yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
Hmmm....interesting. I should try mine again.

What version did you use to flash? April release? or Mar?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] shri_chanakya:
I used March to flash and then everything got updated fine. Now I flashed April update.

Most likely that will be an issue to use Google Pay with out safety net.

Google play updated by itself..
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
I just flashed with latest release (April) and still same issue with Google Play system update. It's in Sept 2019

After hit update, it's doing like download 10M data to update and asked for reboot. After reboot, it shows Mar 2020, but then 10 seconds later it reboot itself again.

And then Google Play system is back to Sept 2019

I tried reset to factory, but still no help. I guess it's hardware related (you and I might have the same version of hardware somehow)

I'm going back to stock Q now...and maybe waiting for LOS 17.1
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] R2D2_SW:
You have to be persistent for the update to stick. I had to do it a few times and eventually it stayed. But it doesn't work the first time, that's for sure.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] R2D2_SW:
Android Auto and 360 camera seems to be working fine on the April build so far. I was getting reboots and freezes on the previous build but so far it's been good on April. Nice work!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
Today, I tried again (6 times) and no luck.

Thanks for your suggestion anyway.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] R2D2_SW:
I take that back on the 360 cam. Still forces the phone on a shutdown and I'm unable to get a logcat on it because it only happens when the phone is on battery power. If connected on the PC or charger it does not reboot and works fine.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] freshlysqueezed:
My pogo pin charger doesn't work either. Worked fine on Havoc rom. Something must be wrong with the power management on the Evolution ROM in regards to the contacts on the back of the phone.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Edgehead123:
My 360 cam have my phone problems while I was on stock lol. If I make sure I have near full charge on my phone, 360 works fine on evolution x 9 April
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] R2D2_SW:
Yeah. Probably why it worked fine this morning when I tested on a near full charge.

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Yeah definitely something to that effect cause it works when the phone has a good amount of charge or plugged in.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] freshlysqueezed:
It was annoying me as well, I changed the accent color and gradient picker to the same color. The standard pixel color is #4285F4.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] R2D2_SW:
Yeah. I did the same but that messes up the switch. You don't see the actual switch which is supposed to stay white. You just see an all blue oval when it's on. I played for a while in there and I had it stick, but It didn't survive a reboot.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] shri_chanakya:
Any idea how to pass the safety net check? I am aware of magisk.. any other solution without using magisk?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Edgehead123:
Anyone having problems taking pictures on the april 9th build

edit: restarting phone helped
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
After reboot, 10 seconds later the phone reboot itself again.

Does anyone have this problem?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] ESSPH-1:
OEM Locked

Hello, I have installed Evolution X after that i accidentally locked my OEM, I see that OEM Unlocking is grayed out in Developer Option and now i am stuck. I have tried multiple things, can some one please help.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] neodevilz:
Love this ROM so far, most things seem to be working for me and so far only two real issues.

Ticker notifications don't seem to work for me and screen attention is requesting camera access even after I have already granted access.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] 15101993:
help me

I got this error at the boot screen. Please show me how to fix it ( your device is corupt. it can not be trusted and may not work properly
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] shri_chanakya:
that is because you have install non oem ROM on your phone. It is normal.

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If you are able to flash new ROMs means you are OEM unlocked. What is your fastboot state saying? Does it say OEM locked (I doubt this as you have custom rom installed)
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] ESSPH-1:
I am not able to install any Rom, not even the Stock. Yes the Bootloader is locked, not able to OEM unlock any more.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] shri_chanakya:
try flashing the jan oem. that might delete everything. you will be all stock. hopefully after that you would be able to unlock and then proceed to install custom rom.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Edgehead123:
Is anyone else having apps randomly uninstall? Is this a side effect of Google play services being stuck on 1 September 2019?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
"apps randomly uninstall?"....sound scary.

