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[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
I understand where it is for you, but it clearly is not there on my phone is what I am saying. It was, before I upgraded, but now it is gone.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Shadow Samurai:
Well, for me. I never even ran this phone on 7.1.1 more than half an hour. Day one, out of the box, I flashed the Oreo beta and rooted it and transferred all my stuff over. So that may be why
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Flapjack:
I'm thinking clearing my cache/dalvik could help, but I'm not sure what the best way to do it without TWRP is on this phone. Not sure if I can do this with the following commands over adb, but I certainly don't want to try anything else without being sure it'll work... especially considering the new A/B booting.

rm -r /cache/dalvik-cache
rm -r /data/dalvik-cache
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] DaveHTC200:
I've got WiFi calling working but when it's enable to WiFi preferred text messages take ages to send (O2 UK network)

Anyone seen this before?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] bergsim:
yes it was in
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Flapjack:
Not sure what to tell you. I know that's been the case for it not working for others. It must be something with the cell provisioning, because the ROM is the same for everyone.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] bergsim:
not there for me either
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Wanya79:
Hi there, i have a Problem on Android 8 Beta, I#ve got a huge battery drain and i want to find out what is causing this. I've installed GSAM Battery Monitor and since 5hours and 11min (last full charge) the active hold up is at 7 Percent. When i look into the Processes that keeps the Phone awake for 4h 23m, i see "kernel(Android OS)" so what can i do in detail to prevent this?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Flapjack:
Turn off your bluetooth.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Shadow Samurai:
I'd also wipe google play services, was the cause of a huge drain for me, but from his screenshots doesn't look like it; wouldn't hurt though.

I agree, BT is probably causing it.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
How does one wipe the cache on a bone stock unrooted phone?

I can get into Recovery, but the only wipe option is to factory wipe the phone. No options for just the cache or dalvik...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] qbanlinxx:
fastboot format cache, in Adb of course
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Flapjack:
When you say "in adb", what exactly do you mean? I didn't think adb could take fastboot commands.

Normally, I would reboot the phone to the bootloader, but "adb reboot bootloader" just reboots my phone. I know it worked at one point, because I was able to flash the oreo beta. But I can't get it to the point where it would accept the command "fastboot format cache".

**EDIT**

Unless you mean from adb shell. I haven't tried that.

**EDIT 2**

That didn't work either. Not that I thought it would.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] kbonnel:
Did you put your phone into the fastboot mode first before attempt to do a cache wipe? (e.g. Power and Volume Down) Not sure if that will work, and I don't have my phone handy to test.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Flapjack:
I did, but it wasn't detected as a fast boot device. Probably the wrong driver or something (though I did install the Essential drivers). I'll try again from the laptop I used to set it up.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] qbanlinxx:
It's worked for a few others, not sure why it wouldn't for you. But that's the way to do it..
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mrcooter:
Are you rooted? I've seen this happen on v14.5. from what I read for some reason that version keeps all cores active and running. Revert to 14.3 if so.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Flapjack:
What is the way to do it... through adb shell, or fastboot mode (vol down + power)?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Flapjack:
Ok, I tried the phone on my laptop, where apparently the drivers are ok. Here's the output:

c:\Users\chris\Desktop\PH1\Images>fastboot devices
PM1LHMA792000931 fastboot

c:\Users\chris\Desktop\PH1\Images>fastboot format cache
Formatting is not supported for file system with type ''.

**EDIT**

Tried this, too:

c:\Users\chris\Desktop\PH1\Images>fastboot erase cache
erasing 'cache'...
FAILED (remote: Check device console.)
finished. total time: 0.003s

**EDIT 2**

Via adb shell, I actually did an rm -r * inside the dalvik-cache directory, which should've cleared at least the dalvik cache. No luck. Still having FCs. Gonna have to set up the phone again, unfortunately.

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I got the FCs fixed. Not sure what caused it, but a logcat I took showed a ****-ton of webview errors. I reinstalled it and all is well. Basically, any app that was calling on webview crashed the app, which is why some worked and some didn't. Not sure how the google camera APK could've done that, but I don't think I'll be messing with it for a while.... at least not until I can make a backup in TWRP easily.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Wanya79:
Good Morning, so over Night i switch Bluetooth off, but same issue, massive accu drain, what else can it be? Can i identify more in Detail maybe?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Flapjack:
Bleh. After a few hours of being happy the FCs had stopped, I kept hearing my phone buzzing. It didn't sound like notifications, so I walked over. It was bootlooping.

