yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Jonathanlc2005:
you know what i believe. it may be... the first rom that came brand new on the phones was the unlocked part then recognized the sim and locked it immediately. maybe someone uploads the first rom?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wolfu11:
I tried that as well when I reverted back to N just now but did the same thing.

It only does it briefly so maybe you haven't noticed either way phone stays unlocked.

I just checked again on TING and it's good to go.

Sucks Verizon was forced to sim unlock all their phones yet the other carriers get away with this.

It's creepy sprint can send a check to a phone on cellular (not WIFI) without their SIM being installed.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Locura18:
Yes it does
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] majesticpark:
Have you tried a cable that is 1 foot or shorter?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Jonathanlc2005:
they sell cables shorter than a foot?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] vicrhombus:
Have you tried running android auto with the phone in USB developer mode? Android auto in my VW Golf would restart every few minutes with my essential, but then ran fine when I kept the phone in USB developer mode. Better than a pixel 2 Xl at least. I returned the pixel because it wouldn't even connect to AA in my car.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] elkay:
Appreciatethe response. I've done allllllllll the suggested options lol.. this has been a problem since I got the phone at release on N with my 2016 head unit. I'm getting rid of that car so I figured between the new 2017 head unit I put in my new car last weekend, plus known AA fixes for the Essential, that hopefully it would resolve itself. I didn't state here but did elsewhere that my Nexus 6 works fine on both head units.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] pb1379:
Beta 2: still has the huge battery drain, 25% in 4hrs with nearly no use (30 min SOT) :(
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] basongwe:
I've still the same bug : it can't charge when it's off, it reboots automatically. It didn't happen on Nougat, but this version seems to be smoother than Nougat's version.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] reverenddak:
Beta 2 installed via OTA without a hitch for me (no root, stock recovery (I think*).

Not sure this is normal, but got 6% battery drain in 55 min (55 SOT, but on track for 10 hours battery life according to stock battery settings).

*I tried installing TWRP and root, didn't do enough research, and got stuck in several boot loops. Was able to fix by reflashing Beta1 and stock recovery (I can’t remember, it's been a while).
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wolfhelm:
So interestingly, after you said this I decided to go mess around with my phone to see if I experience the same issue... I was surprised to see that I did (no sprint APKs, but I did see it try to hop on Sprint twice before settling on Verizon), I must have just missed it before, but early early on I had played with my PRL after switching to Verizon cause I had some speed issues.

Here is my experience. I offer this with no support and if you screw up your phone it's not my responsibility (sorry, need a disclaimer cause it caused me a little bit of a headache the first time through)... Also, I make no claims to this working on any other network, but it might be worth looking at for people wondering about off-network UICC relocks if the phone keeps trying to reach out to Sprint on reboot.

If you are on Verizon and experiencing this weird Sprint thing

turn off wifi

update PRL *228 (if you're running the beta there is no option to just update PRL, you have to call Verizon at *228, select option 2, it does it automatically)

wait till your phone cycles around its cellular connectivity

reboot

you'll see the network listed as 31000 and you'll be stuck in 3G (BTW 31000 is Verizon)

Go to Mobile Network and turn on enhanced 4g lte and select VZWINTERNET access point

reboot

Go to Mobile Network and Set preferred network type to 4G/LTE (also verify enhance 4g is still on and that your access point is still VZWINTERNET, it may not be)

reboot

*#*#4636#*#*

tap Phone Information (it may take a second to come up if you just rebooted, dont repeatedly enter the code or it'll come up a bunch of times when the phone finishes its boot cycle)

select LTE/CDMA/UMTS auto (PRL)

reboot

Done

You'll notice at this point that the Preferred network type in Mobile Network system settings again says Global, although your phone information will stay with your last selection. This is the desired state. There is some weird inconsistency between phone information and Mobile Network settings in the system settings. Dont go into Phone Information before I stated or you'll end up overcomplicating this.

If at any point you get stuck in 3G and the network says 31000 you'll need to continue to monkey around with it. Your eventual destination should be LTE/CDMA/UMTS auto (PRL), if you dont make it there then you may have trouble with LTE+ or even transitioning off of 3G

There may be a shorter way to do this, but this is what I've had to do twice now (once going to Beta 1 and now to Beta 2). At this point it no longer says anything about Sprint when it reboots, it hops straight onto the Verizon LTE network. Makes me wonder if they supplying the beta rom with a sprint PRL preloaded.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mrcooter:
So you don't have "OMADM updates" in your about phone section? (Only reason I ask is because this is now in a different place I've ever seen it, but I'm also in Sprint so can't confirm if that disappears with Verizon.)
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wolfhelm:
Nope, but I dont know if it's a beta thing or a Verizon thing. It's definitely not there, I've gone hunting for it more than once cause I noticed the system update moved as well
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mrcooter:
Gotcha. Must be something with Verizon because I'm on the beta and it's there, but I'm on Sprint.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] hoppermi:
They have the full image on the beta page. Just side loaded it last night. Haven't come across any issues yet, but haven't used it much, either.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NaterTots:
I saw some mentions of poor battery life.

