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[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] BonkersTheClown:
Terrible. I've yet to get the Pixel camera app to install on mine and it's bugging the crap out of me. Essential seriously blew it when it comes to the camera. I've yet to take a picture that I'd actually want to keep on purpose.

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I'm feeling a lot of regrets about getting this phone. There are just so many things missing. The biggest issue is the camera and apparently the APK for the Google Pixel Camera that I installed insta-crashes. There's lots of other things I'm not loving about this phone. The screen is dim and I'd love to know if there's a fix for that. The touch screen's responsiveness reminds me of phones 6 years ago. The choice of going LCD may have been inevitable, but it's sad that my 3 year old Samsung Galaxy S5 easily beats the pants off the PH-1 for image quality and takes way better pictures to boot. No life proofing to speak of. Nobody is making any cases for the PH-1 that are worth buying ... not yet anyways. There's a lot of good to say about pure android. There's a very long list of bloat that I'd have to root to get rid of on any other android phone. The PH-1 is quick too. But each passing day, I run into a new frustration that has me regretting buying it in the first place.

Can someone provide a link to an APK for a camera that works? If the Google PIxel app is the best one then great. I'll take another stab at doing that. But I need one that has been verified to reliably work on the PH-1, cuz apparently the one I found wasn't compatible or something.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] SofaSamuraiX:
Hold the settings button on your pull down menu opens the system tuner. Have not done it yet. But might be in there.

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Nope. It doesn't. Sorry about the lack of help there!
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] IIIOZZYIII:
Np... Thx, hope they add it
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] 去:
the camera sensor models?

thanks.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] charlatan01:
If I run to Verizon and buy one...

Is the bootloader unlockable? I don't think they got their way in forcing locked devices, but wanted to be sure. I may purchase from the store and use it on T-Mobile.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] sd_shadow:
see post #2
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] charlatan01:
Yeah, I saw that. I didn't know if that applied across the board, or if I buy one at the verizon store if I would have issues.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] sd_shadow:
haven't seen any reports on Verizon version either way
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] sd_shadow:
their not available on the Verizon website
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] charlatan01:
Yep, my mistake. I guess it's Sprint that gets the exclusive. I may go pick one up and see if I can unlock it.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] sd_shadow:
HIC SVNT DRACONES if unlocking the bootloader

There is no flashable Stock Firmware, custom recovery, nor root method yet.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] sd_shadow:
Wifi Tethering/ Hotspot works out of the box, no hacking/tricks required.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] elsamuraiguapo:
Anyone using the Sprint model successfully unlock their bootloader? I just got mine and it's the first thing I want to do (since it causes the devices to be factory reset, rather get that out of the way now). I was able to enter fastboot mode with adb reboot bootloader command, but from there the device doesn't recognize any fastboot commands.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] sd_shadow:
Did you did you select allow bootloader unlock, in settings
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Teloah:
Anyone knows if it's possible to have the animated home button when using a language other than English? I understand it has to do with the Google assistant and that it won't work in my language but it would be nice to have the animated button at least :)
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] elsamuraiguapo:
Yeah.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] stevo760:
Is there anyway to move the clear all button to the bottom of the screen instead of the top?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] sd_shadow:
Did you look in device manager, to see how it's listed

Should be something like adb...
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] sd_shadow:
Started writing some usb drivers instructions

https://xdaforums.com/essential-phone/how-to/unofficial-usb-drivers-essential-ph-1-t3678231
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] nibera:
Good morning, no one can give me directions to my problem
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] jaime3344:
there is a flash fix for that, let me see if I can find it..

flash this:

http://gg.gg/ai7m1

That image will reboot over and over again (you’ll never get anywhere) but when it does, it’ll clear out that annoying red error. After flashing it, boot normally once. You will still get the red error but it will be cleared it the next reboot.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] nibera:
hello, after so many tests all negative, now the phone does not turn on anymore, only black screen, can I throw it away?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] jaime3344:
no dont throw it away, plug it in, make sure it is charged up. try powering off/on. I dont know what state the phone was in at the time of your first red warning screen, but maybe you need to reflash a rom? or restore to factory settings and then see where it's at.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] nibera:
only black screen, I tried with all the key combinations, but nothing, I tried to put it on charge, but nothing, in my opinion and gone.

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[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] jaime3344:
did you plug into computer and try pushing a file, or anything? I wouldn't give up yet, there must be a way to get it back. I am not even close to an experienced developer, I just play with things and try to get it to work. Maybe try posting in a different thread and someone with more experience can think of something else..
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] nibera:
anyway thanks to everyone, this experience with essential phone was the most horrible one I've ever tried with a phone so far.

thank you and sorry for all the questions asked.

