The desired update to Android 10 on OnePlus devices has not been without errors and problems since its first release, a version that the company itself quickly removed because it caused serious failures. Shortly after he launched it again, with the corrected errors or at least that was what we thought, because several of them are still present.
We always recommend updating to the latest version available on our devices, since they correct errors , protect us from attacks and ultimately allow us to continue using the mobile phone longer. OnePlus is one of the companies that best treats its terminals, offering numerous updates, although this time the results have not been as expected.
Android 10 bugs on OnePlus phones
The mobiles affected by these problems are mainly the OnePlus 7, OnePlus 7 Pro and the OnePlus 6T, three smartphones with high-end features but that do not get rid of these problems after receiving Android 10. It is true that improvements such as Dark mode or the new gestures, although the failures decant the balance in their favor.
Loss of quality in your cameras
The results of the OnePlus cameras have been improving year after year, offering interesting improvements with results increasingly able to compete with the best. After the update to Android 10 these devices have seen how they took a step back and the dreaded watercolor effects have reappeared, which causes the images to be less sharp and the colors flatter.
The camera system itself does not suffer from failures, but the API of its cameras does not seem to have accepted Android 10 well and the OnePlus team will have to fix it if it wants to continue boasting cameras in a very disputed price range.
Call problems
Although we use less and less mobile phones to call, it is still a primary function and with the update to Android 10, OnePlus users have seen how by no means of sound you can get alerts when they call us. We remind you that the OnePlus devices have the Alert Slider, a mechanism on the side to silence the sounds and not even having activated this, they sound.
If we are lucky and know when they call us, the problem appears again if you want to hang up, because the screen is locked and it is impossible to finish it until seconds later that it hangs automatically, something very frustrating for users.
Gesture Errors
One of the novelties of Android 10 in OnePlus, accompanied by its Oxygen OS customization layer were the gestures, allowing us to forget about on-screen buttons and moving to using the increasingly common gestures. This bar has received in the forums an infinite number of criticisms, some of them for the results it offers to users and others linked to vision problems, since the dark mode does not end up being applied in the gesture bar in certain applications.
Picture in picture mode does not work
Among the expected changes of Android 10 was the picture in picture mode that allows us to use some applications over others , for example when we are in a game, to respond to WhatsApp messages or when we use Google Maps navigation to continue seeing our route while responding a message.
The functions seemed promising, but in the OnePlus 6T and the OnePlus 7T it is impossible to use it since we cannot interact on both apps without having to close one of them and reopen it.
What do I do if I have already updated my mobile?
For several months now, this update was released and therefore as surely as you have it installed, in this case we recommend waiting for the next OnePlus security patch, which must be accompanied by solutions for these errors . Since these are not too drastic problems, except for calls, we can expect to change the gestures by the buttons on the screen or try the GCam for our OnePlus mobile and correct the watercolor effect.
In case you have not updated yet, we recommend you wait to do so in future versions when the errors have been corrected by the developer team.