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Is HTC forgotten U Ultra ?

On black friday i have buy myself the U Ultra for a good price and i was thinking wow wat an awesome deal and oreo plus Next year p also when HTC respect two years updates but unfortunately is the dream Broken because they're is a new flagship u11 (+) and life that get al love from HTC Company so they drop the promises to suport u ultra in the garbage bin. The silence by the HTC Company about u ultra say enough for my feelings. I know my English is terrible but i am afraid that HTC is forgotten that many People that buy U Ultra expect that they also get suport for An reasonable time.

Seems you are right. There is Android 7.1, Android 8.0 and Android 8.1. Ultra didn't get a single android update yet- Guess that's why it was so cheap lately. It is stuck on 7.0 october patch.

still in this month update to Oreo 8.0, in the first place will receive dualsim phones
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Well i don't think that our phone is forgotten. HTC confirmed that we will get oreo and i suppose that this will happen in spring. It is completely normal current flagship (u11) to get the update first. U11 life got it so fast as android one compatible device (meaning that it gets almost pure android which is easy to adapt fast). I come from LG phone and there the situation with updates is worse there. The fact that we got the october security patch shows their commitment in my opinion. We will see how it goes but at least for now i am rather optimistic.

HTC 10 receiving oreo in US. This surprises me. I expected our u ultra to be the next. Let's hope that we will also get our update soon as our hardware is practically the same as the 10.

neptun2 said:
HTC 10 receiving oreo in US. This surprises me. I expected our u ultra to be the next. Let's hope that we will also get our update soon as our hardware is practically the same as the 10.
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for me another sign that they don't care about u ultra anymore. guess it has a really tiny user base anyways.

Just be patience most of the device didn't even get android n update XD. Better wait and let the dev make an optimized/healty update.

I just bought one of these direct from HTC UK for £290. I am expecting it to receive Oreo, that has been reported in several different websites (although maybe from the same source?). I am looking forward to playing with it, the last HTC I had was the One X, which was a brilliant phone.

madphone said:
for me another sign that they don't care about u ultra anymore. guess it has a really tiny user base anyways.
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I sent a DM to them on Twitter and they were like "Yea, we know you are interested in having the latest Android version on your phone, and you'll get a notification when an update is available." which was a total non-answer. I left it at that, as I didn't feel they would be forthcoming. I'm thinking it'll stay on 7.0 forever.

It'll be soon...

HTCs update strategy really sucks. The Ultra is not even a year old and falls behind the 2 year old 10. Im currently back on my HTC 10 to enjoy Android 8. The Ultra is most likely my last HTC device. Dont get me wrong Im a big HTC fan since the M7, but their stupid decisions are nothing but unprofessional. Ok i got it the Ultra is a very unpopular device, but its highend hardware and price deserves fast updates. im glad i payed less than the half of the retail price. The HTC 11 is sadly a complete failure, as its body is so weak you can bend and twist it like rubber. No comparison to the super solid HTC 10, and also the Ultra is harder too bend although its feature a bigger display(s).
To say at least sth good. HTCs Android 8 version feels really great. Finally you can use the stock launcher as its almost stock android like and no fu**ing blinkfeed. Overall speed improved. Even Antutu scores higher. What a shame its not on the Ultra yet...

S3V3N said:
still in this month update to Oreo 8.0, in the first place will receive dualsim phones
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Hey mate, where did you get this information from? Does it still hold true? A brand new ultra owner here and of course use have other HTC's lying around.
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In august HTC announced Android 8 for the HTC U Ultra, Since then silence. It's pretty much safe to say it's dead.

They released it for htc 10 which has the same hardware so i expect recent release for u ultra as well.

HTC 10 has a different SoC, a different FrontCam. A different Screen, no Second Screen. There is still a lot to do I guess. The Userbase must be much much smaller. Maybe they stopped it, maybe they work on it but with less Ressources, so it will come out when Android 9 is released. I wouldn't keep my hopes high.

SoC in U Ultra is snapdragon 821 and in htc 10 is 820. I doubt that there is too much difference between both. Regarding the second screen and front cam you are correct but i doubt that they will cancel it. Lets see what will happen.

Sorry to hear the above posts - the missus wants me to have a 2nd phone that I don't play with so I can always be in contact and I was thinking the U Ultra looked a good choice. An apparent lack of support often means an orphaned phone so I guess I look elsewhere.

