yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] tlxxxsracer:
Ohh.. somehow missed that. So at this point I should: factory reset, reflash January images, flash essential's new vendor IMG, then flash .zip containing new images (including AOSP vendor) then flash pa in twrp.

Correct? A little more clarity in OP may help, certainly not new to roms and flashing
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] R2D2_SW:
Forget the zip entirely. I'm thinking you could simply flash the vendor on both slots and be good to go, but to be sure, Flash-all.bat the January stock, re-enable USB debug after the reboot and reboot to bootloader to flash new vendor on both slots. After that, you're good to flash PA.

The zip is just there to simplify the steps above for you. But what I suspect is that it might not contain the proper vendor (Feb vendor maybe??). You could still use the zip, but you'd have to replace the vendor img with the correct one and that's more trouble than simply doing it manually.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] SixFingeredAmish:
Anyone have issues with the bundled G Cam app force closing every time?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] gk1984:
Bugs I've discovered in PA WE so far:

No response with "Ok Google"

Camera periodically stops capturing photos (Essential camera and GCam)

Battery drains quickly, resolved using the LKT Magisk Module

Auto dark mode sunset to sunrise turns on dark mode at sunset, but never turns off dark mode at sunrise.

Audio modifications like Viper4Android or JamesDSP cause phone calls to have no audio (neither I nor caller can hear anything, suggesting my mic is not picking up audio either)

Otherwise, this is the most functional ROM I've tried so far. Really happy with it.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] R2D2_SW:
Yeah that auto dark mode issue seems to be on EvoX as well. It will eventually turn off, just way later than it should. If you wait it off, you'll see it switch at some point (at least it does for me on EvoX).
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] tlxxxsracer:
Wiped and reflashed with simpler steps. No more stops

I am noticing a slight delay in terms of taps and response. Screen sensitivity is weird for me swiping up.

I have no ability to add screen off gestures either.

Anyone have suggestions for improved smoothness/snappiness? Doesn't feel right coming from a pixel 4.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] HalcyonOne:
Did you try the OTA update? I'm not having any luck with it. Would you recommend just reflashing everything?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] tlxxxsracer:
I was coming from essential Feb build.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] CamoGeko:
I would advise flashing in TWRP every time, instead of OTA.

1. Download zip.

2. Reboot to TWRP.

3. Flash ROM zip

4. Flash TWRP installer zip

5. Reboot recovery

6. Flash Magisk for root

7. Reboot system

Sent from my PH-1 using Thebear Blue XDA Labs
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] notzippy:
I had no luck flashing pa-quartz-3-mata-20200608. Even directly after doing a flash-all using essentials January build. IDK, spent an hour trying to make it work but no dice. Was able to install evolutionx without issues.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] CamoGeko:
That's probably because you need the AOSP Vendor from February to make this ROM work.

I ain't messing about with that so running EvoX myself.

Sent from my PH-1 using Thebear Blue XDA Labs
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] nomesrjp:
Give this a try...

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=82434627&postcount=179
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
Evolution rom is still the best for me but I have to use PA because it gave me VoLTE.

Anyway, if you still want to try PA, here's what I did and always work for me:

1. Back to Jan stock rom

2. Copy PA rom + TWRP installer to phone

3. Flash QQ1A.200105.088 to BOTH slot a and b (command: "flash boot vendor_a vendor.img" and "flash boot vendor_b vendor.img") --> this is important before install PA rom

4. Boot to TWRP recovery and wipe system/cache/data

5. Flash PA rom

6. Flash TWRP installer

7. Reboot --> DONE
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] aadithpm:
I would +1 this, even +10 this. It's risky to have just a ROM running with no recovery since TWRP doesn't persist when you update with OTA. Don't do what I did - download the ROM and flash it through TWRP.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] CamoGeko:
Yup, very easy to lose data on PH1 without permanent TWRP since our Fastboot is so borked...

Sent from my PH-1 using Thebear Blue XDA Labs
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] notzippy:
Thanks guys - it has been a while since I have XDA'd glad to see the support is still there.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] aadithpm:
After my previous debacle with installing the PA 2 OTA, I just went back to PA 1 since I didn't wanna spend time on messing about with my phone. Decided to try out PA 3 this time around after some things freed up.

I downloaded the ROM ZIP and flashed it + TWRP ZIP through recovery. I'm sure I'm repeating this but maybe try not to update with the OTA. TWRP on both slots doesn't retain and you're kinda ****ed up if your phone bricks and you don't have a computer on hand.

