Oneplus 5T - reviews, specs and discussion

Pacifico · 19-02-2018 8:06pm

No need for the 8GB RAM and if you dont need the storage get the 64GB version. Spend the extra 60 on cases or something!

DanC90 · 20-02-2018 1:38pm

cython wrote:

This is kind of what has me leaning towards the more expensive model, though I really don't see myself using the 128GB of storage, and I'd be concerned that I might change phone again before I notice the difference between 6GB and 8GB of memory!

I have the 5T 6GB/64GB model and it had plenty of speed and storage to last a couple of years especially if you use services like Google photos and Google Drive to offload some of your less used files.

But, given that the OP6 is only 3-4 months away if I were you I would consider waiting on that instead, especially if your planning on keeping it for a while.

cython · 20-02-2018 2:58pm

DanC90 wrote: »

I have the 5T 6GB/64GB model and it had plenty of speed and storage to last a couple of years especially if you use services like Google photos and Google Drive to offload some of your less used files.

But, given that the OP6 is only 3-4 months away if I were you I would consider waiting on that instead, especially if your planning on keeping it for a while.

Yeah, I can see that point of view too, but at this point (and in particular with Oneplus, it seems) you're only ever about 6 months away from the new model in one form or another, so there'll always be the temptation to wait! I've already had to have the mainboard on the current phone replaced under warranty, and have noted a couple of random reboots again recently (may have been a precursor to said mainboard failure), hence not sure that phone will necessarily let me wait that long, and warranty has lapsed since the replacement last year.

Then there's also the part of me that wonders if Oneplus bump the price on the 6 again in line with the 5 as compared to the 3/3T (though that was a marked bump for them!), then Oneplus 6 may be less appealing there.

DanC90 · 20-02-2018 4:01pm

cython wrote:

Yeah, I can see that point of view too, but at this point (and in particular with Oneplus, it seems) you're only ever about 6 months away from the new model in one form or another, so there'll always be the temptation to wait! I've already had to have the mainboard on the current phone replaced under warranty, and have noted a couple of random reboots again recently (may have been a precursor to said mainboard failure), hence not sure that phone will necessarily let me wait that long, and warranty has lapsed since the replacement last year.

cython wrote:

Then there's also the part of me that wonders if Oneplus bump the price on the 6 again in line with the 5 as compared to the 3/3T (though that was a marked bump for them!), then Oneplus 6 may be less appealing there.

Yeah I got stung with the OnePlus 3 on that front so when the 5 came out I decided to wait and see if they'd bring out a T model again which obviously they did and I'm glad I waited. In future I'll be sticking to the T models too.

Your situation is a tough one with your own phone being on the brink of death but I really would suggest waiting on the OP6, I personally think with OnePlus's 6 month schedule of releasing phones that if you know your going to upgrade the next year then it's best to buy their phone as close to release as possible, if their latest phone has been out over 3 months then wait for the next one as you'll be buying a phone that's resale value will drop in 3 months. In the mean time you could get one of the good budget phones like the Xiaomi MiA1 or Honor 7x to tide you over until a T model release.

As far as the price increase on the next model goes I'd guess it will be around 50e more than the 5T as it's rumored to be putting the fingerprint sensor under the display which tbh I'd happily pay 50e for but I can't see them charging more than 600e for the base model OP6/T (fingers crossed).

dastardly00 · 21-02-2018 4:24pm

DanC90 wrote: »

Yeah I got stung with the OnePlus 3 on that front so when the 5 came out I decided to wait and see if they'd bring out a T model again which obviously they did and I'm glad I waited. In future I'll be sticking to the T models too.

Your situation is a tough one with your own phone being on the brink of death but I really would suggest waiting on the OP6, I personally think with OnePlus's 6 month schedule of releasing phones that if you know your going to upgrade the next year then it's best to buy their phone as close to release as possible, if their latest phone has been out over 3 months then wait for the next one as you'll be buying a phone that's resale value will drop in 3 months. In the mean time you could get one of the good budget phones like the Xiaomi MiA1 or Honor 7x to tide you over until a T model release.

