Legion Y700?

[ijuanp03]

Hey guys, I recently bought this tablet and coming from the iPad Mini 6, I can honestly say that the Legion Tablet is way better when it comes to performance and battery efficiency.

I only play 1 game -- Mobile Legends which isn't even heavy to begin with but the iPad Mini 6 can't consistently run the game smoothly. It WILL stutter randomly (sometimes in the middle of the game, sometimes at the start) with no known culprit as to why it is stuttering.

It was a wise choice for Lenovo to put SD870 for its great battery and balanced performance.
I can even say it is a better choice than using the latest SD 8 gen 1 or 8+ gen 1.

The only downside of having this tablet vs the iPad Mini 6 is the front camera (centerstage). I sometimes do video calls and the FOV of Legion is comically near. And of course, the camera quality is better on the iPad.

 

[crimsonnn]

I cannot find a sub-forum for this specific tablet, so I thought I'd post it here.

This is a Chinese-only 8-inch tablet with Snapdragon 870 and a 120Hz screen. I would very much like a small form-factor tablet with high refresh rate and this one seems to be the only one I can find on the Internet.

https://shop.lenovo.com.cn/lenovopc/product/y7002022022.html

Lenovo Legion Y700 - Full tablet specifications

www.gsmarena.com

It is just launched in China this month and there's not much information I can find about it outside China. I read Chinese so it is not a problem for me but I need to have Play Store on it as I live in the U. S. It looks like Lenovo has some track record of shipping their Chinese SKUs with GMS included so it is trivial to install Play Store from the ZUI app store. The P11 itself seems to be an international variant of such a Chinese SKU.

Does anyone have experience with this particular tablet? Or Lenovo's (Chinese) tablets in general?

Thanks!

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Hi i had one and i recently have the latest iteration of zui 14. All is good. You can also ask the seller to install Google Play and had the language in English

 

[ijuanp03]

This is the latest update but I don't see you guys talking about 14.0.197

 

[stryke-]

some user says after update y700 to zui14 lenovo pen is useable. they says there is pen menu in system settings app, and palm rejection and pen pressure works.. is this true? I was heard y700 doesnt support any pens

edit : Im using GSI, after flash zui14 vendor Pen works. true.

Would love to use a stylus with this thing. Is it the Lenovo Precision or Active pen that you have? I don't want to end up buying an incompatible one.

 

[solsearch]

some user says after update y700 to zui14 lenovo pen is useable. they says there is pen menu in system settings app, and palm rejection and pen pressure works.. is this true? I was heard y700 doesnt support any pens

edit : Im using GSI, after flash zui14 vendor Pen works. true.

Which pen? Lenovo has various pens which use different protocols... so if you could say which one you're using it could help others out...

 

[FrankVGL93]

Literally read the above messages..
Everything is there from now rooting to
Installing custom roms.

Ill be putting guide up on getting 2nd screen fuction to work later on

Sorry for spamming for this, I looked on the entire thread but didn't find anything about getting magisk installed on the official Chinese room. I guess there's no root options for it besides using a custom room right?

 

[solsearch]

Has anyone here used the ZUI14 update? From what I could gather reading a google translate version of an article it's a limited release like a beta (the google translate said "grayscale update") and on the Chinese Lenovo forum some users say they haven't gotten it either.

I really hope we get it soon (I would love to have pen support on this tablet if possible as seems to be the case with the update), but am worried about no desktop mode (not mandatory but definitely nice to have, I HAVE used it a few times and it helps with productivity while out and about when using a portable monitor.

So yeah, if anyone here has used it it'd be great to know and how well it works for them (I saw some comments about google play but nothing else).

 

[mickey36736]

This is the latest update but I don't see you guys talking about 14.0.197

There is a beta version 14.0.222 (The link is inside the QR Code) which can be a stable version if it goes well. No idea about the changelog.
So a new update is probably coming soon.

 

[STHellRaiser]

Sorry for spamming for this, I looked on the entire thread but didn't find anything about getting magisk installed on the official Chinese room. I guess there's no root options for it besides using a custom room right?

Post in thread 'Legion Y700?' https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/legion-y700.4418573/post-87759647

Follow what lisa has said and the install guide off magisk.
The root process is same wether its cutom or stock rom. Just boot.img fike which lisa has provided already, just follow magisk steps on how to flash over boot. Img file

 

[Saumer]

Would love to use a stylus with this thing. Is it the Lenovo Precision or Active pen that you have? I don't want to end up buying an incompatible one.

Which pen? Lenovo has various pens which use different protocols... so if you could say which one you're using it could help others out...

Im using Lenovo Active Pen 3. works except pen button. maybe because Im using GSI, not official rom.

I heard Lenovo Precision 2 also works.
I heard there is a new pen from lenovo that have low-latency(45ms) on Y700, but I dont know its name, and i dont know other pens latency.

edit : pen button works on gsi. pen button cannot mapping as hardware button so I thought its not works but works on drawing apps. I didn't know how the pen button was used.

 

[solsearch]

Im using Lenovo Active Pen 3. works except pen button. maybe because Im using GSI, not official rom.

I heard Lenovo Precision 2 also works.
I heard there is a new pen from lenovo that have low-latency(45ms) on Y700, but I dont know its name, and i dont know other pens latency.

Thanks for the info.

How's ZUI14 working for you? Would you recommend it? I'm debating whether to do the manual update...

