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[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] darco24:
hello if I have a second device (essential ph-1) and I made a full backup weighs about 9Gb after ZIP compression 3gb ... Now my question is, can I use this backup some to save the second phone essential ph-1? because it is visible when connected as HS-USB QDLoader 9008. if it is possible, I would ask for a hint about what and how to do it ?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] codenation:
Good work dude , thanks so much! It works perfectly, I didn't lock the bootloader at the end, cause I wanted to flash magisk. For those who want it as well, here is the patched boot image.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l2AEauXnJ2q7NZ1avAuriCHD096bmtT3/view?usp=sharing
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
lol good luck here is Sahara protocol https://github.com/openpst/libopenpst ive been trying to understand the programming for a long time but it is complicated this is what you want if your doing anything with 9008 mode.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] xarekusu:
I unlocked my Sprint essential using this thread. Thanks a lot!

But now can I flash lineage and still be unlocked?

Thanks
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
Check the firmware of the lineage as long as it doesn't over wright the modemst1 and 2 then it should be unlocked
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Sapphirerubyxo:
My phone was purchased used off eBay. It said it was unlocked for any carrier. I receive it and popped in my at&t gophone sim. All was fine.

Until...I updated to 8.1. all of a sudden my sim card read invalid. Because it was a Sprint Variant.

Thankfully I fixed it.

I unlocked my bootloader, and installed TWRP, flashed Android Pie and rooted and things are fine now.

However, we had a new ISP installed yesterday and for some reason the 2.4 GHz will not work on my phone. The 5ghz works fine and the 2.4 works on every other device in the house.

Did not have this problem with the old ISP (at&t)

I've cleared my network settings and all that. I'm scared to factory reset as I don't want to go back to possibly having my sim card not work and the wifi issue not be fixed anyway.

Any ideas what it could be?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
Read back through the thread im pretty sure someone found out rooting messed up the wifi and they fixed it i think
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Sapphirerubyxo:
My wifi has always worked even with being rooted. My wifi still works other places and still works with my old ISP router (they haven't shut it off yet) it's only the new ISP wifi. (the 2.4ghz, the 5ghz works fine). And the 2.4 GHz works on every single device in my house. I'll search through the thread and see if I can find an answer. Thank you.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] lifter67:
Quick question, still paying for my Sprint S8+ and it will not be paid off till Aug, I am traveling overseas in March, will using a 3rd party to unlock the phone (unable to payoff early now as I am a furloughed FED at the moment) cause any problems, i.e. not work when im back stateside and back on Sprints network. Thanks.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Vortell:
So I'm thinking about buying a ph-1 if I use this method to unlock the phone does it get ota direct from essential or would I still be at the mercy of sprint? Also do custom roms work on sprint version the same as the open version?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] enigma2446:
Straight from essential, and yes the custom roms work
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] bibbin:
Nice Job. Anyone try this on Pie?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] enigma2446:
Try what on pie? Sim unlock?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] bibbin:
Yes. Does this SIM unlock process work on Pie?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] enigma2446:
Yes
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] bibbin:
Ran the unlock software on my Sprint branded Essential (stock rooted Pie) and it did not unlock, unfortunately. As a matter of fact, it caused a bootloop and forced me to downgrade to 8.1. Thoughts?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
cant use root need full stock then try agian
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] sha0skywalker:
If you are unable to complete the unlock tool with your current Pie version, downgrade to 7.1.1 (check out the link in post 631) and run the tool again.

I was getting a 'no command' error using the tool on the April 2019 OTA. Doing the above fixed the issue.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
Hey i have seen this error myself i still dont know whats causing it but the solution is to hold power then press volume up button that will get you to recovery mode and wipe data factory reset and reboot the device and continue on with the process. i think it might be a bug with the new update unlocking bootloader.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] leopardfist:
Could someone please re-upload the unlock tool? The download link on Google Drive isn't working any more.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
Sorry my drive was getting full and i didn't think anyone still wanted it

Here is the new link https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1b0RVY7KOcrz0oSk680aILGESBmOIILWb?usp=sharing
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] leopardfist:
Thank you very much.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] leopardfist:
Could someone please help me? I ran the unlock tool and got a few errors about not being able to write to a critical partition, but the script advanced sufficiently to ask me to enable usb debugging after the factory reset. However I have lost touch screen ability and have no way to get past the setup screen.