I shut it off for a while, then let it boot back up. I cleared the cache again (this time, using TiBu) and it seems fine. It had been bootlooping for so long though, the battery was down to 30%. I put it on the charger and it seemed to get really hot in the back upper left of the phone (if you are holding/using it). I opened up CPU Monitor and the cores looked fine, and it was 42C. I took it off the charger and within a few minutes, it dropped back down to 32C.

I honestly don't remember it ever getting that hot... but then again, I don't normally use it while it's on the charger. It wasn't on the charger when it was bootlooping, and it didn't notice it feeling hot when I while it was doing it.

Anyone else just get random bootlooping like that on Oreo?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] bricky23:
I see that a new beta will be released next week, with bug fixes. Sweet!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
Do we have to use ADB again, or if we are already on the beta, does it just do an OTA?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] TheDethEgineer:
They told me on a previous Reddit AMA that any beta needs ADB, only official public builds will be OTA
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Flapjack:
Where did they say this? Did they mention which bugs they are fixing?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] balane:
In the Reddit AMA which took place yesterday this was stated. It will be an ADB sideload update.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] vergilbt:
Does it mean that root will gone and loose all data again?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] TheDethEgineer:
I dont know about root but sideloading the betas with ADB wont delete any data
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] emowing:
I experience the same thing when I root Oreo beta. My bootloop issue disappeared after i unroot.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NaterTots:
I'm on the Oreo Beta and I'm finding that location is always on.

Or at least the icon in the status bar is there.

Anyone else?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] 12paq:
Did you use Magisk 14.3? That's the only way I could root without having problems.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] bricky23:
Ya same here.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] rsa 329:
I'm running the 8.0 beta with no issues. I did a clean install without root. Prior to that, I did a clean install and then root... afterwards, I had a whole host of problems, very similar to what you have described.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] emowing:
Yes, i used 14.3. I'll try it again when Oreo beta 2 is out.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
Still on the beta, seeing a few BT connection issues in my car, and every once in awhile as I am driving along, Android Auto just disconnects and reconnects randomly. Didn't happen on any other Android phone or iPhone with this vehicle, so assuming a bug...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] 12paq:
Yeah, me too.

During this weeks AMA Essential said they are working on beta 2 for next week that will have improvements to bluetooth battery usage and other bluetooth bugs.

I was surprised how much I use Bluetooth..it's very noticeable when it doesn't work well and keeps dropping.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Flapjack:
Are you speculating that root is the cause of all this? The bootloops seem to happen at the most inopportune times, such as this morning when I woke up on my own, 30 mins past the time I wanted to leave to catch my flight. Luckily I got out of the hotel and to the terminal in time.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Norcal232001:
Do we know if we will get an OTA update for the official build of Oreo if we are on the Beta?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NaterTots:
I think someone mentioned from the AMA mentioned it would have to be a sideload again.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] JoRocker:
That was for the next beta...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NaterTots:
Oh right, I was thinking he asked about the next Beta, but he was asking about the official Oreo.

Oops

Thanks for clarifying
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NeutronBomb:
Anyone else experience really slow screen waking?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] rsa 329:
Absolutely. We are rooting the device with a beta root method.

I don't know enough about any of this, but it just makes sense. I believe that it is the kernel and other vital info that is being manipulated by magisk.

The few problems I have had with oreo preview without root is bluetooth, hotspot and horrible call quality. With root it was much more than that.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Flapjack:
Makes sense, especially since we can't run Magisk 14.5.

So far, the boot loop has only happened three times for me. First, when I first posted about, second (and ironically) when I was in the middle of a reply here saying it only happened on time.... lol, and third, this morning while I was sleeping, waiting for the alarm to go off. I'd love to know what triggers it, and it's not like I can leave a logcat collecting all day (right?).

It seems to boot loop as long as it's trying a soft reboot. As soon as I interrupt that and power it off, I can start it right back up normally without issue.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] combat goofwing:
Any idea when Oreo will have its full release ,running it on my Nexus 6p and getting my PH1 this week ,don't won't to root or run a beta as I have banking and TV apps that don't work on devices with unlocked bootloader
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NaterTots:
I don't think essential has said when they'll send our the official Oreo build. But you don't need to unlock your boot loader to install the beta builds.

It's an adb sideload. Android pay is working fine for me on the beta build.

But I can understand not wanting to use a beta.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] rignfool:
I can't...

