more but certainly better than the way it was.

Note: I got a "damaged SD card" error on first boot after the flash. Gave me a bit of a start but a reformat fixed it.

dosado

I'm considering buying the L200 (not G). Can anyone confirm that xposed works on it?

podge3

dosado wrote: »

I'm considering buying the L200 (not G). Can anyone confirm that xposed works on it?

I'm running Xposed on my L200.

rom

dosado wrote: »

I'm considering buying the L200 (not G). Can anyone confirm that xposed works on it?

Mine too.

johnybean

Got the L200 on Monday and have to say I am very please with it. Expanded the partitions using the video linked above (Very important to note that modified EDB has to be taken from Section E of the xda page, I downloaded and applied the wrong one and got stuck in a bootloop first time. Used the correct EDB and its flying it now)
Just wondering where you guys got the xposed framework and how straightforward is flashing it to the phone?

SucCes09

I have issues downloading the mtkdroid tools from the XDA forum, and other versions I've downloaded Norton has had an issue with and removed.
How did you download from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=49597819&postcount=922 ?

johnybean

I had the same issue so I used the link from the guy that did Podge's video above, the site is china-devises.com and you have to register with them before you can view the links but I registered and all went well after that

BenEadir

Are these the only cases available for the L200? http://www.aliexpress.com/item/In-Stock-LANDVO-L200-Case-New-2014-items-Free-Shipping-Factory-Price-Flip-Leather-Case-Exclusive/32213674943.html

I can't find L200 cases anywhere else.

Lanigamadan

Anyone got any information about the on-screen and hover gestures for the L200?

So far, for on-screen (that is, drawing a letter on the screen when the screen is dark), I have Z for torch, line down the middle of the screen for camera and m for music.

I can't get the any response to hover gestures. I am trying to wave my hand left or right over the screen while reviewing photos.

Ideas?

Thanks!

A2LUE42

podge3 wrote: »

Thanks to Oat23 for pointing me in the right direction to change the puny 1Gb primary EBR.

Good vid here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDf6SpuOuz4#t=211

Not too complicated TBH. It took me about an hour but a lot of that time was trying to get the pre-loader driver installed & working. This eventually worked on my Win8.1 PC: http://www.mediafire.com/download/cypm22rgs2k83ji/MT6577+USB+VCOM+drivers.rar

All sorted now, I have 3Gb in my primary partition and over 3 in the other one. No modded EBR available to go over 3GB for some reason, I would have liked more but certainly better than the way it was.

Note: I got a "damaged SD card" error on first boot after the flash. Gave me a bit of a start but a reformat fixed it.

phone not being recognised by pc with battery out, even with the driver. any ideas? win 8.1, used the drivers in your link above

bajer101

A2LUE42 wrote: »

phone not being recognised by pc with battery out, even with the driver. any ideas? win 8.1, used the drivers in your link above

You need to leave the battery in, but switched off.

dodzy

bajer101 wrote: »

You need to leave the battery in, but switched off.

If you are going to use micro SD, is there really any need to mod the EBR ? It's only for the daughter so couldn't really be arsed jumping through hoops for what could well be no benefit at all ?

bajer101

A2LUE42 wrote: »

phone not being recognised by pc with battery out, even with the driver. any ideas? win 8.1, used the drivers in your link above

bajer101 wrote: »

You need to leave the battery in, but switched off.

If you're on Windows 8, you may also need to allow unsigned drivers for the installation of the preloader USB driver.

http://thebroodle.com/android/install-mediatek-mt65xx-usb-vcom-drivers-windows-8-8-1/

A2LUE42

bajer101 wrote: »

If you're on Windows 8, you may also need to allow unsigned drivers for the installation of the preloader USB driver.

http://thebroodle.com/android/install-mediatek-mt65xx-usb-vcom-drivers-windows-8-8-1/

just needed to leave the battery in. worked then. youtube tutorial was saying to take it out. Thanks

A2LUE42

dodzy wrote: »

If you are going to use micro SD, is there really any need to mod the EBR ? It's only for the daughter so couldn't really be arsed jumping through hoops for what could well be no benefit at all ?

when she fills the first partition and cant load more apps because nothing else can be moved from first partition, you would be glad. Had that issue before with the Samsung Galaxy Xpress and a teenager.

dodzy

A2LUE42 wrote: »

when she fills the first partition and cant load more apps because nothing else can be moved from first partition, you would be glad. Had that issue before with the Samsung Galaxy Xpress and a teenager.

