yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] gk1984:
Maybe you need to look at the forum's breadcrumbs. You're in an Essential phone thread. And if you're this "helpful" on the Pixel, then you can stay there. I'm sure you're more appreciated there.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] sirdicholas:
Awesome. I originally uninstalled/reinstalled the app. This time I Uninstalled app and key, then cleaned app cache and reinstalled. Working again. Thanks for the advice
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Alxoom33:
Lol! No wonder I had no idea what he was talking about! Sorry got the link through Dark room development. Has same Downloads as the Snoke kernel for the Pixel 2 and 2 XL. However, you should read your device's TWRp thread for TWRP do questions.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] 12paq:
Geez, dude.

Could you please go back and edit all your posts on this thread? You had me chasing my tail looking for an official TWRP and wondering why you could run Magisk 14.6 and the rest of us could not. Some of your comments and helpful posts were true for the Pixel 2, but not for PH-1. I'm like did I drink too much wine on Christmas? hahaha :confused:

Thanks. :cool:
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Alxoom33:
Sorry, will do. I couldn't understand how these users could not even find the Official Twrp files. LOL!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] 12paq:
You know I'm just busting on you. Hahhaa! You've been around awhile and you know your ****! :cool:
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] xterminater07:
Could someone showed me the differences of this kernel vs stock?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] gk1984:
There is no official TWRP released yet for the Essential phone. That's why others here were confused and asking where to get it, thinking you had it. When all along, you had the wrong phone.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Alxoom33:
Thanks. I just don't like giving misinformation. I couldn't belive I was in the wrong thread.

Take care and have fun! That's what all of this is supposed to be about, anyway. ;)

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Lol! That's why I was confused, also. Enjoy!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] 12paq:
Yeah, we already went through that. A funny mistake from a guy who knows his stuff. It's all good now.

Move along, there's nothing to see here.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mgear356:
[MENTION=5169465]DespairFactor[/MENTION] boss, may I request u look into this too? Perhaps it can help in the jerky scrolling?

https://xdaforums.com/essential-phone/help/thermal-throttling-t3721514
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] primaleph:
How to get amazing battery life without sacrificing performance

After installing Rey kernel and Magisk 15.0, I did a little experimentation with CPU governors and IO schedulers. (No more random reboots from doing this, like I had on Beta 1 and Magisk 14.3).

After switching my CPU governor to "conservative", and my IO scheduler to "fiops" with cache set to 2048, my battery life is amazing with very little to no stuttering or slowdown. I don't play a whole lot of games, but those I do play are working normally.

I used my phone all day yesterday, and the battery was stilll at 70 percent when I went to sleep. Currently my phone is at 93 percent battery, and says it has about 2 days of battery life remaining.

I use 3C Toolbox Pro to set these settings on boot, but you could use something like Kernel Adiutor or EX Kernel Manager if you prefer.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] sirdicholas:
Going to try this, thanks
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] rignfool:
If Matt us still using any of the two stage ondemand governors... No idea what any if them are called... They would probably be best for battery in terms of race to idle...

And noop or deadline with a 128 readahead would be best for battery life as well...

If the conservative he is using is partially based on the Franco conservative... Then that would probably be better for battery still...

Over doing readahead results in wasted cycles reading data that isn't applicable... It just gives shiny benchmark bumbers
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] weiyangbo:
Does Rey Kernel support f2fs filesystem?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] primaleph:
I tried both noop and deadline on this phone and wasn't impressed. That was before I installed this kernel though.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] rignfool:
Scheduler has VERY little to do with battery... Noop is a first in... First out scheduler... Meaning when it gets a command... It does it...

Deadline sets a time limit on noop... Basically... So it's more efficient during a lot of reads and writes than noop...
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] DespairFactor:
R3 is built with clang 5
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] sarcoptic:
I see there is an R4 now too...just wondering if things are ready to move to that from R2.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] DespairFactor:
R4-test fixes wifi on custom roms
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] sirdicholas:
Is there a change-log?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Ascertion:
Hi,

Test-R4 doesn't have working WiFi on Oreo Beta 2. Stock rooted.

EDIT: R3 looks like it works with WiFi so I'm going to stick with that one for now.

Thanks for kernel!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mgear356:
Boss, any comments? [MENTION=5169465]DespairFactor[/MENTION]
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mgear356:
yup this is right.. R4 (without test) also breaks wifi on oreo B2.

