We are very thankful to the hard work of the Great Developers who worked hardly on these wonderful Custom Roms.
Notice: it is verey important to make backup for your Device using (MTK Droid TOOLS)
This is Lenovo Tablet UI for Lenovo A369i to flash from TWRP custom Recovery Features: Tablet UI (Tablet notification bar with on screen Home,Back and Menu buttons) Root Special Tweaks
Wipe Data/Factory Reset, Wipe Cache Partition, and Wipe Dalvik Cache Before installation
This is Lava Iris 456 Multilingual for Lenovo A369i to flash from TWRP custom Recovery Features : JellyBean 4.2.2 ODEX Smooth battery saver mode support Dual 3G switch
Wipe Data/Factory Reset, Wipe Cache Partition, and Wipe Dalvik Cache Before installation
At the beginning I am not a big fan of Rooting or Custom Firmwares as long as it is no Cyanogenmod there, but this topic is important for many developers.
so this is not for normal user and you Do it on your own risk
Rooting:
there are many ways to root, the easiest one is Framaroot app, you can root with MtkDroidTools too, which will need a computer.
1. Framaroot, download this app Framaroot.apk Download
install the apk on your smart phone (you need to allow installation of apps from Unknown sources under security settings), accept the security warning and start the program choose install su and you will be Rotted.
2.MtkDroidTool, download this Program MtkDroidTools Download (CTRL+S to Download the File)
Extract the file and start the MTKdroidTools.exe as Administrator
on your Phone enable the Developer Options Menu under settings, turn the Developer options on and enable USB Debugging inside it
connect your Phone to usb and install the ADB Drivers (The Drivers are included in the zip file), as soon as the drivers are installed the program will find your device and show it (it will take a minute)
click on Root
This Program has many benefits you can Backup your imei and Nvram, change your imei to correct any error or lost after Flash .
you can install recovery with it and this is the next step
unzip the file to get two files, change to Root.Backup.Recovery section and choose beside Recovery and Boot (to use boot from Phone) choose the Recovery.img and flash it
choose Yes to make CWM Recovery Automatically
after that boot to recovery
and now you have Custom recovery and Root
you can install the custom recovery with flashtool
Hello there I have some tipps for you and some hidden options to show
1. to take a screen shot press and hold Power on/off and Volume down
2.the phone has tow shot down mods (normal shot down and Quick Boot shot down) press and hold power on/off and check it
by default the Quick Boot is on. (Quick Boot is just like Energy Save mode on windows) the good thing is that it makes the boot time shorter on Power up and Power down but you cant get into recovery so to Shut down the Phone completely uncheck the box and Power off
3. to get in Recovery mode after Full Shot Down Press and Hold down all three buttons together Power on/of & Volume up plus Volume Down
4. on home screen pull down the black bar from up down to get into notifications centre
Press the icon on up right corner to get into quick settings shortcuts mode
and from here you can go to Full settings menu by taping the up right corner settings icon or you can turn some options on and off (Wlan, Bluetooth, Data Connection and Auto Rotation) or go to the settings of the option by holding the icon down (when you hold the Wlan Down it will take you to Wlan Settings )
5. Battery & Storage
on Battery option you can turn on the Precentage indicator in the info bar beside the Battery icon, and get more info about your energy usage
Storage will let you get infos about your storage and select which memory is your default memory to install apps and save everything, the best thing is to use a Big & Quick micro sd as default storage so you can be able install more apps and big games
6.the Lenovo a369i has a very clever option to auto Power on & off called
you can adjust when the Phone power itself off nights and on at day to save energy automatic and if you where on call or you were using the phone a Notification will appear to inform you that the device will shot down in 10 seconds with cancel option. so you can set the device to turn itself off every Night at 00:00 and start on 5 minutes before your alarm every morning or only on some days.
7. Developer Option is a hidden option which can be activated from (about Phone) option
Tap on the build number many times till a counter show up which inform you how many times more you need to tap to get the option activated, after the activation this message will show up when you tapthe build number many times again
8.System updates is an option that will appear only when you update the device manually to the latest update
9. Usb options menu is hidden and will appear in the notification bar when you plug in the usb with your computer
by default the usb Storage is Selected drop down the upper bar to view more options
tap on the other USB options to see
the charge only is a very clever option wich will use your computer as a charger
10. Lets talk about the Lenovo Launcher, when you start your smart phone you can swype to left or to right to change the icons sides
By pressing at the Menu button you will get many other options to modify the appearance and effects of the home screen
in the apps menu there is a Hide apps option which will help you to avoid unnecessary apps by hiding them and better organize your menu
by holding an app icon, the icons will start to swing and some of them will get a red X on the upper right corner which helps you by tapping on it to uninstall the app
to add apps shortcuts you go to home screen, press menu and choose add
by holding down the added icon you get more options where you can change the name of an icon or replace the icon of an app
by holding down an widget you will get zoom option where you can change the size of the widget
Thats all for now next post will be about Rooting the Phone and installing custom Recovery and custom roms like Miui and Xperia.