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[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] canodroid15:
It was a few hours. I tried for like an hour to boot it & gave up. Came back to it right after I made my first post quoting you here. Held the power+vol up x'ed fingers & it vibrated then powered on. Let me know if you get yours to boot. I'm going to look into this after work today. I'll talk to ya later. There's gotta be a way to figure your situation out.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] juliangovender92:
Been trying for the past week ... can't seem to get it booted - I literally just put it into the fridge (zip lock bag to [hopefully] keep the moisture out). I've seen a post where someone tried this and it worked. Thanks man, I would appreciate any help I can get :)
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] ZooBaAr:
Did anyone try asking essential support?

They've been very helpful to me.

Also had this happen to me, just left it overnight and then it booted. No probs since.

Zo0
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] juliangovender92:
Yes I have, they told me to hold power+volume; try different USB cables. clean port etc. but nothing is helping ... really sucks!
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] IronRoo:
My post from her other day didn't seem to post :eek:.

In it I suggested you hold down power + vol down for 15sec (maybe longer) as I think that does a virtual battery pull, but you might need to try some other combos. You should maybe put phone in draw for a week or two, then try .

Also see,

https://xdaforums.com/essential-phone/help/bricked-essential-phone-regular-update-t3732566

If the "chilling" trick works you might have a bad solder joint, not good, likely cause intermittent problems if it does fix. Or maybe phone shuts down internally if too cold (
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] juliangovender92:
thanks for the advice :) ... I tried all combinations for atleast a minute:

power + vol down

power + vol up

power + vol up and down

doesnt seem to have any life. I'm not sure if I mentioned but there's no sign of LED lights when charging - only sign of life is the Qualcomm port on device manager (windows) ... Sadly this country does not have any authorized entities to open up the phone
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] IronRoo:
It sounds like your only choice is to try leaving it for a prolonged period eg a couple of weeks (don't charge it) & cross fingers you get lucky like some of the others have. Though it does sound like it may be bricked (might be worth installing Essential drivers on another PC & seeing if that gives you any thing more than the Qualcomm port)

I'd be in the same situation as you as I'm in Australia these days. It doesn't seem like local repair shops have any special Essential service tools, but if you have no chance of warranty repair local repair shop might still be able to identify some internal failure even if only basic electronic tests and order part (though might be hard/impossible to identify specific component failure without a circuit diagram or working phone to compare to), so long shot.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] IronRoo:
PS. You probably tried this already but just in case, try boot into recovery, hold down

vol up + vol down

(NOT power)

probably won't work, but just to cover all bases
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] juliangovender92:
Apologies for the late reply ... Phone has been like this for about 3 weeks now ... still no luck; will try the Essential drivers now

Yeah I think I'll end up taking it to a local repair shop; hope for the best and expect the worst I guess
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] juliangovender92:
Haha read this at work and gave me some hope, but sadly nothing.

When my phone is plugged into my laptop, Windows makes that signature connection sound; and when I hold power+vol, it effectively makes the "disconnect" followed by the "connect" sounds again, which is surprising
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] mishal msl:
My phone is also hard bricked not even showing led but detecting on PC . currently I don't have PC but yesterday I read about QPST tool . It has an option to backup and restore . I don't know I sound stupid but is there a way to restore firmware of another essential phone through QPST tool . I've tried every thing else .

Link to QPST tool: https://www.qpstflash.com/
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] eKeith:
Sorry I can't offer any advice on your issue. However, can you or anyone here vouch for the reputability of the developer of this tool? I am suspicious as their website does not offer much info in that regard...
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] lesterf:
The problem is that you can't do anything to recover your phone unless you have the PH-1 MSM8998 Firehose programmer file which is not available to the public. I've asked Essential via support if they could provide the file and they flat out said no, it's proprietary. I too had a bricked phone that I ended up selling for parts. So frustrating!

Our only hope is that it gets leaked.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] katastyle971:
Go to ebay if you want an essential phone for $59.99

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Essential-...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

Just reinstall the firmware and relock bootloader !
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Vi7eta:
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Isn't it soft bricked
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] morfeas-dsl-:
Just curious . why cant someone just flash a firmware file as i used to do with odin and samsung phones?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] dragynbane222:
That's only possible only if:

They enabled device unlocking in Developer Options, and,

They ran fastboot flashing unlock on a pc while the phone is connected to the pc at the bootloader, and

