[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] KingBeefy:
Could you rephrase what your question is? I would like to help but can't figure out what you are explaining. I'm assuming you have unlocked the bootloader. I had some problems with this phone at first too. Most of the problems when compared to other phones is that Essential Phone has 2 partitions, like the Pixel. For simplicity, one is sort of the ACTIVE side and the other INACTIVE side. It has some learning. If you are just trying to get up and running try these steps...

1- Wipe data using fastboot command fastboot -w ---- locate the Stock ROM section in Essentials forum here on XDA and get the current STOCK build for your needs. Download it. And flash it in fastboot using the

flash-all.bat

file. Most will flash the files to both partitions, if it does not use the command in the next step to switch partitions and flash the other side too. This will set your phone back to stock and it should boot nicely. If you wish to root then proceed. BOOT INTO THE STOCK OS EVEN IF YOU ARE STILL GOING TO ROOT THE DEVICE. JUST BOOT UP, THEN REBOOT TO THE BOOTLOADER. DONT SIGN INTO YOUR GOOGLE AND

DO NOT SET LOCK OR PASSWORD OR FINGERPRINT YET

2- Follow step one and then reboot into fastboot and use command fastboot set_active other --------- this will do two things. It will switch your partition and also tell you which one it switched to.

There is an A side and a B side

FOR THIS EXAMPLE WE WILL PRETEND THAT

AFTER

YOU SWITCHED YOU ARE ON SIDE B

3- Stay in fastboot and flash twrp11mata using fastboot command fastboot flash boot

exactTWRPfilename

.img ------ this will boot you into TWRP on the B side

This next rule is very importantTWRP flashes a zip and a img file different. ZIP ROM FILES FLASH TO THE OPPOSITE PARTITION, IMG FILES flash to the partition that you are currently using. So, if you booted into TWRP on the "b" side and without switching flashed a new kernel or boot image it would install to the same "b" side you are on. If you did the same with a ROM it would install to the 'a" side. So, at some point you have to switch sides from within TWRP in the Reboot tab.

4- Copy your Roms/files to your phones internal memory and then flash using twrp. Flash the ROM not sideload. Flashing is for new roms, sideload is for updates to existing ROM. Back to our example, you booted into TWRP on side b, if you install new rom it will install on side A. Lets keep that idea going for the example. BE AWARE THAT IN THIS TYPE OF DEVICE, using our example where we flashed the rom to the A side (from TWRP on the B side), that side will not have TWRP. It will have stock recovery.

5- once the rom is flashed reboot system. (wipe cache / dont wipe cache.. I havent noticed a difference with either mindset) It will switch your partitions upon reboot if you don't do anything else in twrp.

So for our example this is what happened:

Wiped data from both partitions of the PH-1, side "a" and side "b"

Went BACK-TO-STOCK on BOTH sides

BOOTED INTO STOCK ROM ON THE SIDE WE WISH TO BE OUR ACTIVE SIDE***DID

NOT

SET UP GOOGLE OR PIN/FINGERPRINT/PASSCODE****

reboot into bootloader

Used Fastboot to switch partitions and installed TWRP to the INACTIVE side. Boot into twrp.

In TWRP, copied new files to phone storage the flashed new ROM Remember it will install it to the other side which is our ACTIVE side

reboot system.

If this helped at all and got you running great. Rooting is simple from here. This phone was the first device I ever rooted so I took my lumps so I hope I offered some tips that I didn't find or understand fully at first. Happy exploring. Ask away if I can help further.