yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] xe500linux:
Dont know about the "error opening" stuff, but for tarfork 255:

-Go back to TWRP and try to back up (have it fail again)

-Before leaving TWRP, go into Advanced->Copy Log

-Reboot to system and find the recovery.log in User folder, open & scroll to bottom to find the last file that it failed on. For me it was /something/com.termux, because I had an ubuntu distro installed within Termux. Delete whatever app is causing the failure, then manually clear out the files (use SD Maid for ease), then try to back up again.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] idnoidno:
I recently bought a mobile phone from Amazon. I also had a touch problem when I installed TWRP RECOVERY. However, according to the method on the post, I still didn't install it successfully. I would like to ask, is it possible that the TWRP team will try to update the version and correct the touch problem once and for all?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] deadcatsrule:
Can someone look at this log it is only from booting to recovery my phone is a ph1(mata) with the most current AICP
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] john_jacob:
Hi KuranKuname,

Could you post a link to the new twrp that you have built? Thanks!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] your naked mom:
Any hope whatsoever of getting an updated 3.3.0 build?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] KuranKaname:
About that, forgot to announce here. I got 3.3.0 fully working almost bugless (touch and decryption working, also installing, only minimal things that don't affect functionality), but I chose to not release it. Why? It's just bad. It's way worse than 3.2.3, it only overcomplicated everything
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] nofx161:
Hi guys , I have a problem, got the phone yesterday, was on pie, I unlocked it and flashed twrp as stated in the guide , but 1 in this case b has no touch in twrp , tried reverting back to latest stock and flash twrp , same ... And secondly the screen in twrp is cut off , is that normal?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] RandomPooka:
Both are normal. There's a telegram group. "Essential Development", I believe, that has a running list of patches and fixes for stuff like this.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Thebear j koss:
What twrp zip are you using Fat Mike?

Sent from my PH-1 using Thebear Blue XDA Labs
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Ashyford:
Deleted.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] shownuff00:
new user question.

Hello Shownuff00 here I was wondering if there is a way that you can do a Backup before rooting?

if so could you point me in the right direction?

if not no biggie.

Thanks in advance,
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Legitsu:
to get touch run these commands

adb shell

twrp sideload

adb sideload twrp-installer-3.2.3-0-mata.zip

then reboot
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Legitsu:
[MENTION=912474]Dees_Troy[/MENTION]

can we get a update for the june pie builds

current builds have no touch on the latest ota before running the installer

and once you install the screen is off-center and so is the touch
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Thebear j koss:
Need to adb flash the installer. Personally all I do is flash update in twrp, then flash twrp installer, reboot recovery and flash Magisk. Never lost touch screen once. Don't take the OTA update, just flash the zip in twrp

Sent from my PH-1 using Thebear Blue XDA Labs
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Legitsu:
I know, but that still leaves the screen being mis aligned on the recent ota

and the way twrp works on this device is wonky at best, and it should't be
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Thebear j koss:
Been like that from the beginning. It ain't getting fixed.

Sent from my PH-1 using Thebear Blue XDA Labs
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] dirtyreturn:
The functionality is still there
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mrcooter:
Anyone had any issues with the zip installing in Android 10? Just trying to see if it's just on my end. [MENTION=912474]Dees_Troy[/MENTION], Getting error extracting. Same zip I've used since release and haven't run into this.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] lynnux:
I used it yesterday and it worked fine. Only issue was that when I wanted to reboot into recovery after flashing, it gave me a message saying there was no os installed. I ignored it, no problem after that. I had factory reset and wiped system, then flashed ota, then flashed twrp installer zip.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mrcooter:
Aahh. thank you for the insight. Sounds like I may need to do a fresh wipe and try again. I was just trying to over the air zip like normal installing TWRP as 2nd zip afterwards. I will do the full fastboot of images starting from scratch and report back if I'm still getting the same error.

