yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
Phone working well in my testing so far. I haven't inserted a SIM in it yet so haven't tested the mobile network part. Camera, etc works fine too.

I like the new gallery app. Just wish there was a way to specify how many thumbnails to see per row as the current 4 means they are too small for me. Some gallery apps allow you to pinch-zoom which changes the size and number of thumbnails.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
I have a bug to report for the new gallery app. Occasionally long pressing a picture or a video thumbnail to select it does not work. I have not been able to find a pattern to this yet unfortunately.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
Report on the gitlab tracker
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] jack4uno:
I'm trying to update from LOS 20 to 21 using USB OTG. I am getting the error "Signature verification failed. Install anyway?" Should I proceed? Using the unofficial build.

EDIT: Figured it out, it was because of the GApps and is normal
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
Don't the unofficial builds have gapps included? Why are you installing then separately
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
Tried the 360 degree module today. The 1st time I put it on, the phone shut down the moment Klik started. But after restarting the phone, tried again and this time Klik launched fine. Took a couple of 360° pictures. Came out nice!

Thanks for sorting this.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] AkoreJepade:
So what is this Klik you are mentioning so that I can try my 360 cam :)
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
The essential camera app. One of the two built in camera apps.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] AkoreJepade:
Thank you! I just tried it out and it works perfectly! Hard to believe that a phone I bought back in July 2018 is now running the latest version of Android and the 360 camera still is supported! This PH-1 is going to be handed off to my wife to replace the LG G5 that is all but dead thanks to the display going on it.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
Yeah. Phone works relatively well on Android 14 with Lineageos. For me, the only issue is battery life degrading over the years but that's nothing that a ROM can solve
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] AkoreJepade:
Yeah would not mind getting the battery replaced but that ship has probably already sailed. Wonder if someone makes a battery case for the PH-1? I know back in the day I had a case with a battery in it for my work iPhone 4+ to get me through the day.

Anyway back on track for this thread... anyone know if there is away to change that "screenshot" button to a "clear all" button so you do not have to scroll all the way to the left to get to it? I did some searching and it seems to be a common complaint about this rom. I could not find anything in settings. Maybe something under "developer options"?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
Nope, it just isn't included.

And there decent reason.

Compulsively closing all your apps doesn't do what most people think anymore.

Android is super strict about backgrounding, and only allows very specific apps with very specific permissions to do a few things.

Other than that apps are often not actually running in the background but in the state of suspension.

And if the device truly hits battery issues or performance-based issues LMKD will kick in and kill the necessary processes.

In fact, there's been some indication from Google studies that clearing all apps at once is a compulsive habit many users have developed that actually results in slightly higher power draw, as it is more battery intensive to push the data into RAM than to keep it there, and given how apps have ballooned in size nowadays, it's actually a decent effort ask to push the entire app into memory.

But if for some reason you really still need that button, it's all the way on the left of the app switcher behind your least recent app.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] AkoreJepade:
Just wish you could block the screenshot button as it's filling my photo gallery with them 😂
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
The position of that button is how it is be default in Android when Google releases it to AOSP. Lineageos doesn't position it there. It will be the same if you use a pixel device or any other that users pure, stock Android. Many manufacturers like Samsung, OnePlus, etc. reposition it when they create their own skin for their phones
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] IronRoo:
Yes, battery is now in need of replacement, but I don't trust any sources I've found on web 😞 had wondered about getting a 3D back printed that could accept a common battery, but I need to look at connector etc

But great to have new Android version to play around with.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
Sadly, this device utilizes android.hardware.radio@1.3 (or below).

This means that the March security bulletin - known as QPR2 - fully killed this device.

We (LineageOS) are trying to write a wrapper to make older radio HAL versions compatible with newer radio HAL versions.

With that said, we may or may not be successful and we're entirely unsure how long it would take.

So, sadly, for now, this device has 21 builds disabled - I have deployed one final February ASB unofficial build people can use in the intermediary (or you can use the final official build).

I will announce here if/when the device is re-added to the roster.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] LineArc:
Ooh 😲😭. So no updates from now on? I just replaced the battery so that I could use it for a couple of more years. Still you guys (lineageOS) have done amazing jobs.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mizzike32:
Over the past week or two I had a strange feeling that something was wrong. All the latest updates disappeared from the updater page under system and no new updates at all.

