yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] dhorgas:
To be fair, I think this is really all the small players can do. They simply cannot compete with Apple's and Samsung's, or the large CMs. I am a strong proponent of moving to a bi-annual release cycle too. There is simply no need to refresh the HW every year no matter what Apple's or Samsung's marketing machine may say. As we both stated earlier, the current devices are plenty powerful and there is very little need to tweak and adjust anything. Software improvements are more noticeable today than HW improvements, assuming a solid HW foundation.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Jank4AU:
I think that may be one of the ways many companies ensure you update hardware...That's the only way to get on the latest software in a timely manner (unless you're on a Pixel). If some of the smaller companies would concentrate on ensuring timely and solid updates to their OS, I know I'd be less inclined to upgrade handsets as often, especially when they are approaching $1k.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
I would love an annual hardware upgrade cycle, forcing the, to support and really polish the software and user experience, rather than throwing out buggy products that are almost obsolete before they hit the shelves and half a$$ed support for 6-12 months...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] sting12345:
I've purchased the Ph1 twice because I wanted to give them a chance and the hardware is beautiful but come on. Being objective here though, Essential is finished. They will not exist in the same form by this time next year. Either they get gobbled up by a larger OEM or they just go bang. The investors are not putting more money into a new model, there will never be ph2 with 88k units moved. This is failure on a monumental scale and is not recoverable. Hopefully they stick around long enough to keep getting people updates and maybe 8.1 and fix the really deal breaking scroll and lag issues.

I'm sure I'll get flamed but it's the truth and anyone that says otherwise fooling themselves. I loved the phone too, but it just doesn't work at 700 or even close to 500. If xda is able to come up with a BETTER than 1 billion dollar Essential stock ROM then something is wrong. I used the LOS ROM and it puts the stock build to shame and these are amateur volunteer developers. They were able to fix touch lag and scroll issues 3 months ago and haven't had to make a "compromise with other features" that they keep saying. They've lost many top execs and have done NOTHING right to even make the company look better than their product.

Overall though the only thing that matters is 88k. If Ruben provided most of the money for this adventure you think he's gonna sink another few billion into another try? no, and neither or other investors.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] dhorgas:
I have no doubts that this is the case. Hardware is the primary source of revenue for many of these companies and this means that they have to keep churning out new products all the time while holding back on improvements to their existing devices to drive future sales. It's a really pathetic, wasteful cycle that does not benefit anyone in the long term, not even the companies that do it.

Let's say that they employed somewhere around 100 people at a fully loaded cost of of $67K/pp. Let's also say that the CM MOQ for the device was 200,000 and that the fully loaded cost of each device is $200 (I can tell you for sure that the MOQ is probably lower as it is very possible to have it be 1/10th or even 1/20th of that amount). Let's also say that they have some other costs of approximately $5MM. That means that their total costs after all salaries are paid out are around $52MM. They would have had to have an ASP of ~$590 for the 88K devices sold in the 6 months since launch in order to break even or close to. I personally do not think that the company is in such dire straights as you may think. You have to remember that small companies like Essential do not have the overhead comparable to that of Samsung or Apple or any other major brand that they have to support.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
Average salary of $67k, at a CA tech startup? I think that number is way low. A lot of us are making double and triple that and we don't live in CA.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] thegregulator:
Can I have your job?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
LOL. Took me 20 years to get up to this... Hint: make your way into sales, either direct enterprise sales or as a Sales Engineer/Solutions Consultant. There is good money to be made there.

Anyway, this isn't about me, it's that the salary in the example of $67k seems really low for CA tech wages...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] dhorgas:
Hahahaha, seriously. I had the same thought. :p

Regarding the number I threw out, I averaged it across the whole company. I assumed $100,000 per HW/SW engineer. Essential is a startup and many times they don’t pay as high as established companies because they hire people on future potential. Majority of their employees are bound to be operations support folks, customer care, and admins, many of which don’t make much even in Bay Area, at least according to the complaints I’ve heard. Engineers do tend to be overpaid though so maybe I should have counted $150,000 for a new graduate with no experience :laugh:
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] herwarth:
are the salaries serious that high in the states? I live in the Netherlands Europe and a senior IT engineer makes about 50k per year....
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Mania626:
Well, this thread has gone south a bit.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] dhorgas:
Bay Area and a few other spots around the US. There is a bit of a dot com boom-ish crazyness going on in the US right now driven by all of the free money injected into the market by the US Fed. It's kind of an interesting thing to watch from the outside. People with money using money to invest into money to make more money funding ventures that are generally unprofitable or have no revenue at all but have exorbitant valuations, largely based on "investor confidence". It's all a real mess really. But, as previously stated a few posts up, if you work your way up in sales you can also earn some decent coin outside of this "bubble".

