yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] contesauce:
I read further in the thread and it seems to not work after oreo. I'm still going to give it a go later. Here's the thread https://xdaforums.com/essential-phone/themes/fix-apps-filling-screen-nova-included-t3670404 and at the end they reference this one which I haven't gotten to read yet.

https://xdaforums.com/essential-phone/themes/essential-phone-immersive-mode-t3723639

The original command in question was this one

adb shell settings put global ESSENTIAL_LAYOUT_WHITELIST "*"
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Whitelist was removed in Oreo. The overscan command still leaves the bar filled with colour, so only hides your icons. Even GMD immersive no longer allows you to use the full display. Not quite sure of any way around it, and believe me I have tried a ton :(
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] contesauce:
Thanks crix. The search continues.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] aer0zer0:
Nothing for P, they took away all the ghetto methods too. Waiting for Google's implementation.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] contesauce:
[IMG="Noooooooooo"]https://media.giphy.com/media/d10dMmzqCYqQ0/giphy.mp4[/IMG]

https://giphy.com/gifs/12XMGIWtrHBl5e/html5

edit: I can't get my dang pic to load right. Not sure if cuz government network (at work) or cuz I'm having a brain fart
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] rickymz:
got it as a gift, coming from 6p

Turned on the phone and got the Pie update, the phone runs very smoothly, not a single hiccup, no freeze, no crash, no slowdown.

after all the bad reviews, issues reported, I am presently surprised. If I knew it was so smooth, I would have paid 450 for it a while back.

I am not used to the notch, so installed Nacho Notch, it's got a couple issues, but better than a distracting notch, for now
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ins0mniac:
What about the camera & network quality (if you are on T-mobile??
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] jutley:
I to have the same experience not a glitch perfection.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] rickymz:
i am on t-mobile, haven't seen any network disconnect issues (I saw it somewhere that it was resolved before P), signal isn't strong near my house, but it works just as well as my 6p.

no issue with camera, no crash, fast startup, fast shutter speed, faster than 6p on shots i've taken, no complaint about image quality either, i love the handy black&white mode; portrait mode has impressive result also for a phone. i do wish there's video stabilization, at least there's a workaround using Photos "stabilize" feature.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] js0uth:
Sold my Pixel 2XL, bought it on prime day. Wanted stock Android, software updates and smaller form factor. I wanted a better looking Pixel 2, pretty much, and this was it. Along with the 20 dollar 360 camera, couldn't be happier. Great design, solid build. Notch isn't a problem at all don't even notice it. Of course it's not a pixel. But for around 300 bucks with the 360 cam, timely updates, I have no compalints. I love this thing.

I'm in so cal. Not experiencing any drop signal or calls. I'm still on Oero, I don't want to lose substratum. I love my dark theme and i can't stand all the white in stock Android. So I'm holding out for the unforseeable forture. I might wait and just experience P on the pixel 3. But essential ftw!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] techlogik:
Substratum beta 998 works fine on pie. Just need to root the phone. If you implement Nav UI features, don't activate it, my phone boot loops. But found a work around to get the QS to go blacks well with Sai theme. If it loops,, just flash the boot, kernel and Magisk again, eboot, it will load up normal. Enable the overlays and all will enable and work. Otherwise, substrate works normal.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] droidstyle:
I agree with others...absolutely no complaints with this phone. It was a absolute steal for 250.00.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] p51d007:
Got mine last week. Only "issue" isn't the phone, but Samsung with their gear plugin not working. There is a work around on the XDA S3 page, requiring you to uninstall all the gear software, and install 4 apps that a guy had to REWRITE to get it to work. It works like a champ, but I still use my Huawei Mate9. One tip, don't try to pair the Gear watch with 2 phones. It will delete & wipe the watch back to default.

Other than that, the phone was a STEAL at this price, and, in my opinion, SHOULD have been at this price point for a

"startup" no name vendor.