Update coming Soon......
https://twitter.com/HTCMexico/status/958093718107623425
https://twitter.com/HTCMEA/status/960030647262826496
Just translate.

English, english!!!!!!!!!
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S3V3N said:
English, english!!!!!!!!!
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google translate bro.....

[Discussion] why there is so much delay in official Oreo build

Hie all,
First of its not any criticism thread... Just discussion thread. We all know Oneplus 5t is beast device... One of the finest android phone in the market now..... But why there is so much delay in official Oreo build. And Companies like Xiomi and other other mid range devices release thier Oreos but why not oneplus?

Xiaomi didn't do anything. Only one device of theirs is getting it right now. And that too because it's a stock android device.

rappa619 said:
Xiaomi didn't do anything. Only one device of theirs is getting it right now. And that too because it's a stock android device.
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But there are many mid range phone getting Oreo too.....???

Which ones have it already? Also this phone won't be getting project treble either, so if that does end up making updates faster in the future (I have my doubts) then the 5T will be even slower compared to other devices.

rappa619 said:
Which ones have it already? Also this phone won't be getting project treble either, so if that does end up making updates faster in the future (I have my doubts) then the 5T will be even slower compared to other devices.
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You can see Honor releasing Oreo for thier phones..... And about terrible you are absolutely right bro

rappa619 said:
Xiaomi didn't do anything. Only one device of theirs is getting it right now. And that too because it's a stock android device.
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Nope. . They pulled update for that device too[emoji23][emoji23]
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If you guys think oneplus is bad think about Samsung. The note 8 which is a flagship phone and costs double the oneplus 5t is still on nougat anyway. The beta is still out there for anyone really desperate for oreo.

marvi0 said:
If you guys think oneplus is bad think about Samsung. The note 8 which is a flagship phone and costs double the oneplus 5t is still on nougat anyway. The beta is still out there for anyone really desperate for oreo.
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Haha... Bro who tell u oneplus is bad.... I started this thread just for discussion ??
Even samsung note 8 and s8. Owners jealous with our 5t??

My only concern is that after all this waiting, we'll get android 8.0 instead of the already available 8.1. However the Oneplus 5 already has Oreo stable and it is almost an identical phone to the 5t so I don't think we'll go through so many open betas as the 5. I hope the release of Oreo is near!

Oneplus busy making the SW for oneplus 6.

marvi0 said:
If you guys think oneplus is bad think about Samsung. The note 8 which is a flagship phone and costs double the oneplus 5t is still on nougat anyway. The beta is still out there for anyone really desperate for oreo.
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That is nougat even if it says version is 8.0

l0veysingh said:
Haha... Bro who tell u oneplus is bad.... I started this thread just for discussion [emoji3][emoji3]
Even samsung note 8 and s8. Owners jealous with our 5t[emoji23]?
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Try using volte or vowifi on h3g on your op5t, then see who wins (ATM)
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Flash the Oreo Open Beta, and boom, you have Oreo.
Even though it's a beta, it's still mostly stable and solid. Some apps force close, but for me it's mainly Facebook at times, and it's few and far between. Not much is gonna be different in the stable build once it's released, so you might as well flash the OB
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I'm never in a hurry to get earlier builds of new major OSes. They always have major problems, usually battery drain being one of them. It hasn't really been that long.

l0veysingh said:
Even samsung note 8 and s8. Owners jealous with our 5t?
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I'd rethink THAT bold little statement.....
If they wanted the 5T then they could get it...

papped said:
I'm never in a hurry to get earlier builds of new major OSes. They always have major problems, usually battery drain being one of them. It hasn't really been that long.
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This. It's like the huge push to get Lineage 15 for our device, when it's still missing tons of features that make it Lineage. They might as well work on LOS 14 so it could go official like the OP5.
As for OOS, let someone else be the beta testers. I don't need to be on the lastest and greatest just for bragging rights. We're still getting security updates for Nougat from OP so I don't see a problem.

Why do you all care so much about Oreo anyway? 4.7.6 is super stable, and working great.
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I don't know as though I "care so much" but I do enjoy having all the possible features and Oreo brings a few additions which aren't huge but worthwhile nevertheless. Considering I had read many reports of OB1 working without issue I went ahead and installed it and guess what, I have no issues. I do however have a few new features I like and I'm all for extra gravy. I would suggest that those that want Oreo but haven't installed the beta, consider doing it, you're probably not going to regret it and reverting is easy enough anyways.

