Extremely frustrated with OnePlus Pad 3: Home screen layout is a chaotic mess when rotating, and support doesn't understand
Hey everyone, I bought the OnePlus Pad 3 about two months ago and while the hardware and build quality are actually really nice, the overall software experience has been mostly disappointing. It is one of those devices that looks great on paper, but the real-world execution completely falls short, and I just need to vent about two major issues that have been driving me crazy for the past three to four weeks.
First of all, the streaming quality on the DAZN app is absolutely terrible because it is incredibly choppy, which is a massive shame given the beautiful 140 Hz display. I know this might be an optimization issue on DAZN's end rather than a direct fault of OnePlus, but being passed around from one support ticket to another without any real solution is just exhausting. What makes this so incredibly annoying is that DAZN worked completely flawlessly on my old 7-year-old Samsung Tablet without me ever having to open a single support ticket in all those years. This is really frustrating.
However, what infuriates me the most is that the home screen completely fails to save independent icon layouts for landscape and portrait orientations. When I arrange all my icons exactly how I want them in landscape mode and then rotate the tablet to portrait mode, the entire layout becomes completely chaotic and random. To make matters worse, if I take the time to manually fix the layout in portrait mode and then rotate it back to landscape, my original setup there is entirely ruined, creating an endless loop of desktop chaos that completely ruins the fun of using the device.
I actually opened a support ticket with OnePlus about this, but their response was that this is working as intended since they reproduced it on a test device and told me I should just arrange my apps once and then lock the layout. They completely missed the point because locking a layout that is fundamentally scrambled in one of the orientations does not fix the underlying issue, it just locks the chaos in place. I am wondering if anyone else is experiencing this or if anyone has found a workaround, short of installing a third-party launcher like Nova, because it really feels like the developers did not test how OxygenOS handles a tablet grid shifting between orientations.
What i really like is the massive battery and i'm overall amazed how long it lasts.
But this wont fix all the other things that annoy me.