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[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] BonkersTheClown:
At this point, I'm feeling a lot of love and hate for my PH-1, but I'm locked in. I'm on the Sprint lease plan and I'm passed the point of returning the thing. So here's the latest issues:

Voice-to-Text: Whether it's in Chrome, Brave, Messenger, Google Assistant or Keep, voice-to-text has the same problem. First of all, when the phone says it's listening, I have to wait a few seconds before saying anything. Otherwise, it'll miss the first few words of whatever I'm about to say. The other problem: If I'm trying to do voice-to-text, it'll take about 5 words and stop taking anymore even though the phone appears to still be actively listening. At that point, I can cancel and then tap the microphone button again. This will allow me to voice-to-text 5 more words. So voice to text is barely usable at this point.

I installed Google Voice, but it won't take over as the default voicemail app. I've dug around in Settings and such, but I can't seem to find where I can change this. Presumably, the install of Google Voice should have taken care of it, but that doesn't appear to have happened. It has all my old voicemail from my prior phone, but nothing since getting the PH-1.

Stays connected to my car and my LG headphones no problem, but has issues losing connection anytime my ASUS Zenwatch 2 runs out of battery. Three times so far, I've had to wipe the watch and reconnect to get the two devices talking to each other again.

Google Keyboard is interesting and all, but it seems to do a great job of registering the wrong keystrokes. Honestly, I'd gotten used to my Samsung keyboard anyways, so if there's an option to map the same second character layout, that'd be ideal. But I definitely need SOME keyboard app that presents large enough keys that my huge hands won't confuse the phone. G Board is as big as I can make it and it's just not enough.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] rignfool:
I have ZERO of these issues...

And Google voice hasn't put itself in the Google dialer since it was updated to material design like over a year ago...

Gboard is smart... And will get accustomed to your "large hands"

You do realize that this isn't the "***** at Essential" forum... Right?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] BonkersTheClown:
I'm so happy for you! You have no problems in your life and nothing bad ever happens to you! Meanwhile, I see post after post after post on this forum where people are on their second or third PH-1 .... because their PH-1 had issues. Sprint's support for the Essential Phone is worse than nonexistent. Essential Phone's own support kinda sucks too. Honestly, this forum is the only resource for useful help I've been able to find period. Apparently, people posting who are frustrated with their new phone offends you. Meanwhile, I will continue to try to make my purchase of a PH-1 as livable as possible.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] tech_head:
Google broke the integration more than a year ago.

You will need to install an old version of the app manually.

The version you want is "com.google.android.apps.googlevoice_0.4.7.10.apk".

This is the last version that integrates with any dialer.

make sure you setup not to auto-update or the update will kill the integration.

I didn't have that issue with my LG Urbane 2. Try uninstalling wear and reconnecting after resetting the watch.

Maybe Swiftkey, but I used Gboard.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] BonkersTheClown:
Thanks, that explains a lot. Weird that they broke the integration. Can't think of a good reason for them to want to do that. Alternately, is there a different voicemail app that would work? Google Voice has it's good points, but if letting an update sneak through breaks it, I don't see the point in using Google Voice. Sometimes updates patch vulnerabilities after all.

Did Google replace Google Voice with something else perhaps?

Did that so we'll wait and see. Hopefully it doesn't break again.

By rights, GBoard should be working great and isn't. Not really sure why. I've given myself time to get used to it but I fat finger crap way too much. I'll try Swiftkey and see if that works.

Thanks for the help!
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] manaox2:
Just an FYI, I have no issues with latest google voice, integrated with hangouts and used for my voicemail with Verizon after doing the standard *71(googlevoice#) *90(googlevoice#) an *92(googlevoice#). Maybe Sprint has a similar method of call forwarding you can use?

Also, maybe your phone has a hardware issue with a microphone. It wouldn't be the first case. Many of us really don't have an issue with voice to text, so that might be something to RMA about if you can test further.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] tech_head:
The issue is not about being able to use it, dialer integration is broken.

