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[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] kfhughes:
Not trying to hijack the thread, but I haven't been able to get back to 7.1 from Oreo B2. I should have left one slot with it but wanted to keep one stock and try root on the other.

First, I tried the flashall.sh script from Essential which I'd used to update to NMJ51B. Next, I tried flashing the stock ROM and firmware in the [STOCK][DUMPS][FIRMWARE] Essential stock firmware and rom dumps thread except the critical partitions. Lastly did a "fastboot flashing unlock_critical" and flashed everything. All had the same result: on reboot it just gets stuck at the spinning dots. I let it run for 5 minutes before doing a power off.

Can someone tell me what I'm missing?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Locura18:
Once you flash 7.1 and you're sure you've reverted everything back to stock, you might want to wait a little more than 5 minutes.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Charkatak:
I forgot about that :)
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] kfhughes:
Non-determinism. Repeated all the same steps again and booted right up after about a minute. Guess I just had to publicly ask a stupid question.

Thanks!

EDIT: I actually figured out the problem. You also need to do a factory reset to erase the data. 7.1 isn't happy with 8.0 data.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] manderson8898:
Have you gotten by this yet? I am in the same point.

thx
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] nrage23:
Were you rooted by chance? I was rooted and went back to stock before doing the update.

---------- Post added at 10:03 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:47 AM ----------

The substratum andromeda works great.. Substratum was the only reason I root 7.1.1 in the first place.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] manderson8898:
I am box stock no changes. I did notice that the adb commands (device etc...) were inconsistent in that the connection and authorization would toggle.

TIA,
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] TheDethEgineer:
I did noticed that, but to be honest I rarelly use those top buttons, and when I did there was no problem. I like how it looks when fullscreen
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] 1Krima:
My issue with Oreo update so far is my screen won't turn on from being asleep. It takes multiple tries to wake it up and unlock the device.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] jgracz01:
i had to reboot the phone for it to start working once i toggled, but same here, didnt work until i played around
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] manderson8898:
Yes, replying to my own post... changed computer and everything went smooth. must be bad USB port on the old laptop.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] 2015Ducatimulti:
I updated to 8.0 about hour ago and everything is smooth and seems little faster too, no issues at all, only thing I wish I could do is change the flash rate of the notification led, I use Led blinker pro to change the color, but if I use user defined flash rate, its same the same flash rate. no change, other than that I`m very happy with my PH-1
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mackentosh:
Try a different cable
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] tapout27:
Sprint variant here. Sideloaded with no issues, did not wipe data....all is working and running smooth for the last 12 hours. So far, so good. Thanks.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] pb1379:
So far everything works perfectly smooth to the point that I am tempted to say it is less beta than the latest official nougat release. Only thing is that the battery drains about twice as fast, after 12hrs and 2.5hrs SOT I'm at 52%, usually around 80% with nougat at that point. But that was announced and while not exciting, still very acceptable.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] CollinFX45:
Working great for me as well. I face the occasional UI hiccup or lag, but that happened on 7.1.1 so I am not really all that concerned. It feels remarkably polished for a "beta" and while it's pretty early, battery life does seem to be great for me. Also, props to them for making it so easy.

I'm constantly reminded when I pick up my Essential after using my V30 that bloat-free Android is where it's at. It makes my V30 feel like a complicated, poorly optimized device that stumbles over itself when doing basic tasks.

-Collin-
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] squishface:
Use a non C-to-C cable. This should fix that problem...

I ran into this same issue. It seems to be from using a Type C-to-C cable. Use a B-to-C (I think; whatever the standard USB port on a PC is, too lazy to look it up right now) and that will resolve the issue for those of you seeing this problem.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] P4ndur:
Hey,

I have the same issue. I wonder if more people have this issue and if someone was already able to solve it.

From my observations unlocking with fingerprint sensor is working better than with the power button, but it's also kind of laggy, it takes a few seconds until the screen awakes. Sometimes it takes a few attempts.

I tried to remove all saved fingerprints but had than a hard time to wake the phone with the power button.

Does anyone had the same issue and could solve it?

Gesendet von meinem PH-1 mit Tapatalk
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] italiangi:
Couple of problems. I had. A reboot during a call and notification sounds stopping . Had to reboot to make it work. Other than that been good
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] DROIDESP:
Zero problems yet, seems. I'm curious if they will push future Beta builds OTA if you have sideloaded it.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] twcook:
It is there but you have to turn it on from settings in the phone app - the upgrade turned it off.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Mania626:
Guys I need help ,everything goes well until I'm about to sideload the file ,them I get the following errors (see pic)
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SSeungho:
What version of google camera do you use? I use 5.1 version, but motion photo does not work.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] anandlal:
Dude... That last command you entered...[emoji23] [emoji23] [emoji23] [emoji23] [emoji23]

You need to type the name of the zip file... Not copy and paste from the website...

