yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] aer0zer0:
Lol, I know what's wrong

Go to control panel, system

Click in advanced setting

Environment variables

Delete any fastboot links that aren't from essential (will be in program files x86/essential) then your system variables will automatically link to that.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] aamadorj:
Just to make sure I'll be using a safe path to Android Pie upgrade: when upgrading my PH-1 from a custom Oreo ROM to a custom Pie ROM with its own vendor image, should I just flash the latest Pie novendor firmware package available or flash each novendor firmware package in sequence August -> September -> October -> November...?

Thanks in advance for the help. I couldn't find any post related to this when I searched the thread.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mobileman88:
You shouldn't need to do that since 2 months back as TWRP supports encrypted partitions
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] NLBeev:
And.... slowly and sometimes repeatedly....

BTW a new version of EX-Kernel 3.10 in a november-patched boot image:

https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=11410963190603842651
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] ariestheapex:
Whenever I try to load the batch file it fails and says critical error in partition. Can anyone helps me with this please.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] joshnat:
If someone has already downloaded NMJ51B, do you think you could extract and post the boot.img here? I'm away from home, my phone is borked, the wifi is terrible, and I just need boot.img to get to a place where I can use the phone. Thank you!!

Edit: NVM, I was able to get the whole zip.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mrcooter:
"fastboot flashing unlock_critical" This will allow flashing to the critical partitions. BEWARE this will wipe your phone including the internal storage so backup everything first.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] saad780:
Bricked Phone

I have the same exact problem. I was on the Oreo beta and I started having random reboots so I decided to go back to latest Nougat. Tried the flash package on Essentials website, but was getting errors. So I tried the back to stock package here instead. I had done it once before without problems. So I went ahead and unlocked critical and started the flash.bat. Lots of fails. Like you, I decided to restart bootloader and try again. Phone never started. I got the BULK thing for a sec then my PC automatically installed Qualcomm Qdloader drivers. I attempted to use various tools and files from different phones such as the OP5 that has the same 835 to get the phone to boot with no luck. So yup, I have a brick. Glad you could get it replaced.

Oh and I was using essentials adb and fastboot drivers on their website. So no, prob had nothing to do with your mac drivers as same PC and adb worked before, but failed this time.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] carleeno88:
Well I'm a little relieved to know I'm not the only one, but that sucks it's happened to others, sorry man.

I wonder if anybody has successfully flashed NMJ51B using this method yet? I haven't seen any reports on this thread yet.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] ariestheapex:
Thank you. I am having no luck rooting this phone for some reason. Magisk won't flash. Says there is a mounting error.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] takashiyeo:
Hi noob questions which of this rom is ideals for newbie?

Full Dumps (back to stock)

or

Firmware Packages (subset of the full dumps, used for users of custom roms who don't need system and boot from the stock rom)
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] ZooBaAr:
NONE of the above !!! Srysly , read my post above and use the links and READ them. I hvae no idea how the other guys borked their phones so bad . I had some write errors on full flash too but teh damn thing still booted and I tried really hard to fork it lol.

Get this ADB setup install and then read the links in post #93, then re read them and read the op and well you get the idea, read yerassoff , then start flashing LOS in a thread you can find yourself in thisforum.

Zo0
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] jackzhu:
Hi,how to dump boot or system from stock room. I find it all with a/b blot:(
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mobileman88:
I fully agree. Read over 50 pages and still going along. Seems that it's fairly straightforward except for the A/B thing which only started with the Pixels and I have not experienced such a partitioning scheme as I am still on Nexus

---------- Post added at 02:01 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:51 AM ----------

