- Title: P780 4.4.2 ROW for China Baseband P780
- Listed: August, 2014
- Last modified: 12/07/2014 6:09 pm
- Version: Android 4.4.2 KitKat
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Lenovo P780 ROM, Android 4.4.2, patched to work with Chinese version of the phone
This is a signifiant upgrade to Lenovo P780 ROW, The OS is upgraded to version 4.4.2 KitKat. It is a full upgrade package and will erase all user data. After update, the internal storage will no longer have the virtual SD card, the entire internal storage is partitioned as 'usrdata', the android data partition.
This ROM was initially released for the international version of the P780, I made 2 changes to it, to make it work with the chinese version (no 900 MHz), 4GB (non-ROW), which is now bundled with the VIBEUI ROM. Here are the changes I made: 1) I removed the device check from the installer, now the zip could (but I don't advise to) be installed on any device, and 2) the baseband used on this device is the one bundled with the VIBE UI ROM, the one that works with the non-ROW version of the phone. This ROM has all the apps which the international version has: Google play, more languages, etc.
Applying the zip update will also remove custom recovery and replace it with factory version. The first restart will take longer as usual, so be patient on the first boot. 'boot' and 'recovery' images are overwritten by the update, if you use root and/or custom recovery, you will have to reinstall them custom recovery with SPFlash Tool.
Before upgrading, back up your data (SMS, Call logs, Apps) with Lenovo Backup & Restore, you will be able to restore contacts/sms and logs later with the settings / backup and restore feature, and reinstall APKs from the SD card backup folder manually. APKs can be easily located with the file browser.
The 2nd package provided is in SP Flas tools format, it can be installed fast and easy, no matter what is your phone currently running. The package includes the factory ROM and apps, plus Superuser and Busybox. A custom recovery is also included.
What's new
- OS is upgraded to version 4.4.2 KitKat
- A new 'Lenovo Security' app is provided, this includes antivirus, privacy guard, data usage (and firewall), SMS/call anti-SPAM, speed-up, private space and anti-theft features
- new versions for most system apps (dialer, sms, calendar, email, power manager, etc), google play store, flashlight widget and app
- more privacy
- a memory cleanup button has been added below the task list
- SMS and home screen app can now be switched from the settins app
- 'Smart Scene' feature allows automated audio profile switch, either at a specified time or at a specified wireless network presence
- More theme-able (lock screen, system UI, boot animation, notification UI, contact manager and in-call app can now have different themes (even though a very low number of themes is provided).
- reboot option added to shutdown menu
- all audio volumes are available/adjustable when pressing volume-up/volume-down
- flip-to-mute incoming call alert, auto-redial option
- LED alert now flashes, instead of staying continuously lit (but still doesn't provide notification from other apps, such as facebook)
- the display colours can be tuned for saturation and hue (white balance)
- a 'wireless display' function has been added
- 'Smart Display' feature, preventing the screen to enter standby if the user is looking at the screen.
- Available languages: Bahasa (Indonesia & Melayou), English, Spanish, French, Vietnam, Russian, Chinese, Ukrainian, etc.
- the internal virtual SD card has been removed, now all the available internal storage is provided as a single partition
Notes
- The baseband contained within this ROM is for China version of Lenovo P780, you may lose the 900 MHz for 3G data band if you will install it on the international version of the phone!
- You have to backup IMEIs with MobileUncleTools before flashing. It's a known fact that sometimes IMEIs are lost when flashing ROM, it already happened with many ROMs and many MTK65xx devices.
- automatic updates will fail, due to changes Lenovo made in the update mechanism. For example, the update to ROW_S221 checks for the checksum of the modem.img file, thus making the update to fail.
- after installing Chainfire SuperSU onto this rom, you will gain root, but the current version of chainfire will complain about ‘not being up to date’, this will likely be fixed in a future version of SuperSU
- newer P780s use a different preloader image. I have uploaded both preloader.img on the spflashable ROW-s222 package, you will have to manually select the 2nd preloader.img file manually if your device is manufactured after march 2014.
How to install the ROM
Common prerequisites:
- Use lenovo backup and restore, do a backup of your data to SD Card (apps, contacts, messages, call logs), you will be able to restore them later with settings/backup and restore feature.
- connect the phone to PC, enable USB debugging, install Lenovo drivers if you didn't already, do a backup of your IMEIs with MTK Root & Tools app
1 – P780-S220, zip update – This package can be installed if your device is already running a factory ROM for P780. Versions P780-ROW S119-S124 work fine. You need to have installed a custom recovery able to install zip from SD Card. Download the zip, copy it to the phone card, Power off the phone, start the phone by pressing 'power + vol-up + vol-down' to enter recovery interface, apply zip update.
Recovery working with this ROM: Carliv Recovery v. 2.2 (even though it isn't perfect, it's able to apply zip/sideload updates), TWRP 2.5.0
2 – The SPFlash format package – This package can installed with spflash tools, regardless of what is your phone running. Grab SPFlash tools (version 3.12 or any higher 3.x version recommended) and the Mediatek USB VCom drivers, install the driver, unpack SPFlash tools and the ROM.
