Lenovo a8+ real or counterfeit ?

hello, i bought this phone. But i have a doubt. Is that a real lenovo phone or a counterfeit ? i'm affraid of buying fake lenovo... the seller it's "Best mobile phone stores"(Lucy huang), thanks for response.
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Original-Android-4-4-Lenovo-A8-MTK6592-Phone-Octa-Core-2-0Ghz-3G-RAM-...

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My lenovo came with a counterfeit version of windows

Seriously, what the heck is this? Did lenovo really give me a counterfeit version of windows? Just today i got a notification saying that I may have a version of windows that isn't genuine, so microsoft ran some tests and sure enough: it isn't genuine. I leave for college in a week and a half and I've got microsoft office, all my itunes songs imported (which took about a days worth of downloading, all my games installed and running, and everything I need to be ready for college and now his bomb drops on me?
Why did Lenovo give me a computer with a counterfeit copy of windows 7 64-bit? Is there any way to fix this without A) Buying a new version and B) deleting all my files that I need?
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Maybe your Windows isn't activated. Call Microsoft and activate it using the phone system.
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Lenovo X240 real configuration?

Hi all
I'm interested in buying a Thinkpad X240.
I've found a good price for one which has Part Number 20AMS2QD0Q, but I can't find it on official Product Specification Reference (PSREF) (link here: http://www.lenovo.com/psref/pdf/tabook.pdf)
This 20AMS2QD0Q is not on that list.
So I was wondering if it has IPS screen, M.2 slot, smart card reader (or it is possible to put it on later) and WWAN for 3G websurfing (or it is possible to put it on later).
I hope you'll reply and help me to figure out clearly its configuration as soon as possible. Thank in advance, kind regards.

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For reference, I used the MTM you provided in the Quick Path search box on the middle, right side of:
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/
The info may not answer all of your questions, but hopefully it's a start.
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Counterfeit lenovo tablets

How does one report counterfeit products (i.e. tablets) to Lenovo? All phone numbers either ring busy, not in service, or trigger an unrelated automated system.

should be ported by
1-downloading source code based on cm10.1 (4.2.2) if your device support it.
2-create a manifest file that have all repos for your levono tablet.
3-change kernel setting to match your device.
4-build the source to got a flashable zip.

Real or fake lenovo phone

hello everybody can anyone tell me if this product is really original?
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Original-Lenovo-A806-A8-Octa-Core-4G-Mobile-Phone-MTK6592-Android-4-4-2G-RAM-16G/2003607954.html
and if somebody has buy this products from goldway tell me if is good Thanks

Hi OneTrackMind
Unfortunately it's fake.
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Possible counterfeit T60 battery

I purchased a new battery for my T60 which looks like an original from the outside.
But the Lenovo powermanager shows as serial number "1" and as barcode number "XXXXXXXXXXX". That seems odd to me. The merchant insists that the battery is original and that he is a lenovo business partner.
Can this strange serial and barcode number happen with an original battery or is this the prove that it is a counterfeit ?
Thanks
Felix

hausman wrote:
felixp wrote:
I purchased a new battery for my T60 which looks like an original from the outside.
But the Lenovo powermanager shows as serial number "1" and as barcode number "XXXXXXXXXXX". That seems odd to me. The merchant insists that the battery is original and that he is a lenovo business partner.
Can this strange serial and barcode number happen with an original battery or is this the prove that it is a counterfeit ?
Thanks
Felix
The OP writes that he purchased what looks like a genuine battery from a vendor who claims it's OEM and that he's a business partner. Yet Power Manager says otherwise.
1. Is there some other way to determine conclusively that the battery really is genuine, e.g. some special software?
2. How does a customer verify that a seller really is an authorized Lenovo Business Partner? Do we contact Lenovo in our country? Is there an online list somewhere that's available to the public?
3. If the battery turns out to be a fake and/or the seller isn't a real BP, what recourse does the customer have?
I'm wondering if the OP might have an outdated version of power manager that doesn't recognise the firmware of a newly manufactured battery so displays this false data. I know fake batteries are widely available, especially for this model, but there is no way to tell from the info we have here. Seeing a screenshot from the advanced battery tab in the current version of power manager might be helpful, as would a photo of the battery.
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Lenovo U310: Clean Windows 7 Installation Guide (including Rapid Start and Caching)

Hi there,
this is the first time that I am writing such a guide/tutorial/whatever you may call it – there are probably better ones, but though not being a total computer noob, it took me almost one week to get this pretty (now again) little beast running again. So hopefully this helps some others to avoid such stupid downtimes.
A brief overview on what has happened to my original win 7 Home Premium:
As some may know, this laptop is very well usable as a “Hackintosh” called Macbook clone. So that’s what I did. It turned out to be nice, but I wanted to go back to Windows after a while, using a clean W7 Pro installation to start over. Actually an easy task, format all drives, install Windows, be happy. Just as I had been doing this for years. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a real challenge. First, I couldn’t “see” my drives during installation (and thus not install), then I got random errors during installation aborting it at different points and finally rapid start and caching didn’t work. Every time I tried to activate them (after Win installation), it crashed my PC. I even found an (official Lenovo!) guide stating to install W7 on the SSD, which worked, but sucks due to space limitations. Oh and another very nice thing: The SSD showed up during WIN installation (but not the classical hard drive) stating it was about 60 GB. So as you can see, I have had a lot of different tries and errors. Why I didn’t use Lenovo Easy Recover? As said before, I erased all partitions…
Before we start: If you have a good Windows running on the Laptop, do yourself a favor and disconnect the RAID 0 disks using the Intel Rapid Storage Application before(!!!) proceeding. It will make things much easier. And don’t forget to get all you data on an external drive or something.
Ok, now let’s start.
1.)    Prepare a USB Stick with the following driver
         http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=21730 (choose f6flpy-x64.zip If you’re running a
         64-bit system (standard nowadays), take f6flpy-x86.zip if it is a 32-bit Windows, just download and copy them
         into the stick’s root directory) and plug this stick in one of the left side USB ports.
2.)    You’ll need Win 7 on either a DVD (plus external drive, for sure) or (bootable) USB stick
3.)    Connect your drive/stick (with W7) to the right side USB port.
4.)    Switch the computer on, immediately hit FN and F2. That will open the BIOS.
5.)    In the BIOS, navigate to the very right section (“save and exit”) and navigate the cursor to “load setup defaults”.
         Hit enter to approve.
6.)    After that, go to the “boot” tab and disable UEFI-boot.
7.)    Next, go one more tab to the left and set the controller setting to RAID (NOT AHCI or Compatible!!!).
8.)    Navigate the cursor down to “Intel Rapid Start” and hit enter. A submenu will pop up-
9.)    Disable the first entry in that window, that will make the rest be disabled as well.
10.) Navigate to the very right tab, this time hit save and exit.
11.) The PC restarts.
12.) Immediately hit FN and F12 to open the boot selection menu. Select to boot from your W7 DVD drive or USB
        stick.
13.) Click yourself through the whole process of installing Windows 7 until the page comes up where you will have
        to select where to install it.
14.) Click on “load drivers” and after a few seconds your downloaded driver should be there. Click ok to use them.
        Please do this step even if you can see your drives (SSD Disk 0, 32 GB and HDD Disk 1, 465(<-?) GB) as you
        would expect them – otherwise you’re very likely to get an error during the install process.
15.) Now erase all partitions on both drives and select the HDD as the drive to install W7 to – NOT THE SSD!!!!!
        Seriously, don’t choose the SSD.
16.) Windows will probably say that some extra partitions are necessary and so on, click ok and install Windows.
17.) After the installation has finished and you see your Desktop, I suggest you to proceed with the next steps in the
        following order to see as early as possible if you are on the right way.
18.) Install the Chipset driver, restart.
19.) Install the Intel Rapid Storage “driver” and check the box where it asks to additionally install the control center.
        Reboot.
20.) Go into BIOS (FN and F2) and enable Intel Rapid Start (the one you disabled in Step 8 and 9)
21.) Boot into Windows.
22.) Click on the Windows button, type cmd and right klick on the cmd.exe, select to run it as Admin.
23.) Now you’ll create a hibernation partition on the SSD. (which by now should be completely empty as we’ve
        deleted all partitions in step 15)
24.) In the command prompt that we have just opened, type: (without quotas, for sure)
“diskpart” and hit the enter button
“list disk” and hit the enter button
Now you should see your ssd as disk 0 and your hdd as disk 1
If your ssd is disk 0 (that would be standard), write “select disk 0”, otherwise write: “select disk 1”, and hit the enter button.
Now write “create partition primary size=4096” and hit enter again. [if you have 4GB of ram, type 4096, if you have 8 GB of ram, use 8192]
Now write “detail disk” and hit enter to see the volume number behind the volume that we have just created (it is 4 GB or 8 respectively, should be easy to find), in my case that was “2”
Now type “select volume 2” if your 4 or 8 GB volume has number 2 as well, otherwise use the number you found out in step f. Hit enter.
Finally, type: “set id=84 override” and hit enter for one last time.
It should now say back that the id has been set successfully.
Exit the command prompt. (close)
25.) Reboot
26.) Install the Rapid Start driver. Reboot.
27.) Open the Intel Rapid Storage Application.
28.) Click on accelerate and approve the settings. Two RAID’s will be created. Reboot.
29.) Install the remaining drivers, have fun with Windows Update and that’s it!
Good luck to all of you… And hey Lenovo - wouldn't that have been your job after all these posts showing your costumers in trouble? Just my two cents...
If you want, you can now turn on UEFI-boot in BIOS.
PS: If, after installing all drivers, you happen to see one unknown device in your device manager – this one belongs to Lenovo Connect Software that came with your Laptop. (Updates FB, Email etc when PC is in sleep mode) If you install Lenovo Connect it’s going to be fine, however, I would not recommend it as it is said to use a lot of energy and cause some other problems. So just live with it, your PC is totally fine without it.
Kind regards from Shanghai

