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Elephone P2000: Bad luck or bad components quality?

Christopher StraßerJuly 28, 2014

Update: The problem has been solved after flashing an updated firmware.

A few days ago I completed a review of the Elephone P2000 and mostly it was working pretty well. Unfortunately, I have to report today that the phone has partially “died”. It was left unused over the weekend, as I received other devices to play with. Today I have booted it up again and was surprised to see it prompting me with the alternative password instead of showing me the fingerprint unlock screen.

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Entering the password got me in to the phone, but then things took a turn for the strange. Suddenly, messages started popping up that the phone was running out of memory. I checked that and to my surprise the memory was full. I removed some apps, but that did not help. This is especially strange as I had around 4GB of memory free when I shut it down before the weekend.

Next I went back to check the fingerprint reader settings. Everything was set up properly. I have tried to remove the previous settings and add them again but this unfortunately, did not work. The fingerprint reader does not recognize anything any longer. Even a re-flash of the firmware has not helped at all. So it appears to be a hardware related issue.

Of course I have no idea if this is just bad luck or if all Elephone P2000 models just have the same quality issues. Are you an Elephone P2000 owner? Have you had similar problems? Let us know!

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About the author
Christopher Straßer
Christopher joined the amazing world of Chinese phones and tablets back last year and quickly developed a large interest in them. Today he is operating the German GizChina issue and also writing on gizchina.com.

Adriano Ladislau
July 28, 2014
I saw your review of this phone on Yesterday and just bought one. It’s the world’s justice kkkkkkkkkkkk
Filipe Carvalho
July 28, 2014
I want to buy one to a friend, so wait more feedback 🙂
ColonelZap
July 28, 2014
Mine is working just fine 🙂
- July 28, 2014
  Good to hear that Dirk. Still did not get mine back alive. Just the memory is working again after formatting the phone in SP Flash Tool.
Adriano Ladislau
July 28, 2014
I saw your review of this phone on Yesterday and just bought one. It’s the world’s justice kkkkkkkkkkkk
- Christopher Straßer
  July 28, 2014

Filipe Carvalho
July 28, 2014
I want to buy one to a friend, so wait more feedback 🙂
Guest
July 28, 2014
Mine is working just fine 🙂
- Christopher Straßer
  July 28, 2014
  Good to hear that Dirk. Still did not get mine back alive. Just the memory is working again after formatting the phone in SP Flash Tool.
Jason
July 28, 2014
Guest
July 29, 2014
- Christopher Straßer
  July 29, 2014
Sofia Wright
July 29, 2014
It is just fine. but color is very ugly. you have also get details about iPhone6 with price.

nietjason
July 29, 2014
Elephone is just a horrible company
I have a p6 and it sucks
No customer service whatsoever to help me.
Never buying from them again….
Sofia Wright
July 29, 2014
It is just fine. but color is very ugly. you have also get details about iPhone6[END_OF_LINK1] with price.
Guest
July 29, 2014
Elephone is just a horrible company
I have a p6 and it sucks
No customer service whatsoever to help me.
Never buying from them again….

bubby
July 29, 2014
I have the Elephant P8 which is a great phone but the 4.4.2 update is riddled with bugs.
Seems Elephones idea of customer care is to open a forum and let purchasers of their phones try and sort out problems between them.
Not a particularly good look for any company , I’m left with the image of Elephones engineers being made up of a band of hackers and spirited amateurs.
As much as I like the phone , I just can’t see me buying their products in the future.

Guest
July 30, 2014
I have the Elephant P8 which is a great phone but the 4.4.2 update is riddled with bugs.
Seems Elephones idea of customer care is to open a forum and let purchasers of their phones try and sort out problems between them.
Not a particularly good look for any company , I’m left with the image of Elephones engineers being made up of a band of hackers and spirited amateurs.
As much as I like the phone , I just can’t see me buying their products in the future.

Dean Evan
July 31, 2014
The fingerprint works well on mine. The internal storage was small, but I resized it. There is a thread about resizing p2000 storage on their forum. Pretty helpful:)
- PhillyB
  October 26, 2014
jimgordon
July 31, 2014
Like nietjason, I too had problems with the Elephone P6. The main problem being it’s non-standard earphone socket which meant that the only earphones that fitted it were the poor ones that came with it! Several messages to Elephone about this went unanswered . Others have had problems with their other phones. They are only interested in selling you new handsets. They have no customer service. While they continue to produce what seems to be attractive and cheap phones, I definitely would avoid them.

Dean Evan
July 31, 2014
The fingerprint works well on mine. The internal storage was small, but I resized it. There is a thread about resizing p2000 storage on their forum. Pretty helpful:)
- Guest
  October 26, 2014
Guest
July 31, 2014
Like nietjason, I too had problems with the Elephone P6. The main problem being it’s non-standard earphone socket which meant that the only earphones that fitted it were the poor ones that came with it! Several messages to Elephone about this went unanswered . Others have had problems with their other phones. They are only interested in selling you new handsets. They have no customer service. While they continue to produce what seems to be attractive and cheap phones, I definitely would avoid them.