Also, you can't discount the fact that all of todays tech industry titans are parked at the west coast of US. They employ a huge number of engineers of all sorts and overall drag the demand as well as salaries higher.

Anyway, on topic, still no 8.1 release. A bit disconcerting considering that 8.1 was supposed to have been developed in parallel with 8 and was by all accounts nearly release ready. At least that was my impression, no?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
Yeah, but CA is like it's own country. The cost of living there is insane. I don't see how you could get by in a remotely decent area in CA on $67k a year. Not when an apartment costs you 2 grand per month... 2 grand a month buys you a hell of a nice house in much of the US.

Anyway, back on topic as you say. Still no 8.1 beta. :(
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] rlaw:
No. 8.1 was never developed in parallel with the 8.0 betas and the original plan was to get 8.0 out the door and then work on 8.1. There were no accounts of 8.1 being in a RC state, the beta should release this work as Essential stated last Friday that Google had the code for the beta in their hands and beta release would depend on Google's approval process.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] dhorgas:
You are basing that on the Reddit comments from a few days ago. Is this in an official statement by Essential somewhere? I haven't seen it. Also, 8.1 development had to have been done in parallel with 8.0 otherwise we would not be looking at a beta but an alpha. I'm pretty sure that they have parallel development streams going on at any one given point in time. Essential pretty much said as much during their last AMA.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Nick N:
Woot!View attachment 4420096
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] rlaw:
I'm basing it on all the comments they've made in AMAs and otherwise. Those are all official statements as they are made by their employees.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Caltinpla:
Check your phone... Oreo 8.1 B1 available now!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] dhorgas:
Awesome, downloading now.

Edit: my work Wi-Fi is unbelievably slow. Only 50% downloaded.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Nick N:
Waiting for mine to charge, won't let me install it with 30%. I think I am going to factory reset after installing, I didn't when I went from Nougat to Oreo Beta 1.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] dhorgas:
Just finished installing. This phone just keeps getting better and better! I love the UI changes in 8.1. Seems good in the first few swipes and taps. No issues. May do a factory reset as well.

Thanks most awesome change so far, they reduced the vile vibration when scanning the fingerprint. It is now 50% subtler I'd say. So much nicer.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] VennligFiende:
All good here as well. Will donate factory reset on the weekend, just in case.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
We will see how this plays out. I was resigned to head to the mall today and pick up a new iPhone or Galaxy S8+, but now I am holding back to see if this makes the phone worth keeping.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_head:
I installed and rooted.

Don't plan on FDR. That's painful.

Seems okay.

LTE speeds are still >100Mbs on Verizon.

Antutu 7 is reporting >204K. Will need to let the phone stabilize.

It normally takes 5-10 minutes for all the background processes to init and get stable.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] dhorgas:
I would not get the S8 series. Memory management is horrible and the phone lags all over the place. I had the S8+ for 9 months and it drove me nuts. The Essential performs way better. It wasn't a device specific issue. Samsung's bloat and badly coded UI/UX was still having a generally negative effect on performance, especially over time. It's easy to see this even on demo units. Just my $0.02.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
Yeah, I am learning towards Apple if I make the switch...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] dhorgas:
I'm not much to benchmark smartphones but I ran version 6 of AnTuTu just to be able to compare to what is listed online. My PH-1 on 8.1 b1 came in right in between the current #8 and #9 high score in their online ranking. Not bad I guess. I cannot compare version 7 to anything since it has no published rankings so far.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_head:
I use it to base performance from one OS version to another.

When it was the last version of Antutu it ranked at the top of Android phones.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
A 1 or 2% variance in a synthetic benchmark is totally meaningless in real world terms. Now if it dropped 20%, then yeah, that indicates a problem...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_head:
Exactly. I use it for gross or serious diagnosis of an issue.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] gflexstump:
Noticed headphone audio volume output is louder. Liking 8.1
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] hk16:
I Rooted Mi A1 Want to Know Root or Flashing Degardes Device Life ? Can Anyone Pls Elaborate ...What are the Precautions Taken to Get Rid of Device Gets Tempered....

Mainly Concerned about Battery....
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] fosco_:
No. Just avoid agressive overclocking.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] sooti:
I'd say on the contrary, I use a battery charge limiter which requires root, i limit the max charge to %75 that way the battery is extended greatly and I disable it if i know im going to be away from a charger for more then a few hours
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] iG0tB0lts:
I would say root actually increases your battery life, if you use the right tools.

For ex use a kernel manager to disable unecessary swap, zram. Use greenify for apps not needed running in the background.

Change running cores, I/o scheduler.