Leave it unrooted... I have had 0... And I so mean 0 issues with the Oreo beta
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NavySpark:
But some have. I had reduced battery, Bluetooth issues and program freezes. Probably 85% of the time it ran well but with 7.1.1 issue free for me, I plan to wait. Oreo's new features are a nice addition but nothing game changing that i can't wait for.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] vergilbt:
For me it seems app related. Had on oreo no freeze, FC or any bug so far till I installed some more apps, like "Amazon video", "Google trips"

Afterwards phone was unusable... After deinstallation these apps all is running fine again.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Warlord721:
Essential said in the last AMA that they are going to release V2 Beta this week and they planned to have official Oreo update around the beginning of the year.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Flapjack:
A new beta would be nice. Honestly, the boot loops suck, but it's only happened 3 times since I got the phone. I'm not having the other problems people have mentioned... just the BT bug that was called out on the beta build page. I know it's not ideal, but I'll continue to use the beta along with root.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] maltydog:
So I have been running this beta and am pretty happy with it. But last night I dropped the phone and cracked the screen rather badly so I will have to bring it back to Sprint and I suppose I should sideload the last Sprint update before I do su, right?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] superior888:
This week beta 2 arrives. Hopefully it's great for a daily driver. Should be.

I would.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] maltydog:
They will have a Sprint build there?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] superior8888:
Can't you just check? Takes 30 seconds

Skickat från min PH-1 via Tapatalk
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Locura18:
Yes they do have it. They have everything that they have pushed out
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] maltydog:
Thanks, I see it now. I can just sideload the Nougat version? Should I wipe the phone first?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Locura18:
Probably you should. You might not want to keep any of your info in there if it's going to be repaired. And yes. Sideload the latest Sprint version.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Flapjack:
Installing that build now should wipe the phone, IIRC.

**EDIT**

Sorry, that would be with the flashall.bat, which calls fastboot and has a wipe command in there. If you're using sideload to upgrade, you should be able to keep everything.

Are you the one returning because of the cracked screen? If so, I would use the latest 7.1.1 and the flashall.bat.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] maltydog:
I have a cracked screen, yes. The fall also seems to have effected the keyboard. Why do you suggest flashall instead of sideloading? I am bringing this to a Sprint store so I want to have a Sprint build.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Flapjack:
I haven't looked at the specific Sprint build. If it's a zip, then yeah... sideloading would be fine. I was returning mine to stock, so I wanted to wipe the entire thing. I believe sideloading just updates the system partition.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Joe Kane:
bluetooth auto connect issues in audi A4

Anyone having problems with getting your car to auto connect on Bluetooth? I didn't see anything specific in bug list in this area, but I do see other BT bugs being batted around.

I went right to the Oreo beta with my PH1 so I didn't try with stock Nougat(long story). Pairing goes fine, all Bluetooth operation has been fine on the beta as far as I can tell. I don't see any disconnects or drops. But car (2017 Audi A4) won't connect by itself, I have to manually connect to the car from the phone settings.

Tried the various standard procedures, deleted both car and phone pairing, re-paired a few times. Android auto works fine, and Android Auto/Bluetooth connects right up if I connect via USB. I reduced the Bluetooth name of the phone in event "Essential Phone" was too long. I also disabled Bluetooth scanning.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Flapjack:
Mine did the exact same thing. It was a minor inconvenience. I just chalked it up to another one of the BT bugs we all know the beta has.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] cjscholten:
I have a problem with the notification LED as wel.

I have all the toggles on, yet the notification led doesn't do anything. Not when I'm charging, not when I have notifications.

It flashes for a millisecond when booting up the phone, so it's not dead, but other than that, it doesn't do anything.

And this is since the upgrade to Oreo.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NaterTots:
Mine is working on the Beta Oreo build
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] glasscitysd:
My notification light is working fine as well although it was wonky when i first upgraded to oreo a few weeks back hopefully it starts working in due time for you guys like it did on mine
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Thekidayo:
This is the exact problem I'm having, haven't seen anyone say anything about it yet but it's a minor annoyance!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Mdaly001:
yesterday my recent apps and home button stopped working entirely. No amount of reboots fixed it. Also noticed that settings menu disappeared. Went ahead and ended up wiping and flashing 7. anyone else experience this?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] reverenddak:
This happened to me too. But I attribute it to my failed attempts to install TWRP and root. I did a factory reset retaining Oreo Beta, and it's fine now. But still not TWRP (which has apparently doesn't work anyway).
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Mfont8o:
I had this problem. I toggled all of the options on that page from off to on. Restarted and they have been working ever since.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Thekidayo:
I'll give it a go, thanks
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] JoRocker:
Have they said when beta 2 is being released? I remember them saying it was going to be this week.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Thekidayo:
Been checking every few hours, my guess is Sunday at 11:59pm lol
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] JoRocker:
Lol yeah same here. Hopefully they update here when it's out!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Thekidayo:
Didn't work out but thanks for the help
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wolfhelm:
I had the same issue, turned out that the setting that was stopping everything from working was: 'allow notification dots' under the notifications area