Seriously guys, I can't use my 3 days old laptop. Some help would be mostly appreciated. At this point, the network connection issue doesn't show up anymore, it's just a blank screen after reboot. I reinstall windows and do it all over again just to achieve the same result.
Now couple of things caught my attention: as I load the "6flpy-x64.zip" driver from step 14, I get a message saying I need to install signed drivers, because unsigned ones are likely to mess up the system.
Secondly, I could not find any Rapid Storage Technology drivers for Windows 7 (particularly for U310 model), so I use the Windows 8 ones (http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS031455), which seems a silly thing, yet I know of no alternatives.
Could it be any of these issues to cause my problem? Or smth else? Please help!

Very disapointed in Lenovo's service on my T430 machine type 2342CTO with Windows Pro 7 64 bit

I have been a ThinkPad user since the first model 700. I have always liked them and when I have had to use other laptops I found them inferior. However one thing my team has been telling me in the past year or two is that they do not want to purchase anymore Lenovo ThinkPad's. They have told me that the service and support has been greatly degraded. I was hesitant to agree with them until my present experience. We purchase all of our ThinkPad's with a 4 year on-site warranty. We have people who are in the field and when their computer goes down we need to get it back up and running ASAP.
Three weeks ago my hard drive started to give me some problems and one day after shutting down the computer a message came up that it needed to run Checkdisk which it did. I was able to keep it going and I did have a backup. I contacted the 800 number to talk with a service person and they ordered up service for the replacement of the hard drive and also to replace the fan and sent me the system disks for the T430. Two days later the insight service person showed up with the parts. The disks showed up as well via UPS. The service person replaced the fan and the HDD. There were 4 DVD's for the system disks. He started the rebuild and asked if I could finish it and I said I could with no problem. He left. I continued the process. After the 3rd DVD it asked to put in the 4th and when I did a message said that this was the wrong DVD. I tried all the other 3 with the same response. I tried building it from scratch again and the same problem. I called support again and the guy I spoke with thought that I must have a bad DVD and he would send out another set. That set of 4 DVD’s arrived the next day which I was very thankful for. He told me that they could only guaranty 2 days. I thought OK we should be up and running shortly. The same problem occurred again. Bear in mind that both sets of these DVD's were all labeled for the ThinkPad T430 machine type 2342 which was my laptop and for Windows Pro 7, 64 bit. I called Lenovo and this time the tech I spoke with said that there was another set of Disks for my machine that should have been sent. Of course I was frustrated but there was not a lot I could do about that and I asked if they could make sure that they were overnighted to me so that I would be sure to get them on the next day which was Thursday. He told me that he could not do that, that they could only guaranty 2 day. I called the next morning to get the tracking number which they gave me and it was supposed to be delivered on Friday which I was very thankful for. That was Good Friday. However UPS had some severe weather at their hub in Kentucky and everything was delayed and the disks did not show up until Monday. I had now been down a whole week from my first call the Monday before.
The new set of disks was 3 DVD’s labeled for the T430, Machine type 2342 and Windows Pro 7, 64 bit. I started the build process. It continued to work but I made a mistake in the order of disks so I thought that these disks have a problem too. I called Lenovo and they said that I should just send the system in for depot repair. I said that will take at least until probably Thursday. The guy I was speaking to said that I should have it back by Wednesday. I asked if there was any way that I could send it to them directly that day. He said no I could not, I had to wait for a box. I asked if there was anyway to expedite the process and he spoke to his manager and his manager said that the level of service that was on the machine would not allow for any faster service. The also told me that my service contract would allow me to take it to an authorized Lenovo service center around me. I said to him that they probably have a queue as well and that I will have to wait for that. As an aside note we did try service like this with one of our other ThinkPad’s that had a problem and the place messed up the system and we ended up at the end of the day having to send it to their depot for repair. I hung up and though let me try these disks one more time. I did and I saw my mistake and the system loaded up the DVD’s properly. I was getting excited that I could be up and running shortly. However my excitement was short lived. Once it started to reboot and expand the installation the drive failed and said that it had to run Checkdisk. It did and once again there were all kinds of orphaned files etc. I had to reboot and run it from the DVD’s again and I went through the whole process once again. The system went into a complete failure and would not do anything. I called back support with my case # and gave them this information. The box came the next day and I packed it up and sent it off. I then started tracking it and it arrived on Wednesday as expected. Then I wanted to go to the site and track the progress of the repair. The document you have to fill out and send back with the system gives information on where to go on the web to track the process. My shows that it arrived on Wednesday 4/8 as expected. The first message shows “Machine being repaired” at 08:52. Then I checked later in the early evening hoping to see shipped back to customer. However what I did see was the following message “Hold for Parts – Service call is on hold until parts arrive”. Then I kept tracking it and saw another entry on 4/10 at 02:01:54 which was the same “Hold for Parts – Service call is on hold until parts arrive”. That was of course Friday. I called the service and they told me that they were waiting on parts which they could not tell me what parts and that there was nothing that they could do. I then asked if there was anyway to expadite this and the girl I spoke to said that she would seek to accelerate this to another level and that I would get a call from Lenovo in the next 2 to 3 business days! I said to her that you really mean that that is accelerating it and she said yes. Yesterday I received a call from an automated attendant, not a real person who told me that they were waiting on parts for my computer and that it could be “5 to 7 business days before they receive the part”. I could not believe this. I called again today 4/15 and asked if anyone could tell me the status because the website told me very little. I told the girl that I was speaking to that I had received this automated attendant telling me that a part would take 5 to 7 business days more. I asked her if Lenovo kept parts and she said yes but that this part was not in stock. I asked her what the part was and she was able to find that it was the main system board that had to be replaced. I said you have already had the unit for 1 week now at depot repair and never mind the fact that I have been without my computer for 2.5 weeks. She told me that there was nothing she could do and that I had to wait on the part. That is where this case sits at present.
I am very very unimpressed with Lenovo’s service. And furthermore there is no one to talk to about it at Lenovo who gives a care. I really did not know where to air my grievances with how this case is being handled. I thought maybe the forum would be a place. At least others will learn of my dilemma and maybe others have experienced the same thing.
I still like my ThinkPad but the service of Lenovo has become very poor at best. The guy that is my technical manager has had a poor experience of late ordering up some other Lenovo products and he does not want to purchase anymore and these were for new product. They sent the laptop with the wrong software loaded and then said no problem we will send you a new set of disks to load. He refused and said you have to fix this because it was Lenovo’s mistake. It takes time to load software and time is money. I believe we will be leaving the Lenovo field if things continue. I hope and trust that others will not experience the same treatment as I/we have. I wonder if Lenovo will even respond to this post.