As far as the price increase on the next model goes I'd guess it will be around 50e more than the 5T as it's rumored to be putting the fingerprint sensor under the display which tbh I'd happily pay 50e for but I can't see them charging more than 600e for the base model OP6/T (fingers crossed).

Resale value is only important if you have intentions of selling the phone in the future... Unless I'm missing something?
Resale value is not something I have ever considered when purcasing a phone

Alanstrainor · 21-02-2018 4:43pm

I had the flu over the last week, a lot of lying in bed watching shows on my phone, and general messing about. I let the battery go down to 5% or so before charging and checked how long I had the screen on before needing a charge. 9.5 hours. :eek: holy crap that's ridiculous! Managed that twice over the last week too!

Still loving my 5T. What a great buy.

user1842 · 21-02-2018 5:03pm

I would love to buy this phone if it had a 4.8in to max 5.0in screen form factor.

I seem to be the only person that likes small to medium size easy to handle phones

I had to sell my Oneplus 3T as it was too damn big.

DanC90 · 21-02-2018 5:59pm

dastardly00 wrote:

Resale value is only important if you have intentions of selling the phone in the future... Unless I'm missing something? Resale value is not something I have ever considered when purcasing a phone

As I said above that, if you know you're going to be upgrading soon enough, then I'd take into consideration the resale value of the phone as most people would often sell their current phone to part fund the new one. If you know your holding onto it for a while then it's not an issue.

dastardly00 · 21-02-2018 6:37pm

DanC90 wrote: »

As I said above that, if you know you're going to be upgrading soon enough, then I'd take into consideration the resale value of the phone as most people would often sell their current phone to part fund the new one. If you know your holding onto it for a while then it's not an issue.

Yeah sorry I get the point now that you were making

deco nate · 21-02-2018 8:20pm

Alanstrainor wrote: »

I had the flu over the last week, a lot of lying in bed watching shows on my phone, and general messing about. I let the battery go down to 5% or so before charging and checked how long I had the screen on before needing a charge. 9.5 hours. :eek: holy crap that's ridiculous! Managed that twice over the last week too!

Still loving my 5T. What a great buy.

My longest was 7:38 with 27 per cent left

Really is a great bit of kit

ExcaliburRisen · 22-02-2018 8:36pm

Have this phone about a week now. Really impressed with the speed.
Previous phone was the Smart Ultra 6 which was beginning to show it's age.

One gripe is that I don't seem to be getting the great battery life like some people.
Current screen usage is 3:14 with 20% battery left.

What am I doing wrong?

Alanstrainor · 22-02-2018 8:42pm

ExcaliburRisen wrote: »

Have this phone about a week now. Really impressed with the speed.
Previous phone was the Smart Ultra 6 which was beginning to show it's age.

One gripe is that I don't seem to be getting the great battery life like some people.
Current screen usage is 3:14 with 20% battery left.

What am I doing wrong?

Settings -> Battery

Look in there and read the list of apps, on my device the screen is on top with the highest percentage (currently it's at 21%), with the next item being Android System 2%. If you look and there's some application sucking a huge % of your battery then that app is the cause of your battery drain.

ExcaliburRisen · 22-02-2018 8:45pm

I'm seeing Wi-Fi at 15%, Screen at 13% and Phone idle at 10%. All the rest are in single digit percentages.

Alanstrainor · 22-02-2018 8:52pm

ExcaliburRisen wrote: »

I'm seeing Wi-Fi at 15%, Screen at 13% and Phone idle at 10%. All the rest are in single digit percentages.

How long between charges? Do you have the phone running for 2 days or more without charging? The high phone idle % is often due to poor network coverage, the phone is constantly hunting for better network.

ExcaliburRisen · 22-02-2018 9:05pm

It's 2d 23h 32m since last charge.

The phone idle does make sense. I'm on Virgin mobile (3 network) which is notoriously bad in my area. Only switched to get the €5 for 5 months offer.
I'll probably switch to vodafone once the offfer is up.