Any ideas? My phone was on a recent Pie build before I tried to unlock it.

I did just read a suggestion to run flashall.bat, but the phone did get downgraded to 7.1 and I need to go back into Settings to enable usb debugging again. I have no touchscreen working. Help?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ziddey:
You didn't unlock critical.

fastboot flashing unlock_critical
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] leopardfist:
Indeed, I did not. I just followed the tool's directions. It looks like it successfully downgraded me to 7.1, but now without touch screen I am at a loss at to how to get to settings to permit USB debugging again to try to fix things. Fastboot and adb will not be able to interact with the phone without USB debugging turned on correct?

I'm trying to borrow a USB-C OTG cable to see if I can use a mouse to advance into Settings. And apparently I have to flash some hyp and rpm files as discussed in this thread: https://xdaforums.com/essential-phone/help/touch-idea-how-to-fix-t3842694

But I have to get fastboot to recognize my device first. Any other way to do it other than the mouse idea?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
go to essential unlock folder then data then NMK24B and open flashall.bat while phone is in fastboot it will flash and you should have touch back i will upload an updated tool in an hour
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] leopardfist:
Thank you. I did manage to get fastboot to run and recognize my phone, using a different computer. Then as you suggested I ran the flashall.bat file. It worked great and I have touch again. But an AT&T sim card gets the invalid sim error message, so it did not carrier unlock? I rebooted twice and got the message both times.

I appreciate your help.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
Yeah i will upload a different folder you need to download it and do operation agian this one is faster the other one still should have worked but your critical didnt get unlocked for some reason when you try this new one it should say needs to unlock bootloader twice your bootloader might already be unlocked so if the program says already unlocked just press start on the phone to reboot the device and it will continue on.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] leopardfist:
I opened up the bat file and just ran the commands manually. My phone is unlocked and I am downloading OTA updates.

I really appreciate your work putting this tool together. You're awesome!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
No problem glad you figured it out
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Vi7eta:
Much apreciated, would it work on Q beta5
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
I have no idea try it lol i believe should work
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] bleuspeed:
Guys, looking for advice on how to proceed with unlocking Sprint PH-1. I downloaded the essential unlock tool and ran it. It found the phone and unlocked the bootloader. But then it shows "no command". Per instructions on this thread I managed to fully erase and reset device to try again. However, now, both the essential unlocking tool as well as the 7.1.1 flashall can't see the phone any more. I ran adb but it doesn't see the phone either. What do I do next? I have endured the USB debug and unlock options in developer menu are selected even after the full reset. I am trying all this using the apple USC-C/C cable on win 10.

EDIT: Just wanted to share my experience as I did eventually manage to unlock phone! As mentioned above, I ran into the "no command" issue (noted by someone a few pages earlier). I followed instructions mentioned in the thread to just erase everything and retry through the recovery menu. But at this point adb was no longer working for me and since the "unlock.bat" script relies on adb, it just hung waiting for the phone. I ended up manually running "fastboot flashing unlock_critical" while in fastboot mode (phone was only visible through fastboot and not through adb at this point).

At this point I ran into another issue - the flashall.bat included in the zip went through the steps very fast and completed without errors. However, when I rebooted, I went into a bootloop. The only thing I could do was get back into fastboot menu using vol down + power. Recovery mode didn't work. Switching current slots from _a to _b didn't work either (bootloop continued). I finally ended using post #631's referenced steps and downloaded file to run "flashall" per step 2. This version of flashall took much longer but eventually set me up with 7.1.1. I then followed the rest of the steps to flash the modem files and phone was now unlocked!

I started OTA updates to Pie immediately and first updated to PQ1A.190105.058 (May update). Now downloading June updates and still appears to be unlocked.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Vi7eta:
Thats great. Would you mind sharing step by step guide depend on you experience. It would be of great help those have carrier locked devices and having errors while flashing/trying unlock.

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? I'd wait until someone more experienced give it a try.

Quick quest -: after unlock does it globally unlock carrier compatibility or anyone outside US performed it and activated their sim succesfully.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
Using the flashall.bat from the android 7 one will cause bootloop becuase i removed system img and formatting user data from it it designed only to allow critical flashing of the modem dont use that one for stock purposes use the android 9 version and perform a reset after that to get back to stock. The no command issue problem is just an error from the phone side when unlocking the boot loader after resetting and debugging the phone again it should just continue with the tool.