For what it's worth. I read you need Magisk 14.5 Beta which supports Pixel A/B partitioning which the Essential has too. I am still waiting for my device so can't comment on that.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] avd:
Use 14.3...14.5 will bork your phone
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mobileman88:
Thanks a big bunch. Was reading a few cases of phones going into boot loop. Do I need to take care of the slot a/b parameters? Have never used a pixel before
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] avd:
I used TWRP to flash the 14.3 found on the beta magisk thread. Between the two softwares it worked. The AB is either only set to the active partitions or everything is handled transparent to the user.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mobileman88:
So I'd keep to the TWRP in this link by [MENTION=2385005]invisiblek[/MENTION] and it should be ok?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] avd:
I used the one in the OP of the rooting thread, ( Google docs). If it's one and you are still on the nougat image, you should be good to go if you follow the instructions in the routing thread to a tee.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mobileman88:
Thanks. Hope to work on it this weekend
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mobileman88:
How long should one expect for the flash-all.bat script to run? Mine's running for over 45 minutes (just starting to flash system_a) on an i7 machine, not sure why it's taking so long. Normally a factory image takes only like 5-6 minutes on my 6P.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] joemossjr:
It varies mine took 23
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mobileman88:
Wow. Mine took over an hour in all for the oreo image from this op
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mobileman88:
Found the cause of the problem. The phone came with C-to-C cable and I used a generic A-C cable which was slow as crap. Switched to the A-to-C cable from my 6P and it took only 20 minutes. Darn
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] panaderodc:
Just to follow up last weeks attempt. I had a few hours, so I tried again. This time, I went back to stock on the may build, which I had been on since I got the phone in May. I did the flashallwipe.bat. didnt even set it up then, I just did the ota update to october pie, then again the ota to november pie. I flashed the prebuilt twrp magisk image, booted to recovery and had no touch screen. I was prepared for this. I then flashed your bts november wipe all, flashed the twrp magisk image again, and twrp works fine. Magisk had "bad su db" message, so per the last few posts, I reflashed the magisk in twrp, and now everything is working great. No issues with 'no sim' message like last week. Thanks for continuing the builds, and the discussion here, it all helps. Now I try pie for a bit. This is the first phone in a while I havent changed to a different rom. I loved slim on my galaxys2 and s4!

Thanks to NLBeev, CamoGeko,and aer0zero.

Cheers

David

ph-1 openus variant on ting cdma.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] avd:
With all due respect to all the rom development on this device, this is basically as close as you are going to get to AOSP from a manufacturer/carrier with a few device dependant tweaks.

P.s. I just tried to select text to trim the above post and got an iOS style magnifier to see better. When did that get implemented?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] CamoGeko:
Pretty sure that was in Oreo.

Somebody can correct me if I'm wrong.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] RandomPooka:
I don't remember seeing it until the October pie update, but that doesn't mean it wasn't there. I don't use it often enough to notice when it came into play
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] panaderodc:
Oh, I know. I liked slim for it's sparseness. This phone, perhaps Android in general now, allows enough customization to warrant staying stock. I turn off most of the special features, I really want to browse the web, download films, or whatever, and not be interrupted with all the services my phone can do for me. Luddite that I am . I suppose I should have said maintenance rather than development, I guess I have never appreciated the basic Android before, though it was hard to do on a Samsung phone.

Cheers
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] avd:
I think I flipped a switch somewhere
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] UN5EEN:
Is Substratum supported on this? It's running great but would like to have darker UI options.

Been running this for a couple days with little to no issues. Only problem I have is one that persisted through my previous build of AOSiP 8.1 where my screen will randomly select things without me touching the screen or will select the letter U in the keyboard in "uuuuuuuuuu" sequence. A screen off then back on fixes this but it still happens at least once or twice a day.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] aer0zer0:
Dunno, does substratum work on stock?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] NLBeev:
swift installer - themes & color engine
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] swiftbones74:
It's fully working for me on your nov-bts. Whatever reason I couldn't get it working before?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] baltek222:
I have PPR1.180610.091 build and what is the safest ane easiest way to update to PPR1.181005.076 build? I have also unlocked bootloader, TWRP and Magisk.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] sash11:
Do full Magisk uninstall. If after phone reboots you are taken to stock recovery, then download full OTA image from Essential and sideload it from stock recovery. If you are able to boot into the OS, reboot to fastboot and flash stock boot.img from 091 build and take OTA. If OTA cannot install for any reason, boot into stock recovery and sideload full OTA.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] CamoGeko:
What is that theme if you don't mind me asking?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] demolatorul:
It's an android pie feature
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] swiftbones74:
Mono art for most of the theme. The pitchblack settings because I don't like Mono art settings icons and SonySketch font witch is a magisk mod. Anything else is due to Nova prime.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=connoisseurship.project.mono
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] rignfool:
Go to the Essential website...

Download the latest OTA...

Reboot to TWRP...

Flash OTA just like any other rom...

Flash TWRP installer...

Reboot...

Reboot to TWRP...

Flash Magisk...