I don't have that problem, just Google Play system couldn't get update (always force reboot after update and back to Sept 2019)

There're few people reported the same issue in Telegram from diferrent devices as well, we're not the only ones.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] shri_chanakya:
Camera stops working after two days, reboot fixes it... Anybody else having this issue?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Edgehead123:
Yay I'm not crazy! Yes this is definitely happening to me.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Copbait:
Am I the only one, I can't get magisk to load using the rom recovery. I have tried as a sideload and from internal memory
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] ESSPH-1:
Hello, tried adb sideload the jan and Feb updated both OTA and fastboot img, no luck. Failed at 47% with error. in BlootLoadee the status is locked. I think i am locked to the rom for good.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] R2D2_SW:
Don't install via adb sideload. Go to fastboot mode, extract the files from the January image where you have adb installed and double-click on the flashall.bat file. This will reinstall stock on both slots for you.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] ESSPH-1:
I am getting following when i try to run the flashall.sh file

fastboot: error: Command failed

Sending 'rpm_a' (228 KB) OKAY [ 0.118s]

Writing 'rpm_a' FAILED (remote: 'Flashing is not allowed in Lock State')

fastboot: error: Command failed

Sending 'rpm_b' (228 KB) OKAY [ 0.092s]

Writing 'rpm_b' FAILED (remote: 'Flashing is not allowed in Lock State')

fastboot: error: Command failed
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] shri_chanakya:
Hope you are using fastboot version from essential website..

https://www.essential.com/developer/current-builds

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Most likely it is your screen issue experiencing ghost touches. Try wiping your screen and then switch off manually
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Milan P.:
I followed your steps, still doesn't turn off the screen automatically.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Tanner1294:
Your bootloader is locked, you have to unlock it to flash anything.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] vineetbhatia:
2 problems, can you guys help me fix it?

1. Stuck with September 1, 2019 Google Play system update.

2. Unable to crack decrypt password in TWRP, I tried the PIN & text PASSWORD, it doesn't work.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Edgehead123:
1) I have no clue yet. some people say it's not fixable, others say try many times in a row and it'll eventually correctly update. I never got it to update correctly

2) before booting to TWRP, disable any lock screen security in your Android settings. No pin no password no pattern no fingerprint
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] R2D2_SW:
Remove the password before rebooting to recovery because decrypting does not seem to work in TWRP. The Google Play System update issue is known as well. Not many people have succeeded in getting it to update. There are no known solutions to that at the moment.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] exillity:
Does AR work in this ROM?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] qnc:
I just tried to flash magisk and it does not install either.

I have been away for flashing for a while so looking for answers too.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Tanner1294:
Super smooth rom, extremely good performance, no sudden reboots (as of yet) and everything works. Only two things I figured I'd mention: Under Developer Settings, OEM Unlocking is stuck turned off. It says under it "Connect to the internet or contact your carrier". My bootloader is still unlocked but it's concerning since my last phone did this with a custom ROM and somehow ended up locking the bootloader, nearly bricking the device.

Other than that a problem I've had occasionally with other ROM's (and now this one) is that sometimes the camera just can't take pictures. Doesn't matter which app it is, it makes the shutter sound and does nothing. Rebooting fixes it but it's still an annoyance. I was curious if anyone else has this issue or if it's somehow just me.

Edit: So out of curiosity I also tried installing the Google Play System Update. It installed correctly, supposedly, phone rebooted and said it had the March 1st, 2020 update. Then the phone automatically rebooted itself (not a crash, it said Rebooting...) and now it says September 1st again. Weird.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] M. .:
I found two bugs,

1.can not install Google play system update

2.in some case the camera can't shot picture
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] brepeti:
+1

Doesn't show the battery percentage on lock screen.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] M. .:
Go to settings-The Evolver-Status bar- Battery percent and turn it on
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] brepeti:
Thanks, but that's what I thought:
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] hedphurst:
Anyone using Substratum with this ROM? I can't get it to work. All I get is a black screen after enabling an overlay, and I have to reboot to recovery (power menu looks wonky) and delete the Substratum folder (inside data/adb/magisk) to disable it and boot back into the OS. I assume it's a conflict between substratum and the built-in theming system with the ROM, but don't see any way to disable the native theming.

Update: tried again right after posting this, and of course it worked this time. I set all options and colors back to default in the Evolution theme screen and rebooted before applying a substratum theme. Seems to be all good so far.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] lllGurulll:
PlayStation apps don't seem to work on this rom. Also the Barclay card app doesn't allow you to download it.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] qnc:
I got this installed with Magisk and only thing i see so far is that my WIFI is not working would not pick up my 2.4 of 5 signals.

