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[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Ferenczy68:
So you're saying if I sideload the March update (I'm already on it) that I'll immediately get a notification for the April update? Color me suspicious...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Caltinpla:
You are already on March update and your phone didn't prompt you the new April update? That's strange. Did you try to remove the sim card and let your phone connect to WiFi only then tap on system update?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Ferenczy68:
Why would I do that? Especially when that's not part of the process that you gave earlier? I think the updates are rolling out based off of carrier or some other such criteria. Not simply if you're on x-release you automatically get an update for y-release...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Caltinpla:
Keep waiting then and don't quote me.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Ferenczy68:
Quit giving bs information...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Caltinpla:
It might take a few days for Essential to post it.

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Quit trolling!!!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] bigmook:
Are you subscribed to the developer beta builds. This is a beta right?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] jAm-0:
Not beta.

OTA's can rollout at different times, give it a bit and you should get the update.

Also restart your phone if you haven't done so already
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] dhorgas:
Oh my god, finally I can watch Netflix in actual full-screen. Just tried it. Amazing. I'd much rather use the notch area for video like my iPhone X than have the black bar there. Very happy :D
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] vergilbt:
No, tried it.

But after reinstalling last version via sideload I don't still see any update... I'm always on .092

Weird
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Caltinpla:
That's strange. Try remove the sim card, restart your phone and have it connected to just WiFi then check system update again.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] matase:
Yeah , idk WTH is wrong with my phone. I'm not getting ota updates even with Verizon sim. I had to manually side load 8.1 ... Waiting for this April update to be available sideload manually. I wish it was posted already so I can see if connectivity improved.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] vergilbt:
Amazing...

This was the trick.

Remote SIM and update was arriving.

Thanks a lot.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Caltinpla:
Gladly to help! ;)
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] matase:
Lucky.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] DessertDevice:
I'm still getting "installation problem" shortly after install begins. I flashed the stock boot.img, deleted Magisk, I'm not even rooted anymore as I recently flashed the latest release (092). Any ideas? Does this have to do with the A/B partitions?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Calkulin:
Here's a link to the OTA zip. I kept getting the error when updating, so I downloaded the complete ROM from Essential's website, reflashed both the A & B partitions, then sideloaded the OTA zip to finally get it to apply

https://drive.google.com/open?id=18ho8HKtMUn4sDk4loaxh8FWowQWm4b0M
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] matase:
Thanks for the link there. Where did you find this on essential website?

Can I sideload this .zip the same way as I did when I updated 7.1.1 to 8.1? Does this OTA zip wipe my device? When I upgraded to Oreo my device wasn't wiped. My device does not find April update when I force update check.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Ferenczy68:
I sideloaded it just fine and it didn't wipe my device. Obviously #ymmv ?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] matase:
Were you not getting otas either? Oreo never showed up on my used device.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Ferenczy68:
Sprint just released the update today. I sideloaded yesterday thanks to the generosity of Calkulin... ?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] matase:
ahh ok. I'm not even on sprint and update wasn't coming up for me. I just sideloaded this and it worked.

I'm checking my LTE signal and it's still crap. -106 to 117 dBm. I was hoping under -100 signal strength.

I'll probably end up selling this phone when oneplus 6 comes out. Maybe I'll get Mi Mix 2s.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Ferenczy68:
Yeah, I live in the sticks, those are great signal strengths for me, lol.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] matase:
I get less than half download speed as I used to with op3t, so it's noticing. Loading gifs, videos etc
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] haevolution:
OMG i did the update and it funked up all my bluetooths I was so mad! Then i switched it to AVRCP 1. 6 and all was well again!! Phew!!!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] pastadoc:
Awesome update. So happy with this phone. NO B/S. Just keeps getting better.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] argrr101:
I'm rooted stock right now, do I need to unroot or do anything else before taking the OTA? It keeps popping up in my notifications but I'm afraid to click it.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_head:
You cannot take the OTA unless root is removed.

You will need both the stock boot image and vendor image from whatever OS version you are running.

Rooting changes the boot and vendor and they must be completely stock to take an OTA.

You will then need to root all over again.

Clicking it will do nothing except use data when it tries to download.

It will fail to install unless you are stock.

I suggest going over to the stock ROM area and just download and flash the new version of 8.1.

If you are already rooted and BL unlocked, why do you care about an OTA?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] argrr101:
Oh I didn't know that there was a difference between OTA and sideloading. So it's fine to sideload the update even if I'm rooted?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_head:
If you are trying to side load via ADB it will fail. The OTA has checks and will fail on a device that has modified partitions.