Surely you can just move the apps to the SD card via the Application Manager ?

bajer101

dodzy wrote: »

Surely you can just move the apps to the SD card via the Application Manager ?

You can do that, but it makes more sense to have a larger primary partition as that is where apps will install by default and the internal memory will be faster than SD. Makes more sense to leave the SD for media. I don't understand why they make the primary partition so small on so many of the Chinese devices.

dodzy

bajer101 wrote: »

You can do that, but it makes more sense to have a larger primary partition as that is where apps will install by default and the internal memory will be faster than SD. Makes more sense to leave the SD for media. I don't understand why they make the primary partition so small on so many of the Chinese devices.

Or we could default the apps to go to SD directly on installation, thus never having to worry about space congestion. Of course this would mean a potential speed lag due to the reduced response of accessing the media on SD, which you referred to above.

Mark Tapley

dodzy wrote: »

Or we could default the apps to go to SD directly on installation, thus never having to worry about space congestion. Of course this would mean a potential speed lag due to the reduced response of accessing the media on SD, which you referred to above.

I had quite a few apps that couldn't be moved so had to do the memory fix. Am I missing something?
I had the SD set as default.

bajer101

dodzy wrote: »

Or we could default the apps to go to SD directly on installation, thus never having to worry about space congestion. Of course this would mean a potential speed lag due to the reduced response of accessing the media on SD, which you referred to above.

Mark Tapley wrote: »

I had quite a few apps that couldn't be moved so had to do the memory fix. Am I missing something?
I had the SD set as default.

It's best practice to have apps load from the faster internal Rom rather than external SD. It's the same concept as installing an SSD in a PC and having the programs and system files run from there and use the slower SATA disk for less regularly used data. Re-partitioning is a good idea and is best done as soon as you get the phone as the new partition table will screw up the second partition and will require a format of that partition. I don't understand why the manufacturers persist with the small primary partitions. It's not as if the Chinese market prefer a smaller primary partition - all the tutorials on how to modify it are from the Chinese themselves. I suspect it may be driven by the Chinese cloning business model. This was how it was done a while ago and they just kept at it.

Mark Tapley

bajer101 wrote: »

It's best practice to have apps load from the faster internal Rom rather than external SD. It's the same concept as installing an SSD in a PC and having the programs and system files run from there and use the slower SATA disk for less regularly used data. Re-partitioning is a good idea and is best done as soon as you get the phone as the new partition table will screw up the second partition and will require a format of that partition. I don't understand why the manufacturers persist with the small primary partitions. It's not as if the Chinese market prefer a smaller primary partition - all the tutorials on how to modify it are from the Chinese themselves. I suspect it may be driven by the Chinese cloning business model. This was how it was done a while ago and they just kept at it.

Am I right in thinking some apps have to be on the internal memory?

bajer101

Mark Tapley wrote: »

Am I right in thinking some apps have to be on the internal memory?

Yes.

Lanigamadan

Lanigamadan wrote: »

Anyone got any information about the on-screen and hover gestures for the L200?

So far, for on-screen (that is, drawing a letter on the screen when the screen is dark), I have Z for torch, line down the middle of the screen for camera and m for music.

Also, C for call and V for video, W for Wake?

Mark Tapley

Lanigamadan wrote: »

Also, C for call and V for video, W for Wake?

Double tap to light screen.
Line up to unlock.
C to call.
M for music.
Line down camera.
e for browser.
s for messaging
v for video

Lanigamadan

Mark Tapley wrote: »

Double tap to light screen. Line up to unlock.
C to call. M for music. Line down camera. e for browser. s for messaging v for video

Thanks Mark. Did you find this through experimentation or did you find documentation anywhere?

Any info on hover gestures?

Mark Tapley

Lanigamadan wrote: »

Thanks Mark. Did you find this through experimentation or did you find documentation anywhere?

Any info on hover gestures?

If you go to settings /accessibility/Smartwake the touch settings are there. Can't find anything on gesture except proximity calibration in Display.

Mark Tapley

Lanigamadan wrote: »

Thanks Mark. Did you find this through experimentation or did you find documentation anywhere?

