yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] gimpy1:
That's what I'm thinking. I think I will get a phone within the next month or so, but finger is getting itchy. I've been looking at the essential vs the lg v30 us998 edition. I'm hoping something comes out of the WMC that will help me decide.

The lg is a little more money than I will be able to justify spending for a phone. But, maybe?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] jakdillard:
I don't remember OnePlus selling very many devices when they came on the scene, come to think about it their second and second and a half devices were worst than their first, however they kept going and are somewhat relevant in the geek community. Essential is another start up with a vision of selling you a premium android phone, not google's vision of Android but Android as it was intended. To be honest if I started developing again this would be the first non-nexus phone I'd build for because it puts me in mind of a very premium Nexus.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] seabro01:
The OnePlus One actually exceeded expectations. They sold more than a million in the first year. OnePlus wasn't really a startup like Essential. The company was basically started as a subsidiary of Oppo, so they had the support of a huge smartphone manufacturer and could base the OnePlus One on the Oppo Find 7a and offer the phone at a very cheap price.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] jakdillard:
Keywords "in the first year" ... and I still say if you take an average consumer and say buy this 5t they are gonna compare it to a BLU phone or a less, these types of phones are niche phones that geeks like us spend time out of our life comparing and caring about numbers of units sold. My point is will there be a PH-2? Maybe so, has the phone its most compared to had a bad start ... YES! Now look where they are at.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] robertplanb:
I love mine,,,,,,,, essential 2 would be so nice.(make that thing essential)
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] gimpy1:
I looked, but can't find much. Has Essential released anything from WMC?

I'm still on the fence about this phone. Wife wants me to just get a normal phone (we're on Verizon) and not do any hacking.

So, basically my choices are from Verizon, a pixel 2, LG v30, iphone 8s(or+?) on contract. I can get all these as cheap or cheaper than the Essential. If I go out of carrier and buy one of those, it will be a couple hundred dollars more.

Reading on these forums, it seems like the Essential is having a lot of problems. Are these associated with the phone out of the box, or with unlocking the bootloader and rooting it?

Decisions, decisions..?

THX for listening.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] gflexstump:
Just bought a Iphone 8 plus 2 days ago and it lasted 5 hours (gave it to the wife:laugh:) and switched back to the Essential on Lineage 15.1. The camera was better on some and the essential was better on others. The Essential ran circles around the Iphone and seemed more polished with Lineage and user intuitive.

While in the store checked out all the phones and there is no reason to upgrade as it is a premium device with good custom rom support.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_head:
I'm running 8.1B.

As far as hardware goes, the Essential rates up there with the best.

I bought my daughter a Galaxy S8. It is no more premium in construction than the PH-1.

I don't like curved screens and locked bootloaders.

That limits what I can buy.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
I went with the iPhone 8+ and picked up an Apple Watch 3. Very happy with both. Not perfect, nothing is, but everything works, camera is excellent and battery life is awesome.
[LG G5 Questions & Answers] dubiousbool:
Hello,

I have bought an LG G5 a couple months ago and there's obviously some bloat that came with it. How much of it is LG's and how much of it is my carrier's, I don't know.

I was a bit clumsy and though it would just dump a "Nexus" image straight from Google on it and voila I would have a barebone phone with only the OS and the apps I want on it, but then I realized that those images really are only for Nexus models as they seem to have device drivers specific to the hardware.

So my question is, is there a way to have a clean LG5 phone, with only the OS installed ? If so, which ROM or image am I looking for exactly ?

Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series Questions & Answers] discospero:
Hello everyone

I am a super beginner and I would need your knowledge. I would mount the galaxy tab 7 inch in the car where it will be positioned will not be able to access the power button, then want to know if there is a way to start the tablet with the arrival the power supply and turn it off by removing power.

practically under lock and key, when the power comes on, the logo of the battery is charging and stops.

thank you
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Questions & Answers] saputraarika:
Please help, how to fix blackscreen affer I flash vegito 5.5 ...
[Lenovo Vibe K5 Questions & Answers] jon_snow99:
It means your phone wont boot now , go into twrp using the adb and fastboot commands and after that flash any other stable ROM. Please keep in ind your model number and see if the ROM you are installing is compatible with your Device.