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Just go to andoird 9 perform the tool then update to your Q beta 5 dont see any problems with that
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Vi7eta:
Thanks mate, any idea about if it would make it globally carrier unlocked.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
I know that a bunch of them has been sold to international but i dont know what they do with it or if its works with there carriers
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] xorwin:
I have Sprint Essential Phone unlocked with the same modem flash trick. Works fine in Europe. And I received all OTAs
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Vi7eta:
Thanks for the confirmation.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] sansara_2001:
Hello!

got a phone with firmware NMK24B.

I unlocked it several times using different methods. in the end, I see the problem is that the phone’s properties have a definition that the radio is turned off. and therefore, even a network search is not carried out, an error message immediately pops up.

* someone will tell you how to turn on the radio module in this device.

thank
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] 63c:
i went back to nougat and flashed the modemst, when i upgrade to 10, it detects as sprint again, any help you may have?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] xorwin:
try to redo the same unlock process again
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] EyesFront:
I can confirm that it (Essential Unlock v1.0.2) works with the official Android 10 release (Sept, 2019).
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Vi7eta:
Great ?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] barin69:
many many thanks!!

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MANY THANKS!!!

My phone was stuck in EQL mode.

The only solution was to bought another motherboard but this was Sprint locked.

Now I have again my phone perfectly working!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
Hey if anyone wants to help the unlock tool be faster i had an idea if we enable debugging so you dont have to bypass it will save a lot of time you need a rooted phone and if you could do this procedure and send it to me we can make update to tool. https://gist.github.com/gregor160300/068c06c0314c19855e999473708c7635 we need boot from android 7 8 9 and 10 if you guys want to help if your already rooted.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] codenation:
Of course we want it :) It worked perfect on 2 phones I got from ebay for 60 each and now running android 10. When I tried calling sprint they wouldn't talk to me without an account.... So I just ended up sprinting on XDA and finding your awesome tool.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Tech_Savvy:
where did u buy em for 60? link to listing?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] codenation:
Sorry for the delay. The 60 one seems to be gone right now but every so often I'll put in a search for PH1 sprint and some stuff will pop up generally around that mark. I found this for 68 but some of the screen is black so it might not be what you want, but generally I'm OK with a cracked screen as long as the whole screen works. I just unlock it with the tool and put a screen protector on it.

www.ebay.com/itm/Essential-Products-PH-1-128GB-Black-Sprint-SEE-PICS-6159/254193873075?epid=241920765&hash=item3b2f22b0b3:g:MRgAAOSw1vxcXLcl

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I don't mind helping, but I'm unlocked already with your tool.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Vi7eta:
[MENTION=9079296]awireless[/MENTION] Facing this error while trying to install window driver.. any solution?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
Im not sure if this is coorect but to me looks like your running windows 7? If so you need windows 10 if thats not the issue then delete that file in the error and try again.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Vi7eta:
Indeed its windows 7, btw i managed to install drivers on it without updating to 10. Now tell me if its ok to perform sim unlock while bein on windows 7.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] awireless:
Yeah should be fine its just adb commands and batch scripts should work fine.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Vi7eta:
K thanks man

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I'm ready to do it.. if you can guide me through evry step
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] hedgecore44:
In case anybody is wondering. I bought a Sprint-locked Essential on ebay (seller said it was unlocked) and during the return process i found this thread.. I was able to get my Verizon sim working in it after using the file/instructions from awireless! I am updated to latest Lineage 18 and all is well. thanks so much dude!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Techre:
could you resend the link, its not working
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] cfclay:
Newby to the whole unlocking thing- you do want to have unlocked officially though right? And to do that wouldnt you have to be on the Sprint network to receive it?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] runderekrun:
Well that is interesting. I still would want to wait out the 50 days for the official lock but maybe I could start using my Essential on my Cricket and stop carrying around two phones!

