Oneplus 3 Owners

deadanonymau5

god's toy wrote: »

Was waiting for it auto download but ended up using the VPN trick and it's downloading now.

What country did you connect to?

I tried the Netherlands, Germany, US, France, Canada, India, Singapore and none of them got me the update!

EDIT: got it on a second attempt on Germany's server

god's toy

deadanonymau5 wrote: »

What country did you connect to?

I tried the Netherlands, Germany, US, France, Canada, India, Singapore and none of them got me the update!

Germany but only worked with SurfEasy VPN this time . Once the download started i disconnected and it continued on its own.

NikoTopps

In regards to buying the phone, have any of you taken out the insurance with it? If so, what's it like? Has anyone had to make a claim yet and if so what was that like? It's €75 for 2yrs so a bit less than €3.15/month which is very good value imo. Also, is theft covered? Can't see it listed on the OP site but on the SimpleSurance site it does mention it.

Sorry for the million and one questions btw!

Fitz*

I have the OPO and this phone appeals to me again, so gonna take the plunge at the next paycheque maybe.

I know that is dual-SIM, but how exactly does this work? Can I make certain actions on 1 sim, and others on another freely?
Also, is there any country where I can not use this, as I am planning to go travelling in the new year and would like to take it with me easily, and use it as my phone.

dahat

Is rooting the OP3 fairly straightforward? Want to install ad blockers etc when it arrives this week.

GustavoFring

dahat wrote: »

Is rooting the OP3 fairly straightforward? Want to install ad blockers etc when it arrives this week.

Very straightforward. This is the guide I used.

https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/guide-oneplus-3-how-to-unlock-bootloader-flash-twrp-root-nandroid-efs-backup-and-more.448149/

Mr Velo

Anyone have any GPS issues with their Oneplus 3?
I notice mine can be really slow to pick up my location... and loses the connection at times also.
Opening Pokemon Go when on data connection (3G or LTE) can take a long time - and fails more often than not.
However, my son can open it on his iPod Touch (tethered to my oneplus 3) absolutely no problem. So this leads me to believe it's not a problem with the network - but something with the hardware in the phone.

Using Google Hangouts - again when on data connection and i send a message to someone, it waits "Sending" for a long time before it actually does send. Using my iPhone it's instantaneous.

Anyways - said i'd throw it out there to see if it's a thing with the phone - or maybe just i got a defective unit.

adocholiday

Serious question: what is the benefit to rooting the phone? Is it just that you can run stock android on it? I've never been bothered rooting my phones, and I've had multiple android devices because the various OS's were grand for me. I've just installed the Nova launcher on top of the Oxygen 3.2.6 OS and it's fine.

I'm less than impressed with the battery life on the One Plus 3 though, having come from a Samsung S7 that I was getting 2+ days from, and I'm wondering if there are any technical/hardware improvements from rooting the device?

28064212

adocholiday wrote: »

Serious question: what is the benefit to rooting the phone?

My main reasons are AdAway, Titanium Backup and Root Explorer. Also the Xposed framework, which gives you a hell of a lot more customisation options

In terms of battery life, Xposed modules Amplify and Greenify are supposed to give great benefits, but I don't use them myself

Legend_Steph

Hey,

I'm hoping to get the OnePlus 3 for my birthday and have done extensive research on it through this thread, Reddit and online reviews.

Summary wise though, would you recommend it? I'd mainly be using it for photography and internet/social media if it makes any difference. I've read comments about the battery actually not lasting and a few glitches with the notifications not vibrating etc. Is this a frequent issue or would it happen to one in every so people? Also, with the 64gb storage, do you find this sufficient enough? (Not having any storage problems or not enough storage to download any apps or update the apps?)

Many thanks in advance for any replies.

TBoneMurphy

Registered an account just to reply here because I'm an unimaginative bastard too lazy to visit a shop. I'm getting an issue where it tells me I'm roaming and haven't turned my roaming data on, doesn't matter where I am, it just happens. Had it two days. I never got asked to accept 3's settings when I turned on data. I'm using the same sim from my last phone where I could use 4G. The APN is there and when I tried clicking use recommend settings in 'Choose your network' it tells me "already registered on network". Not sure what to do but it interrupts my use of data occasionally and is an annoying notification. Anything I can do?

The Wolverine

Anyway turn off vibrate when you use the home, back or recent apps buttons? Getting annoying

jacksie66

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god's toy

TBoneMurphy wrote: »

Registered an account just to reply here because I'm an unimaginative bastard too lazy to visit a shop. I'm getting an issue where it tells me I'm roaming and haven't turned my roaming data on, doesn't matter where I am, it just happens. Had it two days. I never got asked to accept 3's settings when I turned on data. I'm using the same sim from my last phone where I could use 4G. The APN is there and when I tried clicking use recommend settings in 'Choose your network' it tells me "already registered on network". Not sure what to do but it interrupts my use of data occasionally and is an annoying notification. Anything I can do?

