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I've owned several OnePlus phones, all bought straight from the company except the most recent one, which is T-Mobile branded and bought from the T-Mobile store

by 13of40 3y ago

I've owned several OnePlus phones, all bought straight from the company except the most recent one, which is T-Mobile branded and bought from the T-Mobile store. Unlike the previous ones, this one has strange behavior around app alerting permissions: I block all alerts from Starbucks or Prime Video, for example, and they're quiet for several days/weeks, then start alerting again. I thought I was misremembering at first, so I started taking a screenshot every time I turned off all alerts for an app and confirmed it's real behavior. I'm sure it's just a bug or something, but the conspiracy nut in me wonders if companies like those can slip T-Mobile some money under the table and get them to "fix" people's alerting preferences.

jeroenhd 3y ago
Android will retract permissions automatically if you haven't used apps for a while. It's possible that this mechanism is implemented wrong (i.e. they just reset the permissions regardless of whether they've been denied before). I personally stopped trusting Oneplus a while ago. They once were the champions of open source Android phones with affordable models and clean ROMs, but they seem to have changed lanes to become your average Chinese smartphone manufacturer a while back, with expensive phones, questionable business practices, lacking update guarantees and support, and so on. I've never trusted a carrier branded phone, that basically adds a layer of crap and problematic customization that I don't need. Carriers and ISPs are notoriously shit at providing useful services, that's why Apple become popular for refusing customized phones, and their incompetent and malicious layers on top of already mediocre Android implementations are just a recipe for disaster. I realize these types of phones are much more common over in the USA, but there's a reason they're cheaper than when you buy the phone from a normal store and it's not because your carrier sympathizes with your financial situation and decides you deserve to save some money.
- senectus1 3y ago
  thats a fairly recent development.
sizzle 3y ago
This behavior drove me crazy enough to get an iPhone and I’ve never looked back. Respect my settings google.

by 13of40 3y ago

jeroenhd 3y ago

Android will retract permissions automatically if you haven't used apps for a while. It's possible that this mechanism is implemented wrong (i.e. they just reset the permissions regardless of whether they've been denied before). I personally stopped trusting Oneplus a while ago. They once were the champions of open source Android phones with affordable models and clean ROMs, but they seem to have changed lanes to become your average Chinese smartphone manufacturer a while back, with expensive phones, questionable business practices, lacking update guarantees and support, and so on. I've never trusted a carrier branded phone, that basically adds a layer of crap and problematic customization that I don't need. Carriers and ISPs are notoriously shit at providing useful services, that's why Apple become popular for refusing customized phones, and their incompetent and malicious layers on top of already mediocre Android implementations are just a recipe for disaster. I realize these types of phones are much more common over in the USA, but there's a reason they're cheaper than when you buy the phone from a normal store and it's not because your carrier sympathizes with your financial situation and decides you deserve to save some money.

senectus1 3y ago
thats a fairly recent development.

sizzle 3y ago

This behavior drove me crazy enough to get an iPhone and I’ve never looked back. Respect my settings google.