OnePlus should have warned its users and provided them with a choice / © NextPit This mode allows the system to kill apps that run in the background in order to limit battery life, allowing the user to choose which apps do not come under this optimization mode. This is especially so when one takes into consideration OxygenOS 11's battery optimization function.
One of the criticisms that surface most often is that the manufacturer should have left the choice to its users to refuse this optimization option, or at least to be able to set exceptions. OnePlus' stance has been met with strong reactions, which is not surprising at all. It did bring to mind the scandal by Apple in 2017 that revolved around purposeful slowing down of the iPhone, nicknamed Batterygate, which had far more serious implications with repercussions that continue to reverberate until today.
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The manufacturer simply stated that it has "optimized" the performance of the OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro for use with 300 of the most popular apps.Īccording to OnePlus, this measure is totally voluntary and assumed so since it aimed to preserve the battery life of its smartphones and therefore, improved upon the user experience. If we were to isolate the actual message from this corporate pretext, we understand that OnePlus did not apologize or admit to their 'guilt' of tampering with benchmark results. As a result of this feedback, our R&D team has been working over the past few months to optimize the devices’ performance when using many of the most popular apps, including Chrome, by matching the app’s processor requirements with the most appropriate power.' OnePlus takes responsibility for Batterygate Following the launch of the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro in March, some users told us about some areas where we could improve the devices’ battery life and heat management. 'Our top priority is always delivering a great user experience with our products, based in part on acting quickly on important user feedback.
On July 7, OnePlus responded via a statement explaining that: "This resulted in some really weird benchmark scores that paint the OnePlus 9 Pro as an affordable smartphone from the early 2010s with horrible performance," Anandtech's investigation piece read, which I urge you to read. Specifically, the OnePlus 9 Pro appeared to disable the Cortex-X1 core when running the flag apps, with the smartphone throttling the Cortex-A78 cores in some cases or even isolating workload on the Cortex-A55 cores.īy doing so, workloads for these apps were considerably slowed down by up to 20% of the SoC's normal performance based on the tests conducted by our colleagues in the industry. In a long article that was supported by benchmarks and other results, Anandtech demonstrated that the OnePlus 9 Pro did flag some popular apps such as Twitter or Chrome in order to limit the performance of the Snapdragon 888 when running those apps. On July 6, a widely recognized and authoritative specialist site Anandtech discovered serious slowdowns on the OnePlus 9 Pro.
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