Reboot
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] baltek222:
EDIT. I have done backup and tried step by step your instructions. I got some problems, but now everything's fine. I updated my EP to the newest build without losing my data. Thanks in advance for your help. :)
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] eKeith:
Any additional info to share? Did you do anything different to the suggested procedure to address the problems? Thanks.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] UN5EEN:
Did you first have to root your device for Substratum to work?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] indian84:
Yes. If you are on pie, root is essential. (Ignore the pun)
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] CamoGeko:
Thank you!

I was interested more in the status bar icons, are they included in the theme?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] swiftbones74:
Oh ok that's from this theme.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samsoft.valerie
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] baltek222:
The procedure is fine, but in the meantime it turned out that my TWRP was missing (I don't know why). After that I just needed to flash TWRP again and do the rest of the procedure.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] CamoGeko:
Thanks, turns out I already had that theme on my wish list. :D
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] xNotta:
Will adb sideload of the Full Dump wipe anything?

And does the November update only modify /boot? So I could go from Oct to Nov by just flashing the boot.img, or are there other stock rom changes too?

EDIT:

I was a complete n00b and thought the Full Dump could be used as the OTA. However, all the FULL DUMPS in the OP are for FULL WIPE.

To update to the latest security patch, you need to download the OTA file and sideload it from essential's website and it won't wipe anything: https://www.essential.com/developer/current-builds

Then search this months posts in this thread for aer0zer0's twrp & magisk boot.img or NLBeev's twrp & magisk & ElementalX kernel boot.img and flash that from fastboot to both /boot partitions.

I feel like this info should be the in OP or have it's own sticky.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] NLBeev:
November..... it's a complete update.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Dream Lin:
That's Good.:laugh:
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] avd:
December is out
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] stinger4321:
I also received the December OTA notification. I checked essentials website but it's not posted there yet.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] sash11:
It is there. Just edit the download link replacing last two digits 76 with 99. Just downloaded both OTA and fastboot images this way.

Stock boot.img and patched boot.img from December update:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r7fxaIp7zvZ5EVWgCYl5lzaX40xrqAuR/view?usp=drivesdk

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bAXDnP1YCaOG7axnB4wwCv8lUNTDDGAj/view?usp=drivesdk
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] aer0zer0:
OP updated with December BTS and NOVENDOR. Also, over int he root thread, i have provided my patched stock boot.img as well. They are all over the place nowadays..lol

Enjoy :)

dec_patched_stock_twrp_ianmacd1203_magisk

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=11410963190603865614
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] avd:
https://storage.cloud.google.com/essential-static/PH1-OTA-PPR1.181005.099.zip

For the lazy, fat fingered or dyslexic
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] avd:
Ok so I flashed the OTA then AZ0's patched boot image on both slots and still show 18105.067 as the build number in about phone.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] clsA:
181005.076 was the November update , when did you update last ? October ?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] avd:
It looks like the OTA only goes to one slot. I switched slots and it's all good
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] aer0zer0:
Correct
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] NLBeev:
Same boot; with ElementalX 3.1.1

https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=11410963190603866875
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] LOVE ME PLEASE:
Does the Dec, update relock "sim lock"? Thanks!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] CamoGeko:
What sim lock are you talking about?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] aer0zer0:
Sprint
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] NLBeev:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=11410963190603870371

Boot image all-in-one for December update

(4.4.162) with EX 3.1.1, TWRP and Magisk 18.1.

Same as previous post but renewed after Magisk update to version 18.1. Build of ianmacd.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] avd:
I guess January update us going to be late. :(
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] johnny8910:
It's out
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] sash11:
Official builds are not posted yet, but links are live already:

https://storage.googleapis.com/essential-static/PH1-Images-PPR1.181005.116.zip

https://storage.googleapis.com/essential-static/PH1-OTA-PPR1.181005.116.zip

Patched boot.img for this build. Patched with Magisk 18 only.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pkH_cfxexB88J3sAT-BidCKtPLr8qefY/view?usp=drivesdk
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] swiftbones74:
I'm afraid to ask [MENTION=273886]are[/MENTION]0zer0 ? Are you going to keep this going, now that your rocking the new hotness?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] RandomPooka:
I should probably download these, even though I'm almost exclusively running custom ROMs anymore. What all is that boot patched with? TWRP, or both TWRP and a version of magisk?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] sash11:
Only Magisk 18. Don't use twrp at all
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] RandomPooka:
Thanks for the quick reply.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] aer0zer0:
[MENTION=528201]NLBeev[/MENTION] wanna make a patched boot with magisk and twrp?

