Many users were buying OpenPlus Pro smartphones solely because of the ability to unlock the bootloader and flash custom ROMs. People value freedom and customization. OpenPlus is shooting itself in the foot.
Oppo killed and ate OP a long time ago. They’ve just been wearing their skin like a suit up to this point, but their true nature is obvious at this point.
This is why I bought a pixel 6
This will never stop being funny
I also went with a pixel 6a with grafeneos because there are no other good options for me.
I would have preferred fairphone 6 + calyx but that is on hiatus and I couldn’t wait longer.
Sadly, at least in the North American market, Google’s Pixel phones are basically the last good phones you can reliably install your own ROM on.
What a sad world.
An increasingly small amount of their userbase cares about that now, its a mainstream device now
One plus joined my short list of “I can’t be bothered” companies like Samsung and Apple, Xiaomi, Oppo and some other sub par companies.
And all that while OnePlus was awesome up until the OnePlus 7 pro.
I had the 5t until last year and it was still awesome.
OnePlus is owned by Oppo, so that’s applied for a while. Now they’re just making it clearly known
In better times, this would at least get a class action.
I don’t know why this thread is complaining specifically about Chinese OEMs when Samsung has been doing this for years.
Another company to add to the list.
They have already collapsed and won’t be making phones anymore
Wow I didn’t think my list would take effect so quickly!
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OnePlus was never a consumer friendly company. People only liked it because their phones were cheaper than the standard market prices, however, most people understood that this price comes with the caveat that their device is designed, manufactured, and controlled by a Chinese company. Everybody knew that the CCP had their tentacles in these devices, and so it was only a matter of time before things like this start happening.
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Now who’s good bootlicker? Yes, you are! Want to bend over and give me paw?
While you keep deepthroating the boot of an evil regime, I, on the other hand, refuse to give my data to any government or corporation and I do my damnest to make sure my data stays secure.
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Wow, what happened to OnePlus? They used to be so cool. Hell, the first one ran Cyanogen.
They’re basically being folded into Oppo right now. OnePlus as a company is pretty much dead.
“Open” once again being abused as angle to build something for an exit. It sounds like.
they saw GOOGLE was trying to lockdown thier bootloader, or restrict it.
So they said, “Nuh uh, we’re gonna lock it down so you can’t!” Or am I misunderstanding?
It’s more an “if everyone is doing it why not us” type of thing.
what has happened, indeed. I still use an 8T and I love it heavily, but good lord. apparently you miss a few models and the whole company changes.
so it basically permanently “damages” the phone when you try to root it, seems like they are asking for a lawsuit at some point.
Wanna try suing Samsung before that?
Why would they start with the harder one? Samsung is much better funded, and therefore will be a much more difficult case.
And no, it does not matter that Samsung did it first.
Kinda does.
I thought the difference there is that they were upfront about the feature in Knox and you can still install another OS, it just disables Pay and the Secure Notes part. Also it was something there from the start.
This feels markedly different as it’s retroactive and a full brick, which is much more severe and a bait and switch.
My last contact with it was on my Samsung S8. I was not aware of any “For your security we will monitor for OS changes” communication
so does that mean we’re done with OnePlus?
I personally never trusted Chinese phone no matter how good they were.
Ironically, the best phones for security and privacy are Google’s Pixel phones because they’re the only ones that GrapheneOS supports
Doesn’t effect OnePlus 12 thankfully, anyone have info on custom roms for it?
im on the OP12R, but i dont have anything custom on it.
I’ve been running LineageOS on my OnePlus12 for a few months and it’s been pretty solid for me. Good battery life, but the camera app isn’t quite as robust. Lineage on Waffle
Nice, thanks!
Seriously are there any Android brands that do not suck and ship everywhere (not limited to the US/EU markets)??
google pixel with grapheneos maybe
pixel 10 is pretty repairable hardware wise, some prior ones have glued in battery
I believe thay all have shitty operating systems. But some of them have an aftermarket OS available. Pick your OS first, then look for a phone that can run it. Here are the ones I know of:
GrapheneOS
CalyxOS (on hiatus)
Crdriod
LineageOS
And yet my LinkedIn is still full of people complaining about how much the EU over-regulates
Cause that is expected of China but not EU
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Wasn’t OnePlus like worshipped because of how much support for custom ROMs wth
The original “One” phone was even supposed to run cyanogemod out of the box at one point.
It was shipped with Cyanogenmod for a while.
Yes they were and did for about 6 years, 2014-2020ish isn’t a bad run
“…long enough to become the villain.”
