Oppo ColorOS 13 hands-on review

18 August 2022
We take a closer look at Oppo's latest OS with Android 13 underneath.

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  • 24 Oct 2023

Miksta, 12 Apr 2023Hi, i recently updated my oppo A74 5G to the ColorOS 13 / A... moreyes, I have the same problem till now.
have you found the solution?

    Hi, i recently updated my oppo A74 5G to the ColorOS 13 / Android 13 update. Since doing the update my phone won't read my SD card or USB (OTG). Before updating i had no such problems and everything worked fine. If i go to storage i can see the SD card but cannot access it in any way. It gave me the option to format SD card, which i did but it did not help. If i plug in a USB and switch on OTG it goes straight to file manager like ColorOS 12 used to do but there is no USB visible there, also SD card does not show up in file manager. I've tried removing and cleaning SD card but nothing has helped. Please if someone has advice i'd really really appreciate it as i need my SD card and i am constantly using USB (OTG) and am struggling without them. Please help.
    Mike (South Africa)

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      • 05 Mar 2023

      Hello, for some reason my ColorOs 13 missing several features such as enlarge folder and AOD.

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        • 02 Feb 2023

        Got the latest Colour OS 13 updated but for some unknown reason it put all my call settings to call forwarding & call baring???
        I wouldn't have known except for the MSG 's from people asking "why you not answering your phone?"

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          • 22 Jan 2023

          Anonymous, 25 Aug 2022I hate the way they spell colour Then you must've hate the Americans. It's just another version. Yours is the British.

            That's including people who are going to buy a Find X5 Pro now, right? or wrong?

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              • rwq
              • 21 Nov 2022

              How can I disble my quick settings menu on lock screen because it posses some serious security risks

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                • 31 Aug 2022

                Junurasheed, 26 Aug 2022I don't care what other people says, I personally trie... moreOf course you won't care. Find x5 has the best performance soc, no wonder color os 13 won't lag. Now, try that in their lower range phone, see if it' doesn't lag as well. The good thing about aosp is, it equally similar experience to all phones, whether it's lower end or the high end. Some caveat might be found when users start running a lot of apps at the same time.

                  I don't care what other people says, I personally tried the beta version on find X5, I felt it's one of the best UI right now in market, it's fluid and we'll maintained, I couldn't find any issues with phone and battery life is also very good, oppo is doing really good job compare to their older versions and I appreciate that, don't say that colorOS is bad by using older versions, it has improved a lot from last 2 versions and I feel nice too.. cheers to colorOS 13

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                    • 26 Aug 2022

                    As a Find X5 Pro user (and Find X3:Pro before that), what I find annoying is not Oppo's enhancements or additions. It's what they take away!

                    What on earth is the point of them taking standard and genuinely useful Android features which are available in the OS and removing them??? So for example, there is no lockdown mode. There is no ability to have a custom settings widget, e.g. a shortcut to Battery settings. Pressing the time at the top of the screen does not pull up the clock app. Etc etc etc

                    There are many such omissions which I previously found very useful. Really irritating that Oppo removed them, and for no reason.

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                      • 25 Aug 2022

                      I hate the way they spell colour

                        ReStore, 19 Aug 2022their sales would improve if they stop rebranding every dam... moreI mean, it's Google's fault that many modern Android skins resemble the look of iOS, not Oppo's.

                          Samsung user, 19 Aug 2022Should change its name into CleanerOS, because the whole UI... moreNobody is going to get baited into your comments when you make it too obvious that you're trolling, just saying.

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                            • 20 Aug 2022

                            you have to suffer, 19 Aug 2022their sales would improve if they didnt sell low end and mi... moreOne thing certain about Oppo phones is they don't hold their value well. Sure, we see people

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                              • 19 Aug 2022

                              notafanboy, 19 Aug 2022the real question is, why does it bother you so much? It�... moreIt bothers me because I OWN A ONEPLUS. You may say "Oppo isn't OnePlus!", but everyone here knows what happened with that.

                              Unlike the others on this site, I couldn't care less about their OS updates if the phone in question isn't purchased or in use by me, but I unfortunately do. I never left OOS11 because OOS12 is a mess of an OS because of the "called off" merger (that would happen in a different way anyway) which is missing features that made me buy a OnePlus in the first place.

                              Well you cared enough to reply to my comment, so that's kind of contradicting no?

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                                • Anonymous
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                                • 19 Aug 2022

                                I like it, looks nice.

                                  notafanboy, 19 Aug 2022the real question is, why does it bother you so much? It�... moreOh, it no longer about whether or not it's mental gymnastics? LMAO 🤣

                                    Anonymous, 19 Aug 2022What's your point? Since you asked me to, I did - and ... morethe real question is, why does it bother you so much? It's just phones broski. Either buy one or don't. No one cares.

                                      ReStore, 19 Aug 2022their sales would improve if they stop rebranding every dam... moretheir sales would improve if they didnt sell low end and midrange device at high prices. their flagships costs more than s22 ultra apparently🤣🤣

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                                        • 19 Aug 2022

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