Without integration you can't go to the dialer and listen to your VM.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] stinger4321:
Try oreo beta... Or wait to oreo ota.. looks to be working or close to working in beta
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] egren58:
So I purchased the samsu g unlocked but when. I choose to install the theme it s

Does not work.. It says installing and than it sends me to install a package.. What am I doing wrong?..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Sokudoningyou:
That's what it does. Each overlay is a separate install. It threw me off the first time, too.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] egren58:
So I manually have to install all of them?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Sokudoningyou:
Yep.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] mocsharp:
Anyone having issues with 2 side edges not registering any touch events?

I have Microsoft launcher and in the app drawer, when I try to tap in the alphabets, it has no response.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] balane:
Left and right edge touch response isn't very good. It got a little better with one of the updates but it's far from ideal. I assume this is because of the accidental touch parameters used in an edge-to-edge display. I wish this was an adjustable setting because I'd rather deal with mis-touches than poor response.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] derausgewanderte:
what I've noticed is that when you slide your finger inwards from the edge and then down you get the alphabet listing. works in Nova as well
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] roebling:
Tapping links/icons on the edges is problematic for me, too. Software fix by decreasing event trigger threshold for x,y's near edges?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] derausgewanderte:
interesting to see this. Almost looks like the same problem. They guy also states that sliding your finger works but tapping is not recognized.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] daniel4653:
Sideload the 8.0 beta. I no longer have any touches not being registered from using the beta for about 15 hours now.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] mocsharp:
I'm still experiencing the same on Oreo. About 7mm on each side not responding to any touch events. I might return the phone and get 5t but it cost me only$350 from amazon, so still debating.
[General Questions and Answers] AusOppoDood:
So i just got one of these from JB Hifi about 2 days ago for $629 i love the phone but the gaming performance is abysmal, it stutters and hitches like no tomorrow.

Never had a phone act like this before, am i doing something wrong? Its completely stock obviously

If there is any oppo blokes on here that could help me out with rooting/overclocking i'd be very interested since i havent dabbled in that for so long im very rusty.

Much appreciated.

Phone is buttery smooth otherwise.

T. Aussie
[General Questions and Answers] carlochiefsg:
No way to root this model in the past 11 months, highly and unlikely able to root in next 12 months
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] jcadduono:
Sup, I got sick of waiting for OEM Unlock (at 13 days now on BRI CSC from never-msrp) and decided to try flashing another region.

Clearly, region is stuck with what you started with regardless of the firmware you flash.

Alright, so let's just erase efs (yeah, that little checkbox in Odin that's usually safe on every other device, or an empty or unsigned efs.img in the tar) then and pull SIM out and maybe it won't know what I started with and default to XEU.

Yeah, no, dm-verity errors from then on. Device completely unrecognizable by Kies & Smart Switch.

It gets into Download mode, it flashes, but it fails the Installing screen @ around 32% on the next boot and falls back to recovery showing dm-verity error.

So, any suggestions? I'm sure someone has experience here with wiped EFS on the S8 or Note 8.

By the way, this device, as you can tell by the first sentence, is in OEM LOCKED mode.

UPDATE: SEE LAST POST https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=75879640&postcount=20
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
That (32%) is the normal stop point for the binaries error at boot after flashing unofficial firmware, I'd try flashing the full smash, BL, CP, CSC, AP from a stock firmware all at once in Odin, it got me out of it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] i23u8:
Have you tried flashing the factory binary for N950F? I had almost the same, not flashing situation, and the factory binary allowed me to restore my phone following the steps I found for restoring EFS. Although I paid 10 dollars to be able to download the factory binary from a website. It is called COMBINATION file.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] jcadduono:
Interesting, I found one for AQH9. I'll see what I can do with it! Thanks!

This is actually the first thing I tried.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] me2151:
Welcome to the N8 group. Can you specify What exactly is giving a dm-verity error? You say its able to get to recovery. Have you tried flashing your CSC?

