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OnePlus 7 Professional homeowners get unusual spam notifications on their telephones – CNET
OnePlus had a bizarre second on Monday.
Érika García / CNET
In case you received a wierd OnePlus 7 Professional push notification on Monday, you are not alone. Homeowners of the Chinese language telephones rushed to Twitter to precise their issues over a pair of garbled messages — certainly one of which seemed to be Chinese language characters and different within the Latin alphabet.
Making an attempt to observe the hyperlink apparently resulted in a “browser not discovered” message. The difficulty is seemingly solely affecting the OnePlus 7 Professional, which got here out in Could.
“Throughout an inner check, our OxygenOS crew unintentionally despatched out a world push notification to some OnePlus 7 Professional homeowners,” the corporate wrote in response.
Its crew is investigating what occurred and the corporate promised to share extra particulars “quickly.”
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Suggestions and methods for the OnePlus 7 Professional
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OxygenOS is a personalized model of Android developed by OnePlus and the odd notification precipitated some folks to fret concerning the safety of their information, paying homage to a 2017 incident the place a safety researcher discovered that private information was being despatched to OnePlus servers.
It responded by explaining how folks might decide out of knowledge assortment and promised to cease gathering information like “phone numbers, MAC addresses and Wi-Fi info.”
First revealed at 2:46 a.m. PT.
Up to date at three:23 a.m. PT: Provides extra element.
