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The purpose of buying a OnePlus device is to get decent hardware for an okay price (I have the 3T), and then take advantage of their unlocked bootloader and the

The purpose of buying a OnePlus device is to get decent hardware for an okay price (I have the 3T), and then take advantage of their unlocked bootloader and the multitudes of highly functional kernels for it. Sultan's LineageOS ROMs are quite nice and even include WireGuard. If you're not immediately removing non-free OxygenOS when you receive your phone, you're most certainly already doing it wrong, data collection or not.

darklajid 9y ago
So, I owned the OnePlus One, two OnePlus 3T and currently run the OnePlus 5. I always used CM (or LineageOS) before the 5, they never completed the first setup once before I unlocked the bootloader, thereby reset to factory and I flashed a different ROM right away. Right now I'm on the stock ROM (and affected ofc) though. Question time: 1) Do you use your camera? I had the feeling that everytime I went from stock to CM/LineageOS I lost features and quality. 2) Why would you pick "Sultan's LineageOS ROM" (not trying to slight Sultan, whoever that might be. I'm curious) instead of going with the official LineageOS builds?
- def- 9y ago
  At least for the OPO, Sultan includes the improved camera stuff that stock LineageOS is missing.
jiggunjer 9y ago
That was the purpose, but I think nowadays they're priced pretty mainstream.
wastedhours 9y ago
> The purpose of buying a OnePlus device is to get decent hardware for an okay price Think you might need a full stop there. OP might have a reputation amongst the "root/flash/ROM" brigade, but that by no means makes up all of their userbase, and user-blaming that it's your own fault for not randomly knowing about custom flavours of Android isn't really helpful. This is consumer software, on a consumer product, by a consumer company, that's doing something that raises genuine questions about personal privacy and the access to information we give to hardware manufacturers. The default answer to all of this really shouldn't be "install random OS XYZ", in the same way that questioning Windows 10 analytics isn't "just install Arch".

darklajid 9y ago

So, I owned the OnePlus One, two OnePlus 3T and currently run the OnePlus 5. I always used CM (or LineageOS) before the 5, they never completed the first setup once before I unlocked the bootloader, thereby reset to factory and I flashed a different ROM right away. Right now I'm on the stock ROM (and affected ofc) though. Question time: 1) Do you use your camera? I had the feeling that everytime I went from stock to CM/LineageOS I lost features and quality. 2) Why would you pick "Sultan's LineageOS ROM" (not trying to slight Sultan, whoever that might be. I'm curious) instead of going with the official LineageOS builds?

def- 9y ago
At least for the OPO, Sultan includes the improved camera stuff that stock LineageOS is missing.

jiggunjer 9y ago

That was the purpose, but I think nowadays they're priced pretty mainstream.

wastedhours 9y ago

> The purpose of buying a OnePlus device is to get decent hardware for an okay price Think you might need a full stop there. OP might have a reputation amongst the "root/flash/ROM" brigade, but that by no means makes up all of their userbase, and user-blaming that it's your own fault for not randomly knowing about custom flavours of Android isn't really helpful. This is consumer software, on a consumer product, by a consumer company, that's doing something that raises genuine questions about personal privacy and the access to information we give to hardware manufacturers. The default answer to all of this really shouldn't be "install random OS XYZ", in the same way that questioning Windows 10 analytics isn't "just install Arch".