yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile LG G4] Sophophiler:
Am no this rom.......... https://xdaforums.com/tmobile-g4/development/rom-h-rom-g6-port-t3669066

Download and flash if you can live without hotspot until its fixed. Camera and battery life is improved, proximity sensor works.

Otherwise, download and install this rom.............. https://xdaforums.com/tmobile-g4/development/rom-despacito-n-rom-v1-0-t3659805

I haven't test this rom, but i think its more stable (hotspot included) than the one am on.

Both are stock android Nougat 7.0.

Goodluck........
[Huawei Mate 10  Questions & Answers] hopstryndel:
I have problem with Google App. When I disabe it, other apps like Steam or MS Authenticator won't work. And when Google App is running, Steam/MS are working until I clear memory. The only way to fix this is uninstall and install again Google App from Play Store. It's very annoying to do this over and over again.

Can sameone help me?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Ellises:
As a friendly reminder to those unfamiliar with unlocking/re-locking their bootloaders;

Unless your on 100% stock, and planning on reselling your phone, don't re-lock the bootloader.

For some reason re-locking the bootloader while you have a custom ROM installed will cause the phone not to boot (in a way, soft bricking it.)

And, leave "OEM unlocking" in the "Developer Options" CHECKED, once that is unchecked you cannot unlock the phone once a soft brick happens.

The official advice from Essential about re-locking your phone is ONLY for the official firmware. Pretend they never said that on their site, it has caused more trouble then necessary. It's even dangerous to re-lock while running the Oreo beta.

Concerning un-bricking the device, at the moment there is no known way.

And it will be this way until someone figures out a way to exploit the bootloader or reverse engineer it.

So please don't flood this thread with asking for help to un-brick your device, I nor anyone else can help you on that at this given time, all I'm doing is trying to is prevent that happening.

So, safe unlocking! And happy holidays!

EDITS:

1) According to some reports, when you lock your bootloader it will also automatically untoggle the "OEM Unlocking" option.

2) It appears when re-locking the phone on a non-stock ROM some partitions are becoming corrupt, and resulting in the "red boot warning" screen. Under most circumstances you can fix that screen, but not while the bootloader is locked (since you need the fastboot flash command.)

3) When the partitions become corrupt you cannot boot into any mode, including the stock recovery. This is why Essential's suggestions are pointless at this stage of the brick.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] avd:
Should be pinned and in the OP of every mod thread
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] nicoconepala:
totally agree, i made this "trick" with one of my first android phone and it never happen me again. But new user who would flash Los or other rom should be aware of this issue, specially when jtag is not an option. As far we'll make some powerfull 500$ brick :crying:. it's our duty to make people aware of this. [MENTION=2385005]invisiblek[/MENTION] you guy made an incredible work and so fast but like he said i think you should warn people of the risk in the OP
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Ellises:
I wouldn't even know how to go about to ask to pin this.

But besides this I'm also thinking about making a thread for new users regarding common issues when installing roms at our current stage.

I'm firejackal on discord, I'm just trying to reduce the amount of people asking the same questions on there and to prevent bricked units.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] sd_shadow:
It's very easy to ask for a thread to get stuck to the top.

Just use the report post button, and ask, whether or not becomes a sticky is up to the Mods.

How to Report a Post.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ericzhf:
Wish I saw this earlier, my phone is already bricked few weeks ago after re-lock the boot loader. When I ask Essential support for help, they said this in the email:

"Hi Eric,

I can appreciate your concern if the device is not able to be used.

I am sorry though, we are not able to provide support for ADB or issues that you will run into with sideloading builds. We have no remote tools that will recover the device.

Although I haven't run into that same error, you might still be able to re-flash the Oreo/production build again using ADB.

I would recommend following the Oreo Beta sideload instructions available on Essential.com/developer that will walk you through the process of getting the device recognized and communicating with ADB. There are also instructions for re-flashing the current build available here. If you are still running into issues, I would recommend visiting online forums like XDA for assistance from other developers for that issue that you are noticing.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,

Erich

Essential Customer Experience Team"
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Ellises:
That sounds like a generic reply since it's not mentioning anything about the brick.

But I have a question regarding this; when you use the locked bootloader to boot into the stock recovery to try to sideload an official signed image, what does it do? Does it give an error, or is not able to connect to the computer?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ericzhf:
I'm not able to boot in to stock recovery any more, it gives this error when I try recovery "Your device is corrupted. It can't be trusted and will not boot". I think that was because I rooted and installed TWRY before.

Now with locked bootloader, I can't get in to recovery and I can't flash TWRY either. I can't unlock bootloader too because I'm not able to boot so not able to enable USB-DEBUG and OEM-UNLOCK.