Good life to everyone.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] jaime3344:
too bad you can't get it working.. I really like this phone. I have a note 9 to replace it, but I am keeping the essential to play with, it gets android updates right away- when the pixel does, at least for one more year!
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] thelangosta:
It's the first phone in years that I haven't felt the need to unlock, root and flash ROMs. It's not perfect but I don't think there is such a thing.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] jaime3344:
yea I have the 960u so no rooting anyway.. but not missing it yet you can do so much with it!
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] mdrbase:
how can i disable prox during calls?

Replaced screen. light was leaking so i used some glue. now its down but some must have gotten over prox sensor because as soon as a dial a call screen turns black . Can I disable sensor? is there an app that will make it work? I dont care if it stays on during a call.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] NuAngel:
RandomPooka, have you noticed this problem continuing or found any resolution?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] RandomPooka:
It hasn't gotten better, and I haven't really looked for a solution or explanation.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] NuAngel:
Sprint users over on Reddit are reporting the same behavior. No solution there, either.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] :
Are u guys using the enable signal cheating prop edit?

And what is your preferred network setting in *#*#4636#*#*?

Could also be Sprint has absolutely crap service on their entire network

I have a Sprint essential running on t mobile perfectly with great reception
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] avd:
Impossible
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] :
Works flawlessly
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] NuAngel:
What is the Signal Cheating Prop Edit??? Can you provide more info on that, please?

--Don't get me wrong, everyone around me has crap networks. Also, it doesn't matter if I set "LTE/CDMA" in the *#*#4636#*#* menu, or just in the Setings > Mobile Networks menu, it behaves basically the same way (even if I choose the LTE/CDMA (PRL) option from the *# menu). If I set it to LTE only, I can't make phone calls, even with the Enhanced LTE Features or whatever it's called turned on. It just fails and says it can't find the server. My issues are with Verizon, many other users are reporting Sprint issues (and even if their network is crap, why sudden changes for people who previously had decent service)... it seems to be a CDMA problem in general.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] :
Possibly, it's in the mods section of the essential thread, it allows your device to hit more towers. Can u check in your apps for a system app named com.aurora etc.....it's the ims app itself, if not I recommend installing it and give it a try.

Here it is, extract it from this zip, and just tap on the unzipped app and install it, then reboot and try again.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BNK1BeMBQCgP-OciBDWWbgS-kFw-CD5P/view?usp=drivesdk
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] NuAngel:
I'll do this when I get home, but thank you so very much for this tip. Even if it doesn't work, totally worth a shot. Do I need root for this, or should just sideloading this app be a good enough start?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] :
Don't need root, or to sideload.use a file manager app or file explorer/, just unzip and tap on the app inside the folder and tell it to install. Then make sure are on LTE/cmda/auto prl in the *#*# menu and then reboot and see what happens
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] NuAngel:
It doesn't seem to want to install, as if I don't have this Aurora app installed by default?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] :
u prob dont have it installed, as its not a stock essential app, I got it from a gsi fix in one of the telegram threads and it provides LTE and VOLTE on GSI's. I know it will only work on pie, so i hope you are on pie. I installed it on stock fine. it usually installs but after install only allows u to select done, as "open" the app is greyed out as it isnt an app one can use.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] NuAngel:
Okay, I'll see if I can track down the installer. Could be useful. I do have Pie, so that's good.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] :
U don't need to track anything down, just tap on install. The inbuilt Android installer installs it.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] sonic0504:
Hello,

Is a way I can make a batch file that'll run "adb shell twrp decrypt 0000" and go all the way to 9999?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] RandomPooka:
I recently ran a BTS to get to the October Pie build, and can not remember for the life of me how I had disabled peek/heads-up notifications when I was running it before. SystemUI Tuner has the option to disable them, but it doesn't seem to be working properly.

Anyone have any suggestions?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] NuAngel:
Tap on install where? The APK you sent me gives me an error message. I told you that (I attached a screen shot to the message above).

First, it asks if I want to update the built-in application, I say install, and it gives me an error. Here's a video of what I'm talking about (I renamed the file to IMSPatch.apk so I could hang on to it for later):

https://youtu.be/a5w6GFCKIak

So I was trying to "track down" a FULL installer, instead of whatever the APK you posted is, which appears to only be a "patch" for a full version that I don't already have? I may have misunderstood something, because I thought I had to have one version installed, and the APK you provided would update it (it does say that it's going to "update a built-in application" - see the 9 second mark in the YouTube video I link to in this post).