Another option is to flash the stock rom again using the qifl tool or the lenovo assistant, you can get the latest ROM from the lenovo assistant app .

Hope your problem is solved, reply or DM if you have any other problems.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] TechBill:
I installed a custom WM6.1 rom on my 8525 and also installed Windows Live Mobile but push mail wasn't working on Windows Live so I went back to WM6 thinking that WM6.1 isn't ready and only to find out that push mail isn't working on WM6 for Windows Live either.

So I am wondering if Windows Live is having issue and it wasn't the ROM all long? Anyone experiencing problem with Windows Live push email?

I know all the settings and I do have "As Item Arrive" set but I still have to manually sync to get my emails.

Right now I am running Windows Live Mobile version 10.6.0034.0800 and wonder if there a newer one out there?

I am also running exchange push email which works fine with no problem and I had both working exchange and hotmail push email working in the past but the hotmail push email just stopped working like 2 week ago or so for me.

Thanks

Bill
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] floaterpilot:
My email is hit and miss. Sometimes it comes automatically, sometimes it doesn't
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] deenice:
Windows Live Push

How was your battery life when using 'As Items Arrive'? Mine was not too good since it had an always on connection similar to Exchange. I wonder which taxes the battery more out of the two?

thx
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] alltubetone:
I'm having the same issue, Mail isnt being pushed from my hotmail to the phone... it did work originally but not anymore.

Any fixes for this yet?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] luiggi:
Same Here

Same problem with same Windows Live version as in post #1
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] meatlocker:
Count me in too. I thought it was only me. It is totally hit or miss on a schedule as well. I have had it at 15 and 30 minute intervals too, and it is not getting the new mail 95% of the time.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Con:
Me to

Same here, I guess it stopped about three-four days ago. Up to then it was working fine and I was well impressed
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] curious george:
I believe the only way the push mail works is if you are signed into your mobile messanger as well. If you are not there is no exchange session on your phone open. Live mail doesn't work through poutlook's normal exchange system it works on its own. It is pushing mail through its system at all times. Where you are logged in is where you will receive it. Consider your PPC or SP another login location like your desktop, laptop etc.. if you are not logged into messanger it won't work.

Just give it a try and see what you get.

Thanks,

Curious G
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] directmail:
Push Mail will start working once you start Messenger Mobile (you don't have to sign in, just start the program). After that you can close it again. Alternatively, you could open Windows Live or click on "Send and Receive" in Messaging > Hotmail.

Battery time with As Item Arrives is OK, it consumes about 1% per hour on my HTC Touch Cruise. I have WM6 with Windows Live Mobile version 10.6.0034.0800.

Push Mail works fine but stopped working for me when I checked my emails with Outlook. This happened as soon as I signed into my account with Outlook Connector. To fix Push Mail again I had to

- Close Outlook,

- Sign in at Live Mail via Internet Explorer and

- Sign out again

Getting emails from hotmail via Outlook Pop3 works fine.

Hope this helps
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] meatlocker:
Hmm. This really shouldn't be the case, as Live Services gets installed as a Startup Process when you do an install. As long as that process starts correctly when your phone starts, you should remain "signed in" to all Live services, including push mail...right?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] directmail:
I tried several soft resets and send test emails from outlook to my hotmail account but never received any of them on my phone until I opened a live application. I remained signed in after opening and closing any live applications, but unfortunately, they dont seem to start automatically. I had problems installing Windows Live on my phone, maybe that's why.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Con:
This made it work again

signing out and back in again - resetting all the settings - urgh - started working again.

found in another thread that if you have soft reset your device this stops it working
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steb0ne:
I don't use Windows Live, buy my push email works on my Mogul. I have my gmail account being fowarded to a free exchange server mail2web, and have that setup via ActiveSync. I have it set to as they arrive and don't have any problems. Battery life isn't too bad considering I don't get more than 15-20 emails a day usually

Maybe you could try something like that?
[General Questions and Answers] JW01:
I have a Nook HD+ which I have recently started using again after upgrading it to Android 7.1.1.