Performance has been great so far. Full charge lasts around 24h with close to 3 hours of SoT. Performance is snappy and only issues I've had are having to reboot often because the camera doesn't work. Not sure if that's because I have GCam or it's a ROM issue or something at a lower level. Volume bar looks super fancy and I like the new colors. I haven't tried out the multi-user support yet but I'm glad to see battery/heating issues from PA 2 seem to be non existent this time around. My thanks to the devs!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Legitsu:
loosing twrp is really a non issue just flash one of the pre twrp'd stock boot.images and then reinstall twrp/rom

remember ota only flashs to the other slot so if you loose twrp you can just change slots and run the twrp installer again
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] aadithpm:
That's true - however, when I tried to boot into the other slot, my touch wasn't working. I tried to flash the ZIP/TWRP img and for some reason, the boot partition seemed to be corrupted. Wouldn't let me flash so I had to do a complete reset to stock January ROM and then reflash.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Benoitgaudreault:
allo

where i can find '''' one of the pre twrp'd stock boot.images '''

thanks
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] freshlysqueezed:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PTVH_RZfF5OQbON2XzU6QSwSr8DSwJIy/view

This is from the statiXOS install instructions.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mepjn:
After installing v4a, the earpiece and microphone do not work
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] gk1984:
Yup. Same with any audio mod you install. I've mentioned this once or twice. No idea why it does this. Use the Wavelet app for now. It's almost a good enough replacement for a non-root app.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mepjn:
everything works on evolutionx after installing v4a. Sorry for my bab english
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] gk1984:
Then stick with that ROM. I haven't because it didn't have VoLTE for my carrier. I think I read it might now have it but I'm tired of flashing ROMs.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] gk1984:
Installed the EX Kernel Manager app (not the kernel) to see if I can spot kernel related irregularities because this ROM is a battery hog. Well... Cluster 2 CPU cores stick at max speed. I was able to change governor from schedutil to powersave to bring the cores back down.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Mostafa Wael:
In terminal emulator, type "su" then type "top" (without quotes). Switch to landscape mode and check out the service that's hogging on your phone's CPU. The usual suspects for me were Chrome, Facebook, Google's Files app and Google Photos. Try that out and let us know how it goes.

Switching to powersave governor will rip you off your big cluster, which isn't really the perfect solution. The governor should remain schedutil for both clusters.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] gk1984:
Yeah, I've had poor performance with powersave and switched back to schedutil and everything has been fine since. But definitely did see one cluster stuck at max speed constantly. Maybe it was a first boot issue or something like that. Seemed to correct itself after switching governors and switching back
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
Can someone confirm "Ok Google" is working or no?

I can't turn it on.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] gk1984:
It's kind of hit or miss. I have been able to use but doesn't seem to work all of the time. But my Nest Mini might be why - I think that picks me up first.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] CamoGeko:
Hey Google never worked for me on any Mata ROM I've tried unless you unlock phone and swipe left first, saying that though I've not tried it on this ROM per'se.

Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Thebear Blue XDA Labs
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] gk1984:
I tested more. Found the "Hey Google" toggle was set to off and wouldn't stay on. I had to retrain my voice for it to work. Unfortunately, retrain wasn't selectable with the hey google toggled off so I had to be quick to retrain before it flipped off again.

I hope that helps. I'll have to check if it survives a restart still.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
Nah....it kept turn back off to me and even I retrain my voice, none of them work.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] gk1984:
You're right. Battery died and now that I'm booted again, it's toggled off again...
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] dasbooter:
Yup this is working by far the best for me so far. You may need to restart your phone. I've had this happen in the old stock ROMs. Honestly I believe the best essential days wherein Google assistant worked the best was in Oreo

Mine does work from the lock screen but unsure if it is locked as I use my watch to keep in unlocked
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] gk1984:
I swore it was working for me too but might have been a different ROM. I can clearly see the toggle won't stay on when I try to enable it. I've tried checking language and location settings as suggested in other support forums but nothing's working
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] dasbooter:
Other things I have tried are to delete the storage/cache in the Google app and restart the phone. Typically I'll try to enable it and get a warning that I can't but I can still use commands in maps or something then I restart the phone and I can enable it

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I can't figure out how to enable the extended restart though. It's greyed out for me.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] R2D2_SW:
Anyone spent enough time on the latest Q4 to determine whether the battery life issues were resolved? Since Q2, it seems the life battery hasn't been great. Curious how things are in Q4. Thanks!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] gk1984:
Too early to determine but so far worse than LOS, but might have improved over Q3. Still unsure
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] gk1984:
I found a solution for OK Google. Someone in a Google supports forum suggested flashing open gapps nano. I tried it just a moment ago with PA Q4 and it's staying toggled now. Maybe there's something missing in the ROM that open gapps includes.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
Thanks, but I switched to StatiX OS and trouble free now.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] pakpenyo:
This is the first experience using PA on my phone.