Other than tech types, no one knows who Andy Rubin is. 700 bucks for a no name phone? Insane. 200-300 bucks?

Perfect.

Like what you want, but that was the idea Oppo's OnePlus did.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] iKrautDroid:
How do you debloat using Magisk, I would love to learn about that.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] droidian5:
Best $250 I've spent in a long time! Love this phone.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] reggiexp:
i jumped on the deal. shipped to france 258€ :) 2 day shipping :)
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] darchrnep:
Should have mine by this weekend shipping to Trinidad and Tobago.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] spectralkinesis:
I got in on the latest Amazon deal. Mine should be here on Friday. Upgrading from a Nexus 5X.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] TT_Vert:
Is anyone getting the (remote: unknown command) error when trying to run fastboot flashing unlock? Googled it but not finding a ton really.

**UPDATE**

Apparently there was a second option in developer options I had to enable (Aside from USB debugging) that I had to check. Saw no mention of that.

Dave
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] SirDigitalKnight:
Only one more month to go and my Amazon Halo Gray PH1 will be arriving!!! Can not wait! (I live in Colombia and do not trust shipping it here so it sits and waits at a friends place in FL until he returns here and brings me my new phone). But on the bright side.. I have had a lot of time to read all the threads about the phone and which hole to put the sim eject tool in and which hole not to put it in..... or at least that is what she said... lol :-o
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Str0ntium:
For future reference, you can just drag and drop the file in question onto the cmd window after you've typed out the commands and it will insert the full path and file name for you.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] liteon163:
I jumped on the Amazon deal when the phone was $223.99. I received it yesterday and am enjoying configuring it. Once I learn the ins and outs of it, I'll probably use it as my daily driver over my LG V30. It's not that I dislike my V30, it's just that I find that phone to be a bit too big for my tastes.

I'm finding some irritating things about the Essential PH-1, like the notch is pretty big and I can't hide the navigation bar without hacking into the phone. I'm also having difficulty finding a widget that can accurately change screen brightness - the numbers in the widget are way off what the phone actually ends up on. 5% brightness gets me like 27% on the phone, 10% gets me 46%, and 25% gets me 76%. Weird. Does anyone have an idea how to sync these numbers?

Otherwise, I really like that the phone is smaller, thicker, and heavier than my V30.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Str0ntium:
It might have something to do with adaptive brightness maybe. Have you turned that off?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ins0mniac:
I got my $223.99 Essential Phone 2 days ago. At first I thought, I'll sell it for more money after playing with it for few days, but.... I'm IN LOVE with it :(. I've switched from Sony XZ1 compact. It was good phone, apart from an OKey camera (before Sony, I had a Pixel 2).

I'm not gonna complain about a $224 phone. But it baffles me how they released their first phone, a flagship device with that crappy camera app!!! WOW! I downloaded Google Camera Port. I use Rootless Pixel Launcher, I'm using v5.3 with swipe up on home gesture turned off, I like navigation buttons better than gestures. Also, Ad free Youtube Vanced is a must for me.

Up on starting the phone, I updated it to Android Mud Pie, I did a factory reset afterwards. The phone is super smooth now with about 120 apps installed. Portrait mode works perfectly on Google Camera Port. I still use stock camera sometimes just for those awesome black and white photos. I haven't faced any wifi issues. I use Mint Mobile (T-mobile MVNO). 4G/LTE signal is terrible. I live in Queens, NY and I get about 0-1 / 4! So, I'm using 3G in 2018 (crazy!!), still I want to keep this phone!!! Call quality VERY VERY good, earpiece sounds AMAZING! I strongly believe 4G/LTE signal situation can be fixed with software update. On my global XZ1 compact, I installed US firmware and I was able to get VoLTE working with full 4G/LTE signals with Mint Mobile. Wifi call works flawlessly.