Is there anything in the Wi-Fi preferences I could change that would lower the battery % against Wi-Fi?

Thanks

Alanstrainor · 22-02-2018 9:14pm

ExcaliburRisen wrote: »

It's 2d 23h 32m since last charge.

The phone idle does make sense. I'm on Virgin mobile (3 network) which is notoriously bad in my area. Only switched to get the €5 for 5 months offer.
I'll probably switch to vodafone once the offfer is up.

Is there anything in the Wi-Fi preferences I could change that would lower the battery % against Wi-Fi?

Thanks

When I was saying I had 9.5 hours, that was over the course of one day. Three days running is a long time, and you should expect the high numbers you see in your battery section. You could turn your WiFi off when not in use, but tbh I wouldn't worry about it.

deco nate · 22-02-2018 9:20pm

ExcaliburRisen wrote: »

It's 2d 23h 32m since last charge.

The phone idle does make sense. I'm on Virgin mobile (3 network) which is notoriously bad in my area. Only switched to get the €5 for 5 months offer.
I'll probably switch to vodafone once the offfer is up.

Is there anything in the Wi-Fi preferences I could change that would lower the battery % against Wi-Fi?

Thanks

Nothing wrong with your battery life so

ExcaliburRisen · 22-02-2018 9:21pm

I'm definitely not complaining about 3 days plus between charges.

Was just hoping for more screen on time...

Alanstrainor · 22-02-2018 9:44pm

ExcaliburRisen wrote: »

I'm definitely not complaining about 3 days plus between charges.

Was just hoping for more screen on time...

You'll just have to stare at your screen more often so!

wotzgoingon · 23-02-2018 1:57am

user1842 wrote: »

I would love to buy this phone if it had a 4.8in to max 5.0in screen form factor.

I seem to be the only person that likes small to medium size easy to handle phones

I had to sell my Oneplus 3T as it was too damn big.

I could never go back to a screen smaller than 5.5". All my phones since the Samsung Galaxy Note II have been 5.5".

user1842 · 23-02-2018 9:18am

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I could never go back to a screen smaller than 5.5". All my phones since the Samsung Galaxy Note II have been 5.5".

I know, I seem to be in total minority in wanting a small/medium sized good android phone.

Wanton · 23-02-2018 12:07pm

user1842 wrote: »

I know, I seem to be in total minority in wanting a small/medium sized good android phone.

Nope, not at all. I think my Samsung S5 was the ideal size.... but I just couldn't find the spec phone I wanted without going to this size phone, so 5T it was.

Havent regretted it yet, although it is a dust magnet and I need to get a new screen protector soon as this one is already scratched to bit.

god's toy · 23-02-2018 12:24pm

user1842 wrote: »

I know, I seem to be in total minority in wanting a small/medium sized good android phone.

Xperia ZX2 Compact will be FHD+ (2160 x 1080) screen will only measure 5 inches. plus all the stuff that's hot right now in any flagship.

... but no 3.5mm headphone jack

Wanton · 25-02-2018 12:25pm

Oneplus have announced they have a fix to allow HD video for Netflix etc...

One minor issue (and have found 2 sources confirming...) you need to send your device back to Oneplus...

https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/important-oneplus-5t-does-not-support-hd-viewing-for-netflix-google-play-movies-etc.704333/page-23

Apparently they need to plug the device into a "authorised" PC and garuntee to have the device returned within 5 days of receipt... so thats 10 days really you wil have to be without your phone, assuming you even get your own phone back.

If they are anything like DJI and their drones, they will just send you back something random and say that it just need to be in similar condition to you own device.

micks_address · 25-02-2018 5:50pm

Wanton wrote: »

Oneplus have announced they have a fix to allow HD video for Netflix etc...

One minor issue (and have found 2 sources confirming...) you need to send your device back to Oneplus...

https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/important-oneplus-5t-does-not-support-hd-viewing-for-netflix-google-play-movies-etc.704333/page-23

Apparently they need to plug the device into a "authorised" PC and garuntee to have the device returned within 5 days of receipt... so thats 10 days really you wil have to be without your phone, assuming you even get your own phone back.