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Cannot confirm. Updating to Oreo beta2 did not let me use my Cricket sim. Identical thing happened on 7.1.1, the invalid sim notification.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] grod46:
Its domestically unlocked tried a Ting (T-Mobile MVNO), AT&T and VZW Sim and all work, I assume it is also Internationally unlocked
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] slikerhael:
I'm (unfortunately) still using sprint as my main network. My roommate uses Verizon on his pixel 1. I borrowed his SIM card just to see if it would work out of curiosity. Didn't even have to restart the device, it connected to Verizons network and started receiving text messages from people he was in the middle of talking too. I called someone and it went through. However with my sprint Sim in it, the UICC states my device is locked to the carrier. I don't know how or why. It did the same on nougat, but I am on Oreo b2.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] coolshi:
just curious. you said “sideload“. does this mean that you refresh the phone with Orea beta, in this case, all your information is gone. and how did sprint guy do the factory reset? from their own stock ROM? I also want to use Cricket. Thanks
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] jaminw:
Sideload means that you install the update using a PC and ADB. It's not going to sim unlock your phone though, I've tried.

In the case of the user above, they mentioned that they had to have the speaker grill replaced, which means that they had one of the earlier model phones that didn't have the Sprint sim lock enabled. Those earlier phones were unlocked out of the box.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Timbaland7:
I did not factory reset when I sideloaded Oreo beta 2, but I did have the Sim card in during the sideload.

It wasn't Sprint that factory wiped it, it was Essential.

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Did you have your cricket Sim card in the phone when you updated to Oreo?

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Yes, I do want it unlocked and I'm still working with Sprint to resolve that. I'm guessing that as soon as Oreo goes live, this work around will go away.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] runderekrun:
Yes and factory reset once I installed Oreo.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] emowing:
1. Open the dialer and input the secret code *#*#3424#*#*

This did not do anything on my Oreo Beta 2 device. Which hidden activity does this code supposed to launch?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] spearman792:
I just tried this with my phone, and it did not work either. Received my phone locked to Sprint on Dec 20th, and paid off the lease right away. Never received an unlock. I then took my Sprint SIM out, put my h2o wireless SIM in, reset the device, sideloaded beta 2, and reset the device again. Still have the invalid SIM error.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] zswielder:
Could it be that the other user no longer has his phone registered with Sprint? And, maybe your device is still registered with Sprint since you just got your phone like 8 days ago? I wonder what would happen if you free your phone's IMEI from your Sprint account by swapping it out with a different device and then try this method.

Also, if a beta firmware has any chance at removing whatever it is that's preventing this phone from being unlocked, wouldn't that mean we should just root this phone and install a custom ROM like lineage to see if it'll work? Just a thought.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] DrvLikHell:
Installing Lineage doesn't remove the lock.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] cfclay:
How do I find my MSL for the prompt when entering this code?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] avd:
Isn't it a bunch of zeroes?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] cfclay:
I think so.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] robertzas:
So as far as i gather sprint can ONLY lock it if there is a sprint sim inserted. All ph-1 phones are the same. There is no sprint varient period. The PH-1 becomes a sprint molested version only when activated on Sprint. I bought 2, and never put in a Sprint sim, never had locked/unlocked/whatever. I am HIGHLY suspicious of any report that sprint can lock a phone without a Sprint sim in it, these reports are probably fake.

Has anyone tried to do a warranty replacement through Sprint and never put a Sprint sim in it? That SHOULD accomplish the same task.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Jahdiel2011:
I hate to bring objections to your conclusion but I was using my Sprint Variant Internationally unlocked Essential for 30 days in south america using a sim card for TIGO in colombia and The phone was relocked (Invalid Sim Card Message) I didn't even bring my sprint sim on my trip. I decided to return the phone due to this and purchased it again directly from essential for that reason only. To my surprise the Unlocked Phone I got from essential has a few Sprint apps hidden and there are Sprint parameters on system files so I think Sprint can use those Back Doors to relock the phones. Someone told me that they relocked it because I was not using the phone 5o days with them but anyways... How the hell do they lock them without using their sim card?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] robertzas:
That's the problem, not only can they not, but it is most likely illegal for them. Imagine the raft of **** a company would get by sending a "kill" signal over SOMEONE ELSE'S connection. I'm not sure what happened to you. My phone was purchased from a Sprint store, so it is definitely a sprint phone. I did everything appropriately, paid them off and everything, but been using it from day one on t-mobile, even before paying the phones off. Maybe since TIGO is a partner, they share a blacklist. And then if you have your TIGO sim in and register it on the sprint network here in the USA (assuming they are partners this way too), you download all the Sprint **** so it'll work on their network.

What are these "hidden Sprint apps"? What "Sprint parameters on system files"? I'd like to see if I have them as well.