* OnePlus 2 *

kefan77 · 14 Mar 2016 at 07:30

Just received my refund through paypal.

Started rma on 31/12/2015

Orcvader · 14 Mar 2016 at 17:45

So it's been nearly a week with CM13 flashed on the phone, and I finally feel I love using the OP2. Battery life I'm getting about 5-6h on-screen time, the phone feels a lot cooler under light usage as it turns off all the high performance cores (no idea why Oxygen kept 2 awake). Gaming performance also feels smoother as well thanks to all cores being enabled, and temps don't even feel that hotter. There's no random lag when waking the phone as well, which was introduced on Oxygen 2.2 for some reason. The FP scanner also seems to work faster, and it feels great to use it with other apps thanks to using the native FP API. I also don't get the random freezes which I seemed to get having the phone on after a couple of days since last reboot.

Honestly Oxygen OS was poorly optimised and was holding the hardware back way too much. The OP2 is only worth your money if you're willing to flash a custom ROM.

twist3d0n3 · 14 Mar 2016 at 20:31

you don't want all the big cores turning off, it uses a ****ton of energy hotplugging the whole cpu like that. you want it running 1-4 on both big and little ideally.

stick blissmallow + benschold kernel on it and really see what it can do

e: but yes, this phone totally feels worth the money now. i held off on cm-based roms until the fps was working, but in all honesty i hardly use it. at least now rom support is really starting to take off!

Orcvader · 15 Mar 2016 at 12:03

I was tempted to flash benschold, but was holding back a bit on rumours of boeffla kernel possibly coming to CM13. It did wonders with Oxygen OS. I tried Bliss and Cyanpop but I personally didn't feel comfortable with it for some reason.

twist3d0n3 · 15 Mar 2016 at 12:20

Orcvader said:
I was tempted to flash benschold, but was holding back a bit on rumours of boeffla kernel possibly coming to CM13. It did wonders with Oxygen OS. I tried Bliss and Cyanpop but I personally didn't feel comfortable with it for some reason.

i can attest to ben's kernel + bliss being bloody good. i prefer cyanpop simply because of the quick toggle customisation.

i'll definitely be trying beoffla kernel, but for now ben's is grand.

Avathar77 · 15 Mar 2016 at 12:29

Does FP work on Bliss?
I am on Kingmercian.

twist3d0n3 · 15 Mar 2016 at 12:36

Avathar77 said:
Does FP work on Bliss?
I am on Kingmercian.

yep, most maintainers are using graraks sources so it's working fine on all cm roms now.

Avathar77 · 15 Mar 2016 at 12:37

Thank you - might try this over week end.

twist3d0n3 · 15 Mar 2016 at 13:48

you won't regret it. it's so much smoother than that laggy piece of **** oxygenos

Orcvader · 15 Mar 2016 at 17:48

Avathar77 said:
Thank you - might try this over week end.

Make sure you flash the revert zip to restore the original Oxygen firmware, otherwise you'll end up in a mess: https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/...-h2os-1-2-6-0-1-clean-gapps-debloated.424685/

twist3d0n3 · 17 Mar 2016 at 12:42

benschold is releasing a kernel with overclocking soon... dunno if i'm that hyped for it though considering how toasty the phone can get! hopefully voltage control will come along soon to solve that

Orcvader · 17 Mar 2016 at 13:47

twist3d0n3 said:
benschold is releasing a kernel with overclocking soon... dunno if i'm that hyped for it though considering how toasty the phone can get! hopefully voltage control will come along soon to solve that

So we can finally restore the SD810 back to the "stock" 2GHz

?

twist3d0n3 · 18 Mar 2016 at 11:56

yup

Mr_Cool · 17 May 2016 at 09:58

"There's that logo. OnePlus 3 with AMOLED display and 3000mAh battery."
https://twitter.com/evleaks/status/732465553378418688

Orcvader · 17 May 2016 at 11:38

To be honest while that does look nice, I'm not sure if I want to buy a OP phone again due to how poor Oxygen OS is. Moving to a custom ROM just to get the best out of a phone seems silly.

The back oddly reminds me of HTC. If it's real, seems strange OP is abandoning sandstone.

Also, this custom ROM looks the most promising, based on CAF (AOSP but optimised for Snapdragon phones) and very minimal at the moment but the developers aim to bring only useful features to the ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-2/orig-development/rom-halogenos-oneplus-2-t3377799

reflux · 17 May 2016 at 15:09

The OP3 totally looks like it was picked out of an OEM parts bin. There are quite a lot of Chinese phones that look like this already IMO.

silverblack · 17 May 2016 at 20:16

Like the look of the OP3 if thats it,only problem will be Oxygen....

Montala · 17 May 2016 at 20:17

Is Oxygen really that bad then?

silverblack · 17 May 2016 at 20:24

Montala said:
Is Oxygen really that bad then?

On the OPX i had BT bug,mic bug,notification bug... can probably guarantee something will be wrong with the phone because of Oxygen.

glenimp617 · 18 May 2016 at 08:28

Montala said:
Is Oxygen really that bad then?

You need to be careful asking questions like that on here.....some people get in a mood for some reason.

The oneplus ROM is terrible, I said it months ago and received a lot of complaints from OCUKers....however, I think most now agree with me

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