Any info on hover gestures?

This might be worth a go -http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2351974

SucCes09

johnybean wrote: »

I had the same issue so I used the link from the guy that did Podge's video above, the site is china-devises.com and you have to register with them before you can view the links but I registered and all went well after that

I've tried getting mtkdroidtools from a number of different sites, but still struggling. Norton reporting a virus Suspious9.cloud or something.

Can any provide a direct link to where they downloaded it from?

Mark Tapley

SucCes09 wrote: »

I've tried getting mtkdroidtools from a number of different sites, but still struggling. Norton reporting a virus Suspious9.cloud or something.

Can any provide a direct link to where they downloaded it from?

XDA developers say it is often reported as malware because it is a rooting tool.

SucCes09

Mark Tapley wrote: »

XDA developers say it is often reported as malware because it is a rooting tool.

thanks Mark.

If somebody was to provide me with a link that they had used, I'd be happy to take this on. I'm just concerned with downloading something off 4shared or other sites getting flagged by Norton.

Mark Tapley

SucCes09 wrote: »

thanks Mark.

If somebody was to provide me with a link that they had used, I'd be happy to take this on. I'm just concerned with downloading something off 4shared or other sites getting flagged by Norton.

This is the one I used - http://www.mediafire.com/download/6z9acf5um65cuj2/MtkDroidTools+v2.5.3.zip
I did get a warning but used it anyway . I might uninstall it later and run some scans just in case.
I googled mediafire safe? and there was a result from Norton saying it is OK.

johnybean

SucCes09 wrote: »

thanks Mark.

If somebody was to provide me with a link that they had used, I'd be happy to take this on. I'm just concerned with downloading something off 4shared or other sites getting flagged by Norton.

I went to here to get the relevant drivers.
I went to here to get MTK tools.
Here for SP flash tools
Here for modified ebr, make sure you get your ebr from SECTION E.
I had to log into 4shared with my facebook in order to download and I had to register with china-devices in order to see the links to the different software. After that I just followed this and I got it done in about an hour altogether. Main delay was because I downloaded wrong EBR initially.

SucCes09

Not sure if this is the common experience, but I am running under Vista.
When I connect the phone (powered off), it does charge, but I cannot see the device in the control panel.
When I power it on, it insists that it is a HTC device - any of the drivers that have been pointed to are "not as recent" as the one already installed.
Needless to say, mtkdroidtools does not recognise the phone.
Removing the HTC driver and starting with a fresh install of the results in the same situation above.
Any advice on where to go with this?

BenEadir

johnybean wrote: »

I went to here to get the relevant drivers.
I went to here to get MTK tools.
Here for SP flash tools
Here for modified ebr, make sure you get your ebr from SECTION E.
I had to log into 4shared with my facebook in order to download and I had to register with china-devices in order to see the links to the different software. After that I just followed this and I got it done in about an hour altogether. Main delay was because I downloaded wrong EBR initially.

Hi Johny,

I'm well used to flashing ROM's and tweaking Android devices. I'm getting this phone for my 12 year old daughter for Xmas who will mostly use it for social media, listening to music and watching movies (from a 32GB micro SD card I'll load up )and Netflix.

I don't see her needing a huge amount of space for Apps but if you think it's advisable to increase the space allocated on the internal SD card I'd rather do it when it arrives before she sets it up with her apps etc. Do you think it's advisable to do it given the intended use?

Also, is there anything else I should do before handing it over? Are there custom ROM's worth flashing or bloatware worth removing etc?

Cheers.

reaper180

BenEadir wrote: »

Hi Johny,

I'm well used to flashing ROM's and tweaking Android devices. I'm getting this phone for my 12 year old daughter for Xmas who will mostly use it for social media, listening to music and watching movies (from a 32GB micro SD card I'll load up )and Netflix.

I don't see her needing a huge amount of space for Apps but if you think it's advisable to increase the space allocated on the internal SD card I'd rather do it when it arrives before she sets it up with her apps etc. Do you think it's advisable to do it given the intended use?

Also, is there anything else I should do before handing it over? Are there custom ROM's worth flashing or bloatware worth removing etc?