EDIT: Other than that if you can find the Combo files for your model(you cannot use the n950U ones) then you could boot into the device using a similar method to the snapdragon root(using the abl.elf,devcfg,boot.img and recovery.img in a tar file flash with comsey odin and dm-verity on system should get disabled. That will allow you to at least boot. but since you wiped efs probably dont have service.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] jcadduono:
No success with factory binaries, they don't boot past the FACTORY BINARY >>>>>>>>> loading screen.

I think the modem is panicking early in boot process due to empty efs partition.

So if you try to flash efs.img unsigned with Odin, it will erase efs and then refuse to flash new one. I guess I'm screwed unless I can somehow find a signed efs.img to flash.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] me2151:
Try installing all stock FW then create a new tar with the files i mentioned above. See what happens then. You SHOULD also have adb on boot when using the combo files like that.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] jcadduono:
yes, adb is unauthorized though so what's the point of it

also, i did try this, no success getting past samsung screen, which is the same case as factory binary system, just stuck on the logo forever with adb unauthorized
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] me2151:
Ok. Is your efs image sparse or regular img? According to a guy i know on S8 efs isnt secure boot checked and is flashable no issue in odin. just needs to be a sparse image and named efs.img.ext4
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] jcadduono:
it is secure boot checked, i flashed a sparse ext4 efs.img (efs.img is what the partition layout says it should be named), it failed with the error that you can't flash unsigned files to this partition (on DL mode screen)

it also left the efs partition completely empty, so it zeros it out before even checking if the image sent is signed

the guy who said it wasn't secure boot checked probably had an OEM unlocked device

my sparse ext4.img file was an empty filesystem, it would have at least mounted if the flash worked
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] me2151:
Crap. Forgot you were Exynos. Your Secure boot stuff is different. We are Snapdragon. Sorry.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] jcadduono:
Was looking into Octoplus or z3x as a solution, but unfortunately both require a rooted working phone, it seems the only way to possibly get past this error is to get EFS formatted somehow, or flash a signed sparse EFS in Odin. Maybe if engineering binary doesn't have verity on system it could be possible to replace an early system service with a shell script to format efs, and that might bring the device far enough to boot, but even then I would never have service until I bought some kind of Samsung EFS certificate and installed it with a z3x/octoplus.

This is way beyond me, so either I have to desperately plea with never-msrp, or Samsung Taiwan, or find someone in Taiwan willing to RMA the Note8 for me then ship the fixed one back to me :(
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] jcadduono:
ebay and paypal say buyer's fault and won't let me open a case (told them it failed during firmware upgrade)

argued that the seller did not mention anywhere in ad that the phone was from a region that did not speak English and offered no manufacturer warranty (at least a UK or UAE Exynos phone can be RMA'd then forwarded by a friend, Taiwan cannot)

got nowhere

eBay says: The moment you accept a firmware upgrade on a smartphone, even if it is official/from the manufacturer, you forfeit your 30 day money back guarantee. This is because any modification done to an item after receiving it counts as altering the product and breaks the guarantee.

Me: Well, in that case just setting it up breaks the guarantee!

i can probably get $250 for it being sold for parts which is pretty painful when it's brand new without a single scratch and knox 0x0

if it were possible to purchase a motherboard for the phone i would do that, but that probably won't be possible for at least 2 years :(

update: never-msrp is trying to see if they can help me get it into taiwan rma through them
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] luongthanhluangq:
i tihnk i can fix inbox me
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Zionator:
I once had a note 4 that where bricked and nothing I did could bring it back and no one on XDA was able to help so I thought it was dead beat.

I refused to give up as back then the phone was only a few months old and I paid full price on release date so I got online and started downloading stock Rom after stock Rom all from different countries and after a week of downloading and flashing I got it working.

Right after I got it working I flashed BTU stock and then I was a happy dude.

I don't know what caused the issue and I don't know how it was fixed other then the longest week of my life of downloading and flashing that got it working. Would maybe have taken half the time if the samfirmware downloading speeds wernt so damn slow.