Edit: can confirm full would and flash of factory images allowed everything to go through like normal.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] dragynbane222:
Several people tried to fix that, only to break twrp worse, so like others have said, v it ain't going away
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] HueyT:
EDIT: After Daze One Youtube video and patched TWRP.img for 9/19 from his Google Drive, this restored touch to TWRP and then I can install the TWRP.zip
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] HueyT:
EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDKpk3iAf7k
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] memnochlv:
Any chance TWRP will be updated to support 10/Q?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chris_stan:
hello

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-NaLsOVz6eSmtTU5elTAy1h6vGOwEWyk

This comes from the 1st post of the Essential stock firmware and rom dumps thread.

thanks to the passage @ M. [MENTION=4620656]dazeone[/MENTION] and his colleagues for their achivages

do not forget the twrp.installer too

cordially

---------- Post added at 04:42 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:41 PM ----------

hello

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-NaLsOVz6eSmtTU5elTAy1h6vGOwEWyk

This comes from the 1st post of the Essential stock firmware and rom dumps thread.

thanks to the passage @ M. [MENTION=4620656]dazeone[/MENTION] and his colleagues for their achivages

do not forget the twrp.installer too

cordially
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] ktmom:
TWRP is being worked on for A10. Be clear, any releases of TWRP as of this date are not updated for the A10 changes.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chris_stan:
Hello, I had used this one during a ROM update there was no more responsive touch recovery, but as it was updated (last year), I would try, thank you for the information.

cordially
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] dazeone:
Are you saying there is no touch with TWRP, if so then follow this guide https://youtu.be/NDKpk3iAf7k
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] memnochlv:
Am I wrong in assuming that version of TWRP isn't new and doesn't support decrypting?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] :
Before doing anything in fast boot, if on September patch, flash the hyp img from bts oreo. Twrp touch will work fine..
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] ceelos218:
after following these steps correctly i tried flashing elemental kernel within the app and it gave me a flash error. so i rebooted into bootloader to try to get into twrp and now no matter what i do it reboots me into bootloader. even if i restart the system or try to get into twrp. any ideas?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] galakanokis:
Flash a boot img with fastboot and start over with TWRP and root.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] ceelos218:
ok so i found that auto flashing elemental x kernel from within the app it would give me a flash error.. you would have to flash it through twrp
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] jmkarnai01:
Tried that and still no touch. Any other suggestions?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] MoistPicklez:
So wait.. We have a permanent TWRP now? I've read how to install and all that jazz, just wanted to confirm after installing, just go to recovery, and bam, TWRP's there? No PC?

Edit: By the way, thanks for the official support [MENTION=912474]Dees_Troy[/MENTION] !
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] droidstyle:
Yes that is what is being discussed here. TWRP that sticks like peanut butter to the roof of your mouth. :)
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] kakabobo:
also facing the same no touch issue on official twrp.

Any advice ?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] DoR3M3:
Yeah Baby TWRP is in the HOUSE!

Hmm a Moist Pickle & Peanut Butter... :eek:
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] starcms:
That's what it does...

---------- Post added at 01:40 ---------- Previous post was at 01:38 ----------

If you upgraded to September using the fastboot download package, redownload it and reflash it. The original version Essential posted didn't have the updated two partitions regarding touch. Or download the OTA package and sideload it. The OTA package never had any issues with it.

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Um, no, do not do that or you will not have touch working in Android assuming you updated to September.

This new official TWRP works perfectly with September and the updated hyp partition that comes with September.

If you downloaded the fastboot package for September in the first day or two it was released, redownload and reflash it. Essential had a mistake in the original version.

---------- Post added at 01:44 ---------- Previous post was at 01:44 ----------

Yes

---------- Post added at 02:12 ---------- Previous post was at 01:44 ----------

Decryption works perfectly with and without Magisk installed.

Assuming you have a lockscreen password, when you are typing it in, be very careful because the screen and the touch are slightly misaligned. You need to touch slightly to the right of the key you want. So watch as you press each key to make sure it's being entered correctly.

If you have a lockscreen pattern, after installing TWRP, you have to change it to a lockscreen password, boot into TWRP, enter password, then reboot to Android and change it back to a lockscreen pattern and now TWRP will prompt you for a pattern instead of a password.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] MadMeshFan:
Please make someone a video tutorial. Thank you
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] starcms:
If you could install Magisk or use the old version of twrp, you can do this.

Fastboot flash the new TWRP.img to boot

Reboot and it'll load TWRP

Flash the stock boot.img from twrp

(So far, the same as installing Magisk)

Flash the TWRP installer zip from twrp

Flash Magisk installer zip from twrp

Reboot and it'll boot into Android, rooted with Magisk and with TWRP permanently installed (by permanently, I mean until you install next month's security update, and then you simply repeat the steps)

That's it, no video needed, just one extra step compared to installing Magisk. If you can't do that, you have no business using TWRP.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] djtechno98:
no touch in twrp after re-flashing the updated package from essential...any fix?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] nicoconepala:
flash August fastboot then september ota
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] djtechno98:
now i'll try and post the results!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] starcms:
I also recommend this for people having no touch in new TWRP. Please reply and let us know if it worked.

