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[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Itzamistry:
I am aware of that I use a sync cable not sure if thats the same as a data cable

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I have bootloader unlocked but never remember unlocking critical. when i try it says that I already have it unlocked

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I have tried using the adb in essential folder and this is what happens.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Essential\ADB>fastboot -w

wiping userdata...

Erase successful, but not automatically formatting.

Can't determine partition type.

FAILED (remote: unknown command)

erasing 'userdata'...

FAILED (remote: Check device console.)

finished. total time: 0.003s

C:\Program Files (x86)\Essential\ADB>fastboot flash abl_a abl

target didn't report max-download-size

sending 'abl_a' (780 KB)...

It just hangs at this sending abl_a
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] aer0zer0:
Itza definitely a mystry.....

Not sure what going on with it, im not sure I like the "not automatically formatting" response

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I might suggest this.

Flash twrp

Go into twrp

Download the p beta 2 ota from essential website

Copy that to phone

Flash the ota zip in twrp

Boot it into bootloader

Go into stock recovery

Wipe data from stock.

Ymmv, but it should work
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Itzamistry:
Funny thing, I was just able to fix it. All I did was power the phone off. Then power it on and it booted to my original beta 1 os. This is very odd and I feel stupid now because my phone wouldn't boot for like an hour last night trying everything. I was finally able to get it into fastboot and didn't want to turn it off in case I couldn't get back into fastboot. After saying **** it and giving it a try it worked. I would still love to upgrade to beta 2 but am now nervous on the whole process. Will these steps work for upgrading to p beta 2? If not what steps should I take. Thank you all for the help. Very much appreciated.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mobileman88:
High possibility it should work unless you have some sort of physical issue
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wes213:
Just now getting this.

Seems a bit behind.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_head:
Behind what?

That is the latest build available.

Essential Beta 2 is Google Beta 3
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wes213:
Since it dropped on the seventh, I thought the ninth was a bit slow for the update to hit.

Is what it is I guess .
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] aer0zer0:
it came out last week. your phone picked it up slow, lol
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] autosurgeon:
Yeah it dropped mere hours after google dropped it for the pixel.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] kenbrownstone:
I still haven't received the new P beta. Starting to get irritated.My laptop is broke and I'm not smart enough to flash ota on my Chromebook with adb.Got adb on it but no command works..
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Ryuk359:
Is essential backup any good? I wanna run this but I'd have to unlock my bootloader which requires a wipe. I'm very settled in my ways app wise. Just wondering if it's worth it.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mobileman88:
I would copy out my important files first and make backup of. Important data like WhatsApp etc
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] DROIDESP:
Getting irritated that a beta is not working / updating automatically? It's beta, it's not supposed to work. Any luck getting adb to work on the Chromebook? That actually sounds fun.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] bricky23:
What do you think about the latest version? Good enough for everyday? Or not yet?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Been running it since day one. No issues here
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_head:
It's my daily driver since release.

My current uptime is 2 days.

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Running fine since day one.

Current uptime is 2 days.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] TheBurgh:
Bluetooth problems for me on the latest. Prior beta was smoother.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mobileman88:
This works well for me. Can link to the car bt and bt headset at the same time. Did you do a BTS with wipe?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] TheBurgh:
I took the OTA. I might flash the BTS to see if that is any better.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
OTA missed flashing the modem and stuff for me last time so it may not be updated your bluetooth. I would flash the files yourself using fastboot.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] TheBurgh:
What are the wifi files named? I will extract and flash once I know that. Thanks

