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[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] scir0:
I already found a lcd display, and seemingly all functions of the phone are working except the backlight. I`m just wondering if a problem with the backlight is display related only?!
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] swiftbones74:
Well a the backlight problem might be fixed by changing the LCD, it more than likely is a problem with the board ( problem being electronics don't belong in the toilet, the toilet is for poop and pee and Apple products ?. IDK if I would waste my time trying to fix because usually water damage like what you have is a death sentence for phone's and the like. Sorry that's probably not what you want to hear but I am trying to save you some heartache ❤️
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] scir0:
thanks for your reply! I do not own the phone yet but I can get it for a very good price, still when I bought the new LCD. As I wrote all functions seem to work according the seller. He saved his data and made a factory reset. Wlan and internet are working....Dont know if I shall give it a try! :eek:
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] IronRoo:
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[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] scir0:
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[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] IronRoo:
my error & not related to your issue
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] mooch530:
Quick and random question- I have a completely stock Essential phone (that I love btw) that I sideloaded Google Camera on. The app works great, but it doesn't show as an installed app on the play store. I only care because I want the updates when the app gets updated. Is it supposed to be this way since I didn't install it from the store?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] gkitf16:
Switched SIMs, now can't edit my APN to get connected again

I recently tried a different carrier, then switched back to the original one. When I replaced the SIM, I found that my APN settings were greyed out and I cannot remove or add any APNs to get reconnected. I found out this has been locked out in Android 9, I am on the Essential PH-1 phone. Has worked great before I messed with the SIMs. How do I get this corrected? Thinking of factory reset, I'm backed up, and rolling back to Android 8 to be able to fix this. What a mess
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] tmpj1524:
Any way to stop ghost typing? Another rom? Its on stock right now. Also, will it fix Bluetooth, if I put a rom on it? Thanks
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] IronRoo:
yes, only apps form play store will show

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what is cause?

try to adjust touch sensitivity lower in developer options
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] fredgar75:
Is there a way to update profile without having to reload a stock operating system?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] pierre-p:
usb controlled by other devices

I have been able to load files from computer to phone using file transfer, however only when "controlled by this device." How do I activate "usb controlled by other devices?" When I click on it, it defaults to "usb controlled by this device." I'm trying to synch some music using jRiver. Thnx.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] IronRoo:
I had similar problem a couple of weeks ago when trying to copy some photos between PH1 & Samsung phone. Sorry no solution, I gave up with USB
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] IronRoo:
Just tried again with my Windows 10 PC & I get the same, PH1 tries to change USB control to the PC (connected device) the USB icon flashes up briefly on the PC bottom right in taskbar, then immediately shuts down & does not change USB control to PC.

(BTW, I have just set up Syncthing to sync phone locally over wifi (pretty easy on Win 10, no need to do any of the stuff I was expecting from the Youtube vid using Win 8 which showed editing bat files etc it connected even through firewall no problem) and am able to sync both ways)
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] wiswis:
Does anyone here use usb c wired earphones on pie?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] IronRoo:
I use normal Bose headphones with the Essential adapter, all worked fine (well until a couple of weeks ago when my son bent the pin when we were taking a flight ?)

Do you have any other earphones you could try and see if they work with your phone? (I saw your other post that they work with other phones) Do they work with phone calls or other apps?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Gandi_bomb:
Hi! The seller sent me essential phone with not working touchscreen. Touch does not response in twrp or system. I've tried flash August and than September build, but no resolts

Any ideas or advices? Or its a hardware troubles?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] wiswis:
No they don't work at all on the essential phone but work perfectly on other phones.when I plug them into the essential I get a notification in the status bar that says charger connected, and it won't let me change the option. So my assumption is that they just aren't being reckognized as earphones. I thought it was an issue with pie but I tried them on my friends pixel and they worked. I have no idea what the issue could be.

