New updates are being added at the bottom of this story…….
Original story (published on Dec 30, 2020) follows:
OnePlus 8T has had a pretty rough couple of months following its official unveiling. Many of these issues have been partly attributed to the drastic changes in OxygenOS 11 over previous iterations.
We have been closely following many of these bugs and issues afflicting users of the OnePlus 8T and you can check out our dedicated tracker here.
We have also been following issues and bugs faced by users of OxygenOS 11, OnePlus’ Android 11 custom Android skin and you can check out our dedicated tracker here.
It looks like the woes plaguing this device are far from over as users are complaining of even more issues with their devices now. This, according to affected users of the said OnePlus 8T devices, is following a recent update, OxygenOS 11.0.6.7.
Many of these affected users report of unexplained instability of their devices following this update. According to them, the update results in a lot of slowdown and lagginess experienced throughout the system.
I got new update today…. After the update, videos got automatically struck and playing continuously….. Can’t able to watch any video. Please see this issue urgently and rectify it soon. Source
This issue affects almost all aspects of the OnePlus 8T device from the video and music playback, playing both online and offline videos, games, the device’s camera and the system UI.
Luckily, OnePlus has one of the most active community forums and affected users already have a few workarounds to try out on their unstable OnePlus 8T devices.
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Some of these suggested workarounds include:
Interestingly, this seems to be working to some degree for users with affected OnePlus 8T devices.
It remains unclear what exactly is causing this problem to users of the OnePlus 8T as there are so many other users who have installed the same update on their devices and are not facing any issues.
We shall continue to keep an eye on this story and update as and when we get communication from OnePlus on the issue. Until then, stay tuned to our dedicated OnePlus section.
This issue has been brought to the attention of OnePlus and in response to one of the user complaints, a staff member confirms that the issue has been forwarded to the relevant teams.
Update 1 (December 31)
Thanks & Regards, Suhas. Source
Update 2 (January 05)
New reports suggest that OnePlus is planning to roll out a hotfix update to users of OnePlus 8T running on OxygenOS 11.0.6.7. More on that here.
Update 3 (January 07)
OnePlus has rolled out OxygenOS 11.0.6.8 to OnePlus 8T users in India and North America and OxygenOS 11.0.6.9 in EU that seems to have addressed the issues caused by the previous build.
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