If this is indeed the end it's a damn shame because this device performs like it did after going from nougat to oreo with official essential builds. I could even make the argument this device performed better with your builds.

6 1/2 years (8/17 - 2/24) is a helluva run and proves an android device can last a long time if involving the right people/company(s).

I haven't had a Samsung device in 10 years but it looks like that's where I will go next for my android handset needs. I'm not happy with the hardware direction that the pixel line has pivoted to.

Nolan, please do us all a favor; when you come to a conclusion whether the issue can be fixed or not please provide a new posting so we know where we stand.

Thank you so much for your efforts
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
I hope you guys find a workaround. If not, well all good things come to an end sometime.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] AkoreJepade:
Mine is running the March 16th 2024 version and is working just fine? What is broken?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
but if you look in settings you don't have the march security patches. You just have something that "Was built in march".

They were basically a pseudo android 15 release in the march release, almost as large as android 14 release.

There won't be further builds.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] AkoreJepade:
Ahhh yes I see that now. So basically the phone is fine it just won't be getting anymore monthly security updates so it might be a bit unsafe in the future.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mizzike32:
"There won't be further builds"

Nolan so this is indeed the end? I thought it would take more than a day or two to conclude that?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
It's been well more than a day or two, we started this endeavor at the beginning of the month.

I'm just posting about it now because we're realizing that we need to move forward without these devices for now.

We may be able to get it wrapped, it may even be soon, I wouldn't bet on it being within the next month or two though.

But there's also a likelihood that we just won't be able to get it wrapped at all.

So for now, yes, it's the end.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
@npjohnson can I ask a possibly silly question? Although not exactly the same, in concept this is similar to what happened in the past where the Android 12 cut off devices of certain kernel versions. Since those devices are stuck at Lineageos 18 but still receive security updates, do you think something similar might be possible for this and the other affected devices?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
those died at the end of cycle.

Maybe but we are yet unsure how to handle this.

Users who are on 21 can't downgrade to 20 without data wipe, so it gets really messy.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] IronRoo:
I read that OSOM are planning on releasing a new phone later this year, so you might be able to get a phone with the bloatware free Essential vibe (as many of the Essential team started OSOM, and the phone they made for Solana, the Saga, has the "vibe" 😎) keep an eye out for news on www.osomprivacy.com, Discord and here of course https://xdaforums.com/f/osom-ov1.12561/

A big thanks to our dev for all his work and of course everyone who makes LineageOS and custom ROMs possible
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mizzike32:
I've read about this awhile back.......not the new one you're talking about but the vibe.

After essential abandoned ship right before the pandemic hit, it left a bad taste in my mouth. 2 1/2 years is a joke. I wonder what would've happened if Rubin never got sued with those lawsuits.

After that I came to the conclusion that in america in regards to android it's a duopoly.

After the OP1 I had high hopes for OnePlus but they just kept going up and up and up in price. I never bought an OP device ever again.

Im going to continue to use the ph-1 as my backup for at least until the end of the year. But anything deemed sensitive will be removed from this device before that.

I left Samsung years ago for a lot of reasons but because of the conflict of interest in relation to Google and Samsung's hardware/software phony partnership (arranged marriage?) Google will never properly compete with them.

So that's why I will give Samsung another chance. I lost my android virginity to them. You never forget the first one (Galaxy Note II)
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Tomoms:
@malerocks @AkoreJepade @mizzike32 @IronRoo

I think we can be cautiously optimistic about the future of the PH-1. @npjohnson notified me that a fellow LineageOS developer found a way to use a more modern radio software stack on his Snapdragon 835 device. This software stack also seems to work on the Snapdragon 835 device with the oldest modem firmware among them all (OEMs sometimes do not update the firmware even if Qualcomm releases a newer one), so in theory it should work fine on the PH-1 too. I'll work on adapting it to the PH-1 in the next couple of weeks, we'll keep you guys updated :)
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
That's awesome. Hope it works out!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mizzike32:
This is welcomed news. Keeping fingers crossed.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
There's no update released last 3 weeks, is it end of life support for Mata device?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] AkoreJepade:
Read the past few posts and all will be revealed to you. Hopefully some good news down the road
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
Also explained in the updated very 1st post
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
I see it now....didn't check the post on that page. Thks.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
Just noticed you posted this on 1st April. Hope it wasn't a April Fools joke 🤣 🤣
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
he is serious haha.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Tomoms:
@malerocks @AkoreJepade @mizzike32 @IronRoo