If you are rooted, the best way to update is through the flash of the OS version you are trying to go to.

Look in th ROM area and get the back to stock ROM, install and root.

The OTA, if you could take it, would get rid of root anyway.

This is not directed at you, just an observation.

If a person is already rooted, what is the necessity to take the OTA?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] AndrewX85:
I have the same problem, were you able to figure out how to manually sideload your phone, even I don't get OTA updates.

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were you able to sideload the updates? my phones also does not get OTA updates.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] railfan-eric:
Does anyone know if the GS7 handles weak signals as good as the G6? I used to have a GS7 and bought a refurbished one again for Verizon but it seems like the signal strength isn't as good. it goes from 0-2 bars and HD voice sounds muddy. Is my phone bad or is the GS7 not as good as the G6 with signal strength. I never had signal issues with my G6 in my house. I am trying to figure out if i need to send my phone back to the seller.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] railfan-eric:
Here's my signal strength. Does this look normal for the GS7?View attachment 4468978
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] railfan-eric:
anyone? Can someone tell me if the signal strength and meter matches to yours?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] railfan-eric:
I notice if I toggle flight mode on and off or pull the sim card out the signal gets real good for awhile but then after a few minutes it starts dropping off and not being stable again. even going to Extended Network. Is my phone bad? do i need to send it back. can someone please help me? Also notice now twice i get the circle sign with a line through it then the network slowly comes back up.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] ksierens:
I have an 8525 running WM6 with the HTC Home Plugin and the customizer.

I am trying to add some images for my contacts and would like them to have a transparent background. I tried PNG and BMP images, and they always have either a while or black background. Is there some trick to this?
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Guides, News, & Discussion] taiwan#1:
I have been using Mi A1 for several weeks and always get no 4G/LTE around my places at bay area in north CA. Even my old cellphone with SD615 can get LTE coverage. I also tried modifying the NVRAM lte_bc_config value for many different combinations but still pick up no LTE signal. I went to south San Jose and Mi A1 does pick up 4G signal so that I can pretty sure it still can work for certain bands of carrier AT&T.

The fact is I know what bands AT&T have, but I don't know what bands can be supported by Mi A1 global version's Multimode Multiband power amplifier. Even I can modify the lte_bc_config value but it does not mean the phone can actually support them because of different antenna power amplifier chips in different models and cellphones among all brands.

I checked some teardown picture and video, and saw the just took the board apart, but I cannot tell what power amplifier chip is used in Mi A1. Any guy have seen the detail or know the base band power amplifier used in Mi A1? So that I can just try some combination of the only supported LTE bands on my cell.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Guides, News, & Discussion] taiwan#1:
Another thing I noticed is the 3G is actually very slower than my another old phone does previously. I never seen "H" icon in the signal strength icon, always just see 3G. And actually the phone information (in *#*#4636#*#*) shows the data connection is UMTS HSPAP. However the speed is horrible and I have did several test results are 1.xMbps only, and felt chrome and facebook are downloading pictures very slow.

Another interesting thing I found is the default preferred network type (*#*#4636#*#*). Every reboot the preferred network type will always be set to TD-SCDMA/CDMA/UMTS. But actually this phone is GSM/UMTS/LTE, not CDMA spec and TD-SCDMA is mainly used in China I think. So I'm wondering why the default setting will be TD-SCDMA/CDMA/UMTS. It should be LTE/WCDMA or LTE/UMTS instead.

So for many folks who have Mi A1 but have no LTE coverage, if Mi A1 already have the band supported for your carriers, I think you should try this option before you use the Qualcomm tool to modify the LTE NVRAM value
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Guides, News, & Discussion] insan.waq3y1:
mi a1 support this band

GSM: B2, B3, B5, B8

UMTS : B1, B2, B5, B8

FDD-LTE :B1, B3, B4, B5, B7, B8, B20

TDD-LTE : B38, B40
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Guides, News, & Discussion] taiwan#1:
Thanks for the information again. I know the spec. The thing I want to know is the baseband power amplifier chip spec. So that you can see in other phones, there are some chances to enable hidden LTE bands because they are able to enable qualcomm LTE modem's support, and also the phone must equip with the proper based band amplifier to get these LTE bands work. Otherwise, you can just simply enable ALL LTE bands but actually get nothing works on most of them.

So I just want to see if there is some chance that the amplifier has some extra "BONUS" but just the Mi A1 not enabled it by default.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] Ramoti:
Yesterday I noticed something unusual. Somehow the internet connection on my computer was unstable. It took a while until I figured out why:

Everytime I turn the Wi-Fi on my Pixel on and it connects to my network, the router crashes. Not always instantaneously, but inevitably.

