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[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Thomas Cloutier:
Go to the essential phone website, then head over to the developer section
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
Well, they haven't shut down yet, so... LOL
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] jamebarron88:
:p
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] gk1984:
Can anyone test the hotspot and HDMI out on the new update? I'm reluctant to jump to it (again) as downgrading means a full wipe.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] sgravel:
Any brave souls know yet whether inbound calls are working with the new update?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] bmg1001:
Yeah, inbound calls work now.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] drherdman:
inbound seems fix

I just wiped and flashed the fastboot and received a call during setup
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] sgravel:
That's encouraging. May take the plunge.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] derausgewanderte:
nice, works great with MS Launcher. Like it. As somebody else posted, it seems snappier, like the animations are set to 0.5 overall (the are still set to 1.0 in Dev options).

edit: too bad. the recent app slider isn't working.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ilpolpi65:
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[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] kenbrownstone:
What's Dark Mode?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] fossiltkm:
Strange, the recents slider is working fine for me.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] derausgewanderte:
Did you do ota or flash the image? I have the same issue in other launchers. Must be a strange setting that got stuck
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] fossiltkm:
I flashed the Android P preview image, then took the ota. Do you have the stock launcher set to default?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] derausgewanderte:
Misunderstanding maybe. The recent slider is working fine in stock launcher. Just not on any other. I did ota
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] fossiltkm:
Now I gotcha. Yeah, unfortunately for our phone, this feature only works with the stock launcher. I think it was like that before this minor update as well.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] amitbhavi:
Unable to take OTA why? Please help
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Are you rooted?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] amitbhavi:
No
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
I had the same issue but assumed it was due to being rooted. I sideloaded it via ADB and stock recovery.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] amitbhavi:
Ok will try through adb
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] derausgewanderte:
anybody else having issues with adaptive brightness? doesn't matter what I do after some time it goes below values of 20% and lower until I manually raise it. Maybe it still needs to learn my habits - and maybe I have to go outside more often :)

cheers
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] RoccoN4:
Same here. Always put up to the max then eventually goes back to 15-20%. Very aggressive.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] dmeeks72:
I decided to take the plunge and install the Android P Developer Preview.

My very initial thoughts:

I installed the OTA Version. There were no issues and the process went smooth.

The launcher I have on my phone is ADW. It seems to be working good. No errors or anything abnormal. Other than the notification bar, my screen looks just at it did with Oreo8.1.

I'm on Sprint so my carrier is showing as Chameleon. (Known Issue)

Like a lot of people, I have reception issues. No matter what I did or what setting I would use my signal would bounce around. In my house, it would cycle through LTE to 3G to 1X to no data even the phone was in a stationary place. In P, I set it to LTE/CDMA and my signal seems to be stable. Thus far, it has stayed on LTE and the dbm's have stayed within a few points. For reference, I use LTE discovery and keep the DBM overlay on my screen.

Pebble Watch connected and everything works from what I can see.

I can receive incoming calls.

WI-FI Hotspot not working (Known Issue)

Overall a good experience thus far and I can see myself using it as a Daily Driver.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
I'm so used to the gestures now that I don't think I could go back to be honest.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] BakedTator:
Exactly my problem (if you can call it a problem) but overall...really good experience so far with Android p...great battery life too
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
It's fantastic, I haven't had any issues. Only going to get better no doubt. I love the animations, it feels so smooth.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NikoZBK:
Dark mode doesn't seem to work? I've set night mode to always on but I still have the blinding white ui.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
You need to set a dark wallpaper and it switches automatically. For some stupid reason you can't set it yourself.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] cilsoe:
Soft reboot

I had a soft reboot some time during the night resulting in my alarm not going off.

Anyone else experience this?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] derausgewanderte:
No, not yet
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wes213:
Instagram

I been running P since the drop and haven't had any odd hiccups that wasn't told to me beforehand until the updated the start of the week.

Instagram has started Force closing as soon as I launch it yet is still in the active apps list.

If I try to bring it up from the background it fails again?

I did the norm: reboot, clear cache, clear data, uninstall, reinstall, reboot again.