They ran fastboot flashing unlock_critical while the same as the last point

Otherwise you can't flash to any partition like you would ODIN
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Tech_Savvy:
can it be bootloader unlocked did you buy one?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] tha_mechanic:
Look at the pics. as long as it says press any key to continue then you are good to go. Meaning the bootloader is unlocked. That is the red screen that you can eliminate "Red screen fix". I purchased one being that I just bricked my beloved essential. I was going to pass it on to my son, so flashed BTS and made the dumba$$ mistake of unchecking oem flashing before the command to lock bootloader. Its so sad! Boots to fastboot but will not boot to recovery. every command thrown at it says not allowed in lock state. Tried updating through fastboot with flashalls, fastboot packages via "fastboot update OTAxyz.zip" with a error about android out. Im so bummed. this has been a great phone. I will update everyone on the ebay one linked here as soon as I receive it
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Tech_Savvy:
Ur telling me unchecking oem unlock in Dev options with unlocked bootloader bricks it??
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] tha_mechanic:
No, I unchecked OEM unlock in Dev settings. Then locked bootloader. When phone rebooted it gave me the your system may be corrupt and cannot be trusted. OS will not boot. So apparently I must had done something wrong with flashing back to stock or something, because it was running just fine up until I sent the command. Because I unchecked OEM unlock, when I relocked bootloader it locked me out completely from being able to do anything to recover the OS.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Aimless Rambler:
I bought one of them. Works fine so far.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] tha_mechanic:
What kind of condition is the rest of the phone? Mine is showing it will be delivered on Mon

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What condition is the phone in cosmetically?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Aimless Rambler:
Update

Condition: Cosmetically looks great but for one small, light, scratch on front glass. Functionally, the only issue with mine was the red verity warning message on bootup. I let it charge awhile before attempting boot, battery was low. Once I had about 10-20% battery, booted it up, got the initial unlocked bootloader warning [yellow text] then the red verity warning [red text]. It prompts you to press power button to continue boot. Booted into OS, signed into Google, no problems as yet.

The actual fix for red verity I'm still researching, but there's an easy way to remove the warning message if it's annoying you. You'll need your computer setup for ADB, once operable (ADB) run the following command (in shell/C: prompt) {adb reboot "dm-verity enforcing" (--remember to include the quotation marks--)}. Phone will reboot, message will be gone. Also, according to your PC OS, you may have to download/setup Essential-PH1-WindowsDrivers. I didn't need to on Win-10.

With thanks to Oneplus forum (credited in link)

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=80083648&postcount=1386

Info on dm-verity

a.) https://www.kynetics.com/docs/2018/introduction-to-dm-verity-on-android/

b.) https://source.android.com/security/verifiedboot/
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] katastyle971:
Hi

Mine come with orange message :)

I bought another one, very good deal.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Tech_Savvy:
mine came but its stuck at the bootlogo....earpiece badly torn...gonna return it
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Aimless Rambler:
Yep, if ordered from same ebay seller I did they're advertised as just having bootloader warning.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Tech_Savvy:
I think I did.... anyways their picture shows only the corrupt warning and that it boots to setup wizard so I should win with ebay if they don't except my return
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] tha_mechanic:
It is a awesome deal! Just got mine today and it was exactly what it looked like. Just the bootloader was unlocked. I did notice that this one was a Telus model. I also noticed my earpiece grille was missing as well. Maybe these had damaged screens and they replaced them to resell. Anyways everything is working great as it should. Very happy! Phone was in really decent condition! Saved my butt! I just bricked my essential. I bought it when it launched, flashed many times, never had a issue. Then I flashed it back to stock with the BTS from Daze. Unticked OEM UNLOCKING( first dumb move) Then locked the bootloader, and it was all over from there. I didn't review everything in the package. Noticed today that TWRP is included in the BTS files for pie. Lesson learned! NEVER UNTICK OEM UNLOCKING UNTIL YOU KNOW EVERYTHING WORKS! IN FACT DONT EVEN LOCK THE BOOTLOADER! Makes me so mad. Dang phone goes to fast boot just fine but no recovery mode and will not allow flash no matter what I do. So sad that essential doesn't give us support to rescue these phones. Was so excited to have that phone when it came out, but now I have lost faith in essential. They must have decided they don't want to stand up to big brother. There was so much going for them and the PH1
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Aimless Rambler:
Good to hear you got a decent one too.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] IronRoo:
That seller has a several other threads with Essential phones with various issues or fully working repaired handsets.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Aimless Rambler:
Any update on this? Did they accept return?
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Tech_Savvy:
They accept Ed return but they said that they did say it had boot up issues...so I replied and told them the pictures shows they at least boot to setup screen, so they had no choice but to accept return
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Aimless Rambler:
Good to hear because I ordered another one from them that doesn't boot at all. No signs of life. Looks great but not much use to me. Let it charge over night in case battery was low. Didn't help.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] HueyT:
Its a crap shoot as these fookers sold me a similar hard brick. Once hooked to pc it's the dreaded "QDL 9008" hard brick--unfixable as we dont have firehose file. They're dragging it out till eBay steps in after 5 days wait despite numerous emails for exchange or refund
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Aimless Rambler:
Approaching day 5 here ... exact same scenario. Email, response a day later. They also have listed a lot sale of dead essentials. I'm pretty sure they mix and match their orders. The first one I ordered matched the listed description, bootloader warning and red verity warning message. The second one I ordered for a family member ... dead, briefly displayed the qdl screen, no signs of life since.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] HueyT:
They're denying returns now. Getting eBay and PayPal involved
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Aimless Rambler:
Pretty sure I'll be following suit tomorrow.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] HueyT:
Dispute with PayPal AND eBay to apply more pressure to these scammers
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Aimless Rambler:
Just got this (see photo). Suffice it to say I don't trust them. Should I wait until Ebay responds or what? Not sure if clearing return request before action by Ebay is a good move. Ha
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] HueyT:
Maybe eBay forced return on my case helped u? I would accept exchange if they allow as it's a good deal if they send a good one