Then once I set up the phone, WIFI will not activate in settings. The switch will slide, the phone freezes for a couple of seconds and the switch goes back to off.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] qnc:
I was able to get it working with Magisk 20.4
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Tanner1294:
If you have Magisk installed you need to enable Magisk Hide in the settings. I also used the option to change the apps name. Had to do that to get Safetynet to pass.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] lllGurulll:
Haven't installed magisk yet. Probably do it over the weekend.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Tanner1294:
Found a problem: Phone calls are almost entirely impossible. The microphone just drops in and out and is extremely quiet even when it is working. Nobody can hear me with perfect service. They all say I'm "breaking up". I found a test phone number that lets you record a message to play back and I couldn't hear myself. I had to blow into the mic to hear anything on the recording and it faded in and out.

Found an older thread saying to turn off VoLTE but when I do that it just can't make any phone calls at all. Just says calling for a while before hanging up and complaining that there's no mobile network.

Edit: switched to the February vendor image and still no luck. Mic doesn't work in regular phone calls.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] MarsyChan:
Reboots when i try playing videos on netflix

Idk if this bug is a known issue fixed next update?, but here I go, so i side loaded Netflix on my PH-1 the app looks to work fine, but when i play a video, like 5 sec after i press play my phone just reboots, any ideas?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] dragynbane222:
Known bug with some time, used to be all roms
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] M. .:
When will the next build?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] MarsyChan:
If I'm correct does this Rom follow the "Android Security Bulletins" so then around when the new patch is released, maybe a few days after, my ETA is from the 5th - 9th don't quote me on tht as this is just a guess
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Edgehead123:
same here. any luck fixing the wifi?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] qnc:
Nothing yet. I tried 4 more times with a reflash and reinstall. i went back to stock for now.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] brepeti:
Hi. I'm on EvoX 4.2 Official now and downloaded the 4.3 version with updater app.

How does it work?

Need to install TWRP manually?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] MarsyChan:
Well all I did was go into system updates and update and reboot done
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] freshlysqueezed:
[MENTION=9407911]Ocean'Depth[/MENTION]

Thanks for the May monthly update and the UI cosmetic fixes.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
Anyone has standby battery drain issue in May release?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] vineetbhatia:
Is Face Unlock removed from 4.3?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] MarsyChan:
Well it's gone from the Google smart lock so I think it's gone
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] M. .:
Camera can't shot:(
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] vineetbhatia:
But why?

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But why?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] shri_chanakya:
Known issue. Reboot and it should work.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] lllGurulll:
Well off to a new rom. If smart unlock would work with my Garmin watch, this wouldn't bother me. Without face unlock and the inability of Garmin watch smart unlock via Bluetooth, the rom is kind of broken.

This is the only rom that doesn't allow smart unlock with my low power Bluetooth vivoactive watch.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] MarsyChan:
the only thing removed is the face unlock, u can still use trusted devices like ur bluetooth watch
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] lllGurulll:
As I said, it doesn't work with my smartwatch on this rom.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] MarsyChan:
well tht's weird, bc unlocked with Bluetooth is still in the settings, have u tried going to the developer settings and turned off trust agents only extend unlock, if u had tht enabled turn it off
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] lllGurulll:
Unlock with Bluetooth is still there but it's only working with high power Bluetooth devices. Trusted devices can't even see my watch even though my watch is paired.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] MarsyChan:
i c tht sucks
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] vineetbhatia:
But Essential is neither Motorola nor Lenevo, then why on Essential Phone?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
That Face unlock module is belong to Motorola (copyright issue)
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] vineetbhatia:
I am gonna miss it. Thank you for all the effort you guys do.

I love this ROM. No way to bring it back, huh!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
Anyone using AT&T here? what's your setting for mobile network type?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Edgehead123:
May build is a step in the right direction as google pay doesn't give me an error message saying i can't use my card in store because of my OS but my bank app crashes when I try to verify... anyone have any ideas?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] RawSlugs:
The metadata file in the 4.3 zip shows

post-build=essential/mata/mata:8.1.0/OPM1.180104.092/224:user/release-keys

post-security-patch-level=2020-05-05

(OPM1.180104.092 is March 2018 Release)
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
So what does this mean? It's an old ROM? I don't understand.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] RawSlugs:
Im not sure what it means (it cant be an old rom of its running Android 10 - May security patch). (Maybe its base is oreo..)

