Intel Optane Memory

Intel Optane Memory devices promises cache acceleration.

MOTOROLA

Have to refocus on a new Motorola brand since it is in the same Lenovo stable but this is going to get technical since it is supporting Qualcomm SoC. As you aware it is boot locked and the rooting pricess is not advisable for newbies to Android.

Moto G5

ALCATEL PIXI 4 5" and 7 inch MTK SoC only

All ALCATEL FLASH FIRMWARES links

A basic phone with for selfies junkie basic camera specs but with front flash but very low storage space can be rooted easily and here provided TWRP for rooting and modding purposes.

2 Models : 5010D 3G and 5045D LTE

A low priced basic phablet with 3G basic storage and poor camera specs with no flash, can be used as daily phone if you dont do selfies!

TWRP for rooting and modifications is available. You need to root this to enable you to do modifications on every Google Apps update to save space if not you will run out of space very quickly and even if you want to gift this to your kids they will soon complain that they cant download any games because the storage will soon be full.

TWRP

Lenovo Phab2 Plus 670M

Lenovo Phab2 Plus 670M Android 6.0 upto S00049

with TWRP and Root techniques

Win10 Signed MTK Drivers and latest SPFlashTool

All MTK device drivers for Win10 - signed

I have been facing problems installing MTK Drivers especially after the latest Win10 updates which doesnt allow for unsigned drivers to be installed even after disabling "signature verification" options. This has caused trouble in reinstalling drivers after when it is required if it is already installed it can work but as MTK drivers works sometimes it gets unistalled after a after reboot.

I have search the web and this is the working collection of drivers for Win10 signed. Including the latest SpFlashTool version 5.1640.that can flash upto MT6573,6575 6577,6798,6757,8521,8127,6735,

CYANOGEN

CYANOGEN MOD IS NO MORE!

This one of reason I didnt want to waste my time modding ROMS based on CM or publicised the use of CM ROMs. I have never touched CM ROMs since the days of Android 2.2. about 7 years ago. now CM has announce that it will stop any future development of CM ROMs immediately.

I guess the financial returns is not there or the owners is taking a core group of his developer and be acquired by a phone company. Either way or nothing at all there will not be anymore CM ROMS. 

Good riddance as far as I am concern, although I know there are users who sweras by CM ROMs but I have always held on to the view that none of the CM ROMs works at 100% as per expected, the best I would say is 99%. It is not that the OEM ROM is any better or worst. But I would try to avoid any further anomalies on my devices. I want to enjoy the device instead of finding unknown bugs every now and then on my CM powered devices

How to change QQ Mail password

Tencent QQ Mail services

For those of you who is wondering why would you use a China based services there are many advantages to it most of the big names Internet service providers like Weibo, Tencent, Baidu provide decent services that are inter linked with one another like if you subscribed to any of their Cloud services and certain Messaging apps you can log-in using either one of the services. Much like linking your user account to some US services via Facebook, Google or Twitter acoounts.

I said decent services but not excellent (even US services are not excellent with probably Google as an exception) is because they provide most of their services in Chinese only interface and apps with a few exception like Web based QQ Mail which is my focus of this guide. Their access outside the China mainland (even within China itself I see a lot of complaints about slow uploads /dowloads) is horrendously slow and you will most likely get "404 Not Found" or "504 Gateway timeout" errors. That is the contras but on the plus side if you are a "librarian" type of guy who likes to store every bit of what was and is currently from your backups, 1970s PC programs, grandmas pictures and every scrap piece of info that you have read or written since childbirth, then you should try out Weibo or Tencent Cloud storagewhich could get you upto 10's of Terrabytes of Cloud storage. Just head on to their site and register thats the plus side.

Again I would like to warn you guys that the upload and download speed is slower than a modem connection. But overall most China Cloud storage services are "generous" but please try to use the welknown sites a sothers startup could close shop and with it all your files are gone.

So after setting up your QQ Mail account  and you have got your Cloud storage activated and you decide to change your password if you think it is straight forward ike Outook, GMail, YahooMail you are wrong. The Chinese has a peculiar way of doing things. normally you would go to settings "Accounts" and rest password but it took me on a roller coaster ride to a dead end. So the actual correct way is to go to QQ Security center best to do it from web base on PC and change. If you try to change it through the QQmail settings it will meet a dead end.

This is the QQ Mail logo that you will see on PC and on Android

Win 10 Millenial Edition ( ver 1607)

Win 10 Millenial update ( ver.1607)

For those that cant wait to get automatic update ,you can do it manually through Microsoft server download by installing this "Windows update.exe" (Win10Update_28084 anything earlier than this release might cause "error 0x80070057" unable to update) on their Win10 PC and running it.

1. It will check PC parameters for compatibility

2. Download the update ( about 2Gb) 

3. Installs the update.( make sure PC is plugged in)

4.Reboots ,restart many times till the whole update is fully installs .

5.Time taken from start to finish about 2.0 - 3.0  hours (with many auto restarts)

For now there is no official ISO image files (although I have an unofficial 32/64bit copies). All must be manually updated using the given app.

CAUTION !!: There are numerous reports about this early release Millenial Edition (as usually is with Microsoft, what else is new?) That the updates causes freezing of PC in some instances and users are warned to do a full backup of a 100% fully working Win10 OS version 1511 before trying to update to 1607 Millenial. YOU ARE WARNED! It seems that this "freezing" issues are with the initial release of 1601 versions but this update will install 1607. 

I have been on Millenial Edition and find it is hardly any hardly drastic changes to this edition than the already stable 1511. So I would say go for the update. But remember to do this after update to "cleanup system" files on your C:/ drive to free up about 1.6 Gb of storage space for the temporary download files and to free up a few hundred Mb from the "previous Windows" version files. It has been a good experience so far no untowards experiences. All I can say is it is very stable.

The Best Android device to device to PC file transfer

LENOVO SHAREit/CLEANit/SYNCit

               Lenovo Shareit (highly recommended for any Android/PC devices)

Latest version for PC ver. 4.0 and Android ver. 3.7.8ww

The companion apps from Lenovo for sharing file beween PC and Android and Anroid to Android, highly recommended better than other wifi hotspot file transfer apps with PC app included. 
CLEANit a safe clean junk cleanup app companion to SHAREit.
SYNCit the latest version for Android with Lenovo ID backup files , pictures, contacts,Messages to Lenovo free cloud can be ported to other Android devices.

Lenovo A7-A3300HV KitKat S024

Back by Popular demand.

The KitKat firmware version S024

with bloatwares remove during SPFlashTool reflash due to repairs or upgrade

and further bloatwares will be removed after installing "System Update.zip" through TWRP.