R3 seems good for now
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] sirdicholas:
Same for me. Also TWRP is still retained after boot but touch is not working.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] DespairFactor:
R4 test is only meant for LOS and other custom roms

This is nothing new
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] demilenos:
me too on TWRP ****. No touch at all
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] deepu458:
Hi Everyone,

Anyone here uses ReyR3 Kernel on Stock N? if so how is it working when compared to Stock kernel?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] gk1984:
So I'm not sure if stable Magisk helped or if R3 is running that much better but it's been 15 and a half hours since last charge and sitting at 52% remaining battery, estimating 17 more. I'm usually under 30% by now. However, I'm only at 2 hours screen on time.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] indian84:
That's the magic of despair factor...
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] 12paq:
Agreed!

On R3, I'm also loving the screen adjustments. As a photographer being able to adjust the saturation, contrast and RGB values makes showing off my photos more realistic and not limited to a fixed OEM color profile.

Thanks! :cool:
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] rdeets:
Can anyone share their color control settings? Or is that off topic?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] 12paq:
One way is to use Kernel Auditor app and adjust to your liking.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Zargone:
An open phone provides an overwhelming number of options...

How do I know if the Rey Kernel is something that would benefit me?

Where can I find a feature list for Rey Kernel? It it a flavor of Ray Kernel that I see elsewhere?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] tech_head:
Definitely a big deal for me.

Although at just a quick look my PH-1 has a pretty accurate display with no adjustments.

Definitely not oversaturated like an OLED screen. Maybe a little tweaking but nothing like my Nexus 6P needed.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] 12paq:
I know, the irony ~
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] stryver:
Since twrp is such a pain to use on this device, could flashify be used to flash this kernel? I'm on Ob2 stock/rooted with magisk but I doubt I'll be able to use twrp without getting to my adb machine since I've read that there are issues with twrp touchscreen. Just curious if there is such an easy work around.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] phidung3721:
You can use fastboot
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Airwolf79:
Should this be flashed to current slot or other? Sorry if this had been asked already.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] avd:
Current

Use about phone to verify that it is active.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] sonic0504:
Will this work on lineage 15.1?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mobileman88:
I kind of doubt it. This kernel is for 8.0 rom and not 8.1 which 15.1 is based on
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] DespairFactor:
still working on lineage 15.1 release
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Ascertion:
Hey [MENTION=5169465]DespairFactor[/MENTION],

There was an interesting Reddit post that appears to fix the stuttery scrolling. It is an issue with the default GPU governor. When we set it to CPU Freq or On Demand, it tends to run much smoother. I just tested this myself on your kernel and can agree it's better. Maybe this should be investigated and maybe we can change the default governor to one of those other ones?

https://www.reddit.com/r/essential/comments/7pemou/_/
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mobileman88:
Where do you adjust the screen adjustments? Is it in the Developer options?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] indian84:
Install a kernel manager app like kernel adiutor from play store and adjust display settings..
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mobileman88:
Got it. Thanks
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Seamonkey79:
Is there a way to control the CPU/GPU governors without root?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mobileman88:
Not as far as I know
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] zhuanyi:
How do you guys install/update the kernel with the non-working touch in TWRP? Touch on TWRP didn't work after I installed Rey_v2....
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Seamonkey79:
I flashed with fastboot flash boot <image name>, I've not yet used TWRP on the mata
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] zhuanyi:
Didn't know you can install kernel to boot partition, thanks!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mobileman88:
Anyone here having issues using R3 with NFC? Sometimes it simply gets greyed out till I restart the phone. Will still need to investigate if it is a kernel or OB2 issue
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] stinger4321:
Wow.. seems like a new phone now.. set it to simple_ondemand.. so much smoother.. i can scroll and read text. Before it was so jerky it was difficult to do so. Also touch performance seems better... Wonder of battery life will take a hit?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mobileman88:
It's about 30mins less sot the first 24 hours. Shall monitor
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] rignfool:
If you have an unlocked bootloader...

You can dump the image.. split it... And adjust whatever parameter you want via the init scripts... Repack it... And flash it...
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] 12paq:
Just a heads up. I have also noticed after adjusting some display values in Kernel Auditor that it can break the brightness slider. The phone gets stuck at maximum brightness, adjusting the slider does nothing. Clearing Kernel Auditor app data, fixes it.

It's likely me, I either tweaked too many display settings that I don't have figured out yet, or the app has issues with the PH-1. I will test other kernel apps soon.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] tech_head:
Any kernel parameters that can be changed will require root.

