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ONEPLUS OnePlus Nord N200 (5G) 64GB Unlocked Android Smartphone U.S Version Single SIM, 6.49'' Display | Large 5000mAh Battery Triple Camera, Blue Quantum (with Generic Charger) (Reed)

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Operating system Android 11.0
RAM memory installed size 6 GB
CPU model Snapdragon
CPU speed 2 GHz
Memory storage capacity 64 GB
Screen size 6.49 Inches
Resolution 1920 x 1080
Model name OnePlus Nord N200
Wireless carrier T-Mobile

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OnePlus Nord N200 (5G) 64GB T-Mobile Unlocked Android Smartphone U.S Version Single SIM, 6.49" Display | Large 5000mAh Battery Triple Camera, Blue Quantum (with Generic Charger) (Renewed)

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4.04.0 out of 5 stars309
5.05.0 out of 5 stars5
4.24.2 out of 5 stars13
4.24.2 out of 5 stars104
4.54.5 out of 5 stars59
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display size
6.49 inches
6.49 inches
6.56 inches
6.6 inches
6.74 inches
6.5 inches
memory capacity
64 GB
64 GB
64 GB
128 GB
8 GB
32 GB
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OnePlus Nord N200
OnePlus Nord N200 64GB
Nord N300
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Android 12.0
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Robert Neal
5.0 out of 5 stars Great phone
Reviewed in Canada on October 25, 2023
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Best budget phone on the market.
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Artemis
4.0 out of 5 stars Not too shabby for a cheap phone
Reviewed in Canada on October 12, 2023
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The OnePlus Nord N20 5G isn't a terrible phone by any means. For a budget phone, it more than gives you enough space, and power to play some games, listen to music or take and make phone calls or texts. I recommend this if you need something cheap, or you just need something while your current phone is being repaired or replaced. Great backup, or a phone for the kids!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Display has issue
Reviewed in Canada on May 21, 2024
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Not working, the display has issue
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Mumma
4.0 out of 5 stars It's a good entry level phone. My 13yr old loves it!
Reviewed in Canada on August 14, 2023
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Some times the finger print reader glitches
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Very disappointed with rhe package. With one plus mobile I suppose to get one plus charger with this but unfortunately I got Samsung charger which is really unexpected. Very shameful
1.0 out of 5 stars Shameful
Reviewed in Canada on August 7, 2023
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Very disappointed with this package.
I ordered Once plus mobile and I suppose to get one plus charger with this but unfortunately I got Samsung charger with this. Which is really unexpected. Shameful
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Very disappointed with rhe package. With one plus mobile I suppose to get one plus charger with this but unfortunately I got Samsung charger which is really unexpected. Very shameful
1.0 out of 5 stars Shameful
Reviewed in Canada on August 7, 2023
Very disappointed with this package.
I ordered Once plus mobile and I suppose to get one plus charger with this but unfortunately I got Samsung charger with this. Which is really unexpected. Shameful
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Colton Calhoun
1.0 out of 5 stars Trash
Reviewed in Canada on July 15, 2023
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Trash 🗑
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Haraykrishna Biswas
5.0 out of 5 stars Great product
Reviewed in Canada on February 6, 2023
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Really I love it
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Business User
5.0 out of 5 stars Best $100 Phone Value, but Maybe Reconsider if Looking to Flash Custom Firmware
Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2024
Verified Purchase
This phone is exactly as advertised. The condition is almost perfect, the phone came with an acceptable USB-C cable and AC adapter, and the phone activated on T-Mobile without issue. The software updated once connected to a reasonably recent Android patch level as well.

The Problem (for me):
I purchased this model because it's compatible with LineageOS. I didn't know at the time that in order to unlock the bootloader on this device, you have to submit an unlocking code to OnePlus, which they in-turn have to approve and then they, supposedly, will send you an unlock token.

I requested an unlock code on 11/29/2023 and as of 1/13/2024 it's still listed as "Status: Applied" with no response. According to the unlock website it should only take 1-2 weeks to receive an unlock token. It was a Christmas gift so even if they reply now, it won't matter, but just a heads up for those who might be interested in this device for the same reason.
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Sir_Kibble
5.0 out of 5 stars The best budget phone I've found to run LineageOS so far
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2024
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This review is entirely focused around flashing custom roms.

Unlocking bootloader - Took ~1 hour just because OnePlus's web form is broken to generate unlock tokens. You will need to call/email customer support. They will need IMEI, serial, the unlock code you get with fastboot commands, and the PCBA/PCB number. Google how to find them; not super hard. Only took as long as it did because I was messing with the broken web portal for too long. Got an unlock token with 20 minutes of asking. 10/10, thanks Sasha.

