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[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] cabanas1:
I took the jump in to the beta since yesterday no regrets everything running great no bugs detected only thing i still have to get used to the gestures on the launcher also the fact that there's no clear all in the recent apple menu
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
I sideloaded the OTA the other day, didn't wipe and its been running fine so far. No real bugs, yet.

One thing I noticed is that if you swipe up to open the drawer, and you launch an app, when you hit the home button to close the app, it puts you back at the opened drawer, and you have to hit the home button a second time to actually get to the home screen. That's a little weird...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Mine doesn't do this, just tested
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wes213:
Gave it a go myself, couldn't recreate the hiccup either.

Mine went straight to the home screen.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
Does it intermittently on mine. Not a deal breaker, just weird.

Here it is in action:

https://youtu.be/08W6EXvppwU
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wes213:
After doing it a few times I was able to get it to go but I'm with you, definitely not a deal breaker.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wolfhelm:
I just did this as well, definitely seems a touch smoother than Oreo. I use the Microsoft Launcher and for the most part it works well, however when I go and start closing apps in the background it takes me to the default Quickstep launcher instead of back to Microsoft until I hit the home button, then it takes me back. A little oddity but not a deal breaker.

Also, the gesture switching wouldnt work for me, it seemed to hang on the first app in the background, so I just turned it off.

Seems bluetooth is less stable in this than it was in Oreo, but it wasn't great in Oreo either.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_head:
You can flash and not wipe.

Get the image from the back to stock ROM area.

If you look at the scripts, you can remove the format and fast boot -w commands.

It's called a dirty flash.

I decided to flash P after looking at the data, it doesn't look any worse than the 8.1 betas that I ran.

So I'm backing up my phone now.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] enzo_cz:
Yeah seconding on this. The good thing's you can turn gestures off in Launcher settings to gain the classic navbar but I am in the process of getting used to the gestures tho.

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Yes, can confirm the same. Doesn't happen regularly but seldom. It really depends on how presice my thumb move is and there's just a tiny gap between managing easily or to get what ur saying. At least to me. So if I move my finger too fast that weird thing happens.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Ascertion:
Does this beta work well on Sprint? I need to be able to do profile/prl updates.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wes213:
I'm on Sprint and my onley real hiccup has been having to reset my voicemail number to get my messages.

Can't say I have had any other issues.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] EVOSerb:
I don't see that option in the settings. And my network comes up as Chameleon (whatever that means). The only time I saw an prl/profile update was after the factory reset. Otherwise, P seems stable without any major issues.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] dakoellis:
What is the actual procedure to get wifi working? I first tried the fastboot, but had no wifi. saw others were saying flash the OTA to get wifi, but I tried flashing the OTA via adb and still no wifi. I went back to AOSiP for a few days and tried it again with JUST the OTA, and still no wifi. I would love to try it but wifi is pretty important to have. Do you need to flash the fastboot one, set it up, then flash OTA inside of P beta, or is there something else to do? I'm on Sprint, if that matters.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Itzamistry:
Bluetooth

There's a beta 2 out for our essential? From my knowledge I believe there is only a beta 1. My battery life is also terrible on P beta 1, I'm not sure why. It drains when idle even with greenify. The main issue I have with the beta 1 is that I cant get my fossil smart watch to pair with my phone, bluetooth keeps crashing when I try to pair it. If anyone was able to successfully sync their phone to their watch, any info on the matter would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] sal237:
I also experience this problem. I did wipe clean both my essential and moto 360. After that pairing works perfectly.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mobileman88:
I found that removing greenify, servicely and Accubattery somehow increased my battery life significantly. P is supposed to just the same or use less battery than O. I have had many problems pairing my Huawei Watch 2 with my phones too where sometimes they lose their pairing even with the latest Wear OS. Not that it's a great solution, I switched to a Samsung Frontier S3 and all the connectivity problems disappeared.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NuttyToe:
Are you using your S3 with the essential on P beta? How did you get the gear app to stop crashing?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mobileman88:
It doesn't crash at all for me. I am using Samsung Health and Samsung Gear app
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SpotTech:
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Hi, restore to stock lastest O build reboot, After flash P beta
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
There was the first release then an OTA update. Not sure what they're calling it but yes there have been two releases.

