OnePlus 12 series

[KeYoKe]

@KeYoKe He wants to play with your phone.

Why me.....

 

[kwleesg]

tried it in the oppo store in city square. nt bad.

 

[Alexz_Hong]

Is the oneplus ace 3 global rom converted safe to buy ? Still will loss mobile signal after ota update ? Already own a op12 so thinking to buy as a backup phone .

a bit late, but as far as I can tell from threads I've seen in xda, it's still quite troublesome. unless of course the sellers have their own way to doing a full proper conversion or got brave souls here who bought converted Ace 3. https://xdaforums.com/t/ace-3-to-12r-how-i-converted-my-oneplus-ace-3-to-12r.4663519/

After my experience of buying a converted Ace2 last year, and facing region lock, auto brightness issues, etc, I personally wouldn't take the risk. It's a lot less hassle and safer to just use CN ColorOS if you don't need Android auto or google location history. or alternatively, maybe just find a used OP11 instead.

 

[coolhead]

guys, I was searching in my Settings for "eSIM" and found this option for eSIM "Download and activate a operator profile to use a virtual SIM card".

Does this enable eSIM on my Oneplus 12?
My phone is China ROM flashed to Global ROM.

 

[petromax]

guys, I was searching in my Settings for "eSIM" and found this option for eSIM "Download and activate a operator profile to use a virtual SIM card".

Does this enable eSIM on my Oneplus 12?
My phone is China ROM flashed to Global ROM.

If your phone is originally China ROM, it does not have the hardware for eSIM, so even the menu has it's there because you're using Global ROM, it is not going to work

 

[coolhead]

If your phone is originally China ROM, it does not have the hardware for eSIM, so even the menu has it's there because you're using Global ROM, it is not going to work

Thanks for the clarification bro!

 

[OutBreak]

Any issues with the China phone with Global ROM?

 

[tkte_85]

No issues till now. 1TB is now going for below 900 after shop discount at hazel shopee. Only thing is no esim hardware inbuilt, so even if the flashed global software has the option, do not enable it

 

[looool]

Just get 5ber sim to solve esim issue. It's a rewritable sim, I'm using it on my oneplus 12r

 

[Alexz_Hong]

this talk about eSIM made me realised another thing that's strangely missing from local 12R (and in most other regions too it seems), on top of missing charger, case, UFS 4.0, and maybe pixelworks X7 chip? US set seems to have eSIM support. :/

 

[KeYoKe]

Any issues with the China phone with Global ROM?

U ask a few times le leh this question.... BBBBBBBBBMTL

 

[evilduxy]

to change from coloros to OxygenOS isit the same as last time just download oxygen updater will do?


Read HWZ Forum Rules!

 

[tkte_85]

to change from coloros to OxygenOS isit the same as last time just download oxygen updater will do?


Read HWZ Forum Rules!

if you have alr bought the phone, u can check this vid for assistance, but i have not done it myself as most of us bought pre-flashed to oxygenOS.

and no, its not as straightforward as it once was, since 9 series its not that straightforward anymore
10 series onwards they require unlocking bootloader to flash OOS b4 locking it back
11 series onwards they added in region lock

 

[eddy0505]

My white color CN set is here. Gonna test it tonight.

 

[tkte_85]

My white color CN set is here. Gonna test it tonight.

Nice, i see u finally saw a nice price to decide to hoot lol

 

[eddy0505]

ya lol. my china friend got some good lobang and brought back the phone. initial review:

1. tried both color and oxygen os- somehow coloros UI feels smoother? oxygen OS not as optimized in gaming- for eg MLBB doesnt haven 120 ultra fps settings native in game, the adaptive refresh rate doesnt push it to 120hz as well- colorOS has it though
2. dont have a proper desktop mode (only mirror) when connected to external display (even after forcing desktop and freeform mode in developer options)- a bit disappointed but oh well at least mirroring works
3. camera- seems decent will test it more when going overseas next week
4. device does get a bit hot (more so than the sd 8gen2 devices i used in the past- hopefully this is just because im setting up from my old phone . it seems to throttle when it reaches 42 degrees tho, turning off all those game enhancement features until device cools down (how cool ?)
5. the last qhd phone i used was huawei mate 20 pro and I could tell the difference between that and full HD+. i tried to switch between qhd and fhd+ but cant really tell the difference even after changing color temperature to vivid
6. lots of customization to play around with which is a good thing, the 1 handed mode is handy as well


other than that, for the price I paid with all the hardware and features included definitely a flagship killer. will test longer to see if it can be my main phone. battery life seems good, system cloner is definitely very useful for work, dolby vision/hdr viewing is good as well, charging is fast but device gets kinda hot

PS: i am a heavy user and kinda do everything on my phone. maybe an average user doesnt face the same experience as I do.