Also be sure you are downloading updates directly from Essential's website, not the website that has the BTS zips.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] :
Thats why i said to flash the hyp img from bts oreo, or august, theyre exactly the same hyp img; before flashing twrp. Dont need the entire firmware
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] starcms:
If you do that,then your touchscreen in Android will not work if you have September installed! Do not mix and match different parts of different firmwares or you are asking for trouble. Plus, it isn't even needed! Please, no one do this.

I installed September from the OTA download from Essential's website (sideload it in recovery), to upgrade from August (Pie), and everything works perfectly. The OTAs contain any and all new updated firmware partitions, such as the new hyp partition this month, and the boot partition/kernel every month. This is the method I upgrade every month (using the OTA download, not the fastboot download) and I've never had an issue.

Lastly, I don't recommend using the website that has the BTS zips at all. Make sure you are getting official software from getting it from Essential's website. That's the point of the fastboot download packages on Essential's website -- to go back to stock.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] MoistPicklez:
So just to clarify, use the fastboot images provided from Essential's download site, and avoid using the BTS zips here in the development section of XDA for the newer Sept. build?

I can't test yet because of work, just wanted to make sure I download the correct image. Also never personally tried Essential's fastboot, always have used are0zer0's BTS so this will be new.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] djtechno98:
Works like a charm! thanks
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] rignfool:
By who?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] ktmom:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Dees_Troy/
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] jrodbrown58:
Once it is updated for A10 it should be backwards compatible for previous versions of android... Correct?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] ktmom:
Have you read any discussions about the challenges present by A10? No one currently knows if a custom recovery can over come the challenges, much less whether it will be "backwards compatible"
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] rignfool:
Sorry to destroy your dream...

I don't think he's touched that device in over a year...

A couple other guys have tried .. and failed or gave up... So... Please enjoy 3.2.3... and make sure you disable your lockscreen before booting recovery and everything works fine...

Or use F2FS if it's an option
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] srscott:
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[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] anonxlg:
Can someone explain to me the compatibility of twrp for android 10?

(Are people who's on android 10 not using twrp or something. Or are people using android 10 with twrp+root facing issues and just waiting for an eventual update while using what we have now)

Data decryption does not work for android 10?

So the work around for this is, whenever you need to use twrp, you for remove security in android (security to none/swipe only) first?

I've tried setting pin, twrp cannot decrypt. Pattern (then converted to pin numbers because there's no option for pin in this twrp) and it cannot decrypt.

The problem for me is that the work around DOES NOT work: For whatever reason, if I change the security back and forth, at some point, I get "Screen lock was already changed. Please try again with the new screen lock."

I tried this twice on 2 factory resets and both times it happened.

I've made a thread about it here.

My second question is. What is the proper partitions to back up in twrp.

The default is boot, system, data. I've tried restoring 2 backups i've made and both bootloops when I restore them.

I've painfully, thru trial and error, to also restore the vendor and system image (luckily I made an original backup with every partition) to get the bootlooping backup to actually restore and actually boot.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] venkatsrin:
I assume you are not on stock? Then I would also recommend using F2FS for data partition. Since it won't be encrypted, TWRP would not prompt for pin.

I have similar issues with backups hence I only do data partition and reinstall system from the ROM zip file.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] anonxlg:
I'm on stock, kinda late to f2fs without redoing everything
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] rignfool:
F2FS won't boot on stock
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] venkatsrin:
May I ask why you need TWRP? You can root by fastboot the resp. Boot.img file.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] blair.sadewitz:
ElementalX kernel (for stock) has f2fs support.

https://elementalx.org/kernels/mata/10/AOSP/
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] rignfool:
Doesn't help afaik without a modified fstab...
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] anonxlg:
to backup the phone (and no, making a titanium backup of everything is not the same thing)
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Tempppp:
Hello. I recently purchased the Essential phone.

I want to install LineageOS because it seems to be the most stable ROM I have found for this phone.

According to the official LineageOS installation guide, I can download TWRP (from a link that I can't post here).

But on the official TeamWin website, I can find another link.

1)Which link should I use?

2)Looking at this forum, I find many tutorials. Is it better for me to follow the LineageOS tutorial or follow another tutorial?

