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[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] jhs39:
If it doesn't freeze or reboot at all in safe mode that usually means an app that you downloaded is causing the problem. The normal thing to try would be to factory reset the phone, download one app and see if there are problems. If the phone seems to be fine download a second app and use the phone long enough to see if the phone is stable. If it seems fine download a third app and do the same.

That's obviously very time consuming and if you were running a phone with heavily modded code like OnePlus with Oxygen it would probably be worth the investment of time. But this phone runs stock Android. Unless you are installing something unusual that might cause stability issues what you are describing sounds like a hardware problem. You might have bad memory for example and not enough is going on when the phone is in safe mode to trigger the unstable behavior.

I think returning or exchanging the phone you bought is definitely your best course of action. I really like this phone but it sounds like yours is defective or damaged.

The only other thing that comes to mind is that sometimes if you own more than one phone the Play Store will show apps that aren't compatible with the phone you are actually using. Dialers, messaging apps, camera apps and music players made for a specific phone brand aren't usually compatible with other brands because they need modded framework to function properly. Some apps that definitely are not compatible with this phone do show up in my Play Store Library available for download. Is it possible you are downloading an incompatible app?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Nickvanexel:
I factory reset and haven't installed a single app. Just updated everything that was stock with the phone after reset. I was thinking faulty ram too, seems like it is.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Nickvanexel:
Yeah I guess it's toast. Last night while watching YouTube it froze. Screen scrambled with artifacts and the phone made a loud continuous howling sound like an emergency alert. I honestly thought it was an emergency alert until I saw the artifacting.

Unless someone here can possibly give me an idea of any other reason it could be displaying this behavior I guess I have no choice but to return it?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] rignfool:
Grab a BTS zip from the back to stock thread... And flash that...

I'll bet however it was updated had some yuck in it...
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] jhs39:
Someone in the Essential stock ROM dump thread just described the exact same behavior that you are experiencing. He hopes reflashing stock will fix it but since it's identical to what's happening with your phone I think he's going to end up disappointed. You might want to check out his post and see if he has any luck. It was the latest post in the thread so it should be easy to find.

https://xdaforums.com/essential-phone/development/stock-7-1-1-nmj20d-t3701681/page41
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Nickvanexel:
Yeah that was me. Trying to get information on the procedure to manually reflash this phone with stock firmware. I shouldn't need to unlock bootloader to do it? Just trying to flash stock over stock to hopefully correct any os corruption. Also mine is apparently a unlocked Sprint variant even though it was advertised as being a normal unlocked variant. Not sure if the firmware from that thread will work for me.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] jhs39:
Sorry I didn't notice that. I haven't done any flashing on this phone but I know I read that people with the Sprint phones were flashing the regular stock image to get rid of the Sprint apps and get updates from Essential rather than Sprint. But if you don't want to unlock your bootloader you can download official factory images from the Essential website and sideload using a computer. Flashing instructions are on the download site.

https://www.essential.com/developer/current-builds
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Nickvanexel:
Alright I reflashed the latest firmware from essential page via adb sideload. I highly dout it worked but I'll see.

What would I need to do from here to do a complete fresh reflash completely overrighting any trace of the old os? I still want to keep it stock but doesn't matter if I need to unlock the bootloader. Just want a complete wipe of the old os and fresh reflash to be sure any traces of corruption are removed to be sure if it's a hardware issue.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] jhs39:
That's easy on single partition phones but much more difficult on phones with an A & B partition like the PH-1. You definitely need to unlock the bootloader. On my Pixel XL you needed to flash the factory image separately to partitions A & B to ensure there was nothing left from before but the procedure might be different on this phone. I went through the flashing instructions when I got this phone and think if you flash the full restore stock image it supposedly returns both partitions to stock automatically but that definitely didn't happen on the Pixel. Considering that this phone is supposed to be easy to hard brick (which was virtually impossible on the Pixel) I wouldn't chance it unless you can't return or exchange the phone from the seller.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Nickvanexel:
Well side loading the ota from essential website didn't work. I'd say it's already hard bricked. Still crashing after a while of using it. Last night I loaded as many apps at one time as I could. Got maybe 10 opened at once before it crashed. Seems like faulty ram to me.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] MTGOferret:
Wife just had it happen on her new White one twice today while playing Pokemon GO.