But that shouldn't be an issue. All Essential phones have a boot loader that can be unlocked. Even the sprint versions.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] indian84:
No such problems for me. But I didn't touch any display controls in the app.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Spaghetticus:
I'm sorry, but could anybody explain to me how to flash this kernel on rooted 15.1 lineage? I get stuck on a logic loop when trying to plan how I would go about making it work without losing either root, TWRP or a non bootlooping boot image.

Any help is appreciated!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] indian84:
The kernel doesn't support LOS15.1.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Spaghetticus:
OP said it does. Two pages back.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] indian84:
What he means is he is working on the kernel development to be compatible with LOS 15.1.

It's not ready yet.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Spaghetticus:
You're right man. I misunderstood. Sorry!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] indian84:
Not a problem man.

Peace..
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] stryver:
[MENTION=5169465]DespairFactor[/MENTION], Oreo beta 3 is here. Do you have plans for Rey kernel for mata OB3? I think I'll stick to OB2 until then as I've come to love this kernel too much to go back. Funny how upgrades can feel like downgrades sometimes lol
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] DespairFactor:
Yep it is planned, I only noticed that OB3 came out a few hours ago and I am at work now:P Maybe I will rebase during my break at work LOL, will need someone to test though as my device isn't with me
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] stryver:
Wow you are that awesome you can do it on break?? Hell yeah, I'll test it for you! :D
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] avd:
looks like it breaks under Oreo Beta 3

got stuck in a bootloop.

reflashed without Rey.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] indian84:
Should be the case. The kernel has not been updated for OB3 release.

Let's Ping [MENTION=5169465]DespairFactor[/MENTION]

:cowboy:
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] DespairFactor:
No OB3 kernel source yet, just looked
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] stryver:
It's ok, I'll wait patiently. Rey kernel is definitely worth the wait. I'd rather stick to ob2 for now, as I really have no issues anyway. Keep up the great work Buddy!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] DespairFactor:
Oreo custom ROM kernel has been released now!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] shooterlgk:
Thanks!

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Is ir r4 or cust 1?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] DespairFactor:
R1-CUST
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] rdeets:
Is that still accurate, or should we use R2-CUST?

And, I feel a little dumb for asking, but does this mean it is compatible with Orea Beta 3?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] DespairFactor:
R2, but no OB3 support yet.

To get Wi-Fi working you need to be rooted and manually move the module from my kernel zip into the folder /vendor/lib/modules. For some reason it is not showing up in recovery, which prevents me from pushing the wlan module to the device.

EDIT: The new build with the same number may fix the module issue.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] JoshuaUB78:
I don't see R2-cust listed. Removed I take it? And either way I'm on OB3, so I wouldn't be able to use R1-cust?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] indian84:
Nope. You can't use this on OB2
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] JoshuaUB78:
I'm currently on OB3 however. Still a no-use thing?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] indian84:
Yes. Essential has not released source for OB3...

So no kernel support...
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] jamesst20:
[MENTION=5169465]DespairFactor[/MENTION]

Are there any tweaks for the touchscreen driver on your kernel version for LineageOS ? The only reason I went back from LOS to OB3 is because of the typing speed on the device. It feels laggy
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] kakabobo:
what the procedure flow to get ray kernel installed onto aosip rom?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] indian84:
If you are already running AOSiP ROM,

1. Disable lockscreen security. Set to none.

2. Flash TWRP

3. Reboot TWRP

4. Flash Kernel

5. Reboot

You may not have WiFi after flashing kernel. I am copying Despair's instructions below to get WiFi working.

To get Wi-Fi working you need to be rooted and manually move the module from my kernel zip into the folder /vendor/lib/modules. For some reason it is not showing up in recovery, which prevents me from pushing the wlan module to the device.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] rdeets:
For clarification, which kernel build should we use for this?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] indian84:
What ROM are you on??
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] rdeets:
AOSiP
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] indian84:
R1 CUST
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] rdeets:
Okay. And if I want to keep root (I have Magisk), what is the install method?

Flash TWRP

Reboot recovery

Install boot.img

Install Magisk

Install Rey

Reboot system

Is that correct, or will that result in bootloops?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] indian84:
No..

