Who has loaded the Oreo Beta 3?

[mogelijk]

What experience have you had with Beta 3? Any improvements or issues you've noted?

 

[Armeniandave]

I installed it and so far all seems good. Really snappy and my visual voicemail works now! Took my Sim out of my pixel 2 XL to try this for a bit. Absolutely love this form factor!

 

[cerebasan]

I did it right away. Typing on it right now. No issues. Didn't solve the Sprint signal drops but Essential said it might get better in 8.1.

 

[fernandez21]

So this is beta 3? I thought it was the final.

 

[Randy Ohio]

It is beta 3. They mentioned it yesterday on the AMA. Since I was on beta 2, it was an OTA upgrade. No issues.

 

[SteveHG]

The Beta 3 is O.K.
May be the final will be out at the end of the month:
https://plus.google.com/+DarrylMoering/posts/5Wj3W3HGGc5

 

[droid5]

My volume seems louder and overall performance seems more speedy. I'm also coming from a stock build straight to beta 3

 

[erasat]

I installed it and so far all seems good. Really snappy and my visual voicemail works now! Took my Sim out of my pixel 2 XL to try this for a bit. Absolutely love this form factor!

Yes, Visual Voicemail with Tmobile is finally working with a Beta version.

Great Beta build, at least for everything I use this is ready for an official version if something is not working, it must be something I don't use.

 

[arutemauepon]

anyone experiencing apps getting force closed?

 

[Randy Ohio]

I'm still having issues activating T-Mobile visual voice mail. It keeps saying will try later.
Update: I turned off the visual voicemail in the phone settings and the T-Mobile one connected and worked fine.

 

[erasat]

I'm still having issues activating T-Mobile visual voice mail. It keeps saying will try later.
Update: I turned off the visual voicemail in the phone settings and the T-Mobile one connected and worked fine.

Yes, for some reason both don't work at the same time. But after this latest beta I first uninstall T-mobile one and then turned on the Native Visual Voicemail and like I mentioned before it finally worked, and at the first try.

 

[tech_head]

Working fine.
My B3 is rooted and I'm running Magisk 15.3.
No issues.

 

[clinton hall]

Overall has been great however I am not getting text messages

 

[philesk]

What experience have you had with Beta 3? Any improvements or issues you've noted?

Did my first sideload of 8.0 Beta 3 using ADB. Was not as daunting as I feared. Seems pretty smooth so far. But, I haven't really had any problems with 7.1.1.

 

[1901Madison]

My volume seems louder and overall performance seems more speedy. I'm also coming from a stock build straight to beta 3

I did the same and it seems fine. But I did have a freeze up and reboot one time since going to Oreo Beta 3, which never happened once on stock Nougat.

 

[Randy Ohio]

I used Android Auto over the weekend. It worked flawlessly as soon as I plugged it in. 2006 Hyundai Sonata hybrid. What was interesting was for the first time ever, an android phone actually charged while plugged into USB on the car. Every other phone I have used with AA would discharge somewhat when plugged in. Since the Essential uses more amps to fully charge, it must just consume less energy to run than my previous phones. Considering my 7+ hour SOT, maybe it's not a surprise.

 

[tech_head]

I have it on mine. No issues.

 

[Roosterman]

I used Android Auto over the weekend. It worked flawlessly as soon as I plugged it in. 2006 Hyundai Sonata hybrid. What was interesting was for the first time ever, an android phone actually charged while plugged into USB on the car. Every other phone I have used with AA would discharge somewhat when plugged in. Since the Essential uses more amps to fully charge, it must just consume less energy to run than my previous phones. Considering my 7+ hour SOT, maybe it's not a surprise.

Did AA work on 7.1 for you? What type/brand USB cable are you using? I have a Hyundai Santa Fe Sport 2017 and can't get it to work. I've tried to different cables, one was rated for USB 2 and the second for 3.1. Made no difference.

 

[Randy Ohio]

Since it was already setup, I must have tried it on 7.1 but honestly don't remember if it worked or not. I used a Teksonic Type C 3.1 to USB 2.0, per the package specs.

 

[SactoKingsFan]

FYI: If you've been on open beta and need to RMA the phone don't mention anything about beta to Essential. Just flash back to stock with locked bootloader. Some warranty requests are being denied by Essential customer service even if they went from beta back to stock.