OnePlus OxygenOS built-in analytics

TL;DR: OxygenOS tracks your every activity in every app, and there&#x27;s no settings to disable the tracking.<p>To get rid of it you have to uninstall the tracking app via adb: (no root access needed)<p><pre><code> $ adb start-server $ adb shell &gt; pm uninstall -k --user 0 net.oneplus.odm </code></pre> Note: This requires adb to be installed, your phone to be connected and USB debugging to be enabled.

I have absolutely no doubt there is some data centre in Shenzhen full of my Huawei phone metrics! I think this is the biggest issue with android phones, they are full of potential data leakages like this. Privacy is definitely a concern and a pull factor to getting an iPhone again. There is a lot to be said for a company that is focused on hardware and not on serving content to that device. Then again it&#x27;s also a reason to get a Pixel2, I feel I can trust Google with my data more than some other android manufacturer or reseller. Sure they&#x27;ll serve me more adverts, but it&#x27;s to some ends at least.

Google&#x27;s is similarly excessive <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;fWvV7R4.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;fWvV7R4.png</a><p>Though I get the feeling google&#x27;s approach of trying to desensitize me (emailing me about how great I am for traveling to mcdonalds like a slob, and gamifying my use of google maps, for example) instead of shamefully hiding it, is a fair bit worse

In this case there&#x27;s a rootless solution using dns66 (the issue affects all oneplus devices) :<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;MovieHDLite&#x2F;comments&#x2F;5zfj9y&#x2F;how_to_block_ads_in_apps_using_dns66_no_root&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;MovieHDLite&#x2F;comments&#x2F;5zfj9y&#x2F;how_to_...</a><p>redirect server open.oneplus.net.<p>Ofcourse, it is likely many other android devices have a similar setup.

I wonder if this is even legal in Europe (probably not in Germany).

This is why I have no desire to upgrade to a new Android device and why I put my money into the Librem 5 project.<p>This data collection is beyond ridiculous and if it&#x27;s not already illegal, it should be.

I own a oneplus3 device. Since I switched to LineageOS, it&#x27;s faster, the battery lasts way longer, and it doesn&#x27;t even get warm on 3d games where it got burning hot before.<p>The devices are a mixed bag, some of them are quite decent.<p>OxygenOS, however, is garbage.

It&#x27;s funny how OnePlus Support <i>helping</i> him to disable that application.<p>&gt; OnePlus Support: Alright. Please try doing a hard reset <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bit.ly&#x2F;1TbY1RZ" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bit.ly&#x2F;1TbY1RZ</a> and see if there are improvements.<p>How this could help improve that situations at all? Do OnePlus Support Team even read user&#x27;s problem detail?<p>Very unprofessional I must say.

I bought a OnePlus phone because I knew it had an unlocked bootloader, good LineageOS support, and at least a small chance of someday being supported by Replicant. OxygenOS sounded sketchy from the start.

<p><pre><code> &gt; ping open.oneplus.net PING hadoop-1219418324.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com </code></pre> Your phone usage data going straight into OnePlus&#x27; Hadoop cluster?

Anyone know what data iOS send to Apple?

Holy moly O_o.<p>Those kind of stories are keeping me back from buying any Android devices in nearest future. Somebody might say that I can flash it with clean Android ROM but that&#x27;s great for people who have too much time :-)

This is part of why Google&#x27;s move to forbid users from installing SSL certificates is so anti-security and anti-privacy: it disables the ability to MITM one&#x27;s own device in order to observe traffic.<p>I&#x27;d support regulation forcing Google to permit users to install our own root CA certs.

This should have been asked when you&#x27;re first booting up. I&#x27;ll receive my one plus in a few days and track whats going on. Transparency is always the best path and supports that you&#x27;ve the best intentions.

I think (just a feeling) that every vendor and a lot of app devs is phoning home collecting data. I&#x27;m using Netguard to block net access to most of apps. On a rooted device I would use AFWall+.

The purpose of buying a OnePlus device is to get decent hardware for an okay price (I have the 3T), and then take advantage of their unlocked bootloader and the multitudes of highly functional kernels for it. Sultan&#x27;s LineageOS ROMs are quite nice and even include WireGuard. If you&#x27;re not immediately removing non-free OxygenOS when you receive your phone, you&#x27;re most certainly already doing it wrong, data collection or not.

Is it different than any other Android from a different vendor? Android, sadly, is a bit about that, grabbing data from the user in one form or another.

This is really shocking, this data along with my google data can be used to learn a lot more about the user like what i surf when, how much time i use my mobile in office and what do i use it for. I am wondering if there is a way to corrupt the data being sent by some way masking or sending gibberish data. For me rooting is not an option because my office email will not work on a rooted device.

It can be turned off, just turn off the&quot;join users experience program&quot;in&quot;advance&quot;option,

Does anyone know if Google or other companies collect similar data as part of their background services on Android devices? What kinds of OS permissions would a service need to monitor activity in other applications?

OK.. now what should I say about my Xiaomi &quot;smart&quot;phone?

Hey how do i actually uninstall that &#x27;&#x27;thing&#x27;&#x27; so they cant track my data. I am a noob :(

Could you add a host file entry and send open.oneplus.net to 127.0.0.1? Similiar to how DNS66 works?

why no Tesla users complain against with them? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Does-Tesla-collect-data-from-the-cars-owned-by-Tesla-drivers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Does-Tesla-collect-data-from-the-cars-...</a>

Are similar services found in other more popular phones such as by Samsung or LG?

How do i actually stop this? im kind of a noob when it comes to this

pathetic

If this data collection is not declared in the user-agreement, then is it illegal?

I&#x27;m a OP3 owner and I love my phone. I don&#x27;t mind that they do this -- especially if it means that they can use the data to improve the OS&#x2F;fix bugs but they should clearly notify users that they do this kind of logging&#x2F;data gathering so that people can make an informed decision about the device they are buying.