Flashing recovery/ROM(LineageOS) - Comes out of the box with the required android version. No need to upgrade/downgrade stock ROM. Very convenient. I just use the LineageOS recovery, but there's no reason you couldn't flash TWRP.

Rooting - With unlocked bootloader, simply install custom recovery of your choice and flash Magisk. I had 0 issues getting Magisk/Zygisk/LSPosed flashed/enabled. If you're sticking with stock ROM, I have no idea how easy/hard it is to root. Got rid of stock ROM pretty much immediately. I have not tested how well Zygisk hides root from apps, as I don't bank on my phone.

Notes - I did have an issue after enabling some magisk modules where I broke the speakers and sound and had to reflash LineageOS. I believe the offending module was either MIUI Core/Camera, Lineage Dialer, Viper4Android FX master, or cloudflareDNS for Magisk. Even so, resetting everything and reloading backups/ configuring settings took am hour or two.

Notes - The LineageOS camera is bad. Really bad. If you're using the phone for the camera, either stick with stock ROM or flash a dedicated camera ROM. I did not test stock ROM camera. I also have an issue where sometimes the first call of the day I make, my mic doesn't work, but hanging up and calling back fixes this.

Conclusion - Between the T-mobile LG V20, moto g7 plus, and this phone, this phone is the best and easiest to unlock at the pricepoint. It's so great, I've gotten 2 of them.

Update: had an issue with both phones where they could not receive texts(could send texts just fine). To fix, with the phone on, remove and re-insert the sim card. I only needed to do this once and the text issue has been resolved.
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Steve
5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful fast smart phone & 5G!
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2024
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Good value for the money. Great for gaming. Screen quality is incredible.
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Samuel B
4.0 out of 5 stars Aesthetic design could be better for price. But good still:
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2022
Verified Purchase
The phone overall is enjoyable, as a phone. I’ve had it a few hours and been able to tinker with it and over all I really like the actual design and color and overall aesthetic of the phone. The layout I feel is really nice too, can be a bit glitchy or slow at times but it is good. I really like the finger print scanner. It came with a very slight scratch but I didn’t mind too much. My only dislike of the phone really tho, the camera quality… it’s pretty bad. You can tinker with it a bit to make it slightly better, but it really isn’t very good. But for price, not too terrible💯👍🏾.
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Samuel B
4.0 out of 5 stars Aesthetic design could be better for price. But good still:
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2022
The phone overall is enjoyable, as a phone. I’ve had it a few hours and been able to tinker with it and over all I really like the actual design and color and overall aesthetic of the phone. The layout I feel is really nice too, can be a bit glitchy or slow at times but it is good. I really like the finger print scanner. It came with a very slight scratch but I didn’t mind too much. My only dislike of the phone really tho, the camera quality… it’s pretty bad. You can tinker with it a bit to make it slightly better, but it really isn’t very good. But for price, not too terrible💯👍🏾.
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Brett E Johnson
1.0 out of 5 stars NOT fully unlocked. (This got long)
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2023
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When I buy an unlocked phone, I expect it to be FULLY unlocked. I was going to put LineageOS on this thing, but I guess not. I have been beyond upset to have to go through the Oneplus bootloader unlock process. Some sites say it takes 1-2 weeks, but now I'm over 3 weeks and the return window for this phone is rapidly closing (I'll not risk keeping it in this state). There's no reason why this entire process shouldn't have taken more than a few minutes. I kept checking their web site, and the request was received. I contacted Oneplus support and they said they'd get it fixed. Then a few leisurly days later I got an email from them stating there were further problems, and it would take even longer. SERIOUSLY??? The Oneplus system for this should be automated and also should have thrown an error to support if it had gotten stuck. Exceedingly sloppy programming. The speed of business moves in neither weeks nor months but hours and minutes. Other phone unlock processes can be done the same day...

Oneplus are acting like this phone was stolen and keep wanting more obscure serial numbers buried deeper and deeper. I didn't even know that some of those serial numbers existed. Am I about to get a visit from the police???

I've had my new SIM for a month now and really need to activate it... but I'm stuck paying absurdly higher prices on my FIOS landline that's gotten out of hand. I'm not happy about that. It would have been cheaper for me to buy a more expensive phone from someone else. I'm going to have to contact Mint and ask for an activation extension while my other phone I just bought takes another week to come in. And if anyone is wondering, if I activate the new SIM, I lose my land line and start having to pay for the SIM, and since I don't have a working cell phone, I lose all phone connection. That's not good for someone with really bad health problems.