I had a real problem with wireless performance on multiple ThinkPads with Win7 until I realized there is a new (or maybe changed implementation) power setting in Win7 which was affecting it.
If you go into Control Panel -> Power Options and click "Change plan settings" for your current power plan.
On the next screen click on "Change advanced power settings"
On the next screen expand "Wireless Adapter Settings" and then "Power Saving Mode"
Make sure it is set to Maximum Performance.
Not sure if this will help your particular problem but hope it does.

Lenovo personal cloud forwards to wrong URL where there is no access. How to change this?

Hello,
Everything works fine when you invite people to your personal cloud.. You're given the Username and Password and the group in the invitation email.
To access this Personal Cloud from a Web browser, use the following URL:
https://xxxxxxxx.mylenovoemc.com
Here's the information you need to join:
       Cloud Name:   xxxxxxx
       Username: test1
       Password: xxxxxxxx
This part is fine.
Now when we go to the login page and it asks the username and password and press LOGIN It forwards to management page. Here the account has no access, cause we dont want the new account to have any management access. There is also no place you can go from there. No links to share folder or anything so basicly the account is stuck there.
https://xxxxxxxx.mylenovoemc.com/manage/manage.html?cat=all
And the real url should be:
https://xxxxxxx.mylenovoemc.com/manage/foldercontent.html?folder=test1
This url works fine for the account for image views etc, but the new account has no way of knowing of this account How can we change the management url to the working url when customer clicks LOGIN ?
Best regards,
Miikka

Hello miikkakolari
when remote users access your cloud via the personal cloud address, the homepage that you setup under Home Page Settings in the web interface will load. The default should be the .../manage/index.html
This will allow remote users to access the default public landing page where they can login to access secured content or if admin level login and manage the device.
Usually when the personal cloud address goes to the admin console login, it means you either have Home Page turned off or you have set the home page to an address that requires admin access.
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US and Canada: https://lenovo-na-en.custhelp.com/
Latin America and Mexico: https://lenovo-la-es.custhelp.com/
EU: https://lenovo-eu-en.custhelp.com/
India/Asia Pacific: https://lenovo-ap-en.custhelp.com/
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To Lenovo: Still unfixed common and reproducable X300 problems