I haven't noticed any touchscreen issues. I don't like the fingerprint reader, on halo grey model, it is glossy black. It is not consistent. Only about 25% times it reads fingerprint in one try. Also, swipe down on fingerprint to pull down notification shade is not consistent, it takes few tries. Battery life very good, I did not measure any numbers, but I can easily get full day battery. GPS is also good, not great, definitely reliable. The bottom facing speaker can get LOUD, but not fuller sounding.

TIPS:

***The phone is not water resistant. Be careful on installing those wet screen protector. I sprayed those solution GENEROUSLY and saw liquid on my display and in front camera for about 2 days! I think it entered in to the screen through the earpiece grill.

***DO NOT use the phone without screen protector. The glass gets scratched easily. So use it with factory installed screen protector before you buy yours.

***AND of course don't put the SIM EJ(R)ECTOR in wrong hole ;). [Such a horrible design!!! These people don't even deserve to be around in phone industry!!!]
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Natakranta:
What's this about? Cold you explain? Is mic next to sim card tray? People are puncturing mic trying to eject sim tray?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ins0mniac:
Exactly! Mic is right next to the SIM tray. It's really easy to poke the mic unless you are careful!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mervinb:
I've just received mine from Amazon. I missed the Prime Day sale, but it's still very reasonable.

After initial setup I checked for updates, received Android Pie. Things are working very smoothly - it's noticeably smoother than my Mi A1, smaller, better in almost all fronts, but should be at close to twice the price. The A/B partitions are familiar coming from the A1, so the move has be without issue. I'm even using the same Google camera port. Overall I've very pleased, and hope Essential stays in business for long enough for me to amortize the phone. It would be a pity if they left the scene.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NLBeev:
The Elemental X manager is able to flash boot.img, twrp11.img and anykernel2.zip's.

With EXmanager v3.6.3 I have created backup's of the Pie stock boot.img and EX-kernel and the patched boot.img after rooting with Magisk v16.7.

Added twrp-mata11.img to the this backup directory.

So flashing twrp and reflashing stock boot is possible without a PC.

My idea is to flash the Pie stock kernel when the next OTA arrives and see if the OTA will install.

---------- Post added at 11:48 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:37 AM ----------

Tried Ss-beta 998 and 999. Both did not compile my Swift themes that worked in Oreo.

Could not find P-updates of my Oreo themes, so I am curious what theme you are using?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] nielsscholte:
Do you know where I can find only the stock kernel?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NLBeev:
From a link in the guide to root PH-1

https://xdaforums.com/essential-phone/how-to/guide-rooting-essential-ph-1-magisk-t3701976

And stockboot.img is in the in the back-to-stock zips.

https://xdaforums.com/essential-phone/development/stock-7-1-1-nmj20d-t3701681
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] thelangosta:
That moment when you realize that unlocking the bootloader means you can't use Google Pay any more...:eek: Duh, I'm dumb sometimes.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] TT_Vert:
Why can't you? I am able to add a card in google pay w/o issue rooted w/ xposed. You used magisk right? Have you tried it? What error are you getting?

Dave
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NLBeev:
Tried beta 998 and 999. But no luck with my current Oreo themes. Have to wait for Pie updates.

Curious which themes you have installed.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] :
These work, along with the apks I sent...I just mirrored from telegram
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NLBeev:
Great. Sai is working now.

Many thanks.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] thelangosta:
I'm not even rooted. I just unlocked the bootloader. See attached screenshot
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] rignfool:
Need magisk or a custom kernel to hide unlocked status...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] thelangosta:
Sounds like tomorrow's project

Edit: or lock it back up which doesn't seem to be recommended
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NLBeev:
I switched kernels Stock, Stock+root and EX+root.

When booting there's always the message telling to lock the bootloader.

Probably Pie makes it easier for apps to detect the bootloader status than Oreo.