I have the Oreo BETA 1 on my 5T and this is pretty stable, with a great perf/battery ratio, which means that the Oreo stable can only be close to release now.
By the way the A from Xiaomi is getting Oreo, but cellphones like Mi 6 or Mi Mix 2 with MIUI 9 are getting Oreo in beta channel.

correct me if im wrong
but dont they have new year hollidays now in china

Honor Root and Custom ROM support is apparently dead.

Looks like developer support for this phone is officially dead, I don't even see a safe method to root EMUI 8.0, ROM development is also dead because the company gave out new phones to the developer to start development on View 10 and newer phone.
Well, tit for tat, Nokia x6 and other new phones will take down Honor subbrand in a giffy and guys this is the reason why you should not trust Honor and Xiaomi.
I recommend not buying even the new Honor 10 from this companu because in a month or two they will release a new phone and will stop or delay even bug fixes for older phone, just see that H8Pro was released in Aug 2017 and till now we have H9, H9 lite, view 10 and Honor 10. No way we are getting Android 9 or any bug fixes soon......

Sad to say but I agree. I've never stuck around with the stock ROM on a phone as long as I've stuck with EMUI. It's not because I love EMUI of course. There is just not even a single custom ROM that works fully. I feel like I should've gone with the OnePlus 5 instead at the time I bought this. Probably never buying Honor again, even if it offers better hardware I'd rather pick a phone which has better developer support.

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Sad to say but I agree. I've never stuck around with the stock ROM on a phone as long as I've stuck with EMUI. It's not because I love EMUI of course. There is just not even a single custom ROM that works fully. I feel like I should've gone with the OnePlus 5 instead at the time I bought this. Probably never buying Honor again, even if it offers better hardware I'd rather pick a phone which has better developer support.
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Yea, If I had any idea that this would happen, I would've bought OP5T instead. Dude, that company knows how to cater the customers, my friend who bought OP1 is still getting freebies like Star Wars : Last Jedi tickets and Avengers Infinity wars ticket.
Well, I am getting a new phone for someone and right now OP6 and Honor 10 (not launched in India) falls in that price range, but this time I am going with OP6.

Community development strength

You're a power user. Can the Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite keep up? Rate this thread to express how "healthy" the development scene is for the Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite. A higher rating indicates available root methods, kernels, and custom ROMs.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

Just hoping for the TWRP to come up soon. And for LineageOS-like ROMs to show, too. Eager to try them out and unleash all the phone's potential.
Looking good, though

The phone is keeping up very good actually this is my first budget phone after a long time of using the galaxy series,note series and nexus 6p it is a tad slower at opening closing apps and the gpu is also weaker but it is surprisingly good at keeping them open in the background. The battery life is by far the best so far i ever had, around 8 hours of screen time of actively using the phone. I really hope the development for this phone starts up looking forward to testing roms and helping out in the future.

No custom roms or kernels for now but the Kernel Source is already here and there's already some guides about different tasks, so the developpement community promises to be active, in addition to Android One and the GSI roms!

TWRP official is coming. phh-treble will be updated for rounded corners soon. we'll be selling mi a2 lite with boot loader unlocked (which you can do yourself ofc) and a 2yr warranty that won't be void when you flash roms. we're working on sponsoring opengapps twrp and phh-treble and providing dev support / bug bounties.
let me know if you want anything else...like lineageos official, etc.

hope to see development for the phone in the near future

Official TWRP is on the way, hope to see lineageos taking the same way as twrp.
It's a very nice phone, relatively compact, big battery, volte, easy to unlock, A/B partition...

An official Lineage would be pretty nice to have.

Ordered the Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite 4gb/64gb last week. Anxious to see it delivered. My old Nexus 4 is still going strong, almost 5 years later, but it is having glitches and severe battery issues when I run GPS and maps. The other day, it reset itself and wiped all my user photos. Most were already backed-up, but still. It runs Android 7.1.2, otherwise. So, time to move on with a new phone.

bmoke said:
Ordered the Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite 4gb/64gb last week. Anxious to see it delivered. My old Nexus 4 is still going strong, almost 5 years later, but it is having glitches and severe battery issues when I run GPS and maps. The other day, it reset itself and wiped all my user photos. Most were already backed-up, but still. It runs Android 7.1.2, otherwise. So, time to move on with a new phone.
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Official TWRP is here, working on LOS.

nice! Thanks!

d1ngh said:
Official TWRP is here, working on LOS.
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Woohoo

d1ngh said:
Official TWRP is here, working on LOS.
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15.1 or 16 If I may ask?

