yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Syndrome666:
I'll try that next time I flash back to RR. I'm back on stock for the time being. Seems to give much better battery life than RR. Not sure why but RR never really went into deep sleep with neutrino kernel, which is why I was going to try elemental.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] rup.roy:
ROM Not Booting

Hey, I followed every instruction to the letter but whenever I flash GAPPS, the ROM refuses to boot. I tried booting the ROM without flashing GAPPS and it works fine. Is there anything I can do to get the ROM to boot with GAPPS installed?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Syndrome666:
Check out my post above, I detailed how to get OP's method working properly. It's actually making this phone run better than ever. You do need to first install the back to stock (no boot, no vendor, no system) zip. Flash-all file may not work automatically, but you can open it and see the manual instructions on which files to flash from there. You need to do this before proceeding with OP's RR and root instructions. They work to the T, even the battery is discharging at a proper rate, deep sleep is working great. Who knows, maybe this will fix the weather theming issue as well. Give it a shot
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] rup.roy:
Re: ROM Not Booting

Just an update, I think I may have found the problem. The "set_active" fastboot command does not seem to be working. Once I use the command, it does nothing...
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] adtamez:
Hi all, this rom is been running great except for when I want to record a video with any Gcam mode (magisk or not) or the Essential camera. I am currently using this Gcam verison: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=890129502657590260 (PH1_BSG_V3.3_V16B_V4.zip).

At the beginning, the first weeks of installing this rom everything was working with no problems but now in order to make it work, I have to uninstall the Gcam mode in Magisk and install the zip file again. But this last only a day or two and the problem presents again. I also tried freezing the rom Camera but does not seem to make a difference. I have not installed any new apps that could cause this.

The problem is that it records the video but in a weird manner. Depending on the length of the video the first seconds or minutes is a still image then the audio kicks in but still with a still image. After a little longer the video start moving. To resume, the video start as a still image then audio start and after a little longer the video gets going causing the audio and video to be out of sync.

I already tried factory reset and installing the rom again but if I want to have any Gcam mode it seems to break the video recording for any camera on the phone. I also tried this solution: "It takes a bit to get gcam working...I had to go into /system/system/framework/ and in there you'll see 4 different camera .jar files...I just made them .bak files and gcam now works " but I do not have those files to erase.

I search for any solution or if any had this problem but couldn't find anything. Can any of you point me to the right direction to fix this problem. I really like this rom and don't want to back to original.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Joylesstuna:
Do I need to flash gapps again if updating dirty flash?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Syndrome666:
OP way suggests it, so not sure how it'll turn out if you don't. [MENTION=3462598]BakedTator[/MENTION]'s way doesn't require it, at least when I dirty flashed an update, every Google app worked without issues.

For me, OP way runs better on battery, better deep sleep and power management. Bakedtator's way didn't do that for me, my battery was done after 10-12 hours with maybe 2-3hrs sot. OP way gets me 5-7+ hrs sot with over 20 hrs per charge.

Official back to stock images are a necessary prerequisite before you flash TWRP, ROM, gapps, and su. Simply just wiping and installing only the custom firmware seems to run more power hungry. This was just my observation between, official stock and the two ways to install this ROM, your milage may vary. With stock the device gets better battery, without, you wind up charging this thing up more often
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] stompysan:
Update your platform tools?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] rup.roy:
Yup that was it, thanks!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Syndrome666:
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[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Syndrome666:
Just a quick update, op's way of installing this ROM eventually stopped deep sleeping completely and it's back to square one. It's running identically to [MENTION=3462598]BakedTator[/MENTION]'s way of flashing this. I'm convinced it's either a bad batch of devices or a kernel issue that hasn't gotten resolved for over a year. I went to TMobile and got a Moto Z2 Force, slapped a nice Incipio black tpu case and a skinomi screen protector, and it's perfect, although I loved the size of the Essential more, it's now just a toy to test ROMs on, it's been very unreliable on both stock and custom Android. Reception drops like crazy, almost doesn't deep sleep, screen input lag keeps showing itself, and battery life suffers majorly. Z2F doesn't have any of these problems and is now my daily, at least until I find something that works on essential to make it a daily driver worthy.

TBH Nash (Z2F) is a pretty awesome device, just enable root, and add substratum. The stock firmware on this is very good, haven't tried rooting or unlocking bootloader, but stock for stock, Nash gives a much more enjoyable user experience (save for carrier and Moto bloat). Battery on this device truly sleeps like it should, and no spotty cellular signal
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] DehoXeD:
Statsistics collection

Hi OP and People,

I just found that Menu "LineageOS statistisc" seems to be missing from settings panel, but is still there (and send stats ?).

