Essential Phone is now receiving Android 8.1 Oreo update in earnest

13 March 2018
It's been a long time coming, as this is the first non-beta Oreo iteration to make it to the handset.

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  • Anonymous
  • gNU
  • 15 May 2018

My Micromax phone is not getting Nagar update and when I search for update it say no update available but in my phone always one message get that update your phone say
what can I do

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    • kamikrazee
    • ybS
    • 08 Apr 2018

    Here it is, a full week into April, and my carrier still hasn't made the upgrade available. What do I have to do?

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      • Anonymous
      • kui
      • 15 Mar 2018

      bug, 14 Mar 2018Really? It costs an arm and a leg and it still takes 3 mont... more How about I give Andy Rubin your leg and arm for an Essential Phone ? You won't care right? ;-) .

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        • Anonymous
        • EFS
        • 14 Mar 2018

        bug, 14 Mar 2018Really? It costs an arm and a leg and it still takes 3 mont... moreIt costs $460 CDN, and received 8.1 before most major players. With waterproofing and a headphone jack I would buy it in a heartbeat.

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          • AnonD-744439
          • KgZ
          • 14 Mar 2018

          hari, 14 Mar 2018you can enable it.... go to settings>apps & notifica... moreThanks for help. I didn't think it will be disabled after update. But I think there is bug while sending messenger message via notification bar, after replying a message from notification bar in home screen the screen goes to traditional form, ie, just like phone with bezel ( screen/wallpaper gets cut to size of phone with benzel) and sometimes gets hang for few seconds, I don't know if it's bug with Oreo or messenger itself. Any thought?

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            • bug
            • pXm
            • 14 Mar 2018

            Really? It costs an arm and a leg and it still takes 3 months to provide a minor update?

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              • Lucian
              • mZs
              • 14 Mar 2018

              Vasra, 14 Mar 2018Who cares. Essential sold less phones tham Xiaomi sold one ... moreFlooding the market with 'different' models, that are actually 99% as the other phones on the market, only to hope that your flood will be bigger than the other companies' floods is a good thing? Forgetting about supporting the phone the minute the phone is launched, since the bulk of the team already moves to developing a new phone, is a good thing? Making factories turn mountains of natural resources into waste with a time delay given by the products' warranty period is a good thing? When our grandchildren will go to see the great mountains of waste made by discontinued electronics, that will replace the mountains of today, we'll have to thank the companies that once had the biggest market share, and flooded the market and our planet with their products with the greatest success.

              And being a company that puts all its energy into making and supporting a single phone is a bad thing...

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                • Vasra
                • nmN
                • 14 Mar 2018

                Who cares. Essential sold less phones tham Xiaomi sold one model. For the market share, Essential gets way too much coverage. Do you know anyone who uses an essential phone?

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                  • hari
                  • XQC
                  • 14 Mar 2018

                  AnonD-744439, 14 Mar 2018Just updated the phone, but when I started charging phone, ... moreyou can enable it.... go to settings>apps & notifications> notifications> toggle the battery charging light

                    Something for all Essential phone owners (both of you) to celebrate!

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                      • Anonymous
                      • w9x
                      • 14 Mar 2018

                      this is really a good phone :-)

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                        • Anonymous
                        • UTx
                        • 14 Mar 2018

                        AnonD-744439, 14 Mar 2018Just updated the phone, but when I started charging phone, ... moreYou need to enable it in Notification .
                        Serting --> Apps& Notifications --> Notifications --> Battery Charging Light

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                          • Andy
                          • qKw
                          • 14 Mar 2018

                          Well... Did it get Project Treble!?!?

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                            • xvi
                            • vaR
                            • 14 Mar 2018

                            Nice, it showed up for me, I will install it tonight. Pretty happy with essentials support so far. I've had very few problems with my phone and the experience keeps getting better.

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                              • AnonD-744439
                              • Kg@
                              • 14 Mar 2018

                              Just updated the phone, but when I started charging phone, it doesn't show charging indicator light.

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                                • AnonD-682749
                                • kcH
                                • 14 Mar 2018

                                I read Oreo beta was killing the battery life on the Essential. I hope that is not the case.

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                                  • AnonD-744321
                                  • fua
                                  • 13 Mar 2018

                                  uh ... essential the inventor of the notch

                                    if essential phone 2.0 will come up i will sure consider this brand...they are committed to give the best and latest software to their clients. Hardware is already top of the food chain. I hope they will open the market and sell in Europe also.

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • nmM
                                      • 13 Mar 2018

                                      Definitely the way to go! Really nice.

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • EFS
                                        • 13 Mar 2018

                                        Way to go, Essential; Samsung hasn't yet managed 8.0 for their April flagship...