In late October, OnePlus launched OxygenOS 11 Beta 3 for OnePlus Eight and OnePlus Eight Professional. Seems the corporate mistakenly pushed OxygenOS 11.0.1.1 secure replace to open beta customers. This resulted in a manufacturing unit reset for a lot of customers as altering the construct channel wipes the whole cellphone. Anyway, the corporate rapidly responded with a workaround on Saturday (November 7).
In case you aren’t conscious, OnePlus has three OxygenOS launch channels particularly Closed Beta, Open Beta, and Secure. The model releases two builds per 30 days in the primary channel and a single construct in the opposite two channels.
Customers can swap between Open Beta and Secure channel by downloading and putting in the suitable replace file from OnePlus neighborhood. However this course of wipes the whole cellphone.
Additional, new OnePlus smartphones ship with “Automated system updates” turned on in Developer choices. Due to these two causes, as the corporate wrongly pushed OxygenOS 11.0.1.1 secure construct in the Open Beta channel, the models that received the replace downloaded and put in it routinely.
Usually, as soon as the replace will get put in, customers are prompted to reboot the cellphone. So when the affected customers rebooted their machine, they had been shocked to see their cellphone booting with the setup display.
These customers rapidly reported the difficulty on OnePlus Group and Oneplus launched an APK as a workaround. In case you might be utilizing OnePlus 8 or OnePlus Eight Professional operating the Open Beta construct and the most recent replace received put in routinely, then you definitely must obtain this APK, launch the app, and choose “KEEP DATA”.
As soon as finished, now you can reboot the cellphone with out shedding the information. As per OxygenUpdater (through Aamir Siddiqui of XDA), this utility blocks the system from finishing the whole set up technique of the replace.
That mentioned, the corporate has now suspended the construct from the OTA server. Anyway, if you happen to occur to put in it by mistake, make certain to observe the above steps to keep away from shedding your knowledge.
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