

We’ll have to wait for confirmation on that one. XDA also has a line on another device – the Meizu Pro 6 running the Exynos 8890 – which may also be doing the same thing. They said that this coding will be patched soon. XDA has already reached out to OnePlus, and they owned up to their mistake. Long story short, the OnePlus 3T was coded to recognize the names of popular benchmarking apps such as Geekbench, AnTuTu, Androbench, Quadrant, Vellamo, and GFXBench – and then boost the processor performance for these apps so that the results were higher than normal. What they did was make a benchmarking app that was named differently, and the results became obvious at that point. Geekbench says that the system makes performance decisions based on the applications' identifiers rather than behavior. That's why Geekbench took the action of removing the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro from its database. So they reached out to Primate Labs (creators of benchmarking app Geekbench) to help with their hypothesis. However OxygenOS would not offer the limited performance to benchmarking apps, which Geekbench sees as cheating. Benchmark apps arent affected, and so Geekbench has removed the OnePlus 9, 9 Pro from its chart. They played on the hunch that the OnePlus 3T might be boosting itself in an abnormal manner when running benchmark apps. A report claims that OnePlus is blacklisting some apps from accessing the full Snapdragon 888.

iFixit also gave OnePlus kudos for its restrained use of glue.
#Oneplus deleted from geekbench cheating driver
Unlike other devices which use various different screw types, the Nord is consistent in using just one Phillips driver type. It appears that unlike the Xiaomi Mi Note 2 and the Google Pixel XL – both also running the SD821 – the OnePlus 3T was not falling back to normal idling speeds when running Qualcomm Trepn and the Snapdragon Performance Visualizer. Awarding a repairability score of 6/10, iFixit applauded the modular nature of the phone, with individual components easily removed and replaced. The instance was discovered by the editorial team at XDA while they were checking how Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 821 achieves faster app launching.