I tried pretty much everything and no luck at this point, I don't know what else I can do.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_head:
You have bricked your phone.

Locking the bootloader with non-factory ROM causes secure boot to fail.

An unlocked bootloader doesn't care about secure boot.

If the ROM images is not signed there isn't a problem unless you have a locked bootloader.

The one thing I don't understand is why relook the BL anyway?

You have TWRP installed so you already can't take an OTA.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ericzhf:
I bought the phone for about 2 weeks, then there was a promotion that buy phone give camera 360 for free with Sprint, so I was thinking about return this and buy again to get the free stuff. To return it I have to get it back to stock, so I factory reset my phone and try to re-lock boot loader without thinking. Turns out I didn't get the free camera and bricked my phone too, perfect example of "NOTHING IS FREE":good:
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_head:
FDR is not "back to stock".

You must to a full flash to get back to stock.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Ellises:
I updated the top post with some additional information.

Also, if anyone is to contact Essential I wouldn't recommend mentioning that you tried to install custom ROMs, that's just walking into a mess like if you mentioned that to any other phone company.

I would instead say that you tried to install [their] oreo beta, went to re-lock the phone and your presented with a corruption message and unable to do anything including their instructions. Because installing their oreo beta does not void your warranty.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NaterTots:
Well, to install their Oreo beta builds you don't need to unlock the bootloader.

It's an adb side load through stock recovery
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Ellises:
I could also mention on their stock build page it wants you to unlock the bootloader to manually update through the bootloader. But on the oreo beta page it mentions nothing about having to be unlocked, or locked to do it via the stock recovery. So the average user could presume they need to be unlocked.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] WiddleyScudds:
Am I'm safe to re-lock if I'm on stock rooted 7.1.1 NMK24B? I have a dead pixel and I need to send it back.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Obamaloominaty:
No.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_head:
If you are rooted, you are not stock.

The boot image is modified.

Locking will brick the phone.

You must be completely stock!! No root. Nothing.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] WiddleyScudds:
Thanks for clearing that up. If I have any more questions before returning to stock, I will ask here first.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_head:
Was not trying to be harsh but it can't be stressed enough that you must be completely stock to lock the boot loader and not have issues.

I wouldn't lock the BL on a side loaded beta.

Only lock if you have done a complete flash of stock, released firmware, immediately after the install.

I might be sounding like an alarmist but I don't want anyone to brick their phone.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] WiddleyScudds:
I just got an ota notification for OPM1. 180104.092. think I'll be safe I I take it, then factory reset and then lock? Because I can't seem to locate stock NMK24B to flash. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough .
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] bryanus:
I flashed invisiblek's full back-to-stock image for 7.1.1, over my stock/rooted 7.1.1, in order to try and get the 8.1 OTA that was released today, but nothing it showing up.

I assume I am back to stock now. Would relocking the BL get me the OTA? TIA.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Skripka:
You do not need a locked bl to get the OTA.

I got it on Sprint last night. With an unlocked BL
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
As did I. I feel like people are trying their hardest to brick their phones.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] bryanus:
ok, I can wait. I just thought I did something wrong, as I've read other posts that mention getting the OTA immediately upon putting in another carrier's SIM card (when previously on Sprint). So I assumed once I returned to stock I would get the update right away.

Thing is, I'm also still on the Nougat December security patch, and I'm not even getting an update for the latest patches for nougat either.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] WiddleyScudds:
"immediately after the install"

Should I do it immediately after or am I suppose to do the first logon stuff after flash to stock and then check enable oem unlocking?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NaterTots:
I'm pretty sure that when you lock the bootloader again it'll wipe your device.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
I'm not understanding why people want to lock the bootloader?

1.) Reboot to fastboot

2.) Flash stock boot.img

3.) Enter regular Android recovery

4.) Factory reset

5.) Adb sideload last 8.1 beta ota from Android recovery

6.) Set up 8.1 beta as usual

7.) Settings- check for updates

8.) "An update is available" Success!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] geoff5093:
Some people want to sell it and return it to 100% stock.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
That's understandable, but I haven't heard anyone say that was their reasoning.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] WiddleyScudds:
I had to send my device back to Essential for a dead pixel, didn't want them to see I messed with it whatsoever, followed the directions here, & now i'm on the right path to a new phone.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
I agree, but I was saying it to all the people on here trying to lock it just to get the new update.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] WiddleyScudds:
Oh I gotcha. Right now I'm just kinda mad they won't reimburse me for my screen protector + skin :mad:
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_head:
I have never seen anyone reimbursed for those things no matter who made the phone.

Normally a "life time" warrantied screen protector manufacturer will give you a new one if you need to swap phones.