I know ur issue is different and furthermore u understand what u r doing more then I ever will but maybe with a bit of luck and persistently trying it might work again.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] edint3000:
Which version of Factory you flashed?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Nick216ohio:
Someone who's hard brick try this. I msg guy and he said they haven't had chance to try with Note 8 yet. He has thousands of reviews and high stars. Dealt with him in the past.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/121826357738
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] jadaress1:
Feel for ya hope you get it sorted
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Maroc_Specops:
Try the s8plus csc of rom.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] jcadduono:
Hey guys, so one day I came upon something in my facebook feed regarding G955F being "world first" /efs mount fail fixed.

This gave me some hella hope, so I contacted the guy who posted it.

He charged $75 USD via PayPal (I paid with "goods and services" option in PayPal to his email using my VISA)

Installed TeamViewerQS and Flexihub.

He logged in, and was able to use some tool from his side with Flexihub while my N950F/DS was in download mode and it somehow convinced the phone to recreate its EFS partition.

Once the EFS was back to life, I was FINALLY able to boot a factory binary, and this fixed the remainder of my phone.

He then flashed stock and it booted up and made it to setup wizard.

(there was about an hour or so during this that system was not flashing, and I had to switch PCs to get a USB 2.0 port. Apparently USB 3.1 was too fast for download mode to work correctly)

He says that my DRK is probably still corrupt so rebooting the phone will boot loop, but if I OEM Unlock it then I will be able to bypass DRK error.

Update: My phone reboots fine and is perfectly working! yay!

I have LTE and both of my IMEI are proper.

As for as I can tell everything is working perfectly and the device is still OEM ON FRP OFF and Official status.

I have not tried rebooting.

I cannot OEM Unlock my phone probably for another 2 weeks after adding my Samsung account, so gotta be careful not to let the battery die. :/

If you want his services, you can message him on his facebook account: https://www.facebook.com/baselalzoupi

Good luck!
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] $lim $hady:
I am using Honro 8 FRD L02 model with B350 Nougat.. I got the unlock code from huawei website and confused in unlocking, whcih twrp to use and go with SuperSu or magisk.. If any one who has same model please help.. this is so confusing.. I went through the guides already but the instructions shows i need b388+ kernel to flash SuperSU..
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] $lim $hady:
Someone help...
[General Questions and Answers] zelendel:
Here is what you do. Hook it up to a pc. Take a logcat and that will tell you what is failing. It sounds like a kernel compatibility issue.
[General Questions and Answers] HelpNeededPlz:
I'm so sorry but I have run into a few problems .. firstly, on my phone I have to use a mouse connected via OTG cable because I have no touch ability and my usb connection is set to "charge only". Apparently you can't change that until the phone is plugged in and obviously I need the mouse so I can't connect to computer. I downloaded an app called LogCatX and made a log file but I don't know how to attach a file and when I copy/paste it into the reply it says it is too long and reduce by 30000 characters. Any advice?
[General Questions and Answers] -Hope-:
I think the new touch screen will need a calibration.

PS: i liked how you explained your problem
[General Questions and Answers] HelpNeededPlz:
Sorry for my confusion but I'm not sure if you were telling me what I should do to figure out where the incompatibility issue may be or if you were asking me to upload the catlog so you could look at it and help me. I don't know what a catlog is, nor how to interpret it. At any rate, 6 hours later, I have, finally, figured out how to upload a file. :victory: I've been looking at how to fix a kernel incompatibility issue and I've read you can flash a custom kernel. If I did something like that, would that resolve my problem. Are they specific to the version of operating system your phone has (ie nougat, marshmallow etc) or do you need to use one for your specific phone model? Would flashing a custom ROM do the same thing? And is that model specific or OS specific? Where would I go to find something like that?

