Re-Partition Internal Memory Lenovo S920 – Most china phone has Internal Storage and USB Storage on it partition. This USB Storage it different with external USB Storage aka sd card. So i think it useless to have USB storage while we can get bigger external USB storage from sd card. This tutorial teach how to remove internal USB storage so it space can be use by internal storage.
In the next process we gone deal with android system, flashing, editing system file and something that can make your device become brick. So please consider it again if you want to proceed to the next step.
Disclaimer :
This guide for educational purpose only, We not responsible if your device bricked after following this tutorial.
Requirement :
- Download Lenovo S920 Stock ROM
- Download checksum.ini
- Download EBR2
ROM Process
- Extract Lenovo S920 Stock ROM, to your computer.
- Make a copy or a backup of Lenovo S920 Stock ROM, Make a backup of your original ROM use Nandroid Backup or use 3rd party software.
- Find and replace checksum.ini and EBR2 file from extracted with downloaded files. This file in /target_bin sub folder.
Flashing Process
After finish with ROM’s Process now it time for us to flash it to our device, this process will replace our original ROM. After finish flashing we will found that our device internal memory will be increase to 3.6 GB.
Requirement :
Flashing Step :
- Extract all download files to on folder. You will have these folders MTK6589 Driver, SP_Flash_Tool_v3.1304.0.119 and S920_ROW_S117.
- Install MTK6589 Driver to your computer. Reboot after finish with installation process.
- Turn off your Lenovo S920 and plug off the battery. Connect your Lenovo S920 to your computer, it will installing Mediatek PreLoader USB VCOM Port. After finish installing Mediatek PreLoader USB VCOM Port success disconnect your phone from your computer.
- Now open SP_Flash_Tool_v3.1304.0.119 folder and run Flash_tool.exe check on DA DL With Check Sum. Click on Scatter-loading look for MT6589_Android_scatter_emmc.txt on the S920_ROW_S117 folder, look on /target_bin sub folder
- When everything is ready, Click Download button. now connect your device to computer, please remove battery and sc card. When your device detect then it will show Red Bar and not very long it will become Yellow Bar increase. Wait until it reach 100% please don’t remove, shutdown or reboot your computer in this moment cause it will make your device bricked. When it finish it will show you Green Sign and you can disconnect your device.
- Done, You can now turn on your device and check size of Internal Memory it will become 3.6 GB
Congratulations !!, Now you have learn how to flashing your Lenovo S920 and success to Re-Partition Internal Memory. If you have any problem please drop a messages, i will try to help you.
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i have a problem here, Mediatek PreLoader USB VCOM Port appeared a few seconds after i connected my phone with my computer and then it disappeared. and when i wanna flash it, it shows SP FLASH TOOL ERROR : ( 8038 ). can you help please?
try to remove mediatek driver first after that try to reinstall it again. but remfber to reboot computer after uninstall or install.
this will be my first attempt to do anything with my phone,, i just hope that these instructions relayed should help me out with no problem.. as its my first tym poking finger into my phone.. plus i wanna totally chage this phone coz of its chinese rom google app doesnt works..
Cross finger…. Contact me if you have any problem
Everything OK about ur instruction but finally It show me 1.4GB/1.5GB. What the problem that mean?
Look on your storage at setting , how many internal storage you have and how many phone storage you have? When your phone storage just only couple of mega then you already successfull reparted your internal storage
same problem with soe i got 1.4gb/1.5gb.. how can i fix that ?
what only 1,4gb/1.5gb ? i don't understand can you describe to me the problem ?
my internal memory is 1.4gb its not 3.6gb
are you sure you did all process, look at ROM process section. are you do the step number 3 ? if you not do the step number 3 then is same you flash lenovo s920 stock rom to your device, nothing change. but if you do the step 3 it arrange the partition to make you have bigger internal memory.
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Yes ,something like that because i did the process again ,now showing internal storage 17MB/18MB at phone .It Ok?Thanks for ur post and answer for me.
Yes it right it should be like that and your internal storage now must be must bigger that it should
I am not able to download "stock rom", "checksome.ini" , "EBR2" from the links provided. Please help…
#nishangh are the link dead?
unable to download stock rom,,, have been trying to download it past 3 days now.. it gets downloaded a bit n then just stops…
it host at google docs so i think it not server problem. check you internet connection it 600MB size
try using internet download manager or something that can pause when connection down
m using internet download manager to download it but every time at 608mb it stops saying error in d while n unknown network connection
please refer to this link https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/chrome/WdIgVUzR9fU/zDqj8PXzDwEJ
and one more question i would like to ask is that after flashing my phone will i be able to use google services..among which playstore is most important. coz at d moment my phone doesnt accepts any google services and there was no gogole play store pre-installednin it
of course this tutorial just only show you how to re-partition your lenovo s920 internal memory, for installing google play services there is another tutorial. most off chinese phone does not include google play service
so can you give me a link for that..it would be a great help from you…
can you install using zip? are you already have custom recovery or still stock recovery ? i will give you gapps but you must install it from custom recovery.
try this gapps and flash from custom recovery, but first backup your current rom first
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see i didnt do anything with d phone yet as d stock rom wasnt g etting downloaded all i did was did a backup thats all…n just waiting to get a stock rom so dat i am able to flash d phone repartition it n also get google play servies specially google playstore
hey after doing this cmw recovery thing i am getting d options…. ROM may flash stock recovery on boot. FIX? THIS CANNOT BE UNDONE..
with d options
no, no, no, yes-disable recover flash.,, no , go back
so i clicked on no
n d phone got rebooted.