I renamed the zip file to Oreobeta.zip then used the following command.

Adb sideload oreobeta.zip
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Locura18:
I'm glad you were able to get it to work.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NaterTots:
So I did the OTA last week from Beta 1 to 2. Status bar icons weren't working and vvm in the massive dialer wasn't working either. So yesterday I did a factory reset and now everything works the way it should.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] DiamondDave98:
Anyone else experiencing camera issues with Beta 2? I can take photos with no problem but video doesn't work. I use the Google camera as my default so I tried the Essential camera and got the same error. Google camera states "...couldn't connect to camera...".
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] rootnooby:
Am having the same issue you noted in post 562. When I try to unlock the screen with fingerprint or PIN, it is unresponsive. Sometimes I need to wait 20 seconds or more for the screen to come on. I sideloaded beta 2 and am using Nova launcher.

Did a factory reset resolve the issue for you?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Caltinpla:
They both work fine here. Are you rooted???
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] atrix_noob:
Yes, it solved the issue. Just factory reset and you are good to go
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Kampfgans:
Anybody of you recognized some strange camera drain issues?

I am on Oreo Beta 2 and did a factory reset. Or do you think the statistics only Shows some strange Numbers?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] DiamondDave98:
Not rooted, unlocked on Sprint.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Caltinpla:
other users reported weird problems after updated to Oreo beta 2, but confirmed factory data reset solved their problems.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] rootnooby:
Even after factory reset, I did experience a couple random freezes requiring reboot and am having some trouble syncing Bluetooth to a car stereo. The passcodes on the phone and stereo do not match for some reason. Didn't have these issues with nougat.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] kfhughes:
I ran into the same problem; Nougat paired with no problem but Oreo B2 would pop up the pairing code screen randomly and the car would say there was no response (this is on a 2016 Acura). After about ten tries I noticed that the navigation screen had a "Device not found?" option. I selected that and was then able to tell the phone to pair with the car's bluetooth.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Caltinpla:
Sorry to hear about your problems...but I never experienced them before or after the update. Maybe someone else will chip in and help you out.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] JoRocker:
I would recommend flashing the stock image file if you did an OTA or try another FDR... I had some issues with Beta 2 and did a FDR and it fixed it, but something could've been corrupt in your update or system file you flashed.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] rootnooby:
I went right from nougat to Beta 2 via ADB. If the problem persists, I may try another FDR. Thanks.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Charkatak:
On Oreo Beta 2: Under Mobile Network>Preferred network type - I see that the list is much shorter than it used to be and my pre-upgrade settings "GSM/WCDMA/LTE" isn't available anymore. When I tap on the setting, the only logical option that I can select is: 4G/LTE or Global. Anyone seen this?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Locura18:
I'm on Oreo Beta two and it still has all the options. It's normal
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] kfhughes:
I see the same settings on Beta 2; there are 8 different options.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Charkatak:
Is this option missing: GSM/WCDMA/LTE?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] kfhughes:
Yes.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Charkatak:
That is what I have now. So you picked 4G/LTE... I wonder why this setting doesn't list 2G as well. I out it on Global, although I would need to do some more testing and go places with weird signal.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wolfu11:
Might depend on your carrier

I'm on Verizon and have this
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] kfhughes:
Probably. I'm on t-mobile.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wolfu11:
try *#*#4636#*#* and then tap phone information then tap Set preferred network type and see if you have it under that.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Charkatak:
Tried it, but didn't see the same network type setting as I had pre-oreo update. I guess Global or 4G/LTE setting would work.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] JoRocker:
Dang FDR really made a huge difference!!

No more force closes, and battery life in amazing!

I'm on 5 hours SOT 11 hours since last charged, and I still have 55% battery remaining.

If you have problems, I wholeheartedly recommend doing a FDR before even posting the problem on here. It really does fix everything. It's a huge PITA, but worth it!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Charkatak:
Right, can't complain about battery life. Now waiting for the public release of Oreo!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] sirdicholas:
FDR? Is that a factory reset?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NaterTots:
Factory Data Reset is what I think they're going for.