With all these tweaks I was getting a pretty standard 9-10%SOT per hour. Roughly translates to 7-8hrs screen on time
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] riccetto80:
yes, there are also other optimization like noatime!!!

issue is each time there is a ota update you must do stuff to disable root, do the update and then reapply the root and possible, needed a new file to root it after the update.

for what i understood, i dont have root atm, im considering it.
[General Questions and Answers] kssundar:
after second oreo update, my mi a1 S YELLOW FLASH IS NOT WORKING
[General Questions and Answers] Ibuprophen:
I don't have this device but, I believe that the following device specific thread should be helpful for what you are looking for and don't be afraid to ask for some member guidance within it.

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3727963

Good Luck!

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[Magisk] paul222008:
How to completely uninstall magisk 15.3 installed on my stock 7.1.2

When i tried the latest uninstaller and flash it thru twrp i got bootloop same as when I restore my stock boot image back up from twrp i also got bootloop i wanted to update because i already received the ota of oreo 8.0 January update

Magisk v15.3

Xiaomi mi a1

7.1.2 December Security patch
[Magisk] Didgeridoohan:
Try pulling the boot image file from the December update and flash that.

But, remember that you'll also have to restore your stock recovery to be able to install an OTA. Unless you're using "fastboot boot" to just run TWRP without installing...
[Magisk] paul222008:
yes i already did that but no luck :crying: still bootloop

i only boot twrp not flash, so i have the stock recovery
[Magisk] Didgeridoohan:
You've obviously got something else going on. Magisk only really modifies your boot image, so if you can't get your device to boot after restoring a stock image it's most likely not Magisk causing it. Your device's forum might be the best place to ask for assistance.

Thought: are you sure it's just not a long boot? If you had decrypted your device, for example, it would start encrypting as soon as you flash a stock boot image and reboot.
[Magisk] paul222008:
Im encrypted also [emoji55]
[Magisk] paul222008:
What could the best way to do? My concern here is to preserve my app data
[Magisk] Didgeridoohan:
Dirty flash a full update package (not an OTA file). Don't know if that's possible for you, but it would do it.
[Magisk] paul222008:
How? There's only .zip of ota available for my device
[Magisk] Didgeridoohan:
Like I said earlier: Your device's forum might be the best place to ask for assistance.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Samdroid82:
I have samsung tab s2 sm-t819 and I need to downgrade modem where can I find this thanks in advance
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ibuprophen:
I don't have this device but, the following threads may be helpful for what you need and don't be afraid to ask for some member guidance within one of them.

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3204373

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3544310

Good Luck!

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[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro Software Upgrading] pippo45454:
sorry for my english

hi, he has just arrived to me a sdhc from 8 gb.I have installed on my universal the file sdhc.cab I have restarted and I have inserted the memory.the problem is that he sees her to 3500mb (around 4 gb).how must I do for being able to see her/it from 8?regards
[Moto G5S Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other D] VeerAmrit:
I know it is unethical to ask for a mirror but can you please upload to some other host? AFH gives me 100 kbps speed only :(
[Moto G5S Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other D] droidfuture:
:) add google drive and mega.
[Moto G5S Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other D] VeerAmrit:
I ran retaillock.bat and unfortunately, I got the same message "Your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted".

My device model is XT1804.
[Moto G5S Plus ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other D] Az Biker:
Closed per OP request
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] MetalMilitia666:
Hi All,

I use Google Maps on a daily basis when I commute to work.

I see that after update to Oreo my location , nor my direction is correct. The location shows somewhat close to where i am , but not where actually i am.

I have calibrated the maps correctly using the 8 motion. Also, tried to not optimize battery saver for maps. Tried to turn off/on the GPS. Restart the phone and stuff.

But nothing seems to work.

Please help.

Thanks in advance!
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] FerrarisIV:
My Google Maps works very fine, about position. But I have another problem: when I receive (or do) a call I lose my Gps signal. I don't know if it happens because I pair my device with bluetooth. I am not sure but the cause could be bluetooth.

Anyway I cannot do a call withou losing Gps... Has someone this problem ?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phunkydiabetic:
Hello all, looking for some help here. I wanted to pick up a cheap tablet for my 6 year old and settled on the Amazon Fire HAD 8 after some super crappy ones like Dragon Touch. The best part about the Dragon Touch was it hard a kid's mode that only allowed apps toï be used that were ok'd by the parent. Unfortunately it seems as if the Fire HD 8 doesn't have any such features, or at least not in Canada.

I remember reading about something called Freetime BUT OF COURSE IT ISNT AVAILABLE IN CANADA UGH. So I got google services a d the play store going so I could use the Kidoz app, which is along the same lines as Freetime. I get to choose how she uses it, what apps she's using and all that.

The issue is when I go to setup "Extra safe mode and kid launcher" (meaning Kidoz starts right up after turning the device on) I'm not in to set it as the default launcher. It just won't let me!

Any ideas why? Or do any of you have a better suggestion for a full on kid's mode launcher that allows me to pick the apps?!