An initial implementation of the new radio stack has shown promising results. Pretty much everything works, only VoLTE needs testing (because I am unable to test that myself). I still need to clean up and polish my patches before submitting them, but it shouldn't take long. The difficult part of the job is done now :)
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Tomoms:
FYI a banner will soon show up on LineageOS wiki stating that mata is not officially supported on 21 anymore, and the build servers will fall back to compiling LineageOS 20 builds for our device, which will be served via OTA. My advice is to not downgrade (also because a downgrade requires a clean flash!), and to hang on while we get the new radio stack up and running flawlessly, which should not take more than a couple of weeks.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
Thanks for letting us know.

Does that mean the devices for which the radio stack can't be fixed will fall back to v20?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
potentially, we have yet to decide.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mizzike32:
Thanks for the update
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Tomoms:
@malerocks @AkoreJepade @mizzike32 @IronRoo

Hi, a quick update.

The new radio stack works very well, VoLTE and VoWiFi have been thoroughly tested and they are ok. Unfortunately, when using this new stack, SIM hotswapping is broken, meaning that if you insert a SIM while the phone is powered on, it will not be detected until the following reboot. As I currently cannot see an effective way to fix this issue, and gived that someone has just finished writing a wrapper that allows running old radio stacks on Android 14 QPR2, @npjohnson prefers that we implement the wrapper instead of the new radio stack, at least for the time being.

As soon as the wrapper is deemed "production-ready" we will implement & test it. This might take a few days/weeks (?). In the meantime I'll keep trying to fix the SIM hotswapping bug that affects the new stack.

Either way, it might take a little longer than expected, but rest assured that the PH-1 will resurrect.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Syoric:
Thanks for the heads up. Your efforts, along with everyone keeping this alive, are greatly felt and appreciated. If there's anything we can do to assist with the radio stack, or if you have a link to the code you're working on, please feel free to let us know.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] AkoreJepade:
Awesome news to say the least! I didn't even know you could swap a SIM chip while a device was powered on or maybe that was for memory chips? o_O
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
TBH, I didn't know SIM hot swapping is a thing. If everything else works, I wouldn't mind having that bug as I don't think I would need to swap SIM when the phone is on.

Really appreciate your work though
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] benoboa:
Hot swapping sims was always a risky thing in my eyes the people in the cellular stores don't even do it.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
@Tomoms @npjohnson from the comments above, considering that most of us don't expect to hot swap SIM anyway, can we have the new radio stack? Or would that be against Lineageos official rom rules?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Tomoms:
In my opinion the benefits of the new radio stack outweigh this little hotswapping drawback, but Nolen is officially the PH-1 maintainer, so the final decision is up to him :)
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
You have as much of a say in it as I do ;)

I think wrapper for now, new stack later - maybe hot swapping is fixed.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
Mata has disappeared from the official LineageOS list of supported devices 🙁
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Syoric:
Looks like it's been moved to the discontinued devices category for now.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
Literally read the original post
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
I know. Just stating the obvious. We were warned earlier that the device page will get a banner that states it's no longer maintained. I didn't realise that meant it would be removed altogether.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] LineArc:
I got an update on 9th may, should I flash it or not...
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Syoric:
Are you still on LineageOS 20? I'm on 21 and haven't had an update show in a while, just checked and still nothing.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Tomoms:
You are probably using my unofficial builds, for which there is a dedicated thread: https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-u-mata-unofficial-optimized-lineageos-21-may-8th.4344275/

Completely normal. Read the last few pages of this thread and don't lose hope. mata will be back, sooner or later.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Syoric:
Lol no worries, I appreciate the heads up. I am keeping the faith 👍

Besides that your unofficial builds look interesting. Had many issues with them?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Tomoms:
Not really, many users and I use(d) them as daily drivers. I use them as a playground to test changes and fixes I then contribute to official builds, so oftentimes they work better than the official ones. The new radio stack is a perfect example of this: I've already implemented it in my builds and it works fine, it'll land in the official ones after adequate testing and polishing, but it does already work fine!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] LineArc:
I am on lineageOS 21. And received an update on 9th may. Even downloaded it.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Syoric:
Nice! Thanks for the info, I'll be sure to look into it a bit more. And of course thanks for your efforts , contributions and replies.