I sold my phone, they wont fix my bricked one......

I did make this months BTS and NoVendor, but i cant test them, once someone tests the BTS, ill post it here.

Someone PM me if they want it.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] avd:
If I flash the OTA using TWRP then flash the TWRP zip to both slots, then the latest ianmcd o should be good, right?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] aer0zer0:
I think so
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] aer0zer0:
OP Updated with January BTS and Novendor.

Storytime: I purchased a OP6T early December, and I hadn't planned on selling my PH1 (the working one). Got 350 for it on Craigslist. Because I still wanna be productive on this device, I started trying to follow through on my original claim I started in October for my brick (To this day, I still don't know what happened). And since they aren't selling the device anymore, 199.00 brick replacement is gone. I got frustrated with the level of incompetence "chief hooligan" and friends have displayed lately (You can't seriously tell me that they don't have the qcom Sahara tool for their own device....)

All I want is for them to just flash my phone again. I'm a little disappointed in how they have absolutely run this company into the ground. I'm not a Andy Rubin Homer, I had no idea who he was until people were like, "omfg the father of Android is making a phone, der der derr".

A minimalist phone, with great design and timely updates, I couldn't ask for more. They instead, teased and promoted various peripherals, that never panned out (dock, 360 camera, let's face it, DAQ, they wasted the window of excitement there). For the first flagship device, it was great, the PH2 could be/could have been amazing. Now I'm not so sure.

Let us hope, for essentials sake, if/when the ph2 pipedream is ever realized, they have a good idea of what their fanbase/niche wants in a device.

fin, aer0zer0

p.s. I'll do what I can with BTS and NoVendors, there are some amazing devs that own this device, but it's hard without one of my own, can't test anything I make.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] avd:
It worked after I flashed magisk to the inactive slot
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] NLBeev:
Yes, when my PH-1 is updated...

https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=11410963190603894253
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] NLBeev:
4.4.166 PH-1. patched kernel with EX 3.12

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=11410963190603894083

Alli in one kernel 4.4.166 January update.

ElementelX 3.12, twrp and Magisk 18.1 for root.

Same with stock kernel 4.4.166

https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=11410963190603894253
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] bubblegoose:
Where to flash?

I got the OTA flashed, and I'm getting ready to flash your IMG file. I have a choice of flashing to Boot, System Image, or Vendor Image. I'm guessing I flash it to system, correct?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] NLBeev:
Although it is patched.... It stays a boot image; so flash it to boot.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] NLBeev:
Patched stock kernel 4.4.166

The patched stock kernel 4.4.166 of January 2019 with twrp 3.2.3.0 and Magisk 18.1 for root

https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=11410963190603894253
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] aer0zer0:
This guy, da real MVP. Thanks for making a patched boot man :good:
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] n2locarz:
Disregard - There are way too many "guides" that give outdated / wrong installation info
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] ktmom:
You're trying to flash the Magisk installer on top of the pre-patched boot.img?

You installed an Oreo stock ROM but flashed a Pie (the January) boot.img?

"find somebody that you think is undeserving of your compassion and give it to them" - Christian Picciolini
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] RandomPooka:
AFAIK, you can flash a different version of Magisk on top of the pre-existing ones. When 17.3 was the beta, some of the prepatched kernels were patched using custom builds numbered 17.4, and I just flashed 17.3 over them without issue. Not sure how 18 to 17.3 does, but I'm thinking it's likely the same.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] ktmom:
I absolutely agree, it should work. But if I was having trouble getting root to stick, I would not flash a second time on top of a pre-patched image. Just the variations of Magisk such as standard/ianmacd/canary could introduce an issue. Knowing that things work before making changes should reduce installation stress.

"find somebody that you think is undeserving of your compassion and give it to them" - Christian Picciolini
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] aer0zer0:
are you on Oreo or Pie? I'm assuming pie since you said January updates. what is the magisk manager log saying when you open it? you may need to manually install manager if it's not appearing in apps. Also, don't switch slots, magisk is going to install to current slot.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] n2locarz:
Ignore the post guys... sorry - I got a new PH1 (3rd one now) and did system updates and then "attempted" to root. That has been a disaster.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] rogosteve:
You're awesome man, thanks so much. I'm going to use the Elemental.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Regnuf:
Any update, did you ever get the phone to work?