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Mate 9 Pro & Daydream VR

Has anyone been able to install the Daydream VR app? Google Play Store is telling me the Mate 9 Pro isn't compatible.
Since I'm currently stuck on B124 is there anyone with a newer build that can confirm that Daydream will install on their phone?

Crazypinoy9 said:
Has anyone been able to install the Daydream VR app? Google Play Store is telling me the Mate 9 Pro isn't compatible.
Since I'm currently stuck on B124 is there anyone with a newer build that can confirm that Daydream will install on their phone?
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Have you tried side loading the apk? I'll have to try this evening..

Hi,
I already mentioned this in another thread. I managed to sideload the apps and all fine. When starting the app it says not compatible, however I can click "OK" and it then goes to the configuration screen. This is where the problems start because I cannot connect the controller. So After these steps it is currently a dead end

Im still waiting for the daydream update to be released!
Who are we waiting for? Google or Huawei?
And what is taking so long!!

razorx123 said:
Im still waiting for the daydream update to be released!
Who are we waiting for? Google or Huawei?
And what is taking so long!!
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We're waiting on Huawei.

I'm on B167, see attached screenshot.

Is there anyone on LON-L29C636B156 firmware that can try running the Daydream VR app?

Crazypinoy9 said:
Is there anyone on LON-L29C636B156 firmware that can try running the Daydream VR app?
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I am on that version. What exactly are you trying to install? Is it in the play store?

Volsfan said:
I am on that version. What exactly are you trying to install? Is it in the play store?
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Trying to figure out if that version is the firmware that will make the M9Pro finally compatible with Daydream VR
Reference: Daydream VR compatible phones
Google App
Daydream VR
Also requires this:
Google VR Services
Although, if you don't have the Daydream VR headset it might or might not be hard to test out.

Daydream Mate 9 PRO
Finally arriving. Longing for next OTA!
vr.google.com/daydream/phones/#daydream-ready-phones
androidheadlines.com/2017/03/huaweis-mate-9-pro-finally-supports-daydream.html
Not allowed to post links yet.

Crazypinoy9 said:
Has anyone been able to install the Daydream VR app? Google Play Store is telling me the Mate 9 Pro isn't compatible.
Since I'm currently stuck on B124 is there anyone with a newer build that can confirm that Daydream will install on their phone?
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Hi , everyone. I have been able to install via FirmwareFinde the B181 version this weekend . DayDream is included with it , but I found some problems. I can initiate the DayDream app and pair the Google DayDream View , but the aplication ends with a stereoscopic blank screen .
I mean , it does not render the initial island scene or any other app .
I am not sure if it is a general problem or just for my phone.

psicoforma said:
Hi , everyone. I have been able to install via FirmwareFinde the B181 version this weekend . DayDream is included with it , but I found some problems. I can initiate the DayDream app and pair the Google DayDream View , but the aplication ends with a stereoscopic blank screen .
I mean , it does not render the initial island scene or any other app .
I am not sure if it is a general problem or just for my phone.
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Hi,
I have the same problem. So it's not your phone. Let's see till when, whoever has to update something...
Regards,
ThePief

1newbe said:
Finally arriving. Longing for next OTA!
vr.google.com/daydream/phones/#daydream-ready-phones
androidheadlines.com/2017/03/huaweis-mate-9-pro-finally-supports-daydream.html
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I just got this OTA last night (B181). I'm actually in the process of pairing my controller right now. So excited :highfive:

Crazypinoy9 said:
I just got this OTA last night (B181). I'm actually in the process of pairing my controller right now. So excited :highfive:
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Please, let us know if it worked for you and good luck !

psicoforma said:
Please, let us know if it worked for you and good luck !
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I'm able to at least update the controller software now but when I try to open up Daydream it's just a black screen but I do have sounds. I can hear the birds chirping and water flowing but no picture. I can even hear sounds when I click on the buttons on the controller. The only thing that is visible is the volume bar when I raise or lower the volume with the controller....
That's it...

Yeah, same symptoms here... At least, I am not alone...