So I may have thought I needed to install a DIFFERENT APK first. I've tried to troubleshoot why I can't install the APK you've sent me and I can find no reason it shouldn't work. Any other tips would be helpful.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] :
sorry, that means it's already installed, so don't worry about it. Some roms are missing that file and provide the user with poor reception and loss of lte. I was saying to check under system apps First to see if u had it, It wont let u install it bc it is already there. So, sorry man it does nothing more. it's the same file.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] NuAngel:
Ahhh, bummer. But okay, that finally makes more sense. I appreciate you trying to help me!! :)
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Lord_Atanosica:
help should I buy?

Is all of the bugs fixed on the essential phone. I been looking into it and it seems like a good buy except that is has so many bugs and touch issues?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] jaime3344:
I had the Essential for a year, just sold it for the note9. I only upgraded because i wanted a big phone for a change. The Essential was perfect, ran great on Oreo and Android pie. I didn't have any bugs at all or ever any touch issues
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] dangoon:
I can't get the "fastboot -i 0x2e17 set_active other" or "fastboot -i 0x2e17 -aX" to work. Any pointer? I tried using "fastboot set_active other" but it won't recognize the phone without "-i 0x2e17"
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] ktmom:
What PC OS are you using? If Windows, have you installed (only) Essential's USB drivers?

What does "fastboot devices" return?

Don't use the C -> C USB cable that came with the phone. Instead use a high quality third party cable. I've had better luck with a standard A -> C cable.

Have you read this thread, especially the linked document in the 2nd paragraph of the first post?

I will admit, I have no idea where "fastboot -i 0x2e17" is coming from. But it strikes me that you are forcing the device and I've never seen that before.

"find somebody that you think is undeserving of your compassion and give it to them" - Christian Picciolini
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] :
U definitely don't need to input any of that, ever.simply reboot bootloader. If it still doesn't read, fastboot -w start over...this phone is funny like that.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] dangoon:
[IMG="fastboot"]https://imgur.com/a/OXC996s[/IMG]

I was following this https://xdaforums.com/essential-phone/how-to/video-guide-how-to-unlock-essential-t3690044 for unlocking and for rooting I can't get it to switch from slot a to slot b. "fastboot -i 0x2e17 getvar current-slot" work but none of the command work without inserting "-i 0x2e17" after.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] :
Fastboot set_active other
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] dangoon:
https://imgur.com/a/6gK9cdK

Waiting for devices without the "-i 0x2e17", and with the "-i 0x2e17" it say that the command doesn't exist
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] :
To root the phone, simply flash twrp img, boot to recovery flash stock boot or whatever kernel, flash magisk, reboot. That easy. Or flash one of the prepatched kernels with everything..
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] RandomPooka:
Ok, so the basic starting point here..

Are you using a quality third party USB-A to USB-C cable, or the craptastic C to C one that came with the phone and even Essential tells you not to use for data transfer (unless you like corrupted data)?

Did you install the Essential device drivers, and fastboot/adb binaries, or are you using the ones from the generic android tool kit?

Did you try it on a different PC?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] CamoGeko:
Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.

The bugs have been ironed out with software updates, running Pie on the Essential phone is absolutely perfect. It feels like a Pixel but with an even better quality build.

You can even use a Gcam port to get Pixel 3 camera.

Honestly the PH1 is totally worth the money it's priced at right now.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] burakthepascal:
i am on t-mobile and having streaming issues. when i open youtube or etc everything is ok, but when i open my ip tv app (gse iptv) it starts streaming but it freeze like in every 15-20 seconds. there is no problem about regular video streaming , it is fast and HD, but when its ip tv it sucks. i guess there is something wrong with my network settings but speedtest and paramaters are fine. seems like my phone cant receive iptv data packs continuously, is there a way to check it? or is there a preferred settings for tmobile on essential phone ?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] millicent:
Does anyone know if it's possible to force bluetooth codec either upon connecting to some specific headphones or in general (as opposed to manually select it in developer options)? If it helps I am rooted.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] andypiznti:
hey guys, on my last phone, i had a custom rom that had a hack for Exchange email so you wouldnt need a lock screen, is there anyway to put that on this phone? latest december stock rooted? and separately is there anyway to show network activity on the status bar? up and down, not a notification, just a small readout always visible on the status bar? drives me crazy not knowing if something is downloading in the background or not. many thanks!!
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] TrumpCard:
I'm hoping my question is resolved with the January update, but the December update seems to have locked me out of mobile Hotspot. I can't access the menu through settings as it's greyed out. However, getting to the menu from quick settings is still possible, though it obviously doesn't turn on.

My mobile plan does support it and it's worked before. Like I said, hopefully the next update will rectify this issue somehow.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] RandomPooka:
You could likely do it with Tasker

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All of the custom Pie ROMs I've used have had that network indicator in the Statusbar, on the right. AICP and AOSiP both do for sure. I think Candy does as well
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] rignfool:
You need the build.prop tethering flag thingy...

