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[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] tw1tch175:
This is an app made by a reddit user to manage the ESSENTIAL_LAYOUT_WHITELIST setting.

You can use this app to only whitelist apps that you need, instead of whitelisting all apps.

Note that you will still need ADB to grant permission to this app:

adb shell pm grant in.tsdo.elw android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS

You only need to do this once, then you can use the app normally.

This app only shows user apps. Please do give feedback if you find any system app that behaves differently than it was.

Google Play

Download(Github)

edit: credits to oracleicom

All credit for this app goes to /u/TsFreddie over on the /r/essential subreddit.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] frhoward:
Yes. First up Nova!!!
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] ack154:
This is now on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.tsdo.elw

But you still MUST run that permissions code in ADB.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] TsFreddie:
I was wondering when will this get posted here since I can't post link.

But, just a heads up: the old package name got suspended by google. So the package name changed, and the ADB command should change correspondingly.

adb shell pm grant in.tsdo.elw android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] tw1tch175:
I updated the OP with this :good:
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] kirdroid:
This is great !! Is there a reason why essential didn't do this out of the box?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] gqukyo:
How'd you guys get ADB drivers to work. I can't locate any that'll work for some reason. Could be my current adb drivers are messing with it. It works fine for my LG and Samsung phones but my adb won't show the Essential phone...
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] tardis_42:
Assuming you're on Windows, reboot with driver signing disabled and force update drivers to the one Google distributes with the sdk.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] gqukyo:
I got some universal ones to work. However, now my issue is that the authorize PC pop up doesn't actually pop up when I connect. I've google and none of the solutions worked... I just want to swap out the app switcher and back buttons... :T
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] daverup:
The older minimal adb packages won't work, and the failures look like driver issues.

Get the new adb and try again.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] gqukyo:
I got it working now. Just had to use another PC.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] 808phoneaddict:
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this app worked perfectly! Love it when it's using the extra room! Thanks for the help!
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] vexx109:
So, my question. Since I did the whitelist all (with the *) what's the remove command for that line? so that I can actually use this selective whitelist?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Vertzile:
Uploading the new list will over write the existing values.

If you want return the value to stock use,

adb shell settings delete global ESSENTIAL_LAYOUT_WHITELIST
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] lpasq:
After you guys changed permissions, did you get the OTA update no problem? Did the hack stick or did you need to reapply the shell command?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] bugsy:
I did the mods via ADB and they have stuck after the upgrade, either that or Essential has added apps to their whitelist as part of this upgrade.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] DROIDESP:
Thank you so much for this easy way to whitelist without having to wait for Essential!!

Curious what other apps you all have white-listed to full screen (I have only done Nova Prime) with good results...

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Thank you!
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] bugsy:
I whitelisted Nova, Textra, calander and instapaper. Thinking of switching to the global whitelist, but haven't done that yet.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] njgill05:
This is so much nicer than fighting with the ADB permissions. I kept missing an app here or there editing it manually. Thank you brilliant lovely folks.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] tw1tch175:
A few apps don't work properly. Personally I would just use this app and select all by default, then turn off any apps that you notice has glitches as you see them.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] lpasq:
Thanks dev, for the added feature to hide navigation bar per app. Is it possible to add ability for full immersive mode including the big notification bar area?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] italiangi:
Any idea why the the top looks like this. Used the ADB whitelist?. Only happens when I do a reply from the notification.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] TsFreddie:
whitelist com.android.systemui.

Thanks for the feedback.

I'll add this to the default configuration in the next update.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] italiangi:
You are the man!! It worked no more OCD
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] hands0m3:
i cant get adb to work on my laptop win 10
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] hands0m3:
I got it to work
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] branshaw09:
So in chrome is it up to each page to utilize the full screen? Some pages do it and some don't.

BTW, big shout out for this. Some apps don't work but most do and it's a great add on. Thank you. Love the Android and Essential community!
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Teloah:
Yeah, if the page colors the area around the address bar it will color the area above Chrome also.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Exsurgence:
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[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Ghost_1:
As a side note I noticed this does affect some apps notifications. For instance when I use PowerAmp, the notification in the shade and when the screen is locked adds an extra white "footer" to the notification. This is with PowerAmp not being on the whitelist or hiding navbar.

