ordered July 28 initially then reached out to dbrand to change it to the Glow from the Xray skin if that was causing the delay, this was the response, thanks for the free stuff but i still cant use my new phone until i get these, i prefer using my devices somewhat protected
so bought my OPO Jan 2025 for $900 from the 1+ website with a big discount, a trade in and 12mos Zero interest affirm, i only started using it around about Feb 2026 this year coz of my laziness to set it up coming from a Pixel 7 Pro but the battery on that phone was really an issue and the performance issues were catching up to the Tensor G2, so i started setting up my OPO and updating it to the latest software UNTIL i hit a wall of a bug that was preventing me from updating to Android/O2 OS16, for the whole month i tried restarting and formatting the phone over and over but nothing worked, i even contacted 1+ at some point and their solution was to send it to them but i wasn't trusting them giving me the same device back, so i was perfectly content using it from April onwards stuck on O2 OS15(i put it away in march went back to my pixel until i couldn't use it properly) and i was going to wait until OPPO finally gives the option to transfer to Color OS17 which i assumed would be a physical wired wipe and OS install on a bootloader level
then Samsung announces the Fold 8 so i wasn't really looking into getting the new one until the smaller one was reviewed by everyone and it was the "sliced bread" of foldables so now my interest is piqued, i check Samsung's website and found their trade in offer didn't include the OPO or the Pixel 7 Pro so again wasn't considering getting the Fold 8 until i saw Amazon's offer of a $350 GC with a pre-order and allowed a Pixel 7 Pro Trade in for $115 + $300 Bonus and i had $343 GC sitting on my account already and offered 24mos Zero interest on affirm so i bit the bullet and went and preordered the 512gb Graphite Fold 8, and i was probably going to sell my OPO for cheap because of the update bug which i was fine with so im waiting until it arrives next week
so every so often my Phone tries to update when i plug it in or reboot it and that error message which i usually ignore just pops up but today July 31st when i restarted my phone and was about to swipe away the message it didnt say an Error, only that a New update is available which i found unusual, so i go to settings and the update and notice it had more written on the changelog and the size was 4.04gb vs the 4.48gb of the bugged update so i let it update and it had me restart the phone and viola it updated and it did 1 more update and restart and now my OPO is on the most latest update of O2 OS16
now im wondering were there many OPO owners having the same update bug as i was and 1+ just was in so much of a bad position company wise that support missed this update bug and when OPPO took over they saw the issue on the bugged update and fixed it, its only been 2 weeks since OPPO took over and im actually thankful that i got my OPO updated properly and now i can sell it for a better price considering its in excellent condition
so bought my OPO Jan 2025 for $900 from the 1+ website with a big discount, a trade in and 12mos Zero interest affirm, i only started using it around about Feb 2026 this year coz of my laziness to set it up coming from a Pixel 7 Pro but the batter on that phone was really an issue and the performance issues were catching up to the Tensor G2, so i started setting up my OPO and updating it to the latest software UNTIL i hit a wall of a bug that was preventing me from updating to Android/O2 OS16, for the whole month i tried restarting and formatting the phone over and over but nothing worked, i even contacted 1+ at some point and their solution was to send it to them but i wasn't trusting them giving me the same device back, so i was perfectly content using it from April onwards stuck on O2 OS15(i put it away in march went back to my pixel until i couldn't use it properly) and i was going to wait until OPPO finally gives the option to transfer to Color OS17 which i assumed would be a physical wired wipe and OS install on a bootloader level
then Samsung announces the Fold 8 so i wasn't really looking into getting the new one until the smaller one was reviewed by everyone and it was the "sliced bread" of foldables so now my interest is piqued, i check Samsung's website and found their trade in offer didn't include the OPO or the Pixel 7 Pro so again wasn't considering getting the Fold 8 until i saw Amazon's offer of a $350 GC with a pre-order and allowed a Pixel 7 Pro Trade in for $115 + $300 Bonus and i had $343 GC sitting on my account already and offered 24mos Zero interest on affirm so i bit the bullet and went and preordered the 512gb Graphite Fold 8, and i was probably going to sell my OPO for cheap because of the update bug which i was fine with so im waiting until it arrives next week
so every so often my Phone tries to update when i plug it in or reboot it and that error message which i usually ignore just pops up but today July 31st when i restarted my phone and was about to swipe away the message it didnt say an Error, only that a New update is available which i found unusual, so i go to settings and the update and notice it had more written on the changelog and the size was 4.04gb vs the 4.48gb of the bugged update so i let it update and it had me restart the phone and viola it updated and it did 1 more update and restart and now my OPO is on the most latest update of O2 OS16
so now im wondering were there many OPO owners having the same update bug as i was and 1+ just was in so much of a bad position company wise that support missed this update bug and when OPPO took over they saw the issue on the bugged update and fixed it, its only been 2 weeks since OPPO took over and im actually thankful that i got my OPO updated properly and now i can sell it for a better price considering its in excellent condition