Anyone else?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] DROIDESP:
Same here, I dropped out of the beta program and the release version of Instagram is much more stable on p
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
The update today crashes it fyi, I might go back into the beta to see if they fixed it, since I did the same thing as you and dropped out before when it wasn't working.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wes213:
I can do without Instagram till they fix it for sure but I needed to make sure I wasn't alone. Lol

Other than this and some random gallery deletings in the beginning, I really like the feel of the P beta and have already found myself pecking at previous builds like I have totally forgotten how they work. Lol
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Toekneereyes:
Long time lurker. Installed android p beta 2 when first announced using fastboot method. I do not have any problems with Instagram but I running into issues with pairing my Samsung gear s3. My phones Bluetooth will connect to the watch but the galaxy gear app crashes during the setup process. Does anyone else have this issue?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wes213:
Try running asystem update and see if you can OTA update to bete 3, might help and it rolled out a few days ago.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] spotmark:
Only 2 P developer previews so far.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wes213:
Yeah having a rough morning over here lol.

Guess his best bet would be to sideload the OTA then, I don't use my Bluetooth much but what little I do has been hassle free despite it being listed as one of the known issues listed in the build notes.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] spotmark:
I'm pretty content with the current PDP. It's good enough to use as a daily driver, imo. BT is working fine for me, so I can't gripe about that. The only things I'm really missing are Substratum and the full screen option.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wes213:
FullScreen for sure but I don't use substratum so I can't speak to that.

I been content with it since the update fixed the pink notification bar when using dark mode, I tried to play it off but that was killing me. :laugh:
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
Is there any tangible benefit to installing this? I see that most people seem to be fine with the short list of lingering bugs... but other than being able to say that you are on the latest and greatest, is there any actual benefit?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wes213:
If you are not a developer or the kind of person who has to be on top of the android game......

No, no real benefits to it that I can think of for the daily users.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
Cool. I like playing with new stuff, but if I am gonna spend more time fiddling with it and trying to get stuff to work, without any real improvements, then I won't bother and just wait for the official release...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] spotmark:
As I mentioned, aside from a couple of missing features, it's running just fine as a daily driver. So why wouldn't I use it? And I didn't have to spend anymore time getting it set up than I would with an official build. I didn't install the first DP because it did have problems, but this version is just like a regular build. I do think it brings Android to another level over Oreo. I like the redesigned stuff. Yes, it's cosmetic, but I like it. I also like the fact that it's learning more about my usage and giving me options to do away with notifications that I don't care about.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wes213:
Yeah it runs fine, feels intuitive and smooth so I'm in the same boat as spotmark here, still no shining example of why you should install but no reason not to if you like being ahead of the learning curve.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
Thanks for the feedback. I will just wait and probably save myself some headaches and cursing. haha
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Smooth, great battery life, feels awesome..

No bugs for me so I'm not sure what others are referring to.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] burkett375:
purely anecdotal, but my work email stopped working (Stupid MobileIron), and my Samsung Gear Sport wouldn't connect anymore, so couldn't use it as a daily driver. Otherwise, awesome on a lot of levels!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
For the gear, unpaired it entirely then pair it as new. That fixed my car stereo and hasn't had any issues since.

Not sure about the email though, might be that the app isn't set up for Android P yet.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] anandlal:
I use Mobile Iron also. It is not compatible with the DP as yet?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] burkett375:
Yeah, I tried everything with the gear...uninstalled all the apps, reset the gear, etc. The gear app would crash when trying to connect to the watch.

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Not for me...would get stuck and say "can't get a secure connection". When I uninstalled and tried to reinstall, it would hang at the "getting configuration from ironmobile" screen
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] anandlal:
Well.. guess I won't be trying it then... Sucks though
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] feligoni:
God I miss subs on P. I hope Google allows custom overlays on final builds... Or subs guys figure out a workaround. Subs is too good to die.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Especially without having at least a real dark mode. Ugh lol
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] feligoni:
Yeah, and honestly the new QS are pretty ugly, at least for me. Oreo ones were classic at least. These ones are way to iOSish... Let's hope this is just for the DP's.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Toekneereyes:
I personally found android p beta 2 very usable as a daily driver. Coming from Oreo there have been quite a few improvements that gotten me to stay. First being a huge improvement in my devices performance. I was suffering from touch input problems, the adaptive screen brightness was trash, battery life was meh, network connection issues wifi and mobile (T-Mobile) overall the phone seemed lagging. All of these issues have been resolved. I also want to mention the incredible battery life I've been getting, especially standby time. Went to bed before midnight with 10% battery woke up at 7am with 4%. The gestures are a little hard to get use to but i found them to be very helpful.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Cryosx:
Maybe it's my phone but p feels pretty bad compared to aosip (have to open camera once on reboot to make it run perfectly smooth though)
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Bad in what sense? Kind of a vague description. Laggy?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Cryosx:
Yeah, not smooth. feels chuggy.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wes213:
Can't say it seems chuggy to me, other than Instagram issues everything seems smoother.