I get 6-7 hours of SOT when using stock ROMs (January build) with the ElementalX kernel.

With PA Q4, my phone is a little warmer. And I'm not sure I can achieve SOT like stock ROMs. But it is natural that the difference is not too far away.

Q4 itself runs very well. Magisk, Gcam TInNeun etc. work normally. But the TWRP screen is slightly cut off on the right side even though the touch works.

I will wait for the next few days to be sure.

Thanks to the dev team for great ROM.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] nijohnson:
How granular is the volume control? How many volume steps are availible?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] gk1984:
It moves in 3% increments from 0-100
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] pakpenyo:
Good battery usage, SOT is almost like a stock ROM. But still a little warmer.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
"little warmer".....you mean the phone get hot?

btw, can' see you image.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] pakpenyo:
Yes, warmer than stock + ElementalX kernel.

There are several things after using Q4:

Sometimes it won't boot. As I recall, it happened after installing Magisk (latest Magisk. Activate Magisk Hide + Rename Manager). Stuck on the Essential logo and can only be restarted using the power button.

Some applications from Playstore, such as NordVPN won't open. Can only install apk manually.

Hope there are options such as disable shortcuts, provider name and disable statusbar + quick tile when in lockscreen mode. This is important for security. Already tried some applications like KLCK Kustom Lock Screen Maker but not working properly. Maybe using Substratum, have never tried it.

I use the Magisk version of Vanced. The picture on picture feature is not working properly. The video is running, but can't see it. But you can still hear the audio. It's working fine at stock (January build).

Thanks and really sorry about my english. :D
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
Thank you for very detail report. I appreciate that.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] gk1984:
Anyone else having trouble with the camera? Pictures won't save from rear cameras, just front. And app seems to crash when trying to switch cameras then take a picture.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] pakpenyo:
I'm using Gcam_7.3.020_v1.2_TlnNeun. Working great.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] gk1984:
It's really hit or miss with me... Sometimes it works fine but most of the time, no camera will save an image. Try to snap, nothing saves. Restarting doesn't fix it either. Restarting did fix it on Quartz 3 though.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] pakpenyo:
Maybe you need clean install from clean January build?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] SixFingeredAmish:
If I am on Quartz 3 with Magisk, how do I update to Quartz 4 and keep Magisk?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] pakpenyo:
I don't know if ota works.

But you can dirty flash:

Boot to twrp, flash rom, flash twrp, reboot to system.

Boot to twrp again, flash magisk.

Done .
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] surya17:
Thanks for the detailed usage report, did you also the camera issue that the others were talking about (not saving images)? I had this in Q2, but it was fixed in Q3, was wondering if it has resurfaced in Q4.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] gk1984:
You update via OTA in the system settings. Then before restarting, you open Magisk Manager, install Magisk, and choose the option to install to another slot or something like that.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] pakpenyo:
I already trying Gcam 7.3.020 v1.2 TlnNeun and GCam 7.3.018 Urnyx05 v2.0. All works fine. No issue about saving image.

TInNeun gcam not working properly at night sight, it's too dark. Gcam Urnyx need disable the video stabilization before using time lapse, or it will crash.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] :
I'm still on release #1 because I don't want to install GApps on my device. Is there any way to upgrade without installing GApps?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] nomesrjp:
I just flashed the following after installing the q4 ROM;

Telegram channel

https://t.me/Gapps_Trash_Remover
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] gk1984:
This ROM doesn't obey my apps "ignore battery optimizations" settings. I have smart home apps and they're set to ignore battery optimizations so they function properly. But they don't always ignore optimizations.

For example, Ring is supposed to alert me when someone approaches my door. It won't. Several minutes after someone walks in the front door, I get all of my notifications at once, including Ring.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] vibraniumdroid:
Anyone have a mirror link to this rom? Just got my essential phone and the official link to aospa is down...
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
Here you go....

https://essential-images.netlify.app/
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] vibraniumdroid:
Thanks a lot!

