Anyone excited for OnePlus?

[Red Storm]

Glad to hear she's ok. Scary.

Back to the phone, which ROM are you running?

Stock, 30O update version.

 

[Megatomic]

Ok, I have a question for the more experienced members here. I am interested in flashing the Franco Kernel for the OPO to my phone. If I do so, will OTAs from CM/OPO continue to install properly or will I have to restore the stock CM/OPO kernel to allow the factory OTAs to install?

 

[SpacemanSpiffVT]

If you are using the stock ROM then running an OTA will overwrite franco kernel... I believe. then you will have to re flash franco kernel. I believe though I am guessing.
After getting the paid version of greenify and hibernating all my bad apps, I am very impressed by the battery life. I think I could make it almost 2 days on 1 charge. will post pics later.

I used to run franco kernel too on my N4 till they stopped supporting CM11... i am thinking of going back but want to make sure franco has the touchscreen driver update before i switch to that.

 

[Megatomic]

If you are using the stock ROM then running an OTA will overwrite franco kernel... I believe. then you will have to re flash franco kernel. I believe though I am guessing.

I could live with that I think. So I guess I need to be rooted to install the kernel then?

 

[sze5003]

I could live with that I think. So I guess I need to be rooted to install the kernel then?

You need to be rooted to flash other kernels. I heard they made it tougher to unlock the boot loader on the 30 ota but I think there is still a way to do it on xda.

 

[SpacemanSpiffVT]

Rooting is so easy on this phone, even easier than nexus phones. I posted a good guide a page or two ago.

 

[dawheat]

Yesterday my OPO would not pick up a signal until I finally rebooted it. Had a flood of messages come in, apparently my sis-in-law got into a car accident and was taken to the hospital. She's okay, but I really don't like when my phones do this. Last time I had this problem was with the Galaxy S3, so experiencing it again in 2014 is a bit annoying...

I've been having this issue as well - when it looses signal, it seems to be random on whether it picks it back up quickly or not. Most of the time it does, but again right now, it hasn't reconnected in 20 minutes. Rebooting the phone fixed it.

I am in a building of bad strength, but there is always signal (39th floor, midtown Manhattan).

Between the touchscreen issues and signal issues - I do feel a bit like it's a start-up phone, not a known OEM. Don't have these issues on my Note 3 or S4.

The price continues to be the big sell and I'm now a fan of CM, but these are annoyances I haven't seen in phones for a couple years.

 

[sze5003]

Finally my rma for refund was approved. I can mail it back tomorrow. I don't know how long it will take to get my money back. But from start to finish the process took about a month just to get an rma form and have it approved. I'm not counting how long after I mail the phone back yet but they will have proof of the phone arriving because I'm going to get signature required on the package. Hopefully my money comes back within a week or two.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

You need to be rooted to flash other kernels. I heard they made it tougher to unlock the boot loader on the 30 ota but I think there is still a way to do it on xda.

I believe its the same fastboot command. Some people just had their recovery overwritten because the Update CM recovery button is checked upon OTA update. That's what caused a flurry of overreaction on the forum.

I do find that defaulting to check Update CM recovery is a bad idea though, but I suppose they're trying to market the phone as it is not as a rooted product.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Rooting is so easy on this phone, even easier than nexus phones. I posted a good guide a page or two ago.

I think the toughest part of rooting is getting drivers to work. I think I've found a way, but the documentation is terrible online, and there's very little support to get basic drivers. I mean how would the average Joe know to use the Google USB drivers or whatever?

 

[Red Storm]

I've been having this issue as well - when it looses signal, it seems to be random on whether it picks it back up quickly or not. Most of the time it does, but again right now, it hasn't reconnected in 20 minutes. Rebooting the phone fixed it.

I am in a building of bad strength, but there is always signal (39th floor, midtown Manhattan).

Between the touchscreen issues and signal issues - I do feel a bit like it's a start-up phone, not a known OEM. Don't have these issues on my Note 3 or S4.

The price continues to be the big sell and I'm now a fan of CM, but these are annoyances I haven't seen in phones for a couple years.

Yeah the price is great, and I like the phone a lot, but bugs involving data connectivity are a big problem in my book, not easily overlooked.

 

[sweenish]

I think the toughest part of rooting is getting drivers to work. I think I've found a way, but the documentation is terrible online, and there's very little support to get basic drivers. I mean how would the average Joe know to use the Google USB drivers or whatever?

