yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] payas0:
Phone doesn't recognize exFAT drives (SD Card/flash drives)?

Anyone else tried it?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] life02:
The July 12th build has broken Google Voice wifi-calling for me (and Tmobile wifi-calling). Rolling back to July 5th for now. Any one else have these issues on this build?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Benoitgaudreault:
i will make a new attempt soon , someone have a way to make me done with it , someting to try. Thanks
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] lynnux:
Google Voice (over wifi) is working for me, July 12 build.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] pakpenyo:
There have been some updates in Gerrit regarding audio/mic issues (WhatsApp call, etc). Is this problem solved now?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] HeyItsTodd:
I was able to install lineage-18.1-20210712-recovery-mata + lineage-18.1-20210712-nightly-mata-signed after many futile attempts to get TWRP installed (anybody have a clear and reliable document for this?).

Everything seems to be working pretty well (it's basically an MP3 player and isnt' used as a phone), save for Instagram Live - it shows a still image of the first frame only. Video ads, posts, and stories seem to be fine.

Has anyone else encountered this?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] s-X-s:
I killed it man by relocking during the install. I knew it wan't a good idea but when I was flashing the img's its throwing errors. Needed 'flashing unlock critical'. But wasn't working and thought of relocking and unlocking again. But didn't realise it will require the developer options enabled again. But I had wiped the device b4. Now, i will have to open up to trigger the download mode to use QFIL.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] RawSlugs:
Every time I reboot the device I need to adjust the date and time. anyone else have this issue?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Benoitgaudreault:
i need to have my google backup , photo , contact , ect. How i do this.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Benoitgaudreault:
sorry , my first install seem not finish correctely , now i have google service
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
Yes and Yes (with screen on).

Of course.

No need to do anything like that - flashing Lineage updates your firmware.

Don't - 0 need. Lineage overwrites it anyway.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] pakpenyo:
There are tons of updates on gerrit from @npjohnson . And ineage-18.1-20210726 is missing from the repo.

So, i'm waiting for the latest build.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Smeg7:
Regarding Chrome crashing, I seem to have fixed it by following some directions earlier in this thread, but I'll go ahead and write them up clearly since I had to put together a few posts for it to make sense to me.

tl;dr: I downloaded the PQ1A.190105.112.zip image from here, because of @aamadorj's research on finding a firmware that doesn't crash. Instead of flashing the whole firmware image, I thought I'd try just flashing the modem since that seemed a likely culprit, so I the grabbed the modem.img out of that zip and then flashed it. No Chrome crashes since.

Steps:

1. Download PQ1A.190105.112.zip image from here

2. Grab the modem.img from the zip file and move it to your platform-tools folder

3. Run command line in the platform-tools folder

4. Connect your phone to the computer, make sure USB debugging is enabled in the Dev Options on the phone

5. 'adb reboot bootloader' to reboot into the bootloader

6. 'fastboot flash modem modem.img' to flash the modem image

7. Reboot and Chrome should no longer be crashing
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] vinicioh23:
So do I do this after installing lineageos right?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] dankovac1999:
Flashing modem wasn't enough for me and many other people. It depends what was your previous version. You better flash few more partitions as described in my post.

https://xdaforums.com/t/official-lineageos-18-1-for-the-essential-phone.4255343/post-85296011
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] BCLaraby:
Hi there,

I'm following the instructons here:

Install LineageOS on mata | LineageOS Wiki

wiki.lineageos.org

I'm using the LineageOS recovery:

factory reset

ADB sideload of lineage-18.1-20210802-nightly-mata-signed.zip

reboot back into recovery

adb sideloading MindTheGapps-11.0.0-arm64-20210412_124247.zip (have also tried this with open_gapps-arm64-11.0-pico-20210730.zip)

reboot

Lineage loads but there's nothing but stock lineage apps there.

Am I missing something? No matter what I try, none of the GApps are installing.

Thanks!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] dankovac1999:
Something is broken, I faced this issue as well. Try format data after first boot and install Gapps again. The thing is, lineage recovery probably flashing to wrong slot.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] BCLaraby:
I wonder if, after the reboot to recovery, it's swapping slots already? I wonder if after installing Lineage, rebooting to recovery and then manually pushing it back into the original install slot will fix this?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] dankovac1999:
I've been trying to deal with it. But I got little bit lost 😂 so just install Gapps few times and it will hit the right slot once. It's just essential problem, I haven't faced this issue on 1+7P
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] BCLaraby:
Just tried a clean install of Lineage 18.1 then did the GApps install like 3 times back to back (rebooting each time), the gapps simply aren't installing at all :'(

Looks like everything is being installed to slot b...? Recovery is running on slot a.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] dankovac1999:
Try to change slot in fastboot via command.

fastboot --set-active=a/b

To get info about active slot

fastboot getvar current-slot
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] BCLaraby:
Okay, so I switched between both a and b slots, did full reboots and each time it booted into Lineage 18.1 with the same settings.