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They probably realize not worth the bad publicity to screw people and I'm sure eBay sent them a warning with my case

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They just sent me same message but I'm fed up with their B.S. so this baby is going back on eBay resolution process
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Aimless Rambler:
They just sent me same message but I'm fed up with their B.S. so this baby is going back on eBay resolution process

Exactly! My theory is they 're trying to wear folks out ... the accept your crappy fate and chalk it up to bad decisions mantra. Good ole modern era business ethics. I'll be in the wait n see what they send me (if anything) column. You'll be in the wonder if I'll get any money back column. Good luck ... to both of us!
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Vi7eta:
I'd suggest go through the Ebay resolution process only. I dont think ebay would take any action if you close a dispute.. after doing this you would be on your own.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Tech_Savvy:
I got my refund and return through eBay... messaged them about getting a working one and they said there sorry and I should repurchase one and theyll be sure to send a working one...but idk if I should trust it
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Aimless Rambler:
Speaking from experience ... don't.

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I went through my card company. As suspected, after closing resolution through Ebay seller stopped responding, didn't provide "shipping label for return/exchange" as they'd stated. I'll mail phone back once card company handles it. I'd just mail it back and cross fingers for exchange but don't trust em anymore. Once payment is retrieved I'll stick it in the mail.
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Vi7eta:
After closing resolution from your end whats the surity of their exchanging the item..?

Do not send item back until you get refund.. or dont even return the item after you get refund. :p
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] HueyT:
Yeah, these Brooklyn Dodgers tried to screw me too (offered to refund or exchange once I closed dispute). Luckily I followed my gut and went through EBay and PayPal and finally received full refund after EBay ruled in my favor, provided shipping label, and forced them to refund. It still took 10 days and I will not recommend these losers to anyone
[Essential Phone Questions & Answers] Aimless Rambler:
Update: After 2 weeks of rigmarole, I got the replacement device today. Big improvement, actually boots up and looks to be in pretty good condition. Will test further tomorrow.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gwa000:
i have a Nexus 7 (2012 version) that my daughter-in-law gave me (several years ago) because it would not boot. i previously reinstalled the OS and she was good for a while until the issue resurfaced. i get the spinning circles when booting and it just sits there. since this reoccurred (the second time actually occurred about 2 years ago which was a month or two after the initial encounter, been sitting there since then) i decided to see if i could fix it again.

have tried using Recovery Mode to no avail. only thing that helped after the first time was a complete OS reload. pretty sure i used Nexus Root Toolkit to do this.

rather than reload the stock Android i was thinking of loading the LineageOS. i believe that the LineageOS for the Nexus 7 (2012) is an unofficial release.

however, i have a question concerning what version to download. i was under the impression that even though it would be unofficial that there would be a single version of it, being maintained by numerous developers. but when i looked on the www.lineageosdownloads.com/download-nexus-7-2012-lineage-os/ site it links me to the Android File Host web site. and here it has the developer being 'aaopt'. but if i poke around i see other developers for the Nexus 7 (2012) each seeming to have their own version.

are each of these developers creating their own fork of some base release and if so how do you know which one you want? or was their release done at some point in time and their changes got merged back in the main branch.

i would much rather grab a release that is maintained by a bunch of developers (working together) than someone who forks off their own branch.

if you have a suggestion as to what would be the latest/best release could you provide a link?

thanks!
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] Alessandro999:
Anyone Is able to build an Official Nitrogen os for mi 8?

Is the perfect gaming rom . I tested on redmi note 3 , i can feel the smoothness and its the fastest ever Tried.. gaming Is excellent
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] Konskl:
Wish someone would build it as well. I've tried it on pocophone and it's ridiculously fast and battery efficient...
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] gartmann:
Is it possible that it isn't possible anymore to use multiple users on android pie roms?