You must be using a custom unofficial version like Tomoms mentioned. If so, you'll want to check with the threads for your specific version. I don't imagine updating would be a bad thing, but the comments in those threads would probably give you a more reliable basis to go off of.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
You are probably using npjohnsons unofficial builds
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
yeah, the most recent one is using the proposed fix for the radio issue.

May be shippable soon.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] LineArc:
Yes I am using npjohnson's unofficial build, now should I update?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] LineArc:
Shoul

Should I install the 9th may update? As it is my main phone.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
/Shrug up to you

Works for me.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] rete2:
Hot-swapping the SIM in the May 9th build gives an "invalid card" result and the phone must be restarted before the SIM is recognized.

Assume the May 9 build is using the new radio stack and not the wrapper?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
Correct, and hotseap is something we are just going to give up for now.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] rete2:
Thanks

Only issue I've noticed with May 9 is "Battery Usage" statistics. Before applying the May 9 update it showed a graph but after the update it's showing 0 min screen time and the battery graph is gone (I haven't recharged the phone since updating, mind you).
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] swing1987:
I got an issue that the battery status reached 100% while the capacity was only 1800mAh. The status was normal before 9 May update. Also battery drain much quicker than before.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mizzike32:
Is that an original battery or has it been replaced?

My ph-1 still has the original battery but it's slowly dying. I have no plans on replacing it when it gets bad enough. I've had battery drain issues even before this update. I attribute it more to the age of the battery rather than the builds.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mizzike32:
Attention: NPJ & TomToms

I did an OTA about a week ago with the latest update via included built-in updater.

Im using NP's unofficial builds with apps built in so everyone knows.

Everything went normal except when it rebooted my app shortcuts were gone. I had to completely redo my launcher homepages. It's not the end of the world but I had to spend time redoing it. This has never happened to me before.

Also there were performance hiccups that went away after I did another reboot but I noticed this build is not as smooth as previous ones.

Finally when I usually swipe from the top right down I'm able to see the settings shortcut in one swipe but for the first few boots after update it was acting like a pixel build where you had to swipe twice.

The weird thing is this went away after a few reboots which for the life of me I don't understand.

Anyways it's working....hope all is figured out sooner than later.

Keep it up gentlemen. 😀👍
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
On the unofficial this is due to the fact that I migrated us from Pixel Launcher to Trebuchet.

sorry about that.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] MrMundy:
was looking forward to updating this since i had a spare SIM card floating around.

but the battery bloated out of nowhere...

took out the battery and its sitting in a drawer for now...
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] swing1987:
I have replaced the battery before. I fallback to original rom to investigate if this is battery issue.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] swing1987:
Is it possible to include the essential notch settings from stock rom?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
No, but you can mess with the notch a bit in dev settings.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
The radio issue has been fixed for this device, both weeklies and unoffiicials will roll this week.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Syoric:
Thanks for the confirmation! Such good news! Will it be with the wrapper, or the new radio stack by chance?
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] chanh2018:
Thank you so much for your hard work.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
new radio stack
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
Updated my phone. Working well. Thanks for this 😊
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
Could be me, but the phone feels a little snappier as well.
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
Is there a workaround for the mobile data icon still showing that a connection isn't working? Or is that a good in progress?

Not a deal breaker, just curious.

Edit: Never mind, restarting the phone a few times fixed it!
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] npjohnson:
This will sometimes happen on the first reboot after the update, once you reboot it goes away
[Essential Phone ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] malerocks:
Yes. Experienced that. Though I has updated the phone earlier in the week, I didn't put in a sim until today morning. Saw that after the 1st boot part inserting the sim. A couple of boots fixed it, like you said.