If you currently have it enabled, turn it off, reboot, then turn it back on and see if it works.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Thekidayo:
I'll give it a go

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Just noticed it works while charging up to 90 percent, notifications are iffy but it didn't pan out! Thanks

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Might be working now, forgot the second reboot lol charging still doesn't work passed 90%
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] JoRocker:
I wish they'd push the Beta 2. I'm having random bugs pop up, and it's getting annoying...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wolfhelm:
Mine does that too, at 90% the light goes green like it's fully charged... I've been wondering if that's because the phone pretty much considers itself charged. With a battery this size, 90% is pretty significant for most people unless they are experiencing battery drain issues. It did this 90% thing on the 7.1.1 official as well.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Thekidayo:
Never noticed it! I thought it stayed green from 90 to 100 but it goes completely off when it should turn green at 90
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] elkay:
Looks like they may miss this week's beta 2 date. I doubt they'd do a release on a Friday.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] JoRocker:
Still 2 days left bruv... Be patient... I want the update too, but they said this week, so it'll be this week.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] bromanbro:
Eh releasing on a Friday probably isn't the best idea. Nobody working over the weekend in case of show-stopping bugs.

It's a beta they can easily justify the delay with "it's a beta and we found showstopping issues with beta 2 and need to iron them out before releasing sorry guys"
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] elkay:
Yep, I work in software development, hence my comment. :)
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] vergilbt:
Why? This isn't an OTA that they have to fix when some issues.

It's only an Sideload beta for geeks
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] elkay:
Because even still, if it suddenly starts bricking or killing cel connectivity on a bunch of people you better believe all those people are going to be looking for immediate responses. Sure, there are risks with betas, but there are still expectations of communication and resolution in cases of major problems. I've never worked for a software company that pushed non-emergency updates late in the week.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] bromanbro:
This. The term "beta" is to protect them if things go wrong, but like Microsoft with their Windows 10 Insider Program, they WON'T release a beta that has any showstopping issues. They'd delay it instead. The RMAs and bad PR would ruin them if they released a broken build.

Mainstream news would still report Essential updates bricking phones, even if it was a beta. This happened to Microsoft when a severe bug passed into a Windows 10 beta build.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
While it's not huge deal to wait a few days for a beta update, it does make me wonder...

Startup... That can be a red flag for some, on its own...

CEO and Founder takes a LOA about 2 months after launch... Another red flag...

They make a point of going on Reddit and confirming that the next beta is due out this week, and then miss that deadline with no explanation... Potentially another red flag.

It seems like a solid phone, but I do have my concerns as to whether it's gonna go the distance, or go the way of the Dodo like so many startups with great ideas and ambitions do...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] VennligFiende:
BTW, the CEO is back. Software always requires more than anticipated. I rather wait longer for a stable version than waste my time installing stuff that does not have a minimum reliability required by a beta.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
Yeah, perhaps, but given the often volatile tech market, they need to be mindful of these things... They need consumer confidence in order to sell enough phones to keep the investment(financial and technical) moving forward.

It's very easy to drop the ball and mess that up, even if it is only in perception...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] VennligFiende:
As far as perception goes, I rather have a more solid beta that is perceived as late than one that is early and perceived as buggy.

The current beta, in.my experience, has been very stable, everything working except for visual voicemail which is a nice to have working but a compromise that is not problematic.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
I guess. I am just concerned that they won't be here for long. The phone was an utter flop, sales wise. They sold 5,000 units, which is nothing. I don't know that that is enough to even cover the costs of design, testing and manufacturing... That was in October, I am sure they have sold some more with the price drop, but it's still a flop by any measure...

Camera issues, signal issues and others... Not good signs.

I am not ditching it quite yet, but I had really good luck with my 1+3, and the 5T is getting rave reviews... Yeah, it's a 1080p screen, but so is the iPhone 8+ and it looks great...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] JoRocker:
I can promise it's a lot more than 5k now. Just Slickdeals page alone during Sprint sale has 3k posts from buyers.