There's also the second issue of not bothering to install and "move into" this phone because when a bootloader gets unlocked, it forces a factory reset and WIPES THE ENTIRE PHONE. My whole point of picking a fully unlocked phone is to "deGoogle" (check wikipedia for the long answer) and remove all their spyware and Tmo bloat with Lineage (see RAM below). I let my old Google logins expire and I'm not creating a new one where they demand my phone number just so they can track me forever (see "privacy" below).

Other observations:

This phone is a DE2118. This number is critical for the product page. When selling used phones, DETAIL AND ACCURACY IS EVERYTHING! I don't know why it's missing. You can find this model number in Config / About / Version, along with a couple other places.

Know what you're getting. This product falls below "Amazon Renewed" standards. The phone was packed loosly in a small box with a dinky bubble wrap sleeve. Expect the phone to be tumbled badly by the shipping company. For the people who are complaining about endless problems that are unfixable, this bubble wrap sleeve is NOT enough to protect the phone if it was dropped by the shipper. If you have problems, you need to immediately return the phone under Amazon's policies. The card eject pin was hiding under a box flap. I almost missed it. The screen protection plastic film didn't even cover the top or bottom sections of the screen.

Another thing I really don't like is that the charger is a generic USB-2 5v 2a Samsung charger with a USB A to C cable. This should have been a 9v USB-C fast charger (as stated by the manual) if it were really "equivalent" like "Amazon Renewed" advertises. The USB-C cable fits snugly into the phone but is only 3 feet. It is not enough to go from a floor power strip to a desktop. If you need a USB-C fast charger and didn't get one, you need to immediately return this phone under Amazon's policies and mention "failed equivalent" in the reason box.

The fingerprint sensor on the power button is questionable and cranky. I never messed with it long enough to figure out if it was really having hardware problems or if it was a bad design.

If anyone is curious, this phone did a 400meg Android 12 security update to the Nov 5, 2023 release. I don't know how many others it will officially get, but it won't get Android 13 (not at least from the telco). News Flash: It just decided to update to the Dec 5 patch. Looks like this one is 95megs. The telcos are about a month late with most Android security updates. It looks like this update broke my adb connection and installed cooking videos on the left screen. Way to waste my data and battery with useless videos. No telling how much RAM that's eating up (see below). Oh well, I'm about to factory reset this thing anyways...

On the Config / Status page, I do have some concerns that "Bluetooth address" is listed as "Unavailable". Once I got this thing set up, I was going to pick up a BT headset. If you prefer to use a headset with your phone, you may need to pick up a wired one.

If you're wondering why this phone can be so slow, have a look at "free -m" in "adb shell". This gets technical, but I'll try to keep it somewhat simple.
OnePlusN200TMO:/storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera $ free -m
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 3485 3243 241 3 6
-/+ buffers/cache: 3237 247
Swap: 2559 1137 1422
I copied this down shortly after I started ADB access. The missing 512megs is probably used by the graphics driver. The rest of the 3.5g of RAM is being eaten by Tmo bloat and Google spyware. There's also 1g in the swap partition (see wikipedia for the long definition). When this phone (or any with too much bloat and swap) "goes out to lunch", physical RAM is being swapped to disk (flash chip) in and out until the request you made finally has enough physical RAM to complete. Notice I just mentioned "flash chip". Flash is very slow and has a very limited write life cycle (see "flash memory" on wiki) and will die a very early death if thrashed by swap. For some of you people who keep having crashing problems with nothing running after factory resets, there's a good chance your flash "disk" got burned. Your phone is now e-waste. This is true for ANY phone or portable device. It's the same thing as a microSD card failing. As consumers, we absolutely hate having our device die an early death, but manufacturers love it because you have to buy a new phone much sooner.

As a side note, I did a dive into settings and tried to disable the bloatware to get some RAM back. I wasn't very successful. Remember I never installed anything on this phone because I'm waiting and waiting and waiting for the bootloader unlock code.

If you're an advanced user, be sure to download the newest versions of ADB and flashboot from the official google site. I was hoping to back this phone up with "flashboot fetch", but it doesn't support it. Go figure. (TWRP isn't supported on this phone, either.) This could have been a good way to image backup the phone since many Android backup methods are "mediocre" at best.

Also note that I've read many reviews of people upgrading to a new phone and their cloud backups NOT restoring when they should have (they wouldn't have been helped by "fetch" in this instance). So everyone be careful when moving over to a new phone. Your best bet is to move everything to the microSD card and copy that to your computer BEFORE making a big change. The adb command can be used in "pull" mode if you're advanced. It's odd how Google installs so much spyware but can't get that data back to the phone.

