One year later Im keeping my op3 instead of upgrading to the op5.

[Skinpipe]

keeping mine till end of this year or maybe longer.
why?

because the 3 satisfies my need for everyday use. kinda no disappointments. been with custom roms for a while but now im sticking to the official stock with root. as long as the phone gives me good battery life away from home then im good. plays music from my wired earphones, browses the web and can call and send text msgs then im totally good with it. no need for the oneplus 5 although it looks good but im tired answering people what phone im using. lol

Same, oneplus? Huh? :silly:

 

[shyamprakash]

Which would be the best rom ????Currently using Freedom OS for OnePlus 3

Planning to change the ROM since Freedom OS does'nt have 7.1.1

 

[r3al_0g]

You're right because these phones are built to last for 2-3 years. I still have it working daily an it hasn't shown a single sign of age. It still delivers the promised battery life, charging rate, and performance too. I'd consider changing it for the oneplus 5 if it had the resale price it deserves because its still better than the cheaper phones. Also the oneplus 5 looks a lot like iphone 7+. That's a minor thing but then again they have changed the hardware but it doesn't matter what's under the hood to laymen; what matters is how it performs. In my opinion the oneplus 3 is quite good compared to the 5.

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can you tell me, based on your experience which rom you find the best?

Right now I'm on OOS beta 17.
ExperienceOS by @jamal2367
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3/development/rom-experience-rom-v1-0-t3522259
Or
Phoenix AEX ROM V4.2 by @siankatabg
https://forum.xda-developers.com/on...nt/rom-phoenix-aospextended-rom-v3-2-t3563765

I usually switch between the 2.

 

[fuarkgl3]

Op5 is not worth the price in any way

 

[null0seven]

Op5 is not worth the price in any way

Comparing to Samsung S8 or i****... it Does!

 

[MarcTremonti]

I also wont upgrade. Why should i spend so much money for a minor upgrade? OP3 still rocks everything buttery smooth. And my last phone was the HTC One S which i used like 5 years.
So i guess my nearest phone chance will be when OP8 arrives maybe.

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Which would be the best rom ????Currently using Freedom OS for OnePlus 3

Planning to change the ROM since Freedom OS does'nt have 7.1.1

Of course FreedomOS is based on android 7.1.1. maybe you run an old version, just update.

 

[NOSTALGIA]

Same, oneplus? Huh? :silly:

uhmm. what brand is that? oppo? O+? lol.

 

[himadri]

Yeah I'm with you guys on this one. If you'd of asked me 6 months ago if I would be upgrading I would of said without question, but now that the 5 is here and I can actually compare the 2 devices, I see little incentive to upgrade. Sure the 5 has sightly better specs but are they $500 better? No, not to me. I'm pretty disappointed with what they did or rather didn't do with the 5 series... No screen upgrade ( VR compliant resolution) , no sdcard slot (this a big disappointment), no stereo speakers (or even front facing, as gaming inevitably covers the down-fire with hand), no 3.0 USB type C (on a device now sporting 4k cam, really? so you have to offload at 2.0 speeds... wow) , and no earth moving styling changes ether.

All that adds up to the 3 maintaining its bang for the buck , and likely will for some time to come.
I've grown quite attached to my 3, we've been through some crazy rough times together. and I've learned soo much from it in the process. On day 2 after purchasing I bricked it and thought I'd killed it. And at 3a.m not a lot of people on xda to assist so that was a rollercoster of emotion to the next morning when someone piped up and showed me the recovery tool for bricked devices.
Then on month 3 I accidentally slammed it down on the sidewalk attempting to remove my arm from a stubborn winter coat and shattered the screen. A phone call later informed me the repair shop wanted $250 to replace it! So yeah, now I know how to DIY a OP3 screen replacement, including reglueing the glass onto the new $100 replacement screen (and let me tell ya, not fun) but I did it and it came out flawless).

So in short, they'll have to do much better then they did to entice me into abandoning my amazingly tough and resilient oneplus 3.

You are a good person to contact for a tutorial in case I shatter my OP3 screen. I am bookmarking your post this way. ?

 

[mysky911]

Count me in here
Planning to get OP6 if the SnapDragon 845 is 7nm...