She says she also had her podcast app and hangouts open but minimized and not being actively used in the background.

She's on a fresh install of Oreo 8.1 with the Gcam mod by MGC_5.1.018_Urikill_vXXII.apk using the settings suggested by aer0zer0

Anyhow I hope its just a completely random fluke and not a serious issue as I have a new black one from Amazon in the mail and would really hate to have to return these otherwise wonderful devices.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Nickvanexel:
Mine ain't no fluke. After it crashes if I immediately reboot it instantly crashes again. I have to let it sit a while turned off and reboot again to any significant time before crashing. Longest time it's ran before crashing since having it it's maybe an hour. Didn't notice it much at first because I didn't use it more than a few minutes at a time. So it was in sleep mode constantly crashing and rebooting. Now that I have been watching it more it just constantly keeps rebooting even while sitting idle. I'll glance over at my phone and low and behold it's rebooting again.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] MTGOferret:
Ouch okay that most certainly sounds like a bad hardware issue as you suspected earlier.

Thankfully in her case the reboots were well apart from one another and the phone was fine after the reboot. Even let her play PKGO.

I mostly came in to comment to hopefully help by voicing that it had happened and the circumstances in which it did for her with the idea it might pinpoint some flaw in the overall system if there was one.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] sarfdawg:
I know this thread has been stale for quite a while, but I was wondering if you found any cause or solution.

I have had two of these handsets, and both of them randomly restart, but it only occurs in my work environment (a public high school). When not at work, the phone is perfect - no issues whatsoever. I first thought it was an issue when transferring from one WAP to another in my building, but it's restarted two or three times without my actually leaving my office. I'm beginning to think it has something to do with bluetooth and my S3 watch, but I have no idea. I've factory reset a couple of times and slowly re-added apps, and nothing really helps.

Essential support has been very thorough in helping me, but neither they nor I can find any solution to the problem. If anyone has any suggestions, they are more than welcomed.

Thanks - Jack
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] jomansch:
I have (had) three PH1...my first one is my mother's phone now, the 2nd one after 2 months started having lots of reboots for no obvious reason and had a wifi issue as well (wifi got deactivated and could only be temporarily fixed by rebooting). assuming a faulty ram or some other hardware issue, i got in contact with amazon (i had the halo gray) and they replaced the phone instantly. so now my 1st and 3rd phone work without any problem. so you maybe have got some kind of hardware fault, too? just my 2cts....
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] playst:
I have bought a second hand ph1, also have auto reboot problem

no matter stock rom or lineageos 18.1.

I guess it is something related to sim network

when a sim insert it will reboot in a few seconds

it will not happen when no SIM card inserted.

My solution is after insert SIM card, turn on airplane mode immediately,

and turn on wifi for a few minutes,

then turn off airplane mode, then it will not auto reboot.

and need to do this again when out of battery or power off and power on.

EDIT: Just try in "Developer options"，"Background check", stop exchange service and google calendar then it stop auto reboot
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] requiem2es:
Hello, I have the some problem too. I have tried to do the trick with the "developer options" but there is no "exchange service" nor "google calendar" there. In my case it happens when the device gets connected to bluetooth as well.
[Magisk] kyva1929:
Hi - I have the following issue:

If I mount a network share via sshfs with root, only root / root in the same session can see the mount due to namespace isolation.

On another phone with supersu I have the option to disable namespace isolation completely so that any regular apps can see my new share mount mounted with root. In magisk it doesn't appear to be possible to disable namespace isolation completely - the only options are choosing different degree of isolation for root.