Power off the phone with 'Fast bootup' option disabled, connect the usb cable to the phone (only this cable end), start Flash_tool downloaded previously, make sure 'DA DL All checksum' option is enabled within app, click on 'scatter…' button, browse to the 'MT6589_Android_scatter_emmc.txt' extracted with the ROM, click on 'Firmware upgrade' button. Take a look to all memory partitions on SP Flash tool window, make sure all partitions are ticked and HAVE a file associated to them. SPFlash tools version 5 may not automatically check all segments!
Connect the usb cable to the PC end, watch the Flash_Tool how it's transferring firmware, until it displays a window with a green circle.
Unplug the cable, start the phone, wait for the initial setup (it will take longer than the usual start-up), enjoy!
You will notice requests for root from Lenovo Power and Security apps. It's absolutely safe to hit 'Deny', those apps work very well without root access.
Update 2014-12-07: P780_ROW_S226_140919_TO_P780_ROW_S227_141121_WCF9.zip
This is an incremental update from version S226, it can't be installed without havig P780_ROW_S226 installed on device. Installing the factory update alone will not affect the existing modem firmware, but it will disable root. This incremental update can be installed as a zip update.
To install it, download the zip to SD card (and ClockworkMod Superuser if you want root, you can take it from here), reboot to TWRP recovery (with Mobile Uncle Tools or 'adb reboot recovery' command), install BOTH zip files, then reboot. If you do not need root, then you can ignore references to superuser.
Common post-update actions:
- use settings/backup and restore to bring back contacts/messages/call logs
- ignore update notifications, they will allow you to download future updates, but they will likely give errors when attempting to install the update.
- hit the 5 stars button under 'Author rating' on this page and take into consideration a donation!
※Please make a backup of your device before installing or updating ROM
I just added the S222 package.
Super CRACK !!!
The rom supports Italian language?
On most apps, except 'Settings' tool, if you install MoreLocal2 app and switch language to italian.
P780_ROW_S222_Rooted_SPFlash_TWRP_CNFW is P780_ROW_s221??????????
No, it's an updated package. I recommend you use this one.
i have p780 s221 rooted, i intall P780_ROW_S222_Rooted_SPFlash_TWRP_CNFW with SP Flash Tool 3.1304 my phone is now s221 und want update to s222
Strange… Can you take a look into /system/build.prop file to see (at the beginning of file) and see if you can see this line:
ro.build.version.incremental=P780_ROW_S222_140817i tray 3 times, android say 221 and need update.
i install original s220 without root, update 221-222 than install recovery and root
Good work. the build.prop file reports
:ro.build.version.incremental=P780_ROW_S221_140729Enterco, what are the differences of .zip package called "Prerooted" and another as "Rooted_SPFlash_TWRP_CNFW"?
Located in different threads and the upload is dated today.
if it's uploaded by me, then the following name fragments mean:
- rooted = prerooted = "it has root already, doesn't need to be rooted by the user'
- TWRP – it has TWRP recovery instead of stock recovery, can be used to do lots of things with teh device, including backup/restore
- SPFlash – it's a zip containing files to be used with SPFlash tool. Otherwise, it's very likely a zip update, having some pre-requisites. SPFlash version an be installed atop of any existing rom on the device, unlike zip version, which may have some specific requirements.
- CNFW – the modem firmware is for devices sold in china, without the 900 MHz band. Some P780 (other models too) phones don't work properly (SIM 2 is unusable) with the international firmware. Flashing this firmware on a device with international hardware may have the effect of losing 900 MHz band for 3G data.
Thanks buddy.
Then if i am living in Spain but i have an chinese (4g) phone, without 900 MHz band, maybe install the other version is better? or the CNFW version. I not use the second sim slot. The 900 MHz band not exist physically on my phone, i think
If you don’t use SIM2, then you can use any p780 ROW ROM. I can’t tell if 900 MHz band is usable with the Chinese (non-row) hardware, but if you have any issues, you can disable it with mobile uncle tools.
Enterco, Can you tell me why in notifications area, the ROM shows a label with "User 0" ???, in particularly notifications app per app, appear a label with "U 0".
If possible to remove this???
I think the guilty be SU client??
I noticed user 0 too, I don’t know why it’s there. I also have root, and I don’t want to remove it
to test if that text will disappear 
Thanks for the ROM i love it.
The S222 package also contains S221. I tried to flash it and the phone stayed at S221. Checking the system.img it is identical to the system.img in S221. Maybe you zipped the wrong files.
ptakacs, I re-uploaded the file. re-download it and use spflash to update your device. If it's running S220 or S221, you only have to flash 'BOOT' and 'ANDROID' partitions, using the 'download' option of SPFlash tools instead of a full firmware upgrade.