Thank you for developing LineageOS on this phone, that's why I bought it. ;)
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] ktmom:
It's always a good idea to follow the instructions the ROM developers provide for the release you plan to use.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Tempppp:
Ok. Txs for the answer

Actually, what bothers me is the fact that, apparently, TWRP only released one version for this phone. However, the two files do not have the same weight (44Mb (LineageOS) vs 47.6Mb (TeamWin)).
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Bofahad:
Some things is preventing TWRP from taking a back up ? Multiple user is off ??
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] ktmom:
I've seen that occur when there is a corruption of a file.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] anonxlg:
I had this happen before, I think it's a bug, keep making backups until it works.

I did it 3 or 4 times the first time before it worked
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mikeymop:
Has anyone gotten twrp to boot on the Feb 2020 images?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] plee3:
I also tried installing Feb 2020 OTA using TWRP and it did not boot. I had to reinstall Jan 2020 OTA to be able to boot again.

I am also having the same problem as listed in post #398, so I have not been able to backup using TWRP. Without being able to backup the phone, I am reluctant to experiment further for the Feb 2020 release.

Also the news today that Essential is shutting down means we will not be able to get a new release in the future that may fix the Feb 2020 release.

We might have to load a custom ROM if we want to keep up with newer Android releases.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] UltraMagnus0001:
For me, it seems slot a is not installing Feb 2020 and after a few boots to fastboot, I can get it to load slot b which has Jan 2020 and TWRP. It might just be a safety boot back into Slot b after a failed install.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] cucumbersmell:
Same issue with Feb 2020. Looks like I'm staying on the Jan 2020 for a long while or until there is a working LOS 17.1 build.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] philichordia:
Can't boot out of fastboot mode in slot A.

I have a problem with booting into the system at all. After following the instructions in the second post for lacking touch control, and seemingly installing it correctly. I can no longer boot to either TWRP or the OS. Choosing Recovery in fastboot mode only reboots and returns me back to fastboot mode, and choosing Start, does the exact same thing. Any idea whats happening? (btw slot A was the one loaded with the OS.)
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] gk1984:
If only you would have looked at the last post before yours, or even a couple previous ones too, you'd have learned TWRP is broken with the Feb 2020 update.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] philichordia:
My bad... I did end up flashing the Feb 2020 update back onto my device shortly, but I will revert back to Jan 2020 this evening for TWRP
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mesh66:
Hi there,

Can someone help me please?

I want to install TWRP on my PH1, unfortunately it doesn't work.

I followed the instructions, but I just don't get any output ...

When I type "fastboot getvar current-slot" nothing comes.

It also doesn't work with "fastboot --set-active = _b".

Can someone help me please?

The boot loader is of course unlocked.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] philichordia:
Make sure you have the USB drivers installed.

You can still download them from essential's website.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mesh66:
Yes, of course I installed the USB drivers.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] ktmom:
And you are definitely booted into the bootloader? What does "fastboot devices" give you?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mesh66:
PM1LHMA850902xxx fastboot
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] ktmom:
Are you putting a space before and after the = in the set-active command? If so, there should not be any.

What does "fastboot getvar unlocked" give you?

What does "fastboot --version" print?

If those commands do not work, are you using Essential's fastboot version from their developer page (on a windows machine)?

What USB cable are you using? It's best to use a USB-A to USB-C plugged into a USB-2 port (not USB-3).
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] anonxlg:
i really hope now that the essential phone is opened sourced that someone will go and update twrp to make it work (properly) with A10.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] ktmom:
https://twrp.me/site/update/2019/10/23/twrp-and-android-10.html
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mesh66:
fastboot getvar unlocked

getvar:unlocked FAILED (remote: unknown command)

finished. total time: -0.000s

fastboot --version

fastboot version 3db08f2c6889-android

Installed as C:\Program Files (x86)\Essential\ADB\fastboot.exe
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Vi7eta:
Go through this thread first

https://xdaforums.com/essential-phone/how-to/guide-how-to-install-twrp-root-t3841922

Lem.e know when you are done
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] VoluntaryMan:
update bounty feeler

I ust bought an Essential Phone now that it's open sourced and was surprised to see that the last TWRP update was 16 months ago.

Would anyone else be interested in putting a bounty together to get it updated for compatibility with the Feb 2020 update?

Hopefully this doesn't qualify as off-topic here.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] ktmom:
Read three posts before yours.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] temporarium:
Whatever TWRP is available works. It's just a hassle having to reflash it after every ROM flash. Also, disable any lockscreen beforehand. Other than that, it's "functional".
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] SykkNyzz:
Heads up: if anyone has an error making a backup, just delete the folder /data/per_boot, then make a backup
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] temporarium:
Thanks for acknowledging the source ?