Thanks in advance
[LeEco Le 1S Questions & Answers] inferno9200:
I was looking for a rom which can support volte or the jio4gvoice app , i have used miui 8 rom , dotos , but it didnt work there:rolleyes:
[LeEco Le 1S Questions & Answers] sscsps:
What did it say?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] austtint:
So I bought a note 4 on ebay and its on the latest firmware. So there is no way for custom roms???
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevintm78:
The sm-n910v is one of the best snapdragon note 4 when it comes to unlocking the bootloader and rooting. It can be upgraded or downgraded from 4.4 to 6.0.1. They haven't released a firmware yet that will lock you in place. Just follow one of the many guides on unlocking your bootloader and enjoy.
[Other Tools & General Discussion] GabrielLeet1337:
Hello guys! I'm starting on this translation stuff and i really need some help to start translating a Telltale game. I'm trying to translate The Walking Dead (Android version obviously) for Portuguese, but i couldn't find anywhere a method to do it.

Using APK Editor, i can only translate some parts of the menu, nothing related to the game. I think the text files are in the .obb file, but how could i acess it? (Already tried to rename the .obb to .zip and extract it but doesn't work, as i expected...)

I have the complete version of the game. There are the main APK (ofc) and two .obb files (a 1.13GB file and another with 9.14MB), i couldn't find anything else. Can someone give me a help about how can i find and access these text lines, please?
[T-Mobile LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jewbear:
I've checked the forums and maybe I'm the only one. Since the recent OTA update I've been having issues, hopefully I'm not the only one. First once the phone looses signal it will not reconnect to the network. I can force it with a reboot or airplane mode toggle, but it wont do it on it's own. Second, the camera app panoramic mode will not switch directions, it is stuck in the horizontal layout. Yes, I have done a factory reset. I've reinstalled the recent update through the LG bridge. Also, I've swapped the sim card.

Any advice would be appreciated!

LG-H901 model
[T-Mobile LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stransky:
Can't say I have had any of those problems. Been on 30c since it was released and everything works fine for me.
[OnePlus 5T  Questions & Answers] Paz9:
Hi

im in OB3 / Magisk + Blu_spark on the 5T

when i power off the device and charge it, the unlocked BL warning shows up, then the 1+ icon, then it loops between that while its charging

i dont have the animation, is this by design? can someone help please :)
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] Dpes Stha:
like in nougat, where is the option to to app network access in Oreo
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] Rajeev:
Delete
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] sandrocks:
App network access is gone in oreo.

Network restrictions are different than app network access.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] Rajeev:
Oh ok. I am not using those things. Not aware of that :o
[Shift General] Kakyou:
Well, My new Shift is on the way thanks to Clove.

BTW, totally recommend them. After numerous bad experiences with Expansys I switched some of my orders to Clove had great experiences with them so far.

So before I even open the box, I am plotting my upgrades. Starting with the anemic HD.

40GB is just not going to do it for me. I'd like to go with a minimum of 80GB.

I know I can pull an MK8022GAA from an iPod classic, but that comes with a ZIF connector I believe. The MK4009GAL standard in the Shift should be a LIF, and I think the equivalent Toshiba 80GB drive is 3mm thicker than the 40GB.

So, what to do? Any advice?
[Android Stick & Console Computers General] Xxbubbagump:
Just started using a T98 Pro android box to view movies on usb portable hard drive.

When I turn the box off (power button on remote) it cuts power to the WD Passport and the led turns off. Will continued use like this wreck the hard drive? Do I need to unmount the hard drive each time before powering down the box?

please and thank you
[Hardware Hacking General] thor23x23:
Hello world,

So I have several books that I am currently trying to rotate through, since looking at one aspect of any device for too long bores me, and so one of these books is a CompTIA A+ guide. I can get you the author if you'd like, but my question is what would these devices look like inside of an Android device, of course there are many makes and models but just looking to make some friends, and discuss tech. Please, if there are errors DRAW THEM TO MY ATTENTION!

- A BUS is the way by which data is transferred internally. What is the common standard used today? PCI. What is the communication bandwidth of these connectors?

- A central processor, is where data – in the form of machine code is broken down into binary. The processor takes data, in the form of binary streams, performs math, and sends these bit streams to the “addressed?” peripheral or memory devices. Is it fair to say that all other devices other than the cpu are peripherals?

- A Northbridge is the responsible for the flow of data from the CPU and storage component – ie RAM. What is northbridge?

- All external communications occur through the Southbridge.

V/R

Cryptologic Tech 3

I dislike, very much subnetting.
[Honor 6X Questions & Answers] imrock666:
I had B360 and then I received two updates back to back to be in B366. Now I don't have WiFi call. Any thoughts? Thanks
[Honor 6X Questions & Answers] shashank1320:
Tried factory reset?