PowerAmp's options/search go into the notification shade area in the top right is why I didn't whitelist it. I don't think I've seen any other app react like this but it's just one app and a sidenote so others might not see the same activity.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] ShamelessMT:
The notification issue you described has nothing to do with the whitelist editor. The extra lines appear on persistent app notifications and was created as an issue with the release of build number NM164C. I, among others have reported it to Essential. My reply email from them said they'd fix it in the next release, for what that's worth.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Ghost_1:
Thanks for correcting me, I guess the PH-1 is a "fixer upper" lol
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] RoccoN4:
Can someone help please? adb devices shows my device. adb reboot-bootloader boots my phone in the bootloader. Once there, adb devices can not find my device nor can I run the command to grant the permission to the app.

Any ideas?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Ghost_1:
For the app once you see the device in "ADB DEVICES" you can just run the "adb shell pm grant in.tsdo.elw android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS" command. There is no need to get into the bootloader.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] RoccoN4:
Really. Crap. Now it won't even see me device. I'll have to play around with it a bit later on. Thanks for the help.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Ghost_1:
That's what I did, I also had the problem of not being able to see the device in ADB. I think there are a few threads on that but I just made sure my Android Studio was up to date and that installation worked fine with ADB and the phone.

Alternatively, and strangely enough I had an old copy of the Android Studio and that worked too but the version I normally use didn't. Not sure exactly what is up but like I said there are a few threads on XDA and Reddit.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] RoccoN4:
Wait! Working. Thanks a million!
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Tikerz:
I can seem to run the command in Terminal app. It says operation not allowed. So ADB from a computer is required then?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Vertzile:
Correct, it has to be from the computer.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] natenins:
I was having issues and getting the "no devices/emulators found" error.

Make sure USB debugging is allowed in developer options. Worked right away after.

Hope this helps someone!
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aviators99:
Anyone get this to work with the Kindle Reader? For me still not using the full screen. It's the one app where I think it would be particularly useful.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] gqukyo:
You can request for it to be whitelisted by essential. They may actually work with Amazon to ensure it works. It fix it themselves if they are able to. Lol
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aviators99:
I wrote to support@essential.com and got an almost comical response. It appears they don't even know what the whitelist is, for example:
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] TsFreddie:
I think they mean if an app is using immersive mode, it cannot use the status bar area for "compatibility" reason. They just don't want any content be covered by the camera.

All apps that use immersive mode (status only or full-screen) can not be white-listed based on my testing. I think the only hope is to wait for custom roms.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Ghost_1:
Is it possible to have the status bar be "hidden" like the NavBar in the options for the app?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Teloah:
Status bar = notification bar?

I would like to be able to hide the notification bar on the homescreen. This is possible with Nova Launcher but when removed I get a black area at the top of screen, the wallpaper won't fill up.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Ghost_1:
Yup, my brain has been stuck on stupid for the last few weeks lol...
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] italiangi:
Any idea why Pandora and Spotify notification bar is so big.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Teloah:
Strange, Spotify looks fine here. It looks like you have the widget on the lockscreen?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Ghost_1:
I had this issue with PowerAmp, when I mentioned it in the White List Editor app thread someone said this is a known issue that happened with the last update befor 81C, not sure exactly what's up cause I can't find the thread the person was talking about. It's minor to me but still annoying. lol
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] hammad5507:
PS C:\platform-tools> adb shell pm grant in.tsdo.elw android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS

error: device not found

PS C:\platform-tools>
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Rai02x:
Thanks!
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] johnny8910:
Have you tried ADB devices first to see if it can see your phone?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] hammad5507:
Yes and didn't show , but I tried to install minimal adb and it works :good:
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] johnny8910:
Glad you got it working. ?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] italiangi:
New essential update causes issues with notification popup. Doesn't expand fully when receiving
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] maddoxrs:
The latest update of this app removed the whitelist. Does anyone know where the whitelist is stored? I had some apps set to full screen and now I want to make sure I can revert back.

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Did some playing around and found settings database editor in the app store. Sure enough I can't get the whitelisted apps out now by doing a restore default from the layout app now. I think with this editor I can give the same permission and I can remove them. I'll try tomorrow.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] TsFreddie:
Systemui seems whitelisted, the notification is either their design choice or their mistake. Either way, this issue is not related to whitelist app. They removed manual whitelist settings in the latest build, the whitelist app now does nothing.