Because there are 2 bootloaders I wonder if it should help to switch to the opposite Slot; install the pay-app and than switch back to the previous slot. Assuming both slots are synced with exception of the kernels.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] :
That bootloader message is persistent and can't be removed unless the BL is locked
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] jmkarnai01:
You have 2 options only. 1: Magisk 2: lock bootloader. There is no switching slots to get it to work. Read, read and read more when unlocking bootloader and all that comes with it. Also it has nothing to do with essential or pie but Google.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NLBeev:
...can't stop reading [emoji41]
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] autosurgeon:
Nah he is just needs glasses it's very obvious if you actually look at it. Of course some people just can't use tools ...
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] TT_Vert:
I doubt that's the case. I've got more tools than I know what to do with (And have a decent idea how to us them) and I poked the damned mic. You don't really know how the eject mechanism is engineered so it could really be either one.

Dave
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ins0mniac:
I didn't know that you could add calendar and temp. widget on essential launcher!!

I'm really impressed with the SOT so far.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NLBeev:
A week now using PH-1. Also impressed.

Now learning about flashing to Slots.

Did trial and error flashing TWRP and managed to make backups to the sdcard.

In case I forget to disable the screen lock before flashing. I've saved copies of the stock- and EX-Kernel in data/media.

About Pie.

Can't understand why Google forces us to use white backgrounds with gray text. I've difficulties to read that also with large font settings.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ins0mniac:
I'm really impressed with "Black and White" mode in Essential Camera app

Grand Central Station at 11PM:
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ins0mniac:
I found a settings just for you.

In 'Settings' > 'Accessibility' > Scroll all the way down > Enable 'High contrast text'.

It doesn't look too good in dark mode (eg. messaging app).
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NLBeev:
It changes not only the contrast, but also some character types.

My test is the white screen of Wellbeing. It's now readable for me.

But I am happy with the dark themes of Sai.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] HACK3DANDR0ID:
FYI: Essential Direct is selling 3 colors while supplies last, comes with 360 Camera, HD Ear Buds, and a 360 Case ALL for $399....
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Dj64Mk7:
And a 15% student discount that brings the cost down to $339.15.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] subguy812:
How do you add calendar and temp widget?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] ins0mniac:
Add the widget, categorized under Google

[Tap & hold in any empty space in home screen > widget > scroll down to 'Google' > select 'At a glance']
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] trsix:
OnePlus not easier

**Flashing Roms etc is a pain in the ass on OnePlus 6 also. Brick central. Even restoring backups us a pain. I have one.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Slothello:
Another prime sale. Ordered today, will be here in a couple days. Been reading these threads for a few hours. Coming from the 5x, which the battery is dieing, and decided to get this phone instead of using the protection plan through Project Fi. For a hundred bucks more, and what seems to be, based on posts, a real flagship phone seemed like a no brainier. I really love the 5x, it has the pixel2pie rom on it right now, and the form factor is similar, now I'm reading and trying to get my old brain around dual slots and relearn ADB, as the Nexus Toolkit has softened my brain....
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] NLBeev:
You may find a lot here on XDA.

Below some links from outside I've bookmarked.

http://adbshell.com

https://mata.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/blob/master/docs/tips.md

https://twrp.me/essential/essentialph1.html
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Slothello:
So I guess I should of done some more research on using this phone on project fi. Cause it won't activate in the settings, I have not installed the project fi app, just the sim card ?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] rignfool:
It should work on the TMO bands... But switching to Sprint or us cellular probably won't work
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] rweddy1:
Thank you for the great post... I originally unlocked my boot loader and went back in to unlock_critical and I get the following message "FAILED <remote : Device already : unlocked!>
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
Developer Options/ OEM Unlocking checked?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] rweddy1:
Yes it is but grayed out .
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] CamoGeko:
How did you turn off auto updates?
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] chanh2018:
I used fotakill
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] TT_Vert:
Did you just install the apk or have to install in system or the like?

Dave
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] chanh2018:
This is not an apk (even it's name is fotakill.apk)

You need root, and copy it to /system/priv-app

Make sure change permission of fotakill to 644

Reboot your phone

That's it, you'll never see notification for OTA update anymore . :p
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] TT_Vert:
Ahh ok thanks. I'll do that and change its permissions to 644.