For me battery life has been great, no wifi or Bluetooth issues either.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NuttyToe:
Hm. Mine crashes every time I'm trying to set it up. I looked it up and it's a common issue. Maybe you got lucky, I've tried everything except new apks somebody's made to try and fix it. Did you just set up everything normally after your update?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mobileman88:
Maybe I got lucky. Seems to be working fine here. Had to reduce its background battery usage or it was the highest battery use app in my phone. Other than that, everythings working fine.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] anandlal:
Just wanted to let you know that I installed P beta last week and MobileIron installed and is working for me with no issues.

I downloaded from full Image off Essential's website and installed that after doing a full wipe as I had to unlock and relock the BL.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] burkett375:
Yeah, everything has been working fine in the latest build.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] anandlal:
Anyone having issues with Brightness Optimization? If I have it on, it will never dim during low light situations. If I manually drop the brightness with the slider, after turning the screen off and back on, the slider goes back to what it was before. So now, at nights, I have to turn off Brightness Optimization and drop the brightness slider to the lowest.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] lazerus06:
Is there a way to enable the search bar below the dock? I remember seeing the search bar below the dock in preview videos.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] DROIDESP:
Beta 2 available today OTA
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] BakedTator:
Fastboot and ota available on the essential website
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ultramal:
New OTA today... With navigation bar changes :(
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] anandlal:
OK so... odd question... Essential said they released Beta 2 with July security updates but Google announced Beta 3 with July security updates and Google references Beta 2 in their release article. So, which do we have from Essential?

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/07/android-p-beta-3-is-now-available.html?m=1

This build is PPP4.180612.004

Whereas we received PPR1.180610
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] dakoellis:
Swipe up home screen is still borked in the newest with nova, right? not just me?

edit: turned the gesture off and on and now its working for me
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] stinger4321:
essential has their own beta naming scheme.. it's the same as Google's beta 3 but essential calls it beta 2..
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] derausgewanderte:
Could also be confusing due to this :

Developer Preview 4, also known as Android P Beta 3.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Masa. T:
Android P developer preview 1 (only Pixel)

Android P developer preview 2 = beta 1 (Essential Phone, Xperia XZ2, Nokia 7 plus, etc.)

Android P developer preview 3 = beta 2 (Essential Phone, Xperia XZ2, Nokia 7 plus, etc.)

Android P developer preview 4 = beta 3 (Essential Phone, Xperia XZ2, Nokia 7 plus, etc.)
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] MAru78:
Does anyone have idea when the beta is available via OTA without sideloading first?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NaterTots:
That would be when Android P is out of beta and will probably be around Oct when the new pixels are released.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] maruchan78:
You may be right. From memory though Essential released a standalone OTA beta for Android O before final release..
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] InfDaMarvel:
Beta 2 gestures seem to work with nova launcher although the back button is always displayed. In other words the pill works.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] R2D2_SW:
Seems like Essential has not updated their list of known issues from the last preview so I must ask those of you who have installed this latest Beta 2 (based on Essential's naming convention). Can you confirm whether casting is now working? Under Essential's Beta 1, Essential had listed " Inability to Cast" as an issue as of June 6.

Thanks!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] DROIDESP:
Casting works for me, but I never had a problem even on the previous build.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
Anyone else that had Beta 1 installed, find that the OTA wasn't coming through, and had to download it and sideload it to get the Beta 2 on there?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] R2D2_SW:
Cool! Thanks!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Joylesstuna:
As still have not received the ota I'm thinking I might have to sideload it.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] djinc91:
Hello everyone, long time lurker first time poster. On the most recent P update is anyone having issues selecting multiple files within the stock file browser? Even after reboot the application crashes for me each time, doesn't matter which files I attempt to multi-select either. I performed a clean flash of DP3/B1 then sideloaded DP4/B2, I cannot say whether I experienced this issue on DP3 or not.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Rahat34:
The Files application crashed whenever i deleted anything. Anyway Mixplorer did the job.

Having any issue in multitasking window? Seems the navbar scrolling in multitask window is inverted. Scrolling left goes in right direction and viceversa. Previous implementation was better I guess.

Some icons filled in while others outline approach. Thought they would polish this release.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] djinc91:
Scrolling is fine for me and all my icons are full. I had alot of bordered icons in the previous release.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] leandrohvlucas:
Hi guys

for the people who is already using the latest P

I have problem with sync Bluetooth on my Car, the music info did not show at the car dashboard on Beta #1

Can anyone confirm that it's has solved on Beta #2?

Thanks
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] DROIDESP:
No but I can confirm Bluetooth still sucks... BT audio cuts out on both Creative DACs I have, my boss headphones and my truck.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Does not cut out on my headphones or my car, if anything range seems improved for me.

