When you alleviate the bootloader on your Essential PH-1, you accessible your accessory to a host of new accessible tweaks. One accepted modification is a custom kernel, which can not alone acceleration up your phone, but accord you new appearance that wouldn't be accessible otherwise.
The atom controls the advice amid the software and the hardware. With a custom kernel, you get aberrant admission to the hardware. Back in the day, this was bound to the adeptness to overclock (or underclock) the CPU and administer custom achievement profiles. However, new custom kernels now action alike added features, including the adeptness to abutment new software, acclimatize vibration, and addition the GPU for bigger performance.
Step 1: Alleviate the Bootloader
As with around all modifications you administer to your Essential PH-1, you will aboriginal charge to alleviate the bootloader. Alone back the bootloader is apart can you beam actionable firmware files such as custom kernels. Back this action can be difficult for new users, we've created a abounding adviser which you'll acquisition application the articulation below.
- More Info: How to Alleviate the Bootloader on the Essential PH-1
Step 2: Install TWRP Custom Recovery
If you're activity to mod your Essential Phone, you about need TWRP custom recovery. With this custom recovery, you can beam added modifications and save your accessory accompaniment in case you arise to blend up or soft-brick the phone. Installing TWRP is a bit altered with Essential back it supports seamless updates, so we created a adviser to advice you along. Analysis it out application the articulation below.
- More Info: How to Install TWRP Custom Accretion on the Essential PH-1
Step 3: Download the Atom assimilate Your Device
With your bootloader apart and TWRP custom accretion installed, you can now advance to installing your aboriginal custom kernel. The aboriginal affair you'll charge to do is to download a atom to your Essential PH-1's centralized storage.
For our example, we will be application ElementalX. ElementalX is fabricated by flar2, AKA Aaron Segaert. We are accustomed with several added works from this developer, including the app Button Mapper, and accept had no issues. His atom is awful rated for the Essential and comes with a lot of appearance besides CPU abundance speed.
This atom has alone been activated for the banal ROM. Therefore, those application custom ROMs should advance at their own discretion. Use the articulation beneath to download the actual atom based on the adaptation of Android you are currently running.
Step 4: Install the Kernel
Power off your accessory application the ability menu. Back your accessory is angry off, columnist and authority the ability button and aggregate bottomward button accompanying (like you're demography a screenshot). Keep captivation these buttons until you see a card with the chat "Start" in blooming letters. Application the aggregate rocker, cross through the card until you see "Recovery Mode" in red letters. Columnist the ability button to confirm, which will booty you into TWRP custom recovery.
Input your lock awning PIN or countersign to break your adamantine drive and to admission the capital card of TWRP. From there, baddest "Install," again accept "Download" from the account of folders. Baddest the ElementalX ZIP file, again bash the slider to affirm your choice.
A new folio will arise with some options you can configure with the new kernel. After selecting "Next" a few times, you'll see your aboriginal configurable options, the abundance of the LITTLE cores on your device.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 835, the PH-1's SoC, is abiding in two clusters: big (or Gold) cores and LITTLE (or Silver) cores. Each array is comprised of four cores, and both clusters accomplish at altered frequencies.
The Silver cores are acclimated for beneath ambitious tasks such as browsing the web and blockage emails. Back these activities awning best usage, overclocking this abundance can absolutely advance the all-embracing achievement of your device. However, you can additionally underclock this to save on array life.
The Gold cores are acclimated for added ambitious activities such as gaming. If you appetite the best achievement during gaming, overclock this abundance at the bulk of array life. However, if you hardly game, you can underclock this to conserve array life.
After selecting the abundance of these two clusters, baddest "Install ElementalX." Once it's accomplished with the installation, accept "Reboot system" to acknowledgment to the lock screen.
Step 5: Verify It Worked
Once you acknowledgment to the lock screen, you can now affirm the accession worked. Accessible Settings and accept "System." Baddest "About Phone" and accept "Android version." In the popup, you'll see a account of advice including "Kernel version." Under "Kernel version" should be the argument "ElementalX-PH-1" or whichever atom you chose. If you see this, that indicates your accessory is now application the custom kernel.
Step 6: Download EX Atom Manager (Optional)
To get the best out of your kernel, you'll about charge a agnate app that lets you abuse kernel-specific settings. With ElementalX, flar2 has created an app alleged EX Atom Manager, which can be begin on the Play Store and gives you admission to the abounding account of appearance included in ElementalX atom besides abundance adjustment.
The app does bulk $4.49, but it's able-bodied account it for the bulk of ascendancy it provides. Additionally, Mr. Segaert has kernels for a host of altered phones besides the Essential, so you are purchasing this app for added than aloof one device.
- Play Store Link: EX Atom Manager ($4.49)
Check out the account beneath for a little aftertaste of the added appearance you can ascendancy with EX Atom Manager on the Essential Phone.
- Advanced blush control
- Adjust vibration
- Adrenoboost
- Sweep2sleep
- Wakelock blocking options
- Backlight dimmer option
- I/O schedulers: CFQ, FIOPS, deadline, maple, zen, noop, SIO
- NTFS r/w support
- WireGuard support
- Option to attenuate fsync
The app does crave basis admission for best features. For an all-embracing adviser on how to basis the Essential PH-1, analysis out the articulation below.
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