I came here to say I've got the best battery life with Beta 2 that I've ever had with a phone.

I've been up for 20 hours 58 min SOT, 2 hours of podcasts over BT, 30 min Pandora over Network and I'm at 74% .

I'm thrilled. Over night it sat for 12 hours and was at 93% this morning. Much better than it was with Beta 1 for me and I do have location services turned on and a smartwatch connected all day.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] VennligFiende:
I also noticed the improvement. During beta 1 it was dropping sometimes 20% overnight. Yesterday it dropped 4%.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wolfu11:
Thank you

I couldn't get *228 to dial so i just went into setting/system/reset/network settings reset and did it from there.

then verified the enhanced lte was on and proper (PRL) was set in the dialer and rebooted.

Problem is gone I'm starting to think these phones are default/Set to sprint (even unlocked ones) I wonder how much sprint has invested in this company???

I got this phone during their "crazy" 5 dollar lease deal. I am thrilled with it but thinking Sprint must have some sort of investment in them to sell it at that cost.

Even for that limited time they had to know people would catch on.

At first I thought they were just trying to get rid of old stock but that wasn't the case seeing how long shipping times are for people who ordered recently.

EDIT: it didn't last long what I would up doing was setting it back to the nougat settings (Enhanced 4g LTE Mode)/VZWINTERNET APN/ Perferred network type the first selection TD-SCDMA/LTE...ECT/set preferred network type: LTE/WCDMA. so not sure why our setting have to be different but i no longer see sprint on reboot and this setup gives me my fastest internet speeds.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] primaleph:
MTP file transfer issue

Under Developer Options, my USB mode is set to MTP file transfer. But when I plug in a cable, it switches to charging only. And when I switch it back to MTP, "Essential Phone MTP" shows up in Devices & Printers on my PC as an Unspecified device.

Is anyone else running Beta 2 or Beta 1 having this issue?

It might be my USB A-to-C cable, but I've tried three different ones so far.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NavySpark:
After Sprint unlocked the phone via UICC I loaded the unlocked factory image for 7.1.1 Was able to just successfully sideload to the Oreo beta 2. I'd second loading the unlocked factory image.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wolfu11:
I went beyond that and loaded the "back to stock" images which reloaded side a and b.

The problem seemed to be with the Verizon PRL once I reset that and set it back up sprint didn't pop back up.

Most people won't even notice because after a reboot we are busy unlocking the phone. But I purposefully stayed on the lock screen and watched what came up.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Joe Kane:
Clean upgrade to Beta 2 for me via OTA also. And the biggest issue that I was seeing in Beta 1 appears to be fixed (wouldn't automatically pair to my car via bluetooth). Hopped in the car and it paired automatically and quickly.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Jmar72:
Everything seems ok so far, except the gcam. When I take a pic using her plus or use video, I lose sound with YouTube. It also won't restart correctly. I have to do a full reboot. Until, that gets fixed, I will use the native app, which I think is running better in Oreo for some reason. Could be me but I think it focuses much faster and I get better low light shots???
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Jahdiel2011:
A couple of minor issues I have noticed.

- Charging led not working while phone is on.

- Charging with Phone off works for some seconds and then the phone turns on Anyone else?

Open Beta 2
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] stinger4321:
Oh.. thats nice they turned the charging light off when the display is on.. i always find it annoying and there's a charging icon on the battery symbol anyways
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Jahdiel2011:
The led is off even with the screen off. It does not work at all. The only moment I see it on is when the phone is booting.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] dandan2980:
Go into settings and go in apps/notification then go in notification and the option to turn on the led is in there when charging the battery

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Finally pulled the trigger and flashed Oreo beta 2 wasn't even going to bother tinkering with this phone but I got bored and wanted to take advantage of substram theme engine without having to root. So far the beta 2 is way snappier and smoother than Nougat. Glad I took the Plunge. If development starts to pick up I will probably root but stock is enjoyable. I remember the days when rooting was basically a must to get a better user experience on Android phones. Android has come along way since my Htc Evo. Days
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] hajah:
Hi,

I'm having the same error message as user mitchle described here: https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=74588912&postcount=167, although on different firmware.