Edit: meant the Bluetooth file names
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Fastboot flash Bluetooth Bluetooth.img
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Guy below you is correct. I would flash the modem as well.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mobileman88:
Anyone here noticed location takes a really long time to get a fix? Previously it was almost instant. Now it takes 5 to 10 mins. I upgraded from 8.1 July update without wipe
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] :
It is worth mentioning that after bricking my setup and redoing it, I had no wifi or Bluetooth, so I manually flashed all the images from July P update, then substratum wouldn't work, it had previously worked but I was only ever flashing ota Zips via sideload. With just flashing the images zip, subs failed to work at all. So I dirty flashed the July P update and then my subs worked again..just a heads up.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Joylesstuna:
Anyone know how to fix the random lag spikes in any internet browser?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Nothing like that happened to me, and I only ever flash the img files
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] InfDaMarvel:
Close tabs?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] aer0zer0:
im getting confused as to how there are so many wide varieties of problems going on with a simple flash of images. its crazy right?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] BakedTator:
It is kind of crazy...I flashed my ph-1 and my wife's and she gets amazing battery life while I get crap battery life...we have almost the same apps and setup but she can get close to 10 hours of sot while my phone is wakelock central!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
I would say 99% of it is down to the user, though I could be wrong.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] oceansoul:
does android auto work?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SpotTech:
Yes it work well
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Joylesstuna:
Does anyone else get random spikes on of horrible screen jittering? It doesn't happen all the time but a few times a day. Happens on all the P beta releases.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] :
I found the fix, it works... Someone made a magisk module out of it too
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wes213:
Anyone else have a issue with voicemail number reverting back to *86 after reboot?

I'm on Sprint with latest P build and every time I restart I need to go in the settings and change *86 to my phone number, not a big deal but a bit aggravating when I'm in a rush.

For anyone curious the message I get when *86 is put in is "The feature code you have entered is not valid".
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] jamebarron88:
Same thing has been happening to me for months now on Sprint. Also my network always says chameleon even if I manually select Sprint. I've had lots of data issues with this phone on Sprint. I'm thinking it's related to the sim card. I think it's mostly compatible but not 100%
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wes213:
I had the chameleon on mine till yesterday when I had an update, the voicemail has been the only other issue I have had to deal with
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] jamebarron88:
I've noticed, at least on my device, I can again select APNs.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Anyone else having a lot of lag now, especially in the app switcher/carousel? It was super smooth before and now it's very choppy. Trying to ensure it isn't anything I've done before I try a factory reset.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
It's Beta, it's got bugs. To be honest, I gave up on it, as it had no tangible benefit to Android P other than bragging rights, I guess? There were no real, measurable improvements, didn't look much different. Just bugs. I would recommend just reverting to stock till the release is official. I am tired of being other people's guinea pig. haha
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
It was really smooth for me up until now. My pixel should be here in another day or so anyway so I guess it doesn't matter much.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
That's usually the case, and then something breaks. LOL

But to be fair, it was "really smooth" on stock 8.1, right?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Nope on p. Smoother than ever tbh.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
I have never seen the Essential not be smooth on any official release...

Every year Google hypes up the new version of Android, and every year its a very minimal change. Couple new icons, maybe some menu tweaks... Meh...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] :
I think P is the smoothest. At least until this last update. I have my stock launcher crash randomly and my 360 cam was all pixelated yesterday. I think they improved the google play download issue problem, but caused some more instability in the process. I may just roll back to the first update of the month if i can't help it any longer. Never had any issues and i clean install every time. Im running stock P but with the new despair factor Rey kernel. And no the issues were present with stock kernel. Official P release isnt far off at this point.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] autosurgeon:
No mine is smooth as silk.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Mine was for sure. I'm going to have to try a reset I think, which sucks but it is necessary I guess.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] aer0zer0:
Despair factor put out a kernel, try that
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Turns out it was either nova launcher or the xda gestures app. Once I removed those it is back to butter. I'm pretty sure it was nova honestly, which sucks.

I am trying that kernel though and so far so good. I found one called f1xy that I was trying earlier as well. I'll give this one a few days first.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] spotmark:
Running Nova here with no ill effects.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] autosurgeon:
Remember guys this is incomplete in many ways. Also many apps have not released all their stability fixes for 9 so issues with apps are to be expected.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
See I think it's the combination of them, since the animations technically change due to both. Sucks since it was really awesome together and I can't stand the stock NAV bar, but it is what it is I guess.

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It's pretty freaking close to final, but I agree that apps aren't optimized and to be honest probably won't for quite some time. If I could make the NAV bar transparent somehow I'd be fine leaving it as is. Anyone have any ideas? ?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] autosurgeon:
Essential will have their own optimising to do once google drops their final version. As well as was discussed all the app devs.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] albertordzcz:
Hi, did you reset the ph1? If so, that Solve the issue?

