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[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Swiftt2412:
I recently tried the Gesture app, i got that working and then after that i loaded up a new Substratum theme, (the recent substratum asked for a reboot after a new theme) i did the reboot but the phone wint turn on or take any charge. i had to hold down thr power button for 6-8 secs before it turned on. I worry about this because it may be a problem where it won't update my phone when the update comes since it won't reboot itself, HELP PLEASE
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] RandomPooka:
Updates on this phone happen "live" without rebooting to install it. That's the purpose of the A/B partition scheme. It updates whichever partition you're NOT using and when you next reboot, it reboots you to the newly updated partition.

That doesn't address the issue with WHY it happened in the first place, but it should hopefully ease your mind a bit about whether you can update the phone or not.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Swiftt2412:
After I loaded the gesture app and the new Substratum skin, I rebooted the phone and wouldn't turn on or receive power from the outlet. I had to log press the power button for like 6-8 seconds and then it turned on.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] RandomPooka:
Yes, you said that. Did you repeat it for a reason?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] mdisbrow:
I am trying to revert to stock from android p. I have reinstalled drivers, swapped cables, redownloaded current stock dump as well as adb.

Here is where I get stuck https://imgur.com/gallery/bjcnFAD

Fastboot will not wipe the phone. When I run the flashall file it just hangs at waiting for device.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] sroy:
Did you unlock the bootloader and the critical partitition?

fastboot flashing unlock

fastboot flashing unlock_critical
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] mdisbrow:
I did not but I did eventually get the issue sorted out. I compued the cmdhere.exe and fastboot files from minimal adb folder into the may stock dump folder. Then ran cmdhere from that folder and was able to get it recognized in fastboot. The command "fastboot -w" still did not wipe the phone. But I was able to run the flashall file and have adb push the images to the phone finally. Then in order to get it to boot I have to wipe data from recovery. In the end everything worked out it was just a little more complicated than expected.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] manr1mg:
Blackout screen

I have tested a few custom ROMs, I'm currently on AOSiP build, and when I go to unlock my phone; the screen stays black but I can still feel vibration when I press the fingerprint/ power button. I disabled the pin/pattern, aka no lock, and seemed to respond fine. I would like to keep my phone secure so if you have any answers why this is happening, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thank you.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] pereyra20:
I need help uninstalling the Android p beta from my essential phone. It's not letting me make calls and essential customer support/ service is not helping me because they don't even know how to do this.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] kickenwing13:
Hey ya'll,

My little cousin was on the OG Pixel and the screen just went black. It was already an RMA and he's out of warranty so he's SOL. So right now he's at the mercy of what phone is available and that's an iphone5s. He just graduated and will have a little money. He has had the nexus 6 and the og pixel. He'd like to wait for the pixel 3 and work this summer and save up. I originally thought the 6p would be a nice go between for not much money, but I know he could get one and have it do the battery thing and that's scary. So would you all recommended the essential phone as something that'd hold him over for a while ?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] RandomPooka:
The battery thing?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] kickenwing13:
6p has massive issues.... I went through 10 RMA's in total. Something where the battery would just go from 60 to 0 percent like "that". I think it was a hardware issue. Not sure if it got worse as the battery lost effectiveness or what.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] RandomPooka:
Gawd dang it all to heck! Glad I didn't buy one, then.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Snow27118:
Broken screen holding data hostage

Hey there,

So my PH-1's screen died randomly and I'm trying to get my data off of it. Yes I know, shame on me for not regularly backing things up. I reached out to Essential and they suggested I purchase a HDMI to usb-c cable. When plugging in the cable on my replacement device everything looks great, but unfortunately the screen is oddly cropped when plugging in my old broken phone.

So, I'm looking for some help on how I might be able to get all my data off with my laptop. My current challenges are that the phone is locked and since I restarted the phone, my fingerprint isnt sufficient. And I don't think I have usb debugging enabled.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] sd_shadow:
Dou you have bootloader unlocked?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Snow27118:
No it's not
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] xEren96:
Can i install and run the miuiOS 9 From xiaomi on my essential phone without any issues?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] garywojdan81:
I'm guessing that would be a no
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] ilikecl:
Need some help with rooting.

I unlocked the bootloader and did the unlock_critical as well.

I have gathered up the stock boot image and the magisk files per directions.

The issue I am having is booting into TWRP. It keeps failing at the "fastboot flash boot twrp-mata_11.img" command.

I keep getting the WRITING FAILED error (no such partition). I saw suggestions on trying different USB-C cables and different ports on the Macbook. I tried 2 different cables and switching ports on the Macbook without success. I will try with a Win10 machine later today, but wanted to see if maybe there was something else I was missing.