Mebay M
August 22, 2014
This company have same hardware for all phones, just change the design.
i have a mlais note pro similar disign and good phone
Mebay M
August 22, 2014
This company have same hardware for all phones, just change the design.
i have a mlais note pro similar disign and good phone

Evi Hassapides Watson
September 26, 2014
I received my Elephone in the mail yesterday and it all worked fine except… THE PHONE function. The screen goes blank during calls and you can’t control duration or anything else for that matter. But one thing I noticed is that one side of the casing was open, therefore someone has to have been tampering with it. This is the second faulty device I have received from Minideal.net and I seriously think they are terrible at their jobs especially since I specifically asked them to test the phone before sending it.
If anyone has encountered the same problem and has worked around it, please let me know as I would have to send the phone back for a second time and wait for another two months to get a refund from Minideal.net

Evi Hassapides Watson
September 26, 2014
I received my Elephone in the mail yesterday and it all worked fine except… THE PHONE function. The screen goes blank during calls and you can’t control duration or anything else for that matter. But one thing I noticed is that one side of the casing was open, therefore someone has to have been tampering with it. This is the second faulty device I have received from Minideal.net and I seriously think they are terrible at their jobs especially since I specifically asked them to test the phone before sending it.
If anyone has encountered the same problem and has worked around it, please let me know as I would have to send the phone back for a second time and wait for another two months to get a refund from Minideal.net
Justin Xin
November 6, 2014
Was the device in any case left in an extremely hot or cold temperature? My touchscreen borked up when the device was warm, and when it’s very cold the home button starts acting up (very cold being 26 degrees Celcius)

Guest
November 6, 2014
Was the device in any case left in an extremely hot or cold temperature? My touchscreen borked up when the device was warm, and when it’s very cold the home button starts acting up (very cold being 26 degrees Celcius)
Scorpion Dailey
November 18, 2014
Maybe the app “Clean Master” would help with the memory?
Scorpion Dailey
November 19, 2014
Maybe the app “Clean Master” would help with the memory?

Emilie
January 21, 2015
Hey ! I have a problem with my p2000… I have icones of apps that are twice or three times…anyone had this ? Like the ”,avigation” app double itself..and same for many others app…deleting them doesnt change anything..still happens again..(sorry for my english i m french). Thank you
- Mohamed
  March 9, 2015
  Try download Nova ROM it worka forma me
- michael
  March 10, 2015
  Yes I have that too mine even multiply to 6-7
Guest
January 21, 2015
Hey ! I have a problem with my p2000… I have icones of apps that are twice or three times…anyone had this ? Like the ”,avigation” app double itself..and same for many others app…deleting them doesnt change anything..still happens again..(sorry for my english i m french). Thank you
- Guest
  March 9, 2015
  Try download Nova ROM it worka forma me
- Guest
  March 10, 2015
  Yes I have that too mine even multiply to 6-7

lol
March 3, 2015
i buy elephone P8 and it sucks… speaker doesnt work and when i have it in my pocket lcd just crush… wtf.. never again… i agree with nietjason
Guest
March 3, 2015
i buy elephone P8 and it sucks… speaker doesnt work and when i have it in my pocket lcd just crush… wtf.. never again… i agree with nietjason

michael
March 10, 2015
Although elephones are good phones I’d say a lot of have different issued , mayne copy’s one app multiple times which creates around 10 pages at homescreen and get annoying and also my sound when I have it under 3-4 marks (clicks) it doesn’t give out sound I have to do it louder overeise sound doesn’t come out
michael
March 10, 2015
I still love the phone its really good but just not all of them are perfect , when you think about it the elephone p7000 is about to be released and I only bought my p2000 in November and it’s made a lot of phones and maybe were they rushed ?

Guest
March 10, 2015
Although elephones are good phones I’d say a lot of have different issued , mayne copy’s one app multiple times which creates around 10 pages at homescreen and get annoying and also my sound when I have it under 3-4 marks (clicks) it doesn’t give out sound I have to do it louder overeise sound doesn’t come out
Guest
March 10, 2015
I still love the phone its really good but just not all of them are perfect , when you think about it the elephone p7000 is about to be released and I only bought my p2000 in November and it’s made a lot of phones and maybe were they rushed ?

Miftahu Abdulraheem
March 20, 2015
Help! My people can’t hear me clearly on elephone p2000 by me I can hear them. Please what can I do?
Miftahu Abdulraheem
March 20, 2015
Hello
Miftahu Abdulraheem
March 20, 2015
Help! My people can’t hear me clearly on elephone p2000 by me I can hear them. Please what can I do?

Miftahu Abdulraheem
March 20, 2015
Help! My people can’t hear me clearly on elephone p2000 by me I can hear them. Please what can I do?
Miftahu Abdulraheem
March 20, 2015
Hello
Miftahu Abdulraheem
March 20, 2015
Help! My people can’t hear me clearly on elephone p2000 by me I can hear them. Please what can I do?
moshiachnow
April 19, 2015
I bought one due to the reviews, and because it was supposed to have 2 gigs of RAM. However it only lets me have maybe 25% of the number of apps I had on my previous phone (a Xiaomi, with 1 gig of RAM). You mentioned that the problem was solved after updating firmware. Where can I find details about this update?

moshiachnow
April 19, 2015
I bought one due to the reviews, and because it was supposed to have 2 gigs of RAM. However it only lets me have maybe 25% of the number of apps I had on my previous phone (a Xiaomi, with 1 gig of RAM). You mentioned that the problem was solved after updating firmware. Where can I find details about this update?
Subramanya
June 2, 2015
Same problem with me too.. if any solutions, please mail me @ subbu.mech2@gmail.com
Subramanya
June 2, 2015
Same problem with me too.. if any solutions, please mail me @ subbu.mech2@gmail.com
Tank
May 3, 2017
Elephone considered as low quality phones
Tank
May 3, 2017