Thanks!
[Magisk] bicho1986:
+1
[Magisk] Fabio Santos 90:
+1
[Xiaomi Mi 5s Plus Questions & Answers] kapa75:
Hi!

I just got my mi5s+ which I love.

But I have a strange issue, whether I'm running a stock MIUI ROM or a AOSP/LOS ROM (Oreo):

When I'm playing any audio, I have some weird stutters/crackling randomly.

It happens both on speaker and bluetooth headphones. It happens on Apple Music/Spotify/Local media. Sometimes it even happens with notifications.

I noticed that it gets worse when I'm downloading a file in my phone or when I'm running a heavy/poorly optimized app like snapchat. I was thinking it maybe it was a bad

I haven't installed any audio mod. Tried various firmware. Kernel settings are on stock. I've tried factory reset, wiping cache

Do you have the same issue? Is there any fix? When I've done some researches I've noticed it's a common problem on xiaomi devices and I haven't found any good fix...

It's such a shame a device that powerful can't play audio properly...
[Xiaomi Mi 5s Plus Questions & Answers] bmg002:
I've personally only had audio stuttering if I have too much running at once. but at that point, the whole phone feels clunky.

and when I say too much, I mean to the point where the phone is hardly usable - everything is delayed.

I also mostly use google play OR the built in MIUI music app. I do have Viper4Android installed, so it could be cleaning up the crackling.
[Huawei MediaPad, T-Mobile SpringBoard] ms2125:
My huawei S7-721u is bricked. It is stocked at boot. I have tried to flash different update.app rom but unsuccesfull because it can't be turned into recovery mode. But I think and pray for it that it can be flashed through Sp flash tool. Since I have been searching for it I did found an Sp flash tool rom for my device to flash with it.

I read something about working with update.app to a flashable rom with SP Flash tool here: (http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=54603809) but when I followed all the instructions, I still got stocked at step n. 12 since the -preparefile.exe is missing in the folder.

So Help
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] js2shanks:
I was recently told about Virtual Xposed on github, as it being a rootless version of xposed.

I was wondering if anyone has used it, can they give me a breif rundown on it and how to use it? I want to use it to enable adblock and youtube ad away like you are able to on the rooted exposed.

If anyone can help me or point me into the general direction to learn that would be great.

Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] cgrimm9:
I don't know about Virtual Xposed but I use blockade does a great job at blocking ads. And I downloaded a app of the internet called new pipe which is a YouTube app that allows ad free viewing and has the same options as you tune red
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] SaadatM:
If you're primarily going to use it for YouTube, I suggest you take a look at the "YouTube Vanced" project in the general apps&games section.

It's a rootless YouTube mod with bg-playback and inbuilt adblock.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] DevilFruit:
On the stock internet app, I have installed ad blocking extension called Fast. Now I can watch YouTube videos in the app without ads
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] winol:
I tried virtual xposed in another device, as I did not want to experiment with my note 8, installed 3 modules as per instructions, but it does not seem to work, maybe, not all modules work in certain devices, as it happens with standard xposed on rooted ones, but, who knows
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] thedamnone:
The modules only work on apps installed in the virtual environment. Also you need to enable them and reboot.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] winol:
Yes, I did all as instructed
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] js2shanks:
Virtual exposed does not work with YouTube so I have to find an app that blocks ad for YouTube.. any suggestions other than the ones mentioned? I use Firefox for ad block but not anything else
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] jason504:
Try OG YouTube the apk is floating around here somewhere. I use it everyday with no ads.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sanctitude888:
Virtual Exposed is not Exposed replacementdue to very limited and mostly useless modules or to put it mildly, only useful to very few popular apps in certain regions.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] eraursls1984:
The only module I haven't found a half decent replacement for is Xinsta. I'll have to look and see of this works with that module.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] LonelyTANVIR:
After upgrading from 5.0.2 to 6.0.1, I have serious issue with battery. It takes only 3/4 hours to go from 100% to 0% with normal usages. I tried to downgrade to 4.4.4 but odin . After flash, phone had a bootloop with 4.4.4 boot logo. I again flashed to 6.0.1 and the phone works fine. Is there any way to downgrade to 4.4.4 ? Plz help.