Thanks!
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] fredgar75:
Try deleting -mata_11 I know it shouldn't make a difference but that's what I always do and don't have any issues. I do also use a Windows machine.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] ilikecl:
OK, I'm really stumped. I got back to my Win10 machine and am having the same error. I did try renaming the TWRP img file, and still getting the same error.

I tried doing a BTS flash to 166, and then trying the root guide with TWRP. Still get the same error.

I also tried to manually flash the patched_boot.img from magisk by going into Magisk Manager, creating the patched_boot.img, transfer to PC, and flashing it in fastboot.

I guess next thing I'll try will be the BTS 234 img released today and see what happens...

UPDATE: Got it to finally root, but not strictly because of 234. Seems like an issue either with the TWRP linked in the GUIDE post or the latest fastboot version in platform-tools from Google. After I flashed BTS 234, I tried again and it failed. Then I noticed in the BTS 234 package there was fastboot and TWRP in it. So I used those ones, and lo and behold, it flashed TWRP without issue. I was then able to follow the rest of the root guide.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] stryver:
Hi everyone, I'm running the latest P preview w/June security patches. A few days ago I noticed my auto fill no longer works. I've done some extensive troubleshooting myself and found nothing works to get it back. When I long press to activate auto fill on any login screen a toast comes up that says form can't be filled. Also in settings under saved passwords, when clicked, a toast comes up that says "something went wrong" I also tried removing my Gmail account and re-adding it. Nothing. I've even went as far as submitting a bug report to Google in case it's related to the Pbeta. But I doubt it. Here is some screenies, any help would be appreciated.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] RandomPooka:
Does anyone else have Tasker profiles that use the proximity sensor? I've got two, but can't use either one, because Tasker doesn't read the sensor properly. Every other sensor test app I've tried from the play store successfully reads it in real time. Tasker fails miserably at this.

Any suggestions?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] rignfool:
After being a huge Tasker guy for many years... I've actually found apps that replace my most used profiles...

What are you trying to do... Maybe I can suggest an app?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] RandomPooka:
I was using one for enabling speakerphone when I pull the device away from my thick skull, and another for locking the screen when the thing is inverted in my pocket.

The speakerphone one isn't a big deal, but the pocket one would be nice to be able to use again. I was trying to change the proximity sensor to reading the ambient light sensor for zero, but never looked into it far enough to make it work.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] rignfool:
Ok...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hanan.android.ramkol

And

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plexnor.gravityscreenofffree
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] RandomPooka:
Thanks for the heads up. I'm not that worried about the speakerphone one. The pocket detection one needs to be proximity sensor based as well, and hopefully that app correctly reads the sensor. I'm not sure what Tasker's problem is that it won't accurately read it. Going to give that one a shot.

-- Update -- That screen lock app is almost what I'm looking for. I had a few issues with being able to set the proper orientation and forcing it to use a very specific and singular orientation AND proximity sensor combination. Bought the pro version anyway, because you gotta support developers. But, it isn't going to be able to replace the Taser profile I was using after all.

---------- Post added at 01:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:01 PM ----------

While I'm thinking about it. Does anyone else have issues with Roaming guard automagically re-enabling itself for domestic voice and data? I'll manually allow domestic voice/data roaming, and turn off the roaming guards for it, but will find myself without service in a place that I know darn well has service. Go back into the phone settings and roaming has been disabled without my knowledge, and bot voice and data roaming guards are re-enabled. WTF?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] PuRE IVIonztah:
Quick question. Why is it that on this phone, that you can't keep a recovery flashed? Everytime you want to flash something in recovery you have to fastboot flash a recovery img first. Why? What's changed?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] No-New-Phone:
A recovery is a separate system that you need to go to when you want to change the active system partition.

This phone by design has two system partitions. You use one to make changes to the other. So there's no need for an "extra" partition.

Gesendet von meinem PH-1 mit Tapatalk
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] RandomPooka:
Ummm... WHAT?? ^^^

We don't have a recovery partition. It's part of the boot.img partition, for some dumb reason.

You replace the stock boot.img with TWRP when you fastboot flash boot TWRP
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] garywojdan81:
Dumb reason=Apple seamless update envy
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] RandomPooka:
That's no reason to not have a separate recovery partition, though.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] garywojdan81:
Yeah, you're right
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] RandomPooka:
Especially considering that the phone was designed by some of the original Android development team, and has an easily unlockable bootloader, is not carrier specific, and otherwise seems to have been designed to accommodate the custom ROM community.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] surya17:
Anyone experiencing battery drain on June update?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] sunJJ:
Hey :)

I installed the beta 2 July Update. Has anyone any idea how i get fullscreen with notch in youtube and games ?