I've a Sprint PH1 that was OTA'd to latest build (NMJ51B). I then tried sideloading beta2 of the Oreo update but I get this error message:

Opening update package...
E:unknown volume for path [/sideload/package.zip]
Verifying update package...
E: footer is wrong
Update package verification took 0.0 s (result 1).
E: Signature verification failed
E:error: 21
E:Unknown volume for path [/cache/recovery/uncrypt_status]
Installation aborted

I've also tried downgrading to build NMI81C but I get the same error, either when sideloading BETA1 or BETA2 of Oreo.

I've also tried other cables, redownloading updates and searching XDA.

Device is unlocked, but I have the feeling ADB can't reach some folders?!

Can anyone help?

Hajah
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Jahdiel2011:
Thank you... That worked
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Caltinpla:
It appears that the recent O beta 2 update improves the battery life really good even having my bluetooth on all the time... can't complain much!!!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Jonathanlc2005:
heres mine
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Caltinpla:
That's really good, over 6.5 hrs sot playing games and yt very impressive!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mpetruzz:
So i wanted to go back to Lineage after trying the oreo 2 beta. Each time I try to flash Lineage it gets hung up during the initial boot and bootloops. I used the same files that I have when I first flashed so I'm not sure what the issue is.

Is there a trick after I flash the beta??
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] spotmark:
I believe you need to flash back to stock Nougat before you can reinstall LOS.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] dandan2980:
Having some weird issues with brightness slider. It won't move unless I tap to the side of the slider. And it is actually toggling my quick setting tiles depending on where I tap on the slider so far it has toggled my Bluetooth, battery saver, mobile data and flash light. Anyone else getting this???
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NaterTots:
No slider issues here.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] dandan2980:
I don't know what I did to cause this but it will slide for but I have to tap next some where other than the actual slider button once it moves I can slide it but sometimes it toggles a random quick setting weird. I was using substram theme and navbar app but disabled both apps and still hasn't fixed it.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Jonathanlc2005:
Well that and using cellular in a basement with not so great service.

Actually I will say I noticed a bit better signal
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Caltinpla:
Hopefully, Essential keeps up with their promises making the phone better or on par with other big names manufacturers!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NaterTots:
Very happy
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] pb1379:
Those having good battery life with Bluetooth on, did y'all actually have Bluetooth device connected? I lost like 25% battery in four hours, where I usually lose only a few...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] derausgewanderte:
I'd end the day with about 30-50% on Nougat before I upgraded to Oreo. I have a fitbit and a Huawei watch connected via BT all the time and connect to the car stereo at least twice a day. On Oreo I ended up at 50% and today at 60%. I'd say for me it's about the same, maybe a little better, with bluetooth.

cheers
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] dandan2980:
I was having issues with brightness slider earlier and visual voicemail wasn't working either I'm on Metro PCS. Had some other random glitches going on as well dunno if it was from using Substram or not but doing a complete reset and starting from scratch fixed all my issues and visual voicemail mail in my dialer is now working.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] 12paq:
Those error messages are file mismatches. You have a bad file. Download again and reflash. Then you should be good to go.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] hajah:
You were absolutely right. I downloaded again, from home this time, and it flashed successfully!!

I guess my work connection proxy messed up the download.

Thanks for your help,

Hajah
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] thehappydinoa:
Issue with Beta 2

Ok, so most of the time I love my essential phone. But right now I'm really pissed. I am unable to receive text messages and phone calls. Also it doesn't like my wifi so I'm using tons of data rn. Any suggestions?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Caltinpla:
That happened to me too. What I did was updating my APN, preferred network, and profile update then everything worked again.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] rignfool:
Due to there not being a whole lot of info...

And we know nothing of what you've done to your device...

I'd recommend a factory reset...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] hooutoo:
Error: 21

Hajah

Can you please share which files you use to correct error 21? I;m have the same the problem with mismatched files or I believe that's what the problem is. with:

E:footer is wrong

E:Signature verification failed

E:error: 21

I back down to PH1-Images-NMI81C with I believe is a full image reset via flashall.bat then I started it up and went thru the android setup. I then went back into recovery and sideloaded PH1-OTA-OPM1.170911.130.zip... all good! I then tried to sideload Essential-PH1-OPM1.170911.213.zip and got the errors listed above. How'd you get past this????

Thanks in advance
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] hajah:
Hi,

On the Essential website there are 2 links. One is for kernel+drivers with 200MB size. That's the wrong one for flashing Oreo!