Edit: I was asking for the link to aospa..
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] MarsyChan:
I need it to, so if u have gotten ur hands on it could u tell me
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] vibraniumdroid:
Unfortunately I haven't :/
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] MarsyChan:
the website is back up
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] payas0:
For PAQ4, do we still need to flash January and the linked AOSP vendors OR can we just flash February build and flash the Essential provided AOSP vendor image?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] payas0:
Do you mind sharing a mirror of this? I don't have Telegram and the file can't be downloaded through the web page.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] payas0:
Memory management in this ROM is a beast! Leagues better than when I was on official LOS17.1.

With LOS17.1 my free RAM always sits on less than a gigabyte even when not running any use apps. That's with Gapps PICO too.

PAQ4 on the other hand, with Gapps PICO, my free RAM comfortably sits at around 2 gigabytes when not running any apps.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] gk1984:
The problem is Android isn't Windows. More free RAM does not equal better performance. In fact, it can mean worse.

Android is intended to load as much in memory as possible and keep them all idle when not in use. This speeds up app loading and makes background tasks run more efficiently (less battery drain due to opening again).

Android is a balancing act with memory. You need enough free memory to handle any background tasks processing, but any more free is wasted memory.

Also, as a tidbit, Android also uses paging in storage so having a certain amount of storage free to allow for paging will also improve performance.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] payas0:
Thank you, that's very insightful. I'll take it as a win this instance though as I've always had problems keeping just two apps open at a time like a browser and a Facebook for example. Even just two tabs on chrome and the other will surely have to reload if I switch to the other. Now, those things don't happen and I can switch apps without the other app having to reload.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] gk1984:
The idea of keeping multiple apps open or struggling to is still a memory problem but not about how much is free because, ideally, your most used apps are still in memory.

What's supposed to happen is inactive apps are closed in favor of active ones, freeing up memory and keeping them running. This is how it's supposed to work no matter how much memory is free. If apps aren't staying active in the background and closing, then there's a problem in the memory management system that handles these tasks. It's not necessarily how much memory is free.

One problem could be a memory leak, but that's identifiable by see how much memory apps use and if any single app's memory use grows continuously rather than staying steady, especially if it's using almost all of your memory, then you have a leak. That's 1 app hogging all of the memory.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] dwhite44:
I can't get this working. I'm pretty sure I am following the instructions completely but I'm getting stuck at the boot screen never moving on from it no matter how long I wait. Has anybody else run into this? I have gone to the January firmware with the February vendor and then flashed twrp, booted to recovery, installed pa and twrp installer then reboot and that's when it happens.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] gk1984:
If you look at the instructions in the OP, step 2 says to flash the January and AOSP vendor image using a script. Are you doing that?

The instructions definitely need to be refined.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] dwhite44:
Good question. When I restore, I am using the flashall.sh script, but when I tried the linked files, it fails because it is missing a lot of the files in the script so I had tried a few different one's but I am pretty sure they are all the January and then using the QQ1A.200105.088 vendor. I have done custom roms before and am actually coming from Lineage but it's not something I do all the time so all these vague instructions without specific commands dealing with the different slots is a real challenge.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Serg123321:
Hello. Where can I find the kernel sources for this firmware? Prompt a command in the terminal to dump boot.img. I hope for your help.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] tingtongku:
Quartz 4 sometimes can be very laggy, and phone's temp is also high.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] wolfebaine:
Disable dark theme. I had similar symptoms and it has not reoccurred since disabling. Also (counter intuitively) increased my battery life.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] gavinfernandes2012:
We don't have an amoled screen so displaying black itself won't save us any battery. Any processing related issues with the dark theme might cause CPU/GPU side energy consumption though
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mawdogbe:
Will these steps work if I'm on the stock February update? Really interested in trying this ROM.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] thelangosta:
February firmware breaks twrp
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mawdogbe:
Okay. So if I downgrade to January, this will work?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] MarsyChan:
Correct
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] CharFalco:
Has anyone had problems with Bluetooth Has Stopped Working continuously?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] nomesrjp:
I've not experienced any issues.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mhamzas:
Clean Flash of PA (Latest Build)

On every reboot, date time reverts back to Sept 24 : 4:30 pm!

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Clean Flash of PA (Latest Build)

On every reboot, date time reverts back to Sept 24 : 4:30 pm!

Any fix?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mhamzas:
Found Fix: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.xrea.poca.clocksync
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] CharFalco:
I'm having an issue with Quartz 5 where I can't sent SMS messages - but can receive them. I can make and receive calls. I just can't send outbound SMS messages. I never had this problem on Quartz 4 and the SIM works fine in my other phone when I put it in there.