so now how i am supposed to knw if it was a success or not
i just did d cmw recovery
and if its a yes then kindly guide me thru this gapps process so that i can avail d features of google play store if u want u can send me a mail directly with d process as m a dummy wen it comes to a smart phone.. my email id is [email protected].
thanks for all d help so far.
appreciate it man…
hey my phone doesnt not shows sd card now.. what did i do wrong? can u please guide me on that..
sorry it started to show d sd card after rebooting it again… but nothing is getting downloaded it says storage space insufficient pls. check it out
If you click on no then it system install stock recovery again but if you click yes the cwm still on your system. If you follow this guide your external memory will be vanish cuse the size it add to internal memory. But not your sd card, i means true sd card not external memory act like sdcard.
so what abt the option dat said yes-disable recover flash? if i had clicked on that what was that supposed to mean?
If you choose yes it will disable the system to flash stock recovery to your system again. Just check on android system settings and go to storage menu this will list all your available storage and capacity too
OK so basically i have successfully done d cmw recovery process. so if i want to install gapps then i can go ahead with it as the capacity of d system is showing good. now if i want to avail google process i just need to install that gapps. am i ryt?
Yes if i see from your comments it look like you have almost success install cwm recovery to your device. And yes after successful installing cwm you can now install gapps.
if i may ask one question is there a way to make sure that d process has been a successs?
you will know when you success, go to recovery mode and it will cwm logo and everything else.
hey can you guide me on how to install gapps in lenovo s920
read this http://bit.ly/1rDyqni
thank you very much… my phone was never better b4… appreciate ur help buddy!!
your welcome
hi i am now having some problems in my phone lyk.. d basic features of phone lyk recording n screenshots they r not working now.. can you help me to fix that…
Recording is a software not every rom has it, and for screenshot try pres volume down+power button at the same time. This rom is internatinal version it remove some chinese apps that why you will miss some chinese apps
i did with the volume down+power but it didnt save d screen shot it took but didnt saved the shot..
so if i want to have a recording then i need to download another softwaer for it..
Then you must configure your default write disk choose sd card. Go to system setting and storage choose sd card for default write disk. Yes you must download another software
Hi Andy,
Thanks alot for your help I have been searching for this sinc yesterday but i found ur thread the most easiest to follow. I will do this today evening but before that i want to know what is the version of this ROM? if it's 4.2.1 which i already have, do u know if there is an updated ROM version official?
Thanks
This using multilanguage rom, i think it base on official release. Yes it android 4.2.1, for newest rom release official i still not hear it, dont forget to backup your current rom first in case something happen
hi …i followed all the steps u mentioned up there but when it comes to step 3 when the computer has to install Mediatek PreLoader USB VCOM Port nothing happenes. The red light of the phone is blinking but the laptop doesnt install anything , i tried with windows vista and windows 7 also.do u have any idea about what is going on or any suggestion …please help , i bought this lenovo s920 from china and after i did an update of the system all the apps and system is in chinese :)) oh and btw for vista where… Read more »
That driver is for windows 7 for windows vista i cannot provide it maybe you can search on google. Try to enable usb debugging on system setting. When usb debugging disable your laptop will hard to find your device
hi have a laptop now with windows 7 and then i come to step 3 i turn my phone off do i have to remove the battery and then go further. i did that but the only thing that happens is that a red light is blinking but no installation of Mediatek. what am i doing wrong.
Try to enable usb debugging mode, go to system setting -> developer mode -> usb debugging. Remove battery for 5 second and then plug the battery again
hi …again …sorry to bother u again but it looks like my phone is brick now.:) i tried to flash it ,it got to 37 % and then it stopped and it gave the error 8038. i red above what u said to the other guy and i did the same. after i reboot my laptop the mediateck driver is not stable anymore…it appears a few seconds and then disappears. i tried to take out the battery and then put it back ,doesnt help .how can i make the driver stable there ? do u have any suggestions ,please.. ???!!!… Read more »
Do clean uninstall on driver and try installing again. It just soft brick flash again it will be normal again. Hope this time you success
how to uninstall the driver?
look at add / remove program, uninstall program related to lenovo s920, connect your phone open device manager, it will show your phone on hardware list, right click and select uninstall
Hi Andy,
Just bought the S920 recently and theres just soooooo many unwanted chinese apps which i cant seem to uninstall/delete. HELP???
Hi, you need to root for uninstall/delete the unwanted chinese apps, after success root just install root explorer and go ro /system/app del unwanted apps from there.
hi andy,
thank you for your reply. unfortunately as easy as it feels reading your answer, its not that easy for me to understand all these tech language. im such a noob in this, could you please be a little more specific on what i shud really do to delete the unwanted apps? there are just no easy delete button..
Hi normaliza,
If you wanna to delete unwanted applications first you need to root you phone, look a guide on how to root lenovo s920, after root you free to modified your system include remove un wanted applications. For easy to do that use root explorer look at google play. This application is like explorer in windows so you free to navigate to system folder and remove un wantes applications. I hope you clear enought
Hi. Andi..
its work flawlessly on first attempt.
thank you very much.
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Hi dear friend Andy
i write you from Italy then sorry for my poor English CD
I bought one Lenovo s920 on aliexpress in shenzhen , the seller wrong and send it to me s920 whit stock ROM in Chinese language but I need Italian language …now thank on you I now that I can change a firmware and install international firmware built in Italian language ….how to proceed?
I can download a international firmware and install directly trought flash tool? Or I must make before a repartition procedure? Pls friend help me and thank you