Dave
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] TT_Vert:
One more question what was the case of your fotakill.apk? The I downloaded is all caps and I have a feeling that isn't what the system will be looking for.

I've got it where it belongs and permissions correct so I'll wait to see if the update pops up again but wanted to see what your case was and also if there are different fotakill.apk files for different OSes or not as I Just googled around for the file.

Dave
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] chanh2018:
Give me your email, and I'll send it to you.

---------- Post added at 10:40 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:36 AM ----------

Actually, here's where I downloaded it......

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2249350
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] TT_Vert:
Thanks I think that is the one I downloaded.

Dave
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] CamoGeko:
Has anyone had this happen with their Halo Grey model?

It's slightly worrying.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oZSJ0pUoKc_pzli1_u4HYuAX61V1_9Sm/view?usp=drivesdk
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] chanh2018:
You mean "ghost touch" issue ?

If that happens, that's mean hardware issue, I had one like that and exchange the new one when still in returning window time with amazon.

Someone said for short term fix, just reboot the phone.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] rignfool:
Couple of questions...

1. Sweaty hands? Greasy kids hands?

2. Charging?

3. Was the device hot... Not warm... But HOT!
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] CamoGeko:
1. Nope

2. Nope

3. Nope

As far as I can tell from researching its a hardware issue, and Essential are aware of it.

I have contacted Essential and got a tech support case started. Hopefully I can get a replacement.

EDIT: I'm surprised they didin't completely eradicate this issue already, its been over half a year!

https://www.reddit.com/r/essential/comments/800c32/my_ph1_has_occasional_ghost_touch_issues_can_it/

EDIT (09-10-18): Well looks like Essential are well aware of it, and I've already got a replacement coming. Let's hope it doesn't have the same issue, or any other issues for that matter.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Bobbaloo:
If it's ghost touch and/or unresponsive screen, I got mine RMA'd and the new device is quite fine.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] CamoGeko:
Yeah it was the ghost touch issue, happening twice a day. What HW revision was your faulty device? Mine is 1.8

I hope that will be the case for me as well. Really like this phone and want to keep it for a while.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Bobbaloo:
Ya know, I don't know what version it was lol. The issue resets with screen off/on but wait till you call someone with it haha.... And yeah, I love this phone too. Especially with the price I got it at. All I need now are some DD ROMs
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] stupidis:
Awesome thank you - just bought phone from essential, need to support them, and groovy toys included. bought another white one for girlfriend / dev testing (ebay), and going to buy another and leave stock so when I go wheeling I can for sure use 360 camera. it has been 4 years since changing device - currently using Nexus 6 lineage 15.1 NO GSF!!!! for me (the girlfriend is still addicted) and afwall+ xposed. Slots had me feeling like a n00b there for a bit, bootloops, no touch etc, have started reflashing stock before trying a new rom.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] mruno:
I keep seeing this thread and wanted to post I missed this deal but got better deal later from Amazon Prime Now

Love this phone and that is coming from a OG Pixel. I never realized how much bezel that phone had until I used this one. I would have definitely got this phone sooner if I had realized how awesome it was.
[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] omegaorgun:
I got an open box gray as new with the plastic film still on it for $199 on eBay. It's been running flawlessly and the update was done to the latest Pie image.

I got the cheaper Incipio case and it fits well and makes throne more comfortable to hold.

I'm in two minds about flashing it with a custom ROM as it is pretty much pure AOSP.
[Asus ZenFone 3 Questions & Answers] mvini_ab:
Does anyone have the stock recovery Oreo for Asus Zenfone 3 ze520kl?

I need it to upgrade my rooted phone since I'm getting error "can't install this package on device version less than...".

I know I can download the .raw and extract it, but I don't have PC to do it. Using phone I couldn't find any app which allows me to extract.

Thanks for your attention