M8 Tips & Tricks for New UI

Updated to new FW... Its awesome... one problem is ,I am not able to see contact name when someone calls... .. trying to figure out the way to solve this...anyone have any idea... Area code does not work.

Fantastic post! It really helped me understand the firmware and the new UI is absolutley amazing. I love it. Everything work fine with mine so far

Is there some way to choose which numbers to blacklist and/or how to block unknown numbers or anonymous numbers? In the old UI you could choose which calls to block and to add numbers to the blacklist. In the new UI you can only just turn on these features it doesn't show any of these options. Now when you turn on block strangers it blocks all numbers not on your contact list.

Select the person in your contact list you wish to block, press Groups, and select Blacklist. That's it.

How can I configure the M8 to receive messages normally?
I receive the SMS with a delay of 24 hours...
This happened when I install the new UI

Install new leaked firmwares, not the official one from Meizu's website. It has been fixed since a few days. 0.9.6.41 for example, you can find it in the forums.

There is chinese character recognition in the new UI. select the chinese keyboard then hold the CN button, choose the third option and you can write chinese characters (but be quick!).

Also the penpower input method will recognise western characters but it is a little hard to use as it's so small.

I have installed

新UI完美切换点讯 _100425 The new UI perfect switching point information _100425

which is primarily a chinese input (with english) and a input switcher program so it is possible if gestures software is configured to switch between Meizu chinese character recognition and penpower chinese and western character recognition easily.

Hugh discovery! did not know this, it recognizes the alphabet to!