I've tried multiple pairs of Bluetooth earbuds and they work.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] IronRoo:
Yes, the Bluetooth might have a bug or two, since March update my Bluetooth acting differently & I can't switch USB control to other device (others report the same), though I'm not sure if this is a bug or limitation of other device, as I just used another app to sync instead of trying till fix. Anyhow, back to your issue, have you checked "disable USB audio routing" under developer options? (maybe even try toggling setting & reboot)

Also have you tried setting the "default USB configuration" to something else instead of charging in developer options? Might be a work around.

Or if you have "usb debugging" on in developer options then turn it off as it has caused some issues in the past on other Android phones.

Though as other earbuds work on your phone, these probably won't fix your issue, but maybe something will reset.

Might have to send them back if Essential can't help (or even reset phone

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Some people reported touchscreen issue that was software related, but their twrp was OK, they could just reset, but if your twrp not working it might be different issue eg loose connection, or moisture inside ... hope it's software!

Edit: this is what I was thinking of

https://www.reddit.com/r/essential/comments/9ietjy/touchscreen_not_working/
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Jejeje3:
Hello guys!

I am not sure if this the correct thread.

I upgraded the XDA labs application and since then the upgraded application can't find my mobile (Essential PH-1). Can anyone knows what to do?

Thanks a lot!
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] kt-Froggy:
I think this question is better suited for the XDA Labs app thread... That said, I have no problem with v.1.1.6b recognizing my PH-1 on stock rooted Pie. Are you running a custom ROM, or stock?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Jejeje3:
Thanks a lot for your reply! I am on stock rooted Pie and running v.1.1.6b as well. The thing is that before the upgrade it worked perfectly :(
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] kt-Froggy:
Then I don't know, sorry... Custom ROM was my only hunch. Maybe asking in the app thread will get you somewhere...
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Jejeje3:
Thanks again! Finally I found a shortcut. I typed "Essential Phone" in search and select the device. Back to normal!
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] IronRoo:
I uninstalled & reinstalled XDA app (not labs) after April security update & noticed I now have a Moto G 2015 phone!!! ? ... I mean WTF!

I was trying to fix images not showing in the XDA app, do images show in the XDA Labs app eg when you look at themes thread? I also have an issue with some other apps not being able to download/update content like the XDA app not loading images. Seems these apps can't connect fully to internet despite all other apps being able to. (XDA app shows everything else, just images not loading, maybe some port blocked?)
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] IronRoo:
Yes, that worked but had to delete the "PH-1" bit it automatically inserted else it still couldn't find it.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] lesterf:
Just got a used PH-1 and so far I love it.

Question about the screen: on light backgrounds, I can see very faint thin, horizontal lines on all of the screen. It's really subtle, and the thickness of the lines appears to be a pixel. I have to hold the phone about 8 inches from my eyes because of my poor vision which is probably why I see the lines.

Are the lines part of the LCD technology, or do I have a screen issue?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] kt-Froggy:
Never noticed that, but got curious and ran a display test with different colours, brightness levels, gradients and patterns, using a magnifying visor to make sure I didn't miss anything. Didn't see any lines. I believe this must be some problem with your display. My screen is a replacement unit (the original one was cracked), so I am not sure if that makes a difference...
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] IronRoo:
can you post a screen shot? (press power & vol down at the same time for about 1sec)

I suggest trying one of those screen calibration apps, might fix, though sometimes it may be caused by a poor cable connection or other hardware issue
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] canezila:
Question: how does (if at all) xsposed framework work when running a current 9.0 based rom with Magick 19.0?

The reason I am considering this is because a while back I remember a module that allows for enter after entering 4 digit pin. Talk about a 1st world problem ?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] swiftbones74:
Xposed hasn't made it to pie. There is Ed-Xposed, it's closed source and not recommended by the community.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] :
Ed Xposed works amazing on pie. Especially the gravity box pie...it's recommended by everyone on xda budd
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] RandomPooka:
Xposed of any sort is highly discouraged by a metric butt ton of people on XDA, and highly praised by some others. There's not many people in the middle.