Not sure why its doing that except that Lineage must be installed on both slots...?

I wonder if I try installing stock android on one slot if that'll let me dual boot? ;)
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] dankovac1999:
That's weird, try to install older build. I've been installing it maybe 3 updates back 🤔

Dual boot could theoretically work, but the problem is, that data partition is shared, so it's like dirty flashing. When the roms are similar, it may work.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] luis saucedo:
Friend thanks for the contribution, it worked well for me, can I keep updating by OTA without losing the flashed modem?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Mario3DS:
just updated, the flashed modem is still there, chrome doesn't crashes
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] lynnux:
I was free of the browser freezing issue after a fresh install a few months ago, but one of the recent updates brought it back. Following the procedure above (flashing an older modem) fixed the problem. Posting this in case anyone else starts noticing Chrome freezing all of a sudden (it freezes about a minute after opening).
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
yeah, sorry, it isn't still there. Every update forces the modem back to the newest version.

Anything you're seeing related to it is coincidental.

We include modem.img in the zip.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
I finally got the crash but can't figure out what's causing it.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Mario3DS:
then who knows what could be the problem, I did the following:

1. Flashed the modem file

2. Installed Chrome, let it work for a few minutes, no crashes

3. Updated LineageOS

4. Checked Chrome for crashes, still worked fine

note that before doing all of this, Chrome and any Chromium/WebKit based browser crashed after running for approx 1 minute

maybe the modem file updates a completely unrelated file in the Android system that causes Chrome to work again, and this file isn't replaced after updating, I don't know , I've got no clue about how the Android File System works hehe
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
LineageOS updates overwrite literally everything everytime they install.

The modem partition has nothing that persists.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Yolodude25:
I've been reading through this thread and I've tried the modem flash, no dice for me. Shows "chrome isn't responding" and freezes after ~1 minute of usage. Are there any other fixes that worked for people?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] simanicu:
I can relate to this issue

Seems to me that every reboot time and date goes to the last time stamp build date. Unless I use network provided time enabled In settings.

I keep my phone on different time zone, without automatic time enabled, for work related reasons.

It really bothers me that on every restart, I need to go to settings, set or enable automatic time zone then disable it again, just to get the right time and date.

So far I only noticed this issue on the last 2 builds.

If anyone has any solution, pls let me know.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
Why don't you keep network provided time to on but network provided time zone to off?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] simanicu:
Normally I would have set your way and forget about it, but I use this phone mostly for work, and recently work had me travel to places without any internet connectivity or sim signal.

It doesn't bother me that much, I don't really restart or update rom when not connected to internet. but it is a bug that hopefully can and if possible maybe get it fixed. Thank you for the hard work guys!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] luis saucedo:
How to return to stock from LineageOs?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
flash the factory image from essential
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] luis saucedo:
Thanks for answering friend, will you have the post with the manual?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
Just google it - https://sourceforge.net/projects/essential-factory-images/files/PH1-OTA-QQ1A.200105.032.zip/download - theres the factory image itself, has a script in it to run
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] luis saucedo:
Is an OTA can be installed from the recovery of LineageOs using sideload?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
Nope. It you download and extract it, it's immediately clear its a script to be executed from a PC.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] enterflux:
Has anyone else been having issues with wakelocks on this rom? I've been running it since April and my battery life has been significantly worse than stock.

Looking into AccuBattery, my deep sleep percentage has been regularly between 0% and 20% of screen off time, even on days where I barely touch my phone. I've tried removing all but the GApps but it still happens. Wakelock Detector shows a TON of events for Google Play Services (5k+ in the 10 hours since my last full charge) which I assume is not normal.

Next step will end up being trying the phone without GApps, but that's less ideal since certain apps like LastPass I can't safely get anywhere else.