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hi, did you factory reset? that solves the laggy issue? mine was lighting fast and stable before this update, and now it super laggy, cant play csr2 fluid :crying::crying::crying:
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
I cleared cache in everything and went back to quickstep launcher. I think it has to do with animations while you're using a custom launcher or navbar honestly. The lag seems like it builds up over time
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] garywojdan81:
Memory leak?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Yeah it's the XDA gestures app unfortunately, I really like it too. I found another one that accomplishes the same goal though so I'm happy again ?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Locura18:
Just got an official Android 9 (Pie). Not a beta version. I'm still on Oreo. Did they just released it even before Google did for Pixel devices?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] bricky23:
At the same time. The official android 9 Pie has been released for the pixels also.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Locura18:
I'm impressed. After a rocky start that have been great with software updates.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] wes213:
Just an update, the new Pie release fixed the voicemail issue for me.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] manr1mg:
Just flashed Digital Well-being on my device, beta version. Time to start testing. ?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] manr1mg:
Screenshots of app timer in action
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Joylesstuna:
Thanks for letting us know!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Luxferro:
I thought P was supposed to natively support notches? I guess maybe it's not functioning yet.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Yeah the settings under developer options are not there from what I can see
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] eqbirvin:
Yeah that's why I was looking. Rooting went perfect. Install Android p > boot and get set up > install TWRP > install stock boot.img in TWRP > install magisk while in TWRP > reboot > remove penis from ceiling fan > rejoice
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Thank you! That's what I wanted to hear haha

Life without adblock is horrible
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] eqbirvin:
Yes it is! Happy rooting!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
The half swipe up on the home screen seems to be difficult for me to master smoothly. It is such a short swipe before the app drawer comes up. I find it awkward.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] kakabobo:
android p will be the last support update on essential phone ?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Where are you getting this?

I highly doubt it honestly, they seem really committed to software support. I'm actually very impressed.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] cgprats:
I remember reading that there's 2 years of promised Android updates (So, it is getting Android Q) and 3 years of security updates (so the phone will be EOL H2 2020)
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Fiesta14:
Has anyone got the new android P pixel launcher on their essential phone? The new one launcher with app actions and rotation button?

I have installed android P developer preview but just need the launcher now
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
I tried a modified one but you lose gestures
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Fiesta14:
Yeah I've tried a few but you either lose gestures or they just crash, hopefully it won't take too long to get one working
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] BakedTator:
I'm having trouble getting root following these instructions...can you post a rooted boot.img?

Magisk won't even let me patch the stock boot.img...fails everytime
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] sonic0504:
Do you really have to reset to go back, or is that the case only if you re-lock your bootloader and flashing?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Joylesstuna:
You always have to wipe on downgrading software.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Dr.Now:
This is a Preview of Developer Version, not a Beta.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Archangel:
Does anyone know if this Beta P is still blocking Substratum overlays? I know the previous one did.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] nerg:
Yes it is. The substratum makers have submitted an issue to Google.

No solution currently in sight.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Archangel:
Thanks brother,,,heres hoping they will add it back in but,, for some reason I doubt it.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] bogdi1988:
WiFi tethering is broken so far.

Adaptive battery feature is missing.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] fossiltkm:
The same thing with me. I can do the standard flash boot.img then flash magisk.zip, but after reboot, no root. Magisk manager also fails to patch boot.img.

Edit...Got root up and running by flashing magisk 16.4 Beta.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] sonic0504:
What's the best way to backup my data?

I'm rooted with Magisk V16.0.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1iayS6YHYZvqkD1Y8oYV3ewzW5aAPe8C2
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ankitmishra0411:
anyone facing issue with blackberry works(email app for office).
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Joylesstuna:
SMS backup and restore for texts

Google for contacts

All my pictures and music is on my PC.