 

[Saumer]

Thanks for the info.

How's ZUI14 working for you? Would you recommend it? I'm debating whether to do the manual update...

Im using GSI not zui14. I just flashed zui14's vendor.img and boot.img via fastboot.
If you using (official zui rom and didnt unlock bootloader) or (dont know what is gsi&bootloader), I cannot help you. I dont know how to receive zui update properly.

I heard some people dont like zui14 update due to some functions removed(pc mode etc), slightly faster battery drain etc. so I dont recommend it unless you like zui14 or want to use pen.

Using GSI, difference of how vendor.img works that I found is only three. (I also flashed odm dtbo product etc after confirm zui14 vendor makes pen works, so number 3 might be not caused by vendor?)
1. pen works (but pen button not works)
EDIT : Pen button also works.
2. DT2W not works (Phh treble app LenovoDT2W option disappeared)
3. if battery ≤10%, Y700 uses only little cpu. Im not sure (this is difference of vendor.img) or (its same on zui13 but I found this recently).

 

[solsearch]

Im using GSI not zui14. I just flashed zui14's vendor.img and boot.img via fastboot.
If you using (official zui rom and didnt unlock bootloader) or (dont know what is gsi&bootloader), I cannot help you. I dont know how to receive zui update properly.

I heard some people dont like zui14 update due to some functions removed(pc mode etc), slightly faster battery drain etc. so I dont recommend it unless you like zui14 or want to use pen.

Using GSI, difference of how vendor.img works that I found is only three. (I also flashed odm dtbo product etc after confirm zui14 vendor makes pen works, so number 3 might be not caused by vendor?)
1. pen works (but pen button not works)
2. DT2W not works (Phh treble app LenovoDT2W option disappeared)
3. if battery ≤10%, Y700 uses only little cpu. Im not sure (this is difference of vendor.img) or (its same on zui13 but I found this recently).

Thanks

I'll keep thinking on it. The pen functionality would help me with work but isn't absolutely necessary (I have a Galaxy tab s6 and the Lenovo m14t portable monitor so I can use those if need when I need a pen.

 

[ijuanp03]

There is a beta version 14.0.222 (The link is inside the QR Code) which can be a stable version if it goes well. No idea about the changelog.
So a new update is probably coming soon.

Thanks. Do you have the link of the latest non-beta version? I don't know the upgrade policy of Lenovo and in case I upgrade to the beta version, will I still receive updates OTA?

 

[solsearch]

Thanks. Do you have the link of the latest non-beta version? I don't know the upgrade policy of Lenovo and in case I upgrade to the beta version, will I still receive updates OTA?

According to comments on the Chinese Lenovo forum, if the beta becomes the stable then yes, you will receive OTA. Unfortunately this comment seems to imply that if it doesn't then you won't.

As for how to update, here's a guide for how to upgrade to ZUI14 using OTA.

Upgrade Lenovo Xiaoxin P11 Pro 2021 to ZUI 14 via OTA (TB-J716F)

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It's not mine but I tried it and it works. The Android framework is very important as otherwise you'll get problems. If you uninstall updates to google services as is recommended earlier in this thread basic google services will work (gmail and stuff) but many apps will insist that you update and won't launch. I also had to reinstall the play store from apk mirror.

After following that guide it works fine for me except I don't have the promised pen functionality. It appears in the advanced section of the options, but everything is greyed out and none of the pens I have work (which could be a compatibility issue but the menu shouldn't be greyed out either way).

PC mode is not gone but it's more limited. Before you could use PC mode on the tablet and wirelessly when casting to a screen. It is still there but only when you connect to an external screen/monitor using the USB port. Now for me that's fine since I am tall and don't feel like hunching over to multitask on the small screen (I can do it without hunching but then my eyes get tired after a while and I get easily distracted since it's such a small part of my field of vision). and I only every really used the PC mode with an external monitor. When connecting to a 4k tv the tablet matches the tv output framerate (which is 30hz by default).

 

[ijuanp03]

Thanks for this the update is pushing through my device. As someone using a Motorola CN ROM device (X30 Pro), this is quite odd since Lenovo allows software updates outside of China on my Moto.

 

[ijuanp03]

So I followed the guide however manually installing the Android 12 framework apk caused me problem.

The fix? Simple - just uninstall the app update and I am now able to log back to my Google account.

 

[yoshihiro.rin]

I have a Chinese version Y700 with Google Play. One thing that is missing or disabled is "nearby share" and having to use the Lenovo app instead, which is frustrating. Is there any workaround?

 

[solsearch]

So I followed the guide however manually installing the Android 12 framework apk caused me problem.

The fix? Simple - just uninstall the app update and I am now able to log back to my Google account.

So it seems to be that both steps are necessary (in whatever order). I had uninstalled updates first but that wasn't enough and had to manually install the Android 12 framework. You first installed the framework but it wasn't enough and had to uninstall updates.

So for anyone else reading this and wanting to upgrade to ZUI14 and keep google stuff working, uninstall updates and install Android 12 framework (not necessarily in that order) as both of these steps are necessary to get Google services working properly again (and most apps that depend on them).

 

[LisaMaria]

Y'all something terrible happened. My tablet was stolen . But I'm just gonna rebuy one. Just wondering now if I should rebuy it or go with that m6 8.4. If yall tablets were stolen and now untraceable would you rebuy or go for m6 8.4 from huawei that has lte or back to the legion?