As long as I keep the Wi-Fi turned off, everything is fine.

It does resemble an issue which plagued the Pixel in December last year, also letting routers (especially mesh networks) crash.

So my question is: Did anybody find a fix for that issue back then? Because Google apparently didn't fix this or patched it back.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] twiz0r:
Interesting. I have been having WIFI issues at home where the wireless freezes but my wired connection is fine. It doesn't happen all the time, but can happen 1-4 times per week. What internet provider/router do you have? I'm on Cox with a router provided by them.

Honestly I have no idea how to troubleshoot my issue.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] ryclegman:
I actually have a TP-link archer c5400 and have been having wifi crashes as well. thought it was a google home issue but that was apparently fixed. Still getting crashes. starting to think its my pixel too
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] TheNamesJohn:
I have this too. Asus AC66U router with updated firmware. Pixel 2 XL causes everything to drop - wifi, lan - and it won't come back until I turn off wifi on the phone. Today I installed Beta Google Play services which supposedly should fix the problem so will test this afternoon.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] todd69:
Exact same issues here with my new XL 2.

I resolved it by switching off the dual band on my router and just using 2.4.

Been fine since I did that.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] EnIXmA:
That's why you should not be using cheap routers.. working fine on my Netgear night hawk x8
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] todd69:
That's nice, I'm happy for you.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] dratsablive:
Haven't had any issues with my Surfboard Cable Modem/Router.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] Sticky Fin:
I can confirm it is working for my case in which my Pixel 2XL lost the WiFi connection, but not my PC and other android phones at home most of the time.

Thanks :good:
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] EeZeEpEe:
Just checking but you guys have the latest firmware update for your routers right? It could help if it happens not to be updated.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] Sticky Fin:
The router has been regularly updated. I experienced the lost of WiFi connection before and after the update.

This is some of the error I fetched from log when my Pixel was kept losing the WiFi connection:
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] Phazonclash:
Just wanted to report that I had the same problem with my Pixel 2 Xl and my ASUS RT-AC68U router running on its stock up-to-date firmware. My different Chromecast devices and my Google Home would lose connection to the router and appear as "linked devices" that are unavailable (and would require to be turned off and on to reconnect).

What fixed it for me? Using the Asuswrt-Merlin firmware https://asuswrt.lostrealm.ca/

Not a single problem yet since I did it
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] Puzzler33:
Pixel 2 crashes Asus router using 802.11ac 5G

I wish Google would fix this!

All the latest patches and firmware on phone and router. Pixel 2 connects via 802.11ac 5G and router goes offline immediately, losing even wired connections.

After many hours of screwing around with this I finally deleted the Pixel 2 802.11ac 5G profile and kept the slower 802.11n 2G profile intact, which does not seem to have any compatibility issues with this router. It does suck to use slower connection, but it's better than the alternative.

Update: The 802.11n 2G connection from Pixel 2 also crashes the router, so I deleted it now too.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] EnIXmA:
Simple fix is to buy an expensive router next time
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] dubt17:
This issue is your phone checking multicast for google home devices and if any media is playing back. This was reported back a while ago and many companies have pushed FW to update their newer routers. If you have an older router, maybe nows the time to upgrade as you can get a fairly cheap one for 50-100.

Google WiFi works great.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] TheNamesJohn:
I wouldn't call Asus AC66U a cheap router but it's still happening.

Any way we could manually block those multicast packets on a router software?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] EeZeEpEe:
Why is that your only answer? I have my Frontier modem and router connected with a cheap TP-link extender and it works fine.

Apparently the extra $150 for the Nighthawk over your ACC6U is necessary. ?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] icedawn:
Asus RT-AC66U running Merlin 380.68_4. Recent factory reset.

Pixel 2

I can confirm that the moment my Pixel 2 connects on 5G, the router resets. Temporary workaround has been to turn off the 5G radio.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] apwicker:
Holy Crap! Worked for me too. It's been driving me nuts! Thank you for this!
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] superpop:
Same problem here Bro. Using AC66R and a Oneplus 6. No luck with this. I update my firmware and tryed to disable IPV6 option, but doesnt work...
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] mattnin:
Same issue here. Had to change to ubiquity AP
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] cardusan:
Not much of a solution considering how slower 2.4GHz band is in comparison to 5GHz... I blame Google and their Android settings, because this is happening with other phones, not only Pixel XL or XL2... I troubleshooted so far OnePlus 6T, Pocophone F1 and Iphone XR
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] TechNash:
You could try going to your router settings and doing a firmware update and factory reset.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] Maverick Jester:
Have you guys tried disabling automatic backup in Google Photos? It seems to kill WiFi networks when it's enabled.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] twix228:
A friend of mine ran into exactly the same problem a year ago. He has a Linux operating system, and his router was constantly crashing when he turned on the Wi-Fi. Even though this is a common Linux problem, you may have another problem. The first problem is a broken router. As we all know, today it is very difficult to find a reliable router, so they break down more often than toys for children. As you said earlier, the second problem may be the shortcomings of the Linux system. If I were you, I would try connecting your router to another device, which would definitely confirm one of the problems.
[OnePlus 3 Questions & Answers] AndreaTatini:
hi guys,