Personally, I don't recommend using it. Too much potential for breakage of other things.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] rignfool:
Actually... I think the source was released for inspection...
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] RandomPooka:
If it's available on XDA, isn't it required?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] rignfool:
No... But I'm still pretty sure it's been open sourced
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] swiftbones74:
Gib link plox
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] rignfool:
https://github.com/ElderDrivers/EdXposed
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] swiftbones74:
Good man thanks. I had been following developments in the beginning when I heard it wasn't published and he was getting heckler's. I was curious to see if he published or not and somehow missed this anyway ( I still personally wouldn't touch it with Emperor Orange-Cheetahs Twitter phone but I will stop telling people that it's definitely not safe. I guess if someone can't live without Xposed they might not catch on fire if they try this app idk ?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] RandomPooka:
I could have sworn that dev threads here were required to include source. I must have been mistaken.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] CamoGeko:
Any work posted on XDA must comply with the GPL. See the link in my Sig.

Sent from my mata using Thebear Blue XDA Labs
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] WHITEQ0DE:
I've got a WhatsApp audio crackle issue.

Any fix for it?

Wow the community here is like super dead.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] wiswis:
My type c port only works with charges. My PC won't recognize it and my earphones don't either. Does anyone else have this issue?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] sd_shadow:
I can't remember did the Essential come with a headphone adapter?

Did you try installing the pc drivers?

Does it show up in Device Manager?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] wiswis:
Yes yes and no
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] :
Just to make sure.... The cable that comes with the PH-1 is for charging only. You need to use a data transfer cable, not the one that comes with the phone.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] wiswis:
Right, I've tried a many different cables and they all didn't work. Maybe its a faulty connector
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] sd_shadow:
Try a different pc, but it maybe a bad connector.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] IronRoo:
This has been reported with quite a lot of phones eg Pixel, while it can be a damaged USB or an internal fault often it's just dirt.

It might sound obvious but you definitely wouldn't be the first to overlook this simple cause, use a tooth pick to clear any lint that has become embedded/compressed in the USB, check if you can see the full length of silver strips on both sides of the pin at the bottom of the usb & there is none in the corners.

Though unlikely the cause it might be worth checking the contacts on the pin are not damaged/missing, you should see 12 gold contacts on both sides of the usb pin, if you hold phone at a certain angle to a bright light, eye glass recommended ?

[I say this as I've heard a noise like a pcb (pwb) cracking when plugging the usb in if it's put in at a slight angle, for a second I thought I might have damaged the pin or contacts, but still looks OK under an eyeglass.]
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] robertelam83:
The other day at work my Essential phone was on 77%. I opened an app (G-Play) my phone froze and powered off. It wouldn't boot up again for an HR. when it booted up the battery showed 45% after a few minutes same thing. Froze and shut off. This time it wouldn't boot up at all. I waited until I got home (5 hrs later) plugged it in tried to power on 5 times over a 45 min period with no luck. Decided to try and boot into twrp and that worked. Was able to just restart system and everything seemed fine.

Has this happened to anyone else?

Android PIE

Rooted

Custom ROM (AICP at the time)
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] sd_shadow:
I guessing a misbehaving app, possibly g-play.

If it happens again you could try booting in safe mode.

How to Boot the Essential Phone into Safe Mode

Press and hold the Power button down for a few seconds.

Let go of this button once the Power Menu appears.

Long press on the Power Off option.

Raise your finger up when the Power Menu goes away.

Then tap the OK option when it asks if you want to boot into Safe Mode.

You then can start removing apps, deleting apps data, or trying a different version of the suspected bad app.

edit: for grammar
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] sd_shadow:
Another boot to safe mode method.

From power off

Power on

wait till you see the boot screen

hold the volume down button till you see safe mode on bottom left.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Ablutions:
As the title suggests: no imei number in Settings>About Phone>etc etc. Dialer code only shows device serial number. I am on the latest unofficial Liquid Remix but if I remember correctly it wasn't displayed on the stock OS. There is no SIM card in it... Does that make a difference?

Edit:? of course it does, duh.