I was then able to desable it.

I managed to find it by looking for "stats" in settings search box.

(Maybe i just mess it from RR setting panel ??)

My 2 cents. :)
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] aridmal:
Good work so far... Just wondering if you can incorporate essential's notch setting into this build? I find landscape uses are sometimes disturbing. Again thank you for your great work!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Joylesstuna:
You can fullscreen any app in configurations-----interface.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] weiyangbo:
Will OP keep updating this ROM？I love this ROM so much，excepting multitouch issue. I want a new build with June security patch merged...
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] aridmal:
That's what I don't want...I don't want to see the cutout in landscape mode. For example if you watch YouTube 16:9 full-screen on stock it's blocking the notch but on RR it's 50:50 top and bottom and you will see the notch covering a tiny space of the video. So if there's any config possible to bring that essential notch settings it will be wonderful.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] nummer:
Hello,

I have been thinking of putting this on my Essential. Before I do, is there any sort of major issue?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] nummer:
Is anyone even here?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Syndrome666:
I think latest RR and stock firmware are too battery hungry and that no one wants to lug a charger, because you'll need one if you're out all day 8+hours. Everyone's likely either trying out this device with the stock Android P beta, other ROM like lineage os, or using something more battery and signal friendly. I've mostly been on Motorola Z2F last month, much better of an experience here. I take out the Essential phone every now and then, turn it on, compare it to Z2F, and it just pails in comparison, reminding me why I don't use it. Hopefully these issues get resolved with Android P or whatever the official version will be called. Oreo may have fixed some issues from nougat, but retained others. If P doesn't fix anything, I'll just have to part with the device, as much as I love the look and feel of it. I really want to go back to it, but the battery drain is just making me cringe each time I use it, and then there's the angry voicemails about why I'm not getting my calls or texts. I might give Android P a shot, but the Z2F is seriously hard to not use, it's been rock solid so far and I haven't even attempted to unlock its bootloader yet, usually that's the first thing I do, but haven't really found much reason to just yet, although I do want to try out some of the custom works available for it. I think a few Essential users are also dailying the Z2F now that dev support for it is getting bigger. Essential's sort of like a poison apple, you'll want to use it all the time, but will likely find it a painful experience, and then will try to ignore it's shortcomings, but eventually you'll encounter them regardless of what you try to remedy the issue. It's truly a great device with potential, but as a phone, it fails to deliver consistency for it's two "essential" functions: cellular phone/SMS and battery efficiency (at least from my experience). Okay my post is getting too long, but I think you get the idea.

Hope Essential team can fix these two issues.

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If you had luck running any of the Oreo 8.1 April or newer updates without major battery drain or spotty signal, by all means give it a shot, it's personally my go to ROM for any device where available. I just didn't have too great of an experience with this device in general, maybe I got a dud or maybe it's a software issue on Essential's part. I know I'm not the only one reporting these issues on XDA. I'll just say this much, it'll improve your experience if you wanted something more than just basic AOSP Android, but if you had issues with signal and battery, they won't change here.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Vember31:
Building new update

Hi guys,

Since there haven't been any updates in a bit, I pulled together the latest sources from google, lineage and resurrection, and am building RR for Mata now. Not sure whether or not it will be buggy, etc, but I will be giving it a shot this weekend and if it is successful & stable enough, I will share here.

I'll give an update in 2-3 days when I have had a chance to flash and test. :D

update: rom in post 345
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Canuckmata:
I found this today. Head over to https://xdaforums.com/project-trebl...pment/gsi-resurrection-remix-o-6-1-0-t3811299 for official Resurrection Remix. I downloaded Resurrection Remix ARM64 A/B Devices and did an update/upgrade with the file "system-180708-arm64-ab-gapps-su.img" using TWRP. Wipe cache and dalvik cache. Change to img file installation instead of zip file installation for TWRP. I did not have to install gapps after img file installation. I installed TWRP in slot B and switched to slot A while in TWRP for the installation.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] stryver:
I can't help but feel like you just sh*t on OP. Thanks for the info but man, maybe create a thread for this?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Vember31:
How is it working? There have been several errors as I've been trying to build RR for Mata specifically
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] nummer:
How is the experience on there? [MENTION=9298828]Canuckmata[/MENTION]
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Vember31:
Sorry that it took an extra day beyond what I'd planned guys. Here's RR compiled from today's source: Google Drive

Finished building this shortly ago and haven't yet had time to test yet, so if anyone beats me to it, please let me know if you run into any trouble. Gapps are not included in this build.