Edit: Also wanted to go ahead and point out that I've tried re-flashing the ROM and MindTheGapps, as well as just plain "factory" reset. No luck. Might end up trying reflashing the ROM and the OpenGapps pico package even though MTG are the recommended set.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] IronRoo:
As it's Google Play Services it's likely another app using services to try and sync or find location, look into sync/location, more info here

How to Stop Wakelocks from Any Android App Without Root

Have you ever wondered why your Android phone eats your battery life so fast when the screen is off? Wakelocks! Here's a tutorial on how to stop wakelocks!

www.xda-developers.com

(assume you are using all latest files form legit sources)
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
Does anyone has issue with flash Gapps? I tried to install LOS and Gapps, follow the instruction from LOS site and everything went smooth, but at the end none of Google apps showed up even Google play store. I also tried MindtheGapps, but still the same. The wierd thing is I don't have any error message during sideload it. Please share with me your experience. Thanks in advance.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
After you flashed Los, did you reboot the into recovery and then flash gapps (prior to booting into system)
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
Yes, I followed exactly the instruction in LOS. After flash the rom, back to main menu - advance - reboot to recovery, and apply update, sideload the gapps, and reboot the phone, and none of Google apps in app draw, zero. I flashed the LOS17.1 before and no issue, but now with 18.1 it's so weird. But thanks for checking.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
What's this update you are applying after you reboot to recovery?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
I meant select the "Apply update" from menu and "Apply from adb", and use adb sideload to flash gapps.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
Use mindthegapps, not OpenGapps.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
Nope....still not working, but someone in reddit helped me with remount the /mnt/system and it's working.

Look like it's a bug in LOS or maintainer forgot to fix it.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
Am the maintainer, didn't forget to fix it, I can't recreate it.

MTG installs just fine from stock and I'm not at all sure why it doesn't work for you.

OpenGApps is known to have some weird mount problems on mata.

I'll try a few more times and see if I hit it.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
Hi, sorry no offense, and I appreciate your work that keeps mata alive till now.

I've been spending whole day tried to install Gapps and used both MindtheGapps and Open Gapss. I also rolled the phone back to stock multiple times and still no go. followed exactly the instruction to install from LOS (btw this is not my first time to install LOS, it's working for me with LOS 17.1 last year). Any after boot, there're no Google play store or any Google apps that suppose to be with Gapps. I wandered around in reddit and finally got help from someone....below is the conversation from reddit that helped me to get my phone up running with Gapps installed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/essential/comments/q8mlj2

I hope you can figure out and get this feature work in future releases. Thanks again.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
Looks like 2 months ago an ASB introduced some oddities with system as root. Looking into it.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] andril:
thanking you from my PH-1 live beyond the OEM timeline - much appreciated
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] snail3:
confirmed open-gapps working with this method, thank you for the post.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
Can confirm the bug now, when I properly disable verity like official builds do, OpenGApps don't persist, it's not a mata bug tho, it's an opengapps mount bug :/

Told them how to fix it but they move extremely slowly.

MindTheGapps 100% works, verified it myself.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Blue Lion:
What a great rom. Thank you guys for the great work.

I wanna report a bug regarding the Microphone. It works perfectly except in Video calling apps like Facebook messenger and Google Duo.

I'm not sure if it's related to the mixer file.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] danz852:
Hi, about microphone not working on video call, try to turn off Volte and wifi calling then restart the phone. Not sure if it will work but you can try.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] luis saucedo:
TI have a problem with a banking app with the latest lineage OS update, do you have a solution?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
SafetyNet, and no, I don't. If it doesn't work it doesn't work.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
EDIT: Accidental duplicate post.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] qvd:
Anybody knows why LineageOS 17.1 for Mata was not maintained? I mean applying monthly security updates should be straightforward right? Sorry I can't see the official 17.1 thread anymore.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
Did you check the official LOS site for mata? It's weekly update for me....check this

LineageOS Downloads

download.lineageos.org
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] qvd:
That's 18.1 from your link. I'm talking about 17.1.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
Typically maintainers stop updating the previous version when a new one comes out. Not worth the hassle of updating 2 versions.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
LineageOS only allows devices to ship one version at a time.

Mata is on the newest shipping version (18.1 as of this post). If you want a newer 17.1 image with newer security patch, just go build it, follow the wiki build guide and swap 17.1 for 18.1 where applicable.

Not sure why you would though. 18.1 is far better on Mata.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
Sorry, yes that's what I meant. I was trying to point out to the person that raised the query that updating 17.1 would be an unofficial build and maintainer may not have time for that.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] qvd:
Sorry I don't follow this thread closely so I don't know how good the 18.1 vs 17.1 for mata. I have been using 17.1 since the day Essential decided to end software update. I'll give 18.1 a try. Thanks.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] qvd:
Beside the WI-FI Display issue and MindTheGapps being the only supported GApps package listed in first post, is there any other issue I need to be aware of?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
Nope. Wi-Fi display will be enabled soon-ish, when 19.0 ships actually.