Today I was reading an ebook on it for just over half an hour and watched the battery level drop from 89% to 75%. I then powered it off for about two and a half hours and found that it was showing 25%. Battery statistics showed that the screen had used 10% and idle/Android/system 2%/1%/1%. Just to check, I restarted but got the same result.

The device is in airplane mode with wifi and bluetooth switched off, no wallpaper, no screensaver.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I would like to continue to use this but if the battery is going to deplete like this I'll go back to my Kindle.

Many thanks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Keo787:
So I'm trying to change the carrier on my galaxy s8 SM-G950U, which is an unlocked AT&T S8, but I keep running into "sw rev check fail" when flashing the files. I read that it could be my bootloader version causing the problem? I looked at my baseband version and it says G950USQS2BQL1, which I guess means my bootloader is version 2. So I was wondering, is it not possible to change carriers with a v2 bootloader? Sorry I'm kind of new to this so don't really know if this is a dumb question.

Thanks in advance

EDIT: nevermind, guess I'm just dumb. I quickly found this thread after posting this question, which gives you the Bootloader v2 files https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s8/how-to/snap-guide-flashing-standard-fw-carrier-t3625817

The other guide I was using didn't mention bootloader v2 at all, so I guess it was slightly outdated.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] jpcdeux:
Or just read what youre flashing. Don't flash old firmware. It's been v2 for a few updates so you were trying to flash old firmware. Use fw.updato.com and search for G950U (Carrier files) or G950U1 (US Unlocked version). Sort by date so the newest ones are on top and stop flashing old ****.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Keo787:
Lol I'll keep that in mind, didn't even know how to check for that until now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] jpcdeux:
Good thing to know before flashing firmwares all Willy nilly lol
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Robbie P:
Excellent first post Dan6erbond, welcome to the Forum :good::highfive::D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] eskargoz:
hello the URLs from Tytung's site are broken :/

Does anybody have the nexushd2 v4.7 rom zip ?
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] kedar alwe:
Guys from 1 month I observed that the battery backup is up sot 4-5 in wifi uses & with both of 4g and 3g the Sim & wifi it gives me about 3-4 hours..

I also kept my mobile background light in low 10 or 5% Lower

Now I am at Aex stable version 8.1 February.

I also try pixel experience.

Then also result is poor.

What can I do?

The problem started, when I flash 3.5 rom of zui via twrp.

HELP PLS
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] sidS6:
Use naptime or greeenify and see the magic happen
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] kedar alwe:
But I use greenify donated versions the same result .

Poor
[Essential Phone Accessories] idbl_fanatic:
With a case on, it seems to "take away" from the small bezels, and the beautiful screen, on the other hand, I don't want anything to happen "just in case" What do all of you prefer?
[Essential Phone Accessories] Wredal:
I use skin on the back and glass screen protector on the front. This way the phone is almost as slim as naked but at the same time very well protected.
[Essential Phone Accessories] GavinMazey:
Been no case since day 1 with no issues. Several waist height drops with no breakage just a ding or 2.
[Essential Phone Accessories] rlaw:
No case. Takes away from beauty and in-hand feel.
[Essential Phone Accessories] idbl_fanatic:
I'm thinking a clear Skinomi full skin might do it, but I've never had a full body one from them, only screen protectors
[Essential Phone Accessories] seabro01:
I've just been using a skin and screen protector at home. Put a slim case on when I go out for some drop protection.