Thanks in advance.
[Moto G4 Plus Questions & Answers] santiagog242:
That's it, I want to flash a custom Oreo ROM but I'd miss the lock/unlock with fingerprint gesture that we have with stock.
[Moto G4 Plus Questions & Answers] abhi212b:
Almost all custom ROMs have the feature to wake the device without registering a fingerprint!

for locking the device, however, you'd need EX kernel manager for it..(provided Kernel supports it)

You can always flash custom kernels like Frostbitten, Loony & Waiver (if the kernel that comes with the ROM does not support it) as they support fingerprint wake and sleep and power options as well..
[Moto G4 Plus Questions & Answers] Love Dhir:
Check out rescurssion remix oreo its best and stable rom
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 Questions & Answers] Pitrino:
Goodmorning, I've a strange problem with flashing recovery.

I used lastest fastboot

I've flashed the recovery (fastboot flash...) Then booted into it directly (fastboot boot recovery...) And obviously problems with mounting data.

The real problem is that when I reboot system , twrp is automatically erased and stock recovery is mounted.

I've tried everything, new recovery,new fastboot...

Please help me
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 Questions & Answers] TrustAugustus:
That's standard with a lot of OEM ROMS on many different phones. You can flash magisk or SuperSU to preserve your flashed twrp.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 Questions & Answers] Mackay53:
That won't work, the no-verity-opt zip is needed to preserve twrp or it will always revert back to the stock one.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 Questions & Answers] colorado_al:
Go here

https://xdaforums.com/mi-mix-2/how-to/guide-mi-mix-2-unroot-restore-recovery-t3770690

And DL the TWRP & no-verity-opt-encrypt 1.6

follow the directions starting with
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 Questions & Answers] monsterkruemel:
- flash latest twrp https://twrp.me/xiaomi/xiaomimimix2.html

- reboot to recovery with hardware keys (volume-up + power) immediately after flashing

That solved the problem for me.
[G Pad 8.3 General] sarahlegs:
[GUIDE] LG G Pad 8.3 [v500] Unlock, Root, Flash Official TWRP & Official Lineage OS

I'm mainly writing this as a step by step reference for myself, but thought others may find this useful as there are some confusing older posts here. A massive thank-you to fefifofum for all his hard work, and he should feel free to correct me if I made a mistake here somewhere. The pad I used this method for was running Android 4.4 KitKat before beginning, so I did not need to downgrade the bootloader as described in this fefifofum post.

1) Acquire an LG G Pad 8.3 V500, charge it to full before beginning, have a PC with a USB (Micro) cable to connect to your pad

2) If necessary, reset the pad to factory defaults with the following hard key combination:

Hold Power + Vol Down > Wait until LG Logo pops up and release from both buttons > quickly hold Power + Vol Up + Vol Down again

Hit Power 3 times to confirm reset

3) On your PC, download the following files to a folder:

-Latest TWRP App (the APK)

-Latest TWRP Recovery for the v500

-Stump Root

-Latest Official LineageOS build for the v500

4) Boot the pad

5) Connect the pad to your PC

6) On the pad select "MTP" to transfer files

7) On the pad go to Settings -> Security -> Allow Installation of Apps from Unknown Sources

8) Copy the 4 files downloaded to your PC to a temporary folder on the pad (you may use the "Download" folder for example)

9) Disconnect the pad from your PC

10) Go to Apps -> File Manager

11) Browse to "All Apps" Internal Storage -> [Folder you saved files to]

12) Select Stump, Install it, Open It

13) Listen to the groovy music as desired :cool:

14) Tell it to brute force, and wait until it asks you to reboot

15) Reboot

16) Browse using the File Manager again to the same folder

17) Select TWRP App (not the recovery image), install it, open it

18) In the TWRP App, check all the boxes including use root access

19) In the TWRP App, Go to flash recovery from file, and select the latest TWRP.img file you downloaded (not the APK)

20) Flash that sucker

21) Reboot to Recovery (I use ADB Reboot Recovery, you could also use the hard button method in step 2 above)

22) Marvel at the beauty of Team Win's legendary creation

23) Go to Wipe -> Factory Reset, wait for it to finish, then go back to main TWRP menu

24) Go to Install -> Browse to your file folder from above -> Select the LineageOS build (a .zip file) you downloaded above

25) Install that sucker

26) Optionally, after installation, you may go to Wipe -> Format Data -> yes to clean all the LG crap off your device (this will wipe your downloaded files too FYI)

27) Reboot into Lineage OS, the best Phone&Tablet OS in town

28) Do a little dance

Hope this is helpful to me later, and to others possibly.
[G Pad 8.3 General] sksahai:
UPDATE: Thanks; I answered my own question, to clarify for other noobs; you need to transfer the zip file in its entirety, and twrp will unzip it upon installing!

Hi, for total noobs, the lineage os file is a zip file, does the entire zip file get transferred? or do you un zip first? If so, exactly which file do you install in step 24?

Thanks in advance.

Update:

I got to step 24, I picked some sort of "img" file to update. I have now been staring at the static LG logo for 10 minutes. How long should I wait to figure out if I did something wrong?
[G Pad 8.3 General] sarahlegs:
You need to install the Lineage OS build at step 24 in TWRP - that will be the .zip file you should have downloaded here:

https://download.lineageos.org/v500

It should look something like:

"lineage-14.1-20180409-nightly-v500-signed.zip"

Hope that helps.
[G Pad 8.3 General] Soundwve:
My V500 is on 4.4, totally stock, and has a 'dead' spot on touch in the center of the screen. Happened after the software upgrade to 4.4.

Will flashing Lineage OS fix this issue? It is a software issue, the hardware works properly when tested.
[G Pad 8.3 General] sarahlegs:
I'm not sure, but I know that flashing Lineage OS will give you way more current and updated software than the old 4.4 build by LG. It probably is worth trying, assuming you back up all your files etc.

By "dead spot" do you mean that the tablet does not register your touches in one area of the screen, or that there is a problem with the display?
[G Pad 8.3 General] windwaver:
Can the files be on the SD card instead of internal memory?
[G Pad 8.3 General] hodgestl:
XXXXX - NVM, I went ahead and chose Grind, it then asked if I wanted to Brute Force. All is well. Thanks.... XXXXNeed a little help, please. Step 14 says to tell Stump to use Brute Force, but the app only has a button that says "GRIND". Is Grind the same as Brute Force and shouldn't the instructions mention Grind? Thanks in advance for the step by step instructions. NVM
[G Pad 8.3 General] arthury42:
Let's say I got as far as step 26 and then now every time I reboot (either to System or Recovery) it goes back to the TWRP boot menu. Any idea which step I screwed up?

One thing that I'm somewhat concerned with is that when I try to install lineage-14.1-20180422-nightly-v500-signed.zip or the 0429 file, the Zip signature verification fails for either. So I tried them both, disabling the zip signature verification, so it would complete.

Thanks for the write up, and sorry for what is likely a noob mistake.

/Arthur
[G Pad 8.3 General] sachs:
How do you shoot root?
[G Pad 8.3 General] hodgestl:
What ?????

Please offer more clarification for your question. Thanks
[G Pad 8.3 General] sachs:
Sorry, how do I unistall root?
[G Pad 8.3 General] ze7zez:
There are various ways to do root and various ways to disable it and remove it.

You

must

write how you did root, because no one will want to answer your question clearly.

You have a long internship in this forum and you should know about XDA rules, especially 1 and 3.