Hopefully it won't get weighed down during polishing for final release.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
I actually find it more smooth than Oreo honestly.

Could it be that you're not used to the slower animations?

You might have an app that's not playing nicely with Android P too.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wes213:
On the bright side 3 is on its way. Lol
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Cryosx:
When I installed it my user data wasn't wiped so that could've been it. Smoothness on p was like how I remembered stock Oreo, not sure what's up with my phone. Only time my phone is perfect is when I'm on aosip (maybe los) and I've opened the camera at least once.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] goalie25560:
Looks like the latest P update is live now.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] indian84:
Is the hotspot fixed?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] goalie25560:
Mines still installing but I'll try it once it finishes.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
They aren't screwing around, I'm very impressed honestly
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] indian84:
Thanks. Please let me know..
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] goalie25560:
Edit: After another reboot hotspot seems to be working again!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Has anyone noticed anything new? Just curious. Facebook Messenger and instagram both work now, other than that I haven't really noticed anything that stands out
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Fiesta14:
Hey guys may be a stupid question but is the new Beta 1 build for essential phone based on the latest developer preview 3/Beta 2 from Google?

There seem to be a few features still missing is all.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ceelos218:
Do i have to do tweak the update so it doesnt wipe my phone down or just fastboot flash it. i havent received OTA. coming from preview 2
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
You need to remove wipe userdata from the sh file or -w from the bat file if you're running either of those, or you could flash each one yourself individually. You could also download the OTA and sideloaded via ADB and stock recovery.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ceelos218:
thanks
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ilpolpi65:
yes ( but few features still missing)
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] celltech5333:
Mine works now... Used to act like it was coming on then the slider would turn off after a few seconds.

Adaptive Brightness scale does not seem so be so out of whack now?

Phone is still smooth and fast as hell...loving it!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] InfDaMarvel:
Does Nova Launcher Work? It appears that I am unable to use Recents and Multitasking with Nova Launcher.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] DROIDESP:
Nope, same issues as before
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] fossiltkm:
Question for anyone who has rooted with magisk. Have you been able to install any modules? I have been unsuccessful after this latest update for some reason.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] nstirton:
Nova user here too, this issue is stopping me from upgrading.

Is it down to the new P controls? If so, can these be changed to the old back/home/recent buttons?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] indian84:
Battery life is amazing so far.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Best I've ever had I think. I'm at 66% with 3 hours SOT

That's with Bluetooth all day yesterday as well.

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No issues here

Yep, long press on your homescreen and unselect "swipe up on NAV bar". It will go back to old style
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] BakedTator:
What are you guys doing...I have crap battery life...even wiped all data (sdcard included) and my battery life can't even compare to dp2
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Zaisesl:
That is amazing man! I use the phone as daily driver.. is very stable android P? I only need to know if i can receive, do calls and if there isnt a problem woth that i will try asap! Do you recommend it?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] indian84:
Yup. Very stable for me. Last beta was crap.

I haven't had any issues since yesterday morning.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Zaisesl:
Thabks! I will give a try
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] johnciaccio:
Are you on 022? Got 3 updates in a row. Now on 022 and have noticed a stronger signal in general. Better battery use and very stable. Actually P has been better then 8.1 in all aspects.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
That sucks man. No idea seriously I haven't changed my habits in any way.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wes213:
"SD card" included?

You're running an essential phone with an SD slot?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Internal SD...

Semantics here, I'm sure everyone knew what he meant
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wes213:
I don't assume to know everything about everything so I figured I would ask.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] kenbrownstone:
Did everyone here flash the new p beta or did u guys get a ota on their phone?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] johnciaccio:
Ota. Battery was bad after 2nd update. However it seemed like we just got 2 back to back and starting yesterday my battery is back to normal.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wes213:
I flashed the first beta and OTA for the last two.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] InfDaMarvel:
I definitely is not. I added a two finger gesture for the Recents Menu as a work around. I have yet to find a Launcher that current supports Android P. Maybe developers are having difficulty.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Remove gestures and it works fine
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] InfDaMarvel:
Are we talking about the same thing, recent apps? I turned off all the gestures and also attempted default settings. No luck for androind P style recent app gestures.