I did it myself after doing the OTA to Beta 2 and it made a big difference on things that weren't working properly.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] dwg08d:
I am on the Sprint running the beta 2. Has anyone had a problem with text messages and mms? I have to restart my phone for all the texts for the day to come through.. Any suggestions?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Locura18:
Do a factory reset. That should fix most issues
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] dwg08d:
Thanks. Any suggestions for a full backup before a reset?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Locura18:
I had issues and the only thing that did was a FDR and a fresh installation. It's a pain ITR but everytime I tried to restore from a backup the same issues were popping up. But a clean installation solved everything. As of backup options I don't like any. I've tried Titanium but I didn't like it and you need root. As you do with most options. Or just restore from Google. But like I said. I would try a clean installation. But it's your call.

Happy New Year
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NaterTots:
There most important thing for me to back up is Messages and call log. There are free apps that will help with that and then I generally restore from my Google backup for all apps.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Caltinpla:
Updated APN, preferred network, and profile update solved my problem.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] dwg08d:
What are the steps to update the apn?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Caltinpla:
Go to your phone settings > network & internet > mobile network > access point names > tap on n.ispsn then you can edit any name fields.

Before exit out, tap on the 3 dot settings at the top right corner to save your settings then your phone will automatically update your apn setup.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Caltinpla:
Here's my apn settings
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] rootnooby:
These are the options I have and I chose global. So far so good in my area.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] rootnooby:
Second FDR resolved my Bluetooth issue. All seems stable right now.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] chiadrum:
There is an app called Super Backup that is pretty good. I had trouble with the Cloud feature but doing a backup, copying the files to my PC, then moving those files to the PH-1 after the FDR was easy peasy. Logs,Texts, Apps,etc all move over quickly.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Charkatak:
Oreo 2 Beta seem to make Bluetooth audio in my car, a problem with sound cutting in and out. Android 7 haven't done that.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] zomboromano:
So my wife purchased the essential phone a month ago.

Out of the blue, no reasoning behind it, it will drop LTE, on Verizon. My phone right next to hers has perfect LTE all the time. At times it will be when she drops wifi from work, or when she's at home, out of the blue.

We tried a factory reset. No go. We tried sideloading Android 8.0 *version 2*. The issue does not occur very often, but once every couple days she will have to restart her phone to get LTE.

We tried changing the setting to global, to the LTE/CDMA/3G setting, and so on. No matter what setting we still have the issue.

Any ideas here on how to fix? We thought we had it fixed but it just happened again. Any PERMANENT solutions? I'm wondering if this is an essential phone issue or if a new one should fix the issue.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] avd:
Who's the carrier?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] zomboromano:
Verizon. I just edited the post.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] maddoxrs:
I had a similar problem. Mine got to the point where it would not reconnect to LTE until after a reboot. Then a few weeks later I couldn't make phone calls at all. I did a warranty claim and received a refurbished phone. This phone has been working great thus far. The warranty process is kind of a pain. I recommend calling and leaving a voicemail. I I tried doing support through email and it was brutal. They would make a suggestion that I already tried then not reply back for about a day. Took them about a week of back and forth before they agreed to send replacement.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] TheDethEgineer:
I have the same problem with my earphones, it is weird because it does not happens with my car BT
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Charkatak:
I guess Essential has some work to do ironing out all the obvious issues. At least I know that it is not the phone's Bluetooth radio that is a problem since it worked properly on Android 7.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] daeshawn:
Ok so that makes sense. My headphones would suddenly stop on oreo beta 2. I have to turn them off then on. Happened twice but hasn't happened since.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
ANy news on a Beta 3, or the official version?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NaterTots:
I don't think they've done a new ama since the one in December. There was a full month between the 2 Oreo build we've gotten so far, so I'm hoping they keep with that pace
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Caltinpla:
I keep checking their website daily but nothing yet!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] avd:
I know as soon as I upgrade, they will push out a new version.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] JoRocker:
They will probably make it OTA from beta 2 so it doesn't matter either way.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Charkatak:
Right, it happens :)
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] avd:
Flashing O-B2 and the latest Nougat drops....
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] zwuncki:
On Twitter yesterday, answering a question, they said that they are really close and will share something soon.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] dhorgas:
Soon can't come soon enough. I have problems placing calls on Oreo Beta 2. The "hello, can you hear me? are you there?" kind.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mobileman88:
Which Telco are you on? I have no call issues at all. Hopefully it is not your hardware. Did you try downgrading to n and test?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] dhorgas:
Bell Mobility Canada. It's not the hardware. Other users on the same carrier reporting the same issues on Nougat and Oreo. Hoping the new version fixes it. Apparently no issues were present until the most recent updates. One user I spoke with suspects the latest Carrier Services update from Google to be the culprit. The issues started for all around the same time. Data works fine. Voice works fine over a data connection (e.g., Hangouts). Mics and speakers all working. Only issue is that voice calls now fail 9/10 times (obviously a big deal).
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mobileman88:
Ouch. That sounds bad. Can you roll back to the old carrier settings and block it from updating? Would it help?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] dhorgas:
That's kind of the plan. I want to see what the new Oreo release does first. After that I am going to start actively testing what fixes it if the issue is not resolved. If it is the Carrier Services update, I can block auto-update for that one app for now.