At least the ones I buy will.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mrsatan:
I theory they shouldn't deny your warranty claim unless they prove that the bootloader unlock was the cause of what you did. That is how Sony does it at least.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] retiredtrebor:
I never relocked the bootloader on my last two HTC phones, so have no issue with not locking the Essential bootloader. The question I have is what about critical, should it be relocked?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_head:
No.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] antmunny:
i went back to stock....even now, I'm afraid to relock my bootloader. LOL
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] aer0zer0:
You can, just never toggle oem unlocking to off, or your gonna have a bad time if your phone doesn't boot. Meaning if you cant get in the OS to turn oem unlocking on, to unlock the bootloader, to flash something to fix why it won't boot....... Brick city mashin
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mookiexl:
Well that sucks. I relocked my V20 before selling. Now I'll have two phones that will never be able to go back to the manufacturer. At least the Z2 Force has a mod to overlay the unlocked bootloader message with a boot image that can easily fool a noob.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Tech_Savvy:
ive relocked bootloader on this phone before and its not an issue....just run azros bts.zip and your good to go...just make sure every image flashes successful and it'll be all good..the unlocked bootloader message will be gone and nobody will be the wiser....
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] aer0zer0:
Just make SURE SURE SURE SURE your phone boots, before relocking. Make sure it all works, beforehand.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] pg043:
I purchased a used Essential Phone that the seller told me had an unlocked bootloader and no FRP. Both claims turned out to be false.

The phone was factory reset, so when I boot up I'm stuck at the FRP screen:

I am able to connect to the phone with adb in sideload mode, but I can't get into fastboot because I can't get into the OS to enable USB debugging. Can't enable OEM unlock for the same reason. I have tried sideloading a new stock image, but it doesn't remove the factory reset protection lock.

Is there anything that can be done other than getting a refund from the seller?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] aer0zer0:
So you don't have the orange unlocked bootloader at boot?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] pg043:
No. On the bootloader menu, the last line says 'DEVICE STATE - locked' in orange text. Is that what you're referring to?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] aer0zer0:
Any possibility your still critical_unlocked?

And theres no way to get to the UI without his login, correct?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] pg043:
I don't know how to check that. I googled it but the only way I can find is to check with a `fastboot oem device-info`. But I can't access fastboot, it just says`< waiting for device >`.

As far as I can tell, there's no way to get into the UI. Before I sideloaded the Oreo image, the phone was on 7.1.1, and from there, I was able to select "Vision Settings" on the "let's go" screen, which then let me access all system settings. However it wouldn't let me enable developer mode by tapping on the build number 7 times. Now that it's on Oreo the settings menu is more locked down and it only lets me access the Accessibility settings.

Thanks for taking the time btw, I really appreciate it.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] aer0zer0:
Get ahold of the dude, have him unlock it, then add your acct immedeatly
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] rignfool:
I wonder if the unlock switch is flipped already...

Try going to fastboot and run the unlock command...

If you can... Try flashing AOSIP or AICP... They may let you bypass FRP
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
waiting for device probably means you don't have the essential fastboot drivers installed
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] fongher10:
Can you explain further and provide the link to azros bts.zip? I flashed the stocked oreo image and magisk 16.7 and the unit bricks when I lock it. Magisk 16.7 had errors during install and I think that may be the problem. I do have root and magisk occasionally crashes, not sure if that helps. At this point I just want to go back to stock everything as I found out the ID can't be changed.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Tech_Savvy:
You can't relock the bootloader while rooted..that effectively will brick your device Everytime...flash bts and bts only and then relocking will not brick you
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] jawz101:
No offense but this OP is written poorly.

I would just number the steps to lock your bootloader because, as is, it's a list of warnings written out of order.

All I read it as is "Just don't do it. But if you do, don't do it on a custom ROM. But if you do, don't do it on a rooted ROM. But if you do, don't do it on a beta build. But if you do, don't ever uncheck OEM unlocking. Nevermind, don't relock your bootloader. Kthxbi."

How about "check this, install that, issue these commands, done.

Failure to do these steps in order will result in a bricked device."