:highfive:

update:

- Found one main issue: wifi is disabled on every reboot. I updated to latest firmware thinking that might help, but it remains disabled on every reboot. if anyone has advice for fixing that let me know; not sure if it's an issue with the ROM or more likely an issue with which firmware i'm using (july firmware). Maybe kernel.

- Gapps installation went fine with opengapps latest nano package

- Running latest neutrino kernel with this & patched w/ magisk

- Touchscreen sensitivity is not very sensitive when you flash, until you go into settings / about phone / touchscreen settings and simply change the sensitivity. You can change it back as well if you want. I have not noticed a major difference in any of the values personally.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] stu5797:
My Essential is coming in early August. Cant wait to use this ROM! Anything special I need to do to use this? I am hoping I can do all the OTA updates, root, install twrp and use this rom
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Vember31:
Not really - if you're coming from a phone that did not have the A/B partition scheme then it takes a little getting used to, but there's plenty of guides and help in the forums here. Nothing special for flashing this rom vs any other custom roms for the ph1
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] stu5797:
Thanks, I am a little confused with the directions in the op. Once I root the phone do I flash this firmware

OPM1.180104.092 in twrp or through adb and use the flash all.bat?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Vember31:
Nah you need to be in fastboot when flashing this firmware
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] stu5797:
Does anyone use this rom? its a ghost town over here
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Vember31:
Yes, do you have any questions? I'm using the one linked a few posts above that was built on the 15th and it's been good
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] stu5797:
Awesome. I will use that build. My Essential comes between August 1st and August 8th from Amazon. Was lucky to get that deal
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] stu5797:
What kernel is everyone using. I usually prefer to stick with the stock that comes with RR but its always nice if you can get better performance.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Vember31:
Not to speak for others, but I get the feeling most folks, including myself, are using the neutrino kernel
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Syndrome666:
Neutrino, stock will likely give you a subpar experience
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Tech_Savvy:
Obviously you don't have a idea what your talking about:) that or spell check mustve mixed up subpar wit superb
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Syndrome666:
Sure I do, maybe your experience with it was positive, but not me and apparently I'm not alone here. OP even recommended flashing neutrino kernel over the stock one. I'm not saying stock can't be tweaked to run smoother, but personally I prefer to leave kernel settings alone/default most times as it's usually already fine tuned by the dev(s) to run as efficient and smooth as possible.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Tech_Savvy:
Hey i misread... thought you meant neutino would cause subpar performance....ma bad:p
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] jdogg4000:
Hi, would you have an idea of why google play services keeps crashing after installing this build with nano gapps.

I can get it working fine without gapps but as soon as I install gapps 8.1 nano it will constantly show google play services has crashed.

I have wiped all slots and flashed according to the OP instructions and have read all the pages of the thread but no one seems to have the problem.

Any Ideas? :confused:

UPDATE: I downloaded the latest Google Play Services from apkmirror and that seemed to fix everything. Thanks so far this has been a really enjoyable ROM. Hopefully it will become my daily driver.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Vember31:
Thanks for posting the update. I've been using this rom as a daily driver since builds from March so I think you will likely find the same
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] jdogg4000:
Have you noticed this doesn't charge rapidly. I tried it just by installing July 15 build and checking on the battery meter tester and I get mainly 5V 1A sometimes it will go up to 2.5A at that moment it will change to rapid charging. Problem is that stock can get 9V 2-3A which is much faster . I tried also with 2 Neutrino kernels including the one released today and getting the same results. Are you experiencing this? Have you been able to rapid charge at 9V 2-3A on this build or any of the RR builds?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Vember31:
Yes, my phone charges rapidly with my build on the 15th and neutrino kernel. I don't have the stock charger, but get about 2200mA when plugged in. It is a 5v 3a charger I think, but am not at home to confirm.

If you're seeing it is only happening with neutrino, it might be worth asking about in that thread if you haven't. The dev is really responsive
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] jdogg4000:
Ok I seem to have got it back to normal. I did a fresh wipe and install and it's working correctly again with the latest neutrino kernel.

I only have one problem now and that is that automagic theme keeps crashing (Lineage OS caused an unexpected error) when I try to change the accent style. I had it working before so thinking it might be the latest neutrino kernel.