Anyone have any updates? I've tried so many different things to get this working with no success

Crazypinoy9 said:
Anyone have any updates? I've tried so many different things to get this working with no success
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I have seen a b182 ota update from Huawei on Firmware Finder but don´t get to install it (signature check failure) and don´t know if this update is related to Daydream . Anyone got this update?

psicoforma said:
I have seen a b182 ota update from Huawei on Firmware Finder but don´t get to install it (signature check failure) and don´t know if this update is related to Daydream . Anyone got this update?
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I'll try to update to B182 and reply back
Hopefully this finally fixes my crappy touchscreen sensitivity. I keep having to double tap stuff with a little force just to click on something and it's getting annoying

still get authentication failure for 182 as well...

Android Wear 2.5

My Huawei watch suddenly rebooted itself and I was wondering what on earth happened. Then I went to settings and noticed the OS was updated to Android Wear 2.5.0.172604017.
Anybody else having this, and which device?
Does anybody know any change logs?

simeoni said:
My Huawei watch suddenly rebooted itself and I was wondering what on earth happened. Then I went to settings and noticed the OS was updated to Android Wear 2.5.0.172604017.
Anybody else having this, and which device?
Does anybody know any change logs?
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My build number is N7G75S and my Android Wear version is the same as yours, but I haven't had an update since getting 2.0. My security patch level is April, but some people have been getting the October security update. I don't know if that changes the version number or not.

yeah got 2.5 too on my zenwatch...android wear is a joke....a really bad one

I got 2.5 on my Watch Urbane 1G.

I bought yesterday my 1st smartwatch Fossil Q Explorist 3. After turning on it rebooted often and now I'm also on 2.5.0.172604017

txx3 said:
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There is an October security update for the HW1

kbboykin said:
There is an October security update for the HW1
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oki

txx3 said:
oki
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I see that my zenwatch 3 also has android wear 2.5 but
I did not get any updates for it since October 18th.
The last time android wear was updated was Oct.18
The strange thing is that even though my watch has
the 2.5 version installed my S7 Edge phone still has
the 2.0 version installed.
I downloaded the Android Wear 2.5 apk from apk
mirror but it would not install in my phone.
It errors out saying "There was a problem parsing the package".
I tried downloading the 2.5 version from two other sources on
the internet but both had the same error results.
Has anyone checked their Android Wear version which is
installed in the phone to see if anyone has version 2.5
installed in the phone?
Thanks, have a great day!

Misterjunky said:
I see that my zenwatch 3 also has android wear 2.5 but
I did not get any updates for it since October 18th.
The last time android wear was updated was Oct.18
The strange thing is that even though my watch has
the 2.5 version installed my S7 Edge phone still has
the 2.0 version installed.
I downloaded the Android Wear 2.5 apk from apk
mirror but it would not install in my phone.
It errors out saying "There was a problem parsing the package".
I tried downloading the 2.5 version from two other sources on
the internet but both had the same error results.
Has anyone checked their Android Wear version which is
installed in the phone to see if anyone has version 2.5
installed in the phone?
Thanks, have a great day!
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its 2.0 for me too, are they both always the same?
cause one could be 2.5 and the other 2.0
since i see no change whatsoever i assume only the watch got it

re: android wear 2.5
txx3 said:
its 2.0 for me too, are they both always the same?
cause one could be 2.5 and the other 2.0
since i see no change whatsoever i assume only the watch got it
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That's what I was wondering too, the 2.0 Android Wear at the playstore
does have a "what's new" information like all the playstore apps have
but it does not mention anything about android wear 2.5 at all.
I cannot think of any reason why there is a different version in the watch
but not in the phone.
Even when I google searched the web I found only two or three
links which had anything to do with android wear 2.5 and had
hardly any useful information about it and none of the sites even
mentioned anything as to why there are different versions on the
phone and on the watch.
.
Good luck, have a great day!

my Huawei watch did the shutdown update thing to 2.5 the other day. Now I'm having issues getting notifications to pass from my phone to my watch.
Is there any way to roll back to 2.0???

bjm374 said:
my Huawei watch did the shutdown update thing to 2.5 the other day. Now I'm having issues getting notifications to pass from my phone to my watch.
Is there any way to roll back to 2.0???
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Same issue on my updated Moto 360 Sport. I'm pretty sure the issue was caused by the 2.5 update, sucks lol.

bjm374 said:
my Huawei watch did the shutdown update thing to 2.5 the other day. Now I'm having issues getting notifications to pass from my phone to my watch
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Go to Android Wear settings in your phone and set all permissions on. Restart phone and watch.