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You can revert all your settings follow the instruction here:

https://github.com/TsFreddie/EssentialLayoutWhitelist/blob/master/README.md#reset-settings

However, there will not be any changes even if you revert your settings since they officially removed the manual whitelist setting. now the whitelist is always controlled by Essential.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Seamonkey79:
* unless it's blank space at the top of the screen, we want you to have that to remind that your phone is so awesome it can afford to waste screen space
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] JCBomb:
I don't think they are using a whitelist anymore at all.

It seems to be a rebuild of how the status bar is laid out.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Gdwheel:
I seriously cannot believe what I am seeing. Essential just can't get out of their own way. I had the EP and returned it because of all of the stupid things Essential did with the phone and with the launch of the phone. One of those things was making a 5.7 inch screen seem like a 5.2 inch screen with the lost spaces at the top and bottom. I was so close to pulling the trigger on it again when it dropped in price and I read that the nav and status bar could be hidden with whitelist editor. To read that they have now crippled it is disappointing and stupid. I am so glad I did not order it. Like I said, they just keep tripping over themselves with stupid decisions. Too bad.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] TheDethEgineer:
Calm down, they did it because now almost every app is full screen by default, no need to whitelist it. It is now up to the developers to use that space and not Essential. Also the whitelist app now is used to hide the nav bar.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] JCBomb:
Probably can't believe what you're seeing cause you have no idea what you're looking at.

You're wrong about how you think happened.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Gdwheel:
You are right in that I do not have the phone. I was excited to hear that users could use the full screen and hide the nav bar, like other phones. That is the value of the whitelist editor, as I understood it. When I had the phone I hated the way the huge bar on top and the nav bar on the bottom made the nice big screen function smaller than any other 5.7 or 5.8 inch screen. I assumed from the comments that Essential took away the option to use the full screen except for apps Essential whitelists. If I misread the comments, I stand corrected. Otherwise, my comment was about Essential taking away the user's ability to fully use the screen for all apps.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Seamonkey79:
Personally, I think a whitelist would still be a better option. My replacement phone is on its way (bad microphone), so I've missed the switch from whitelist to post-whitelist Essential thus far, but I *know* there are going to be apps I have that won't fill the screen now. On the S8, Samsung has given the option to fill, and if it doesn't work properly, you can shrink it back down. Having that flexibility is a better solution to any potential issues than a function that app developers need to tap into, especially on such a niche device. We'll see in a few days if it's an issue as great as I think it may be, but regardless, taking flexibility *away* is seldom a good thing, in my opinion. Default to whitelisted and let us remove it, or have a button/spot on the screen to hit (like Samsung) to try it out... that seems better, to me.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] KERKEDAGAIN:
Just throwing this out here (not sure if it needs its own thread as it's mostly useful in conjunction with hidden navbar)..the app "J Touch" is a nice onscreen replacement for the navbar when using this layout app..allows you to map a few actions to taps/gestures.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] maddoxrs:
]What does it look like for an app to be full screen? The only two apps I've seen that actually use the top are maps and launcher. Other apps will change the color but I really don't consider that to be full screen. Am I completely off on this? Does anyone know of another app that actually uses the top of the screen not just change the background color? I have been able to house the nav bar which is cool but I want the whole screen.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] JCBomb:
This is dope. Thanks.

That is what full screen is. Open up Google Photos and zoom in to a picture. The picture will take over the top area like in maps.

It's up to the devs to decide what the opacity of the status bar is gonna be. A browser for example wouldn't really make since to have it transparent. As soon as text scrolls to that point it's gonna be a jumbled mess to read.

The material color of the app will define the color of the status bar. If they haven't chosen anything, it'll be black.

Option 4:

https://developer.android.com/training/system-ui/immersive.html
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] sarcoptic:
I couldn't agree more. The iPhone X is going to have the same issue as our phone but Apple has also made the decision to force developers to accommodate for the new screen layout. The biggest difference though is Apple will sell tens of thousands of iPhone X models and Essential won't. To force developers to accommodate this special model is asking too much at this time.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] ad78:
i checked everything(system) except for launcher3. this is great!!!