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I'd get the IQ Shield over Skinomi. Tried both and IQ Shield looks and feels better. Still have the screen protector on. Feels almost as smooth as glass.
[Essential Phone Accessories] Zargone:
I dropped the phone from my shirt pocket. Display broke.
[Essential Phone Accessories] hella4door:
i can vouch for the skinomi full kit. i use it on both my ph-1's. fitment is great and works under my tudia case ( to provent scratches to bezel )
[Essential Phone Accessories] talon_dgnr8:
I dropped mine today getting out of my truck and cracked the screen in the bottom left. Most frustrating thing is I finally ordered a case days ago but won't be here until tomorrow...so of course on the day before I drop it like this.

Don't go naked... For Sprint it's a $200 deductable to repair or replace. iFixit gives this phone a score of 1/10 in repairability on your own.
[Essential Phone Accessories] tapout27:
Poetic Guardian. Excellent style and protection so far.
[Essential Phone Accessories] tech_head:
I went with Square Trade. Cheaper deductible.

At $200 you can go directly to Essential for replacement. That's the street price.

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I like the way is feels without a case, but I also am not ready for a reeks phone.

I may look at the Guardian.

I wish they made the Affinity for the Ph-1. The Poetic Affinity is the case I've had on three previous phones.

I have one on my work iPhone 6. Had it on my LG G6 and my Nexus 6P.

Best case ever. IMHO
[Essential Phone Accessories] stryver:
Doesn't the screen protector on that one lower touch sensitivity? Can you remove the screen protector without ruining the case?
[Essential Phone Accessories] tapout27:
I personally have not noticed any more touch issues than the phone already had. It may be possible to remove the screen protector from the front portion of the case but I wouldn't bother doing it. The front peice of the case is what the phone fits into initially and its pretty snug.

There is some rainbow effect where the screen protector touches the screen but it is ONLY noticeable when the screen is off and you look at it from an angle.
[Essential Phone Accessories] spotmark:
Still running naked since the first day of deliveries with no regrets.
[Essential Phone Accessories] rebecker:
How long have you had the phone? About to get one and would prefer using it without a case and screen protector. All my previous phones have had cases, but none ever had screen protection. Never had a screen break or scratch. Have dinged the corners on occasion. I'm thinking of going "naked" and then adding a case, if necessary, to cover any damage down the line. I don't see a point in hiding the beauty of this slab so that someone else gets the pleasure of an unblemished phone if I decide to sell it. BTW, I've never sold any of my 10+ old phones. No value once I'm done with them. ;) Opinion?
[Essential Phone Accessories] spotmark:
I've had mine since release day. I agree, this phone is just too pretty to cover up. I've had a few drops and still not a scratch, ding , or crack to be found.
[Essential Phone Accessories] mgear356:
Case it Pls. I dropped my black moon face down and cracked the screen. I had tgsp but it also flew out from the impact.

Amazon was nice to allow me to have a full refund on a 1 time basis. Ordered my halo gray with a case. Lol
[Essential Phone Accessories] alkanaft:
I got this one in few days after getting my phone:

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B078PCCKYL/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

pretty good quality and price. feels solid.
[Essential Phone Accessories] VennligFiende:
Same here, since September last year. Fell to the ground once in London, not a scratch. My phone has been everywhere and I don't regret the lack of a case. About to order the copper black just because and would be a crime to case that one!
[Essential Phone Accessories] Grichecth:
Hey, I about to hit buy on this case too, do you find it awkward to hold when it's open? How about the fingerprint scanner, does the case make it harder to use?

Thanks!
[Essential Phone Accessories] alkanaft:
Not really. I got used to it already. It's a bit deep for the scanner but hole is large enough.