If you are constantly flashing new ROMs your not going to be able to backup everything and should just get used to it.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] stryver:
If I'm not mistaken, you can do a nandroid backup with twrp 11 for mata you would just need to reflash stock boot image after flashing a restore or even before the backup. The problem with a straight up backup is that twrp won't let you boot into OS until you overwrite it with a stock and/or patched boot.img
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] brepeti:
hi, there's someone who's been succesfully rooted?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
Use Google Photo's to back up all your pics and videos, and Google automatically backs up your contacts and apps... For the rest, plug your phone in to your PC and copy over all your physical files, music, etc... Backup is easy. I would rather have to set up and copy my stuff back than restore an app from a previous install... to me it just seems like it would be more reliable to install the stuff and not risk any issues or old settings or whatever, getting in the way of the new OS
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] sonic0504:
I find this app called FolderSync that will let sync all of your folders on your phone to the cloud, so all my downloads, music, etc, can be backed up daily. So I just have to backup my apps and system data with Titanium Backup and transfer my pics and videos to my PC.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
Sounds like a cool option... I guess I just don't have that much on my phone. I install maybe 20-25 apps... my contacts and photos are automatically backed up to Google, and so all I have to do is back up the 500 or so songs and movies to a folder on my desktop.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] anandlal:
I'm going to wait for DP4 before flashing.

https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/03/07/android-p-developer-preview-timeline-5-releases-final-version-scheduled-q3/
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] sal237:
android p - wear os

found a problem, can't copy google account to wear os when using android p (moto 360 updated wear os). anyone?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Zzz73:
I'm running P with a Kors Bradshaw on Wear OS without any problems. However, my watch was set up before I ran the OTA update. So it continued to work. Not sure how it would go if I wiped and tried to start fresh.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] TheZadok42:
Has anyone found a launcher that works with the preview?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] TheBurgh:
Is there anyone using this that has phone calls working with Verizon service?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] newbytime7:
Yes, but you have to switch network mode to cdma/3g.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Wolfhawke:
The only things I've seen and have a beef with are unless you're using the default launcher, using the nav buttons are fairly useless (I've read there's a way to get the standard 3 button nav buttons, but not tried it), other than that, no problems with bluetooth, no wi-fi problems and everything is relatively smooth. Not tried rooting (but then again this is the first phone I've not rooted out of aggravation) yet, and probably won't as some of my apps don't take kindly to being in a root environment.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] JCBomb:
There's not gonna be any until Google finalizes the API for app switcher.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] manr1mg:
Android P Dashboard

I been using Android P for a few days and I can't find the Dashboard/app timer. Any help?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] demoliner:
No yet implemented in this DP2 version. Maybe on the next
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ThaqAtaq313:
Currently I can only call out and not receive any incoming calls :confused:
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] jomansch:
take a look here...there are some more comments on the issue...good luck

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=76509201&postcount=55
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] aago1254:
Anyone know when the next beta will be out for Android p. I had it but too many problems like lost volte and notch support. Once those are fixed I believe it would be a good daily driver.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
Never.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
I really hope this isn't the case :(
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
Not to be Debbie Downer, but with the company going up on the auction block, I don't see why they would continue to develop for a phone that has no future. They cancelled the PH-2 and I would assume they will be busy restructuring the company, consolidating to make margins and things look better for a sale, focusing on things to help the sale...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Hopefully devs here will be able to carry the flag with Android P. A OnePlus 6 is looking more and more probable for me.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] tech_head:
Until it's official from Andy/Essential this is a rumor.

From Andy:

"We always have multiple products in development at the same time and we embrace canceling some in favor of the ones we think will be bigger hits. We are putting all of our efforts towards our future, game-changing products, which include mobile and home products."
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SquireSCA:
Perhaps, but this article makes great points.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3276605/android/essential-phone-fail-android.html
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] bmg1001:
There is a new P beta rolling out now.

https://twitter.com/essential/status/1000079691443716096

Includes fixes for: Cellular Connectivity, Dark Mode, and Bluetooth Fixes.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] jamebarron88:
Oh yeah, halting all support
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] jamebarron88:
Damn you
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
94mb!!

I'm downloading it now, smallest update I've ever received I think.

This is awesome though, thank you for the heads up.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] bmg1001:
Does anyone have a link to the OTA by any chance?