Cheers.

i,m the opposite ,never done any tweaking with phones,i received mine today ,afraid to tackle the partitioning,is there anything that needs urgent sorting,or can you just use straight from box,thanks

bajer101

reaper180 wrote: »

i,m the opposite ,never done any tweaking with phones,i received mine today ,afraid to tackle the partitioning,is there anything that needs urgent sorting,or can you just use straight from box,thanks

If you're wary of re-partitioning, then put an SD card into it and when you start installing apps onto the phone, move the apps that you use less frequently to the SD card. Other than that, you should be good to go (as long as you can live with the annoying startup music).

dodzy

Just fired up daughters phone:

Available space showing as 5.28GB, not going to alter EBR
WiFi coverage - Excellent
Incoming call earpiece volume - not great.
Camera - will be fine for her but its poor. Panning is rubbish.
Start-up music - ear-bleed
Ringtone volume full - very good
Vibrate - poor mechanism, wouldn't say it'll have a long life
Responsiveness - very good
Screen display - good, crisp & clear
Screen protector (factory fitted) - poor, but the screen will be less resistant than butter I fear..... so its staying put. Theres a spare in the box.
Included silicon cover - better than nothing, but not much

No 3pin plug adaptor included.

deckie27

Hi is there an easy to remove the startup tone?

Mark Tapley

SucCes09 wrote: »

Not sure if this is the common experience, but I am running under Vista.
When I connect the phone (powered off), it does charge, but I cannot see the device in the control panel.
When I power it on, it insists that it is a HTC device - any of the drivers that have been pointed to are "not as recent" as the one already installed.
Needless to say, mtkdroidtools does not recognise the phone.
Removing the HTC driver and starting with a fresh install of the results in the same situation above.
Any advice on where to go with this?

I remember having similar problems with vista but can't remember the solution. If you Google - stop vista installing drivers automatically - hopefully you will find the solution.
Edit - maybe this - http://www.ehow.com/how_8478711_stop-automatically-installing-device-driver.html

dodzy

deckie27 wrote: »

Hi is there an easy to remove the startup tone?

^^^^^^ post #1

Wombatman

Anybody using this phone from day to day. Would like to know peoples experience on how it performs on phone calls, texts and 3G.

rob223

Hi guys has anybody being able to change the notification light green for charging red for missed call etc ? ?

MarkR

Wombatman wrote: »

Anybody using this phone from day to day. Would like to know peoples experience on how it performs on phone calls, texts and 3G.

Up until I broke it, phone calls, texts, and 3g were all fine. I used it with Tesco mobile and Vodafone. A point to note is I did not pick up 4G on vodafone (I had the 4G L200G model), but I could see the Meteor and 3 4G networks.

rob223 wrote: »

Hi guys has anybody being able to change the notification light green for charging red for missed call etc ? ?

I think it's a single led.

bajer101

Scrolling speed is a little hard to control. Other than that - no problems at all.

Lanigamadan

MarkR wrote: »

Up until I broke it

Sorry to hear you broke it. Was it something physical or did you brick it?

Your posts were helpful. Will you get another?

dodzy

MarkR wrote: »

Up until I broke it.....

Jesus mark, that was quick:eek:

MarkR

Lanigamadan wrote: »

Sorry to hear you broke it. Was it something physical or did you brick it?

Your posts were helpful. Will you get another?

Brick. I did something wrong during the EFR change. I've a 3G version on the way

dodzy wrote: »

Jesus mark, that was quick:eek:

Yep, no one to blame but myself!

BenEadir

Can anyone point me in the direction of a bumper case and spare battery for the L200? I've searched Amazon, eBay and AliExpress without success. Are there no accessories for this phone at all other than the minging looking wallet cases on AliExpress?

Mark Tapley

BenEadir wrote: »

Can anyone point me in the direction of a bumper case and spare battery for the L200? I've searched Amazon, eBay and AliExpress without success. Are there no accessories for this phone at all other than the minging looking wallet cases on AliExpress?

I got one of those " minging looking " wallet cases and am pleased with it.

BenEadir

Mark Tapley wrote: »

I got one of those " minging looking " wallet cases and am pleased with it.

Don't pay any attention to me, I have an irrational hatred for wallet type covers for phones. I could never imagine myself having to open a fastner and flipping over the cover every time I want to use the phone. It would do my head in.

I just want a simple plain Jane black bumber case to give the phone a bit of protection.