If they are anything like DJI and their drones, they will just send you back something random and say that it just need to be in similar condition to you own device.

You need to return the device? Seems ridiculous

Alanstrainor · 26-02-2018 5:13pm

micks_address wrote: »

You need to return the device? Seems ridiculous

It's laughable really. Exactly how you expect OnePlus to solve this issue. They should never have even bothered announcing it if this was their way of giving the fix.

I did some reading on it, and there are reasons they can't do this OTA. But fook that, what a joke. Send your device off for 2 weeks at best, and hope the one you receive back is actually yours! And it will be wiped completely, so you'd have to start from scratch. God damn it OnePlus, you really are the dumbest smart phone company out there.

ED E · 26-02-2018 5:47pm

It really is laughable.

deco nate · 26-02-2018 6:00pm

In India they have some repair stores you can bring your phone to, don't know if they are doing it over here.it really is crazy.

No way am I sending my phone back, if they used a repair service over here to update I'd pop in for the half hour an wait.

alwald · 26-02-2018 8:51pm

It's laughable indeed, are we protected by any consumer law here? Can we claim for a compensation?
Who on earth will send their own device to receive another used phone that could be half destroyed??!! This is a joke.

micks_address · 26-02-2018 9:24pm

alwald wrote: »

It's laughable indeed, are we protected by any consumer law here? Can we claim for a compensation?
Who on earth will send their own device to receive another used phone that could be half destroyed??!! This is a joke.

My bet they pay a cost per install so they are banking on very few people bothering sending back their device for the update. I wish I'd just bought a pixel 2 xl..

deco nate · 26-02-2018 9:27pm

I'm sure it's free, just don't know why it wasn't included in the first place.

Mossy Monk · 27-02-2018 10:40am

I wonder if OP5T's bought now would have that problem fixed or would they also need to be sent back?

Wanton · 27-02-2018 11:06am

Mossy Monk wrote: »

I wonder if OP5T's bought now would have that problem fixed or would they also need to be sent back?

I think anything for the next few weeks (depending on what their stock turn around is like) will still most likely need to be sent back. These devices would have been built weeks or months ago.

Wanton · 27-02-2018 11:09am

I dont expect much luck, but I am going to try play hardball with them and threaten them with consumer law.

The clearly advertised the fantastic HD screen and all the great things it could do, but made no indication there was any limitations attached. You would have a strong case I would think as Netflix is not some barely known service etc, they should have called it out on their website as something that wasnt currently supported. This would of course led to lower sales. We were misled and miss-sold these products.

Ionised · 27-02-2018 11:47am

Perhaps I am a lone voice here but is not having Netflix in HD such a dealbreaker and worthy of a cry for 'compensation' ?

As far as I am aware this issue is not new and has been present through the previous OnePlus devices.

I am very happy with my 5T and with 4k Netflix on my LG TV.

Wanton · 27-02-2018 12:03pm

Ionised wrote: »

Perhaps I am a lone voice here but is not having Netflix in HD such a dealbreaker and worthy of a cry for 'compensation' ?

As far as I am aware this issue is not new and has been present through the previous OnePlus devices.

I am very happy with my 5T and with 4k Netflix on my LG TV.

Yes. I watch most of my shows on my phone and want to do it legally. You can really notice it watching something like Altered Carbon.

I am not looking for compensation, I am happy to accept a replacement device. I think its entirely unacceptable that they expect their customers to send their device back for probably up to 2 weeks.

It drives me even more demented when they thank anyone who complains "for their support and understanding".

As I said on twitter, without response of course, no one supports or understands their half baked attempt at resolving this problem.

alwald · 27-02-2018 1:40pm

Wanton wrote:

I dont expect much luck, but I am going to try play hardball with them and threaten them with consumer law.

I agree with you and I want to do the same mainly because their solution is rubbish.