If your on the Three network then its perfectly ok to be roaming, in fact, turn it ON for data roaming in your settings! What is happening is you are roaming onto the o2 network for voice/data but as three own this network too its fine and it wont cost you anything.

TBoneMurphy

god's toy wrote: »

If your on the Three network then its perfectly ok to be roaming, in fact, turn it ON for data roaming in your settings! What is happening is you are roaming onto the o2 network for voice/data but as three own this network too its fine and it wont cost you anything.

Thank you very much. That's awesome

digitaldr

NikoTopps wrote: »

In regards to buying the phone, have any of you taken out the insurance with it? If so, what's it like? Has anyone had to make a claim yet and if so what was that like? It's €75 for 2yrs so a bit less than €3.15/month which is very good value imo. Also, is theft covered? Can't see it listed on the OP site but on the SimpleSurance site it does mention it.

Sorry for the million and one questions btw!

I took out the insurance for 2 years. Theft is NOT covered. Not sure what they're like to deal with but there's a few threads on the oneplus forum. Seems like the pick up the phone quickly but there's a shortage of parts at the moment.

digitaldr

FitzShane wrote: »

I have the OPO and this phone appeals to me again, so gonna take the plunge at the next paycheque maybe.

I know that is dual-SIM, but how exactly does this work? Can I make certain actions on 1 sim, and others on another freely?
Also, is there any country where I can not use this, as I am planning to go travelling in the new year and would like to take it with me easily, and use it as my phone.

I've used the dual SIM twice - kept my Irish SIM for calls and texts and bought one at my destination for data. You can choose which sim you want to use for data and as far as I know can also choose which sim to make calls from when dialing and also when texting. I think it should work in most countries - you could always check here http://willmyphonework.net/

digitaldr

jacksie66 wrote: »

How's the audio quality on the Oneplus 3? How would it compare to my LG V10?

If by audio quality you mean the speaker it's surprisingly good and much better than my wife's S7 Edge. Loud and a pretty full sound. Not sure how it would compare to your V10

god's toy

jacksie66 wrote: »

How's the audio quality on the Oneplus 3? How would it compare to my LG V10?

As other poster said, for the bottom speaker its just fine, in fact it sounds better than any phone Ive had to date. Proable not as good a the HTC speakers however

If your talking headphone connected/DAC than the v10 is king in loudness but not that much more than the OPO3. (note, according to reports, the V20 blows both phones out of the water... but that's probably not coming here any time soon)

NikoTopps

digitaldr wrote: »

I took out the insurance for 2 years. Theft is NOT covered. Not sure what they're like to deal with but there's a few threads on the oneplus forum. Seems like the pick up the phone quickly but there's a shortage of parts at the moment.

Cheers for the response! Do you think it's worth it to have?

Im_No_Superman

Anyone know of any way of automating when to turn on/off second sim card? Had a quick google but couldn't spot anything. Would be very handy to have work sim activate from 9am to 6pm Monday to Friday rather than having to turn it on/off manually daily.

DanC90

Im_No_Superman wrote:

Anyone know of any way of automating when to turn on/off second sim card? Had a quick google but couldn't spot anything. Would be very handy to have work sim activate from 9am to 6pm Monday to Friday rather than having to turn it on/off manually daily.

There's an app called Tasker that should do it but you might need to be rooted and it's €5 so kind of pricey for just this use case, I know there's another called Automate but I don't know if that can do what you want as I've never used it but might be worth a look

MarkR

In case anyone is looking for USB C adapters, I've received these, and they seem to be working fine.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Good-Sale-USB-3-1-Type-C-Male-to-Micro-USB-Female-Converter-USB-C-Adapter/32587447384.html?spm=2114.13010608.0.0.xeysHL

TheKitchenSink

Just bought a OnePlus 3 and put in my Vodafone Ireland sim card but it still comes up saying no sim inserted.
Anyone advise me on what is wrong?

digitaldr

Did you put the SIM tray in the wrong way around?

TheKitchenSink

digitaldr wrote: »

Did you put the SIM tray in the wrong way around?

I have the right side facing up yeah

MarkR

Did it work with another sim? Can you try with another sim? Either the sim is in wrong, the sim is faulty, or the phone is damaged. Any issues inserting it? Sim should be put in shiny side facing back of phone, branding on top. Obviously the tray has "this side up", which should be on the screen side. Is this in sim 1 or sim 2 tray?

TheKitchenSink

MarkR wrote: »

Did it work with another sim? Can you try with another sim? Either the sim is in wrong, the sim is faulty, or the phone is damaged. Any issues inserting it? Sim should be put in shiny side facing back of phone, branding on top. Obviously the tray has "this side up", which should be on the screen side. Is this in sim 1 or sim 2 tray?