 

[tkte_85]

the heat is due to 8G3, i kinda knew what to expect alr since i came from Redmagic 8 Pro to 9 Pro, which is also a 8G2 to 8G3. I mentioned b4 in that thread that 8G3 is a confirmed hot chip as even an active cooling Redmagic 9 Pro is not exactly able to contain the heat 8G3 produces, from the results of the endurance run in 3D Mark. 8G2 was able to maintain above 98% while 8G3 drop quite abit at 90%, which is esp not good news for phones such as this which does not have active cooling

 

[eddy0505]

yup read about that as well, but i thought the vapour chamber cooling will be able help a bit (as seen from reviews). humid/hot weather here doesnt help as well. was asking about the heat for dimensity 9300 chipset in vivo x100 pro thread too as I had very bad experience with MTK's but no one can really shed any light at all.

 

[Alexz_Hong]

some yapping from me. my 2 cents regarding 8gen2 vs 8gen3. my experience is quite different, especially in regards to heavy gaming (i play both genshin and honkai star rail on mobile). maybe it just so happens that the one 8gen3 phone I've tested is tuned well, but my experience with it is noticeably better than any 8gen2 phone i've used. my theory is actually that it depends a lot on the "tuning" approach that each brand takes, because just chip alone, all the in-depth testing I've seen show that 8gen3 has higher performance per watt compared to the 8gen2 (see image below). no matter peak performance, mid level performance, or at the lower end of things. for eg, the CPU portion. to get 5000 points in Geekbench 6, 8gen2 needed 6W while 8gen3 only needed 4W.

i think the main thing is just that these newer generation of chips has the ability to draw a lot more power in order to get much higher performance, basically, higher ceiling. this is likely to improve its "burst" performance like initial app launch, things that require fast processing like video/photo processing, etc. kinda like intel turbo boost i think? give it more power when it needs to brute force and do what it needs to do quickly, then quickly drop power once it's done.

but then some brands might not be managing all that well and instead letting apps make use of higher power for longer than needed, which gives the impression that it is more hot? like you see these chips can go over 10W in term of CPU or GPU usage which looks nuts... but even running Genshin at highest graphics option normally uses like 5-6W in total only.

anyway, in my own experience at least, redmagic typically just F it and don't limit the processor too much. I've used 5S, 6, 7 Pro, 7S Pro, and all behaved like that. the 7 Pro with 8 Gen 1 in particular was something special. lol. pretty sure body temp can easily reach over 50 deg even with fan turned on. lol.

OnePlus tends to be more willing to let the phone runs warmer as well to ensure that games run smoother, especially in gaming mode. like the OP11 and Ace 3 with 8Gen2, both ran noticeably hotter compared to my Redmi K70 Pro with 8Gen3, and Xiaomi tends to be more conservative in my experience with the 13, the Poco F5 Pro, F5, when talking about more recent devices. by the way, when playing the genshin at the highest graphics settings, the K70 Pro drained about the same level of battery over 30mins as the Ace 3, and that is despite a much smaller battery, and running the game at 864P render resolution instead of 720P like on the Ace 3. and the phone didn't get nearly as hot as the Ace 3. which is why i do think 8Gen3 is a better chip.

as a side note, samsung usually is the worse when it comes to gaming since they are not only using stacked motherboard, but also a lot less heat dissipating/spreading stuff in their phones. S23 Ultra with 8Gen2 is the worse performing phone I've tested with 8Gen2 (the OP11 is so much better that it's not even funny, and it even loses to foldable like the oppo find n3) and even performed no better then phones I've tested with 8+Gen1. but this is just talking about my gaming experience with these devices of course. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[evilduxy]

if you have alr bought the phone, u can check this vid for assistance, but i have not done it myself as most of us bought pre-flashed to oxygenOS.

and no, its not as straightforward as it once was, since 9 series its not that straightforward anymore
10 series onwards they require unlocking bootloader to flash OOS b4 locking it back
11 series onwards they added in region lock

oh i haven

i was thinkin of changing my dad phone to this since my previous op7 pro which i hand over to him battery getting worst and if china phone comes pre flash to oxygen os i can get it instead of spending 1.3k just for a local set btw if i were to buy from the 3 sellers recommend here on shopee it shld be all flash to oxygen os need not ownself flash right?