That does not work

viseversa101 said:
That does not work
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Please quote the message you are replying to.
If you are talking about notifications, they must be enabled on Android Wear app on the phone.
I have no problems at all with Android Wear 2.6 on both watch and phone.

Yesterday I noticed that notifications did not show on the watch (Huawei). So I unpaired the watch and cleared data and cache from both Google Play Services and Android Wear. After that everything OK again.

My version on the Huawei Watch2 shows 2.6.0.176354550 Dated august security patch on 7.1.1

Just got an update on my Ticwatch S to Wear 2.7.0.178645119. not experiencing any obvious changes yet.

Tuborg68 said:
Just got an update on my Ticwatch S to Wear 2.7.0.178645119. not experiencing any obvious changes yet.
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I got update to 2.7 on Huawei Watch, too. The app selector has larger icons and font.
Quite frequent updates lately. Sad that no updates to Oreo scheduled, though.

Google Phone no longer in Playstore

Does anyone know why Phone disappeared in the Playstore? I can no longer even see it listed under my installed apps in the Playstore. I had disabled one update before, because the screen wouldn't turn on while on Bluetooth. The phone was listed under available updates for a while and recently just disappeared. At first I thought it was because I installed Gcam with camera2 API and HAL3, but the phone is not rooted, and bootloader is locked.

KDash4 said:
Does anyone know why Phone disappeared in the Playstore? I can no longer even see it listed under my installed apps in the Playstore. I had disabled one update before, because the screen wouldn't turn on while on Bluetooth. The phone was listed under available updates for a while and recently just disappeared. At first I thought it was because I installed Gcam with camera2 API and HAL3, but the phone is not rooted, and bootloader is locked.
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It suddenly became incompatible with our device. weird.

IjazCI said:
Maybe they want to keep features like "floating windows" exclusively for pixel phones. Updated to version 17 from apkmirror and i got this
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Thanks. Did it update the app or install another version?

IjazCI said:
@joeyhuab i know you from sprout forums.
and your reddit id ...lol
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Yep hehe sold my Sprout already and know have Mi A1 <3

IjazCI said:
It update the app
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It did update the phone app, but frequently I got the error "Google has stopped" so uninstalled it, which means that the app I have now is even older version than 16. I had earlier. It doesn't update now. Perhaps February update may bring some changes,
Regards

I think compatibility was removed from the Mi A1 as they were receiving many 1 star reviews on the app by people from India. Many users are complaining about issues related to the Jio network which are not being experienced by users from other countries.

IjazCI said:
Thats strange. I never got any error messages. Absolutely zero errors. Also updated Google Play Services to latest stable ( 948 ) version on apkmirror as our device has 448 version by default.
I lost my patience , unlocked bootloader, temporary booted to twrp and flashed the 3rd February beta by sooti earlier today. :victory: lol. ( Camera tooks a while to start after this, but that doesn't bother me. )
My device is pure stock with no modification other than the beta thing. Planning to update to stable February ota when fastboot rom is released. Or sooti bring the twrp twrp flashable rom ( whichever is earlier )
I don't know the issue others mentioning on the threads, for me this device is rock stable from the day i purchased it. No random reboot or application forcestop etc...
Regards
Edit - Camera lag is because of root. I didn't realise that. Anyway flashed the stock boot images by sooti on both partitions and the lag is gone.
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To avoid camera lag and dialer app lag install magisk permission module

IjazCI said:
Thank you for the answer. I fixed the lag. Root is causing that lag so i unrooted the phone. This is one device i don't feel that i need root anymore.
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Right but i can't live without root because Lucky patcher, xposed, and freedom are must have apps for me. OTA comes in more than a month so who cares when you can update through twrp and fastboot method without loosing data

joeyhuab said:
I think compatibility was removed from the Mi A1 as they were receiving many 1 star reviews on the app by people from India. Many users are complaining about issues related to the Jio network which are not being experienced by users from other countries.
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That may be true, even I had given a 3-star rating because of duplicate contacts !

shrinivasanp said:
That may be true, even I had given a 3-star rating because of duplicate contacts !
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You guys do know you can remove Duplicates via the Contacts app and the Phone app has nothing to do with it right?