Lenovo, following problems with the X300 are still unsolved, ordered by most annoying first. PLEASE FIX THESE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! The X300 (most apply o X3001 as well) is/was an EXTREMELY expensive Notebook. These problems ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE for a Notebook of that price!!!
All these problems mentioned below apply to Windows Vista Business x86-32, I don' t know about other OS because thats what I use and got from Lenovo.
1. The X300 and X301 do FREEZE at random times (1-2 times per week). When that happens, the screen is totally frozen and shows the last state - Neither mouse is movable nor any keys work. You also can't reach the machine via network anymore. No BlueScreen, Log entries or anything. Only a real hard-reset by powering off the machine via pressing the power button for more than 4 seconds can help you to get out of this. Of course you loose your data.
No fix available.
No workaround available.
2. Battery drains a LOT faster if ANY USB device is enabled. This can be a simple external mouse, the internal Bluetooth or the WWAN card since they all use USB. Power usage increases about 3-4 Watts which is FAR too much for a simple mouse. Also the Notebook becomes more hot when USB is being used. You loose around 1 1/2 hours of precious battery lifetime just because of this. You can check Wattage using Lenovo Energy Manager (look under battery tab).
No fix available.
Workaround. Don' t use USB/Bluetooth/WWAN when on battery. Not acceptable!
3. Tapping using the TOUCHPAD (Trackpoint and buttons work) does not always work as expected. Sometimes you have to tap twice to produce a single click because a single tap is not always recognized as such. This also depends on the used application.
No fix available.
Workaround: Use the buttons. Not acceptable!
4. "Scroll by x lines" using mousewheel (Setting in control panel -> mouse -> wheel) always gets reset to "1" when scroling using the touchpad. This is quite annoying considering the fact that people use both, Touchpad when only mobile or a mouse when possible. This slows down scrolling via the mouse EXTREMELY.
Easy to reproduce: Set it to 3 (Windows default and a good value IMHO) and apply. Then scroll in any application using the touchpad. Go back to the setting (re-open control panel -> mouse) and it will show that it has been reset to 1. Note: Changing this setting only applies to applications that have been started AFTER changing the setting.
Fix available: Install Ultranav2 driver
Version 7.2.1616.107
(New) Added support for scrolling function on WPF window.
(Fix) Fixed an issue where the setting of "The following number of lines at a time" in the Wheel tab of Mouse Properties reverted back to 1 when using Excel (And luckily not only for that!)
(Fix) Fixed an issue where the UltraNav tab of Mouse Properties was missing under the remote desktop environment.
(Fix) Fixed an issue where Constrained and Slow motion features did not work with the Shift and Ctrl keys.
5. Fan is not fairly adjusted. Its okay for a notebook to make use of its fan. But the way the X300 does this is NOT ACCEPTABLE! When the fan kicks in, it immediately accelerates to around 5000rpm which makes a very loud "jet" noise. There are more rpm speedlevels needed. Its okay if the fan is running more constantly but at a lower and quieter level.
No fix available.
Workaround: Configure fan behaviour using TPFanControl to kick in at 60°C at lowest level (2000rpm which is level 2) and accelerate to 5000rpm at 70°C which is level 6. Of course this causes the X300 becoming more hot than with default behaviour, but it is really quiet. Silence is a MUST for business users!
6. Fingerprint sensor sometimes does not work right away after resuming from standby oder hibernate.
No fix available. At least none that really solves the problem for good.
Workaround: Wait about 30 seconds and retry. If fingerprint sensor still not working, you're doomed to use manual login using password. Not acceptable!
This has been reported and helps but problem still rarely occurs: Apply this Patch. You may also try UPEKs more recent generic driver from here (Install via device manager for the fingerprint device).
7. Sometimes the Sierra Wireless MC8775 HSDPA Module does not reconnect properly after resuming from standby or hibernate. Also activating "USB selective suspend" (active by default) in power manager causes packet loss and connection stallings. Also the drivers Lenovo has to offer are extremely outdated.
No fix available.
Workaround: Update the cards Firmware (current is v2.0.8.19). Look around at forums of www.thinkpads.com to find the update since Lenovo seems incapable of offering firmware for their card.This makes the card far less buggy and also doubles possible speed to 7.2MBit/s if your carrier allows that.
8. Windows Boot hangs when Power Scheme in BIOS is set to Adaptive every now and then. Sometimes it boots right away, sometimes it just hangs on Vistas Bootloading-bar (it shimmers softly through, not fully visible and does not move).
No fix available yet. At least not officially from Lenovo.
Workaround: Set Power Scheme in BIOS to "Max Performance". This is a BIOS problem.
9. This problem applies to all ThinkPad models: Access Connections is BROKEN. After using it for a while, a few standbys and resumes, reboots etc., it stops roaming on its own. You then always have to select and apply the profiles manually. I know this problem was supposed to be fixed by several updates in the past, but none of them ever actually fixed it. Please consider a complete rewrite of the roaming code, it just does not work.
This has been fixed in Access Connections v5.21, at least for me on Vista x86-32. But this version still has the old bug of crashing when trying to create a new profile and you have Firefox installed and your prefs.js file seems to big for Access Connections. Rename the file, create your profile and rename it back.
I will keep this thread updated when updates or fixes that actually work are available.
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VPN-User,
Ok - I see the list of issues and will ensure our X300 specialist takes a look at it.
Please do understand that while you have put together a very coherent list, I try to ensure priority to threads in which multiple customers are focused on a single issue, as we deliver the most benefit to the community in working on those. This forum is primarly a peer to peer discussion forum rather than a Lenovo chat / tech support where we try to solve each and every issue put forth.
Individuals with a long list of issues on a particular machine may find benefit from either contacting technical support and working through their list, or publishing it as you have done and wait for other users of the same system to share their experiences.
Thanks for your patience
Mark
ThinkPads: S30, T43, X60t, X1, W700ds, IdeaPad Y710, IdeaCentre: A300, IdeaPad K1
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Hi, I have a Lenovo 3000 n100 that does not recognize the dvd player or SD memory card slot

Hi, this is my first time on here so forgive me if I don't give all of the right information, I will try. Until about a month ago my dvd player and SD memory card slot worked fine. I was attempting to download pictures from the SD memory card to my laptop when for some reason it not only stopped reading the memory card but it erased it also. I tried to watch a movie on it to see if it was working and it is not. I checked the computer to see if I could manually turn it on and neither the memory card slot or the dvd player show up at all. Is this a driver problem and if so how do I fix it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Linda

I have struggled with the same thing, until about 1/2 hour ago....And its real simple. I'm not a techy but here's what worked for me.
Since Lenovo doesn't send boot discs you are going to have to create one. I went to http://www.ntfs.com/boot-disk.htm and downloaded the trial version - good for 10 days. If this works for you then you should buy the software (that goes w/o saying).
Once loaded to your machine you will need to create a DVD (CD may work as well, all I had was DVD's handy). Just lauch the application and it will do this for you.
Then you need to insert the DVD/CD into your player and restart the machine.
Once lauched the Software will lauch the Active@ Boot Disk menu. One of the options (going from memory here) was to give you a windows prompt. I simply typed c: and took me to the C drive. Then I typed chkdsk /f c:
I was then told my c drive was locked (sounds familiar I bet) but this time I was given the option to dismount the volume which I did. And it finally ran chkdsk, found and corrected all errors.
I rebooted my machine, launched diskeeper, and guess what - I can finally defrag my harddrive now which is sorely overdue!
Good luck. I hope this works for you!

