Oppo Find 5 users angry after malfunctioning Android 4.4 update

Users of the Oppo Find 5 are angry with the manufacturer after the Chinese smartphone maker released a long-awaited ColorOS 2.0 update with Android 4.4 for its Find 5 smartphone. The update appears to have been hacked together by ‘external developers’ and many things do not work.

Oppo announced the availability of the Find 5 update on its Google+ page just before Christmas, but that announcement was found to be missing some essential elements. For example, after the update to ColorOS 2.0 and Android 4.4 nfc no longer works, the ColorOS camera is no longer functional and the ‘gestures’ to wake up the phone with the screen off also no longer work.

In addition, Oppo did not mention that the update was not made by its own engineers, but by unnamed ‘external developers’, who have placed the ColorOS interface over a version of the custom rom OmniRom. OmniRom stems from a developer split when CyanogenMod became a company. In addition, it is an alpha version, Oppo reports. This means that the version is not yet suitable for the general public, but only for testing.

Oppo has now acknowledged who made the firmware and the sources of the update are also online, Android Police reports. It is unclear how many users are affected by the bad update. In the forum topic of the Find 5 on GoT, many users seem to have switched to a custom rom. It is unknown whether users of the stock rom received the update automatically.