The other link, on the beta page, is a bit over 1Gb size. That's the one you should sideload.

I can post a link later, if you need it.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] hooutoo:
Thanks!

I got it. I was mixing OTA files on the beta with non-OTA files . Of course the names are different and so are the file sizes. Duh! Just trying to do TOO many things at the sames time. Lucky I didn't brick this thing.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] bryanus:
Can anyone on Beta2 comment on the changes to the LED notifications/behavior?

I'm still on Nougat 51B but would love to see some ability to change the duration or color somehow. The current 5s interval and dark blue color is very hard to notice for me.

Also, can I assume essential's Oreo includes the ambient display feature to automatically change the blue light levels?

TIA
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] IUnga:
What about compatibility with Treble architecture for this version?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] JoRocker:
Anyone having issues with WiFi Calling no longer working? I used to have a wifi/phone icon in status bar with Beta 1. I no longer have that, and it is turned on....
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Caltinpla:
Tap on the wifi calling icon turning it on and off fixed the problem for me.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] JoRocker:
That didn't work. Is there somewhere else to activate it besides in the phone settings?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Caltinpla:
Pull down the short cut settings from the main screen then tap that wifi calling icon from there.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] JoRocker:
That's crazy, I don't have the icon and it's not in system UI settings... Guess it's FDR time... Blah...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] dandan2980:
Did you look in wifi preferences that's were it is in advanced. I don't have the wifi calling quick setting either but I also don't have wifi calling turned on
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Caltinpla:
Tap on the edit icon then you can drag the wifi calling or other icons to the shortcut settings screen.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] JoRocker:
That did it! Thank you!!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] atrix_noob:
Anyone else has this bug when the phone stays a minute or two on sleep, when trying to unlock you have to wait almost 30 seconds for the screen to wake up?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] derausgewanderte:
Nope.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] atrix_noob:
This is weird, pushed the OTA #2 yesterday and keeps doing this. Don't know if I should factory reset
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] derausgewanderte:
any lockscreen app or theme installed that is stuck for some time, e.g. Chronus etc?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] atrix_noob:
No, I was on 7.1.1 and decided to try it yesterday. Pushed the OTA #2 has the #1 had an older date and didn't let me push it. Everything is working fine except that bug, and is super annoying cause is every time the phone is blocked you need to wait like 20-30 seconds to the screen to actually wake
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] derausgewanderte:
I assume you sideloaded the entire image of beta 2?. Not sure, but I thought you could not do an OTA over Nougat.

Might be a good idea to do a reset.

cheers
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] atrix_noob:
Oh, well I followed the instructions on the Essential Page, and yes downloaded the OTA #2 which was almost 1GB. Pushed through ADB and worked perfectly.

Gonna factory reset then if there's no solution then
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] atrix_noob:
Update

Working fine till now, gonna give it some time to check
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] dandan2980:
When I side loaded the Oreo Beta 2 straight from Nougat and started getting weird little glitches I did a factory reset and it fixed everything.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] atrix_noob:
Thanks, I did the factory reset and it's working much better than before.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Zargone:
Any rumor of a REAL release date?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] derausgewanderte:
Last I heard was beginning of the year (sorry I don't have the source). I'm happy with the beta 2 so far with the ability to apply my favorite Substratum themes. I am willing to wait.

cheers
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] VennligFiende:
One thing you learn in the software business is to never promise exact dates. Date ranges are OK. Better have stable software than keep dates. Most users have little interest in when Oreo comes.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] thehappydinoa:
Ok so I'm still having the same problem, my phone is still receiving text messages only once or twice a day. I also cannot receive shortcodes for 2FA. Any suggestions for any of this?

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I am also having a ton of werid little glitches too
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] johnciaccio:
Went from latest 7.1.1 update to Beta 2 and noticed a lot of screen tears in games other apps. Anyone else?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Shadow Samurai:
Any issues with keeping root if I just let it do the ota update from beta 1 to 2??
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Caltinpla:
It won't update if you don't have stock recovery installed. Don't do it if I were you...it might brick your phone!

There's a work around using ADB fastboot somewhere if I remember correctly.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] sirdicholas:
Battery life is incredible with beta 2. I know this is already known, but I drove about 4 hours today with GPS and Bluetooth. I only went down to about 60 percent. Rest of the day was lighter use, but damn this is good. I'm also running Rey2 kernel and rooted with magisk 15.0
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Charkatak:
Anyone here sideloaded Oreo update and then had to return/exchange the phone? In other words, will Essential take the phone back if user sideloaded Oreo?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Locura18:
Just revert back to 7.1 version