Gone are the days when oneplus used to be consumer friendly company. The parent company CEO is taking advice from some wannabe Elon musk. All these people who say they understand business but have no understanding of technical knowhow shouldn't be allowed to become business leaders but the world we live in is becoming a shithole because the bootlickers are being given these top roles.
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2026
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Last I hear OnePlus was on the verge of collapse. Not because of this, but because of the mismanagement since carl left. It will probably be absorbed into oppo soon enough https://www.androidheadlines.com/exclusive-oneplus-collapse.
Miss my Oneplus 7 Pro. popup cameras <3
I’ve still kept my 7T pro. Peak Oneplus 🪦
In better times, this would at least get a class action.
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
That means they were making money by people running their os.
If they spend the money on re-engineering their devices not to allow it, there was a cost advantage to selling your data.
"OnePlus shoots own foot. Likely to blame consumers for it"
It's not flashing a custom ROM. It is installing an OS of users choice. Enemy's language shouldn't be used if we want things to change
This is why "side load" is annoying to me. It's installing. It is not special or different. They aren't "blocking side loading" they're "restricting what you can install."
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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.
An increasingly small amount of their userbase cares about that now, its a mainstream device now
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
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.
Well...So did Samsing with Samsung Knox
Knox just displays a message when you boot the device. You can still install a custom ROM. I'm typing this on a Samsung tablet running LineageOS.
Never said the fuse prevented the execution of a non-Samsung OS.
But the tripped efuse is permanent.
Oh well then... if the bastion of open and customer focused development did it
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?
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
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.
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.
Holy shit. I wanted to say something constructive, but just…. holy shit. Intentional hard brick of a customer owned device….
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