today my phone just randomly got into bootloop mode.

I didn't install any patch or tried to root.

The phone is technically brand-new.

It just loops on its way booting and there is no way to access download mode or anything.

When connected to pc it stops the loop but the pc doesn't connect to the phone when it used to do it in the past.

Whenever I disconnect my phone from the pc it gets back in the loop
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Mad_Boss:
Hi,

I just rooted my Note 8 using the How to Root the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 (Exynos) guide on here and it will no longer detect any sim put in it.

I've tried reflashing the stock firmware but had no luck.

Any help with this will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Ebhat:
I had this issue and it seemed to be because, in my case, the EFS partition had been corrupted during a TWRP backup. Fixed the issue by flashing stock firmware via Odin.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] forrest.john:
This is my first post and I am pretty excited to be a part of this community.

I recently followed a tutorial I found on here using adb to go into full immersive mode.

Having now discovered the joys of adb and USB Debugging I was wondering if there is any way of customizing the lockscreen using adb. More specifically I would love to use a KWGT widget on the lockscreen instead of Samsung's default. Does anyone know how to do this? I've searched through a few forums and most of the lockscreen customization is from KitKat or earlier.

Thanks!
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] NinjaOne:
Hi.

For fun I tried flashing a new bootanimation.

It didn't work and ended up with a black screen and a lot notification light.

So I dirty flashed my rom (DU12) with same result.

Then I formated system and made a full wipe (not internal) and clean flashed the ROM.

It had same result. But I found out that I could hold power button and just restart. And then it booted.

This happens every time I restart, where I have to make another restart after hitting the black screen with lit notification light.

Any suggestions to fix this?

Thanks.
[OnePlus 5 Questions & Answers] NinjaOne:
Well. Formatted data and wiped everything.

That helped.
[Lenovo P2 Questions & Answers] GuestK00412:
My p2 GPS isn't working since two days before it was working perfectly.

GPS /location is set to High & wifi & Bluetooth scanning is on in location settings. But still gps won't lock my position & .no satellite is found
[Lenovo P2 Questions & Answers] Cuvillier:
Same problem here? Did you try to go back to stock firmware?
[Lenovo P2 Questions & Answers] GuestK00412:
Yes, i flashed stock fast boot files just to check & after the fresh boot automatic time zone was turned off.

After turned both settings on GPS working quite good again.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] sdeft:
I am trying to mod the stock system.img on latest Nougat (N2G47H.7.12.19) with unlocked bootloader but I am facing some issues and need your help:)

What I have done so far:

As far as I know the device is using AVB (Android Verified Boot) and you need to disable dm-verify in order to makes changes to system.img.

So I went ahead and unpacked the boot.img and applied the below changes in ramdisk.

1. removed the 'verify' option from /system in fstab.qom

2. removed verity_key

3. added ro.config.dmverity=false to default.prop

Flashed the repacked boot.img successfully which worked fine with the stock system.img.

Then I tried to make changes to /system via TWRP and when I rebooted I got bootlop.

I also get bootlop even when I just mount /system as rw from within TWRP (without making any changes).

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong ? Is there another security check for system.img somewhere that I missed ?
[General Questions and Answers] maxmotos:
Im currently trying to hotseat in the launcher so it can open the browser

original hotseatv2.xml

<favorite launcher:className="com.google.android.apps.chrome.Main" launcher:packageName="com.android.chrome" launcher:container="-101" launcher:screen="2" launcher:x="2" launcher:y="0" />

trying to change it to my app

<favorite launcher:className="???????????????????????????" launcher:packageName="com.ntent.celloneus.browser" launcher:container="-101" launcher:screen="2" launcher:x="2" launcher:y="0" />

Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] cool old lady:
The S7 can be had for $299.00 now at Walmart (Straight Talk version). Is it worth buying or just too obsolete? I mainly want to know if I can still root it and flash roms, etc. Would it be better to go with a newer phone that's more budget level, around $300? Thanks for any feedback!