DanC90 · 27-02-2018 2:31pm

Could they not just release a program for Mac & Windows so we can do it ourselves? I'm sure all their "Authorised" PC is doing is running a script to install and enable HD playback.

Wanton · 27-02-2018 2:49pm

DanC90 wrote: »

Could they not just release a program for Mac & Windows so we can do it ourselves? I'm sure all their "Authorised" PC is doing is running a script to install and enable HD playback.

They issue there would be any extra info/tools that are provided to the outside world might then be reverse engineered and potentially used to circumvent the DRM controls entirely.

deco nate · 27-02-2018 8:13pm

New update in the wild.
Just a couple of bug fixes

Bullet1001 · 07-03-2018 1:22pm

micks_address wrote: »

My bet they pay a cost per install so they are banking on very few people bothering sending back their device for the update. I wish I'd just bought a pixel 2 xl..

I hate to break it to you, but a Pixel 2 might not be much better. Amazon support only a few Android phones in HD (https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201460880)
and NetFlix, while much better, only appears to support the original Pixel! (see https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23939#netflix-in-hd3). According to a post I read elsewhere, this daft situation is not just OnePlus' fault, but a more general problem with phone makers and content providers too.

Like most people, I would have assumed that HD streaming was a given, but apparently, this is far from the case on Android phones. Luckily, I don't use these services, so not affected, but I can see how it could be a bummer for others.

digitaldr · 07-03-2018 1:27pm

I am in the process of returning mine for the Netflix HD fix - I'd better get the same undamaged phone back! Luckily I haven't sold my 3t yet and it still has my account on it.

Gwildor · 10-03-2018 1:39pm

Does anyone know how to get the phone to recognise the SIM 2 phone number? I can't seem to input it manually either.

See pic for what I mean:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/NFsWZYIFinWQ3Kr53

deco nate · 11-03-2018 8:27pm

I have just installed the pixel cam app and I have to say its a big improvement in photos.
Slow mo doesn't work on it, and if you turn off hdr the app will crash.
When setting it up the screen will be black.

You have to go into settings and turn off hdr on front camera and restart the app. (also in settings set hdr+ to very high)

If you want to use slow mode just use the oneplus camera.

Unrooted
Look for this apk....

GoogleCamera-Pixel2Mod-Arnova8G2-V7beta-test-6_1 (Arnova8G2, 2018-03-08, changelog)

micks_address · 11-03-2018 10:13pm

deco nate wrote: »

I have just installed the pixel cam app and I have to say its a big improvement in photos.
Slow mo doesn't work on it, and if you turn off hdr the app will crash.
When setting it up the screen will be black.

You have to go into settings and turn off hdr on front camera and restart the app. (also in settings set hdr+ to very high)

If you want to use slow mode just use the oneplus camera.

Unrooted
Look for this apk....

GoogleCamera-Pixel2Mod-Arnova8G2-V7beta-test-6_1 (Arnova8G2, 2018-03-08, changelog)

Any chance of link to apk?

deco nate · 11-03-2018 10:15pm

micks_address wrote: »

Any chance of link to apk?

https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5t/themes/google-camera-ported-app-op5t-t3708132/page81

Blacktie. · 11-03-2018 10:35pm

Anybody else having issues with WhatsApp Web? Just frequent disconnects. It always reconnects after a few minutes but it's very annoying having to unlock the phone for messages to send when you want them to.

ILikeBoats · 12-03-2018 9:33am

Are you on a work network? I used to have that issue in my last job

Blacktie. · 12-03-2018 10:23am

ILikeBoats wrote: »

Are you on a work network? I used to have that issue in my last job

No it happens at home.

Strangely enough it actually doesn't happen at work. Works fine in work when my phone is on mobile data.

digitaldr · 17-03-2018 12:04pm

digitaldr wrote: »

I am in the process of returning mine for the Netflix HD fix - I'd better get the same undamaged phone back! Luckily I haven't sold my 3t yet and it still has my account on it.

Got it back yesterday. Undamaged and still with skin on and cheapo aliexpress tempered glass screen protector intact. Update successfully applied too.

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