Lenovo worst ROI, worst service: keep your word please

Complaints case #01040045, opened 2014 August 19th - No response from them and no update from support.
Please excuse any formatting errors, as I am entering this post via my tablet since my W520 'super laptop' has been dead in the water since June when the runaround with Lenovo began. Technically, I no longer have any coverage left, but based on the fact that this machine has been a constant fiasco since purchased, I would think Lenovo might be inclined to take some very inexpensive corrective action to ensure that I do not repeat the story of the worst purchase / investment I have ever made every chance I get for as long as I can keep it up, to as many as I possibly can. It seems not though, it seems Lenovo would prefer to continue to demonstrate a total lack of ability to know what each part of the company is doing, a total lack of interest in anything but keeping every dime in its grip, and an apparent inability to make a quality product, let alone provide decent technical support or customer service.
I purchased this $3000 waste as I intended to use this 'powerful' laptop to do fast audio/video file conversion, video editing, music creation / recording, distributed computing (e.g. BOINC), some gaming... unfortunately, anything truly intense causes the laptop to generate incredible amounts of heat (especially BOINC, GAMES). The initial laptop I was sent had to be completely replaced do to this issue. It basically always overheated, the replacement laptop is better, but still can't run BOINC or even a game like Age of Empires without burning through my desk. This, I decided to live with...
Then the motherboard failed.... twice, oh, now three times! I have to admit to being a little vague on all the problems as they took place over two years. I can say for certain however that IBM support NEVER diagnoses anything, they just replace parts until the problem goes away for a while. If I ever get the board replaced again, we'll see if the issue with the expensive wifi card is resolved and how many hard drives were fried in the motherboard implosion (I'm always on UPS/surge protection, by the way).
So, after motherboard #2 was installed, things seemed stable for a while... so, I come to early 2014, I call sales the day before my extended support plan runs out to ask about extending it, "yes, you can extend it anytime. no, you don't have to do it before it runs out.". Ok, YES I AM AN IDIOT.... I didn't confirm whether or not I could extend (or 're-up') the coverage only if there were no problems at that time, and perhaps I wanted to think that... which, yes, sounds silly.... but the sales rep didn't make that clear and I took what they said literally, "you can extend coverage at any time". Of course, once the motherboard failed again, I found out that was not true.
I have the laptop at an authorized Lenovo repair center and the problem is indeed the motherboard again.... but do you think I got what I paid for? do you think a customer is happy with a $3000 laptop, that doesn't perform, is constantly problematic, and now after 2.5 years is dead yet again?
To top it all off, before taking it to the repair shop I opened the bottom to make sure that the hard drive hadn't come unseated or something... what did I see? I see that one of the IBM techs has swapped out my 16gb of ram (2x8) for 8gb (2x4)!!!
So,
Once the shop diagnosed the issue, I called Lenovo support and explained my situation, experience and request to Emmanuel... I asked that to save my customer experience that Lenovo send the repair shop a 'free' motherboard and the correct RAM. Lo and behold, he said he understood, agreed and would get this done... then the rest of the company got involved...
1) (per Emmanuel in support) About 2 months after my purchase (see invoice excerpts below), Lenovo upgraded its sales / customer info 'database' to a new system... apparently all of my personal data including what I purchased was THROWN AWAY BY LENOVO! so, this is the first reason I was then given as to why I could not be helped. Emmanuel said I should try to call IBM and try to get them to cross reference x to y in their system to prove to lenovo I was a customer... which of course they could not do and in generally they had no interest in helping in any way.
This never was resolved. Shows a lot of disrespect and incompetence that Lenovo doesn't know I gave them $3000 just two years ago.
2) relay above to Emmanuel, who sends me to customer service or something to try to get any info that I was ever a customer (a customer in Feb 2012!!! like its 30 years ago or something.). They simply tell me to have Emmanuel talk to Katlyn Oneal, a systems analyst, "she can answer everything". Did so; Emmanuel comes back and tells me "Katlyn says it's not possible to help you because of the 30 day limit" on questioning service/repairs done... I guess specifically in relation perhaps to the THEFT of my purchased RAM. Do SYSTEMS ANALYSTS run Lenovo, make business decisions? what are these people thinking? I told E. this was unacceptable.
Emmanuel then opens a case with 'Customer Relations' (case #01040045), was told it could take up to 10 days for a response... nothing... called the number for CR which E. gave to me (919 257-4981)... two hours on hold before I gave up. every call to that number is the same... forever hold. Emmanuel opened this case on 2014 August 8th, never been a response. I called E. on August 19th, he then moved the case to Complaints... today is Aug 29th, still no response from Customer Relations or Complaints. At this point Emmanuel is not calling me back or answering my calls either.
Lenovo can throw technicalities of my warranty, 30 day limits etc forever.... but can anyone say I got what I paid for? Why can't lenovo keep track of what it sells, who to, why can't they communicate even internally? Lenovo should do what EMMANUEL / LENOVO stated to me that Lenovo would do on my first call to him: make me whole (though I have no real faith the thing won't self immolate again). How valuable can 16gb of ram and one or two trashy motherboards sitting around in a warehouse from 2+ years ago ($50 I'm guessing, if that). Is that really not worth making me happy? I'm already resolved to paying labor to the repair shop. so far Lenovo is the worst ROI ever for me, on anything I think you should help me out to keep me quiet, and just do what you said you would do, which will be the right thing to do.
Again, please just do what Emmanuel (I.e. Lenovo) said Lenovo would do.
----- Forwarded Message -----
To:
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 10:57 PM
Subject: Details Fw: LENOVO Order 2J9641
Customer number: 6081625
Order number: 2J9641
Placed: 2/20/12
Thank you again for your order.
Intel Core i7-2860QM Processor (2.50 GHz, 8MB L3)
OperaGenuine Windows 7 Professional 64
Genuine Windows 7 Professional 64 English
15.6" FHD (1920 x 1080) LED Backlit Anti-Glare Display, Mobile Broadband Ready
NVIDIA Quadro 2000M Graphics with 2GB DDR3 Memory
16 GB PC3-10600 DDR3 SDRAM 1333MHz SODIMM Memory (4 DIMM)
Intel 160 GB Solid State Drive, Serial ATA
Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (3x3 AGN)
4270CTO ThinkPad W520 - 1 Yr Depot Topseller Warranty
41C9337 2YR Onsite + 2YR ThinkPad Protection $111.30
41U5008 ThinkPad Bluetooth Laser Mouse $49.95
73P2582 Kensington MicroSaver Security Cable Lock from Lenovo $31.20
Subtotal: $4,187.95
Sale price: $2,881.45
[PRESIDENT] -$403.35
Shipping and handling: $0.00
Estimated tax: $204.44
Estimated total: $2,682.54*
Thanks...
Chris H.
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Chris,
I wanted to reply here on your original thread . I appreciate your noting your prior case 10140045 - this appears not to have been routed correctly and was closed out. We will escalate this situation and ensure follow up.
I appreciate your speaking up, and your patience. I really hope we can restore your confidence in Lenovo.
Mark
ThinkPads: S30, T43, X60t, X1, W700ds, IdeaPad Y710, IdeaCentre: A300, IdeaPad K1
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Lenovo G560 overheating. Need tips on fan speed control

When I am watching movies on my G560 laptop, the area to the left of my touchpad is getting very hot and the laptop is shutting down at times.
When I bought my laptop I used to hear fan noise, but I have noticed recently that I do not hear the fan any more. I was wondering of there was a way to check the fan speed and manually alter it.
The warranty on my G560 is running out with in a month or so, a quick response would be appreciated.

the cpu greece tests over the years are the most bunch of snake oil i ever seen.
one review site did a test with 50 and used choclate and fingernail polish to show most are complete waste of money.
compaq builds junk.
lenovo dose not.
the real reason is the notebook makers dont even built the latops.
there like 3 companys that make 90% of the worlds notebooks and pc.
you never even heard of them either.
they make the sonys,acers and so on in a plant on a line with dozens of brands.
just like the way foxconn makes the apples these are huge companys that make the products per instruction of the notebook brand.
notebooks are not like desktops one bit because they are in a tiny space where heat puts a curse in the board.
when you release this you release that spot.
the part of contact for a cpu die is really tiny so it dont have to make the same contact point as cpu cooler.
cpu coolers of notebook are well designed unlike the desktop cooler they make very good contact.
discrete graphics is another story most of all on compaqs with they used a very bad design and had majior issues with.
trust me there no such issues with lenovos because they use a good company to make there notebooks and they also use a good design.
the fan noise issue well that was more of a watch out for sandy bridge issue as sandy bridge can be a very hot chip.
undervolting the chip makes a huge difference in heat as it comes with no performance loss.
it also dont change the way the cpu sits.
when the cpu was mated to the motherboard it perfict that day.
when you pull the cpu now it never fit the same exact way as it has been stressed over time by the tourqe and the heat.
pulling it will effect the fit.
most people dont have the skill to change the greece on a cpu because they will use to much and unlike a desktop cpu that has no open transistors on the surface the mobile cpu dose.
they will add too much and it will run and short out them.
look at a pic of a mobile cpu and then a desktop cpu.
a very different design.
what you telling people is a skill they dont have because they have no idea that a simple mistake will cost them hundreads of dollers.
notebook cpu run 200-300 dollers and some 500 bucks.
pulling the cpu heatsink will effect it natural fit because it under tenion.
i know this because i know metals well and i have 20 years of experence in this area.
i alos worked for a company long ago that made robots for the waffer cpu come from.
i think some people think they might know a quik fix because they built a pc before but notebooks are very different.
i do custom notebook setups for people up here in boston who are willing to spend more on my labour then most notebooks cost.
when i set up a pc it takes me 4-6 hours normally thats a standard win 7 time with all security and services adjusted complete.
people pay for my services because they get longer run times and they stomp anything even notebook makers that charge thousands for custom setups.
if i thought putting snake oil on a cpu would lower temps i would do it just for the lower fan noise and power use it would save.
i know the moment i release the heatsink i never recreate the same exact fit it had under the stress that time made and the point of contact metal to metal will allways be better then if you add silicon to it.
most people dont get that more then a pin head will be more then enough because more then that will cause a heat barrier and lower that.
there whole point to thermal paste is to fill graps in the metal that are from the lapping process.
it not to help cool it like some think.
no thermal paste will ever work better then a pure magnetic grip of metal to metal.
infact if you machine two blocks perfict they stick to each other as if they were magnets.
tourqe them and add heat and they never do that again.
that why latops heatsinks i feel are much more different them desktops one and what most people dont grasp.
dont belive me call your high school science teacher and he explaine why to you.