There arent notch settings in developer settings anymore.. maybe some adbs ? Thank you :)
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Taelix318:
Bootloop After Latest Update

Has anyone had an issue with their phone not booting or being soft bricked after the latest OTA completes? I'm currently running stock everything and the phone did not successfully reboot after selecting "Reboot Now" and manually cycling the power now boots directly into bootloader. Selecting recovery powers down the phone and selecting start just reboots back into bootloader. I've had the same issue with a couple of previous updates, but simply cycling the power always seemed to fix it. This is the first time that I've had the phone fail to boot. Any help would be appreciated as this is the phone I use for work. Thanks in advance!
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] AndrewX85:
Essential ph-1 demo version

I bought Essential PH-1 on eBay and realized that my phone was tampered with. The seller had flashed the Oreo and is currently running 8.1.0. However, I do not receive any monthly updates at all since I have received the phone.

Is there someway I can update my phone manually.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] pethopias:
not able to downgrade from Android P beta to oreo or any other build

- installed beta 1 by adb sideload

used 3 weeks

- tried downgrading by fastboot [as instructed on Essential website] didn't work

- tried installing beta 2 [out of curiosity] by fastboot and it worked

used beta 2 for 2 weeks

-now i tried downgrading by fastboot again and it didn't work.

- tried all the builds available on Essential website and none worked

The phone is bootloader unlocked, usb debugging mode and is detected by fastboot devices. Essential Phone drivers are also installed.

When I execute the flashall.bat file the process cancels, cmd window closes after few seconds and phone restarts from fastboot screen and boots into essential phone welcome screen with Android P Beta 2 where i have to setup the phone everytime all over again to go into settings unlock developer settings and turn on usb debugging mode to retry the process.

Please help or guide me what is going wrong during downgrade.

Thanks.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] RandomPooka:
I haven't messed with the beta releases, but I did notice that you haven't mentioned unlocking "critical"

Perhaps the BTS scripts are attempting to flash files that you just can't because you didn't fully unlock your device yet

Try opening a command window in the directory that you're running the script from, and then run the script in that window, rather than double clicking the script. At least you'll be able to see the error message given when your flash fails instead of the window closing on you as soon as it fails.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] kingbowness:
OTA Update Questions

Precursor Information on steps I performed:

I got my Essential on Prime Day and rooted it with Magisk yesterday after unlocking the bootloader.

Before I did this, I unlocked bootloader and got up to latest update.This was July 267 OTA update from Essential.

I followed the root instructions from here:

https://xdaforums.com/essential-phone/how-to/guide-rooting-essential-ph-1-magisk-t3701976

and downloaded a boot image (from the link in that guide above) labeled "OREO-8.1-JUL-267.img".

I booted into my bootloader, installed TWRP using fastboot and then booted into TWRP. There, I flashed that boot img and MAGISK v16.0 and rebooted.

It's rooted now and great.

Actual Question:

Today I get a notification on my Essential that that build I previously had (OPM1.180104.267) is available to be updated. Now I'm not stupid to know I should click download and install as my phone is rooted.

But shouldn't my phone be on this version as that was what I downloaded? I checked my System screen and sure enough I am actually on OPM1.80104.234 and not xx.267....

Next, just to clarify. But the best way to get future OTA updates is to boot my Essential into the bootloader screen and use fastboot to install one of the stock boot images (of same current version that my root is)

https://xdaforums.com/essential-phone/development/stock-7-1-1-nmj20d-t3701681

Found in that link. Then boot into phone OS (now unrooted) and install the OTA and re root it afterwards after by completing the same steps as before. Which is to install TWRP through fastboot and go into TWRP. Install the custom 'cracked' image of that same OTA update (the small 20MB files and not the fully GB files) I am now updated to and then install MAGISK again in that same session and reboot out of TWRP. (automatically deleting TWRP on leave).

These are the proper procedures? I soft bricked my PH1 yesterday as even the "step by step" instructions online aren't actually 100% step by step. Don't want that anxiety again.

Thank you.

FIXED: These steps got me good

https://old.reddit.com/r/essentialp...ade_to_android_oreo_opm1180104267_and_magisk/
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] kittygotwet:
I'm trying to get back to stock and update so I can reroot to 8.1.

I've follow this guide https://xdaforums.com/essential-phone/development/stock-7-1-1-nmj20d-t3701681

Placed stockboot.img onto phone. Have twrp on pc and on phone.

After flashing the stock boot I go and try to update, but I get the "installation failed. It'll asks me to try again, which redownloads the entire update and fails again.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] hssxda:
Hi All -

I just got a new Essential phone and I love the stock Android, however I can't figure out one thing. I am coming from Samsung phones and I like to have my default "home screen" (when I click home button) one of my "middle" screens, meaning that I have other pages when I swipe to the right and when I swipe to the left of the home screen. For some reason however it seems this isn't possible with my Essential phone running newest Android Oreo firmware. Am I missing something or is this just a limitation of stock Android nowadays? Is there an easy way to fix this?

