We have been receiving messages and emails on our Facebook page a lot after Lenovo released Lollipop update for Lenovo A5000 which is quite lagging and have lots of bugs. So we were receiving messages like “How to roll back to KitKat on Lenovo A5000”, or “How to downgrade from lollipop to KitKat on Lenovo A5000”. Well, we already did once for Lenovo A6000 when our blog visitors were not able to use Lollipop properly. So here in this article, we will help you to revert back to KitKat from lollipop on Lenovo A5000 which will let you use your device with ease and comfort.
Problems being faced after Lollipop update on Lenovo A5000
- Phone is heating so much even in basic operations
- Heat, when phone is charging, is very high (phone and charger)
- Too much lagging and freezing in many applications
- Weather application is gone
- App for cleaning memory is gone too
- Battery draining is quickly
- Wifi icon is always on it doesn’t matter if wifi is on or off
- Camera quality went down, looks like two mp on front camera
Revert Back To Kitkat From Lollipop On Lenovo A5000
WARNING: Rooting or installing a custom ROM or recovery might brick your device, or your device may act abnormally, and you also lose the device warranty. You may even get a dead SD card which might not work or you can leave your device in a dead state. Before going through the entire tutorial, please be advised that it is your responsibility to go further. We’re not liable for any loss of data or any property of yours by any mean.
Pre-Requisites :
- Kitkat Rollback Firmware – Download it from here
- SP Flash Tools – Included in Kitkat Rollback Firmware
- Lenovo USB Drivers – Included in Kitkat Rollback Firmware
- Device battery should be charged above 50 %
- Please take the backup of contacts and personal media because everything will be removed after the downgrade
How To Revert Back To Kitkat From Lollipop On Lenovo A5000
- Enable USB Debugging on your device.
- Goto > Settings > Developer Options > USB Debugging.
- If Developer Options is not located under settings then enable it by going to Settings > About Phone > Device Info and tap on Build Number for about 7-8 times. And then go back and follow previous step.
- Goto > Settings > Developer Options > USB Debugging.
Step 1: Extract the 4.4 v30.zip. You will see three folders which include the firmware, sp flash tools and drivers for PC. Open the folder named SP_Flash_Tool_v5.1352.01 and run flash_tool.exe (run as administrator) after that Select MT6582M_Android_scatter.txt. It will automatically select the Lenovo A5000 model
Step 2: Click on Options then Download and make sure both of them are checked
Step 3: Select the Download Only, and then click Download
Step 4:
- Now just click on checkbox recovery and browse to the extracted files and locate recovery.img
- Turn off your Lenovo A5000
- Click the big download button on top left and connect the phone with USB cable in switch off condition
- Press Volume Button up button two times
- Now you will see the red stripe showing download percentage
Step 5: Your Lenovo A5000 has finally reverted to KitKat from lollipop
Bugs
- None, everything is working fine.
hello. may I know what stock rom will I flash to gain OTG? and is it safe to flash stock rom after flashing the kitkat rollback firmware downloaded from here?
Thank you
I reverted back and no problems.
Thanks.
Thank you. I finally reverted back to Kitkat without any problems. No Touch driver and OTG problems. Thank you so much. Now my phone is back with no issues at all.
Installing KitKat (downgrad) after upgrade would not be a problem if…..
a) After the OTA upgrade to Lolipoo, my USB is dead.
b) Battery chargin can only be done with the phone completely off.
c) because of a) i can not connect to the pc and have not access to the ROM at all
anyone had the same problem? I just can’t imaging Lenovo is realeasing a ROM with this kind of bug.
Veer Amrit Singh please reply
did this downgrade root our phone ………for some reason i didn,t want my phone to get root
Can we flash custom roms that are available? Or we can only use the Stock Rom that is inside the file?
Yes you can flash custom roms after flashing this stock rom.
No swipe lags at all. I can promise it. Just follow the steps according to my previous reviews. Security app, Power saving mode and Everything is back. Dont flash stock rom, only flash given custom rom in the post above.
is there swipe lag after downgrade? any updates plss…
Oh im really sorry guys, in previous post, its not “while pressing power up key” it shoud be “while pressing VOLUME UP key. Also i have to say dont ever try to flash original kitkat stock firmware after flashing this firmware. I have tried it and my touch experience was horrible. Provided firmware is very smooth and no lagging at all. OTG is not a big deal. I dont even try to find out whether it works or not.
Yes… yes…. finally i made it. Thanks for all. As umer said, Definitely you cannot go forward with windows 10. you have to do the flash with windows 8 or 8.1 computer. maybe it will work on windows 7 too. Also after press download in sp flash tool, you need to connect your phone with switched off and you need to connect it to your computer while pressing power up key. then red bar on bottom of sp flash tool will be completed and release the power up key when it begins flashing. thats all. make sure you have installed the drivers before start. use this youtube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv03pIfnIEw to install drivers.(only for install drivers). also make sure to run sp flash tool as an administrator. you are all done. happy downgrading. I dont care about OTG. Thanks again all for the great tutorial. Umer is a life saver.
Hey there, did you make the downgrade successfully? Do u experience any lag in your touch experience? Give us a short reply….thanks
I successfully reverted back to to kitkat, yahoo :-) Thank you guys!
I’m now super happy…
Glad it worked for you Umer
I’m in the process of reverting my Lenovo A5000 from Lollipop to Kitkat using this guide but the procedure mention in this guide is not 100% correct.
I first tried to do it using windows 10 but it did not worked and I’m now using windows 8.
Secondly, once I launch the flash_tool, and after selecting scatter file and related processing, nothing happened at all. I pressed the download button and waited 1 hour but nothing worked.
At this stage, you need to plug your phone in with your laptop, switch off the phone and then turn on phone while keeping the volume-up button pressed.
A new screen pops up with Japanese menu entries, I then selected the last entry (as it always be the exit menu) once I done that, the processing started …
right now 36% processing has completed. Let’s see if I brick phone or get a kitkat version. Fingers crossed. :)