But I'm curious, what are the dialer codes for this device?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Kalasingha:
Phone keeps Shutting down

Hello everyone ? my brother's Ph-1 keeps shutting down right after powering up, I have tried everything from factory resetting to trying a different charger, nothing seems to work. This happened after he didn't use the phone for almost a month, it worked perfectly before.

The phone doesn't stay on for more than a minute or two which means i cannot use ADB to side load an update

Please do help me out
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Ashyford:
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[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] godzulu:
Im hosed at the moment. Was trying to go back to stock after running custom rom. I can boot into bootloader. Have tried multiple things ie reinstall twrp, that fails, tried to install stock but i cant do adb, only fastboot. No stock recovery either. Any help is appreciated.

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C:\Users\trend\Desktop\platform-tools>fastboot flash nvdef_a nvdef

Sending 'nvdef_a' (310 KB)

I get this if i try flashallwipe.bat
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] godzulu:
I got it! :) fastboot -w

Then i was able to flashall,bat all good now
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] trentbone:
I switched to Total Wireless from Verizon about a year ago. My PH1 had 4g all along, as did my wife's Verizon first generation Moto Z. A few days ago, I lost data for the full day. That night I discovered my wife had as well. Called TW,... Was told their system was misinterpreting our data usage, as if we were out, when I actually had 12 gigs left. They worked from their end for about 45 minutes. My wife's phone is good to go, but mine now only received 3g. I've been on the phone several hours with them. They keep attempting to have me change the APN settings. I tell them I can't. Can't add a new one either. Mine has the VZWINTERNET. My wife's is TRACFONE.VZWENTP. I'm not sure, but I think mine used to be there same as hers. In addition, they are telling me if my phone were to be deactivated for any reason, I'll likely lose my number and won't be able to reactivate it because of a system upgrade. I've been told to wipe the phone to try to resolve, and to be happy with 3g, that there's a problem with my phone... Their support is totally clueless. I read that someone had the same problem and they pushed the new APN settings to his phone. Is that possible?... They say no. Can anyone help me.... I'm not anxious to root the phone... Haven't done it in many years.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] ktmom:
What OS are you on? Custom Rom? Stock Essential?

In stock Essential Pie, go to Settings -> Network & Internet -> Mobile Network -> Advanced

Is the preferred network type correct? Make sure it's 4G/LTE not 3G or global.

Nearly to the end of this screen is network settings -> Automatically select Network. Is the correct network displayed there? If you turn off Automatically select Network, can you configure correctly?

Then, at the bottom is the APN settings. You should be able to add/edit the APN there.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Neytiri_AVA:
cyclic reboot essential phone

Hello, I have the essential phone with a cyclic reboot, I can boot in fastboot mode.

I can’t boot in recovery mode, Android, I don’t know what Android is installed here.

I buy this phone with a problem, please help me, you are my last chance
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] ktmom:
I would start by fastboot flashing the current stock firmware. Go to https://www.essential.com/developer/current-builds, and select current builds then submit the form. Download the FASTBOOT version of the August PIE rom (not September Q which is a beta).

Follow the Essential "How to Flash (for Fastboot only)" instructions found on the same page as the current downloads.

(It's not necessary to post in multiple threads [emoji6])
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Neytiri_AVA:
fastboot

Thank you, but i cant open factory mode, and cant unlock phone with fastboot unlock
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Neytiri_AVA:
Maybe its help