Thanks for putting together such a great build. If we could work out the wifi as well that would be great but I can just use Tasker to turn it on with boot.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Vember31:
I ran into the same error with the accent style but it somehow fixed itself after a reboot or something simple. And yes, hopefully the wifi issue gets sorted out... I'm unfortunately not a developer, so hoping that it is fixed with the next build that I'll do in a couple of weeks or so.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] masterchief_2001:
Hey together,

is there a simple step by step guide to flash the latest RR P Rom on the essential? At the moment I'm running latest Stock Oreo and I dont know how to flash it correctly. Some people say the OP flashing guide is incorrect, so I dont know how to do it.

But I have another question: is fullscreen mode working with inbuild navigation gestures? And is screen mirroring working? These 2 things I need essentially;)

Edit: This guide is what I found: http://mata.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

But this isnt a step by step guide
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Vember31:
FYI this is an Oreo build of RR. I doubt the RR team will start on P builds until it is released officially by Google. If you want android P, you can install the latest beta from Essential.

That said, if you want this ROM (RR) and are having trouble installing, you can PM me. The OP updated the instructions after the feedback that you'd read in this thread, so those instructions in the first post are accurate. Only difference for me is that I am on the latest firmware.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] masterchief_2001:
Thanks!

Didnt know that it is an Oreo Build, a view pages before you can download a RR 6.1.0 Version, isnt that a P Version?

Will give it a try to install the build, which is the best working at the moment?

[MENTION=5426577]Vember31[/MENTION] I've downloaded the Build from 7.15. on my device, that is you're build couple of weeks ago! How is it working? This is still Oreo? Tried already Android P, dont like the new navigation bar
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Vember31:
Yep RR 6.1.0 is still Oreo :) the Android P-based version of RR will probably be a version 7.x.

ROM is working well too. Definitely stable enough for being a daily driver. You can check the post where I have the ROM download to read up on some of the issues / FYIs about it. Wifi being disabled on reboot is the main issue.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] nummer:
On the 7/15 build, is there any other issue than the wifi thing?

I've heard things about touchscreen problems, is this true for this build?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Vember31:
The build on 7/15 is RR 6.1.0, if that is what you mean?

The thread title and OP are a little outdated. If it would make sense I could start a thread to indicate that the latest build is an unofficial RR v6.1.0

Edit: wifi is only main issue I have seen. The touchscreen settings are an issue, but once you fix them when first setting up the rom, you don't have to do it again. Follow those steps to fix it in post 345
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] nummer:
OK, the ROM was a success, sort of, there is no support for the notch tho, is there a way to add it?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Vember31:
Not that I know of. I understand this to be mostly a shortcoming of Oreo in AOSP. With android P, notch support is native to Android. With Oreo, it was supported primarily due to OEMs developing around their devices that have notches (such as essential with this device), so that the software knew that there was a notch.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] phpbb3:
As far as I can tell, Lineage is working on bringing this up right now in their SDK. A little bit of info can be seen on their gerrit. This means it will make it to ROMs based on lineage like RR from upstream when it is ready.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] jdogg4000:
That's great news :D I am loving this rom.

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I have found if you enable Google as the network rating provider in wifi preferences and then enable connect to WiFi automatically in wifi settings , after a few times of connecting your WiFi the phone will automatically connect to saved wifi's on boot.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Obeymypuppy:
Put this on per instructions given. Battery life awesome and really liked the lay out. Here is the only issue I have run into. Text messages take quiet a long time to send. Wife will send me a text and doesn't get the reply till like 1-2 minutes. Some she doesn't get at all. I browsed thru the pages but didn't see anything like this. If I missed it could someone point me to that page, or help in any way. Had to go back to stock sadly.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] rignfool:
What carrier?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Obeymypuppy:
ATT
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] stu5797:
Dumb question but I just got my Essential and it's updated to Android Pie. Do I still install this ROM the same way as in the Op describes?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] hx3:
Should work fine, but I'd highly recommend wiping data first from fastboot (fastboot -w) or formatting data within TWRP.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Vember31:
I'm not sure how the Pie firmware will work with Oreo. Not sure what kind of problems you would run into. Maybe none. You could give it a try and see, this thread would definitely be interested in your experience :)

If it was me, I'd probably flash the July firmware if you aren't wanting to try the August (Pie) firmware
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mackentosh:
Yes it booted for me
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Ashwin Prabhunerurkar:
perfect i am trying to remember how i installed gaaps on this build

once i remember this rom will be good to go
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mackentosh:
Rom is up and running had to flash gappa separately and resurrection is in my essential ? thank bro