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(Update 2: Hacked yet again) How one user ‘hacked’ the OnePlus 2 invite system
August 07, 2025
As it turns out, the second hack worked as well – we wonder whether OnePlus will give him another early invite or maybe this time they’ll just give him a phone. As for Jake, he’s back to college or so he says:
As it turns out, the company is actually awarding Mr. Cooper an early invite “extra early for his efforts”. Now, you probably won’t get an early invite if you successfully hack the invite system at this point, but it’s still nice to see the company take the hack so well.
Original post:Part of the strategy that keepsOnePlusdifferent to its rivals is in the supply of its handsets; while other companies let you buy one as easily as possible, OnePlus claims to keep its inventory in check by using an invite system.
[related_videos title=”OnePlus in video:” align=”left” type=”custom” videos=”630400,629200,629182,629181,629179,406250″]Its first handset, theOnePlus One, debuted the invite system and a fair amount of issues includingpoorly conceived marketing campaignsand a lack of supply resulted in several tweaks to invites for theOnePlus 2. The company said they had 30 to 50 times the amount of inventory at the launch of OnePlus One available for its successor but despite this, there’s still some confusion over the invite system as there’s several ways to get an invite to buy the handset.
What did he do? As Jake Cooper says, he took it to OnePlus:
To simplify what appears to be a long process, Cooper used Python to run a series of scripts that fooled the invite system into thinking he was referring users. As a result, he jumped from position 334,633 (out of 1,639,895) to 1,694 (out of 1,590,221). Jake hasn’t shared the exact script and has told OnePlus about the vulnerability but if you’re handy with scripts and want to know more, you may read Cooper’s in-depth explanation at the source link below.
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