(bootloader) version:0.5

(bootloader) unlocked:no

(bootloader) off-mode-charge:1

(bootloader) charger-screen-enabled:1

(bootloader) battery-soc-ok:yes

(bootloader) battery-voltage:3742

(bootloader) version-baseband:2.0.c4-M1.3.1

(bootloader) version-bootloader:mata-aad8ac4

(bootloader) variant: OPENUS

(bootloader) partition-type:userdata:ext4

(bootloader) partition-size:userdata: 0x1987357000

(bootloader) partition-type:system_a:ext4

(bootloader) partition-size:system_a: 0x100000000

(bootloader) has-slot:nvdef:yes

(bootloader) has-slot:dsp:yes

(bootloader) has-slot:vendor:yes

(bootloader) has-slot:devcfg:yes

(bootloader) has-slot:cmnlib64:yes

(bootloader) has-slot:cmnlib:yes

(bootloader) has-slot:boot:yes

(bootloader) has-slot:keymaster:yes

(bootloader) has-slot:abl:yes

(bootloader) has-slot:mdtp:yes

(bootloader) has-slot:mdtpsecapp:yes

(bootloader) has-slot:bluetooth:yes

(bootloader) has-slot:modem:yes

(bootloader) has-slot:pmic:yes

(bootloader) has-slot:hyp:yes

(bootloader) has-slot:tz:yes

(bootloader) has-slot:rpm:yes

(bootloader) has-slot:xbl:yes

(bootloader) has-slot:system:yes

(bootloader) current-slot:_a

(bootloader) slot-retry-count:_b:6

(bootloader) slot-unbootable:_b:no

(bootloader) slot-successful:_b:yes

(bootloader) slot-retry-count:_a:6

(bootloader) slot-unbootable:_a:no

(bootloader) slot-successful:_a:yes

(bootloader) slot-count:2

(bootloader) slot-suffixes:_a,_b,

(bootloader) secure:yes

(bootloader) serialno:PM1LHMA792303816

(bootloader) product:Mata

(bootloader) max-download-size:0x20000000

(bootloader) kernel:uefi

all:

finished. total time: 0.050s
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] ktmom:
[MENTION=10110526]Neytiri_AVA[/MENTION],

When you say you can not boot to recovery, what happens? It loops or do you get a screen that says no command?

Have you tried, from fastboot mode

fastboot reboot recovery

On the no command screen, if I remember correctly, push and hold POWER then press and release VOLUME UP.

Have you tried switching slots? You are on the _a slot for boot, switch to _b and see if you can boot to recovery.

To verify the current slot use

fastboot getvar current-slot

To switch to the opposite slot

fastboot set_active other

or

fastboot set_active b

fastboot set_active a

After switching slots verify the current-slot has switched then try to boot to recovery.

If and when you have exhausted all attempts, I've read somewhere online that someone fixed a boot looping ph-1 by dissembling (not easy) and pulling the battery for a bit. This has a high risk of damage
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Neytiri_AVA:
Ok, commands not helping, i try remove battery, but i havent a dryer
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] ktmom:
One last thought, have you tried booting to TWRP through fastboot? This isn't installing TWRP, it's booting to TWRP through the PC using fastboot.

fastboot boot <TWRP-image.img>
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Neytiri_AVA:
Thank you very much, i tried remove battery and it worked, thanks again!
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] ktmom:
Well that's awesome!
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] elonmusketgood:
stupid fastboot problems

I'm experiencing problems flashing with fastboot. I installed magisk on Android Pie, and as I was about to update to 10, I tried to use the feature in magisk to revert to stock images. It said it didn't have the stock backup, so I tried to update it manually through fastboot. That didn't work as whenever I try to flash anything, it just hangs. I then tried to sideload the update and it worked, but the phone fails the CTS profile match. It has a fully unlocked bootloader.

If I try to do

fastboot set_active a

it says 'error: Device does not support slots.'

Its bootloader version is mata-b9326aa, and I have installed the drivers from the essential website

Please help me figure this out so i can root my phone again :)

Sorry if I did something wrong, this is my first post here
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] sd_shadow:
To check active slot

fastboot getvar current-slot

To change to slot a

fastboot --set-active=a

To change to slot b

fastboot --set-active=b
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] elonmusketgood:
Here are the outputs to these commands:

PS C:\...\platform-tools> fastboot getvar current-slot
getvar:current-slot FAILED (remote: unknown command)
finished. total time: 0.002s

PS C:\...\platform-tools> fastboot --set-active=a
Setting current slot to 'a'...
FAILED (remote: Invalid Slot)
finished. total time: 0.003s

PS C:\...\platform-tools> fastboot --set-active=b
error: Device does not support slots.

Fastboot version: 3db08f2c6889-android