OnePlus responds to app throttling fiasco
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- Anonymous
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- 08 Jul 2021
[deleted post]Again this dumb statement ,India may or maynot have 5G thats not the point...these brands are marketing phones in the name of 5g ready.. with just one band it wont be sure if it will work in all regions as different careers will have different bands,also a particular career might have different bands in different region
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- T the Tinkerer
- 4P8
- 08 Jul 2021
Anonymous, 08 Jul 2021It's a problem with chip itself. The SD888 is too much... moreYep. I haven't seen a phone using this chipset that has had competitive battery life compared to the previous generation's iteration. I would choose the exynos 2100 over this SD888 every day of the week and twice on Sunday. It's like the spiritual reincarnation of the SD810.
I'm feeling way better about that custom chip designed after the exynos for the Pixel 6 series. Seeing as how Sony just disappointed with the Mk III series, this regular Pixel 6 or the exynos S21 FE will be my only choices for an eventual replacement for my 6T.
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- 08 Jul 2021
AnonD-909757, 08 Jul 2021Oh, sorry, did I inadvertently hurt your feeling by not pra... moreThe man was right..since you have hate to every brand then you should use a pager
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- 08 Jul 2021
WCOS, 08 Jul 2021This is most certainly NOT performance throttling. The proc... moreThis case is totally different from your Windows example.
In the Windows case, the application can utilize the full power of the system if it needs.
In this case of OnePlus, they prevent the app to use the full potential of the CPU.
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- Anonymous
- rJX
- 08 Jul 2021
WCOS, 08 Jul 2021This is most certainly NOT performance throttling. The proc... moreIf you are setting processor affinity based on the performance and power consumption of the processors then that's throttling only. It doesn't matter what approach you take - affinity, scheduler or whatever.
And the majority or all of the devices that windows runs on is not heterogenous cores. Intel is just introducing the big.Little like architecture. So the behavior of windows so far is not same as this. Traditionally affinity is used to increase performance by reducing switching latency and reusing caches.
And when you say like the device supports Qualcomm Dynamiq cluster and then do a fixed processor pinning, that says its not as dynamic as you claim.
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- Anonymous
- fJ5
- 08 Jul 2021
AnonD-558092, 08 Jul 2021It may be so but then, why purchase a SD888 if you cannot f... moreTo use it fully may mean iPhone SE levels of battery life?
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- AnonD-558092
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- 08 Jul 2021
Anonymous, 08 Jul 2021It's a problem with chip itself. The SD888 is too much... moreIt may be so but then, why purchase a SD888 if you cannot fully use it? Throttling is fine to an extent (if applied everywhere, not with benchmark whitelisted) but losing the most powerful component of a premium processor doesn't seem right.
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- Anonymous
- fJ5
- 08 Jul 2021
NotAFanB0Y, 08 Jul 2021Hahaha... What a 100% true statement...
Never Settle in ... moreWhat are you even saying? OnePlus still charges less than Samsung for their flagships while offering equal or better specs. OxygenOS is often touted as the best Android skin and OnePlus provides timely updates. I've never heard anyone complain about the quality of OnePlus phones. And compared to Apple, OnePlus offers much better value for money.
So away with your lies.
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- NotAFanB0Y
- 7kp
- 08 Jul 2021
Anonymous, 08 Jul 2021Sounds like... ok they caught us again. Post some nice wor... moreHahaha... What a 100% true statement...
Never Settle in prices🤣🤣🤣🤣
All these Chinese brands are following the same strategy, they first release value for money smartphones and after 2-3 years after getting consumers, fanbase and market recognition.. they start to increase their prices of their offerings stating it's an upgrade over previous generation when in reality even those newer parts they use in their newer offerings cost the same and slightly more than previous ones, but they hike prices disproportionately to gain more profits.. in the end
You said wonderful statement... and i appreciate your creativity in this🤣 – "Never Settle in prices"🤣🤣🤣
All these think they are equivalent to Apple and Samsung now and ask same prices as the other ones ask.. Even Apple and Samsung charge a lot more than they should for their flagships considering the BOM cost only 28-35% of their marketed and listed price, but at least they provide quality parts, quality software, quality software updates ^^ and good after sales service, not anything what these Chinese brands offer or "could offer".
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- AnonD-909757
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- 08 Jul 2021
[deleted post]Oh, sorry, did I inadvertently hurt your feeling by not praising trending brands?
Or did you get mad because I don't want to let myself abused by greedy companies?
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- Anonymous
- fJ5
- 08 Jul 2021
AnonD-558092, 08 Jul 2021Yikes, the most powerful core, stripped away from users? Th... moreIt's a problem with chip itself. The SD888 is too much of a battery hog and every manufacturer is taking measures to reduce its power consumption.
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- AnonD-558092
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- 08 Jul 2021
Yikes, the most powerful core, stripped away from users? That's a bad way to "improve battery life", as they say, especially as they did not manage to attain any particularly above average battery life with that scheme.
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- Anonymous
- tTb
- 08 Jul 2021
Seems like the SD 810-Oneplus 2 saga again.. Qualcomm messes up and Oneplus as early adopter and its users pay the price..
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- Anonymous
- fJ5
- 08 Jul 2021
WCOS, 08 Jul 2021This is most certainly NOT performance throttling. The proc... moreAs far as I know, the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro seems to engage all performance cores for the Geekbench app but does not do so for any other app for battery saving reasons. So maybe just stop treating Geekbench differently?
Maybe manufacturers should stop concentrating on benchmarks and concentrate on user experience instead. I'm not going to not buy a phone because it's lower on the benchmark chart but I will not buy a phone if it lack certain features, is not value for money and gives a bad user experience.
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- Dami Agunbiade
- 3aw
- 08 Jul 2021
It's not the best decision by these companies, they should be more open with customers. However I can see where they are coming from. I mean the more powerful the processor, the more resources it uses. However Geekbench is definitely not to be trusted. Its benchmarks and doesn't show daily performance at all.
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- Anonymous
- YUU
- 08 Jul 2021
AnonD-909757, 08 Jul 2021Actually, there are only two Chinese brands I wouldn't... moreActually I don't trust any of the smartphones brand. Be it Chinese or Korean or American or any. Especially Xiaomi. I just get what ever phone that in my budget and carried on my life like normal. I don't care about the camera, battery, SoC and bla bla bla.. I even can live with a brick phone. As long I can use it for emergency I'm good with it.
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- WCOS
- 39y
- 08 Jul 2021
This is most certainly NOT performance throttling. The procedure employed by OnePlus is referred to as 'processor affinity', where particular running processes (and apps) have been preassigned by OnePlus to be assigned to certain cores - so in the OnePlus 9 Series, processes/apps could be bound to the faster Cortex-X1 core (2.84 GHz), the mid-speed core Cortex-A78 (2.42 GHz), and/or the slowest core Cortex-A55 (1.8 GHz).
The Windows OS has had the ability to bind software applications and processes to particular cores of the CPU for a long time. For Android users, this seems to be a revelation.
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- 08 Jul 2021
Anonymous, 08 Jul 2021Now we know why their phones don't overheat like all t... moreYeah, u absolutely right...
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- Anonymous
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- 08 Jul 2021
Sounds like... ok they caught us again. Post some nice words justifying everything and call it a day. Since next day baby...
They are throttling in the name of performance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But was not Oxygen super-optimized?
Honestly, I couldn't care less. Because what has been proven and matters more to them and not to the customer ... Is: Never Settle ... in prices. Facts are fatcs.