My Product description doesn't match (searching by Product number on Lenovo site)

Hi,
I bought Thinkpad X200s on eBay - new, not used. I received it sealed with tape, not opened, hw configuration was exactly as was described/ordered. The numbers on the box are the same as on the notebook.
But when I go on Lenovo site, and check it by product number, I got different result.
My real HW configuration (only what differs):
HDD: 128 GB SSD, 6 cell battery, don't have UltraBase.
(the rest is ok)
This is what I got from Lenovo site, searching by Product number (7466-3GU):
Product: ThinkPad X200s 7466-3GU
Original description: SL9400(1.86GHz), 4GB RAM, 160GB 7200rpm HD, 12.1in 1440x900 LCD, Intel 4500MHD, Intel 802.11agn wireless, Bluetooth, Modem, 1Gb Ethernet, Secure chip, X200 UltraBase+CDRW/DVDRW, Fingerprint reader, Intel Turbo Memory, 9c Li-Ion, WinVista Business 32
When I called on Lenovo support, they told me, it's strange, and that shouldn't happen. I asked them, to check it, if they will get the same result. And they sent me the same product description, as on the Lenovo site. So HDD, battery, and UltraBay differs.
Now I'm affraid, what if I'll have any problem, if they will accept it, or they will tell me, it's not cowered by warranty, because there are not original parts.
Is this a problem? What should I do now?
Thank you for your suggestions.
Karol
P.S.: I apologise for double post, I posted this question already on http://forum.notebookreview.com, but no reply. Then I realised, this is more appropriate forum for this question.

I bought Thinkpad X200s on eBay - new, not used. I received it sealed with tape, not opened, hw configuration was exactly as was described/ordered. The numbers on the box are the same as on the notebook.
But when I go on Lenovo site, and check it by product number, I got different result.
My real HW configuration (only what differs):
HDD: 128 GB SSD, 6 cell battery, don't have UltraBase.
(the rest is ok)
Now I'm affraid, what if I'll have any problem, if they will accept it, or they will tell me, it's not cowered by warranty, because there are not original parts.
Welcome to the forum!
Warranty (if there is one) shouldn't be an issue as the HDD and battery are customer replaceable units (CRU) and the UltraBase isn't required. But... Did you get cheated by the seller? Have you checked to see if it is truly a new unit with the full warranty and not a refurb?
Message Edited by JaneL on 05-28-2009 07:53 AM
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I AM one of those crazy ThinkPad zealots!
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Ihab's Lenovo K900 Review

