It's not the first time a big security/privacy leak was found on OnePlus' phones. Would stay far away from OnePlus phones.
Backdoor with root access found from OnePlus phones
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Re: Backdoor with root access found from OnePlus phones
#12I just checked and found it on my OnePlus Two. To other OP owners: make sure you look under "all" apps, not just "downloaded". After this finding , the data collection incident a month ago, and their last 1Gb+ OTA update that bootlooped my phone, I think I'm done with OnePlus products. I enjoyed the hardware but I can't tolerate this much malice/incompetence in software in something as critical to my daily life. I'm…
Not to mention the "phone crashes when calling 911" bug
Re: Backdoor with root access found from OnePlus phones
#13I just checked and found it on my OnePlus Two. To other OP owners: make sure you look under "all" apps, not just "downloaded". After this finding , the data collection incident a month ago, and their last 1Gb+ OTA update that bootlooped my phone, I think I'm done with OnePlus products. I enjoyed the hardware but I can't tolerate this much malice/incompetence in software in something as critical to my daily life. I'm…
Not to mention the "phone crashes when calling 911" bug
Wasn't that a bug with other phones as well?
Re: Backdoor with root access found from OnePlus phones
#14I just checked and found it on my OnePlus Two. To other OP owners: make sure you look under "all" apps, not just "downloaded". After this finding , the data collection incident a month ago, and their last 1Gb+ OTA update that bootlooped my phone, I think I'm done with OnePlus products. I enjoyed the hardware but I can't tolerate this much malice/incompetence in software in something as critical to my daily life. I'm…
Yup, done here too. Edit: EngineerMode is present on my OP3T with latest Oreo beta
Re: Backdoor with root access found from OnePlus phones
#15Found it on my Oneplus X. Maybe this is the time to try out Apple.
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#16Isn't the EngineerMode APK an MTK app? I have been involved in developing an Marshmallow MTK based phone in the past and in my experience their BSP's were pretty messy. I.e. a lot of cleaning up is necessary if you want a relatively quiet logcat and debugging APK's removed - even for user builds.
Edit: I must have remembered wrong or I saw the EngineerMode on the QComm device we developed before our MTK based device. The OnePlus seems to be a QComm device.. :)
Re: Backdoor with root access found from OnePlus phones
#17The "secret" password seems to be "angela". OnePlus == DarkArmy confirmed?
Ikr, why would you even insert a reference like that?
Re: Backdoor with root access found from OnePlus phones
#18I just checked and found it on my OnePlus Two. To other OP owners: make sure you look under "all" apps, not just "downloaded". After this finding , the data collection incident a month ago, and their last 1Gb+ OTA update that bootlooped my phone, I think I'm done with OnePlus products. I enjoyed the hardware but I can't tolerate this much malice/incompetence in software in something as critical to my daily life. I'm…
> I enjoyed the hardware but
Do like me, if you don't want to trash a OnePlus device: install LineageOS.
Re: Backdoor with root access found from OnePlus phones
#19The "secret" password seems to be "angela". OnePlus == DarkArmy confirmed?
Isn't it "code"?
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you consider switching over to the community based LineageOS? They will continue to provide security updates for your phone and afair currently you are stuck with Android 6. Additionally, the upcoming release will bring Android 8 to your device: https://review.lineageos.org/#/q/branch:lineage-15.0+bacon
lineageos is awesome. Unfortunately the camera app is quite a bit worse in my opinion (used it on the OnePlus One, 3T and haven't tested it with my 5). Guess some things are more important at this point..
I use OpenCamera on a oneplus X with lineageOS. The camera hardware is not great, and definitely far from the 2017 state of the art, but it works ok.