That's not exactly the issue @joeyhuab.
What i'm facing is that isssue :
1) If i open contact app, there is no duplicate contact at all
2) if i go to the contact tab of the phone app, there is duplicate contacts (on line for each app that allow calls, for example if one of my contact is on whatsapp, duo and signal, i got 4 contacts line, one for standard call, one for whatsapp call, one for signal call and finally one for duo call)
That's pretty annoying and i didn't yet find any solution

eliohann said:
That's not exactly the issue @joeyhuab.
What i'm facing is that isssue :
1) If i open contact app, there is no duplicate contact at all
2) if i go to the contact tab of the phone app, there is duplicate contacts (on line for each app that allow calls, for example if one of my contact is on whatsapp, duo and signal, i got 4 contacts line, one for standard call, one for whatsapp call, one for signal call and finally one for duo call)
That's pretty annoying and i didn't yet find any solution
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You can merge the contacts by showing ALL CONTACTS in the Contacts app then merging them all.

joeyhuab said:
You can merge the contacts by showing ALL CONTACTS in the Contacts app then merging them all.
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Again, that's not working.
In the contacts App, there is no duplicate contact at all ... even when i choose to show ALL CONTACTS...
The issue is only in the contact tab of the Dialer app ... and there is no option in Dialer app to merge, nor to filter view

eliohann said:
Again, that's not working.
In the contacts App, there is no duplicate contact at all ... even when i choose to show ALL CONTACTS...
The issue is only in the contact tab of the Dialer app ... and there is no option in Dialer app to merge, nor to filter view
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Welp. I don't have duplicate contacts on the contacts tab of the Phone app. Weird issue.

Phone app v17 was working fine until i changed to new beta rom and now its not available in play store so i downloaded latest apk from apkmirror and now this message appears when i app phone app " This device is not supported and phone calls may not work correctly" ??

Update: So i changed my phones build prop with some pixel 2 xl build props and restarted device and now Phone App is visible in play store and supported. Everything working fine

I've posted this on Xiaomi's forums, just in case... http://en.miui.com/thread-1833415-1-1.html (could not find existing thread for that).

Also discussed here:
http://en.miui.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1776602
It's actually happening since a few days before v17.

joeyhuab said:
You guys do know you can remove Duplicates via the Contacts app and the Phone app has nothing to do with it right?
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Off topic but how did you get the nav bar?

ProchyGaming said:
Off topic but how did you get the nav bar?
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Plenty of ways.
Andromeda apk with One substratum theme(i forget name) for non rooted devices
Magisk module (buggy) for rooted users
Plenty of ways

Android P

Hey fellow Essential Phone owners.
As far as I know the android P beta is available for the Google Pixel devices. So the beta should be treble supported, right?
Is there a chance the beta is flashable on our beloved Essential Phone? I'd love to try out the Android P beta. (I know it'll probably be unstable)
Thanks!
Johannes

https://twitter.com/MishaalRahman/status/982708776947068929?s=19
It's being worked on. I get my Essential Phone in 3 days. I will see if we can make any more progress then.

Awesome! If there are beta testers needed let me know. ?

Keeping my eye on this!!! This is very exciting!!!

Awesome!! Sounds promising

it works but. it have some problems, the wifi doesnt work, and when you change the size of the screen the system generates a black line when the screen is bigger than 460 p.
it's what I've found so far

SBPM7276 said:
it works but. it have some problems, the wifi doesnt work, and when you change the size of the screen the system generates a black line when the screen is bigger than 460 p.
it's what I've found so far
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I'm having a hard time installing it..... how did you get it to install?

Coldheat1906 said:
I'm having a hard time installing it..... how did you get it to install?
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i follow the instructions from the page of essential, but i used minimal adb fastboot insted of the Android SDK Platform-Tools.