Reasons to relock: sending device to manufacturer, selling phone to someone else, ensures Secure Boot (that no one has tampered with the bootloader.)
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Sass86oh:
What do you mean "for some reason" of course its not going to boot if you lock the boot loader with custom firmware installed! The whole entire job of a boot loader that's locked is to make it so that the device can only run the factory signed firmware images that are built by the phones manufacturer and more importantly it prevents unsigned code execution from taking place while the device begins the boot process. That means any program trying to execute unsigned code (i.e TWRP or any other custom recovery) is detected and prevented from running in order to maintain the file system integrity of the device. If you have a custom rom and TWRP on your phone and manage to lock the boot loader somehow (which should not even be an option available unless you issue the fastboot command without restoring to the devices stock firmware) you could end up in a serious dilemma and possibly lose the recovery options you would normally be able to use during a normal brick (which can almost always be reversible so long as there's no physical hardware damage, but if you have a locked boot loader and unsigned code present on the device then it could cause the device to continue having a kernel panic and youll have no fastboot access to bail you out because that requires an unlocked bootloader.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] aer0zer0:
This OP is money and sage advice. [MENTION=1223972]Ellises[/MENTION] and myself aren't going to tell anybody to "just do this", to each their own. But we know the consequences of a simple mistake with this device.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] jawz101:
As money as it may be, it doesn't offer the way to do it safely.

It's 50 cents of money vs. $500.

[update]

I just relocked my bootloader and I'm doing fine. Basically I just reversed the steps to get unlocked.

1) disable any lockscreen security, enable OEM unlocking and USB debugging

2)

adb reboot bootloader

3) download a fastboot image of the stock ROM from the Essential support site

and install using their instructions. Personally, I used a previous version and then started up the phone, skipped through the setup screens and then let it do an OTA update to the latest version. This ensured I was back on the Essential OTA update path.

4) reboot back into bootloader and issued a

fastboot -w

to wipe my data. This might not be necessary but whatever.

5) next, I issued the

fastboot flashing lock_critical

to relock the critical partitions

6) I think my phone rebooted again so once it got back to the essential setup screen I did a power + volume down to get back into the bootloader & issued

fastboot flashing lock

. the phone rebooted again and I went into bootloader one last time to confirm the bootloader is locked.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] aer0zer0:
How to lock your phone back up to sell, send to essential, or just feel better about your boot security.

DO NOT, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, BEWARE OF DRAGONS AND SUCH, DO THIS WITH ANY ANY ANY LOS BASED ROMS, NO ONE IS RESPONSIBLE IF YOU BRICK YOUR PHONE BUT YOU

1. Flash a BTS while both bootloader and critical unlocked, 'fastboot -w' for good measure BEWARE OF DRAGONS

2. Booted up and did minimal setup, everything was working.

3. Factory reset, booted up, and went back into bootloader.

4. Locked critical, fastboot flashing lock_critical went through erase and booted up. BEWARE OF DRAGONS

5. Factory reset, booted up, and went back into bootloader.

6. Locked bootloader fastboot flashing lock , went through erase and booted up. BEWARE OF DRAGONS

7. fin....

[MENTION=5853290]jdgesmlls[/MENTION] FTW

Thats how you relock, safely
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] jawz101:
Seriously? You plagiarize what I just wrote... only with less detail and useless dragon phrases. What is your point?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] jdgesmlls:
Actually, this discussion was happening 3 days ago in the stock firmware thread... and numerous other times throughout other threads. What [MENTION=5447216]aer0zer0[/MENTION] stressed was that he has seen some go through the re-lock steps and not verify their device is bootable between steps, leading to a brick. Hence why I posted this https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=77300085&postcount=843. My mistake for being lazy and not posting commands with the proper forum formatting...

So if you are hung up on who 'plagarized' who... I will take my royalty check at any time.... How about we are all here trying to help one another, especially with a procedure that can turn a device into an expensive paperweight.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] aer0zer0:
lol, seriously? haha :)

---------- Post added at 10:50 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:32 AM ----------

[MENTION=5853290]jdgesmlls[/MENTION] and [MENTION=1813256]jawz101[/MENTION] deserves all the credit, its just funny that we both did the same thing at the same time [MENTION=1813256]jawz101[/MENTION] do you realize the probability of us both doing the same thing at the same time. As an FYI, [MENTION=5853290]jdgesmlls[/MENTION] method is how i would relock my device if i was to ever do it. I know all the commands and the process, he just summed up the way i would check and be sure it boots, before making a brick.

we can all get along here :)
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] droidstyle:
You know I kind of thought the same thing, but I didn't say anything because I appreciated the effort taken to write a tutorial. You are more then welcome to write your own guide and post it if you think it should be written differently.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] jawz101:
Thanks. I did write some steps above as I went through the process myself

---------- Post added at 11:34 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:12 AM ----------

ok thaaat makes sense. My apologies. My main thing was I didn't want people to fear it. I'd read the whole thread and around post 35-37 I got the impression that the advice just started to digress. It felt like the OP and title was the rough draft but it needed flipping so it wasn't framed as a cautionary tale because when you do it with instructions it's just a process.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] aer0zer0:
No fear, just a cautionary tale. Too many essential bricks lately.