TheKitchenSink

The sim works in a different phone but I haven't been able to try a different sim in the phone

deadanonymau5

TheKitchenSink wrote: »

The sim works in a different phone but I haven't been able to try a different sim in the phone

Probably in the wrong sim slot

billy few mates

It should work in either slot.

sioda

Any chance both your sims are switched off in settings.

deadanonymau5

billy few mates wrote: »

It should work in either slot.

I read before that if you only have one sim in it should be in the first...dont know, dont care either way

coldfire1x

MarkR wrote: »

In case anyone is looking for USB C adapters, I've received these, and they seem to be working fine.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Good-Sale-USB-3-1-Type-C-Male-to-Micro-USB-Female-Converter-USB-C-Adapter/32587447384.html?spm=2114.13010608.0.0.xeysHL

Thanks, ordered 5 of them for a euro

SickBoy

Just got promoted to install 3.2.7
The updates are coming fast but nothing major it seems.

Fitz*

Is there an average delivery time-frame for these for Ireland, or should the estimated delivery date on the site be taken as gospel?

EagererBeaver

FitzShane wrote: »

Is there an average delivery time-frame for these for Ireland, or should the estimated delivery date on the site be taken as gospel?

Check out the other thread.

digitaldr

You could always buy one from an O2 shop up north. Pay as you go ones are unlocked and with dual sim fully working. A bit cheaper too. No soft gold option though.

deadanonymau5

SickBoy wrote: »

Just got promoted to install 3.2.7
The updates are coming fast but nothing major it seems.

First time Ive got such a minor update on any of the OnePlus phones

DanC90

deadanonymau5 wrote:

First time Ive got such a minor update on any of the OnePlus phones

Maybe that's a good thing? Like the Marshmallow build is almost completely stable and OP will put more of their team on developing Nougat for the OP3 instead.
Wishful thinking maybe but they did just tease an update to Nougat so you never know.

BionicRasher

Folks - where is the notification LED positioned on this phone?

EagererBeaver

BionicRasher wrote: »

Folks - where is the notification LED positioned on this phone?

Top left corner.

NikoTopps

FitzShane wrote: »

Is there an average delivery time-frame for these for Ireland, or should the estimated delivery date on the site be taken as gospel?

I ordered the gold one on 24/9 and it was delivered today 10/10 to ParcelMotel. Hope that helps.

BionicRasher

NikoTopps wrote: »

I ordered the gold one on 24/9 and it was delivered today 10/10 to ParcelMotel. Hope that helps.

excellent - so its looking like 2 1/2 weeks approx door to door
I got worried when the site says 3 (or even 5 ) weeks before its shipped - that could mean shipped from the ars*-end of nowhere thus taking another 10-20 days do get delivered!

(I think you ordered from UK site - would that be right?)

EagererBeaver

BionicRasher wrote: »

excellent - so its looking like 2 1/2 weeks approx door to door
I got worried when the site says 3 (or even 5 ) weeks before its shipped - that could mean shipped from the ars*-end of nowhere thus taking another 10-20 days do get delivered!

(I think you ordered from UK site - would that be right?)

Seriously lads, you just had a conversation about destroying the other thread with spam about deliveries. Leave this one alone.

deadanonymau5

DanC90 wrote: »

Maybe that's a good thing? Like the Marshmallow build is almost completely stable and OP will put more of their team on developing Nougat for the OP3 instead.
Wishful thinking maybe but they did just tease an update to Nougat so you never know.

It may be! They tease Nougat but it'll still be a while until they release it. Hopefully they prove me wrong!

DanC90

deadanonymau5 wrote:

It may be! They tease Nougat but it'll still be a while until they release it. Hopefully they prove me wrong!

I doubt it'll be here before the new year but sometime around then would be nice. But being realistic it will probably be around March when we get it 😑

I also forgot the OS merger there working on thats supposed to come soon so we'll probably have to go through another round of stability fixes for that if/when it comes so March for Nougat would be about right 😛

youcancallmeal

Any phones I've had in recent years that received a major software update has nearly always been more trouble than they were worth. Everything from worse battery to decreased functionality. I really hope when op3 gets nougat its not the same but I doubt it.

deadanonymau5

youcancallmeal wrote: »

Any phones I've had in recent years that received a major software update has nearly always been more trouble than they were worth. Everything from worse battery to decreased functionality. I really hope when op3 gets nougat its not the same but I doubt it.

Ahh your post reminds me of when I had my OPO and updated it....battery life sliced in half from 8hrs to 4ish!

maticm18

digitaldr wrote: »

You could always buy one from an O2 shop up north. Pay as you go ones are unlocked and with dual sim fully working. A bit cheaper too. No soft gold option though.

Hi, I would like to buy this phone up north. I saw your reply that it's possible to buy it in o2. I checked their website but I can't find pay as you go option. Only tariff. Can you please point me to right direction? Cheers.