While looking for a possible way around the bootloader lock, I did come across *#808# that enters Engineer Mode. You can do a number of specific self tests and see some of the lesser used serial numbers if you dig deep. If you dig REALLY DEEP, you can find menus in chinese, and this really upset me. Why? I knew Oneplus was made in china, but not also programmed there, too. China isn't known for privacy. While installing LineageOS will remove a lot of their spyware and some of the back doors, it won't remove the ones that are baseband processor related. That device has its own little CPU and operating system (a little sub computer within your phone) and controls things like the cellular modem, microphone, and may have unrestricted direct access to the main operating system depending on how it's implemented. If I wanted the CCP to be spying on me, I would have bought a cheaper Xiaomi. If your're curious about privacy, head back over to wikipedia and look up: Spyware, Internet privacy, Data privacy, Privacy violation, Targeted marketing, De-anonymize, Mobile security, Surveillance capitalism, Zombie_cookie. That's just to get started. Wiki also sanitizes a lot of this information, so real stories tend to be more gruesome.

Ever wonder why illegals crossing the border take the battery out of their phones? Because "off" isn't really "off". Keep that in mind when reading all the wiki pages. Don't believe me? For the past month, this phone has been sitting "off" as a paperweight on top of my desk... Just waiting and waiting and waiting for that bootloader unlock code... One day it turned "on" and started making noises. It took me a minute to figure it out, but the phone received an Amber Alert and decided to turn back "on". Supposedly these also happen for weather, but the past month has been quiet here. Now ask yourself how an "off" phone suddenly decided to turn itself "on". (hint: baseband processor mentioned above.)

As a final privacy note: If someone was stalking/spying on you as much as Google, the phone manufacturer, and the telcos, if that person was caught, they'd be thrown in prison for a very long time. Something to think about.

Moving on... The phone I got has a screen in near perfect shape. I was pleased about that. On the back side is a rather noticable dent that I'm hoping didn't hit the battery. It hasn't charged hot, pushed out the back cover, or burst into flames, so I think it's ok.

Since I don't have the bootloader unlock code, I can't say anything about voice quality. The biggest reason I went with this phone was 5G support and most likely easy HD audio in my coverage area (probably better than 4G HD audio). I dumped my previous cell phones and kept my land line for so long because cell-to-cell calls suck badly, and I'm in a major metroplex, so that shouldn't happen. I was really hoping to test this out.

I never bothered trying out the 4 cameras and video recording. I did pick up a new 128g SDXC card, but I'm not motivated to do tests on a camera I'm about to return. I'd rather have 1 or 2 cameras in a phone that are high quality rather than having extra cameras that are useless. In a budget phone, we still have to pay for the extra useless cameras which just drives the price up and manufacturer profits down. They're nothing more than case bling.

I never bothered trying to figure out battery life since I still can't use this phone. If you do a web search, there's usually a way to pop the back off and unsolder the battery for a swap out for most phones. If you're semi technically inclined, you don't have to be stuck with a used battery that's a few years old. Note that all the spyware bloat I mentioned above will really drain an otherwise usable battery. Swap reads and writes to flash and back are very energy intensive. Most sites ignore this in their reviews.

Since this is a Tmo phone, make sure you have Tmo towers nearby and you should be happy with connectivity. I've read too many reviews about people buying a phone and the supported tower is across town and they get lousy reception. Don't be like that. My friends with Tmo phones get good enough reception where I live. In the past CDMA has sucked here, but that's going away, thankfully.

So what are my final recommendations in this overly long review???

If Oneplus ever got me my bootloader unlock key on time, I would have flashed LineageOS (probably the hard way since it's a de2118) and would have likely kept this phone regardless of the problems I mentioned. My phone needs are minimal given my health problems and I can't work. I like the slightly larger screen given my eyesight problems, too. My usage would involve the phone (obviously), GPS and open source maps, and the camera to document some of my hardware and projects. I wouldn't do any social media on this phone (not that I do social on my desktop, either).

If you're expecting to run a lot of on this phone with its 4gigs RAM, it's already filled (see above). With a stripped down mobile operating system, you "should" be able to, but it's obvious by the other reviewers complaining about slowness that it's not going to happen. If you live out of your phone and endlessly social day and night, you should look for a phone with 6-8gigs of RAM. Here's a final tip that may seem backwards: A phone with fewer/slower processors and more RAM is usually faster than a phone with more/faster processors and less RAM (hint: remember my swap argument above).

If you've made it this far, thanks for reading. If you learned something new, hit the "Helpful" button. The Amazon AI seems to like that.

Edit: The bootloader unlock key FINALLY came in... a month late. I told them to cancel it as I had a deadline and they missed it by a long shot (screwing me over in the process). I'm not going to be working with a company that screws up that badly on something so simple. I shouldn't have to fight with a manufacturer to get their claws out of something I own and they don't. Since the police never showed up, I'm assuming the phone is legit (per my question above).
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