But this is probably why recovery is showing that build number...
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] freshlysqueezed:
Looks like it is using an older device fingerprint. Not sure why they decided on using it. If it really bothers you, you can change it for a more recent essential phone Android 10 fingerprint with the props config magisk module.

https://xdaforums.com/apps/magisk/module-magiskhide-props-config-t3789228
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
If it's only fingerprint related, then I'm ok. Thanks for your info.

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How do you get that info display in recovery? I can't see it

somewhere in TWRP menu?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] freshlysqueezed:
If you look at the build.prop in the system folder of root, you will see the fingerprint ID around the fifth line:

ro.system.build.fingerprint=essential/mata/mata:8.1.0/OPM1.180104.092/224:user/release-keys
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
:good:

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By the way, does anyone have issue with RCS setup in Messages? For some reasons, I couldn't get it working. I'm not sure this feature is ROM related. It's working fine in stock rom.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] R2D2_SW:
RCS is working fine for me. Only problem I had with messages is that it wouldn't restore them from the backup. Had to import them manually. Luckily I had those backed up.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] RawSlugs:
My sim only works for data if I set to "LTE". Voice does not work. I have the correct APN.

It doesn't work in LOS either, but works in stock and some other ROMs.

Is there a modem file or something else that I can do to get phone calls working?

My provider is Altice Mobile and they officially don't support this phone (which is probably part of why it's not working - but it works fine in stock)
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
About preferred network type, if I select LTE, I can not make a call or receive from anyone. I have to set it "global", maybe it's depended on carrier.

About APN, you need to select or setup correctly with your carrier configuration.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
Does anyone here with AT&T have RCS connection issue? Mine doesn't pass through the phone verification step. It was working fine in stock rom.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
When I make a call, the cell signal drops to 4G
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] R2D2_SW:
All good here on TMo. I'm actually quite pleased with this rom. Zero issues since I flashed 3 days ago. Thanks for pointing me back here.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
Yeah....battery life is amazing. I got deep sleep 97% overnight, and only 3% drop. And so far, I don't have any problem.

What's your cell signal when you make a call? LTE or 4G?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] R2D2_SW:
4G+ when I make a call. 3% drop overnight is amazing! I get around 1% per hour on standby, which is usually my point of reference.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] oceansoul:
great rom, thank you for the hard work
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] giovann134:
How is battery life, performance and signal stability?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
Hi guys.....I found something weird.....

If I turn off cell signal, and just leave wifi on.

I still can make a call and send a message. What the hell does that mean?

...and look like turn off cell signal doesn't actually off...it maybe a bug here.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] R2D2_SW:
If you have wifi calling on, this is expected behavior.

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Battery is good for me. As for stability, I have not found any bugs just yet. I'm on TMo.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] a455450222:
谢谢 我觉得rom很好用 但是就是有的地方没有中文 就是还不知道电池使用时长
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Edgehead123:
Does force desktop mode and free-floating windows in developer options work for anyone?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] MarsyChan:
Restart ur phone for tht setting to work
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Edgehead123:
:

Originally Posted by Edgehead123

Does force desktop mode and free-floating windows in developer options work for anyone?

Restart ur phone for tht setting to work

Worked perfectly, thanks!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] cge_95:
Hi Guys,

Due to PA Quartz 2 battery drain issue I'd like to swtich to Evolution which seems much better !

1- Do I really need to wipe data ? I don't want to reconfigure everything again...

2- Is there a built in updater for OTA ?

Christophe
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] MarsyChan:
2. U get updates straight on ur phone

1. Probably not recommended but u could try dirty flashing though u might encounter problems
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
Hey guys.....good news....we'll have face unlock again

Evolution X - Channel (Official)

Surprise! Face Unlock is back for OFFICIAL builds ONLY! This is nothing different to how AOSPA, PE and crDroid implemented their versions so if you have any issues, contact them too!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] seungbaekm:
Installed Evo X 4.3 + Magisk.

I don't have any issues and work very smoothly. A great ROM!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] dogslayer:
on Feb or Jan stock version?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] qnc:
Glad to know that 4.3 and magisk is working.

Do you have any wifi issues> I had issues on 4.2 and magisk.

What version of magisk are you using?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] R2D2_SW:
I have Magisk 20.4 with EvoX 4.3 with no issues.