Try changing BLUETOOTH AVRCP version under developer options to 1.6 instead of 1.4 to see if that helps.

Check the other settings in there as well.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] DROIDESP:
It's already 1.6 also my devices yse a variety of codecs including aptx. I find it interesting that it cuts out on all of them regardless. No range issues at all though. It's more using the device that causes it, maybe thread priority issue.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Ahhh that could be it. It's on my desk at work while I'm using it, or on my dash.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] drocny87:
does anyone have the boot.img for the latest beta 2 release?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] anandlal:
For me, turning off WiFi fixed the cutting out problem when driving.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] DROIDESP:
Interesting. I'll try that
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] harsh2193:
Yeah, Essential Beta 1 is actually Android P beta 2 (since essential skipped over the first one). I just updated to the latest P beta and my battery life has considerably improved. Used to get no more than 3 hours screen on time earlier.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
Same here. My helmet has a Sena 20S bluetooth comm system and it's horrible now. I can't issue voice commands through the headset, and the music since the Beta 2, just cuts out randomly and I have to keep restarting it.

It's actually gotten much worse since this update. I am always amazed with BT issues. This is what I would consider "core" functionality. Like texting, or making a phone call. It's critical to the main usage of the phone, and it always amazes me when phone makers can't get the basics to work properly...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
So weird that I'm not having any Bluetooth issues. Did you guys flash the OTA or fastboot files? Try downloading the fastboot zip and flashing the Bluetooth file by itself. I know I had issues with the OTA not updating the modem or the bootloader so I flashed them myself and now just flash fastboot when there's an update.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
I did OTA. Which files and how to install them? I am stock, not rooted, stock recovery, etc... Haven't played with ROMs in years and my skills are a bit rusty
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] DROIDESP:
I'll try to flash bt this afternoon, good idea.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] drocny87:
I came from a custom rom and flashed back to stock with fastboot using the files provided from essential then flashed P in fastboot as well...No Bluetooth issues for me.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
How does one flash just the BT file on a stock, unrooted device?

Is it just fastboot flash [name of bt file]?

I think I have to unlock my bootloader to use fastboot, which will wipe my phone. Not gonna do that. Damn...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Ah sorry guys, forgot about the unlocked bootloader thing. Yeah it wasn't updating everything for me so I had to do it that way for certain things to update. Not really sure why.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
How do you check the version of the BT installed? That will tell me if I even have to force flash it or not, right?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
I'm not sure where you can find that info. I had a look for you but can't find it
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
No worries... I don't know that I want to wipe my phone... I don't see myself keeping this phone that much longer... I will see how long I can keep it running satisfactorily and then get a new Pixel or iPhone in a few months most likely...

Although I can probably unlock the bootloader and return it to stock and not worry about the Android P beta... to be honest, between the bugs and there being very little difference between it and Oreo, there isn't much benefit to running it anyway... It largely looks the same, so other than the gestures, which I don't even like, and a couple tweaks to the menus, the new version isn't much of an upgrade anyway...

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Of course I can't get fastboot to recognize the device so I can't go back to stock... ADB sees it, but when it's in fastboot, nothing. Can't unlock the bootloader, so can't go back to stock...

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I have tried everything, got the latest versions of everything, installed the latest google drivers, etc... My PC simply will not recognize the phone in fastboot mode, only via ADB with the phone booted up.

I went into device manager with it in fastboot mode and updated the driver and stuff just like all the tutorials say, but the pc will not see the phone unless it's booted up, so I guess I am stuck on the beta...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
You need to install the fastboot drivers, that might be the issue
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mobileman88:
Looks like most of the issues with the previous beta has been resolved. Great release
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Rahat34:
Nobody has inverted scrolling in multitasking windows?

When I move the pill right apps swtch to left side. Latest p beta.

Any solution? , really don't want to wipe data.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
I was finally able to get it to work and rolled back to stock 8.1
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
My recent apps are all on the left now and start from the right. I'm pretty sure that's how it is on the pixel as well.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Rahat34:
Yep its same as pixel. But the sliding bar in multiwindow screen. The sliding mechanism seems to be inverted. I'm pretty sure it wasnt like this before. After one reboot got inverted :p . Dunno what happened.

I feel even wifi takes longer to connect. DP3 was quite stable for me. Cant say the same about Dp4.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Ah sorry totally misunderstood! I don't use the stock navbar so I only tried it for a second. I use xdas gestures app.