And MTG being the only one isn't an issue - the others just keep breaking.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] qvd:
Thank you!!!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Pendragonx315:
Chromium-based browsers will crash (at least they have for a lot of us .. myself included) frequently to the point of not being usable ... Firefox / FOSS browser work fine though
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
I still can't recreate this.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] qvd:
Thanks. I use DuckDuckGo most of the time so that's not a deal breaker for me. But I'll report back if it crashes.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] qvd:
Any ideas when 19.0 will ship?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
Nope.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] MuddyDog:
Hi npjohnson, the ongoing weekly releases of 18.1 have been great (particularly keeping the kernel up to date). The one issue that (for me) blocks 18.1 from being useful as a daily driver is that VoLTE doesn't work correctly. It is enabled and *#4636#* shows that it is Provisioned, Registered, and Available, however in-call audio either fails completely or "chipmunks".

Anay Wadhera says that this may be an issue when using t-mobile... (an audio encoding issue)?

My workaround has been to use Andy Yan's 18.1 GSI, which is built using phhusson's treble base. In Andy's builds (and all of the phhusson variants) VoLTE works correctly; hd audio is clear and very stable.

Can this be fixed in the Lineage builds? I could generate log files from GSI and Lineage 18.1 if helpful.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Pendragonx315:
I'm on T-mobile as well, and my VoLTE does seem to be working ... I do occasionally get the 'chipmunk' audio ... The workaround I've found is to switch audio devices (i.e. switch to bluetooth headest, switch to speakerphone, etc) somehow that seems to "fix" the problem and the audio goes back to normal... Not sure if that will help you?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Pendragonx315:
I just did some looking and fascinatingly a lot of the browsers that use Gecko\WebView engines seem to work just fine

Firefox

IceRaven

Bromite

DuckDuckGo Browser

Privacy Browser (uses a new 'GeckoView' engine?)

FOSS Browser

these all seem to work

yet anything that uses the Blink engine seems to crash for me

Chromium

Vivaldi / Vivaldi Snapshot

Brave

I wonder if I can enable debugging and get a log of the crashes ...hmmm
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
What about apps that use webview to load their content?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Spey:
Two questions:

1) Does a PH-1 running Android-10 with Feb 2020 Security Patch (10 QQ1A.200105.032) need to be downgraded (previous to Feb 2020) to install LOS 18.1 ?

(I remember some time back, downgrade was required but see no mention of this in LOS Wiki Install Guide.)

2) Also have PH-1's that were not updated past Android-8 (have NOT yet taken Build PQ1A.19105.112), and wondering if anything other than LOS Wiki Install Guide instructions need to be done to load LOS 18.1 ?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
To all of the above, we include firmware - just boot recovery and flash the ROM.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Der-Knuffi:
I have the same freeze problem. Did you find a solution? I'm on a oneplus 3.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] IronRoo:
@npjohnson A big thanks for maintaining this ROM, much appreciated.

I do have 2 bugs though on my install

1) Network status shows as "no internet" as the signal strength indicator has a little cross on BOTTOM RIGHT of bars, but internet still works except for Google Assistant (which I only ever use with Android Auto). I've checked my providers APN settings, tried their alternative APN, that automatically update when inserting SIM. All correct., everthing blank except

Name

VF WEB​

APN

live.vodafone.com​

MCC

505​

MNC

3​

APN Type

default​

2) Phone defaulted to "GLOBAL" for network type, calls & internet worked. However it only ever showed LTE never LTE+ (I live in an area where it used to regularly switch between the two) (Now that i type that I have a feeling Lineage/newer OS dropped the +?) So I switched it to LTE only (having read in the OSOM article that the weak signal reported with our phones was due to having Japanese network specs & transmitter, so wondered if switching off Global might give stronger signal as stopped Japanese bandwidths) but this resulted in being unable to place/recieve calls, data still worked. So went back to Global which works fine.

Anyone else with either of these issues?

PS. To anyone else thinking of installing I suggest you do, it was my first time using ADB/fastboot, having only ever flashed Samsung phones in the past & I was worried about the A/B partitions but no need to have worried. (only thing I did a little differently from Lineage instructions was that I just dragged files to be flashed into ADB/Fastboot window so the full path was used)

Thanks again for this great ROM, especially like the Essential camera being included as it gives most natural colours, I think, though have installed GCam port for when light is low.