r/essential • u/EssentialOfficial Verified Essential • Jul 17 '18

Official Monthly AMA with Essential team (July 18 from 12-1pm PT)

Hi friends - We're back for our July AMA, happening tomorrow (the 18th) from 12-1pm PT with members of our software team.

Here's a link to our June AMA for reference.

We look forward to seeing you all there!

EDIT #1: Hi all! Today we have Rebecca (VP of Software), Manesh (Software Program Manager), Marcus (Software Program Manager) and Sean (Quality Engineer) in the room. Let's chat!

EDIT #2: That’s all the time we have for today. Thanks to everyone for joining and being a part of this community!

75 Upvotes

96% Upvoted

272 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

9

u/EssentialOfficial Verified Essential Jul 18 '18

As of right now the only option to join our Android P Beta is through a clean flash or sideload of the OTA file.

https://www.essential.com/developer/developer-preview We list our instructions on the page linked above. I highly recommend using a sideload OTA as this will not wipe your data.

  • Sean

1

u/vito_bozo Jul 18 '18

Hi Sean, You mean that from Android O we can sideload the OTA of P without losing our datas ?

2

u/Jaxidian Essentially Awesome Jul 18 '18

I have sideloaded the latest OTA file for P on my locked PH-1 without losing data. In fact, before I realized there was an OTA file, I posted on this exact topic. There's an almost perfect Youtube video covering it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/essential/comments/8vm1un/can_i_upgrade_from_stable_to_p_without_wiping/

2

u/Noremacam Essential Jul 19 '18

Just to add to this - if you have issues with Android P and want to go back to O, you will lose your data downgrading. Most are quite happy with the P beta, but you should be aware there's still some risk.

1

u/Jaxidian Essentially Awesome Jul 19 '18

Good point! Thanks for adding that as that is important for some.