TWRP

Rey

Magisk

Reboot

Do not forget to disable lock screen security before hand.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] rdeets:
So Magisk will boot without flashing boot.img?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] indian84:
Boot image is kernel. So if you flash Rey, you are flashing a kernel.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] rdeets:
Okay. Got it working. Thanks.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] blair.sadewitz:
wlan.ko issue

I am not 100% positive on this, but I think the installer isn't mounting /vendor for some reason. I mounted it myself and anykernel2 installed wlan.ko properly.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] DespairFactor:
I already know this
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] bokononfoma:
How did you mount /vendor? Would you mind sharing the adb command?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] rdeets:
Just a heads up, Essential *says* that they're releasing source for OB3 today.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] whymoo:
It's up but not posted on the website https://storage.googleapis.com/essential-static/Essential-PH1-OPM1.170911.254.zip
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] DespairFactor:
do we know when official release is?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] whymoo:
Looks like the OB3 kernel is up on there dev site right now.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] indian84:
Official release for Oreo?

They will push 8.1 Beta on Monday or Tuesday.

No timeline given for official Oreo release.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] JBeauter:
Alright, quick question. Which revision of Rey kernel is for oreo, nougat, and custom oreo or custom nougat....
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] indian84:
Nothing for Nougat. R4 for OB3, CUST suffix for 8.1 custom ROMs

R3 is for OB2.

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Alright. So [MENTION=5169465]DespairFactor[/MENTION] has released R4 for OB3.

I have been using the kernel for a few hours. Feels amazing.

All is good for people to jump on to Rey kernel bandwagon..
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] stryver:
Goosebumps!! Thank you [MENTION=5169465]DespairFactor[/MENTION]

EDIT: if I'm on LOS with ob3 as base firmware, I still use the "Custom" version, right?

Edit2: NVM I figured it out. This whole time I assumed that with ob3 firmware even with LOS wouldn't be compatible. Oh well, still great for when I wanna go back to stock/rooted ob3. Too bad they take such a long time pushing things out, let alone posting sources... NLOL

Edit3: oh hey look, no wifi. LMFAO I'm gonna just start over. Don't mind me.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] aer0zer0:
R4 is working great so far, thank you
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] jackie099:
This is highly recommended, smooth af
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] ProperAlston:
I can't get WiFi working on my device. Tried to move the module over with Root Explorer like you suggested but still not working. Rom: AOSiP, Kernel: R1-Cust, Rooted with Magisk 15.3. Any suggestions?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] indian84:
You might have done something wrong. I have tested on AOSiP and Candy. I had WiFi on both ROMs..
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] dandan2980:
Where is Candy at
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] indian84:
CandyRoms ™

Welcome to the CandyRoms general chat!

https://t.me/CandyRoms

If you are going to use Candy, no need to flash Rey. I believe it comes with Rey Preloaded..
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] rdeets:
It's AOSiP. Root breaks WiFi on the latest build.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] dandan2980:
Thanks
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] stryver:
Same happened to me on LOS 2/6/18 build. Thought I may have done something wrong as well. Maybe I'll give it another try tonight.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] jackie099:
Is there any way to fix twrp touchscreen?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] indian84:
No.. But it's very strange that your TWRP sticks.

Because one you flash kernel, it should replace the TWRP.

Because on this phone, recovery is on boot partition.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] dandan2980:
What's wrong with the touch screen?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] -DarkKnight-:
Hopefully essential doesn't take as long to get kernel sources out for 8.1 than they did for OB3
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] return.of.octobot:
Well, flar2 has put out an 8.1 kernel for this device using the OB3 sources and it works fine, so I wouldn't be surprised if the OB3 release of Rey worked on 8.1B1 as well but I can't confirm that personally.
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Questions & Answers] Asrafull:
How to import sim contacts on lineage os based ROM,I have tried to import contacts from sim card but not showing any contacts.
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Questions & Answers] sagar13190:
So many custom roms based on nougat don't show sim contacts....two methods are their.

1. you need to sync contact with your email which you are using for login to google account while setup phon on first boot...

2. Flash miui rom then go to sim contact select all and export to the phone memory...it will create contact.vcf file. Save this file in sd card or pc..after flashing lineage os transfer your .vcf file to sd or internal memory. Go to contact and select import you will see option .vcf file..select it...done.
[Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Questions & Answers] pritamdutt:
I faced this issue , so I moved to NOS Oreo 8.1 and now sim contacts are shown. Nougat ROMs most of them don't have sim contacts facility.
[HTC U11+ Questions & Answers] cameljockey1:
Does anyone have untouched system.img for the tawain version u11+ 1.10.709.23 so i can take a the newest ota. My backup may have been touched because it is not taking the ota. And provide flashing instructions please.