[GUIDE] How to install ROW on Lenovo vibe x2 Chinese Ver. - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

After seeing SO many frustrated people asking how to do this and never really getting a good answer, i decided to make a useful and easy guide.
Things you need
ADB drivers installed and working
Lenovo usb driver
MTK driver
(Windows will most likely install Lenovo and MTK drivers by itself, if not, search google for ''MTK Drivers'' and Lenovo ''USB drivers'', download and install.
Go To Needrom and download both AP and CU official roms
Same place find a TWRP recovery under one of the X2 roms
SP Flash tool (again, Google it) download and install
If any of these things make you think *Whaaat?* then do some more reading, before continuing!
And on with it!
Attention
Save everything you have on your phone you dont what to have deleted, because it will disappear!
Extract both of the Roms you downloaded previously, and for convenience put them side-by-side on your desktop.
Make sure your phone is adaquetly charged everything above ~60%
Turn your phone off and DONT choose ''fast boot up''
Make sure the phone is not plugged in the computer just yet
Open up SP Flashtool
At the top, press options -> option -> download, check both boxes.
Close the option window again
Leave the ''download agent'' be! It should look like this C:\where you installed\SP_Flash_Tool_v5.1524.00.000\MTK_AllInOne_DA.bin
Now press the button that says ''scatter loading'' And navigate to your desktop where we extracted the ROMS earlier and into the AP ROM folder from there choose ''Target_bin'' and then ''MT6595_Android_scatter.txt''
Example of How it should look like:
C:\Users\Yourname\Desktop\X2-AP_ROW_S130_150412\target_bin\MT6595_Android_scatter.txt
Critical!Make sure the next drop down menu says ''Firmware Upgrade'' if you choose ''Format all + download'' you lose you IMEI and MAC Address, if that happens prepare yourself for looong nights of google'ng :laugh:
Now we're ready to flash!
Press the big Download button with the green arrow and plug your (turned off) phone into you PC (IN THAT SPECIFIC ORDER, YES!), with some luck and driver cooperation it all works
SP flashtool should now begin to burn the new ROM to your phone, and it will take awhile so be patient.
if nothings happens at all make sure your phone was completely turned off without choosing ''Fast Bootup'' and that you installed your drivers correctly.
When The Flashing is done SP flashtool will display a ''Download OK'' or similar
After that just close all SP Flashtool windows completely and unplug your phone
Boot it up to check that its working, if not you did something wrong, try again.
Congratulations! Now you hopefully have a ROW ROM on your your phone!
Unfortunately Your Radio dosen't work, that's because the Chinese phones have a different Modem then the ROW versions.
So lets fix that!:good:
Open up SP Flashtool again
make sure the boxes in options -> option is still checked!
Press the scatter loading button again
but this time navigate to to place where you downloaded and extracted your TWRP recovery folder.
In this folder there is also Scatter loading file, choose that
notice that the only thing checked now is the recovery box
Again make sure the drop down menu says ''Firmware upgrade''"!
Now same procedure as last time, with turned off phone, press the download button and connect phone
SP Flashtool will flash the Recovery files and ultimately say ''Download OK''
Close the window and unlug phone.
Now press the power button and both volume buttons at once, when the phones vibrates and/or when the lenovo logo shows release the power button but not the volume buttons
when the recovery screen appears release at will :silly:
Now plug in your phone and navigate to your phones internal storage then to ''Download'' folder
Now from the CU Version ROM you previously downloaded navigate to:
\modemdb\mt6595k95_hspa_lwg_cu
the two files called ''catcher_filter_1_lwg_n'' and ''modem_1_lwg_n'' are our modem files.
Now move these two files to the ''download'' folder in your phones internal storage.
When done unplug the phone again and continue from TWRP
Mount -> ''Check all'' -> ''press back button''
''Advanced'' -> ''File manager'' -> sdcard -> Download -> ''click on one of the files you put there'' -> ''Move'' -> system -> etc -> firmware -> ''select'' -> ''swipe to confirm''
Now do that for the last file to, now you dont have to navigate to the ''firmware'' folder as when you press move on the next file it should be there already, so just press select.
now go back to the file manger and navigate to the ''firmware'' folder find both files you put there and select them then press ''CHMOD 755'' this tells ROOT that you have permissions to Read and Write them.
After that go all the way back and press Reboot -> system,
The recovery will then ask if you want to ROOT it, DONT Root IT! if you do the phone wont Boot!
Wait for the start up and enjoy your working phone!
If the phone tells you there is a update for it, dont install it the conventional way, as TWRP can't install the updates that way.
and if you flash Stock recovery and then update, your phone will update just fine but you'll have to move the modem files again, since the update checks the phone and sees something is wrong (the CU modem files dosen't match the checksum)
and will overwrite our CU modem files.
There's probably a lot of typos in this, bear with me, its late at night.
Disclaimer: If you dont know what your'e doing, then dont do it...
Made by Mikkel jacobsen

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This is for the X2Pt5?

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Thanks!
Very useful post.I've had a X2 with CU older version modified from Needrom but wasn't satisfied.
This one seems allright.
Thanks.
L.e. Still i have a problem with the radio thing.
In fact you make a mistake. Instead of ''Firmware upgrade''you must select ''Download only'' on flash tool at radio fix otherwise it will brick the phone.