The only thing i hate, you need to hold cover open when making photos or video. Cover blocks cameras once flipped open.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] razgriz1234:
I tried uninstalling some modules to see if they were the cause I updated magisk to the beta channel in an attempt to fix it I also can't install new modules either. As far as I can tell I still have root as I have many things that rely on it. The logs are of the first time it happened I rebooted and it failed again giving me the second log. I reinstalled the 15.3 version of magisk and attempted to install a module it failed giving me the third log and the screenshot is after I upgraded magisk to the beta channel. [MENTION=4470081]topjohnwu[/MENTION] any idea what might be causing this I saw a post from a few months back but it didn't have a solution
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] razgriz1234:
is no one else having this issue?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] CyberpodS2:
I have the same issue. I have been flashing them from TWRP for now until it gets resolved.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] razgriz1234:
how do you flash them if they are supposed to be systemless? sorry if its a stupid question i still dont completely understand magisk as its the first phone ive had it on
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] razgriz1234:
solved with magisk 16.0 version
[Xiaomi Mi Pad Questions & Answers] oreki9:
I recently bought a mipad and installed twrp v2.8.4. I was following this thread http://en.miui.com/thread-118294-1-1.html to merge the two system partitions. But after flashing the repartition zip file and restoring from previously made backup file i am stuck at the mi logo. When i go into recovery to install that zip file again it says E:block device not found,unable to mount /system. I cannot even wipe system. It says no OS. How to solve this problem?please help here.
[Xiaomi Mi Pad Questions & Answers] Avee007:
I'm also facing the same problem. I've tried to flash all Custom/ Stock roms using all TWRP versions but nothing worked. Struck on MI LOGO.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Questions & Answers] Mikuloli123:
Hi guys, I'am a very experienced android superuser since years, yesterday i got a XZP.

I rooted it with XperiFIX all worked fine, but.... if i try to debloat the rom from the sony bloatware apps in /system/app & /system/priv-app like ar effect or google play music or google chrome. if i delete these apps folders like this folder of chrome. and restart my phone.... and try to open gmail or login with a new google account. i get a force close screen: google play services has stopped. what the f..?? where is the context between play services and bloatware like chrome. and this is with all apps. any app i delete in system/app or priv-app leads to play services crash. can someone help ? iam on oreo.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Questions & Answers] Doom Slayer:
I had the same issue. Took me a while to figure out that it's Chrome.

But since I used one account on this phone I didn't know about that problem until some magisk module f*d up my encryption keys and I could boot by phone, so I had to format in TWRP.

It gave me an error during Setup wizard, I managed to bypass it by deleting setup wizard but still my phone was useless.

My guess is that Google uses Chrome's WebView implementation for logging in.

In developer options you can't switch to default android WebView, option is grayed out, so unfortunately Chrome must be kept.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Questions & Answers] Armiits1991:
no, i uninstalled google stuff like chrome, google music, video e.c with titanium backup app, and i dont have any problems like that, and my WebView is working with no probems...
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Questions & Answers] Doom Slayer:
Did you try to log in in a different Google account after you removed those apps?
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Extentho:
Hello, i have my phone for over 2 years now and battery provide barely half the time it provided when it was new. I m considering to replace the battery. Does anyone know a place where i can buy a good battery? Doesn t need to be OEM, just to hold charged at least the way the original one did. From what i saw on aliexpress/ebay/amazon, most bl255 batteries are fake ones that claim to be like original but die very fast. From my research i found at least this manufacturer, Cameron Sino that produces replacement batteries that hold the same as original http://www.bigupbattery.com/Lenovo-BL255-Zuk-Z1-Battery-p/batt-009432.htm . What do you think? Anyone tried to change battery on zuk z1?
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Casper cobain:
My zuk z1 died after 6 months and not found a replacement battery just got a new phone instead but thinking of buying a new battery and have to replace the screen as it now has a deep scratch would like any info if anyone else had this happen after 6months with the device !
[Zuk Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hash16:
Hello,

I did replace my ZUK Z1 battery with one that I bought from aliexpress, and yes it holds almost like the original that died after my little baby dropped the phone.

Dear Casper Cobain, my Z1 didn't act abnormally for two years. maybe your Z1 had a special bug.