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looks like youtube screen got shrinked.. not sure what's going on
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] JCBomb:
It's recursive set up of essential fullscreening everything, then navbar doing immersive mode again that messes things up with positioning.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Mania626:
Sorry for the question but do I have to be rooted in order to use this app?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] elkay:
We at least need a way to blacklist apps that aren't working properly right now. Pokemon Go has a bunch of UI elements that render under the top area and are almost unusable.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] JCBomb:
Use GMD Full Screen Immersion Mode
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] elkay:
Didn't work. It's still rendering the game under the top bar, which wasn't happening before they made this system-wide. Screenshot attached so you can see what I mean.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] JCBomb:
But you haven't switched to immersive mode.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] willy792003:
Nothing will fill up the screen in landscape mode right? Even Google Photos zoom...
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] future/primitive:
Awesome ..thanks works a treat:good:
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] teostar:
Is there any app that can hide the permanently hide the nav bar? I like using edge gestures for navigation but the nav bar popping up messes with the bottom edge swipes.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] combat goofwing:
Adb commands s do it not sure which one though
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] lionelch:
Pubg

Sadly pubg and Netflix don't work when activated in whitelist app.
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] Kay4397:
I have flashed stock rom with twrp . Now should I'll get Motorola updates coz yet i haven't got any update .

Help me !!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devilonline:
Hi

its possible to conect bluetooth devices at the same time

i have android 6.0

thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kokovitch:
Yes.

For example I connect my Bluetooth Audio receiver for listening music , and I connect to my car for calls.

In the same time.

But audio receiver is set only for music, and the car is set for calls only. My car doesn't support music listening by Bluetooth. That's why I have two devices
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pande_:
Hi,

I have LineageOS on my S5 and so far it seems to work just fine, did a clean root and flash.

Now, when I have more than two apps open, the phone doesn't focus on one app but instead always jumps quickly between them, shows me the "show all open apps mode" jumps back into another one, then into the next and so forth and it doesn't stop (and I am not even touching my phone).

Does anyone have an idea what this could be and how I can make it stop?

I already went back to stock firmware and re-flashed twice, also used LineageOS 13 and had the same issue.

Thank you!
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ibuprophen:
Your better off posting your issue within the following Official LineageOS thread for your device.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3476433

Good Luck!

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[Huawei P10 Questions & Answers] faust7th:
Hello, I have an issue using my Chromecast with my Huawei P10

I can't connect to my Chromecast using the "MirrorShare / ScreenShare" option.

I can stream YouTube Videos using the YouTube app, so technically it should work.

But the P10 doesn't find the the Chromecast whan i want to share the whole screen.

I found my problem on multiple sites, all with the same solution, which for some reason does not apply to my P10

e.g.: https://recomhub.com/blog/how-to-fix-chromecast-screen-mirror-on-huawei-p10/

They all want me to find a "Chromecast app" using the "Application Manager Search" and delete the cache.

But i cant find both of these things anywhere on my phone. And i don not find a "Chromecast app" in the google playstore.

I do have the Google Home app install to be able to configure my Chromecast and this also works.

Can someone help me please.

Thanks in advance.
[Huawei P10 Questions & Answers] SavageRobot:
Did you find a fix?

I am having a similar problem. My old LG and my friends Samsung/Sony etc phones can cast to my LG TV but my P10 just stays endlessly searching.

As you said, no problem with YouTube app either.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] bmylestwo:
Tell me what Im doing wrong. I did the hard spl first and then I downloaded the rom I wanted to use. I extracted the rom and started it up and followed all the steps on the screen. It said that it successfully installed the rom and restarted my phone. Then it takes me to the screen where i have to align my screen so I did that and set up the device. then the home screen loads up and then its starts the customization process. When thats finish it restarts the phone again and then after the second splash screen it freezes and eventually my screen looks like the static on a television. Ive tried to go into bootlegger mode and reflash it and it does the same thing. Ive also tried to hard reset it when I get to the screen alignment screen because I read that in wiki and it still does the same thing. Im so lost what should I do. Thanks for your time and help.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] mcmexican:
If you CID unlocked it properly then reflash to the OEM rom and then try to reflash the ROM you want. Anybody disagree?

-McMex
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] max.tytn:
It can also be aRADIO prblem that doesn't match with the ROM,

check this and try to replace the RADIO.

Ciao.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] tomasz:
Agree. If the OEM Rom doesn't work either, i'm betting on the CID Unlock having failed.

And... you do have a Kaiser, don't you?

One more note: next time you open a thread, try to at least come up with a decent topic title.. ;)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] mxantho:
Confirmed... It is a radio conflict, I had the same problem after flashing a wrong radio by mistake..