Wifi is problematic for me as well actually, I do seem to get a lot of disconnects lately
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
I went back to stock 8.1 and honestly, I can't tell the difference other than things work better and there are less bugs.

I am reading how Android P is supposed to be a "Major Milestone", but to be honest, I just wasn't seeing it with the beta versions... Other than a few minor tweaks, not much seems different. Speed seems the same, battery life is the same...

If you want the Android P experience but don't want the bugs and glitches, just install the rootless Pixel launcher and call it a day. haha
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
I definitely do notice differences in things like standby battery drain and overall fluidity, but the gestures feel half baked like a reason to keep up with Apple or something. I have them set up with an app so I actually gain the extra space and still keep gestures. Meh...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Itzamistry:
Hello everyone, so after long consideration and messing around with android p i decided to go back to oreo since it had too many problems for me. I followed the exact instructions on the essential website on how to downgrade using fastboot and when i ran the flashall.bat it said "sending nvdef_a" and it was just hanging. i exited after waiting 20 minutes and clicked start and it wouldn't boot or anything. I came back to it about an hour later and I was able to get into fastboot mode. If someone could pls instruct me or link me what steps i should take next to just install stock oreo back on my device. I would appreciate it greatly! Thanks.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mobileman88:
Which release of p are you using? The latest is working quite well I understand. Anyways for downgrading, just get unlocked and flash the BTS.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Itzamistry:
I was using DP3 but i tried to go back to oreo by using flashall.bat, I am able to use fastboot and it can recognize the device but i tried BTS. It fails on everything. I tried to update to the newest android p (DP4) with the flashall.bat and it just hangs as well. Any other ideas. I am not super scared as i can access fastboot but i am unable to load an os.

I keep getting this...

wiping userdata...

Erase successful, but not automatically formatting.

Can't determine partition type.

FAILED (command write failed (No error))

erasing 'userdata'...

FAILED (command write failed (No error))

finished. total time: 0.003s

E:\platform-tools\OPM1.180104.267_BACK_TO_STOCK_IMAGES>fastboot flash abl_a abl

target didn't report max-download-size

sending 'abl_a' (780 KB)...

FAILED (command write failed (No error))

finished. total time: 0.001s

E:\platform-tools\OPM1.180104.267_BACK_TO_STOCK_IMAGES>fastboot flash abl_b abl

target didn't report max-download-size

sending 'abl_b' (780 KB)...

FAILED (command write failed (No error))

finished. total time: 0.001s

E:\platform-tools\OPM1.180104.267_BACK_TO_STOCK_IMAGES>fastboot flash bluetooth_a bluetooth

target didn't report max-download-size

sending 'bluetooth_a' (396 KB)...

FAILED (command write failed (No error))

finished. total time: 0.002s

E:\platform-tools\OPM1.180104.267_BACK_TO_STOCK_IMAGES>fastboot flash bluetooth_b bluetooth

target didn't report max-download-size

sending 'bluetooth_b' (396 KB)...

FAILED (command write failed (No error))

finished. total time: 0.003s

E:\platform-tools\OPM1.180104.267_BACK_TO_STOCK_IMAGES>fastboot flash boot_a boot

target didn't report max-download-size

sending 'boot_a' (20053 KB)...

FAILED (command write failed (No error))

finished. total time: 0.003s

E:\platform-tools\OPM1.180104.267_BACK_TO_STOCK_IMAGES>fastboot flash boot_b boot

target didn't report max-download-size

sending 'boot_b' (20053 KB)...

FAILED (command write failed (No error))

finished. total time: 0.003s

E:\platform-tools\OPM1.180104.267_BACK_TO_STOCK_IMAGES>fastboot flash cmnlib_a cmnlib.mbn

target didn't report max-download-size

sending 'cmnlib_a' (217 KB)...

FAILED (command write failed (No error))

finished. total time: 0.003s
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mobileman88:
You might not have unlocked and unlocked critical. Please follow the steps in the OP of the BTS thread. You should be fine.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] aer0zer0:
You may not be using the best adb/fastboot.

If you have essentials windows driver installed, it installs adb/fastboot in c:/program files x86/essential/adb then adds a environmental variable. Uninstall all versions of adb/fastboot, then make sure your using essentials adb/fastboot. Should work then.

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You may also like mobileman said not have bootloader or critical unlocked as well.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] feligoni:
Don't use essentials cable. Buy yourself a data USB to USB type C cable to flash things through adb. It happened to me also and that fixed everything.

Essentials cable is only for charging according to them.