Is the notch well supported by custom roms like lineage os?

khoavn said:
Is the notch well supported by custom roms like lineage os?
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Not in every custom rom. Tried a few, GSI Pixel Experience P Rom does support it.
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I expected a fully working build by now but still looks like nothing coming up to 6 months old this phone as well

mortmaru said:
I expected a fully working build by now but still looks like nothing coming up to 6 months old this phone as well
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Agreed but still a great phone, now pie is (un) officially here so it's all good.. what do you really want? It is a banger of a budget.. how many devices have you owned that couldn't even be rooted comfortably? There are quite a few. I suspect things will pick up in the coming months as people keep hearing about this phone..

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Agreed but still a great phone, now pie is (un) officially here so it's all good.. what do you really want? It is a banger of a budget.. how many devices have you owned that couldn't even be rooted comfortably? There are quite a few. I suspect things will pick up in the coming months as people keep hearing about this phone..
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I have never owned a phone which can't be rooted starting with the likes of htc desire upwards then switched to chinese brands starting with redmi note 2 all have supported custom roms/roots.
This is the only one that has had very poor support.
I don't agree regarding budget cheapest 4gb/64gb version i saw for was about £145 for that price Redmi note 6 Pro is better value.
I don't expect much from this 6 months past and not even stable recovery/root and you would think some one would of done even a basic miui port (even original firmware has lots of issues still with slow updates compared to other android one phones)

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mortmaru said:
I have never owned a phone which can't be rooted starting with the likes of htc desire upwards then switched to chinese brands starting with redmi note 2 all have supported custom roms/roots.
This is the only one that has had very poor support.
I don't agree regarding budget cheapest 4gb/64gb version i saw for was about £145 for that price Redmi note 6 Pro is better value.
I don't expect much from this 6 months past and not even stable recovery/root and you would think some one would of done even a basic miui port (even original firmware has lots of issues still with slow updates compared to other android one phones)
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for root you can use magisk, I have installed it on mine. this phone is for those who don't like big phones as this can be operated using one hand only

Worth buying?

Hi, I would like to purchase a new phone soon or later and I still cannot decide whether OP6T is worth buying, I condider OP7 more expensive and OP6T is right in price where I would expect my future phone. Can it be my new daily driver for several years? Thank you

Had same dilemma 6t or 7! for me it wasn't really much of an improvement to justify the extra picked up a mint unlocked 6T for 249 still a grate phone and will be for a while yet plenty of development going on , unless willing to shell out for the pro then 6T is the one,
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I'm happy with my 6T and I haven't seen any compelling reason to upgrade to a 7 or 7 Pro. I'm running the beta, which gives me a peak at new additions before they are rolled out to the public release and my phone is running great.

The 6t is a excellent choice.

I'm loving my 6t, granted I stepped up from a Moto e4 plus.. so a big jump. I haven't really found anything that truly disappoints me to the point of wishing I had something different or newer.

Thank you so much for answers! And what about end of support, is there any year when the phone stops being supported with updates?

TrueMS said:
Thank you so much for answers! And what about end of support, is there any year when the phone stops being supported with updates?
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Considering that that OnePlus just rolled out security updates and feature updates for the OnePlus 3 thru 5 this week, I'd say you've got a few years of updates to go before EOL

I have had rooted phones since the LG g2. Stuck with LG up until I made the mistake of getting the k20 plus and, lastly the V20. LG broke too many promises. I and, others hung LG up. We were stuck with being able to trust another manufacturer and, hope that source codes, etc be released so that development could be active. I don't know if you plan to root or run mods or anything, if you do this device won't let you down. It is virtually unbrickable. Excellent daily driver that surpasses all of my previous devices.

I bought 6T and have no regrets

OnePlus 6T still rocken!

galaxys said:
OnePlus 6T still rocken!
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What about camera?

I too will be buying a 6T from a friend who keeps changing phones so I'm hopefully getting a good deal. Is the stock ROM great or is there some sweet custom ROMs that you think I should try? This probably the wrong thread to ask that.