I also reported the issue to Essential, just for good measure.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mobileman88:
As essential is still new to the game. They might not have taken into account the nuances of all carriers
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] DAE1964:
Running on Telus in Alberta with no calling issue at all. I have carrier hub and carrier services disabled also. You should try that.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] JoRocker:
I'm having the same issues with Sprint in the U.S. hopefully official Oreo fixes it, because for me it's more like every 3/4 calls it makes no sound. It rings, and when they answer there's nothing for about 20-30 seconds. It's quite maddening.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] dhorgas:
I will try that as well. I'm going to wait first for the updated beta or whatever to drop. I got tired of troubleshooting on beta 2.

I know exactly how you feel. The worst thing is I can sometimes hear the sighs from the other side and I can't do anything about it.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Rox598:
I just got my essential phone today and immediately flashed Oreo on it but I did some searching before hand about issues but I'm having one I haven't seen.

Is anyone elses ringtones/alarms crackling when playing? In the ringtone/alarm tone selecters the preview is all distorted :S
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Locura18:
Not here. But some issues arise when you import settings. Most of them are fixed when you do a complete clean installation. It's a pain. But it seems to work
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Rox598:
I did a clean install though which is the weird part. Updated to Oreo factory reset and then set it up :S

EDIT: Seems a simple reboot sorted it. Of course I forget to do step 1 of Troubleshooting.

I will say I'm loving this phone, the signal is all over the place but it's gorgeous.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] trunzoc:
Has anyone tried to sideload the OB2 since the NMI88C update?

My sideload failed saying my current version (88C) was newer than the version I was trying to load (OB2).

I'm currently in the process of rolling back to NMJ51B to try again.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] spotmark:
Did you try flashing it with TWRP?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] trunzoc:
Nah. Just the normal Essential Dev way.

Downgrading to 51C worked.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Rox598:
You can't flash the beta on top of the January update so yeah you'll have to downgrade.

So far I'm loving this thing, had a couple off issues but gonna pin those down to the Oreo beta (for example I couldn't detect my WiFi had to manually add the ssid and password) and the ringtones/alarms were distorted but those are fine now.

One thing is WiFi and Mobile signal. My mobile signal is up and down from 1 to nothing all the time, doesn't seem to be an issue though still getting SMS and all through okay WiFi is definitely worse than my other phones but hey as long as I can connect I don't care. Had to take the signal away from the status bar though it was kicking my ocd off.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
Starting to get some random reboots in addition to the spotty Android auto and Bluetooth calling issues.

Hoping a new beta comes out soon and fixes what is otherwise a great phone.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] r8dooo:
Me too had it working fine for a couple of weeks now getting reboots a few times a day?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] zwuncki:
Had my first real crash and reboot yesterday, right before that everything was slow and Poweramp didn't react normally while listening to music via BT. Also noticed that installation of apps and updates became very slow the last days/week. Also noticed that stability went down within the last days.

On Twitter today they ONCE AGAIN said that Oreo news will be shared very soon. Let's hope, wait and see. They should hurry or they will be one of the last to roll out Oreo and maybe even Samsung will be faster.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Rox598:
Can anyone else try and play a movie via Google play movies and tell me if it's smooth playback? (Via download) all the ones I've tried stutter every 5-10 seconds or so and it's really annoying.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] JoRocker:
I don't think this has very good cache memory management. Everything was great the first couple weeks, and now I'm having reboots and freezes. I don't use any odd apps that would cause these problems... I'm really not thrilled about the idea of doing a FDR or clearing cache via ADB every couple weeks. They need to add this option in recovery like most phones do. There's a reason most manufacturers leave the option there...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] glasscitysd:
do you have a google camera port on your phone? thats known to cause universal video lag until you reboot after use