It works just not with a hidden nav bar and p gestures.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
What I'm saying is that if you turn off Android P gestures entirely, and use Oreo style NAV bar, you will not encounter those bugs. It sucks but is the only way currently.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] InfDaMarvel:
Okay thanks. It appears those settings we're removed in the latest beta.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
They're there for me.

Long press on homescreen and unselect swipe up on navbar
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] InfDaMarvel:
Okay I found it, thanks. Not perfect but still functional. It's only accessible through the pixel launcher, guess I missed that.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
You can get to it through settings/ gestures too I believe. Glad to hear it's working for you now though.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] harsh2193:
Quick question for all you guys who took the plunge into the cool waters of P Beta 2. I'm considering installing it, and know that I have to sideload the OTA. Just wanted to make sure that upgrading to the beta won't wipe my phone. Also, will I be able to revert back to stable 8.1 without wiping my phone if I use the Back to Stock images with the NoWipe batch file or are there any incompatibility issues that I need to consider?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] derausgewanderte:
I upgraded without wiping my phone using the ota. If you flash the entire image you wipe of course. If you want to go back to 8.1, you have to wipe as far as I'm aware. Do a backup either way to be safe.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] gregma:
I'm trying to figure out if all of my hard-resets are solely because of BigStorage. So far, every 6.1 BigStorage ROM I've tried has resulted in Hard Resets within 24 hours. The only 6.1 Non-BigStorage I've found has been running for 4 days with no Hard Resets.

Unfortunately that doesn't provide solid information since they have all been different cooks.

Does anyone know of a current 6.1 ROM that has both Big/Super Storage AND no Big/Super Storage versions? Or if none exists, would one of the cooks with a current 6.1 ROM like to produce one? That way it would be almost proof positive that the trouble lies in the BigStorage. My thoughts are that the new WM6.1 is trying to use the Extended Rom in some unknown way with either the SMS threading, or OTA syncing. This is causing the hard hang and forced Hard Reset.

If I can get an exact same ROM, one with BigStorage and one without BigStorage and it hard resets on one, and works perfectly on the other, we will know precisely where the trouble lies.

Any Cook willing to lend a hand? I'll do all the testing (it's what I do for a living.)

Thanks!

Greg
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] gregma:
Well, no interest in that idea.

Ok, then I can sure try this myself. Can anyone though point me to where I might find information on taking an existing 6.1 kitchen and *removing* bigstorage?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] pablo11:
Which rom did you find without big storage?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] stuff:
I got my phone march 18th, and I put Faria and Dr Putt.'s clean rom on it.

I do believe it's BIGstorage. I've got around 71MB total.

So far not a single problem.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] gregma:
But a problem with me, and others. Faria's won't last 24 hours before hard resetting for me. As I said, *EVERY* BigStorage 6.1 has hard reset for me. The only non-Bigstorage 6.1 so far is working on 8 days without a hard reset.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] gregma:
CRCs PHK v12 Release 9. Get your WM6.1 NON BETA!!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] vandread:
I read in some forum that hard reset with WM 6.1 is related with SD power management and that it can be disabled from the Advanced Configuration Tool.

Try it and tell us results.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] gregma:
SD Power Management is enabled for both the non-bigstorage 6.1 ROM that I have yet to have a hard-reset on, and also enabled on the 5 bigstorage 6.1 ROM's that I have a hard-reset within 24 hours.

So far, the only thing that has been different is no hard-resets on the non-bigstorage 6.1 and hard-resets on all the bigstorage 6.1.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] vandread:
Are you sure? same kernel build? same programs? same SD drivers?

I recomend you to try it.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] tjlabais:
Seems to me I'm not alone on this problem. I never thought BigStorage has something to do with freezes and hard resets...

Sorry to inform you though, that I have tried a none BigStorage 6.1ROM but it still freezes and hard resets... So, it must be something else...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] tjlabais:
I have also tried this solution, but still the same result...