Hello everyone How are you all doing? I just finished the write up of the Lenovo K900 Reivew. I hope you like it, and if you would like to see larger/full resolution images of the ones posted here you can check out the review over at ihabstech.com. Enjoy!
Yes, Lenovo make smartphones worldwide now. I thought that would be an appropriate opening since I keep getting the question mark look on people’s faces when looking at the phone placed in front of me and then ask “Lenovo make phones?”.
At first I didn’t even realize they had phones and when I did, I was surprised they actually had quite a decent range. Not only that, they had their own Lenovo UI of Android. It seems they have been working really hard to get great devices out and guess which device I managed to get my hands on? The flagship. How exciting! So, lets take a look at this phone.
That is not a perfectly angled shot to make the device appear really thin.. Okay it is, but the device really is thin! it’s stated at 6.9mm only!
Quick Spec Sheet
You have to re-think your understanding of big phones with the K900, the dimensions are 157 x 78 x 6.9 mm! So it is pretty huge, but in exchange for carrying the sizeable device (or phablet if you want to call it that) you get a 5.5 inch Full HD IPS screen with about 400 PPI with the screen resolution of 1920×1080 (It is very responsive and even recognizes use with fingernails and pens) above the screen sits an aray of sensors and a 2MP fixed-focus camera. Taking a step deeper into the device, we find an Intel® Atom™ Z2760 Dual Core™ 4-thread processor running up to 2.0 GHz with 2GB of RAM. The graphics centre is an Intel® GMA graphics with 533MHz clock, and both assist in running Android 4.2.1. All this powerful hardware comes in a Brushed Stainless Steel, Polycarbonate and Corning® Gorilla® Glass 2 package that weighs 162 grams. On the back is the 13MP camera with auto-focus and dual flash, capable of full 1080[ video at 30 FPS. In regards to communication, it has Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0 and HSPA+ (up to 42MBPS) and wireless hotspot functionality. As for sensors, the K900 has A-GPS, Gravitation (I am guess a gyroscope?), Ambient light sensor and a Proximity sensor.
Box Contents
This is always the excitement of opening a box of a brand you have never dealt with before, I had no clue what to expect.
The box had a cover which had the K900 branding in a huge cut out. Being that the box was black it didn’t make sense. Till..
The inside of that cover was in red! So taking the box out lights up the K900 branding. Sexy! Lifting the cover reveals the phone. In first impressions I thought the phone was going to be smaller than the big box, turns out it was the size of the box.
I know there isn’t anything out of the ordinary to expect in an unboxing, and so nothing unusual here. A Micro-USB Cable, a pair of ordinary Headphones and a SIM-Card ejector tool attached to the small manuals card. Weirdly, I have not received a wall charger, but I have so many of them laying around there is no problems and of course, the retail units will have one without a doubt.
Design, Body and Display
The device is a very good looking device despite its large size. I have used many devices over the past few months from iPhones, Galaxies, HTC Ones (Normal and Mini) and others and not a single one got the stares and questions asked as the Lenovo K900. It does have a personality and it is eye catching.
To start things off, lets talk about the front (Apologies for the low quality pictures) From the top sits a small cut out for the speaker and to the left the front facing camera. The sensors are nearly impossible to notice, perfect integration that is. Lenovo branding in the center and then the huge screen all the way till the bottom where three Android buttons sit, Back, Home and Options/Settings.
Flipping the phone to the back is where things start to get an even more premium look. Up top sits the 13MP camera, Dual-Flash and the secondary noise cancelling microphone, then comes what appears to be a back cover, but it isn’t removable. It’s in stainless steel brushed with 4 corner screws to make it look somewhat industrial? I think it has a nice touch. There is an engraved Lenovo logo towards the top and below sits the Intel logo. Finally towards the bottom sits the loud speaker.
For all of you wondering about the stainless steel durability with us, yes the sides do scratch up a bit. I could recommend trying to find a case but I just think it looks so good without one. Also, not too sure you can find a case that easily as well.
They kept the design clean, which means there is nothing to the top of the device. I think with a device this big, anything on the top would be suicidal because it would drop functionality dramatically. Fortunately, the 3.5mm headphone jack, Micro-USB port and primary microphone are on the bottom with nothing on the top. Thanks Lenovo.
The volume buttons are found to the left of the device, but as one button. To the right side sits the lock/power button and towards the middle, the SIM-Card tray. Please be gentle with the tray if you get one, because as with my past experiences with metal trays, if this bends just a tiny bit, it will ruin the look and the flatness will never return again. Either way, pretty straight forward and all buttons feel metallic while the lock/power button have a little pattern on them.
The feedback on the buttons are good but the lock/power button is slightly too soft, which may click on while holding the device in one’s hand.
So yes, the size… Here is the K900 beside the Nokia Lumia 925 and HTC One Mini.
The Nokia has a 4.5 Inch screen while the HTC has a 4.3 inch one, clearly being 5.5 makes it huge, plus the device is actually quite tall.
The device feels really nice in the hands, but it does need a lot of getting used to being a phone of this size. It does slightly stick out of my jeans pocket. I have almost dropped it a few times because I am not used to using such a big device. Certainly if people are used to 5+ inch devices this might not seem too big, but I have never gone over 5 in my pockets before. It is a big device, that I started to get used to after about a week or two of use. I started to carry it differently, more towards a small notepad than a normal smartphone. I got used to it eventually! The metal back does get cold quickly especially in air conditioned areas so picking the phone up does feel special.
As for the screen, it is absolutely brilliant. The clarity is amazing, the brightness can go up to levels that could be uncomfortable (but means brilliant in the sun). The only downside to the brightness is in the OS side as it can only be set at 30%, 60% and 100%, I would have preferred a slider but I am just being picky. Being 400PPI no pixels can be seen and the color representation is just brilliant, one of the best screens I have used in a smartphone, should be thankful to the IPS technology then. This is possibly the most inviting smartphone I have ever had in terms of wanting to watch videos on it, and I often just load videos from the laptop to the device to watch it there instead.
Memory and Data
This is where things complicated, and a bit unusual. Essentially the device comes with 16 GB of internal storage, which supposedly nearly 10 GB is free to the user, but what makes no sense is how it is managed..
The device states that internal storage is 4.68 GB out of which I have nearly 600 MB free, and the USB storage is 9.77GB. On the bottom is the option to erase the SD card. There is no SD card. At first glance, it seems that the device has 5 GB of internal memory and like 10 GB of a separate internal memory, but this is actually a security thing that Lenovo has implemented, they have partitioned the drive so the system’s section of the storage remains untouched. Connecting the device to the computer, or accessing the built in file manager only displays the 9.77 GB partition.
Sadly, as I have often stated, getting 16 GB of storage on a smartphone today is a low amount of storage, especially considering only nearly 10GB is only ever free with no external memory card slot option. Being on Android, every single cloud storage platform has an app, but Lenovo do not provide any free cloud storage on any service.
As with typical modern day Android device (The K900 was launched in January in some markets) it comes with 2GB of RAM. With normal use, I average around 700-900 MB of free RAM. So the system seems to be managing its RAM fairly decently, and I have never experienced any memory issues in my use.
Camera
The K900 comes with a 13 MP camera with every option one could need on a smartphone.
I wanted to really show the settings and viewfinder, but the K900′s screen shot utility is limited to only areas where the notification center is accessible, and all attempts to get a decent screen shot app without rooting failed miserably (before I forget, rooting this device is not an easy task, near impossible to find sources online)
On the bottom left of the screen is where the main settings live and it has three main sections. The Basic section includes toggles for switching between cameras, flash settings, resolution, scenes (normal, low light, motion, etc), adjustments (brightness, contrast, etc), image quality settings and guide lines. The Advanced section covers the ISO, white balance, stroscopic settings and a toggle to enable or disable image capture by touching the screen. The last section is the other settings where the user can control GPS tagging, sounds, animation, focus modes and a reset tool.
On the left of the screen there are two quick toggles for the flash and switching to the front camera. towards the right there is even more settings! on the top there is a small tool to display the selected settings in tiny icons and a arrow button to set the camera modes (HDR, low light, smile detection, macro, timed photos, burst shot, panorama, and night portrait mode.
To the bottom of that.. is even MORE settings! well okay, not settings but there is a button that opens a whole table of effects for the photography, there is about 24 different effects to play with. To the far right sits the buttons to switch to video mode, capture an image and a thumbnail of the last photo taken.
Here are some sample pictures taken with the K900 in various real world situations.
A nice, decent lit Macro soft of the Blackberry Q5 (Review of the Q5 can be found here)
Low light shot of the HTC One Mini (Review of the One Mini can be found here)
A shot with decent lighting of a new packaged headset, lit well but notice how the device itself is over exposed.
Decent interior lighting, the text is fairly clear at zoom, the disclaimer line is blurred though.
Outdoor shot in daylight
Indoor shot with decent lighting of a portrait (best focus and lighting on the picture).
The quality is really good, one of the best cameras I have come across in smartphones. The best? No, but very close I have to admit.
So is it all perfect? Almost. Although there is a nice hidden feature where pressing the volume down and capture button on the screen will activate burst mode without having to go through the settings, the zooming is bad. Not the zooming itself, but the on screen controls for zooming. Tapping the screen will bring the 4x zoom bar, and it is really thin and 9 times out of 10 trying to zoom in or out, it will focus on that spot on the view finger rather than lower/increase the zoom, its very hard to zoom effectively and the volume keys don’t adjust the zoom which I think is a waste of the keys but in essence of taking pictures, it does a very good job.