 

[manishdev]

Count me in here
Planning to get OP6 if the SnapDragon 845 is 7nm...

me too

 

[Prashanthme]

Got my oneplus 5 just two days back... To be frank it is one of the best.. But not worth the upgrade from op3 or op3t. Though camera is not bad on 3, oneplus 5 is worth for the camera. Oneplus 3t can push another one or two for sure.

 

[Tiz92]

I would have upgrade if they would have used a better screen like 1440p and a newer AMOLED but so not.. Looking forward to the Pixel 2.. Hope it has smaller bezels and maybe 6 gb ram.

 

[jim262]

I have a 3 and when the 3T came out, when midnight black edition came out I held off again. I was going to wait going to wait for the 5. I figured that would be a significant upgrade. It wasn't. With the exception of a slight design change, new SoC, and dual cameras that aren't that much better, this phone is identical to it's predecessor. Needless to say, I held off again and then I scored an S8 from Samsung for $425. Couldn't pass up that deal and even though I don't like Touchwiz, this is what I call an upgrade.

 

[sahed01]

same here.

 

[Masteryates]

I got my hands on the 5 yesterday in an o2 store in the UK. I wasn't impressed and it didn't feel any different than my 3. I'm really happy with the 3. The only thing I don't like about the OP3 is that battery life has suffered in OOS 4. Considering going back to 3.2.8.

 

[TNSMANI]

I got my hands on the 5 yesterday in an o2 store in the UK. I wasn't impressed and it didn't feel any different than my 3. I'm really happy with the 3. The only thing I don't like about the OP3 is that battery life has suffered in OOS 4. Considering going back to 3.2.8.

I also went on that route till I discovered Vertex OS. Though it lacks the bells and whistles of other ROMs, on the battery front, no other ROM on OP3 has given me anything better. In fact the battery is better on this than the 3.2.8 without any throttling. It gives me 3+ hours of screen on time coupled with three days standby (ofcourse light usage, no games).
It is also Nougat.

No wonder I am not even thinking of another phone let alone the OP5.

 

[Masteryates]

I also went on that route till I discovered Vertex OS. Though it lacks the bells and whistles of other ROMs, on the battery front, no other ROM on OP3 has given me anything better. In fact the battery is better on this than the 3.2.8 without any throttling. It gives me 3+ hours of screen on time coupled with three days standby (ofcourse light usage, no games).
It is also Nougat.

No wonder I am not even thinking of another phone let alone the OP5.

Thanks for the heads up tnsmani :highfive:

I may go down this route if the battery becomes worse. I used to also get 3 hours of SOT and 3 days of standby from 3.2.8, as you are getting with Vertex. I've just tried turning on aggressive doze in 4.1.6 so lets see how that goes.

 

[anup807]

Ill start by saying I love my oneplus 3 (not 3t). I am holding out getting the oneplus 5 because of it. The 3 has literally everything I want. The only downfalls are camera and now not having 8 gb of ram and a sd835. In all honesty though this phone is still competitive a year later minus the camera. When the one plus 5 came out I said I would upgrade if the price and camera are good. If they weren't I would keep my oneplus 3 and buy a zerolemon battery case for it (because I love it too much for the battery to last). Now that I see the camera is not good and the price higher I am keeping it. My screen has ZERO scratches. The battery will still get me through a full day of moderate/light use. The body is near flawless. And most importantly the hardware is still fast. I feel stupid for wanting the newest oneplus phone just because it was new. Does anybody else feel the same?

I'm also loving my OnePlus 3. Some how i didn't like OnePlus 5. The camera is a bit of disappointment. Hopefully they improve through some software update, like they did with video stabilization through implementation of EIS 2.0
I'm using Freedom OS CE version based on OOS Beta.

 

[J_The_Nerd]

I'm also not changing phones any time soon, bought mine to replace a dead nexus 5. Wanted a powerful, future proof phone for at least 3 years, hopefully more. I don't intend to change it until it struggles to cope with my usage, which considering the specs of it, will be a while yet.
Running stock OOS 3.2.8 root and xposed, should upgrade to Nougat really (if only for the security patches)

 

[robogo1982]

If I upgrade, it will be to something really new from IFA 2017 (from 1 September). Some manufacturers will reportedly have some amazing new stuff there.