Gesendet von meinem Poco F1 mit Tapatalk
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] TNSMANI:
Multiple users are allowed in Pie.
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] gartmann:
I can't find them in the Settings (havoc)

Gesendet von meinem Poco F1 mit Tapatalk
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] TNSMANI:
In my ROM, SnapDragon Pie, it is available under Settings→System→Multiple Users.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] viper98:
I got my 2nd MI 8 off ebay today. It is a chinese version of the phone.

I previously had a global version and was able to flash the global pie beta without ever unlocking the BL.

Is there something similar that can be done so I don't have to wait 360 hours to unlock and flash on this phone?
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] rinko920:
I’m having the same problem and I’ve requested to return the phone. I don’t know if this happens with custom roms but if miui doesn’t support aac on a no headphone jack phone...back to iPhone
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] re133:
Hey, today my Pixel 3 XL arrived and i moved from iPhone to the Pixel.

I had like 1300 pictures from my iPhone on my computer, then I moved the pictures via FileManager to my Pixel.

And the Pixel automatically created like 300 or more folders with about 2 pictures each in it.

Is there any easy way I get all the pictures out of the folders? I don't need folders in my libary, I just want all pictures side by side and no folders.

I didn't know that Android creates for every App that edits pictures a new folder.

Hope someone can help, I don't wanna drag each pic out of it's folder :eek:

[IMG="Folders"]https://ibb.co/MC96jc6[/IMG]

The folder names are: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 ...... and a,b,c,d,e,f,g and so on.

Thanks so muuch.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] HyperM3:
Yeah, over the past few years, the photo app has been really annoying in the way it structures saved photos. Honestly, the best way to do it is find a new photo album app and use that to look up photos. Even when I get a popup asking me if I want to create a new folder for a picture, I say no, and its still in there with new folder. Then every few weeks I go through deleting stupid folders with 1 picture I didnt want.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] re133:
Yeah its really annoying.

But in my head its like, if I use everything from Google, it works the best and the userexperience is better then thirdparty apps.

It's all from one company.

But thats just me and my thinking. :laugh:

Can you recommend a thirdparty App?
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] v12xke:
First let me say welcome (or welcome back) to Android. I don't know how many GB your pics amount too, but I've had good luck zipping a huge amount of pics into a single zip file, transferring it to my phone and then using a quality file manager (solid explorer / root explorer) to extract. Dunno? maybe it will take splitting the 1300/2 or even 3 files but it can be done. When zipping on your Mac/PC just use "no compression", "wrapper", or "minimal". This results in a fast compression because the pics are already compressed. I'm not an apple guy at all but I can tell you zipping 100's of files is no big deal on a PC, nor extracting them into the DCIM folder on your shiny new Pixel. Unlock your bootloader NOW if you are able, because unlocking it later will wipe all your data including any photos not backed up to the cloud (Photos). I also thought there was a way to transfer from Apple cloud to Google Photos, but again I am not an Apple guy at all. (disclaimer: I just have to buy them for my wife and daughter) :mad:

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Wut? My Photos folder has no subfolders all my photos are in there, bro. And Google Photos rocks on many different levels. YMMV?
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] HyperM3:
You know, I guess it depends on what app I am using when trying to look up a photo. You are correct, when just going directly to the photo album app, all my photos are just laid out. It's when I click the "albums" icon that its a complete mess. Also, pretty much every time I open the app, I get multiple notifications for "new folder found". Most of the time those are singular pictures my security system took. Annoyingly, they are all one photo in each "new" folder. So I have to go in and delete each folder individually.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] boostedduece:
Still having this issue? I can write a script that should be able to automatically move each file to a new single folder.

Probably only 10 lines of code.

I don't think you need root, just let me know and I can try and throw it together.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] re133:
Thanks for you Help Mate.

But i fixed already;)
[Amazfit] luftpumpe1983:
Hi,

I'm searching for Verge's stock watch face to use it on my Pace.

[IMG="Amazfit Verge"]https://www.comtech.de/media/image/19/a7/fb/Qg5DGWIg.jpg[/IMG]

Anybody knows if it works and where to find it?

Was searching on amazfitwatchfaces.com an another website, but without success.

Thanks in advance!

Best regards,

luftpumpe1983
[Amazfit] Rincat:
Found this:

https://sawfb.fabiobarbon.click/view/Shared/DigiNeoVerge2

https://sawfb.fabiobarbon.click/view/Imported/DigiNeoVerge

https://sawfb.fabiobarbon.click/view/Imported/Proto-Verge-Multicolor
[Amazfit] lfom:
There are only "similar" ones, look for "Proto Verge" by MatDzovo.
[Amazfit] Goyesays:
Same problem here

I'm trying to find the Dark Origin watchface for my pace but it's very hard :(
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] mwouda:
Any suggestions anyone?

I am trying to rebrand my Chinese P20 pro to a European one. But now I got stuck in an bootloop or stuck at installing at 5%.

Hopefully someone can help.