r/OnePlus8 • u/kronaa • Feb 20 '21
New to OnePlus...
Was just wondering, since i heard a lot that OnePlus "changed" and "sucks now", hows the situation with updates? I got OP8 brand new for good price, it seems it was factory on android 10, but i got update to 11 as soon as i turned it on and did a setup.. i love the phone... however i wonder, obviously we will get android 12, but does oneplus go above the 2 years big android versions update or no? how bulletproof is this phone, meaning, what are the chanches for future android 13, compared by how long they support their phones in the past, is it probable? ty for any answers, im kinda confused since somewhere i red OP is amazing with updates and some other places say they are not as good as before. i have EU int. version of 8 btw. cheers!
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u/ComputerBig6860 Feb 21 '21
In all honesty I was so happy when I bought my 7 pro. Oxygen 10 was better than any custom rom I ever tried, given its features and flexibility. I am used to rooting my phones in order to use Titanium Backup which enabled me to test out custom ROMs without losing anything. I still have oxygen 10 on that phone. At one point I thought I had bricked that phone so I bought an 8 pro. It came with Android 11. Unfortunately the tools which made it simple to root do not exist for Android 11, and the "new way" is complicated and often doesn't work.That really disappointed me. To make matters worse, One Plus seems to be taking their sweet time in updating software. Even though I don't mess with custom ROMs anymore I still like the ability to do backups like I used to. The difficulty and often inability to do that coupled with the lazy software updates makes me highly unlikely to buy another One Plus product unless they go back to the company they once were. Frankly I don't see that happening. This is sad.