I am rooted so if there are any root workarounds please let me know.

I have used novalauncher on previous phones so I am sure I could install that here as well but I was really looking forward to using stock launcher... but I really would like to be able to have apps both to the right and left of my default home page...

Please let me know if this is possible.

Thanks!
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] autosurgeon:
No this is not possible with launcher3 the stock launcher. This is because home is always to the right of your Google Feed. And feed is always the left most pane. Even if you turn feed off then home becomes the left most pane. Nova launcher would allow you to change this behaviour or emulate it depending on how you set it up. EG Nova would allow you to mimik your Samsung setup
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] ultrasuper:
Phone arriving in a couple of days.

If I take all the available updates immediately to play with it completely stock, will there be any issues unlocking the bootloader or rooting it afterwards?

Thanks
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] hssxda:
Not at all! I just did it the other day!!
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] ultrasuper:
1) Looking on gsm arena, or phone arena, indicates the phone's connector is USB-C, but it I see no designation for the USB revision the phone supports.

Is it a USB 3.0 or 3.1 phone? Like the Pixel 2 is?

2) My computers are only USB 2.0. I ordered these accessories: Car charger: https://www.amazon.com/Nekteck-Certified-Charger-Delivery-Included/dp/B075WQQG7C/

and https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074GS31FW

A travel USB-C to HDMI (etc) adapter.

Will I be able to successfully use adb and the other tools I need to use to root and ROM the phone on my older USB 2..0 computers? The car charger comes with a cable I assumed I could also use to connect to my old USB 2.0 computers, but if someone could have a peek at the car charger and verify that the cable is good for these purposes, I'd appreciate it. OR ELSE inform me of what specific type of cable I'd need to work on the phone.

(computers are running Win 7 but currently booted to Debian 9)

Thanks in advance.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Soulfire2007:
Cover art when using Spotify

Hey,

did anyone of you have success in sending cover art to your cars infotainment system? It's just not working for me :( . Tried setting the AVRCP Version to 1.6 in developer options without success. On another note: Changing the BT-Audio-Codec to LDAC doesn't stick. It always switches back to SBC
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] glenroebuck:
Hi - I just got my phone from Primeday opened it up and Pie was waiting to be installed. So I did. I have Total Wireless and went to edit the apn and ...uhh there is no where to edit the apn?? Anyone have any ideas? I google searched it but all I found were posts about editing conf files and having root? My unlocked S9 didnt even need apn configured I just popped the sim in and it was good to go. Any one?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] p51d007:
Joining the ranks next week. Back ordered from Amazon, but the $329 price was too tempting.

Hope the battery life works out. I've been using Huawei phones the last 4 years, with 4,000mAH batteries.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] :
I have StraighTalk with Verizon sim, same thing. Verizon doesn't want us touching the APN.

There's a couple ways to get it working.

Easiest, install the carrier app and see if that will do it. It worked for me.

Another way is to use a non Verizon sim to create the APN you need, it'll disappear when saved. Shutdown the phon and put in your TW Verizon sim.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] RandomPooka:
Running the official Pie build. I like it, other than a few things.

First, the clock on the left of the status bar is killing me. Can't find a setting to move it.

Second, the Navbar button changes are great. I don't like Home in the center. Anyone know a way to switch them so that Back is in the center and Home is on the left? I've had Back in the center using source built ROMs for several years, and it's much more useful for me to keep it there.

Third, and this has nothing to do with the Essential Pie build. Some of my apps apparently haven't updated to properly support Pie, and they play the default notification, instead of the notification I've chosen in-app. Plume, specifically.

I'd edit the app notification settings, but there's about 10 duplicate notification channels in the advanced notification settings for Plume, and none of them allow me to select the built-in app notification sounds.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] easyrider77:
Well I've been keeping an eye out on this phone the last couple of weeks. Have a couple of people I know that actually have this phone and it's got me wanting to buy one now.

I have a question about the root process (sort of). Since there is no custom recovery as of yet for Oreo or Pie, how exactly would you go about rooting the phone if you wanted to, without a custom recovery?

Two main reasons I use root anymore, accessing the root of the phones files such as apk files to remove or possibly add them into said folders and editing the build.prop file to access hotspot by adding a single line in the build.prop file, namely the biggest reason is for hotspot.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] lynnux:
This thread tells you how to do it with twrp: https://xdaforums.com/essential-phone/how-to/guide-rooting-essential-ph-1-magisk-t3701976

I've done it by downloading the Magisk Manager apk and installing Magisk from there, worked fine, and it's easier than the method above. Especially for those who have corporate accounts that enforce password, since you have to disable all passwords and fingerprint before flashing twrp. This method you don't use twrp.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] RandomPooka:
Fastbooting a patched kernel is DEFINITELY the way to go.