Just a couple problems with my install.
I'm loving it just a couple minor things with mine. The biggest is it say Chameleon instead of Sprint, and had some issues with network service. I messed with the SIM card a bit and now works fine, still says Chameleon. Second the brightness level, if the phones shuts down so does the brightness, and just push it up again and it works. Have had it for about 2 weeks.:good:

Noteforme said:
I'm loving it just a couple minor things with mine. The biggest is it say Chameleon instead of Sprint, and had some issues with network service. I messed with the SIM card a bit and now works fine, still says Chameleon. Second the brightness level, if the phones shuts down so does the brightness, and just push it up again and it works. Have had it for about 2 weeks.:good:
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I just installed it today - had to get the right usb cable haha - so far I like it. Custom navigation bar or hiding it works just fine.
we will see

So how has the testing progressed? Anyone on the Beta 2?

z00mantwo said:
So how has the testing progressed? Anyone on the Beta 2?
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Plenty people on Beta2.
No issues as a daily driver for me on Verizon.

Will loading the beta wipe the phone? Not a problem if it does, just want to know. If so I will backup my messages with SMS backup app.

z00mantwo said:
Will loading the beta wipe the phone? Not a problem if it does, just want to know. If so I will backup my messages with SMS backup app.
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If you download the OTA version from the Essential developer site and use a current version OF ADB to sideload it to the phone you will not have to unlock the bootloader or lose any data. The first reboot takes time, be patient.

Does the beta support the 360 camera?

z00mantwo said:
Does the beta support the 360 camera?
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Works well for me.

z00mantwo said:
So how has the testing progressed? Anyone on the Beta 2?
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Yeah I've been on it for about a week now

Should Google pay work on the bata? Mine doesn't but I didn't relock my boot loader after seeing comments about people bricking when they do.

Fyi. New bata has been uploaded in Essential's developer area.

z00mantwo said:
Should Google pay work on the bata? Mine doesn't but I didn't relock my boot loader after seeing comments about people bricking when they do.
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Yes it works, you need to relock the bootloader after flashing...

"Can't reach Google at the moment..."

Anyone getting the "Can't Reach Google at the Moment" error when attempting a voice reply in the stock messing app? (or any other app, ftm)
I've seen it in just about every Wear iteration... (Currently Wear 2.1)
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skeeter123 said:
Anyone getting the "Can't Reach Google at the Moment" error when attempting a voice reply in the stock messing app? (or any other app, ftm)
I've seen it in just about every Wear iteration... (Currently Wear 2.1)
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I get the same message from the last wear update 2.17 ... If I open wear app on phone and try , it works . It was perfctly working before the update. Seems like the wear app gets optomized from running in background even if you manually put it in the unoptimized list
The last wear update is great, my watch now feels 10 times faster ( old lg g watch with the 2.0 ported rom)

skeeter123 said:
Anyone getting the "Can't Reach Google at the Moment" error when attempting a voice reply in the stock messing app? (or any other app, ftm)
I've seen it in just about every Wear iteration... (Currently Wear 2.1)
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What phone are you using? Any icons showing on the watch like a disconnected icon?

c_86 said:
What phone are you using? Any icons showing on the watch like a disconnected icon?
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OnePlus 6 running rooted, stock Pie/OOS 9.0.2.
This error has also popped up on Oreo and my OnePlus 5T previously.
No disconnected icons of any sort.

Nexus 6 pie Nitrogen os
LG g Watch 2.0 ported rom
Also had this problem in nougat but after some days it solved by itself

skeeter123 said:
OnePlus 6 running rooted, stock Pie/OOS 9.0.2.
This error has also popped up on Oreo and my OnePlus 5T previously.
No disconnected icons of any sort.
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There is your problem.
2 things you can try.
1. UN optimize the app. This may take a couple tries. Going I'm and out of that section to make it stick.
2. Open Android wear all. And pin it open in recent so it never closes.
I had good luck with option 1
Oneplus has done something to optimization that messed with Android wear app. Had this issue with my op5t and did the above and it worked till I moved to a custom Rom

Amusing.
2 years later and i am in the same boat with Huawei P30Pro MIUI11.
What makes my situation different - i have two watches paired to the same phone and one of them is working perfectly FINE.