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OnePlus 8T
Based on 14 credible posts from Hacker News & Bluesky. 20 filtered out as bot-like or off-topic.
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Scored November 11, 2026
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Owner reviews
Overall owner mood
Owners are split: 43% of 14 reviews are positive, 36% negative, and the rest mixed or neutral. The most common complaint is battery & charging (2 owners). Owners with 6+ months of use are more positive (67%), which suggests it holds up well.
What owners like
Nothing two or more owners agree on yet.
What owners complain about
Battery & charging raised by 2 owners
“Obviously if you install spyware, you lose a lot of battery life.”
Display raised by 2 owners
“Whereas I had to buy a new watch because: a) Samsung wouldn't support the old watch on my new (non-Saumsung) phone, and b) it had dead pixels at the top of the screen.”
What owners talk about
- Battery & charging0 praise · 2 complain
- Display0 praise · 2 complain
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Every credible owner review, most detailed first. Bots, off-topic comments, and ones that say nothing about using it are left out.
I'm using a OnePlus 8T with LineageOS and it's been great for me. I replaced the stock OS day 1, after getting the latest firmware update. I got it off eBay for a decent price a few years ago when AT&T made a bunch of old phones stop working via a whitelist. [...]
[...] Currently using a OnePlus 8T. [...]
All of these devices lie to me, that I lost less than 20% of battery health. Where in reality it’s somewhere between 25-50%, and when they wouldn’t pretend that maximum output is any way a good indicator of the real battery life, aka how long you can use a device. [...] Oh and charge thresholds only do so much, heat kills batteries reliably fast. [...] Don't fear fast charge in bulk charge range, it causes less wear than other factors. I slammed the 65W charge into my 8T's and still got years of 80% battery, replacement wasn't too hard to do on these.
[...] I replaced my pixel 1 with a OnePlus 8t and I've been kicking myself ever since for not going with a new pixel. [...]
[...] I have a OnePlus 8t and it's the worst phone I've ever owned. [...] It's now old enough for me to consider a replacement (finally!). [...] Written from my OnePlus 8t. [...]
I had the opposite experience going from a OnePlus 8T stock to Lineage OS. [...] This was a while ago but I went from 1-2 days of battery life to about 4-5 days. This is with light use, screen on time was equally draining with both setups. I would assume that an iPhone has similar amounts of unwanted background apps and would also be able to gain battery life instead of losing it if rooted. Obviously if you install spyware, you lose a lot of battery life. Funnily enough, I remember that a few years ago, people were surprised to find that uninstalling facebook increased battery life because it behaved much like spyware.
[...] I've been using Lineage on older, second-hand OnePlus phones for about a decade now, currently a OnePlus 8T. You can pick them up pretty cheaply from eBay, and they're solid devices, often in near-new condition. [...]
Yeah I've also heard good things about their early devices, which was why I got this one. Maybe they used to be good? As of the 8t, they definitely weren't good anymore though
[...] I bought because I kept hearing good things about their earlier models and figured it would translate. [...]
Worked on my OnePlus 8T running LineageOS with no gapps and using Fennec F-Droid for the browser. [...] [1] Due to an unrelated bug in latest Fennec, I currently have all my extensions disabled or else all pages stop loading at all. [...]
Huh. I have a OnePlus 8T and it has some stupid stuff on it that I can't remove.
You’d probably need a camera with some sort of frame/tripod to get the best images, but if you’re just looking at handheld photos, my phone, a OnePlus 8T has two cameras: 12M and 48M. I used the 48 to take this photo of a manuscript on my iPad screen:
just migrate to a country that uses metric 4Head all seriousness aside, as somebody who tried using an iPhone for like a good 2 years (a 6s Plus late into its lifespan) well... let's just say I dearly missed Android when I got my OnePlus 8T which was before OxygenOS went to utter shit 😔
Whereas I had to buy a new watch because: a) Samsung wouldn't support the old watch on my new (non-Saumsung) phone, and b) it had dead pixels at the top of the screen. So I bought a OnePlus Watch2 to go with my OnePlus 8T
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What the brand claims
No published claims on file for this product yet.
What owners report
“I'm using a OnePlus 8T with LineageOS and it's been great for me. I replaced the stock OS day 1, after getting the latest firmware update. I got it off eBay for a decent price a few years ago when AT&T made a bunch of old phones stop working via a whitelist. [...]”
after 2 yearsView on Hacker News“[...] Currently using a OnePlus 8T. [...]”
after 1 yearView on Hacker News“All of these devices lie to me, that I lost less than 20% of battery health. Where in reality it’s somewhere between 25-50%, and when they wouldn’t pretend that maximum output is any way a good indicator of the real battery life, aka how long you can use a device. [...] Oh and charge thresholds only do so much, heat kills batteries reliably fast. [...] Don't fear fast charge in bulk charge range, it causes less wear than other factors. I slammed the 65W charge into my 8T's and still got years of 80% battery, replacement wasn't too hard to do on these.”
after 3 yearsView on Hacker News“[...] I replaced my pixel 1 with a OnePlus 8t and I've been kicking myself ever since for not going with a new pixel. [...]”
Common OnePlus 8T problems
Problems most owners who mention them agree on, plus ones owners are split on.
- Battery & charging2 owners report this
- Display2 owners report this