A few years ago, a story took more than a few people by surprise when it revealed how more then a few companies play around with the benchmarking apps by “optimizing” performance. That time a few of them apologized but it feels that, after a new report, we are back to square one.
The companies in question are OnePlus and Meizu, both of which are artificially enhancing the performance of their flagship phones, the 3T and the Pro 6. The news broke when various people within the XDA community found discrepancies in benchmark scores.
In the case of OnePlus, the phone was found to exert full load on CPU, ensuring maximum performance even when there was not much work being done.
The phone specifically looked for names which triggered the high-performance mode, including AnTuTu, Androbench, Geekbench, Quadrant, Vellamo and GFXBench. When developers made a custom-made app to see how the performance varied, it subsequently showed scores more in line with smartphones with similar specs.
The developers also used the specially-made app to check smartphones from other Android OEMs, including Samsung, HTC, Huawei, Google and Sony, but did not find them messing with the results, something which certainly wasn’t the case when the original story broke covers back in 2013.
Still, there were a few notable ones such as the Chinese manufacturer Meizu, which was employing similar tactics with its flagship Pro 6 Plus phone.
OnePlus has since agreed to solve the discrepancy in a future update for Oxygen OS.
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