Operating System
The K900 runs on Android version 4.2.1 with Lenovo’s own UI. It is a very interesting looking system, with tons of customizable features. No, I mean seriously, tons. Almost every single aspect of the experience can be changed, from the icon sets, size of the icons, backgrounds of the icons, special effects, tens of page transitions for the home page and various transitions for the apps page, automatic clean up (where inactive apps can be automatically removed), desktop layout backup, tens of built in apps, with up to 9 desktops!
And I wish that was it.. there is a lot more to this OS that I thought, Lenovo did a great job.
Let me start things off at the home screen and this essentially gives you an idea of how the operating system looks like. Pressing the menu button brings up the list of options (most of which are mentioned above) but this gives an almost unlimited amount of customization. Tapping and holding on an empty spot brings up the tools for transitions (known as effects), and the options to add apps, shortcuts, widgets and more! Lenovo’s power app has its own widget as well, which shows estimated time before battery runs out and quick toggles.
Although most of our smartphone use doesn’t include phone calls or sms somehow, it is the base of a phone. Lenovo has done a great job here with their all in one approach. Call log, messages and contacts are all under one section. They have done it in a smart way where the dialler is on top of the log instead of two pages, certainly is more productive. The messages have a very interesting look to them, which I thought looked nice. Moving all the way into info center brings up a set of settings including a way to backup and restore contacts. It may not be a big deal to many but i think this all in one spot is a nice touch.
The took the extra step in small touches, for instance when you call someone, the phone will vibrate the second the receiver picks up, not sure if any other manufacturer has that or not (never paid attention to it) but it is really cool especially in noisy situations.
Before I go on, Lenovo has done something to this phone that evokes a sense of professional use or focus that has driven the development of the user interface, in my opinion.
The applications list/page is a typical experience, but Lenovo has put their own touch. The device comes with built-in applications such as Flashlight, a whole array of google apps, file manager, evernote, uc browser, skype and a few others. The transitions are various as well, and can be set to flip as a cylinder, apps snake through each other and others.
The device does stutter and lag a bit sometimes, but the general transitions are always smooth. I guess this always goes back to the optimization aspect, because the device is certainly more than capable, hardware-wise.
The notification center is the typical Android 4.2.1 with a strip of quick toggles and the whole list is just a tap away. Activating Lenovo’s power app also adds a little information strip for the battery life and active functions. Two finger swipe down brings out the whole short-cut list.
Another important aspect of the device (being the most used feature) is the keyboard. The keyboard is nice, smooth and easy to type on, no troubles there but there are a few loose ends. One of which, is the feedback vibrations. Initially it would vibrate when tapping and then suddenly it would stop vibrating for no apparent reason.
In SMS mode, the enter button only appears when the keyboard is in Capital mode. Surely, these aren’t concerns but with an attempt to be so refined, they could have entirely eliminated keyboard issues. The numbers and symbols are a tap and hold away although I wish they applied more symbols in the same way throughout the keyboard.
The settings menu is a whole operating system on its own! Under common settings the user will find the typical essential settings of the phone. Under Feature Settings is where things start to get interesting. The Lenovo K900 has many smart sensory features like engaging maximum volume when it detects its in a pocket, decreasing of volume when device is picked up while ringing, enabling the volume keys to turn the screen on, shake to lock the device and knock to turn the screen on.
Do these really work? They all do but not without fault. The shake to lock the phone comes in handy because the device is huge and if it is being held one handed, it would eliminate the need to go up to press the button. The problem with this is, it would lock when moving around the device. In regards to the knock to unlock, it works by sudden movement rather than tapping/knocking the screen, which in my use, meant the screen came on when I would move about or place the phone on a table or anything solid. The rest worked fine. Cool features just need to be optimized perhaps.
Under All Settings, the device can be almost completely be adjusted to liking from communications, application and account settings, device storage and running applications and finally system settings and all these can be seen above.
In typical Lenovo way, everything built in has its own Lenovo touch. The file manager is quite smart! It allows traditional folder access, search, history, etc and also an automatic access of files based on their categories.
Lenovo has done a very good job with their own Android UI. There are various applications built in, a lot of customizable options to keep things individual and all transitions and UI related functions run flawlessly. The processor I believe is the only source of things being out of hand. It runs up to 2.0Ghz, with no mention of what it’s general speed is and due to that, there are times when there would be stutters and lags. When the processor is running on full speed, everything is super smooth but I cannot deny when it is not.
Applications on the K900 run absolutely smooth being in full 1080p. I have not experienced any applications having any issues what so ever, but what did have negative experiences was some games. The general non-resource hungry games always work, but games like Real Racing 3 were really out of order. It would stutter and eventually crash. I even downloaded Asphalt 8 (just out by the way, nice game, I somehow prefer 7 till now) and although it didn’t crash, it would lag! I tried it earlier today and it ran for much longer than the last time, then lagged.
Again I believe this must be due to the processor’s optimization and Lenovo’s focus on professional use I guess. Without a doubt it isn’t a slow or weak device, just lacks a little.
The imaging on the K900 is called SuperCamera and the image viewer is called SuperGallery. The self-claimed Super Gallery is quite feature-full and it allows creation of combined images and GIFs. It also is capable of providing the complete details of an image (such as size, resolution, device used for capture, etc)
Multitasking is taken care off in the typical Android way, but for some reason, there is no button to clear all open applications and being that there is no limit to open apps in the list, it can get a bit annoying swiping away all the open applications to clear it.
Aside from those few criticisms, with the huge and beautiful screen on the K900, and good performance (especially when its running at maximum juice) it is a very solid device in regards to the operating system.
Performance
There is no doubt in my mind that this is a powerful device, because it really is but with the processor feeling not entirely optimized, there is slight sluggishness while operating the device. Is it evident enough and noticeable? Slightly. There are times when I unlocked the device and the home page is still loading its widget, or swipe to another page and the icons pop up but weren’t already ready.
Switching between applications and running applications is really smooth, the processor really does handle it well, but I wish the processor ran on 2.0 Ghz the whole time because I feel when it is idle or nor running at maximum performance is when it gets sluggish. I have tried several attempts to really work up the processor and then try the general OS transitions and everything was perfectly smooth. I feel the Intel processor isn’t the best for Android or at least isn’t optimized well enough.
In typical, simple, basic ihabstech fashion, here is the quick fish tank test, which gives a rough idea of how good the device’s graphics and processor can be.
(running at 980×440 resolution)
With 100 fish, it held 18-21 FPS
With 250 fish, it held 11-13 FPS
With 500 fish, it held 9-11 FPS
Keeping in mind the HTC One had a 1.7 GHZ Quad Core Snapdragon processor, it had about an average of 1-3 FPS less, the Lenovo K900 is a performer!
To try it out the Fishtank Test for yourself, you can visit this link, and I think I shall be using this with future device reviews too.
Battery
The battery of the K900 is an interesting topic. Before getting into my experiences, the Lenovo Power application that integrates into the OS, is pretty cool.
This is the essential app, where there are quick toggles for the system tools and an estimated time, in the best case scenario, till the battery would die. There are also several battery modes and a custom mode with estimated battery life for each.
The following are two sample battery life tests I have experienced.
In first test, I managed to pull out 12 hours of battery life with nearly 6 hours of standby time.
While this second attempted pulled out 16 and a half hours of battery life with roughly 8 hours of standby time.
The shocker is that I have once managed to drain the battery in less than 6 hours of use. What this essentially tells me is that the battery life of the 2500mAh sized battery in the K900 is very variable to the users use of the device. I am sure if I had set things up rather than running at max, I could get a whole day’s use. I recommend anyone who buys this device to play and test a lot with the battery application and find the best of both worlds, battery life and active functions. It essentially has a decent battery, even though I have no idea how they fit that battery in there.
Wrap up
The Lenovo K900 has been a delight. Yes, the device does need polishing up in various aspects, but that does not take away the fact that this device is solid, right now.
The build of the device is phenomenal, the blend of stainless and full glass front is just a beauty and the device doesn’t even think of creaking. The camera is really powerful, full of features, and speaking of features the system really feature-full and is speedy, efficient and very smart. Sure, it does have a few loose ends in terms of battery management, operating system and processor optimization but for professional and ordinary use of the device, it runs near perfect.
I am sure Lenovo are already working on the next generation of models, including a new flagship, and if this is how they handled things early 2013, I can just imagine they would do really well in the smartphone market!
Device Pros and Cons
Pros:
- Brilliant build quality
- Slim profile
- High resolution camera with good imaging features
- Excellent Full HD 1080p IPS screen
- Lenovo’s UI has well optimized applications and a lot of customization
Cons:
- Hardware isn’t fully optimized for software (some apps don’t run smoothly)
- OS is sluggish at times and transitions aren’t always smooth
- Device is very big for most people
- Questionable battery life
- Not all gestures work well in real world use
- Limited storage
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