If you’re the owner of a OnePlus 5, you’ve no doubt been eagerly awaiting the arrival of Oreo on your phone. Well, the wait is over; you can now upgrade to Android 8.0.
If you’re the owner of a OnePlus 5, you’ve no doubt been eagerly awaiting the arrival of Oreo on your phone. Well, the wait is over; you can now upgrade to Android 8.0.
The release served as a great present for anyone who had their ear to the ground on Christmas Eve, and a nice surprise for anyone who was too wrapped up in festivities to notice. As ever, the update will roll out gradually, but if you’re feeling impatient, it’s easy to force the download.
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So how can you go about getting the update? If you head to System Updates in Settings, you may well find that you’re told that „your system is up to date.“ Install a VPN — such as TunnelBear for Android — and you can skip the wait and grab the upgrade right away.
In TunnelBear, you can change your location to Canada — somewhere which is always treated to OnePlus updates in a timely fashion — and perform another upgrade check. You should find that the Oreo update is detected, and the download starts. But the update weighs in at 1.5GB, and TunnelBear only lets you download 500MB for free. Don’t worry; just start the download the TunnelBear running, then kill the app and let it continue without the VPN.
Enjoy!