Google "build.prop tethering fix"
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] aletab:
I'm interested to know if people think this would be a good time to buy an Essential Phone? Looks like I can get a used one for $200-300.

I had a OnePlus 5t which I spent 475 on and after 9 months it died sitting on my desk which I found very disappointing. I'm using my old Nexus 6P now but it has a shattered screen - still usable but I can't take it much longer. As long as the Essential Phone is in the class of those phones I think I'd be happy with it. Also, I'm not sure I trust that the Essential company will be able to support it longer-term so I'd also want to be confident aftermarket ROMs/update would be available.

What do you think? TIA.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] IronRoo:
Essential are currently working on a new phone so I think they fully intend to be around for a while, admittedly there are some question marks over their financial robustness, though these seem to have subsided given this announcement.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-is-said-to-build-ai-phone-that-texts-for-you

But more importantly for you they have said they will roll out Android Q (10) for the PH-1 in the 2019 US summer & given their speedy software support I have no reason to doubt this.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] aletab:
Cool, thanks for your thoughts - just bought one :)
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] andypiznti:
Thanks! is there any rom that youd recommend over the other? now that i understand the whole a/b thing, i feel a bit more comfortable flashing a rom. my last phone was an htc 10 and the battery crapped out on me, and at first i thought it was the software than i realized it was the battery. sitting with the screen off in recovery would kill the battery in an hour by the time i switched to this phone. but i digress, i noticed in one forum they were talking about a rom thats in android development but not specifically for this phone or any phone, it was only lacking a notch fix, but it worked? idk any rom. im digging this phone and would like to try some new stuff. thanks, and sorry for the length of this message. :D
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] RandomPooka:
There's a ton available. Your best bet is to get on Telegram and find the PH-1 development channel, and just look at the releases. I can't really recommend any in particular over any other because they're all in great shape
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Gl17ch:
I'm having difficulties with finding my current boot slot while in the boot loader. I'm working on installing TWRP. Whenever I try to find my current slot all I receive is a blank. Any ideas?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Jess813:
So did I got one used for $185 in great condition and white at that!!
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] juliangovender92:
Help needed

Hey guys!

My Essential phone suddenly switched off while driving and it seems like it self-bricked itself - there is (almost) no life to the phone besides it coming up as "Qualcomm" when plugged into my laptop.

I've tried the following:

Hard-resetting it with the volume down/up + power button many times, for longer than a minute, with no response from the phone, so I can't get to fastboot etc.

Charging it with different 3rd party chargers/cables

Using adb (but can not get debugging mode on)

Charging it for atleast an hour before repeating the above

I've read other forums/topics and I can't seem to find a solution.

Another thing, I've made zero mods to the phone.

Can someone please help me, I'm using an old LG G3 at the moment lol.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Sapphirerubyxo:
Wifi issues

Okay, I'm going to try to explain this clearly so it makes sense.

I bought my Essential PH-1 used back in September 2018. It was supposedly unlocked for any carrier. When it was purchased it was running Android 8.0. Everything was fine. When I upgraded to Android 8.1 a short time later, it wouldn't accept my sim card. I found out it was because it was. Sprint Variant. I flashed Android 9 stock rom and rooted and everything was fine.

Now, we've had AT&T as our ISP. We haven't been satisfied with the speed so Comporium installed a new router today. (cable internet vs satellite).

The tech was able to connect his phone just fine after installation and all the devices in the house work just fine on 2.4 and 5ghZ.

However, my essential will connect to 2.4 GHz but says "connected, no internet". It does fine with 5 GHz but I need 2.4 due to the range issues.

I have restarted my phone, cleared wifi settings, toggled airplane mode and wifi. The last thing I want to do is factory reset as when I rooted (remotely through oneclickroot) I was told if I did a system update or factory reset I would lose my root and the last thing I want to do is go back to having sim issues and therefore not having data. (And possibly still having wifi issues)

I've also tried to mess with the router settings but no bueno.

(Arris DG3450)

I just want to make sense of why 2.4 works doe everything else.. it wouldn't be as frustrating if both 2.4 and 5 didn't work on my phone, but 5 does so I can't understand why 2.4 doesn't.

Oh, and the old router still works for my phone (I plugged it back in so I'd have wifi still, but once they shut it off I'm screwed)

HELP.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] scir0:
What do you guys think? My phone felt into water, afterwards it works except the backlight.

Would a LCD replacement fix this?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] CamoGeko:
Probably, but if its water damaged I doubt anyone will take it on. Also, there are no spare parts available for this phone as far as I know.