The Google drivers are awful.

It makes everything else easier, but installing the naked universal driver from xda is not an easier process in and of itself.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

The Google drivers are awful.

It makes everything else easier, but installing the naked universal driver from xda is not an easier process in and of itself.

Koush has a tool too apparently. It's all just confusing and had I not been following XDA or whatever, I would not know where to go for "official drivers"

 

[golem]

I think the toughest part of rooting is getting drivers to work. I think I've found a way, but the documentation is terrible online, and there's very little support to get basic drivers. I mean how would the average Joe know to use the Google USB drivers or whatever?

I thought it worked using the latest samsung mobile drivers?

 

[SpacemanSpiffVT]

I used the drivers from the nexus 4 toolkit that I used to use to automatically unlock + root that phone.... True, That was a PIA in the beginning...but its about 3 fastboot commands and your unlocked and rooted once adb is working.

I put in a support ticket saying i wanted to RMA my phone about 2 days ago. we will see when i get a response.... Not sure if I will go through with it, but the crazy touchscreen freaked me out.

 

[sze5003]

I used the drivers from the nexus 4 toolkit that I used to use to automatically unlock + root that phone.... True, That was a PIA in the beginning...but its about 3 fastboot commands and your unlocked and rooted once adb is working.

I put in a support ticket saying i wanted to RMA my phone about 2 days ago. we will see when i get a response.... Not sure if I will go through with it, but the crazy touchscreen freaked me out.

They may tell you some cut and paste reply about factory reset and flash but you have been using different Roms so you've also been on stock too, the latest. The touch and ghost touch issue seems hardware related to the digitizer. Not sure if cm is suppose to have an update for it.

 

[malbojah]

Well, I was about to chime in saying that I've been one of the lucky ones (no yellow screen, no screen issues at all after 2+ weeks) when today I decided I would try to re-root my phone (lost after updating to 3o0) and after rebooting into teamwin I lost all response from the screen. Buttons still worked, just no recognition of tapping the screen. After doing a hard reboot, same issue in CM.

Started freaking out, thinking I phucked the phone and would have to go back to the 4S, I whipped the glass protector off thinking it was screwing up the screen somehow. No difference so into the trash it went . Took 3 more hard reboots to get the screen responding again.

 

[sze5003]

Well, I was about to chime in saying that I've been one of the lucky ones (no yellow screen, no screen issues at all after 2+ weeks) when today I decided I would try to re-root my phone (lost after updating to 3o0) and after rebooting into teamwin I lost all response from the screen. Buttons still worked, just no recognition of tapping the screen. After doing a hard reboot, same issue in CM.

Started freaking out, thinking I phucked the phone and would have to go back to the 4S, I whipped the glass protector off thinking it was screwing up the screen somehow. No difference so into the trash it went . Took 3 more hard reboots to get the screen responding again.

Yea that is weird. Maybe you flashed a version of twrp that isn't fully compatible?

 

[malbojah]

Yea that is weird. Maybe you flashed a version of twrp that isn't fully compatible?

Here's the thing: I flashed twrp about a week and a half ago. Ver 2.7.1.1 It was only after installing the 3o0 update and the minor one after that when I lost root.

Remind me to leave well enough alone

Edit: just re-ran the supersu app, let it install through twrp, and root checker says i'm gtg

 

[SpacemanSpiffVT]

Twrp doesn't have that latest touchscreen driver. It acts crazy for me too sometimes.. I would recommend you flash to the CM11 nightlies for the touchscreen fix. I read somewhere on xda a new build of 11S just came out, that might have that touchscreen fix too.

 

[dawheat]

Yeah the price is great, and I like the phone a lot, but bugs involving data connectivity are a big problem in my book, not easily overlooked.

The loosing signal issue and not reconnecting without a reboot is becoming a daily thing for me now - I think it started with the recent OTA as I don't remember it occuring in the previous week.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

The loosing signal issue and not reconnecting without a reboot is becoming a daily thing for me now - I think it started with the recent OTA as I don't remember it occuring in the previous week.

You guys on T-Mobile?

 

[dawheat]

You guys on T-Mobile?

AT&T, midtown Manhattan

 

[SandEagle]

how do i get an invite? i want this phone.
if someone sends me an invite, i'll return the favor by adding them on my friend's list.

 

[Red Storm]

You guys on T-Mobile?

Yes I'm on T-Mobile. Haven't had the data drop happen in the past few days.