How To Install Custom ROM In Lenovo P780

Custom ROM !! When you are bored with your stock ROM the one thing that makes your boring Android Phone a new flavor is Custom ROM. Hope we all know Custom ROM. If you don’t just Google it. In this post I am going to tell you how to install Custom ROM in Lenovo P780 ROW device. For Lenovo P780 there are lots of custom ROM available in market but all these are for Chinese device. You will hardly find Custom ROM for Lenovo P780 ROW. If you don’t know about ROW device or Chinese then here I want to mention that Lenovo P780 available in two version. One is ROW device which is mainly for like country India and other is Chinese. You check your device type by checking Build number from settings>About Phone>version information.

As I said maximum custom ROM for Lenovo P780 is for Chinese based device. But you can port or install these Chinese based custom ROM on your ROW device. But you need to be careful while doing this. Porting Chinese ROM on ROW device soft brick your device. So I am going to tell you how to install Chinese based custom ROM on Lenovo P780 ROW device. But first I will tell you how to ROW based custom ROM on ROW Device. Then I will discuss Chinese Based Custom ROM on ROW Device.

A. Install ROW Based Custom ROM on ROW Device.

Backup your device: Please backup all the data including contacts or SMS or whatever you want. And I am going to recommend you to backup your current ROM or the Stock ROM if you want to. Though you can get the stock ROM from internet.

Root your device: If you have rooted device nice otherwise root your device using this link

Install TWRP Recover ROM: Another thing is your device must have TWRP custom recovery installed otherwise install by this guide.

Backup IMIE Number:  This is most vital when you are installing Chinese based ROM on ROW device. Backup IMIE using Mobile Uncle tool and keep it in a safe place like in your PC. As the internal memory totally formated while installing custom ROM, the IMIE also lost. And the most pathetic part is if you lost IMIE your Phone will be lika a Android Pod or Plastic shit. So please backup IMIE. To backup IMEI just install Mobileuncle tool from play store. Now open the app( you need root privilege) and you will see a option ” IMIE Backup Restore (MTK) ” . Just tap on it then select backup. The backup file will be saved in your sd card with name “imie.BAK” just copy the file and save it in safe place in Phone as well as PC or Dropbox.

Now you can install custom ROM on your device, Just follow these steps.

1)Download your desired ROM zip and. put it on your SD card.
2) reboot your phone to twrp recovery. ….and do wipe..
a) cache and dalvik
b) Do factory data reset
c)wipe system ( now your existing ROM is removed..hence should complete the following steps while on twrp recovery. .)
d)wipe internal memory
3) install ROM zip from SD card
4) after successful installation. ..do wipe only cache and dalvik only
5) Do SWIPE to fix root
6) reboot to system…
Done….first boot take some time around 5 minutes. ..
7) reboot to recovery and flash your modem zip…
8) after successful installation. .do wipe cache and dalvik only
9) reboot your phone to system. .
…….Done….
……… Enjoy the new ROM……

You can find ROW based custom ROM for Lenovo P780 on internet but there are little ROW based custom ROM.

B. Install Chinese Based Custom ROM on ROW Device.

If you are interested to install Chinese based custom ROM on ROW device then follow this

A. Install Chinese Stock ROM on your ROW device

You need to switch ROW stock ROM to Chinese Stock ROM to avoid kernel panic.

B. Install the chinese based custom ROM

1)Download your desired Chinese Bases Custom ROM zip and. put it on your SD card.
2) reboot your phone to twrp recovery. ….and do wipe..
a) cache and dalvik
b) Do factory data reset
c)wipe system ( now your existing ROM is removed..hence should complete the following steps while on twrp recovery. .)
d)wipe internal memory
3) install ROM zip from SD card
4) after successful installation. ..do wipe only cache and dalvik only
5) Do SWIPE to fix root
6) reboot to system…
Done….first boot take some time around 5 minutes. ..
7) reboot to recovery and flash your modem zip…
8) after successful installation. .do wipe cache and dalvik only
9) reboot your phone to system. .