NOTE... In looking for differences in my phone to try and figure out where this kernel compatibility issue might be, I noticed that there are two different numbers on the midframe of my phones. I don't know if this means anything. I'm just trying to help someone help me.
[General Questions and Answers] HelpNeededPlz:
Hello? Was this the extent of your help? I'm not sure if you were asking me to run a catlog to upload so you could help me figure out what was wrong or if you were just telling me what to do and then moving on. Because if it was the later, all you've done is piled more stuff on my steadily growing mound of confusion. To make matters worse, my posts is showing as getting a response, so, I fear, nobody else will look at it and I will be left in the same place as before. If someone happens upon this post, could you give me advice that will actually help me solve my problem, along with instructions on how to do whatever I need to do. Thank you in advance. Until then, I'll be anxiously awaiting your reply....
[Mogul, XV6800 Accessories] aph:
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Use a new Google Checkout account and choose the free shipping to get it for $12.95
[Mogul, XV6800 Accessories] dwertz:
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[Mogul, XV6800 Accessories] blakksmiff:
I ordered one as well
[Mogul, XV6800 Accessories] jdlnmia:
Great find! It's also a class 4 card which is certainly quicker than a standard class 2 variety.
[Mogul, XV6800 Accessories] whbell:
Thanks for the find. Mine is on the way.
[Mogul, XV6800 Accessories] Hypeo:
I tried getting one, but they are all sold out, and the price is $22.95 and there is no option for google account anymore..:mad:
[Mogul, XV6800 Accessories] aph:
Looks like it's over. I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did since I pulled it form slickdeals.net and those deals usually end in a couple of hours.
[Android Head-Units] Ven.D:
Hi guys,

My trusty joying sofia died today. Screen had no backlight whatsoever . Found a guide online how to solder the motherboard to display connector. did it. now the screen is back on but it doesn't shut after the ignition is off. anyway

I started looking at other head unit and found ownice c500 8 core which seems to be a nice one.

The only question i have is i was running two RCA camera (back ad front) on my old joying headhunt via AVIN app. does ownice support second RCA Camera input? is there a specific app to launch it?

thanks
[Android Head-Units] gtxaspec:
I had a c500, the quality is worse than the Joying sofia. Would not recommend it.
[Android Head-Units] Ven.D:
Was it 8 core? What do you mean by quality? Build? Software? Reliability?

Thanks
[HTC 10 Questions & Answers] Kowshik Ahmed:
I am really upset with my htc 10. It's battery is not okay. Yes it does charging so fast, but It lose charge so fast too.

What is the main problem of it???

And I use a normal HTC 3 pin Charger. I don't have qualcomm 3.0. And its difficult to found in my country.

Can I use Xiaomi Charger 3.0 for my HTC???
[HTC 10 Questions & Answers] JohnSoong:
Don't know about the Xiaomi charger, although in theory, any certified Quick Charge 3 charger should work (as long as you use a good cable). And the phone is backwards compatible with older charging technology.

I am using my old HTC charger from the ONE V. It is just a normal 5V 1.0 A charger (USB 2.0 spec) and it worked. (I am doing that since I don't need the quick charge, and I figure the slower charging with lower battery temp might prolong its life.) A Quick Charge 2 charger (Samsung), and a USB 3.0 fast charger (5V, 2.4 A) also worked in my case.
[LG Watch Urbane 2] timjjcarter:
When I look at my watch battery stats I have a graph but no app usage statistics under it. Has anyone else seen this? I also have a Zenwatch 2 hooked up and the stats show properly. Any ideas?
[OnePlus 3 Questions & Answers] lawwd_have_merci:
so i got fiio q1 mk2, and it works but it drains my phones battery coz the phone keeps charging the dac.. how do i stop it from charging the dac/deliever power over otg?

im on freedomos, and dont mind flashing, as long as i can make this stop >.>
[OnePlus 3 Questions & Answers] lawwd_have_merci:
ANYONE?
[OnePlus 3 Questions & Answers] xGOGI:
Just cut + wire in otg cable
[OnePlus 3 Questions & Answers] lawwd_have_merci:
didnt work, wont get detected at all :/
[OnePlus 3 Questions & Answers] djrocks:
Have you tried the "settings.. Developer options.. Usb configuration"?

Don't select charging there
[OnePlus 3 Questions & Answers] lawwd_have_merci:
its for charging, not otg