Oneplus 5

sand_man said:
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Cool. Thanks for replying sand_man.

Can you advise which seller to get the cover from? Would have liked to purchase all items from Pophong but they don't have any decent looking covers.
 
Don't make the same mistake as I did and get your cover from Wantitall.

I swore never to buy anything from them but impatience got the better of me and I caved and got the Spigen Ultra Hybrid clear cover through them. Cost me R509 including shipping, ordered and paid for it on the 22nd of August, still waiting for it.

Mobilefun didn't have stock, and at the time, their website listed it as 1-2 months away.

Looks like they'll have it in about a weeks time and including shipping would have cost me about 40% less than what it's costing through Wantitall...
 
sand_man said:
Don't make the same mistake as I did and get your cover from Wantitall.

I swore never to buy anything from them but impatience got the better of me and I caved and got the Spigen Ultra Hybrid clear cover through them. Cost me R509 including shipping, ordered and paid for it on the 22nd of August, still waiting for it.

Mobilefun didn't have stock, and at the time, their website listed it as 1-2 months away.

Looks like they'll have it in about a weeks time and including shipping would have cost me about 40% less than what it's costing through Wantitall...
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Geez sorry man!
Thanks for the advice.
Got some time to make this purchase so I'm going to wait and see if there are any sales or if the exchange rate moves.
 
Gona_G said:
Geez sorry man!
Thanks for the advice.
Got some time to make this purchase so I'm going to wait and see if there are any sales or if the exchange rate moves.
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Good idea.

Dollar/Rand hit R12.80 at one stage last week but Pophongs starting price on the 5 went up to just over $500. The lowest I've seen them sell the 6gb/64gb model for is $465. The Dollar/Rand was around R13.16 at that point. They seem to alter the price regularly, maybe according to their own exchange rates...
 
Anyone here buy their Oneplus 5 from Gearbest? I can't find a model on there that supports OTA updates. There was a 'Global' model available at one stage but can't seem to find it anymore.
 
Posted these in the Apple iPhone X has a 2176mAh battery thread but worth posting here for reference, so much to love and respect about the OP5...

[video=youtube;IbSjUq_kvSM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbSjUq_kvSM[/video]
 
I just love these speed test comparisons, as benign as they may seem they definitely reflect the everyday usability of a device...

[video=youtube;ZYBU3o0OW4k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYBU3o0OW4k[/video]
 
Battery management is a science on its own. What your screen on to phone idle usage ratios? I'm having an issue I think...
 
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I charged it to 100% had my 2nd sim activated for about a hour. Auto brightness, but i did setup the screen time to 30 min, so basically when i turned it off myself. and power saving from 15%.
 
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OnePlus is collecting user data without permission, and that’s not okay

Chris Moore, the owner of a UK-based security and tech blog, recently published an article demonstrating that OnePlus has been gathering his personal information and transmitting them without his permission. He noticed an unfamiliar domain while completing the SANS Holiday Hack Challenge and decided to further examine it. He found that the domain – open.oneplus.net – had essentially been collecting his private device and user data and transmitting them to an Amazon AWS instance, all without his permission.

The data that OnePlus is accessing ranges from device information like the phone’s IMEI, serial number, cellular number, MAC address, mobile network name, IMSI prefix, and wireless network ESSID and BSSID to user data like reboot, charging, screen timestamps as well as application timestamps.

Moore states that the code responsible for this data collection is part of the OnePlus Device Manager and OnePlus Device Manager Provider. Fortunately, Jakub Czekanski claims that despite their being a system service, they can be permanently disabled through replacing net.oneplus.odm for pkg via ADB or through running this command: pm uninstall -k –user 0 pkg

It’s concerning that a major Android manufacturer has been collecting and transmitting user data without permission, but it’s even more concerning that OnePlus doesn’t seem to consider it a big issue. When we reached out for a comment, the company simply stated that the data are collected for user support and failed to address privacy concerns:

"We securely transmit analytics in two different streams over HTTPS to an Amazon server. The first stream is usage analytics, which we collect in order for us to more precisely fine tune our software according to user behavior. This transmission of usage activity can be turned off by navigating to ‘Settings’ -> ‘Advanced’ -> ‘Join user experience program’. The second stream is device information, which we collect to provide better after-sales support."
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Source: AndroidAuthority
 
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